TEMPLE UNIVERSITY JAMES E. BEASLEY SCHOOL OF LAW • LAW SCHOOL AND ALUMNI NEWS • SUMMER 2012Liacouras Committee Receives Diversity AwardCommittee is honored for changing the face of law in Pennsylvania MARCH 28, 2012The Liacouras Committee, credited withcreating a diverse legal work force in Pennsylvania, wasawarded the Justice Sonia Sotomayor Diversity Award by thePhiladelphia Bar Association. The committee, convened in1970 to investigate alleged widespread discrimination in thebar examination process, issued sweeping recommendationsthat are credited with bringing about a sea change in theability of African Americans to practice law in Pennsylvania. In presenting the award, Stradley Ronon partner DanielleBanks ’93 explained the statistics that drove the creation ofthe committee. “Between 1920 and 1970, 25,000 candidateswere admitted to the bar in Pennsylvania,” said Banks. “Ofthose new attorneys, only 115 were African-American.”Pennsylvania’s bias in the bar examination process was so notorious that the dean of Howard Law School publiclyadvised his students not to apply because “black lawyers arenot welcome in Pennsylvania.” The situation did not gounnoticed by Judge Clifford Scott Green, a 1951 Temple Law graduate who had been a member of the first African-American law firm in Philadelphia before becoming a judgeon the Court of Common Pleas.“The committee itself was the idea of Judge Green,” saidProfessor Robert J. Reinstein, who assisted the committeeand accepted the award on the committee’s behalf. “JudgeGreen [who died in 2007] was a man of brilliance, integrityand fairness. He also had a streak of intolerance. He wasintolerant towards injustice. And what was happening in theadmissions process to the Pennsylvania bar over a longperiod of time was scandalous and shameful.”Green convinced then Chancellor of thePhiladelphia BarAssociation, RobertLandis, that the statusquo was intolerable, and Landis agreed toappoint a committee toinvestigate. Green wouldhave been the obviousperson to lead the effort,but he was convincedthat for the findings tohave credibility, it shouldbe chaired by a whiteperson. And that personwould have to have notonly impeccable integrityand credentials, but bedeeply committed to JUDGE SCIRICADELIVERS ANNUALGREEN LECTUREAPRIL 16, 2012Federal Judge Anthony J.Scirica delivered the annual Clifford Scott GreenLecture, “Two Decades of Federal Rulemakingon Class Actions,” to a standing-room-onlyaudience in the law school’s Duane Morris LLPMoot Courtroom.In the lecture, Judge Scirica drew on hisextensive experience managing class actionsuits during an almost three-decade tenure onthe federal bench. Scirica has served on thebench since he was appointed by PresidentRonald Reagan to the U.S. District Court for theEastern District of Pennsylvania in 1984. In1987 he was elevated to the Court of Appealsfor the Third Circuit, where he served as ChiefJudge from 2003 to 2010. In 2008, ChiefJustice John G. Roberts Jr. appointed Sciricachair of the executive committee of the JudicialConference of the United States, the governingbody of the federal judiciary, where he gainedparticular insight about class action rulemaking.Before ascending to the bench, Sciricapracticed law in Montgomery County, PA wherehe also served as an Assistant District Attorneyand Judge of the Court of Common Pleas. He was a member of the Pennsylvanialegislature and chair of the PennsylvaniaSentencing Commission. He earned a B.A. at Wesleyan University, a J.D. at the Universityof Michigan Law School, and studied law atCentral University, Caracas, Venezuela as aFulbright Scholar.The Honorable Clifford Scott Green LectureshipThe lecture was established in 2003 at TempleUniversity Beasley School of Law to recognize adistinguished member of the class of 1951,Clifford Scott Green (1923-2007). The lectureship honors Judge Green andacknowledges the influence he had on the legalcommunity. In 1952, Judge Green joined thefirst African-American law firm in Pennsylvania,which later became Norris, Schmidt, Green,Harris, Higginbotham and Brown. He wasappointed judge of the County Court ofPhiladelphia in 1964, and President Richard M.Nixon named him to the U.S. District Court forthe Eastern District of Pennsylvania in 1971,where he assumed senior status in 1988.civil rights. Peter J. Liacouras, who was a Temple Lawprofessor at the time, had those qualities. Liacouras andGreen were joined on the committee by Paul A. Dandridge,Ricardo C. Jackson, and W. Bourne Routhrof. Reinstein, thena young assistant professor at Temple, served as scrivenerand legal counsel. The men who made up the committee—all of whom butGreen were in attendance at the award ceremony—would goon to have highly distinguished careers. Liacouras wouldbecome the seventh dean of Temple Law School and, inReinstein’s words, “the greatest president in the modern eraof Temple University.” Reinstein became the ninth dean ofTemple Law School. Green would grace the federal bench for36 years, and Dandridge and Jackson became distinguishedstate court judges. Routhrof became a partner in a major Philadelphia law firm. But in 1970, the group was charged with a daunting task,Reinstein remembered. They had no subpoena power andthey could not take depositions or take discovery. Instead,they conducted interviews, and what they discovered wasworse than they feared.“The Board of Law Examiners excluded professional legaleducators from having any role in the examination, and therewas no consensus among the examiners over what skills and knowledge should be tested. And there was no suchthing as anonymous grading [of the bar examinations],” saidReinstein. “An examiner explained to me that he would takethe answer from a Harvard Law grad and that would be themodel positive answer. Then he would take the answer froma Howard grad andmake that the modelnegative answer. “I had theopportunity to look atthe answers for aconstitutional lawquestion, and there was a bitter irony. TheHarvard answer waswrong—it was based on a Supreme Courtruling that had beenoverruled, and theHoward answer was correct.”DEAN JOANNE A. EPPS WITH CAROLE GREEN AND JUDGE ANTHONY J. SCIRICAPETER J. LIACOURAS (SEATED) WITH (FROM LEFT) W. BOURNE RUTHRAUFF,JUDGE PAUL DANDRIDGE, JUDGE RICARDO JACKSON, CAROLE WILLIAMS GREEN(WIDOW OF JUDGE CLIFFORD SCOTT GREEN) AND ROBERT J. REINSTEIN.