TEMPLE UNIVERSITY JAMES E. BEASLEY SCHOOL OF LAW • LAW SCHOOL AND ALUMNI NEWS • SUMMER 2011Counsel for the Situation‘The times they were a’changing,’ says Green lecturer William T. Coleman Jr. APRIL 4, 2011Asan American ofcolor in the 1940s,Philadelphia nativeWilliam T. ColemanJr. faced dauntingbarriers. His aca-demic record as anundergraduate atthe University ofPennsylvaniaearned him a placeat Harvard LawSchool. But despitegraduating first inhis class fromHarvard andclerking for Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter, Coleman was shut out ofmajor East Coast law firms. If he managed to gain an interview based on hisimpressive resume, as soon as Coleman showed his face the interviewer wouldsuddenly be called away on an emergency. But, as the Philadelphia native writes,“The times, they were a’changing.” This year’s Honorable Clifford Scott Green Lecture featured a lively discussionof William T. Coleman Jr.’s memoir, Counsel for the Situation: Shaping the Law toRealize America’s Promise.Joining Coleman to explore the issues in the book wasThe Honorable Ann Claire Williams. Coleman’s rich memoir places him as both an eyewitness and a participant inmany of the pivotal historical moments of the past century. While Coleman’s bookfocuses to a large extent on the civil rights-related dimensions of his practice, hewas, as his memoir’s title implies, a “counsel for the situation.” This term wasadapted from “counsel to the situation,” first penned by Justice Louis Brandeis to describe the model lawyer—a generalist capable of handling a range of mattersfor a variety of clients, whether through litigation or less adversarial means. In the course of his career, Coleman was a counsel—and a distinguishedstatesman—for many situations. In addition to litigating civil rights cases, heworked as a corporate lawyer for major law firms, served as a government lawyer,and advised six presidents. Coleman spent a lifetime opening doors and breakingdown barriers. An early story establishes his passion for justice—and his talent in the court-room. Coleman was drafted into the Army air force. Although he wanted to be afighter pilot, he was told his reaction time wasn’t fast enough. Finding himself in a staff job, he began to volunteer to defend air forces personnel, winning all but one of his cases. When he was later assigned to the same base as the TuskegeeAirmen, he found that this heroic squadron was not allowed to use the regularofficers’ club. They were instead assigned to a facility they called “Uncle Tom’sCabin.” When the airmen protested and were court-martialed, Coleman took theircase. In the course of litigation, Coleman discovered and produced a directivefrom President Wilson stating that all officers’ clubs were open to all officers. Thedefendants were acquitted. The surrounding publicity contributed to the pressurethat eventually resulted in President Truman’s announcement that the armedforces would be fully, meaningfully, integrated. STEPHEN A. SHELLER‘SAINTS AND EVIL-DOERS’ TOPIC OFLITIGATION LECTUREMARCH 17, 2011“Saints and Evil-Doers” is the title Stephen A. Sheller chose for hisremarks at the annual Edward J. Ross MemorialLecture in Litigation. Sheller says he hasencountered them both on a regular basis in his wide ranging career as a litigator. Sheller is the founding partner of Sheller, PC,a plaintiff-side personal injury, class action and whistleblower/qui tamlaw firm based inPhiladelphia. Sheller has been at the forefront of many national lawsuits, representingpharmaceutical whistleblowers and recoveringmore than $4.2 billion for the U.S. governmentfrom AstraZeneca in April 2010, from Pfizer Inc.in September 2009, and from Eli Lilly &Company in January 2009.Sheller also represents clients who havebeen injured by defective drugs. His represen-tation of children harmed by antipsychoticdrugs was profiled on the CBS Evening Newswith Katie Couric. He also remains active innumerous class action and individual casesagainst the nation’s largest tobacco companies,including Philip Morris, R.J. Reynolds andBrown & Williamson, based on their marketingand sale of so-called “light” cigarettes. In 2003,Sheller was a finalist for Public Justice’s “TrialLawyer of the Year” award for helping todiscover the light cigarette fraud and initiatingthe litigation strategy to remedy the deception.In November 2000, Sheller initiated litigationin Palm Beach County, Florida involving the2000 U.S. Presidential election. In his role as a lead attorney challenging the poll resultsand the “butterfly ballots,” Sheller argued that the Palm Beach County ballots wereunconstitutional, and successfully obtained aTRO preventing Katherine Harris from certifyingthe election results. He alleged that if a properanalysis had been conducted, it would havebeen proven that Al Gore won the election byseveral thousand votes.The lecture is named for Edward J. Ross, adistinguished member of the class of 1969 whodied in 2008. Ross was a founding partner ofRoss & Rubino, a New Jersey-based law firmdedicated exclusively to the representation ofplaintiffs with claims of sexual abuse ininstitutional settings.ANN CLAIRE WILLIAMS, WILLIAM T. COLEMAN JR. AND LOVIDA H. COLEMANTHE HONORABLE CLIFFORDSCOTT GREEN LECTURESHIP The lectureship was founded in2003 in recognition of JudgeClifford Scott Green, the illustriousmember of the Class of 1951. Inthe last decade, the lecture hasfeatured the following legalluminaries: Phoebe A. Haddon,Robert J. Reinstein, Evelyn B.Higginbotham, Hon. Theodore A.McKee, Hon. Louis H. Pollak, Hon.Damon J. Keith, Hon. Nathaniel R.Jones, and Hon. Drew S. Days III. ROBERT J. REINSTEIN,HON. CLIFFORD SCOTT GREENPROFESSOR OF LAWIn 2009, the Hon. Clifford ScottGreen Chair of Law was estab-lished to further honor JudgeGreen. Former dean and currentprofessor of constitutional lawRobert J. Reinstein is the currentholder of the chair. Reinsteinintroduced this year’s speakers. ROBERT J. REINSTEINcontinued on page two30858 Temple:ESQ_Sept06/f 6/3/11 9:19 AM Page 12 • TEMPLE ESQ. SUMMER 2011APRIL 15, 2011The Peggy Browning Fundannounced that two Temple Law students,ANDREW KELSER ’12 andJOHN J. MULHOLLANDJR. ’12are among the select group to receivesummer fellowships to work in positions “fightingfor social and economic justice.” Nearly 60 otherfellows were selected from this year’s group of460 applicants from 125 participating lawschools.Every summer for the past 13 years, lawstudents funded by the Peggy Browning Fundhave competed for ten-week fellowships thatplace them in workers’ centers, unions, theNational Labor Relations Board and union-sidelaw firms. Since it was founded in 1997, theFund has provided summer fellowships for a totalof 369 law students. Many of these students havesubsequently fashioned their careers around acommitment to workers’ rights. The two TempleLaw students who have been selected this year tojoin the group of fellows have qualifications thatclearly demonstrate their commitment to theBrowning mission.The Peggy Browning Fund was established in 1998 by Temple Law alumnus Joseph Lurie ’56 in memory of his wife, a union-side labor lawyer who practiced inPhiladelphia. Lurie retired as a partner from Galfand Bergerin 2009 and now volunteers as the president of the fund. JOHN J. MULHOLLAND JR. ’12entered law school alreadyplanning a career in union-side labor law. “As the son of aTeamster shop steward, the first ‘contract’ I ever heardabout was a collective bargaining agreement,” remembersMulholland. “If not for those contracts guaranteeing myfather a wage suitable to support a family, my life would beradically different.