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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