TEMPLE UNIVERSITY JAMES E. BEASLEY SCHOOL OF LAW • LAW SCHOOL AND ALUMNI NEWS • SPRING 2014Intellectual property disputes are everywhere these days, fromdebates concerning online pirating of music and videos toquestions about whether genes should be patented andwhether vaccine and drug patents should be modified to lowerhealth care costs. Gregory N. Mandel, Associate Dean for Research and thePeter J. Liacouras Professor of Law, says that it is criticallyimportant that we know how culture and psychology impactpotential creators’ and users’ understanding of the intellectualproperty laws that govern these disputes. Towards that end,Professor Mandel has been awarded a $300,000 NationalScience Foundation grant to support a three-year study. Working with collaborator Kristina Olson, a psychologyprofessor at the University of Washington who specializes inthe psychology of property and ownership, the grant willsupport a series of experiments to explore how ideas aboutintellectual property and ownership vary between individualistcultures like the U.S., and collectivist cultures like China. Byinvestigating the conceptualization of intellectual property rightsacross eastern versus western cultures, they expect to gaininsight into the effect of culture upon intellectual propertyrights conceptualization and behavior.The researchers hope the three-year study will shed light on how to modify the intellectual property system tobetter encourage innovation and generate widespread user observance, as well as how to more effectively negotiateand implement intellectual property treaties with countries that have different intellectual property understandings.“Intellectual property law, including patent and copyright law, is built on the premise that offering peopleintellectual property rights will encourage potential inventors and authors to engage in more creative activity andinnovation than they otherwise would,” says Mandel. “Intellectual property law can only work if potential inventors and authors actually know the law and if consumersgenerally observe it. People cannot be incentivized to innovate if they are not aware of the incentives, and the easeof copying enabled by modern technology means that the law can only work for creators if there is widespreadvoluntary compliance.”This substantial grant represents one of the few times a law professor has been funded by the NSF. In hispioneering research on how psychological development impacts our notions of property and ownership, Mandeluses evidence-based research in an area of law that has generally been theoretical. In doing so, Mandel seeks tobridge the theory and the practical impact of the law itself.Mandel, who earned a J.D. at Stanford Law School, is no stranger to creativity, or the world of science. Afterearning a B.A. in physics and astronomy from Wesleyan University, he worked on NASA’s Hubble Space Telescopeprior to attending law school. His current research is part of a growing body of work that combines legal researchand the emerging science of creativity—particularly its psychological and neurobiological origins. “Although there is a robust literature around the psychology of ownership, nearly all of this work has concernedthe ownership of tangible, physical property,” explains Mandel. “Only recently has the psychology of ownership ofintangible property, such as intellectual property, begun to be explored. Understanding people’s psychologicalframework concerning intellectual property is critical to evaluating the ability of laws to function as designed, and willshed new light on the psychology of ownership.”IN NOVEMBER 2014, MANDEL DELIVERED THE FRIEL SCANLANLECTURE: THE PSYCHOLOGY OF INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY. THELECTURE IS DELIVERED SEMI-ANNUALLY IN CONJUNCTION WITHAN AWARD FOR EXCELLENCE IN SCHOLARSHIP. Examining thepsychology of IPin U.S. and ChinaNSF funds Gregory Mandel in three-year study Student who means businessStudent’s music business bought by SFX.When third year part-time evening law studentMike Fiebach sold his company last October,the event was noted—prominently—in the WallStreet Journal.The music business Fiebachstarted in 2011, Fame House, was acquired bySFX Entertainment, the world’s largest producerof live events and entertainment contentfocused exclusively on electronic music.Society Hill native Fiebach got started in theindustry while a student at Chestnut HillAcademy, managing a rap act for friends. Whenhe moved to California to attend San FranciscoState University, Fiebach expanded his client listby running a Web store and building the onlinepresence for the electronic hip-hop artist DJShadow. Clients began to sign on and FameHouse was born.In 2011, Fiebach returned to Philadelphia,bringing his business with him. Today FameHouse, with Fiebach serving as chief executiveofficer, is a 30-person firm offering digitalstrategy, social media, and web design anddevelopment services for some of the biggestand most respected artists in the music industry. With musical sales negatively impacted bydigital technology, artists are more dependenton merchandising, concerts, and digitalmarketing. When artists like Detroit rapperEminem, Dutch DJ Tiesto, and Derek “PrettyLights” Smith communicate with their fansonline or sell them merchandise, thetechnology, customer service, and themerchandising are routed through the SocietyHill office of Fame House. Other high profileclients include Matisyahu, Richie Hawtin, LocoDice, Interscope Records, Universal Republic,and now the other SFX owned companiesincluding Mysteryland and Tomorrowworld.After the sale of Fame House to SFX,Fiebach and his team continue to operate as anagency-for-hire, servicing its client base, andplay a broad role across the SFX platform. Fiebach says his legal knowledge from thefirst two years of law school at Temple wereinstrumental to his business success: “A legaleducation has provided me with the skills tounderstand how certain scenarios could orshould play out, and has enabled me to protectmyself and my business. In the music industry,there are so many contracts and nuancesaround daily transactions; the legal knowledgeis priceless for me to be able to communicateon the same level as other executives, andattorneys. I understand implications thatsomeone without a legal background mightmiss. I could hear the voices, cases, andlessons from contracts class with ProfessorHarvey and corporations with ProfessorHoffman in my head as I went through theacquisition process.” 