TEMPLE UNIVERSITY JAMES E. BEASLEY SCHOOL OF LAW • LAW SCHOOLANDALUMNINEWS • SPRING 2005R. CraigGreenexploresFEDERAL SENTENCINGGUIDELINESAssistant Professor R. Craig Green teaches federalcourts, administrative law, and civil procedure. Beforejoining Temple’s faculty, Green worked in the Office ofthe Solicitor General as a Bristow Fellow and servedas a member of the Department of Justice’s civilappellate staff. During his government service, Greenbriefed and argued several cases in the federal courtsof appeals and worked with the Solicitor General’sOffice in drafting merits briefs for the Supreme Court.Green received his law degree from Yale Universityand, following law school, clerked for the HonorableLouis H. Pollak of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania,and for the Honorable Merrick B. Garland of theWashington D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals.In 1999, his last year of law school, Green took a class called “The Criminal Jury,” for which hestudied the relationship between the jury’s finding ofguilt and the judge’s assigning of sentence. The classsparked in Green an interest that would become anacademic and professional passion.At that time, the Federal Sentencing Guidelines, which indicate that judges are permitted to take facts not presented in trial into consideration when sentencingconvicted criminals, were accepted as appropriate andconstitutional in courts across the nation.In 2000, however, the case of Apprendi v. New Jerseycame before the Supreme Court and the constitutionality of the Guidelines was dramatically thrown into question.The case appealed defendant Apprendi’s receipt of an“enhanced” sentence that was based on post-convictionevidence. Voting five-to-four, the Supreme Courtinvalidated Apprendi’s sentence because it was greaterthan the maximum authorized by the crime of conviction.“The Court reasoned that, when a jury convicts of onecrime with one maximum sentence (unlawful firearmpossession, ten years), it is unconstitutional to sentencethe defendant as though he were convicted of a greatercrime, with a greater maximum (hate-crimeunlawfulfirearm possession, twenty years),” Green explains.While clerking for Judge Pollak, Green observed thatarguments on sentencing stemming from the Apprendiruling were popping up in the Courts of Appeals. Later, as a clerk in the Solicitor General’s Office, Green foundSALIL MEHRA examines Japanese comic books’ impact onIntellectualProperty LawAssociate Professor Salil K. Mehra teaches antitrust,business associations, and contracts, specializing in antitrustlaw and Japanese law. He has written numerous articles for legal journals including the University of Chicago LawReview and the Duke Journal of Comparative & InternationalLaw.Mehra’s current research evolved from an interest inJapanese comic novels, or “manga,” and explores their placein both Japanese and American intellectual property law.Mehra earned his bachelor’s degree in East Asianlanguages and civilizations from Harvard University and wenton to complete a master’s degree in Japanese studies fromthe University of California at Berkeley before attending lawschool at the University of Chicago. He first took notice of themanga phenomenon as an undergraduate studying in Japan. “It’s pretty impossible not to notice the popularity ofcomics in Japan,” he says. “They represent nearly half of the printed material there by volume.”Mehra did not take any real interest in comics until henoticed their increasing popularity outside of Japanesemarkets, and the peculiar success of “doujinshi,” comicspublished by “amateurs” that are unauthorized copies ofcharacters and stories created by other artists.These copycat comics are in increasingly high demand inspite of (or because of) the fact that they unabashedly drawmaterial from popular manga. Despite their enormouspopularity—doujinshi conventions gather upwards of450,000 fans and 33,000 artists each year—the comicsclearly violate original authors’ copyright, and are as illegalunder the Japanese system of law as they would be underAmerican law.Still, doujinshi artists in Japan continue making andselling their work without fear of prosecution. “Japan has notallocated the same amount of resources to civil litigation asthe U.S. has,” Mehra explains. “Their civil system is simplynot equipped to handle the cases, and the monetary impactof winning such cases is on a much different scale.”And then there’s the issue of revenue—both the industry’sand the artists’. It seems that manga artists directly benefitfrom the attention doujinshi draws to their work—comicsbecome increasingly popular as they become moreaccessible, upping the demand for both the original artistand the copycat. What’s more, with government-dictatedprice minimums on all goods, there are more pressingeconomic issues to consider.Temple law facultyare not onlyskilled and enthusiastic instructors onissues critical to the study and practiceof law, they are also renowned expertswho routinely publish and contribute to books and articles on subjects thatgenerate buzz from North Broad Streetto the Supreme Court.Whether on civil rights or health-care, child welfare or internationaltrade, publications by Temple authorsnot only increase the law school’svisibility among practicing attorneys,legal scholars, and peer institutions,they also broaden the information basein our classrooms, and encourage freshdialog and investigation among ourstudents and teachers. Professors Salil K. Mehra and R. Craig Green arejust two of Temple’s faculty whose workcan be found in the pages of currentlaw journals.continued on page twocontinued on page threeMEHRAGREEN2 • TEMPLE ESQ. SPRING 2005SALIL MEHRA EXAMINESINTELLECTUAL PROPERTY LAW…continued from page one“The Japanese are not nearly as concerned withcopyright infringement as they are with stamping outsecond-hand and discount sales,” Mehra explains.In articles for the Rutgers Law Reviewand otherpublications, Mehra has addressed how and why doujinshi elude copyright infringement suits and what the phenomena means to intellectual property law in both the U.S. and Japan.In a recent article for the Tulane Law Reviewentitled“Software as Crime: Japan, the United States, andContributory Copyright Infringement,” Mehra shifts hisfocus from printed to electronic media, specifically toissues relating to music sharing software. In this article(excerpted at left), he explores how and why the systemthat overlooks doujinshi, because of a lack of resources incivilcourts, has responded to an “updated version” of thatissue with criminalprosecution.“Shawn Fanning, Napster’s creator, never went to jail,”Mehra writes. “However, a man who might be Fanning’sJapanese counterpart, Tokyo University researcher IsamuKaneko, was arrested and indicted for developing similarpeer-to-peer file sharing software.”Mehra hopes that his research and publication onJapanese and American systems of dealing with theseissues will expand interpretation of intellectual property law. “People make the argument that there is too muchintellectual property law in the United States,” he explains.