“Growing up, my father instilled in me the value of hardand honest work, but quickly pointed out that the honestyof work goes both ways.”Mulholland has worked hard. As an undergraduate atTemple, he got a job as a cashier at Rite Aid, making him a member of United Food and Commercial Workers, Local 1776. Continuing at Rite Aid while in law school,Mulholland attends evening classes and has risen to theposition of assistant store manager. In addition to workingfull-time, he volunteers for Jobs With Justice and theNational Lawyers Guild Expungement Clinic, and hasworked at the Mazzoni Center Legal Clinic. Last fall, labor professor Marina Angel encouragedMulholland to attend the National Law StudentsWorkers’ Rights Conference organized each year by theBrowning Fund. It was there that he was inspired to applyfor a fellowship to deepen his growing knowledge of laborlaw. His application was successful, and this summerMulholland is a Peggy Browning Fellow with the UnitedMine Workers in Triangle, VA.When asked to explain his commitment to workers’ rights,Peggy Browning Fellow ANDREW KELSER ’12cites a book he read about his Sicilian heritage —Sicily: ThreeThousand Years of Human History.“This passage aboutSicilian sulfur miners in the 1950’s sticks in my mind: ‘a tunnel roof caved in, crushing [seventeen-year-oldMichele Felice]. An occupational hazard, rued the menwho went to help him but had to remove his remains. In their next pay packet those men found they had been docked for the hour during which they occupiedthemselves with Michele, and the boy’s survivors foundthat his pay had been calculated to the time of his death,because after all he had not worked the entire day.’ ” Before attending law school, Kelser was an organizer for the National Lawyers Guild and worked in the legaldepartment of the ACLU. Once in law school, classes inlabor and employment law with Professors Marina Angeland Brishen Rogers whetted his interest, and during the spring 2011 semester, he gained experience as a law clerk at the union-side labor firm O’Donoghue &O’Donoghue. Kelser will spend his Browning Fellowsummer working in the labor and employment unit ofPhiladelphia Community Legal Services.Summer Fellowships Awarded for ‘social and economic justice’ positionsPrevious fellows include 22 from Temple LawCOUNSEL FOR SITUATION continued from page oneHis career continued to be groundbreaking in many ways. After being the first person of color to serve as a clerk for theSupreme Court, he was also the first to join a major American law firm (Paul Weiss in New York City). In a career spanningnearly 70 years, Coleman worked with Thurgood Marshall and the NAACP Legal Defense Fund on Brown vs. Board ofEducation,served as senior counsel to the Warren Commission’s investigation of the Kennedy assassination and asSecretary of the U.S. Department of Transportation during the Ford administration. For his extraordinary career andaccomplishments, Coleman has received many, many honors, including the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1995.Judge Ann Claire Williams, who joined Coleman in the Green Lecture, has also had a rich and pioneering career in thelaw. In 1999, she became the first judge of color appointed to the Seventh Circuit and the third American woman of colorto serve on any U.S. Court of Appeals. Prior to that appointment, she sat on the U.S. District Court for the Northern Districtof Illinois. Before becoming a judge, Williams built her career in the Chicago U.S. Attorney’s Office, where she headed theorganized drug enforcement task force. Coleman’s memoir was an apt choice for inspiring members of the law school community, especially students. In thebook’s foreword, Justice Stephen G. Breyer writes, “Bill Coleman’s story is one that younger generations should mark andinwardly digest, lest they forget the pioneers who helped to make a better America possible.”JOSEPH LURIE ’56, DIRECTOR OF THE PEGGYBROWNING FUND, WITH FELLOWS JOHN J.MULHOLLAND JR. ’12 (LEFT) AND ANDREW KELSER ’12. “ALUMS” INCLUDE MANY FROMTEMPLE LAWOver the 13 years the Peggy Browning Fundhas placed students in summer positions, 22 Temple Law students have benefited fromthis unique program. In the past twosummers, they have worked with organi-zations ranging from Community LegalServices (JUSTINE ELLIOTT ’11)to thePhiladelphia Solicitor’s Office of the U.S.Department of Labor (SYUNGHAE GRACE LIM-AYRES ’11).Temple Law alumni who have receivedBrowning Fellowships say the experience hasshaped them. MATTHEW EPSTEIN ’08,a Philadelphian,logged some meaningful experience in labor law in a pre-law school job as a reporter for the Johnstown, PATribune Democrat. There, Epstein negotiated contracts and litigated grievances. These tasks endowed him with a passion for workers’ rights, so much so that he appliedfor and was awarded a Peggy Browning Fellowship in thesolicitor’s office of the U.S. Department of Labor. After law school, Epstein clerked for a Labor Departmentadministrative law judge. Most recently, the Labor Depart-ment needed new blood in the Mine Safety Office, andrecruited Epstein and ten other lawyers, eight of whom areTemple Law alumni.DAVE JAKLEVIC ’10joined Epstein by landing one ofthese jobs. He welcomes the challenge: “It gives me a lotof independence and responsibility right off the bat. We got thrown 50 or so cases and they’re ours to handle fromstart to finish. This is good work in that it is meaningful and contributes to the overall safety of miners. It builds on the mission of The Peggy Browning Fund—we’reprotecting workers and making sure the workers are getting everything they deserve.”