40408 TLS ESQ_March14_final_ESQ_Sept06/f 2/27/14 10:49 AM Page 1“We don’t usually sanction violations of the law, but inour history, nonviolent civil disobedience has sometimesproved prophetic. The 18th century tea partiers violatedbasic property and theft laws to protest oppressive taxation.The Underground Railroad’s assistance to escaped slaveswas illegal. So were many protest actions by Dr. MartinLuther King, Jr. and the civil rights movement.“Where do the Media burglars belong in this historicalarc? The FBI files they publicly released documented what many then knew or suspected but couldn’t prove:Hoover’s FBI was secretly intervening in the politicalprocess and undermining free speech, privacy, anddemocracy. The agency used threats, intimidation,infiltrators and informers, phony letters, violence, break-ins, and widespread wiretaps, bugs andsurveillance—aimed at law-abiding Americans who were simply exercising their free speech rights. The goal, in the words of the FBI, was to ‘disrupt,’ ‘neutralize,’and ‘enhance paranoia’ in the mostly left-leaningmovements Hoover detested—civil rights, anti-war, andwomen’s liberation.”Kairys goes on to detail the ways in which he believesthe public benefits from the “crimes” committed in 1971.“Without the civil disobedience of the Media burglars, wemight never have found out what Hoover’s FBI was doing.Congress and a long line of presidents succumbed toHoover’s threats and secret dossiers, and the courtsrefused to protect basic constitutional rights. The press was generally mute. The usual mechanisms for reform orchange were failing the country, and it took a group ofcourageous citizens and a burglary to expose the treacheryof the national police and start the process of reform.”In addition to representing the Media burglars, Kairyswas also lead defense counsel in the Camden 28 case, in which Hoover’s FBI used a paid informer to set up a 1971 raid on the Camden, NJ draft board. The FBIprovided and paid for, through the informer, complexstrategies, tools and even groceries to keep the plot goingand make the raid happen under the mistaken belief theywould capture the Media burglars. All of the defendantswere acquitted, including two who last week revealed theywere among the Media burglars, even though they had infact broken the law by breaking into a draft board anddestroying its records.Kairys’ accomplishments in representing challengers tothe status quo began right out of law school. Between1968 and 1990, he practiced as a civil rights lawyer full-time. Kairys’ memoir, Philadelphia Freedom, Memoir of a Civil Rights Lawyer,details winning the leading racediscrimination case against the FBI as well as challenges to unrepresentative juries around the country. He stoppedpolice sweeps of minority neighborhoods in Philadelphia,and represented Dr. Benjamin Spock in a free speech casebefore the Supreme Court. In 1996, Kairys conceived thecity lawsuits against handgun manufacturers, and hispublic-nuisance theory has become the major basis for arange of challenges to corporate practices that endangerpublic health or safety.In 1990, Kairys joined the faculty of Temple Law, wherehe teaches courses in constitutional law, political and civilrights, and law, science and technology. He is a widelyrecognized scholar with five books and more than 35articles on equality, freedom of speech, legal history, andlegal theory. He is also of counsel to the law firm he co-founded in 1971, Kairys, Rudovsky, Messing, and Feinberg. Of his longest standing clients, Kairys sums it up thisway: “The Media burglars were whistle-blowers, in the bestsense of the word.”In 1971, at the height of the U.S. involvement in Vietnam, eight anti-war activists broke into an FBI office in Media, PA, and released a bonanza of sensitive files to the public. The daring break-in, staged by an unlikelygroup ranging from college professors to taxi drivers,revealed serious FBI misconduct, including massiveinfiltration of and illegal dirty tricks against anti-war andcivil rights groups. Last month, several of the Media FBI office burglarsrevealed themselves—the statute of limitations has longsince run out after 43 years—on the occasion of thepublication of a book on these events,The Burglary, The Discovery of J. Edgar Hoover’s Secret FBI.The author, Betty Medsger, first broke the story in 1971 as a Washington Post reporter. A soon-to-be-releaseddocumentary, 1971by Johanna Hamilton, will have its Philadelphia premiere at the National ConstitutionCenter on May 28.“Their actions were in the best American tradition ofnonviolent civil disobedience,” says Temple Law ProfessorDavid Kairys, whose name figures prominently inMedsger’s book. In what Medsger jokes “may be thelongest retainer without a fee in history,” Kairys hasrepresented the Media burglars in secret for more than 40years. One of the eight activists, Keith Forsyth, a taxi driverat the time of the burglary, remembers writing Kairys’ hometelephone number on his arm just before he entered theFBI office. In a recent commentary in Slate,Kairys compared theMedia break-in to Edward Snowden’s recent release of atrove of National Security Agency documents. Kairys writesthe facts of the two cases pose the same importantquestion: Whether and under what circumstances isbreaking the law justified? “The Media burglars acted illegally to reveal, challenge,and draw attention to serious government misconduct,”claims Kairys. “There is no constitutional or other right tobreak into an FBI office and steal FBI documents. Theillegality is part of the point of civil disobedience, or at leasthelps communicate the depth of belief, since it carries therisk of going to prison. 