< Previous8 • Temple eSQ. June 2016The creator of Between Borders,LILAH THOMPSON,began herengagement with refugees long before law school, when she was anundergraduate at Franklin & MarshallCollege, earning a BA in English,Spanish, and International Studies. As a Fellow for Human Rights and SocialJustice at The Ware Institute for CivicEngagement at Franklin & Marshall, sheworked with refugees and immigrants toraise awareness and funding, coordinatevolunteers, and provide pro bonolegalassistance to asylum seekers detainedin York County Prison. At Temple Law School, Thompsonwas selected to become a Law andPublic Policy Scholar, a DC-basedprogram that places students ininternships, provides them withmentoring, and encourages them towrite and present a policy paper.Thompson worked as a law clerk at theOffice of Immigration Litigation at theDepartment of Justice in the civildivision, where she will work again insummer 2016. She has also worked as alegal intern at HIAS Pennsylvania, andas a legal assistant at an immigrationlaw firm in Philadelphia. Thompson isalso president of the Student PublicInterest Network, and co-president ofthe National Lawyer’s Guild. Thompson created Between Bordersas part of her participation in TempleLaw’s Law and Public Policy Program,and authored the paper, The Benefitsand Burdens of Prosecutorial Discretionin Immigration: How to Fully Effectuatethe Exercise of Prosecutorial Discretionin a Broken Immigration System,whichshe presented at the Mid-Atlantic Law & Society Association Conference andwill present at the upcoming Law &Society Association Annual Meeting inNew Orleans.maRCh 25, 2016“When we read about refugees on the news, we only think about thestory that is being told in that moment—how they fled, or where they are coming from. But there is so much more to it than that,” says Lilah Thompson, a second-year law studentand Public Policy Scholar at Temple Law. Thompson designed an experiential workshop that places participants in the “shoes of a refugee.” In March, individuals from across the Delaware Valley gathered at the NationalConstitution Center for a simulation that compressed into one morning the stages of therefugee experience. “Every moment and step of the process informs each individual refugee’s life in a waythat is important to understand, whether someone is an advocate for refugees, or simply awitness who reads about the migrant crisis in the news,” explains Thompson. “In light of the most recent backlash against Syrian refugees, I felt it was necessary to create agreater understanding of the process as a whole and to give a glimpse into the life of someof these individuals.”Each participant was assigned an identity and country of origin—either Syria or Liberia—and physically moved from one stage to another. Those assigned Syrian identities fled to a simulated refugee camp in Jordan and the Liberians found shelter in Ivory Coast. The simulation allowed participants to experience symbolic persecution, life in a refugeecamp, the resettlement process in the US, and for some, applying for and receiving UnitedStates citizenship.Imagine being a refugee . . .for a dayBetween Borders: Refugee Simulation is thecreation of a Temple Law student24 volunteers—mostly Temple Law students—acted the roles of the people andbureaucracies refugees meet along the way. The “refugees” in the simulation reflected the diverse professions that interact with refugee populations, and included practicing lawyers and law students, ESL instructors, undergraduate and graduate students in music, speech pathology, and social work, state government employees, middle and high school teachers, church members, paralegals, and refugee resettlement agency staff and volunteers. Thompson worked with refugee law expert and Temple Law Professor Jaya Ramji-Nogales to implement the simulation. In taking the workshop into the community, Temple Law partnered with Nationalities Service Center, Women Against Abuse, the Liberian Women’s Chorus for Change and artist Aram Han Sifuentes. Temple eSQ. June 2016 • 9Salil Mehrahonored withLindback DistinguishedTeaching AwardThe Lindback Distinguished Teaching Award is conferredannually for “demonstrated excellence in teachingstudents.” Other law faculty members who have won theaward are Alice Abreu, Robert Bartow, Susan DeJarnatt,Craig Green, Laura Little, Frank McClellan, Andrea Monroe,Eleanor Myers, James Shellenberger, David Sonenshein,and James Strazzella.Professor Salil Mehra with Temple University Provost Hai-Lung Dai.apRIl 8, 2016“Epically flawless”. . . “super awesome”. . . “fantastic!”are some of the superlatives used by Temple Law students to describeProfessor Salil Mehra’s teaching. Enthusiastic student reviewscombined with those of his colleagues earned the popular professor a prestigious Lindback Distinguished Teaching Award.