TEMPLE UNIVERSITY JAMES E. BEASLEY SCHOOL OF LAW • LAW SCHOOL AND ALUMNI NEWS • JUNE 2009APRIL 2009The ongoing credit crisis and its wide-rangingimplications are, to say the least, knotty problems with noeasy solutions. The world’s sharpest fiscal minds have cometo no consensus on how to drag the struggling globaleconomy out of its doldrums. The confusion has extended toinvestors—not merely employees socking away retirementfunds in 401(k)s but also those who invest and managemoney for a living—who have all but thrown up their armswhile they wait for the markets to recover.The confusion should not be surprising: As a daylong,invitation-only symposium at Temple explored in late April,the incredibly convoluted intricacies of global capitalism mayvery well have precipitated the economic implosion.In “Complexity and Collapse: The Credit Crisis,” panelsthroughout the day examined how structured financings andcredit derivatives, and the firms and systems of which thesedealings were a part, led to the current woes. The panelists,comprising attorneys, academics, business executives, and abankruptcy judge, took up questions of complexity from avariety of perspectives, including regulatory responses,bankruptcy, investors’ experiences, and more. Meeting inShusterman Hall, they engaged with nearly 50 practicingattorneys, judges, and law professors in attendance.“The goal was not simply to have a bunch of talking headspresenting papers, but to have a dialogue among people withvarying backgrounds organized around this one very specificquestion,” says symposium co-organizer Jonathan Lipson, aprofessor of law at Temple. “It was highly successful, webelieve, because we had extremely interesting conversationsabout this particular problem, which is not something, to myknowledge, anyone else had done.”A central point of discussion, according to Lipson and theother co-organizers, Peter H. Huang, the Harold E. KohnProfessor of Law, and David A. Hoffman, associate professorof law, was the failure of disclosure regulations—even whenthey were adequately followed—to protect investors frommaking bad choices.“People had different takeaways,” acknowledges Hoffman,“but two struck me in particular. First, I was intrigued by theincompleteness of the common story about the failure of therating agencies. Although many participants expressedconcern that the agencies’ assessments are at bestincomplete, what we heard convinced me that the investorcommunity is quite heterogeneous and that the ratingagencies weren’t at the heart of the problem. Second, forsome investors, the complexity and opacity of the financialinstruments may have been a selling point. They might nothave known how to value the product, but bought it anyway:the market prefers novelty.”PHOEBE HADDON NAMEDDEAN OF UNIVERSITY OFMARYLAND SCHOOL OF LAWJUNE 2009Fourth-generation attorney andTemple Law Professor, Phoebe A. Haddon, isthe first African-American to be named dean ofthe University of Maryland—the same schoolthat was the focus of the first of a series ofschool desegregation cases litigated by theNAACP that culminated in Brown v. Board ofEducation.This suit was filed against the lawschool by Donald Murray Gaines. Gaines had graduated from Amherst College in the’30s, at a time when neither Charles HamiltonHouston nor Thurgood Marshall, the principallitigants, would have been admitted. Haddonwill serve as dean at the 185-year old lawschool based in Baltimore.While Haddon expresses regret at leavingTemple after 25 years, the Maryland deanshipoffered too great an opportunity. “I believe thislaw school has a chance of becoming thepremiere institution in the nation as an urbanresearch institution,” says Haddon. “It has anexcellent faculty, committed to both theoreticalscholarship and creative problem-solving. "It is also really meaningful for me to be partof an institution that takes its commitment todiversity in the composition of its student bodyand faculty very seriously. The social justicecommitment of this institution is also somethingthat really impressed me." Haddon, who has taught constitutional lawand torts at Temple Law since 1981, is a widelyrespected national leader in legal education.Until recently, she was a trustee of the LawSchool Admissions Council and is currently amember of the Council of the ABA section oflegal education and admissions to the bar.Locally, she sits on a number of boards,including the Board of The PhiladelphiaEducation Fund, the Samuel S. Fels Fund, and Pennsylvanians for Modern Courts.“I have known and taught alongside Phoebefor twenty-four years,” says Dean JoAnne A.Epps. “She is an excellent teacher and scholar,and is committed to improving the delivery oflegal education in the U.S. I am sure that shewill take this commitment to Maryland and bean outstanding leader of that institution.”Haddon earned a B.A. from Smith College,where she has served as vice-chair of the board of trustees. She earned a J.D. fromDuquesne University School of Law, and anLL.M. from Yale Law School. She is married toProfessor Emeritus of Law, Frank McClellan,who recently retired from teaching to co-directthe Center for Health Law, Policy and Practiceat Temple University.symposium explores complexityin the Credit CrisisPETER H. HUANG, DAVID A. HOFFMAN AND JONATHAN C. LIPSONcontinued on page twoJOSEPH GRUNDFEST25948 TLS 6/2/09 9:46 AM Page 12 • TEMPLE ESQ. JUNE 2009PROFESSOR TO RUN NEW PUBLIC HEALTH LAW RESEARCH PROGRAMInnovative Robert Wood Johnson Foundation program will fund interdisciplinary researchTemple Law has been selected by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to manage a new $19 million national program that will fund interdisciplinary research exploring legal and regulatory solutions to pressing health challenges such as chronic diseases, and health emergencies including floods, bioterrorism and epidemics.The Public Health Law Research program will operate under the direction of Professor Scott Burris and within Temple Law’s Center for Health Law, Policy and Practice. The newly-created center is co-founded and co-directed by Burris and Professor Frank McClellan. (See Temple Esq., March 2009 for feature article on the Center and Burris’ work.)