2 • TEMPLE ESQ. SPRING 2014TRIAL TEAM SWEEPS REGIONAL CHAMPIONSHIPFEBRUARY 9, 2014 Temple’s National Trial Team successfully defended itsRegion III championship of the National Trial Competition at the Criminal JusticeCenter in Philadelphia. It was Temple’s 26th regional championship in 28 years of competition. The team travels to Texas on March 26 to compete for thenational championship against the twenty-two winners from the eleven otherregional contests. Competing on Temple’s first-ever all female championship teams are third-yearstudents Emilia McKee Vassallo and Caroline Power; and Michelle Ashcroft andBritt Walden. Walden and Power were awarded the John J. Scott Memorial andBernard L. Siegle Plaques as “Best Advocates in the Final Round.” The teams are coached by Professor Jen Bretschneider, Director of Experiential Programsand Trial Advocacy Programs and Alex Gosfield ’08 of the Chester County DistrictAttorney’s Office. The tournament was sponsored by Temple’s LL.M. in TrialAdvocacy Alumni Association and the Pennsylvania Innocence Project (PIP),directed by Professor Marissa Bluestine, Director of PIP, and administrated by Mary Beth Wilson.TRIAL TEAM CHAMPIONS FROM LEFT: EMILIA MCKEE VASSALLO '14,CAROLINE POWER '14, MICHELLE ASHCROFT '14 AND BRITT WALDEN '14. CIVIL DISOBEDIENCEDavid Kairys’ role as attorney for Media burglars is revealed in new book. DAVID KAIRYSIN 197240408 TLS ESQ_March14_final_ESQ_Sept06/f 2/27/14 10:49 AM Page 23 • TEMPLE ESQ. SPRING 2014National Jurist Magazinehas named Temple Law DeanJoAnne A. Epps among the 25 most influential people in legal education in 2013, noting that when she became dean six years ago she did so with a “vision for the law school that includes not just curricularinnovation and increased experiential opportunity, but anemphasis on institutional agility and responsiveness.”National Jurist noted that when Epps assumed thedeanship in 2008 and the profession was at a tippingpoint, Epps was instrumental in moving legal educationaway from a one-size-fits-all model.Although it is her first time on the National Juristlist, it is not the first time Epps has garnered national andregional attention. She has appeared in Lawyers of ColorMagazine’s selection of the top 100 black lawyers. In 2012,2013, and 2014 she was named a Distinguished Daughterof Pennsylvania. In 2009 Epps received the Sandra DayO’Connor Award, conferred annually by the PhiladelphiaBar Association, and was also selected by the PBA todeliver the Higginbotham Lecture for that year.Medicine and the Law: Templeunveils pioneering new programThis spring, Professor Samuel D.Hodge Jr. ’74 joined with facultyfrom Temple’s School of Medicine toteach a pioneering new CLE coursein which attorneys earn certificatesin medicine and the law. The jointcertificate program is designed tohelp attorneys better understand thenuances of medicine. “Lawyers aretrained to recognize or defeattheories of liability,” explains Hodge,chair of the Legal StudiesDepartment at Temple University’s Fox School of Business.“That, however, is only a part of a claim. Medical issues,such as causation and damages, play an equally important role, but most attorneys are not educated inmedical matters.”Hodge has taught an award-winning CLE course onanatomy for lawyers for many years. When he decided toexpand the course, he developed the eight-week series asa collaboration between three Temple entities: the Schoolsof Law and Medicine and the Business School’s LegalStudies Department. The classes convene weekly at themedical school and include not only lectures, but alsohands-on instruction in actual dissections of the body inthe anatomy lab and diagnostic imaging reviews. “We knew there was demand among practicing lawyers, our alumni included, for this kind ofinterdisciplinary training,” says Louis Thompson, TempleLaw’s Assistant Dean for Graduate and InternationalPrograms. “Temple, with its law, business and medicalschools, has the resources to pull this together. Based on the feedback from this first group—which has beenoverwhelmingly excited and positive, we plan to make this program a regular offering.” Black Student’s Guidegives Temple Law high marksTemple Law was ranked 17th among the top 25 lawschools nationally for black law students in the 2014 Black Student’s Guide to Law Schools.In the guide,published by Lawyers of Color, Temple and the Universityof Pennsylvania are the only regional schools to appear on the list. Leading the pack are historically top-rankedschools Harvard, Stanford, University of Chicago, Howard,and Yale; Temple edged out other prestigious schools likeNorthwestern, University of Maryland, Notre Dame, Cornell,Vanderbilt, and Emory. Rankings are based on metrics that include job placement rates and black student andfaculty percentages.Future lawyer singsThird-year law student Teena Handline ’14 has performednumerous times in theaters and choirs, recorded originalmusic, and sung with student organizations includingWomen’s Rea and Habeas Chorus, two a cappella groupsat Temple Law School. But it was a YouTube video in which she sang the National Anthem at last year’s Deans’Cup basketball game that earned Handline a chance toperform live on Philadelphia’s Wired 96.5 FM, where shewas one of five contestants to compete for front-of-the-linepasses to NBC’s reality competition, The Voice. Despite hersuccessful bid to move to the front of the line in Philly,Handline didn't make it through to the LA auditions; evenso, she continues with both performing and an interest inthe legal side of sports and entertainment.WINTER 2014 AT TEMPLE LAW@JoAnneAEpps Follow Dean Epps on Twitter: @JoAnneAEpps Grads net public health awards NOVEMBER 2013The Health Law section of the AmericanPublic Health Association gave out two awards for bestabstracts submitted to the annual APHA conference. Thewinner of the student category was recent graduate SarahHexem ’13, shown above with Professor Scott Burris, whodirects the Center for Health Law, Policy and Practice andthe Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s Public Health LawResearch program. Hexem’s presentation was based on apaper she wrote for Professor Frank McClellan. The winnerof the professional category was Corey Davis ’05, whopresented a project on prescription drug monitoring thatwas funded by the Public Health Law Research Program. Clinical program ranks in top twenty in U.S. law schoolsTemple Law School was cited as a top school forproviding students with a wide range of high qualityclinical opportunities in PreLawmagazine’s winter 2014 issue. Temple was the only law school in thePhiladelphia region to appear in the top twenty, with Yale Law School holding the number one spot. Thearticle’s authors ranked law schools based on “mostclinical opportunities” by dividing the total number offilled slots in full-time clinical course offerings by thenumber of full-time students.Temple has been recognized as a leader in clinicallegal education since opening the Temple Legal AidOffice in 1953. Today, in addition to the three in-houseclinics offered through Legal Aid, Temple offers 28external clinics in a variety of settings that includetraditional practice areas like civil litigation, criminaldefense and prosecution, bankruptcy, and tax as well asmore unique offerings like a disaster relief clinic throughthe Red Cross of Southeastern PA and an internship inthe Philadelphia D.A.’s Charging Unit. New this spring isthe social justice lawyering clinic and seminar, which willbe held at Temple’s new Stephen and Sandra ShellerCenter for Social Justice.SARAH HEXEM ’13 WITH PROFESSOR SCOTT BURRISMORE ACCOLADESfor Dean EppsTEENA HANDLINE ’14PROFESSOR SAMUELHODGE ’7440408 TLS ESQ_March14_final_ESQ_Sept06/f 3/4/14 2:28 PM Page 34 • TEMPLE ESQ. SPRING 2014GRANT RAWDIN, MEMBER OF TEMPLE LAW’S BOARDOF VISITORS, VOLUNTEEREDTO JUDGE THE STUDENTTEAMS’ NEGOTIATIONS.FOR TWO WEEKS, STUDENTS PARTICIPATE IN LECTURES, SMALL-GROUP WORKSHOPS, AND A SIMULATIONWHERE TWO-PERSON TEAMS REPRESENT CLIENTS JOINING TOGETHER IN A NEW VENTURE AND WORK TONAVIGATE ISSUES CONFRONTING THE SMALL RESTAURANT BUSINESS.