“Japan is a country of comparable economic development.I want to illustrate a functioning system that has a differentway to protect intellectual property. I want to show peoplethat if we do move to a different model, it wouldn’t be theend of the world.”—Ingrid ThackIsamu Kaneko appears to have been both an unlikely criminal and alikely troublemaker. Kaneko, a Tokyo University research assistant incomputer science, had developed a number of software applications thatreceived high marks from colleagues, reviewers, and users. One of themwas a P2P file exchange program called Winny. Much like the widelydistributed Napster…Winny came to be used by others to make P2P filetransfers across the Internet…But in addition to creating Winny, he continually upgraded it andmade new versions available for free on his website. He continued to dothis even after several Winny users were arrested for direct infringement ofcopyright works in Fall 2003…Perhaps most interestingly, Kaneko was open about his adversarial attitude towards intellectual propertylaws. He posted his views on Winny and copyright protection on “ch2.net,” Japan’s most widely usedelectronic forum… Kaneko allegedly stated that he was “doubtful about the current ways businessescontrol digital content. It’s wrong that big business uses the police to crack down on violations andmaintains the status quo. The only way to destroy that system is to continue to spread ways to violatecopyright laws.”…The fly in the ointment from a remedy perspective is that P2P technology such as Winny is not likeservices such as Napster or File Rogue because it is neither for-profit nor under the constant control of thealleged infringer. Faced with a relatively weak recourse to civil damage remedies, a constructive Japaneseplaintiff might at least try to get an injunction against P2P software distribution to “stop the bleeding”from infringement. However, injunctive relief has both a formal legal problem in Japan and a generalpractical problem in the context of P2P software. There is some debate over whether Japanese courts havethe ability to use contempt powers in order to actually enforce compliance with their injunctions. Morespecifically, to the extent relevant authority existed prior to the Kaneko case, it was ambiguous or evenhostile to the idea that a contributory copyright infringer could be successfully enjoined……Public enforcement generally is expected to calculate the overall societal implication of prosecution.Indeed, in the Japanese system, where prosecutorial discretion is perhaps even more significant than inthe United States, the broader perspective is expected on the part of prosecutors. Japanese attempts tocriminalize P2P ultimately rest on a significantly older Copyright Law and prosecutors’ attemptsto extend their established modes of operation to a new context. As aresult, if prosecutors hew to their traditional patterns of trying andimprisoning few, and using their discretion within the boundaries ofsocial welfare, then a social calculus should be embedded, howeverimprecisely, in their actions.Unfortunately, American proposals for P2P criminalization set forthnew elements that do not necessarily consider elements of broader socialwelfare. Indeed, they do not seem to track anything beyond the norms of aproperty crime. To that extent, a danger exists. Few ask whetherprosecuting a carjacker could have negative social impact. That sort ofnarrow focus may enrich IP rights holders while over-utilizing prosecutorialresources and impoverishing society on the whole.Unlike the Japanese, however, Americans have quite a viable culturalalternative. A more prominently functioning civil remedy system, hordes ofIP attorneys and well-established discovery procedures all make the move tocriminalize IP infringement substantially less necessary in the United Statesthan in Japan. American moves to criminalize P2P activity, and other formsof IP infringement may be premature, egged on by overanxious rights holdersfocused on their own selfish ends.Additionally, such moves may also be more dangerous in the UnitedStates than in Japan. As discussed above, American prosecutors are morelikely to convict and imprison the defendants that they prosecute than their Japanese prosecutors. Thistendency is true in the narrow context of copyright infringement as well as throughout criminal law inthese nations. As a result, criminalization in the United States could be quite harsh, creating a starkerbreak with past practice and allowing IP law to become quickly “unmoored” more easily than in Japan…TEMPLE LAW STUDENTSPUBLISH TOO…Mark Furlettirecently won the student notecompetition sponsored by the American College ofFinancial Services Lawyers for his article in the TempleLaw Review on the preemptive force of the NationalBank Act. The competition awards Furletti a trip to theSpring meeting of the business law section of theAmerican Bar Association in Nashville.Third-year student Corey Davispublished “Effects ofan Intensive Street-Level Police Intervention on SyringeExchange Program Use in Philadelphia, PA” in theFebruary 2005 issue of the American Journal of PublicHealth.Davis previously won an award for the paper(co-authored by Burris, Kraut-Becher, Lynch, andMetzger) at the international AIDS conference lastsummer in Thailand.TEMPLE ESQ. SPRING 2005 • 3R. CRAIG GREEN CHALLENGESFEDERAL SENTENCING GUIDELINES…continued from page oneTO VIEW CURRENT JOURNAL ARTICLES ANDOTHER PUBLICATIONS BY TEMPLE LAWFACULTY, VISIT WWW.LAW.TEMPLE.EDU ANDCLICK “PUBLICATIONS AND LAW REVIEWS.”himself drafting a number ofopposition briefs citing bothApprendiand the relatedcase of Harris v. UnitedStates,which focuses onstatutory minima. When he joined Temple’s faculty in 2004,Green found an opportunityto turn his interest andviews on the subject intoresearch for publication.With two cases under review in the SupremeCourt, both with the potential to strike down the FederalSentencing Guidelines once and for all, his timing couldn’thave been better.On January 12, 2005 in the consolidated cases ofUnited States v. Bookerand United States v. Fanfan, theSupreme Court ruled the Federal Sentencing Guidelinesunconstitutional, creating a ripple in the modern criminaljustice system with tsunami potential.In a forthcoming article for Georgetown Law Reviewentitled “The Untimely Death (and Rebirth?) of the FederalSentencing Guidelines,” (excerpted at right) Greenexamines how and why the Court reached the landmarkdecision and cautions the legal community against writinghasty policy in its wake.“I hope to help people understand the legal andanalytical problems with the way Bookerwas decided,” heexplains. “Now that the Guidelines have been struck down,lower courts have some very serious decisions to makeregarding sentencing. I want to give people a betterunderstanding of what happened and offer a sense ofwhere some of the problems lie.”