19361950 195519641980April 10, 2014: At the invitation of the Law Foundation,President Bill Clintonwill take his place on thelist of U.S. presidentswho have visited Temple. Temple University James E. Beasley School of LawLaw School and Alumni NewsNovember 201339447 tls nov13_FinalCover_layout 1 11/20/13 10:39 aM page 1Dear graduates and friends: Temple Law School is off to a spectacular academicyear with the support of our graduates and friends whohave donated so generously. It is always thrilling togather together the names of all the individuals, lawfirms, granting agencies and corporations that jointogether to support our law school.I am particularly pleased to report that 81 members of ourfaculty and staff donated this year.Those gifts, combined with thedonations from 76% of themembers of the Class of 2013,resulted in a total gift of $50,000toward student scholarships. On April 10, 2014, we are lookingforward to the first major event to be hosted by our Law Foundation,when President Bill Clinton willpresent remarks. This event will beheld at the Peter J. Liacouras Centerand will also include GovernorEdward Rendell as the moderator of a question and answer sessionfollowing the President’s remarks.Be sure to attend this very specialpresentation that will help grow ourLaw Foundation endowment and extend our BarrackLoan Repayment Assistance Program.The opening of the Stephen and Sandra Sheller Centerfor Social Justice in October was exciting for those of us who have worked to put it in place. I look forward toreporting to you on the work of the Center, which willbegin in the January 2014 semester with the help of ourstudents, Clinical Professor Jennifer Lee, and ExecutiveDirector Sandra Mazer Moss.As you will read in this issue, the PennsylvaniaInnocence Project at Temple Law School won its firstgrant of a new trial this fall(see article on page 3). We are very proud of the students working at theProject and the law faculty and graduates who comprise its leadership.Thank you for your support of Temple Law School.JoAnne A. Epps, DeanMessage from the DeanOctober 17, 2013 Dean Epps welcomes guests to theSheller Center for Social Justice ribbon-cutting ceremony.Cover photo: In 1948, President Harry Trumanspoke at the University's Baptist Temple. 39447 tls nov13_FinalCover_layout 1 11/20/13 10:39 aM page 2“Remarks by President Bill Clinton”Moderated by Hon. Edward RendellLiacouras CenterTemple University Main CampusThursday, April 10, 2014To learn more about President Clinton’s lecturego towww.law.temple.edu/lawfoundation-lectureOn Thursday, April 10, 2014, whenPresident Bill Clinton addresses anaudience of more than 10,000 at Temple’sPeter J. Liacouras Center, he will join the list of eight U.S. presidents who have visitedTemple University. President Clinton wasinvited to speak by the Law Foundation, agroup founded in 1959 to promoteexcellence at Temple’s Beasley School ofLaw. The event will be moderated by theformer Pennsylvania Governor Edward G.Rendell, who chaired the DemocraticNational Committee during the 2000 presidential election.Since Temple University’s founding in1884, a total of eight U.S. Presidents havevisited the publicly-funded university toreceive honorary degrees, deliver lectures,support causes, or to campaign for office. Four chief executives visited while theywere in office. Franklin D. Roosevelt visitedin 1936 to join in the dedication of SullivanHall, Temple’s first freestanding library.Harry S. Truman came in 1948. Lyndon B.Johnson visited in 1964, to speak aboutGreat Society programs, and Jimmy Cartervisited in 1980 while Marvin Wachman was President of the University. Four civic leaders visited prior toachieving the Presidency. Dwight D.Eisenhower visited while he was President of Columbia University, the year before he assumed the position of SupremeCommander of NATO. Temple awardedRichard M. Nixon an honorary degree in1955, when he was U.S. Vice President. In 1960, then-Senator John F. Kennedyaddressed students while campaigning forPresident. And, most recently, PresidentBarack Obama made a campaign stop onTemple’s campus in 2008. President Clinton will be the first to visitTemple in his post-presidency years. Afterleaving the White House, President Clintonestablished the William J. ClintonFoundation with the mission to “improveglobal health, strengthen economies,promote healthier childhoods, and protectthe environment.” Today, the foundation hasstaff and volunteers around the worldworking to improve lives through severalinitiatives, including the Clinton HealthAccess Initiative, which provides 4.5 million people living with HIV/AIDS with access to lifesaving drugs. Ralph alswang/Clinton FoundationPresident Bill Clintoncomes to Temple39447 tls nov13_FinalCover_layout 1 11/20/13 10:39 aM page 3Pond ’84 and Lehocky ’85 fund Trial Advocacy scholarship Proud Temple Law alums SAMUEL H. POND ’84 and JERRY M. LEHOCKY ’85 have found a way to give back to the institution that launched their highly successful careers in law. The two partners at the Philadelphia-based workers’compensation andSocial Security disability firm of Pond Lehocky Stern Giordano have established the Pond and Lehocky Scholarship Fund in Trial Advocacy, to be awarded annually to a student with a focus on trial advocacy.