“Law schools now recognize . . . that graduates must bebetter prepared to hit the ground running,” writes MichelleWeyenberg in an article in the National Jurist.“Law schoolsare experimenting like never before. Most of the recentinnovations are designed to bring practical training into thelaw school curriculum. And the number of differentinnovations is almost mind-boggling.” From among that “mind-boggling” array, Temple Law issingled out for its cutting-edge programs to respond to thechanging demands on law school education. Wyenberg describes the three-year old Introduction toTransactional Skills (ITS) as one of the fifteen most exciting“experiments” being pioneered around the country. In2011, Professors Edward Ellers, David Hoffman andEleanor Myers developed the innovative two-week program.Within the first few weeks of their first year in law school,students leave the classroom to participate in an intensivecourse introducing them to working on a business deal. Professor Myers describes ITS as “an intensive hands-on experience in which students begin to developtheir problem solving and client management skills.”Students are divided into teams of two and introducedto their respective clients, a chef and a financier who wantto become partners to set up and run a restaurant. This iswhen they are asked to “hit the ground running.”The interviewing skills they learn in class areimmediately implemented as they explore the needs oftheir clients in a series of interviews with upper levelstudents, many of whom have already participated duringtheir second year in Temple’s acclaimed Introduction toTransactional Practice. Next, negotiation skills comeinto play as students reconcile the needs of their twoclients and draft clauses for the contracts needed toset up the venture. They write a term sheet and anemployment agreement for the chef. Their finalnegotiation exercise is conducted in front of apracticing lawyer who gives feedback andencouragement to these budding lawyers.The course develops strategic thinking,interviewing, negotiating, and drafting skills, say the course instructors, and introduces the students to the world of deal-making and transactionalplanning. The program has its own website and alldocuments are submitted electronically. In addition,students have the opportunity to collaborate on-linein drafting them.“We hoped that ITS would complement the LawSchool’s traditional strength in trial advocacy by introducing students to transactional lawyering earlier intheir careers,” says Professor Hoffman. “The course hassucceeded beyond our wildest expectations.” “MANY STUDENTS HAVE IDENTIFIED THIS EXPERIENCE ASTHE TURNING POINT AFTER WHICH THEY BEGAN TO SEETHEMSELVES NOT JUST AS LAW STUDENTS, BUT ASFUTURE LAWYERS,” SAYS PROFESSOR ELEANOR MYERS. STUDENTS HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO DEMONSTRATE WHAT THEY HAVELEARNED AND GET FEEDBACK FROMLOCAL PRACTITIONERS INCLUDING(FROM LEFT): DENENE WAMBACK ’12,ADJUNCT PROFESSORS ANDPRACTITIONERS DAVID RICHMAN, JANET PERRY AND SAM WARSHAWER,WHO PARTICIPATE IN THE PROGRAM ASJUDGES IN THE FINAL NEGOTIATION.learning to be lawyers, from day oneNational Juristcalls Temple’s transactional program for first-year students among ‘most innovative.’40408 TLS ESQ_March14_final_ESQ_Sept06/f 2/27/14 10:49 AM Page 45 • TEMPLE ESQ. SPRING 20141970sNEIL A. MORRIS ’79 joined the firm of OffitKurman in January 2014. Morris, who willchair the Philadelphia-based labor andemployment law practice, has served asspecial labor counsel for more than 35Pennsylvania townships and boroughs. 1980sPHYLLIS HORN EPSTEIN, JD ’80, LLM INTAXATION ’84of Epstein, Shapiro &Epstein, spoke on new and expiringbusiness tax laws at the NBI Business TaxPlanning Conference in December 2013.Epstein concentrates her practice in theareas of taxation, corporation transaction,non-profits and estates. The American Bar Association’s litigation section hasreleased a new guide to help lawyers construct moreeffective briefs that present compelling client stories andresult in favorable rulings.A Brief Guide to Brief Writing:Demystifying the Memorandum of Lawis authored byJANET S. KOLE ’80,who was a litigator for more than 30years before becoming a full-time writer. The Chester County, PA District Attorney’s Officeannounced the promotion of RONALD YEN ’80to chiefdeputy district attorney. The position was vacated by thedeparture of Patrick Carmody to the Common Pleas Courtbench. Yen has prosecuted a number of high-profileChester County murder cases in the past several years.Philadelphia Mayor Michael A. Nutter named BARBARAASH ’82as the recipient of the annual Richardson DilworthAward for Distinguished Public Service. Ash is ChiefDeputy City Solicitor in the City Law Department, where shehas practiced since 1991. In her current position, Ashrepresents the child welfare unit of the Department ofHuman Services.Rawle & Henderson partner THOMAS A.KUZMICK ’82has joined the Claims andLitigation Management Alliance, anonpartisan alliance composed ofinsurance companies, corporations,corporate counsel, litigation and riskmanagers, claims professionals andattorneys. Kuzmick is chair of Rawle & Henderson’sproduct liability section. NOTESClassLEN BERNSTEIN ’83 is the new managing partner in thePhiladelphia office of Reed Smith. Bernstein is a memberof the firm’s financial industry group and heads thefinancial services regulatory group. In January 2014 the Montgomery BarAssociation installed MICHAEL F. ROGERS,JD ’83, LLM IN TAXATION ’86as the newpresident. Rogers is a shareholder in theBlue Bell, PA firm of Salvo