TEMPLE UNIVERSITY JAMES E. BEASLEY SCHOOL OF LAW • LAW SCHOOL AND ALUMNI NEWS • SPRING 2011Bankruptcy as a last resort for the poorA new clinic at the Consumer Bankruptcy Assistance Project is ‘a unique educational opportunity.’In fall 2010, Temple Law addeda new clinical opportunity to itsextensive roster of “hands-on”opportunities for students.Through a partnership with theConsumer BankruptcyAssistance Project (CBAP),students can now spend twosemesters learning—throughdirect representation of clients—how Chapter 7 bankruptcy lawand practice works forimpoverished clients. The groundwork for thisnewly-minted clinic began in2007 when the Seventh CircuitCourt of Appeals awarded $30million to roughly 1.7 million class members in the settlementof Carnegie vs. Household International and H&R Block.When the dust settled, $1.3 million dollars of unclaimed cypresfunds remained. Committed Temple Law alums CarolynLindheim ’87 and Steven Angstreich ’70, both attorneys withWeir & Partners in Philadelphia, successfully petitioned tohave those unclaimed funds assigned to the law school. (Formore details, see Temple EsqSeptember 2009). With the cy presfunds secured, Dean JoAnne A. Eppscreated a committee to explore opportunities for the income from this fund to support consumer protection andeducation, and to advance the law school’s programs at the same time. Arising out of that committee was the idea for a bankruptcy clinic as conceived by Professor WilliamWoodward, a long-time board member of CBAP.In the clinic, students are supervised in CBAP’s FreshStart program, where low income, working poor andunemployed clients gain access to U.S. Bankruptcy Courtsand experience the powerful legal tool that bankruptcy canoffer. Most Fresh Start clients file for Chapter 7 following anunanticipated catastrophic life event such as a funeral, injuryor illness, loss of a job, or interrupted spousal or childsupport. As the course description states, “students willbecome sensitized to the reality of living in poverty inPhiladelphia. Clients come to CBAP as a last resort, afterhaving tried to resolve their financial difficulty on their own.” As with all of Temple’s clinical courses, there is both aclassroom and practice component. In the classroom,Woodward offers an overview of debt collection and thebankruptcy process. Staff Attorney Siana Newman andSupervising Attorney Henry Sommer then teach the compli-cated procedural and substantive legal issues involved inCARY FLITTER (LEFT) PRESENTSCY PRESAWARD CHECK TO DEAN JOANNE A. EPPS AND PROFESSORWILLIAM WOODWARD.Cary L. Flitter has built much of his practicearound litigating cases on behalf of consumersagainst debt collectors, finance companies,insurance companies, car dealers and creditreporting agencies. For the last two years, as anadjunct professor at Temple Law, he has sharedthat experience with students who enroll in hispopular class in consumer finance andlitigation. During those years, he has watchedthe law school’s commitment to consumer laweducation expand and flourish—most recentlywith the addition of a Bankruptcy Clinic fundedwith cy presfunds from a consumer lawsuit(see Bankruptcy, this page.) Now, Flitter finds himself in the fortunateposition to add to his ongoing contribution toconsumer law education at Temple, this timewith a very large check. Flitter, who is afounding partner of the Montgomery County, PAfirm of Lundy, Flitter, Beldecos & Berger,recently led the legal team in a consumer classaction lawsuit, McCall v. Drive,resulting in afavorable judgment for the plaintiffs. The cy pres—or unclaimed—funds from thatcase amounted to just over $203,000. Flitterexplains how cy presawards work: “Aftermonetary distribution of a class actionsettlement to class members, occasionally thereare funds left over, either because the classmember has passed away, has moved and isunreachable, or the class member simplydoesn’t cash the check. As part of the classsettlement, these undistributed funds can bedesignated cy pres funds, or charitable funds,subject to approval of the court. Whereappropriate, the parties can then advocate for aparticular charity—or in this case school—tobenefit from the cy pres award.”Flitter, with the help of Bankruptcy LawProfessor William Woodward, developed aproposal to the court to direct the funds to buildfuture consumer advocates at Temple, and tobroaden the opportunities available to them.The expanded program will work to sensitizestudents to the needs of consumers and thedisadvantaged by subsidizing—among otherthings—bridge employment for jobs inconsumer law, consumer credit education, lawaffecting small business and property owners,and dispute resolution.representing clients seekingbankruptcy relief—the concrete skills students will put into practice at CBAP. But the students also spendtime exploring with their instructors the psychological, cultural, and socio-economic ramifications as well as the nuanced ethical implications ofconsumer bankruptcy. Then the practice component:Weekly for two semesters, the sixTemple students enrolled in the clinicinterview Fresh Start clients, reviewbudgets, prepare the filing documents,and—working with the clinic’ssupervising attorney—represent clientsin Chapter 7 bankruptcy to dischargethe client’s unsecured debts. Students meet regularly and are closely supervised by Newman and Sommer. “Henry Sommer is one of the best-known consumerbankruptcy lawyers in the U.S.,” says Woodward. Sommer isa Harvard Law-educated attorney who publishes widely andis former President of the National Association of ConsumerBankruptcy Attorneys. “For our students to have anopportunity to work with him, to help underprivileged clients with their financial problems, to see first-hand theoperation of a premierpro bonoprovider, and to learnbankruptcy practice all at the same time is a uniqueeducational opportunity at Temple.” Now in its second semester, the experience has beendeemed a meaningful one by its participants. Third-year law student Melissa Pelkey says participation in the clinic has been personally rewarding. “Working for real people withreal needs is extraordinarily motivating,” she says. “The time I invest in CBAP is not only preparing me to be anattorney, but it also has a positive impact on people in mycommunity.” And, as a result of Temple Law studentsworking in the program, Sommer estimates that CBAP willservice 40 to 50 more low income clients this year thanpreviously, approximately a 50% increase in capacity.The course description does not exaggerate when itclaims students will become sensitized, says Pelkey.