“Under the leadership of someone as accomplished as Scott, this program will bring national recognition to the school’s newly created Center for Health Law, Policy and Practice,” says Dean JoAnne A. Epps.“We expect the Public Health Law Research program to launch a new era of research through the best talent in law and public health. We know that strong policies and laws can help Americans lead healthier lives,” says Risa Lavizzo-Mourey, president and chief executive officer of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. The first call for proposals under the new program was announced this spring. Universities and other research institutions from around the country were invited to submit proposals. “RWJF’s investment is important because only good research can tell us what laws work and what laws don’t work for public health,” says Burris. “This is a golden opportunity to give policy makers and health advocates the information they need to pursue healthy policies, and our job at Temple will be to do everything we can to make sure the evidence our researchers produce gets to the people who need it.”SCOTT BURRISJOANNE A. EPPSDEAN EPPS RECEIVES O’CONNOR AWARDJUNE 9, 2009 Dean JoAnne A. Epps receives thePhiladelphia Bar Association’s Sandra Day O’Connor Award and presents the Judge A. Leon Higginbotham Jr. Memorial Public Interest Lecture at the Association’s quarterly meeting and luncheon. The O’Connor Award is conferred annually on a woman attorney who has demonstrated superior legal talent, achieved significant legal accomplishments and has furthered the advancement of women in both the profession and the community.COMPLEXITY SYMPOSIUM. . . continued from page onepsychologist Barry Schwartz, one of the country’s leading experts on the psychology of choice. A variety of readings prepared for the attendees in advance helped ready them for the discussions. Additional readings were posted online to generate further discussion points throughout the day.Providing support and sponsorship of the symposium was the law firm of Barrack, Rodos & Bacine. Partner Jeffrey Barrack ’96, says he and his colleagues, who represent investors in class and derivative actions, stepped up because the symposium’s focus has had such an effect on their clients.“The economic crisis has had a tremendous impact on investors around the country,” Barrack notes. “In communications with the people at Temple, we realized that the program Temple wanted to offer would be a tremendous service to investors, enabling them to better understand these times we’ve been living through.”—Thomas W. Durso“There’s something that appears to be legitimate about a deal that is more complex,”Lipson adds. “This is an important and difficult problem to address, and it’s not clear whether regulators or the marketplace will do a particularly effective job of managing it.” While disclosure is, as Huang puts it, “the workhorse for financial regulation,” some at the symposium felt it was time to reconsider and perhaps recast its role in protecting investors. One suggestion was to go beyond disclosure and consider more interventionist measures, ranging from rating deals according to their complexity to banning certain types oftransactions because they are so difficult for investors to understand that they are dangerous.“There was a large gamut of proposals,”Huang says. “Though some admit that disclosure is not the only thing, which is true, it’s the thing people use most. Is disclosure going to work in light of increased complexity, or is it time to experiment with other things than mere disclosure?” The symposium came about in the wake of discussions Lipson hadwith former dean Robert Reinstein last year over the feasibility of launching a new educational and research initiative at Temple. Reinstein had suggested that Lipson, Huang, and Hoffman combine their overlapping expertise and interests and form a business law center. The three concluded that a symposium would be a good way to test the waters and determine whether there was sufficient interest to warrant such a venture. Seeking a topic, they noted that countless programs had been presented on the credit crisis and the roles of ratings agencies and conflicts of interest. Lipson, Huang, and Hoffman decided to focus on complexity, a subject that not only interested them but also hadn’t gotten much of a hearing.The speakers they recruited included U.S. Bankruptcy PETER HUANGFROM LEFT: STEPHEN LUBBEN, RICHARD GENDELMAN, PETRINA DAWSON, JILL FISCH, AND RICHARD LEVIN25948 TLS 6/2/09 9:46 AM Page 2Judge Robert D. Drain, of the Southern District of New York; law professors Joseph Grundfest, of Stanford Law School; Steven Schwarcz, of Duke University School of Law; and Arthur Laby, of Rutgers University School of Law-Camden (and formerly on staff at the Securities and Exchange Commission); Petrina Dawson, former general counsel of Standard and Poor’s; and Swarthmore CollegeTEMPLE ESQ. JUNE 2009 • 3KOLSBY LECTURE FOCUSESON FIGHT TO OVERTURNWRONGFUL CONVICTIONSBarry C. Scheck addresses law schoolFEBRUARY 2009Professor Barry C. Scheck spoke abouthis extensive experience as a criminal defense attorney atthe annual Herbert Kolsby Lecture in Trial Advocacy.Scheck, who is a Professor of Law at Cardozo School ofLaw in New York City, is one of the preeminent civil rightsand constitutional litigators currently working on thenational stage. As a pioneer in exonerating wronglyconvicted people, Sheck’s remarks about the future ofdeath penalty appeal litigation were particularly pertinent tothe Philadelphia audience: In March 2009 Temple Lawannounced that it will host an Innocence Project toexamine similar cases in southeastern Pennsylvania.Known for his landmark litigation setting standards forforensic applications of DNA technology, Scheck is creditedwith redefining