Rogers &Elinski, where he is chair of the tax andestates department.Dechert named JUDY LEONE ’84managing partner of itsPhiladelphia office beginning January 2014. Since joiningthe firm immediately after graduation from law school,Leone has led teams in the defense of individual and classactions involving products liability, consumer fraud,warranty, negligence and misrepresentation claims. PETER M. HARRISON ’85has left Post & Schell to join thePhiladelphia office of Weber Gallagher as a partner in thefirm’s workers’ compensation group.An article by JANIS L. WILSON ’86appeared on the front page of theSistersin Crime Newsletter.Wilson, a crimewriter, recently appeared as acommentator on two episodes of DeadlyAffairs,a program on the InvestigationDiscovery Channel. Commissioner of the National Lacrosse League GEORGEDANIEL ’88was the subject of a January 2014 profileauthored by Steve Silver ’13 on TheLegalBlitz.com. Danielfirst joined the National Lacrosse League in 2000 andassumed the role of commissioner in 2009. Before joiningthe organization, he founded the Scranton Miners of theAtlantic Basketball Association in 1993 and the Black HillsPosse of the International Basketball Association in 1995. RALPH R. SMITH III ’89recently spoke onbest practices in labor and employmentlaw at a human resources seminarsponsored by Lorman Education Services.Smith is a shareholder and vice chairmanof the labor and employment departmentof the Mt. Laurel, NJ firm of CapehartScatchard. 1990sFirst Federal of Bucks County announced the addition ofKRISTA HARPER ’90to its board of directors. Harper iscurrently attorney and shareholder of Harper BusinessLaw, where she provides legal counsel in the areas ofbusiness, real estate, and succession planning. RANDY MANILOFF ’91, an attorney at Whiteand Williams, interviewed Judge RichardPosner of the Seventh Circuit Court ofAppeals, for Maniloff’s insurance lawnewsletter, Coverage Opinions.Maniloffalso interviewed Ralph Nader, focusing onNader’s planned American Museum ofTort Law, being built in Winsted, CT. The versatile Maniloff(under his stage name Randy Spencer) was also thewinner of the annual John DeBella Stand-up ComedyCompetition on WMGK 102.9 FM in Philadelphia. HARVEY RICE ’91was unanimously selected by thePennsylvania Intergovernmental Cooperation Authority, thestate board that oversees Philadelphia’s finances, to serveas the organization’s new executive director. Rice assumedthe position in January 2014 after serving as the citycontroller’s chief of staff for the past eight years.OTTO W. IMMEL ’92has been appointed to serve on theboard of directors of the Naples Zoo at Caribbean Gardens.Immel is a partner in the Naples, FL office of Quarles &Brady, where he counsels and represents employers in awide variety of workplace related litigation. He is active incivic organizations, and earlier this year was honored byThe Greater Naples Chamber of Commerce as the 2013Economic Partnership Volunteer of the Year.ROBERT A. SUAREZ ’92has joined the New York office ofRopers Majeski Kohn & Bentley as of counsel. Suarezfocuses on defense litigation with an emphasis on maritimecommercial matters.MICHAEL LINN ’93recently joined Providio MediSolutionsas a business development account manager. Providio is aprovider of lien resolution services and MedicareSecondary Payer Act compliance solutions.KIM R. SMITH ’94has been named managing partner ofthe 18-attorney Lancaster, PA firm of Hartman Underhill &Brubaker. Smith, whose practice focuses on school,municipal, employment and labor law issues, joined thefirm in 1995 and has been a partner since 2002. Brothers on the benchDaniel McCaffery ’91 sworn in by Seamus McCaffery ’89 JANUARY 10, 2104At the ceremony for newly elected judges, proud members of the McCaffery family watched asPennsylvania Supreme Court Justice SEAMUS MCCAFFERY ’89swore in his younger brother DANIEL D. MCCAFFERY ’91.The younger McCaffery was elected in the fall to take his place among seven new judges the Philadelphia Court ofCommon Pleas. The swearing-in ceremony, held at the Academy of Music in Center City, is part of the city’s formalinaugural held in January following the general elections in the fall.The younger McCaffery’s ascent to the bench followed a career as a Philadephia assistant district attorney in the major trials division and later as a litigator and shareholder at Friedman Schuman, a Montgomery County, PA firm where he specialized in complex commercial litigation, businessdisputes and municipal litigation.The elder Justice McCaffery has been on the bench since 1993 when, after a stint in the military, twenty yearson the police force, and putting himself through collegeand law school, he ran successfully for a seat on theMunicipal Court in Philadelphia. He first seized thepublic’s attention in 1998 when, with the support of City Council, he developed and served as judge for the“Eagles Court”, an ad hoc court created to deal withunruly fans at Philadelphia Eagles games. He went on toserve on the Superior Court of Pennsylvania and waselected to the Supreme Court in 2007. 40408 TLS ESQ_March14_final_ESQ_Sept06/f 2/27/14 10:49 AM Page 5The Philadelphia firm of ObermayerRebmann Maxwell & Hippel has admittedSTEPHANIE J. SPRENKLE, JD ’97, LLM ’99,to the firm’s partnership in the businessand finance practice group.2000sMARK J. DAVIS ’00has joined the LawOffice of Michael S. Connor in LafayetteHill, PA. The firm concentrates in theareas of elder law, guardianship, andestate planning and administrationUtah Governor Gary Herbert has appointed TUPAKK A.G.RENTERIA ’00to fill a vacancy on the 3rd District JuvenileCourt. Since 2007, Renteria has been a deputy districtattorney in Salt Lake County, UT, prosecuting felony casesinvolving sexual and physical abuse of children and sexualoffenses against adults. ALISA E. MOEN ’01was recently appointed general counselof the Dallas, TX-based company Dillon Gage, where shehas worked for six years as legal counsel. Moen was alsonamed president of Diamond State Depository andpresident of International Depository Services of Canada,both subsidiaries of international metals dealer Dillon Gage Metals.MICHELLE PISCOPO ’01has been elected of counsel in thePhiladelphia office of Blank Rome, where she practicesmatrimonial law. Piscopo was elected as an officer of theNicholas A. Cipriani Family Law American Inn of Court inPhiladelphia in 2013. MATTHEW A. GREEN ’03has been namedpartner at the Philadelphia firm ofObermayer