“I’m extraordinarily pleased that the University has chosen to honor Professor Mehra in this way,” says Dean JoAnne A. Epps. “Hiscontributions to the law school reflect a passion for both teaching and the law. Although he is an international authority within his areas of expertise, Professor Mehra has always understood that hisfirst duty is to his students, and they have benefited greatly from hisservice to them.” Members of the faculty hail Mehra as a gifted educator whosemastery of his subjects, clear and accessible presentation of thematerial, devotion to his students, and dry humor have “added to the breadth and depth of what the law school has to offer.”Since joining the Temple Law faculty in 2000, Mehra has taughtcourses in antitrust, comparative competition law, contracts,corporations, cyberlaw, European Union law, international intellectualproperty, Japanese law, and law in Asia. JAYA RAMJI-NOGALES(speaking at Between Borderssimulation) is the I. Herman Stern Professor of Law andthe Co-Director of the Institute for International Law and Public Policy at Temple University Beasley School of Law, where she teaches refugee law and policy. She is a founding co-chair of the migration law interestgroup at the American Society of International Law aswell as a senior research associate of the refugee lawinitiative of the School of Advanced Study at theUniversity of London.Ramji-Nogales is the co-author, with Andrew I.Schoenholtz and Philip G. Schrag, of Refugee Roulette:Disparities in Asylum Adjudication and Proposals forReform,a ground-breaking empirical study ofadjudication at all four levels of the US asylum system,and Lives in the Balance: Asylum Adjudication by theDepartment of Homeland Security,an in-depthquantitative and qualitative study of asylumadjudication before the Department of HomelandSecurity’s Asylum Offices, the first instance decision-maker for affirmative asylum claims.10 • Temple eSQ. June 2016spring 2016 LAW sCHOOL LECTUrEsThe Frank and Rose Fogel LecturemaRCh 14, 2016Harry L. Gutman, who servedas the chief of staff for the Congressional jointcommittee on taxation from 1991 through 1993,presented “Why a VAT is the Path to RealBusiness Reform” at the 2016 Fogel Lecture. Inhis lecture, Gutman made the case for anational consumption tax, in the form of avalue added tax (VAT), as the best way to fundneeded changes to a system of businessincome taxation that is utterly broken.Gutman was most recently a principal anddirector of the KPMG Tax Governance Institutewhile also heading the federal tax legislativeand regulatory services group at KPMG’sWashington National Tax. While in thatposition, he was the principal-in-charge of aKPMG engagement to present tax reformoptions to the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico.Earlier in his career, Gutman taught law at theUniversity of Pennsylvania.The Frank and Rose Fogel Lectureship Fundwas established in 1987, through a bequestfrom Frank Fogel ‘23, to support public lectureson general legal topics. The lectureship hasbrought eminent tax experts to address the lawschool community. In 2015, the series speakerwas Kathryn Keneally, the former AssistantAttorney General for the Tax Division of the U.S.Department of Justice, and the current chair ofcivil and criminal tax litigation in DLA Piper’sglobal tax group.The Edward J. RossMemorial Lecture in LitigationmaRCh 24, 2016Marina Kats ’88spoke to the law school communityabout her extensive career as asuccessful litigator in the 2016 RossLecture. Kats is the founder of Kats,Jamison & Associates, a litigation firm with offices in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and New York. She earned her J.D. in 1988 and her LL.M. in Trial Advocacy in 1995, both fromTemple Law.Kats founded Kats, Jamison &Associates in 1995, and since then thefirm has won multiple seven-figureawards for its clients, successfullyrepresented clients before thePennsylvania Supreme Court, andsecured pardons for its criminal clientsfrom the Pennsylvania governor. Kats isalso president of Temple University’sPresident’s Advisory Board, and amember of the Temple UniversityLeadership Council. The Edward J. Ross MemorialLecture in Litigation was established byfamily and friends in memory of EdwardJ. Ross ‘69, a successful litigator andpartner in the firm of Ross and Rubino. Hon. Clifford ScottGreen ’51 LecturemaRCh 29, 2016Professor Robert J.Reinstein presented “Slavery and ExecutivePower: The Haitian Revolution andAmerican Constitutionalism” at the 2016Clifford Scott Green Lecture. Reinstein isthe current holder of the Clifford ScottGreen Chair in Law. Both the Clifford ScottGreen Chair in Law, established in 2009,and the Green Lectureship, established in2003, honor Judge Green ’51, an eminentjurist who was also a close friend andmentor of Reinstein. A graduate of Harvard Law School,Reinstein began his career as a civil rightsattorney with the NAACP and was then asenior appellate attorney and chief of thegeneral litigation section of the civil rightsdivision of the U.S. Department of Justice.He was general counsel of TempleUniversity from 1982 to 1989, while amember of the law school faculty. Reinstein served as dean of the TempleUniversity Beasley School of Law from 1989to 2008. At