and expanding the rights of victims ofpolice misconduct and wrongful convictions throughout thecountry. He is co-director of the Cardozo branch of theInnocence Project, a national litigation and public policyorganization. He has published extensively on a variety oflegal issues ranging from trial practice to forensic science.With firm partner Peter Neufeld and Jim Dwyer of the NewYork Times, he co-authored Actual Innocence: Five Days toExecution, and Other Dispatches from the WronglyConvicted,published in 2000.Professor Edward Ohlbaum, Director of Temple’s TrialAdvocacy and Clinical Education programs, introducedAPRIL 2009Next fall, Professor MargaretM. deGuzman joins the faculty ofTemple’s Beasley School of Law, whereshe will teach criminal law andinternational criminal law. She comes toTemple from Georgetown University’sInstitute for International Law and Politics,where she has been teachinginternational human rights law. DeGuzman’s areas of expertise includecriminal law, international criminal law,humanitarian law, transitional justice,human rights, international law, andcomparative criminal law. “I am particularly excited to join theexceptionally strong international lawfaculty,” says deGuzman, adding that shelooks forward to participating in theInstitute for International Law and Public Policy’s manyprogramming opportunities. She is currently involved inexpert groups drafting a convention on crimes againsthumanity and general rules and principles of internationalcriminal procedure.DeGuzman brings with her a rich blend of academic andprofessional excellence. In addition to earning her J.D. fromYale Law School in 1999, deGuzman holds an M.A. in Lawand Diplomacy from the Fletcher School of Law andDiplomacy at Tufts University and is aPh.D. candidate at the Irish Center forHuman Rights of the National University ofIreland, where she has been conductingresearch on the gravity of crimes ininternational law. She studied as aFulbright Scholar in Senegal aftergraduating with a B.S.F.S. magna cumlaudefrom the School of Foreign Serviceat Georgetown University.Following her graduation from Yale Law,deGuzman clerked for Judge James R.Browning of the Ninth Circuit Court ofAppeals in San Francisco. She went onto a diverse litigation practice at Farella,Braun & Martel, where she specialized incriminal defense. DeGuzman’s scholarship reflects alongstanding interest in the intersections of criminal law,international law, and international human rights law. Hercurrent research pivots around the central question: Whatis the appropriate role of international criminal law in theglobal legal order? She has authored several publicationsaddressing facets of this question, including articlesexamining the definition of crimes against humanity andthe role of case and situational gravity on the legitimacy ofthe International Criminal Court.Int’l Human Rights Scholar Joins FacultyMargaret M. deGuzman comes to Temple Law from GeorgetownTRIAL TEAM WINS CAPITOL INVITATIONAL; MAKES ITTO FINAL ROUND IN NTC AND ETHICS COMPETITIONMARCH 2009Temple’s National Trial Team won the inaugural Capitol City Challenge Tournamenthosted by American University’s Washington College of Law. The team consisted of Tim Collier ’10,Kristen Gibbons ’09, Chris Rees ’09 and Mike Zabel ’10, and was coached by Marissa Bluestine ’95and Shaina Jones ’07. In its championship run, the team defeated nine other teams, including onefrom Georgetown Law School in the final round.A second team took quarter-finalist honors in the National Trial Competition sponsored by the American College of Trial Lawyers in San Antonio, Texas. The tournament field included thewinners and runners-up from the competition’s 14 regional contests held in February. It was theteam’s fifteenth consecutive appearance in the “elite eight.” The team of Priya De Souza ’09 andJeff Goodman ’10 was coached by Alex Gosfield ’08, Elizabeth Lippy ’03, and James Zoll ’06.At the National Ethics Trial Competition hosted by the University of the Pacific’s McGeorge LawSchool in Sacramento, CA, a Temple team of Rochelle Keyhan ’10, Corey Osborn ’10, Matt Quigg ’09,and Jen Riley ’09 took “finalist” honors when it lost a closely scored final round to a team fromGeorgetown Law. The team was coached by Eileen Monaghan ‘05 and Mia Roberts ’06.Sheck at the February lecture. “By any measure, Barryhas become one of the most dedicated and effectivecriminal defense lawyers in our time,” says Ohlbaum. Wewould all do well to study his cases, learn from his tacticsand emulate his passion for justice.”Scheck has been teaching for twenty-seven years andpracticing for more than thirty. He is also a foundingpartner of Cochran Neufeld & Scheck, and the directorof the Jacob Burns Center for Ethics in the Practice of Law. Since 1994, he has served ascommissioner of the New York State Forensic ScienceReview Board, was a Commissioner of the NationalInstitute of Justice Commission on the Future of DNAEvidence from 1997 to 2000, has been an Advisor forAGID-Lab since 2001, and sits on the advisory boardfor Celera Genetic Project to Identify Dead at WorldTrade Center. Mr. Scheck is an active member and the past president of the National Association of CriminalDefense Lawyers.FROM LEFT: MICHAEL ZABEL ’10, CHRISTOPHER REES ’09,TIMOTHY COLLIER ’09, KRISTEN GIBBONS ’09HERBERT F. KOLSBY ’51BARRY C. SCHECK25948 TLS 6/2/09 9:46 AM Page 31980JAY BARRY HARRIS, a senior partner at Fineman, Krekstein & Harris, spoke to fellow members at the InternationalAssociation of Defense Counsel mid-year meeting in Carlsbad, California. Harris’presentation addressed developingcoverage issues confronting insurers nationwide in the evolving area of insurance coverage. Harris concentrates his practice in civil litigation.1984STANLEY A. BRAVERMAN has announced the creation of Braverman Associates, an organization which specializes in dispute resolution services and conflict prevention training. Braverman is the former deputy director for the six-state PhiladelphiaDistrict of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. As the director of the Negotiation and Conflict Resolution Institute at LaSalle University in Philadelphia, he designed and now teaches in the graduate certificate program in Negotiation and Conflict Resolution.DAVID E. RADERMAN, a partner at the Maryland-based law firm Gallagher Evelius & Jones, has been appointed chair of the Howard County Housing Commission, the county’s public housing authority. Raderman represents investors and developers of projects using federal andstate affordable housing, new markets, renewable energy, and historic tax credits. 