(Photo by Jeff Lyons, Philadelphia Bar Association)continued on page three2 • TEMPLE ESQ. SUMMER 2012Faculty DeparturesAt the end of the 2011-2012 academic year, Temple Law loses five long-time professors. Retiring from the faculty are Professors Mary K. Hanna, Sharon S. Harzenski, Michael E. Libonati, Stephen L. Micochik, and William J. Woodward Jr.‘CHIP’ CARTER TAPPED FOR PITT LAW DEANTemple Law has produced five African-American law deans.APRIL 26, 2012When Temple Law Professor William“Chip” Carter leaves the Temple Law faculty in June tobecome dean at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law,he becomes the fifth African-American to lead a law schoolwho either taught or earned his law degree at Temple—orboth. A yield of five deans is exceptional for any law school,but five African-American deans from a single institutionmay well be a record. Preceding Carter in assuming the top job at a lawschool are the following legal scholars: •Temple Law’s current dean, JOANNE A. EPPS,was named to that position after joining the faculty in 1985 and serving as associate dean for academic affairs from 1989 to 2008. •Temple Law graduate RONALD DAVENPORT ’62was the first African-American dean of a predominately white law school, when he led that school from 1970 to 1982. •CARL SINGLEY ’72both earned his degree and taught on the faculty of Temple Law before serving as its dean from 1983 to 1987. •In 2009, PHOEBE A. HADDONwas named dean of University of Maryland Law School after more than 25 years on the Temple Law faculty. In July 2012, Professor Carter will join that list whenMary Crossley, who has been dean at Pittsburgh since2005, returns to the law faculty.Carter has been teaching at Temple Law since 2007.His scholarly focus has been on constitutional law, civilrights, critical race theory and international human rightslaw, and he is widely regarded as a leading scholar on theThirteenth Amendment. He has written numerous notablearticles for publications such as the Columbia Law Review,Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review,and theBerkeley Journal of International Law.Carter graduated from Case Western Reserve UniversitySchool of Law in 1998 and joined Squire, Sanders &Dempsey in Washington as a litigation associate. He movedto Ropes & Gray’s litigation department in 1999 and stayedthere until 2001, when he returned to Case Western to jointhe faculty. PROFESSOR MARY K. HANNAretires after heading andnurturing the expansion of the Temple Legal Aid Officesince 1982. As the office’s general counsel and supervisingattorney for clinical law students, she has straddled the linebetween law school and legal practice. Not only has shebeen a model for students of professional, compassionate,and ethical practice, she has had a profound and lastingimpact on families in the community who have benefitedfrom the office’s services. Unbelievably, the office recordsshow that during her tenure, Temple Legal Aid’s work hasimpacted 18,000 children in the community. (Hanna hassupervised 3,600 cases.)As a clinical associate professor, Hanna has passed onher legal expertise in the classroom, where she taughtclinicals in domestic relations mediation and family lawlitigation. She has also taught legal research and writingand developed a course on domestic violence. Hanna has been active with the Philadelphia BarAssociation and has been appointed to ad hoccommitteesof the First Judicial District, Court of Common Pleas,focusing on counsel fees for court-appointed attorneys independency matters and the establishment of proceduresfor mediation for the resolution of child custody matters.She is a member of the Nicholas A. Cipriani Inn of Court,where she is a Master. When PROFESSOR SHARON S. HARZENSKI graduated fromTemple Law in 1974, she was asked to join the faculty ofher alma materthe very next year. During the last 38 years,she has taken her role as a member of the law schoolcommunity seriously, serving as an educator, administrator,and mentor. In addition to teaching courses as diverse as constitu-tional law, women in the law, family law, jurisprudence, and American legal history, Harzenski has been involved ina wide range of extra-curricular programs. She was presentat the birth of the Sp.A.C.E. program in the 1970s (aimed at creating student diversity) and has remainedactive in shaping the student body as an untiring facultyrepresentative to the Admissions Committee. She servedfor five years as legal counsel for the law school in studentgrievance cases, and has been an informal adviser to theWomen’s Law Caucus, a resource for LEAP, and avolunteer in the Legal Aid Office. In 1990, Temple University honored PROFESSOR MICHAELE. LIBONATIby naming him the Laura H. Carnell Professor,a distinction reserved for University faculty who have“distinguished themselves in research, scholarship andteaching.” This year, Libonati retires after serving on theTemple Law faculty since 1972. Libonati is a leading authority on local governmentlaw—a valuable asset at a school that prides itself on thenumber of leaders of local government among its alumni.His four-volume treatise, Local Government Law(with co-authors Sands and Martinez), is a seminal work in the field. He contributed to the law school’s clinicalprogram by developing a seminar on state and local public administration. He has taught classes in a range of subjects in addition to local government law: legislation,and state constitutional law. He also taught a seminar onthe philosophy of law.Over the years, Libonati has shared his expertise as anadvisor and consultant to a number of local, state andfederal government agencies, including the NationalAcademy of Sciences and the National Association ofAttorneys General.PROFESSOR STEPHEN L. MIKOCHIKhas taught an extensive array of courses since joining the faculty in 1981: civil procedure, civil