the law school, he teachesconstitutional law, federal courts andjurisdiction and national security law. Hisrecent scholarship has focused onexecutive power, and two of his articles onthis subject were recently cited by theSupreme Court.Robert J. ReinsteinHarry L. GutmanMarina Kats ’88Temple TeamWins NationalCriminal Justice Trial CompetitionmaRCh 22, 2016The Temple National Trial Team has brought home anothernational championship, taking top honors at the National Criminal JusticeTrial Competition at the John Marshall Law School. Temple has historicallydone well in the competition, making it to the semi-finals or better in five of the nine years Temple has participated.Held annually at the John Marshall Law School in Chicago and co-sponsored by the Criminal Justice Section of the American Bar Association, the competition draws teams from across the country. This year’s competition pitted Temple against teams from 19 other schools. Temple’s winning team, comprised of ALLISON CHRISTIAN ’17, KATELYNHUTCHISON ’16, SARAH KIEWLICZ ’16,and JAMES MATHEW ’17,competed in a field that also included teams from Drexel and a perennial rival, Stetson.“I am so proud of this team,” says Professor Jen Bretschneider, who coachedthe team together with Maureen McCartney, an Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of PA. “They have been relentless in their focus, theirpreparation, and their support of one another. This win is a testament to theirtalent as advocates, but also to their commitment as teammates.”“We pushed each other to reach new levels of advocacy and to tap intoskills that we didn’t even know we had,” says Kiewlicz. “We loved what wewere doing and I think that came across in our delivery and performances.Winning was just icing on the cake,” says Hutchison. “I came to Temple forthe trial advocacy program and the trial team, and my expectations have been surpassed by leaps and bounds.” Team member Christian adds: “Halfway through my first opening statement of the competition, I could feel my nerves dissipate—I was having so much fun. By the end of thatfirst trial, all I could think about was wanting to do it again. And, fortunately, we got that opportunity.”Professor Jen Bretschneider and MaureenMcCartney coached the team. Temple eSQ. June 2016 • 11INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MOOT COURT SuccessapRIl 15, 2016Second-year law studentsKAITLIN HALSELL ’17andJENCY MATHEW ’17advanced through a national field ofapproximately 50 teams to take secondplace in the Giles Sutherland RichIntellectual Property Moot CourtCompetition in Washington, D.C. The teamwas advised by Professors Greg Mandel and Donald Harris.Mandel praised Halsell and Mathew as, “simply outstanding. Faced with thechallenge of an exceptionally difficult patentlaw problem, they put in a huge amount ofwork, honed outstanding advocacy skills,and made the school proud.”Halsell and Mathew were supported intheir efforts by their teammates in theregional round, LAUREN GREEN ’17andDIANA JOSKOWICZ ’17.Championship trialteam members, fromleft: James Mathew ’17,Sarah Kiewlicz ’16,Allison Christian ’17,Katelyn Hutchison ’16.Professor Greg Mandel (left) and Don Harris (farright) served as faculty advisers for the TempleLaw team in the intellectual property moot courtcompetition. The students who competed were(from left) Kaitlin Halsell, Diana Joskowicz,Jency Mathew, and Lauren Green.judges hearing cases for the U.S.District Court for the EasternDistrict of Pennsylvania. She waselevated to chief judge of theEastern District court in 2013,becoming the first female leaderin the court’s history. On theCourt of Common Pleas, JudgeTucker served on the Orphan’sCourt as the administrativejudge and adjudicated cases inthe criminal trial division andfamily court. WILLIAM F. WARD ’77has beeninvited to join the board ofdirectors of the AutismConnection of Pennsylvania.Ward is a former Judge of theCourt of Common Pleas ofAllegheny County, PA, where heserved in the family division and worked closely with familieswho had autistic children. He isalso a member of the mentalhealth and justice advisorycommittee of the Pennsylvaniacommission on crime anddelinquency. Ward is an attorneywith the Pittsburgh firmRothman Gordon.1980SROBERT G. GOLDSTEIN ’80waspresented with the DomPérignon Award of Excellence byNLVino, honoring industryleaders in Las Vegas, NV.Goldstein is president and chiefoperating office of Las VegasSands Corporation.HAZEL MACK ’80has retiredfrom Legal Aid of North Carolina,after 35 years in legal aidorganizations working on suchissues as foreclosures,consumer scams and domesticviolence. Mack spent five yearsat Philadelphia Community LegalServices immediately after law school, before returning toher home state to practice.Today, Mack serves on the board of directors for the Carter G. Woodson School, which she helped found nearly20 years ago.12 • Temple eSQ. June 2016Compliance Center hostsFormer US ATTORNEY GENERALapRIl 19, 2016TheTemple Law Center forCompliance and Ethicswelcomed former USAttorney General to theUnion League as part ofits CLE series, “CurrentTrends in Complianceand Enforcement.”In an interviewconducted by MikeHolston, executive vicepresident and chiefcompliance officer atMerck Pharmaceutical,the former AttorneyGeneral touched on a wide range ofissues ranging fromcompliance to civilrights. After exploringthe Department ofJustice’s treatment ofcases stemming fromthe Foreign CorruptPractices Act and theimpact of corporatecooperation andtransparency on theDepartment’s decisionabout whether toprosecute, they turnedto the impact ofHolder’s work in theprivate sector had onhis public service.