“So when I did The Peggy Browning Fund it reaffirmed what I wanted to do because I got to see behind the scenes of a large labor union, the Sheet MetalWorkers. My fellowship there showed me the issuesemployees were faced with on a daily basis: I went tocollective bargaining negotiations and processedgrievances. It showed me what an attorney would do for a labor union and further reaffirmed my commitment toemployees’ rights.”The summer of 2009, TIM BECKEL ’11worked as aPeggy Browning Fellow with Local 19 of the Sheet MetalWorkers Union. “One of the main things I did was shadowunion organizers and business agents and get a feel fortheir day-to-day activities. I observed contract verificationvotes and the most interesting part of my experience wasattending collective bargaining negotiations. These were the most contentious the union had ever seen. One daythey started at 9 a.m., didn’t leave until 1 a.m. andreturned at noon. So I got a feel for what ‘crunch time’means in negotiations. I did a lot of research on what the union is required to disclose and did research on union strategy.”30858 Temple:ESQ_Sept06/f 6/3/11 9:19 AM Page 23 • TEMPLE ESQ. SUMMER 2011REGULATION OF MIDWIFERYDISADVANTAGES WOMEN OFCOLOR, SAYS STUDENTSarah Coburn ’11 wins national writing award for ‘Obstructed Birth’MAY 6, 2011In “Obstructed Birth: Racism In MidwiferyRegulation, The Emergence of the Certified ProfessionalMidwife and The Need For Movement Building,” SarahCoburn ’11 argues that the regulation of midwifery in theU.S. disproportionately disadvantages communities ofcolor. Coburn was awarded a 2011 Sarah WeddingtonWriting Prize for New Student Scholarship in ReproductiveRights for the paper. She was supervised by ProfessorNancy J. Knauer. The article, which placed third in the national contest,charts the history of midwifery and establishes that theregulation and professionalization of midwifery left poorcommunities of color underserved and without access toculturally competent maternity care. Coburn concludes thatexisting reproductive rights jurisprudence is not equippedto remedy the problem and details a proposal for a nationallicensure program. The Sarah Weddington Writing Contest is sponsored by Law Students for Reproductive Justice (LSRJ) and the Center for Reproductive Rights. Temple Law has athree-year-old chapter of LSRJ, co-founded by Coburn andAbby Biberman ’10, that sponsors events including filmscreenings, clinic escort trainings and panels to raiseawareness around reproductive justice issues. FELLOWSHIP ENABLES JESSICA JONES ’11 TO CONTINUE WORK WITH REFUGEESJessica Jones ’11 has been awarded a highly-competitiveEqual Justice Works Fellowship to work at the Women’sRefugee Commission/Detention and Asylum Program inWashington, DC. During her yearlong fellowship, Jones willwork to increase protection of migrant youth in the U.S.with a focus on compliance with domestic and internationallaw, detention conditions and adequate screening fortrafficking or other abuse. Jones, who was a Peace Corps volunteer in Morocco,has interned at the Nationalities Services Center, JuvenileLaw Center and Community Legal Services in Philadelphia,as well as the Detention and Asylum Project of theWomen’s Refugee Commission. Jones’ book chapter,“ABA’s Collateral Consequences of Juvenile Adjudications,”will be published this year. She has also co-written theWomen’s Refugee Commission report on the adverseimpact of immigration enforcement policy on parental rights and family unity. INDEPENDENCE FELLOWSHIPGOES TO TEMPLE LAWSTUDENT FOR TWELFTHCONSECUTIVE YEAR Justine Elliot ’11 awarded fellowship to work on healthcare issues Third-year law student Justine Elliott has been awarded an Independence Fellowship. With the support of thatfellowship, Elliot will work on health care reform issues at Philadelphia Community Legal Services. “This makestwelve years in a row that an outstanding Temple studentor graduate has been named an Independence Fellow,”says Professor Susan DeJarnatt, who has advised many of the Independence Fellows. SARAH COBURN ’11JESSICA JONES ’11JUSTINE ELLIOT ’11Elliot is a stand-out student in manyways. She entered the law school as aRubin-Presser Scholar and was selectedto receive a Peggy Browning FundFellowship to practice in the area of laborand employment law in summer 2010.Also in 2010, Elliot won the Ruth BaderGinsburg award for an article, “WorkingAbove the Law: Why a Legislative Solutionto the Hoffman Plastic Com-poundsDecision is Long Overdue.” DeJarnattsupervised Elliot on the award-winning article, which wassubsequently published in the Fall 2010 issue ofPhiladelphia Lawyer. At Legal Services, Elliot plans to work in the PublicBenefits Unit where she will represent individuals andfamilies facing eligibility issues with Medicaid. “I plan toaddress systemic issues that lead to inefficiency and unfairloss or denial of coverage of Medicaid, with the ultimategoal of creating a more streamlined, equitable system thatis better prepared for a major expansion in 2014,” saysElliot. “Specifically, I will work to change outdated andineffective DPW policies, support the passage of newlegislation and, if necessary, bring litigation to ensure theproper effectuation of the law.” FROM LEFT: DEAN JOANNE EPPS, TONY FOLTZ ’11, FRANCESRYAN ’80, RICHARD FOLTZ ’80FAMILY TRADITIONCONTINUES—DESPITE TRAGIC SETBACKMAY 19, 2011Joseph Anthony (Tony) Foltz ’11 wasfollowing a family tradition when he entered Temple Law.His parents, Richard W. Foltz Jr., a partner at PepperHamilton, and mother Frances V. Ryan, a solepractitioner, graduated together in 1980. Their son wasall set to earn his law degree in 2010 when his planswere derailed. Only a month before graduation, TonyFoltz was the victim of a hit-and-run accident that lefthim in critical condition. With a severe head injury and multiple broken bones,Foltz was at first not expected to survive. After majorsurgeries and months in rehabilitation, Foltz returned tolaw school last fall and completed his degree this May.After one more surgery to improve to improve his abilityto move his right arm, Foltz is on to the next challenge:taking the bar exam.In recognition of his accomplishment, Foltz receivedthe law school’s Crossen Award for students who“overcome adversity and show perseverance” in earninga law degree. Sharing the Crossen Award with Foltz wasBrian Grubb ’11, who as a Temple undergraduate fellfrom a loft bed in his off-campus apartment, an accidentthat left him a quadriplegic.30858 Temple:ESQ_Sept06/f 6/3/11 9:19 AM Page 34 • TEMPLE ESQ. SUMMER 2011LESBIAN ELDERS MORE LIKELY TO BE POOR, SAYS KNAUERPROFESSOR NANCY J. KNAUER,author of Gay and Lesbian Elders:History, Law and Identity Politics in the United States(AshgatePublishing, 2010), participated in a National Seniors Panel at the 19th annual Equality Forum. “Women earn less in general (76 cents to a man’s dollar), and older lesbians are 12 times more likely [thanmen] to live below the poverty line,” Knauer says.