rights of handicapped persons,constitutional law, employment discrimination, equalprotection, law and the elderly, jurisprudence, and politicaland civil rights. Mikochik came to Temple following fouryears of service with the Civil Rights Division of the U.S.Department of Justice, both as a trial attorney and as anappellate attorney. From the time he was named to the dean’s list in lawschool, it was obvious that being blind would not in anyway hinder Mikochik’s ability to contribute to the legalprofession. He did, however, develop an expertise indisability law. At the Justice Department, he coordinatedlitigation concerning persons with disabilities. Later at thelaw school, Mikochik organized a symposium on theAmericans with Disabilities Act. He has served as the chairof the National Catholic Partnership on Disability and hasbeen a board member of the Associated Services for theBlind. He has also chaired the board of the Disabilities Law Project in Philadelphia. In 1980, PROFESSOR WILLIAM J. WOODWARD JR.left privatepractice as a trial lawyer to teach contract law, commerciallaw, and bankruptcy at Indiana University–Indianapolis andcame to Temple Law in 1984. Since then, his teaching andscholarship have extended beyond those areas into torts,remedies, international law, alternative dispute resolution,and conflict of laws. He has taught thousands of studentsat Temple.As a business law expert, Woodward was asked to serveas the ABA’s business law section’s representative to thedrafting committee to revise Article 1 of the UniformCommercial Code. He has also long been engaged inefforts to improve pro bonodelivery of legal services to thepublic, as vice chair of the ABA business law section’s probonocommittee and as a board member of the ConsumerBankruptcy Assistance Project in Philadelphia. He helpedto create, and is on the steering committee for,Philadelphia LawWorks, a regional provider of pro bonobusiness law services. He also serves as a pro bonolawyerandjudge pro temin the Philadelphia MortgageForeclosure Diversion Program and as a mediator in thePhiladelphia and Delaware bankruptcy courts.Woodward has long been an enthusiastic leader in thelaw school’s international programs, teaching contracts,torts, secured credit, and bankruptcy in Beijing, specializedcourses in the summer programs in both Rome andAthens, and directing the Athens program for two years.MICHAEL LIBONATISTEPHEN MIKOCHIKWILLIAM WOODWARD JR.MARY HANNASHARON HARZENSKIevent states: “All too often in the history of HIV/AIDS in ournation, and in the fight to eradicate this pandemic, havethe contributions of lawyers been ignored—please join usin honoring our colleagues who have been on the front-lines for two decades.”SPORTS LAW EXPERT HAS BUSY SCHEDULEApril 2012As his students tookfinal exams, PROFESSOR JEREMIDURUhad a busy month lendinghis expertise at conferences in theU.S. and abroad. In Vienna,Austria, he participated in aconference, Combating Racism,Intolerance and Discrimination inSociety, where he led a discussion, “NFL Diversity andSocial Cohesion Initiatives,” with U.S. Ambassador toIreland Dan Rooney. In Washington, DC he participated ona panel on “Varsity Blues: The Gift and the Curse of the College Athlete” at the Howard University Sports andEntertainment Law Symposium. At home in Philadelphia,the sports law expert presented “Race, Reformation, andthe Quest for Equal Coaching Opportunity in ProfessionalSports” at a Pennsylvania Bar Institute CLE seminar atCitizens Bank Park.3 • TEMPLE ESQ. SUMMER 2012LIACOURAS COMMITTEEcontinued from page oneTemple Faculty PROGRAM EXPLORESTORT LAW, REFORMMarch 13, 2012PROFESSORMARK RAHDERTconducted a CLEprogram in which he discussedHot Coffee,a documentary aboutthe infamous McDonald’s coffeeburn case. The movie shows howbig business waged a deceptivecampaign to influence publicattitudes toward tort law—a campaign the filmmakersclaim seriously undermined the civil justice system. TheCLE program, in which Rahdert was joined by co-presenters Shira Goodman, Deputy Director ofPennsylvanians for Modern Courts, and Robert Browningof Common Cause of Pennsylvania, also focused oncampaign finance issues in judicial elections.PROFESSOR TESTIFIESAGAINST ZEROTOLERANCE DISCIPLINEPROGRAMS IN CITYPUBLIC SCHOOLSMarch 27, 2012PROFESSOR SARAJACOBSONaddressed PhiladelphiaCity Council about zero tolerancediscipline programs on behalf ofStudents for Students, a project at Temple Law thatprovides representation for high school students facingexpulsion or disciplinary transfer. Last year Students forStudents won a grant from the American Bar Association’s“Good Works” program to develop materials and to trainother law students across the country to represent highschool students facing expulsion or disciplinary transfer indue process hearings. Students for Students was invited to speak by YouthUnited for Change to testify regarding whether a policy ofzero tolerance is the most effective way to disciplinestudents in the Philadelphia School system. In a programof zero tolerance, students are automatically put intoexpulsion or transfer proceedings for certain disciplinaryinfractions. Students for Students opposes zero tolerance,because it takes discretion away from school officials tomatch the discipline to the individual students andbecause for many it becomes the first step in the “schoolto prison pipeline,” putting too many of our youth on apath that leads away from education and toward jail.Jacobson argued that it is smarter and cheaper to educatestudents now rather than to incarcerate them later.RAHDERT AND KNAUERADVISE DRAFTERS OFTUNISIANCONSTITUTIONMarch 27, 2012In the wake oflast year’s Arab Spring, membersof Tunisia’s National ConstituentAssembly have been charged withwriting a new constitution. Seekinginsight into the U.S. system of federalism, bicameralism,and the Bill of Rights, the Tunisian delegation met withPROFESSORS NANCY KNAUERand MARK RADHERT,andJudge Michael Baylson of the U.S. District Court for theEastern District of Pennsylvania. In addition to the NationalConstituent Assembly members who were democraticallyelected