“It was better tohave had the experienceof having representedcompanies in betweenmy positions in theJustice Department,” he reflected. “By and large, big companies are trying to dothe right thing. If people in the DOJ could take a sabbaticalfor a few years, maybe work on the defense side, theywould be better prosecutors.”Additional topics ranged from the impact of the Yatesmemo on corporations’ ability to conduct an internalinvestigation, criticism of the DOJ’s prosecutorial decisionswith respect to the banking collapse, and Holder’sdecision not to defend the constitutionality of the Defenseof Marriage Act.CLASS NOTESDean JoAnne A. Epps withEric Holder1960SROBERT A. KORN ’64is one offive attorneys in Pennsylvaniaselected to serve on theAmerican ArbitrationAssociation’s newly formedmaster mediator panel forconstruction cases. Korn is ofcounsel at Kaplin Stewart in Blue Bell, PA.1970SARTHUR F. SILBERGELD ’75recently moved his managementemployment practice toThompson Coburn’s Los Angeles office. Silbergeld was previously a partner at Norton Rose Fulbright.THE HON. H. ROBERT SWITZER’75,a Hamilton Township, NJmunicipal court judge, deliveredthe keynote address at AtlanticCape Community College’sannual commencement in Mayat the Mays Landing campus.Switzer was hired in 1980 byHamilton Township, making himthe youngest municipal judge inNew Jersey. In addition toserving as judge in HamiltonTownship, he is a municipaljudge in Egg Harbor Townshipand Estell Manor.In May, a portrait of the HON.PETRESE B. TUCKER ’76waspresented at the U.S.courthouse in Philadelphia,commemorating the judge’sdecades on the bench and herleadership roles in numerousgroups. Tucker began herjudicial career with thePhiladelphia Court of CommonPleas in 1987 and was confirmedto the federal bench in 2000,becoming the fifth of nine femaleIn March, LOUIS A. PETRONI ’80was elected chairman of the firm of Montgomery McCracken.Petroni has been withMontgomery McCracken for more than three decades andrecently served as the firm’s vice-chairman and executivepartner, and as co-chair of thebusiness department. JOSEPH COLEMAN ’85has joined the Irvine, CA office ofJones Day as a partner in thefirm’s banking and financepractice. Prior to joining JonesDay, Coleman was a member ofthe commercial finance practicein the Orange County, CA office of Snell & Wilmer.RACHEAL DECICCO BOGINA ’85was invited to speak on updates in the area of premiseslaw from the defense perspectiveat the Dispute ResolutionInstitute’s Annual Personal InjuryPotpourri. Bogina is an attorneyfor Nationwide InsuranceCompany’s trial division in itsPhiladelphia office. TERESA FABI ’85is retiring fromthe position of Senior AssistantDistrict Attorney for Kings County(Brooklyn), NY. During her three-decade career in the DA’s office,Fabi served under four differentdistrict attorneys, and worked inthe domestic violence, criminalcourt, grand jury, and crimeprevention units. While in thecrime prevention unit, her focuson incarcerated mothers and theeffects of incarceration onchildren led to the creation ofDrew House, an alternative toincarceration for female felonyoffenders with children. She wasalso instrumental in launchingBack on Track, a school operatedby the District Attorney’s Office inpartnership with the Board ofEducation.ROBERT J. SHANAHAN JR. ’85, a partner with the firm ofShanahan & Voigt inFlemington, NJ, has been namedto the board of trustees of ValleyCrest Preserve. Valley CrestPreserve is a non-profit thatprovides farm-based educationalprograms and food donations tofeed those in need.ROSEANN B. TERMINI ’85wasthe conference director for the All Matters FDA program at theannual Food and Drug Law CLE at Delaware Law School, whereshe teaches food and drug lawcourses at as an adjunctprofessor. Termini also recentlypresented to the PA Bar Instituteand at the Central AtlanticAssociation of Food and DrugLaw Officials Educational andTraining Seminar.DAVID S. BRALOW ’86has joinedPepper Hamilton as of counsel inthe media, communications andentertainment practice in theNew York office. Prior to joiningPepper, Bralow was senior vicepresident and general counsel atDigital First Media. He previouslyserved as assistant generalcounsel for the Tribune Company.ARLENE F. KLINEDINST ’86waselected by the Virginia LawFoundation to its Fellows Class of2016. Fellowship is limited to onepercent of the Virginia State Bar’sactive and associate members.Klinedinst is a partner withVandeventer