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On The Cover:Law School students, circa 1914, on the stepsof the Los Angeles County Courthouse, justnorth of the Tajo Building at First and Broadway,home of the Law School from 1911-1925.In celebrating one hundred years of legaleducation, USC Law School pays tribute tothe pivotal role both deans and faculty haveplayed in its history. As Dean Scott H. Biceconcludes his remarkable twenty-year term,the entire Law School community expressesits gratitude for the two decades of growthand accomplishment, which are his legacy.To him and his exemplary leadership, thisissue of USC Law is respectfully dedicated.

THE LAW SCHOOL • UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIASPRING 2000FEATURED ARTICLESFEATURED COLUMNS2 From the Deanby Dean Scott H. Bice23 Charting The Courseby Associate Dean Scott Altman24 Spotlight On. . . Career Servicesby Assistant Dean Lisa Mead4 Intellectual Adventures:A Century of Faculty Thought anda Law School Permanent in Natureby Associate Dean John G. (Tom) Tomlinson, Jr.PAGE 225 Spotlight On. . . The Libraryby Assistant Director Brian RaphaelPAGE 2526 Spotlight On. . . Clinical Programs27 It’s New, It’s NewsPAGE 414 Dean Scott H. BiceConcludes Twenty Year Term as Dean33 Faculty and Olin Workshops40 The View From Here:Establishing Legal Clinics in Moldovaby Associate Dean Karen Lash ‘87NEWS FROM . . .18 The Law School28 The FacultyPAGE 4034 The Students38 ContinuingLegal Education39 The GraduatesPAGE 3476 Life and the Lawby Ray R. Goldie ’57Karen A. Lash, Associate Dean, Publication DirectorCeline Burk, EditorPaul Cholodenko, Art DirectorScott Kampmeyer, Production DesignerE.J. Safirstein, Publication AssistantThe Law School, University of Southern CaliforniaLos Angeles, CA 90089-0071(213) 740-7331www.usc.edu/law© 2000 The Law School, University of Southern CaliforniaPAGE 76

◆FROM THE DEANAs I conclude my final term as dean, Barbaraand I extend our deepest gratitude to all who have made the pasttwenty years so enjoyable and rewarding. Since there are literallythousands to whom we owe our thanks, a message of appreciationcould be very long indeed. But a lengthy listing would, of course, becumbersome and would inevitably and inadvertently omit somesignificant people. So, let’s keep it short.We have been blessed with significant support and encouragementfrom faculty, staff, university administration, graduates anddonors. We have been blessed to be a part of an academiccommunity dedicated to mutual respect for differences and diversity.And, we have been blessed to be a part of an institution with rocksolid commitments to scholarly excellence, teaching effectiveness,public service, professionalism and high ethical conduct.The past twenty years have been a true joy for us. We are deeplygrateful for the opportunity that we were given to serve our school.Please mark your calender for theUSC LAW SCHOOL’SGALA CENTENNIAL DINNERSaturday, June 10, 2000Pardee Way • USC CampusThis dinner is in lieu of the springAnnual Dinner Dancein additionA SALUTE TOBARBARA AND SCOTT BICEFOR 20 YEARS OF THEIR DEANSHIPSunday, September 10, 2000Alumni Park • USC CampusMore information at www.usc.edu/law/centennialor e-mail us at centennial@law.usc.eduUSC LAW • FALL 1999 USC LAW • SPRING 2000 2USC LAW • FALL SPRING 1999 20003

Intellectual AdventuresA CENTURY OF FACULTY THOUGHT AND A LAW SCHOOL PERMANENT IN NATUREBY JOHN G. (TOM) TOMLINSON, JR.“Permanence speaks of endurance; nature or character—for the historian, atleast—speaks of an accumulation and distillation of experiences over time whichmark the culture of a place. A faculty in its longevity, teaching, and scholarshipdefines the permanent nature of the law school.“Since 1900, when the University of SouthernCalifornia announced that it was offeringcourses in legal education, more than 100persons have taught law at USC as full-timeprofessors over the past century; it is the collective faculty,working with ambitious students and supportedby generous graduates, who have shaped the culture ofUSC Law School. As the University celebrates 100years of legal education during the year 2000, it isappropriate to honor the faculty whose work as teachersand scholars has transformed USC Law School intoone of the important American academic legalcommunities.Attempting to describe the work and influence ofmore than 100 professors over 100 years in a brief articlepromises an inventory list of persons and yearstaught. Rather than create lists, this article identifiesthree people who are, and one course, which is representativeof important intellectual and pedagogical orientationswhich define the academic atmosphere andwork of the Law School. Visiting the representativelives and thought of George H. Smith, William Burby,John Bradway, and one course out of the curriculum —Law, Language, and Ethics and the persons who createdthe course — illuminates the evolution of this lawschool over the past century.George H. Smith William Burby John BradwayA Law School Permanent in NatureAt its wobbly inception in November 1896, the LosAngeles Law Students Association heard their invitedguests — attorneys James Brown Scott and CurtisDwight Wilbur — encourage them in their ambitiousenterprise of founding a law school in Los Angeleswhich might become “permanent in nature.” Two yearslater, a group of leading Angelenos incorporated the LosAngeles School of Law and hired Scott to be dean andlaw professor. George H. Smith was one of Scott’s firstfaculty recruits. In 1900, the University of SouthernCalifornia commenced offering courses in law throughthe Los Angeles School of Law and at the end of the1900-1901 term, USC awarded its first seven lawdegrees. A handful of Los Angeles law students hadindeed succeeded in launching a law school “permanentin nature.”Permanence speaks of endurance; nature or character— for the historian, at least — speaks of an accumulationand distillation of experiences over time whichmark the culture of a place. A faculty in its longevity,teaching, and scholarship defines the permanent natureof the law school; faculty endure. For example, WilliamBurby taught law at USC for 38 years, Paul Jones for 40;and, as for the generation of faculty who followed Burby,Jones and others after 1962 — George Lefcoe, MartinLevine, and Christopher Stone — to name but three, thesum of their lives on the faculty now exceeds 100 years.Faculty at the Law School have been the primaryshapers of the place, not only by their idiosyncratic personalstyles — their dress, phrasing, mannerism — butalso their understanding of how the law is to be taught— its pedagogy, as well as the subject of pedagogy, andthe contents of what is taught, and the relationship oflaw to society; theirs is the collective intellectual influencewhich defines and endures.The Most Learned ManShortly after the turn of the last century, Henry O’Melvenyproclaimed his old friend George Hugh Smith “oneof the most learned men in California.” Like mostattorneys of that era, Smith (1834-1915) learned law asan apprentice; unlike many of his contemporaries,Smith graduated from college. In Los Angeles since1869, Smith joined the successful law practice ofAndrew Glassell and his partner, one of the little city’sleading firms. A year later, he married Glassell’s widowedsister whose son apprenticed with Smith andjoined the firm in 1878.Smith was also an engaged public citizen. In 1887and 1888, he served as a state senator. During the late1880’s, Smith, along with Henry O’Melveny and otherlocal attorneys helped revive the Los Angeles CountyBar Association; Smith was a trustee of that organization,and helped create other southern California civicinstitutions as well. Again with Henry O’Melveny andothers in 1898, Smith helped incorporate and was afounding trustee of the Los Angeles School of Law; ontwo separate occasions, he taught: from 1898 to 1900and from 1908 to 1910. From 1900 to 1905, Smithserved as a Supreme Court Commissioner, a post whichaffirmed his reputation as an important legal thinkerand prepared him for a term as Justice of the CaliforniaCourt of Appeals, Second District from 1905 to 1907.While on the bench in 1905, he wrote 54 opinions. Hadhe done nothing more, Smith’s accomplishments wouldmerit our attention as an important early builder of legalinstitutions in Los Angeles.But there was more. Smith was a nationally recognizedscholar of prodigious output with a publicationrecord comparable to many then writingabout legal education, and the philosophy of law. Hisbooks included Elements of Right and of the Law (1887),The Law of Private Right (1890), A Critical History ofModern English Jurisprudence: A Study in Logic, Politics,and Morality (1893), The Theory of the State (1895)and Logic, or the Analytic of Explicit Reasoning (1901);The Theory of the State won a cash prize from the venerableAmerican Philosophical Society. From 1886 untilhis death in 1915, Smith published 17 articles in theAmerican Law Review, arguably the most prestigiouslaw journal in the country at that time; five articlesappeared elsewhere. A photograph of Smith in the frontispieceof the American Law Review’s March/April1908 edition put a face on the mind which had contributedso prolifically to the Review’s pages.Throughout his oeuvre, Smith demonstrated abroadly educated mind; he was at home with the classicsand he read Greek and Latin. Outlines of hiscourses in jurisprudence and American common lawoffered at the Law School suggest the scope of hisknowledge; students in Smith’s classes expected tostudy the legal thought of Aristotle and Plato, of theRoman jurists, Hobbes, Locke, Hume, Leibnitz, Grotius,Kant, Savigny and leading nineteenth century jurisprudentialthinkers as well. Smith also taught comparativejurisprudence and constitutional law.Two themes knit together the corpus of Smith’spublished works: the need to reorder Americanlegal training and the need to recenter law andlegal decisions in reason and moral principles. The firstissue considered where legal education should takeplace; the second considered what should be taught and4 USC LAW • SPRING 2000 USC LAW • SPRING 20005

“A glance at the USC Law School catalogues before Burby arrived indicates onlyscattered courses utilizing case books. Coinciding with Burby’s 1926 arrival, casematerials became part of the way law was taught and learned to the present.““Soon after Bill Burby made the case method the lingua franca ofthe Law School, John Bradway expanded its vocabulary; Bradwaymoved the teaching of law from the case book to the streets.“how. On the first topic, Smith had plenty of company;after 1890, growing numbers of legal mavens — such asJames Brown Scott — argued to make legal educationthe province of law schools and universities rather thanthe uncertain ways of legal apprenticeship. In 1890there were 60 law schools in America; a decade laterthere were 102; Smith, who learned law in Virginia viathe apprentice system and wrote disparagingly thereafterabout the experience, recognized in this movementand the foundling USC Law School confirmation of histhinking.On the second issue, however, Professor Smith andhis dean James Brown Scott, were formidable opponents.Scott, with two degrees from Harvard and a lawdegree from Heidelberg University, possessed the mostformally educated legal mind in the city. His years atHarvard persuaded him that the correct way to teachlaw was by the case system. The case method, thereflected teaching style advanced by ChristopherColumbus Langdell, founding dean of the Harvard LawSchool in 1870. In the Los Angeles Law School’s 1898catalogue, Scott advised prospective students that theprevailing form of “instruction will be conductedaccording to what is known as the ‘case system.’ ” Tounderscore the message, Scott recommended that students“wishing a clear understanding of the case system”would be rewarded by reading Harvard law professorEugene Wambaugh’s “admirable work,” The Studyof Cases (1892).An apostle of Langdell, Scott understood that the casesystem was about both case and system; cases were theprimary material of legal study while system suggestedthe method by which cases were to be studied by students;and, through the process of eduction – theSocratic method – professors would determine what studentswere thinking about a case. For Langdell, writtenappellate cases were the primary source material forlegal study and research; judicial opinions made law.The law library, then, was the laboratory for legal education;the library was to law what the laboratory was tothe study of chemistry and physics; in clear language,Langdell asserted the study of law through cases was science.To abet this scientific inquiry into law, Langdellpublished the first of many casebook collections in1871. Langdell’s years as dean of Harvard Law Schoolreshaped the way Harvard taught law and the Americanlegal academy as well; when Harvard law schoolsneezed, American law schools caught cold.With the verve of the Confederate cavalryofficer that he once was, Smith charged intoLangdell’s arguments. His chief salientassaulted the case system on moral grounds but he alsoquestioned the case method in the name of pedagogicalefficiency. In the classroom the Socratic method wasslow going; at best, it was suitable for degree-wieldingstudents — Harvard students. When Smith commencedhis teaching life in 1898, the Los Angeles Law Schoolaccepted students who were at least 18 years old andwho could demonstrate that their previous educationprepared them to study law; by comparison, Harvardwas only admitting students with college degrees. Thetypical law student in Smith’s classes had not attendedcollege. So, for practical pedagogical reasons, the casesystem was unsuitable for his students. But in “TheTrue Method of Legal Education” (1890), Smith rejectedLangdell’s case system because of its pretensions to be ascience. Langdell’s claim for law as science, as the applicationof inductive thought in search of general principleswithout regard to moral principles was for Smithuntenable. For Smith, law emanated from fundamentalissues of morality and reason, neither of which he discernedin the thinking of his Harvard-trained contemporaries.For reasons of pedagogical efficiency and morality,Smith chose not to teach law at USC using the strictassumptions of Langdell and his followers. An eclecticapproach using the works of legal philosophers, lectures,illustrated with cases from law as well as from literatureand the classics informed Smith’s legal pedagogy;glimpses of early USC Law School catalogues suggestthat most of his faculty colleagues followed his example.Despite his convictions, intellectual courage, and the6 USC LAW • SPRING 2000USC LAW • SPRING 20007

“It is noteworthy that the clinic Bradway founded at USC in 1928 continuestoday as the Legal Aid Foundation of Los Angeles. At USC, clinical courses havebeen an integral aspect of the law curriculum for 72 years.““USC Law School understands that law is part of a comprehensivesocial context, rather than an institution studied distant from personaland broad social influences.“temporary victory at USC of his teaching philosophy,Smith’s understanding of the nature of law and legal educationwas overrun by the Langdellite siege on the legalacademy; by 1915, the assaults of the Harvard men prevailedon behalf of the case method. The same year, Smithdied at his desk in 1915; several local obituaries noted hewas editing another work at the moment of death.“Do You Believe in the Case Method?”After meeting with a group of faculty in Dean OrrinEvans’ office on the first floor of the old law schoolbuilding in 1964, Martin Levine, a freshly minted YaleLaw School graduate, applying for an academic appointment,was approached in the hall by the venerableWilliam Burby. Burby posed one question to Levine:“Do you believe in the case method?” “Yes, I do,”Levine guessed. “Good,” replied Burby, who then leftthe bewildered Levine to wonder how such a clippedexchange about the case method could apparently yieldso much satisfying information. For Burby, who seemedto live in and for the question, it was the only questionthat mattered; he had staked his entire law school career— 56 years in all, 38 of them at USC Law School — onteaching via the case method.William E. Burby (1893-1982) did not plant the seed ofthe case method at USC but he was connected to Scott’smissionary work. Ten years after Scott left Los Angeles,he was teaching law in Washington D.C. and serving asthe founding general editor of the American CasebookSeries, the teaching tool of the Langdellites. An earlyrecruit to Scott’s Casebook Series was University ofMichigan law professor Ralph W. Aigler, whose two volumework, Titles to Real Property, appeared in 1916 andwent through many editions.One of Aigler’s brightest students, William E. Burby,graduated from the Michigan Law School in 1922. AtMichigan, two features of his later life at USC were evident:his intelligence — he graduated Order of the Coif— and his penchant for bow ties; a graduation pictureshows Burby already in the well dressed mufti that washis emblem at USC. After Michigan, Burby taught in thelaw schools of Notre Dame from 1922 to 1924, and theUniversity of North Dakota from 1924 to 1926. In 1926Burby joined the USC law faculty as its second full-timefaculty member. With Robert Kingsley, Charles Carpenter,Stanley Howell, and Orville Cockerill, Bill Burbysecured the case method as the prevailing means ofstudying law at USC.Aglance at the USC law school catalogues beforeBurby arrived indicates only scattered coursesutilizing case books. Coinciding with Burby’s1926 arrival, case materials became part of the way lawwas, and is, taught and learned. As if to give a friendlyevaluation of his former student’s commitment to thecase method, Professor Aigler taught at USC Law Schoolduring the summer sessions from 1931 to 1933. Aiglerneedn’t have worried; Burby routinely used his mentor’sproperty case book in his classes. For those studentswho learned law at USC during Burby’s tenure, mentionof his name conjures up recollections of the case methodand a demanding Socratic inquiry. Perhaps every lawschool has its version of Professor Kingsfield, thedemanding, feared yet revered law professor in the filmand television series, Paper Chase; in the memories ofmany USC law graduates, that man was William Burby.Within five years of his arrival at USC, Burby wasalso a contributor to the American Casebook Series.Evidence of his teaching methods exists as early as 1931with his syllabus of cases on community property; twoyears latter, Burby’s Cases on Community Propertyjoined the list of his Michigan law school mentors; aforth edition appeared in 1955. By 1943, Burby publishedhis first Hornbook on Property Law; and, in 1946,he found a publishing niche for his famous bar reviewcourse. Subjects in this series included criminal law,property, evidence, business law and a general refreshertext for students preparing to take the bar examinationWhile Burby made his professional mark chiefly as aprofessor of property and community property, over thecourse of nearly four decades he also taught trusts, billsand notes, torts, and common law pleading. Two of hisprotégés — Shelden Elliott LLB ‘31, LLM ‘32, and HenrySpringmeyer JD ‘30 — succeeded so well with Burby andhis colleagues that they returned to the faculty by themid-1930’s; Elliott emulated his mentor in his teachingmethod and as active author of monographs on theadministration of justice, legal education, and legislationin addition to case books.The Most Notable ExperimentSoon after Bill Burby made the case method the linguafranca of the Law School, John Bradway expanded itsvocabulary; Bradway moved the teaching of law fromthe case book to the streets. John Saeger Bradway (1890-1985) joined the faculty in the summer of 1928 to establisha legal clinic at the law school. In Bradway, thenDean Justin Miller found the nation’s foremost proponentof integrating a practicum into the American lawschool curriculum. Bradway’s notion that a legal clinicwas both an exercise in altruism, as well an importantmeans of learning, won the attention of a contemporaryABA report. It declared Bradway’s work as the “. . . mostnotable experiment [in legal education] is the legal aidclinic of the University of Southern California LawSchool.”The notion of a legal clinic derived from late-nineteenthcentury developments in medical education,which invented medical clinics as a means of injectingpractical experience into classroom instruction. Medicalstudents, working under the supervision of practicingphysicians, attended to poor patients in local clinicsand hospitals. By 1910, several law schools includingHarvard, the University of Minnesota, the University ofDenver, and particularly Northwestern were experimentingwith the medical school model, establishinglegal clinics for the poor managed by practicing attorneyswho supervised law students.John Bradway, a 1914 graduate of the University ofPennsylvania Law School, found his life’s work in thelegal clinic model. Inspired by his deep Quaker socialconscience, Bradway’s legal training launched him into anational role as chief spokesperson for the national legalaid movement. Secretary to the National Association ofLegal Aid Organizations, he directed the PhiladelphiaLegal Aid Society from 1914 to 1920 while teaching atthe Pennsylvania Law School and School of Social Work.Bradway spent just three years at USC but hiswork has endured for more than seven decades;a prolific writer, he authored scores of books andarticles on law and social work, the bar and public relations,and legal clinics. At the center of his oeuvre arefive essays published in the Southern California LawReview between 1928 and 1931 on the nature, organization,administration, and educational value of a clinicallaw school course. Collectively, they became the handbookfor law school legal aid clinic programs throughoutthe country. While Bradway’s keen social agenda imaginedthat the USC legal clinic might stimulate a student’ssocial conscience, he fully understood that such aclinic needed to find justification as part of a law schoolcurriculum. For Bradway, the course — open to thirdyear students — was a means of demonstrating the interconnectednessof legal theory and practice which were“not and ought not to be considered separate things.”Evidence of the union of theory and practice occurredevery weekday afternoon and on Saturdays at the northeastentrance of the Law School building; here clientsseeking counsel entered the law school, climbing thestairs to the second floor where they met with two thirdyearlaw students; this simple inclusionary gesture distinguishedUSC’s legal aid clinic from others. At theUniversity of Minnesota clinic, for example, studentswent into the city to meet clients. Solomon Rosenbaum‘30, describing himself as a callow third-year, recalls theexperiences gained with live clients as among the mostvaluable in his life as a law student. The legal cliniccourse provided students with the opportunity to synthesizepractice and theory.8USC LAW • SPRING 2000USC LAW • SPRING 20009

“Law, Language, and Ethics, first offered in the Fall 1965 semester, is perhapsthe most distinctive feature in USC’s legal curriculum. . . it reflected an innovativethematic departure from the way law was taught during the previous 65 years.“LL&E professors in the early years. . .Scott BiceChristopher StoneWilliam BishinRonald Garet10USC LAW • SPRING 2000

“Law, Language, and Ethics captured the imagination and critical support of otherfaculty and the dean. . . Members of the present faculty have taught the course since its1965 inception. . . academics with deep knowledge of diverse fields such as philosophy,economics, psychology, religion, history, gerontology, medicine, and philosophy.And today. . .“Ronald GaretNomi StolzenbergChristopher StoneUSC LAW • SPRING 2000 11

“USC Law School. . . had become an exciting, especially imaginative place whichfostered speculative thought about the law, as well as the traditional “law stuff” which wasand is an integral aspect of all American legal education.““For 100 years, it has been the faculty which has made “intellectual adventures”the permanent nature of legal education at USC. It is an honorable legacy.“In 1931, Bradway followed Justin Miller to Duke LawSchool where he continued his life’s work by establishinga similar clinic. At USC, Leon David oversaw the clinicuntil 1934, when Shelden Elliott ‘31, a Bradway student,provided guidance until 1942. It is noteworthy that theclinic Bradway founded at USC in 1928 continues todayas the Legal Aid Foundation of Los Angeles. At USC,clinical courses have been an integral aspect of the lawcurriculum for 72 years. Bradway’s scions include suchclinical experiences as the Post-Conviction Justice Project.After retiring from Duke in 1959, Bradway moved tothe faculty at California Western Law School in SanDiego where he taught clinical law. Five years later BillBurby joined Bradway on the Cal Western faculty.An Entirely New ApproachLaw, Language, and Ethics, first offered in the Fall 1965semester, is perhaps the most distinctive feature inUSC’s legal curriculum; now an integral, still vigorous,yet well domesticated element in the Law School’s catalogue,its appearance 35 years ago was questioned andchallenged for, in the language of professors WilliamBishin and Chris Stone, it reflected an innovative thematicdeparture from the way law was taught during theprevious 65 years. The entire Law School communitywas mindful of the importance of this unfamiliar curricularoffering. Student editors of the Summer 1965issue of the Southern California Law Review gave leadplacement to Bishin’s announcement of the course; itwas not only a new course, opined the editors, “but alsoan entirely new approach to our legal education.” ThenDean Orrin Evans was convinced he needed to explainthis new course. He addressed Law School graduates inword and print explaining — and defending — with clarityand conviction Law, Language, and Ethics as the representativecomponent in the redirection of the lawschool curriculum.The appearance of Law, Language, and Ethics culminateda several year discussion at USC prompted by professorsGeorge Lefcoe and advanced by Bill Bishin. Theunderlying assumptions of the course Bishin articulatedin a tidy, compelling four page precise published in theFall 1965 Southern California Law Review. Bishin, elegantlyeducated in philosophy at Columbia Universityand in law from Harvard, argued that Law, Language,and Ethics evinced “this law school’s determination tooffer a course dramatizing the relevance and utility ofsignificant philosophical thought in the solution ofproblems faced every day by lawyers, judges, legislators.”The venerable place held in legal education bythe case method and Socratic dialogue notwithstanding,Bishin proposed that the most challenging legal educationwould draw from the thinking done in relatedfields: sociology, linguistics, anthropology, economics,science, and mathematics; all, he asserted, possessedinformation, methods, and insights that would informthe law student of the late twentieth century. All legaldisputes — sans legal language, Bishin maintained, werefinally enduring philosophical problems about “thenature of reality, problems of knowledge, the functionsof language, the requisites of morality, the meaning ofthe good life, the ends of society.” Bishin’s compellingstatement about the importance of an interdisciplinaryapproach to legal education found in Chris Stone a likemindedthinker. Their collective understanding foundexpression in the casebook Law, Language and Ethics:An Introduction to Law and Legal Method (1972); atUSC, this case book represented a reshifting of legaleducation. Like its pedagogic sibling, the legal clinic,the class, Law, Language, and Ethics, also served tobroaden the way the law is taught.The course and casebook created by Bishin andStone did not occur in isolation; indeed, Law,Language, and Ethics was representative ofchanges which captured the imagination and critical supportof other faculty and the dean. Moreover, the casebookdid not launch the “entirely new approach” to legaleducation at USC; rather, it secured it. Members of thepresent faculty have taught the course since its 1965inception; in addition to Bishin and Stone, Scott Bice, RonGaret, and Nomi Stolzenberg have challenged first yearstudents to think outside of the legal box. Moreover, thecourse announced and anticipated the interdisciplinaryand multidiscipinary orientation of many faculty; thecurrent faculty includes academics with deep knowledgeof diverse fields such as philosophy, economics, psychology,religion, history, gerontology, medicine, and philosophy.Seminar topics offered during the second and thirdyears underscore the interdisciplinary interests of the faculty.USC Law School understands that law is part of acomprehensive social context, rather than an institutionstudied distant from personal and broad social influences.Intellectual AdventuresIn a 1968 obituary written in memory of HaroldSolomon, author David Riesman noted that USC LawSchool, whose faculty included the late Solomon, hadbecome an exciting, especially imaginative place whichfostered speculative thought about the law, as well asthe traditional “law stuff” which was and is an integralaspect of all American legal education. Riesman celebratedUSC for its effort to balance theory and practice,and to investigate both with an interdisciplinary prod.This daring attempt to provide new ways of understandinglaw had the promise of providing, in Riesman’swords: “intellectual adventures.”The notion makes for a wonderful summary of therepresentative collective impact of George H. Smith,William Burby, John Bradway, and the course Law, Languageand Ethics. Through their collective and thoughtfulconcern about the nature of legal education, the needto balance theory and practice in legal teaching, thecommitment to an interdisciplinary understanding ofthe law, and the belief in the importance of scholarship,these figures honor and celebrate a century of facultythought. For 100 years, it has been the faculty which hasmade “intellectual adventures” the permanent nature oflegal education at USC. It is an honorable legacy.JOHN G. (TOM) TOMLINSON, JR.is Associate Dean at the LawSchool, where he is writing itscentennial history. Hisresponsibilities include majorgifts and planned givingactivities central to the“Campaign for the Second Century.”12 USC LAW • SPRING 2000 USC LAW • SPRING 200013

Scott H. BiceCONCLUDES TWENTY-YEARTERM AS DEANSCOTT H. BICE '68, the USC Law School graduate who went on to become oneof the school's most popular and longest-serving deans, will officially end his stewardshipof the Law School and return to teaching effective June 30. "Scott is theconsummate teacher, scholar and administrator," said USC President Steven B.Sample. "On all levels, he has brought the law school to national prominencethrough his visionary and inspiring leadership. His leadership will be missed."Dean Bice, who has the third-longest tenure of a currently seated dean at anAmerican Bar Association-accredited law school, has surpassed the usual length ofservice for a law school dean in the United States, which, according to the ABA,is less than five years. Appointed in 1980, Dean Bice succeeded The HonorableDorothy W. Nelson, who had been his long-time mentor.During what is referred to as “the Bice years,” the Law School nearly doubledthe size of its facility and completed three successful fund-raising campaigns. Thecurrent $50 million campaign is expected to conclude this year, making it themost successful fund-raising effort in the school's history. In addition, the LawSchool's endowment has increased nearly twenty fold. With a marketvalue now exceeding $100 million, its endowment is among thenation’s ten largest private law school endowments. An integral partof the campaign's success can be attributed to Dean Bice's on-goingrelationship with graduates of the Law School."The Law School, underthe direction of DeanBice, has been creatingstakeholders for the pastDean Bice has overseen the school's continued rise from aregional institution that drew most of its students from SouthernCalifornia to a nationally recognized institution that draws abouttwo-thirds of its students from elsewhere. At the same time, theschool expanded its reputation for interdisciplinary legal scholarship,building strong programs in law and economics, law andhumanities, and clinical education. During Dean Bice's tenure, thenumber of endowed faculty positions – a key indicator of a school's twenty years."ability to compete for top faculty – grew from four to 29. In thesharp-elbowed world of legal academics, Bice is known for his conflict-deflatingmanagement style, which quickly became one of the- THE HONORABLECANDACE D. COOPER '73school's most effective tools for recruiting new faculty.Faculty twice talked Dean Bice out of stepping down – once at theend of his first 10 years in office and then again in 1995, after he finishedserving a third five-year term. In a recent interview with theUSC Chronicle, Dean Bice explained, "It's nice when your colleagues appreciatewhat you're doing. I've found the dean's job rewarding and stimulating, and obviouslyI liked it, because I stayed a long time. But I think institutions benefit fromhaving a change in leadership from time to time. You hope that all the good thingsthat have been accomplished continue, but fresh eyes are going to see new opportunitiesand see new directions that could be undertaken."Dean Bice earned his B.A. and J.D. at USC, where both his parents - Virginia S.and Fred H. Bice - attended college. A law professorship in their names exemplifiesthe family's deep connection to USC.After leaving the deanship, Dean Bice will take a one-year sabbatical. In additionto returning to research activities, he and his wife, Barbara, plan to spendmore time on their powerboat, cruising south to Mexico in the winter. As they setsail for a well-deserved vacation, the well wishes and gratitude of an entire lawschool go with them.USC LAW • SPRING 200015