—Philadelphia Inquirer, April 25, 2011DURU ASKED TO COMMENT ON ROONEY RULE“The [Rooney] rule, in place since 2003 for head coaches andexpanded in 2009 to include general manager jobs and equivalentfront-office positions, mandates that NFL teams interview at least one minority candidate for job openings. . . Critics of the rule unfairlylabel it as the NFL’s affirmative action program. But there is no hiringrequirement. . . there is no quota,” PROFESSOR N. JEREMI DURUsaid.“There’s no restriction on the number of people who can beinterviewed. The only benefit that the interviewee who is of color gets is an opportunity to show that that person can do the job. . . It is a process-oriented rule,” Duru said. “But of course, we can’t get into the states of mind of the various decision-makers.”—Washington Post, February 20, 2011“Gordon Taylor, the head of England’sProfessional Footballers’ Associationdecried the lack of diversity amongmanagers of professional soccer clubsin England,” says Duru. “Starting with the Premier League and goingdown through England’s lower soccer divisions, black managers areastoundingly scarce. Only one of the92 clubs has a black manager, and in the history of English soccer therehave only been a handful of blackmanagers. Taylor says this is a huge problem, and he believes theRooney Rule may be the answer: ‘We have got to learn from othersports and other countries, and we saw how many top quality blackgridiron players there were and how few black coaches...but they camein with that rule and it’s made a difference, and now it’s becomeassimilated into the culture of the NFL.’ ”—Yahoo Sports, April 3, 2011DURU ON THE NFL LOCKOUTPROFESSOR N. JEREMI DURUsees a learning opportunity in the loomingNFL lockout. “Under league rules, the minimally paid NFL rookiemakes $325,000 per year, a tidy sum by any reasonable standard.Everybody else makes more, and most make exponentially more. Still,according to a 2009 Sports Illustratedstudy, an astonishing 78 percentof former NFL players are bankrupt or otherwise financially distressedwithin two years of retirement. . . I don’t wish unemployment onanyone, but if there is a work stoppage, I do hope it hurts players justenough that they start to think about what will be required to savethemselves from substantially greater pain several years down the line.”—The Post Game, February 19, 2011LAPTOPS ENHANCE LEARNING, MURRAY CLAIMSPROFESSOR KRISTEN MURRAYconcluded that laptops actually canenhance the educational experience—and suggests educators thinktwice about banning them. “They might not benefit all learners, or beappropriate at all times, but to ban them completely from a lecture hallis to deny students a powerful learning tool—one that many studentsalready use to enhance their learning,” Murray wrote in Let Them UseLaptops: Debunking the Assumptions Underlying the Debate OverLaptops in the Classroom[forthcoming, Okla. City U. L. Rev.]. —National Law Journal, Legal Intelligencer, ABA Journal, March 2011FacultyON THERecordSINDEN WARNS OF PROBLEMS IN EPA’SCOOLING WATER RULESEnvironmentalists are concerned that the EPA’supcoming cooling water rule will provide existingpower plants and some manufacturing facilities with too much flexibility, allowing standards to bedeveloped on a case-by-case basis instead of moreconsistent national requirements that apply toplants subject to the rule. PROFESSOR AMY SINDEN,a scholar at the Center for Progressive Reform,warned in a recent blog on the group’s website that statements hint at a “relatively toothless case-by-case permitting regime rather than simplymandating the more environmentally protectiveclose-cycle cooling technology that some plantsalready use.”—Water Policy Report, Environmental Policy Alert, March 14, 2011DIPLOMATS FEAR BEING ‘POLITICAL FOOTBALLS’ SAYS SPIROA CIA agent who killed two men in Lahore is asserting diplomatic immunity.“This is a context in which the U.S. is very aggressively asserting international law, which is not the usual posture the U.S. finds itself in,” says PROFESSORPETER J. SPIRO.And, he adds, “it’s pretty clear the U.S. is on the right side ofthe international law. Pakistan sees the case as anything but clear. Popular anger centers on a perception that [the agent] used excessive force in wardingoff two thieves, shooting them in their backs in January. There’s good reason for the rule,” says Spiro. “One of the premises of diplomatic immunity is thatthere will be cases where diplomats won’t get a fair trial and they will becomepolitical footballs. And this case clearly fits this trend.”—Christian Science Monitor, March 1, 2011JUDGMENT AGAINST CHEVRON MAY BE HARD TO COLLECT,ACCORDING TO HOLLISArmed with a $9 billion ruling against Chevron in Ecuador but little chance ofcollecting it there, representatives for Ecuadorian villagers said Tuesday that they were looking at waging legal battles against the company in more than a dozen countries where it operates, hoping to force Chevron to pay. . .ASSOCIATE DEAN DUNCAN HOLLISsaid it was logical for the plaintiffs to take their battle to other countries in the region because “there is some commonalityin Latin American legal systems.” But, Mr. Hollis added, “there is no inter-national law about how one court is supposed to enforce the judgments fromanother nation’s court.”—New York Times, February 16, 2011EPPS DOUBTS WIDESPREAD CHEATING IN SCHOOL RANKING PROCESS“I think that those of us in legal education understand the implications of datathat is entirely self-reported,” said DEAN JOANNE A. EPPS.“Everyone wants theoutside evaluation to be as favorable as it can be.” But Epps said she doubtedthere was widespread cheating, and did not believe the ranking system had abuilt-in incentive to fudge the numbers. Still, she criticized rankings such as U.S. News for focusing on metrics that tell little about the real value of theeducational experience at a given law school.— Philadelphia Inquirer, February 9, 2011HEALTHCARE COULD BE DECIDED BY COURT, SAYS RAHDERTOne of the great myths of American civics is that the U.S. Supreme Court isabove the fray of partisan politics—but the fate of healthcare reform seems likely to be decided by a conservative court. “The court is quite conservative[and] when you get into unsettled territory, political leanings tend to be strongpredictors of individual justices,” said PROFESSOR MARK RAHDERT.“That’s beenestablished extensively by political science studies over generations of courtdecision making.”