“Declaring bankruptcy is often a very difficult and personaldecision for CBAP clients, so it is an important part of our job as student-attorneys to understand each client’s story. All of our clients are dealing with unique challenges that we as ‘poor law students’ could not begin to imagine in ourown lives."CBAP ATTORNEYS SIANA LEWIS AND HENRY SOMMERSUPERVISE TEMPLE'S NEW CLINIC IN BANKRUPTCY30343 TLS:ESQ_Sept06/f 3/10/11 12:31 PM Page 12 • TEMPLE ESQ. SPRING 2011TREATY EXPERT HOLLIS REFLECTS ON GLOBAL WARMINGIt took decades for negotiators towrite treaties that curb nuclearwarheads. By that measure, effortsto limit global warming may just begetting started. United Nationsclimate talks in Mexico [were]expected to be an ongoingprocess. “We’ve been at it for 18 years on climate change, butthat’s not unique,” saidPROFESSOR DUNCAN HOLLIS,editor of the forthcoming OxfordGuide to Treaties.“Breaking thisup into smaller pieces and tryingto knock off one piece at a time is certainly worth trying.” —Bloomberg Business Week,November 22, 2010TRIAL EXPERT OHLBAUM COMMENTS ON BUCKS COUNTY CASELegal scholars say the Bucks County District Attorney’s Office’s decisionnot to file criminal charges against a former Montgomery County districtattorney in connection with a manslaughter case against the ex-topprosecutor’s nephew appears to be correct by the letter of the law. “The fact that Mr. Marino did not volunteer information and left thescene without reporting what he knew is neither obstruction of justicenor making false reports to police,” said PROFESSOR EDWARD D.OHLBAUM, a trial advocacy and criminal law expert.—Bucks County Courier Times, December 26, 2010ABREU SAYS TAX CUTS BENEFIT LOW AND MIDDLE INCOMEPresident Barack Obama’s $858 billion tax package is a grab bag ofgoodies for investors, the affluent and workers, and the richer you arethe more you get. But low and middle income groups do benefit. They will see a cash boost from cuts in the payroll tax, with the ratetrimmed from the current 6.2 percent to 4.2 percent. The wealthy alsoget that benefit, but the payroll tax is not imposed on income above$107,000. “That is actually good not only as a policy matter but also in how it’s done, because it will put money in people’s pockets at thebeginning of January,” said PROFESSOR ALICE ABREU.—CNBC, December 17, 2010AGREEMENT BETWEEN COURTS REMAINS ‘OPEN QUESTION,’ ACCORDING TO HOLLISNew York State’s chief judge and the chief justice of the Supreme Court of New South Wales in Australia announced that when a court in one of the jurisdictions is hearing a case dealing with the laws of the other jurisdiction, the court can ask judges in the other jurisdictionto provide an opinion on the case. So, for instance, if an Australiancompany is suing a New York company in Australia for breach ofcontract, a panel of judges in New York might be asked to provide an opinion, based on New York contracts law, about the case. Theseopinions will not be legally binding –- the judge who has the case caneither accept or reject the opinion. The opinions also may not be usedto set precedents in the U.S.PROFESSOR DUNCAN B. HOLLIS,who has written on agreementsbetween states and foreign countries, said that the legality of this pact,and many others between other states and countries, remains an openquestion. A provision in the federal constitution says that states mayenter into an agreement with a foreign government only if approved byCongress. But states and foreign countries have entered into hundredsFacultyON THERecordof agreements without first going to Congress, Mr. Hollis said. “How is thatpossible given the constitutional text?” Mr. Hollis said. “This has not beenanswered definitively by the courts.” —New York Times, January 29, 2011TING RECOMMENDS: PRESERVE STATUS QUO WITH CHINA Chinese-Americans and Chinese citizens living inDelaware greeted Chinese President Hu Jintao’svisit to Washington, DC with a mixture of reactions.Delaware resident and PROFESSOR JAN TING,however, said to shut out China is to ignoreeconomic and political reality. “We have thisinteresting relationship with China where we giveour dollars to China in exchange for Chinese-madegoods and they loan us the dollars back so we buymore Chinese goods,” he said. “It is mutuallybeneficial as long as it lasts, but the big question is,how long it will last?’” Ting, who has relatives inChina and visits regularly, said China has longneeded the U.S. as a market for its goods, but that is changing. “The Chinesedomestic market is growing by leaps and bounds.” He said the U.S. would bewell served to preserve the status quowith China. “Nobody benefits in a worldeconomic crisis,” Ting said, which is what could happen if China severs tieswith the U.S. “The Chinese also have a stake in the world economy as it is.”—Wilmington News Journal, January 20, 2011PAY CAPS WERE MORE AMBITIOUS IN THE 1930S THAN TODAY, SAYS WELLSNew caps on European bankers’ bonuses were ushered in with the new year.Outcry over executive compensation is nothing new. The Financial Timeshighlighted a study by PROFESSOR HARWELL WELLS:“Mr. Wells makes thepoint that in all this, 1930s America had more radical ambitions than anythingnow contemplated. But the only substantial outcome was compulsory paydisclosure, enacted along with the setting up of the SEC in 1934. That apart,there were pay caps set on Depression-hit railroad companies, which werereceiving public subsidy, and on carriers of public mail.” —Financial Times,January 3, 2011CAINE ENDORSES PRESIDENT’S ROLE IN REPEALING ‘DON’T ASK, DON’T TELL’PROFESSOR BURTON CAINEraises the issue of the president’s role in strikingdown the military’s antigay policy. “Under Article II of the Constitution, thepresident is bound by oath to ‘preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution.’In addition, the president is commander in chief of the military forces.Certainly, the combination of the two provisions requires the president to halt a practice that indisputably violates the First Amendment as well as the dueprocess clause and the equal protection component of the Fifth Amendment.”