TEMPLE UNIVERSITY JAMES E. BEASLEY SCHOOL OF LAW LAW SCHOOL AND ALUMNI NEWSSUMMER 2014APRIL 4, 2014At the time of his death at the age of 64, Professor Edward D. Ohlbaum, knownto all as Eddie, had been a member of Temple Law’s faculty for almost thirty years. During thattime, the highly esteemed professor conceived, built and sustained a trial advocacy program anda championship trial team that have earned a national reputation, and that have consistentlydrawn national attention and accolades to Temple Law.Last fall, in recognition of Ohlbaum’s unparalleled achievements at the law school, hiscolleagues began to plan a tribute. Ohlbaum’s wife, the psychologist Karyn L. Scher, remembershis reaction to the plan: “The guest of honor never really wanted to come. While he was knownin some circles as a little bit cocky, he never really wanted to be the center of attention.”Scher says that while he loved his work and was proud of his achievements, Ohlbaum alwaysput his students first. So even though the group planning the tribute included his closeassociates and friends Judges Mitchell Goldberg, Timothy Rice, L. Felipe Restrepo, CarrieCinquanto, Ken Jacobsen, Sara Jacobson and Maureen McCartney, Ohlbaum bridled. Herefused to consider scheduling this tribute while his trial team would be practicing for theNational Trial Competition, saying it would be a distraction. As a consequence, plans for thetribute were delayed until after the team had won regionals and returned from nationals.Sadly, the much-loved husband, father, teacher, attorney, friend, and colleague Edward D.Ohlbaum passed away from cancer on March 13, 2014, leaving an unfillable void at the tributeand in the lives of those who knew him. PASSIONSpeakers at the tribute described the passion with which Ohlbaum built a unique curriculum thatintegrated theory and technique, propelling thousands of skilled trial lawyers into practice inPhiladelphia and around the world.If “passion” was the most repeated noun at the emotionalmemorial gathering, “indefatigable” and “tireless” were the mostused adjectives. In opening the event, Dean JoAnne A. Eppsremembered: “Every year when we close the school for winterbreak, Eddie’s first question would be ‘How do I get in? I need towork and the trial team needs to practice.’” Ohlbaum’s pride and joy was the National Trial Team, whichhe tirelessly coached to victory year after year. The team captured26 regional championships and five national championships, anunparalleled record. “Eddie was the inventor, he was the general, he was thegenius behind it all,” said U.S. District Court Judge Mitchell S.Goldberg ’86 who, along with Andrew Stern ’86, was coached byOhlbaum on Temple Law’s first trial team. “There is no attorney in the Philadelphia legalcommunity who has taught more young lawyers about how justice plays out in a courtroom. Hislegacy will endure through all the careers he touched and enriched.”Edward D. Ohlbaum’76: A tributeTax law scholar served law school for 36 years, started the graduate tax program. MAY 4, 2014Temple Law Schoolmourns the loss of ProfessorEmeritus Joseph W. Marshall Jr. ’54,a legendary tax professor who servedthe law school from 1960 until hisretirement in 1996. “We’ve lost a great one,” saysProfessor Alice Abreu, who hastaught tax law at Temple since 1985.“Many members of the Philadelphiabar owe their knowledge of tax toJoe. He was a member of theCouncil of the Tax Section of thePhiladelphia Bar Association when I met him in the early ’80’s and was already a legend, respected and admired both for his knowledge of tax and for his judgment and humanity.”Born an only child in the Brewerytown neighborhood ofPhiladelphia, Professor Marshall graduated from Northeast HighSchool and served in the Navy during World War II. He returned to Philadelphia to earn an undergraduate degree in economics fromthe University of Pennsylvania and a law degree from Temple. Marshall’s first legal job was with the Philadelphia firm that wouldbecome Duane, Morris & Heckscher, where he worked until joiningthe Temple Law faculty in 1960. He would later return to the firm from 1999 to 2006. Widely recognized as an outstanding educator,Professor Marshall’s rise at the law school was a quick one. Afterjoining the faculty as a lecturer, he quickly rose to associate professorbefore being named a full professor in 1968. He served as actingdean from 1970 to 1971 and again in 1980. In addition to foundingand directing the Graduate Tax Program from 1970 to 1984, Marshalldirected the Graduate Legal Studies Division, as well as the summersessions in Athens and Rome. He also served as the TempleUniversity faculty representative to the NCAA.Members of the faculty remember him fondly as a colleague and aleader. “Joe was a very prominent member of the city’s legalestablishment who chose to dedicate his life to this institution,” saysProfessor Rafael A. Porrata-Doria. “He was also an extremely nice guywho always had a kind word and a helping hand for students, facultyand staff. We will all miss him very much.” Joe Marshall ’54:‘Respected and admired’continued on page twocontinued on page twoNational trial team’swinning record• Regional trial competition champions 27 of last 29 years• 5-time national trial competition champions• National quarterfinalists 17 of last 20 years20091985, UNIVERSITY COUNSEL’S OFFICE2 • TEMPLE ESQ. SUMMER 2014Ohlbaum told this year’s all-female team, who hecoached up to the week he died, “I hate losing, I hate itmore than I love winning.” Team member Emilia McKee ’14said she misses him deeply. “I had no idea what aprofound effect Eddie would have on me. Teams becamefamily. Did we work hard? Of course we did. Because Eddieexpected no less of us. I think it’s fair to say he believed inus more than many of us believed in ourselves.” Judge Goldberg remembered Ohlbaum’s mentorshipand teaching with deep affection, as well as humor: “I havea nagging thought that sometime in the days following thisspeech, Eddie will appear to me and say, ‘Mitch, that was avery good tribute, a great tribute. Now here’s three thingsyou could have done better.’ And he’ll be right.” Graduates of the championship teams have scatteredfar and wide and pursued diverse careers. Luke Reiter ’95,who flew to the tribute from California where he is now atelevision executive and writer, said; “I use what he taughtme every day, not only as a lawyer. . . he was completelycomfortable in his own skin at a time in my own life whereit was important for me to have a role model with thosequalities. He taught us that if something was worth doing, it was worth doing well.”LOYALTYOhlbaum’s love for the Brooklyn Dodgers provided anirresistible metaphorical thread for the tribute. ProfessorRobert J. Reinstein recalled his close friend, describing hisindignation when Walter O’Malley moved the Dodgers outof Brooklyn, saying, ‘‘It was the first time I ever experiencedinjustice and I’ll never forget it.”Reinstein was Law SchoolDean when Ohlbaum wasbuilding the Integrated TrialAdvocacy Program. Heremembers Ohlbaum pushingrelentlessly for more staff andfaculty—never satisfied with thebudget Reinstein was tellinghim he could afford. Ohlbaummarched into his office one daywearing his Dodgers’ cap andbegan his argument: “You canbe Branch Rickey or you canbe Walter O’Malley.” Dean Epps recounted howOhlbaum became deeplyinvolved in the law school’swork in China, co-directing theTemple-China ProsecutorsTraining Program from 2003 to2005. Epps said that they weregranted an audience with the chief monk when she andOhlbaum visited a Tibetan monastery together. The lawschool delegation was momentarily flustered when theywere passed a tray and told that the monk would blesswhatever they placed upon it. After only a moment’shesitation, Ohlbaum offered the Brooklyn Dodgers’ cap thathad accompanied him on the journey.Ohlbaum was also the architect of another star inTemple’s crown, its LL.M. in Trial Advocacy, one of the firstprograms of its kind, and was a founding board member ofthe Pennsylvania Innocence Project at Temple Law School.After law school, Ohlbaum honed his trial skills at theDefender Association of Philadelphia for seven years,eventually leaving to join then-University Counsel and laterlaw school Dean Robert Reinstein and law professorEleanor Myers in Temple’s Office of University Counsel.Myers explained why Ohlbaum lasted less than two yearsin the counsel’s office before accepting a position on thelaw school faculty. “Eddie’s time in the counsel’s office helped him recognize histrue life’s calling,” said Myers. “He was a really good civil litigator butit just didn’t suit him. He would say ‘How do you do this all thetime?’ His full-time client, Temple, was not an underdog; Eddie lovedrepresenting the underdog.” COMPASSIONProfessor Louis Natali wasworking in the defenders’ officewhen Ohlbaum started there,and recalls Ohlbaum’s bravado:“When he first started as adefender, we had meetings todebrief after preliminaryhearings. We’d say, ‘how didyou do today?’ Eddie would say‘I was sensational.’”But, Natali said, his swaggermasked a deep well ofcompassion, and Ohlbaumgrew to be a trusted friend.“When I lost a daughter earlierthis year, Eddie was there forme. He was so compassionate,so compassionate.” And apparently he loved—and excelled at—teaching. In 1994, Ohlbaum was named theinaugural Jack E. Feinberg Professor of Litigation. His advocacyprograms have won awards from the American College of TrialLawyers and the Committee on Professionalism of the American BarAssociation. The author of three books and numerous articles, hetraveled widely to speak on evidence and advocacy at keyinternational and domestic conferences. Ohlbaum was also deeply committed to the Support Center forChild Advocates, the Pennsylvania Innocence Project, and to hissynagogue, Beth Am Israel. He was devoted to his wife Karyn L.Scher, a clinical psychologist, and son Jake, a talented musician andjunior at Berklee College of Music. He is also survived by his sisterEstie and her husband, Ed Lipsit.“He left us way too soon,” concluded Epps. “He was a teacher,and I am left with all the ways in which he continues to teach me.” “Knowing him made me a better person. Everything he did, hedid with passion, he never went halfway,” said Reinstein. “They sayno one is irreplaceable, and I’m not sure if that’s true. I don’t know ifwe can find another Eddie Ohlbaum.”“He had a dry wit in the classroom, an amazing ability to make apoint without overpowering his students,” says son Joseph W.“Chip” Marshall III ’79, who attended Temple Law during hisfather’s tenure and has served on the University Board of Trusteesfor twenty years. Chip was one of eight children Professor Marshalland his wife Catherine raised in Bryn Mawr and Rosemont.“Those of us who are the beneficiaries of the legacy of taxstrength at Temple will continue to be in his debt for years tocome,“ says Abreu. In 1992, former students acknowledged thatdebt by creating the Joseph Marshall Scholarship Fund. Marshallalso received the Lindback Award for Outstanding Teaching; theClass of 1981 Outstanding Professor Award; the class of 1987George P. Williams III Award; and the Law Alumni SpecialAchievement Award.Professor Marshall is survived by, besides his son and wife, sonsJames M., Matthew and Stephen; daughters Catherine Hurley Beanand Elizabeth Anne DiStefano; and 13 grandchildren. Another son,John Anthony, and a daughter, Mary Brooke, died earlier.JOE MARSHALL continued from page 1EDWARD D. OHLBAUM continued from page 1Joseph W. Marshall at Temple Law: A brief chronology 1954 J.D. from Temple Law 1960 Joins Temple Law faculty 1968 Named full professor 1970 Founder, Graduate Tax Program1970-1971 Acting dean1970-1984 Director, Graduate Tax Program 1973 Lindback Award for Outstanding Teaching 1981 Outstanding Professor Award 1987 George P. Williams III Award given by graduating class 1988 Law Alumni Special Achievement Award 1992 Joseph Marshall Scholarship Fund established by former students 1996 Assumed Professor Emeritus statusIN MEMORYTo honor Professor Edward Ohlbaum, the Law School has established theProfessor Edward D. Ohlbaum Fund to support trial advocacy programs.To contribute, go to www.law.temple.edu and click on Make a Gift.Edward Ohlbaum at Temple Law: A brief chronology 1976 Graduates from Temple Law 1976-1984 Joins Philadelphia Defenders Association 1984 Moves to Temple Office of University Counsel 1985 Joins Temple Law faculty, launches national trial team 1989 Named Director of Trial Advocacy and Clinical Legal Education 1992-93 Co-directs LL.M. in Trial Advocacy Program 1993 Named full professor of law 1993 Temple Law is presented with E. Smythe Gambrell Professionalism Award for the Integrated Program in Trial Advocacy, Evidence and Professional Responsibility. 