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McGeorge School of Law Office of Development Alumni and Public Relations 3200 Fifth Avenue April 7 – 8, 2006 Pacific McGeorge Alumni Board Retreat Sacramento, California 95817 916.739.7141 San Francisco 916.739.7333 Fax www.mcgeorge.edu May 13, 2006 Commencement Member Sacramento Memorial Auditorium The Order of the Coif May 19 – 20, 2006 International Alumni Reunion Conference Member Copenhagen, Denmark The Association of American Law Schools July 8 - 29, 2006 Pacific McGeorge International Legal Studies Program Accredited by Salzburg, Austria The American Bar Association and the Committee of Bar August 3, 2006 Hawaii Alumni Chapter Reception at ABA Annual Meeting Examiners, California State Bar Editor Michael Curran Honolulu October 6, 2006 Alumni Breakfast at State Bar of California Annual Meeting Editorial Committee Elizabeth Rindskopf Parker, Dean; Christine Manolakas, Monterey Associate Dean; John McIntyre, Assistant Dean for Development October 27 - 28, 2006 Center for Global Business and Development Forum Rethinking Corruption & External Relations; Barbara Thomas; Janet Konttinen; Pacific McGeorge David Alan Gibb, Consultant December 1, 2006 State Bar of California Swearing-In Ceremony Principal Photography Pacific McGeorge Steve Yeater, Bill Mahon, John Blaustein, Barry Robinson Association of American Law Schools Breakfast January 4, 2007 Acknowledgments San Francisco Lovelle Harris, Sally Cebreros, Lori Hall, Laura Friudenberg, Association of American Law Schools Breakfast January 5, 2007 Gail Maiorana San Francisco Printing Citadel Communications January 20, 2007 Alumni Association’s Southern California MCLE Long Beach January 27, 2007 Alumni Association’s Sacramento MCLE Pacific McGeorge Front Cover: Dean Elizabeth Rindskopf Parker interviews former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev at a special event on campus. Gorbachev’s surprise visit last October enthralled a packed Lecture Hall. Design NeoDesign 2006 © University of the Pacific Message from The Dean T Illustration: Jack Unruh his edition of Pacific Law features a description of our pace setting initiative to “globalize the law school curriculum.” This project rests on the belief that today’s law students at every one of the nation’s law schools must be trained for a world tomorrow where the most successful lawyers will be those who are comfortable with and prepared to handle transnational matters. At the same time, we recognize that not all law schools are able to boast of a faculty broadly accomplished in issues of transnational law and so they will need materials to guide them. I am particularly proud that the Pacific McGeorge faculty, under the leadership of Professor Franklin Gevurtz, has taken the lead here. They are addressing the need for all law students to be competent and successful in a world where the growth in communications and transportation capabilities increasingly create a marketplace that knows no borders. Integrating international material into the basic law school curriculum has been widely heralded as an idea long overdue. Perhaps that explains why the faculty has been awarded seven supplemental book contracts in less than a year to do just that! But there is a dark side to this borderless world, as well. The / attacks teach us that a borderless world has both positive and negative aspects. Our nation’s security can no longer be divided into two parts: foreign concerns that are the responsibility of our military and foreign policy experts, and domestic security that is the responsibility of our traditional law enforcement authorities. The challenge of the new borderless threats to this traditional dichotomy in our legal system and its authorities is, of course, central to the current discussion about the National Security Agency’s surveillance activities. Whether you believe those activities were appropriate exercises of the President’s Constitutional authority will likely be determined by how you view these threats and how we should respond to them. Are we at war, justifying wartime legal responses? Or should such threats be managed by our law enforcement authorities? Or do we need some third option, midway between wartime and peacetime legal authorities? What role does Congress have in reviewing and approving such authorities? How should we as lawyers and citizens inform ourselves so as to understand and effectively consider these issues? These are some of questions that a fine law school should consider. And I am pleased to tell you that Pacific McGeorge is again in the lead. Two years ago we spearheaded the creation of a new section on National Security Law and Policy within the American Association of Law Schools. And last year we produced the first edition of a new Journal of National Security Law and Policy. Faculty members are active in teaching and speaking in this area and we have been fortunate, as well, to receive grant support for outreach activities. We are now working on a yearlong grant-supported project, “National Security Education for Citizen Leaders,” which we hope will result in a model curriculum for other communities interested in exploring the legal and policy issues of a shifting national security paradigm. Again, with grant support, we are exploring international legal responses to bioterrorism, building on earlier work in to design a law school curriculum addressing the problems posed by bioterrorism for our public health law system. Certainly we live in perilous times. Nonetheless, in this challenge lies an opportunity. Pacific McGeorge has long focused on the intersection of education and theory with practical realities. We are well positioned to contribute to the national debate on the future of law and national security and I hope you are proud of the leadership role your law school is taking in this debate. To learn more about changes in the national security paradigm, please visit our blog, ‘Pacific McGeorge National Security Law & Policy for Citizen Leadership Pilot Program’, at www.discussnationalsecurity.blogs.com. With Warm Regards, Dean Elizabeth Rindskopf Parker Spring P A C I F I C L AW 1 PACIFIC LAW Law Library Moves Forward First Phase of Remodeling Completed Globalizing The American Law School Curriculum Gorbachev Visits Pacific McGeorge Around the World with the Faculty 2 P A C I F I C L AW Spring National Security Dialogue What You Don’t Know About Terrorists Reality Bites Alums Hit the Airwaves Small Court Packs a Punch Standing by Victims To the Rescue Student/Firefighter Helps New Orleans Victims Making Waves Student is Professional Sailor Message from the Dean Spring A Publication of the University of the Pacific McGeorge School of Law Faculty News Manson Returns Dajani a Hit Office of Development, Alumni and Public Relations The Last Word Admissions on an Upswing Faculty Profile Professor Gregory Weber School News Rohwer Feted Faculty Scholarship Selected Publications Message from the Alumni Board President Alumni News Steamy Novels Sharp Turn Nevada’s Best Montana’s Health Going Solo Katie Pettibone, a third-year law student, is a world-class competitor in a male-dominated sport... see story on Page 32. Spring P A C I F I C L AW 3 Pacific McGeorge is at the forefront of a burgeoning movement to prepare st Century students to practice law in a world that has become increasingly global. *Pacific McGeorge Professor Thomas Main’s comment upon publication of his new book, Global Issues in Civil Procedure. 4 P A C I F I C L AW Spring Under a dramatic new initiative by Pacific McGeorge faculty, soon to be gone are the days when law students only encountered international or comparative law in isolated elective courses. Instead, all students will have exposure to such global issues throughout their core courses. “There’s just no arguing that the students being educated today, and those who will come of age as lawyers in the next couple of decades, are going to be disadvantaged if they don’t have a much better understanding of private and public international law as well as the legal systems of other countries,” says Dean Elizabeth Rindskopf Parker. “It would really be hard to point to an area of law where international is not going to be relevant.” > Spring P A C I F I C L AW 5 Events in modern history and significant social change have led to this point, says Parker, citing the fall of the Iron Curtain, the increase in transnational trade and the rise of the Internet as just a few of the key factors that have helped blur boundaries between nations. Addressing these changes is the task of the Institute for Global Business—part of the Pacific McGeorge Center for Global Business and Development. “Our declared mission is ‘To prepare attorneys for practice in the global economy.’ That means all attorneys, not just a few specialists—and not just at Pacific McGeorge, but throughout legal education in the United States” explains Institute Director Frank Gevurtz, who is coordinating the faculty efforts to globalize the law school curriculum nationwide. How exactly is the Pacific McGeorge faculty planning to introduce all law students to international and comparative law issues? It starts with a basic approach. Some law schools, most notably the University of Michigan, are trying to achieve this goal by requiring all students to take a course in international or “transnational” law. Pacific McGeorge has a radically different solution. The faculty are following the advice of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Stephen G. Breyer, when he said “The world we live in is a world where it is out of date to teach foreign law in a course called foreign law.” Accordingly, the approach being worked on by faculty here involves introducing issues of international and comparative law pervasively Now it has become incumbent upon law professors in general to broaden their expertise in international, transnational and comparative law issues—and present these broader contexts in their courses, particularly in the core curriculum. —Professor Frank Gevurtz, director of the Center’s Institute for Global Business throughout required courses, including Contracts, Torts, Civil Procedure, Property, Criminal Law, Constitutional Law, Corporations and Professional Responsibility. In this way, students come to view international and comparative law as part of the constellation of issues that can come up without warning in an era of increasing globalization—rather than as something isolated from the concepts with which the attorney of the future must be prepared to deal. Needless to say, bringing about such a revolutionary change in legal education—the st Century equivalent of the earlier transformation of American legal education from a home state to a national focus —is no small challenge. “Integrating a more global approach into the law school curriculum will be a departure for many professors” notes Michael Malloy, director of the Center for Global Business and Development. But Pacific McGeorge has a plan. It starts with preparing materials that professors here and at law schools across the country can use to introduce international and comparative law issues into basic courses. A tremendous milestone toward achieving this end was achieved when a proposal by Professors Gevurtz, Carter, Main, Malloy and Sprankling resulted in a decision by the legal publishing powerhouse, Thomson-West, to publish a series of books, to be called the “Global Issues” series, designed to allow professors to introduce international and comparative law issues into traditional core law school courses. The titles in the Global Issues series under contract so far include: • Global Issues In Civil Procedure, by Thomas Main • Global Issues In Corporate Law, by Franklin Gevurtz • Global Issues In Criminal Law, by Linda Carter and former Pacific Mcgeorge faculty member Christopher Blakesley • Global Issues In Property Law, by John Sprankling, Raymond Coletta, and a professor from Florida International • Global Issues In Contracts, by Michael Malloy, and four other leading internationally oriented contracts professors • Global Issues In Torts, by Julie Davies and the author of A Leading Torts Casebook • Global Issues In Professional Responsibility, by George Harris, John Sprankling and a leading comparative ethics law professor. According to series editor Gevurtz, future books include titles in Criminal Procedure (under the same team doing the book in Criminal Law) and Constitutional Law, where the plan is to utilize strong scholars in that field such as Professors Brian Landsberg and Leslie Jacobs. ing professors from law schools in the United States and Canada met to plan how to introduce international and comparative law issues into the core curriculum. The participants at the workshop included leading professors in traditional core law school courses—such as authors of widely used casebooks in Torts and Civil Procedure (including our own Professors Levine and Main)—and professors who are leaders in the fields of international and comparative law. They included deans and former deans, and major players in the American Association of Law Schools and the American Society for Comparative Law. Professors from Columbia and NYU in the East, to Berkeley in the West were present. During two working days, the participants addressed the goals to be obtained by introducing international and comparative law issues into the core curriculum; developed strategies for introducing such issues into the core curriculum; devised means to overcome challenges to globalizing the curriculum; and came up with concrete steps that participants were to take to follow up on the workshop. The results of the workshop are written up in a -page report published in the Pacific McGeorge Global Business & Development Law Journal, and available on the web at www.McGeorge.edu/workshop. Professors around the country have been downloading and discussing this report. Step three: Spread the word In January, the annual meeting of the Association of American Law Schools was sandwiched by an opening-day workshop on “Introducing International Issues into the First Year Curriculum” and a final-day session on techniques to implement this goal. Pacific McGeorge faculty played a prominent role. Dean Parker joined the dean of the Yale Law School and others on the keynote panel for the opening-day workshop, > Tahoe conference breakout sessions brought together renowned professors in specific areas of legal education. Even professors renowned for advocating their individual views agree on the need for a global law curriculum. 6 P A C I F I C L AW Spring Photography: Steve Yeater Photography: Steve Yeater Step two: Assemble the best minds from around the country. Last August, the Center for Global Business and Development sponsored a workshop at which forward think- Spring P A C I F I C L AW 7 Photography: Steve Yeater Photography: Steve Yeater Gorbachev’s surprise visit enthralls Pacific McGeorge By Jan Ferris Heenan Second-year Evening classmates Matt Hooper and Dan King quickly picked up the global vibe at Pacific McGeorge—and the school’s plans for ramping things up on the international stage—and decided, in Hooper’s words, “to help out.” Hooper made a few phone calls to well-placed friends in Washington, D.C. and—with plans largely kept under wraps—invited former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev to Pacific McGeorge for a mid-week visit in late October. He agreed, the only stipulation being the event could not be publicized. Gorbachev, a key force in the end of the Cold War and the recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize, took part in an hour-long, one-on-one Q&A with Pacific McGeorge Dean Elizabeth Rindskopf Parker before an audience of more than attentive law students, faculty and alumni. Faculty from 31 law schools engaged in lively discussions during the August Tahoe conference on "Globalizing the Curriculum." and made the case for exposing all students to international issues. Main moderated the Civil Procedure discussion group while Gevurtz addressed implementation on the last day. At the end of March, Gevurtz, Carter and Malloy will be participants on a panel at the annual meeting of the American Society for International Law on the effort to introduce international issues into core courses. Pacific McGeorge has also started a Listserv ([email protected]) through which professors from all over the country exchange ideas about how to introduce international issues into their classes. Step four: Do it. 8 P A C I F I C L AW Spring Photography: John Blaustein A few weeks ago, students in a Business Associations class at Pacific McGeorge engaged in a vigorous discussion with Winfried van der Muijsenbergh—a member of the school’s international board of advisors—on European corporate governance approaches, particularly as they involve very different philosophies about employee representation management compensation. Students in Carter’s Criminal Law class are working through materials involving prosecution of International human rights violations. For years now Malloy has interlaced problems and simulations involving the Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods into the narrative arc of his full-year Contracts course, and in his Business Associations class, students recently grappled with the European Commission’s approach to insider trading regulation—among many other transborder issues that arise throughout the course. So what will this all mean for the future of Pacific McGeorge, its students, graduates and faculty? In part, it represents the next step in a three-decade tradition of leadership by the law school in responding to the legal impact of the global economy. “We’ve been doing this for about years; we have managed to ‘internationalize’ our faculty,” says Parker, referring in large part to the school’s pioneering LL.M. in Transnational Business Practice and overseas programs. In part, it represents the recognition of the Pacific McGeorge faculty that international issues have become inexorably intertwined with domestic ones. Even nationally recognized scholar Sprankling, in a subject as seemingly grounded in domestic law such as Property, is now working on an article on the International Human Right to Property. As Davies explains, "Now that I have gotten into the globalizing the curriculum initiative, I keep wondering why I didn't do it earlier. I was a Spanish major in college and one of my greatest joys was learning about the ideas and culture of other countries. This project will allow me to bring that aspect of my background into harmony with my interest in law. I hope to enrich my teaching and my students' education in the domestic torts course, and to move on to scholarly projects that allow me to learn from other legal systems." In sum, it represents the commitment of Pacific McGeorge faculty to educate all of their students for practice in the st Century. Dean Elizabeth Rindskopf Parker draws on her work in Washington, D.C., to ask questions of Gorbachev. Security was tight for Mikhail Gorbachev's visit. “It was just one of those incredible experiences you can never really express in words,” says Hooper, who worked in the high-tech industry, serving military clients among others, before enrolling at Pacific McGeorge. “Our school is making such incredible efforts to really expose the students to globalization of the law and the world economy,” he continues. “We just thought, ‘Hey, we both have connections. We could probably do things to assist’.” The two formed “Students for a Better McGeorge” and began developing a speaker series. They set their sights on Gorbachev, who planned to visit the U.S. in fall . That the dean had studied the ex-Soviet leader so closely while serving as general counsel for the Central Intelligence Agency and other federal agencies made the on-stage exchange all the more exhilarating, Hooper says. Gorbachev described his brief career as a lawyer, his rise to political power, and the tumultuous times of his reign over the Soviet Union from to . “In a totalitarian society such as the Soviet Union, there was no dissent, and a democratic process could only begin from above,” he said. “It was a confluence of historic events that affected a generational change and allowed the introduction of perestroika and glasnost.” He tied the problems of Third World poverty to current terrorism and security concerns. “It is hard to imagine a calm, safe and secure world where so many people live in backwardness and poverty,” he said. Gorbachev’s “surprise appearance” drew national media attention. An Associated Press story featuring his comments appeared in more than newspapers. Hooper and King are working to line up their next speaker. Considering security and other concerns, theirs is indeed an ambitious quest. “The goal is to get pretty much every world leader to know where McGeorge is and to enjoy their (interactions) with our students,” says Hooper. Spring P A C I F I C L AW 9 Global Connections Pacific McGeorge Covers the Globe Gerald Caplan United Kingdom Moderator, contracts conference in Gloucester, England Linda E. Carter Senegal Director, international judicial conference Omar M. Dajani Rwanda Researcher, gachacha court hearings in Kigali Julie Davies Austria Faculty, Pacific McGeorge’s Summer Salzburg program Marjorie Florestal Ghana Advisor, trade issues Fred A. Galves Chile Instructor, trial advocacy program in Santiago Franklin Gevurtz Netherlands Reporter, comparative law conference in The Hague George Harris Cambodia Lecturer, criminal defense training program in Phnom Pehn Brian Landsberg China Professor, summer program at Soochow University in Suzhou Thomas J. Leach Italy Professor, exchange program with the University of Parma (2004-2006) Pacific McGeorge faculty members are involved in numerous international projects. This list of foreign countries includes nations with which they have done legal consulting work, and countries visited for organizational meetings, conferences, seminars and institutes where they presented papers, taught or lectured, and otherwise participated or will do so later this year. North America Canada Mexico Carter, McCaffrey McElwain, McCaffrey, Carter Central America Nicaragua McCaffrey South America Brazil Chile Weber Galves, Leach, Parker, Taylor, Weber Europe Austria Carter, Davies, Galves, Main, Malloy, Sprankling, Weber Denmark Malloy Ireland Malloy Italy Leach Greece Malloy, Gevurtz Netherlands Carter, Gevurtz Russia Sims Spain McElwain Parker Switzerland United Kingdom Caplan, Dajani, Malloy Kojo Yelpaala Ghana Member, African Law Institute steering committee Gregory S. Weber Brazil Organizer, dispute resolution workshop in Manaus Joseph E. Taylor Chile Instructor, trial advocacy program in Santiago 10 John G. Sprankling Austria Faculty, Pacific McGeorge Summer Salzburg program P A C I F I C L AW Spring John Cary Sims Morocco Presenter, international law conference in Fez Claude D. Rohwer Vietnam Consultant on commercial code, government of Vietnam Elizabeth Rindskopf Parker Switzerland Organizer, UN Security Council conference in Geneva Timothy Naccarato Angola Consultant, legal system system study in Luanda Luanda Eric McElwain Mexico Speaker, conference on globalization in Mexico City Stephen C. McCaffrey Nicaragua Advisor, International Court of Justice waterways dispute Michael P. Malloy Uganda Faculty, International Law Institute in Kampala Thomas Main Austria Faculty, Pacific McGeorge Summer Salzburg program Middle East Palestine Jordan Dajani, McCaffrey McCaffrey Africa Angola Ethiopia Ghana Kenya Morocco Rwanda Senegal Uganda Naccarato McCaffrey Florestal, Yelpaala McCaffrey Sims Carter, Dajani Carter, Weber Malloy, McCaffrey Asia Cambodia China India Vietnam Harris, Carter Parker, Landsberg, Malloy McCaffrey Rohwer Spring P A C I F I C L A W 11 Global Center Hits Its Stride Quickly A lthough less than two years old, the Pacific McGeorge Center for Global Business and Development has already built a national reputation in the international legal arena. 