The tributes which follow have been excerpted from those published in the 73 SouthernCalifornia Law Review 197 (2000). They represent a small sample of the many colleagueswho have stepped forward in recent weeks to express their admiration and appreciationfor one of the Law School’s most popular deans."During the Bice years, theSchool of Law has been nurturedand fortified to meet the challengesof the future. In the process, ScottBice has left an enduring personallegacy, bringing honor not only tohis profession but also to the entireUSC University community."THE HONORABLE DOROTHY W. NELSON writes of her colleague andfriend, "I have known Scott as a student, a faculty colleague, and as my AssociateDean for Academic Affairs. As a student, he was admired by our facultyfor his rapier intellect and uncompromising integrity. . .He so impressed the faculty that it supported unanimouslyhis clerkship application to Chief Justice Earl- THE HONORABLEDOROTHY W. NELSONWarren of the United States Supreme Court, for whom heserved during the 1968-69 term. Chief Justice Warren toldme that Scott was one of the finest and ablest clerks everto serve him. When I became dean of the Law School, ittook little urging on my part to convince the facultyrecruitment committee to invite Scott to join our faculty.Although it was rare to offer one of our graduates such aposition during the early stages of his or her career, therewas no hesitation to extend such an offer to Scott. Scottwas a great and committed teacher, an extraordinaryscholar, using interdisciplinary techniques to shed lighton social problems of the highest significance. . . Theyquickly voted him an award for outstanding teacher ofthe year. . . Scott was the natural choice for dean when Iassumed my position as judge of the United States Courtof Appeals. He has continued to expand the faculty andhas attracted a productive and collegial group of scholarsthat provides intellectual leadership and evidences themutual respect that is essential for a true academic community. I was especiallypleased that he continued and expanded international faculty exchangesand conferences with countries such as Israel, China, and Great Britain. . . Insum, during the Bice years, the School of Law has been nurtured and fortifiedto meet the challenges of the future. In the process, Scott Bice has left anenduring personal legacy, bringing honor not only to his profession but also tothe entire USC University community."THE HONORABLE CANDACE D. COOPER '73, states, "Dean Bice, with a witand charm that I failed to recognize or appreciate as a student in his course onFederal Courts, has captured and retained the loyal support of the Law Schoolalumni. . . Since 1974, I have watched with amazement asDean Bice, with Barbara Bice at his side, engaged in a mostawesome display of alumni development for the LawSchool I have ever witnessed. Their combined schedule ofalumni-related functions and customary school functionsmust require sophisticated computer support to keeporganized and up to date. I was both a witness and a victimof this remarkable campaign. . . I graduated from theLaw School fully expecting to maintain a cordial butarms-length relationship with the University and the LawSchool. Principally due to Scott and Barbara , I have "morphed"into the more traditional USC alumni model. . . TheLaw School, under the direction of Dean Bice, has beencreating stakeholders for the past twenty years."PROFESSOR LARRY SIMON, holder of the H.W. ArmstrongProfessorship in Constitutional Law, describesDean Bice's unique relationship with the Law School faculty,"The main symptom of the faculty's regard for Scottis captured by one word: Trust. For twenty years, individuallyand in a variety of groups, and in many differentcontexts, faculty members have again and again found Scott worthy of theirtrust, and in consequence, they have repeatedly given it to him. I have neverknown him to abuse the gift. The faculty's trust in Scott has been based on itsassessment of his talent and character. Two of his most salient characteristicsare easy enough to describe: He is very smart and very honest. The third andmost important is harder to capture in a word or phrase but I would put it thisway: He has conducted the deanship in a way that has consistently and substantiallysustained and enhanced faculty self-image and morale.""For twenty years, individuallyand in a variety of groups, andin many different contexts,faculty members have again andagain found Scott worthy oftheir trust, and in consequence,they have repeatedly given it tohim. I have never known him toabuse the gift."- PROFESSOR LARRY SIMON16 USC LAW • SPRING 2000USC LAW • SPRING 200017

◆NEWS FROM THE LAW SCHOOLDOROTHY R. AND RAY R. GOLDIE ‘57Reaffirm Commitment to Law SchoolThrough $250,000 GiftDorothy R. and Ray R.Goldie ‘57, have continuedtheir ongoingphilanthropic supportof the Law Schoolthrough a $250,000gift in support of theirendowed scholarshipfund. Established inthe spring of 1997,The Ray R. Goldie andDorothy R. GoldieScholarship for deservinglaw students hasDorothy and Ray R. Goldie ‘57 served as a fittingexpression of the couple’scommitment to legal higher education.Mr. Goldie’s ties to the Law School reach back morethan four decades. Originally the owner of a successfulappliance business, he left his well-established career inorder to pursue his dream of becoming an attorney.When the enterprising businessman entered USC LawSchool in 1951 as a special admission student, healready had a wife and four children. His expertise in thebusiness arena soon translated into success at his newendeavor; he served as associate editor of the SouthernCalifornia Law Review, graduated in the top ten percentof his Law School class and was elected to the Order ofthe Coif. Meanwhile, his wife, Dorothy, was also makingher mark at the Law School, which was to continueto play a central role in their life together. Addressing aneed she saw both in herself and others, she soon managedto successfully launch the first support group forstudent spouses at USC Law School.Having completed his Law School studies, Mr.Goldie began a successful legal career as a deputy attorneygeneral for the State of California. Following histenure, he established a large, well-respected practice inthe Inland Empire.Dedicated philanthropists, the Goldies have shared along tradition of dedication to Mr. Goldie’s alma mater.From their first gift to the University, which was madewhile Mr. Goldie was still a law student, to the increasinglygenerous expressions of support throughout thedecades, the couple has continued to share both theirtime and resources. Their latest contribution to The RayR. and Dorothy R. Goldie Scholarship serves as furtherexpression of their belief in, and commitment to, legaleducation and the unique role it plays in our society.Reception Celebrates Establishment ofArthur Manella Scholarship Endowment AsFund Tops $100,000 MarkA champagne reception celebratingthe establishment of theArthur Manella ScholarshipEndowment was held at the LawSchool on Tuesday, October 12.Established in 1985 as a scholarshipfund by the law firm he cofounded,Irell & Manella LLP,the endowment, which nowtops $100,000, honors ArthurManella ‘41, whose Law SchoolArthur Manella ‘41ties spanned over fifty years.In speaking of Mr. Manella, Dean Scott H. Biceexpressed his admiration for both the man and hiscareer. He stated, “Arthur Manella was a shining exampleof the highest standards of our profession. He was amodel of excellence and integrity. We are so proud thathis splendid career and distinguished achievements arebeing memorialized through this endowment.”Judge Nora Manella ‘75, brought remarks from theManella family, while Ken Heitz and John Fossumspoke on behalf of the Irell & Manella law firm.Born in Canada to immigrant parents, who later rana grocery store in Los Angeles, Mr. Manella was the firstin his family to attend college. Graduating first in hisclass, he was to become known to fifteen subsequentyears of Law School students as the source of the“Manella Case Summaries.” Awarded a Brandeis Scholarship,he attended Harvard University in 1942, wherehe received an LL.M. in Taxation. His immediate familywould later establish their own ties to his alma mater.His son, David Manella ‘74, and daughter, Nora Manella‘75, were proud graduates of the Law School. His wife,Nancy Manella, earned a BA and MA from USC, as well.After graduation, Mr. Manella worked in the Departmentof Justice Tax Division before joining the LosAngeles firm, which was to bear his name. In 1948, hewas instrumental in creating the Law School’s AnnualInstitute on Federal Taxation, which continues today.Furthers Dean Bice, “The Institute is simply one of themost successful continuing legal education programs inthe country, and his leadership was instrumental in itssuccess. I was always deeply impressed by Art’s commitmentto excellence, and by the gracious and generousstyle he brought to all his endeavors.”The Arthur Manella Scholarship Endowment willaward two scholarships annually: one to the top studentafter the first year, and one to the top student after thesecond year of law school.The Gift That Lasts a LifetimeThe Gift That Lasts a LifetimeThe Gift That Lasts a LifetimeEducationThe Gift That Lasts a LifetimeThe successful Campaign for the Second Century generated many inquiries concerning ways of making giftsto the Law School. The following briefly outlines some of the options available for charitable giving.The Gift That Lasts a LifetimeOUTRIGHT GIFTSAn outright gift can be made of cash or any asset of marketablevalue, including real estate, stocks, bonds, collectibles,and art. From a tax perspective, the best assetsto give are those that are highly appreciated. Outrightgifts maximize deductions while minimizing taxes.GIFTS IN TRUSTMany people still need the income an asset produces. Acharitable remainder trust allows a lifetime gift whileavoiding capital gains tax and reducing current incometaxes, in addition to providing an income for the life ofthe donor and spouse. Donors choosing this option oftenwish to divest themselves of the managementheadaches associated with certain assets, such as stocksor real estate. USC offers a full array of trust options.ANNUITIESAn annuity is a contract with the University, whichpays income to a donor and spouse for their lifetimes.Guaranteed by USC, it offers income for life withreduced income taxes, whereby a portion of each paymentremains tax free. People looking for a fixed, stableincome guaranteed for life may find annuities veryattractive. Usually only liquid assets, such as stocks,bonds, or cash, are used to fund annuities.LEAD TRUSTSA charitable lead trust offers high net worth individualsthe opportunity to make a substantial gift to the LawSchool while reducing or even eliminating estate and/orgift taxes when assets are passed on to their children orgrandchildren. With a lead trust, a donor transfers assetsinto trust for a designated period of time, usually nomore than twenty years. During the trust term, incomeis paid to the Law School in support of specific programsselected by the individual donor. At the termination ofthe trust, all assets are given to the remainder beneficiary,usually the children or grandchildren. Tax lawsmake it possible to reduce or eliminate all estate and gifttaxes through a charitable lead trust.The Gift That Lasts a LifetimeLIFE ESTATE IN RESIDENCEOR SECOND HOMEThis charitable giving option allows donors to create animmediate income tax deduction by deeding a residenceor second home to the Law School. They do this whileretaining the legal right to live in the home for their lifetime.Their lifestyle and living location remain consistentbut because they have made a gift, they are allowedan immediate income tax deduction to offset currentincome. In this way, the asset is effectively removedfrom their estate for estate tax purposes.The Gift That Lasts a LifetimeGIFTS BY WILL ORREVOCABLE LIVING TRUSTThis kind of gift has been the mainstay of charitiesthroughout the world for centuries. Any gift to USCLaw School through a will or revocable living trust is100% deductible under the estate tax. Gifts may be designatedfor an endowment or specific program, in accordancewith the donor’s wishes.Information on all of these charitable giving options, as wellas simple bequest language, is available by calling John G.(Tom) Tomlinson, Associate Dean, at (213) 740-6143.18 USC LAW • SPRING 2000USC LAW • SPRING 2000 19

BOARD OF COUNCILORS WELCOMES NEW MEMBERSThe USC Board of Councilors, which has served forthe past three decades in an unparalleled advisorycapacity to the president of the University, is anintegral component of the on-going success of the LawSchool. In contrast to other USC support groups, whichdraw their membership from the ranks of USC graduatesonly, the board has always consisted of both graduates ofthe University, as well as those who obtained theirdegrees from other prominent institutions.The Board of Councilors formally meets two timesannually, but considers various aspects of the LawSchool's operations throughout the year, to offer suggestionson issues ranging from endowments to continuingeducation efforts. The Board of Councilors continues tobe an important, vital body dedicated to the continuedsuccess of the Law School as it celebrates its centennial.The Board of Councilors is proud to announce theappointment this year of four new members, all ofwhom are Law School graduates: Jean Murrell Adams,Hodge L. Dolle, Stephen P. Rader, and Robert L. Skinner.Jean Murrell Adams '86, heads the litigation departmentat DreamWorks SKG. In that capacity, she oversees allpre-litigation and litigation matters relating to Dream-Works' theatrical, television, and home video divisionsworldwide. An active member of numerous bar associations,she is a former officer of the Black WomenLawyers of Los Angeles and the Black Women LawyersFoundation. She has also served on the Los AngelesCounty Bar Association Commercial Law and BankruptcyCommittee and the State Bar of California EthnicMinority Relations Committee.Hodge L. Dolle '61, has served as chief counsel innumerous eminent domain and inverse condemnationjury trials in California, Nevada, and Texas, representingboth property owners and government bodies. Hisnumerous professional and civic affiliations include hisposition as vice chair of the Los Angeles City Board ofZoning Appeals; his appointment by Los Angeles MayorRiordan to the Mulholland Scenic Parkway DesignReview Board; his membership as a fellow of the AmericanCollege of Trial Lawyers; and numerous AmericanBar Association committees.Stephen P. Rader '81, is the co-founder of Rader ReinfrankInvestors, which manages a private equity fundproviding long term capital, management support andfinancial expertise to emerging growth companies in thecommunications, telecommunications, media and electroniccommerce industries. Prior to his founding of thecompany, he was the managing director of ChartwellPartners, a private investment firm controlled by A. JerroldPerenchio. He also currently serves as director ofOneSoft, TelePacific, and eMind.com.Robert L. Skinner '90, is executive vice president of theTowbes Group, Inc., where he concentrates his practicein complex business litigation, and construction andreal estate law. He also serves on the board of directorsof Montecito Bank & Trust and was named as its GeneralCounsel in 1998. Among his many charitableendeavors is his service on the boards of directors ofCamerata Pacifica, the Boys and Girls Club, and thedevelopment committee of the Santa Barbara Zoo.Jean Murrell Adams '86Hodge L. Dolle '61Stephen P. Rader ‘81Robert L. Skinner '90"I believe that I bring to the Board aunique perspective, which has beenenhanced by my role as a mentor andemployer of USC Law School students,particularly minority and women. I amvery proud of the part I have played intheir lives. This appointment is a greathonor for me and I am looking forward tomaking a significant contribution both tothe Board and the University at large.”“I believe the simplest way to expressmy philosophy of giving to the Universityis to say I'm in good company. TheUniversity of Southern California hasalways depended heavily on loyalalumni for funding. Judging from ourgrowth and ever-increasing reputationfor excellence, it is clear that ourcontributions are in good hands."“My personal debt to USC LawSchool is considerable. Although Ino longer practice law, my legaleducation is an integral part of mysuccess as a venture capitalist. I amhonored to be on the Board of Councilorsand look forward to theopportunity to participate in thelife of the Law School.”"My legal education has served me well,proving invaluable in my present endeavorsas Executive Vice President of The TowbesGroup, Inc., a real estate development companyin Santa Barbara, and as a member ofthe Board of Directors and General Counselof Montecito Bank & Trust. I feel both privilegedand honored to be a part of the Boardof Councilors and look forward to servingthe University in that role."20 USC LAW • SPRING 2000USC LAW • SPRING 200021

JUDGE ROSEMARY BARKETT EXPLORES “HOT TOPICS” OF JUDICIALACTIVISM AND JUDICIAL INDEPENDENCE IN 1999 ROTH LECTUREThe Honorable Rosemary Barkett,judge of the United States Court ofAppeals for the Eleventh Circuit,addressed what she deemed two of the“hottest topics of the legal moment,” as shedelivered the Lester Roth Lecture on Thursday,October 7, 1999 in Town and Gown.In her lecture, Judge Barkett explored thedual concepts of judicial independence andactivism, which tend to be treated “entirelyseparately - as though one concept hasnothing to do with the other.” According toJudge Barkett, current interest in judicialindependence, as evidenced through theabundance of symposia on the subjectincluding the most comprehensive one,USC Law School’s Judicial Independenceand Accountability Symposium on November20-21, 1999, is partially the result of theprior “hot topic of choice,” judicialactivism. Although Judge Barkett is quickto explain “concerns and complaints aboutjudicial independence or activism are notnew in our history,” she was nonethelesssurprised at their coverage in the media. Ina review of the popular press, Judge Barkettdiscovered that the two topics are rarelydiscussed together and that each of theareas was “value-laden” with judicial independencebeing perceived as “good,” andjudicial activism as “bad.” In her estimation,these labels can be partially attributedto the use of judicial activism as a “conclusionarycatch-all label for ‘bad’ judging,assuming a never stated preexisting definitionthat would somehow be commonlyunderstood.” Alluding to what she deems“the demonization of this phrase,” JudgeBarkett believes that the phrase judicialactivism has come to be accepted withoutquestion as “the equivalent of bad judicialaction when, in fact, every judicial actionoperates within a range of ‘activism.’”Judge Barkett encouraged the audience tochallenge and ultimately dispense withlabels, stating, We have for too long nowcheated ourselves of meaningful debate bypermitting facile but empty phrases to takethe place of sustentative conversations.”Currently presiding judge of the U.S.Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit, JudgeBarkett was the state of Florida’s firstfemale chief justice. Born in Mexico, JudgeBarkett became a U.S. citizen beforeembarking on a career teachingelementary and juniorhigh, primarily as a member ofa religious teaching order. Shegraduated summa cum laudefrom Spring Hill College(1967) and received her J.D.from the University of FloridaLaw School, Gainesville(1970), where she was honoredas outstanding senior graduate.Following only eightyears of private civil and triallaw practice in Florida, shewas named to Florida’s fifteenthjudicial circuit in 1979.Three years later, she becamethe administrative judge of thecourt’s civil division, and oneyear later, the court’s chiefjudge. Her career as an appellatejudge began with herappointment in 1984 to the fourth districtcourt of appeal. After only one year, shebecame a justice of the Florida SupremeCourt and in 1992, became the state’s firstfemale chief justice, a position she helduntil her appointment by President Clintonto the United States Court of Appeals in1994. A highly respected jurist known forthe incisiveness of her questions at oralargument and the scholarly sophisticationof her judicial opinions, Judge Barkett hasreceived many distinctions, including sevenhonorary degrees and more than a dozenprestigious awards, which include the ABAMinority Justice Award, the Distinguishedjurist Award from Mississippi State University,and the Latin Business and ProfessionalWomen Lifetime Achievement Award.The annual Roth lecture is a tribute tothe life and career of The Honorable LesterW Roth, 1895-1992, former presiding justiceof the California Court of Appeal for theSecond Appellate District. The lecture isone of a series funded by the Louis and FlorenceCohen Philanthropic Fund of the JewishCommunity Foundation of Los Angeles.Judge Barkettbelieves that thephrase judicialactivism hascome to beaccepted withoutquestion as “theequivalent of badjudicial actionwhen, in fact,every judicialaction operateswithin a rangeof ‘activism.’”CHARTING THE COURSEA SPECIAL MESSAGE FROM THE ACADEMIC DEANBY SCOTT ALTMAN, FRED H. & VIRGINIA S. BICE PROFESSOR OF LAW AND ASSOCIATE DEAN“Many of us whowork at USCconsider Scottour teacherbecause he hashelped us to growand flourish inour own careers.”– Scott AltmanAs USC Law School celebrates ScottBice’s 20-year deanship, many willpay tribute to his accomplishmentsas a scholar, administrator, fund raiser,leader, teacher, and friend, and will highlightthe important role that Barbara playedin these endeavors. I want to add my ownvoice to those who thank Scott.USC Law School would not be the extraordinarycenter of learning and scholarshipthat we all know today without his long andeffective leadership. His contributions canbe seen in virtually every facet of the institution.I want to emphasize one contributionthat fortunately will continue for many years- Scott Bice’s accomplishments as a teacher.I regret never having been a student inone of Scott’s classes, which, by all accounts,are extraordinary. Although many USC Lawfaculty are popular and effective teachers,Scott Bice is praised more than any otherteacher here for his combination of clarityand creativity. Students respect Scott fordemanding that they work hard, whileinspiring them to accomplish their best. HisTorts class (which he has taught every yearof his deanship) has been described as an ideal way to learneffective legal argument and case analysis. Students leavehis class with a better understanding of professionalism,having seen its virtues so clearly manifest in their teacher.Those students lucky enough to be assigned to Scott’sTorts class are not the only ones who see his skills and commitmentas a teacher. All of us at USC - students, faculty,staff, administrators, and alumni - have benefited fromScott’s teaching. He has provided us with lessons in how tolive honorably, motivate others, think carefully, disagreeagreeably, and most importantly, how to teach well.This last lesson has become increasingly difficult.Good teaching has always required the skills Scott Biceexhibits - careful listening, organized presentation, imaginativeand lively questions, an intuitive feel for what othersunderstand, and demonstrations of respect for students.Lately, however, teachers must also struggle totreat students as students, rather than as consumers.Students often present themselves as consumers. Withtuition at many private law schools over $25,000 per yearand rising, students expect more than knowledge andskills for their money. They want services, ranging fromjob counseling and assistance in finding suitable positions(not just in California but nationwide), to excellent technology(such as fast computers with largemonitors, and well-designed web pageswhere they can find applications to theschool, class schedules and materials, andtheir grades), specialized courses, and individualizedadvice on studying and test-taking.Of course, providing these servicesrequires hiring more administrators, whichincreases tuition costs and heightens students’expectations even further. Part ofScott Bice’s success as a teacher and deanhas been his skill in treating students asconsumers when it is appropriate, insistingthat we give them effective and respectfullydelivered services. At the same time, hedoes not treat students as consumers in theclassroom. He neither presumes that studentsknow best what they need to learn,nor defers to student requests for convenientlypackaged and easily digested lectures.Scott Bice provides students withwhat, in his judgement, they need - challengesat every turn.We also face occasional pressure to treatstudents as reputational enhancements.With the various law school ratings fosteringcompetition for students with high LSAT scores, andmany schools directing their admissions and other policiestoward the ratings, one might lose sight of our dutiesto our students and to the profession. Scott Bice’sinstincts as an excellent teacher have made him a successfuladministrator for facing such challenges. BecauseScott never loses sight of our teaching mission, he recognizesthat selecting the best students and providing themthe best education could often be compromised by cateringto ratings. Although our national ratings have in factbeen quite good, Scott has not emphasized them. Rather,he has been a national leader in resisting this temptationand focusing on our academic goals.Finally, many of us who work at USC consider Scott ourteacher because he has helped us to grow and flourish in ourown careers. By giving us his trust and support, he hasallowed many of us to learn new skills and to pursue seeminglyimpossible goals. But for Scott’s kindness and encouragement,I would not have succeeded so well as a scholar,nor, more recently, have found a way to serve the school sohappily as associate dean. I know that I am hardly alone infeeling this way among those who work here.On behalf of all Scott Bice’s students - in the classroom,and elsewhere - thank you for all you have taught us.22 USC LAW • SPRING 2000USC LAW • SPRING 200023

SPOTLIGHT ON CAREER SERVICESSPOTLIGHT ON THE LIBRARYBY LISA MEAD, ASSISTANT DEANThe Law School’s Career Services Office has beenresponding aggressively to the dynamic legalmarket of the 90s. Throughout this decade thehiring needs of most legal employers have fluctuateddramatically. Over the last several years, most law firmshave been cautious in hiring new associates, however, inthe past year many firms have begun expanding theirranks again. In fact, in 1998, the California law firm hiringmarket was the strongest it has been in several yearswith the number of first-year associates hired up byeight percent. Legal services offices and governmentagencies have similarly experienced funding cuts andstaffing freezes or reductions in the 90s. During thisunstable period, an increasing number of students andgraduates have also demonstrated interest in non-traditionalopportunities such as tax and marketing consulting,social services, and financial and insurace services.OUR STUDENTSFollowing the trend of exploring diverse interests,more of our students are seeking non-traditional opportunitiesin addition to jobs in law firms, governmentagencies and public interest law offices. To more adequatelyaddress the changing market as well as theinterests of our students, the Law School has continuedto diversify the Career Services Office. We have added asecond attorney-counselor to our staff, Lori Shead 95,and we have expanded our resource library to includemore information about non-traditional opportunities.We have also increased the variety of workshop andtraining opportunities provided to students. With theadvancements in information technology, we are nowsharing career opportunities and job search informationwith students via e-mail, and the students are selectinginterviews with employers via the world wide web. Wehave also placed a greater emphasis on encouraging andsupporting students gaining practical educational experiencesand academic credit through internships injudges’ chambers, government agencies, and publicinterest law offices.In addition to the assistance the staff is providing tostudents, we highly value the long-standing USC LawSchool tradition of graduate support and involvement inour programming. We hope you will consider helpingour current students and new graduates by participatingin or utilizing the following services:Career Panels & Training Workshops are conducted forstudents throughout the school year and the speakers areselected predominantly from USC Law School graduates.Alumni Mock Interview Program is conducted inearly fall to assist students in preparing for on-campusinterviews.Alumni-Student MentorProgram coordinated bythe Development andGraduate Relations Office,provides students with anopportunity to have lunchwith a lawyer practicing ina field similar to the student’sdesired practice area.The Law School encouragesgraduates to providemore educational andmentoringopportunities for theLisa Meadstudent(s) with whom theyare matched.On-Campus Interviews are conducted twice a year,spring and fall. We invite large and small firms, corporations,government agencies, public service organizationsas well as other employers to participate in theseinterview programs to hire summer help or newattorneys.Resume Collections are conducted free of charge foremployers who, based on their specific hiring needs,would prefer to receive student resumes collected byour staff.Currently Available Positions are advertised free ofcharge to employers. Employers may post availablepositions for students, new graduates, lateral hires, inhousecounsel, public service, and non-traditional jobopportunities. These postings are disseminated by ouroffice on a regular basis.OUR GRADUATESThe Law School also has a strong tradition of continuingservice to its graduates. The Career Services Officemaintains this valuable relationship by providing anarray of services such as:The Graduate Employment Bulletin, mailed out eachmonth, includes a variety of job listings for attorneys.The Resource Library, provides the most up-to-datejob listings and career resource information.Reciprocity Agreements with other ABA-approvedlaw schools.Resume and Cover Letter Review, in addition toCareer Counseling Appointments.Please let us know how we can help you and, as youdetermine your hiring needs for summer or part-timelaw clerks, and full-time, part-time or temporary attorneys,please consider using the Career Services Office asa resource to facilitate the recruitment of highly qualifiedindividuals.BY BRIAN RAPHAEL, ASSISTANT DIRECTOR,GABRIEL & MATILDA BARNETT INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY CENTER AND THE ASA V. CALL LAW LIBRARYNew Library NameLast fall, the Law School Library wasrenamed the Gabriel and MatildaBarnett Information TechnologyCenter and The Asa V. Call LawLibrary. The new name recognizesthe generosity of Matilda Barnett,who presented the Law School lastyear with a $1 million gift subject totrust. The gift was given to honorher late husband, Gabriel Barnett,who attended USC and the LawSchool from 1922 to 1924. The newname of the Library also reflects theimportance of and the need for bothelectronic and traditional (print)sources of legal and non-legal informationin this technological age.Dunning Foundation GiftOver the years, the Dunning Foundationhas provided generous supportto the Library and Law School,endowingboth studentscholarshipsand a vitalbook endowment,whichwas created in1995 to helpbuild upon theLibrary’sexisting printcollection.Brian Raphael The DunningFoundationhas also generously funded manytechnology projects in the LawLibrary and the Law School. InDecember 1999, the Dunning Foundationcontinued its tradition ofphilanthropy to the Law School bypresenting the school with a gift of$88,000. A substantial amount ofthis gift went to increase the DunningBook Endowment, bringing itscorpus to $200,000. The remainderof the gift will be used this summerto create an additional multimediaclassroom, complete with aninstructor’s computer, a ceilingmounteddata projector, speakers, aVCR, a compact disk player, a cassettedeck, and a permanent transparencyprojector. As in the otherclassrooms renovated with instructionaltechnology, professors teachingin this classroom can control theequipment by a wireless mouse andan easy to use LCD touch panellocated at the instructor’s desk. Agrowing number of faculty membersat the Law School are using classroominstructional technology for avariety of purposes, including Powerpointpresentations, showinginstructional and interactive videos,as well as online demonstrations.The LawLibraryproudlydisplays itsnew name.24 USC LAW • SPRING 2000USC LAW • SPRING 200025