1994 Named inaugural Jack E. Feinberg Professor of Litigation 1995 Coaches trial team to first of three national championships (1995, 1998, 1999)1998, 2002 Emil Gumpert Award for excellence in teaching trial advocacy and clinical education 1998 Cesare Beccaria Award for the advancement of legal education 2001 Friel-Scanlan Award for excellence in scholarship2003-2005 Co-Director, Temple-China Prosecutors Training Program AMONG THE TRIBUTE SPEAKERS WERE (FROM LEFT) PROFESSORSELEANOR MYERS, ROBERT REINSTEIN AND LOU NATALI.IN MEMORYTo make a donation to the Professor Joseph Marshall Scholarship Fund go to www.law.temple.edu and click on Make a Gift.3 • TEMPLE ESQ. SUMMER 2014MARCH 2014Dean JoAnne A. Epps led a delegation on ananniversary tour to Beijing, China and Tokyo, Japan to markTemple Law’s twentieth year of providing legal education inJapan, and the fifteenth year of doing so in China.The group, consisting of Dean Epps, Associate DeansDuncan Hollis and Gregory Mandel, Professor Salil Mehraand Assistant Dean Louis Thompson, first visited withstudents and local faculty at Temple University Japan, wherethe law school has administered the only full-semester U.S.accredited full semester and yearlong LL.M. law program inTemple celebrates20 years teaching law in AsiaDEAN JOANNE EPPS AND PROFESSOR FINBARR MCCARTHY DIRECTOR OF THE TEMPLEJAPAN PROGRAM CONVERSE WITH A GUEST AT RECEPTION FOR THE 20THANNIVERSARY OF TEMPLE LAW IN JAPAN.ASSISTANT DEAN LOUIS THOMPSON, DEAN JOANNE EPPS,AND ASSOCIATE DEAN DUNCAN HOLLIS ON THEMUTIANYU SECTION OF THE GREAT WALL.DUNCAN HOLLIS INASAKUSA, JAPAN. DID YOU KNOW?• U.S. News and Worldranked Temple Law #11 inInternational Law in 2013.• In 2011, Temple enteredinto an exchange partnershipwith Jindal Global Law Schoolin National Capital Region(NCR), India.• Temple Law now offers anLLM or a combined JD/LLM inAsian Law. DIRECTOR OF TSINGHUA-TEMPLE JOHN SMAGULA (LEFT) AT LL.M. COMMENCEMENT CEREMONY. Japan since 1994.In Beijing the grouppresented a seminar on recentdevelopments in U.S.intellectual property law,antitrust law, and cybersecurityto the leadership andmembership of the ChaoyangDistrict Bar Association, thelargest local bar association inBeijing. The delegation reprisedthe seminar in Tokyo, adding apanel on international humanrights developments inCambodia and China. Thatpanel was led by Temple Lawprofessor Jaya-Ramji Nogales,who taught in Tokyo last spring.TEMPLE LAW PROFESSOR SALIL MEHRA ADDRESSED THE CHAOYANGDISTRICT BAR ASSOCIATION.4 • TEMPLE ESQ. SUMMER 2014SPRING 2014 EVENTS AT TEMPLE LAWJan Ting says ‘fraud and abuse’ in asylum systemAPRIL 30, 2014 Professor Jan Ting appeared on a panel ofimmigration and asylum experts in Washington, DC. hosted by the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS). The problemunder discussion: fraud and abuse in the asylum system. The erosion of controls designed to prevent fraud, and theresulting increase in approvals, have led to a 600 percentincrease in applications since 2007.CIS panelists discussed implications for ordinaryimmigration control in places like South Texas, where arapidly growing number of Central Americans crossing illegallyare claiming asylum. Panelists also explored national securityimplications, citing that not only were the Boston Marathonbombers granted asylum, but the Obama administrationannounced earlier this year that it was loosening restrictionson asylum seekers with ties to terrorism.“To my mind, asylum is not and should not be viewed, as some of my colleagues think, as a free-standing humanrights law unrelated to and separate from U.S. immigrationlaw and policy,” said Ting, who was INS AssistantCommissioner for Asylum at the U.S. Department ofJustice from 1990 to 1993 while on leave from Temple Law.“Asylum is part of our immigration system. It is a preciouscommodity that we ought to hold in reserve for the peoplewho really need protection. And if we get careless in that,public support for asylum will and should diminish. Weactually see that phenomenon occurring all over the worldnow. Asylum is not a phenomenon limited to the UnitedStates, but it’s under pressure and demand all over the world, and I think it’s losing political support as a result. Werun the risk, if we open the asylum window too wide, that itmay not, in the future, be available for the people that we allagree need protection.” Ting concluded: “If we’re trying to go tothe most basic question in immigration law,it comes down to a binary choice: Do wewant to limit immigration to the UnitedStates or not? That’s a yes-or-no question .. . And I think our dilemma in the UnitedStates over immigration is based on ourinability to make that basic choice. Ineffect, too many people, including many ingovernment, are saying ‘give me a thirdchoice, I don’t like either of those choices.I don’t like having unlimited immigrationand I don’t like having to enforce a limiteither. Give me a third choice.’ Well, I thinkthere isn’t a third choice.” Judge addresses Class of 2014Theodore McKee was this year’s commencement speaker. MARCH 22, 2014 This year’s featuredcommencement speaker was JudgeTheodore A. McKee. Among the graduatesto whom the Chief Judge of the U.S. Courtof Appeals for the Third Circuit addressedhis remarks was the judge’s daughter, Emilia McKee Vassallo ’14. Judge McKee graduated magna cumlaudefrom Syracuse University College of Law in 1975, where he was inducted into the Order of the Coif, and earnedseveral honors for outstanding academicperformance. He began his legal career at alarge Philadelphia law firm, but left in 1977to begin a career in public service. He hassince been an Assistant United States Attorney, DeputySolicitor to the Law Department of the City of Philadelphia,and General Counsel to the Philadelphia Parking Authority. He was elected to a 10-year term as a Judge of theCourt of Common Pleas for the First Judicial District ofPennsylvania. While seated on the Court of Common Pleas, Judge McKee chaired the Pennsylvania Sentencing Commission. Judge McKee was appointed to the Court of Appeals in 1994 by President Clinton, shortly after being retainedfor a second ten-year term on the Court of Common Pleas.He became Chief Judge in 2010. Daughter of refugees from KhmerRouge wins labor fellowshipAPRIL 16, 2014The Peggy Browning Fund has awarded a ten-week summer fellowship to first year lawstudent Chi-Ser Tran. Tran is spending the fellowshipworking at the U.S. Department of Labor, Office of theSolicitor in Philadelphia. In summer 2014, the Philadelphia-based PeggyBrowning Fund is supporting nearly 70 public interestlabor law fellowships nationwide. With hundreds ofapplicants from more than 140 participating law schools,securing a Peggy Browning Fellowship is highlycompetitive. Successful applicants have both excelled in law school and demonstrated a commitment toworkers’ rights. Chi-Ser Tran is no exception. As the eldest child of Cambodian refugees whoescaped the Khmer Rouge, the responsibility fell on Chi-Ser to help her parents navigate countless legal and financial issues. “Growing up, I witnessed manyimmigrant families like mine face challenges due tolimited English proficiency and unfamiliarity withnavigating certain legal rights. This experience has led to my commitment in serving and advocating onbehalf of underrepresented and vulnerable communities,”says Tran. Prior to law school, Tran was the voting rights organizerat the Asian American Legal Defense and EducationFund, where she coordinated the multilingual electionprotection project, the nation’s biggest project of its kindto-date. In addition, she worked with a wide variety ofcommunity leaders and organizations around the country to enforce and implement language access for limited English-proficient Asian American voters. APRIL 16, 2014Judge Sandra Mazer Moss, the Executive Directorof the Sheller Center for Social Justice at Temple Law School, wasnamed the 2014 recipient of the Sandra Day O’Connor Award by thePhiladelphia Bar Association. The award is presented annually to awoman attorney “who has demonstrated superior legal talent,achieved significant legal accomplishments, and has furthered theadvancement of women in both the profession and the community.”Prior to joining the Sheller Center, Judge Moss was a civil divisionjudicial team leader in the First Judicial District of Pennsylvania.APRIL 24, 2014 Social Justice Center founders Sandra and Stephen Sheller were recognized with the Russell H. Conwell Award fordistinguished service and contribution to Temple University. Thecenter was officially opened last year with the vision of providing an opportunity for Temple Law students and new graduates to buildtheir legal toolkits while partnering with community organizations toaddress the ways in which our country falls short of the promise of “justice for all.”JUDGE MCKEE WITH HIS DAUGHTER, EMILIA MCKEE VASSALLO ’14, A MEMBER OF THE GRADUATING CLASS.JAN TING WITH DAN CADMAN, FORMER INS OFFICIALAND AUTHOR OF THE REPORT ON ASYLUM FRAUD.CHI-SER TRAN ’16,2014 PEGGYBROWNING FELLOW.FOUNDERS OF THE SHELLER CENTER FOR SOCIALJUSTICE AT TEMPLE LAW SCHOOL, SANDRA ANDSTEPHEN SHELLER WITH CENTER DIRECTOR, JUDGESANDRA MAZER MOSS (CENTER).Social justice Center Founders and Director Honored5 • TEMPLE ESQ. SUMMER 2014SPRING 2014 EVENTS AT TEMPLE LAWStudent journal features leading international scholarshipMajor scholars examine writings of Martti KoskenniemiAPRIL 2013Nearly two dozen prominent scholars of international law from Harvard, Yale,Princeton, Columbia, the London School of Economics, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem andother leading universities, met for two days at Temple Law to discuss the writings of internationallawyer and former Finnish diplomat Martti Koskenniemi. Professor Jeffrey L. Dunoff, who organized the event, explains the genesis of this project:“Professor Koskenniemi and I met when we appeared together on a panel at CambridgeUniversity. I invited him to visit Temple, hoping to provide an opportunity for Temple faculty and students tointeract with one of the foremost critical thinkers in contemporary international law. Once he accepted, we organized anevent designed to explore his provocative ideas.” Martti Koskenniemi is a Professor of International Law and Director of the Erik Castren Institute of International Law andHuman Rights at the University of Helsinki. His ground-breaking scholarship is informed by his extensive legal practice,including service as a member of the UN International Law Commission, as an international judge, and as Finland’srepresentative to numerous UN bodies.Symposium sessions were packed with intense and—at times—highly contentious dialogue over issues such asinternational law’s historic and contemporary relation to empire and the ethical responsibilities of international lawyers. The papers from that symposium, edited by Professor Dunoff and including an expanded version of Koskenniemi’skeynote address, have recently been published by The Temple Journal of International and Comparative Law,in a specialvolume entitled “Engaging the Writings of Martti Koskenniemi.” With this volume, the Journalbegins what will be an annual practice of publishing a faculty-organized symposium oncutting-edge issues of international and comparative law.MAY 7, 2014Dean JoAnne A. Epps was honored at thePennsylvania Innocence Project’s fifth anniversary