—Ingrid Thack…By holding the Guidelines unconstitutional in Booker, theCourt overturned a stable, if incompletely articulated,constitutional principle that Sixth Amendment rights dependon the statutory maximum of the crime of conviction. Whathas replaced that interpretation of Sixth Amendment rightsis necessarily a hodgepodge, because the Court’sjudgment in Booker and Fanfan spans two majorityopinions representing sets of Justices that barelyoverlap. Justice Stevens wrote one opinion for the Court,joined by Justices Scalia, Souter, Thomas, and Ginsburg, whichheld that the federal system of mandatory Sentencing Guidelines isunconstitutional. Justice Breyer wrote a second opinion for the Court, joined byChief Justice Rehnquist and by Justices O’Connor, Kennedy, and Ginsburg, which heldthat the appropriate remedy was to render the Guidelines “advisory” and allow appellate courtsto review sentencing decisions for “reasonableness.” The Court’s two opinions merit attentionindividually and in combination, but their conclusions, in the final analysis, are often moreprovocative than satisfying…Through Justice Stevens’s majority opinion, the Supreme Court held that Booker’s sentence wasunconstitutional because a judicial finding, that was neither found by a jury nor admitted by thedefendant, raised his sentence above the maximum allowed by his Guidelines’ base offense level(262 months). Although Justice Stevens’s opinion occasionally traded clear reasoning for crispwriting, three analytical steps seem important. First, Justice Stevens implied that the Court’s decisionto invalidate mandatory Sentencing Guidelines was a natural, almost necessary, extension of priorApprendi cases…In conceptual terms, Justice Stevens’s asserted equivalence between statutory definitions of acrime and nonstatutory sentencing rules frays the constitutional fabric of federal criminal law. BeforeBooker, only Congress could define federal crimes and determine the constitutional meaning of aguilty verdict. If one was convicted of bank robbery under 18 U.S.C. § 2113(a), that was the crime,and the statute set forth the constitutionally maximal punishment that could be imposed atsentencing. Nothing else mattered—not rules concerning judicial discretion, prosecutorial litigation,executive clemency, or other factors. After Booker, insofar as mandatory Sentencing Guidelines havethe same constitutional significance as statutes defining crimes, the principle that only Congress canestablish federal crimes seems unsteady.A second component of Justice Stevens’s majority opinion was his occasional effort to sketch adeep, substantive vision of Sixth Amendment rights. At various points, Justice Stevens suggested thatApprendi and its progeny were concerned with forcing a jury trial (or plea bargain) of all facts that aresignificant to the calculation of a defendant’s sentence. The intuition behind such a theory would bethat judges cannot be trusted with independent fact finding that determines the ultimate punishmentimposed, because that detail of a criminal case is what matters most to real-world defendants and isoften the predominant aspect of what it means to be tried and convicted of a “crime”…The third, most important aspect of Justice Stevens’s opinion is his view that the SixthAmendment’s right to jury trial erects a rule against rules, i.e., a procedural protection that dependson the scope of a sentencing judge’s undetermined discretion. To be clear, although guidelinesentencing is similar to discretionary sentencing in its relationship to the jury’s verdict, the twoobviously differ in their effect on judges’ discretion. The mandatory Guidelines incorporated judicialfact finding as a matter of rule, not individual choice. And Justice Stevens could not have beenclearer that it was only the Guidelines’ “mandatory” and “binding” character that rendered themunconstitutional. “Indeed, everyone agrees that the constitutional issues presented by [Booker] would have been avoided entirely if Congress had omitted from the SRA the provisions that make theGuidelines binding on district judges.”That statement is critically important—and not only for Fanfan’s remedial analysis. Even under principles articulated in Justice Stevens’s majority opinion, the following would satisfy theConstitution: Congress could enact a system of guidelines that judges must consider and “should, but are not required to, follow…” DECEMBER 2004A conference organizedjointly by the law school’s China Health LawInitiative, the Shanghai People’s Congress,and the Shanghai Academy of Social Sciencesbrought together experts and key players indrafting new HIV/AIDS control legislation forChina’s most important city. Participantsfrom Temple Law included Professors ScottBurris, Frank McCellan, and Phoebe Haddon.Temple’s health law work in China is led byBurris and funded by the State Departmentand the US-China Legal Cooperation Fund.4 • TEMPLE ESQ. SPRING 2005JANUARY 26, 2005Professor W. Michael Reisman, theMyres S. McDougal Professor of International Law at YaleLaw School, addressed the law school community as aDistinguished Scholar-in-Residence under the auspices ofTemple’s Institute for International Law and Public Policy. In his presentation, “Contemporary International Law:Has Its Reach Exceeded Its Grasp?” Professor Reismanstated that “power without law is tyranny and law withoutpower is semantics.” He declared that many of the currentconcepts in international law have evolved from past areasof conflict within the law, however, emphasized that theinternational community legal machinery has not been ableto address some of the issues facing our global world todaysuch as mass murder, genocide, and AIDS/HIV. He furtherstated that the current situation in Iraq is instructive buthardly unique and that, while the U.S. is able to obliteratean adversary, we are unable to change their behavior. Reisman’s extremely influential scholarship—includingsome 20 books and over 250 articles and book reviews—addresses issues as diverse as human rights, nationalsecurity, public and private dispute resolution, the law ofwar, international investment disputes, and jurisdiction. His recent books include International Law in Contempo-rary Perspective(with Arsanjani, Wiessner, & Westerman)NOVEMBER 15, 2004Alphonso David ’00 is staff attorneyfor Lambda Legal, the largest and oldest national legalorganization committed to achieving full recognition of thecivil rights of lesbians, gay men, bisexuals, transgenderpeople, and those with HIV or AIDS. At the November Dean’s Invitational Forum at TempleLaw, David led a general discussion of his work at Lambda,including specific cases and the challenges and rewards ofcivil rights litigation practice. He also presented a statusreport on marriage equality litigation nationally, focusing onthe impetus for the suits and the legal theories.David has a breadth of litigation experience coveringsuch diverse areas as complex contract disputes,insurance defense, constitutional law, environmental lawand white-collar crimes. Before joining Lambda Legal, heserved as corporate counsel for Canyon at Peace Park, acorporation that provides addiction treatment, education,and counseling services in Malibu, California. Prior to that,David was an associate in the litigation and disputeresolution department of Blank Rome.David's initial work at Lambda focused on the organi-zation’s marriage lawsuit in New York State. David is alsoworking on matters involving relationship rights, as well as employment, HIV, and gender identity discrimination.After receiving his J.D. from Temple in 2000, Davidclerked