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GR A D UAT ES CLASS NOTES of the oldest attorney search firms in Los Angeles. Her daughter, Francesca, is 2-and-a-half years old. Jon R. Robertson, Class Report e r j r r o b e r t s o n @ a l t a v i s t a . c o m > Class of 1989 Thanks to those who replied to the most recent questionnaire. If you have not responded recently, please take a few minutes to e-mail me ( J z a r i a n @ f o z l a w.com) or write me in care of the Law School, so I can include your updates in future columns. To my knowledge, Stephen Larson (Stephen_larson@cacd.uscourts.gov) is the fir s t member of our law school class to become a judge. Last year, Stephen was appointed a U.S. Magistrate Judge for the Central District of California. He and his wife, Dena, are doing their best to control chaos, with three children under the age of five. M a rci Bolter ( M bo l t e r @ c a l c a s . c o m ) was married in January to Michael Barrett, who is a U.S. Probation Officer and a graduate of the Creighton School of Law (where Dean Raful served as Dean at the time!). Marci is a lawyer with the California Casualty Management Company, and serves as Secretary of the Insurance Wo m e n of Los Angeles. Marci reports that Barbara Bre n t G re y attended her bridal shower. Tami Byram i s engaged to be married as well (to her long-time beau, Dave), and has moved from Minneapolis, Minnesota to the comparatively balmy Davenport, Iowa. Joining the ranks of in-house lawyers with characteristic fla i r, John Earp ( J o n E a r p @ a o l . c o m ) has been hired by Napster as Director of Business & Legal Affairs. Doug Stevens ( d o u g l a s . s t e v e n s @ n extel.com) recently joined the legal department at Nextel Communications in Irvine. He and his w i fe added a new daughter, Melinda, last year. Wendy Bartosh (wendya1@mac.com) is also inhouse with Twentieth Century Fox Television as Vice President, Legal Affairs, in Los Angeles. Gwynnae Byrd (gwynnae.byrd@sen.ca.gov) is still in Sacramento and reports going back to campus recently as part of a brown bag lunch panel on “alternative things to do with your law degree.” According to Gwynnae, the law school now has a much nicer cafeteria. Lisa Hu Barq u i s t (Lisa.Barquist2@usdoj.gov) is an Assistant U.S. Attorney in Miami, Florida, prosecuting civil health fraud cases. Lisa and her husband welcomed a baby girl last year. And Deana Po l l a rd ( D e a n a Pollard@aol.com) is an associate profe s s o r at Texas Southern University. Last fall, Deana was a legal commentator for Fox television in connection with the whole “election nightmare.” In private practice, Mark Kemple ( M k e m p l e @ j o n e s d a y. c o m ) became a partner at Jones, Day, Reavis & Po g u e in December 2000. Also last year, J a ck Sholkoff ( j s h o l k o f f @ h k l a w.com) became a partner with Holland & Knight. He practices in the areas of l a bor and employment law, on behalf of management. Jeff Grubman ( J g r u b m a n @ s t o l l g u r b l a w. c o m ) has formed a new entertainment and litigation law firm, Stollman & Grubman, with offices in Boca Raton and Miami. He and Diana Muggia Grubman (who is now a full-time mother) had their third child, Rachel, last year. Finally, in the most-unlikelyclassmate-sighting category, last September, I boarded a red-eye flight from Los Angeles to Guatemala City (to take depositions), on some unknown airline, and found myself on the same plane as Dan Lubeck, who was on a business trip to Costa Rica. Of course, Dan was in first class. Top that one! Please keep on sending your updates! Best regards, John N. Zarian, Class Report e r j z a r i a n @ f o l z l a w. c o m > Class of 1990 Here’s the news that’s fit to print. Job Changes: Christine Lawton recently left DreamWorks SKG (where the founders don’t believe in titles) and wrapped herself in the glorious title of Senior Vi c e President of Business Affairs, Universal Studios Home Video. Adam Dunca n has joined We l l s Fargo Securities as Managing Director of the Financial Planning Group of California. New Partners: Barbara Fitzgerald is now a partner at Seyfarth Shaw, and