SPOTLIGHT ON CLINICAL PROGRAMSIT’S NEW . . . IT’S NEWSThe variety of clinical programsavailable to USCLaw School studentsenriches their course of study. Inaccordance with the State Bar ofCalifornia’s student certificationprogram, live-client clinics allowlaw students to represent clientsin state and federal courts underthe supervision of clinical facultymembers Michael Brennan, LeeCampbell, Carrie Hempel, DeniseMeyer, Noel Ragsdale, and StaceyTurner. During the fall of 1999,more than 100 students participatedin the Law School’s clinics.BUSINESS LEGAL ADVICE CLINICDirector: Professor Noel RagsdaleThis year, The Business LegalAdvice Clinic has expanded to tenstudents. The clinic provides adviceand counseling to small businessesin the area of employment law inconjunctionwith the USCBusiness ExpansionNetwork.In addition, theclinic has nowpartnered withMatrix, a projectof the SouthernCalifornia Associationof Phil-Noel Ragsdaleanthropy, and isproviding similar advice and counselingto a dozen non-profit agencieslocated in the Vermont/Manchesterand Hyde Park communities adjacentto campus. These non-profitagencies provide vitally- needed servicesin a variety of areas, includingpre-natal care/counseling, mentalhealth, medical/dental care for children,substance abuse/AIDS educationand counseling, child care, afterschoolprograms, and job trainingand counseling.CHILDREN’S ISSUES CLINICDirector: Professor Lee CampbellStudents in the Children’s IssuesClinic work in the program all year.An example of their work is theAdoptions Project, in which studentsrepresent clientswishing to adoptchildren who arewards of theDependencyCourt and, inmost cases, infoster care. Someof the prospectiveadoptiveLee Campbell parents are thefoster parentswith whom the children are alreadyliving, and some are members of thechildren’s extended families. USCLaw School students represented 22families in the adoption of 37 childrenover the past year. Althoughthis program started as a voluntaryeffort, the high need for such representationcoupled with its popularitywith law students, has made it a permanentpart of the Children’s LegalIssues Clinic.POST-CONVICTION JUSTICE PROJECTAttorney Supervisors:Professors Michael Brennan, CarrieHempel, Denise Meyer, and StaceyTurner, clinical teaching fellow.This past summer, students in thePost-Conviction Justice Project wona major victory on behalf of PamelaM., a client atthe CaliforniaInstitution forWomen. Ms. M.was convicted ofpetty theft, witha prior in 1994,for stealing usedgardening toolsworth approximatelyMichael Brennan$24.00.For this offense,she received asentence of 25years to life inaccordancewith the “ThreeStrikes” law.Ms. M. is aclient with a historyof substanceCarrie Hempelabuse problemswith several past convictions for druguse and related minor theft crimes. In1980, Ms. M. was convicted ofshoplifting. Because she had a knifein her purse during the crime, thisoffense was counted as one strike in1994. In 1988, she received her secondstrike when she shoplifted a saw,considered to bethe weapon usedin the offense.The Projectfiled Ms. M.’shabeas petitionin winter 1999,claiming thatMs. M.’s attorneywas ineffectivebecause heDenise Meyerdid not adequatelyraise the defense of voluntaryintoxication, even though theevidence showed that she wasextremely intoxicated at the time ofthe offense. After a three-day evidentiaryhearing in July, 1999, Los AngelesSuperior Court Judge DudleyGrey found that Ms. M.’s sixthamendment right to effective assistanceof counsel was violated, andset aside her conviction. The Projectwas then able to negotiate a plea bargainfor Ms. M.so that she willbe released fromprison in 2001.Project studentsare currently representingclientsin two additionalhabeas hearingsto challenge convictions.Stacey TurnerCarmel BoernerCarmel Boerner AppointedDirector of DevelopmentCarmel Boerner has joined the Law School’s Office ofDevelopment and Graduate Relations as director ofdevelopment operations. In her new position, she will beresponsible for managing all phases of developmentoperations.Ms. Boerner brings nearly ten years of developmentand administrative experience with several not-forprofitinstitutions, including the Museum of ContemporaryArt, and most recently, the Greater Los AngelesZoo Association, to the Law School. She holds a BSdegree from the University of British Columbia, whereshe also obtained her MBA with an emphasis in themanagement of non-profit institutions.Students and Graduates to Benefit FromNew JD/MBA NetworkA new organization, the JD/MBA Network, founded byUSC law and business students, has recently beenformed. Based on campus, the group is designed to servethe specific needs of both current dual degree candidatesand alumni, who have already earned business and lawdegrees. The Network will be providing student supportthrough academic and career counseling, while providingalumni with networking opportunities.For further information, please e-mail the organizationat: jdmba@bus.usc.eduPacific Center Faculty Luncheon SeriesOffers Wide Range of TopicsThe Pacific Center for Health Policy and Ethics, codirectedby USC Law Professor Alex Capron, continuedwith its monthly Faculty Luncheon series throughoutthe fall of 1999. Made possible through the sponsorshipof Dr. Wayne Beemis, a graduate of the USC School ofDentistry, the series is designed to facilitate interdisciplinarydiscussion of important ethical issues in healthcare, while prompting further collaboration among facultyfrom diverse academic departments within the University.Offered in the fall were:“Jekyll in the Courts: Multiple Personality Disorder andthe Law” by USC Law Professor Elyn R. Saks; “TelemedicineLaw” by Don Harper Mills, M.D., J.D.; “Doctors,Drug Companies & Advertising: Where do You Draw theLine?” by David Goldstein, M.D. and Norman Kachuk,M.D.; and “Ethical and Administrative Issues Consideredin the NIH Guidelines for Fetal and EmbryonicStem Cells” by Ezra C. Davidson, Jr., M.D.USC Faculty Working Paper Series OffersNew Electronic Distribution SystemThe USC Law School Faculty Working Paper Series,which disseminates drafts of works in progress, is nowelectronic. Coordinated by Professor Jennifer Arlen anddistributed through the Social Science Research Network(SSRN), the electronic working paper seriesenables Law School professors to share their draftresearch papers with a diverse range of people in thenational, as well as international academic communities,who may be interested in both reading and providinginvaluable commentary.Since May, 1999, 1,700 USC papers have been downloadedthrough SSRN, demonstrating considerableinterest in faculty research. The series also reaches peoplein fields other than law. Numerous requests forpapers have come from professionals in diverse fieldsincluding political science, business, geography, internationalrelations, geography, and mathematics. Internationalrequests for USC Law School working papers havecome from more than a dozen European countries, inaddition to Israel, Canada, Thailand, Hong Kong, NewZealand, Singapore, and Australia. Since its inception in1994, the Working Paper series has issued a total of 103articles by USC professors.26 USC LAW • SPRING 2000USC LAW • SPRING 200027

◆FROM THE FACULTYJennifer Arlen’s article, “The Effectof Federal Sentencing Guidelines onPenalties for Public Corporations,”co-authored with Cindy Alexanderand Mark Cohen, has been publishedin 12 Federal Sentencing Reporter 20(1999).In September, Professor Arlen presented“An Experimental Study ofEndowment Effects and AltruismWithin Organizations,” co-authoredwith Professors Matt Spitzer and EricTalley, at a conference on CorporateGovernance at UCLA. She has beennamed to the editorial board of theInternational Review of Law andEconomics and to the committee toreview scholarly papers of the Associationof American Law Schools (forthe 2000 competition).Alexander M. Capron’s chapter on“Professionalism and ProfessionalEthics” appears in the new book,The American Medical EthicsRevolution, R. Baker, A. Caplan,L. Emanuel & S. Latham, eds. (1999),Johns Hopkins University Press. Hischapter on "Genetic Information andInsurability: Issues for Health Professionals,"was published in The Implicationsof Genetics for Health ProfessionalEducation, M. Hager, ed.,(1999), Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation.Professor Capron’s article, “WhatContributions Have Social Scienceand the Law Made to the Developmentof Policy on Bioethics?” waspublished in 4 Daedalus 128 (1999).In October, Professor Capronspoke on “Medicine and Ethics” tothe 1999 California Chapter ScientificMeeting of the American Collegeof Physicians, in San Diego. InDecember, he gave a plenary and aworkshop presentation at the 25thAnniversary meeting of PublicResponsibility in Medicine &Research (PRIM&R ) in Boston, andspoke on U.S. policy on researchwith human embryonic stem cells tothe Journees Annuelles of the Frenchgovernment's National ConsultativeCommittee on Bioethics.Erwin Chemerinsky’s article, “APermission To Litigate: SovereignImmunity Lets States Decide WhoCan Sue Them,” appeared in theAugust 1999 American Bar AssociationJournal. The third edition of hisFederal Jurisdiction treatise was publishedin 1999 by Aspen Law & Business.Other publications for ProfessorChemerinsky include, “Preservingan Independent Judiciary: TheNeed for Contribution and ExpenditureLimits in Judicial Elections,” in74 Chicago-Kent Law Review 133(1999); “Protect the Press: A FirstAmendment Standard for SafeguardingAggressive Newsgathering,” in33 University of Richmond LawReview 1143 (1999); and “Balancingthe Rights of Privacy and the Press:A Reply to Professor Smolla,” in 56George Washington Law Review1152 (1999).During the summer, ProfessorChemerinsky spoke on recentSupreme Court decisions at the VirginiaJudicial Conference, the MichiganJudicial Conference, and theTenth Circuit Judicial Conference inColorado Springs. He discussed stateconstitutional law at the NationalJudicial College in Reno, Nevada,and equal protection under federaland state constitutions at the ABAAppellate Judges Conference inSanta Fe, New Mexico, in August. InSeptember, Professor Chemerinskypresented recent developments inconstitutional law at a conferencefor staff attorneys for CaliforniaCourts of Appeal in San Diego; aworkshop of federal district courtjudges in Chicago; the WyomingJudicial Conference in Sheridan,Wyoming, and at state judicial conferencesin Indianapolis, Indiana,Palm Beach, Florida, and Salem, Oregon.Additionally that month, ProfessorChemerinsky discussed “TheComing Term of the SupremeCourt” at a Supreme Court PreviewConference, which took place atWilliam & Mary Law School inWilliamsburg, Virginia.In October, Professor Chemerinskyspoke on the role of the intermediatecourt of appeals in constitutionalinterpretation at a program forfederal court of appeals judges atNotre Dame Law School; on students'First Amendment rights at aconference at Drake Law School inDes Moines, Iowa; on judicial independenceat a program sponsored bythe American Judicature Society inHonolulu, Hawaii; and on recentdevelopments in civil rights law at aconference in New York City, whichwas sponsored by the Practicing LawInstitute. He also participated in adebate on charitable choice and theFirst Amendment at the Universityof Pennsylvania Law School.November appearances includedpresentations at the annual meetingof the Kansas Judiciary in KansasCity, Kansas; the Council of ChiefJudges, in Santa Fe, New Mexico; aconference of federal magistratejudges in New Orleans; and at a symposiumat New York University LawSchool on privacy and the press. ProfessorChemerinsky has been namedby California Governor Gray Davisto serve on a Task Force on Diversityin State Government.David B. Cruz’s article, “ControllingDesires: Sexual Orientation Conversionand the Limits of Knowledgeand Law,” was published in the July1999 issue of the Southern CaliforniaLaw Review. In October, ProfessorCruz gave a presentation on“Thomas v. Anchorage Equal RightsCommission, Religious Exemptions,and Civil Rights Laws” at theNational Lesbian and Gay Law Association'sconference, Lavender Law1999, which took place in Seattle.Mary L. Dudziak conducted oneweek of archival research in NewYork at the UPI/Corbis-Bettmanphoto archive and at the SchomburgLibrary in Harlem in July. The followingmonth, Professor Dudziakdelivered her paper, “The Constitutionas Cold War Propaganda,” at theannual meeting of the PacificCoast Branch of the American HistoricalAssociation in Maui. Shesubsequently presented the paper ata faculty workshop at Loyola LawSchool and at the Legal HistoryWorkshop at the Huntington Libraryin November.In October, Professor Dudziakspoke on a panel on “The WarrenCourt and the CountermajoritarianDifficulty” at the annual meeting ofthe American Society for Legal Historyin Toronto.Professor Dudziak has beenappointed to the program committeefor the annual meeting of the Societyfor Historians of American ForeignRelations, which will be held inJune 2000.Susan Estrich’s syndicated opinionarticles, such as “What it Takes forWomen to Reach Top in CorporateAmerica” and “After All It’s OnlyTalk,” appeared nationally in newspapersincluding, The Denver Postand The Dallas Morning News. Inaddition, she continued her monthlycolumn for American Lawyer Mediaentitled, “Portia,” and her work as aAlexander Capron Mary Dudziak Susan Estrich Carrie Hempel William Hoyecontributor to Fox News.She spoke on media coverage ofpolitics at the Alta Conference onArgumentation in July. ProfessorEstrich was the keynote speaker atthe 70th Anniversary Gala of theLegal Aid Foundation of Los Angeles(LAFLA) in Beverly Hills.Ariela J. Gross chaired and participatedon a panel entitled, “LegalContestation, Political Order, andRepublican Rhetoric From the RevolutionThrough Reconstruction inthe United States,” at the annualmeeting of the American Society forLegal History. The October meetingtook place in Toronto, Canada.Carrie Hempel took part in a panelon the subject of sexual harassmentin women's prisons in California.Sponsored by Amnesty International,the panel was convened inVentura, California.William J. Hoye was appointed chairof the Subcommittee on ProfessionalIssues of the Law School AdmissionCouncil. The subcommittee is interestedin the professional growth oflaw school admissions deans anddirectors, and the development ofprofessional standards in the admissionsdecision-making process.28 USC LAW • SPRING 2000USC LAW • SPRING 200029

Dean Hoye presented a workshop forminority law school applicants atthe New York City Law SchoolForum in September, and a financialaid workshop at the Houston LawSchool Forum in October.Daniel M. Klerman’s article, “Non-Promotion and Judicial Independence,”was published in 72 SouthernCalifornia Law Review 455(1999), and his book review, “Reviewof The Criminal Trial in LaterMedieval England, by J.G. Bellamy,”appeared in 31 Albion 273 (1999).The Social Science Research Networkhas selected Professor Klerman’sarticle, “Settlement and theDecline of Private Prosecution inThirteenth-Century England,” forinclusion in its Top Ten DownloadList for Law and Humanities/LegalHistory. He also presented the articlein July at the Western EconomicAssociation International annualconference in San Diego, California.Later that month, he delivered hispaper, “Judges, Jurors, and FemaleAppellants: Private Prosecution byThirteenth-Century Women,” at theFourteenth British Legal HistoryConference in Edinburgh, Scotland.In October, Professor Klermangave an Olin Workshop at theGeorgetown Law Center entitled,George Lefcoe“The Selection Of Thirteenth-CenturyCriminal Disputes For Litigation.”In addition, he presented thepaper at Harvard Law School as partof a conference on The Economics ofCourts in November.Michael S. Knoll’s article, “FinancialInnovation, Tax Arbitrage, and RetrospectiveTaxation: the ProblemWith Passive Government Lending,”has been published in 52 Tax LawReview 199.Karen A. Lash spent five weeks thisfall in the former Soviet republic ofMoldova, where she helped to establishtwo law clinics to addresswomen's and children's legal issues.Her stay was sponsored by the Centraland Eastern European Law Initiative(CEELI), a public service projectof the American Bar Association.Dean Lash has been named vicechairof the California Access to JusticeCommission, which seeks waysto increase the delivery of legal servicesto poor and moderate incomeCalifornians. The commission iscomposed of judges, lawyers, politicalappointees and representativesfrom California’s religious, labor andeducation communities.In further appointments, DeanLash has joined the executive committeeof the Association of AmericanLaw Schools’ new section on ProBono and Public Service Opportunities,in addition to being named byAssembly Speaker Antonio R. Villaraigosato an Urban Policy AdvisoryGroup, which advises thespeaker on issues of importance toSouthern California. Dean Lash andfour colleagues were honored at theLegal Aid Association of California’sannual dinner for their role in securing$10 million for legal services inCalifornia.George Lefcoe’s book, Real EstateTransactions, has been issued byLexis Publishing. It is the third editionof the work. His article, “PrepaymentDisincentives in CommercialSecuritized Loans,” appeared inProbate and Property, a publicationof the ABA Section on Real Property,Probate and Trust Practice. It hassince been chosen as the publication’sbest real property article publishedin 1999.Thomas D. Lyon spoke on “HearsayExceptions” to the Children's ServicesDivision of the Los AngelesCounty Counsel's Office in September.Also that month, he gave a talkto the USC Psychology Departmententitled, “Child Witnesses: TheMeaning And Effect Of The Oath.”In October, he gave a talk to the LosAngeles District Attorney’s SexCrimes Unit on children's competencyand suggestibility, and spokeon the same subject at the 5thAnnual New Beginnings conferencesponsored by the Los AngelesCounty Juvenile Court.In November, Professor Lyon presented“Developmental Psychologyand the Child Witness” at theNational Judicial College in Reno,Nevada.Bentley MacLeod’s article, “JobCharacteristics, Wages, and theEmployment Relationship,” coauthoredwith Daniel Parent, hasbeen published in Federal ReserveBank of St. Louis Review, 821. Hisarticle, “Job Characteristics and theForm of Compensation,” authoredwith Daniel Parent, has appeared inResearch in Labor Economics 18.Over the summer, ProfessorMacLeod was invited to do a lecturetour of Scandinavia on his paper,“Complexity and Contract.” He presentedhis paper at the StockholmSchool of Economics in Stockholm,Sweden; the University of Oslo inOslo, Norway; and the University ofBergen in Bergen, Norway. In July,Professor MacLeod gave the plenaryaddress, “Cognition and the Theoryof Firm,” at the Western EconomicsAssociation Meetings in San Diego,as part of a panel consisting ofHarold Demsetz, UCLA, MichaelJensen, Harvard University andOliver Williamson, UC Berkeley. Healso presented “Job Characteristicsand the Form of Compensation” atthe meetings. Professor MacLeodspoke on“Complexity and Contract”at Yale Law School in September.Edward J. McCaffery’s book, TaxingWomen, has been released by theUniversity of Chicago Press in paperback.His article, “The MissingLinks In Tax Reform,” was publishedin the spring 1999 issue of theChapman Law Review. “The Burdensof Benefits,” was published in44 Villanova Law Review 445 (1999).His op-ed piece, “Tax Spending --Not Work, Savings,” appeared inAugust in the Los Angeles Times.Professor McCaffery’s article, “RealTax Reform: The Case For A ProgressiveConsumption Tax,” appeared inthe December/January issue of TheBoston Review and is also availableon-line.In October, Professor McCafferyaddressed a group of journalists, policymakers,and congressional staffmembers at the Cato Institute inWashington D.C., as they celebratedthe release of his pamphlet, GraveRobbers: The Moral Case againstthe Death Tax, which was publishedby The Cato Institute andlater republished in Tax Notes.Also in October, Professor McCafferygave a talk on “Domestic TaxAlternatives” at the 1999 GlobalInstitute For Taxation's Conferenceon Tax Alternatives for the 21stCentury, which was held at theMarriott Financial Center in NewYork City.In November, Professor McCafferygave the keynote luncheon talkentitled, “Post-Millennial Practice:What To Do If The Death Tax Dies,”at the USC Trust and Probate Conferenceat the Westin BonaventureHotel. In further activities thatmonth, Professor McCaffery discussedpublic policy issues involvingstate lotteries, in addition to moderatinga panel on “Current Issues InState Lotteries and Sports Betting” ata November symposium entitled,“Betting on the Future: Taking Gamingand the Law into the 21st Century,”which took place at CardozoLaw School in New York City.Throughout this period, ProfessorMcCaffery continued his work asissues advisor to the Bill Bradley forPresident Campaign.Denise Meyer attended the Associationof Legal Writing Directors Conferencein Boston in July, where shewas appointed co-chair of the association'sAdjunct & Student TaughtPrograms Committee.Elyn R. Saks’s article, “Competencyto Decide on Treatment andResearch: MacArthur and Beyond,”co-authored with Stephen H. Behnkeof Harvard Medical School, appearedin 10 Journal of Contemporary LegalIssues 103 (1999).In November, Professor Saks presenteda paper on “Capacity in theContext of Psychosocial InterventionsResearch with Controls” at aNational Institute of Mental Healthconference in McLean, Virginia.Professor Saks has been elected tothe American Law Institute (ALI)and has been appointed consultant tothe Bioethics Unit of the GeriatricEdward McCafferyPsychiatry Intervention ResearchCenter, funded by the National Instituteof Mental Health, which islocated at the University of California,San Diego.Robert M. Saltzman presented aworkshop on affirmative action inlaw school admissions at the LawSchool Admission Council Conferencein Philadelphia, and at the Universityof Texas-Austin, in October.Also that month, he chaired a meetingof the Misconduct Committee ofthe Law School Admission Councilin Boston.Dean Saltzman presented a workshopfor minority law schoolapplicants at the Atlanta LawSchool Forum, which was held inNovember.Michael H. Shapiro spoke on “TheTechnology of Perfection and thePerfection of Technology,” at anAugust conference on BiotechFutures: Challenges of Life Extensionand Genetic Engineering, whichtook place at UC Berkeley. Also inAugust, he spoke at UCLA, giving atalk entitled, “Genetics, HumanBehavior, And Criminal Responsibility,”for the 15th Triennial Meetingof the International Association ofForensic Sciences.Professor Shapiro was a speakerand panelist at a Wake Forest Universityconference on Genetic Technology:Social Values and PersonalAutonomy in the 21st Century, inNovember. His paper covered “TheImpact Of Genetic EnhancementOn Equality.” Also in November,he discussed “Human Enhancementand Equality” at the L.A. CountyBar Bioethics Committee's meeting.The following month, ProfessorShapiro was a speaker for ‘Ethical,Legal, and Political Issues inBiotechnology,’ Discovering Biotechnology.Sponsored by the JohnsHopkins University Institute for theAcademic Advancement of Youth,the conference was held at the USCDepartment of Biological Sciences.30 USC LAW • SPRING 2000USC LAW • SPRING 200031

Dan Simon’s paper, “The Emergenceof Coherence Over the Course ofDecision Making,” authored in collaborationwith Professor K. J.Holyoak, L. Pham, & Q. Le, UCLA,Department of Psychology, was presentedat the Psychonomic Society's40th Annual Meeting, in November1999. Professor Simon and ProfessorKeith Holyoak, UCLA, Departmentof Psychology, presented their paper,“Advances in Decision Making byConstraint Satisfaction,” at the Economics,Organization, and Law Seminar,which was held at theUSC Department of Economics laterthat month.Edwin Smith led two breakout sessionson “Humanitarian Intervention”at the member's annual retreatof the Pacific Council on InternationalPolicy, which was held in SanDiego, California, in November.Nomi M. Stolzenberg participated inthe Working Group on Ethnic Customs,Assimilation, and AmericanLaw, which was sponsored by theSocial Science Research Council andthe Russel Sage Foundation,in Martha's Vineyard. ProfessorStolzenberg presented her paper,“Bentham's Theory of Fictions -- ACurious Double Language,” at theUniversity of Michigan Law School'slegal theory workshop in November.Christopher D. Stone’s article, “FisheriesSubsidies, Trade Law and theWTO Subsidies Agreement,” hasbeen published by Pacific EconomicCooperative Council (PECC). ProfessorStone had originally presentedthe paper at a PECC workshop inManila on “The Impact of GovernmentFinancial Transfers on FisheriesManagement, Resource Sustainabilityand International Trade.”During the month of October, ProfessorStone presented commentariesat the UC Irvine conference onThe Third Generation of InternationalEnvironmental Law. ProfessorStone addressed the topics, “Why IsThere No International ForestryLaw?” and “The NAFTA EnvironmentalSide Agreements: Still 'SoftTeeth'?”Eric L. Talley’s article, “Taking the‘I’ out of ‘Team’: Intra-firm Monitoringand the Content of FiduciaryDuties,” has been published in 4Journal of Corporation Law, 24(1999). His article, “PrecedentialCascades: An Appraisal,” was publishedin 73 Southern California LawReview 87 (1999).Professor Talley presented hispaper, “A Theory of Legal Presumptions,”at a USC Law School facultyworkshop in September. In October,Professor Talley gave a faculty workshopat Chicago-Kent College of Lawon “Precedential Cascades: AnAppraisal,” in addition to a facultyworkshop on “A Theory Of LegalPresumptions” for a UC San Diego-University of San Diego Law, Economics,and Politics Workshop. Inadditional activities that month, hespoke on a panel at a conference entitled,The Role of the Corporation inModern Society, which was sponsoredby the Sloan Foundation andheld at George Washington Universityin Washington, D.C. In November,Professor Talley presented hispaper entitled, “A Theory Of LegalEdwin SmithPresumptions,”at a faculty workshopat the University of ChicagoLaw School.Charles Whitebread’s book, RecentDecisions of the United StatesSupreme Court: 1998-1999 Term,was published by the AmericanAcademy of Judicial Education. Hisbook, 1999 Supplement to CriminalProcedure, has been released byFoundation Press. Professor Whitebread’sarticles, “Recent CriminalDecisions of the U.S. SupremeCourt” and “Recent Civil Decisionsof the U.S. Supreme Court,” werepublished in Court Review, the journalof the American Judges Association,as well as in the OrangeCounty Lawyer.In July, Professor Whitebreadspoke at the American Academy ofJudicial Education’s ConstitutionalCriminal Procedure Conference inCharlottesville, Virginia. Throughoutthe fall, he delivered his lecture,“Recent Decisions of the U.S.Supreme Court,” to a large number ofaudiences including, the MinnesotaContinuing Legal Education Conference,which took place at their CriminalJustice Institute in Minneapolis,Minnesota; the Orange County chapterof the Association of BusinessTrial Lawyers; the Arizona Prosecutor'sBench and Bar Conference; theWisconsin Public Defender's Benchand Bar Conference in Milwaukee;the Washington Criminal JusticeInstitute of the Washington State Barin Bellevue, Washington; the CaliforniaJudges Association in Monterey;the American Judges AssociationAnnual Meeting in Cleveland, Ohio;the Mississippi and Arkansas Judgesin Olive Branch, Mississippi; theJudges of Oklahoma in OklahomaCity; the Detroit Wayne CountyCriminal Advocacy program; and toMinnesota judges.Furthermore, during the fallsemester, Professor Whitebread visiteda total of 63 law schools todeliver his popular lecture, “ExamTaking Techniques.”FALL 1999 FACULTY AND OLIN WORKSHOPSCommitted to presenting the latest in scholarlytrends and research, the Law School annuallyoffers two workshop series. In both the facultyand Olin workshops, papers are presented by USC LawSchool faculty and other academics from law schoolsacross the country, in addition to scholars in economics,philosophy, literature, and diverse fields relevant to thestudy of law.The fall 1999 faculty workshop series, chaired by ProfessorDaniel Klerman, provided a unique forum forrespected legal scholars to present their articles-inprogressto a discerning and interested audience forthoughtful commentary and discussion.Co-chaired by Professors Jennifer Arlen and MatthewSpitzer, the Olin Workshops series is co-sponsored byCaltech under a grant by the Olin Foundation. Throughthe program, scholars in law, economics, and politicalscience come to the Law School for periods ranging fromone-day workshops to residencies extending from oneERIC TALLEYAssociate Professor of Law, USC Law School“A Theory of Legal Presumptions”KEVIN A. KORDANAAssociate Professor of Law, University of Virginia Law School and1999-2000 Olin Fellow, USC Law School“The Finance and Governance of Start-Up Charitable Organizations”BARBARA SHAPIROProfessor of Rhetoric, University of California Berkeley“A Culture of Fact: England 1550-1720”ERIC A. POSNERProfessor of Law, University of Chicago Law School“Implementing Cost-Benefit Analysis When Preferences Are Distorted”MICHELLE J. WHITEProfessor of Economics, University of Michigan“No Fault for Motor Vehicles: An Economic Analysis”OLIVER HARTAndrew E. Furer Professor of Economics, Harvard University“On the Design of Hierarchies: Coordination Versus Specialization”RACHEL T. A. CROSONAssistant Professor of Operations and Information Management,The Wharton School, School, University of Pennsylvania“Punitive Damages as an Explanation of the WTA-WTP Discrepancy:Theory and Evidence”YEON-KOO CHEAssociate Professor of Economics, University of Wisconsin“A Dynamic Model of Holdup and Incomplete Contracts”LYNN A. STOUTProfessor of Law, Georgetown University Law Center“The Trust-Building Function of Corporate Law”FACULTY WORKSHOPSOLIN WORKSHOPSweek up through an entire semester. This past fall,Kevin E. Davis, University of Toronto Law School, andKevin A. Kordana, University of Virginia Law School,were Olin Fellows in residence at the Law School. OtherFellows included Oliver Hart, Harvard University,Department of Economics; Chen Lichtenstein, StanfordUniversity; Douglas Lichtman, University of ChicagoLaw School; Eric Posner, University of Chicago LawSchool; Canice Prendergast, University of Chicago,Department of Economics; and Michelle White, Universityof Michigan, Department of Economics. Spendingone week in residency were Rachel T. A. Croson, Universityof Pennsylvania, The Wharton School; Yeon-KooChe, University of Wisconsin, Department of Economics;Richard Brooks, Cornell University, Department ofPolicy Analysis and Management; Lynn Stout, GeorgetownUniversity Law Center; and Linda Babcock,Carnegie Mellon University, John Heinz III School ofPublic Policy and Management.KEVIN E. DAVISAssistant Professor of Law, University of Toronto and1999-2000 Olin Fellow, USC Law School“The Regulation of Social Enterprise”WILLIAM J. NOVAKAssociate Professor of History, University of Chicago“The Legal Origins of the Modern American State”NEIL VIDMARRussell M. Robinson II Professor of Lawand Professor of Psychology, Duke University“Retribution and Revenge in Law and Life: A Social Science Perspective”RICHARD R. BROOKSAssistant Professor, Department of Policy Analysis and Management, Cornell University“A Liability Theory of Organizational Structure:Theory & Evidence from the Oil Shipping Industry”DOUGLAS LICHTMANAssistant Professor of Law, University of Chicago Law School“Property Rights in Emerging Platform Technologies”LINDA BABCOCKProfessor of Economics, H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management,Carnegie Mellon University“The Scales of Justice: Effect of Cap Magnitude on the Likelihoodof Pre-Trial Settlement”CANICE PRENDERGASTProfessor of Economics, University of Chicago“Investigating Corruption”CHEN LICHTENSTEINGraduate student, Stanford University“Divided Corporate Counsel”32 USC LAW • SPRING 2000USC LAW • SPRING 200033