for U.S. District Court Judge Clifford Scott Green in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. During law school,(2d ed. 2004); Law in Brief Encounters(Yale University Press, 2000); and Jurisdiction in International Law(Ashgate, 2000).Reisman’s achievements extend well beyond the wallsof academia. He is President of the Arbitration Tribunal forthe Bank for International Settlements and has served as amember and president of the Inter-American Commissionon Human Rights, as a member of the U.N. boundaryCommission for Eritrea and Ethiopia, and as a member of the advisory committee on international law of theDepartment of State. In June 2000, he argued the Bahrain/ Qatar land and maritime boundary case beforeLambda attorney visits law schoolDEAN'S INVITATIONAL FORUM FEATURES CIVIL RIGHTS ATTORNEY ALPHONSO DAVID ’00 David was executive editor of the Temple Political and Civil Rights Law Review,and a member of the NationalTrial Team, which won the 1998 NITA Tournament ofChampions. He also published “Bragdon v. Abbott: TheUnited States Supreme Court Redefines Disability underthe Americans with Disabilities Act,” 9 Temple Political and Civil Rights Law Review 109 (1999).the International Court of Justice and, in June 2001, he argued the intervention application of the Republicof the Philippines before the Court. In recognition of his leadership in international law, Reisman was elected to the prestigious Institut de Droit International, and was the recipient of the2004 American Society of International Law’s Manley O. Hudson Medal.Riesman’s lecture was part of an ongoing serieshosted by the Institute for International Law and Public Policy, co-directed by Professors Amy Boss and Jeffrey Dunoff.— Lucia TerrazzerInternational Institute hosts lecture challengingCONTEMPORARY INTERNATIONAL LAWDAVIDREISMANFALL 2004Director of Asian Programs JohnSmagula (center) introduces newly-arrivedstudents in Temple’s International LL.M.program to the city. There are currently 38participants in the LL.M. degree program fromcountries including China, Japan, South Korea,Paraguay, Liberia, France, and Germany.YOUNG LAWYERS’ DIVISION HONORSTEMPLE-LEAP’S ROBERTA WEST ’89MARCH 9, 2005Temple-LEAP Program DirectorRoberta West is the 2005 recipient of the F. SeanPeretta Award, awarded annually by the PhiladelphiaBar Association Young Lawyers’ Division. The awardis presented to an individual who has devotedsubstantial time to an innovative or nontraditionalprogram that serves the community. Peretta was acommunity activist and a mentor to youth in hishome neighborhood.Temple-LEAP (Law, Education and Participation)isthe law school’s in-house program that coordinateslaw-related education programs for high school students, including thestatewide mock trial competition and summer law camps, and sends law students into six Philadelphia public schools to conduct peer courtprogram. West first got involved in Temple-LEAP as a law student—andagreed to join the staff after graduation in 1989. TEMPLE ESQ. SPRING 2005 • 5WILLIAM STAFFORD ’56 celebrates three decades on the federal bench ESQ. SPOTLIGHTThe Honorable William Stafford ’56, a graduate of bothTemple University and Temple Law School, is approachinghis thirtieth anniversary serving on the U.S. District Courtfor the Northern District of Florida. Appointed by PresidentGerald Ford in 1975, he was Chief Judgefrom 1981 to 1993 and has been a seniorjudge since 1996. At the time Stafford was being consideredfor the federal bench, the Florida judiciaryand the nation were both in a state ofturmoil. The nation was absorbed with theWatergate scandal, and in Florida, threejudges on the Supreme Court were undersuspicion of bribery and influence peddling.Stafford was ultimately chosen in a meritselection process with the support ofFlorida’s two Democratic senators, LawtonChiles and Richard Stone. When hisnomination to the bench was being reviewedin the U.S. Senate, Sen. Chiles noted thatStafford was the first judge chosen by meritselection in Florida.Now entering his fourth decade on thebench, Stafford continues to maintain a busy schedule onthe district court and as a visiting judge on the 6th and11th Circuit Courts of Appeals, which he says offers a trialjudge “a different perspective.”A Floridian for most of his career, Stafford was raisedalong the Pennsylvania-Ohio border. Born in 1931 athome, he was the youngest of five children. As a child, oneside of the street in the mill town where his family lived wasin Pennsylvania; the other was in Ohio. He credits Templewith allowing him to go to college; he was the first in hisfamily to do so. After graduating from first Temple University and laterTemple Law School, he joined the Navy. During his fouryears in the service, Stafford attended the Navy’s officercandidate school and justice school, and was eventuallyassigned to sea duty in the Pacific where he served on twoaircraft carriers, the Hancock and the Boxer. The Boxerwas the Navy’s flagship for the last nuclear tests the U.S.performed in the South Pacific, and the crew was chargedwith evacuating islanders from testing areas. His unit wassubsequently sent to the East Coast, where they perfectedan amphibious landing technique called “verticalenvelopment” used to land troops with helicopterslaunched from aircraft carriers.Stafford met his future wife Nancy, a fellowPennsylvanian, while in California. After a whirlwindromance, they married in 1959. They knew they wanted tolive in either California or Florida because of the warmweather, so when a job opportunity arose in Florida thecouple relocated there. After practicing law in Pensacolauntil 1966, Stafford, a Republican, was appointed by thegovernor to finish out a two-year term asstate attorney for the first judicial circuit. In 1969, Stafford became U.S. Attorneyfor the Northern District of Florida. Theposition gave him a chance to acquireextensive trial experience. His was a smalldistrict, so his role was more that of alitigator than an administrator. The smallsize of the district also meant that he andhis attorneys handled their cases from grandjury proceedings through appeals. Heretired from the position when he wastapped to serve on the federal bench, wherehe has thrived for the last three decades. From 1996 until 2003, Judge Staffordalso served on the Foreign IntelligenceSurveillance Court, which he recalls as a“fascinating experience.” The court iscomposed of federal judges from differentcircuits. It reviews law enforcement requests for foreignintelligence search warrants, and wiretaps. Stafford was“impressed with the quality” of the work of intelligenceofficials from the FBI, CIA, and NSA, which “made thework very rewarding.” An active member of the Florida legal community,Stafford is the founding president of the American Inn ofCourt in Tallahassee; in 2004 its members decided torename the chapter to honor him. Stafford is also a 33rddegree Freemason of the Scottish Rite. He was awardedthe Grand Cross of Honor in 1987 and was the FloridaGrand Orator in 1979. A primary focus is his fraternity’scommunity service has been establishing clinics forchildren with language disabilities.Stafford maintains his ties to Temple as a chartermember