to their posts in 2011 for the purpose of drafting anew Tunisian constitution, the Tunisian delegation includedlegal experts, professors of constitutional law, and civilsociety representatives. The group met with governmentofficials in Washington, DC prior to coming to Temple. ABREU EXPLAINSROMNEY TAX RETURNSON WHYY RADIOJanuary 26, 2012ALICE ABREUfaced a challenging task whenWHYY Radio Times host MartyMoss-Coane asked the Temple Lawtax professor to explain MittRomney’s tax return. To discussthe fairness of the way investmentincome is taxed in the U.S., Abreu arrived at the WHYYstudio with a copy of the former Massachusetts governorand billionaire Romney’s 203 page tax return, all of whichshe said “is perfectly legal.” Abreu, who specializes in federal income tax law, drew on her knowledge of the 10,000 page tax code. Both Romney’s taxes and his sources of income are under scrutiny as he battles to become the RepublicanPresidential candidate. The bulk of Romney’s incomecomes from capital gains or dividends that are taxed at thecapital gains rate, while political opponent Newt Gingrich’sincome derives from rental income, which is taxed asordinary income. HEALTH LAW CENTERDIRECTOR IS HONOREDJuly 21, 2012The American BarAssociation’s AIDS CoordinatingCommittee will honor PROFESSORSCOTT BURRISfor his “sustainedcommitment to HIV legal servicesand advocacy.” Burris, along withthree fellow legal activists—Catherine Hanssens, founder of theCenter for HIV Law and Policy, Terry McGovern, founder ofthe Ford Foundation HIV Law Project, and Brad Sears,founder of the HIV Legal Check-up Project—will berecognized at the 25th anniversary gathering of the ABA committee. Burris is the director of Temple’s Center for Health Law, Policy and Practice, and the Robert Wood JohnsonFoundation’s Public Health Law Research program. He is also Associate Director of the Centers for Law and thePublic’s Health: A Collaborative at Johns Hopkins andGeorgetown Universities. An official announcement of theThe resulting report, published in the Temple LawReview, made recommendations for change that includedanonymous grading, the use of the multi-state exam andthe participation of law professors in evaluating the essayquestions and proposed answers. The recommendationswere controversial, and a struggle to have them adoptedwas acrimonious. A motion was made that the PhiladelphiaBar Association censure the commission members andChancellor Landis. That motion was defeated, and theBoard of Governors instead endorsed the report and put thefull weight of the Association behind reforming the process.“In the end, the board of law examiners adopted therecommendations and the number of African-Americansaccepted to the bar skyrocketed,” said Reinstein. “ThePennsylvania bar finally was integrated. And with thedevelopment of an examination process that was fairer andmore valid, all applicants to the bar benefited from thecommittee’s work.”MAKING NEWSLAW SCHOOL’S RANKING CONTINUES TO RISEMARCH 2012Temple Law was ranked 58th in the latestUS News & World Reportlisting of law schools, upthree places from last year.Three individual law schoolprograms were singled outfor top rankings: the trialadvocacy program is secondin the nation; legal researchand writing was ninth; andinternational law ranked14th. Temple Law’s part-timeevening division was alsoranked in the top ten,coming in at number seven. 4 • TEMPLE ESQ. SUMMER 2012SPRING 2012 AT TEMPLE LAWTEMPLE LAW STUDENTS SELECTED TO WORKAT ARCHER & GREINER, CITY LAW DEPARTMENTTwo second-year law students will be the first recipients of a scholarship and guaranteedsummer internship as the result of a new partnership between one of the area’s largest firms, the city, and Temple Law School.Archer & Greiner has created a program to award scholarships to Temple Law students who represent underrepresented groups and provide them with the opportunity to work in the City of Philadelphia Law Department as well as at the firm. Archer & Greiner, aPhiladelphia and New Jersey-based law firm, is one of the 200 largest in the country. Joel Clymer ’13, who is African-American, and Jose Sabalbaro ’13, who is Hispanic, have been chosen to be the inaugural beneficiaries of this initiative that aims to increasediversity in the legal profession. Both Clymer and Sabalbaro are slated to receive $7,500scholarships from Archer & Greiner and will be offered a paid summer associate position, with time set aside to work in the Philadelphia City Law Department.The program was ushered in and the scholarship recipient announced at a ceremony thatincluded Mayor Michael A. Nutter, Dean JoAnne A. Epps, and Archer & Greiner PresidentChris Gibson and Chairman James Carll. The plan is the newest of several initiatives toincrease diversity in the Philadelphia legal community. Dean JoAnne A. Epps said, “Thisprogram really is unique and has raised the bar.”FROM LEFT: DEAN JOANNE A. EPPS, JAMES H. CARLL, CHAIRMAN, ARCHER & GREINER,MAYOR MICHAEL NUTTER, JOEL CLYMER ’13, AND JOSE SABALBARO ’13.WOMEN’S LAW CAUCUS PANEL FOCUSES ONCAREERS IN BUSINESS—AND ON THE BENCHTEMPLE LAW TEAMCHAMPIONS ON THE(B-BALL) BOARDSAPRIL 13, 2012The Temple Lawbasketball team captured the trophy in the second annual Deans’ CupBasketball Tournament, outpacing the Villanova squad with a resounding 57-38 victory. The win evens the series at a game apiece. The Dean’s cup was established last year to raise funds to support students at Temple and Villanova who choose to work in the public interest jobsduring the summer.Coached by Professor James Shellenberger, the Temple squad included AndrewKatz, Chris Nana-Sinkam, Kyle Payne, Zack Migeot, Nick Smith, Matt Thomas, DavePugh, Scott Vernick, Nickel Heimann, Ryan Renfrow, JP Faunes, Rebecca Mescio,DevinMcCauley, and Professors Mark Anderson, Dave Hoffman, William Carter andKristen Murray. Temple Owls men’s basketball coach Fran Dunphy gave somewelcoming remarks and introduced the players. Dean Louis Thompson served asemcee and Temple mascot Hooter the Owl kept Villanova’s Will D. Cat at bay.APRIL 3, 2012 The Women’s Law Caucus, in partnershipwith Dean