Lori Lo o is a partner at Fr e i d and Goldsman. Reporting in from the East, M a r k C o l l i n s is now a partner at McDermott, Will & E m e r y, where he practices out of the Wa s h i n g t o n , D.C., office. Mark and wife Cara Dalton moved to northern Virginia in 1994 seeking a kinder, gentler place to raise their kids, Pierce and Reese. Scales of Justice: G reg Kimmel reported his victory in a recent jury trial of a “Special Circumstances” m u r d e r, i.e., Greg is still putting bad guys behind bars. Another big winner, Tracy Dre s s n e rr e p o r t e d that she recently celebrated two victories on the same day, i.e., a favorable ruling on a Fe d e r a l habeas corpus petition and the reversal of a murder conviction in a State court matter. Fa m i l y News: Scott Abernethy is now wedded to the lovely Joanne. G reg Nylen is now married to Mary Ann Fr e r i cks, and they have moved to a house in Topanga. Greg also reported having seen God not once, not twice, but three times since graduation. ( H o w e v e r, he gave no further details, so we’ll have to get back to you on this one.) Sabrina Sinser reports “I am currently 8 months pregnant with my first child (my partner’s third; he has 2 beautiful girls from a prior marriage, ages 5 and 11) … My partner’s name is Dayle Burton (he’s from England). The baby’s name will be Wesley Pa u l ( a f t e r Paul Goldman) Burton. Life is truly fabulous!” Heidi Tu f fia s ’ sbeautiful, happy 5-week-old baby daughter was a delightful addition to our 10- Year Reunion. But, we’ll have to wait for the nex t Reunion to see Ed Susolik’s latest addition, who was not quite ready for his USC debut. Ed and wife Andrea live in Newport Beach, and as they were preparing to leave for the Reunion, it became clear that Andrea was going into the early stages of l a bo r. Not daunted by childbirth (this was their third), Ed dropped Andrea off at the hospital and then headed north, with cell phone in hand, to join us in Beverly Hills. Ed left the Reunion around 10 p.m., and was back at the hospital in plenty of time to welcome son Parker Stuart, who arrived at 2:30 a.m. (Andrea clearly wins our “Spouse of the Ye a r ” award.) New to fatherhood, Peter Zilgalvis announced the birth of son Gustavs Janis. Th e Zilgalvis family will continue to make their home in S t r a s bourg, France. Motor News: Scott Abernethy owns 3 collectible cars (i.e., a Yellow ’57, a Red ’71 , and Red ’84), and reports that Steve Han is the “proud father of a beautiful ’69 Firebird converti b l e .” Robert Yo d e r ’ s w i fe reports that while Rob has “a garage full of collectible cars,” the car he really drives is a ’74 Jaguar XKE with only 2 seats, w h i ch is a bit cramped for his pregnant wife and their 3 kids. (Rob, have you considered a vintage ( Don’t see your class? US CL a w is seeking class reporters for the Classes of ’82, ’84, ’92 and ’99. Call Ke v e n Jones at (213) 740-6143 to volunteer. 7 0 USCLAW s p r i n g 2001
G R A D UAT E S CLASS NOTES Suburban or maybe a Woodie stationwagon?) Last, but not least, the “Vote” results: Thank you all for completing our questionnaire. We had the best “respondent turnout” to date (with 69 Classmates reporting), and by the time we finished our hand count, we could really appreciate the benefits of using a punch card ballot. That being said, while we ran into a few irregular ballots in our count (e.g., people who gave us a car “make” when we asked for a car “year”), there was just one chad in our b u n ch — Chad Wo o t t o n— and his responses were crystal clear. The following are some of the statistical highlights of our Census 2000. Our Class is having no problem nesting: 83 percent own Homes; 73 percent are Married; 71 percent are Parents (of the 96 Children reported, 47 percent are Boys and 53 percent are Girls, but we noted that the 4 sets of Twins are tied, with 50 percent Boys and 50 percent Girls); Average “family” size is 3.2; People with Pets 59 percent (with Dogs and Cats tied at 34 percent of all Pets reported, and Fish in a close second at 25 percent); and just 11 percent of those reporting are without Kids or Pets. Still Working: Most of