—New York Times, November 18, 2010EXTRADITING ASSANGE WON’T BE EASY, PREDICTS SPIROTrying to bring WikiLeaks editor-in-chief JulianAssange to justice in the U.S. may be difficult.Assange is rumored to be in London but theAustralian citizen has proved adept at movingbetween countries. Even a country with which theU.S. has warmer relations and an extradition treatymight argue that the prosecution is political, notcriminal, and refuse to hand him over. Because ofthis, “getting him to the U.S., even from a friendlynation, isn’t necessarily going to be easy,” saysinternational law expert PROFESSOR PETER SPIRO.—Wall Street Journal, December 1, 2010 30343 TLS:ESQ_Sept06/f 3/8/11 2:25 PM Page 2TRIAL TEAMCelebrating the trial team's regional championshipare, from left: Brian Burack ’11, Caroline Leigh ’12,Samantha Jones ’11, Shilpa Kalra ’12, Stacy Merritt,Prof. Edward Ohlbaum ’76, Alex Gosfield ’08, andProf. Sara Jacobson ’97, LL.M. ’02. 3 • TEMPLE ESQ. SPRING 2011WINTER 2011 AT TEMPLE LAWAUTHOR SPEAKSJohn Hollwayspeaks about bookhe co-authored:Killing TimeCYBERPRIVACY SYMPOSIUMPanelists discussing e-discovery and data privacy were (from left):David Kessler, Fulbright & Jaworski;David C. Shonka, Federal TradeCommission; and Paul D. Weiner ’94,Littler Mendelson.AUTHOR JOHN HOLLWAYSPEAKS AT TEMPLE LAWJANUARY 25, 2011Lawyer John Hollway, co-author ofKilling Time: an 18-Year Odyssey from Death Row toFreedom, visited Temple Law to talk about his account ofthe efforts of two Philadelphia lawyers to exonerate JohnThompson, who was wrongfully convicted in Louisiana and imprisoned for almost 20 years. The New Orleans D.A. in the case was Harry Connick, Sr. Hollway explained how he and his co-author, RonaldGauthier, drew from trial transcripts, witness reports,depositions, and in-person interviews to create a narrativeof the Thompson case from investigation to exonerationthat includes reconstructed conversations and bits ofinternal monologue.A reviewer for the Boston Globepraised the book forthree reasons: “First, it serves as a detailed butapproachable primer on how and why wrongful convictionsoccur. . . . Second, it works as a gripping narrative of aprosecution gone awry, a narrative built impressively onhundreds of thousands of pages of police and courtdocuments . . . . And finally, this book serves as evidencein a world populated by skeptics and cynics that a fewgood Samaritans like the Philadelphia lawyers exist andcan make a positive difference.” TRIAL TEAM WINS REGIONALFEBRUARY 13, 2011Temple’s National Trial Team won theregional championship from the National Trial Competition.Temple Law has dominated the regional competitions for aquarter of a century, winning 23 out of the last 25 events. Temple’s team—Brian Burack ’11, Caroline Leigh ’12and Shilpa Kalra ’12—defeated teams from law schools of Dickinson, Duquesne, University of Pennsylvania,Pittsburgh, Rutgers-Newark, Seton Hall, Villanova,Widener-Delaware, and Widener-Harrisburg. Burack was presented with the John J. Scott Memorial Plaque for being the best advocate in the final round. Coachingthe successful teams are Professor Edward Ohlbaum ’76,Director of Trial Advocacy and Clinical Legal Education;Professor Sara Jacobson ’97, LL.M. ’02, Director of TrialAdvocacy Programs; and Alex Gosfield ’08 of the ChesterCounty District Attorney’s Office.In the double-bracketed competition, a second team ofSamantha Jones ’11 and Stacy Merritt ’12 made it to thesemi-finals, which was won by Drexel. In April, both teamswill travel to Texas to compete in the national competitionagainst twenty-four winners and runners-up from thetwelve regional contests. The regional tournament was sponsored by Temple’sLL.M. in Trial Advocacy Alumni Association, directed byProfessor Barbara Ashcroft, Director of the LL.M. Program,and administered by Mary Beth Wilson.CYBERPRIVACY EXPLORED AT SYMPOSIUMFEBRUARY 5, 2011Cyberprivacy law is an area of rapidlyexpanding importance. Constitutional and ethical questionsabound in this new field. At a symposium organized by the Temple Political & Civil Rights Law Review,more than100 students, scholars and practicing attorneys gathered to discuss the layered legal policies, practices, andexpectations of cyberprivacy. The forum’s featured speakers were Marc Rotenberg,Executive Director of the Electronic Privacy InformationCenter and David Post, I. Herman Stern Professor of Law at Temple University. Expert panels explored topicsincluding ethical and professional boundaries, constitu-tional and statutory trends, e-discovery and data privacy,and workplace privacy and social media.30343 TLS:ESQ_Sept06/f 3/10/11 12:31 PM Page 3COLOMBIAN LL.M. STUDENTWINS INT’L BAR AWARDNOVEMBER 30, 2011Temple LL.M. candidate Juan CarlosUpegui Mejia of Colombia was presented with the annualaward for outstanding achievement in human rights orinternational law at a reception held for international LL.M.students attending Temple and Penn. The reception,hosted by the Philadelphia Bar Association’s internationallaw committee, was held at the offices of Pepper Hamilton.Mejia is an assistant professor of law at the ExternalUniversity of Colombia. His research and teaching exploresconstitutional and human rights law. He has served as anadvisor to Colombia’s National Electoral Council and ajudicial assistant to Colombia’s Constitutional Court. Mejiaearned an LL.B. and Masters in Public Law from theExternal University of Colombia.4 • TEMPLE ESQ. SPRING 2011WINTER 2011 AT TEMPLE LAWLAW SCHOOL HOSTS CHINESE DELEGATION Shanghai legal educators seek knowledge of best practicesDECEMBER 14, 2010Temple Law School hosted a five-member delegation led by Vice President ZhangZhiqiang of East China University of Politics and Law in Shanghai. Temple has been formally collaboratingwith the Chinese university since 2008. Dean JoAnne A. Epps and Assistant Dean Louis Thompson bothaddressed the Chinese visitors, who were eager to learn about best practices in student affairs and careerplanning for law school students and graduates. The delegation also met with Temple administrators to learnabout university-wide initiatives. JANUARY 31, 2011There is a new tradition developing atTemple Law, and it’s another winning one. For the fourthyear in a row, Temple students have medaled in theAmerican Bar Association Tax Challenge, the preeminentnational tax competition for law students. Temple Law’s winning streak began in 2002, theinaugural year of the competition. Since 2008, Templeteams have brought home six trophies, including awardsfor the best written submission by a J.D. team in 2008 and2009, first place J.D. team in 2009, second place J.D.team in 2010, and second place LL.M. team in 2009 and2011. Temple teams also made it to the