1987LORI SHEMTOB spoke to women from the area on “what they absolutely should know about their finances” at a talk hosted by the Wissahickon Valley Public Library in Blue Bell, PA. Part of Shemtob’s talk included an overview of howPennsylvania treats marital assets in a divorce or separation. Since 1988, Shemtob has been exclusively practicing family law, and she is the Case Notes co-editor for the Pennsylvania Family Lawyer publication.1989NANCY CONRAD, a partner in White and Williams’ commercial litigation department and chair of the labor and employment and education practice groups, was honored at the annual Take the Lead event hosted by the Girl Scouts of Eastern Pennsylvania. represented the relators in assisting the U.S. Justice Department in securing a False Claims Act recovery which resulted in the largest combined recovery in the history of the Act. 1975JOSEPH R. POZZUOLO and LISA A. LEGGIERI ’08 of Pozzuolo Rodden spoke at three Neumann College CLE/CPE programs this spring. Their presentations were entitled: “The Fundamentals of Estate Planning for a Suburban Family in their Mid-40s versus for the Same Family in their 70s”; “How to Prepare the Federal Estate Tax and Pennsylvania Inheritance Tax Return”; and “The Fundamentals of Estate Administration: Step by Step Procedures for the Suburban General Practitioner and CPAs.” Pozzuolo, Leggieri and Jeffrey Pozzuolo ’10 of Pozzuolo Rodden have also authored an article, “Remarriage Situations Can Raise Special Estate Planning Considerations,” in Tax Strategies published by Thomson Reuters.1976ROBERT H. LOUIS, partner and co-chair of Saul Ewing’s personal wealth, estates, and trusts department, has been elected a fellow of the American Bar Foundation. Louis is also the Editor of Personal Wealth Law News, a law blog hosted by the firmthat reviews developments in areas of the law that help people to accumulate, preserve, and pass on wealth. 1978CINDY MILLER has been appointed bureau chief of the New Jersey Division of Consumer Affairs’ Office of Consumer Protection headquartered in Newark, NJ. Prior to this appointment, Miller maintained a private practice and was a New Jersey deputy attorney general.1949In April, SEYMOUR GOTTLIEB was honored as a founding member and first executive director of the National Contract Management Association at the 50th anniversary celebration in Long Beach, CA. Gottlieb was previously legal counsel to promote minority-owned business subcontracts at Rockwell International and Hughes Aircraft Companies. 1957E. HARRIS BAUM has been honored by the Philadelphia Friends of American Friends of Magen David Adom with the 2009 Lifeline Award in recognition of his commitment to the Jewish community and the people of Israel. Baum is a founding shareholder of Zarwin, Baum, DeVito, Kaplan, Schaer, Toddy. 1961MARTIN WEINBERG, partner and chair of Obermayer Rebmann Maxwell & Hippel, was inducted into the Drexel Athletic Hall of Fame as part of Coach Sam Cozen’s basketball teams, “Era of Champions,”from 1952 to 1968. Weinberg played forCozen’s championship teams in 1955, 1956, and 1957. Weinberg is chair of Obermayer’s regulatory, administrative, and gaming department and is a member of the firm’s management committee. 1968Former State Senator BOB ROVNER was nominated by Governor Ed Rendell, and unanimously confirmed by the State Senate, to the Temple University Board of Trustees in April 2009. Rovner has also been reappointed to the PennsylvaniaLawyers Fund for Client Security Board for a second term. Rovner is the CEO and founder of the Rovner, Allen, Rovner, Zimmerman & Nash firm and is also a radio talk-show host on WNWR 1540 AM.1972CARL SINGLEY, former dean of the law school, has been named the recipient of the 2009 A. Leon Higginbotham Jr. Lifetime Achievement Award, presented by the minority bar committee of the Pennsylvania Bar Association. 1974 MARK LIPOWICZ, a senior litigation partner at Duane Morris who previously represented the Attorney General of Pennsylvania in his litigation against the tobacco industry,4 • TEMPLE ESQ. JUNE 2009NOTESClassENVIRONMENTAL LAW EXPERT EXPLORES “BAIL-OUT PLAN” FOR A TROUBLED CLIMATEAPRIL 2009 The topic of the annual Friel/Scanlan Lecture,delivered by Professor Amy Sinden, was “The Climate Crisis: In Search of a Bail-Out Plan for the Planet.” In recent academic writings, Sinden criticizes the misuse of economic theory in environmental law, arguing against the use of cost-benefit analysis in environmental standard setting and countering claims that private property rights can solve environmental problems in the absence of government regulation. She also writes about the application of classical human rights norms to the climate crisis and other environmental conflicts. Sinden, who has been on the faculty since 2001, earned a J.D. from the University of Pennsylvania Law School, and a B.A. from Swarthmore College.AMY SINDEN25948 TLS 6/2/09 9:46 AM Page 4JOANNE A. EPPS, MARYLOUISE ESTEN, ROBERT J. BARTOW1995In January, JONATHAN C. MEYERSjoined Hill Wallack aspartner-in-charge of the Princeton, NJ firm. Meyers is amember of the firm's litigation division and workers’compensation practice group.Pepper Hamilton announced that PETER T. WAKIYAMAhasjoined the firm as a partner in the Philadelphia office,where he practices in the area of intellectual property andtechnology. Prior to joining Pepper Hamilton, Wakiyamawas a partner and cochair of the intellectual property andinformation technology practice group at WolfBlock. 