of the Temple Board of Visitors. The Board, whichmeets with faculty and administrators at the law school in aconsultative role, is a “great way for faculty to hear fromthe profession and for faculty to communicate to theprofession what is going on in legal education,” saysStafford. Stafford’s experience on Temple’s Board of Visitorsmotivated him to discuss its approach with Florida StateUniversity Law School, which subsequently adopted theTemple model. Judge Stafford remains grateful to Templefor the educational opportunities it has given him andothers. At Temple, he says, “everybody had a chance.” —Christina M. ValenteTRIAL TEAM WINS SPOT AT NATIONALSFEBRUARY 12, 2005Temple’s National Trial Teamsuccessfully defended its regional championship title at the Criminal Justice Center in Philadelphia. It was Temple’sseventeenth consecutive regional championship—anunparalleled national achievement. The team of EileenMonaghan and Justin Oshana defeated teams fromDickinson, Duquesne, Penn, Rutgers-Newark, Villanova,Widener-Delaware, and Widener-Harrisburg in taking tophonors. Eileen Monaghan was awarded the John J. ScottMemorial Plaque as “Best Advocate in the Final Round.”In the double-bracketed competition, a second team of Donte Mills and Matt Sauerwald finished as regionalfinalists, losing a close final round to Dickinson.The tournament was sponsored by Temple’s LL.M. inTrial Advocacy Alumni Association and directed by CarrieCinquanto, director of the LL.M. program, andadministrated by Mary Beth Wilson, program coordinator,Clinical Legal Education and Trial Advocacy.The team travels to San Antonio, Texas at the end ofMarch to compete for the National Championship againstthe twenty-four winners and runners-up from the twelveother regional contests. Temple has won the nationalchampionship in three and placed in the final four in fiveout of the last ten years. The teams are coached by CaryBricker, director of trial advocacy programs, and ElizabethLippy ’03, of Rubin, Glickman & Steinberg.TEMPLE TRIUMPHS IN CIVILRIGHTS TRIAL COMPETITIONOCTOBER 30, 2004Temple’s National Trial Team won the National Civil Rights Invitational Trial Competitionhosted by the Frank S. Polestino Trial Advocacy Institute atSt. John’s University School of Law in Jamaica, New York. The team of Miriam Edelstein, David Heffner, AndrewNotaristefano, and Andrew Sciolla was coached by MattLeckman ’03 and Anthony Gallia from Duane Morris. This was the team’s second win in a national invitationaltournament during the fall season. In October 2004, theteam took first place in the Buffalo-Niagara InvitationalMock Trial Tournament.Temple’s Trial Advocacy program, directed by ProfessorEdward Ohlbaum, continues to be named best in thecountry by U.S. News and World Report.MEMBER OF LAW SCHOOL BOARDOF VISITORS WAS FIRST FLORIDAFEDERAL JUDGE CHOSENTHROUGH MERIT SELECTION. TALENT SHOW 2005FACULTY AND STAFF PERFORMERS FROM LEFT: STEVE PAVLO,DAVID POST, ROBERT BARTOW, CRAIG GREEN, ETHEL FEDERER,MURIEL MORISEY, MARK RAHDERT, MARK ANDERSON, SUSANDEJARNATT, AND ALICE ABREU.KELLY AFFANATOFRANCIS MALOFIYMICHAEL WILLIAMS6 • TEMPLE ESQ. SPRING 2005CUNNINGHAM ’73NAMED TO BENCHPennsylvania Governor Edward G.Rendell has appointed Philadelphialawyer Charles J. Cunningham III ‘73to a judicial vacancy on the Phila-delphia Court of Common Pleas.Judge Cunningham, formerly of thelaw firm of Stephen Gallagher andAssociates, was unanimouslyconfirmed by the Senate.AGING LAW SCHOLARSHIPESTABLISHEDFELDMANFEBRUARY 19, 2005Not every attorney is as comfortablein the courtroom as Perry Mason or Jack McCoy. And realcases are not tried on soundstages, where lawyers can askfor a second take if they make a mistake. Many talentedlawyers don’t get the opportunity to perfect their skills incourt … and not many clients want their case to be a testcase. Temple’s LL.M. in Trial Advocacy offerspracticing attorneys in all areas of law theopportunity to develop and hone their trialskills and to acquire the courtroom experiencethey need to become successful litigators. By February, students in the LL.M. in TrialAdvocacy program are engaged in the third offive trials in which they will hone their skills. Founded in 1993 and led by nationally-known trial lawyers, law professors, andcommunications experts, the one-yearprogram does not focus on any particular areaof substantive law. Participating students andfaculty come from all over the country, andfrom every type of practice. The courses,designed to teach students to analyze facts,think on their feet, ask concise questions,speak persuasively, and master the art ofadvocating for clients, apply to virtually everyarea of law.The curriculum blends lectures, faculty demonstrations,individual instruction, and student performance into anintensive experience that emphasizes creating the theory ofthe case, understanding of the advocacy process, andcarrying the theory into practice. The program’s pinnacle component is the realistic andelaborate simulation trial work. Before completing theprogram, every student tries fivecomplete cases before a judge and juryon such diverse areas as employmentdiscrimination, commercial fraud,medical malpractice, products liability,and criminal law. Volunteers from thelegal community—often real judges,attorneys, and doctors—preside over cases and act as expert witnesses. Temple students and othermembers of the University communityserve as jurors. Associate Professor Caroline GoldnerCinquanto, who earned an LL.M. in TrialAdvocacy from Temple in 1998 is theprogram director. For more informationon the LL.M. in Trial Advocacy programat Temple, contact 215-204-5314 orllmtrial@temple.edu. CUNNINGHAMStephen A. Feldman ‘81,recently established a newlaw school scholarship fundto benefit a student whohas shown an interest inaging issues.“AS A MEDICAL RESIDENT IT’SGOOD TO LEARN HOW THISSYSTEM WORKS. THEY DON’TTEACH US THIS IN MEDICALSCHOOL.” —Veeral Bhoot, M.D.“I AM HERE BECAUSE IWANTED TO GIVE BACK TO THEPROGRAM. I PARTICIPATED INTHIS AS A STUDENT AND ITHINK THE BEST PEOPLE TOJUDGE ARE THOSE WHO DOTRIAL WORK ALL THE TIME.” — Sarah Jacobson, LL.M. inTrial Advocacy ’02, DefenderAssociation of Philadelphia“WE DO TRIAL LAW AND THERE ISAN ALMOST 90% PARTICIPATIONRATE IN THIS PROGRAM AMONGMEMBERS OF MY FIRM.PHILADELPHIA IS A HIGHLYCOMPETITIVE LITIGATION MARKET.I DON’T CARE HOW MANY CASESYOU’VE TRIED, THIS ISTREMENDOUSLY HELPFUL.”— Donna Lee Jones; Saltz,Mongeluzzi, Barrett andBendesky; LL.M. Class of 2005“I’VE KNOWN A LOT OF LAWYERSWHO HAVE GONE THROUGH THISPROGRAM AND BEEN VERYPLEASED WITH IT. AND I THINKIT’S GREAT FUN TO HELP YOUNGLAWYERS THIS WAY.” —The Honorable ThomasBranca, Montgomery CountyCommon Pleas Court “I HAVE TESTIFIED AS AN EXPERT MANYTIMES AND THIS IS REALLY TRUE TOTHAT EXPERIENCE. I ENCOURAGE ALL MYRESIDENTS TO DO THIS. IT IMPROVESTHEIR COMMUNICATION SKILLS WITHPATIENTS AND PREPARES THEM FOR AVARIETY OF SITUATIONS RELATING TOMEDICAL MALPRACTICE.” — Michael L. Brooks, M.D. Hahnemann University MedicalSchool, 1981; third-year law student“I WANTED TO DEVELOP MY GOODHABITS AND CHANGE MY BADHABITS IN THE COURTROOM. REAL JUDGES TO TELL US WHAT’SWORKING AND WHAT’S NOT ANDEVERY SESSION IS VIDEOTAPED—IT REALLY HELPS US SEE WHERE OUR STRENGTHS ANDWEAKNESSES ARE.” — Christopher J. Urban,Wagenfeld Levine, LL.M. Class of 2005 “I WISH I HAD THIS PROGRAM 30 YEARS AGO.IT HAS IMPROVED MY PRESENTATION INCOURT TREMENDOUSLY. IN THE FIRST CASE I TRIED AFTER BEGINNING THE PROGRAM, I WON A MILLION DOLLAR VERDICT!” — Peter G. Loftus, Loftus Law Firm, LL.M. Class of 2005 “I TOLD A COUPLE OFSTUDENTS DURING THEBREAK TODAY: ‘YOU ARE INA REALISTIC SETTING, BUTYOU CAN MAKE MISTAKESHERE AND LEARN FROMTHEM.’ THE FACT THATTHEY HAVE FIVE TRIALS INA YEAR IS AMAZING. MANYATTORNEYS DON’T SEETHAT IN THEIR CAREERS.” — Bernie Siegel, Law Offices of Bernard L. SiegelLL.M. Program Gives Students THEIR DAY IN COURT TEMPLE ESQ. SPRING 2005 • 71962JUDGE MORTON KRASEhas become a senior judge afterserving with the Philadelphia Municipal Court since 1983.Judge Krase will continue to serve in both civil and criminalcourt on senior status.1963E. GERALD RIESENBACHhas received the2004 Alumni Award of Merit from theUniversity of Pennsylvania in recognitionof his many years in alumni leadershiproles. He currently serves as the vicepresident of Penn’s alumni association.Riesenbach practices with the corporateand health law groups of Cozen O’Connor. PhiladelphiaMagazinehas recognized him as one of the best healthcare lawyers in Philadelphia and a Pennsylvania SuperLawyer.1968ROBERT ROVNER’Sradio show on WPEN-950AM, in which he interviews people involved in politics, sports, andentertainment, has been extended to one hour onSaturdays at 5 pm.1970NEAL D. COLTONhas been selected forinclusion in the Best Lawyers in America2005-06.Colton is co-chair of the CozenO’Connor’s bankruptcy, insolvency, andrestructuring department and practices inthe firm’s Philadelphia office. Colton hasbeen named to this list since 1987 and in2004 was among Pennsylvania’s top 100 Super Lawyers inPhiladelphia Magazine.1971EDWARD L. BAXTERhas been namedCozen O’Connor’s business lawdepartment chair. Baxter concentrates hiscorporate and tax law practice in mergersand acquisitions, corporate formations,restructuring and liquidations, andcorporate finance, in addition to realestate syndications. In the past, he has served as chair oftwo of the firm’s practice groups, corporate planning, andmergers and acquisitions.STEPHEN H. FRISHBERGhas been elected to serve assecretary and member of the board of directors for theGolden Slipper Center for Seniors, and as a member of theboard of directors of the Golden Slipper Uptown Home forthe Aged. In addition, Frishberg was a guest lecturer at theannual Estate Law Institute sponsored by the PennsylvaniaBar Institute in December 2004 on the subject “HIPPA-POA: The Effect of the Health Insurance Portability andAccountability Act of 1996 on Power of Attorneys.” He alsolectured at the Interac Center for Older Adults, speaking onthe use of health care power of attorneys and living wills.JAY C. GLICKMANspoke at the Central Montgomery Lions’Club in November 2004 on estate planning and powers ofattorney, and he also spoke to Mothers of Preschoolers inLansdale, Pennsylvania, on wills, guardians, and powers ofattorney to protect children. Glickman, of Rubin, Glickmanand Steinberg, focuses his practice on estate planning andestate administration.1972ARTHUR J. ABRAMOWITZof CozenO’Connor has been featured in “AwesomeAttorneys 2004,” an article that appearedin the premier issue of South JerseyMagazinein October 2004. The articlefeatured attorneys named in Best Lawyersin Americawho practice in the SouthJersey region. Abramowitz co-chairs the firm’s bankruptcy,insolvency, and restructuring practice group. He was alsolisted among the best lawyers in New Jersey by New JerseyMagazinein the field of bankruptcy.A. HAROLD DATZhas been appointed to serve aschairperson of the Philadelphia Bar Association’scommission on judicial selection and retention for 2005, aposition he previously held in 2002.1973MARC ROBERT STEINBERG,a managing partner at Rubin,Glickman and Steinberg, spoke at a criminal law seminarpresented by the Pennsylvania Bar Association inDecember 2004 on the subject “Dealing with the Media:What Should You Do when You Are Faced with a Horde ofCameras and Microphones?”1975MARK BLASKEY,of Pepper Hamilton, hasbeen elected to the board of the Madlynand Leonard Abramson Center for JewishLife.1976B. CHRISTOPHER LEE,of Jacoby Donner, spoke at thePennsylvania Institute of Certified Public Accountants on“Pitfalls in Construction Contracts.” Lee concentrates hispractice in construction law in addition to serving as aneutral arbitrator and mediator for the American ArbitrationAssociation and other dispute resolution associations. 1977ARLINE JOLLES LOTMAN,a solo practitioner in Philadelphia,and chair of the Philadelphia Bar Association’s bar-newsmedia committee, spoke on “Women, the Workplace andthe Law,” a continuing legal education panel program heldin December 2004. 1980MICHAEL D. CARROLLwrites, “I am happy to announce theopening of my new law firm, Michael D. Carroll, inLinwood, New Jersey. My wife, Elaine ’86 and I alsoproudly announce the birth of our first child, KatherineAmira in July 2004.”ELLIOTT R. FELDMANof Cozen O’Connorhas been elected vice president of theNational Association of SubrogationProfessionals at its annual conference.Feldman is chair of Cozen O’Connor’snational and international subrogation andrecovery department and co-chair of itscrisis response and management group. Feldman alsoserves on the executive and management committees ofthe firm. MARSHALL GRANORand his wife Tamar are the new co-presidents of the Hebrew Free Loan Society at BethSholom in Elkins Park, Pennsylvania. The 20-year-oldsociety, which provides fee loans to individuals in need,was previously run by Marshall’s parents, Marie andBernard Granor.NOTESClassFEBRUARY 9, 2005Paula Johnson ’85, Professor of Law at Syracuse University, presented acolloquium on her work with women in prison.Professor Johnson is the author of a widelyacclaimed book, Inner Lives: Profiles of AfricanAmerican Women In Prison,published in 2003 byNew York University Press; and a book chapter, “A Legal and Qualitative Study of theRelationships between Incarcerated AfricanAmerican Mothers and TheirChildren,” published by theInstitute for Policy Research at Northwestern University in 2002. At Syracuse, Johnsonteaches courses in criminal law, criminal procedure, votingrights, professional respon-sibility, and a seminar onwomen in the criminal justicesystem. She is also the recent co-president of theSociety of American Law Teachers, a nationalorganization of approximately 800 law professors. Deeply committed to public service, Johnsonserves on the boards of the Hiscock Legal AidSociety, the Center for Community Alternatives,and the Battered Women’s Justice Project NationalAdvisory Committee. In 2003, she received theUnsung Heroine Award fromthe Syracuse University MartinLuther King, Jr. AwardsCommittee, and the Woman of the Year Award from theSyracuse University AfricanAmerican Male Congress. TEMPLE GRAD IS AUTHOR OFBOOK ONINCARCERATEDWOMEN8 • TEMPLE ESQ. SPRING 2005JANUARY 6, 2005 Comcast Corporationannounced the selection of Temple Lawalumna Charisse R. Lillie ’76 as thecompany’s Vice President of HumanResources for Comcast Corporation