Black in the firm’sNorfolk office and concentratesher practice in labor andemployment law.CHARLES J. MEYER ’86recentlylectured the child and adolescentpsychiatry fellows at Children’sHospital of Philadelphia ondivorce and custody law and how the law impacts the practice of psychiatry. Meyer is a shareholder with thePhiladelphia family law firm ofHofstein Weiner & Meyer.Temple eSQ. June 2016 • 13Former Ballard chair honored by Law ReviewJohn Langel ’74 says Temple was his first—of many—clientsmay 11, 2016JOHN B. LANGEL ’74,was honored with the AlumniAward of Merit at the Temple Law ReviewAlumni Reception inShusterman Hall. Langel, who was an editor on the law review while astudent, is a partner at Ballard Spahr and the former chair of the firm’slitigation department. He also led the firm’s labor and employmentgroup for more than 30 years. Langel’s broad roster of clients at Ballard includes companies inbiosciences, heavy industry, financial services, and health careproviders. He practices sports law as well, and has representedprofessional athletes, college and professional coaches, generalmanagers, broadcasters, and the players on U.S. national teams.Langel has also represented many local colleges and universities,including Temple University, which Langel notes was his first client,more than 36 years ago. In representing Temple, he has served as counsel to the chief negotiator intalks with 13 different bargaining units, successfully led challenging negotiations during the facultystrikes of 1987 and 1990, and served as the university’s chief negotiator in the contract negotiationswith its faculty union. Langel also led the Ballard Spahr team that successfully represented theUniversity of Pennsylvania before the NLRB in connection with Penn graduate students’ attempts toorganize. Cornell University retained the same team when its graduate students sought to organize.Today, Langel serves as a member of the Temple Law Board of Visitors and as an adjunct professoron the law school faculty. In April, the Pennsylvania BarAssociation Commission onWomen in the Professionpresented the annual LynetteNorton Award to MARION K.MUNLEY ’86.She is a partner atMunley Law in Scranton, PA,where she practices personalinjury law. In 1998, Munleyfounded the Association ofWomen Lawyers in LackawannaCounty, which providesmentoring, networking andscholarships to female lawyers.She served for three years aschair and currently is a memberof the board of trustees forMarywood University. Munley isalso active in Circle 200, a groupcreated to provide mentoring andnetworking among senior-levelexecutive women in NortheasternPennsylvania. Munley is a pastpresident of the NortheasternPennsylvania Trial Lawyers.MICHAEL J. O’ROURKE ’86recently accepted the position ofinterim manager of Hanover, PA,a borough in York County.O’Rourke resigned in 2014 fromthe position of businessadministrator for the city of York,a position he held for 15 yearsafter earning a master’s in publicadministration in 2000.Pepper Hamilton partner GINAMAISTO SMITH ’87spoke at the2016 National Association ofCollege and University Attorneyson the subject of “Love andLearning Collide: Faculty-StudentRelationships under Title VII andTitle IX.” Smith is a partner in theeducation counseling, litigationand investigation services, and white collar litigation andinvestigations groups at Pepper Hamilton.ELLEN GOLDBERG WEINER ’87recently lectured for the People’s Emergency Center, inPhiladelphia, on custody law andhow to prepare for and present acustody case in Philadelphia.Weiner is a shareholder with thedomestic relations law firmof Hofstein Weiner & Meyer. Conestoga Title InsuranceCompany in Lancaster, PA haspromoted JOSEPH J. KAMBIC ’88to vice president. Kambic hasworked at the company since2008, and most recently wasmanager of claims and recovery. ALAN P. GOLDBERG ’89hasjoined Stradley Ronon Stevens &Young as a partner in the firm’snewly opened Chicago office.Goldberg practices in themanagement practice group andwill serve as partner-in-charge ofthe Chicago office. In April, DONNA MILLER ’89wasappointed to serve as OlympusCorporation’s head of HQ legaland global general counsel. Shewas promoted from her currentrole of general counsel ofOlympus Corporation of theAmericas, and will continue toserve as general counsel for OCA,dividing her time evenly betweenher current and new positions.Miller joined Olympus in 2006. NICHOLAS J. MIRRO ’89recentlycelebrated two years on thebench, after being appointed and unanimously confirmed asJudge of the Justice Of The Peace Courts in Delaware. Aformal investiture was held inFebruary 2014.KENNETH H. RYESKY ’86hasjoined the Tel Aviv office of Ernst& Young (Kost, Forer, Gabbay, &Kasierer) as a senior advisor withthe U.S. desk’s international taxservices team.14 • Temple eSQ. June 2016Hon. Mitchell S. Goldberg ’86 is 2016 commencement speakermay 19, 2016The Honorable Mitchell S. Goldberg ’86 was the keynote speaker at this year’scommencement ceremony, held at the Liacouras Center. Goldberg, a judge for