celebration,held at the Kimmel Center in Philadelphia. “The Latin phrase,sine qua non,aptly describes the connection between theProject and Dean Epps,” said Pennsylvania Innocence ProjectExecutive Director Richard Glazer ’69, in presenting the award. The first Innocence Project was launched in 1992 atCardozo Law School. When individuals in the Philadelphialegal community, led by civil rights attorney David Rudovskyand former prosecutor and Pepper Hamilton attorney DavidRichman, sought to establish a chapter in Pennsylvania, theybegan looking for a home. In 2009 the PennsylvaniaInnocence Project opened its offices at Temple Law School,due, according to Glazer, to one person. “Born at the height of the financial crisis, it is not anoverstatement that without JoAnne’s offer to give us a home,we might not be here tonight celebrating our 5th Anniversary as a vital force in the Commonwealth’s criminaljustice community and a respected member of the Innocence Movement,” said Glazer. “Along with hosting the Projectshe had the courage to embrace the unprecedented notion of a cooperative clinic where all the area law schools wouldsend their students to work on innocence cases.”Based at Temple Law School, The Pennsylvania Innocence Project works to free people in the Commonwealth whohave been wrongfully convicted. It is one of 56 U.S.-based and nine non-U.S.-based projects. The Innocence Project’ssmall staff, headed by legal director Marissa Bluestine ’95 and executive director Richard Glazer ’69, includes a staffattorney and an investigator. In order to conduct the labor-intensive investigations and to craft appeals, the Projectharnesses the talent of scores of volunteer attorneys and students from area law firms. Yale Law professor delivers Constitutional Law lecture FEBRUARY 24, 2014 “Religion, Regulation, and theInadequacy of Conscience” was the topic explored by YaleLaw Professor Stephen L. Carter in this year’s Arlin andNeysa Adams Lecture in Constitutional Law. Carter is theWilliam Nelson Cromwell Professor at Yale Law School andthe author of many books, including The Violence ofPeace: America’s Wars in the Age of Obama, God’s Namein Vain: The Wrongs and Rights of Religion in Politics;Civility: Manners, Morals, and the Etiquette of Democracy;The Dissent of the Governed: A Meditation on Law,Religion, and Loyalty; and The Culture of Disbelief: HowAmerican Law and Politics Trivialize Religious Devotion.Carter also writes fiction: his novel The Emperor of OceanParkspent eleven weeks on the New York Times best-sellerlist. His historical novel The Impeachment of AbrahamLincolnwas published in 2012 and his upcoming novel,Back Channel,about the Cuban Missile Crisis, will bepublished in 2014.Successful litigator discusses ‘high stakes trials’MARCH 25, 2014Roberta D. Liebenberg drew upon manyyears of successful litigation experience in presenting the2014 Edward Ross Lecture in Litigation: “Trials andTribulations: Lessons Learned from High Stakes Trials.” A senior partner at Fine, Kaplan and Black, Liebenbergpractices in the areas of class actions and antitrust, andcomplex commercial litigation. She has held leadershiproles for the plaintiff classes in numerous complex antitrustand consumer class actions. In recognition of herachievements, The National Law JournalnamedLiebenberg one of the “50 Most Influential Women Lawyersin America,” and she is the only woman in Pennsylvania tobe named as one of the state’s “Top Ten Super Lawyers.” FROM LEFT: ARLIN ADAMS, STEPHEN CARTER, JOANNE EPPS.Dean Epps Honored by PennsyLvania Innocence ProjectFROM LEFT: KIM LANE SCHEPPELE, PRINCETON UNIVERSITY'S WOODROW WILSONSCHOOL; JEFFREY DUNOFF, TEMPLE LAW; AND MARTTI KOSKENNIEMI, UNIVERSITYOF HELSINKI.KEYNOTE SPEAKER MARTTI KOSKENNIEMI.6 • TEMPLE ESQ. SUMMER 20141970sJAY C. GLICKMAN ’71,a partner at theLansdale law firm of Rubin, Glickman,Steinberg and Gifford, was recentlyhonored with the Malcolm A. SchweikerAward by the Boy Scouts of America,Cradle of Liberty Council and Century Club in recognitionof his outstanding contribution to the community.Glickman, whose practice focuses on estate planning andestate administration, is an active member of thecommunity, serving as an officer and board member of theMontgomery Township Planning Commission, MontgomeryTownship Open Space Committee, the Souderton-TelfordRotary Club and the Souderton-Telford Fish, Game andForestry Association. He also hosts a radio show on WNPV.In March 2014, The Interfaith Center ofGreater Philadelphia honored LAWRENCESILVERMAN ’73at the fourth annual Dareto Understand Interfaith Awards andBenefit Concert at the Academy of NaturalSciences. Silverman, a partner in thePhiladelphia office of Litchfield Cavo, is afounding member of the Interfaith Center. He has alsoserved as president of his synagogue, Or Hadash, and as alongtime member of the Jewish Community RelationsCouncil, where he was the vice president for interreligiousaffairs. Since joining the board of the Interfaith Center,Silverman has served as treasurer, legal counsel and, forthe last three years, chair. In March 2014, MARC ROBERT STEINBERG ’73, the managing partner at Rubin, Glickman, Steinberg andGifford, was recently named an MCAPHero by the Montgomery Child AdvocacyProject, a non-profit corporation thatprovides pro bono legal services andsupport to children in Montgomery County who are victimsof abuse or who are involved in a proceeding in whichparents or guardians are adversaries. Steinberg is a pastpresident of the Montgomery Bar Association and iscurrently the president of the board of directors of theMontgomery Child Advocacy Project. Since 1990, he hasbeen an adjunct instructor of trial advocacy at Temple Law. THEODORE SIMON ’74,a Philadelphia criminal defenselawyer of the Law Offices of Theodore Simon, recentlyjoined a panel entitled “High Profile Cases in the Media”presented to the Pennsylvania Bar Association’s civillitigation section.NOTESClassRICHARD STANGER ’74 was profiled in Bloomburg Newsforhis role as one of the primary authors of “a little-noticedpiece of a 