— Philadelphia Tribune, February 6, 2011 30858 Temple:ESQ_Sept06/f 6/3/11 9:19 AM Page 45 • TEMPLE ESQ. SUMMER 2011LAW PROFESSOR RECEIVES UNIVERSITY RESEARCH AWARDScott Burris is pioneer in public health lawEDWARD OHLBAUM ’76,TRIAL ADVOCACY PROFESSORAND COACH HONOREDLifetime Achievement Award Recognizes ‘Excellence in Advocacy’MAY 27, 2011Each year, during its annual EducatingAdvocates Conference, Stetson University College of Lawawards a lifetime achievement award for excellence inadvocacy to a deserving member of the legal community.This award recognizes excellence in all facets of advocacy,ranging from teaching to representing clients. The 2011Robert Oliphant Lifetime Achievement Award goes to aTemple Law School legend: Professor Edward D. Ohlbaum,Director of Trial Advocacy and Clinical Legal Education.Ohlbaum is the longtime supervising coach of thechampionship National Trial Team. “Professor Eddie Ohlbaum is the consummate rolemodel for law professors,” said Stetson Law ProfessorCharles Rose, in presenting the award. “As a competitor,friend and peer he is without compare and our professionis blessed to have him in it.”Known and beloved by a generation of trial attorneys inPhiladelphia and across the country, Ohlbaum has helpedcoach the law school’s championship mock trial team tofive national championships in the past seventeen yearsand multiple invitational and regional titles. He is thearchitect of Temple’s unique LL.M. in Trial Advocacy. Hisprograms have won awards from the American College ofTrial Lawyers and the Committee on Professionalism of theAmerican Bar Association. The author of three books,Ohlbaum is a frequent speaker on evidence and advocacyat key international and domestic conferences. Ohlbaum—who earned his J.D. at Temple Law—was aformer senior trial lawyer with the Defender Association of Philadelphia before he joined the Temple Law SchoolFaculty in 1985. He was the inaugural holder of Temple’sfirst chair in trial advocacy, the Jack E. FeinbergProfessorship of Litigation and in 1997 was awarded theprestigious Richard S. Jacobson Award, given annually by the Roscoe Pound Foundation to one professor for“demonstrated excellence in teaching trial advocacy.”Last year’s Lifetime Achievement Award recipient wasUniversity of New Mexico School of Law Professor BarbaraBergman, who is past president of the National Associationof Criminal Defense Lawyers. In 2009, the award went toTrial Advocacy authors Professor Thomas Mauet andJustice Warren Wolfson. The 2007 inaugural award waspresented to Terrence McCarthy, Executive Director of theFederal Defender Office for the northern district of Illinois. Nancy J. Knauer named one of 25 ‘Best Law Teachers’ in U.S.FEBRUARY 10, 2011Professor Nancy J. Knauer wasselected for inclusion in an upcoming book, What the BestLaw Teachers Do.25 law professors across the nation willbe featured in the study to be published in 2012 or 2013by Harvard University Press. Professors were chosen from more than 250 nominees teaching at approximately 100 law schools. The nominations came from deans, associate deans,faculty colleagues, students, and alumni. To be consideredas possible subjects of the study, nominees had to submit evidence that they produce extraordinary, long-term learning. Knauer, who teaches courses in political and civil rights,property, sexuality and the law and taxation, has publishedwidely on issues related to identity, sexuality, gender, andthe law. Her accomplishments in the classroom havealready garnered significant acclaim. Previous recognitionfor excellence in both teaching and scholarship includes aDukeminier Award and a Stu Walter Prize from the WilliamsInstitute in 2010 for her article: “LGBT Elder Law: TowardEquity in Aging,” in the Harvard Journal of Law & Gender;the Friel-Scanlan Award for Scholarship; the TempleUniversity Great Teacher Award; and the George P.Williams III Memorial Award for Teaching. In addition, thegraduating class at Temple Law has three times votedKnauer Outstanding Professor of the Year.APRIL 28, 2011Public health law pioneer Professor Scott Burris was presented with the Paul W. EbermanFaculty Research Award at Temple University’s annualawards ceremony.“This is the first time that a law faculty member hasreceived this coveted research award from the university,and Scott is an outstanding choice,” says Associate Deanfor Research and Professor of Law Gregory Mandel.“Though I could go on about Scott’s scholarly accomplish-ments at length, suffice it to say that he has essentiallycreated a new field of law and legal research studying therelationship of law and legal practices to public health.” Burris was one of fourteen Temple University professorswho were honored with 2011 faculty awards celebratingexcellence in teaching, research and the creative arts.Honorees are selected based on an evaluation ofnomination letters from faculty, students and alumni,student course evaluations, peer reviews, and related work.Burris — who joined the Temple Law faculty in 1991 —has been a prime scholar and activist in the legal responseto HIV/AIDS. His scholarship has helped define a widerange of legal issues in HIV control, from using criminallaws to control risky behavior to harm reduction measuresfor drug users and sex workers. His work on HIV has alsocontributed to model state laws and revived public healthlaw as a field of study at law schools. In 2008, Burris’ expertise in public health law led to the establishment of Public Health Law Research, a program directed by Burris that was created at TempleLaw by a $17 million grant from the Robert Wood JohnsonFoundation to fund research in the field.30858 Temple:ESQ_Sept06/f 6/3/11 9:19 AM Page 56 • TEMPLE ESQ. SUMMER 2011Nina Olson is ‘a pragmatist and an idealist’MARCH 17, 2011Nina Olson spoke to a packed house atTemple Law School about her position heading an officethat bills itself as “your voice at the IRS.” Olson is theNational Taxpayer Advocate, and she was invited to speakby tax professor Alice Abreu, who described Olson as “my hero. . . an inspiration and a role model.” “She is both a pragmatist and an idealist—sheunderstands the difficulty of administering a mammoth tax system like ours but also strives to push the system todo better,” says Abreu. “The Taxpayer Advocate Service,which Olson heads, has more than 2,000 employees andfield offices throughout the country. Her staff intervenes on behalf of taxpayers who are having difficulty resolvingdisputes with the IRS and she takes that information,together with studies that her office undertakes and hervast knowledge of IRS operations, to make systemicrecommendations for improvement.” Olson, a native Philadelphian, has served as theNational Taxpayer Advocate since 2001. Congressestablished the Taxpayer Advocate Service in 1996 to givetaxpayers a champion within the system. As a tax attorneyand the only IRS employee authorized to make legislativeproposals directly to Congress, Olson identifies the topproblems taxpayers face and analyzes how the IRS, andCongress, can ameliorate those problems. She delivers two reports to Congress every year and is frequently calledupon to testify to congressional