semifinals in theJ.D. division in 2009, and to the finals in the LL.M. divisionin 2010.At this year’s competition, Temple J.D./LL.M. candidatesTravis Wheeler ’10 and Jeanmarie Dunn-Kane ’09 placedsecond in the LL.M. division. Both Wheeler and Dunn-Kane have a history of success in the Tax Challenge. Dunn-Kane placed first in the J.D. division in 2009, and Wheelertook second in that division in 2010. In addition, a memberof this year’s winning LL.M. team from Northwestern, JohnGoodell, earned his J.D. from Temple Law in 2010. TAX TEAMLL.M. students TravisWheeler ’10 and JeanmarieDunn-Kane ’09 are coachedbefore the competition by(from left) Joseph Sedlack’78, Reed Smith; Jon Flora,Schnader Harrison Segal &Lewis; Howard Goldberg,Pepper Hamilton; and DavidShechtman, Drinker Biddle. In order to earn an invitation to the ABA Tax Challenge,students were required to research the tax questionsinvolved in a series of complicated corporate transactionsand submit technical memoranda and client letters withtheir solutions. The submissions were judged by taxpractitioners from around the country, and the teams withthe best written submissions were chosen to present theirtax planning strategies before judges at the section’smidyear meeting.Sponsored by the ABA’s Tax Sections and held in BocaRaton, FL, the Tax Challenge drew 31 teams of LL.M.students from around the country. Competitors presentedtheir recommendations to their panel of judges.Competition judge William Alexander, Associate ChiefCounsel at the IRS Office of Chief Counsel, described theTemple team’s analysis as sophisticated and what he wouldhave recommended.Temple’s 2011 team was coached by Professors AndreaMonroe and Kathy Mandelbaum, Director of the LL.M. inTax program, and advised by other members of Temple’stax, trial advocacy and transactional practice faculty as wellas Philadelphia tax practitioners.ALUM AND ADJUNCTPROFESSOR RECEIVE PBA AWARDSNOVEMBER 10, 2010 The Philadelphia Bar Association’spublic interest section honored Temple Law alumnaOurania “Rainy” Papademetriou and adjunct Professor LenReiser for their contributions to public interest law inPhiladelphia. Papademetrioureceived the 2010Philadelphia BarFoundation Award forher work as managingattorney at Phila-delphia VIP. Foundedin 1981 as Philadel-phia Volunteer Lawyersfor Action Program,Phila VIP coordinatespro bonoefforts formembers of thePhiladelphia Bar.Papademetriou hasspent her entire legalcareer working inpublic service, movingfrom the Philadelphia District Attorney’sOffice to WomenAgainst Abuse and then to Philadelphia VIP in 2005. At the same ceremony, Judge Louis H. Pollak presentedTemple Law adjunct professor Len Rieser with the AndrewHamilton Award. Rieser is the executive director of theEducation Law Center. LEN RIESER, RECIPIENT OF THEANDREW HAMILTON AWARD; OURANIA PAPADEMETRIOU ’81,RECIPIENT OF THE PHILADELPHIA BAR FOUNDATION AWARDFROM LEFT: AWARD RECIPIENT JUAN CARLOS UPEGUI MEJIAWITH JEREMY HEEP AND MICHAEL SCULLIN, CO-CHAIRS OFTHE PHILADELPHIA BAR ASSOCIATION’S INTERNATIONALLAW COMMITTEE CHINESE DELEGATIONLouis Thompson, Ass’t Dean forGraduate and Int’l Programs,greets Chinese delegation.TEMPLE’S TAX TEAM TAKES SECOND IN NATIONAL COMPETITION30343 TLS:ESQ_Sept06/f 3/10/11 12:31 PM Page 45 • TEMPLE ESQ. SPRING 20111940sROBERT T. GOWNLEY SR. ’43was featured as the “oldestliving member of Lackawanna Bar Association” inScranton, PA’s Times-Tribune.Gownley, who turned 100 on November 8, 2010, continued practicing law until hisearly 90s, focusing on drawing up wills and estates,especially in his later years.1970sJUDGE ALAN D. LOURIE ’70of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, was honored for “OutstandingIntellectual Property Achievement” by the PhiladelphiaIntellectual Property Law Association at its annual judges’dinner in November 2010. LOUIS B. PRILUKER ’75was re-elected tothe International Boxing Federation boardof directors for the fifth time. Priluker is a general practitioner with an office inJenkintown, PA.Maryland Governor Martin O’Malleyrecently appointed BARBARA I. BERSCHLER’76to the 17-member Governor’sCommission on Small Business.Berschler is an attorney with Press, Potter and Dozier in Bethesda, MD.HEIDI WEINTRAUB STRASSLER ’77hasbeen named associate solicitor of labor for Mine Safety and Health, a position in which she supervises an office of approximately 30 attorneys and support staff in Arlington, VA. R. MICHAEL CARR ’79moderated a paneldiscussion on assessing and respondingto claims for unemployment insurancebenefits in December 2010 in Bethlehem,PA. Carr, who is a shareholder of Stevens& Lee, is also a board member for theMoravian Village of Bethlehem.In November 2010 President Barack Obama honoredMARY NELL WHIGHAM-JONES ’79with the Presidential Rank Award, the highest federal award bestowed on seniorexecutive staff. Whigham-Jones is the deputy director ofthe Office of Civil Rights in the Department ofTransportation.1980sELLEN KANDELL ’82was elected presidentof the Maryland Council for DisputeResolution. Kandell is President ofAlternative Resolutions, which trainsMaryland’s retired circuit court andadministrative law judges.KEVIN D. STEPANUK ’82,AssociateGeneral Counsel at Exelon BusinessServices Company in Philadelphia, was arecipient of a 2010 Corporate CounselExcellence Award for “outstandingcommunity service by an individual.” Theaward was presented by the DelawareValley Chapter of the Association for Corporate Counsel.Stepanuk recently came to Temple Law School at therequest of Professor Jeffrey Dunoff to lecture on “What is aLocal Utility Lawyer Doing Practicing International Law?”Stepanuk also mentored a Chinese law student attendingTemple University as a part of an exchange program. The American Bar Association has published a book byDANIEL J. SIEGEL ’84: The Lawyer’s Guide to LexisNexisCaseMap.Siegel is the principal of the Law Office of Daniel J. Siegel and founder and president of IntegratedTechnology Services, a law office technology consulting firm. In Feburary 2011, criminal defenseattorney MARK E. CEDRONE ’85gaveseveral presentations at the WinningStrategies Seminar, hosted by theAdministrative Office of the U.S. CourtsOffice of Defender Services TrainingBranch. The presentations included apanel discussion on resources for CJA attorneys, includinghow to obtain funding for expert services and the potentialroles of investigators and other experts; how to prepare juryinstructions and special verdict forms; and