◆FROM THE STUDENTSEach year, a new group of individuals with varied backgrounds, hopes, andaspirations from across the nation come together to begin their journeythrough USC Law School as a class. . .Although the names and profiles vary from year to year, each incomingclass is comprised of a group of accomplished, motivated individuals witha common passion for the law. . .Tenecia LaZett Pitts. . . Age 26BS Florida A&M (1996)Interdisciplinary Graduate Program, Vanderbilt University (1997)Clinical Research Data Mgr, Vanderbilt Cancer Center Clinical Trials OfficeAnuj Arun Shah. . . Age 29Ph.D. Philosophy, University of Hawaii, Manoa (1999)Classical PianistNorma V. García. . . Age 25AB, Govt./Latin American Studies, Smith College (1997)Community Development Associate, Merrill LynchRobert William Bruce. . . Age 30BSAE, Aerospace Engineer, US Naval Academy, Annapolis, MD (1992)Artillery Officer, US Marine Corps"The study and practice of law will fulfill the goal of acareer which promotes personal and professionalgrowth."Hailing from Gray, Georgia, Tenecia comes to law witha strong and accomplished background in science. Shefeels this extensive course of study has provided herwith a firm foundation for successfully pursuing acareer in legal studies. "Both disciplines require the useof critical, analytical and logical reasoning skills," sheexplained. She also considers the two areas similar inthe approach necessary to acquire answers. She furthered,"Science and law both require that one goesbeyond that which is apparent in search of solutions."Prior to beginning her graduate work at Vanderbilt,Tenecia studied molecular biology at Florida A & MUniversity, where she completed her BS degree. Subsequentwork at Vanderbilt’s Cancer Center Clinical TrialsOffice entailed the timely collection and documentationof oncology clinical research data and workingclosely with physicians and nurses.Tenecia welcomes the challenges offered by the USCLaw School program. Instrumental to her decision toapply to the Law School were the school’s small classsize, outstanding reputation and cultural diversity."Law is many things, but at its best, it resides at thefrontier of the theoretical and the practical."Although he was born in New York and raised inTexas, Anuj most closely identifies with India, "wheremy heart is." Widely traveled, he comes to USC by wayof Honolulu, Paris and Houston, with an impressivescholastic resume. Having received his Ph.D. in philosophylast year from the University of Hawaii, he alsoholds a B.A. in Sociology from Rice University, certificatesof 1st and 2nd degrees in French Language, Literature,and Civilization from Sorbonne, University ofParis III and IV, and a Masters in Philosophy from theUniversity of Houston.Even after fulfilling what, for others might constitutean educational dream, Anuj felt compelled to realizehis lifelong dream of a life in the law. "Given myintellectual as well as social predilections, my personality,and my interests, the time had come for me tomove to a further stage in my life," he noted. "I wantedpractical engagement. Indeed I craved it."Anuj selected USC because of its offerings in sportslaw, international and civil rights law and intellectualproperty, in addition to its legal clinics. He was alsoattracted to the Law School’s diversity, which mirrorshis own international experiences."(My parents’) experience on the dirt roads of the stateof Guerrero, in the busy streets of Mexico City, andacross the Mexican/US border as immigrants, has beenthe impetus behind every academic, social and careerchoice I have made."California-born and raised, Norma always knew thatlaw was her calling. Her parents’ struggle to survive asimmigrants spurred her quest to create social change,prompting her to learn the workings of the legal systemduring her years on mock trial teams in both highschool and at Smith College. She captured the honor ofBest Advocate by the Orange County ConstitutionalRights Foundation and an Honorable Mention BestAdvocate by the American Mock Trial Association atthe National Competition.After graduating from Smith, Norma joined theSouthwest Voter Registration Education Project, whichfocuses on the political empowerment of Latinos. Withher efforts, the organization registered an unprecedented10,000 California youth to vote. Her work with MerrillLynch included developing strategies for the economicenpowerment of ethnic communities in Los Angelesand Orange counties in the areas of affordable housing,access to capital and small business. Norma chose USCbecause of its commitment to social change and the factthat it will allow her to continue to serve the communityin the area she loves the most – law."I have been referred to in the highly competitive fraternityof Marine Officers as a "go-to guy."Hailing from the Washington, D.C. area, Robert foundhimself in locales as divergent as Albania, the Congo,Japan and the Persian Gulf during his seven-year stintas a Marine Officer. His extensive military experiencehelped to forge his ability to perform under pressure,make quick analytical decisions and to solve problems,while also honing his considerable leadership skills.Robert feels his somewhat unique background hasprepared him well to deal with the academic rigors oflaw school. "Many of the students with whom I preparedfor the LSAT were amazed that I was simultaneouslyable to study graduate level Management InformationSystems, Marketing Management, and theLSAT, while simultaneously training my team ofMarines for our upcoming deployment to the PersianGulf," he said.Studying law at USC seemed a logical choicebecause of the strong ties the school maintains to itsgraduates. Robert explained: "I know that if I am goingto eventually practice in Southern California, USC isthe place to study. It has a strong reputation amongattorneys and, as I have also discovered this year, facilitatesan amazing connection to the professional communitythrough its Career Services Office."34 USC LAW • SPRING 2000USC LAW • SPRING 200035

As these profiles demonstrate, the Fall 1999 entering class is no exception. . .for it is the strength of these individuals together which will shape and define thedistinctive personality of the Class of 2002.Ashleigh Aitken. . . Age 29BA, Secondary Education/History Education Boston College (1997)Capitol Hill AideWashington Furies Women’s Rugby Team MemberDaniel Lopez Gonzalez. . . Age 26Ed.M. Harvard University, H.D.P. (1998)Mental Health Clinician for ChildrenChristina Y. Lee. . . Age 23B.A., Philosophy and Political Science, University of Michigan (1999)Peer Educator“I now focus on a law degree as an instrument toround out my policy experience and as a way to betterprepare me to serve in government."Born and raised in California, Ashleigh’s readiness totackle life and its challenges quickly led her to adiverse variety of educational and professional experiences.Following college, where she distinguished herselfboth academically and on the sports field as a 1996USA Rugby Collegiate All-American, she enthusiasticallyplunged into the world of secondary education.After teaching high school in Boston and London, sheheaded to Washington D.C., where she thrived for twoyears as a Capitol Hill staffer for Minority LeaderRichard Gephardt. She explains: "I have become wellversed in the legislative aspect of government, and Ihave tracked bills from committees to final passage. Byworking with Members and listening to their stories,the public policy issues that I had studied became personalized.I now focus on a law degree as an instrumentto round out my policy experience and as a wayto better prepare me to serve in government."The choice of USC Law School was a natural one forAshleigh, who has two brothers who are graduates."I found myself increasingly frustrated at workingclosely with children to lessen the anxiety and fearthey cope with everyday but being unable to changethe legal and economic structures at the root of theirproblems."A native Californian, Daniel comes from a family withits roots in rural Mexico. At a young age, he foundhimself challenged to find the resources and strengthnecessary to navigate the confusing labyrinth of economicand social difficulties within his community.After high school, he worked two jobs while attendingcommunity college to supplement his family’s incomewhen his mother became ill.Daniel has worked extensively in a variety of education-basedsocial programs. He has been a guidancecounselor for prospective college students at UC Riverside,a vital cog of Harvard’s Research Team on Literacy,a network support counselor at the MassachusettsPrevention Center and also served as a mental healthclinician for elementary age children at Harvard.These experiences convinced Daniel to take a proactiveapproach to bettering the welfare of the disadvantagedvia policy change. He sees legal advocacy as theroute for creating social equity.Daniel made USC his first choice due to its balanceof tradition and innovation, as well as its outstandingand diverse faculty."I would like to understand the legal institutions of thesociety in which we live and what remedies the lawoffers for social ills so that I am able to advocate forthose who request assistance."Christina’s decision to pursue a legal career stemmedfrom attending a community service learning projectknown as Alternative Weekends at Freedom House, atemporary refugee shelter for people seeking politicalasylum. Moved by the story of a young Tibetan, whoworks in substandard conditions for meager wages inManhattan restaurants in order to provide for his familyback home, Christina began to rethink her ownlife’s goals and priorities.As a Chinese American growing up in New Jersey,she has long reflected upon the issues of discrimination,racism and sexism. "I see how poor, inner city,minority communities, and women who are survivorsof domestic violence and sexual assault, for example,are victims of the institutions in which we live," sheexplained. "It seems to me that the law, which governsthese institutions, is at least initially responsible and Iwant to understand how issues that begin as social disputesbecome legal questions and are resolved by legalreasoning." She hopes to utilize her legal training tobegin to address some of these issues.The Class of 2002Over 3,800 Law School applications werereceived for 200 available seats. 3.5 was theaverage undergraduate GPA, with a medianLSAT score of 165 for admitted students.Women . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54%Minority Students . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34%Number of UndergraduateColleges & Universities Represented . . . 64In California . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19Out of State . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4536 USC LAW • SPRING 2000USC LAW • SPRING 200037

◆FROM CONTINUING LEGAL EDUCATION◆FROM THE GRADUATESFROM OUR FALL 1999 LINE-UP:45th Annual Entertainment Law InstitutePeter Bart, vice president and editor-in-chief ofVariety, discussing “Leadership Without Leaders”at the luncheon21TH ANNUALCOMPUTER LAW INSTITUTEThursday-Friday, May 11-12, 2000Los Angeles Marriott Downtown, Los Angeles46TH ANNUALENTERTAINMENT LAW INSTITUTESaturday, September 23, 2000University of Southern California, Bing TheatreLos AngelesUniversity of Southern California Law School and the BeverlyHills Bar Association co-sponsored the Entertainment LawInstitute’s Vic Netterville Memorial Lectures on Saturday,September 25, 1999, at Bing Theatre on the USC Campus. Gibson,Dunn & Crutcher LLP returned as the Institute’s corporate sponsor.The 45th Annual Institute examined “New Models for the NewMillennium: The Changing Face of Film, TV, Music and the Internet,”which attracted over 500 professionals from the entertainment industry.The attendees enjoyed a wide range of topics throughout themorning, including “An Overview of New Technology and ContractualIssues,” “Production, Packaging and Distribution of FeatureFilms,” “Television Deals and New Strategic Models,” “Production,Packaging and Distribution of Music and Records,” and “The NewRole of Agents, Managers and Packagers.” In addition to the morningprogram of lectures, the Institute presented a selection of afternoonpanels that allowed for smaller and more interactive presentations anddiscussions of topics of particular interest to individuals in the entertainmentindustry. These afternoon panels addressed “Emerging ContractualIssues in Contingent Compensation for Film and Television,”“New Delivery Systems Technology for Future Entertainment Products,”The Ethics of Artists, Agents, Managers and Lawyers,” “Musicand Records: The Internet and Electronic Commerce,” and “FirstAmendment Issues.”The Institute’s keynote luncheon address was presented by PeterBart, vice president and editor-in-chief of Variety, who discussed“Leadership Without Leaders.”2000-2001 Annual Institutes and Conferences26TH ANNUALPROBATE AND TRUST CONFERENCEFriday, November 10, 2000Westin Bonaventure Hotel, Los Angeles53RD ANNUALINSTITUTE ON FEDERAL TAXATIONJanuary, 200120TH ANNUALINSTITUTE FOR CORPORATE COUNSELMarch, 20011999 Bar Admission Ceremony FeaturesJudges John C. Woolley ‘62, and George H. King ‘75The Honorable John Woolley ‘62 (left)with The Honorable George King ‘75The 1999 Bar Admission ceremony, which officiallymarks the end of formal legal studies forthose graduates who have passed the Bar examination,took place in Bovard Auditorium on Monday,December 6, 1999. The Honorable John C. Woolley ‘62,and The Honorable George H. King‘75, presided over the afternoon.Sponsored by Legion Lex, the ceremonyformally admitted successfulcandidates to the State Bar of California,the United States DistrictCourt for the Central District of California,and the United States Courtof Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. Theprogram began with a call to order byStudent Bar Association AdmissionRepresentative Luis Guzman andwelcoming remarks by Dean ScottH. Bice. Dean Bice also made themotion to admit applicants to thefederal courts. A special reception inTown and Gown for the graduatesand their guests followed the formalprogram.The Honorable John C. Woolley isjudge of the Orange County SuperiorCourt. Appointed by former GovernorEdmond G. “Jerry” Brown in1962 and subsequently re-electedthree times, Judge Woolley serves inthe Santa Ana Courthouse. Hereceived his B.S. (1959) from California State UniversityLong Beach and his J.D. (1962) from USC.Formerly in solo practice, Judge Woolley has alsoserved as a city prosecutor and assistant city attorneyfor Garden Grove. His numerous publications cover awide range of topics including domestic violence, alternativedispute resolutionin family law matters,and courtroom mediationin child custody cases.Dedicated to publicservice, Judge Woolleyhas received numerousawards, including recognitionfor “significant contributions to family law” bythe Orange County Bar Association, Family Law Section,and the Hon. W. Patrick McCray Award for outstandingcontributions to the legal profession. A longtimesupporter of Legion Lex, Judge Woolley has servedon the board of directors and is currentlya member of the executivecommittee for the Legion LexAnnual Fund for the Law School.The Honorable George H.King is judge of the United StatesDistrict Court for the Central Districtof California, He received hisB.A. (1971) from UCLA and his J.D.(1975) from USC, where he graduatedOrder of the Coif and served onthe Southern California Law Reviewand Hale Moot Court ExecutiveBoard.Judge King began his judicialcareer as a United States magistratejudge for the Central District of Californiaafter being voted into office bythe sitting U.S. district judges in1987. He became Chief U.S. MagistrateJudge in 1994. Nominated byCalifornia Senator Barbara Boxer, hewas appointed to an open federaljudgeship by President Clinton in1995. Prior to serving on the bench,Judge King distinguished himself asan attorney in private practice with an emphasis on civilbusiness litigation. From 1974 - 1979, he was an assistantUnited States attorney in Los Angeles. Judge Kinghas long been deeply involved in teaching, lecturing,and training within the judiciary. A long-standing memberof Legion Lex, Judge King has also served on numerousbar association committees,and as presidentof several local organizations,including theSouthern California ChineseLawyers Associationand the Los Angeles ChinatownOptimist Club.USC Law School (Provider number 99) is a State Bar of California approved Minimum Continuing Legal Education provider.For further information, please call (213) 740-2582 or visit our website at http:// www.usc.edu/law/cle38 USC LAW • SPRING 2000USC LAW • SPRING 200039

Top: Dean, faculty, and students in unheatedBalti University Faculty of Law officeMiddle: Moldova State University Facultyof Law’s 40th Anniversary brochureBottom: ABA (CEELI) staff inChisinau, Moldovareview what she would say at herpress conference announcing adomestic violence awareness week– the staggering list of activitiesincluded age-appropriate curriculumat public schools, roundtablediscussions at health clinicsthroughout the country and publicservice radio and newspaper ads. Iasked why she wasn’t announcingthe package of legislative reformsbeing introduced to Parliament toaddress the dreadful absence oflegal remedies for battered women.I suggested that it was the perfecttime to reach the general publicabout the reforms, encouragingthem to contact their elected officialsin order to urge them to supportthe proposed legislation.Although she was thrilled with theidea, it simply hadn’t occurred toJana to do this since, she explained,Moldovans “are still learning aboutthe role voters can play in shapinglaws – they don’t know the powerof their voice.”Also indicative of this inexperiencewith raising their voices, washow people appeared to be respondingto Russia’s threat to turn off allgas if the Moldovan governmentdid not pay its outstanding debt.Half the people I questionedthought I was naive for thinking itwould actually happen — the otherhalf thought it probably would getturned off but considered me naivefor thinking they could influencethe Moldovan government to paythe debt or account for missingfunds intended for this purpose.No one could see the value inspeaking out or contacting theirelected officials. If anything, it isthis failure to believe they canmake a difference, I fear, that couldprevent Moldovans from becominginvolved in government and evolvinginto a true democracy.New IdeasThe excitement about creatingthe first legal clinics inthe country seemedemblematic of a general interest innew ideas and opportunities toimprove Moldova. Interesting tome, however, was the extent towhich the clinics themselvesinvolved new concepts.In my first conversations aboutvolunteer training, I realized Icould not simply refer to the use of“simulations” to demonstrateinterviewing techniques – the currentMoldovan purely theoreticalteaching style involves no practicaltraining of any kind so the conceptwas unknown. I had not predicted,how unfamiliar it stillseemed that individuals couldinvoke the law to respond to socialproblems such as domestic violence,much less use the law toprotect individual liberties. Thesenotions represented a dramaticdeparture from the norm duringfifty years of communism.Even the notion of volunteerism,which now seems inextricablyintertwined with establishinga democracy, was new toMoldovans. The communist government’srole included advancingthe state in part by meeting basicneeds itself such as housing, medicalcare and food. In such a system,volunteerism seemed unnecessary,even subversive. In ademocracy, the government maynot always care adequately for itsmost vulnerable, requiring thatvolunteerism be promoted as oneof society’s highest values andhopefully fill the current need.The Future of MoldovaDespite an economy on thebrink of disaster and thestill long road to a functioningdemocracy, I left feelingtremendously optimistic aboutMoldova’s future. Throughout thecountry, I met generous, peaceful,intelligent, and energetic people,receptive to new ideas and possessinga fiercely held national pride.Embodying the promise forMoldova’s future is the youth – the18-25 year-olds, many of whom areso mature and savvy, I related tothem as peers. Committed andidealistic, they lack the cynicismof previous generations. I have nodoubt that if Moldova can surviveuntil these talented youth takeover, it will flourish. I dream alongwith them of the potential for thissmall, proud nation.Following her trip to Moldova, Dean Lash spent aweek in Ukraine, tracing her family’s roots.My grandmother told storiesof longing for, andloathing of, “the OldCountry” – Skvira and BelaTserkov, Ukraine during the firstquarter of the 20th century. Bubbierelated the joys of living amongthousands of Jews in a tight-knitcommunity, yet the perils this heldwhen the pogroms grew increasinglyfrequent and deadly; havingthe whole family live and worktogether, yet the pain of separationas siblings and cousins left for thepromise of religious freedom andopportunity in the U.S.; the excitementof getting an education, butthe humiliation of competition forthe limited spaces for Jewish childrenin the public schools. As achild I was fascinated by the detailsof Bubbie and Zaydie’s courageousand frightening stories, in awe ofwhat they and my great aunts anduncles had endured.Since Moldova is so close toUkraine, I decided to visit thesmall towns of her stories. Nodescendant of a Loshak – my grandfather’spre-Ellis Island name – orOrgell – my grandmother’s name inthe Old Country – had returnedsince emigrating to the U.S.between 1914 and 1921. Fortunately,as a teenager I had interviewedmy Ukrainian-born relatives.Listening once again to thenow decades old tapes I strained tohear street names, landmarks, andreferences to my great grandfatherMotl Loshak’s numerous siblings,some of whom had never emigrated.Piecing together bits ofinformation, I learned that mygrandfather, who died in the mid-70’s, had an 81-year-old first cousinSTORIES OF THE “OLD COUNTRY”Top: Upon entering Skivra -- the city signSecond from top: Bubbie’s lake, a gatheringplace for Jews in the early 1900’sThird from top: Bubbie’s neighborhoodshul -- now abandonedBottom: The author andLaura with guide Larisanamed Joseph Loshak still living inBela Tserkov.With the help of newly-discoveredcousins in New York, CEELIstaff in Kiev, and a multi-lingualgenealogist from Zhitomir,Ukraine, I planned an excursion toKiev, day trips to meet my “new”family in Bela Tserkov, and a visitto Skvira, my grandparents’ hometown.My partner, Laura Esquivel,met me in Kiev, where we spentour first two days in Ukraineadjusting to the shock of not beingable to read a single street sign,store name or menu (unlikeMoldova, the Cyrillic alphabetreigned), as we toured Kiev and preparedfor our day trips.After a two-hour drive to BelaTserkov, we found JosephLoshak’s home. On thefourth floor of a typical massiveSoviet-style concrete building,Joseph, his wife Ida, and their son,Vova, and daughter-in-law, Luba,shared a small apartment. Speakingthrough a translator, we spent anamazing five hours trading storiesabout our family’s parallel histories,while we exchanged photographsand visited the city’s Jewish cemetery.From total strangers, wesoon became family when I pulledout family photos taken inChicago in the 1930’s and Josephexcitedly pointed to my greatgrandparents,calling out theirnames and sharing his 91-year-oldbrother’s recollections of mygrandfather and each of his siblings,including the year each leftfor the U.S. We also visited theJewish cemetery in Bela Tserkov,which dates from about 1945,guided by Joseph who knew thelocation of every Loshak headstone.The pre-WWII Jewishcemetery no longer exists.The next day in Skvira was similarlyemotional. 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Top: The city sign announcing Bela TserkovMiddle: Cousin Joseph Loshak inRussian army uniform, 1952Bottom: Cousin Joseph, October 1999, atgravesite of his father, who was also theauthor’s great-great-uncleMotl Loshak had moved about 30kilometers away to Skvira wheremy grandfather was born. Skvira,also home to the Orgells, mygrandmother’s family, was the cityof Bubbie’s stories. With the helpof a local Jewish woman, Larisa, wefound Lepovertsky Street (nowRosa Luxembourg Street) where mygrandmother had lived, and thelake Bubbie had described as beingthe gathering place for the Jews inSkvira. Like many parts ofUkraine, the ravages of war hadobliterated nearly all the pre-WWIIbuildings and other markers of lifein the early 1900’s, but when Iasked if there were any early centurybuildings still standing, shetook us four blocks away to a rowof brick buildings. Although interrible disrepair, the arched windowsand Larisa’s independentknowledge confirmed the fadedpink building had once been theneighborhood shul. Given it’sclose proximity to my grandmother’shouse, we feltconfident we had foundthe place my family hadonce prayed.Unlike many otherswho havereturned to EasternEurope to retrace thesteps of ancestors, myfamily’s cities still exist.But what struck Laura andme so profoundly was howlittle evidence of their lives – andthe lives of all Jews – remains.Many Jewish cemetaries have beenvandalized or destroyed along withvital records. In Kiev, early-1900’ssynagogues had long ago been convertedto factories and a musicacademy. Although we knew theunspeakable stories of 20th centurypogroms and the Holocaust, wedidn’t know of previous mass murderssuch as the 17th centuryChmielnicki massacre when Jewswere slaughtered by the thousands.It seems a miracle that there are somany Jews of Ukrainian descentalive at all. Yet despite the centuriesof killings, and Soviet suppressionof Jewish traditions andculture, traces of our collectivepast have miraculously endured.With Ukrainian independencehas come the stirrings of a Jewishrevival. Jews in Kiev rent out theMusic Academy on Friday nightsand Saturdays for prayer, and somenew synagogues now exist. Perhapsthe most vivid visual symbolis at Babi Yar, where internationalpressure helped erect a menorahmemorial at the edge of the ravinewhere the murder of hundreds ofthousands of Nazi victims tookplace in September, 1941. Plans fora museum and archive at the sitepromise increased awareness, andhopefully a more broad-based interestin preserving the stories of Jewsin, and from, Ukraine.Memorial to Jews massacred at Babi Yar, KievAs my visit to the “Old Country”of my Bubbie quietly cameto an end, I gathered my memoriesand prepared to return to LosAngeles. In reflecting on theweeks I had spent so far awayfrom home, I realized that whatstarted out as an exciting andchallenging professionalendeavor in a remote and previouslyunfamiliar part of theworld, had turned into anintensely personal journey, aswell. It had allowed me to literallywalk in my ancestors’ footsteps,vividly touch my own historyand connect with my family’sstories — an extraordinaryand unforgettable experience.After graduation, many law students tend todrift apart from the friends they made in lawschool, as the professional demands of theworkplace begin to dominate their lives. For one USCLaw grad, however, this has not been the case. At theWestern Law Center for Disability Rights, a nonprofitlaw office located at Loyola Law School,Christopher Knauf ‘96, is making sure he keeps intouch with his classmates. Now finishing a fellowshipsponsored by the National Association for PublicInterest Law (NAPIL), Chris litigates civil rights casesunder the Americans with Disabilities Act and otherstate and federal civil rights laws. Over the past twoyears, he has enlisted the pro bono services of severalclassmates and their firms for the center. Accordingto Chris, “Collaboration with private firm counsel isan important part of the Western Law Center’s overallprogram, and provides our clients with the best possiblerepresentation. It’s also so great to work withpeople whom I know, trust, and respect.”Julie Ruhlin ‘97, an associate with Tuttle & Taylor,met Chris through USC’s Public Interest LawFoundation while in law school. The two met againpost graduation at the annual PILF Auction, whereChris interested Julie in one of the Western LawCenter’s cases – suing various Los Angeles area taxicompanies whose drivers routinely discriminatedagainst blind customers who use guide dogs. Juliesold Tuttle & Taylor partners on the case, and thetwo offices were inbusiness. The caserecently settled forover $30,000 in damagesplus attorneysfees and substantialinjunctive relief.Kristi Gudoski‘96, an associatewith McCutchenDoyle Brown &Enersen LLP, servedwith Chris on thePILF Executive Boardwhile at USC, and ishappy to re-live herpublic interest daysby joining forceswith the WesternLaw Center. Thetwo firms, alongwith the Center forLaw in the PublicInterest, are currentlylitigating a case against Los Angeles County,alleging that it has failed to provide sign languageinterpreters and other supportive services to deafjuveniles in the probation system. “At one point inthe case it became clear that we needed big firmassistance,” Chris recalls, “So I called up Kristi andsimply asked her, okay, pleaded with her, to join thecase. Fortunately, she and her firm both said yes.”The parties are now working toward a settlement ofthe matter, which is currently pending in federaldistrict court.Kelly Fitzgerald ‘96, who Chris met in first yearContracts, also enthusiastically jumped aboard thepro bono bandwagon. Kelly, an associate withDeWitt & Roberts LLP, knew that her boss, NickDeWitt, is a board member of the Western Law Center.She easily sold the firm on providing pro bonoassistance on a case against a local McDonald’s,whose employees had refused to allow a young girlwith spina bifida to play on the restaurant’s playgroundequipment because her disability requiresher to wear shoes at all times. “Working with Chrisand the Western Law Center has been great, andvery meaningful,” Kelly says. “It’s really fun workingwith a friend from law school on cases that arereally important, and I hope we continue the cocounselingrelationship in the future.”Chris concludes, “Firms are now, more than ever,gung ho for pro bono, and it comes from the associatesrequesting it.Many law firmshave good pro bonoreputations but it isstill up to the nonprofitsto bring thepro bono opportunitiesto law firmdoors. Being able tocall upon lawschool friendsmakes the connectionthat much easier.And it’s somuch more fulfillingto co-counselwith law schoolfriends than it is tohave dinner onceevery six months.There is now definitelya bond thatwasn’t therebefore.”USC GRADS WORKING TOGETHERFOR THE CIVIL RIGHTS OF PEOPLEWITH DISABILITIES(l-r) Kristi Gudoski ‘96, Julie Ruhlin ‘97, Christopher Knauf ‘96 and Kelly Fitzgerald ‘9646USC LAW • SPRING 2000USC LAW • SPRING 200047