Rebmann Maxwell & Hippel.Green is a partner in the commerciallitigation practice group and the laborrelations and employment lawdepartment.CHRISTINA HOUSTON ’03has left K&L Gates to join DLAPiper. Houston will work in the firm’s corporate and financepractice as a partner in the Wilmington, DE office. On January 22, 2014, LINDA A. KERNS ’03appeared as aguest of Marty Moss-Coane on WHYY’s Radio Timestodiscuss voter integrity issues and the recent PennsylvaniaVoter ID ruling from the Commonwealth Court. Kerns isprincipal in the Law Offices of Linda A. Kerns and hasrepresented Republican candidates and voters inPhiladelphia Election Court for more than ten yearsETHAN O’SHEA, ACADEMY OF ADVOCACY ’03was recently named chair of theMontgomery Bar Association’semployment and labor law committee.O’Shea, a partner in the law firm ofHamburg, Rubin, Mullin, Maxwell & Lupinand a 1993 graduate of The GeorgeWashington University National Law Center, refined his trial skills at the Academy of Advocacy at Temple Universityin 2003. DAVID A. SURBECK ’94has been promoted to partner atReed Smith in the firm’s Philadelphia office. Surbeckpractices in the firm’s financial industry group.MARISSA BOYERS BLUESTINE ’95,LegalDirector of the Pennsylvania InnocenceProject and adjunct professor at TempleLaw, was the 2013 recipient of the BarAssociation’s Andrew Hamilton Award.The award is presented to a lawyer whohas “demonstrated a life-longcommitment to serving the public interest.” Bluestine hasbeen legal director at the Pennsylvania Innocence Projectsince its founding in 2009. GREGORY T. MAYES ’95was named to the executive vicepresident and chief operating officer of Advaxis in fall2013. Advaxis, based in Princeton, NJ, is a clinical-stagebiotechnology company that develops immunotherapies forcancer and infectious diseases. SERGIO SCUTERI ’95was elected partner at the firm of Capehart Scatchard,where he focuses his practice oncommercial bankruptcy, banking andcommercial litigation. In November 2013, Philadelphia DistrictAttorney Seth Williams named JACQUELINECOELHO ’96to serve as deputy bureau chief of his office’sNortheast Division. Assistant District Attorney Coelho, whogrew up in Northeast Philadelphia, joined the DA’s office asa prosecutor immediately after law school and has beenthe lead prosecutor in more than 60 jury trials. CYRUS DAFTARY, LLM IN TAXATION ’96is the newchairperson of the IRS’s Electronic Tax Administrationadvisory committee. Daftary, of Newton, MA, is a partnerwith Burt, Staples & Maner.BENJAMIN R. KUHN ’96has become amember of Ragsdale Liggett’s commercialreal estate law group. He left his practiceat The Kuhn Law Firm to join the Raleigh,NC-based firm. Kuhn also serves as theconsumer protection attorney for theNorth Carolina Bar Association realproperty section and is a founding member, past president,and current board member of the Real Estate LawyersAssociation of North Carolina.BERNADETTE A. KEARNEY ’97,ofHamburg, Rubin, Mullin, Maxwell &Lupin, recently spoke about zoning law tothe Zoning Officers’ Association at aseminar in Montgomery County, PA.Kearney’s practice focuses on municipal, real estate, zoning and bankruptcy lawmatters. She is a past member of the board of directors ofthe Montgomery Bar Association, and the current vicechair of the real estate committee. Spilman Thomas & Battle recently announced that GERALDE. LOFSTEAD III ’97 has joined the firm’s Wheeling, WVoffice in the corporate and litigation department. ANDREW F. PRATT ’98has joined the Washington office ofVenable as a partner in the intellectual property litigationpractice. Pratt was previously at the Washington firm ofAdduci, Mastriani & Schaumberg.RANDI L. RUBIN ’98was named a partnerat Klehr Harrison Harvey Branzburg,where she practices family law. She wasalso recently appointed to the executivecommittee of the family law section of thePhiladelphia Bar Association and namedchair of the custody committee of theMontgomery County Bar Association.6 • TEMPLE ESQ. SPRING 2014TEMPLE ESQ.welcomes news and photos of our alumni/ae.Please include: Full name, class, degree, and a way to reachyou if we need to confirm information.Email: janet.goldwater@temple.eduSend to:Janet GoldwaterTemple Esq.Temple University Beasley School of Law1719 North Broad StreetPhiladelphia, PA 19122SEND US YOUR NEWS!Larry Dubinski ’00 picked to head Franklin InstituteStarting in July 2014, a Temple Lawalumnus will lead the FranklinInstitute, Philadelphia’s world-renowned science museum and oneof the oldest science educationcenters in the country. The Institutehas named chief operating officerLARRY DUBINSKI ’00to replacelongtime president and chiefexecutive officer Dennis M. Wint.Dubinski, who also serves as general counsel andsecretary, was chosen by the institute’s search committeewith unanimous support from the board of trustees.Dubinski has had two stints with the museum, the firstbeginning in 1996. Before his current role, he was first asenior vice president of external affairs and generalcounsel, and later became executive vice president. Aftergraduating from law school in 2000, he joined the law firmof Morgan, Lewis and Bockius before returning to theinstitute in 2004. Alum debut novel wins high praiseAccording to Kirkus Review, Elizabeth Silver ’08 “haswritten a darkly witty, acerbic jigsaw puzzle of a first novelabout legal versus moral culpability…[and] exploresconvolutions of guilt and innocence beyond the law’snarrow scope with a sharpness and attention to detail thatcan be unnerving but demands attention.” In November2013, Silver returned to Temple Law to discuss TheExecution of Noa P. Singleton, which has—in addition togarnering critical acclaim—been optioned for a film.Professor David Sonenshein facilitated the discussion inwhich he and Silver explored her perspective on legalwriting as a form of storytelling. Pablo Riberi, LLM ’95 is Max Planck Institute fellowInternational legal scholar PABLORIBERI, LLM ’95has been awardeda fellowship at the Max PlanckInstitute for Comparative Public Lawand International Law in Heidelberg,Germany. Riberi is a professor ofconstitutional law in his nativeArgentina, with appointments at theSchool of Law of the NationalUniversity of Córdoba and at theSchool of Political Science of the Catholic University ofCórdoba. Riberi has maintained a strong connection toTemple Law, returning as a Scholar of the Institute forInternational Law and Public Policy in 2003 and in 2012.ELIZABETH SILVER ’08 