how to handleethical issues that criminal defense attorneys often face.Cedrone is the managing partner of the Law Offices ofMark E. Cedrone in Philadelphia.The board of HIAS and Council MigrationService of Philadelphia will honor JUDITHBERNSTEIN-BAKER ’86on April 28, 2011at the newly opened National Museum ofAmerican Jewish History in Philadelphia.The President of National HIAS, GideonAronoff will address the group. Bernstein-Baker, who is executive director of Philadelphia HIAS and Council, was named an honorary fellow of Penn Law School in 1998, and is the past recipient of thePhiladelphia Human Relations Commission Award, theEqual Justice Award from Community Legal Services and the Mary Philbrook Award from Rutgers Camden Law School.In January 2010, LEWIS EVANGELIDIS ’87was sworn in as the newly elected sheriff of Worcester County, MA.Evangelidis is married to MARY JUDE PIGSLEY ’87,chiefregional counsel for the Massachusetts Department ofEnvironmental Protection’s Central Regional Office.In December 2010, Fox Rothschild’s real estatedepartment chair ROBERT W. GUNDLACH JR. ’87(with realestate associate KIMBERLY FREIMUTH ’05) presented theprogram, “The Permit Extension Act of 2010: LearningHow to Maximize Value for Your Company” to members of the Home Builders Association of Chester and Delaware Counties. 1990sFollowing a national search, the Delaware County BarAssociation has selected WILLIAM L. BALDWIN ’90as the new executive director. Baldwin is a former deputydirector of Laurel House, a domestic violence nonprofit inNorristown, PA, where he has also supervised a clinic forTemple Law students.PETER BAROTH ’90was born in Chicago, Illinois, and raised in Norman, OK. A graduate of Washington Universityin St. Louis, MO, and Philadelphia’s Temple Law School, heis an active and ardent writer, artist, and musician. Peterhas published a poetry chapbook, Ski Oklahoma,as well asa novel,Long Green,and his work has appeared in manyliterary publications. Besides his poetry, a number of his artworks have graced the pages of Philadelphia Poets. He was the recipient of the 2009 Amy Tritsch Needle Award for his poem, “Earth Mother.”NANCY L. WASCH ’90 has been appointed to serve as co-chair of the employeebenefits committee of the Philadelphia Bar Association. Wasch is a partner in the Philadelphia office of Archer & Greiner, where she practices in the areas of employee benefits, compensation, and ERISA matters.ROBERT J. ROSSI ’91 has been named senior vice president and general counsel of PLUS Diagnostics, a national cytology, histology and molecular pathology laboratory. Priorto this appointment, he was senior corporate counsel for Quest Diagnostics Inc., where he spent more than 11 years. Rossi also currently serves on the Temple University College of Liberal Arts Alumni Board. LIEUTENANT COLONEL ANTHONY T. FEBBO ’92 is a Judge Advocate General Attorney with the U.S. Army, assigned to Baghdad, Iraq as a regional defense counsel. He is married to ANITA MELLONE FEBBO ’90.BARRY L. COHEN ’93, former head of Thorp Reed &Armstrong’s intellectual property litigation group, has left the firm to join King of Prussia, PA-based Sorin Royer Cooper.THOMAS D. RUTLEDGE ’95 is a sole practitioner of employment law, personal injury, landlord-tenant law, and family law in San Diego, CA. He is an active member of the San Diego County Bar. 2000sAfter more than two and a half years with the Office of the New York State Attorney General, ALPHONSO DAVID ’00 left to join Governor Andrew Cuomo’s administration as Deputy Secretary for Civil Rights. Wisler Pearlstine of Blue Bell, PA recently announced that JASON J. HERRON ’00has been elected to partnership. Herron is a member of the firm’s business practice group.HERB PINDER ’00, opinion page editor ofThe Journal News and LoHud.com in suburban New York City, received the honorable mention award for editorials in the New York State Associated Press Association Writing Contest for 2010. He won the first-place award in 2007 and 2008. GREGORY T. ROYSTON ’00 was featured in a December 12, 2010 New York Times article, “Homes at Risk and No Help From Lawyers.” Royston was described by a client as an exception, without whom, “I’d be living under a bridge.”Royston is a real estate lawyer who is of counsel with South Bay Law Group in Redondo Beach, STEVEN B. WITTENBERG, JD/MBA ’01, LLM ’10, is a founder, partner and broker of record of Icon Realty Group, where he and his partners focus on brokerage, property management, construction and insurance services. The companies, located in Center City Philadelphia, serve the greater Philadelphia and South Jersey area.PETER J. ISAJIW ’02 has been named special counsel at the New York City law firm Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft. He concentrates his practice on complex securities and commercial litigation, as well as criminal and regulatory investigations. Isajiw has substantial experience with sophisticated e-discovery, and speaks frequently on the subject. He is also a contributing author to the treatise Public Companies. Prior to joining Cadwalader, Isajiw clerked for Hon. Yvette Kane, Chief Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania.NOTESClass30343 TLS:ESQ_Sept06/f 3/10/11 12:31 PM Page 5CA.RHONDA K. GRUBBS ’03has joined theBlue Bell, PA firm of Wisler Pearlstine asan associate. Grubbs, a member of thefirm’s labor and employment practicegroup, was formerly an associate atMorgan Lewis and MontgomeryMcCracken.LINDA A. KERNS, LL.M. ’03,lectured at the Pennsylvania Bar Institute in bothMechanicsburg and Philadelphia on“Financial Fraud: Tracing Assets.” WILLIAM SYLIANTENG ’03was recentlyappointed chair of the MontgomeryCounty Bar Association’s diversity committee. He was also elected to the board of directors for the Asian PacificAmerican Bar Association of Pennsylvania. Sylianteng is amember of Bennett, Bricklin & Saltzburg and chair of thefirm’s subrogation department.SETH L. THOMPSON ’03was recentlyelected president of the Sussex CountyBar Association. He has been anassociate with Hudson Jones Jaywork &Fisher for five years, based in the firm’sGeorgetown, DE office.ALLYSON B. DAVIS ’04has served on theboard of Operation Understanding since 2009. OperationUnderstanding works to increase understanding of youngAfrican-American and Jewish leaders about each other’shistories and cultures. Davis, who is a 1996 alumna of theprogram, also chairs the organization’s alumni committee.Davis is an