CLASS OF1951Plans are already under way for a galafiftieth class reunion in mid-200l.Those completing the reunion portionof the latest questionnaire havevoted seven for a dinner, five for abrunch, and five for a retreat of oneor two days. More significantly, thefollowing have been named to thereunion committee: Ann Stodden-Mayer, Bill Birnie, George De Roy,Ken Holland, Don Von Mizener,Milton Zerin and Volney Brown. Thefirst question for the committee toconsider is whether George De Royshould be asked to pay for the wholething. See infra. We report with deepregret the passing of BruceEngelhardt on February 7, 1999. Hewas a distinguished professional, agood friend and he loved USC. Wewill all miss him. On a much happiernote, those contending for the IronMan Trophy by continuing to practicelaw include Martin Abrams(about nine months of the year), DonBrown (“still somewhat alive andpracticing”), George De Roy (“part ofa team which obtained a judgment of$454,000,000 (sic) in Georgia”), RoyMann (“alive and well and practicing”),Fred Flam (who, BernieSchulhof says, is “living in Bonsall,playing bridge and practicing parttime”) and Art Wasserman (“Nochange, still practicing.”) The last ofthese wins the trophy, to be presentedby a surviving classmate, ifany. There has been some activity inthe who-saw-whom department. JoeCapalbo spoke with Herb Kalmbachon the phone and met Bill Birnie at aHalf-Century Club dinner. Both are“very well.” Bill Jekel took RoyMann to breakfast and reports thatthe latter is “living a life of gracefulsemi-retirement; relaxed, goodhumoredand as perceptive as ever.”Sid Rose ex ux “somewhat regularly”CLASS NOTESsees Leonard and June Weinberg fordinner, bridge and occasionally, golf.“Leenie and our dog, Oscar, revel inour summers in Colorado.”Weinberg, for himself, admits he hasbeen seeing Sid, as well as MikeFranklin and Stu Hillman, who are“all well.” John Anderson has notseen any classmates because “theyare not conveniently located” inrespect to his Kihei, Hawaii home.(Now that you have mentioned it,John, we will all just drop in). Joseph(Roy) Ventress has not met any classmates,but he would be “delighted”to take one to lunch. Your ClassReporter has recently served on aCitizens Commission on U.S. DrugPolicy under the aegis of the Institutefor Policy Studies and Loyola LawSchool, which found that the “waragainst drugs” has been lost andmade certain recommendations,copy upon request. Responding classmatesapparently concur. Sixteensaid that the “war” can never be wonvs. three who said that it still can bewon. Ten thought the war was notworth the cost. Fifteen thought fundsshould be spent primarily on treatment,as against seven for enforcement.Food for thought: Asked whatsingle law they would most like tohave repealed, responses includeddrug laws (several), three strikes,drunk driving statutes, redundantlaws, tax loopholes for the superrich,the estate tax (the favorite),solicitation of prostitution, SecondAmendment, the Endangered SpeciesAct, income tax and the law ofdiminishing returns. MISCELLANY:Of 25 responses received, golf wasspecifically mentioned only fourtimes and travel seven, but these arepredominant activities. . . Dan Leedygardens when not visiting with his10 grandchildren. . . RichardMcWilliams has just returned fromBermuda. . . Bill Jekel has built anew home in Maryland. . . JoeCapalbo has homes in Sedona,Arizona, and Columbia, SouthCarolina. . . 68 percent of respondentsprovided e-mail addresses. . .“Roy” Ventress has been awardedItaly’s highest decoration for his legalcounsel and cultural support. Savethe year 2001 for our fiftieth!Volney Brown, Jr.Class ReporterCLASS OF1952Our class seems to be doing a goodjob of maintaining their enthusiasmfor living and taking to heart theadvice of an English poet known onlyas Marsden. He penned a poem entitled,“What is Time?” He answeredhis question in many ways. Two ofthem, I think, our class has taken toheart. First: “I asked an aged man,with hoary hairs, Wrinkled andcurved with worldly cares; ‘Time isthe warp of life,’ said he; ‘So, tell theyoung, the fair, the gay, to weave itwell!’ ” Second: His second responsebuilt upon the first and put it thisway: “I asked my Bible, and methinks it said, ‘Time is the presenthour, the past has fled; Live! Livetoday! Tomorrow never yet on anyhuman being rose or set.’ ” Edward C.Cazier, Jr. is still active in the practiceof law in Los Angeles, althoughin some respects he feels somewhatredundant, -- simply because of age.He is off the board of Maytag Corp.on grounds (presumably spurious) ofbeing “superannuated.” He was“term-limited” off the CaliforniaArts Council, and “emeritized” bythe Practicing Law Institute. All thatdespite the fact that he “doesn’t looka day older!” He takes some consolation,however, in the fact that he wasrecently appointed to the board ofMusic Center Presents, which ischarged with filling the halls whennot otherwise occupied by thePhilharmonic, opera, etc. A year ago,he traveled to Hanoi, where he stayedat a hostelry he had enjoyed in thefall of 1945, when Ho Chi Minh wasour ally. Ed has a new grandson, Max,born April 19, 1999, in London. Henow has his choice of being theholder of a passport issued by theUnited States, Austria, Great Britainor the European Community.Lawrence R. Frankley has a LosAngeles address, and another onewhich is most interesting and tells itall: Boarded Barn, Old Coast Road,Ormesby St. Margaret, NorfolkNR29 3QH, England. Larry is comfortablyensconced in retirement, oras he puts it, he “long ago quitwork.” From his residence inEngland, he has visited “all ofEurope,” and spends his Februariessunning and surfing in Hawaii. Hehas avocations “too numerous tolist,” but they include membershipin the Honolulu Outrigger CanoeClub, the Olympic Club in SanFrancisco, and the Carlton Club inLondon. Don Olson devoted almosttwenty years as a city attorney(Culver City, 1958-1968, andInglewood, 1968-1977), followingwhich he retired and moved toNewport Beach, where he wrote abook with the tantalizing title, HowYou Can Quit Work and Have theMoney to Do It. He must havefound the magic key, for hehasn’t practiced law or worked eversince, spending his time enjoyingretirement at the Balboa Bay Club.Now if Don would only come upwith a successful book entitled, Howto Attain and Retain Good Health,our retirement cup would truly runnethover. William B. (“Bill”) Jones,who has retired from service in theState Department at the ambassadoriallevel, still maintains two residences,one in Washington, D.C. andanother in Santa Monica. He is amember of the board of directors ofthe Center for Public Excellence.He is currently Ambassador inResidence to Hampden – SydneyCollege in Virginia, an all-male liberalarts college founded by PatrickHenry and James Madison in 1776.At Hampden-Sydney, he teachesDiplomacy, Common Law andAfrican-American Culture. Since1997, he has also been a visiting professorat Pepperdine UniversitySchool of Law, teaching Law andForeign Policy, and Diplomacy in theundergraduate program. He continuesto travel (Vienna and Paris) whenhis busy schedule permits. As previouslyreported, Jack R. Levitt retiredfrom his position as a San DiegoCounty Superior Court judge. But,contrary to an earlier article, he isstill enjoying life in Bozeman,Montana with his wife, Kay. Inreporting on our class’s 45th reunion,it was erroneously stated (in effect)that Jack was in a position to be presidingover a class action brought bya group of disgruntled applicantsdenied passage through the PearlyGates. Jack has continued his activityin Freemasonry in Montana andCalifornia. He and Kay spend theirwinters in Texas, interspersed withvisits to California. He is active inpro bono settlement work for thecourts of Montana. Leon Mayer isfinally “winding down” his trialpractice in Glendale, which has consistedof “fighting the ‘evil insuranceempire.’ ” With the exception of onedaughter, Jennifer, who is in her secondyear as a music major (violin)at California State University,Northridge, his children are out ofcollege and pursuing their owncareers. Leon is thinking of trying hishand at writing, presumably centeredon his considerable trial experiences,although we don’t knowwhether he will side with Belinda orLady Brute. “BELINDA: Ay, but youknow we must return good for evil.LADY BRUTE: That may be a mistakein the translation.” (JohnVanbrugh, The Provoked Wife[1697]). Charles H. “Chuck” Olderand his wife, Kitty, have three childrenand five grandchildren. Retiredfrom the Los Angeles CountySuperior Court, Chuck plays golffairly regularly with another distinguishedalumnus of the Law School,Malcolm Lucas, Chief JusticeCalifornia Supreme Court, Retired.You will recall that Chuck was oneof Chenault’s “Flying Tigers” duringWWII. He recently attended areunion of that group, held inMidland, Texas, with the“Confederate Air Force.” PaulEugene Overton, another of ourretired superior court judges, lives inSan Diego with his wife, Naomi.Apparently mindful of judicial limitationson the length of briefs, hecapsulizes his life since law schoolwith these succinct words, “Happyin retirement, visiting children(three daughters and one son), grandchildren(six: two girls, four boys),friends and relatives — traveling ‘allover.’ ” Berne Rolston is still enjoyingthe challenge of a full-time practice,half of the time in land use matters,and the other half representinglawyers and law firms in their“internecine relationships.” One sonand one daughter died at an early age,but he has three surviving sons,Matthew, Adam and David, whohave not, as yet, endowed him withgrandchildren. His wife, Annie, diedin 1995, but having had the “goodfortune of finding a significantother,” some of the pain is eased.Berne “suffers from good health.”Extensive travel, especially walkingtours abroad and outdoor naturetrips, have enhanced his life and ledhim to conclude that “Life is a memorableexperience.” Harry L. Root, aspreviously reported, is retired andinvolved in various civic activities.Contrary to my first report, Harry’spractice and residence since 1978was not, and is not, in San Onofre. Itwas, and still is, in that enchantingseaside resort, San Clemente. In conclusion,while it may be a little latefor some of us, there is this advicefrom Albert Einstein: “If A is successin life, then A equals X plus Y plus Z.Work is X; Y is play; and Z is keepingyour mouth shut.” (In the Observer,15 January 1950)Jack T. SwaffordClass Reporter48 USC LAW • SPRING 2000USC LAW • SPRING 200049

CLASS OF1954ReunionClass of ’54 reporter Bob Holtzman (right)gathering column material at the reunionwith Angela and Leon Altman ‘00I didn’t send out questionnaires thisfall and am going to forego the usualformat of this column, which doeslittle more than replicate whateverresponses I receive. A small group ofus attended our 45th reunion dinnerat the Ritz Carlton Marina del Rey inSeptember. A brief report of what wesaid and did may be of some interest.Mostly, we seized the opportunity toput our three years at the Law Schoolinto historical and personal perspective.The school was founded as theLos Angeles Law StudentsAssociation in 1896, incorporated asthe Los Angeles Law School in 1898and affiliated with USC in 1900.Measured from today, we cameaboard in 1951, at about the halfwaypoint; the history of the schoolreaches back and forward almostequally from then. Associate DeanJohn G. “Tom” Tomlinson, Jr. who isequally dean and Law School historian,joined us at dinner and talkedabout the history of the school (youcan find one of his many historicalarticles in the Fall 1999 edition ofUSC Law). He also talked about hishistorical project, which hasincluded interviews with many ofour classmates and information onour professors. There was somesolemnity as we reminisced aboutthe growing number of those who areill or deceased. But for the most part,Class of ’54 reunionwe talked about our favorite instructorsand our more ribald fellow studentsand about the incredibly funnythings that happened to us in the oldLaw School building. On the facultyside, an informal poll showedProfessor Springmeyer as our favoriteinstructor by an inconsequentialmargin, closely followed by DeanEvans and Professors Wickes, Burby,Hancock and Jones. Although we areadmittedly no longer youngsters, Icame away from the anniversary dinnerconvinced that we are still a vital,active, interested, and interestingbunch. And we have a common bondof affection for the faculty and institutionthat served us well for threeyears nearly a half century ago andgave us a foundation of learning thatput us on the right road for the next45 years, and still counting.Bob HoltzmanClass ReporterCLASS OF1959Reunion1999 was the fortieth anniversary ofthe Class of 1959 and we celebratedwith a fortieth year reunion at theRegency Club. The location wasboth elegant and comfortable andthere was plenty of good food anddrink. While we didn’t have 100%attendance, it was a great opportunityfor us to “catch up” with thosepresent and learn more about thehappenings involving those not present.Don Clark remains the seniorpartner at Clark & Trevithick, whichhe founded over 22 years ago. Donand Sally have three daughters, allmarried, and six grandchildren. Donhas been active in civic and communityactivities, serving as vice chairof the board of the Music Centeroperating company; director ofHillsides; and director of The ValleyHunt Club, where he is slated tobecome president for years 2001 and2002. Don and Sally have a secondhome on Whitefish Lake inMontana, where Don pursues hisleisure time activities of golf, tennis,reading, bridge, dominos, wine tasting,quail hunting and fly fishing.Sounds like Don needs to retire tohave more time to truly enjoy hismany interests. Michael Berg hasrecently retired as a superior courtjudge. He now has more time to pursuehis outside interests of travel,reading history and piano practice.He and his wife have two adult children.Classmates needing a good“rent-a-judge” could probably persuadeMichael to serve them in thatcapacity. Larry Booth is still heavilyinvolved with his plaintiffs litigationpractice in San Pedro with great success.Larry and his wife, Joann, whohave to be two of the youngest lookinggrandparents around, have threechildren and seven grandchildren.They live at the beach and bothremain in great shape by running forexercise. Bob Carter is still activewith his law practice in Pasadena,specializing in real estate law. Heand Mary Bett have two children andfive grandchildren. His outside activitieshave been boating and traveland he writes that Bob Peterson ispresently Of Counsel to his firm.Milt (Franklin) Condon is still practicingin Marina del Rey, specializingin real estate law. His current outsideinterests involve skiing, sailing,scuba diving and riding his motorcycle.He is still pursuing his primaryobjective of achieving a full andactive retirement which willundoubtedly happen when he practiceslaw just a little more. DickDu Par continues as a solo litigator,specializing in both general litigationand personal injury matters. Heclaims that the only thing he hasbeen doing for fun since law schoolhas been occasional travel and thathe is still practicing because he can’tafford not to. We all know Dick hasClass of ’59 reunionhad a lot more fun than that. Dickhas served as president of the LosAngeles chapter of the AmericanBoard of Trial Advocates, as well asserving on its national board of directors.Dick has two children and onegrandchild. Dick Eamer is retiredfrom his position as chairman andCEO of National Medial Enterprises.He and his wife, Eileen, have twochildren and five grandchildren.Having served on many corporateand charitable boards, he has alsopursued a number of hobbies includingskiing and raising horses. Dickwisely counsels his classmates to“have fun — there isn’t a lot of timeleft.” Mitch Egers continues hisJoe Poliner (left) and Richard Du Pardiscussing their “differences” at theClass of ’59 reunion, which took placeat the Regency Clubcriminal practice in downtown LosAngeles as he has since his early dayswith the district attorney’s office. Hewrites that he is continuing practicinglaw due to “force of habit” andbecause “travel, investing and threegrandchildren don’t take up all of mytime.” David Finkel continues tolive in Santa Monica, where heserves as a municipal court judge,which he has done since his appointmentin 1991. David and his wifehave four children and three grandchildren.David writes that theaccomplishment of which he is boththe proudest, and the least proud, is“being associated with the legal system.”Marvin Goldsmith and hiswife, Adele, have four children andtwelve grandchildren. After years ofservice in the Attorney General’sOffice trying eminent domain cases,he is presently Of Counsel toBergman & Wedner. Marvin writesthat he enjoys pursuing travel, skeetand trap shooting, and philanthropicendeavors as outside activities, andthinks that it would be fun to domore traveling. He says that he isstill practicing part time to “supportmy stamp collection.” LloydHamilton has recently retired as asuperior court judge and lives inPlacerville. He served as districtattorney before being appointed tothe bench and, although retired, hestill sits occasionally as a judge.Gordon Hunt remains active as asenior partner in his firm, specializingin the field of construction law,in which he is an acknowledgedexpert. Gordon and his wife live inArcadia and his practice is inPasadena. He has two children andwrites that he has one grandchild“on the way.” Gordon pursues hisoutside interests of traveling, investingin real estate, tennis and golf, andhopes to spend more time in the nextdecade traveling and playing golf.Stan Jacobs continues his primarypursuits of being a successful triallawyer and raising children. His primarilyplaintiffs’ civil litigation practiceis flourishing and his childrenare ages 36, 34, 30, 16, 14, 13, 11 and50USC LAW • SPRING 2000USC LAW • SPRING 200051

3. Clearly, Stan is successful in bothpursuits. Sid Jones continues to practiceestate planning, wills and trustsout in Upland in the Inland Empire.He and his wife, Mildred, have threechildren. Sid told us that he hasrecently sold the Agrigold JuiceProducts business, which has occupieda lot of his time in recent yearsand hopes to spend more time travelingthe world and playing “as muchgolf as possible.” Bernie Leckie continuesto be Of Counsel to Meserve,Mumper & Hughes in Irvine, wherehe has practiced for many years. Heand Maryanne have two children andthree grandchildren. Bernie has pursuedhis outside interests of playinggolf, tennis, visiting grandchildrenand traveling. He would be able todevote more “quality time” to thoseactivities if he would only retirefrom the practice of law. Jack Quinncontinues practicing with the LosAngeles office of Arnold & Porter,where he is a senior partner. He andJoan have two children, but nograndchildren. Jack has had a mostsuccessful legal career, having servedas president of the Los AngelesCounty Bar Association and havingbeen the recipient of the Shattuck-Price Award and other deservedawards and commendations. Jackneither writes nor says anythingabout retirement, but does admit toenjoying traveling for pleasure. ScottSimon continues practicing law inRancho Mirage where he also playstennis and is living with an “uglycat” named Mogadishu. Scott said heis most proud of “never joining theABA.” Conrad Solum, Jr. remainsactive in his practice as a senior partnerwith the prestigious intellectualproperty firm of Lyon & Lyon, in itsdowntown Los Angeles office. Heand Alli have four children and two,going on three, grandchildren.Connie remains heavily involvedwith family activities, skiing, playinggolf and going to SC footballgames. He remains silent on the “R”(retirement) word, but writes that hehopes that the upcoming decade willallow him to do more travel, skiingand golf. Skip (Leroy Bartlett) Taft,Jr. continues practicing law “to paythe bills” and remains justifiablyproud of surviving the last five yearsof his professional life with his professionalintegrity and the highregard and respect of his law schoolclassmates intact. Skip has threechildren and six grandchildren and,as busy as he is, still finds time fortennis, golf and some travel. CarlosVelarde, who is a retired superiorcourt judge, having been on thebench for over 29 years, continues toserve in a judicial capacity as a hearingjudge of the State Bar Court,hearing State Bar disciplinary matters.Carlos has three children andfive grandchildren and pursues theinteresting hobby of collectingOlympic memorabilia and leisuretravel. Arn Youngman writes that hehas been actively involved in realestate development since 1965,when he quit the practice of law tomake money. His outside activitiesinvolve golf and travel and he and hiswife, Nancy, live in Newport Beach,California. Tom Zide, having failedto win the lottery, is still practicinglaw. He and Carole have three childrenand six grandchildren. Tom specializesin commercial law, collections,creditors rights and bankruptcywith his family firm in LosAngeles. He has been active in theCommercial Law League of Americaand currently serves as president ofthe Trojan Club of San FernandoValley. He and Carole continue toattend USC football games and theyhope to travel more in the upcomingdecade. Harvey Sitzer is still practicingin Century City, specializing infamily law. He and Sally live inBeverly Hills. They have four grandchildren,two in Palo Alto and two inSeattle. Classmates who haven’twritten us recently but who attendedour fortieth reunion included BobGordon and his wife, Joe and RuthRuffner, Mort Gantman, and JackCherry who, with his wife, cameover from Las Vegas.David A. MadduxClass ReporterCLASS OF1960It was great hearing from the Class of1960 who responded to the questionnaire.We can always use more news.This millennium marks 40 yearssince we graduated to the Wicks BarReview Course and there are hints ofa reunion in the offing. Our lead itemis reported by Anthony (Toni) Rossi,partner with Paul Hastings Janofsky& Walker, who reports he plans tostay in good health and keep practicing.He also reports that our classmatePeter Aronson, a partner withthe national firm of Foley & Lardner,and his wife, Marta Fernandez, apartner with Jeffer, Mangel, Butler &Marmaro, are the proud parents of ababy girl. Peter absolutely wins theTony Randall Longevity Award forthe year. Superior Court Judge JamesM. Sutton, Jr. reports traveling fromcathedral to cathedral for 1100 milesthroughout the UK last May. Hereports that his e-mail address is:JMSUTTON@AOL.COM. He wantsto get a list of everyone’s web sitestogether, so e-mail your address toJim. Dave Cashion reports beingmarried to the “same beautifulwoman (Grace) for 34 years.” Theyhave three children and two grandchildren.Lloyd C. Ownbey, Jr.reports a 37-year marital anniversarylast November 10. Their children,Grant and Katie, are healthy and notmarried. He reports recent trips toNew Orleans and steam boating onthe Mississippi. Laurence S.Klugman reports he is still workingon his first marriage of 40 years andthat he might be getting the hang ofit. Robert B. Robbins, still officing inFresno, California, announces heplans to retire next December. Heand his wife Charlotte had two sons(one now deceased) and furtherreports two grandchildren. BeverlySchneider - - now retired - - reportsattending the recent USC-NotreDame Game in South Bend and thatit was an emotionally damagingexperience. Robert E. Bastien, retiredfrom the bench, checks in from DuQuion, Illinois, advising “nochanges.” Don Black reports that heis steadfastly unmarried but livesclose to two of his grandchildren andthat he is presently heading up a taskforce to monitor legislation concerningthe National Wooden Pallet &Container Association. He is enjoyinglife on Puget Sound. Herbert B.Silver reports from Greenville, SouthCarolina, that he and Temma arestill married and that he is still printingtennis ball logos and practicinglaw as a hobby. He invites, “Y’allcome visit.” We regretfully reportthe death of classmate Orville “Bill”Rouse, who joined fifteen other ofour classmates last November.Richard ClementsClass ReporterCLASS OF1961After all these years, Hodge Dolle, Jr.abrogated his responsibilities as yourclass reporter and handed the jobover to me, so if you have any newsworthy(or even unworthy) information,pass it on. Sheldon Richmanhas moved to Bermuda Dunes.Walter Zifkin is now CEO of theWilliam Morris Agency where he hasbeen employed for the past 36 years.Walt has two children and has beenmarried to Bobbi for 26 years.Sheldon Sloan is president of theColiseum Commission and OfCounsel to Lewis, D’Amato, etc. Hehas two grandchildren, Hallie andJamison. Gerard Poirier retired and isa flight instructor at Brackett Airport(wherever that is). Allen L. Neelley,the consumate outdoorsman, lives inMontana with his wife, Michelle,and is a professional hunting andfishing guide. He reports that he hasmoved his practice to “the rivers ofMontana: longer hours, less pay, butbetter venue.” Stanley Esptein livesin Marina del Rey and marriedRenata in 1996. He recently attendedthe International Institute onComparative Law in Magdalen,England. Paul Fegen is still single andhaving fun, or so he says. In additionto practicing law, he is a performingmagician, which shows that oldlawyers can learn new tricks. JudgeRobert H. O’Brien has retired fromthe superior court (I bet he will missthose writs and receivers!) RobertSchalk now lives in LaSelva Beach,California and is practicing tax andrelated law, as well as enjoying golfand skiing. He and his spouse,Carolyn, have four adult children.Still practicing tax and bankruptcylaw, the couple enjoys golf, skiingand ocean cruises. Carlos F. Borja isretired and looking for a place to livein Mexico and a co-buyer. He mightlook in the area of Cabo San Lucas,where Ginger and I have our vacationvilla. We have been visited by HodgeDolle, Jr. a number of times and evengot Dick Norman to venture to theland of fishing and golfing. RonaldPerry reports that he still practices inSan Pedro and lives in MonarchBeach (where else would Ron liveother than the beach?). Judge JudyStein is now, as it was in law school,Hollinger. She remarried Glen a fewmonths ago. They have five sonstogether. She is retiring from thebench after 14 years. ProfessorGideon Kanner is at Loyola LawSchool where he teaches property,land-use and eminent domain law.He is currently Of Counsel to Bergerand Norton in Santa Monica. RandySiple retired to ranching in theVentura area where his wife, Susan,still practices law. Randy is quite aDixie Land enthusiast and traveledthis year to New Orleans for afestival. Your Reporter, CharlesWhitesell, is still practicing inGlendale when not fishing in Cabo orAlaska or some other place. I oftenrun into Jarrett Anderson. Marge, hiswife, recently received her MastersDegree and is quite an asset to theschool district where she has workedfor a number of years.Charles E. WhitesellClass ReporterCLASS OF1962It is spring. Time for renewal and celebrationof our 38 years since lawschool graduation. This edition ofclass notes finds us in various stages.George Baffa “renewed” his leftshoulder, which included a full jointreplacement. By the time you readthis, he should be mended and workingand relearning his golf game. JimDodds, of Nevada City, rode his bike2,000 miles through Montana, Idahoand Colorado. Not content withthat, he peddled the Danube Riverbicycle trail from the Black Forest inGermany to Budapest, Hungary, tookthe train to Prague, and rode his bikeback to Frankfurt. He and Polly celebratedtheir 42nd anniversary.Grandpa Vincent Fish is proud of his14 grandchildren (plus two more inthe way). An avid sailor, he is findingmore time to enjoy his hobby on longweekends. He has plans to sail theVirgin Islands in May, 2000 and theMediterranean in September, 2000.Still an active volunteer, he is on theboard of St. John’s College andSeminary. Upon his return from aninety-day trip to Japan, KentFroehlich met his second grandchild,baby girl Bryn Taylor. Not to be out-52 USC LAW • SPRING 2000USC LAW • SPRING 200053

done in the reunion department, heattended the 43rd reunion of hisUCLA college fraternity. He is planninga year 2000 trip to Scotland,Ireland, Wales and England. Our wineexpert, Ernie Grossman, of Truckee,California, was on safari in SouthAfrica with 10 members of his familyin 1999. A community service volunteer,he has retired from his law practice.He plans to be in France in May,2000 as a delegate of The Knights ofthe Vine. Norman Marshall celebratedhis 35th wedding anniversaryand is practicing in Pasadena. An avidskier, (French Alps in 1999 and plansfor Italy in 2000) he is still active withthe Tournament of Roses Association(his 37th year). Jerry Miller wrote tosay things are still going smoothlywithout much change and to indicatehe was sorry to hear of the troublesexperienced by some of our classmates.The Honorable Jack Morgan,judge of the L.A. Superior Court, andwife Judith, enjoyed their 34th weddinganniversary. Tax lawyer GeneReardon is still hard at work but doesreport more time is available forAspen ski trips. He and his bride,Diana, celebrated their secondanniversary. Francis Sarguis sent hise-mail address: fsarguis@west.net Hehas been reducing his practice for thepast 12 years and now devotes fivepercent of his time to “lawyering.”The balance is consumed by travel inSouth America, Europe and theMiddle East. I close, in memoriam:Floyd Whitfield Giddens passed awayJune 4, 1999. Hold your loved onesand friends closely. The sand is runningthrough the hourglass.Judge John C. WoolleyClass ReporterCLASS OF1963Michael Montgomery continues topractice fulltime in his El Monteoffice, where he specializes in eminentdomain and land use. Mike saysthat he still enjoys traveling but histrips take a little more planning thanpreviously because now he and hiswife, Carmen, take their triplets onall their trips. The triplets, Sarah,Lauren, and Alexander, are now 1 1/2years old and, undoubtedly, are keepingmom and dad fully occupied.Neal Gobar is still working part timefor the California Attorney General’soffice in San Diego County. He semiretiredfrom the AG’s office 10 yearsago. He reports that he became agrandfather for the seventh time earlierthis year. He enjoys traveling toexotic lands, having visited SouthernChile, Cambodia, and Myannarwithin the last year. He attempts tostay in good physical shape by regularlyplaying beach volleyball nearhis home in beautiful Del Mar. JudgeJames A. Kaddo is still working hardas a Superior Court judge inDepartment C in Compton, where heis hearing both criminal and civilmatters. Judge Kaddo says that helooks forward to his annual vacationsin Europe and Lebanon, where he hasbeen vacationing for a number ofyears. Walter Karabian, USC studentbody president in 1960, continues tobe the consummate PR expert. Hewas recently elected to the board ofdirectors of QueensCare, a non-profithealthcare organization that providesservices and funding for hospitalizationfor uninsured people in thegreater Hollywood area. What makesWally even prouder than beingelected to this board, is his ability toboast about the fact that he andanother of our classmates, JohnKarns, have been law partners forover 30 years. They do businessunder the firm name of Karns andKarabian in Los Angeles. They getalong so well that they are lookingforward to doing business togetherfor another 30 years. Allen Browne isstill successfully litigating those bigtime cases. His last trial lasted 2 1/2months, resulting in a resoundingvictory for his client. As elated as hewas about winning this case, life justgot better for him and his wife,Patricia, because shortly thereafter,they took an extended vacation tovisit two grandchildren that wereborn during this last trial. They firstvisited a newborn grandchild inSeattle; and, thereafter, journeyed toIsrael to visit the second newborngrandchild. After visiting with thegrandchildren, the Brownes thentook a 16-day guided trip to Morocco.They are now home recuperatingfrom all of this travel and excitement.Doug Taylor, who left the practiceof law in 1981 to enter the privatebusiness sector, has never tiredof traveling extensively throughoutthe world. When he is not touring theglobe on business, he is traveling forpure enjoyment. On one trip lastyear, he traveled to London to attendthe wedding of his son, Troy, who,with his wife, intends to make Douga grandfather around Christmas time,1999. It seems that Doug’s kids aregoing to keep him busy for sometime. His daughter, Tracy, a paralegal,is planning a February wedding.Gregory MunozClass ReporterCLASS OF1964ReunionThe Class of 1964 held its 35threunion on October 21, 1999 at theJockey Club at Chasen’s in BeverlyHills. Thanks to the efforts of RichReinjohn, the event was an unqualifiedsuccess. The food and drink wereterrific but the company was evenbetter. Mickey Shapiro, the past presidentof the student body (I knowthat because it was on his businesscard), reminded us of two of theworld shaking events which occurredduring our tenure at SC — the Cubanmissile crisis in October of 1962 andthe assassination of John F. Kennedy— both of which stirred up our memories.David Roberti, past PresidentEnjoying a laugh at Chasen’s in BeverlyHills are (l-r) Ronald Rosenfeld, GaryZimmerman, and Marshall GrossmanPro Tem of the California StateSenate, spoke of his activities in politicssince graduation. JudgesWilliam McVittie and Gilbert Alstontold us of their experiences on thebench since law school. A highlightof the evening was the remarks ofretired Judge George Dell, who wasan instructor for our class in lawschool. George recalled what eruditeand scholarly students we all were.George was always a great stand-upcomic. Dean Tom Tomlinson spokeon behalf of the Law School and toldus of some of the many changes thathave taken place since 1964, includingadmission standards that wouldhave caused most of us to go elsewhere.Even Jerry Garrett sent greetingsvia fax from New Zealand andpromised to attend the 40th. SeveralClass of ‘64 reunionof our class members present at thereunion have left the practice of law.Brian Corbell has been in the hotelmanagement business practicallyhis entire career since law school.Mickey Shapiro is the president andCEO of A Doctor in YourHouse.Com, a health care web siteon the Internet affiliated with 20thCentury Fox. After retiring from thedistrict attorney’s office, KenUnmacht is now a psychoanalystpracticing in West Los Angeles.However, most of us attending thereunion continue to practice law.Bill Bennett continues his specialtyin grandparents’ rights in OrangeCounty. Bill was recently appointedthe administrator for the ReformedChurch in America, California, coveringall churches in SouthernCalifornia. Ray Cotkin’s firm hasjust expanded and changed its name,as has Marshall Grossman’s firm. Bythe way, Marshall’s daughter, Leslie,is a co-star of a series on the WB network.Dixon Holston, believe it ornot, is no longer with the countycounsel’s office but is now counsel tothe Los Angeles County RetirementPlan. Harvey Unrot is practicing inthe Pasadena area but lives on hishorse ranch in the Antelope Valley.Harvey says the drive is worth it tohave his horses. Lee Garry is stilltough in court and on the courts.Dennis Harwood, who practices inOrange County, seems taller thanever. My partner, Ron Rosenfeld,was the subject of a lengthy featurearticle (complete with pictures) inthe Los Angeles Daily Journal dealingwith his pioneering efforts in thearea of mediation in the family lawarea. In that connection, the year2000 will be the 30th year in whichRon and I have practiced lawtogether. That’s longer than most ofthe divorces Ron handles. Thanks,Partner!! I received word from KenMurphy that he has left his law firmand is now the general counsel ofCarsDirect.com. Tom Freiberg waschairman of the CondemnationCommittee of the L.A. County Bar,as well as serving as a director of theInner City Law Center and of the LosAngeles Headquarters Association.Lastly, my personal thanks to RonGoodgame for his kind remarks.Ron, believe it or not, this is not atask for me. I really enjoyed seeingthose of our class who took the timefrom their busy schedules to attendand missed those of you who couldn’tattend. Well, only five years tothe 40th! Plan ahead.Gary ZimmermanClass ReporterCLASS OF1965Dear Classmates: well, the class of‘65 is not stay - at - homes, that is forsure. Chris Rolin writes that both ofhis children, Whitney and Brett,graduated from University of Oregonthis past year. He and his wife,Debbie, went on the USC LawSchool Sea Goddess Cruise. Any connectionbetween no more tuition andAegean cruises? George Wittenburgis the proud owner of a Grand Bankstrawler and spends his free timeplundering the coast of Santa Barbarawith his wife, Joni Gray, an attorney54 USC LAW • SPRING 2000USC LAW • SPRING 200055