the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania,addressed this year’s graduates of the J.D. and LL.M. programs at Temple Law, along with their family and friends, and other members of the law school community. At his commencement, 30 years ago,Goldberg received the InternationalAcademy Award for Trial Lawyers’ Prize.He was also a member of Temple LawSchool’s first trial team. Goldbergcontinues to serve as an adjunctprofessor at Temple Law School,teaching both criminal and civil trial advocacy.Immediately after graduation fromTemple Law, Goldberg worked at thePhiladelphia District Attorney’s Office, inboth the trial and appellate divisions,where he tried hundreds of felony casesand argued before Pennsylvania’sappellate courts. In 1990, he joined thelaw firm of Cozen O’Connor, where hewas eventually promoted to seniorpartner. His practice at Cozen primarilyfocused on commercial litigation. Goldberg also was the manager of Cozen’s arson and fraud unit. Goldberg returned to the public sector in 1997 as an Assistant United States Attorney for theEastern District of Pennsylvania, where he handled mostly white collar crime cases, both before theDistrict Court and the Third Circuit Court of Appeals. In February 2003, he was appointed to aposition on the Bucks County Court of Common Pleas by Governor Mark Schweiker, and was laterelected to a ten-year term on that court. In 2008, he was appointed to the United States DistrictCourt for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania by President George W. Bush. Judge Goldberg currently serves as chair of the court’s public interest litigation committee andchair of the Third Circuit’s model criminal jury instructions committee. He was also recentlyappointed by Chief Justice John Roberts to the national committee examining the Criminal Justice Actof 1964. SEND US YOUR NEWS!TEMPLE ESQ.welcomes news andphotos of our alumni/ae. Pleaseinclude: Full name, class, degree, and a way to reach you if we need toconfirm information.Email: janet.goldwater@temple.eduSend to: Janet Goldwater, Temple Esq.,Temple University Beasley School ofLaw, 1719 North Broad Street,Philadelphia, PA 19122Temple eSQ. June 2016 • 15Microsoft CVPJoins Board of VisitorsFred Humphries ’86says he fell out of touch with the law school during the busy early years of hiscareer. Then, an invitation in 2015 to a reception for alumni living in the D.C. area came at the right time.“It was time for me to give back, and I was excited to be part of a law school that helped prepare me so well for my career,”says Humphries, who is now Corporate Vice President of U.S. Government Affairs for Microsoft in Washington, D.C. At thealumni event, he met Dean JoAnne A. Epps and Associate Dean Marylouise Esten. “It was such a warm reception and I could see they were running a great law school.”Humphries began to participate in the D.C.- based Law and Public Policy Program run by Professor Nancy Knauer. Thesummer program places students in high-powered internships and provides mentorship and networking. Humphries beganto host events at Microsoft for the student scholars, and was impressed by what he saw. The students in the program were,in a word, “sharp.”He appreciated, among other things, the fact that Temple Law continues to stress the value that attracted him as a young man: diversity. Humphries, who was born in Pittsburgh, PA and raised in Nashville, TN attended the historically-blackMorehouse College in Atlanta, GA. After graduation, he says he sought a law school “with both a strong legal program anddiversity.” Carl Singley was dean and Humphries found a racial and gender diversity in the faculty and the student body that was unusual at the time. He was also impressed by the reputation of the trial advocacy program. “I came to law schoolthinking I would go into litigation . . . but then I discovered public policy,” says Humphries.After a short stint at a law firm in Tallahassee, FL, he returned with his wife, Kim, also a lawyer, to Tennessee. There, Humphries’ appointment as Director of Voter Outreach for the TennesseeDemocratic Party made him the first African-American employee in the stateparty’s history. He went on to work first at the state’s Department ofCommerce and Insurance and later at the Department of Mental Health, as Director of Policy Planning, before joining the Governor’s staff.As Humphries’ expertise in public policy deepened, be began to shuttlebetween Nashville and D.C. in 1993. In 2000, he was named SouthernPolitical Director for the Democratic National Committee. Along the way,he served on the staffs of four presidential campaigns. He also worked as Chief of Staff for Congressman Sanford D. Bishop Jr. of Georgia andlater joined then-Minority Leader Richard A. Gephardt’s staff as SeniorPolicy Advisor.In 2000, Humphries joined Microsoft as Director of StateGovernmental Affairs, and was promoted to head Microsoft’s U.S.Government Affairs in 2009. In that role, he sets strategy andoversees policy outreach on a broad range of topics, including cloudcomputing, taxes, privacy, trade, cyber security, education,immigration and emerging technologies. He also uses his platformat Microsoft to advance the many issues he holds dear:immigration reform, electronic privacy, mental health, and ofcourse, diversity.