12 P A C I F I C L AW Spring Professor Alastair Lucas from the University of Calgary delivered the keynote luncheon address on the second day of "The Business of Climate Change" conference. and offered a short course on e-commerce to kick off the relationship. “I expect to repeat the course again in the future,” Malloy says. “We continue to encourage shorts visits by Pacific McGeorge faculty to ILI-Uganda, and plans are underway for an advocacy program to be designed and presented by our faculty under the auspices of ILI-Uganda.” Malloy has had frequent discussions with representatives of the Macau University of Science and Technology and the Hong Kong WTO Research Institute on future collaborations. “The long-range objective here is the possibility of a collaborative LL.M. program with activities sited in China rather than in Sacramento, and drawing directly on the burgeoning Chinese market demand for advanced legal training,” Malloy explains. A first step in this collaboration has already been achieved. In late February, the vice provost and Professor Gary Miller, the College of the Pacific's dean, was one of the featured panelists on the opening day of "The Business of Climate Change" conference. One of Malloy’s initial goals for the center as a whole, the extension of Pacific McGeorge’s existing international Photography: Steve Yeater “The center has really taken off,” says Dean Elizabeth Rindskopf Parker. “It has done some remarkable things that have earned it acclaim throughout legal education. The twoday Tahoe summit last summer brought together the leading American scholars in international law. And our conference programs, on-campus and at recent AALS conventions, have attracted much attention.” Under the direction of Professor Michael Malloy, a prolific international scholar, the center operates three institutes: the Institute for Global Business, directed by Professor Franklin Gevurtz; the Institute for Sustainable Development, directed by Professor Gregory Weber; and the Institute for Development of Legal Infrastructure, now led by Professor Leslie Jacobs. “I’m particularly pleased that Professor Jacobs has accepted the dean’s invitation to become the first permanent director of the Institute for Development of Legal Infrastructure,” Malloy says. “Her significant scholarly contributions in constitutional law—particularly free speech and government action and more recently in bioterrorism and public health— place her in a unique position to lead efforts to advance the study and implementation of legal infrastructure initiatives.” The center’s most recent success was a two-day February symposium sponsored by the Institute for Sustainable Development that addressed the topic of “The Business of Climate Change: Challenges and Opportunities for Multinational Business Enterprises.” Weber assembled a stellar group of leading experts from around the world to discuss that timely topic. “It was well-attended, fascinating and lively—a tribute to really excellent work by Greg Weber, who conceived of the conference, arranged for the speakers and kept the symposium moving,” says Dean Parker. The symposium was web cast and is available on the law school web site. The proceedings will also be published in an upcoming volume of the new Pacific McGeorge Global Business and Development Law Journal. The event was preceded by a meeting of the center’s board of advisors that featured a dinner talk by Professor Geoffrey Hazard, a University of Pennsylvania Law School professor who is one of the foremost authorities on legal ethics. In October, the center hosted a conference on “Judicial Influences on Economic Development: Opportunities for Architecting Legal Infrastructures” at the law school that explored the relationship between various legal systems and their effect on a nation’s investment and business environment. That followed a February conference, “Transboundary Freshwater Ecosystem Restoration: The Role of Law, Process, and Lawyers,” that featured more than international water law and environmental law authorities. One of Malloy’s initial goals for the center as a whole, the extension of Pacific McGeorge’s existing international ties in Europe and Asia into new areas, has also prospered. The center has developed a relationship with the International Law Institute in Kampala, Uganda. He visited that city in fall dean of the law faculty at Macau University invited Malloy to serve as a visiting professor of law, initially for a three-year period. “The purpose of this appointment is three-fold,” Malloy says. “It would initiate collaboration [between Macau University and the center] with the relatively modest step of a faculty visit or exchange; it would provide a basis for consultative and design services by the center in support of the Macau LL.M. program; and it would inaugurate the Center’s role as a content-provider to Macau's new LL.M. program.” Discussions involving consortium activities among the center, the American University of Armenia, and American University in Washington, D.C., are underway. In the meantime, the law school’s cooperative activities with the University of Salzburg have continued to expand, and now include a collaborative LL.M. program with the University of Salzburg Faculty of Law, as well as regular faculty exchanges and Pacific McGeorge’s long-standing summer program. In the fall semester, Malloy served as “Gastprofessor” at Salzburg, offering a course in Transnational Business Transactions in a compressed schedule. The class included nine LL.M. students who later came to the Sacramento campus in January for pre-internship courses during the full spring semester. Salzburg expects to make the Transnational Business Transactions course a regular feature of its program. The center continues to expand its reach. “With Dean Parker’s inspiration and support, with key contributions from the center’s institute directors and staff, and with the growing involvement of the entire law school faculty, Pacific McGeorge is regaining its place as an international leader in legal education, research and service,” Malloy says. ties in Europe and Asia into new areas, has also prospered. Spring P A C I F I C L A W 13 Continuity and Change: Facing limited space on one hand and rapidly growing The Law Library Envisions Its Future student needs on the other, the Gordon D. Schaber Library has finished the first phase of an ambitious, decade-long By Robert T. Wazeka remodeling program. n redesigning and expanding the law library, one of our guiding principles has been to give our students a wide variety of study spaces,” says Kim Clarke, assistant dean for library and research services at the Gordon D. Schaber Law Library. “If experience has shown us anything,” she says, “it’s that students have different ways of studying. Some want to study collaboratively in groups, some want to use laptops, some don’t want to use laptops, some want to spread out, some want to curl up by themselves in a chair, some want their study space to be dead quiet. We’re trying to create spaces that meet all those needs.” At a time when libraries of all kinds, and especially law libraries, are wrestling with the question of how much and how fast to convert from print-based to digital materials, Clarke and her staff of nine professional librarians, most of whom have law degrees, haven’t forgotten the essential part of a library—to provide real service to real people. I “ Photography: Bill Mahon 14 P A C I F I C L AW Spring At the Schaber Law Library, that service extends beyond students and faculty to include alumni, visiting scholars, the legal profession and sometimes the general public. Alumni and local attorneys have the same circulation privileges as the students and are invited to come into the library to do research, or to get research assistance in person, by phone or by e-mail. One Pacific McGeorge graduate recently asked a reference question by cell phone while on his way to court. As for visiting faculty, says Clarke, “they never leave us. One visiting professor even e-mails us periodically from Israel with research questions.” Serving student needs is a key component of the threephased redevelopment plan the library hopes to complete by the spring of at a total cost of $ million. In addition to a variety of study spaces, students expressed interest in a lounge, a coffee bar, outside seating and more readily available technological resources. All of these have been worked into the plan. The only student request that couldn’t easily > Spring P A C I F I C L A W 15 6 7 2 1 3 4 be met was to keep the entire library open daily for hours. As a compromise, one classroom opens when the library closes to accommodate night-owls and early risers. Three other needs are also being addressed by the plan. One is to rationalize the floor plan, which is so difficult to fathom that University of Pacific President Donald DeRosa, after a tour of the library, said he felt like trailing bread crumbs behind him so he could find his way back. Second is the need to address the campus-wide shortage of office space. The planned second-floor faculty office wing will help in this respect while also bringing faculty closer to students and to research materials. Finally, the library, whose shelves are percent full, needs more shelf space. The collection is estimated to grow at the rate of , volumes annually on top of the present , volumes—the seventh-largest law collection in California. Students, faculty, administrators and librarians were all 16 P A C I F I C L AW Spring involved in one or more phases of the planning process, which included visitations to other academic law libraries, among them Loyola, Southwestern, Stanford, UC Berkeley, UCLA, USC and USF. Despite having more students than most law schools in the state, Pacific McGeorge currently runs the third-smallest library among California law schools at , square feet. The expansion, however, will bring that number to ,+ square feet, a figure that’s comparable to the better law libraries in the state. During Phase of the new design, completed last summer, compact shelving was erected in the first-floor stacks. Private study rooms for four to eight people were remodeled and a classroom for seminars and presentations was added. Electrical outlets and wired network connections, previously unavailable, were installed at every table and carrel, and improvements were made in lighting and in the soundproofing of study rooms. “The new arrange- 5 8 ment makes great sense,” says Michele Finerty, head of technical services. On the first day of school after Phase , all the tables were filled with students studying.” The primary work during Phase will be the construction of a large, two-story study area extending slightly out into the main campus quadrangle. A lounge and coffee bar will be built on the first floor along with a variety of study spaces, while the second-floor portion of the addition will consist entirely of study space. Depending upon the level of funds raised over the next two years, construction is projected to start in the summer of and be completed by August . Phase , set to begin in June and to be completed by spring of , will be the most extensive. The whole central part of the library—the Reference/Reserve Room, the Information Commons and the Treatise Room—will be torn down to make way for: > 9 1 Microfiche Collection – The microfiche collection for government documents remains along the first-floor west wall. 2 Multimedia Viewing Booth – Students can watch tapes or DVDs of their classroom performances. 3 Technology Upgrades – The library remodeling made laptop use easier in most places throughout the building. 4 Compact Shelving – New space-saving shelving allows the staff to put more books in limited space. 5 Microfiche Control Pad – The Remstar microfiche storage system can be turned with this control pad. 6 New Study Carrels – Rich wood-grain furniture with Internet outlets and task lighting has replaced Nixon-era carrels and desks. 7 Outdoor Areas – The library offers a courtyard where students can make cell phone calls or soak up the sun. 8 Wireless Computing – Wireless access is available through more of the library after the first phase of remodeling. 9 Kim Clarke – The assistant dean of library and research services also teaches Advanced Legal Research. Spring P A C I F I C L A W 17 • A self-contained computer training lab and a printing/copying room; • A reserve/reference room with open stacks (currently, the reserve stacks are closed); • A new integrated office area for the library staff, including a technical services area with workstations to sort mail, order library materials, create records for the online catalog, and process library materials; and • The faculty office wing. Although the library is investing heavily in digital materials—for example, it currently subscribes to different legal and inter-disciplinary databases—it is simultaneously beefing up its print collection. “Books aren’t disappearing from law as fast as people think they are,” says Clarke. “Many people prefer to read books in print rather than electronically. Some materials, such as legal treatises and international and foreign materials, aren’t available electronically. LexisNexis and Westlaw aren’t the only publishers out there.” Risk to over-investing in databases can cost up to $, a year. “If you need to cancel a database subscription,” Clarke points out, “you lose access to the entire database, even for the years to which you’ve subscribed. This wouldn’t be true with a print collection.” If any proof is needed that print is still relevant, the use of print materials at the Schaber Library increased by percent in -. No matter what cutting-edge technological resources a library might acquire or how many statutory tomes it might set out across its shelves, none of this matters if students, faculty and alumni don’t know how to gain access to what they want. “We want to be proactive,” says Judy Flader, head of public services, “and to reach out to students and faculty with materials and suggestions that might guide their research rather than wait for them to come to us.” Examples of how the library is being proactive abound. Having already published research guides in numerous subject areas, the staff is planning to do more, perhaps as many as three per year. “We want our research guides to help people navigate between print and digital,” says reference librarian Teri Townsend. Clarke adds that the goal is “to create a research guide for every Pacific McGeorge course that has a writing requirement.” Clarke teaches a course called Advanced Legal Research, and Paul Howard, the foreign and international law librarian, will be teaching an international version of the same course, pending faculty approval. The librarians are often asked to conduct research presentations in classes or for the off-campus clinics and law review students. Three students are currently employed as library research assistants who conduct research for faculty members under the supervision of a librarian. Increasingly, the staff is working to help students develop their video and presentation skills to meet new trends in law. No one can predict what changes in technology, law and society will occur over the six years it will take for the library’s expansion and re-design to be fully implemented. One thing is certain, however. As time goes by, the fundamental thing, service to users, will still apply. Darling Foundation Makes $1.5 Million Gift to Schaber Library hen Dean Elizabeth Rindskopf Parker arrived at Pacific McGeorge in , one of the first visits she made was to the Hugh & Hazel Darling Foundation’s trustee Richard Stack. The Darling Foundation is a long-time supporter of law libraries throughout Southern California, and Stack has been involved in several library projects. His advice proved to be inspired. He recommended that Dean Parker begin visiting other law school libraries. Her visits showed the dean what the best law libraries have done to provide services to students, alumni and practitioners, as well as to create comfortable environments that take advantage of natural light and have floor plans that are logical and fit well into their environments. Informed by these visits, Pacific McGeorge created plans W 18 P A C I F I C L AW Spring for a library renovation—and among the first places the dean visited to review the plan was the Darling Foundation. Setting aside its traditional Southern California focus, the foundation recently made a $. million commitment to the Gordon D. Schaber Law Library renovation project. “We are simply thrilled to have the Darling Foundation’s support,” said Dean Parker. “Southern California is dotted by law libraries that have received support from the foundation, but this is their first substantial investment in a Northern California law library. We still have a long way to go to complete funding for the project, but the Darling Foundation’s support is an important first step.” To learn about the library project, including naming and other support opportunities, contact John McIntyre at [email protected] or --. Spring P A C I F I C L A W 19 Data mining, terrorist profiling and international cooperation emerged as critical themes during the first in a new series of workshops on national security law and policy sponsored by Pacific McGeorge. Thirty-two citizen leaders and nineteen Weapons Inspector academics attended the two-day David Kay’s Appearance session at the Claremont Resort and Spa in Berkeley, California on Highlights First Pacific October -. Funded by a McGeorge Workshop one-year grant from the U.S. Department of Education, the By Robert T. Wazeka workshops are designed to provide a framework for educating citizen leaders on the national security challenges faced by the U.S. and other countries in the aftermath of the terrorist attacks that began in the s. 20 P A C I F I C L AW Spring Photography: AP/World Wide Photos National Security Dialogue Reaches Out to Citizen Leaders Following opening remarks from Pacific McGeorge Dean Elizabeth Rindskopf Parker, RAND Senior Policy Analyst Gregory F. Treverton gave an extensive overview of the emerging threats to national security. On the second day, participants attended a series of breakout working sessions, each lasting less than an hour. The sessions covered a variety of topics: dialogue with citizen leadership; the perspective of law enforcement; the ideological, religious and political causes of terrorism; the methods of terrorist attack; the effect of government restructuring on our security; domestic information gathering and threat assessment; surveillance, data mining and civil liberties; forums for prosecuting terrorists; the dual role of the National Guard; and lessons learned in business recovery from the Toronto (SARS epidemic) and New Orleans disasters. In his concluding keynote address, former International Atomic Energy Agency/United Nations Special Commission Chief Nuclear Weapons Inspector David Kay stated that a large number of nation states, including some U.S. allies, are so bankrupt and dysfunctional that they are on the brink of failing. The successful nations, he argued, must help the less successful ones if we are to preserve our collective security. Kay stressed the importance of studying the terrorist movement. “To connect the dots, we must first collect the dots,” says Kay. The subject of data mining, which stirred interest at the workshop, has moved into public consciousness following revelations that the National Security Agency used data mining as part of its warrantless surveillance efforts on American citizens following /. “Data mining and automated data-analysis techniques should not be embraced without guidelines and controls for their use,” said Mary De Rosa, senior fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. Data mining is “a process that uses algorithms to discover predictive patterns in data sets”; automated data analysis applies models to that data “to predict behavior, assess risk, or determine associations.” Such techniques are already being used, for example, by banks to detect possible credit fraud, by the Treasury Department to uncover money laundering, and by Las Vegas casinos to prevent fraud, cheating and theft. The potential problems associated with data mining, De Rosa said, are unjustified invasions of privacy, false positives and mission creep. Nasra Hassan, director of United Nations Information Services, profiled suicide bombers based on her extensive interviews with members of Hamas and Islamic Jihad ten years ago. Her findings, originally published in The Atlantic and The New Yorker, defied the prevailing conventional wisdom. “None of the suicide bombers,” she said at the workshop, “were uneducated, desperately-poor, David Kay was in the pre-Iraq war spotlight. simple-minded or depressed. Many were middle class and, unless they were fugitives, held paying jobs. More than half were refugees from what is now Israel. Two were sons of millionaires. They all seemed entirely normal members of their families.” In a follow-up letter to participants, Dean Parker outlined five topics for in-depth discussion and a sixth tabletop exercise. The topics include the national security paradigm shift; radical Islam; international law and public diplomacy; the right to privacy; and the roles of the business community, private citizens, and first responders. The workshops, under the direction of the Capital Center for Government Law and Policy, are part of Pacific McGeorge’s efforts to bring national security law and policy to the forefront of public attention. Professor John Cary Sims and Dean Parker are founding members of the Association of American Law Schools’ new section on National Security. In January, the section held a two-hour program on “Outsourcing the War on Terrorism: Extraordinary Rendition, Shadow Warriors, Dirty Assets and Battlefield Contractors” at the AALS Annual Conference in Washington, D.C. Pacific McGeorge also oversees publication of the Journal of National Security Law & Policy, a semiannual, peer-reviewed publication that features contributions from practitioners and academics across the political spectrum. Spring P A C I F I C L A W 21 REALITY BITES Three alumnae find fun and fame, but no fortune, on reality TV shows Photography: NBC Universal 22 P A C I F I C L AW Spring “I figured with David Kelley behind it, it wouldn’t be something distasteful or slimy,” Silva says. “I thought it would be kind of fun.” Silva, ’, was one of three McGeorge graduates who appeared on reality shows last year. Jennifer Le, ’, was on “The Apprentice: Martha Stewart,” and Candice Fields, ’, saddled up for a cowboy series on Country Music Television. Though none came out on top, they all said the experience was worth it. Kelley’s short-lived show was aired first on NBC and then Bravo. It pitted teams of lawyers against each other in front of judges and juries. The contestants argued real cases, pulled from courthouses, with outcomes that were binding on the parties. High-profile criminal defense lawyer Roy Black was the managing partner of the “law firm.” Silva, a former prosecutor with the Sacramento County District Attorney’s office and the California Department of Justice, was working as a labor and employment lawyer at Cook Brown LLP in Southern California. She sent in her resume and a photograph, did an on-camera interview, and met with Kelley’s publicity people and corporate lawyers, who asked her ethical questions. “They didn’t make you try a case or see what you were like in the courtroom,” she says. Silva thinks much of the selection process was based on personality, youth and looks. “It’s pretty obvious if you look at the cast, nobody was ugly or fat, and attorneys are not the most attractive people.” In her first case on the show, Silva and two other lawyers had to defend a man whose big mastifftype dogs had mauled a much smaller neighbor dog named Bingo. Bingo was already missing a leg. “The dog limped into court on three legs,” Silva says. “Guess Regina Silva joined who won?” > ‘The Law Firm.’ NBC Universal Photo: Bjerke Jennifer Le R egina Silva saw the advertisement in the Los Angeles Daily Journal in . Trial attorneys were wanted for a new reality television show called “The Law Firm,” produced by David E. Kelley, the creator of “Ally McBeal,” “Boston Legal,” and “The Practice.” Silva applied and became a contestant. By Hudson Sangree Spring P A C I F I C L A W 23 Silva stayed on the show for four episodes but was eventually booted by Black after he felt she hadn’t defended one client zealously enough. The woman, Silva says, made nasty remarks about “Mexicans,” not realizing Silva was Latina. Still, Silva says, she found the experience challenging and it helped her transition between working full time and doing contract work for Cook Brown so she could care for her mother in San Diego. “I knew I’d be practicing law before and after,” she says. “Other people on the show were using it as a way not to be attorneys anymore. They thought they would be discovered and be on TV afterward. That didn’t happen.” Two attorneys who work for Pacific McGeorge’s California Parole Advocacy Program were also featured on “The Law Firm.” Chris Smith, a staff attorney for the Institute for Administrative Justice operation in Los Angeles, and Deep Goswami, a CPAP contract attorney, each went deep in the episodes. Jennifer Le made it onto “The Apprentice: Martha Stewart” last year, and the entrepreneurial thrust of the program helped persuade her to start her own practice. “I tried out for the show because I’m a huge fan of Martha Stewart,” Le said. “I really admired her for having created this empire starting from nothing. She was inspirational while I was stressed out taking the bar. I thought, wow, she’s making a billion bucks baking pie.” Le, a former Orange County prosecutor, also said she loves to cook at home and grew up working in her family’s restaurant. 24 P A C I F I C L AW Spring Interviewed on the Today show afterward, Jennifer Le took the opportunity on national television to give a plug to her new solo criminal defense practice. That practice is doing well, she said, now that she has found a niche as a Vietnamese-speaking lawyer in Orange County, which has a large Vietnamese population. Photography: CMT Photography: NBC Universal Jennifer Le, left, turned florist on ‘The Apprentice: Martha Stewart.’ On the show, Le had to work with a diverse group of individuals to run a flower shop, renovate a hotel suite, create a children’s book, and bake a wedding cake, all under tremendous time pressure. Stewart showed her the door after a salad dressing she and her team marketed failed to fly off the shelves as fast as their competitors’ product. “I was upset at the time,” Le says. “I don’t like losing. But I realized it was for the best. After all was said and done, I realized I didn’t want to work for someone else, even someone like Martha Stewart. It was the catalyst for opening my own law practice.” Interviewed on NBC’s Today show afterward, she took the opportunity on national television to give a plug to her new solo criminal defense practice. That practice is doing well, she said, now that she has found a niche as a Vietnamese-speaking lawyer in Orange County, which has a large Vietnamese population. “It’s really worked out perfectly,” she said. “I’m so much happier.” Candice Fields, a Sacramento litigator, lived out her childhood fantasy of being a cowgirl when she appeared on the Country Music Television show “Cowboy U: Texas.” The program took city slickers and turned them into cowhands. Fields talked her way onto the show with a gushing letter about her longtime desire to be a cowboy followed by an audition interview that she describes as “being on the wrong end of a deposition.” With the blessing of her colleagues at Segal & Kirby, she set out for a three-week adventure at a ranch in Alpine, Texas. Fields quickly acquired the moniker “Cowgirl Candy” and saddled up to rope and ride. Eight urban cowboys faced the elements, the animals and a straw boss who ran them around like recruits at a boot camp. She was able to grin and bear the everyday tasks such as cleaning out a stable that confronted the novice cowhands, but admits “those horns on some of the animals” caused a bit of concern. Candice Fields felt comfortable in the corral. Contestants were rated on guts, determination and improvement. Fields was doing well in all three categories until a hand injury forced her off the show before the final rodeo. As one of her instructors, a champion bull rider, told her, “Candy, if I ever need a lawyer, I’d sure want you on my side.” The experience inspired her to take up horseback riding as a regular hobby. She joined the Cowboy Lawyers Association, a -year-old group that brings together attorneys and judges from around the state on weekend rides. She also is a member of West Sacramento Trail Riders Association and the Sacramento Sheriff ’s Posse. “I didn’t know what fun I had been missing,” Fields told the Sacramento Bee. “My closet has a split personality: suits and heels for court, and boots and Wranglers for just about everything else.” Being a contestant on the show was “a great life lesson,” says Fields. They didn’t know much about roping and riding, but the cast of ‘Cowboy U: Texas’ was a good-looking bunch. Spring P A C I F I C L A W 25 P A C I F I C L AW Family, Alumni, Friends Celebrate Rohwer’s Reign More than alumni, students, faculty and friends gathered to celebrate the remarkable teaching career of Professor Emeritus Claude Rohwer in October at Sacramento’s Memorial Auditorium. Associate Justice Anthony M. Kennedy of the Supreme Court of the United States was among the speakers who paid tribute to Rohwer, who stepped down as associate dean for international affairs last spring. President Donald DeRosa and Provost Phil Gilbertson presented the Order of the Pacific, the University’s highest honor, to the last remaining Spring member of the law school’s first full-time faculty. Speakers included Professors Charles Kelso and Rachael Salcido; attorneys Hayne Moyer, ’, and Joe Genshlea; and Susan McCaffrey, Claude’s daughter, who led a large Rohwer family contingent on hand for the festivities. “When it was my turn to speak, I commented about the quality of the folks who work out here on Fifth Avenue,” says Rohwer. “Of course I meant every word of it, but I suspect my comments were unnecessary. The quality of the event spoke louder than any words could do about the talents and dedication of those who planned it. My family was stunned.” “I also want to thank all my former students who showed up or sent messages,” Rohwer says, “. . . but it’s too late to change anybody’s Contracts grade.” Displaced Law Student Returns to New Orleans Simon Rawls returned to Loyola University School of Law in New Orleans after spending the fall semester at Pacific McGeorge as a visiting student displaced by Hurricane Katrina. Rawls, a New Orleans native, came to Sacramento through the efforts of Jason Hauer , whom he had met at a summer abroad program last year. Rawls took Criminal Procedure, Wills & Trusts, Administrative Law, and Photography: Steve Yeater School News Photography: Steve Yeater 26 Justice Anthony Kennedy was there, but the spotlight was on Professor Emeritus Claude Rohwer at an elegant fall gala held at Memorial Auditorium in his honor. International Business Transactions to remain on track for a May graduation from Loyola. “I’ve had a very pleasant experience here,” Rawls says. “Dean Carin Crain was particularly helpful and my professors and classmates brought me up to speed even though I arrived more than three weeks after classes had begun.” Rawls left New Orleans for higher ground less than hours before the hurricane hit and the levees broke. With only the clothes on his back and a handful of supplies, he made his way to northwestern Louisiana by car. “A couple days later, Jason emailed me to see if I was still alive. One thing led to another and I gratefully accepted your law school’s generous offer to come out and study here,” he says. “This would have been a great place to go to school for three years, but I need to get back home.” The Student Bar Association raised more than $, on Pacific McGeorge’s Katrina Relief Day, September . Libby Jacobson, , Kendall Dawson, , Michael Muse-Fisher, , Mario DeBernardo, , Kyle Siems, and Jennie Phillips, organized the fundraising efforts and student, faculty, staff and area business donations to the American Red Cross. Anthony Lewis Author’s Appearance Connects with Students Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Anthony Lewis lent his perspective on Supreme Court rulings and wartime presidential powers in a riveting discussion with Dean Elizabeth Rindskopf Parker before students, faculty and alumni on January in the Gordon D. Schaber Law Library. Lewis is the author of Gideon’s Trumpet, the classic about a Florida prisoner who prepared a petition in pencil to the Supreme Court of the United States because he was not provided counsel at his trial. All Pacific McGeorge entering students were sent a copy of the book last summer before starting classes. A longtime New York Times columnist, Lewis has been a lecturer in law at Harvard Law School for years and has written two other books. Lewis touched upon many constitutional anomalies in American history, including the Sedition Act of , Abraham Lincoln’s suspension of habeus corpus during the Civil War, -year sentences handed out to anarchists for throwing leaflets off a building in the s, the internment of JapaneseAmericans in World War II, and current deviations in the war on terror. ABA, AALS Visit For Site Evaluation Law-school evaluators will visit our campus in April so that Pacific McGeorge can maintain its accreditation. All ABA-accredited law schools are required to participate in a full sabbatical site evaluation every seven years. The purpose of the evaluation is to demonstrate to the ABA and the Association of American Law Schools that students are still being provided a quality legal education. The visit to Pacific McGeorge, set for April -, will include the following ABA-selected team members, chaired by Dean Lisa A. Kloppenberg, University of Dayton School of Law: President Daniel O. Bernstein, Portland State University, M. Carr Ferguson, University of San Diego Law School, Professor Betsy McKenzie, Suffolk University Law School, Associate Professor Suzanne Rowe, University of Oregon School of Law, Professor Nicolas P. Terry, St. Louis University School of Law, Spring P A C I F I C L A W 27 Chair Honors Schaber Pacific McGeorge announced the completion of funding for the law school’s first academic chair on February at a gathering of donors to the Gordon D. Schaber Chair in Health Law & Policy held at the Sierra Health Foundation in Sacramento. The Schaber Chair will 28 P A C I F I C L AW The law school’s first academic chair, the Gordon D. Schaber Chair in Health Law & Policy, was officially announced at a February event honoring donors. From left, the late dean’s nephew, Randy Schaber, with Dean Elizabeth Rindskopf Parker, Professor Clark Kelso and Hayne Moyer, ’75. support research, scholarship and programs on legal issues that arise in, or have impact on, health law and policy. The chair honoring the late dean will be filled on a rotating basis, with a one- to three-year term, by a distinguished current or visiting faculty member. Just as Dean Schaber had foreseen and pioneered the growth of clinical legal education and the internationalization of business law, he accurately predicted an increased need for legal structure surrounding the American health care system in the st century. As part of the evening’s program, the law school hosted a mini-health care workshop and planning session that featured legal and health experts. Discussion topics included equity and Spring ethics in health care delivery systems, public health and disaster response, and end-of-life decision-making and care. Trial Teams Score Rare Double Victory Both Pacific McGeorge teams competing at the Texas Young Lawyers Association National Trial Competition in early February in Spokane, Washington, emerged victorious. The regional co-champions advanced to the TYLA national finals in Dallas in March. Brandon Takahashi and Jason Schaff , coached by alums Jamie and Matt Pearson, ’, and Maria Wilson , David Graulich and Rashaan Jones , coached by alums Bill Barry, ’, and Carrie Bonnington, ’, pulled off this remarkable feat against formidable opposition. In the finals they defeated Stanford and the University of Washington, the latter a perennial victor. Graulich was named the outstanding advocate of the regional. According to professors in the Center for Trial Advocacy and Dispute Resolution, Cary Bricker, Joe Taylor and Jay Leach, the TYLA competition is considered by many as the biggest of all national tournaments, and it is rare for a school to take both top places. Pacific McGeorge has advanced to the NTC finals only three times before this, dating back to . This year’s teams have almost doubled that record with these wins. Photography: Steve Yeater Health Law & Policy Photography: Steve Yeater and Professor Dale A. Whitman, University of Missouri, Columbia School of Law. During their visit, the evaluation team typically meets with the dean and leaders of the faculty and administration. Also, the team customarily meets with every faculty member, sits in on classes, and holds open meetings with students, alumni and others who are familiar with the law school. Upon completion of the visit, the evaluation team prepares a summary report covering the law school’s operations, academic program, bar passage rates, student services, information resources, financial resources, physical facilities and technological capacities. The site evaluation process is a standard procedure set forth by the ABA for all accredited law schools. The team is here to learn about the law school and to ensure that Pacific McGeorge students are in good hands—as they most surely are. ABA President Greco Commencement Speaker Michael S. Greco, the current president of the American Bar Association, will be the speaker at the Pacific McGeorge commencement ceremony concluding the law school’s nd academic year on Saturday, May at Memorial Auditorium. Greco, a partner in the Boston office of Kirkpatrick & Lockhart Nicholson Graham, LLP, is a trial lawyer with more than years of litigation experience and has served as arbitrator and mediator in complex business and other disputes on both the state and national levels. Long active in the ABA, Greco has chaired the ABA’s Standing Committee on the Federal Judiciary and its Section on Individual Rights and Responsibilities. Post /, he served on the ABA Task Force on Terrorism and the Law, and on the Standing Committee on Law and National Security and its Commission on Women in the Profession. Greco earned his J.D. from Boston College Law School in , where he served as editor in chief of the Boston College Law Review and as class president, and then clerked on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. He received his B.A. from Princeton University. Pacific McGeorge will award Juris Doctor More than 500 attorneys attended the Pacific McGeorge Alumni Association's 11th Annual Sacramento MCLE event on January 21. One of the highlights of the day was a skit by members of the Anthony M. Kennedy Inn of Court. Above, Presiding Justice Arthur G. Scotland, '74, of the Third District Court of Appeal takes audience questions following the legal ethics program. degrees and Master of Law degrees at the graduation exercise. New Class Credentials Remain at High Level The August entering class stacked up well against the previous year’s strong contingent with the same median Day Division LSAT, , and a slightly better median Day Division GPA, ., than the incoming group. The class included Day Division students and Evening Division students, down slightly from last year’s entering total of . More than states are represented in the first-year student body along with four foreign countries. Women comprise percent of the class while ABA-designated ethnic/racial minority students make up percent. Applications for the Day Division totaled ,, down less than percent from last year’s decade-long high of ,. A survey of the country’s best-known law schools revealed a similar percent decrease in applicants. The University of California dominates Pacific McGeorge’s feeder schools with more than percent of the students coming from that system. A total of newcomers are from UC Davis, from UC Berkeley, and apiece from UCLA and UC Santa Barbara. Brigham Young University has the most graduates of any private school in the new class, . The school’s overall J.D. enrollment last fall stood at , with an additional LL.M. candidates seeking higher degrees in Transnational Business Practice, Government and Public Policy, and International Water Resources Law. The Evening Division, which has grown in recent years, now boasts its highest number of students () since the - academic year. The Evening Division represents percent of the J.D. enrollment, its largest percentage in more than two decades. Spring P A C I F I C L A W 29 Photography: AP/World Wide Photos Seargeant to the Rescue By Michael Curran Kristi Seargeant isn’t just a supermom, she’s a superheroine—and a pretty good law student to boot. The Pacific McGeorge student, Sacramento City Fire Department battalion chief and mother of two returned to her studies in mid-September after days spent rescuing stranded victims of Hurricane Katrina in flooded New Orleans. 30 P A C I F I C L AW Spring knee-deep water, desperate for the basic human services. I hadn’t seen that level of urban poverty and widespread destruction. I kept asking myself, ‘Is this America?’ ” It was not the first time Seargeant bore witness to American history. She spent days in New York City after the / terrorist attacks with her team, searching unsuccessfully through fallen buildings for survivors of that disaster. Seargeant described driving by the Superdome each day and the throng of newly homeless people stranded inside and out. “There were thousands of people, including kids and babies, along the side of the road with no food, no water, no shade and no toilets. It was degrees with percent humidity,” she says. Seargeant’s team and other crews from California rescued approximately people, the bulk of them in the first few days. Seargeant’s team wrecked each of their three boats on fence tops and debris hidden by the flood. They borrowed more equipment and commandeered other water craft. “By Day , things were a lot better,” Seargeant says. “But there were no rest days and the long, -hour days really took a lot out of our guys.” Seargeant returned to the Pacific McGeorge campus on September . The fourth-year Evening Division student, who ranks in the top quarter of her class, found out she had made the law school’s Mock Trial Competition Team. “I was pleasantly surprised, but more interested in catching up with my classes. I had brought along my Remedies book, but didn’t find time to read it until my flight home,” she says. “Fortunately, Dean (Carin) Crain had arranged to tape my classes and my classmates saved and shared all their notes with me. But I still have a lot of catching up to do.” Seargeant also had some catching up to do at home where her husband and two small children are used to her -hour shifts at the busy Oak Park Fire Station and the endless emergencies that affect the life of a firefighter. Photography: Steve Yeater Photography: Steve Yeater Kristi Seargeant in front of the Oak Park Fire Station. Seargeant was the co-leader of a -member Sacramento-area Urban Search and Rescue water team that was called in by the federal government following the catastrophic hurricane’s landfall. She was the only woman in the elite rescue unit, which performed heroically in the devastated Louisiana metropolis. “We got the call the evening the levees broke and less than hours later (August ) we were on a giant C- transport flying out of Travis Air Force Base with three inflatable boats and the rest of our equipment,” Seargeant says. The scene that awaited Seargeant and her group was one of the most surreal in modern American history. “The people left behind were those too poor to leave the area before the hurricane hit,” said Seargeant. “People were trapped on small islands of land and Scenes like this greeted Seargeant in New Orleans. What’s in mom’s future? “A normal legal job might be nice,” Seargeant says. “I’m interested in public safety employment law, proactive and preventative uses of the law, litigation.” Needless to say, the thought of -hour workweeks and large billable hour requirements don’t faze this woman. “I have already been able to apply some of what I learned from my externship last semester at the California State Public Employment Relations Board at my work for the fire department, so that has been invaluable training and very fascinating,” Seargeant says. One of Seargeant’s main supporters in her efforts to transition to a legal career is her boss, Chief Joe Cherry, ’, himself a graduate of the law school. “She contacted me and I encouraged her in her plans to go to Pacific McGeorge,” says Cherry, who practiced personal injury and bankruptcy law with the Sacramento firm of Ryan & Fong and is still of counsel there. “Kristi is only the second woman ever to hold the title of battalion chief in our department and she clearly could go higher,” says Cherry. “She’s a terrific individual, a great firefighter, and she’s going be a good, solid lawyer.” Kristi Seargeant 4E makes her case in International Advocacy. Spring P A C I F I C L A W 31 TAKING THE WIND OUT OF THEIR SAILS By Steve Kennedy Graduating McGeorge student Katie Pettibone loves to compete— and beat—male yachtsmen “ Generally, I’m better than Joe Blow, but people are always talking about strength when it’s not an issue. I cannot stand sailing with people who can’t see the forest for the trees.” Photography: John Blaustein —Katie Pettibone 32 P A C I F I C L AW Spring After some McGeorge School of Law students earn their degrees this spring, they will begin the process of turning their tassels into a profession. But they’ll be following classmate Katie Pettibone, who turned professional years ago. Pettibone, on course to graduate with a J.D., has packed a lifetime of travel into her years and has hung out several sails before she will hang out a shingle. She’s a professional sailor, rare enough for a law student but even rarer for her gender. From the comfort of a boat deck as a spinnaker trimmer or watch captain, she has seen more of the world’s coastlines than those of the United States, twice sailing around the world (, miles) in competition, once chronicling a race for the New York Times. On three other occasions, she raced in the America’s Cup. Last summer, the -foot- blonde was one of only two women on a French-dominated boat that sought a spot in the Cup in Valencia, Spain. “I’m always trying to push my comfort zone envelope,” she says. “I’m always about pushing myself mentally and physically.” In a perfect world, she might sail for several more years. Unfortunately for her, professional woman sailors aren’t in high demand. “A lot of professional sailors don’t think [about having women on their boats] at all,” she says. “Between big events, it’s very difficult to make a living.” Though she wasn’t particularly pushed into sailing from her roots in Port Huron, Michigan, Pettibone’s maternal grandmother provided some of the nautical bloodlines that Katie’s older sister, Debbie, took to as well. They jumped on large boats with their family by the time they were in middle school and, once they could help sail the vessels, formed their competitive spirit, perhaps unknowingly. The boat Pettibone sailed won the Port Huron to Mackinaw Race in ; that was just the beginning. Pettibone graduated with a degree in biology, with a marine science specialty, from the University of Miami, FL in , after taking a one-year sabbatical to race on Bill Koch's all-woman team that challenged for the America’s Cup in . Out of female athletes, 28 made the team. “We were trained by the best, and that’s where I got a chance to be a professional,” she says. The Mighty Mary boat, one win short of beating Team Dennis Conner, debunked the myth that women weren't strong enough or talented enough to compete for the America’s Cup. But that event wasn’t going to define her life, despite presumptions from a few. “Some people said, ‘This is the biggest thing you’ll ever do,’ ” the admittedly stubborn Pettibone says. “I said, oh my God, just shoot me now.” > Spring P A C I F I C L A W 33 Pettibone eventually wound her way to Pacific McGeorge, appreciating the access to the administrators, the professors’ interest in individual students and the school’s flexibility had she needed to take a semester off. Still, from sailing to law school? “It’s hard to be at the top of something and start something new,” she says. “This was a way to push myself intellectually. As much as I love yachting, I wanted more intellectual stimulation.” Not that she has given up athletics—she still finds time to work out, at least four days a week, ideally for two hours a day. “I think I would have been a professional athlete no matter what,” Pettibone says. “I chose sailing because I wanted to compete against the guys. I wanted to play rough.” She ran track and played volleyball and soccer in high school, but those sports weren’t physical enough for a woman with “genetically strong quads.” “Some of the girls I played soccer against in high school, it was a joke,” she says, recalling her days in that sport, mostly as a defender. When it came time to challenge the stereotype of women not being suited for positions on world-class boats, Pettibone was ready to counter that thinking. “Generally, I’m better than Joe Blow, but people are always talking about strength when it’s not an issue,” she says. “I cannot stand sailing with people who can’t see the forest for the trees. It is incredibly frustrating because you want the people throwing millions of dollars into our sport to be rewarded.” As sporting as she is, at some point she’ll need to make a regular living, perhaps putting her law degree to use, preferably near water in a city such as San Francisco or Miami, maybe on the East Coast, even overseas. International law is an option. “It would be great to be fully engaged and travel34 P A C I F I C L AW Spring Katie Pettibone, helmswoman, driving Amer Sports Too to the limit in the Volvo Ocean Race. Steve Kennedy is a free-lance writer living in Sacramento. Photography: Steve Yeater Photography: Rick Tomlinson Heading into the Southern Ocean out of Capetown, South Africa, during leg two of the Volvo Ocean Race. ing,” she says. “It could be just as satisfying as sailing.” In the meantime, she’s finishing her second semester as an intern in Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger’s office. “Politics interest me, but I still have competitive bones in my body,” Pettibone says. “I still would like to do another Cup, but I don’t know if that will work out.” One competition she hasn’t entered is the Olympics. She would probably be in the Yngling class if she qualified, but the United States Olympic Committee doesn’t budget much for sailing, so she and her teammates might have to raise $, before they could compete in . Even with the funding, Pettibone isn’t certain she’d have the physical stamina by then. Her position as trimmer “isn’t good for my bad knees,” she says. “So I’ve kind of shelved [the Olympics]. But you never know.” Small Clinic Packs a Punch for Justice Mary Ross, left, and Professor Julise Johanson he nascent Pacific McGeorge Crime Victims Clinic scored several successes in its first year of operation, highlighted by the dogged work of Mary Ross, , who secured restitution for an Elk Grove family who lost their child to a senseless shooting. Ross obtained a $, restitution order, got the order converted to a judgment, and stayed on the case until the money was paid to the mother, father and stepfather of a -year-old boy who was gunned down by a carload of juveniles. “It felt good to win the judgment, but being a mom myself I know there’s nothing that can ever bring back what was taken from them,” says Ross. For more than two decades, Pacific McGeorge has operated the state-funded Victims of Crime Resource Center with its toll-free telephone information service for California residents. Last spring the law school launched the Crime Victims Legal Clinic after being selected for a federally funded pilot project. The National Crime Victim Law Institute, located at Lewis & Clark Law School, administers the project with funding from the Office for Victims of Crime, U.S. Department of Justice. “The NCVLI has nine sites and hopes to replicate programs that show best practices throughout the country,” says Professor Julise Johanson. “Ours is one of only two law school models; the others are nonprofits.” Ross, who works as a full-time legal secretary while attending evening classes, had worked at the resource center last summer and became interested in victims’ issues. She enrolled in the clinic course last fall, along with three other students. “Often victims feel frustrated because the defendant has few assets from which to collect restitution, but the family of three of the boys involved in the shooting owned a million-dollar home,” says Johanson. Armed with that information, Ross and Johanson knew they might get some measure of justice. The parents had been held liable for the juveniles’ actions. Ross converted the minute orders to judgments, recorded the judgments, and, as a result, a lien was placed on their prop- erty. When the homeowners tried to first sell, then refinance the house, the title company balked. Finally, the parents agreed to write the restitution checks. “Mary is very modest about her work on this case. She had the follow-through and attention to detail to make this happen,” says Johanson. Michelle Brooks, the mother of the deceased victim, is even more effusive about Ross and the clinic. “I can’t say enough about Mary’s efforts. It wasn’t about the monetary value; it was the principle of the matter,” says Brooks. “The parents needed to be held responsible for the boys’ conduct. When a home-wrecking tragedy like this strikes someone, you need something like that clinic to help you navigate through the legal machinery.” The clinic has had other success stories, including another case that helped quash defense subpoenas that would have brought in psychological evidence against a molested juvenile victim, forcing a defendant plea bargain. The clinic is also involved in other activities to promote the NCVLI’s national strategy on victims’ rights by bringing impact litigation that would flesh out the language of statutes with needed case law. The Sacramento law firm of Porter Scott Weiberg & Delehant has partnered with NCVLI and the clinic to argue in amici before the California Supreme Court in People v. Giles that when a defendant renders a victim of domestic violence unavailable to testify at trial because he killed her or injured her so severely she was not able to testify, the defendant has forfeited his right to confront that witness. The appellant argues that the murder victim’s statements were not admissible and impermissible hearsay evidence at trial. “This litigation helps create a system for victim rights’ enforcement, advancement and education,” says Porter Scott attorney Laura Marabito, who heads that firm’s pro bono team. “Given the frequent unavailability of domestic violence victims to testify at trial, this area of law is particularly important.” The clinic is always on the lookout for cases that will have an impact on victims’ rights. By Michael Curran T Spring P A C I F I C L A W 35 Photography: John Blaustein Faculty News Photography: John Blaustein Special Envoy Terje RoedLarsen, who represented that organization in the Middle East peace process and was the UN’s personal representative to the Palestine Liberation Organization and the Palestinian Authority. Dajani a Big Hit on National TV Craig Manson Secretary Manson Returns to Faculty Craig Manson, ’, has returned to the Pacific McGeorge faculty as a distinguished visitor and lecturer in law after serving four years as Assistant Secretary of the Interior for Fish and Wildlife and Parks. Interior Secretary Gale A. Norton announced Manson’s resignation from his federal post, effective December , in Washington, D.C. “You have accomplished much in your service overseeing the National Park System and the Fish and Wildlife Service,” she wrote in a thank-you letter to Manson. “State officials and sportsmen praise the new attitude of cooperation you brought to wildlife management.” Spring Manson had served as a Sacramento County Superior Court judge before President George W. Bush nominated him for the Interior Department post and the U.S. Senate unanimously confirmed that nomination in January . He had served as general counsel of the California Department of Fish and Game from to after being in private practice in Sacramento from to . An Air Force Academy graduate, Manson served on active duty in the Air Force from to . Manson served as editor-in-chief of the Pacific Law Review, was elected to the Order of the Coif, and was named Outstanding Graduating Professor Omar Dajani was so impressive in his first appearance on The News Hour with Jim Lehrer on nationally televised PBS that he was asked back later that same week. When the network needed expertise on the forced evacuation of Jewish settlers from the Gaza Strip, it called upon Dajani, a former senior legal adviser to the Palestinian Authority. On the August show, he explained the Palestinian connection to the land in the pre- war era and the refugee population that was stranded there after that war. The show’s producers were taken with his knowledge and composure and invited him back four days later to again discuss the Mideast drama. In his second appearance, he expounded on the logic behind the destruction of the settlers’ homes and the Palestinians’ need for urban, multi-family dwellings. Dajani joined the faculty in after serving as an adviser to United Nations and was the president of the law school’s Order of the Coif chapter for years. He also co-directed and helped to overhaul the Appellate Advocacy program several years ago. Miller is the author of Federal & California Evidence Rules, a practiceoriented publication he updates annually, and the co-author of Practicing Persuasive Written and Oral Advocacy. Since , he has been a member of the Criminal Law and Procedure Drafting Committee for the Multistate Bar Examination. Professor David Miller Veteran Professor To Retire in August Professor David Miller, noted for his expertise in the field of evidence and his wry classroom observations about the legal profession as it existed during the s, is retiring after years on the faculty. Miller has taught Evidence, Criminal Law and Criminal Procedure to thousands of Pacific McGeorge students since arriving from the University of California, Davis School of Law faculty in . He is teaching two sections of Evidence and leads a clinical hub this spring. A former assistant U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia, Miller served as the interim Associate Dean for Academic Affairs for months in the early ’s Anne Bloom Bloom Stays Busy War that has been blamed for causing birth defects and cancer. Bloom also has been appointed to the board of the Coalition for Clean Air, a California-based environmental group, and has two law review articles pending. “From Justice to Global Peace: A (Brief ) Genealogy of the Class Action Crisis,” will be published by the Loyola of Los Angeles Law Review later this year. The article explores how and why class action lawsuits have come under attack and argues that the roots of the current class action “crisis” lie in attempts to apply class action law to mass torts. “Milking the Cash Cow and Other Stories: Media Coverage of Transnational Workers’ Rights Litigation” has been accepted for publication in the University of Vermont Law Review. The article looks at how the print media covered three precedent-setting cases that involved novel legal claims. Outside Classroom Professor Anne Bloom filed an amicus brief on October in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit Court on behalf of the Veterans of Foreign Wars, American Legion and other veterans’ groups in the In re “Agent Orange” Product Liability Litigation case. Roger Doyle assisted Bloom on the brief, which is for a case involving a herbicide used in the Vietnam Globetrotter McCaffrey Has Two New Clients Professor Steve McCaffrey is representing the government of Nicaragua in a case involving use of the San Juan River brought by Costa Rica in the International Court of Justice at The Hague, Netherlands, last fall. He traveled to Managua, Nicaragua from November - to discuss the Dispute Regarding Navigational and Related Rights that was brought before the UN’s primary tribunal. Nicaragua will have nine months to prepare a counter-memorial after Nicaragua files its memorial next May. The San Juan River forms the boundary between Nicaragua and Costa Rica. The dispute goes back to an treaty that granted sovereignty over the river’s waters to Nicaragua, while also recognizing certain rights for Costa Rica. McCaffrey flew to Entebbe, Uganda after Thanksgiving to participate in the final round of Nile negotiations. He continues in his role as the legal adviser to the Nile River Basin Negotiating Committee. He then traveled to Ramallah and Jericho in the West Bank, where he consulted with the project team on providing legal advice to the Palestinian Authority in preparation for final status negotiations with Israel. Earlier, he had been in New Delhi, India from September - as a water law consultant to that nation’s government. He is advising India on a dispute with Pakistan over a dam the former is constructing on the Chenab River, one of the streams in the Indus River system. Spring P A C I F I C L A W 37 Photography: Kit Morris 36 P A C I F I C L A W Senior while in law school. From to , he was an adjunct professor here, often teaching Employment Law. The Pacific McGeorge Alumnus of the Year Award winner is teaching Administrative Law this spring. Professor Gregory Weber Seeking Solutions to Major Natural Resources Management Disputes By Michael Spurgeon Director, Institute for Sustainable Development and Professor of Law A.B., Williams College J.D., University of California, Hastings Courses Taught Civil Procedure, Administrative Law, Alternative Dispute Resolution, Civil Pre-Trial Litigation Private Sector Associate, Kronick, Moskovitz, Tiedemann & Girard; Senior Attorney, Court of Appeal, Third Appellate District 38 P A C I F I C L A W Spring Photography: Barry Robinson Recent Scholarship Cases and Materials on Water Law (7th ed., West 2005) (with G. Gould, D. Grant); California Civil Discovery (6th ed., LexisNexis 2005) (with J. Hogan) Spring P A C I F I C L A W 39 Photography: Steve Yeater H Professor George Gould, of the California Water Law and Having grown up along the banks of the mighty Potomac Policy Reporter, and his credits include multiple articles and River, Professor Gregory Weber was immediately struck by the co-authorship of four law books. In he joined the faculty pressing water issues in the West when he moved to California at Pacific McGeorge where for the first seven years his writing in . “The Potomac was a mile wide where I lived. It is and teaching focused on natural resources issues. miles wide where the mouth of the river meets the Weber claims the real pivotal moment came in when Chesapeake Bay,” he says. “For someone who grew up along he went on sabbatical and served as a consultant to the Forest such a large body of water, seeing the number of interests Stewardship Council in Oaxaca, Mexico. Developing a dispute competing for the comparatively small rivers in California resolution protocol for a multi-national NGO that promotes really opened my eyes to the importance of sound natural sustainable forestry, he finally saw that he’d reached his original resources management.” career goal. “My sabbatical was a watershed event because that The more he learned about natural resources issues, the was the first time I realized the perfect intersection between my more he became certain that his future somehow would be interests in natural resources and in alternative dispute resolurelated to those issues. He just wasn’t sure how. While he tried tion. That’s when I realized that Pacific McGeorge wasn’t just a to figure it out, he decided to go to law school. And then a fine law school, but also was the perfect place for me because lucky thing happened. He was in a car accident. of the law school’s affiliation with the “When I was in the process of applying Center for Collaborative Policy.” to law schools, I had a job working in a The stated mission of the Center for landscaping nursery,” he says. “One afterCollaborative Policy “is to build the capacity noon a co-worker was giving me a ride of public agencies, stakeholder groups, and home, and we were involved in a traffic the public to use collaborative strategies to accident. My friend was Mexican. He improve policy outcomes.” Weber, who didn’t speak any English and he didn’t have joined the Center upon his return from insurance, so he was afraid of involving the Mexico, points to the Sacramento Water police. But as chance would have it, I knew Forum as an example of how the Center the driver of the other car, too. Because I Professor Gregory Weber’s career combines natural resource management and was the only one who could speak English has taken a winding route. collaborative approaches to dispute resoluand Spanish, I brokered a deal that tion. “In a seven-year period and with more than stakeholdresulted in the two drivers swapping cars. The deal probably ers involved, the forum ended years of litigation over lower was worth $, and they both were happy with the result.” American River water with a win/win solution that was emiThat positive outcome suddenly made him realize that he nently superior to any traditional solution,” he says. “In fact, was more interested in alternative processes to resolve disputes because of the collaborative process there’s actually more water than in the adversarial nature of traditional judicial structures. available both to the environment and to urban consumers.” He decided that while he should go ahead and get a law While Weber remains as an associate of the center, he degree, the traditional training might be most useful in showhasn’t worked on any of the center’s current projects since ing him what not to do. He was certain the future’s natural becoming director of Pacific McGeorge’s Institute for resources issues would become increasingly complex, he Sustainable Development. “At the Institute we are trying to believed that the most effective means of resolving those issues apply the principles of the Center for Collaborative Policy on would involve getting people and institutions to work an international scale. I’m finally doing the work I first set out together instead of at odds with one another, and he realized to do. My personal journey took some directions that I didn’t his ultimate career goal would combine his natural resources anticipate when I began, and I took years to get where I interests with his alternative dispute resolution interests. started to go, but I got there. In fact, that’s my advice for stuBut like a river winding its circuitous way toward the dents. They should take the tools and opportunities that arise ocean, Weber’s legal career took a lot of twists and turns to further their careers, but they shouldn’t forget the goals that before he fully realized his original goal. After law school, inspired them to go to law school in the first place. Students Weber clerked for Justice Edmund