1996 MATTHEW EISENBERGrecently announcedthe opening of a law practice in Napa, CAwhere he concentrates on business, realproperty, entitlements, alcohol beverages,and the mediation of disputes. Eisenbergwas with Dickenson, Peatman & Fogartyuntil 1998, when he moved to Napa to pursuerepresentation of the wine and hospitality industry andrelated businesses. Eisenberg earned a Wine Captain’sCertificate from the Sommelier Society of America in 1992.He then became cellar master and later the sommelier andwine buyer for the 21 Club in New York City.BRIAN C. NEWBERRYhas been elected to the Rhode IslandHouse of Representatives, where he sits on the judiciaryand separation of powers committees. MICHAEL E. PLUNKETThas joined the firm of Blank Romeas a partner in the public companies and capital formationgroup. Plunkett was previously a partner at WolfBlock.ROB C. TONOGBANUAhas been electedshareholder in Dickie, McCamey &Chilcote and is resident in its New Jerseyoffice. He concentrates his practice in theareas of immigration and nationality law,U.S. citizenship, and deportation defense,as well as the areas of toxic tort law andworkers’ compensation defense. 1997VINCENT CAPONE,a Reed Smith partner,has been appointed the vice chair of thePhiladelphia Bar Association’s venturecapital and private equity committee for2009, and will succeed as chair of theCommittee in 2010. Capone is a memberof Reed Smith’s corporate and securities group. HAYES A. HUNT,a Cozen O’Connor member, lectured on“Witness Preparation and Direct Examination” as part ofthe D.C. Bar’s Essential Trial Skills Series. A member in theCozen O’Connor’s Philadelphia office, Hayes Huntpractices in the firm’s white collar and complex criminaldefense practice.1999OLIVER H. “SCOTT” BARBER III has been named theattorney to the Kentucky Oil and Gas ConservationCommission. Barber is a member of the Louisville, KYoffice of Stites & Harbison, where he is a member of thefirm’s business litigation service group and white-collarcrime practice section.CHERYL GARBERhas been appointed apartner at Fox Rothschild. Garber isresident in its Bucks County, PA office,and her practice involves a broad range ofcommercial and general civil litigation.2000LINSEY B. BOZZELLIhas been named a partner at BlankRome. Bozzelli is a member of the mergers andacquisitions and private equity group, and practices in theareas of mergers and acquisitions, securities, and generalcorporate law. TEMPLE ESQ. JUNE 2009 • 5ROBERT J. REINSTEINSTAMBOULIDIS ’85NAMED MANAGINGPARTNER OF NYC FIRMIn 2001, after thirteen years as afederal prosecutor, GeorgeStamboulidis ’85 took on the challenge of switchinggears to build Baker Hostetler’s New York office fromthe ground up. In the eight years since opening theNew York office with one other lawyer, he hasfashioned a team of 73 attorneys. This year,Stamboulidis was named managing partner of thatoffice. He continues on the firm’s executivecommittee and as the co-head of the white collarcrime and corporate investigations team.The 600-attorney firm has offices in 10 cities in theU.S. In addition to attracting attorneys from the ranksof government service, the New York office has beenable to attract practitioners like Irving Picard andMarc Hirschfield, who have partnered this year atBaker to head the Madoff liquidation team.Stamboulidis began his legal career by interning,and then clerking for U.S. District Court Judge Louis C.Bechtle. In 1988, he was assigned to the organizedcrime strike force in Newark, NJ through the JusticeDepartment’s Attorney General’s honors program. Hemoved to the organized crime section of the U.S.Attorney’s office in Brooklyn in 1989. His career as aprosecutor culminated in 2000, when he was namedlead prosecutor in United States v. Wen Ho Lee, a casethat involved the mishandling of nuclear weaponssecrets. Stamboulidis successfully resolved the highprofile case with a guilty plea. 1990STEPHEN L. NAILORhas been named anadministrative appeals judge at theAppeals Council in the Social SecurityAdministration’s Office of DisabilityAdjudication and Review. Nailor is also amember of the Social Security DisabilityReview Board where he works with panels of otheradministrative appeals judges and administrative lawjudges adjudicating disability hearing decisions at the lastlevel of administrative review. 1991 ARIEL R. DAVIDhas been named vice president andcounsel for government programs at Sikorsky AircraftCorporation, a subsidiary of United TechnologiesCorporation based in Stratford, CT.1992DANIEL JECK,a partner at Eisenberg,Rothweiler, Winkler, Eisenberg & Jeck whoconcentrates his practice representingvictims of medical malpractice, was afeatured speaker at a seminar presentedby the Pennsylvania Association ofJustice. Jeck spoke about Section 509 of the MCARE Act,specifically calculation of economic damages in medicalmalpractice cases. 1993PETER ROSENBERG has started a multi-family officebusiness, Terra Nova Services, as a joint venture with theStonehage Group, a European trust company. Thebusiness caters to international families with a presenceand investments in the U.S. In addition, Rosenberg has hisown law practice, Peter Rosenberg & Associates, providinginternational tax and estate-planning advice, and trusteeservices. REINSTEIN DELIVERS LECTURE ONPRESIDENTIAL POWERAPRIL 2009The Hon. Clifford Scott Green Lecture was deliveredby Professor Robert J. Reinstein to a packed audience in theDuane Morris LLP Moot Court Room. Reinstein, who steppeddown as dean last year to return to teaching and scholarship,spoke on “Presidential Power,” a topic suggested to him byJudge Green before his death in 2007. “He was reallyconcerned,” explains Professor Reinstein, “with the legaltheories of the Bush administration and the potential, if thetheories got accepted by the [conservatives] on the bench, forwhat could happen.”The lectureship was created in 2003 to perpetuate the civilrights legacy of Judge Clifford Scott Green ‘51 and to honor hisservice to Temple University. Green sat on the District Court forthe Eastern District of Pennsylvania for thirty-five years.ESTERBROOK ’01 WINS M&A AWARDAPRIL 2009Scott Esterbrook ’01 andClaudia Springer were the recipientsof the M & A Advisor TurnaroundAward presented at the annualDistressed Investing Conference. The two Reed Smith attorneys wererecognized for their work as leadersof the legal team in the acquisitionof Boscov’s by BLF Acquisitions, a deal valued inexcess of $100 million. Esterbrook also led the teamthat garnered the award for deals valued below $100 million.25948 TLS 6/2/09 9:47 AM Page 5Department of Justice where he worked on a trial involving apatent in the pharmaceuticalindustry, U.S. vs. Pfizer.