40408 TLS ESQ_MArch14_Revised p6-7_ESQ_Sept06/f 3/4/14 2:37 PM Page 6RUSTIN I. PAUL ’03has been elected of counsel in mergersand acquisitions and private equity in Blank Rome’s NewYork office. Temple Law classmates WILL SYLIANTENG ’03andMICHAEL TZORFAS ’03announce the formation of the WESLitigation Group, headquartered in Bucks County, PA. Thefirm specializes in civil litigation, subrogation, insurance lawand trial work.LEIGH ANN BUZIAK ’04has been elected partner in thePhiladelphia office of Blank Rome, where she practices inthe area of complex commercial litigation. She also serveson the Young Lawyer Editorial Board of The LegalIntelligencerand is an active member of Back on My Feet,a nonprofit that uses running to help homeless individualstransform their lives.MICHAEL J. CRUMBOCK ’04was recently named partner ofPepper Hamilton. Crumbock is a member of the employeebenefits and executive compensation practice group inPepper Hamilton’s Philadelphia office. In January 2014, Duane Morris named eight associatesand special counsel to firm partnership, including ERIN M.DUFFY ’04.Duffy concentrates her practice on corporatehealthcare regulatory matters. TARA GILL NALENCZ ’04has been electedpartner at Rawle & Henderson’sPhiladelphia office. Nalencz focuses herpractice on the defense of catastrophicloss matters.The Blue Bell, PA firm of Wisler Pearlstineannounced that AMY TAYLOR BROOKS ’05has been named a partner in the firmwhere she has been an associate since2005. Brooks practices education law,providing counsel and representation toschool district and charter schooladministrators, teachers and boardmembers related to investigations, reviews and administrative hearings. DENISE E. ELLIOTT ’05has become apartner in the Lancaster, PA firm of KegelKelin Almy & Lord, where she is chair ofthe labor and employment law group, anda member of the firm’s education lawgroup. Elliot is also the outgoing chair ofthe workers’ compensation law section ofthe Lancaster Bar Association and serves on theschoolboard of St. Anne’s School in Lancaster.The international law firm has promoted DIANE N. IBRAHIM ’05to shareholder in its Wilmington, DE office.Ibrahim focuses her practice on corporate matters, with anemphasis on transactions involving Delaware corporations,limited liability companies, limited partnerships andstatutory trusts.HENRY YAMPOLSKY ’05has been namedpartner at Galfand Berger, where he worksin the areas of personal injury litigation,employment discrimination, labor law andworkers’ compensation. 2010sCLAIRE DONATO EDWARDS ’11has joined the OrangeCounty, CA office of Snell & Wilmer as an associate.WHITNEY S. GRAHAM ’11recently joinedthe board of directors of Green ValleysWatershed Association, a Chester County-based organization dedicated to protectingand preserving the quality and quantity ofwater resources in the area. Graham is anassociate at Graham & Mauer, a personalinjury firm with offices in Valley Forge and Harrisburg,where she focuses her practice on automobile accidentsand premises liability.SUZANNE P. CONABOY ’12has joined Myers, Brier & Kellyin Scranton, PA as an associate in the firm’s health carepractice. Conaboy practiced clinical pediatric oncologynursing at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia beforeentering law school. PETER K. SMYTH ’12 has joined the law firm of CallisterNebeker & McCullough as an associate. Smyth earned anLLM in Taxation from Georgetown Law Center in 2013. Blank Rome announced that ALEX TABLIN-WOLF ’12hasjoined the firm as an associate in the business group intheir Philadelphia office. Prior to joining Blank Rome,Tablin-Wolf was a corporate associate at Fox Rothschild.In November 2013 the Pennsylvania Bar Associationpresented ANDREW ALSTON ’13with the inaugural LawStudent Pro Bono Partner Award in a special ceremony atthe Defender Association of Philadelphia, where Alstonspent six years as a paralegal and now works as anAssistant Public Defender. MARYKATE KELLY ’13has joined Rubin, Glickman,Steinberg and Gifford of Lansdale, PA as an associateattorney. Kelly’s practice focuses on civil litigation,business, workers’ compensation, social security disability,and estate planning and administration.DANIEL LAYO ’13is an associate in the Philadelphia officeof Ansa Assuncao, a business litigation firm.JOSE M. SABALBARO ’13has joined the commerciallitigation group of Archer & Greiner in the Haddonfield, NJoffice of the regional firm. JONATHAN L. SHAW ’13is an associate inthe litigation department of the Lansdale,PA firm, Hamburg, Rubin, Mullin, Maxwell& Lupin.JOSEPH A. SKALE ’13 has joined Rawle &Henderson as an associate in the firm’sPhiladelphia office where he will practicein the areas of product liability,catastrophic loss, casualty and premisesliability, and medical professional liability.7 • TEMPLE ESQ. SPRING 2014Vincent Butler Class of 1952Charles Peruto Sr. Class of 1953Robert S. Ross Jr. Class of 1954Anthony DeFino Class of 1955 Thomas H. Fooks Class of 1956 John Allan LeVay Jr.Class of 1959Allen Rosenberg Class of 1959Solomon Fisher Class of 1960Aloysius Staud Class of 1960Eliza Jackson Ewing Class of 1964Faustino Mattioni Class of 1964Martin Burman Class of 1969 Kenneth Pocrass Class of 1975Ilene Goldman Block Class of 1976Robert S. Underhill Class of 1981Jeffrey M. Kornblau Class of 1982Gerald D. Hinkle Class of 1993Anne Janiczek-NeesClass of 1997 Ashley D'Angelo Class of 2011IN MEMORIAMGLOBAL SPORTING INTEGRATIONcontinued from page 8George E. Moore ’76 It is with profound sorrow that we share with youthe passing of a beloved friend and colleague,George E. Moore ’76, who served TempleUniversity for 25 years. George has been Temple'suniversity counsel since 1989 and secretary to theBoard of Trustees since 1992. He was appointedsenior vice president in 2007. George is survived by Jennifer, their childrenEmily, Jenna, Sam and Nick, and his siblings.George has been a fixture in the Temple Universityfamily since 1989, and words cannot express theloss that we all feel by his passing. Whetherproviding thoughtful and wise counsel in theboard room, or standing at his grill at his famoustailgates, we all have special and fond memoriesof George that we will all treasure. — Neil D. Theobald, Temple University PresidentLee went on to earn a dual degree in internationalrelations and general management at Michigan StateUniversity, where he completed specializations in Asianstudies and international business. Along the way, he hasworked and