assistant city solicitor for PhiladelphiaInternational and Northeast Airports and is currently acandidate for a Masters in Public Administration at theUniversity of Pennsylvania’s Fels Institute of Government. DELIA ANNE DOUGHERTY, LL.M. ’04,has joined Rawle &Henderson’s New Jersey office as an associateconcentrating on the defense of commercial motor vehicles and their insurers. She was previously employedwith Earp Cohen.The firm of Caesar, Rivise, Bernstein,Cohen and Pokotilow announced thatDAVID GORNISH ’04has been elected topartnership. Gornish’s practice involves all aspects of intellectual property law,including litigation matters for bothplaintiffs and defendants. His patentdefense work largely involves representing genericpharmaceutical companies in “Hatch-Waxman” litigation. KAREN GELD SANCHEZ ’04andBENJAMIN SANCHEZ ’04and their daughter, Marisa, welcome the arrival of BrookeGenevieve Sanchez on January 6, 2011. Karen is stillworking at Obermayer Rebmann Maxwell & Hippel andBenjamin is at Ballard Spahr.Beginning in January 2011, BRAD V. SHUTTLEWORTH ’04 is chairperson of the criminal justice section of thePhiladelphia Bar Association. Shuttleworth is of counsel toAlva & Associates in Philadelphia, where he focuses hispractice in criminal defense litigation and business matters.KIMBERLY FREIMUTH ’05,a real estate associate in theWarrington, PA office of Fox Rothschild, presented theprogram, “The Permit Extension Act of 2010: LearningHow to Maximize Value for Your Company” to members ofthe Home Builders Association of Chester and DelawareCounties. Freimuth’s co-presenter was Temple Lawalumnus ROBERT W. GUNDLACH JR. ’87. AMY POWELL BLACKMORE ’08has joined Tallman Hudders& Sorrentino as an associate in the firm’s litigation group.Previously, Blackmore practiced in Philadelphia and actedas an adviser for the Drexel University Earle Mack Schoolof Law Co-op.AVERY E. SMITH ’08is practicing in the areas of estates,trusts and general contract law at King, Spry, Herman,Freund & Faul. 6 • TEMPLE ESQ. SPRING 2011Rudolph Garcia ’77, the Philadelphia BarAssociation’s newly elected 84thchancellor and a superstar litigator atBuchanan Ingersoll & Rooney, has acolorful ethnic legacy. He has been citedas the bar’s first Hispanic leader, but thereis more to the story. The clue: hismembership in both the Hispanic BarAssociation and the Justinian Society (forlawyers of Italian ancestry). The tale begins when his paternalgrandparents fled Mexico around 1916 inthe wake of the mayhem unleashed bybandit-revolutionary Pancho Villa. TheGarcias settled in Arizona and named theirson Rudolph (after Hollywood heartthrob RudolphValentino). This first Rudolph Garcia served in World War IIand, while his ship was docked at the Philadelphia NavyYard, he met a first-generation Italian American. After the war, the couple married and settled in SouthPhiladelphia, where our Rudolph Garcia was born, andthen moved to Upper Merion Township. His parentsseparated when Rudy was five and he lived with his mother for 10 years, then his father for three.His father was a commercial artist whose creditsincluded the Jolly Green Giant; his mother was a ballroomdance instructor and real estate saleswoman. They neverencouraged college, but a school counselor did, so Garcia submitted an application to Penn State after thedeadline and was accepted to its engineering program in Hazelton, PA. He moved out at 18 and has supported himself eversince. He enjoyed school, he recalls, but he felt confined inengineering. He was curious to know more about literature,about history, about everything. He switched to liberal arts.And then his curiosity about life led him to take to the road.With $10 in his pocket, he hitchhiked to California and onhis way back, worked long enough in Salt Lake City to buya motorcycle and pointed it due east. “I had seen lots ofdifferent places but I liked Philadelphia best,” he says. The yearlong trip was much more than an adventure. “I grew a lot during that year,” he recalls. “It shaped mycharacter and built up my self-confidence, because I found I was able to get by with very littleon my own.” He completed his undergraduatecareer at Temple, magna cum laudeand free of debt. How’d he do it? “Ischeduled classes on Mondays,Wednesdays and Fridays, and I workedon Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays,”he explains. “I took Sundays off. ” AtTemple Law School, he served on the lawreview and as moot court president,graduating cum laudein 1977.“My first job after law school was at asmall firm where I got a lot of great trialexperience,” he says. A year later, Garcia joined Saul Ewing where he quickly made his mark because he knew how to handle himself in court. He became a partner there and stayed for 27 years. Sixyears ago, he joined Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney as ashareholder, handling complex business litigation. Amonghis strengths, he acknowledges, is his ability to synthesizea great deal of information into a story that a jury willunderstand: In one case he defended officers and directorsof a failed savings and loan association with $800 million at stake, four million documents and hundreds ofwitnesses across the country. A longtime champion of the Philadelphia BarAssociation, Garcia has an ambitious agenda prepared forhis term as chancellor: enhancing the value of membership,improving diversity, working with the city to improve thebusiness climate, providing a classifieds section on theBar’s website—www.philadelphiabar.org—to connectlawyers with job opportunities, helping unemployed lawyersstart their own firms, promoting a hotline for citizens to getfree legal help, hosting an international bar conference …the list goes on and on. His suggestion for young lawyers? “Join the PhiladelphiaBar Association, the oldest and one of the most respectedbar associations in the United States. Don’t be consumedwith this week’s billable hours and then go home. Think of the future; save some of your time for long-termdevelopment. Get involved, make connections and become a better lawyer.”