committees. NINA OLSON, NATIONAL TAXPAYER ADVOCATESPRING 2011 AT TEMPLE LAWTOKYO LAW CLASSESCANCELLED FOR TWOWEEKS, RESUMEDOn March 11—in what is now acknowledged as one of the most destructive natural disasters in recent history—an 8.9-magnitude earthquake and subsequent tsunamistruck the northeast coast of the main Japanese island ofHonshu. The quake’s epicenter was approximately 100miles north of Temple University Japan (TUJ) in Tokyo. At the time, 11 law students from Temple and 28 fromother law schools were in the ninth week of a semester ofstudy in Japan. Assistant Dean for International and Graduate ProgramsLouis Thompson stayed in close and constant contact withfaculty, staff and administration in Japan. Thanks chiefly tothe efforts of Interim Director Professor Finbarr McCarthyand Deputy Director Min Lu, both of whom reside in Tokyo,Thompson was relieved to verify quickly the whereaboutsand safety of every student, as well as the faculty and staffand their families. In the atmosphere of uncertainty andshock that followed the tragedy, TUJ’s Dean Stronachdecided to cancel classes on March 14. As a level ofnormalcy slowly returned in Tokyo, the law programresumed classes on March 28. Narita Airport is running a regular schedule, most public transportation is up andrunning, and communication is largely back to normal in Japan’s capital city.“The news reports and images continue to be alarmingand we mourn for the thousands of families and individualssuffering,” says Thompson. “But there is nothing tosuggest Tokyo will be impacted directly in any significantway.” Every student and faculty member was given theoption of completing their courses outside of Japan usingremote technology. Most of the professors and more thana third of the students elected to finish up in Tokyo, andevery student in the program was expected to complete alltheir coursework and exams as originally scheduled.Temple has operated the only ABA-approved semester-long law program in Japan since 1995. Thompson says the crisis in Japan represents a huge challenge, and anopportunity: “Our continued presence in Japan indicatesour commitment not only to international legal education,but to the Japanese people as we join with them to rebuildtheir country.”Olson’s remarks centered on how she came to be theNational Taxpayer Advocate and the importance of doingsomething you love. Prior to becoming a lawyer, Olson ranan accounting and bookkeeping business while pursuingfine arts projects and raising a son. She earned her J.D.from North Carolina Central University as an eveningstudent, and commuted to get her LL.M. in Taxation atGeorgetown University Law Center after that. After moving to Richmond, Virginia, Olson started a low-income taxpayer clinic, the first in the country notassociated with a law school. She testified before Congressin 1998 during the IRS hearings about the problems low-income taxpayers face. As a result of her testimony,Congress created a grant program for low-income taxpayerclinics to fund representation of low-income taxpayers andtaxpayers who speak English as a second language. Todaythere are more than 160 such clinics around the country;at the time of her testimony there were only 14. Olson offered strong career advice to the assembledJ.D. and LL.M. in Taxation candidates who came to hearher speak. She warned students that “we often limitourselves, and society is usually the worse for that.”Instead, she advised students not to be “constrained bythe pathways that have been set before you and defined byothers … you have only one skin to live in, and it’s yours.You have to feel like you’re doing what you want to do, sothat you can look at yourself and say ‘I’m a good person.’For me to live in my skin, I had to do this.”Note: To see a video of Olson’s remarks, go to Sights andSounds on www.law.temple.edu.‘YOUR VOICE AT THE IRS’ SPEAKS AT LAW SCHOOLLOUIS THOMPSON,ASSISTANT DEAN FORINTERNATIONAL ANDGRADUATE PROGRAMS30858 Temple:ESQ_Sept06/f 6/3/11 9:19 AM Page 67 • TEMPLE ESQ. SUMMER 2011SPRING 2011 AT TEMPLE LAWDAVID POSTDELIVERS FRIELSCANLAN LECTUREHARVARD’S SARAH SEWALLLECTURES AT LAW SCHOOLFEBRUARY 4, 2011Sarah Sewall, a professor at Harvard’sKennedy School of Government, addressed more than 100members of the law school community on how the laws ofwar are increasingly detached from conflict on the ground.The talk, sponsored by Temple’s Institute for InternationalLaw and Public Policy, explored recent developments ininternational humanitarian law. Sewall argued that whilerecent conventions have focused on such issues as landmines and cluster munitions, Sewall stressed that muchmore basic protections—such as rules protecting civiliansfrom indiscriminate killing—are being flouted in conflictsaround the world. “Sarah Sewall is a leading authority on internationalhumanitarian law,” says Peter J. Spiro, who holds theCharles R. Weiner Professorship in International Law andco-directs the Institute. “She is a leading thinker on thenew challenges facing defense policymakers,” says Spiro.“Her experience at the highest levels of government givesher a fresh take on the conventional academic wisdom.”Sewall was the first ever Deputy Assistant Secretary ofDefense for Peacekeeping and Humanitarian Assistance,appointed during the Clinton administration, and wasSenate Majority Leader George Mitchell’s long-time topforeign policy aide. She is credited with innovating theconcept of mass atrocity reconnaissance operations. She led President Obama’s Transitional National SecurityAgency Review process in 2008, responsible forrecommending major personnel appointments and setting the Administration’s lead defense policies.A Rhodes Scholar at Oxford, Sewall now teachesinternational affairs at the Harvard Kennedy School ofGovernment, directs Harvard’s Program on NationalSecurity and Human Rights, and is the founder and facultydirector of the Mass Atrocity Response Operations Project.She is also currently leading a study on civilian casualties,commissioned by General David Petraeus, the commanderof U.S. forces in Afghanistan.FOUNDING FATHER CAN TEACH US ABOUT THE INTERNETAPRIL 5, 2011“Thomas Jefferson, His Moose, and the ‘Nature’ of Cyberspace” was the topic of the spring Friel ScanlanLecture, delivered by Professor David Post. Post claims that the early American philosopher has a great deal to teach us about cyberspace and the laws that are developing to govern it. Post teaches intellectual property law and the law ofcyberspace at Temple, and is also a fellow at the Center for Democracy and Technology and the Institute for InformationLaw and Policy at New York Law School. He is an adjunct scholar at the Cato Institute. DEAN ATTENDS SHANGHAI REUNIONAPRIL 27, 2011Dean JoAnne Epps was the guest of honor at a reunion