JoAnne A. Epps, filled Shusterman Hall for anafternoon of conversation with Fernande R.V. Duffly,Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of Massachusetts,and Sara D. Lipscomb, General Counsel for the SmallBusiness Administration. Dean Epps moderated a discussion with these twoaccomplished attorneys which focused on the diversecareer paths available to women in the law, as well assome of the problems facing women. Judge Fernande R.V. Duffly was born in Indonesia and earned her law degree at Harvard. She remained inBoston and began her legal career as an attorney in thelitigation department of the Boston law firm then known as Warner and Stackpole. Duffly first served on the bench of the Probate and Family Court in Boston, then the Massachusetts Appeals Court, and was appointedAssociate Justice of the Supreme Judicial Court ofMassachusetts in 2011.Sara D. Lipscomb has been general counsel of theSmall Business Administration since her appointment in2009. Prior to that position, Lipscomb held a wide range ofpositions: she launched and ran a business providing legaland business services to middle market privateequity firms and theirportfolio companies; she was senior vicepresident and generalcounsel of Audax Group,a diversified alternative-asset management firm;she was counsel to the chair of theCommodity FuturesTrading Commission; she served assenior counsel in the enforcement division of the Securities andExchange Commission. Lipscomb has also worked as a litigator at law firms in Los Angeles and San Francisco.The discussion with Duffly and Lipscombe was the secondannual Women’s Law Caucus event in which distinguished womenattorneys shared their experiences in a panel moderated by DeanEpps. Last year’s featured guests were Roberta Liebenberg, theChair of the ABA Commission on Women in the Profession, andTina Tchen, Chief of Staff for Michelle Obama and ExecutiveDirector of the White House Council on Women and Children. DEAN EPPS MODERATES PANEL WITH SARALIPSCOMB AND HON. FERNANDE DUFFLY.THE CHAMPIONSHIP TRIAL TEAM (FROM LEFT):CHRISTOPHER DE BARRENA-SAROBE ’09 (COACH),ANTHONY COCCERINO ’12, SHILPA KALRA ’12,BENJAMIN MCKENNA ’13, CYNTHIA MORGAN ’13,AND RAHUL MUNSHI ’09 (COACH).5 • TEMPLE ESQ. SUMMER 2012SPRING 2012 AT TEMPLE LAWFORMER ASS’T TREASURYSECRETARY DISCUSSESGLOBAL TRENDS IN TAXMARCH 26, 2012 Eric Solomon, former Assistant TreasurySecretary for Tax Policy, discussed global trends in taxationand tax reform at the 2012 Frank and Rose Fogel Lecture.Solomon described serving under Treasury Secretary HenryPaulson from 2006 to 2009, one of the most turbulentperiods in the country’s economic history. Solomon’s technical brilliance and dedication arelegendary and have earned him numerous awards,including the Alexander Hamilton Award—the highestaward for Treasury service—and the DistinguishedPresidential Rank Award. As Assistant Treasury Secretary,he headed the Office of Tax Policy, which is the primaryadvisor to the Treasury Secretary on legal and economicmatters relating to domestic and international taxation.Before becoming the Assistant Secretary, Solomon heldpolicymaking positions at both the Treasury Departmentand the Internal Revenue Service. He was the AssistantChief Counsel at the IRS, heading the legal divisionresponsible for all corporate tax issues. He began hiscareer with law firms in New York City and was a partner at Drinker Biddle & Reath in Philadelphia.HP GENERAL COUNSEL VISITS CHINA LLM PROGRAMFEBRUARY 22, 2012The Greater China General Counselfor HP, Shawn Zhao, addressed students enrolled inTemple Law’s LL.M. degree program in Beijing, China. Thetechnology company’s lead attorney spoke about howcompanies that embrace technological development haveadvanced global society—and how intellectual propertyprotections have helped propel that advancement. Throughout their course of study in Temple’s LL.M.program in China, students are exposed to legal expertssuch as Zhao who understand the necessity of anincreasingly globalized understanding of the law. Otherrecent speakers include Tom Sager, senior vice presidentand general counsel of DuPont, Tom Roberts, Chinacountry counsel at Boeing, and Kyle Latmer, resident legaladvisor at the U.S. Embassy in Beijing.Temple Law has been offering an LL.M. degree incollaboration with Tsinghua University School of Law toChinese judges, law professors and attorneys since 1997.The 15-month program, in which students study for asummer semester in Philadelphia, was the first foreign law degree granting program approved by the ChineseMinistry of Education.TRIAL TEAM VICTORIOUS IN CAPITOL CITYMARCH 31, 2012Temple’s National Trial Team won theCapitol City Challenge Tournament hosted by AmericanUniversity’s Washington College of Law and held in theSuperior Court of Washington, DC. In the tournament’sfour-year history, Temple has won the championship twiceand finished second once. This year, the team defeated 17teams, including the University of Connecticut in the finalround. Third year student Anthony Coccerino was namedbest advocate in the final round. In February, a team consisting of Stacy Merritt ’12 andDaniel Theveny Jr. ’13 won the regional championship ofthe National Trial Competition for the 24th time in 26 yearsof competition. At the national tournament in Austin, TX,which included the 24 winners and runners-up from the12 other regional contests, Merritt and Theveny advancedto the elite eight before being eliminated by the eventualchampion, Baylor Law School. NATIONAL APPELLATE EXPERTDELIVERS ADAMS LECTUREMARCH 26, 2012“Free Speech, Federalism and thePolitical Valence of Constitutional Law” was the topic chosen by Kathleen M. Sullivan for the annual Arlin M. and Neysa Adams Lecture in Constitutional Law.Sullivan is partner and chair of the national appellatepractice at Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, the nation’slargest law firm devoted solely to business litigation, as well as Stanley Morrison Professor of Law at Stanford LawSchool, where she served as dean from 1999 to 2004. The first woman dean of any school at Stanford, she is