“I continued to work on this case part-time for two years as a law student.” His first job out of school wasin Washington with the FederalTrade Commission. And then hereturned to Philadelphia to workfor two prominent city law firmsas a litigator doing commerciallitigation and antitrust work. Afterexperiencing both governmentservice and private practice,Collier decided that a better fit forhim was as an in-house counsel.In 1986 he took a job with theRorer Group Inc. in FortWashington (best known for Maalox). This was to be hisfirst venture as a lawyer in the prescription drug industry.Later Rorer merged with Rhone-Poulenc, where hebecame the senior VP and general counsel in 1994. In 1997 he moved on to Pharmacia and UpJohn Inc.as senior VP and general counsel and that companymerged with Montsano. Collier helped negotiate thecompany’s subsequent $50 billion sale to Pfizer in 2003. In 2005 Collier commenced an additional career as anadjunct law professor at his alma mater.At Temple Law heteaches a class on food and drug law. “Now that I havetaught the course for five years, a number of my formerstudents are practicing food and drug law,” he explains.“Temple is strategically located in the pharmaceuticalcorridor so it’s a good field to enter.” Collier has never tiredof the work: “I tell my students that I’ve been practicingfood and drug law for 23 years and I’m still waiting for myfirst boring day.” “Since I lost my father to Alzheimer’s, the mostrewarding thing to me is that Elan is generally viewed as onthe forefront of Alzheimer-related research and havinggreat potential to deliver a disease-modifying Alzheimer’stherapy,” he explains. “In my work, I have the opportunityto be close to that science and to help it to progress.”Richard Collier is also philanthropic; he is a Fellow inthe Russell H. Conwell Society. He explains, “I have a trueappreciation for what Temple afforded me. Doors openedfor me due to the knowledge gained there.”—Ruth Waldman Schultz2001JOSEPH C. GUAGLIARDOhas joined Pepper Hamilton as asenior associate. Guagliardo was previously an associate inthe intellectual property and information technologypractice group at WolfBlock. JUDITH RODDEN,a member of PozzuoloRodden, was the featured speaker at aNeumann College CLE/CPE Program thisspring. Her presentation “TheFundamentals of Employment Law for aSuburban General Practitioner,” wasmade in May 2009.CAMELIA M. VALDEShas been nominatedto be the Passaic County (NJ) Prosecutor.Valdes is an assistant United Statesattorney in the U.S. Attorney’s Office inthe District of New Jersey. TRACEY DOLIN WALDMANNis an associatein the Schnader Harrison Segal & Lewis’litigation services department, focusing onproducts liability and aviation litigation.Waldmann is returning to the firm afterclerking for judge Noel L. Hillman in theU.S. District Court for the District of NewJersey. She was previously an associatewith Schnader for five years. 2002The Pennsylvania State Athletic Commission recentlyappointed STEPHEN E. MULKOFFchief deputy athleticcommissioner. Mullkoff manages a solo practice in Philadelphia, concentrating on family law and general litigation. 2004NIKKI JOHNSON-HUSTON,an assistant citysolicitor for the Philadelphia LawDepartment, has been presented with theCraig M. Perry award by the YoungLawyer’s Division. The award is presentedannually to a young lawyer who hasdevoted substantial time and energy to community-oriented activities.DANIEL MCKENNAand GILL NUSSBAUM ‘06are organizersfor Wills for Heroes, a program sponsored by Ballard Spahr and the Philadelphia Young Lawyers Association torecruit attorneys to use pro bonotime to write wills for firstresponders. NICK STRASSERhas served in the U.S.Army Judge Advocate General’s Corpssince 2005. In 2008, he was named theprincipal legal adviser to the commandantof cadets, a brigadier general. 6 • TEMPLE ESQ. JUNE 2009TEMPLE ESQ.Published by the Temple University BeasleySchool of Law for alumni and friends.JOANNE A. EPPS, DEANPublications Director: Janet Goldwater Art Director: Gene GilroyPhotography: Joseph Labolito, Kelly & Massa, Janet Goldwater Send letters and comments to: Janet Goldwater, Temple Esq. Temple University James E. Beasley School of Law1719 N. Broad Street, Room 510Philadelphia, PA 19122Email: janet.goldwater@temple.edu Fax: (215) 204-1185Change of address: (215) 204-1187How far will high-school biologyget you in the rarified atmosphereof biotechnology and neuro-science? Ask Temple Law alumnusRick Collier. A Philly guy from arow-house neighborhood, Collierhad an unlikely career trajectorythat took him to the executivedepartment of an international,publicly traded biotechnologycompany where he learned tospeak the unpronounceablelanguage of pharmacology.The company where he servesas executive VP and generalcounsel is the Elan Corporation.Elan is actually two businesses: a drug technology division whereElan’s technology is applied toother companies’ drugs to improvetheir performance, and a biotechnology division dedicatedto finding a treatment for Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s disease,and multiple sclerosis. Collier’s commitment to Elan’s workhas a personal dimension; shortly before joining Elan, hisfather died of Alzheimer’s. He knows first