with the court of appeal. His SantaBarbara neighbor, Joe Nida, and hiswife, Jill, barged ( I assume he meansthe boat) through the Champaignarea of France. Daughter Jamie is asophomore at UCSB. Tom Flatteryhas been everywhere, from China toChile, and is very active as an arbitratorwith the courts and AAA. Hehas five grandchildren and six stepgrandchildren. Gerald Gerstenfeldstill practicing and living in the valley.Terry and Sharon Bridges are bicounty:Riverside during the weekand Newport Beach on the weekends.Must be the healthiest graduate,takes walking tours of Europeevery other year. One item of sadnews, one of the really good guys ofour class, Andy Di Marco, passed onthis year. Henry A. Geisendorfer III,retired from the public defendersoffice after 30 plus years. He and hiswife took their five boys withspouses and grandchildren toEngland and France this past year.Justice Richard Huffman wrote tosay that he had the wonderful experienceof sitting on the CaliforniaSupreme Court this past October. Heis very active in San Diego in civicactivities. Sam Krane and his wife,Susan, cruised the Italian and FrenchRivieras. Claimed he just went tomuseums and archaeological wondersand not to the topless beaches.Edward “Ted” Kuhrau is retired andliving in Seattle, where he is workingon his golf game. Says all are invitedas long as you: 1. have your ownplace to stay and 2. buy the firstround. John Mc Cormick has moveddown from Sun Valley and is livingin San Diego and chasing his 9-yearoldand 7-year-old around. WayneDryden is in Pasadena practicing lawand just spent two weeks in Scotlandand Spain. Judge Keith Sharrow andhis wife celebrated their 54thanniversary this year. I note that theclass of ‘65 did not follow the moderntrend of troubled marriages. Thefollowing people are going on anywherefrom 30 to 35 years of marriage.These are my calculations, soapologies extended if I shortchangedanyone. Mike and Kathy Gless, Benand Patty Salvaty, Judge Dickren andJeri Tevrizian, John and NancyMiller. I am sure there are others ofyou; these are ones I figured out onmy own. Judge Bill Huss has been tothe tatoo in Scotland. He is the presidentof IVAMS, an arbitration group.Myrna Weingarten is retired fromlaw but very active with volunteertutoring of children. She writes tosay how proud she is of her husbandand children. Stan McGinley hasbeen with Saudi Aramco since 1984.Stan and Peggy just celebrated their41st anniversary. Walkie (Walter) andToni Cole live on Balboa Island andWalkie is still practicing criminallaw in Orange County. Doug Welebirwas lead counsel in the StringfellowDump toxic case. He is very activein the civic area in Riverside.Classmate John Lauritzen, the firstone to leave the law, sold his businessin 1996 and is now retired andliving in Newport Beach. He seesTerry and Sharon Bridges sociallysince they are neighbors. Judge JohnTorribio had dinner with John andNancy Miller over the Christmasholidays. John tells me he specializesin employment contract law. DennisMetzler and his wife have moved toOceanside from Fresno. Dennis isvery active in real estate developmentand with his church, servingon several boards. C. RobertFerguson writes that he became veryactive with the Mount WilsonObservatory. In fact, when a decisionwas made to close it, Bob helpedform the Mount Wilson Institute andwas its chief operating officer for sixyears. They saved the observatory.Nice job! Judge Donald Fitzpatrickand his wife, Dr. Kathleen Egan, areretired and living in Hoosick Falls,New York and traversing the USAvisiting their four children, who livefrom Florida to California. Samuel“Skip” Keesal writes that he is stillin Long Beach with his own firm.Mike Gless is with Skip. May I wishall of you and yours a very HappyNew 2000 or Happy 2K as thecognoscenti would say. More nexttime. Plus, a lot of you didn’t write.Please do so.Judge John A. TorribioClass ReporterCLASS OF1966Lawrence (Larry) Campbell writesthat 1999 was another good year forhim except that he worked too hardand traveled too much (I didn’t knowthat was possible). Also, there weretoo few USC football victories —bring back the 1960’s andJohn McKay. Richard Craigo is stillhorsing around, practicing law specializingin tax work and “equinelaw.” Wonder if that means representinghorses or just going to thetrack to watch them run? PhillipFeldman says he plans to never retirefrom the practice of law. Betweentrips to New York, New Orleans andSan Francisco on business, he tries tospend as much time as possible withhis two grandchildren who are oneand six-years old. Wayne Hunkinswas recently honored as the TrialLawyer of the Year by theAssociation of House Counsel. OurCongratulations, Wayne. Now thatGlen Mowrer has retired, he says hefinally has time to travel and do someof the other things he has alwayswanted to do. He recently spent amonth in Italy and still keeps hishand in the legal arena by doingpro bono work. Another of our classmates,Dominick F. Pellegrino, hasmanaged to break away from his lawpractice and do some traveling, principallyto Egypt and India during thepast year. Apparently, Ed Raschdoesn’t have much to report since hisnote said, “If it’s old, to forget it; if it’snew, it’s forgettable; if it’s interesting,it’s probably embarrassing; and ifit’s dull, I’ll give you all the details.”Thanks Ed for the thoughts. Ralph J.Scalzo retired from the practice oflaw in April of this year and is movingto the desert so he and his wifecan play lots of golf and tennis. Healso plans to do a lot of traveling.Good luck Ralph — those of us stillworking are jealous! Responses to myrequests for information keep gettingfewer and fewer. I don’t know if thatmeans there are just fewer of us orwe’re all just stuck in a rut withnothing exciting going on in ourlives. In any event, watch for the nextrequest for information and let meknow what’s happening with you.Judge Chris R. ConwayClass ReporterCLASS OF1968It was with great trepidation that Isent out my request for informationto my classmates. As your new classreporter, my great fear was that noone would respond; to my amazementand delight the response hasbeen overwhelming. Well, here goesmy first report. FIRST, THE BENCH:Abby Soven reports that she hasretired effective 1997, after twentyyears as a judge and ten years as anattorney. She and her life partner,Faith Windsor, are enjoying vacationsto Kenya, Tanzania, England,Ireland, Israel, New York and theCalifornia coast. After thirty years incriminal law, Bernie J. Kamins isfinally looking forward to a civilassignment. In April of 1999, he visitedAmsterdam and sat through amurder trial hosted by Dutch judges.He is teaching at Pepperdine LawSchool, and he also reports that hisdaughter, Marni, is in grad school inpsychology and daughter Piper is atUC Berkeley. His wife is the directorof the Seven Arrows School. Anotheresteemed member of the bench,Barry Kohn, advises that he and hislife partner, Will Harrison, havemoved to Laguna Beach. Barry is acommissioner in the Los AngelesMunicipal Court, sitting Law andMotion. Barry just got back from atwo-week vacation in France; and heattended the International Lesbianand Gay Judge’s Association inSeattle, where Barry is one of thefounders and on the board. Harold S.Vites checks in to let us know thathe is still married to his wife,Carolyn, since 1965, and has a son,Marty, and a daughter, Erin. Haroldhas been sitting as a Los AngelesMunicipal Court Commissionersince June of 1992. THE BAR:Ronald Weiss reports that his daughteris married and he is patientlywaiting for grandchildren (Do any ofus ever wait patiently?). His youngerdaughter, Mindy, is a senior at CalState Northridge. Ronald and hiswife celebrated their 29th weddinganniversary last December. He isstill a sole practitioner, and says hewill slow down when his wife retiresin eight more years. Berneice Angleais doing lots of traveling, lots of tournamentbridge and in between, handleslarge estate planning and tax litigation.Gary Ottoson, my esteemedpredecessor and proud papa, reportsthat one of his kids is a glass blowerin Oregon and the other is livinghalf-time in England — the otherhalf of the time, he and his Englishwife live in the United States ortravel. Gary and his great lady, Ellen,were on the second Sea Goddess trip(saw them a lot at the bar); they tryto get a trip out of the country everyyear. Gary has been involved withthe Venice Boys and Girls Club forover ten years and of course is veryactive on behalf of our law school.David R. Allen checks in to let usknow that he is still happily marriedafter thirty-three years to his wife,Penny. His oldest son is a UCLA gradin applied math and he just got hisfirst grandson. He says it is wonderful.His younger son, Travis, is stillsingle and David is trying to dosomething about that. Dave is now acertified specialist in estate planningand trust and probate law, and willtake the Oregon bar exam inFebruary of this year; he and his wifeare building a second home on thesouthern Oregon coast. ATWO–FOR-ONE REPORT: Frank P.Barbaro and Jay Cordell Horton (themost unlikely couple) are stilltogether in Orange County, strikingfear in the heart of those defenselawyers. Their firm obtained a juryverdict of heroic proportions againstan HMO pharmacy. Frank hasopened a concert, sports and theaterticket company and in his spare timehas managed to have his son, Brett,go to Harvard doing biogeneticresearch on cancer causes. His son,Casey, is at Stanford going throughmedical school final prep. Oh yeah,and Frank is chairing the Bill Bradleyfor President Orange County committee.The reason that Frank can doall of these things is that Jay reportsthat he has no time for anything.Scott Bice will complete his term asdean in June. Scott is first going totake a sabbatical and then will be onthe law faculty. During the sabbatical,he will do “field research” onmaritime law (Do I see anothercruise in the future?). Scott also justfinished a two- year term as presidentof the American Law Dean’sAssociation. He sure does make usproud. CAN YOU ONE-UP THISONE?: Tom Loo read with greatinterest Jon Lappen’s report of histwo children and says that he hasdone better. He has three daughters,who are alumni of USC Law School:Cynthia Laurie Loo and Lori AnnaLoo, Class of ‘90, and Wendy A. Loo’94. Privately, Tom is hopeful that hecan retire and have his daughterssupport him. I don’t know how thatcan be true because he also has a 10-month-old son, Ryan, and Tomassures us that Ryan will be a graduateof the class of 2018. LloydRobinson’s personal managementcompany is working on movies ofthe week and other interestingthings. When he is not working, he is56 USC LAW • SPRING 2000USC LAW • SPRING 200057

at his cabin at Tom’s Place, CA, fishingand skiing, or otherwise in PalmSprings reading screenplays. Lloydwas a founding director of HandsAcross Watts, Inc. and also a memberof the board of Helping ArtistsRehabilitate Children. His wife,Margaretrose, gets into the entertainmentact by designing Las Vegasshows and costumes. Stephen B.Shore and his lovely wife, Trudy, arehappy to announce that their son,Daniel, was married in August of lastyear. Stephen is still in LakeArrowhead doing real propertytrusts, business litigation (same oldstuff). He travels; they have a secondhome in Palm Desert, where he frustrateshimself trying to play golf andtennis. He has been on the Chamberboard for 16 years, a hospital foundation,Municipal Advisory Council,and Rotary. Congrats to RonaldSupancic: his daughter, Patricia, wasaccepted at Cal Arts and is now inthe theatre program. Ron was busyvisiting the Hawaii VolcanoNational Park in October and thenimmediately upon his return, presenteda multi-disciplinary model foralternative dispute resolution forhigh conflict couples (try and saythat three times fast) at the EleventhAnnual Conference at PepperdineUniversity Law School. SHORTNOTES: David Simon checks in tosay that his sixth grandchild isexpected this month (Can anyonetop that?) He is on the ManhattanBeach Planning Commission, andserves as Kiwanis Club president andchairperson elect of the ManhattanBeach Chamber of Commerce.Gregory McClintock is still marriedto Lyn Rae and has four kids, 21 to 13years of age, all still in school, whichis why he is still working. As of July1999, he left the firm that he helpedfound in 1984 to join Mayer, Brown& Platt as the partner in charge oftheir environmental law practice inLos Angeles. Larry Fisher sends us anote to say that he is senior vicepresidentand secretary at FluorCorporation and that he went toFrance last year. Ronald S. Barak justreturned to his Westside L.A. origins,purchasing a new home in PacificPalisades after spending twenty-twoyears in Rolling Hills. Can’t stay toofar from the beach. KennethRosenberg and William Francischecked in to say hi. NOW, THERETIREES: Randall Shelley gloatinglyadvises that he has retired afterthirty years and is now living in theOlympic Penninsula in WashingtonState and in La Quinta California. Ofcourse, his life consists of boating,flying, playing lots of golf, hiking,mountain climbing, and woodworking.Alan Rushfeldt also reports thathe retired in July of 1998 but is stilldoing some arbitration work. He isalso playing more golf, gardeningmore, and reading what he wants toread, rather than what he has to read.Well, that is the end of my firstreport. I only hope that when I sendout my notice again, the responsewill be equally gratifying.N. Mitchell FeinsteinClass ReporterCLASS OF1969ReunionOur 30th reunion at the RegencyClub in Westwood was terrific. Ithought that our classmates lookedbetter than they did at our lastreunion. Of course, that may be dueto the fact that half of them are nolonger practicing law. It was greatthat Professor Chris Stone couldattend and bring us up-to-date on thehappenings of the Law School andour professors. He received the mostvotes for “favorite professor” ofthose who returned the reunionquestionnaire, and that was beforehe was the only professor to attendthe reunion. I received a nice letterfrom Frank Masse letting us knowthat he is completely retired fromthe practice of law and now doingJohn Brainerd (left) and Larry Steinenjoying the Class of ‘69 reunionreal estate investment and managementfor his own account. He sayshe has even gone so far as to retaincounsel to advise him on the verythings that he used to advise others.He had just become a grandfatherand still devotes a large amount ofhis time to community matters.Roger Adams reports that he is stillpracticing in Pasadena, devoting histime to “screwing the governmentout of as much tax revenue as possible.”He has been involved in thePasadena Rotary and YMCA, andspends his spare time enjoying opera,skiing, running and baseball. RobertBard reports that he, too, is runninga real estate business. He spends hisspare time enjoying skiing, bikingand water sports. Charles Berwangeris practicing real estate, commercialand environmental litigation in SanDiego. He has served on the board ofCity Ballet and various state barand ABTL committees. RichardDombrow continues to practice familylaw as a sole practitioner butspends a great deal of his time traveling,flying his plane, hunting andfishing. He and Ben (“Bunky”)Schuck missed the reunion becausethey were off elk hunting. Bunkyreports that he is still practicingestate planning at a small firm inSanta Paula when he’s not surfing,hunting or fishing. He says that hishunting and fishing trips includeHenry Walther, as well. StanleyFeldsott is practicing communityassociation law in Newport Beachand has participated in the developmentof much of the current lawClass of ‘69 reunionapplicable to community associations.He says he enjoys playing withcomputers. Jeffrey Goldstein came infor the reunion from Colorado. Hepractices Social Security andworker’s compensation law at asmall firm in Denver but has beendeeply involved in various pro bonomatters over the years. He receivedthe 1997 Denver Bar AssociationVolunteer Lawyer of the Year awardand is listed in Best Lawyers ofAmerica. Alan Hager continues topractice oil and gas, land use andenvironmental law in the AttorneyGeneral’s office. In a theme commonwith our classmates, he says that hisprimary pursuit since law school hasbeen raising his family, which is alsohis proudest accomplishment. RogerMertz came down from the Bay Areafor the reunion. He continues topractice corporate/securities law fora medium size firm in San Francisco.In his spare time, he enjoys scubadiving and travel. Have you noticedhow many of our classmates do realphysical, outdoor activities asopposed to just playing golf? I amvery impressed! Michael Stetson ispracticing real estate law with asmall firm in San Pedro after years ofgovernment work and acting asregional real estate counsel for theSouthern Pacific Railroad. He hasbeen the head counsel for theTorrance, Inglewood and Los AngelesCounty Planning Commissions andhas acted as chief lawyer for an internalinvestigation of the L.A. Sheriff’sOffice. Tom Walley is practicingbusiness and family law litigation ina medium size firm in NewportBeach. He is another outdoors man,spending much of his spare timesnow and water skiing, golfing andfly fishing. Pete Williams lookedgreat at the reunion and is practicingtrial work at a small firm in LongBeach. His proudest accomplishment,other than his golf, was adeath penalty reversal case. He didsupply me with some other fascinatinginformation, but I can’t report ituntil the libel laws change. Finally,Travers Wood is still practicing civillitigation at White & Case in LosAngeles. He continues to enjoy golf,travel and skiing, and was the onlyone honest enough to say he is stillpracticing law “because of alimony.”My apologies to David Bergland andStephen Galton for the misspellingof your names in the last issue. I doknow how to spell them, but somehowthe L’s got turned into I’sbetween here and the printer.Bob RosenbergClass ReporterCLASS OF1971I recently received a letter from DeanScott H. Bice announcing that thisyear’s recipient of the Class of 1971Scholarship is a third year student,Mr. Justin Ward. Shortly thereafter, Ireceived on our class’s behalf a verynice thank you letter from Justinhimself. Justin received his BAdegree in Political Science from UCIrvine in 1997. He is a member of theHale Moot Court Honors Team;president of the Black Law Student’sAssociation and the resident advisorfor law students housed in theUniversity’s Terrace Apartments. Asa first year summer law clerk, heworked at San Fernando ValleyNeighborhood Legal Services. Itappears that our Class of 1971Scholarship is being put to good use.The last few months have given methe opportunity to renew old friendshipswhile gathering material forthis report. Paul Morantz is happy,well and practicing in PacificPalisades. Paul had developed aunique specialty. He has spent muchof the last 25 years studying and successfullysuing cults. He is also a specialistin the areas of psychologicalmalpractice and sexual abuse. Paulset the standard in this area by successfullysuing Synanon at great riskto his own life. After graduationfrom law school, he accepted a positionwith the L.A. Public DefendersOffice. After a few years of trial experience,he left public service andstarted working part time for hisolder brother, Lewis Morantz, Esq. Itwas while working at Lewis’s officethat he first had contact withSynanon. Paul’s professional life hasbeen the subject of many, manynews articles, a book or two and amade-for-television movie. Notwithstandingsuch notoriety, he remainsour Paul of olden days. He stillenjoys beach volleyball, basketballand karate. He is a devoted father tohis son, Chaz, a rock climber who58 USC LAW • SPRING 2000USC LAW • SPRING 200059

also holds a third degree Black Belt inkarate. Paul is most proud of his probono work as appellate counsel inMolko v. Holy Spirit Assoc. (1988) 46Cal. 3d 1092, a landmark case, whichreduced the amount of fraud in cultrecruitment practices. His efforts ledto a reduced need for kidnapping andreprogramming. At present, Paul nolonger practices law and is concentratingon writing a book aboutSynanon. Sharon T. Nelson is welland living in the District ofColumbia. You might recall that afterour first year of law school she took asummer job with Ralph Nader. Yes,she was one of the original Nader’sRaiders. After graduation, shereturned to Washington D.C. andspent seven very successful years asspecial counsel for the SecurityExchange Commission. While thereshe is probably best remembered forbeing principally responsible for settingup the Chicago Board OptionsExchange, the first such exchange inthe world. After her marriage ended,she went into private practice andearned a Masters in Taxationfrom Georgetown University. Shedescribes her practice of law as“eclectic.” She has argued before theU.S. Supreme Court and many trialcourts. After a number of years in privatepractice, she accepted anappointment as senior administrativelaw judge for the District ofColumbia. Four years ago, she retiredfrom the bench. Presently, she is afull-time arbitrator and mediator. Shehas published and is a sought afterlecturer in the area of arbitration andmediation. Sharon is also a memberof the Copyright Arbitration RoyaltyPanel and the National Board ofElectronic Retail Assurance. Her son,Nelson Abramson, is an honor studentat Union College, majoring incomputer engineering. Sharon lovesgolfing, tennis, and skiing and herlong time significant other is JeffAltman, an attorney in the area ofnon-profit corporations. While rushingthrough the L.A. County courthouse,I ran into Lance Spiegal. Lancehas not changed a bit in the past 25plus years. He practices family law inBeverly Hills and is Of Counsel toKaufman and Young. He is mostproud of his trial and appellate workfor the prevailing parties in Johnsonvs. Superior Court (1998) 66 CA 4th68, Marriage of McElwee (1988) 197Cal App. 3d. 902, and Marriage ofMyers, (1988) a case decided by theHawaii Supreme Court. Lance is avery busy dad. I understand that lastfootball season he attended his 314thconsecutive Trojan football game.Lance has a good chance of breakingthe record presently held by GilesPellerin. Good luck, Lance!! Pat Neillis a partner at the Law Office ofHershner, Hunter, Andrews, Neilland Smith, LLP in Eugene, Oregon.Pat is married to Sarah and they havethree teenage sons, Joseph (age 17),Curt (age 15) and Doug (age 13). Forthe last 26 years, Pat has been inEugene, specializing in commerciallitigation. The firm has a strong businessemphasis and employs 28 attorneys.Pat, Sarah and the boys liveabout 10 miles outside of Eugene oneight acres of forested land with severalhorses. He says that he coachesbaseball and basketball for recreationand travels to Eastern Oregon at leasta couple of times each year for“round ups.” Pat still has a lot of theold western cowboy in him! He hasbeen a member of the local schoolboard for the past eight years and isbeginning his third term. He looksfondly back on his years at USC, andspeaks well of faculty and all of us.Our best to you and your family, Pat.Joel D. Leidner advises that aftergraduation and the bar ordeal, heapprenticed to Ben Margolis for ayear, doing research, law and motionin complex litigation. He then did thesame thing on his own, working onbehalf of the lawyers he had previouslyopposed. While so occupied, hedeveloped a Social Security disabilitypractice, which has been his solepractice since about 1975. Joel representsdisabled people in their claimsfor the Social Security disability benefitsat every level, including appealsto the district court and the NinthCircuit Court of Appeals. Joel is inpractice with his wife of 32 years,Suzanne. Joel was invited to testifybefore the House Ways and MeansCommittee on Social SecurityLegislation, was an interviewee onthe Re-engineering Social SecurityTeam of Vice-President Gore, is listedas faculty for the NationalOrganization of Social SecurityClaimants Representatives, and givesworkshops on such topics as ethics,cross-examination of vocationalexperts, protection of the rights oflegal immigrants, and dealing withseemingly biased administrative lawjudges. He was a delegate to, andworkshop participant in, the Inter-American Labor Rights and SocialSecurity Conferences in Havana,Cuba in 1987, 1996 and 1998. Joeland Suzanne enjoy traveling, havinggone to Cuba several times as well asMexico, Puerto Rico, Columbia,Spain, France, China, Yugoslavia andRomania. Other pastimes includeopera, orchestral and chamber musicand art collecting. Joel jealouslyguards his weekend tennis. SonDavid is a musician and has a musicstudio in the Silverlake area for productionof “records” (dates Joel, doesn’tit?). Ken Ziskin started as a taxlawyer at the Manatt firm in 1972but wound up as a banking attorney.He has returned to his tax roots operatinga “Wealth Strategies” practice,integrating income, estate and gifttax planning for clients with networths between $3 and $100 million.Ken’s wife, Karen, works with him intheir Studio City practice, focusingon personal family issues essential togood wealth strategy planning. Kenand Karen host Beyond the LivingTrust twice monthly on KHWY’sBusiness Channel 22 in Los Angelesand present seminars on advancedwealth strategies quarterly. Whilethey do not charge for these seminars,they sponsor a charity at eachseminar and get attendees to contributeto the charity in lieu of adirect charge. Ken’s son, Andy, (age25), is trying to work his way up tothe producer ranks in Hollywood andsells life insurance in the interim.His daughter, Jenny, (age 22), justgraduated with honors in MicroCellular Biology from Berkeley and isgetting ready to pursue a joint M.D.—Ph.D. program, which will let her useher research skills. In July, she presentsa paper on her cancer researchto a national symposium in Irvine.Ken’s stepsons, Bryan and Myles,both attend Beverly Hills HighSchool, where Bryan anticipatesbeing the starting free safety in thefall. Michael A. Nishkian worked initiallyin a “Downtown LA” law firmbut eventually opened a “sole practitioner”office in Long Beach, wherehe has been ever since. His practiceconsists of a little of everything:estate planning, real estate, contractdisputes, civil litigation, etc. He alsodoes the grocery shopping and cookingbecause, as he states, “I’m betterat it.” Michael has been married for30 years with two children: Jennifer(age 17) and Michael (age 15). EveryAugust for the past 26 years, the familyhas gone to North Lake Tahoe sothat Michael can zone out buildingsand castles — now several hundredto his credit! People stop by to see hiswork and the family now has manyfriends there. Michael remains anavid movie fan and his CaptainVideo’s Annual Oscar Derby Partycontinues to be a very hot ticket, atleast on his block. The Nishkianskeep a five-foot tall Oscar in theirentryway, which they dress in differentoutfits to mark the months of theyear. Michael, keep building thosecastles. You are our Oscar nominee.Rick M. Flam went to WashingtonD.C. after we graduated to work as anintern in the Department of Housingand Urban Development. Rick spenta year in the district. Afterwards, hereturned to Los Angeles and becameone of those hardworking younglawyers for Mitchell, Silberberg &Knapp. He then served as an assistantUnited States attorney in the criminaldivision here in the CentralDistrict of California. Striking out onhis own, he developed a highly successfulcorporate and litigation practiceemploying three other lawyers.In 1990, he married Carole, who isalso a former attorney. She had beenpracticing family law for 15 years. In1994, they started a side businesscalled “On the Tee.” Both Rick andCarole are avid golfers! While travelingand enjoying a golfing holiday inScotland, they ran across a veryunusual product. While at St.Andrews, they purchased a pair ofcushioned socks. They thought thesocks were fantastic and on returninghome, they were unable to find asimilar pair anywhere in the UnitedStates. After contacting the Englishmanufacturer, they became theexclusive U.S. distributors for thisproduct. Now, who says golf doesn’tpay? Rick has two sons, Bryan (age25) and Darren (age 23), who bothwork in the entertainment industry.Bryan is a production assistant for amotion picture company and Darrenis an actor. In 1997, Rick venturedbeyond practice of law to become anexecutive recruiter. He is a partner inLAI Worldwide, the third largestexecutive search firm in the UnitedStates. He has successfully recruitedexecutives for the legal, mortgagebanking and financial services industries.He states that he finds recruitingencompasses the best parts ofbeing a lawyer with none of theunpleasantness. He states thatclients need to be cultivated andcared for but he no longer has toengage in the adversarial hostilitythat characterizes the practice of lawtoday. Rick, we wish you well in allof your endeavors. Keep your eye onthe ball! Alan J. Levine became counselto the leading entertainment lawfirm of Ziffren, Brittenham, Branca &Fischer LLP, Los Angeles, inNovember, 1999. Alan was presidentand chief operating officer of SonyPictures Entertainment (SPE) until heleft them in October of 1996. Afterthis, he was engaged as a consultantin the entertainment and mediaindustries until his current position.He is a member of the State Bar ofCalifornia, the Bar Associations ofLos Angeles County and BeverlyHills, the Academy of Motion PictureArts & Sciences and the Academy ofTelevision Arts & Sciences. Alanserves on numerous civic, charitableand educational boards and committees,among them, the board of governorsof Cedars-Sinai MedicalCenter, the board of councilors ofthe USC School of Cinema-Television, the USC AssociatesBoard of Directors, and the RoundTable of the Museum of Television& Radio. He has lectured at theUCLA Entertainment Symposiumand the USC Entertainment LawInstitute. In recognition of his leadershipwithin the entertainmentindustry and his activities on behalfof a broad range of USC issues, Alanreceived the 1994 USC AlumniMerit Award. Alan was also awardedthe Community Services Man of theYear Award by the West AngelesChurch in 1996. He was an intern,researcher and contributor to thebook, The Chemical Feast, publishedby Ralph Nader’s Center forthe Study of Responsive Law in1969. Alan lives in Beverly Hillswith his wife of 25 years, Judy. Theyhave two children: a daughter,Andrea, who currently works in themarketing department of EyemarkEntertainment, a unit of CBS, and ason, Jay, who is currently attendingthe Wharton School of Business atthe University of Pennsylvania. Inclosing this report, indeed, in closingthis millennium, I would likeeach of you to pause and reflectupon the lives of those classmates,our friends, who have passed onbefore us. May the souls of DonaldA. Brown, David L. Jolliffe, DanielW. Monzingo, David L. Paluska,Anne S. Pressman and Robert (Jack)E. Warren forever rest in eternalpeace. While we are upon Earth, letus not forget them, therefore theyshall each continue to live. I wisheach of you a happy and successfulnew century and may our paths continueto cross.Joseph E. Porter IIIClass Reporter60 USC LAW • SPRING 2000USC LAW • SPRING 200061