hosted by the Shanghai chapter of the Temple LawAlumni Association of China. Chapter members are graduates of Temple Law’s LL.M. degree program launched in 1997 to educate Chinese judges, prosecutors, government officials, law professors, and lawyers in U.S. and international legalprinciples. This 15-month program operates in collaboration with Tsinghua University School of Law in Beijing and is the first foreign law degree granting program approved by the Chinese Ministry of Education.Attending the dinner at the Shanghai International Convention Center were (front row, from left): Shen Dongmei, LL.M. ’07, Li Lan, LL.M. ’05, Tang Xuan, LL.M. ’04, Yang Tongdan, visiting scholar 2010, Associate Dean Robert Bartow,Dean JoAnne Epps, Assistant Dean Louis Thompson, China Program Co-Director and Associate Professor Melindah Bush,Director of Asian Programs John Smagula, Wang Fei, LL.M. ’03; (back row, from left): Chai Chengxian, LL.M. ’03, Jing Tao,LL.M. ’07, Song Qing, LL.M. ’06, Tang Shengjia, LL.M. ’11, Lu Ye, LL.M. ’03, Li Yongjia, LL.M. ’10, Leng Yijia, LL.M. ’01,Jiang Shan, LL.M. ’03, Shi Ce, LL.M. ’09, Lan Rongjie, LL.M. ’07, S.J.D. ’10, Jia Jingyuan, LL.M. ’09, Zhang Xiaoyin, LL.M. ’10, Xu Qi, LL.M. ’09, Wang Zhengzhi, LL.M. ’03. Not pictured: China Program Co-Director and Professor Mo Zhang.HARVARD PROFESSOR SARAH SEWALL ISGUEST OF INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTEDEAN EPPS AND PHILADELPHIA DELEGATION ARE HOSTED BY THE SHANGHAICHAPTER OF THE TEMPLE LAW ALUMNI ASSOCIATION30858 Temple:ESQ_Sept06/f 6/3/11 9:19 AM Page 78 • TEMPLE ESQ. SUMMER 2011A CONVERSATION ON WOMEN, LAW, AND LEADERSHIPTwo top women lawyers recommend embracing ‘the power of sisterhood’ALPHONSO DAVID ’00JUDGES HIGH SCHOOLMOCK TRIALSMARCH 12, 2011Alphonso B. David ’00 judged this year’s Philadelphia regional high school mocktrial competition. David, formerly a staff attorney at Lambda Legal, is the special advisor to theCommissioner for New York State Division of Human Rights. The high school mock trial competition is anannual event organized by Temple’s Legal Educationand Participation (LEAP). The winning team at this year’s regional competition was St. Joseph’sPreparatory High School, coached by Assistant U.S.Attorney Tom Johnson. The team advanced to thestate competition in Harrisburg, where it lost in asplit decision to Wyoming Seminary Preparatory.ALPHONSO DAVID ’00 PRESIDES AT TEMPLE LEAP’S 2011 HIGH SCHOOL MOCK TRIAL COMPETITIONSPRING 2011 AT TEMPLE LAWINTELLECTUAL PROPERTYATT’Y ADDRESSES LAW COMMUNITYMARCH 29, 2011Jonathan S. Caplan ’93 discussed his legal career as an intellectual property law litigator at a dean’s invitational forum. The forum was part of aseries designed to expose members of the law schoolcommunity—particularly students considering different practice areas—to an in-depth exploration of practice “on the ground.” Caplan, a partner at the New York City firm of KramerLevin Naftalis & Frankel, is also co-chair of the firm’s China practice. He is currently president of the New JerseyIntellectual Property Law Association, whose membershipincludes many of the world’s largest pharmaceuticalcompanies head-quartered in that state. At the forum,Caplan discussed recent litigation experience that includesmultiple cases defending Sirius XM in patent infringementactions in Texas and California. MARCH 28, 2011The Women’s Law Caucus, in partner-ship with Dean JoAnne Epps, filled Shusterman Hall for an afternoon of conversation with Roberta Liebenberg, asenior partner at Fine, Kaplan, and Black and chair of theABA Commission on Women in the Profession, and TinaTchen, Chief of Staff for Michelle Obama and ExecutiveDirector of the White House Council on Women andChildren. (Prior to her White House position, Tchen spent23 years at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher, & Flom, 16 of them as a partner.) Dean Epps moderated the discussion, in whichLiebenberg and Tchen spoke candidly about the subtleways in which women can be excluded from positions of influence in law firms. They suggested ways in whichwomen can gain access to such positions by asking to beplaced on key committees or projects. Both described thesubstantial challenges of raising children at the same timethat each was growing her practice. They also emphasizedthe importance of making connections and buildingrelationships – both for personal support and forprofessional development.But perhaps the most significant takeaway from theafternoon was the need for women lawyers to embracewords and concepts like “power” and “ambition” to thesame extent that men have traditionally done. BothLiebenberg and Tchen acknowledged that some womenundermine their own success by failing to assertthemselves or ask for what they want. They encouraged the women present to be as strong in advocating for theirown success as they are in advocating for their clients.And, they each hastened to add, women should neverunderestimate one of the greatest resources available tothem – “the power,” they said, “of sisterhood.”— Rebecca SchatschneiderWOMEN’S LAW CAUCUS SPEAKERS ROBERTA LIEBENBERGAND TINA TCHEN WITH DEAN JOANNE EPPS JONATHAN CAPLAN ’93 DESCRIBES ACAREER IN INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY LAW 30858 Temple:ESQ_Sept06/f 6/3/11 9:19 AM Page 89 • TEMPLE ESQ. SUMMER 20111960sFormer State Senator ROBERT ROVNER ’68,senior partner and founder of Rovner,Allen, Rovner, Zimmerman & Nash, hasbeen appointed chair of the PennsylvaniaLawyers Fund for Client Security. The fundreimburses victims of attorney dishonestyand promotes public confidence in thelegal system in Pennsylvania.1970sSTEPHEN H. FRISHBERG ’71, a partner at the law firm ofDeeb, Petrakis, Blum & Murphy, has been electedpresident of the Golden Slipper Club and Charities ofPhiladelphia. Frishberg is also president of the GoldenSlipper Senior Center. Golden Slipper Club & Charities is amulti-service agency comprised of three entities: a campfor deserving children in the Poconos; a short- and long-term rehabilitation and nursing care facility in NortheastPhiladelphia; and a senior center in the Balwynne Parksection of Philadelphia. In October 2010, Frishberg waselected vice chairman of the Wellness Community ofPhiladelphia’s board of directors, of which he has been amember since 1999. CHARLES C. COYNE ’73,an attorney at thePhiladelphia firm Obermayer RebmannMaxwell & Hippel, served as a judge atthe second annual Transactional LawMeet held at the Earle Mack School ofLaw at Drexel University.A Jacoby Donner shareholder, B. CHRISTOPHER LEE ’76has been electedpresident of the Charter High School forArchitecture and Design (CHAD)Designing Futures Foundation. CHAD wasfounded in 2000 by the local chapter ofthe American Institute of Architects withsupport