—Ruth Waldman SchultzRudy Garcia ’77 Elected New Phila Bar ChancellorSuccessful litigator urges engagementALUMNI PROFILEMAY 2010 The Pennsylvania BarAssociation Commission onWomen in the Professionpresented the Anne X. AlpernAward to Berks County Court ofCommon Pleas Judge Linda K. M.Ludgate ’80 at the commission’sannual conference.The award is presentedannually to a female lawyer orjudge who “demonstratesexcellence in the legal professionand who makes a significant professional impact onwomen in the law.” The award was named for Anne X.Alpern, Pennsylvania’s attorney general in 1959 and thefirst woman state attorney general in the nation.Ludgate, who was elected a state trial judge in 1989,began her career as a lawyer for Central PennsylvaniaLegal Services. As a judge, she has initiated numerousprograms to educate legal professionals and the public.She started a training program for young lawyers on courtprocedures and created a pioneering public forum fordialogue between judges and the public. She was theprincipal founder of the Justice William Strong Chapter ofthe American Inns of Court, which provides networkingopportunities among young lawyers, experienced lawyersand judges. She also developed programs to protectbattered women and abused children and is a founder ofthe Berks Women’s Network, Berks Women in Crisis andthe Rape Crisis Center.In addition, Ludgate lectures at Albright University,Alvernia University, Kutztown University and Reading AreaCommunity College and visits elementary schools and highschools to share information about careers in the law andrelated fields. For several years, she was an educator at theVictims Assistance Academy at the University of Scranton.(Editor’s note: This announcement was unintentionallyomitted from the previous issue of Temple Esq.) JUDGE LUDGATE ’80 HONORED FOR ‘IMPACT ON WOMEN IN LAW’30343 TLS:ESQ_Sept06/f 3/10/11 12:31 PM Page 6CHIEF OF STAFF: WILLIAM F. WARD ’77JANUARY 2011Newly-elected Governor Tom Corbettannounced the selection of William F. Ward ’77 to be hischief of staff. He brings extensive legal experience fromboth the public and and private sectors to the position.After clerking for United States District Judge Louis C.Bechtle in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania inPhiladelphia, Ward worked alongside Corbett as anassistant U.S. Attorney for the Western District ofPennsylvania in Pittsburgh. Starting in 1986, Ward worked at the Pittsburgh law firm of Meyer, Unkovic andScott, where he was an equity partner. In 1996, as then-Pennsylvania Attorney General, Corbett chose Ward to serve as his First Deputy Attorney General. In 1997, Wardwas named chair of the Pennsylvania Board of Probation and Parole. In 2003, Ward returned to the private practiceof law in Pittsburgh, where he was a partner at Thieman &Ward, and member of Ward McGough. After clerking for Judge Van Antwerpen in Easton, PA for ayear, JENNIFER BURDICK ’09joined Dechert, where she is inthe labor and employment group. IAN M. LONG ’09recently joined thelitigation practice group in thePhiladelphia office of Stradley Ronon.Prior to joining Stradley Ronon, Longclerked for Judge Harvey Bartle III of theU.S. District Court for the Eastern Districtof Pennsylvania.GRETCHEN L. TEMELES ’09has joined Duane Morris’intellectual property practice group as an associate in itsPhiladelphia office. Temeles, who holds a Ph.D. in Biologyfrom Yale University, joins Duane Morris from Fish &Richardson.CAILIN HEILIG ’10is an associate at the Philadelphia firm ofRubin, Fortunato & Harbison, representing clients in allaspects of labor and employment law. Before earning a lawdegree, Heilig was a paralegal in the labor and employmentpractice group of an international law firm based inPhiladelphia.MANISHI RODRIGO ’10was selected to bea White House intern for Spring 2011. 7 • TEMPLE ESQ. SPRING 2011HERTA (BONNIE) GRAHAM ’83 1934~2010DECEMBER 22, 2010Herta (Bonnie) Graham ’83 diedweeks after a diagnosis of inoperable cancer. Until herrecent retirement, Graham was a senior administrator atTemple School of Dentistry, where she was mentor andsurrogate mother to dozens of students. She taught at thedental school, and led trips to Haiti where dental studentsprovided free care. As a lawyer for 30 years, Graham didpro bonowork on behalf of victims of domestic violence.She also represented countless students, friends andneighbors at no cost. A celebration of Graham’s life will be held in the spring. Nathan A. Friedman Class of 1961Mary McDonnell ClelandClass of 1977James J. Bee Class of 1979Elizabeth Carleton HighClass of 2009 IN MEMORIAMTEMPLE LAW ALUMS PROMINENT in new Corbett administrationGENERAL COUNSEL OF THE COMMONWEALTH:STEPHEN AICHELE ’77 JANUARY 2011Pennsylvania’s new governor, Tom Corbett, named Stephen Aichele ’77 as General Counsel of the Commonwealth, the top legal office representing theState, the Governor, the Governor’s Cabinet and all of theState’s executive and independent agencies. Aichele is aformer partner with Saul Ewing in Philadelphia, where hechaired the firm’s project and resource developmentdepartment as well as the government involvementcommittee, and represented major developers, lenders,and governmental entities in land use, zoning,development, financing, construction, and leasing. He also participated in the acquisition, development, and management of numerous major real estate projectsthroughout the state. Aichele is an adjunct professor atTemple Law, and regularly lectures on real estate-relatedtopics for the Pennsylvania Bar Association.LT. GOVERNOR: JAMES CAWLEY ’94 JANUARY 18, 2011Lt. Governor James F. Cawley IV ’94was inaugurated as the 32nd Lieutenant Governor of theCommonwealth of Pennsylvania. The newly-electedlieutenant governor will preside over the state Senate andassume the top position if the governor is for any reasonunable to serve. The holder of an undergraduate and lawdegree from Temple entered politics as a volunteer driverfor Republican Gov. Mark Schweiker in the 1990s. Cawley was appointed to the Bucks County Board ofCommissioners in 2005 and reelected in 2007. Prior to his work as a commissioner, Cawley was Chief of Staff toState Senator Robert M. Tomlinson. Between 2001 and2004, he was an associate with the law firm of Rudolph,Pizzo and Clarke.SEND US YOUR NEWS!TEMPLE ESQ. welcomes news and photos ofour alumni/ae. Please include: Full name,class, degree, and a way to reach you if weneed to confirm information.Send to:Janet GoldwaterTemple Esq.Temple University Beasley School of Law1719 North Broad StreetPhiladelphia, PA 19122Email:janet.goldwater@temple.edudifference to her family. That was a pretty good feeling.”Bartow agrees. “It is illuminating to see how complicatedincome tax returns are for people without much money,”Bartow says. “There are all kinds of details that come into play.” In addition to attending classes where they explore thescholarly literature on low-income taxpayer policy and readthe National Taxpayer Advocate’s Report to Congressin itsentirety, the 25 students enrolled in the course work atleast 30 hours with VITA through the Campaign for WorkingFamilies and Philadelphia Legal Assistance sites locatedthroughout the Philadelphia region, including one on theTAX POLICY continued from page eightTemple campus. To prepare for working with clients,students undergo rigorous VITA training. “It’s veryimportant for us to get the returns right,” says Abreu. “The issues that many low income taxpayers live with—immigration status, multiple jobs, and non-traditional familyand support structures, for example—can make thereturns very complicated.”