studied in Beijing, Shanghai, Tokyo and Seoul,and is fluent in both English and Korean, with a workingknowledge of Mandarin Chinese and Japanese.MILLIONS AT STAKE FOR MLBThe launch of GSI is timely. While Asian playerscomprise about two percent of the major league playerpopulation, that number is growing and as a result of thisgrowth, Major League Baseball (MLB) has set up regionaloffices in Tokyo and Beijing. During the 2013 season,approximately 60 Asian-born players competed in MLBand its farm systems. Literally millions of dollars are at stake. “A smoothtransition can mean a long and successful MLB career,while a failed transition will likely mean a short anduninspired career for the player, and a substantialeconomic loss for the team,” says Jacobsen, principal ofGSI. “These challenges have played a part in thepremature end of the careers of several high profile Asian signees.”Two examples of failed transitions are Asian signees KeiIgawa, who cost the New York Yankees $46 million to signbut appeared in just 16 games, and Tsuyoshi Nishioka,who the Minnesota Twins spent $14.3 million to sign butlasted less than two seasons in the major leagues. Manymore minor league teams have lost players, and revenue,for the same reasons.Often, these players face unique challenges associatedwith international transplantation, such as a new language,unfamiliar foods and climates, differences in trainingschedules and practice regimens, media expectations andeven the design of the baseballs and stadium configurations.Unlike a sports agency, GSI offers English languageeducation, nutritional consulting, cultural immersion, andmore, and will begin with the player in his home countryand see him through the entire transition process.Lee is determined not to forget the challenges he facedduring his transition to the U.S. and he plans to bring thatempathy to his work. “When a MLB team signs a playerfrom Asia, the team is not simply adding a new member toits roster, it is bringing a person to start a new life in aforeign environment,” says Lee. In the meantime, Lee hasanother transition to complete: in May 2014 he will add aTemple Law J.D. to his credentials. 40408 TLS ESQ_MArch14_Revised p6-7_ESQ_Sept06/f 3/4/14 2:37 PM Page 7TEMPLE UNIVERSITY JAMES E. BEASLEY SCHOOL OF LAWLAW SCHOOL AND ALUMNI NEWSSPRING 2014VISIT OUR WEBSITE: www.law.temple.eduWRITE TO US: lawalum@temple.eduNON-PROFITORGANIZATIONU.S. POSTAGE PAIDPHILADELPHIA, PAPERMIT NO. 1044TEMPLE UNIVERSITYJAMES E. BEASLEY SCHOOL OF LAW1719 North Broad StreetPhiladelphia, PA 19122Firm will ease crucial transition period forAsian baseball players coming to U.S. Some third-year law students know exactly what theyhope to do after graduation, and then some—like HanGil Lee ’14—are already doing it. Lee is the chiefexecutive officer of Global Sporting Integration (GSI), aconsulting firm that will ease the transition for Minorand Major League Baseball players coming from Asian countries to play in the U.S. GSI is a service, says Lee and his colleagues TempleLaw Practice Professor Kenneth A. Jacobsen andformer Temple Law Professor N. Jeremi Duru, that fills an urgent need for both aspiring players and the franchises that are investing in a growingpipeline of players from Asia. The company, launched in December 2013 by CEO Lee and firmprinciples Jacobsen and Duru, combines a sharedpassion for baseball with deep expertise in sports lawand management. Duru, who left Temple in 2012 to join the faculty of American University Washington College of Law, has published and taught widely in the area of sports law and has for years counseled sports industry professionals and entities withrespect to employment matters. In recognition of his work, the National Bar Association honored Duru with its 2005 Sports and Entertainment Lawyer of the Year award. Jacobsen, who has lectured on sports law and taught trial advocacy and litigation courses at Temple, is a lawyer andentrepreneur whose business interests include his partnership in the Wilmington Blue Rocks, a single “A” affiliate of theKansas City Royals. Through his law office and sports marketing companies Sports Concepts and Jacobsen SportsAdvisors, Jacobsen provides legal advisory and consulting services to professional athletes on promotions, productendorsements, appearances and other marketing activities in the Philadelphia area.The path that led Lee to Temple Law, and his collaboration with Duru and Jacobsen began when, at the age of 15, Lee left South Korea to attend high school in the U.S. After struggling with language and cultural challenges, Lee foundrefuge on his high school baseball team. He says that baseball broke down barriers he once thought insurmountable and exposed him to what this new country had to offer. calendar of eventsTemple legal trio launches Global Sporting Integrationcontinued on page sevenTHE TEMPLE LAWFOUNDATION welcomesPRESIDENT BILL CLINTONRALPH ALSWANG/CLINTON FOUNDATIONThursday, April 10, 2014 5 pm: doors openLiacouras Center Temple University Main CampusInformation and event tickets atwww.law.temple.edu/lawfoundation-lectureHAN GIL LEE ’14 WITH PROFESSOR KENNETH JACOBSENTuesday, March 25, 2014ROSS LECTURERoberta D. Liebenberg, Senior partnerFine, Kaplan and BlackDuane Morris Moot Court Room 11:45 amThursday, March 27, 2014TEMPLE LAW REVIEW SYMPOSIUMMarch 28-April 6, 2014SPIN ONLINE AUCTIONGo to temple.edu/law/spin/auction.htmlFriday, March 28, 2014SPIN LAUNCH PARTYKlein Hall, 4-7 pm“Off the Strip” Casino night, all are welcome! Saturday, April 26, 20142014 ALUMNI WEEKENDCLE: “Take Me Out to the Ball Game: Legal Issues in the Ownership and Operation of a ProfessionalSports Team” (2 substantive credits)Klein Hall, 10 am-noon, Luncheon to follow with seating for reunion classesLearn more and register:mytlawconnection.com/alumniweekend2014Thursday, May 22, 2014COMMENCEMENT TEMPLE ESQ.published by the Temple University Beasley School of Law for alumni and friends. JoAnne A. Epps, DeanPublications Director: Janet Goldwater, Art Director: Gene Gilroy,Photography: Joseph Labolito, Kelly & Massa, Ryan Brandenberg,Janet Goldwater. Send letters and comments to: Janet Goldwater, Temple Esq.,Temple University James E. Beasley School of Law, 1719 N. BroadStreet, Room 510, Philadelphia, PA 19122. Email:janet.goldwater@temple.edu, Fax: 215.204.1185.To change your email, home or office address: lawalum@temple.edu or 215.204.118740408 TLS ESQ_March14_final_ESQ_Sept06/f 2/27/14 10:49 AM Page 8Next >