from the General Building Contractors Association.Lee is a 30-year veteran of construction law andcommercial dispute resolution who now devotes a portionof his practice to serving as a mediator of complexconstruction disputes.JUDGE COVETTE ROONEY ’77has been named chiefadministrative law judge for the U.S. Occupational Safetyand Health Review Commission, where she has been an administrative law judge since 1996. She first becamean administrative law judge at the Social SecurityAdministration in 1994. Before assuming that position,Rooney was regional counsel for the Mine Safety andHealth Administration and Black Lung Benefits Program at the U.S. Department of Labor.JOSEPH D. MANCANO ’79presented at the University ofNorth Carolina Treasury Management Series in March. Hispresentation explored litigation issues raised by bank loanagreements in today’s challenging economy. Mancano is apartner in the law firm of Pietragallo Gordon Alfano Bosick& Raspanti, vice-chair of the firm’s white collar criminaldefense group and a member of the firm’s commerciallitigation group. 1980sPHYLLIS HORN EPSTEIN, J.D. ’80, LL.M. ’84, a partner in thePhiladelphia firm of Epstein, Shapiro & Epstein, is serving aone-year term as treasurer of the Pennsylvania BarAssociation. Epstein is a past member of the PBA House ofDelegates, a past co-chair of the PBA Commission onWomen and has been a member of the PBA nominatingcommittee and the quality of life balance committee. She isalso the supervising editor of the PBA Commission onWomen’s official publication, Voices and Views.MARC S. RASPANTI ’84spoke on panelsthis spring at three conferences: OffshoreAlert Conference; False Claims Act panelsponsored by the ABA white collar crimecommittee’s Philadelphia Young LawyersDivision and Ballard Spahr; and a CLEconference sponsored by the ABA sectionof litigation and criminal justice. Raspanti is a partner atPietragallo Gordon Alfano Bosick and Raspanti and chair ofthe firm’s white collar criminal defense group. JERRY M. LEHOCKY ’85 is one of the founding partners of anew Philadelphia law firm, Pond Lehocky Stern Giordano.The firm will focus on workers’ compensation and socialsecurity disability law. As former chairman of thePennsylvania Trial Lawyers Workers’ Compensation Section,Lehocky co-authored Act 147 in 2006, the first piece ofpro-injured worker legislation passed in Pennsylvania inmore than 30 years. MICHAEL P. PIERCE ’85was recentlyinstalled as president of the DelawareCounty Bar Association. Pierce is currentlya principal in the Media, PA law firm ofPierce & Hughes.ROSEANN B. TERMINI ’85planned“Speaking Out!”, a conference focusingon FDA matters: enforcement,accountability and ethics. The conferencewas held in partnership with the Food andDrug Law Institute and the WidenerSchool of Law Food and Drug LawAssociation. Termini, an adjunct professorat Widener, spoke about ethical issues in a food and druglaw practice. Termini speaks and publishes widely on foodand drug law, and is the author of Life Sciences Law:Federal Regulation of Drugs, Biologics, Medical Devices,Foods and Dietary Supplements(4th.ed, 2010) and CDFood, Drug and Cosmetic Act and Related Laws(2010).JEFFREY M. LINDY ’86has been appointed by PhiladelphiaBar Association Chancellor Rudy Garcia to serve as amember of the judicial selection and retention commission.Lindy, who has law offices in Philadelphia and MontgomeryCounty, is a former federal prosecutor with the PhiladelphiaU.S. Attorney’s Office and a former Assistant DistrictAttorney with the Brooklyn District Attorney’s Office.CHARLES J. MEYER ’86has been electedto a three-year term on the board ofdirectors of the Montgomery County BarAssociation. Meyer, who is the chair of thefamily law practice group at ElliottGreenleaf & Siedzikowski in Blue Bell, PA,also serves on the board of managers ofthe Pennsylvania chapter of the American Academy ofMatrimonial Lawyers. RidgeWorth Investments recently announced that it hashired JOSEPH M. O’DONNELL ’86as chief compliance officerfor the RidgeWorth Funds. O’Donnell has more than 20years of investment compliance experience, most recentlywith ING Funds where he was executive vice president andchief compliance officer for ING’s U.S.-based mutual fundplatform. In January, PHYLLIS E. BROSS ’88retiredfrom a practice in redevelopment andenvironmental law at Parker McCay inMarlton, NJ. She was co-chair of thefirm’s real estate department andpublished and lectured regularly onbrownfield redevelopment issues. Brossnow lives in Land O’Lakes, FL with her husband. ANGELI RASBURY ’88was one of fourwomen recently honored with the Womanof Great Esteem Award, as well as aCongressional Citation fromCongresswoman Yvette D. Clark. Rasbury,a writer, poet and Brooklyn, NY resident,recently published “My Grandfather HadOne Coat,” in which she gathered work bychildren and teens as young as six into an illustratedcollection of prose and poetry. Rasbury worked as acriminal defense lawyer in Brooklyn; currently, she works atthe Brooklyn Public Library, where she launched PhatPhun Tuesdays, poetry writing workshops for youngreaders. JEFFREY P. SCARPELLO ’88was one of three individualshonored at the 2011 Philadelphia Police Athletic League(PAL) dinner in May. Scarpello, executive director of thePennsylvania, Delaware and New Jersey chapter ofNational Electrical Contractors’ Association, is a member ofthe PAL board and active in the organization.DAVID J. STEERMAN ’89participated in thePennsylvania Bar Institute’s annual FamilyLaw Institute, where he was the moderatorfor a panel discussion “GovernmentIntervention in Parenting Decisions.”Steerman is a member of ObermayerRebmann Maxwell & Hippel’s litigationdepartment.1990sIn January, Oxford University Presspublished General Liability InsuranceCoverage—Key Issues In Every State,aninsurance coverage book co-authored(with Jeffrey Stempel) by RANDY MANILOFF’91. SARAH DAMIANI ’10was a researchassistant on the book. Maniloff is apartner in the commercial litigation department of White and Williams. GEORGE R. SMAWLEY ’91,currently deployed in Iraq withthe 25th Infantry Division, has been promoted to the rankof colonel. RICK GELLER ’92is an adjunct professor teaching land use law in a Master of Planning in Civic Urbanism program at Rollins College in Winter Park, FL. The FloridaState University College of Law’s Journal of Land Use and Environmental Lawpublished an article by Geller, “The Legality of Form-Based Zoning Codes,” in the fall2010 issue.Rawle & Henderson announced that SCOTT F. GRIFFITH ’93was elected to the firm’s partnership effective in January.Griffith’s practice areas include products liability, toxic torts,commercial litigation and white collar criminal defense. NOTESClass30858 Temple:ESQ_Sept06/f 6/3/11 9:19 AM Page 9Next >