“I’m excited and blessed to have been at Microsoft now for 15years,” says Humphries, who is eager to share his experience inpublic policy and the fast-growing world of technology law withTemple law students. “Intellectual property, cyber security, andprivacy: these areas of law are not going away.” As the newestmember of the Temple Law School Board of Visitors, Humphries iswell-positioned to share his expertise, and his deep backgroundin governmental affairs.Fred Humphries ’86 was appointed to the TempleLaw Board of Visitors in January 2016.1990SConrad O’Brien shareholder,JUDSON AARON ’91,recentlyjoined the board of trustees ofthe University Of The Arts inPhiladelphia. Aaron is a 1981graduate of the University’spredecessor, PhiladelphiaCollege of Performing Arts. InMarch, Aaron spoke on a panel ata CLE program sponsored by thePhiladelphia Young LawyersDivision of the ABA white collarcrime committee. In April, PAMELA COYLE BRECHT’91,partner at the firmPietragallo Gordon Alfano Bosick& Raspanti, presented “ManagedCare Fraud: Enforcement andCompliance” at the ComplianceInstitute in Las Vegas, NV. Brechtis a member of the qui tampractice group at Pietragallo. SCOTT F. COOPER ’92, presidentof the Temple University AlumniAssociation and a member “ofthe University’s board oftrustees, was a featured speakerat the university’s 129thCommencement ceremony.Cooper is a partner at BlankRome in Philadelphia, where hechairs the firm’s labor andemployment practice group. He isa former president/chancellor ofthe Philadelphia Bar Association.In 2015, Arizona Governor DougDucey appointed RONEE F.KORBIN STEINER ’93to theSuperior Court of Arizona inMaricopa County, where sheserves in the family department.Steiner clerked with JudgeSamuel Lehrer in the Court ofCommon Pleas in Philadelphia.After moving to Arizona, sheworked in the Maricopa CountyPublic Defender’s Office beforeopening her own firm. In 2010,Steiner received the Family LawLitigator of the Year Award fromthe Volunteer Lawyers Program. ERIC J. PHILLIPS ’91has joinedHladik, Onorato and Federman, a full-service law firm thatspecializes in the areas ofmortgage foreclosure,bankruptcy, tax sales, municipal law, personal injury,and estate planning.TINA MAZAHERI ’93has beenelected to a two-year term aspresident of the Bucks CountyBar Foundation, the charitablearm of the Bucks County BarAssociation. Mazaheri focusesher private practice on familylaw, criminal law, personal injury and civil litigation, and is a litigation solicitor to Bucks County.BERNARD ILKHANOFF ’94hasbeen elected president of theYork County, PA Bar Association.Ilkhanoff practices at theShrewsbury, PA firm of Ilkhanoff& Silverstein.CHRISTIAN SONDERGAARD ’94has joined Health Partners Plansas director of investigations andsubrogation. Sondergaard is aformer Pennsylvania seniordeputy attorney general, wherehe was the lead prosecutor inone of Pennsylvania’s largestMedicaid fraud cases.16 • Temple eSQ. June 2016New books by Temple Law alumsexplore public policy issuesBlight remediation is addressed in book by Winifred Branton ’85WINIFRED M. BRANTON ’85recentlypublished The Pennsylvania Land BankResource Guide,a comprehensive guide forunderstanding and implementing landbanks as a tool for returning vacant,abandoned and tax-delinquent properties to productive use in Pennsylvania. Released by The Housing Alliance ofPennsylvania, the Guideis a self-helpresource for local and county governmentsto assess whether a land bank is right fortheir community and, if so, how to proceedwith planning, funding, organizing, andoperating a land bank. Insights fromPennsylvania land bank leaders, casestudies of the Philadelphia Land Bank andothers, and sample documents like ordinances, budgets, andbusiness plans are integrated into the guide to provide practicaland proven resources to help communities use a land bank’spowers to tackle blight, grow the local economy, and expandparks and gardens. Tristan Kimbrell ’11 explores issues at the ‘intersection of science and law’Environmental writer and attorneyTRISTAN KIMBRELL’s new book,Environmental Law for Biologists,focuses on the intersection of law andbiology. The book, recently released by theUniversity of Chicago Press, seeks to fill aknowledge gap for scientists who areworking on environmental issues whereunderstanding of the complexities ofenvironmental law is crucial. “This is a wonderful book,” writesProfessor Amy Sinden, who taughtKimbrell during his years at Temple Law.