Burke of the Alaska who remember their original goals will reach them.” Supreme Court and then spent two years practicing with Kronick, Moskovitz, Tiedemann & Girard, a leading California water resources law firm. From -, he was a This is the fifth in a series of Pacific Law articles on members of the Pacific McGeorge faculty who pursue excellence inside and senior attorney for the California Court of Appeal, Third outside the classroom. District, in Sacramento. He was co-founder, along with The University of the Pacific McGeorge School of Law Pacific McGeorge Faculty Research & Scholarship faculty not only excel in the classroom, they render public service to the university and the profession. Our faculty also engage in research and scholarship to further The Rule of Law. Below is a listing of selected - Pacific McGeorge faculty publications. Anne Bloom From Justice to Global Peace: A (Brief) Genealogy of the Class Action Crisis, L. L.A. L. R. ___ (forthcoming ) Milking the Cash Cow and Other Stories: Media Coverage of the Transnational Workers’ Rights Litigation, V. L. R. ___ (forthcoming ) Rupture, Leakage and Reconstruction: The Regulation of Sex in the Breast Implants Controversy C. J.G L. () Linda E. Carter Lessons from Avena: The Inadequacy of Clemency and Judicial Proceedings for Violations of the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations, D J. C. & I’ () Raymond R. Coletta G I P L (ThomsonWest) (forthcoming ) (with J. Sprankling, other) W E F I (West) (forthcoming ) 40 P A C I F I C L AW Omar M. Dajani Surviving Opportunities: Palestinian Negotiating Patterns in Peace Talks with Israel in H I P N: C-C S (Tamara Cofman Wittes, ed., ) End of Conflict and Other Fictions: Competing Visions of Peace and Justice Across Cultures ___(forthcoming ) (B U P) Julie A. Davies Global Issues in Torts (Thomson-West) (forthcoming ) Universal Health Insurance: The Key to Meaningful Tort Reform, ___W. U. J. L. & P. P. ___ (forthcoming ) Report on the Pacific McGeorge Workshop on Globalizing the Law School Curriculum, P. MG G B. D. L.J. ___ (forthcoming ) (with others) Franklin A. Gevurtz G I C L (Thomson-West) (forthcoming ) Spring George A. Gould C M W L (th ed., West ) (with D. Grant, G. Weber) George C. Harris The Rule of Law and the War on Terror: The Professional Responsibilities of Executive Branch Lawyers in the Wake of 9/11, J. N’ S L. & POL’Y ___(forthcoming ) Leslie Gielow Jacobs United States Legislation and Presidential Directives in E o B D (J. Wiley ) Bioterrorism Defense: Current Components and Continuing Challenges in H S: L P (W. N, ed., ) A Troublesome Equation in Government Funded Research: “Sensitive But Unclassified” = Secret But Unconstitutional, J. N’ S L. & POL’Y 111 () Ruth Jones The Extrajudicial Resolution of Sexual Abuse Cases: Can the Church Be a Resource for Survivors, S U. L. R. () Amy L. Landers Let the Games Begin: Incentives to Innovation in the New Economy of Intellectual Property Law, S C L. R. ___ (forthcoming ) Brian K. Landsberg Book Review, Howard Ball, Murder in Mississippi (Univ. Press of Kansas), J. INTERDISCIPL’Y H. () Report on the Pacific McGeorge Workshop on Globalizing the Law School Curriculum, P. MG G B. D. L.J. ___(forthcoming ) (with others) Lawrence C. Levine T L P (d ed., LexisNexis) (forthcoming ) (with others) Thomas O. Main T L C P (Oxford) (forthcoming ) (with S. McCaffrey) ADR: The New Equity, U. CIN. L. REV. ___ (forthcoming ) G I C P (Thomson-West ) F R o C P R S (Aspen ) (with S. Subrin, et al) Report on the Pacific McGeorge Workshop on Globalizing the Law School Curriculum, P. MG G B. D. L.J. ___(forthcoming ) (with others) Michael P. Malloy G I C (Thomson-West) (forthcoming) (with others) B T-F C (Carolina Academic Press, forthcoming ) I T I (Kluwer Law International, forthcoming ) (with others) I B: C, M P (2d. ed., Carolina Academic Press, ) Emerging International Regime of Financial Services Regulation T’ L. () Christine Manolakas Tax Discrimination and Trade in Services Between Canada and the United States: Deciphering the Landscape, in T V T (Irwin) (forthcoming ) (with C. Brown) The Presumption of Undue Influence Resurrected: He Said/She Said is Back, MG L. R. ___ (forthcoming ) Stephen C. McCaffrey U I L (Lexis) (forthcoming ) T L C P (Oxford) (forthcoming ) (with T. Main) The Human Right to Water Revisited, in W I E L, (E. Brown Weiss, et al, eds., ) B L R (Aspen, , Cumulative Supplement No. ) The Danube River Basin in T M-G W: F C S (M. Finger, et al., eds., ) B F S L (2d. ed., Carolina Academic Press, ) The Fifty-Sixth Session of the International Law Commission, E. P & L. 109 () David W. Miller F C E R (Aspen ) Claude D. Rohwer C N (th ed., West, forthcoming ) (with A. Skrocki) P P W O A, C F III (Aspen ) (with M. Vitiello and M. Fontham) Rachael Salcido Doctrinal Divisions and Issues in Environmental Law in E L S: A G P (forthcoming ) (with S. McCaffrey) John E.B. Myers M E C, D, E A C (Aspen) (forthcoming ) Legal Issues for Mental Health Professionals Treating Victims of Child Sexual Abuse in H T A N C (P. F. F, ed., ) Jan Rein W, T, P T- Century (Aspen) (forthcoming ) (with others) Elizabeth Rindskopf Parker Law Schools Cannot Be Effective in Isolation, BYU E. & L. J. (with S. Redfield) Globalizing the Law School Curriculum: Affirming the Ends and Recognizing the Need for Divergent Means, P. S. I’ L. R. () Gregory C. Pingree Rhetorical Holy War: Polygamy, Homosexuality, and the Paradox of Community and Autonomy, A U J G, S P, L (forthcoming ) John G. Sprankling U P L (nd ed., Lexis) (forthcoming ) G I P L (Thomson-West) (forthcoming ) (with G. Weber, other) Michael Vitiello Teaching Effective Oral Argument Skills: Forget About the Drama Coach, M. L. J. R. __ (forthcoming ) P P W O A, C F III (Aspen ) (with D. Miller and M. Fontham) Professor Kingsfield: The Most Misunderstood Character in Literature H L. R. () Gregory S.Weber C M W L (th ed.,West ) (with G. Gould, D. Grant) C C D (th ed., LexisNexis ) (with J. Hogan) Spring P A C I F I C L A W 41 Photography: Steve Yeater Dear Fellow Alumni & Friends, Pacific McGeorge is moving forward in ways I could not have imagined just a few years ago. As an example, I am pleased to report that, despite a national downturn in law school applications of approximately percent, the law school’s applications and applicant credentials remain high and continue to rise. This may be yet another beneficial result of Pacific McGeorge’s rise in national rankings. The law school continues to focus on the dual need to prepare every student for success, as well as to ensure that Pacific McGeorge is playing a meaningful role in our nation and communities. The faculty continues to produce excellent scholarship, yet also to lead in national initiatives: Examples include Professor Frank Gevurtz’s leadership of the effort to internationalize the legal curriculum at law schools around the nation; Professor John Sims’ co-editing and production of the new peer-reviewed “Journal of National Security Law & Policy”; Professor Clark Kelso’s effort to orient the new Schaber Chair in Health Law & Policy to address the most pressing and relevant issues; and, of course, Dean Parker’s leadership of the “K-” project to build a national pipeline of diverse students well prepared to succeed in law school. These are just a few examples of the strategic thinking that contributes to student learning, as well as generates excitement and pride among students, faculty, alumni and the community. The law school is doing its part to build Pacific McGeorge’s reputation and to demonstrate ways that the legal profession can add value to our society. I hope you will agree 42 P A C I F I C L AW Spring With best regards, Pacific McGeorge Alumni Board of Directors Executive Committee J. Brian Putler ’85 President William D. Harn ’93 Vice President Richard A. Harris ’80 Treasurer TBD Secretary Directors Term Expires 2006 Robert W. Armstrong ’78 Rocky Copley ’81 Brian Putler ’85 Catherine MacMillan ’94 Shanti Patching ’01 Douglas P. Wiita ’77 Term Expires 2007 Eric L. Barnum ’94 James M. Day, Jr. ’73 Bay Area alumni prove to be culture vultures as well as legal eagles The Bay Area Alumni Chapter has been one of the most active in recent years as evidenced by the alums that turned out on October for a chapter reception and tour of San Francisco’s Asian Art Museum. Catherine MacMillan, ’, and Sarah Goldstein, ’, organized the event, one of several successful recent gatherings of Pacific McGeorge grads in the Bay Area. The chapter held its own MCLE luncheon program on March at Morrison & Foerster that featured a talk by Shadi Zokaei, LL.M. ’, on ethics in the electronic age. Rachel Slutsky, ’, helped coordinate the program that was co-sponsored by Robert Half Legal Services. Dean Elizabeth Rindskopf Parker, Assistant Dean Ruthe Ashley, Alumni Association President Brian Putler, and Professor Larry Levine were among the attendees at a New York Area Alumni reception on November . A return to the “Big Apple” is tentatively scheduled for November . A first-ever Modesto reception, organized by Dustin Johnson, ’, took place on March and fall receptions are planned in Reno and Las Vegas. Sean Wong, ’, welcomed members of the new Pacific McGeorge Asian Pacific American alumni chapter to his home on January with members of the student APALSA group also in attendance. Two annual events run by the Alumni Association and the Sacramento chapter have become popular with students. Each August, alumni stage a welcome-back barbecue on campus. Every March, six alums each play host to upper-division students with specific legal interests on Dine with Alumni weekend dinners. The Alumni Association sponsored an alumni breakfast last fall at the State Bar of California’s Annual Meeting last September in San Diego and will do so again at this year’s confab on October in Monterey. The European Alumni Chapter will hold a reunion conference on May , in Copenhagen, Denmark. For information on these and other alumni events, please visit our web site, www.mcgeorge.edu, or call --. Morrison C. England, Jr. ’83 J. Neil Gieleghem ’82 Charles K. Manock ’92 John R. Masterman ’73 Dennis J. Olmstead ’84 Michael G. Polis ’94 Diana K. Rodgers ’94 Diana P. Scott ’78 Margaret S. Shedd ’75 D. Ron Thompson ’79 Term Expires 2008 Erin M. Dunston ’99 Scott M. Hervey ’95 Geralynn Patellaro ’93 Evan D. Smiley ’92 Andrew P. Tauriainen ’01 SBA President Ric Asfar ’06 The members of the 2006 University of the Pacific, McGeorge School of Law Alumni Board: Front row, (from left) Diana Rodgers ’94, Scott Hervey ’95, Catherine MacMillan ’94, Margaret Shedd ’75, outgoing board member Tami Stoller ’97, Judge Morrison England ’83, and Richard Harris ’80. Back row, Evan Smiley ’94, Ric Asfar ’06, Brian Putler ’85, Michael Polis ’94, Dean Elizabeth Rindskopf Parker, Neil Gieleghem ’82, Dennis Olmstead ’84, James Day, ’73, Andrew P. Tauriainen ’01, and Rocky Copley ’81. Not pictured, Robert Armstrong ’78, Eric Barnum ’94, Erin Dunston ’99, Charles Manock ’92, John Masterman, ’73, Shanti Patching ’01, Geralynn Patellaro ’93, Diana Scott ’78, Ron Thompson ’79, and Douglas Wiita ’77. Spring P A C I F I C L A W 43 Photography: Steve Yeater Message from The Alumni Board President that it’s time for each of us, every alum, to figure out how we can make a contribution. Every one of us has something to gain from engaging with the law school after we graduate and are established in our careers. Alumni support to the school is essential and can be in many important forms—through guidance to students or prospective students, hiring young alums, service on a committee or participating in an alumni chapter, as well as by providing charitable support. The law school’s rate of ascent is fueled by alumni engagement. Your guidance and insights on this are vital, and I hope you will share your thoughts with me and the other members of your Alumni Board. There are many reasons for us to be proud to call ourselves Pacific McGeorge alumni. I hope you are, and if you’re not, I hope you will tell me why! If ever you have comments, concerns, or suggestions—for any reason—please contact me at [email protected]. Gordon Adelman Senior Partner, Matheny, Sears, Attorney. I finally went inactive! In Linkert & Long. 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The J Street building was sold to Daughter Ashley and her family 2080 Rocky Springs Road (916) 933-0843 Home Terence B. Smith live and love in Steamboat Springs, entire building, top to bottom. On 929 Roeder Way Colorado. We have four beautiful January 1st, entered 55th year of Sacramento, CA 95822 and brilliant grandchildren. Life is George F. Wolcott practice. (Sacramento, CA) (916) 386-6486 Business good. (Sacramento, CA) 3611 Orchard Street George W. Goldsmith, ’54 (916) 446-4273 Home He died in Carmichael at the age Henry W. Crowle of 85 after a short illness. A former General Counsel, Brandenburger & World War II bomber pilot, he began his legal career as a deputy (916) 733-0600 Business West Richland, WA 99353 Davis. I represent a Sacramento- (509) 967-3188 Home based company, founded in 1932, Class Representatives The longtime Reno City Attorney district attorney in Sacramento and that identifies and locates lost and Phil Hiroshima announced that she will not seek was in private practice until his unknown heirs throughout the Hiroshima, Jacobs, Roth & Lewis re-election to the post she’s held United States, Europe, the Russian 1420 River Park Drive, 2nd Floor for nearly two decades but will run States and the Far East. The com- Sacramento, CA 95815 for justice of the peace. She is in pany also offers related services, (916) 395-2939 Home the last year of her fifth term as including preparation of genealogi- (916) 923-2223 Business city attorney, first winning election Class Representative documentation, claim verification Mr. Burl W. Waits ’66 of eligible beneficiaries, and court Waits Law Corporation testimony. This position has provid- 1340 Florin Road, Suite 200 ed me with new and interesting Sacramento, CA 95831 challenges and a real career Nancy B. Reardan real property transactions and (916) 391-2230 Home change, yet within the practice of Jack and I are still enjoying retire- estate matters. Sold our orchard (916) 428-3103 Business law. What makes it even more ment, playing tennis, visiting prog- and developed some building lots, interesting is that the owner of the eny, and having lunch together. which we sold to a builder. Are in business, Bill Davis, is a high May you all be so lucky! (Elk the process of building a wine loft, Ronald B. Robie ’67 school classmate of mine and we Grove, CA) a place for 8 small wineries to In January, I begin my 36th year reacquainted ourselves while work- make, store and sell their wines. as an adjunct professor at Pacific ing on our 40th reunion committee Skiing when there is enough snow. McGeorge. (Sacramento, CA) several years ago. After 30 years of James L. Mikacich ’69 litigation, he noticed that I need- Proprietor, Mikacich Law Office. ed/wanted a change and offered Dividing our time between Lincoln me a position as General Counsel and Truckee. Visiting children and (I also do some case management families between California and work). I continue to do private Florida. Working less hours, play- mediations and arbitrations and ing and traveling more. Enjoying maintain my position on the AAA seeing and finding old friends, construction and commercial pan- Gordon P. Adelman Granite Bay, CA 95746 classmates, and meeting new els. It provides me a perfect blend 1301 - 43rd Avenue (916) 791-4063 Home friends. (Roseville, CA) of legal disciplines as I approach Sacramento, CA 95822 (916) 443-2011 Business the “senior” status of my career. (916) 421-3082 Home The Honorable cal charts, procurement of heirship (Sacramento, CA) (509) 946-3588 Business Patricia A. Lynch in 1986. (Reno, NV) Eugene L. Paine 10076 Mills Station Road Sacramento, CA 95827-2204 (916) 361-8491 Home George F. Wolcott Attorney, Law Office of George F. Wolcott. I am still working as a small town lawyer, now primarily Enjoying life. (Richland, WA) 1039 Eileen Way Sacramento, CA 95831 Class Representative (916) 393-9032 Home Gary L. Vinson Class Representatives Jeff B. Marschner 9137 Purdy Lane Steven P. Martini Author, Steven P. Martini, Inc. Steve is on the book tour circuit after the release of his latest novel, 44 P A C I F I C L AW Spring by Jan Ferris Heenan El Dorado Hills, CA 95762-9730 developers who are rehabing the retirement in 1985. Harold Robbins Lives On In Podrug’s Steamy Novels Junius Podrug, ’, read more than Perry Mason novels before going to law school. He figured his own practice would bring scads of falsely accused beauties to his doorstep—both for legal counsel and romance. Reality proved otherwise during the years Podrug practiced law, first in Sacramento and later in Beverly Hills. “My first client had a lawyer who spit on her. She was crazy…and it went downhill from there,” he says in trademark deadpan style. So Podrug opted out. He gave up his private practice in to write full-time. He has since published four books under his own name, three of them thrillers starring comely heroines, truth-seeking reporters and other engaging characters. Yet readers may be more familiar with Podrug’s other body of work: the novels he has written under the banner of the late Harold Robbins, whose steamy and oft-explicit novels include best-sellers such as The Carpetbaggers and The Betsy. Podrug has written four Robbins titles since —including Blood Royal, which is set partly in Modesto—and has two more in the pipeline. Podrug first met Robbins through a mutual friend and Robbins’ widow, Jann, asked Podrug to carry on posthumously for the author, who died in . “Harold was a wonderful and irreverent person,” recalls Podrug, who now lives on Cape Cod. While the two never collaborated when Robbins was alive, he wrote a publicity blurb for Podrug’s novel, Presumed Guilty, and proclaimed it “A wild, rocketing thriller!” Podrug’s own books have been translated into several languages, including Spanish, Swedish and Romanian. Still, he considers the work he does under Robbins’ byline to be better written. “My books are too complicated, too esoteric, too scholarly, too convoluted,” Podurg explains. “I sat down and read A Stone for Danny Fisher and realized Harold Robbins was writing picaresque novels…the ne’er-do-well who rises from the bottom. His books were really quite simple.” Podrug has twice written female lawyers in as his lead characters, once in his own book and once for Robbins. Still, he rarely misses his first vocation and, even less so, the logistics of working in Los Angeles. “I don’t miss trying to fight my way to different courthouses,” Podrug says. “Sometimes you read about a case and your sense of justice wells up. But ultimately it became about money and money is not a long-term motivator.” Spring P A C I F I C L A W 45 Photography: Matt Suess Photography Alumni News - Douglas A. Sears Double Tap, which is built around in punitive damages to 200,000 Karl O. Durand Community Bank, a subsidiary the misuse of power, the ethics of workers who sued Wal-Mart Professor & Paralegal Program of Western Sierra Bancorp. computer technology and corporate because the huge retailer denied Chair, McIntosh College. For sever- (Auburn, CA) greed. Martini, who writes out of them state-mandated meal breaks. al years I have been teaching at Bellingham, Washington, has writ- Sabraw is one of the most highly McIntosh College, a career college ten several bestsellers and a couple sought after complex litigation located in Dover, NH. I was recent- of his thrillers have been made into judges in the state and regularly ly appointed the chair of the movies. (Bellingham, WA) volunteers as a judge in the trial Paralegal Program. I do not miss Advocacy program. (Oakland, CA) the practice of law at all. Still Stan Mayfield Retired. Just a short follow-up to Michael J. Schneider my last news note of a couple of Owner, Law Office of Michael J. years ago. Our plans have come to Schneider, P.C. Despite an expen- fruition. Mako and I have been liv- sive learning experience courtesy of ing in Toyama-Shi, Toyama-Ken Raytheon last April (tough products Japan since last December. Many case), I still made a living in 2005. wonderful experiences with old and The highlight for me was my mar- new friends. We will be moving to married to Joyce (33 years). We have two lovely granddaughters, the youngest being 1 year old. I never miss living in California, except maybe during a blizzard. (Dover, NH) David E. Smith Class Representatives Kershaw, Cutter & Ratinoff. In R. Marilyn Lee December of 2005, I accepted a 2124 Bagley Avenue partnership position at the Los Angeles, CA 90034 Sacramento firm of Kershaw, (310) 836-9494 Home Cutter & Ratinoff. At this new firm, I will continue to handle class action, mass tort and catastrophic injury cases involving drugs and pharmaceutical products, medical malpractice and medical products, Class Representatives Thomas O. Freeburger California State Housing Finance Agency Office of the General Counsel Post Office Box 4034 Gary F. Zilaff Law Offices of Gary G. Zilaff Post Office Box 160425 permit, so my nerves are a little further this end in June I met with shaky. I'm coaching his recreational the dean & chapter of Lincoln league basketball team, playing Cathedral which own the 1215 golf on a regular basis, and still issue of the Magna Carta which seeing some of the old Moonies. will go on tour. If you go to All in all, life is good. England, Lincoln is one cathedral (Fair Oaks, CA) you must see. I have added an aston to the garage. (Reno, NV) Daniel Wong Assistant Solicitor General, Nevada Sacramento, CA 95812-4034 Steve Worthley Attorney General's Office. Greetings (916) 323-3151 Business He began his second term as the from the Nevada Attorney General's (916) 739-8910 Home chairman of the Tulare County Office. 