alsothe first woman to become a name partner at any AmericanLawyer 100 firm.Now based in Quinn Emanuel’s New York office, Sullivan has argued six cases in the U.S. Supreme Court,winning victories for such clients as Wyeth, Inc. involvingfederal preemption of design defect suits under the VaccineAct, Shell Oil in a case involving “arranger” liability under the Superfund statute, and California wineries in a caseinvolving the ability to ship wine directly to consumers across state lines. She also has argued numerous cases inthe U.S. Courts of Appeals, and various cases in stateFROM LEFT: MAYA ALEXANDRI, SHAWN ZHAO, JOHN SMAGULADEAN JOANNE A. EPPS, NEYSAAND ARLIN ADAMSERIC SOLOMONappellate courts, including a historic victory in the New York Court of Appeals for the right of New York Governor David Paterson to appoint a lieutenant governor to fill a vacancy in that office.The lecture delivered by Sullivan is named in honor of former Third Circuit Judge Arlin M. Adams and his wife Neysa. Judge Adamsretired this year from Schnader Harrison. KATHLEEN SULLIVAN DELIVERS ADAMS LECTURE6 • TEMPLE ESQ. SUMMER 2012KEVIN C. O’MALLEY ’82,a shareholder withButzel Long in Lansing, MI, has beenappointed by Mayor Virg Bernero to theboard of directors of the LansingEconomic Development Corporation(LEDC). O’Malley will serve as a director ofthe LEDC, the Lansing Tax IncrementFinance Authority, and the Lansing BrownfieldRedevelopment Authority.MARC S. RASPANTI ’84,a partner in thelaw firm of Pietragallo Gordon AlfanoBosick & Raspanti, presented on thepanel, Legal Representation of HealthcareWhistleblowers, at King & Spalding’sannual health law and policy forum inMarch 2012.LOUIS AGRE ’87was elected president ofthe Philadelphia Metal Trades Council, thecoalition of unions at the PhiladelphiaNavy Yard. He continues as an organizer,business agent and in house counsel forLocal 542 of the International Union ofOperating Engineers. In addition, Agre isthe Democratic ward leader in the 21st ward ofPhiladelphia, which contains Roxborough, Manayunk,Wissahickon and Andorra. He is married to MARIATERPOLILLI ’87,of the workers’ compensation firm of Terpolilli Sawyer.JOEL I. FISHBEIN ’89has joinedMcCumber,Daniels, Buntz, Hartig & Puigas a shareholder in the Philadelphiaoffice. 1990sIn March 2012, DEBORAH WEINSTEIN ’91was named to the Society for HumanResource Management’s special expertisepanel on workplace diversity andinclusion. She also recently served aspanelist for an ALI-ABA video webinarprogram, “Updating Employee Manuals 101: Doing itRight.” Weinstein is president of The Weinstein Firm, a labor and employment law firm, and has taughtemployment law as a lecturer at the Wharton BusinessSchool’s Department of Legal Studies and Business Ethicsfor the past 13 years. In December 2011, ANALISA SCRIMGERSONDERGAARD ’94was sworn in byPennsylvania Supreme Court Justice J.Michael Eakin as a Magisterial DistrictJudge in Chester County, PA.Gibbel Kraybill & Hess, a law firmpracticing in south central and eastern Pennsylvania, hashired MICHAEL T. WINTERS ’96as a litigation attorney for itsadvocacy practice group. He worked previously with theLancaster, PA firm of Patterson, Cody & Winters.2000sIn May 2012, Obermayer Rebmann Maxwell & Hippelpartner MICHAEL E. BERTIN ’00presented the plenarysession and the case law updates for equitable distributionand support at the Pennsylvania Bar Institute’s annualFamily Law Institute. Bertin, a member of Obermayer’slitigation and family law practice group, recently released a book, Pennsylvania Child Custody Law, Practice, and Procedure.LARRY REEVES ’00was recently appointed to direct theoperations of the Alyne Queener Massey Law Library atVanderbilt Law School, where he will also teach advancedlegal research. Reeves previously was associate director ofthe George Mason University Law Library in Arlington, VA.Before joining George Mason’s law library, he was areference librarian, coordinator of first-year legal research,and an adjunct associate professor of law at Fordham LawSchool in New York. in a racial discrimination suit. The federal lawsuit, Blunt etal vs. Lower Merion School District,alleged that theplaintiffs were disproportionately and inappropriately placedin special education programs and the lowest level classes.At DLA Piper, Hittinger focuses his practice on commercialand civil rights litigation with particular emphasis onantitrust and unfair competition matters. 1980sSTEWART J. EISENBERG ’80,a founder andsenior partner of Eisenberg, Rothweiler,Winkler, Eisenberg & Jeck, has beennamed to the board of directors ofPhiladelphia VIP. Philadelphia VIP is anonprofit agency that provides low-incomePhiladelphians with pro bonolegalservices. MARSHAL GRANOR ’80of the Horsham, PA firm of Granorand Granor, recently acquired Community ManagementServices Group, managing some 80 communities with over9,000 homes in condominium and home owners’associations. JOSEPH H. BLUM ’82,managing partner atDeeb Blum Murphy Frishberg &Markovich, has been named chair elect ofthe board of directors for the NationalKidney Foundation serving the DelawareValley.1950sBERNARD GRANOR ’53 was elected chairman of the residentadvisory committee at Ann’s Choice, a continuing carecommunity in Warminster, PA. Granor practices law withhis son Marshal Granor ’80 at the firm of Granor andGranor.1960sBARBARA VETRI ’60was appointed chair of the seniorlawyers professional and public service committee of thePhiladelphia Bar Association. The committee’s workincludes aiding disabled attorneys or family members ofdeceased attorneys, and mentoring young attorneys.1970sLAWRENCE M. SILVERMAN ’73has joinedthe firm of McCumber, Daniels, Buntz,Hartig & Puig as a shareholder in thePhiladelphia office. Ernst & Young announced that GEORGEBLAINE ’74joined the firm’s national tax department inWashington, DC. Blaine began his career with the IRS in1975 and was promoted to the office of chief counsel in1983. He was named executive director of the large casepolicy board in 1993. Blaine was awarded the PresidentialMeritorious Executive Rank Award in 2009 and he hasbeen an adjunct