“We share a bond of pride in having attended Temple Law,” says Pond, “and we also share a debt of gratitude for what that education made possible.” Lehocky agrees: “That gratitude is what prompted us to establish this scholarship. We are excited and honored to be able to provide this yearly award to a Temple Law student who understands and emphasizes the importance of trial advocacy.” Pond and Lehocky first met in law school, and formed a friendship that has flourished. They have remained connected ever since—as classmates, opposing counsel, colleagues, partners and friends.Both began their careers as in-house counsel for PMA Insurance Group. Pond went on to join what was then known as Martin Clemens Banks and Pond in 1988, dedicating his practice exclusively to workers’ compensation litigation and defending the rights of injured workers. Lehocky was hired by Duane Morris as a workers’ compensation defense litigator to handle all cases against Pond’s firm. They went up against each other in court for a year or so before Lehocky was asked to join their firm, which he did in 1991. In 2010, they founded Pond Lehocky Stern Giordano, where Pond is managing partner. Headquartered in Philadelphia, Pond Lehocky is the largest firm of its kind in the region and represents workers’ compensation clients throughout Pennsylvania and Social Security disability clients in all 50 states, as well as Puerto Rico.Both Lehocky and Pond are active in professional associations outside the firm. Pond is a member and past president of the Philadelphia Trial Lawyers Association and the association’s treasurer for the Committee for a Better Tomorrow. He is the past chair and current board member of the workers’compensation section of the Philadelphia Bar Association, past chair of the education and ethics committee and a member of the Pennsylvania workers’compensation section executive committee. Pond was recently appointed by the Speaker of the House of Pennsylvania to the workers’ compensation advisory board and is the president of Union Services Access, a legal network for unions and their members.Lehocky is the current president of The Pennsylvania Association for Justice, the first workers’ compensation attorney to hold that position. Previously, he was chairman of the Pennsylvania Trial Lawyers Workers’Compensation Section. He co-authored House Bill 2738, creating the Uninsured Employers Guaranty Fund, which was signed into law in 2006. 2 • TEMPLE ESQ. NOVEMBER 2013Seeking justice for allOCTOBER 17, 2013 A ribbon-cutting ceremony tointroduce the Stephen and Sandra Sheller Center for Social Justice coincided with benefactor Stephen Sheller’s birthday. Attending the gala reception were Professor Jaya Ramji-Nogales, who chaired the Sheller Center faculty committee with Sandra and Stephen Sheller; Hon. Sandra Mazer Moss ’75 (left) who will direct the Center, with Lauren Sheller, Esq. Prof. Ramji-Nogales, Stephen and Sandra ShellerSecond year law student Amanda ReedHon. Sandra Mazer Moss ’75, Lauren ShellerSamuel H. Pond ’84 Jerry M. Lehocky ’8539447 TempleLaw ESQ_Nov13_final_Layout 1 11/19/13 2:45 PM Page 4$500,000 additional funds donated to Justin Ingerman Scholarship FundThree students can graduate debt-free due to the generosity of the Ingerman family. Last year the law school announced a new scholarship honoring Justin Ingerman. Sadly, Justin Michael Ingerman died in 2009, when he was a student at Brooklyn Law School. Wanting to establish something permanent in Justin’s memory, hisparents Brad and Laurie ’82 Ingerman and sister Danielle established the Justin Ingerman Foundation, providing the funding for the scholarships. The first Ingerman Scholar, selectedlast fall, was Albert F. Moran ’14. Moran, a 2009 graduate of the University of Pennsylvania, taught math at a charter school in Philadelphia as part of Teach for America before coming to Temple Law. This year, when the Ingermans supplemented the fund with a generous half-million dollar gift, the law school was able to select two Ingerman Scholars from the entering class whose tuition will also be completely covered: Adam W. Johnson ’16 and Furrah J. Qureshi ’16.Ingerman Scholars in good academic standing at the end of the year are eligible to renew annually until graduation. Albert