2005 has been an interest- Board of Supervisors. First elected ing year having been appointed Sacramento, CA 95816 (916) 920-5025 Business United States in 2007-2008. To Peggy Chater-Turner District Attorney's Office - to the board in 1998, the Dinuba assistant solicitor general in probate attorney previously chaired December 2004 and promoted to the board in 2002. (Dinuba, CA) chief solicitor general on July 1, mesothelioma and asbestos injury The Honorable Nicholas K. Lowe claims, elder abuse and nursing John A. Behnke riage in June to my beautiful, Law Offices of Nicholas K. Lowe. I home negligence cases. During the Superior Court Judge, Mendocino Kawagoe-Shi, Sattama-Ken next smart, investigator/office manager, have made an abrupt change in past year I have been actively County Superior Court. Behnke Jane Fern (now J. Schneider). Life my career. I am now doing a full- engaged in trials, as well as inves- was appointed to the Mendocino Salem, Oregon by late spring of is good. It got better when son time mediation practice. Please tigation and discovery, on the County Superior Court by Governor Paul N. Balestracci Classmates are working less hours December and plan to be back in 2007. This is a great way to spend Matt decided to go to Ithaca spread the word and call me to Plaintiff's Management Committees Arnold Schwarzenegger. He was Principal, Neumiller & Beardslee. Class Representatives a retirement. (Toyama-Shi, Japan) College instead of playing junior schedule one! (Sacramento, CA) on both the California Diet Drug Has been elected chairman of the Law Office of Elisa R. Zitano. the managing partner of the Ukiah Barbara L. Haukedalen JCCP in Los Angeles, as well as board of directors for Catholic During 2005 I opened my own law firm of Carter, Behnke, Oglesby (916) 323-9270 Business the Tenant Health Care JCCP in Healthcare West, San Joaquin office in downtown Sacramento, and Bacik. (Ukiah, CA) level hockey in 2005-6. He is Cameron L. Reeves doing well and liking school. I I retired on October 1 from Office hope I am not awakened from this of County Counsel, Lake County, having served six terms (24 years) in that position. (Lakeport, CA) Class Representatives Ervin A. DeSmet, Jr. 4411 - 244th Street, SE Woodinville, WA 98072 pleasant dream. Got to do some duck, goose, and pheasant shoot- Ira Rubinoff 711 Saddleback Drive Marysville, CA 95901 Administrative Law Judge, Workers' Compensation Appeals Board, Fresno. (Fresno, CA) tiffs settled their unnecessary heart surgery claims for over $400 mil- Phillip W. Kell Chief Operating Officer, California Baptist Foundation. I still call Auburn, CA 95603 (530) 889-7000 Business County Board. The Stockton attor- Judith A. Smith ney is a principal with Neumiller & 6241 Louth Way Beardslee, where he is head of the Citrus Heights, CA 95621 litigation department. (Stockton, CA) (916) 722-2337 Home Elisa R. Zitano providing Medicare lien research and consultation, support services in complex medical cases, and contract services in diet drug class Great time. In November got to Proprietor, Nissen & Douglas. For also selected for membership in spend a few days sneaking up the best in gifts made from wood, ABOTA, the American Board of salmon streams trying to arrow a please visit my web sites: Trial Advocates, so it has been a brown bear...lots of fun and saw www.JacksBowls.com and busy year. 2006 promises to be plenty of great country and big www.Poker-Chip-Racks.com and equally challenging as I have tracks...but no shots. The year visit the galleries where my work is recently been elected to be an at ended peacefully, as I hope it did shown: www.hangitupgallery.com large member of the Board of for all of you. (Anchorage, AK) and www.goldcountryartists- Directors of the Consumer gallery.com. Send your email Attorneys of California. Wife Elisa address to me at Zitano (McGeorge class of 1979) [email protected] to receive my and daughter Arianna are doing Steven G. McGuire Secretary of State for Legislative Gary H. Gale periodic and often entertaining well and are equally busy with Nevada State Public Defender. I’m and Constituent Affairs for the state Mortgage Consultant, Golden Bear Class Representatives Bowl News newsletter. You will be their professional and educational in the middle of an unprecedented of California. She previously served Mortgage. I left the bankruptcy law pursuits. (Sacramento, CA) third term as the Nevada State as general counsel and legislative practice 12/31/03. I've kept my Public Defender. Our office fought a director to a former Assembly law license active, but since $250 fine for refusing to provide speaker. (Sacramento, CA) 3/1/04 I've been originating pur- R. Steven Corbitt 130 Amber Valley Drive You can also enjoy my very popular John W. Hawkins, LTD. I am semi- Orinda, CA 94563 column: Medical News The Shop. retired at age 70 and was appoint- (925) 254-2741 Home As of this writing I still have four ed by the Nevada Supreme Court (415) 374-2101 Business fingers and one thumb on each under their alternative dispute pro- hand (of which I have two), which gram as a Nevada Supreme Court Lars H. Gantzel settlement judge (mediation pro- Post Office Box 6433 gram). I do that and continue as Incline Village, NV 89450 arbitrator for the Second Judicial (949) 499-1070 Home is no small miracle. Happy 30th Anniversary. (Gold River, CA) Gerald D. Waite Deputy District Attorney, Benton County District Attorney's Office. After practicing 28 years in Las Vegas, Nevada, I have returned to Corvallis, Oregon and am now a Fresno home. My work is very rewarding and challenging. Our foundation is affiliated with over 1900 Baptist churches in California. In 2005 we helped provide millions of meals for hurricane victims and provided thousands of immigrant workers shoes, clothing and health supplies. God is good. (Fresno, CA) name to police all the way from Justice Court in Winnemucca to a 5-4 loss in the U.S. Supreme Court. (Carson City, NV) Bruce W. Busch CCTLA and at the CAOC statewide fishing and sitting with hospice She won an $800,000 verdict convention. Also had a wonderful patients. In September, I spent 10 ($670,000 net) in a Sacramento visit to Italy and England. Husband wonderful days fishing for silver Superior County premises liability David Smith (76D) recently accept- salmon on Alaska's Tsiu River. trial involving a plaintiff who fell ed a partnership with Sacramento (Sequim, WA) and suffered back injuries at a firm of Kershaw, Cutter & Ratinoff. sporting goods store. Daughter Arianna is exploring grad (Sacramento, CA) school options! (Sacramento, CA) Theresa D. Carroll She was appointed Assistant Richard Glasson He announced his intention to seek reelection to the Tahoe Township Justice Court next November. Robert Pelner Judge Glasson, who practiced with The Honorable County, Oregon, located in He died at the age of 60 in Manoukian, Scapello & Alling for James L. Roeder Corvallis, Oregon. (Corvallis, OR) Sheboygan, Wisconsin. A former 12 years, is completing his first Judith Kent chase and refinancing home loans for residential and rental properties. My focus has been refinancing debtors out of Chapter 13 bankruptcies, and other subprime trans- I retired from Sacramento County Public Defenders Office March 28, 2005. I love retirement because I get to spend lots of time with my granddaughter, born December 14, 2004. (Sacramento, CA) actions, but I also handle A paper William F. Meese loans. It's been a lot of fun, a lot He died at the age of 58 in a hos- less stress, and a real learning pital in Schuyler, Virginia. He oper- experience. My wife of 16 years, ated a general law practice in that Kymberly, is the Sacramento state for 15 years after practicing Randolph C. Wright branch manager of Mortgageit law for 10 years in Anchorage, Owner, Law Offices of Randolph C. Lending, a wholesale lender, so we Alaska. (Schuyler, VA) Wright. I have become involved in have both sides of the equation the tour of the Magna Carta of the covered. My oldest son just got his Retired Superior Court Judge, Air Force major, he practiced law six-year term on the Stateline The Honorable Donohue McKenney & Bergquist. Placer County Superior Court. in the Sacramento area for several bench. (Zephyr Cove, NV) Ronald Sabraw Hello to all from the Frozen North. Roeder has been named to the years after graduation from law He presided over the Alameda Wish you were here. Let's get board of directors of Auburn school before returning to his County Superior Court civil trial in together in the city next fall. which a jury awarded $115 million (Minneapolis, MN) Spring tures regarding Medicare liens to Staying busy gardening, traveling, deputy district attorney for Benton native Wisconsin. (Sheboygan, WI) action litigation. I presented lec- (916) 654-2630 Business Noel Ferris Gary Kirby Bergquist P A C I F I C L AW than me. (Carson City, NV) lion dollars. During 2005 I was John W. Hawkins 46 2005. I hope all of my 79D Jack H. Nissen the first to see my newest works. District Court (ADA). (Reno, NV) Redding, in which over 700 plain- 11562 B Avenue ing in North Dakota in October. (425) 486-7618 Home (425) 990-4510 Business Terry R. Menefee Placer County Spring P A C I F I C L A W 47 for Delta Airlines. Recently Presiding Judge, Superior Court of authored a book entitled El Dorado County. Still living and Conversations on Success with Class Representative working in beautiful South Lake John Gray who wrote Men are Ms. Debra Steel Sturmer Tahoe. In September of 2005, I from Mars, Women are from 1475 Monterey Boulevard was appointed by Chief Justice Venus. Currently speaking on the San Francisco, CA 94127 George as a member of the Judicial topics of leadership and the sci- (415) 887-3660 Business Council of California. in 2005, I ence of achievement. Elected to 2004 graduate of Pacific After many months of discussions, McGeorge. She has proved to be a I decided to join Jackson & crackerjack find and keeper. Shiela Wallace, working out of their and I celebrated our 22nd wedding Orange County office. Gaby anniversary by attending my 40th Jackson, the founder of the firm, is high school reunion in Fairfield a mother of three and an unbeliev- [both on August 20th]. Our twins able success story—and a class- turned 21 in the summer and we mate at McGeorge! So, I guess had a trip to Tahoe celebration that was appointed by the Chief Justice the boards of Atlanta Technical there was a reason why I attended included both my older children Carleton R. Cramer to chair the Council's Rules and College and the 100 Black Men of McDuck. (Orange, CA) and their spouses. The karaoke Attorney/Professor. I am currently Projects Committee. I continue to Atlanta. (Marietta, GA) night in Truckee was a memorable serving as chair of the serve as the presiding Judge of our event. We hope to see the twins Transnational Studies Department, court, a position I've held since graduate from college in the College of Security Studies, at the 1999. In February of 2006, I am upcoming year. I've become more Asia Pacific Center for Security rotating into an assignment of active in the collaborative practice Studies. exclusively criminal cases. (South Class Representatives James R. Donahue Lake Tahoe, CA) Paula G. Tripp Martha Opich Of Counsel, Douglas Kraft & Associates. In addition to my day job representing lenders in real estate and commercial transac- of family law. It's a new process in tions, and investors in real estate which a divorcing couple, together transactions, as of Fall 2005 I with trained professionals, work as became the director of the a team to resolve disputes respect- Business and Community fully, without going to court. I rec- Development Clinic at Pacific ommend the approach wholeheart- McGeorge. It is very rewarding to edly. (Sacramento, CA) work with students as they learn to He won a defense verdict for the Bruce Miroglio St. Helena Unified School District He was the subject of a major in an 11-day sex discrimination feature story in The Napa Valley trial in Napa County Superior Court Register. He is the managing part- in a case where a teacher charged ner and lead courtroom litigator at that she was not rehired because Gaw Van Male Smith Myers & Anderson, McPharlin & Conners, LLP 444 South Flower St., 31st Floor Los Angeles, CA 90017 (562) 988-1210 Home (213) 236-1646 Business represent clients with respect to Roberta C. Lagomarsini of a perception that she was a les- Miroglio, the largest law firm in Retired and moved to Bishop, bian. He is a partner in the law Susan H. Hollingshead their business-related needs. Napa and Solano counties. California. Enjoyed the good life- firm of Caulfield, Davies & (916) 791-5405 Business (Sacramento, CA) (Napa, CA) hiking, fishing, skiing, gardening Donahue. (Sacramento) Melvin E. Raatz and just plain relaxing! He died at the age of 55 in Gold (Bishop, CA) River. He was formerly a partner in Robert C. Anderson Kent Morgan Lisa K. Hightower He has joined the Reno, Nevada He officially declared his candidacy Assistant General Counsel, office of Hale Lane as a new for Salt Lake County district attor- shareholder. The former Jones the law firm of Barrett, Harper, Ronald Lamb California Department of Social ney. The veteran prosecutor, who He has joined Wilke, Fleury, Services, Sacramento. Fifteen years Vargas partner has been listed in Woll, Raatz & Stenson, but had was involved in the case against Hoffelt, Gould & Birney LLP in an at DSS and still having fun—but The Best Lawyers in America in retired in recent years for health Elizabeth Smart’s kidnappers, will of counsel capacity. A specialist in working way too many hours. both corporate law and tax law reasons. (Gold River, CA) try to replace the current D.A. who Madeleine is in 3rd grade at since 1989. (Reno, NV) medical malpractice defense and is not running for re-election in the administrative law, he previously St. Ignatius! How time flies. I man- Utah capital district. (Salt Lake Steven Cranfill was the managing partner of Rust, age a staff of 17 lawyers. In my City, UT) Law Office of Steven Cranfill. Our Armenis, Schwartz, Lamb & Bills. spare time I'm vice president of the (Sacramento, CA) St. Ignatius Parent Club Board, I'm Carol A. Rader in June, 2005. We have been in a Brownie Girl Scout troop leader, Retired. I retired from the Cody, Wy. for 21 years. I am city and I'm the Western Region chair- Department of General Services on attorney, and continue to lobby in person of the American Association August 2, 2005. I have 4 grand- the state legislature. The Buffalo of Public Welfare Attorneys kids ages 2, 4, 6 and 8 in Bill Historical Center is a great (AAPWA). Still play the piano and Batesville. My son and daughter-in- place to visit, and I am pleased to sing a bit. I've passed the music law and my husband and I have serve on its Board. I am involved Alice Honey Ware gene on—Madeleine is starting her purchased an antique and col- with the state bar organization, Attorney/Executive Director of the third year of piano lessons. lectibles store and a log home on and the local community college Legal Center for the Elderly and Stephen is still an official court 63 acres. I doubt I will have time board as well. Fly-fishing skills Disabled. I have returned to reporter for Sacramento County. to practice law with all the new improve each year, golf does not. Sacramento after 20 years away (Sacramento, CA) things and our ongoing antique Best wishes to all you serving in non-profits world-wide, Dodge parts business. I think all of Robert A. Jones 84-E's. (Cody, WY) the rest of my family from Ohio, Attorney. I was appointed Acting Florida, and Oregon will be coming Elliott R. Curzon Labor Commissioner for the State for our first Christmas in Arkansas. Partner, Dechert LLP. From the of California in December 2005 (Batesville, AR) Late Bloomers Club—I left my Class Representatives Fritz-Howard R. Clapp Jennifer J. Tachera Law Office of Fritz-Howard Clapp I retired from state service. I paint, Post Office Box 340458 travel and volunteer at KVIE and Sacramento, CA 95834-0458 the diRosa Preserve in Napa. (916) 548-1014 Home (Sacramento, CA) (916) 548-1014 Business Jennifer J. Tachera 2201 2nd Avenue Sacramento, CA 95818-3116 Paul L. Brimberry Attorney at Law & Mediator, Law including Australia (I now have Office of Paul L. Brimberry. 2005 dual citizenship), Croatia, Eastern was a milestone year for me. Europe, and Southern Spain. I now Shiela and I moved back into our house in June after being displaced for almost two years after the explosion and fire. I hired my first ever associate, Michelle Hahn, a 48 P A C I F I C L AW serve as the new Executive director of the Legal Center for the Elderly and Disabled in Sacramento, CA. (Sacramento, CA) Spring first grandchild, Macey, was born cushy but futureless job at the from the position of chief counsel which I still occupy. William L. Thompson NASD six years ago to venture (Walnut Creek, CA) Thompson Communications. back to private practice. After suc- Retired, after 25 years as a pilot cessfully weathering the business Versatile Hoch Takes Over As Schwarzenegger’s Legal Affairs Secretary by Jan Ferris Heenan Andrea Hoch, ’D, has juggled all kinds of cases in her two decades in public service, from litigating against the nation’s tobacco giants to the mammoth task of revamping California’s workers’ compensation system. In October, Hoch’s career path took yet another notable turn when she was picked by Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger to be his secretary of legal affairs. As his top legal adviser, Hoch is responsible for a range of tasks, from parole reviews (an average of a month) and clemency requests to analyzing legislation and tracking pertinent litigation in the various state departments. Hoch oversees a relatively small staff of six attorneys, including Jessica Mascio Mahoney, ’, five assistants and two interns. The team also advises the governor and his office on appointments, conflicts of interest and constitutional issues, and whatever other legal matters crop up each day. The issues are unpredictable, the hours long—and Hoch is clearly in her element. “I would say that this is the most exciting job I’ve had in my legal career, and that’s not to say that my other jobs have not been interesting and challenging,” says Hoch, who spent years in the state Attorney General’s office. “What’s really exciting about it is that you have the opportunity to be involved in highlevel discussions and to provide your legal input and analysis to policy decisions.” This is the second time that Schwarzenegger has recruited Hoch for a highprofile post. In , she was brought in as the administrative director of the California Division of Workers’ Compensation to reform the state’s $ billion program as mandated by Senate Bill . The work, Hoch says, was “extremely challenging” and the deadlines ambitious. “What I thought was exciting was to be part of the solution for the governor…and making progress in the system gives you a tremendous sense of satisfaction.” Hoch enjoys working for Schwarzenegger, a boss she lauds as a gracious quick study who is not afraid to make decisions. “I saw this administration as an opportunity for change. I wanted to be part of that,” she says. The job requires long hours and the occasional seven-day work weeks for Hoch, who’s married to attorney Stephen J. Egan, ’. But it is precisely Hoch’s work ethic that has kept her grounded. “My philosophy is to concentrate on the job you’re doing, work hard, prove yourself and the opportunities will present themselves,” Hoch says. Spring P A C I F I C L A W 49 Photography: Steve Yeater Suzanne N. Kingsbury Claudia Morehead slowdowns following 9/11, Dechert elected me to the partnership this year. Scaling this rung of the career ladder is especially sweet at my age (just turned 50), and none too soon with teenage daughters soon member of the Nevada Air National endorsement of U.S. Senator Guard who served in Desert Storm, Barbara Boxer. Corbett is a former and most recently flew for FedEx three-term State Assemblywoman Class Representative Airways. (Reno, NV) from San Leandro. Patricia A. Day California State Department of David W. Tyra (San Leandro, CA) encourage any questions or com- still be reached using the email and Gregory F. Buhyoff ments you may have regarding the invite my colleagues to join me for Of Counsel, Weide & Miller. issues of senior lawyers whether the sailing adventure of a lifetime. Buhyoff has joined the Las Vegas Class Representative they are seeking employment or Plan on about 10 days sailing (min- firm of Weide & Miller as of coun- Megan Halvonik starting the retirement process. You imum) resulting in a two week sel. Previously with Baker & may contact the committee via the vacation. As of 12/12/05, I am McKenzie in San Francisco and California Bar Association web heading from San Francisco to Hong Kong and a solo practitioner, page http://www.calbar.ca.gov; Greece! (Sacramento, CA) his practice focuses on trademark He has joined Kronick, Moskovitz Gael A. Gisvold Mueller 1635 Vallarta Circle Tiedemann & Girard in Finally opened my own shop with Sacramento, CA 95834 Sacramento as a partner. A former my husband practicing criminal (916) 821-0700 Home partner at Seyfarth Shaw, his defense exclusively. Really wish I (916) 927-1914 Business practice focuses on the represen- hadn't waited 20 years to do it. Frank Bacik tation and advisement of public- Having more fun than is legal (at Programs- Program Development (415) 826-0401 Home CEO of Carter, Behnke, Oglesby & and private-sector employers in all least in Kern County!). Unit 180 Howard Street San (510) 622-4000 Business Bacik. I'm too young to be manag- areas of employment and labor (Bakersfield, CA) Francisco, CA 94105-1639 great students, avid athletes—row- Chris Scott Graham law. (Sacramento, CA) ers (both) and a cross-country run- Partner, Dechert LLP. Chris Scott ner (Sarah). (Washington, D.C.) Graham was chosen to lead an to enter college. My practice is Social Services focused on broker-dealer regulation and I am part of the largest finan- State Hearings Division 1515 Clay Street, #1203 cial services (mutual funds/ hedge MS 28-02 funds/advisors/broker-dealers and Oakland, CA 94612 related areas) practice group of any firm in the world. Daughters Rachel (16) and Sarah (15) are whether the San Jose mayor deceived the city council about the Class Representative costs of a trash-hauling contract. Cheryl L. Van Steenwyk independent investigation into Donald A. Phin Employer Advisors Network, Inc. Things are going great in Florida. Kyle is four, James and Dan 27 His highly critical report renewed and 25. Most of my time is spent calls for the mayor’s resignation speaking (see donphin.com) and may have derailed the latter’s and product licensing (see future political career. He is the hrthatworks.com). Having more managing partner of Dechert LLP’s fun than litigating! Palo Alto office. He formerly prac- (West Palm Beach, FL) ticed with Berliner Cohen and 3361 Cortese Drive Rossmoor, CA 90720 (310) 788-4400 Business Janice N. Keller Milton Swanson still alive? Will In January, I retired from the Santa Wild Bill Spencer ever run for high San Juan Capistrano giving his plaintiff client $3.3 million in Barbar County Public Defender's exchange for the title and deed to house and property they owned that was adversely impacted by grading changes to a landslide area adjacent to their property. The plaintiffs had previously brought a after a 1997 landslide. Tomassian with my domestic partner & our McGeorge Alum), John Behnke has solo practitioner. (Sacramento, CA) Ralidis. (Los Angeles, CA) Christine C. Fitzgerald Tim Roberts Senate and will run for Secretary of She tried an eminent domain just He was named Monterey County State next year. Although the compensation case in Kings County Superior Court traffic commissioner Sacramento-area Democrat has not Superior Court that resulted in a by that court’s judges. He has made a formal announcement, she $2.5 million settlement for her been a prosecutor with the intends to run against Republican client for a large parcel of land Monterey County District Attorney’s incumbent Bruce McPherson, who acquired by