1978 tax law, an 869-word insert” thateventually established 401(k)’s in the Internal RevenueCode. Stanger is described as the “technical expertcharged with shaping it into its final form.” Today he ischief executive officer of the New York City-basedStangerCarlson, a human resources consulting business.In April 2014, CHRISTOPHER LEE ’76wasinducted into the National Academy ofDistinguished Neutrals. Lee is ashareholder at the Philadelphia law firm of Jacoby Donner.PETER H. STOCKMANN ’78has joined theSyracuse, NY office of Bond Schoeneck &King in the intellectual property and technology practice.With more than 36 years of systems engineering experience,Stockmann has five patents awarded and five pending. NEIL A. MORRIS ’79, chair of The Philadelphia Labor andEmployment Group of Offit Kurman, recently presented“Act 111 Arbitration For Police and Firefighters Unions” tothe Government Finance Officers Association ofPennsylvania, East Conference. Morris specializes in theareas of labor and employment, and has served asspecial/labor counsel for more than 35 Pennsylvaniatownships and boroughs, the County of Bucks and manyprivate employers. 1980sJOHN P. PIETROVITO ’80 began a three-year term on thePennsylvania Bar Association board of governors in May2014. Pietrovito, an associate in the Office of J. HowardLangdon in Muncy, PA, is a former president of theLycoming Law Association and serves on the board ofdirectors of North Penn Legal Services.WALTER J. SKIERSKI JR. ’83,Deputy Southwestern DivisionCounsel for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, was recentlyhonored with the 2013 Bert Pettinato Award for PublicService. Skierski has been an attorney with the Corps ofEngineers for eight years in addition to serving as a judgeadvocate in the U.S. Air Force for 22 years. While on activeduty with the U.S. Air Force, Skierski deployed as a staffjudge advocate for Operations Desert/Shield/Storm andUphold Democracy. His final assignment was as theCommander of Air Force ROTC Detachment 410, andProfessor of Aerospace Studies at the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, MN. He retired at the rank oflieutenant colonel.An article by DANIEL J. SIEGEL ’84,“Distracted DrivingCases: The Need for An Evidentiary Rule,” was publishedin the Pennsylvania Bar Association Quarterlyin October2013. Siegel is the principal of the Law Office of Daniel J.Siegel in Havertown, PA and the author of PennsylvaniaWorkers’ Compensation Law: The Basics: A Primer for NewLawyers, General Practitioners & Others. NANCY WINKLER ’84,a partner atEisenberg Rothweiler Winkler Eisenberg &Jeck, was recently a panelist at The LegalIntelligencer’sWomen in the ProfessionRoundtable. Winkler is president of thePhiladelphia Trial Lawyers Association andserves on the board of governors of thePennsylvania Association for Justice.FRANK C. BOTTA ’85,an attorney at the Philadelphia firm ofEckert Seamans Cherin & Mellott, was electedsecretary/treasurer of the Transportation LawyersAssociation. Botta is a member of Eckert Seamans’ laborand employment law practice and co-chair of thetransportation group AMY R. STERN ’89focused on divorce,custody, support laws and equitabledistribution in a speech to theMontgomery County Paralegals Associationin February 2014. Stern is a partner at theLansdale, PA firm of Rubin, Glickman,Steinberg and Gifford, where she haspracticed family law and mediation since 1995. She alsoserves on the board of directors of the Women’s Center ofMontgomery County and is a community ambassador forthe ALS Association Greater Philadelphia Chapter.1990sIn March 2014, Governor Tom Corbett announced thenomination of ALBERT MEZZAROBA ’90to the PennsylvaniaLabor Relations Board. Previously, Mezzaroba wasPresident and CEO of the Lower Bucks Hospital in BristolTownship, PA. He also was President and CEO of thePennsylvania Convention Center Authority and chiefcounsel to the Office of the President of the PhiladelphiaCity Council. Mezzaroba also currently serves as the boardchair for the Reading Terminal Market.Alycia Horn ’89 and Joe Tucker ’89 receive Impact AwardAlums support diversity through scholarship and mentorship. APRIL 27, 2014 Each spring the Temple University Alumni Association recognizes alumni and friends who have provenan inspiration to others in their support of Temple University. Among those selected to receive this year’s Impact Awardswere Temple Law alumni ALYCIA HORN ’89and JOE TUCKER JR. ’89.Generous and strategic in their support of Temple’sBeasley School of Law, Philadelphia attorneys and formerclassmates Horn and Tucker take a genuine interest in thestudents they support through the Horn-TuckerScholarship, which they established in 2010. Thescholarship supports Temple Law students whodemonstrate a financial need, with particular emphasis onmembers of the Black Law Students Association Chapter. The couple’s financial support is just part of theirgenerosity to Temple Law. Each year, they host the annualBlack Law Student Association brunch at their Mt. Airyresidence. Not only do they open their home, but alsoprovide mentorship and advice to current students. Horn and Tucker met as first year law students in1986 and were married after graduation. Today, Hornworks in-house with Comcast in the cable company’slegal group. Tucker worked for some of the city’s top lawfirms as a litigator before opening his own law firm,Tucker Legal Group, where he heads the ten-lawyerpractice, representing Fortune 500 companies as well asseveral universities, including Temple. FROM LEFT: JOHN CAMPOLONGO, PRESIDENT OF THE TEMPLEUNIVERSITY ALUMNI ASSOCIATION; ALYCIA HORN ’89,BARBARA ERNICO, CHAIR OF THE TUAA AWARDS COMMITTEE;AND JOE TUCKER ’89.Hamburg, Rubin, Mullin, Maxwell & Lupinannounced that BERNADETTE KEARNEY’97 was recently elected to partnership.Kearney is a member of the firm’s realestate and zoning department. In April 2014, KELLY PHILLIPS ERB, JD ’97,LLM IN TAXATION ’99,of The Erb LawFirm in Paoli, PA, received the inauguralPennsylvania Bar Association Solo andSmall Firm Practice Section