hand thedevastation that this disease delivers.Elan is domiciled in Ireland but its corporate officers arescattered in Ireland, on the east coast of the U.S. in King of Prussia and Gainesville, GA, and on the west coast inSan Francisco. From his office in King of Prussia, Colliersupervises a staff of 50 legal people and is also a memberof the company’s senior management body responsible forthe daily operation of the company. Collier grew up in the Lower Northeast in Lawncrest. Hisdad was a surveyor for the city; his mother a stay-at-homemom. His parents supported his ambition to become aradio broadcaster and journalist and he matriculated atTemple’s School of Communications and Theater. A careerin the law “wasn’t on our radar,” says Collier. “We didn’tknow anyone who was a lawyer. Other than what I hadseen on TV, I don’t recall even knowing what a lawyer did.My parents wanted me to use my brains and not mybrawn, and it was my responsibility to figure out how tomake it happen.”But all that changed during his senior year as anundergraduate. Collier took classes in Broadcast Law andJournalism Law, and something clicked. At Temple Law hediscovered litigation—what he calls the performance part oflaw. His summer job was with a trial team at the U.S.SYMPOSIUM EXPLORES BANKRUPTCY INCURRENT ECONOMIC CRISISAPRIL 2009Temple Law Review presented a one-day symposium, “Bankruptcy in2009: Practical Challenges, Scholarly Responses.”The keynote speaker wasUniversity of Pennsylvania Law Professor David Skeel, whose research focuseson corporate bankruptcy and reorganization. Panels included judges from theEastern District of Pennsylvania Bankruptcy Court and the District of DelawareBankruptcy Court, and were moderated by Temple Law Professors JonathanLipson and Susan DeJarnatt. The symposium, held at the Union League of Philadelphia, was organizedwith support from the Temple Law Alumni Association and in conjunction withthe Eastern District of Pennsylvania Bankruptcy Conference and the BankruptcyCommittee of the business law section of the Philadelphia Bar Association.Richard T. Collier ’79Expert in food and drug lawALUMNI PROFILE25948 TLS 6/2/09 9:47 AM Page 6SEND US YOUR NEWS!Hon. George L. ZimmermanClass of 1940Edward ReifClass of 1955William Moran IIIClass of 1955Thomas E. Coval Class of 1974Toby CamenClass of 1981Mindy A. Lieberman Class of 1984Christine P. HurbainskiClass of 1985IN MEMORIAMTEMPLE ESQ. JUNE 2009 • 7TEMPLE ESQ. welcomes news and photosof our alumni/ae. Please include: Fullname, Class, Degree, and a way to reachyou if we need to confirm information.Send to:Janet GoldwaterTemple Esq.Temple University Beasley School of Law1719 North Broad StreetPhiladelphia, PA 19122Email:janet.goldwater@temple.eduINT’L MOOT COURT TEAM FINISHES THIRDAMONG U.S. TEAMS MARCH 2009Temple prevailed in the first round of the International Jessup Moot Court Competition in Washington DC. Temple’s team, comprised of ErinLindgren ’09, Michael Yohannan ’09, Katie Morris ’09,Colin Stewart ’10, and Rahul Munshi ’09, defeated teams from Northwestern, Vanderbilt, Hebrew University in Israel, and a team from Kallingrad, Russia. Theyadvanced to, and eventually lost in, the qualifying round of24 teams. In the end, Temple finished 16th out of 110teams competing, and third among U.S. teams. Lindgrenreceived an award for being the sixth best oralist out ofapproximately 300 oralists at the international rounds. BARBARA LITTLE ’09 AND OKSANA WRIGHT ’09EXCEL IN TAX COMPETITIONMARCH 2009Moot Court Honor Society members BarbaraLittle ’09 and Oksana Wright ’09 won Best Petitioner’s Briefat the 2009 Mugel Tax Moot Court Competition, thenation’s oldest tax moot court competition. They advancedto the semifinals and earned the highest brief score for thepetitioner and the third highest brief score overall. Littleand Wright were assisted by Professors Alice Abreu,Andrea Monroe and Kathy Mandelbaum.“Temple Law has always been a leader in publicservice, so our association with this project is a natural fit,”says Dean JoAnne A. Epps. “It provides excitingopportunities not only for Temple and the faculty, but mostof all for the students who will learn valuable legal skills byparticipating in this vital endeavor that seeks to strengthenthe quality of justice.”With the launch of this project, Pennsylvania joins morethan 50 other innocence projects nationwide dedicated toexonerating innocent inmates as well as eliminating thecauses of wrongful convictions. Armed with extensiveevidence of flawed practices revealed through studies ofwrongful convictions, staff at the Pennsylvania project willalso advocate for reforms of the criminal justice system andthe adoption of best practices statewide. The Pennsylvania Innocence Project draws on a widepool of committed legal talent: Richman and Rudovskyserve as president and vice president, respectively, of theMINDY LIEBERMAN ’841960–2009Employment lawyer Mindy Lieberman died of cancerof the appendix in March 2009. She had been apartner in Marx and Lieberman in Washington, DCsince 1990, specializing in defending companies fromcharges of discrimination. She practiced law inBaltimore before founding her own firm. Lieberman,who was president of the Women’s Law Caucus whilein law school, served on the defense team of U.S.Senator Robert Packwood when he faced charges ofsexual misconduct before resigning in 1995. INNOCENCE PROJECT. . . continued from page eightMICHELLE ORLOSKI ’09 WINS BURTON AWARDFOR DISTINGUISHED ‘EFFECTIVE LEGAL WRITING’JUNE 2009Temple Law student Michelle Orloski ’09 haswon the 2009 Distinguished Writing Award from the BurtonAwards, given in association with the Library of Congress.The awards were established in 1999 to reward effectivelegal writing: “The program honors partners in law firmsand law school students who use plain, clear and conciselanguage and avoid archaic, stilted legalese.” Orloski wonthe award for an article titled Preventing Gross Injustice toLocal Cultural Patrimony: A Proposal for State Regulation ofDeaccessioning,which