“It will be an invaluable reference not justfor biologists, but for all sorts of peoplewho want a lucid, concise introduction toenvironmental law and to the crucial and pressing public policyissues that arise at the intersection of science and law.”In addition to his Temple Law degree, Kimbrell has a Ph.D. inecology from the University of Florida and has taught at SouthernUniversity, New Orleans. He lives in Salt Lake City, UT.2000SGREGORY L. HILLYER ’00joinedthe intellectual property firm ofBrinks Gilson & Lione in theirWashington, DC office. Hillyer isalso an adjunct professor at theAmerican University WashingtonCollege of Law.SOPHIA LEE ’00 has joined BlankRome as a partner in the energy,environment, and mass tortspractice group. She will be basedin the firm’s Philadelphia office,where, earlier in her career, she was an associate. Prior torejoining Blank Rome, Lee waschief litigation counsel forSunoco Inc.CHRISTOPHER MCGOWAN ’01was recently elected shareholderin Segal McCambridge Singer & Mahoney. McGowan practices in the firm’sPhiladelphia office, where hedefends clients involved inproducts liability matters arising from exposure to toxicsubstances including asbestos,benzene, silica, mold, and otherenvironmental hazards. In November 2015, JANET HAYSUBERS ’01was appointed to the Board of Bar Examiners by the Supreme Court of New Hampshire. DENNIS J. BUTLER ’03 has been named a partner at thePhiladelphia intellectual-propertylaw firm, Panitch SchwarzeBelisario & Nadel. American University WashingtonCollege of Law ProfessorELIZABETH L. LIPPY ’03was the2016 winner of the Edward D.Ohlbaum Award, presented atthe Educating AdvocatesTeaching Advocacy SkillsConference at Stetson LawSchool in May. The OhlbaumAward honors an individualwhose life and practice display“sterling character andunquestioned integrity, coupledwith ongoing dedication to thehighest standards of the legalprofession and the rule of law.”Lippy worked with ProfessorOhlbaum when she competed onthe National Trial Team as a lawstudent. In addition to teachingtrial advocacy courses atWashington College of Law, Lippyis an instructor for the NationalInstitute of Trial Advocacy. Shealso maintains a private practiceas a founding member of the lawfirm of Fairlie & Lippy, where shefocuses her practice on criminaldefense and civil litigation. SUSAN MORRISON COLETTI ’05was recently appointedmanaging principal of theWilmington, DE office of Fish &Richardson. Coletti, whopreviously served as groupleader for the firm’s litigationgroup, will continue herintellectual property and patentlitigation practice. QIANA WATSON ’05was recentlyappointed deputy legal counseland labor relations director ofYork College, City University ofNew York. Watson was also thekeynote speaker at this year’sannual University GeneralCounsel Conference, held in Las Vegas. GREGORY MAYES ’95,ExecutiveVice President and ChiefOperating Officer of Advaxis, has been elected to thecompany’s board of directors.Advaxis is a biotechnologycompany developing cancerimmunotherapies. Mayes joinedAdvaxis in 2013, after holdingpositions at ImClone Systems, Eli Lilly and AstraZenecaPharmaceuticals.JO BENNETT ’96has returned to Schnader Harrison Segal &Lewis as a labor and employmentpartner in the firm’s Philadelphiaoffice. Bennett was most recentlya partner at Stevens & Lee. MICHAEL S. SAVETT ’96hasjoined Clark & Fox in Cherry Hill,NJ as a partner in the firm’sinsurance practice group. MICHAEL T. WINTERS ’96,apartner in the law firm ofMcMahon & Winters, has beennamed to the board of directorsof the Pennsylvania Associationof Criminal Defense Lawyers.The California Public Employees’Retirement System namedMARLENE TIMBERLAKED’ADAMO ’97as chiefcompliance officer, beginning in April. Timberlake D’Adamorecently held the position ofmanaging director and seniorvice president of portfolio andrisk management at PNC Bank in Philadelphia. DAVID F. CONN ’98 has beenpromoted to partner at Sweet,Stevens, Katz & Williams, a firmin New Britain, PA. SOFIA A. ROSALA ’98has joinedCopeland Capital Managementas general counsel and chiefcompliance officer. Rosala movedto Copeland from Aberdeen AssetManagement, where she wasU.S. counsel and deputy head of compliance. KIMBERLY A. BOYER-COHEN ’99has been named a fellow of theLitigation Counsel of America, anhonorary society composed ofless than one-half of one percentof American lawyers. Boyer-Cohen is special counsel in theappellate advocacy and post-trial practice group in thePhiladelphia office of MarshallDennehey Warner Coleman &Goggin, which she joined in 2001.PAMELA HUNT GWALTNEY ‘99recently marked her one yearanniversary as deputy director ofcompliance with the PhiladelphiaCommission on HumanRelations, where she works witha team of Temple graduates: RueLandau ’98, Karen Forman ’85,and Randy Duque ’98. Previously,Gwaltney was assistant chiefcounsel for the PennsylvaniaCommission on Human Relationsand a trial attorney with theDefender Association ofPhiladelphia. LISA LORI ’99,a partner in thelitigation department of KlehrHarrison Harvey Branzburg, wasa speaker at the second annualFashion Law Symposium atVillanova University CharlesWidger School of Law. Lori is atrial lawyer and business adviser. Temple eSQ. June 2016 • 17TEMPLE ESQ.is published by the Temple UniversityBeasley School of Law for alumni and friends. JoAnne A. 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