Award duringthe PBA annual meeting. She is thetreasurer of the PBA Solo and Small FirmPractice Section Council and is a memberof the PBA tax law section and PBA Commission onWomen in the Profession. She writes extensively about taxesand is the author of the “Taxgirl” blog for Forbes.com.Legal Aid Society of Middle Tennessee and theCumberlands has named BARBARA GUNN LARTEY ’98as itsnew victims’ advocate. Previously, Lartey worked as abilingual legal advocate at the Tennessee Coalition to EndDomestic and Sexual Violence. Klehr Harrison Harvey Branzburg attorney LISA LORI ’99,apartner in the litigation department, joined the board oftrustees of Marywood University in Scranton, PA. Lori, atrial lawyer and business adviser, recently represented theNewspaper Guild of Greater Philadelphia.2000sJOSHUA H. NIMS ’01,Operations Manager for SchuylkillRiver Development Corporation, spoke at the 2014TEDxPhiladelphia. Nims, a lifelong skateboarder and co-founder of Franklin’s Paine Skatepark Fund, was one of 19speakers selected from more than 500 applicants seekingto present at the sold-out event held at Temple PerformingArts Center.RHONDA K. GRUBBS ’03recentlyaddressed the Eastern PennsylvaniaAssociation of School PersonnelAdministrators about the Affordable CareAct. Grubbs is a labor and employmentattorney in the education law group of thePhiladelphia firm of Wisler Pearlstine.HEATHER A. RITCH ’03has been promotedto partner in the Philadelphia office ofReed Smith. Ritch is a member of the lifesciences and health industry group. CRAIG TARASZKI ’03recently joinedJohnson, Pope, Bokor, Ruppel & Burns,where he will practice in the real estate group in the St.Petersburg, FL office. In May 2013, C. DAVID PEDRI ’04wasappointed the first chief county solicitorfor Luzerne County, PA under the county’snew home rule government.ANTHONY MOWRY ’05recently joined hisfamily’s law practice in his native Venice,FL. There he will focus on estate planning, elder law, estateadministration, and trust and estate litigation. Prior to7 • TEMPLE ESQ. SUMMER 2014 Ernest Kardas Class of 1961 Donald C. Marino Class of 1963 John G. McDougall Class of 1966 G. Bradley Rainer Class of 1972 Robert W. Doyle Class of 1976IN MEMORIAMTEMPLE ESQ.welcomes news and photos of our alumni/ae.Please include: Full name, class, degree, and a way to reachyou if we need to confirm information.Please send us your news and headshot for inclusion in ClassNotes at lawalum@temple.edu.SEND US YOUR NEWS!The Securities and Exchange Commission has namedG. JEFFREY BOUJOUKOS ’92the associate regional directorfor enforcement in the Philadelphia office. As the regionaltrial counsel since joining the SEC in 2009, Boujoukos hassupervised the Philadelphia office’s trial unit. In his newrole, Boujoukos will oversee the enforcement effortscovering the Mid-Atlantic region.KAMAL JAFARNIA ’92has joined the international law firm ofGreenberg Traurig as of counsel in its REIT, corporate andsecurities and financial regulatory and compliancepractices in New York. He previously practiced at Alston &Bird in New York. The Philadelphia Bar Association recently appointed DANIEL JECK ’92,of Eisenberg, Rothweiler, Winkler,Eisenberg & Jeck, as the association’s state civil law sectionliaison to the Philadelphia Trial Lawyers Association for 2014.GREGORY RUTCHIK ’92was invited to lecture last fall atTemple Beijing and separately at Temple University Japan.Rutchik, who is fluent in Japanese and has worked onimport-export, cross-border technology transactions,international arbitrations, lobbying and governmentaladvocacy, as well as art brokerage, is a solo practitioner inSanta Monica, CA. ERIC VOS ’92is the new Federal Public Defender for theDistrict of Puerto Rico. Vos has worked with the FederalDefenders’ Office since 1996, first as a trial attorney in theEastern District of Pennsylvania for ten years andsubsequently in the District of Maine for three years. Since2009, he has been an attorney advisor at the DefenderServices Office in the legal policy and training division,during which time he traveled to dozens of districtsincluding Puerto Rico. SCOTT F. GRIFFITH ’93presented aprogram on the U.S. Constitution tostudents and teachers from Philadelphia’sHoly Cross Parish School in May 2014.The Constitution Program is presentedannually by Rawle & Henderson inpartnership with the Women for GreaterPhiladelphia, stewards of Laurel Hill Mansion in EastFairmount Park, where the event is held. Griffith is apartner in the Philadelphia office of Rawle & Henderson,where he concentrates his practice in the areas ofenvironmental, toxic and mass torts, product liability,professional liability, and white collar criminal defense. MICHAEL B. JONES ’93,a partner with the Aliquippa, PAfirm of McMillen Urick Tocci Fouse & Jones, began athree-year term on the Pennsylvania Bar Association boardof governors where he will represent lawyers fromArmstrong, Beaver, Butler, Lawrence and Mercer counties. ANTHONY JAMES URBAN, JD ’94, LLM IN TRIAL ADVOCACY ’97,an attorney with Urban Law Offices in Pottsville, PA, is thenew president of the Schuylkill County Bar Association. JULIE BONASSO ’95has joined Bowles Rice’s regionalenergy team in the firm’s Morgantown, WV office. Shepreviously worked as senior director at Mylan Inc. joining the practice, Mowry was a staff attorney at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit and served for six years in the U.S. Air Force Judge AdvocateGeneral’s Corps. Following law school, ABIGAIL PERKISS ’07earned a Ph.D.in history from Temple and is now an assistant professorfor African American History at Kean University. Her newbook, Making Good Neighbors: Civil Rights, Liberalism, andIntegration in Postwar Philadelphia,was published this yearby Cornell University Press.2010sJONAS K. SEIGEL, LLM IN TRIAL ADVOCACY’11was named Young Lawyer of the Yearby the New Jersey State Bar Association.Seigel is a partner in the personal injuryand medical malpractice firm of SeigelCapozzi Law in Ridgewood, NJ. This pastyear, Seigel was a trustee of both theBergen