CLASS OF1974ReunionSam Paz, Cary Lowe, Alec Wisner withGordon and Lucie Bava enjoying the Classof ’74 reunion at the Biltmore HotelCLASS OF1979ReunionRight: David Rosenblum, HushmandSohaili, Henry Gradstein, and Mac Becketrenewing old ties at the Ritz CarltonClass of ’79 reunionClass of ’74 reunionCLASS OF1980As we enter our twentieth year ofdoing whatever it is we are doingafter law school, here’s what thisreporter knows. Reeve E. Chudd hasbeen with Ervin, Cohen & Jessupsince graduation, practicing tax law.Reeve lives in Pacific Palisades withsecond wife, Marian Mann, and alsoserves as chairman of the board ofLearning with a Difference, Inc., anon-profit. William N. Watts III,lives and works in Mobile, Alabama,where he practices at Hudson &Watts, LLP, after 16 years in a largefirm. He and wife Karen have 3 children:Billy (19 and at Georgia Tech),Kristianne (16) and Bryan (15). Bill isvery involved with the local communitytheater, which has won regionaland national competitions and traveledto Ireland for the InternationalDrama Festival. Judge Margaret M.Hay has four granddaughters andcounting. She recently spent threemonths sitting on the court of appealby assignment. She and husband Kenrecently completed their new house,“Palazzo Hay,” in Long Beach. MarkWyman lives in Pacific Palisadeswith wife Holly and two young sons,Jack (5) and Charlie (31/2). Holly sitson the Los Angeles City CulturalAffairs Commission and Mark racestriathlons. Mark is also a senior VPin business affairs at ColumbiaPictures and sees, and doesn’t see,respectively, fellow business affairstypes John Huncke and GaryNewman. John serves as generalcounsel for Universal WorldwideTelevision in Beverly Hills. John andwife Kate (who is a physician atUCLA) have two children, Sara (5)and Matthew (3). Speaking of businessaffairs, Shelley E. Reid works forthe Disney Channel in that capacity,as well, commuting from Westwood.She also serves as adjunct professorat Whittier Law School. EnoughHollywood. Lance J. Miller works forCondert Brothers in Manhattan (notthe beach) and endures a real commutefrom Riverside, CT. Lance andwife Yuko Ito have one son, Arashi(13). After spending six years in Asia,Lance still travels to Japan regularlyon business and for holidays. SeanBurke practices solo (the only way togo in this reporter’s opinion) inNewport Beach and lives next doorin Corona Mar with wife Monica andthree children, Bryan (11), Chris (8)and Paige (5). The whole family willtravel to Holland next summerwhere Bryan will participate in aninternational soccer tournament.Chris is classmates with Patty(McDonald) Baker’s son, Wesley.Sean also reports a Lance Cote sightingand says that Lance is living inColorado but has a law office inNewport Beach. Well done, Lance.From other sources, Lori Nelson Berglives in Corona del Mar with husband,Ray, and sons Jon, a ninthgrader, and Peter, a sixth grader. Jonrows with the Newport AquaticJunior Crew and Peter is into LittleLeague. Lori and the boys traveled toMinnesota twice in 1999 to visitRay, who had taken a temporaryposition there as an orthopedic surgeon.Cheryl Seltzer Prell has beenpublished twice, most recently inthe California Real Property Journal,the official publication of the statebar’s real property section. R.J.Manning serves as U.S. counsel for aFrench software company, officing inWoodland Hills but spending fivemonths a year in Paris. He claims tohave planned a two-week vacation toAntarctica for January. I want to seepictures. Carl McGinnis practicesprobate law in the mid-Wilshire districtand lives in Bel Air. StateSenator Raymond N. Haynes hasannounced his candidacy for the U.S.Senate in the year 2000. Philip C.Putnam continues at Monteleone &McCrory, where he has practicedconstruction law since day one. Philloves to ski and has served on theboard of counselors for the USCAthletic Department since 1995.David R. Serrano is both a lawyerand a client -- living and practicing inSan Clemente while owning a recyclingfirm with locations in fourstates. David and wife Julie havethree daughters, Lisa (17), Marcy (15)and Jennifer (13). Mercy. Nick Westretired from law practice and is nowa mortgage banker at GMACCommercial Mortgage in Pasadena.Ginger G. Bauer works for ToyotaMotor Sales, U.S.A. in theirprincipal office in Torrance. Glenn E.Fuller serves as vice-president andgeneral counsel for FreedomCommunications, Inc. in Irvine andlives in Coto de Caza. JamesLonergan is a partner at Sheppard,Mullin et al., where he counts as hiscareer highlight working adverse toDon Alvarado and Jane WigodOrenstein from Smart & Final. MarlaDena Lee continues to serve as counselto American Health and LifeInsurance Company in Fort Worth,and has recently stepped down fromher position as president ofthe Tarrant County Black BarAssociation. Marla has an “academicallyand athletically gifted” nineyear-oldson, Adonnys. AlthoughDale Short neglected to fill out aquestionnaire, I spotted him andwife Cherie at the Loyola HighSchool Christmas dinner where hiseldest son, Matthew, is a freshman.They also have a daughter, Rachel,and another son, Calvin. As a pointof personal privilege for Sally andme, our younger son, Ian, is also afreshman and his older brother, Eric,a graduating senior at Loyola.Charles LockoClass ReporterCLASS OF1982Our class continues to produce a variedand exciting group of lawyers andcitizens. Tom Kent is a partner in thefirm of Lee and Kent (handling bankruptcylaw). Tom has joined theranks of classmates with a publishedopinion (In Re McGoldrich, 117Bankruptcy Reporter 554 (1999).Tommy Newell lives in SanFrancisco and is active in anInternet venture with NBC(www.nbcolympics.com). StevenSpile practices in Encino, has writtenan article on real estate brokers, andhas a new estate planning departmentat his firm (Spile & Siegal,LLP). Al Boelter continues to have avaried practicing serving the entertainmentindustry. John Heilmanreports that he ran the NationalAIDS Marathon in Washington, DC(and continues to be our only electedofficial – mayor of West Hollywood).Laurie Davis practices business lawin Sacramento, has a baby daughter,and is active in her church. Gale62 USC LAW • SPRING 2000USC LAW • SPRING 200063

Morris is with Lawrence & Morris inChicago. Mike Schroeder has starteda new publication (AcupunctureToday) and is co-chair of George W.Bush for President campaign. JohnSalisbury recently received widepress coverage for a family law casein Oregon. Richard Tasoff is withTasoff & Tasoff (one of LA’s pioneeringfirms handling immigration matters).And sadly, I recently learned ofBill Story’s death. A number of classmateshave also asked me to mentionother friends we have lost since graduation:Pat Jordan, Jan Behny, CindyRaisch, and Mitch Clausner, all ofwhom were close and valued friends.Ron MartinettiClass ReporterCLASS OF1983Mark Busto and Maureen Lee live inSeattle with their three children(ages 6, 11, and 14). Mark has his own10-lawyer employment law firm, andMaureen is a part-time businesscounselor. Gail Vendeland justmoved to Texas after five years inKuala Lumpur, Malaysia, where shechaired the International School.Gail and her husband, Ralph, havetwo children. Thomas Reilly practiceslabor law with Arter & Haddenin Newport Breach. Tom and hiswife, Nadine, have two sons (ages 7and 9). Alan Bergfeld is a vice presidentand senior counsel withDowney Savings in Newport Beach.Alan and his wife, Lisa, have threechildren (ages 1, 9, and 12). CathyDreyfuss recently became directingattorney of the Indigent CriminalDefense Association of the L.A.County Bar. Victoria (Mitchell)Hennelly lives in Pacific Palisadeswith her husband, John, and their 12-year-old son. She has three adultstepchildren, and has been busy asthe Los Angeles president of theNational Alliance for AutismResearch. Julia Beyer Houpt liveswith her husband, John, and two sons(ages 3 and 9) in Pennsylvania, whereshe’s the director of development at aQuaker day school. Debra Kohn livesin Silver Spring, Maryland. Elisa(Price) Rubin is married to Steven,has two children, and serves as anexecutive board member of manyJewish charities. Richard Maire Jr. iswith the LA office of Morgan, Lewis& Bockius. He and his wife, Krista,have two young children. Oklahomabankruptcy judge Terry Michael andhis wife, Amy, have two daughters(ages 7 and 9). Michael “Mick”Mihm is a litigator with Kennedy &Christopher in Denver, and chair ofthe Colorado Bar’s professional liabilitycommittee. Mick and his wife,Nanette, have two children (ages 10and 15). Lucia Nordstrom is litigationpartner, serves on the Camp FireBoys & Girls National Board andmany other charitable groups, andraises two young daughters with herhusband, Russell, in Malibu. SharonBrodwin Laderman has three daughters(ages

Fiske and Cathy Hroma. Paul Smithdid not have another baby. News at11:00. But Tom Myers did: new sonChristopher Thomas was born lastSeptember. Bill Fiske is a new dad,too. His son, David Elonzo Fiske,arrived last November. By the timethis article reaches your mailbox,Maurice Wainer, still at Snipper,Wainer & Markoff in Century City,will have had his second child. (Andwho knows how many others willhave been conceived, birthed, andpassed their drivers test by the timethis column sees the light of day).BORING, BUT IMPRESSIVE,WORK STUFF: Gary Ross is stillmaking employment news, recentlysettling a cancer discrimination lawsuitfor $1.8 million after a 12-0 juryverdict in his favor was delivered(but before the punitive damagephase). (By the way, nice photo in thepaper, Smiley). Bob McKennon hasbeen on the rubber chicken circuitagain, co-chairing a February 2000conference in San Diego onLitigating Disability InsuranceClaims, and speaking at a March2000 conference in San Francisco onLitigating Insurance Bad FaithClaims. WHERE ARE THEY?:According to irrefutable source PamKoslyn, John aka “Juan” Holmes andRick De La Mora are still happy afterall these years at Barger & Wolen(along with Bob McKennon). (Theygot in touch with one another,thanks to the Class of ‘85 UsefulDirectory). Laura Kenney is still upin San Rafael assisting a ContraCosta County judge mete out justice.Lori Levin-Borcover is happy workinginsurance defense for State FarmMutual Automobile Insurance Co.Andrew Turner is still cruising atLagerlof, Senecal et al in Pasadena.Deborah Klein is still entertaining atBloom, Etc. & Klein on Rodeo Drive.Louis Raymond, I discovered, is nowfinding new condos for MickeyMouse, or something, doing leasingand real estate work at The WaltDisney Company. YOUR SCRIBE: Icontinue to litigate, mediate (yes,you can hire me), try cases whenabsolutely necessary (a two-monthinsurance bad faith case I tried in1999 may make some interestingnews in 2000), teach at the LawSchool, write silly articles (notunlike this one), coach adolescents,play a little hoop, and collapse fromexhaustion. See you all at the 15 yearreunion?Mike YoungClass ReporterCLASS OF1987This is the latest installment of thehappenings of some of your fellowclassmates. Please feel free to e-mail,write or call me with any news youwould like to share. I can be reachedat jrrobertson@altavista.com or JonR. Robertson, Gelber, Darling &Robertson, 600 Anton Blvd., Suite1600, Costa Mesa, CA 92626, (714)9795769. Thanks for your help.Eileen Lyon is pleased to announcethat she and her husband had anotherbaby girl in spring, 1999. Lucia(“Lucy”) Corinne is a sweet, fat andhappy baby! Cute, too. Her proud bigsister, Audrey, is quickly approachingthree years old. Steve Katz isOf Counsel at Seyfarth, Shaw,Fairweather & Geraldson in LosAngeles, where he specializes inappellate practice. Steve and his wife,Adina, have been married for fifteenyears. They have two daughters (11and 6), neither of whom wants to be alawyer. Jim Bianco shares two significantmilestones of last year: (1) Hiswife, Lisa Mead (Class of ‘89), and hehad a baby boy, their first child,Michael Mead Bianco, on 9/20/99. (2)Jim celebrated five years of having hisown criminal defense practice. Jimnotes that the former is, obviously,far more important to him, but thelatter may be more important tomention in the magazine, so he cancontinue to expand his practice andfeed his hungry kid. Vince Gonzalesturned down an offer to remain aninhouse attorney with ARCO afterits merger with BPAmoco. Instead, heaccepted another inhouse attorneyposition with Sempra Energy, effectiveJanuary, 2000. Vince will beoperating out of two offices (LA andSan Diego) and will be focusing onboth environmental law and ecommercelaw. Vince and his wife, LibbyFrolichman, celebrated their seventhwedding anniversary as they movedout of LA County and into a biggerhouse in Orange County. Their son,Seth, is almost three and is growinginto a very outgoing, friendly andarticulate young boy. Maryann LinkGoodkind reports that the move shemade from Musick, Peeler & Garrettto Fulbright & Jaworski L.L.P. hasbeen a wonderful change. She is stillpracticing public finance law as amunicipal bond attorney. Maryann,her husband Larry, sons David (7) andDouglas (5), and daughter, Alexandra(20 mos.), have moved to YorbaLinda. She comments that it makesfor a challenging commute but herreduced schedule gives her sometime to be just mom.Jon RobertsonClass ReporterCLASS OF1988As Class Reporter, I thought youmight like to learn of two classmateswho left LA and the practice of law.As many of you know, Shelley Carderand John Ackell moved to the EastCoast a number of years ago. Whatyou may not know is how it all cameabout and what they’re up to now.After practicing law for three years inour nation’s capital, John decided toleave the law and venture into theflower business, of all things. Hetraveled up the East Coast to the BigApple, where he started his ownwholesale company that suppliesfresh-cut flowers to gourmet grocerystores in Manhattan and on LongIsland. Currently, John has 25employees and his company servicesnine stores. After practicing law forten years in San Diego, Shelleymoved to New York City to be withJohn. Although she obtained herlicense to practice law in New York,John quickly persuaded her to joinhim in the flower business. Together,they started a retail venture,“Dahlia,” with two locations insideof the newly refurbished GrandCentral Station. In 1998, they alsowelcomed their son, Carder JosephAckell, into the family. John’s daughter,Ryan, loves being a big sister andteaches her younger brother all aboutflowers. Soon enough, the wholefamily will be working in the flowerbusiness! If you’re Back East, Shelleyand John encourage you to visit themin one of their stores. Frank V.Zerunyan, Esq. was recentlyappointed to the planning commissionof the city of Rolling HillsEstates, California, for a four-yearterm. The commission’s primarytasks are to field all requests for cityimprovements and to oversee thephysical development of the city.Frank is a member of the law firm ofSulmeyer, Kupetz, Baumann &Rothman in Los Angeles. He specializesin business and real estate litigation,with sub-specialties in leasing,secured transactions and workouts.Frank is admitted to practice beforeall courts in the state of California,United States District Court,Central District of California,United States Court of InternationalTrade and the District of Columbia.A Judge Pro Tempore, he is assignedto the Real Estate Division of the LosAngeles Municipal Court. I stillwould like to hear about recentdevelopments in your life. I can thenpass it on to our classmates in anupcoming edition. Please contact methrough the Law School or e-mail at:dmichaelson@counsel.co.la.ca.us.David MichaelsonClass ReporterCLASS OF1989ReunionEnjoying the Class of ’89 reunion in Townand Gown are (l-r) Laurie Aitkin, DarrenAitken, Michael Okada, and Larry HelfmanClass of ’89 reunionCLASS OF1990Dear Classmates: Merry Millennium.So glad that’s over and we can moveon to important matters like thisclass report. TOP FIVE THINGSLEARNED SINCE LAW SCHOOL:The pulp of an aloe vera leaf curesdiaper rash; law is a business not aprofession; your opponent in civil litigationis. . . the judge; nothing outweighsthe interests of your client;litigation is a rich person’s game.Paul Cliff. Don’t take anything in lifetoo seriously; law school gradesreally matter (still!); keep perspectivein your work; don’t let “life” pass youby. . . ; all you need is love. DeliaSwan. Student loans are forever!; myrecall of the Rule AgainstPerpetuities has a short half-life; Tortlaw is aptly named; UCLA doesn’tmeasure up to USC; I went to schoolwith some very smart people. [Andthe rest, no doubt, still smarter thanUCLA.] Paul Kevin Wood. It’s (generally)better to be a client. BruceLathrop. Having worked a lot of longhours lately, Allison (Malin) Kernwas reminded that “we should workto live and not live to work.”FAMOUS FACULTY QUOTES:“You’re WRONG!” Prof. Slawson, asremembered by Delia Swan.“Everyone is trying to make (or save)a buck.” Prof. Scruggs, as rememberedby Bruce Lathrop. “Plaintiffsare sometimes wrong.” Dean Wiley,as recalled by Paul Kevin Wood. “Ifyou knew math, you wouldn’t be inlaw school.” Prof. Whitebread, asremembered by Kate Nuding. (Katereported that she is currently workingon a degree in mathematics in herspare time, while tutoring math at alocal community college to keep hercalculus and linear algebra skillssharp.) “Despite what you may haveseen on Perry Mason, once you havea witness on the stand, you shouldavoid asking any surprise questions;if you do, you must be prepared for asurprise answer that you won’t like.”Dean Wiley discussing the case of thebitten ear, as remembered by MollyHansen. WHAT’S NEW?: BruceLathrop moved to Bradbury,California in time for him andJustine to welcome their first daughter,Lindsay. Their new house camewith a cat, Yoda. [We wonder, wasthe cat listed on the MLS?] Paul Cliffreports he has a new wife and twonew boys. Amy (Del Pero) Hoff66 USC LAW • SPRING 2000USC LAW • SPRING 200067

eported that she and Sherry(Dupont) Maxwell were both ninemonths pregnant and due in mid-December. Steve Pfahler joined theranks of proud parents with the birthof Alexandra, who he proclaims, “isthe joy of my life.” Ready to be aclient, as Bruce Lathrop suggests?Here are some alum/partners youmight want to look up. If inRiverside, look up Paul Cliff, who isa partner at Loeb, Cliff and Roth. Ifyou need help with an entertainmentissue or business litigation matter onthe Westside, you may want to callDoug Emhoff, who made partner atBelin Rawlings & Badal as of 1/1/00.If your needs are in the Bay Area,John Orr is now a partner in the SanFrancisco office of Arter & Hadden,practicing in the areas of director andofficer liability and professional liability.Kate Nuding is living inAlbany, NY, where (in addition toworking on a math degree) she isworking as an attorney with theInsurance Department of New York.Kate was delighted to see USCranked #1, but without any Bruins totease. . . Allison (Malin) Kern e-mailed in her new statistics:“Married almost 2.5 years to Mr.Kern and happily raising a GoldenRetriever named Charity (age 2).”Allison is practicing commercial realestate at Allen Matkins. PeterZilgalvis sent a quick e-mail about anew house in Plobsheim, France.[Peter, is this newer than the newhouse in Strasbourg that we reportedsix months ago? If so, does this househave a canoe too?] Peter’s new e-mailaddress: peteris.zilgalvis@coe.int.OTHER CLASSMATES ASSUMINGPOSITIONS OF GREAT WEALTHAND POWER: Delia Swan celebratedthe second anniversary of hercompany, Swan Legal Search, withher husband, two daughters,Rottweiler, turtle, three chickensand two cats. Paul Kevin Wood noteshe is happy to be doing a lot of appellatework these days and that he hasa new Australian Cattle Dog namedHarley. [Does Harley help herd plaintiffs?]And, have you seen CynthiaGarrett lately? Cynthia has hosted anumber of episodes of NBC’s LaterShow, and sat front and center withLenny Kravitz at the 27th AnnualAmerican Music Awards. [Hmmm,do you think Cynthia had thoughtsof the Law School as she drove paston her way to Shrine Auditorium?]Last, but certainly not least, RobSkinner was invited by Dean Bicehimself to join the Board ofCouncilors at the Law School, wherehe will be involved in shaping theacademic and public interest programsoffered. Anyone who wouldlike to catch-up or discuss the directionof the Law School for the next1000 years can reach Rob at (805)962-2121.Respectfully yours,Mary Ann Soden(masoden@earthlink.net) andMolly Hansen(mhansen@d2.com)Class ReportersCLASS OF1991It is a New Year! A new millennium!A new start! and drat! A new columndue. Here then, is what I have heardfrom all of you in early ’00 . . . JeffSchneider reports in — he is nowworking in “business affairs” atParamount Pictures TV and parentheticallyreports he negotiates contractsfor TV actors, directors, writersand producers. . .He now has twodaughters, Sydney, 4, and Nicole, 1.Sydney is following in her dad’s footsteps— she has been reading for ninemonths and is beginning to write(whew!). Jeff also reports that MikeZwick is about to have his third childand that Gary Gradinger is head ofbusiness affairs at ATG, which isMichael Ovitz’s new TV productioncompany (Ok, everybody, form a discreetline with your scripts!). Jeff alsowants us to know he is selling TVshows to networks and is structuringwriter and producer deals for “thenew millennium.” (Ok, second linestarts here!) Good hearing from you,Jeff! Allison (Dolgas) Cato (she marriedChris Cato, remember?) wants toknow where Brian Wilson is -- Brian,you will recall, started out with usbut graduated in ’92 with a JD andMBA. Anyone out there in touchwith Brian? Peter Gutierrez, who,like me, now lives in lovely LongBeach, California, reports that he isnow a senior deputy counsel for LosAngeles County, practicing land useand environmental law. He and hiswife now have four-year-old Julia andare expecting a second child in May.He says he has seen the missing-inactionDavid Kendig — on the oppositeend of the counsel table. He andDavid, who has his own OrangeCounty firm, Kendig and Alpert, areon opposite sides in a land use case.Another recent transplant to LongBeach, California is Angela Ball. Sheand husband Doug Eng recently hadtheir first child. Corrine Freemanreports that her firm, Lyon & Lyon,recently moved to Irvine, so she hasto make an extra long 6 mile commutefrom home to office (smartaleck!). She and husband Steverecently had their third child, Julia,born October 30th (congrats,Corrine!). Older brothers are Andrew,now five, and Kevin, two. She reportsrunning into Paul Singarella with histwo “adorable kids” at church andsoccer. Corrine has been involved inthe Maglica v. Maglica palimony/contract dispute, which she describesas a “pretty big (and interesting)change for a patent/ trademarklawyer.” Greg Burnight checks inwith the news that he and wifeShannon are expecting their firstchild any day now. He also wants usto know that he saw classmatesDavid Rosen, with wife Joanne, andCarrie Buchanan Elliot (any word onwhat they’re up to, Greg?). Oh, yes,and Greg wants us to know thissighting was on the occasion of theCal v. UCLA football game whenAmy Bears whipped the lowlyBruins. That’s our Greg! GregMcCambridge wants us to know heis still a felony trial attorney with thepublic defender’s office and just finishedsupervising the juvenile officein Compton. He and wife Lesley areexpecting their first child any daynow. He reports seeing Philip Cohenin court often and Ray Bilbeaux IIIstays with him whenever he is intown. Greg also has a wish for ’00:“Would love to play basketball withall the fellows.” Ok, guys, just let usknow where and when, and you mayhave yourselves quite an audience.Lili Shaver Duquette reports in fromLondon to tell us she is in her secondyear of the LLM program at theLondon School of Economics. Shehas a two-year-old son and should besending out birth announcementsany day now for her second baby,who was due in December. AmieThompson Jacoby checks in with usfrom Hawaii — nice hearing fromyou, Amie! She writes that she’s gonefrom the public defender’s office tocorporation counsel as an attorneyfor Maui County, and back to theLegal Aid Society of Maui in theyears since we’ve left law school. Shereports she is married to “an awesomeguy and outstanding photojournalist,”Andrew Jacoby. She and herhusband have a baby boy, JamesAndrew Yasuzo Jacoby — the Yasuzois in honor of Amie’s Japanese grandfather.Turns out baby James, andboth Amie’s grandfather and mother,were all born December 28th. Amiealso reports hearing from Eric Sacks,who is now a prosecutor, new husbandto wife Marisa, and new homeownerin Manoa Valley, Ohau,Hawaii. Amie’s millennium resolution?“To get a full night’s sleep!”Todd Bloomfield writes that his 9 to5 role “is not 9 to 5.” He and his wifeare expecting a daughter in February(congrats, Todd!). Rich Kasper reportsthat he quit the big law firm and privatepractice last February, and isnow vice president for professionalservices at the Arizona CommunityFoundation. “Should have done this along time ago. Life is good again,” hewrites. Rich says half his job doesn’tinvolve the law anymore, and part ofhis job is development officer for thefoundation, which he compares withthe law as, “way more fun!” (hum. . .)Rich also announces he will marryJulia Rosen in April and become astepdaddy to her four-year-old daughter,Camilla (Congrats, Rich!) He andJulia are selling his little house indowntown Phoenix and are buildinga home in Tempe. Finally, Richreports that he received the Sy ClarkYoung Leadership Award from theJewish Federation of GreaterPhoenix, last October (way cool!).Ellen Lange Gams checks in (nicehearing from you, Ellen!) — fromThousand Oaks, California. She isenjoying her position as associationgeneral counsel at Amgen, workingin the areas of corporate and securitieslaw, licensing and M & A (anacronym which is lost on me, sorry).Ellen reports she also works withtwo USC law grads, Scott Foraker,Class of ‘86, and Gadi Naron, Classof ‘93, and that her husband, LanceGams, is also USC Law Class of ‘86.She and her husband had their firstchild, Ava, in March. She also notesthat Shari Silverman is rising withinthe Los Angeles district attorney’soffice and that Shari recently married.(How about telling Shari to giveus more details, Ellen?) PamWhitesides (nice hearing from you,Pam!) checks in from NewportBeach, California. She wants us toknow she will be leaving for up to ayear in June, 2000 to take a leisurelysailing trip with husband Tom Allento Alaska. She also reports thatDiane Desfor Stalder made partner atPam’s firm, Scott & Whitehead. Hermillennium resolution? “To enjoythe here and now!!” Amen, to that,Pam! Bill Scarff writes he is movingto Irvine so his commute will godown from 50 to 15 minutes (I am sojealous!). He also writes crypticallythat he has seen and visited withother classmates, but “let’s just leaveit at that” (makes you want to go,hum . . . .). His millennium resolution?“To set the time on my VCRand find the remote control my twoyear-oldhid.” Oh, Bill poses an interestingquestion, “How about an e-mail directory?” I’m up for it — mostof you send your e-mail addressesalong, anyway. Let me know if youdo not want classmates to have youre-mail address. Any volunteers tobeat the bushes for e-mail addressesfor missing-in-action classmates?Terrie Goldade writes that she isback at the California State Bar —you will recall ex-Governor Wilsonfailed to sign the needed fee bill,thereby plummeting the state barinto fiscal shortfalls. Terrie was on aneight month hiatus as a result. Shewants us to know that she has beenprosecuting Skip Miller for contactinga juror during a trial, and herwork has been written up in both theDaily Journal and the Los AngelesTimes. Terrie also bumped into SamTolwin at a legal writing seminar. (Ifanyone else runs into Sam, ask himto write in and tell us what he’s beenup to!). Robin Dal Soglio reports shemade partner at Latham & Watkins(congrats, Robin!) She and her husbandare expecting their third childany day now. She also reports seeingKaren Yazmajian in New York whenRobin visited there last fall. As forme, I hit a milestone this past year,and that reminded me to tell youhow touched I was that you shareyour lives with me and all of us. Mynew millennium resolution? To be sobalanced I can do some of my yogaposes without embarrassing myself,as so often happens now. Oh, yeah,and to drop a waist size, but as BillScarff says, “Let’s just leave it atthat.”Terri Villa-McDowellClass Reporter68 USC LAW • SPRING 2000USC LAW • SPRING 200069