andSenior Vice President of Human Resources for Comcast Cable. Previously a partner in the Philadelphia-based law firm of Ballard Spahr Andrews &Ingersoll, Lillie chaired the firm’s litigationdepartment and was a member of the firm'slabor and employment law group. Beforejoining the firm in 1992, her experienceincluded service as City Solicitor for the Cityof Philadelphia, Assistant U.S. Attorney forthe Eastern District of Pennsylvania,ANITA CARR SHAPIROhas joined Mayer, Brown, Rowe &Maw as the U.S. litigation marketing manager overseeingthe marketing and business development for the firm’s U.Slitigation practice. She is based in the New York City office.She had previously been with The Practicing Law Instituteas a program attorney for five years and a senior accountmanager with Westlaw/Thomson for 10 years. MICHAEL L. VIOLA,a partner with Shainberg & Viola, hasbeen appointed to be one of the co-chairs of thePennsylvania Bar Association’s newly-formed Committee onthe Legal Rights of Gay Men and Lesbians. Shainberg &Viola limits its practice to domestic relations and family law.1990JERRY SEMASEKis a staff attorney with the PennsylvaniaDepartment of Revenue’s Office of Chief Counsel inHarrisburg. Semasek was admitted to the Florida bar in2003, and hopes to relocate to south Florida.MARK SHEMhas been elected to serve as the 2005treasurer of the Santa Clara County Bar Association basedin San Jose, California.MARY S. KOHNKE WAGNERhas beennamed a shareholder at Marshall,Dennehey, Warner, Coleman & Goggin.Wagner is a member of the firm’s workers’compensation department and works inits Philadelphia office. 1991ROBERTA FRANKEL BLOOMhas beennamed a partner at Cohen, Seglias, Pallas,Greenhall & Furman. The firm is aconstruction, commercial, labor, andemployment law firm headquartered inPhiladelphia.Cozen O’Connor attorney ROCHELLE B.GROSSMANrecently presented at thePennsylvania Bar Association family lawsection’s winter meeting. She spoke onthe equitable distribution portion of caselaw and legislative updates for family lawin 2004.DEIRDRE M. MULLEN,director ofprofessional development at CozenO’Connor, recently presented at the thirdannual Professional DevelopmentInstitute, sponsored by The NationalAssociation for Law Placement and theAmerican Law Institute–American BarAssociation. I have been elected a member of the Producers’ Caucus; agroup of my peers focused on lobbying for the independentproducers and against the FCC’s penchant for allowingvertical integration in the media business.”1988MICHAEL G. BALENTis one of ten winners of the PNCFinancial Service Group’s highest honor awarded to itsemployees, the PNC Performance Award. Balent is seniorcounsel for PNC Legal Services and is responsible forproviding counsel for all PNC realty services legal mattersand PNC real estate finance and other PNC business units.ROBERT M. CAPLANof Cozen O’Connorwas a featured panelist at the annualVermont Claims Association seminarwhere he presented on “Joint and SeveralLiability in New England States.” Caplan, amember of the firm’s subrogation andrecovery department, focuses his practiceon negligence and product liability claims and hasrepresented clients in complex property subrogation casesincluding fire, flood, roof collapse, and product malfunctionin numerous federal and state jurisdictions around thecountry. STEVEN J. FEDERhas been appointed senior vice presidentand general counsel at Safeguard Scientifics. Prior tojoining Safeguard, Feder was a partner in the Berwyn,Pennsylvania, office of Pepper Hamilton, where heconcentrated on mergers and acquisitions, securities law,and general corporate matters.MARINA KATS was featured as one of eight “Women of theYear” in RealPhilly’sDecember/January 2005 issue. Kats,a member of the law school’s board of visitors, is describedin a portrait titled “A Russian American’s Sweet Smell ofSuccess,” as a “smart and tough as nails personal injuryattorney who works 14 hours a day overseeing a firm thatincludes 12 attorneys [Kats, Jamison, Van Der Veen &Associates].”1989 JOEL I. FISHBEINhas relocated his practiceto Frank, Rosen, Snyder & Moss in ElkinsPark, Pennsylvania. Fishbein concentrateshis practice in commercial, stock brokerfraud, employment, and civil rightslitigation. JEFFREY S. LICHTMAN,who limits hispractice to representing persons in social security disabilityinsurance and supplemental security income claims, was afaculty member at the October 2004 PBI seminar, “TheAvailability of Legal Remedies for Workers with Disabilities.”Lichtman is serving as co-chair of the Philadelphia BarAssociation’s social security disability committee.PETER G. ROSSIwas a featured speaker atthe 2004 Atlantic Regional AdjustersConference in Philadelphia, a two-dayconference sponsored by the PropertyLoss Research Bureau. Rossi, a memberof Cozen O’Connor’s subrogation andrecovery group in Philadelphia, gave apresentation titled “Subrogation Nuts and Bolts: A Primer.”1983JEFFREY S. SHOSKINhas joined Roetzel & Andress as apartner in the labor and employment group in theCincinnati office. Shoskin was named an “Ohio SuperLawyer” in 2004.1984MARIA ZULICK NUCCIwrites, ”I was on the programcommittee and coordinated the panel on airports intransition for the ABA Forum on Air and Space Law fallmeeting and conference held in October 2004 in SantaMonica, California.”1985KAREN I. LUPULOFFwrites, “New York City Mayor MichaelBloomberg has appointed me to the bench. I am presidingas a criminal court judge for New York City.”1986RONALD S. KRAVITZwrites, “I served on a panel at theABA’s 2004 ERISA Litigation Conference. The paneldiscussed ERISA fiduciary litigation, including employersecurities.”DANIEL G. RONCA,an attorney at Rubin, Glickman andSteinberg, has been elected treasurer of the family lawsection of the Montgomery Bar Association for 2005.Ronca is also treasurer of the Whitpain RecreationAssociation in Blue Bell, Pennsylvania.1987CHRISTOPHER A. ALEXYhas joined the Chief StateAttorney’s Office in Rocky Hill, Connecticut as a prosecutorin its public integrity bureau. Alexy recently married LisaAnn Haynes.MARK A. LOCKETThas joined the Washington D.C. firm ofBonner, Kiernan, Trebach & Crociata where he serves asthe managing partner of their Philadelphia office. Lockettpreviously was a shareholder in the firm of HarveyPennington.PETER SCHANKOWITZwrites, “I’m still president of Vin DiBona Productions in Hollywood. Along with our FunniestHome Videos, we have a new series coming out in 2005with ABC, Lifetime, the History Channel, and many others.Professor of Law at the Villanova UniversitySchool of Law, and Trial Attorney with the U.S. Department of Justice.Lillie’s professional and community activi-ties include serving as chair of the FederalReserve Bank of Philadelphia (the first AfricanAmerican female to hold that position), chairof the American Bar Association’s commissionon racial and ethnic diversity in the profession,co-chair of the Philadelphia Bar Association'sracial bias in the justice system committee, and member of the Supreme Court of Penn-sylvania’s committee on racial and gender bias in the justice system. Lillie also serves aschair of the board of trustees of thePhiladelphia Award.CHARISSE R. LILLIE ’76 