Moran did just that and continues to attend law school without incurring staggering debt, due to the generosity of the Ingerman family.TEMPLE ESQ. NOVEMBER 2013 • 3Pennsylvania Innocence Project claims first victoryLaw students work alongside attorneys to win new trial for defendant convicted of murder in 1998.OCTOBER 8, 2013 The Pennsylvania InnocenceProject at Temple University Beasley School of Law has won a new trial for Eugene Gilyard and Lance Felder, convicted in the 1995 murder of North Philadelphia store owner Thomas Keal. Gilyard and a co-defendant, Lance Felder, were convicted in 1998, more than two years after the crime. The only evidence presented against the two men (16 at the time of the murder, 18 at the time of trial) was the testimony of witnesses who identified them two years after the murder. In announcing her decision, Judge Rose Marie DeFino-Nastasi cited to the “extremely weak” case against the two men at trial, especially compared to the “detailed” and fully corroborated confession of one of the actual murderers. Gilyard’s case was argued by the Pennsylvania Innocence Project, while co-defendant Felder was represented by Widener law professor Jules Epstein.The Pennsylvania Innocence Project (PIP) was launched at the Beasley School of Law in 2009. At the PIP, law students fromTemple, Villanova, Drexel University and Penn gain credit and valuable experience while investigating applicants’ cases under the supervision of clinical faculty, PIP staff, and volunteer attorneys. Temple Law alumnus Richard C. Glazer ’69 is PIP’s executive director and Marissa Bluestine ’95 serves as the organization’s legal director. Temple alumni legal director Marisa Bluestine ’95 (above) and executive director Richard Glazer ’69 run the Temple-based Pennsylvania Innocence Project. Eugene Gilyard (left) has been granted a new trial. 39447 TempleLaw ESQ_Nov13_final_Layout 1 11/21/13 11:25 AM Page 5Forthepastthreeyears,PIPhasworkedtoinvestigateandlitigatethematterforGilyard. Hundredsofhoursfromthestaffinvestigatorandattorney,bolsteredbycountlesshoursfrom lawstudents,yieldedcompellingevidenceestablishingnotonlyGilyard’sinnocence,butthe identitiesofthemenwhocommittedthecrime.PennsylvaniaInnocenceProjectLegal DirectorMarissaBluestine’95notedthatthisisthefirstcasethesmall,independently-fundednonprofitorganizationhasbroughtthroughtoahearing.4 • TEMPLE ESQ. NOVEMBER 2013‘What’s so funny about the law?’New Yorker cartoon editor joins Laura Little to answer that question. OCTOBER 25, 2013 Professor Laura Little first met Robert Mankoff, thecartoon editor of the New Yorker, at a conference of humor scholars inTexas, where the keynote speaker was Dr. Shaquille O’Neal, better known as Shaq. It is a little known fact that Shaq has a Ph.D. in education where he focused on humor as a management style. Professor Little has focused on a different aspect of funniness, and writes and lectures widely on the way various legal rules regulate humor—including rules from intellectual property, contract, tort, and constitutional law. “Law and humor intersect in many ways,” says Little. “Humorous communications often cast law in a comedic light. From these communications, one can gain an understanding of how society perceives the law. Law can also regulate humor, particularly through civil causes of action that evaluate whether liability should attach to a communication that a defendant claims is ‘just a joke.’” In a laugh-filled CLE, titled “What’s so funny about the law,” Little and Mankoff shared the stage to present an overview of the ways in which law and humor intersect, and explored the ways in which cartoons (particularly New Yorker cartoons) depict legal matters. Mankoff has a long history of exploring what the public finds amusing, or even downright funny. A cartoonist as well as an editor, he submitted more than 500 cartoons to The New Yorker for more than two years before he had his first one published in 1977. One of his cartoons—captioned “No, Thursday’s out. How about never—is never good for you?”—is The New Yorker’s most widely reprinted cartoon. Mankoff was made the New Yorker’s cartoon editor in 1997 and has brought in a new generation of cartoonists, including a number of female contributors. It was under Mankoff’s stewardship that, in 2005, the magazine began using the last page of each issue for the popular caption contest. Reconciling pride, family and communitySymposium addresses ‘the most vulnerable members of the LGBT community—its youth.’OCTOBER 19, 2013 Despite many advancements in the area of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender civil rights, youth in that community continue to experience high levels ofharassment, family rejection, bullying, violence, and isolation. “As the nation’s