us (82 percent) are still working a law job, with the top 4 Practice Areas being Civil Litigation 42 percent, Transactions 29 percent, Advisory 10 percent, and Criminal Litigation 7 percent. (We note that while the Crim lawyers may be fewer in number, they seem prouder of their work: 50 percent of them shared recent successes with us.) Apparently, only 6 members of our Class did the due diligence necessary to choose the “right” post-J.D. job. These stellar 6 are still at their first jobs, while our Class average is 2.88 jobs/10 years. In our jobs, we are Attorneys at Law, Senior Attorneys, Senior Judicial Attorneys, Partners, Pr o fessors, City Councilmembers, General Counsels, Executive Counsels, Associate General Counsels, Assistant General Counsels, Deputy General Counsels, Deputy District Attorneys, Deputy Alternate Pu b l i c D e fenders, Deputy Heads of Divisions, Pr e s i d e n t s , Vice Presidents, Senior Vice Pr e s i d e n t s , Secretaries, Directors, Executive Directors, Senior Directors, Consultants, Principal Consultants, Chiefs and Drones. A whopping 66 percent of us can dress casually at work. On a more Pe r s o n a l Note: 77 percent are staying out of Court and 79 More USC Grads Appointed to the Bench Four USC Law School alumni have been appointed recently to the bench in California. Emilie H. Elias ’70 a n d John L. Segal ’87 we re appointed judges of the Los Angeles County Superior Court by Gov. Gray Davis; Helios “Jo e” He rnandez ’73 was appointed a judge in the Riverside County Superior Court; and Stephen G. Larson ’89 w a s sworn in as a federal magistrate judge. Judge Elias leaves a post as commissioner in the Los Angeles Su p e r i o r C o u rt, where she presided over a direct calendar civil department for s e ven years. Be f o re taking that post, she presided over a master calendar civil department, managed the small claims department, and handled settlements and law and motion matters for the Superior Court . Pre v i o u s l y, Judge Elias practiced family law and was among the first attorneys cert i fied as family law specialists by the California State Ba r. Be f o re becoming Riverside County’s only Latino judge, Ju d g e He r n a n d ez was a prosecutor in the Riverside County district attorney’s o f fice, where he worked for nearly 20 years. He handled more than 80 j u ry trials. Beginning in 1989, he was a supervising deputy district a t t o r n e y, and he took over the offic e’s narcotics unit in 1996. Prior to joining the district attorney’s office, Judge He r n a n d ez handled civil and criminal cases in private practice in Santa Ana, Calif. He also work e d as a legislative analyst for the National Institutes of Health in Washington, D.C. Judge Segal, previously a litigation partner with Mitchell, Si l b e r b e r g & Knupp in Los Angeles, has extensive experience as a judge pro tem and as a settlement officer and mediator. He is a member of the litigation section of the American Bar Association and has served on the Los Angeles County Bar Association’s appellate courts committee and its delegation to the State Bar Conference of Delegates. He has also serve d on the board of directors for Planned Pa renthood Los Angeles. Be f o re joining Mitchell, Silberberg & Knupp, Judge Segal worked as a law clerk for Judge Ro b e rt Vance in the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. Magistrate Judge Larson, a veteran assistant U.S. attorney, is one of the youngest people to become a federal magistrate judge in California’s central district. He will hear cases in Riverside. During his nine ye a r s with the U.S. attorney’s office in Los Angeles, Larson headed the Or g a n i zed Crime Strike Fo rce unit and prosecuted several high-pro fil e cases. He was previously an associate with O’Me l veny & Myers. An e x p e rt on Russian organized crime, Larson lectures regularly in the United States and Eu rope and teaches constitutional law at Gl e n d a l e Un i versity College of Law. Emilie Elias ’70 , Helios “J o e ” Hernandez ’73 ,S t e p h e n Larson ’89 and John Segal ’ 87. USCLAW s p r i n g 2001 7 1
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