CLASS OF1992WE WISH YOU WELL: As some ofyou know, Brenda Nelson continuesher fight against cancer. She has progressedenough to remain in experimentaltreatment and the cancer hasnot spread. She must still travel forcontinued treatment and needs oursupport. Any donations should besent to: Nelson Family SupportFund, c/o Richard Benton, 3191South 3300 East, Suite 250, Salt LakeCity, Utah 84109. For more information,please call: (888) 785-3967.NEW ARRIVALS: A number of ourclassmates have had children overthe past year. They include, amongothers, Michelle Bauman (son,Alexander Daniel Bauman), LisaStein (daughter, Natalie Carol Stein),Elisabeth (Evans) Snyder (son, EvanDaniel Snyder), Luis Uriarte (daughter,Alessandra Uriate) and EverettDelano (daughter, Isabell Delano).DOING GOOD: Catherine Ysrael isa deputy attorney general with theCalifornia Department of Justice. LiaMartin Carter is a deputy districtattorney in Los Angeles. Audry Rohnis a deputy district attorney in SantaBarbara. John Berglund is a deputydistrict attorney in Shasta County.MOVING ON UP: Our class also hasa growing list of law firm partners,which include Jill Bronfman (Beck &Ackerman — San Francisco), Lei LeiWang Ekvall (Albert, Weiland &Golden LLP — Costa Mesa) and KurtVote (McCormick, Barstow et al. —Fresno). And Arnold Woo became apartner of Hill, Farrer & Burrill LLPin Los Angeles, where he practicesbusiness litigation. SETTING UPSHOP: John Antoni set up his ownpractice, Roseman & Antoni LLP, inWestwood. Mark Campbell cofoundedHaberbush & Campbell LLPin Long Beach. Mark Lewis is a solepractitioner in Irvine — the LawOffice of Mark Eric Lewis. MOVIN’ON: Steven Winters moved his intellectualproperty practice to Graham& James/Riddell Williams in Seattle.Rob Odson now works for DeweyBallantine LLP in Los Angeles. WHYPRACTICE LAW? Brian Chew is theCEO of a chain of retail game andentertainment stores called “NeutralGround.” Catherine Herrera-Sindelstarted a consulting/research/transactionservice in Mexico City. RafiEfrat has received a two year teachingfellowship at Stanford LawSchool.Rob OdsonClass ReporterCLASS OF1993Curious about what our fellow classmatesdid in their final months ofthe 20th century? SOME MADEPARTNER: Elizabeth Feffer is one ofBurke, Williams & Sorensen’snewest partners. Robert Finlaybecame a named partner with Miles,Wright, Finlay & Zak, which specializesin real estate litigation. Rob wasalso married on April 3, 1999, toMary Grace, a lawyer as well.Matthew Smith was made a partnerin the Los Angeles office of Crosby,Heafey, Roach & May, where he specializesin employment litigationand counseling and business litigation.OTHERS HAD CAREERCHANGES: Steve Giedzinskiswitched sides once again and is nowworking for the public defender’soffice. Dave Kuiper returned to theCosta Mesa office of Latham &Watkins in September, after servingtwo years as the general counsel forMaterniCare, a physician practicemanagement group focused onproviders of women’s health care,and six months with DiabloManagement Group as a consultantto start-up companies and companiesneeding turn-around assistance.Dave’s practice at Latham focuses onthe corporate, merger and acquisition,and licensing needs of healthcare,technology, and internetclients. Dave also reports that EricGaynor left Latham & Watkins andwent in-house with I AM.com, aninternet company focused on theentertainment industry. Gullu Singhleft O’Melveny & Myers’ Newportoffice in March of 1999 to form hisown real estate transactional lawpractice in Century City. ToddValdes is now with Yukevich &Sonnett, a products liability defensefirm. Most dramatically, at the veryend of the month, year, decade, century,and millennium, LaineWagenseller said goodbye to Crosby,Heafey, Roach & May and hello to acareer in real estate development,with a backpacking trip for fiveweeks through Australia and Fiji inbetween. MANY HAD BABIES:Beverly Johnson Carll sent me a pictureof her beautiful baby girl, JuliaMarie, born on November 8, 1999,weighing 7 pounds, 13 ounces, andmeasuring 20 inches. Besides thenew baby, last spring, Beverly left theU.S. Securities and ExchangeCommission and is now withBrobeck, Phleger & Harrison inOrange County. According to a reliablesource, Jill Ruben Franco had ababy, Katherine, this past spring.Steven Gal and his wife, Lisa, areexcited about the arrival of CharlesAndrew Gal born on October 14,1999, weighing in at 10 pounds, 14ounces. Keith Newburry informedme that Ellen (Zieve) Rosen deliveredher second child. SherylSilverstein, husband Danny, anddaughter Madeleine have a new additionto their family — Andrew Jonaswas born on September 30, 1999.Jennifer Wright had a baby girl, MaiaPatricia Tucker, weighing 9 pounds,8 ounces and measuring 22.5 inchesat birth. Jennifer plans to return tothe employment department ofDavis Wright and Tremaine inSeattle in February. ONE GOTMARRIED, AND ONE GOTENGAGED: Don Rory was marriedon September 26, 1998 to LemiseEljumaily in Glen Ellen, California.They live in Oakland and are tryingto buy a house. Don is the legal andcontracts department for KorveEngineering, a mid-size engineeringfirm that specializes in transportationand rail work, including the trafficengineering for the Staples Arenain downtown Los Angeles. MarlaSmith became engaged to BrandonChabner (who was so gracious to letme camp out in his apartment whenI first moved to Houston, Texas formy clerkship while he and Marlatraveled through Europe). The weddingis set for September 2, 2000.ONE HAS A SIDE BUSINESS: LisaHatton and her husband, Mark, haverealtor licenses and a real estate businesswith its own website. The businessprimarily helps friends and familynegotiate contracts and escrowterms. They hope to expand the businesswhen they find more time.AND SOME KEPT UP THE GOODWORK: Joe Chi is still busy atBrobeck, Phleger & Harrison, representingARTISTdirect in their initialpublic offering. However, he did findtime to go to Hawaii with his wife inthe beginning of December, wherethey got in some scuba diving offMolokina and Lanai and golfing atthe Plantation course in Maui. AndyDouglas was elected by his fellowassociates as the Los Angeles, PaloAlto, and Nashville associate liaisonto the management committee atManatt, Phelps & Phillips. My bignews is that Mitchell and I bought ahouse in an area that the seller’sagent called Westwood/Rancho Parkon the westside of Los Angeles. Weare doing some remodeling work andhope to move in by spring. If you areplanning to be in the area, you arewelcome to come visit. Just e-mailme first at Diane.Gross@EEOC.govto make sure I’m home. Even if thewestside of Los Angeles is not inyour travel plans, please e-mail meanyway so I can hear what you are upto and share the news with your lawschool classmates. Wishing you ahealthy, happy, and prosperous newmillennium.Diane Arkow GrossClass ReporterCLASS OF1994ReunionI hope that each of you enjoyed theholidays and prosper in the new millenium!The Class of 1994 celebratedits Fifth Year Reunion on Saturday,November 13, 1999, at the BarefootCafe. We had a terrific turnout of funMichael Ludwig, Wendy Loo, DawnHarrison, Teresa Mack, and Stevie PyonClass of ’94 reunionfolks and enjoyed some fabulousfood. We also received a booklet withcopies of the completed questionnairesthat were sent out prior to theevent. Hilarious, and it’s great toknow everyone is doing so well.Attendees at the party included:Debbie Babb, Darren Bigby, AdamCalisoff, Leigh Combs, Robert andCammy Dupont, Thomas Dupuis,Lorin Engquist, Justin Feffer, EdwardFenno, Adam Glick, Karen Grant,Shenne Hahn, Dawyn Harrison,Lorna Hennington, Vince Herron,Curtis Holdsworth, Carl Katz, AnneLa Place, Wendy Loo, Mike Ludwig,Teresa Mack, Thomas Morell,Elizabeth Murphy, David Masutani,Jenny Park, Alex Perez, Stevie Pyon,Paul Rahimian, Karen Robicheau,Ted Russell, Lila Rogers, MarkShpall, Dana Treister, Daron Watts,and Kevin Wechter. Thank you tothe reunion committee, AprilThe reunion at the Barefoot Cafe broughtfriends (l-r) Adam Glick, Kevin Wechter,and Thomas Dupuis together again70 USC LAW • SPRING 2000USC LAW • SPRING 200071

Gallegos, and Barbara Toney for organizingthe event. If you didn’t attend,you truly missed out! IN THE LAW:Mark Shpall is practicing medicalmalpractice litigation at a plaintiff’sfirm. Owen Gross is now with Kulik,Gottesman & Mouton, doing realestate transactional work. Alex Perezis a sole practitioner in the areas ofcriminal law and business litigation.Dawyn Harrison left the life of a solepractioner and joined the Office ofthe County Counsel in August 1999as a deputy county counsel. WendyLoo (who had a wonderful time atour reunion) is now with the lawfirm of Marshack, Shulman, Hodges& Friedman in Irvine, and is stillpracticing in the area of bankruptcy.Lara Pouratian Emouna continues towork at Gleich, Siegel & Farkas inGreat Neck, New York, in the areasof real estate and general businesslitigation. Neal Rubin is an assistantUnited States attorney in theNorthern District of California. LilaRogers continues to practice realestate transactional law at Disney.Jonathan Lai is practicing law atWatanabe, Ing & Kawashima inbeautiful Honolulu. ALTERNATIVECAREERS: Richard Rosenblatt isnow senior vice president of E-Business Services of Excite@Home.John Slusher is working for Nike,Inc. with various professional sportsleagues in New York City. EricClaeys is the Bigelow TeachingFellow and Lecturer in Law at theUniversity of Chicago Law School,and is truly enjoying legal academiaand his students. Angela Woo is nowwith Scientific-Atlanta, Inc. inGeorgia. Alex Perez (who loved thereunion) drafts wills and obtains governmentbenefits for senior citizenswho are members of his church inhis spare time (what a saint!). JohnPomeranz continues to travel thecountry explaining the rules governinglobbying and otheradvocacy by non-profit organizations.CONGRATULATIONS:Richard Rosenblatt and his wife,Lisa, are parents to Dillon, who istwo, and the family is expectinganother child, son Chase, in February2000. Mark Shpall and his wife,Tammy, are now the proud parents oftwo — Sophie was born in May 1999and joins big brother Samuel, nowalmost four. Russell Vaughn Gill andhis wife, Antionette, are also proudfolks of Lauryn, who was born inAugust 1999. Owen Gross and wifeSheri’s family is comprised ofKendall, six, and August, who is two.At the reunion, Adam Glick showedoff lovely pictures of his wife Lisa anddaughter Zoe, two. Leigh Combsrecently bought a new house, a newcar, got engaged and joined a webbasededucational compliance company.Mark Finkelstein and his wife,Laura, are expecting their first childin February 2000. Hilarious LorinEngquist’s identical twin brother andhis wife are expecting twins in April2000, and Lorin is complaining he’snot ready to be an uncle yet (relax,Lorin!). The wedding dress that“Lindsey” purchased on the ABCshow, The Practice, was purchasedfrom the bridal salon Lorin and hiswife own: The Bridal Suite.Congratulations to John Pomeranz,who recently bought a home inArlington, Virginia. John Slusher andChristine Carr are married and livingin New York City. Their daughter,Samantha, recently turned one yearold. Christine is currently spendingtime at home with Samantha andexploring the city. Congratulations toRon Thommarson and his wife,Shawn, on the birth of their firstchild, Braden, who was born inOctober 1999. Jonathan Lai and hiswife, Alva Ann, had their third child,Jonah, in December 1999, who joinssisters Jasmine and Aubree Ann. CarlKatz (who had a great time at thereunion) is living in Virginia, butrecently traveled to the kingdom ofTonga, met the prince, and helpedjudge the Miss South Pacific BeautyPagent. Alex Perez traveled to Madridin February 1999 with Jenny Parkand Mark Mitchell (Class of 1992).Alex also went to Buenos Aires andplans to go to Rio de Janeiro forCarnival 2000. David Tammanreports that he bumped into ChrisDiMauro in the lobby of his buildingand Chris was wearing an “awfullookingtie” (oh, no!). David alsorecently returned from a two-weektrip to London. Lara PouratianEmouna and her husband, Ramin,only missed the reunion because theywere in Israel. And, where were therest of you?Lorna D. HenningtonClass ReporterCLASS OF1995ReunionGreetings! Here we go, in no particularorder: Richard Briones-Colmanwins the prize for most hystericalentry ever — I wish I could reprintthe entire attached essay, but itbegins: “Why I Commute 33 MilesDaily By Bicycle With Two Tots In ATrailer. Some say it’s not possible.But it is. I commute 33 miles a daywith two tots in tow. Tot A,Benjamin, is four years old; Tot B,Abram Gabriel, is fifteen monthsold. (Born September 10, 1998. Goodboy.) Others say I am insane. But Iinsist I am not insane. (‘Insists’ he’snot insane; always a bad sign).” Andon it goes — apparently he seriouslypulls a 100 pound trailer four hoursper day (!) to and fro’ his tots’ daycare near his office (he’s a publicdefender) in Albuquerque. The scarypart is that his essay rather convincinglymakes that seem like a reasonablething to do. Another adventuresomeclassmate, Kendall Baillie,married Dean Jennings on October19, 1999 and is now living in LasVegas (but that’s not why she’sadventurous, read on). She’s pursuingher commercial pilot’s license, andbought a Helio Courier Airplane!A Toast to the Lucky Couple— Helping to celebrate the Kelly-Glickman partnership are(standing l-r) Coby and Allyson Sonenshine ’96, with Class of ’95 colleagues JeffThomas, Kevin Mabrey, Michelle (Gomez) Herzog, Wayne Kazan, and Michele Barber.Seated are Tara Kelly ‘95, and Adam GlickmanApparently in search of more thrills,Kendall has taken and passed fourbar exams (CA, OR, MT, NV), andgiven that she’s planning a move toAlaska this year, may be going forfive. “Brave” also would describeAllyson Weisberg, who ventured toSouth Beach to celebrate the NewYear with Wayne Kazan, Steve Blevitand Kevin Mabrey. (See, Wayne,even if you don’t write in, I can stillpick on you!) Allyson is still atMetro-Goldywn-Mayer. Tracy(Kronowitz) Falkowitz moved withher husband, Steve, to Tampa andjoined a “wonderful” firm whereshe’s doing medical malpracticedefense. Also doing medical (anddental) malpractice, KimberlyOughton is at Bonne, Bridges,Mueller, O’Keefe & Nichols. She celebratedNew Year’s in Las Vegas. JillFranklin celebrated the New Yearwith her boyfriend, Eric, who sellslife insurance in case any of youneed some, and has recently takenup yoga, which she loves. PamelaJean (Richardson) Silk was marriedto Eric Michael Silk on August 15,1999, followed up by a honeymoonto the Ritz-Carlton in Maui. Eric is afinancial planner for NorthwesternMutual Life. Pamela is still practicingat Quinlivan & Kaniewski inNewport Beach, doing civil defenselitigation and business transactions;she also does pro bono work withwomen at domestic violence clinics.Eric Maman and his wife, Rishelle,are expecting their first child inJune, and took a 12 day trip to Tahitiover the holidays to celebrate preparenthood.Eric is now GeneralCounsel of Century Pacific EquityCorp., a real estate development andmanagement company, where he’senjoying life without billable hours.Reid Breitman’s wife, Julia, gavebirth to Ashley Eleanor Breitman onMarch 31st, 1999; Julia left her lawpractice to be a mom and Reid is stillat Kaye, Scholer, which he’s enjoying.Between work and family, hesaid 1999 was a “lucky” year!Expecting baby number two, Jenny(Scott) Larson is working at home inEvanston, Illinois as a technicalrecruiter for an IT consulting firm,Bluestone Consulting, in order tospend more time with 2-year-oldson, Ethan (an apparent childprodigy, Ethan has his own web pageat www.ethanlarson.com)! Jennysaid she lives vicariously throughWilli Chang’s travels — she just gota postcard from Willi from Nepal.Andrea Ross and her husband, ColinCampbell, welcomed baby HaydenRoss Campbell into the world onMay 28, 1999. Andrea reports thatChris Smith married Michael Juarezon October 2, 1999, and opened alaw practice with him in WestBranch, Michigan. John Peterson isapparently still at his own firm, Bate& Peterson, but didn’t say muchelse. Jennifer (Wells) and HawkBarry were still in San Diego as ofearly 1999 (since I missed the lastcolumn, I’m finally including themhere!). Jennifer switched over toHillyer & Irwin to do transactionalwork, and Hawk’s firm merged withanother and is now called RossDixon & Bell. Also awhile ago, ErinNordby reported that she is now aD.A. for the County of Santa Clara.Kyhm Penfil and her cohorts at Irell& Manella won a major defense verdict(11-1) for a client after almost ayear in court and two lengthy jurytrials (the first jury hung) -- plaintiffwas seeking roughly $200 million!She then celebrated with a threeweektrip to the South of Spain. Onthe flip side, Mike McLachlan justwon his first million dollar verdict,which he reports was “fun,” or atleast more so than he usually findsthe practice of law. Writing fromback East, Charles Inkeles is finishingup his MBA at Yale; he’s planningto move to New York City thissummer to work for ING Barings ininvestment banking. Robert Laffoon-Villegas is now program manager forLaurel Consulting Group, which primarilyserves federal contractors andnon-profits. And last but not least,Jimmy Nguyen bought a new housein the Melrose area which he says is“small but just waiting to be madereally cute!” Jimmy’s still buildingFoley & Lardner’s entertainmentpractice, and in the meantime hasdone some federal white collar crimework. As for me, after almost 1372 USC LAW • SPRING 2000USC LAW • SPRING 200073

years together, Adam Glickman andI finally became a legally recognizedcouple on May 29, 1999, in St.Thomas, USVI (my mom lives there— it was either the Virgin Islands orCleveland). Given our choice of location,we were joined by 65 friendsand family members (and severalthousand attendees of Sinbad’sannual Caribbean Soul MusicFestival!) for what was truly the bestweek of our lives, except maybe forthe week after that which we spenthoneymooning at a friend’s villa inCasa de Campo, DominicanRepublic. Back in the real world, I’mstill at Paul, Hastings, Janofsky &Walker LLP doing employment law& Adam’s still selling condoms.Hope the rest of you are doing well,and please write in next time!Tara KellyClass ReporterOn the Honor Roll . . .RAY KURTZMAN ‘53, WHO WORKS AS AN EXECUTIVE AT THECREATIVE ARTISTS AGENCY, WAS HONORED BY THE LEGALSERVICES DIVISION OF THE JEWISH FEDERATION. THE AWARDWAS PRESENTED AT THEIR ANNUAL DINNER ON MARCH 14,2000.GREGORY R. MUÑOZ ‘63, HAS RECENTLY BEEN APPOINTEDSUPERIOR COURT JUDGE IN SANTA ANA, CALIFORNIA. HE ISCURRENTLY HANDLING CRIMINAL CASES. PRIOR TO HISAPPOINTMENT, HE WAS A PARTNER AT MUÑOZ & SWIFT INSANTA ANA SPECIALIZING IN PERSONAL INJURY LITIGATION.THE HONORABLE CANDACE D. COOPER ‘73, HAS BEEN ELE-VATED BY CALIFORNIA GOVERNOR GRAY DAVIS TO THECALIFORNIA COURT OF APPEAL FOR THE SECOND APPELLATEDISTRICT AFTER SERVING FOR NEARLY TWO DECADES ON THESUPERIOR COURT.CLASS OF1997Happy 2000. By now everyoneshould have recovered from any Y2Kproblems (my report in the last issuewas destroyed by some Y2K glitch,Iswear). I celebrated the New Year inMaui with C. Scott Chaney, who isstill whispering with the horses atSanta Anita. I ran into Michelle(Bedrosian) Froelich and her husband,Ken, at the Ahmanson’s productionof Les Miserables. Michelleis working in accounting at BostonConsulting Group and has moved toa new home in South Pasadena.Michelle also told me Jim Rutten,who has finished clerking and is nowenjoying firm life, got engaged. Moredetails in the next issue. EricMueller hung up his fireman bootsand returned to Los Angeles and theHaight, Brown & Bonesteel firm.Chris Pisano joined Hart, King &Coldren in Santa Ana and ChristinaTusan is helping the elderly againstscams at the California AttorneyGeneral’s Office in the ConsumerLaw Section. Tara Alpin (Fallon) isworking with Mario (Carlos)Jaramillo at Bonne, Bridges, Mueller,O’Keefe & Nichols. As with most ofus, Tara is depressed about studentloans. And Peter Sessions (can anyonenot think of Prof. Garet whenyou see Peter’s name?) is “litigatinghis brain off” at Bannan, Green &Frank, LLP. Trevor Ingold is apparentlyclerking in the Compton divisionof Los Angeles Superior Court,and he notes that he is waiting to seeif Scott Chaney joins the Army JAGCorps since his other first year roommates,Craig Harbaugh and Rob Yaleare already serving. Venturing out onher own, Nancy Conroy hung out herown shingle, specializing in immigration,and obtained her real estatelicense to broker business opportunitiesto foreigners who wish to qualifyfor alien entrepreneur visa permits.Vahan Yepremyan is still doing hisown thing, with plans of opening anoffice in Moscow, Russia. Vahanadds that he has “others,” but noneare significant yet. Perhaps he willhave “significant other” news toreport next time. Shannon Hunttransferred back to the Akin, Gump,Strauss, Hauer & Feld, Los Angelesoffice. Mike Vaughn II reports thatin winter 1999 he plans to “move toPortland, take a job as a prosecutor,get a bachelor pad, take up abstractoil painting, and start attending filmschool in spare time.” Back on theEast Coast, Sona De is at Fish &Neave in New York practicing patentlitigation. ON THE NON-WORK-ING SIDE OF THINGS: LaVondaReed finished her clerkship and isnow an associate working in the areaof communications and energy litigationat Paul, Hastings, Janofskyand Walker. LaVonda marriedFranklin Huff last September, afterwhich she went on a Caribbean honeymoon.And Nkia Patterson marriedDamon Richardson in August1999. Karina Sterman and JoshuaGroode got married October 3, 1999and planned to honeymoon in Asia.Karina works with Brian Mulherin atJones, Bell, Abbott, Fleming &Fitzgerald, LLP practicing businessand securities litigation. Richard Leefound time away from Paul Hastingsto get married last May. TrevorIngold, Keith Watanabe and JesseChavez were groomsmen. Richardhoneymooned in Maui. Tiffany Taiand her husband, Andrew, have settledinto the routine of an old marriedcouple and Tiffany seems toenjoy her job. She reported that herfirm, Bensinger, Grayson, Ritt & Geebrought the first case in Californiaunder the breastfeeding in publicstatute. Dana (Anderson) Childersand her husband, John, are expectingtheir first child in March, so by thetime this is published, John shouldbe teaching junior to surf. LaurenMayo-Abrams, who is still practicingprimarily employment law on herown, reports that she ran into a fellowgraduate looking at ringsfor another fellow graduate.Hmmmmmm, hopefully the secretwill be out by next issue.Meanwhile, Katherine Blackmon-Solis celebrated her first weddinganniversary and continues to practicein Little Rock, Arkansas withpartner Deenita (Dee Dee) Moak.Also in the South, Wayne DarrinKeaton opened his own political consultingfirm where he divides histime between private practice andpolitics. Greg Cordrey commutes todowntown Los Angeles fromHuntington Beach and is enjoyinghis new niece, Alexi Marie Cordrey.Can Ed Weiman’s baby girl, Zoe, beturning two years old when this ispublished? Where has the time gone?Ed is now at the Chan Law Group LCspecializing in intellectual propertylitigation. He is glad to be out of familylaw. Has anyone seen DianaIketani’s Timex print ad? Diana andher sisters are in the national adOn the Honor Roll . . .JEFFREY H. SMULYAN ‘72, HAS RECEIVED THE 1999INTERNATIONAL CITIZEN OF THE YEAR AWARD FROM THEINTERNATIONAL CENTER OF INDIANAPOLIS. MR. SMULYANWAS RECOGNIZED AS THE ONLY AMERICAN BROADCASTER TOBE GIVEN A NATIONAL RADIO LICENSE IN HUNGARY.COMMISSIONER BOBBI TILLMON ‘77, WAS HONORED ONOCTOBER 21, 1999 WITH THE 1999 COOPER-SANDOZ AWARD,AT THE USC ASSOCIATION OF BLACK LAW ALUMNI FOURTHANNUAL AWARD RECEPTION.GLENDA VEASEY ‘81, HAS BEEN APPOINTED LOS ANGELESSUPERIOR COURT COMMISSIONER FOR THE NORWALK FAMILYLAW COURT. MS. VEASEY, WHO HAS BEEN IN PRIVATE PRACTICEAND A LOS ANGELES CITY ATTORNEY, HAS ALSO SERVED ASPRESIDENT OF BOTH THE BLACK WOMEN LAWYERS’ASSOCIATION AND LANGSTON BAR ASSOCIATION. INOCTOBER, SHE WAS HONORED BY THE USC ASSOCIATION OFBLACK LAW ALUMNI AT THEIR ANNUAL AWARD RECEPTION.PETER LEE ‘93, HAS BEEN APPOINTED EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OFTHE CENTER FOR HEALTH CARE RIGHTS.campaign. She is still an associate atMorris, Polich & Purdy, LLP.Another rising star, Sandra(Williams) McDonough appeared onHollywood Squares last October andwon a $4,000 all-expense paid trip toPrague. No news when she is going.David Ferreria is doing legal andbusiness affairs at Epitaph Records.David’s band, Pushover, released itsdebut album in November 1998, soby now, they should have anotheralbum out. Pushover performsaround Los Angeles, so keep an eyeout. Hope everyone is well. Staytuned for the next report!Julianna YasinskiClass ReporterIN MEMORIAMJ. Howard Edgerton ’30Edwin W. Taylor ‘30Jack J. Rimel ’35Leland Nielson ’46Gerald Gottlieb ’50Frank Clifford Owen ’50William A. Tookey ’50Emmet V. Cavanagh ’52Arthur Marshall ‘52David Charness ’59James C. Johnsen ’60Andrew J. Di Marco ’65Margaret Doyle Berk ’71Sheryl L. Hodges Meshack ‘72Alan J.`Gurd ’9974 USC LAW • SPRING 2000USC LAW • SPRING 200075

LIFE AND THE LAWBY RAY R. GOLDIE ’57Admitted as a special student because I didn’thave an undergraduate degree, USC LawSchool allowed me to commence in the nightschool in a four-year and two summers program. Aswere virtually all first-year students, I was scared, notonly by the complexities anddemands of the subjects, but alsobecause I had been out of school forseveral years. Although I was elatedthat my first semester grades werehigh, elation soon turned to panicbecause I was certain that my apparentsuccess was a fluke. As a result,I worked even harder and when thesecond semester ended, convincedthat I could do it, I petitioned totransfer to the day program as a fulltimestudent, attending summerschool to catch up and graduatewith my class in three years.Law School wasthe richest and mostrewarding experienceof my life. I“enjoyed good friendshipsand was fulfilledthrough manyachievements. Themost fulfilling eventsincluded when I waspresident of my legalfraternity, a meetingwith the presidentsof the other legalfraternities, whichresulted in a unanimous resolution that neither race,creed or sex should be a criteria for membership in alegal fraternity. Also, in a first for the Law School, AssociateJustice Roger Trainor accepted my invitation tospeak at a luncheon meeting of members of my fraternityand other guests. Other highlights included my serviceas Associated Editor of the Law Review; myappointment as a teaching assistant, and the agreementto form a partnership with Marcus Kaufman ‘56.Professor Richard Wicks had said that when you canappear in any court in the land as easily as getting in andout of your car, you may be a litigator. Since litigationwas my goal, after graduation, I followed the suggestionof Dean Robert Kingsley and joined the Office of theLaw School was the richest and mostrewarding experience of my life. Ienjoyed good friendships and was fulfilledthrough many achievements.California Attorney General as a student legal assistant.Forty-one deputies provided legal services from Fresnoto the Mexican Border. Student legal assistantsresearched and drafted appellate briefs, but could notsign the briefs or make court appearances until admittedto practice. I flew to San Franciscoto be admitted to the bar by theSupreme Court on Friday. I returnedto Los Angeles on Monday to gobefore the Supreme Court to argue adeath penalty case, the brief forwhich I had written. It was my firstcourt appearance.After a year in the AttorneyGeneral’s Office, considering myeducation completed, the LawOffices of Goldie & Kaufmanopened in San Bernardino in 1958.We handled trial matters in manyareas of law, starting with mydefending an allegedescapee from a StatePenitentiary. Thejury trial resulted ina not guilty verdictand much press. Asa result, we weresoon inundated withcriminal matters. Ithen urged the newsreporter to look intoour civil cases, hopingthat he woulddiscover somethingnewsworthy. We werenot enchanted with criminal law. Our civil practicefinally developed, was successful, and continued to grow.I retired from the stress of litigation practice inDecember 1986, moved my office to the Palm Springsarea and concentrated on business entities, transactions,and estate planning, probate and trust law. For the firsttime in about 40 years I took and passed a bar examinationfor certification as a specialist in estate planning,probate and trust law given by the State Bar of CaliforniaBoard of Legal Specialization.While I still handle business entities and transactions,my emphasis is now on estate planning, probateand trust law. It continues to be an exciting, fulfilling,and interesting life in the law for me.“USC LAW • SPRING 200076

THE GREATNESS OF A LAW SCHOOL IS IN PART DEPENDENTON ITS ABILITY TO “BIND SUCCESSFUL GRADUATESTO THE SCHOOL BY KEEPING THEM ALIVE TO ITS GROWTHAND ITS PROBLEMS. . . TO AWAKEN AND DEVELOP. . .THE GROWTH OF LEGAL EDUCATION.”Louis B. Brandeis to Felix Frankfurter – 1922

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