professor with Georgetown University Law Center. Former Connolly Bove Lodge & Hutz partner LOUIS M.HEIDELBERGER ’75joined Cozen O’Connor’s intellectualproperty group as a member in the Washington, DC office. HON. CLAREASE MITCHELL R. YATES ’76has authored abook, Indestructible Beginnings: ABCs of CommonCourtesy. Yates is an immigration judge in Houston, TX.JOHN J. EAGAN ’79has been named chair of the newlyformed international taxation sub-committee of the taxationlaw section of the New Jersey State Bar Association.Eagan, a member of Norris McLaughlin & Marcus,specializes in taxation, with emphasis on international,corporate transactional, and tax controversy matters.CARL HITTINGER ’79,chair of DLA Piper’sPhiladelphia litigation practice, wasselected to receive The LegalIntelligencer’s Unsung Heroes award forhis dedication to pro bonowork. Theaward recognizes Hittinger’s work inpartnership with the Public Interest LawCenter of Philadelphia, providing more than 500 hours ofsupport to the representation of African-American studentsNOTESClassSTEWART COHEN ’77 TO HEAD STATE DISCIPLINARY BOARDSTEWART L. COHEN ’77,a trial lawyer with the Philadelphia law firm of Cohen, Placitella & Roth, isthe new chair of the disciplinary board of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania. Cohen, who served asvice chair for the past two years, will lead the independent agency consisting of 11 attorneys andtwo non-lawyers from across Pennsylvania in assisting the Supreme Court in the licensing anddiscipline of attorneys.“It is truly an honor to be appointed to this position,” says Cohen. “I appreciate the vote ofconfidence of Chief Justice Castille and the Supreme Court, and I commit myself to ensuring thatthe court, the bar and our citizens continue to have assurance in our disciplinary system.”Cohen has worked as a private practice lawyer since graduating from Temple Law in 1977,specializing in complex litigation, including individual and class action cases. He has represented plaintiffs in numerousgroundbreaking cases, including a “top 100 jury verdict” in the U.S. in 2005, and a “top 20 award” in New Jersey in2009. He was named a distinguished alumnus by Penn State, his undergraduate alma mater,where he also delivered acommencement speech in 2008.Cohen and his wife, Karen, support a number of causes related to people with disabilities. Cohen is an emeritusmember of the board of directors of the United Cerebral Palsy of Greater Philadelphia and Vicinity. On behalf of thisorganization, Cohen and his wife are co-chairing the 2012 UCP Motor Cars Charity Event at Citizen’s Bank Park. He alsofounded and is past president of the board of the Brain Injury Association of Pennsylvania.QIANA WATSON ’05was elected to the board of Art-Reach,a Philadelphia nonprofit that strives to make culturalexperiences accessible for individuals with disabilities oreconomic disadvantages. Watson is a contract lawyer atPepper Hamilton. NEIL C. MASKERI ’07 has been appointedto the board of the South Asian BarAssociation of Philadelphia, and will serve as president of the organization’sPhiladelphia chapter. Maskeri is anassociate at Volpe and Koenig, where hefocuses his practice on the preparationand prosecution of domestic and foreign patents.CORINNE M. SAMLER ’07has joined Klehr Harrison HarveyBranzburg as an associate in the bankruptcy/corporaterestructuring department.KIRAT KHARODE ’08is vice president of operations andchief operating officer at LibertyHealth System and JerseyCity Medical Center where he oversees hospital, clinicaland ancillary services in the position he has held since2011. Previously, Karode worked with Tenet Healthcare atthe system’s Graduate Hospital and St. Christopher’sHospital for Children, both in Philadelphia.JENNIFER J. RILEY ’09,an associate at theLansdale law firm of Rubin, Glickman,Steinberg and Gifford, was a sessionpresenter for the Radnor Middle School2012 Girls’ Leadership Program. Enrique Latoison ’04 reports that LAURACOVEY ’11joined his law firm in August2011. Latoison Law, located in Media, PA, is primarily acriminal defense firm. 7 • TEMPLE ESQ. SUMMER 2012Joel A. Mott Jr. Class of 1947Dean William ChaceClass of 1955Joseph S. Ziccardi Class of 1958Thomas F. GilsonClass of 1959Marvin LundyClass of 1959Robert G. CareyClass of 1967John G. CareyClass of 1967John D. StewartClass of 1973Michael J. PanichelliClass of 1981Petro MorgosClass of 1987IN MEMORIAMERIC T. KANEFSKY ’02was recently appointed actingdirector of the Division of Consumer Affairs for the NewJersey Attorney General’s Office. He will serve in thatposition until his appointment is reviewed by the stateSenate. Kanefsky previously worked in the specialprosecutions unit of the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Newark. In March 2012, LINDA A. KERNS, LLM ’03, of The LawOffices of Linda A. Kerns and co-chair of the SoutheasternPennsylvania chapter of the Republican National Lawyers’Association, appeared on Radio Timeswith Marty Moss-Coane on Philadelphia’s WHYY Radio and onPittsburgh’s Essential Public Radio to discuss and debate Pennsylvania’s recently passed voter identificationlegislation.STEVEN FREEDMAN ’04has moved to Lawrence, KS wherehe is Assistant Dean of Admissions for the University ofKansas School of Law. Freedman accepted the position atUniversity of Kansas after five years with Drexel University’sEarle Mack School of Law. Before joining the Drexel staff,he practiced commercial litigation at Frey, Petrakis, Deeb &Blum in Philadelphia.The intellectual property firm of Volpe and Koenig announced that ROBERT D.LEONARD ’04was elected a shareholder ofthe firm. Leonard, who joined the firm in2005, concentrates his practice on thestrategic prosecution of domestic andforeign patent applications. In March 2012, ROBERT ECKERT ’05left active militaryservice as a Marine judge advocate. He is currently anassistant U.S. attorney in DC, working in the misdemeanorsection of general crimes in the Superior Court Division.In February 2012, Klasko, Rulon, Stock &Seltzer announced that NATALIYA GEKHTRYMER, JD ’05, LLM ’06,joined theimmigration