CalTrans to widen and Office for 10 years, most recently was appointed to the office when realign a major highway. She is a handling an attempted murder Kevin Shelley resigned the post last condemnation law specialist. case. (Monterey, CA) year. (Sacramento, CA) Senator Ortiz is completing her second term in the California been taken away to serve on the Mendocino Superior Bench. We have offices in Ukiah (Mendocino County), and Eureka old town (Humboldt County), and serve a wide variety of business, land use, resource, environmental, and real estate clients in all civil trial and Sandra G. Lawrence appellate courts and administrative Dyer, Lawrence, Cooney & agencies. My wife, Robin and I Penrose have two kids and two homes; one 2805 North Mountain Street near each office. (Ukiah and Tamara J. Gabel Carson City, NV 89702 Eureka, CA) Attorney. We opened our office in (775) 885-1896 Business Hagop T. Bedoyan 2000 doing exclusively environmen- tal law—transactional and regulato- Class Representatives Class Representatives ry—for our clients. (Woodside, CA) Lisa A. Specchio William W. Palmer 514A - Hill Drive 1241 Carter Road Glendale, CA 91206 Sacramento, CA 95864 (818) 247-4010 Home (916) 972-7757 Home (213) 244-9640 x5921 Business (916) 972-0761 Business (Burlingame, CA) questions of the day. School. I am Class of 1986D. Law Advisory Commission by the Jack A. Gould with former classmates Dave (Costa Mesa, CA) Boston College Distinguished State Bar Board of Governors for Attorney, Federal Election Jonathan B. Conklin Teaching Award (2004). the 2005-2006 fiscal year. He is a Commission. Still working at the (Newton, MA) partner with the Fresno firm of Federal Election Commission. At Caswell, Bell & Hillison LLP. home we are learning how to live Brooke B. Vos Billie B. Line, Jr. (Fresno, CA) with a teenager and a pre-teen. I Law Office of Brooke Birkie Vos 7103 Criner Road SE District Attorney's Office. Fladager, Donne Brownsey am looking forward to attending 1430 Lincoln Avenue Huntsville, AL 35802 the prosecutor who played a key Vice President, Sacramento the 20th Anniversary Class San Rafael, CA 94901 (256) 881-0342 Home role in the conviction of Scott Advocates. Chair, ABA ADR Reunion. I hope someone is plan- (415) 924-8771 Home (256) 489-3476 Business ning it! (Washington, DC) (415) 302-5824 Business He was appointed to the Fresno County Superior Court by Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger. He currently serves as deputy chief of the United States Attorney's Office in Fresno. He joined the office as an Birgit A. Fladager Prosecutor, Stanislaus County now 10 and 13. Had an opportu- assistant U.S. attorney in 1990 Peterson, announced that she will Section on Legislation. nity to appear before class of '84 after serving as a deputy district run for Stanislaus County District (Sacramento, CA) Daniel A. Johnson Ruthe Ashley State of Connecticut Workers' alum The Honorable Corey Cramin attorney for Kern County for five Attorney. The previous DA retired She was appointed to chair the Compensation Commissioner. of the Orange County Superior years. (Fresno, CA) Sharon V. Cooper Partner, Sullivan Johnson LLP. I at the end of July and the person restarted my own firm in January newly created State Bar Pipeline Appointed by Governor M. Jodi Ellen M. Corbett named as interim DA does not 2005. I brought “Which Ones Committee. She is the Pacific Rell November 2004 to the bench Pink?” to Sacramento on July 30, McGeorge Assistant Dean for as a Workers' Compensation 2005 as part of The Eagle 96.9 Career Development and a member Commissioner for the state of Mock Rock Fest. of the California State Bar Board of Connecticut. Wife, Kim and chil- (Sherman Oaks, CA) Governors. Her committee is dren, Alex 11 and Lindsay 8 are charged with developing a model enjoying our life in Connecticut. for encouraging underrepresented Hope to visit McGeorge soon. youth to consider law as a career. (New Haven, CT) as it was 21 years ago. (Irvine, CA) There is lots of singing, dancing James Stefflre and many dinosaurs in our house. He died unexpectedly at the age of I'm also involved with school 59. He practiced law with PTC—always looking for volun- McDonald Carano Wilson LLP in teers! Life is good. (Stockton, CA) Reno for 13 years, was a 32-year P A C I F I C L AW area. (Sacramento, CA) Deborah Ortiz Austin and New York. I've visited some days are easier than others!! 50 Owner, Law Offices of Kenneth W. California State Bar's Bankruptcy how my hair wasn't quite as dark 7 1/2 and Sam 4 1/2. Obviously and I am in my 13th year as a Professor, Boston College Law Court. He made some crack about two children in Modesto—Jolan another of my partners (and client, Mick Jagger? These are the Time marches on. Our girls are —close to 15 years now!! I live San Francisco and the Sacramento Assistant City Attorney (Ventura, CA) Malaysia, India, Mexico twice, Attorney, Wolfe & Wyman, LLP. working with the court in Stockton Kenneth W. Ralidis He has been appointed chair of the Eric T. Lamhofer San Joaquin County. I am still law practice in Sacramento, CA, Peter D. Lemmon Daniel L. Barnett Throckmorton, Beckstrom & Research Attorney - Superior Court, Coast, CA, but such is life. Yet cases. Barry Mallen ever actually meet his nity organizations. (Lompoc, CA) Celeste L. Wheeler He practiced law in Walnut Creek, attorney for juvenile delinquency Sacramento prevent that? Will and involved in numerous commu- Tomassian, LLP. (Irvine, CA) (Fresno, CA) 920-8281. I continue in my family 1325 Howe Avenue, Suite 201 sively since then—Singapore, still on the Lompoc City Council is a partner in the Irvine firm of Partner, Kapetan Brothers. the county's chief deputy district Office. I have been traveling exten- Brooks and Mindy Caplan Kidd. I'm successful suit against the city office, or will his exploits in Peter N. Kapetan Court. The veteran prosecutor was Medical Center at the age of 50. strolled the McGeorge campus on a case that ended with the City of of the Santa Clara County Superior Sacramento, CA 95825 (916) [email protected] have you gone, Joe Stogner? Is Eric (Las Vegas, NV) the Redwood Empire in North 20 years have gone by since I (Palo Alto, CA) Arnold Schwarzenegger as a judge at the nexus of Wine Country and Ms. Andrea C. Nelson He was involved in an unusual (415) 538-2219; or me directly at lectual property counseling. He was appointed by Governor He died unexpectedly at UC Davis Attorney. It's hard to believe that daily basis. Some musings: Where ing senior partner, president, and and internet law and general intel- Kurt Kumli CEO of my seven-lawyer firm here Class Representatives Oppenheimer Wolff & Donnelly. Services, Access & Fairness James D. Taylor Thomas P. Aplin Serge Tomassian Rodney Low in the Office of Legal Spring Attorney, Corbett Professional Corporation. Corbett has launched her campaign for California state Senate District 10. She seeks to replace Liz Figueroa, who will be termed out at the end of this year, and has already picked up the intend to run in the June 2006 election. (Modesto, CA) Owner/Solo Practitioner, Law Offices of Sharon V. Cooper. I have been appointed to the State Bar Committee for Equal Access to Justice and Senior Lawyers. I am honored to be a part of such an important and vital committee. I urge you to pay attention to the work of this committee, and I Bernhard Kreten Weintraub, Genshlea, Chediak. I am presently sailing the world. I can Scott A. Barton Spring P A C I F I C L A W 51 David Prentice Clay Calvert solutions for the mortgage industry. He has joined Best Best & Kreiger Interim Dean, Penn State She joined the company in 2003 as a partner in the firm’s University. Calvert has been as associate senior counsel after Sacramento office. He spent the appointed interim dean of Penn serving as associate counsel for past three years as county counsel State University's Schreyer Honors Farleigh, Wada & Witt PC. of Madera County. Previously, as a College, effective September 1. A (Portland, OR) principal in the firm of Prentice & prolific scholar, Calvert is an asso- Schaap, he served as attorney for ciate professor of communications the City of Colfax. and law at Penn State and served (Sacramento, CA) as an adjunct professor last spring at Pacific McGeorge. (State College, PA) John P. Kelley Class Representatives District in a four-day trial at Butte Violet R. Radosta County Superior Court that Public Defender's Office - Kent C. Cobb Clark County Co-Founder, Wheaton Capital. Co- 309 South 3rd Street, #226 founded Wheaton Capital, an oil Las Vegas, NV 89101 and gas private equity fund which (702) 455-4685 Business allows investors to obtain outstanding annual returns through direct Traci F. Lee County Counsel's Office - Oroville City Elementary School involved a disability discrimination claim by a former school employee. Kelley is a partner in the Redding firm of Halkides & Morgan. (Redding, CA) Christopher D. Lonn Attorney, Hymson & Goldstein, PC. Jack Flader, Jr. participation investing in natural He has been appointed to the gas and oil wells. We are just Class Representative Grand Toys International’s Board of launching a private equity venture Derek R. Longstaff Directors as an independent mem- which seeks to raise $15 million in Longstaff Mejia, LLP ber. Flader is managing director private equity for a tremendous 50 California Street, suite 1500 and general counsel of the Hong natural gas project in the Cotton San Francisco, CA 94111 Kong-based Zetland Financial Valley formation in East Texas. Michael K. Brisbin January 2006) and a Steely Dan (415) 439-5391 Business Group. Grand Toys is a publicly Give me a call! (Tulsa, OK) Of Counsel, Wilson, Elser, tour in the summer and I am in Molskowitz, Edleman & Dicker LLP. Nirvana. Hope all is well with my (San Francisco, CA) classmates. (Scottsdale, AZ) traded company. (Hong Kong) John R. Brownlee John N. Demas Sacramento County 3331 Power Inn Road, Suite 350 Sacramento, CA 95826 (916) 875-4721 Business (916) 419-3200 Home 2005 was quite a year! I met the practice to a great law firm in Scottsdale that is 4 miles from my front door. All I need in 2006 is a new Donald Fagen CD (out in Marelene E. Hertoghe He won a $765,000 settlement for Bakersfield, CA 93311 Juvenile Dependency Referee, a tow truck driver from his employ- Jim Ferguson Gregory W. McCracken Sacramento Superior Court. er and another defendant after the He was sworn in as mayor of Palm Lawyer/Planner, Robinson & Cole, (Sacramento, CA) driver was pinned against a garage Desert in December. His four-year LLP. It's pretty much the status wall and seriously injured trying to term on that city’s council ends quo, save for how quickly Chloe jump start a disabled car. The set- with his term as mayor. A partner and Lydia are growing. At work, tlement was reached after a in the governmental relations law the land use and common interest $1.575 million, three-way fault firm of Ferguson & Bernheimer, he development practice is slanting verdict was reached in a six-day previously served as mayor from heavily towards documenting com- Riverside County Superior Court December 2000 to December mon interest communities—as on trial. (Sacramento, CA) 2001. (Palm Desert, CA) the west coast, such communities Brad P. Kaplan Has joined Dechert LLP's litigation was formerly with Howard Rice Nemerovski Canady Falk & Rabkin. Class Representatives His practice focuses on complex David M. Miller commercial and business litigation Miller|Mediation matters, including chemical and 7041 Koll Center Parkway, Nina A. Gross Shelby L. Hladon toxic exposure cases. Suite 275 Legal and Compliance Officer, Staff Judge Advocate, (San Francisco, CA) Pleasanton, CA 94566-3128 Alyco Advisory AG. (Zurich, Comstkfotrapac. I'm really enjoying (925) 631-9353 Home Switzerland) my job at Comstrkfotrapa in San group as a special staff attorney in the firm's San Francisco office. He (925) 600-3030 Business Class Representatives Lieutenant Colonel Schuitmaker, Cooper, Schuitmaker Ferdinando P. Cavese & Cypher, P.C. Please visit my web- (618) 229-0806 Business page at spaces.msn.com/mem- Gregg S. Garfinkel Stone, Rosenblatt & Cha Craig A. Barbarosh 21550 Oxnard Street, Main Plaza, Attorney. I am the managing part- Suite 200 ner of the Orange County office of Woodland Hills, CA 91367 Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, (818) 349-2787 Home LLP. Co-chair of the National (818) 789-2232 Business Insolvency & Restructuring Group. I have been married to Laurie for Mark J. Reichel twelve years with two great kids- 4601 P Street Jason (8) and Jessica (6). Sacramento, CA 95819 (Costa Mesa, CA) (916) 498-5700 Business Angela Cheek Dorothy Anderson She has been named vice presi- Home with three kids in Moraga.... dent of Irvine-based Mavent Inc., a life is busy and fun! (Moraga, CA) provider of automated compliance 52 P A C I F I C L AW M. Brian Knotek Spring bers/knotek...of course, the focus of the page is my 17 month old son, Paul...I'm just a proud daddy these days! My firm's website is at www.schuitmakerandcooper.com I've been there for just over 6 months. Maybe by the time you Diego, CA. I've been here a year now and have been on 5 aircraft carriers and 3 amphibious landing east coast. Let's hope we don't eventually face a rerun of the 1990s. Greetings to all fellow evening division classmates! (Hartford, CT) Steven D. Weber He was named to the North law. I just wish I was home a little Carolina Environmental more! I was just selected for the Management Commission by the next rank (commander) and will Speaker of the North Carolina probably transfer next year. Just House of Representatives. Weber is waiting to find out where. a partner in the Charlotte, North (FPO, AP) Carolina office of Parker Poe updated to include me. Hope this Senior Patent Attorney (San finds everyone well! Here's to a Clemente, CA) (Paw Paw, MI) of the real estate market on the engagement is a fascinating area of Libby H. Hope Happy & Healthy 2006! are one of the strongest segments ships. Operational law and rules of read this they will have the site Adams & Bernstein LLP and the head of the law firm’s Environmental Law Practice Group. Parker Poe has more than 170 Michelle C. Hopkins lawyers in its five offices in the Senior Staff Attorney, Los Angeles Carolinas. Superior Court. (Culver City, CA) by Jonathan by Michael Kalstrom Curran love of my life and I moved my 10300 Single Oak Drive (661) 868-2710 Business Eglet Turns Heads, Sways Juries in Nevada Courtrooms He won a defense verdict for the What prompted attorney Robert Eglet, ’, who’s won out of civil jury trials, to become a trial lawyer in the first place? Call it fate, destiny or literally an accident, but Eglet, a senior partner with the Las Vegas law firm of Mainor Eglet Cottle, found his calling early in life by, well, losing his way home. Eglet’s father, a fighter pilot in Vietnam, was stationed at the Post Graduate Naval School, in Monterey, California, immediately after the war. Eglet recalls it was there, in the th grade, riding his bike home from school one day, he took a wrong turn and found himself in front of the county courthouse. He went inside and wandered into the middle of a wrongful death jury trial. He returned to watch, again and again. “I knew right then, that’s what I wanted to do,” Eglet says. Today, Eglet returns again and again to the courthouse. But he’s not watching; he’s trying cases with astounding success—and many others in the profession are watching. In June , the Nevada Trial Lawyers Association named Eglet “Trial Lawyer of the Year,” the youngest lawyer ever to receive that statewide honor. It was richly deserved because Eglet is on a roll not seen before in that state. His last verdicts have all been multimillion-dollar awards to his clients. “Robert Eglet’s skills as a trial lawyer are at the present time unmatched by any attorney in the state,” says one veteran courtroom observer. Eglet serves on the Nevada Law Foundation’s Board of Trustees and was recently appointed by the Nevada Supreme Court to the Supreme Court Bench-Bar Committee. But he’s most at home in the courtroom where his competitiveness and sense of duty to his clients drive him to outwork and outwit opponents. Many of those clients have suffered catastrophic injuries or are family members of someone killed in an accident involving negligence so he has no trouble bringing a fever pitch to his courtroom oratory. Eglet won’t rest on his laurels. He’s constantly learning in his daily work, whether it involves a new technique in the courtroom, learning about a product, an injury process or a disease. “It keeps me stimulated,” he says, “and that’s why I like it.” Spring P A C I F I C L A W 53 Class Representatives Class Representatives Captain Laura H. Heller Ryan J. Raftery 315 Belmont Avenue East, Public Defender's Office - Apt. 208 Sacramento County Seattle, WA 98102 700 H Street, #270 (206) 817-2711 Home Sacramento, CA 95814 (916) 874-6411 Business Guy E. Ortoleva 190 Deerfield Drive Christopher J. Kaeser Hamden, CT 06518 886 La Sierra Drive (203) 248-2008 Home Sacramento, CA 95864 (860) 571-7130 Business (916) 609-3736 Business Christine Eavenson Theresa A. Dunham Sutter County District Attorney. My Stephens 507 Borders Court son, Connor, is well on his way to Associate, Thelan, Reid & Priest. El Dorado Hills, CA 95762-5429 a J.D. At four, everything is a nego- My husband Mike and I welcomed (916) 631-3640 Home tiation. My daughter, Mary, 1, is our daughter Rachel Mariana on (530) 753-6400 Business terrific. My husband, Mike, a December 9, 2005. Our son, Eli police sergeant, and I continue to Michael, is 18 months. I will fight crime in Yuba City. return to work at Thelen, Reid & (Yuba City, CA) Priest in San Jose, where I have Andrew Mendlin He was named to the Modesto Bee’s list of young community worked since 2000, when my Marcela Eggleton I am the manager of contracts and legal affairs for Nolte Associates, Inc. (Sacramento, CA) maternity leave ends in June. Anthony L. Hall (San Jose, CA) He has joined the Reno, Nevada leaders in that city. He is a partner Kenneth L. Swenson at the law firm of Curtis & Arata, a Deputy Attorney General, Office of member of the Modesto Planning the Attorney General, State of office of Hale Lane as a new shareholder. He previously practiced with Littler Mendelson, counseling clients and litigating on their behalf Steven J. Oshins Robert L. S. Angres Commission, and a radio talk show California. After nearly five years of Attorney, Law Offices of Oshins & Proprietor, Law Office of Robert host. His wife, Valli Israels handling employment, regulatory, Associates, LLC. Married Michelle L.S. Angres. I am enjoying living in Mendlin, ’94, is a San Joaquin and administrative matters, I on April 9, 2005. Listed in Best Clovis, a suburb of Fresno, and I County deputy DA. (Modesto, CA) moved to the government law sec- Jennifer L. Kowitt Lawyers in America in Trusts and continue to do mostly appointed tion where I hope to put the LL.M. Attorney; Finnegan, Marks, Estates and in Tax Law. Named criminal appellate work in the in Government Law and Policy I Hampton & Theofel. Jennifer and one of Nevada's Best Lawyers in First, Second, Third, Fifth, and earned in 2003, to greater use. her husband, Mike, along with the May/June 2005 issue of Sixth District Courts of Appeal. My Sherri and I have been blessed their daughter, Reilly Rose, recently Nevada Lawyer magazine. Named wife, Michele, is a stay-at-home with five children, now ages 5 to returned to San Francisco. Jennifer one of Southern Nevada's Best mom with our 21 month old twins. 10. We are active in our church rejoined Finnegan, Marks, Lawyers in the December 9, 2005 In order to get out of the office and with sports, music, and scout- Hampton, & Thofel, where she special supplement to In Business more, I recently joined the panel of ing. I continue to maintain a con- originally began practicing in Las Vegas weekly publication. the California Parole Advocacy nection with Pacific McGeorge, by 1997. Mike and Jen spent the past (Las Vegas, NV) Program. This program is run by serving as a member of the adjunct few years in London & LA. faculty in the Appellate Advocacy (San Francisco, CA) McGeorge, and I am having a blast John B. Palley being a contract attorney for the Johnson, Fort, Meissner, Joseph & program. I represent parolees at Palley. (Sacramento, CA) hearings presided by a Board of Stephanie B. Mizrahi Professor, CSU - Chico. Mizrahi has joined the faculty at California State University, Chico as a tenuretrack political science professor. A former CIA analyst when she came to law school, Mizrahi taught last year at Washington State University and is working on her dissertation research for a doctorate degree. Her dissertation is focused on how policymakers react Director of Planned Giving, CSU Assistant Secretary, California EPA. Sacramento. Mike and his wife Jen (Chico, CA) Tuck was named assistant secre- are enjoying their two boys— tary for policy at the California Jordan and Jack. Mike likes to say EPA by Governor Arnold they are 1/2 boy and 1/2 puppy. Schwarzenegger. The former Mike also enjoys teaching grad and California Council for undergrad business courses at Environmental & Economic CSUS and Golden Gate University. Balance general counsel was origi- Jen is a stay-at-home mom and nally the governor's pick to head has her hands quite full. They are the state Air Resources Board, but living in Roseville. (Roseville, CA) decides if probable cause exists to Jonathan and I are still living in revoke that person's parole. If prob- Los Angeles and I started with able cause is found, then I negoti- Robie & Matthai in September, ate for a shorter return to custody 2005. In addition to running into time. If the parolee rejects the classmates downtown, I am on the negotiated settlement, then I repre- Alumni Board of Directors and am sent the parolee at his or her revo- very fortunate to work with talent- cation hearing before a BPH com- ed, brilliant alumni and Dean missioner. A rev hearing is akin to Parker! I also work with two other a bench trial but with more relaxed Kummer Kaempfer Bonner McGeorge alums, Mike O'Neill and rules of evidence. There is not Renshaw & Ferrario. Craig Brunet. (Los Angeles, CA) much paperwork, and I really enjoy (Carson City, NV) James W. Puzey He is serving as president of the Volunteer Attorneys for Rural Nevada this year. The non-profit organization provides free civil legal services to residents in far-flung Nevada counties. He is a partner in the Reno, Nevada office of Greg A. Ruppert Attorney. Shayna Rae born on Shannon S. Champion After 2 1/2 years at FBI September 16, 2005! That's No. Senior Attorney, Verizon Wireless. Headquarters as a unit chief in the 3! (Palo Alto, CA) Enjoying in-house practice. We Counterterrorism Division, he was recently welcomed our first child, promoted to assistant legal attaché Katelyn Rose. Things are good in for the FBI to be stationed in the sunny So Cal! (Irvine, CA) U.S. Embassy in The Hague, Susan (Nolan) Green Deputy District Attorney, Sutter County