“Working with low income taxpayers puts a face on taxpolicy in a way that few other things can,” explains Abreu.“It really offers a contextual understanding of how policydecisions affect people on the ground.” ALUMNI REUNIONAPRIL 9, 2011If your class ends in a 1 or 6,your reunion will becelebrated at this event....*19561961 196619711976 19811986 199119962001 200619561961 196619711976 19811986 199119962001 2006REUNION EVENTS • CLE on campusduring the day• Cocktail receptionin the evening atthe Radisson Plaza-Warwick HotelLook for email updates with more information.Update your email to stay connectedand receive announcements atwww.law.temple.edu/emailupdateWILLIAM WARD ’77JAMES CAWLEY ’94STEPHEN AICHELE ’7730343 TLS:ESQ_Sept06/f 3/8/11 2:25 PM Page 7TEMPLE UNIVERSITY JAMES E. BEASLEY SCHOOL OF LAWLAW SCHOOL AND ALUMNI NEWSSPRING 2011VISIT 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 19122JANUARY 2011Professor AliceAbreu has designed a new taxcourse—believed to be the firstof its kind in the nation—combining low-income taxpayerpolicy and practice. Beginningthis year, Temple Law studentshave the opportunity to not onlystudy tax policy as it affects low-income workers, but experience“hands on” how that policy isimplemented. Increasingly, says Abreu, thetax system has “the dual roles ofrevenue collector and benefitsprovider” as it both administerssocial benefits and providesgovernment transfer payments.Temple students who take thenew course will be on the frontlines of understanding the IRS’sdual role. To create this course,the Temple Law tax faculty isjoining forces with VITA—the IRS-funded Volunteer IncomeTax Assistance Program—through which students will learnthe arduous task of preparing a tax return.Preparing tax returns is a daunting process for manypeople but it is especially so for low-income taxpayers.Determining eligibility for benefits like the earned incometax credit, the child tax credit, and the multiplicity of tuitioncredits is exceedingly difficult. Without VITA, taxpayersoften choose to either not file (and not receive thoseNew Course ‘Puts a Face’ on Tax PolicyStudents learn policy—and volunteer to assist low-income taxpayers benefits), or pay a commercialpreparer. Paying a preparer not onlyresults in a significant portion of thebenefits going to the preparer butcreates an additional hazard:taxpayers sometimes take out refundanticipation loans or purchase otherproducts that come with exorbitantinterest rates. The idea behind VITA is simple: the IRS provides funds to trainvolunteers to prepare the returns.Trained volunteers, like the Templestudents, ensure that the entireamount of benefits created byCongress reaches the intendedbeneficiary. It’s a win-win for the clientand the IRS, since the use of trainedvolunteers can also improve theaccuracy of the returns filed. Temple students, through theOffice of Public Interest Law, hadalready been volunteering with VITA.The new course grew out of a commitment by the taxfaculty to ground that volunteer work in an academicexperience that would provide a scholarly context. Abreu,with her colleagues Robert Bartow and Jan Ting, are VITAvolunteers themselves. They have found the experiencechallenging as well as deeply rewarding on a personallevel. “One of my clients was a young single mother,” saysTing. “The refund we were able to get for her made a bigcontinued on page sevenWednesday, March 30, 2011 LAW DAY RECEPTIONFederal Courthouse6th and Market Streets 4:30 pmRegister at www.mytlawconnection.com/lawdayMonday, April 4, 2011 CLIFFORD SCOTT GREEN LECTURE“Counsel for the Situation”Presented by Hon. William T. Coleman, Jr. and Hon. Ann Claire WilliamsDuane Morris LLP Moot Court Room 4 pmTuesday, April 5, 2011FRIEL-SCANLAN LECTURE“Thomas Jefferson, His Moose, and the ‘Nature’ ofCyberspace”Presented by Prof. David PostDuane Morris LLP Moot Court Room 4 pmSaturday, April 9, 2011ALUMNI REUNION(see page 7)Tuesday, April 12, 2011 I. HERMAN STERN MOOT COURT COMPETITIONDuane Morris LLP Moot Court Room 4 pmThursday, May 19LAW SCHOOL COMMENCEMENTLiacouras Center 4 pmcalendar of eventsDear Graduates and Friends,Some of you may have heardthat Peter Liacouras suffered a serious stroke in November. I visited him recently, andalthough he remains paralyzedon one side and unable tospeak, he is alert, animated andstill has that classic Peter smile.Until recently, Peter has beenteaching a seminar onInternational Law for the lawschool and has also beenteaching undergraduate courses in politicalscience. Annually, Peter attends our studentscholarship event to present the scholarship fromthe fund he established in honor of his parents,The James and Stella Liacouras Scholarship. I know that you join me in thinking of Peterand his family during this difficult time andhoping for his best recovery. If you want to send a message to Peter, we have set up a web site at www.law.temple.edu or you may send yourmessages to his attention at the law schooladdress. His family has asked that gifts in honor of Peter Liacouras be directed to the James andStella Liacouras Scholarship Fund. Thank you.Sincerely,Dean JoAnne A. EppsPETER J. LIACOURASFROM LEFT: PROFESSORS JAN TING, ALICE ABREU,ROBERT BARTOW TEMPLE ESQ.Published by the Temple University Beasley School of Lawfor alumni and friends.JOANNE A. EPPS, DEANPublications DirectorJanet GoldwaterArt DirectorGene GilroyPhotographyJoseph LabolitoKelly & Massa, Ryan BrandenburgJanet Goldwater Send letters and comments to: Janet Goldwater, Temple Esq. Temple University James E. Beasley School of Law1719 N. Broad Street, Room 510Philadelphia, PA 19122Email: janet.goldwater@temple.edu Fax: (215) 204-1185Change of address: (215) 204-118730343 TLS:ESQ_Sept06/f 3/8/11 2:25 PM Page 8Next >