firm’s Philadelphia office asan associate. Prior to joining the firm,Rymer practiced immigration law at theLaw Offices of Jan Allen Reiner in NewYork, NY. TEMPLE ESQ. welcomes newsand photos of our alumni/ae.Please include: Full name,class, degree, and a way toreach you if we need toconfirm information.SEND US YOUR NEWS!TEMPLE ESQ.Published by the Temple University Beasley School of Law for alumni and friends.JOANNE A. EPPS, DEANPublications Director: Janet GoldwaterArt Director: Gene GilroyPhotography: Joseph Labolito, Kelly & Massa, Ryan Brandenburg, Janet Goldwater. Send letters and comments to: Janet Goldwater, Temple Esq. Temple University James E. Beasley School of Law1719 N. Broad Street, Room 510, Philadelphia, PA 19122Email: janet.goldwater@temple.edu Fax: (215) 204-1185Change of address: (215) 204-1187Send to:Janet GoldwaterTemple Esq.Temple University Beasley School of Law1719 North Broad StreetPhiladelphia, PA 19122Email:janet.goldwater@temple.eduTEMPLE LL.M. ISFOREIGN LEGALCONSULTANTJOHANN R. CORNIELLE, LL.M. ’07,is the first Pennsylvania attorney tobe licensed as a foreign consultantfor legal matters in the DominicanRepublic. Since 2009, Cornielle has worked as a foreign associate at the Philadelphia lawfirm of Gonzales & Tiagha. The license, issued by thePennsylvania Board of Law Examiners and the SupremeCourt of Pennsylvania, allows him to formally advise andrepresent U.S. clients on legal matters in the country wherehe practiced law prior to coming to Temple to earn anLL.M. degree. MAY 6, 2012Members and friendsof the Temple Inn of Courtcontributed a day of service at theRonald McDonald House in WestPhiladelphia. From left: Harry andDiane Sher ’78, Ken Carobus ’77,Hon. Faith Angell ’71, Don andNoel Davis, Elizabeth Mattioni ’94,Beatrice Raccanello, LL.M. ’10,Scott P. Sigman ’01, Hon. SandraMazer Moss ’75, Paul Weiner ’94,Carson Morris, William Deane, andTami Wible ’92. Volpe and Koenig announced that JESSICA N. MORTON ’11has joined the firm as an associate. Morton will work in theuniversity and life sciences group of the intellectualproperty boutique law firm, applying her background inmolecular biology and genetics. Prior to joining the firm,Morton worked with two university technology transfer andcommercialization offices. Linda D. FantéClass of 2003Member, Temple LawLegacy SocietyMurray H. ShustermanClass of 1936Member, Temple Law Legacy SocietyLAW LEGACY SOCIETYFor more information, please contact:Janine Ehsani, Senior Director of DevelopmentTemple University Beasley School of Law, 1719 North Broad Street, Philadelphia, PA 19122lawlegacy@temple.edu •215.204.4754Have You Joined the Temple Law Legacy Society?Alumni from the Class of 1936 to the Class of 2003.Faculty. Family. Friends.All share one connection:Temple Law School made a difference in their lives.All share one goal:Strengthening Temple Law School’s financial future.Did Temple Law School make a difference in your life? Please consider joining the Temple Law Legacy Society.You may be surprised to learn how easy and rewarding membership can be.TEMPLE UNIVERSITY JAMES E. BEASLEY SCHOOL OF LAWLAW SCHOOL AND ALUMNI NEWSSUMMER 2012VISIT OUR WEBSITE: www.law.temple.eduWRITE TO US: lawalum@temple.eduNON-PROFITORGANIZATIONU.S. POSTAGE PAIDPHILADELPHIA, PAPERMIT NO. 1044TEMPLE UNIVERSITYJAMES E. BEASLEY SCHOOL OF LAW1719 North Broad StreetPhiladelphia, PA 19122SPIN auction Gala event enables students to ‘make a difference’This year’s Student Public Interest Network (SPIN) live auction and related activities netted $28,000 to go to support students in summer internships in the publicsector. Students, faculty, alumni and Temple Lawsupporters who love a good auction gathered at thedowntown offices of Duane Morris, a longtime sponsor ofthe annual fundraiser. There was lively bidding on itemsthat included a wedding dress, a week-long stay in HiltonHead, and a Nook Color. SPIN was formed in 1992 to help fund Temple Lawstudents engaging in public interest legal work during theirlaw school careers. Since its inception, SPIN has raisedover $200,000 through the efforts of Temple Law studentsin a series of events culminating in the annual auction.CITY SOLICITOR ADDRESSESCLASS OF 2012MAY 17, 2012Philadelphia City Solicitor Shelley R.Smith was the featured speaker at this year’s law schoolcommencement ceremony. Ms. Smith has served asCity Solicitor since 2008, when Mayor Michael A. Nuttertapped her to be Philadelphia’stop lawyer. As the PhiladelphiaCity Solicitor, Smith is the legal representative for themayor, city council, and all city departments and agencies.She also leads the City ofPhiladelphia Law Department,one of the largest law firms inthe city. She began her tenurewith the Law Department afterserving as the senior clerk tothe Honorable Robert N.C. Nix Jr., former Chief Justice of the Supreme Court ofPennsylvania. Ms. Smith garnered considerable acclaimfor her work both as a trial attorney and as a manager,eventually directing the Affirmative Litigation and Laborand Employment Units before leaving the office after ayear in the position of Chair of the Corporate and TaxGroup. Joining Smith in delivering remarks at commence-ment were Isaac A. Hof ’12, elected by the day divisionas class speaker, and Jeffrey Alan Marshall ’12, electedto represent the evening division.SHELLEY R. SMITHKATHRYN (KIT) SCHROEDER ’14DISPLAYS FLYERS TICKETS.“The good work that these funds enable each yearcannot be overstated,” says Maureen Olives, director ofpublic interest programs at the law school. “More than 140 Temple students will work at internships ranging from the Alaska Public Defender to Community LegalService in Philadelphia to the International Law Institute in Kampala, Uganda. Public interest organizations,government agencies and the judiciary count on theinfusion of our students’ talent and energy each summer to assist needy clients, deliver services, and administerjustice. Our students make a difference in the lives of realpeople and real communities.”CAROLINE POWER ’14 WITH A VINTAGE VANITY FAIRPRINTDONATED BY SPIN AUCTIONEER DARIO PACE.reunion 2012Next >