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for a number of years.LaBelle is a litigation associatewith the Los Angeles-based firm ofMunger, Tolles & Olson LLP. Prior tojoining MTO, she served as a lawclerk to the Hon. Stephen S. Trott onthe U.S. Court of Appeals for theNinth Circuit and for the Hon.Margaret M. Morrow on the U.S.District Court for the Central Districtof California.La Belle attended the Universityof California, Davis School of Law,where she was the senior notes andcomments editor for the U.C. DavisLaw Review and was selected to theOrder of the Coif. Since joining MTO,she has practiced in several areas ofcommercial litigation, including intellectualproperty, consumer classactions, entertainment, securities andantitrust.Le Belle is the author of “TheRootkit Debacle: The Latest Chapter inthe Story of the Recording Industryand the War on Music Piracy,” Denv.U.L. Rev. 2006. She will serve as a visitingprofessor and scholar-in-residenceat the Columbus School of Law.Brian J. LeskeThe classroom may prove to be atranquil oasis for Brian Leske, comingas he recently does from the roughand-tumbleworld of presidential politics.Leske served as homeland securityand legal policy director to theRomney for President campaign thatchallenged for the 2008 Republicanpresidential nomination. He wasresponsible for briefing and advisingthe Massachusetts governor onmany policy areas, including homelandsecurity, immigration, criminaland civil justice reform, technologyand legal policy.Prior to joining the campaign,Leske served as Gov. Romney’s chiefand deputy chief legal counsel in theState House. Before joining thegovernor’s office, he served in theU.S. Department of Justice as anassistant U.S. attorney in the Anti-Terrorism & National Security Unitand in the Appeals Unit in Boston.Leske also has worked as an inhouseappellate counsel for MCIWorldCom and as an associate specializingin appellate and SupremeCourt litigation for Washington, D.C.-based Steptoe & Johnson, LLP.A two-time Hawaiian IronmanTriathlon finisher, Leske is a foundingboard member of Teardrops toRainbows, a nonprofit organizationdedicated to helping children withcancer.Leske is a graduate ofDartmouth College and theGeorgetown University Law Center,and comes to CUA’s law school as avisiting professor and scholar-inresidence.Tammy W. SunSpeaking of her time as an attorneyfor the Southern Center for HumanRights, Tammy Sun told a reporter forNational Public Radio’s MorningEdition in 2001 that “We certainly arenot here for the money.” The YaleLaw School graduate chose to forsakebig-firm salaries to defend theindigent, litigate for improving confinementconditions and advocate forreforming the juvenile justice systemin the state of Georgia.A deputy public defender inSalem, Oregon’s Office of PublicDefense Services since 2002, Sunhas assisted indigent defendants indirect appeal of felony cases in theOregon appeals courts.She has also served as a justicefellow at the National Association forPublic Interest Law. Sun is a formerclerk for the Hon. Reginald Lindsay,U.S. District Court in Boston, and wasa litigation associate with Davis Polk& Wardwell in New York City.Sun will contribute to CUA Lawas a visiting assistant professor andscholar-in-residence. Her prior classroomexperience includes teaching acourse on evidentiary issues involvingchild witnesses at the Wayne MorseCenter, University of Oregon Schoolof Law.Ngai PindellProfessor Pindellcomes to CUA Lawas a visiting assistantprofessor from thefar west, where he isa tenured associateprofessor in theWilliam Boyd School of Law, theUniversity of Las Vegas.He is not new to the area, however,having supervised law studentsduring the late 1990s in a communitydevelopment clinic at the Universityof Maryland School of Law inBaltimore. During that time, Pindellplanned and taught a communitydevelopment clinic course for second-and-thirdyear students that coveredcorporate formation and governance,land use, real property transactionsand community developmentissues.A frequent presenter at professionalpanels and a media resourceon the issues of land use and growthmanagement, Pindell is also theauthor of law review articles including“Developing Las Vegas: CreatingInclusionary Affordable HousingRequirements in DevelopingAgreements,” 42 Wake Forest L.Rev. 419 (2007) and “Finding a Rightto the City: Exploring Property andCommunity in Brazil and in the UnitedStates,” 39 Vand. J. Transnat’l L.435 (2006).Pindell earned his J.D. degreefrom Harvard University, where heserved as executive editor of theHarvard Black Letter Journal.32CUALAWYER /Spring–Summer 2008