and Passaic County Bar Associations, as well as onthe Board of Governors of the New Jersey Association forJustice. He is also in line to become chair of the NewJersey State Bar Association’s Young Lawyer’s Division. In2013, he founded the Seigel Capozzi Charity Fund, whichdonated two thousand backpacks to children in Paterson,NJ public schools.The Wilmington, DE firm of Fish & Richardson has addedassociate CHRISTOPHER WINTER ’12to its litigation group,where he will focus on intellectual property and patentlitigation. Capehart Scatchard announced that GRANT J. HENDERSON ’13and VORIS M. TEJADA JR. ’13have joined the firm in its Mt. Laurel, NJ office. Henderson practices in the firm’sworkers’ compensation department and Tejada practices inthe commercial litigation department.Alums form firmMARCH 2014 Temple Law alumni MARK E. CEDRONE ’85(right) and JOSEPH D. MANCANO ’99announced theformation of the new Philadelphia litigation firm ofCedrone & Mancano. Cedrone previously operated TheLaw Office of Mark E. Cedrone, and Mancano was mostrecently at the business litigation firm of PietragalloGordon Alfano Bosick & Raspoanti, where he was chairof the white collar defense group and a member of thecommercial litigation group. TEMPLE ESQ.published by the Temple University Beasley School of Law for alumni and friends. JoAnne A. Epps, DeanPublications Director: Janet Goldwater, Art Director: Gene Gilroy,Photography: Joseph Labolito, Kelly & Massa, Ryan Brandenberg,Janet Goldwater. Send letters and comments to: Janet Goldwater, Temple Esq.,Temple University James E. Beasley School of Law, 1719 N. BroadStreet, Room 510, Philadelphia, PA 19122. Email:janet.goldwater@temple.edu, Fax: 215.204.1185.To change your email, home or office address: lawalum@temple.edu or 215.204.1187TEMPLE UNIVERSITY JAMES E. BEASLEY SCHOOL OF LAWLAW SCHOOL AND ALUMNI NEWSSUMMER 2014VISIT OUR WEBSITE: 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 19122Sotomayor Diversity Awardgoes to Dean EppsMARCH 11, 2014 “I feel a solidarity to Justice Sotomayor,we have both lived a dream,” said Dean JoAnne A. Eppsin accepting the Philadelphia Bar Association’s JusticeSonia Sotomayor Diversity Award at the Association’squarterly meeting. The PBA bestows the award annually to “recognize anindividual or entity that has demonstrated a strongcommitment, and has made substantial contributions todiversity and promoting full and equal participation andinclusion in the legal profession.”“I am profoundly grateful for the opportunities that Ihave been given to do more than I or my parents everthought possible,” said Epps, who joined the Temple Lawfaculty in 1985 and has been dean since 2008. “We have worked hard as a nation to remove thebarriers that once shut people out on the basis of theirrace, gender or orientation, and both I and the Justicehave been able to dream bigger dreams as a result of that work. I believe JusticeSotomayor would agree: Diversity is more than just tearing down barriers, it isembracing and celebrating the differences. . . When we understand diversity notas an accommodation of difference, but as a celebration of it, we set our sights ona horizon far beyond what we had thought possible.” A champion for women and minorities within the profession, Epps is a three-time honoree by Lawyers of Colormagazine as one of the 100 most influentialblack lawyers in the country. Epps is a member of the Consortium for Women’sLeadership, based at the Center for Women in the Law at the University of TexasSchool of Law; a member of the board of the National Association of WomenLawyers Foundation; and is active in both the American Law Institute and theAssociation of American Law Schools.Temple Law granted charter by Order of the CoifGraduating students elected to membershipMARCH 2014When Temple Law School was granted a charter this spring to establish a chapter of the U.S. Order of the Coif, it joined a prestigious—andhistoric—tradition. Founded in 1902, the honor society of law schoolshas roots stretching back more than a century in theU.S. The history of the society, however, goes backmuch further. It began with a tradition in the medievalera, when distinguished lawyers, known as sergeants-at-law, were entitled to the right to wear the coif—a wig orhead-covering most often associated with Englishbarristers. These men, who later added the wigs to theirdaily outfits, became known as sergeants of the coif.“I’m particularly pleased about Temple’s membership in the Order because I think it is anaffirmation of our core philosophy that academicscholarship and experiential learning share a deeplyreciprocal relationship,” wrote Dean JoAnne A. Epps inthe Dean’s Blog.“This philosophy has informed many of our mostsuccessful initiatives, from our theory-and-practicesymposium series to our award-winning integrated trialadvocacy and integrated transactional programs. It’s notjust that both are necessary for a legal education to becomplete; it’s that they need each other to reach theirfull potential in the practice of law.”Establishing a chapter means that Temple Lawstudents who graduate in the top ten percent of theirclass may be invited to become members of the Orderof the Coif. At this year’s May commencementceremony, for the first time ever, 27 graduating TempleLaw students were elected to membership in this select society.President Bill Clinton Delivers the Keynote Addressfor Temple University Law Foundation APRIL 10, 2014 “We needbright young lawyers to dosomething in public service, to serve either while they’remaking a living otherwise, or to do it full-time,” President Bill Clinton told the audience at the Liacouras Center atTemple University.Dean Epps with Justice Sotomayorin July 2009, when Epps traveledto Washington, DC to speak onbehalf of the National Associationof Women Lawyers in support ofJustice Sotomayor’s appointmentto the Supreme Court. Epps hadco-chaired a NAWL committeethat evaluates Supreme Courtnominees. PBA honors Dean for ‘promoting full and equal participation and inclusion in the legal profession’Next >