TO LEAD COMCAST HUMAN RESOURCESTEMPLE ESQ. SPRING 2005 • 9ALUMS GATHER IN GUANGZHOUNOVEMBER 10, 2004Ten Chinese alumniof Temple Law in China attended theGuangzhou Alumni Association’s firstofficial gathering at the ZijingyuanRestaurant at Zhongshan University.Guangzhou, otherwise known asCanton, is a large city in SouthernChina. The event was organized byAssociation Director He Wei and DeputyDirector Chen Mei. The Guangzhouregion alumni, many of whom did notpreviously know each other, enjoyed theopportunity to network and hear a presentationon the current status of the Temple Chinaprogram by the Director of Temple’s AsianPrograms, John Smagula.1992KAMAL JAFARNIAhas joined CNL Financial Group, based inOrlando, Florida, as vice president of compliance and chiefcompliance officer of its subsidiary CNL InstitutionalAdvisors. Previously, Jafarnia worked as president andchief compliance officer of a boutique wealth managementfirm providing multi-disciplinary financial services in LasVegas, Nevada. MOLLY PECKMAN,director of associatedevelopment at Pepper Hamilton, hasbeen named co-chair of the PhiladelphiaBar Association’s women in the professioncommittee. Peckman is also a member ofthe board of governors and editor-in-chiefof the Philadelphia Bar Reporter.RICHARD A. PLATELwrites, “In December 2004 I wasappointed by the Honorable Fabian Nunez, speaker of theCalifornia Assembly, to a four-year term as a State BarCourt hearing judge. The State Bar Court hears disciplinarymatters. The court is located in San Francisco and LosAngeles.”1993KATHERINE M. LAYMANof Cozen O’Connor has beenappointed to the board of directors of the American RedCross Blood Services, Penn-Jersey Region. Laymanconcentrates her practice in health care law, focusing onMedicare and Medicaid reimbursement and regulatorymatters, fraud and abuse, survey and certification matters,HIPAA and privacy, and long-term care. TINA MAZAHERIwrites, “I was elected to a third term on theBucks County Bar Association board of directors. I waselected Republican committeeperson for my township. I’min court every day! [I] credit the LL.M. Program and ChildAdvocacy for my courtroom victories.”1994ADAM SILVERMANis one of seven attorneys recently namedpartners of WolfBlock. He is a member of the real estatepractice group and practices in the area of commercial real estate. MATTHEW T. WILKOVwas recently named partner of Rubin,Glickman and Steinberg, where he practices in the areas offamily law, workers’ compensation, and social securitycompensation law.1995JOHN G. DEANwas recently named managing shareholderof Elliott Greenleaf & Siedzikowski’s Scranton and Wilkes-Barre offices. The firm also maintains offices in Blue Bell,Pennsylvania, Harrisburg, and Reading, Pennsylvania, andfocuses on commercial litigation.ROBERT L. DIAMONDhas been the host of the “BobDiamond Show,” a weekly call-in talk show Saturdays from9-10 am on radio station WPEN 950AM since May 2004.The show deals with issues surrounding real estate andreal estate law.CAROLYN BATES KELLYhas been elected to the position ofshareholder at Christie, Pabarue, Mortensen and Young.Her practice is concentrated in the areas of insurancecoverage and other commercial and general litigation. MARNIE M. WILLIAMS’debut novel, Mere Presence,is setin the juvenile justice system and on the streets ofPhiladelphia. Described as “a novel of intrigue, justice,truth and repentance,” Mere Presencewas released inJanuary 2005. After practicing law for five years, Williamsnow runs the Communities-in-the-Schools dropout-prevention program at William Penn High School.1996EDWARD T. DELISLEhas been named apartner at Cohen, Seglias, Pallas,Greenhall & Furman in Philadelphia.DeLisle concentrates his practice inconstruction law. ELEFTHERIOS ELEFTHERIOU,LL.M., beganwork for the European Court of HumanRights in January 2005. Eleftheriou, who has beenteaching in Cyprus and Malta while pursuing a Ph.D., wasone of eight Cypriot lawyers to be offered work for the EUin Brussels. JACQUELINE K. GALLAGHER,an associate atObermayer, was a featured presenter atthe 2004 annual convention of theProfessional Insurance WholesalersAssociation in New York in November2004. Her presentation was entitled“Mind Your P’s and Q’s: EPLI Cases ThatWill Have Your Clients Running for Cover(age).” Gallagheris a member of Obermayer’s labor relations andemployment law department. AJAY RAJU,a partner at Reed Smith, hasagreed to serve as a regular guest onWPVI Channel 6’s “Inside Story,” aSunday morning, issues-oriented talkshow focusing on political issues andother breaking news of local, national, andinternational concern.JACQUELINE M. REYNOLDShas beennamed a shareholder of Marshall,Dennehey, Warner, Coleman & Goggin.Reynolds works in the firm’s Norristown,Pennsylvania office and is a member of itshealth care liability practice group. CHRISTOPHER SCARPA,J.D. ’96, LL.M. in Taxation ’00, was admitted to partnership in the Philadelphia office ofStradley Ronon Stevens & Young, where he is a member of the tax department.1997JEFF FRIEDMANhas been promoted to senior managingconsultant in Public Financial Management’s Philadelphiaoffice.GLENN JENSENhas been appointed a shareholder in theFlorida firm of Akerman Senterfitt. Jensen practices out ofthe Orlando office and concentrates his practice inbankruptcy and restructuring matters.DAVID E. ROBINSONhas joined Klehr, Harrison, Harvey,Branzburg & Ellers as an associate in its litigationdepartment. Robinson concentrates his practice incommercial litigation. KARA PEISCHL ZIDEK has joined Jacoby Donner as anassociate. Her practice concentrates on employment andlabor law, including EEOC charges, litigation matters, andlabor disputes.1998SEAN HARTwrites, “I was recently made partner atHeimbach, Spitko & Heckman in Allentown, Pennsylvania.My practice is devoted exclusively to management sidelabor and employment law.”MICHELLE RICKis the new program coordinator forTemple’s LL.M. in Trial Advocacy Program. KEVIN M. TOTHhas been named vicepresident, associate general counsel, andchief litigation counsel for HarleysvilleInsurance. In this position, he oversees allcompany litigation, with primary emphasison claims litigation. Before joiningHarleysville, Toth was a senior associate inthe litigation department of Reed Smith in Philadelphia.TODD WINCEKhas received the Chicago Volunteer LegalServices Foundation’s 2004 Distinguished Service Awardfor his work with Our Lady of Mercy’s Legal Clinic onChicago’s northwest side.1999KIMBERLY A. BOYER,an associate in thePhiladelphia office of Marshall, Dennehey,Warner, Coleman & Goggin, has beenappointed to serve as co-chair of thewomen in the profession committee of thePhiladelphia Bar Association. Boyer is amember of the firm’s appellate and post-trial advocacy practice group. ATTENDING THE ALUMNI GATHERING INGUANGZHOU WERE (REAR, LEFT TORIGHT):HE WEI, LL.M. ’03; WU ANPING,LL.M. ’02; LIU YONGHAI, TEMPLEPROSECUTOR TRAINING ’03; YAO YITANG,LL.M. ’04; ZHENG YIWU, TEMPLEPROSECUTOR TRAINING ’03; XIAO ZESHUN,TEMPLE PROSECUTOR TRAINING ’03.(FRONT, LEFT TO RIGHT):YU JUNMEI,LL.M. ’04; SU WEIYU, LL.M. ’03; DIRECTOROF ASIAN PROGRAMS JOHN SMAGULA;CHEN SHUFEN, TEMPLE PROSECUTORTRAINING ’03; AND CHEN MEI, LL.M. ’04.Next >