will be published in the upcomingissue of the Temple Law Review.The paper was writtenunder the supervision of Professor Nancy Knauer, and wasnominated and submitted by law review editor-in-chiefDrew Schinzel and Professor Susan DeJarnatt. The awardis presented at a ceremony held in the Great Hall of theLibrary of Congress in Washington, DC.STUDENTS WINNATIONAL ATTENTIONMICHELLE ORLOSKI ’09 2007MICHAEL F. SCHLEIGH,of the offices ofDeasey, Mahoney and Valentini has beenappointed to fill a vacancy on the Boroughof Lansdowne Council. He is serving out aterm until a special election in fall 2009.2008LISA A. LEGGIERI andJOSEPH R. POZZUOLO ’75of PozzuoloRodden, are the featured speakers at three NeumannCollege CLE/CPE Programs this spring. Pozzuolo andLeggieri and Jeffrey Pozzuolo (2010) of Pozzuolo Roddenhave also authored an article entitled “RemarriageSituations Can Raise Special Estate PlanningConsiderations” in Tax Strategies published by Thomson Reuters.board of directors. The project’s advisory board includesthe deans of the law schools at Temple, Villanova, Penn,and Drexel, two former U.S. attorneys, and a formerPennsylvania acting attorney general. The nonprofit projectreceived start-up funding from the PennsylvaniaCommission on Crime and Delinquency and theIndependence Foundation, and a $200,000 matchinggrant from Gerry Lenfest. “Certainly, a society that pledges allegiance to theprinciple of ‘justice for all’ cannot tolerate the conviction of innocent people,” says Executive Director Glazer. “But beyond correcting individual miscarriages of justice,we hope to work with police, prosecutors and judges in implementing the lessons taught by the wrongfulconviction cases. In that way we will increase the criminaljustice system’s effectiveness in detecting and punishingtrue wrongdoers.”Thursday, November 12, 2009EDWARD J. ROSS MEMORIAL LECTURE IN LITIGATIONPresented by Ronald Jay CohenDuane Morris LLP Moot Court Room 4 pmFriday, November 13, 2009HEALTH DISPARITIES, FINANCING AND THE LAW: FROM CONCEPT TO ACTIONFeaturing: Professors Scott Burris and Frank McClellan 6 credit CLE Alter Hall, 8:30 am - 4:30 pm To register:www.mytlawconnection/Healthdisaprities2009Date to be announcedARLIN AND NEYSA ADAMS LECTURE Presented by Hon. Diane WoodscalendarFall 2009 EventsBARBARA LITTLE ’09OKSANA WRIGHT ’0925948 TLS 6/2/09 9:47 AM Page 7PENNSYLVANIA INNOCENCE PROJECTLaunched at TempleCenter to exonerate wrongfully convicted inmates headed by Richard Glazier ’69 and Marissa Bluestine ’95MARCH 2009In 2004, BruceGodschalk walked out of aPennsylvania prison, 17 years after being wrongly convicted oftwo rape charges. His exonerationwas made possible through post-conviction DNA testing andthe steadfast efforts of Philadelphiacivil rights attorney DavidRudovsky. It is because ofGodschalk’s story, and hundredslike it, that Rudovsky teamed upwith Pepper Hamilton partnerDavid Richman to form thePennsylvania Innocence Project.Rudovsky is a nationally knowncivil rights and post-convictionexpert, and Richman is a former prosecutor and longtimeprisoners rights advocate who haslitigated numerous capital habeascorpuspetitions.Housed at Temple Universityand made possible by BeasleySchool of Law, the center will be headed by ExecutiveDirector Richard C. Glazer ‘69, who also chairs the city’sethics board, and Legal Director Marissa Boyers Bluestine‘95, who came to the Pennsylvania Innocence Project fromthe Defender Association ofPhiladelphia. Under thesupervision of these two TempleLaw alumni and other volunteerattorneys, students from area lawschools will work to prove theinnocence of Pennsylvaniainmates who have been wrongfullyconvicted. Some cases will likelyinvolve new DNA testing, whileothers will be investigated throughmore traditional methods. The Pennsylvania InnocenceProject plans to incorporatestudents and volunteers from avariety of other disciplines as well,including journalism, forensicsciences and criminal justice.The need for an innocenceproject in Pennsylvania is borneout by eight exonerations to dateof Pennsylvania prisoners, inaddition to Godschalk. Teninmates have been successfullyexonerated in Pennsylvania alone, and they are amongmore than 400 nationwide who were imprisoned for 12years on average before DNA or other evidence convinceda court that the wrong person had been convicted. MARISSA BLUESTINE ’95 AND RICHARD GLAZER ’69continued on page seven1 Yvette Cooper ’94, SabrinaSacks Mann ’94, StaceyBloom ’942 Top: Ed Johnson ’79, RobinCoward ’79; Bottom: RaeScott Jones ’79, JettieNewkirk ’793 Richard Glazer ’69 andWendy Glazer4 Ken Spivack ’93, TLAAPresident5 Andrea Broad ’79 andLouis T. Broad6 Jennifer Supplee ’09,Marcell Pratt ’097 Paul Downing ’09, KimWashington ’098 Louis Thompson ’01,Melissa Lennon ’96,JoAnne A. Epps, ColleenUhniat 9 Top: Michael Viola ’88,Jeffrey Lichtman ’88;Bottom: Jodi Schatz ’88,Terri Domsky ’88, RobertaWest ’88213TEMPLE UNIVERSITY JAMES E. BEASLEY SCHOOL OF LAWLAW SCHOOL AND ALUMNI NEWSJUNE 2009VISIT OUR WEBSITE: www.law.temple.eduWRITE TO US: lawalum@temple.edu456reunion 2009789NON-PROFITORGANIZATIONU.S. POSTAGE PAIDPHILADELPHIA, PAPERMIT NO. 1044TEMPLE UNIVERSITYJAMES E. BEASLEY SCHOOL OF LAW1719 North Broad StreetPhiladelphia, PA 19122DEAN’S NAME HEARD BY MILLIONS OVERMORNING COFFEEMAY 17, 2009When NPR’s legal affairscorrespondent Nina Totenberg unveiled her list of “Supreme Court Choices YouHaven't Heard Of,” there was one name we know well. Nine days before President Obama nominated Judge SoniaSotomayer to the highest court in the land, Totenberg told millions of listeners to Morning Edition: “Temple Law SchoolDean JoAnne Epps . . . has won plaudits as a scholar after serving many years as a prosecutor in the state and federal courts. A major sports fan, she is Temple’s faculty representative to the NCAA.” Like most court-watchers,Totenberg predicted a female justice to join Judge Ginsberg on the Supreme Court:her list of eight potential nomineesincluded no men. 25948 TLS 6/2/09 9:47 AM Page 8Next >