attention is focused on the recent advances in marriage equality, it is more important than ever to redouble our efforts to reach some of the most vulnerable members of the LGBT community—its youth,” says conference organizerProfessor Nancy J. Knauer. Knauer is the I. Herman Stern Professor of Law and Director of Law and Public Policy Programs at Temple. The daylong event at Temple Law brought together more than twenty scholars, advocates, and practitioners who explored the challenges and issues facing LGBT youth from a variety of perspectives and across disciplines. Topics included working with rejecting families, the school-to-prison pipeline, safe-school initiatives, out-of-home placements,homelessness, resilience, and best practices for legal personnel. Featured speakers were Martha AlbertsonFineman, Robert W. Woodruff Professor of Law at Emory University and Director, Vulnerability and The Human Condition Initiative and Caitlin Ryan, Director of the Family Acceptance Project.Symposium keynote speaker Professor Martha A. FinemanDisabilities group honors Temple Legal Aid OCTOBER 30, 2013 Liberty Resources, a Philadelphiaorganization that advocates and promotes independent living for persons with disabilities, honored Temple clinical professor Spencer Rand and the Temple Legal Aid Office, citing the office’s work to “help hundreds of residents with civil rights matters involving housing and employment discrimination, social security income disputes, as well as wills and estate planning.” For nearly a decade, Temple has provided free legal advice to persons with disabilities during weekly legal clinics, supervised by Rand, and held at Liberty Resources. As a direct result of their efforts, a significant number of low-income residents and persons with disabilities are better able to live independently and participate fully in the community, which was applauded as “a great step in securing civil rights for all citizens.” 39447 TempleLaw ESQ_Nov13_final_Layout 1 11/19/13 2:45 PM Page 6TEMPLE ESQ. NOVEMBER 2013 • 5Temple grads lead in associate hiring at local firms The Legal Intelligencer reports that Temple Law School once again has the highest representation in 2013 hiring at area law firms, with 28 recent graduates hired as associates. Penn Law followed Temple with 19 graduates placed. The class also included 17 Villanova graduates, nine Rutgers-Camden graduates, four Widener graduates, and three each from Drexel’s Earle Mack School of Law and Penn State Dickinson.Beijing LL.M. class is largest ever AUGUST 5, 2013 Temple Professor John Smagula and TsinghuaProfessor Li Hong welcomed the incoming class of LL.M. students enrolled in Temple Law’s LL.M. program for Chinese attorneys, conducted at Tsinghua University in Beijing. With nearly 50 students, the entering class is the largest in the program’s history. The students begin the one-year program with a one-month intensive legal English program.73 international students enter Temple LawTemple Law continues to be a popular choice for students from around the world.AUGUST 22, 2013 Seventy-three international students from 30 different countries joinedthe incoming J.D. candidates at a gala orientation at the National Constitution Center. The Office of Graduate and International Programs reports that 45 students will have traveled to Temple from around the world to earn an LL.M. in the next year, making this the largest group of international LL.M. students in the law school's history. Among the LL.M. students are a human rights lawyer from Syria; a lecturer from Australia National University; a Swiss city councilman; an Uzbeki commercial lawyer; a Japanese in-house counsel; and a Fulbright Scholar from Panama. Of these students, 42 percent are from Asia (20 percent from China); 13 percent from Africa; 22 percent from Europe; 13 percent from the Middle East; and 9 percent from Latin America. Joining the LL.M. candidates are 28 exchange students from Temple Law’s exchange partners: Jindal Global Law School, University of Lucerne, Munster University, Tel Aviv University, University College of Cork, Ireland, and a variety of Chinese schools. Temple fields fastest team in 5KJustice For All Race benefits CLSOCTOBER 13, 2103 At the starting line of theJustice for All 5K to benefit Philadelphia Community Legal Services, Temple Law fielded the largest turnout in the Law School Challenge category. This accomplishment won them a free happy hour before the starting gun was even fired. And when the Temple team reached the finish line, it turned out they were also the fastest in overall speed. Joining the 35 student runners were Professors Kristen Murray, Rachel Rebouché, Spencer Rand, and Sarah Katz. 39447 TempleLaw ESQ_Nov13_final_Layout 1 11/19/13 2:45 PM Page 7Next >