District Attorney. Just had 54 P A C I F I C L AW Spring Michael L. Lorilla how laws are created thereafter. Robie & Matthai. My husband Netherlands. He began his new post in October of 2005. the Democratic-controlled Senate failed to confirm her. (Sacramento, CA) Class Representatives Jane Greaves Sargent 631 Massachusetts Avenue, NE Washington, DC 20002 (202) 546-5709 Home (202) 393-6222 Business by Jonathan Kalstrom ment law. (Reno, CA) Cynthia K. Tuck Prison Hearings Commissioner who Robert K. Roskoph in the field of labor and employ- to sudden events such as 9/11 and Diana Kreinman Rodgers the people contact. (Fresno, CA) Program. (Sacramento, CA) Montana’s Health in Good Hands with Miles’ Experience Kelli L. Petersen Officer in charge of 2nd Brigade, 1st Infantry Division, Jag Office in Schweinfurt, Germany. Promoted to Major, U.S. Army Jag Corps on 15-May-2005. (Schweinfurt, Germany) When Joan Miles, ’, graduated from Pacific McGeorge, she wanted to use her law degree to affect the development of public policy. That’s not surprising, considering she had served as a state representative in the Montana Legislature from to . Now, after having served as director of the Lewis and Clark City-County Health Department, Miles has been appointed by Governor Brian Schweitzer to a position that continues her work in public policy: She is the director of the Montana Department of Public Health and Human Services, the state’s largest agency comprising one-fourth of Montana state government with more than , employees and a multibillion dollar budget. “Joan Miles is a very talented and experienced professional,” the governor said when he made the appointment on August . “She has been working in the field for years and has the experience necessary for this demanding position.” “It is very exciting to be part of the governor’s cabinet, to be working closely with the governor on real solid public policy that’s going to improve the life of Montanans,” Miles says. The Public Health and Human Services agency covers all public health and human services programs in Montana, as well as Medicaid, mental health programs, and state institutions serving Montana residents with mental illness, developmental and physical disabilities, and individuals in need of substance abuse treatment. Her new position uses her wealth of skills, from legal to medical knowledge. In addition to her J.D., she holds an M.S. in Environmental Studies and a B.S. in Medical Technology. “My background and credentials fit together perfectly for this position because of the breadth of activities and programs that I’m now responsible for,” she says. That background includes work as a lobbyist for an environmental advocacy group, as well as being a field biologist and a medical technologist. Her law degree is especially useful in terms of the substantive knowledge acquired at Pacific McGeorge. “And,” she says, “the training—just the way you think and analyze and prioritize and question—that is so critical for me in this position because of the size of this agency and the number of issues with which we deal.” Spring P A C I F I C L A W 55 Photography: Eliza Anderson Wiley my ten year anniversary with Michael S. White Joseph H. Low IV Emily L. Randon Lisa A. Lance Partner, GCA Law Partners, LLP. In He is involved in a right-to-counsel 7565 Sycamore Drive Yolo County Public Defender's March of 2005, I joined the part- case that the Supreme Court of the Citrus Heights, CA 95610-2210 Office. Hello to all my classmates! nership of GCA Law Partners LLP United States has agreed to hear (916) 276-1014 Home If you're in Yolo, please stop to say in Mountain View, CA. I'm still this spring. The justices will review (916) 739-7105 Business hello. (Woodland, CA) practicing corporate law, doing an appellate court decision that financings and mergers & acquisi- threw out a drug conspiracy con- tions for venture-backed high tech- viction of a man who wanted Low nology companies, and dabbling in to represent him. A district court a little IP licensing for fun. But, my had barred the California attorney greatest challenge this year has from representing the drug defen- been coaching my daughter's soc- dant in Missouri. Low, a former cer team. Six-year-old girls can be Pacific McGeorge mock trial star, is ruthless and unforgiving. one of the law school’s leading (Mountain View, CA) young trial attorneys. (Newport Beach, CA) John P. McGill General Counsel, Arntz Builders Inc. (Novato, CA) Thomas S. Adams and environmental science company, as a corporate counsel. Class Representative Previously at Jones and Stokes Kathryn M. Davis Associates as environmental coun- 950 Harrison Street, No. 113 sel, he is the husband of former San Francisco, CA 94107 Alumni Board member Aura Kashin (415) 268-6451 Business Adams, ’97. (Oakland, CA) Mary Anne Bosley Thomas D. Amick She was elected to a four-year He has been elected a member of term on the city council of the city the board of directors at the Las of Washougal, Washington, a small major management, engineering Vegas law firm of Kummer, Ms. Molly J. Mrowka Amy Ruggles Kaempfer Bonner Renshaw & Portland, Oregon. (Washougal, WA) Burham & Brown She has joined the Sacramento Ferrario. He practices in the firm's 1901 Harrison Street, 11th Floor firm of Johnson Fort Meissner and governmental affairs division and Oakland, CA 94604 Joseph as an associate. has specialized in zoning, land use (510) 444-6800 Business (Sacramento, CA) and administrative law matters Wendy A. Taylor Katherine J. Hart since 1998. (Las Vegas, NV) Attorney, Friedberg & Parker. Eric Stephanie A. Doria and I had our second child togeth- She was the co-counsel for a gay er, Carson, in April 2005. Brennan man who received $269,000 in an is a busy 3-year-old who loves arbitrator award from a radio sta- construction equipment and any tion that he worked for that “outed Gary S. Winuk other tough vehicles. Our jobs are him” in a live, on-air prank. She is 9409 Colwin Way good and life is moving forward. a partner at the San Francisco firm Elk Grove, CA 95624 (Sacramento, CA) of Rukin, Hyland Doria & Dufrane Trainor Robertson PC 701 University Avenue, Suite 201 Sacramento, CA 95825 (916) 929-7000 Business (916) 685-0339 Home (916) 324-8908 Business David Verhey that specializes in employment discrimination. (San Francisco) He was appointed by Interior Dana A. Dwiggins associate has formed her own Las international law firm, in October of 2005, when my prior firm, GT's Sacramento office. I married my long-time boyfriend Robb Layne in a religious ceremony at Congregation B'onai Israel before I’m responsible for the legal work Governor Schwarzenegger's Office on May 9, 2005. I do contract Central Valley Regional Water Quality Control Board. She is a Class Representatives Brown LLP as an associate. partner with the Sacramento land Kara L. La Bella-Parker Hofsdal had been an associate at use firm of Trainor Robertson. 4521 South Land Park Drive LaFollette, Johnson, DeHaas, (Sacramento) Sacramento, CA 95822 Fesler and Ames. (Sacramento, CA) (916) 448-1654 Home Ronald Hofsdal, '98, has joined the Sacramento law firm of Cook estate planning this year. 6080 Bryce Way (Sante Fe, NM) Rocklin, CA 95677 P A C I F I C L AW Spring at the rank of associate professor Resources and Environmental at California State University, East Division since 2004. She was an Bay in Hayward. He teaches adjunct professor at Pacific Introduction to Law and Legal McGeorge from 2003 to 2005 in Ethics. Back in September, he was the Appellate Advocacy program. appointed by the San Leandro City The board plays a key role in flood Council to its Human Services Commission. Attorney. My husband Chad and I are expecting our first child in Class Representatives control, overseeing all levees. March. It's a girl! I am still enjoying Sean P. Gjerde (Sacramento, CA) my estate planning practice and 11841 Ringwood Road Betty W. Little am entering my fourth year as a Wilton, CA 95624-3975 She formed the new law firm of solo practitioner. (Sacramento, CA ) (916) 686-7987 Home (916) 686-7987 Business Jenna (Clark) Griffin just celebrated my first anniversary in the family law department. Things are good. Mopsick and Little LLP with longtime adjunct professor Steve Mopsick. The firm will specialize in He has joined the Orange County and Chung, Sacramento office. Ran for Congress in the March 2005 Special Election to replace Robert Matsui. (Sacramento, CA) senior attorney for Amador County. & Girard as an associate in its workers’ compensation law since (Jackson, CA) business and real estate law prac- use dispute, representing a group Sacramento. (Sacramento, CA) Moskovitz Tiedemann & Girard as Ann Patterson an associate in their education She completed a two-year clerk- Loni Chhen practice area. He previously was ship with U.S. District Court Judge She has joined the Radoslovich with Girard & Vinson. Frank C. Damrell and has joined Law Corp. in Sacramento as an (Sacramento, CA) Kronick, Moskovitz, Tiedemann & that opposes the construction of a Wal-Mart supercenter in American They have asked an appeals court to reconsider a Napa Superior tice group. He previously worked for PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP. associate. She previously practiced Girard (Sacramento, CA) with Stockwell, Harris, Widom, Danesha N. Nichols Woolverton & Muehl. University of California, Davis - Matthew D. Pearson Human Resources. I am now work- Associate, Cook Brown, LLP. Dionne E. Choyce ing at UC Davis in human Pearson has joined the Sacramento Partner, Choyce & Crowell, LLP. resources. I handle union relations law firm of Cook Brown LLP as an Dionne Choyce, who recently part- for the university in reference to associate. Pearson was previously nered with classmate Hendrick S. clerical & student employees. My with McMurchie, Weill, Lenahan & Crowell, II, settled his first million husband Tyrone & I welcomed a Pears LLP. (Sacramento, CA) dollar civil case in Sept. 2005. baby girl to our family on Nov. 23, Timothy J. Swickard Dionne and Hendrick practice 2005. This is our 1st & we're Chief Counsel, Department of Toxic criminal and personal injury law. thrilled! (Sacramento, CA) Substances Control. Swickard with- (Sacramento, CA) Sandeep J. Shah Shah Sheth, LLP. I recently started my own law firm with one partner Beach, CA) Associate, Kring & Chung, LLP. nation and personal injury at Kring of Kronick, Moskovitz, Tiedemann Missler. Borba, who has practiced He has moved to Kronick, on September 1, 2005. (Newport defect, business disability, discrimi- changed jobs. I am currently the Harris Widom & Woolverton in use department. He comes to the Enjoying practicing construction He has joined the Sacramento firm Associate, Cuneo, Black, Ward & Jolley is involved in a major land (Stockton, CA) S. Shane Singh Joseph Mandell Alexandra Asterlin. I have also Travis Lindsey Court's decision to allow the store. sulting firm. (Irvine) 01D, and changed my name to Andria K. Borba recently practiced at Stockwell & Elliot as an associate in its land Associates, an environmental con- Genshlea Chediak. (Sacramento) Associate, Herum Crabtree Brown. office of Nossaman Guthner Knox firm from Michael Brandman formerly practiced with Weintraub 2000, joined a new firm. She most Canyon, a small city near Vallejo. James Pugh state and federal tax matters. Each Brett S. Jolley drew his name for consideration as the governor’s appointee to lead the Department of Toxic Substances Control. He remains chief counsel for the agency. (Sacramento, CA) 56 He received a letter of appointment California Farm Bureau's Natural Jonelle C. Beck Livingston and Mattesich become had a boy, Jack Andrew Glendon, Arnold Schwarzenegger to the James S. Overman Dennis Chin served as an attorney for the sixth year at Downey Brand, but I Traurig, LLP, a 1,500 attorney Interior. He previously served in Associate, Cook Brown, LLP. and New Mexico. I hope to add (Playa Del Rey, CA) Arnold Schwarzenegger. She has Attorney. I joined Greenberg and counsel of State Street Bank. She was appointed by Governor real estate clients in both California Reclamation Board by Governor recently married Paul Asterlin, of 1998) in October 2002. We Ronald E. Hofsdal (916) 874-6596 Business serve business law, nonprofit and October 1, 2005. She was named to the State (916) 442-3100 Business Solicitor, U.S. Department of the Kate Hart Sacramento, CA 95814 has kept me very busy. Now I beautiful stepsons. I am now in my was promoted to vice president Las Vegas. (Las Vegas, NV) 901 G Street Marc B. Koenigsberg married Andrew J. Glendon (class (Washington, DC) married to Jordan Capell on exciting and timely. A solo practice Senior Attorney, Amador County. I Wildlife in the Office of the America. (Providence, RI) Emma T. Suarez Pawlicki Sacramento County Folsom, CA 95630-7314 Street Bank and Trust Company. I Kearney, Johnson & Thompson in Associate, Klinedinst, PC. I was the move to Santa Fe has been Tory Griffin and inherited two & Freer. (Las Vegas, NV) (Sacramento, CA) Maria Schriver for state business. (San Francisco, CA) Asterlin Law Offices of Sunny M. Kwon. I offices in Asia, Europe and South Julie M. Capell Samantha Tali 1647 Weinreich Court Associate Solicitor for Parks and partner at Santoro, Driggs, Walch, liability, and landlord-tenant law. Mexico. While I love Mammoth, LLP. On July 18, 2005, I married Vegas law firm, Solomon Dwiggins Vice President and Counsel, State to the Governor and counsel to expanded my practice to New Alexandra (Hawkins) 130 family members and friends. providing legal support to our Class Representatives Lisa V. Ryan Sunny M. Glendon work in Las Vegas and Andy is a Associate Attorney, Downey Brand Secretary Gale Norton to be of Legal Affairs as deputy counsel on personal injury, premises The former Lionel Sawyer & Collins Janet B. Alexander in our Global Services Division, civil litigation practice with a focus Mammoth Lakes, I moved and (916) 624-8311 Home but growing suburb northeast of Class Representatives law firm. Our firm enjoys a general Attorney. After three years in District Attorney's Office - He has joined Kleinfelder, Inc., a Elizabeth J. Travis Ian A. Rambarran He has joined the Sacramento office of Klinedinst PC. He previ- Katherine M. Bellotti Porter ously practiced with McDonough Daniel A. Flores Porter Scott Weiberg & Delehant. Holland & Allen, specializing in Partner, Flores Stall, LLP. My law My husband and I welcomed our work with corporate clients, on partner Matthew R. Stall, a class- daughter, Julia, into our lives in business and intellectual property mate, and I are pleased to April 2005. (Sacramento, CA) issues. (Sacramento, CA) announce the formation of our new Spring P A C I F I C L A W 57 John P. Tribuiano III Steven J. Williamson Phillip Yorston, ‘88 federal administrative law. As an Gianelli & Fores. (Modesto, CA) Associate Attorney, Mastagni, He has joined the law firm of The assistant director of public agency counsel, I also work closely Holstedt, Amick, Miller, Johnsen & Kroloff, Belcher, Smart, Perry & support services at the Palm Beach with U.S. Attorney’s offices and the Uhrhammer. (Sacramento, CA) Christopherson as an associate County Property Appraiser’s Office DOJ commercial litigation branch attorney. (Stockton, CA) has been elected governor-elect of on cases filed in U.S. District the Florida Kiwanis District. Courts and before the Circuit Court (Palm Beach, FL) of Appeals providing litigation sup- Alaina M. Wichner Captain, US Army JAG Corps. Class Representatives Appointed part-time military mag- Carolyn J. Kubish istrate by United States Army Trial 4500 Truxel Road, No. 532 Judiciary on 12 December 2005. Sacramento, CA 95834 (Fort Bliss, TX) LL.M. TAXATION Ryan Wood He was one of the organizers and Ryan E. Fillmore He has joined Downey Brand as an participants in a public phone tax 1901 Hackamore Drive associate. He formerly practiced forum sponsored by the Financial Roseville, CA 95661 with Porter Scott Weiberg & Planning Association of San (916) 783-4242 Home Delehant. Joaquin Valley. He is a Stockton attorney who practices in the areas Karen Bettencourt law clerk to U.S. District Court Judge Garland Burrell. Joshua Baker (Sacramento, CA) He has joined the natural resources She has joined Downey Brand as an associate. She was formerly a department of Downey Brand. Elis Guzman (Sacramento, CA) He has joined Abbott and Margaret Heiser Fulton ’93 She has been named a partner at the Auburn firm of Robinson, Lyon & Fulton. She is a certified special- enjoying the nearby Shenandoah Valley. (Washington, DC) IN MEMORIAM in addition to business law. I have friends of the following law school Oliver Bolthausen ’03 (Sacramento, CA) She has joined the business only fourth person to lead the Dustin Johnson department of Downey Brand. nation’s second largest tax agency, (Sacramento, CA) she will oversee a department with tive officer of the state Franchise more than 6,000 employees. (Sacramento, CA) LL.M. law firm. The fellows were chosen Roy Shannon based on their commitment to He is teaching National Security serving underrepresented commu- Law at the University of New nities in the state. Johnson is an Haven's California campus at associate with the Modesto law Sandia National Laboratory in firm of Perry & Associates. Livermore. He has 12 students and James R. Donahue ’84 (Modesto, CA) is teaching one night a week, while Won a defense verdict for the St. working at the San Joaquin District Helena Unified School District in Cori Sarno Attorney’s office during the day. an 11-day sex discrimination trial She won a defense verdict as the (Stockton, CA) in Napa County Superior Court in a TRANSNATIONAL BUSINESS PRACTICE case where a teacher charged that Police Department in a Yolo County Christian Smith she was not rehired because of a Superior Court case where the He has joined the Radoslovich perception that she was a lesbian. plaintiff charged excessive force Law Corp. in Sacramento as an He is a partner in Sacramento law and warrantless entry into a home associate. firm of Caulfield, Davies & after an escalating dispute between Brian J. Ullmann Donahue. (Sacramento) alumni: Attorney, Bridgehouse Rueckel & George Goldsmith ’54 Bolthausen. My firm, Bridgehouse, December 5, 2005 employs two other McGeorge alumni, my colleagues Roman M. Plachy in our Atlanta office and Michael Harper ’69 November 1, 2005 Eric T. Baker in our Munich office. Robert Pelner ’77 (Munich, Germany) December 10, 2005 Melvin E. Raatz ’80 LL.M. GOVERNMENT & PUBLIC POLICY Justin Mason ’02 Attorney-Advisor, U.S. Office of Personnel Management. I just completed three years here and it has been quite a ride so far. Things are busier than ever. This is such a hectic city. My work encompasses a wide range of activities, I advise OPM client offices as well as federal agencies on federal employment Associate, Porter, Scott, Weiberg & and labor law, labor-management Delehant. (Sacramento, CA) relations, and on various aspects of Spring very nice neighborhood, and am She was named as the new execuTax Board. The first woman and P A C I F I C L AW a small condo in Chevy Chase, a sympathy to the families and Kimberly Norvell 58 Opportunity Commission. I bought (Dhaka, Bangladesh) Freeman Guzman & Ditora. two neighbors. (Sacramento, CA) and Equal Employment Selvi Stanislaus ’98 Lake City, UT) lead counsel for the Woodland the Merit Systems Protection Board McGeorge School of Law expresses Downey Brand and Goldsberry by Jan Ferris Heenan all over the country, mostly before at Dhaka University. and construction law groups. (Salt practicing law in Lodi in a small teaching business communication I appear in administrative hearings The University of the Pacific He previously practiced with attorney. (Sacramento, CA) now 10 months old. I am also load that I either settle or for which Masters & M. Phil. degree of Law that Utah law firm’s auto/premises Leadership Academy. He's also programs. (Sacramento, CA) port. I have my own personal case- been selected as an external of and environmental law practice. Todd A. Murray as an associate he was the director of international South University. My second son is probate law. (Auburn, CA) California's Access & Fairness faculty at Pacific McGeorge where Lecturer, School of Business, North He has joined Strong & Hanni in He has joined the Law Office of eight years as a member of the Sadia Sultana ‘96 the Sacramento firm’s land use Rafael Ruano Chediak. He joins the firm after (Stockton, CA) ist in estate planning, trust and fellow in the State Bar of firm of Weintraub Genshlea and trust administration. Jeremy Knight attorneys statewide selected as a shareholder at the Sacramento law of tax litigation, estate planning, Kinderman LLP as an associate in He was one of only 12 young Shareholder, Weintraub Genshlea Chediak. He has been named a Jeff Prag ’88 (916) 320-0257 Home Keith Pershall ’95 York Finds Success Going It Alone September 20, 2005 James Stefflre, ’84 December 12, 2005 James D. Taylor ’85 January 12, 2006 Wendy C. York, ’, was four years out of law school when she took a step some colleagues twice her age never would. She hired a small but top-notch staff and set up her own shop. That was in June , and the York Law Corp. has been in place in Sacramento ever since. “I wanted the freedom and the autonomy to practice the kind of law that I wanted to practice,” York says. “I was young. I thought, I’ve got to take the risk now and strike out on my own.’” York had amassed a range of experience before going solo, first with a law office specializing in civil defense cases and then with a plaintiffs’ firm. No question but that she preferred the latter—and, after a brief stint as a partner in another start-up firm—returned her focus last year to the York Law Corp. “I kind of feel like I’m a civil cop. I hold people responsible for their negligence,” says York, who has specialized in recent years in major personal injury cases, employee discrimination and elder abuse, among others. One of York’s most gratifying cases involved an -year-old Sacramento County woman whose legs were amputated after her nursing home failed to treat her bed sores. Annie Mae Ollison won a $ million judgment in the case; jurors threw her a birthday party the next month. “There were a lot of lawyers who would have turned her down, but I fell in love with her instantly,” says York of Ollison, who has since passed away. “That’s the kind of case where you really feel you’re making a difference.” York has two associates, including Daniel P. Jay, ’. She has hired law clerks from Pacific McGeorge, and plans to continue to do so. She prides her team on its upbeat outlook, which sets the tone for the entire practice, she says Active in trial and consumer attorney groups, York may some day expand her love of advocacy to another venue: television. While an undergraduate, she considered becoming a reporter. “There’s still a part of me that craves that, educating people as to what their rights are,” she says. Spring P A C I F I C L A W 59 Photography: Steve Yeater Kimberly S. Sullivan D’s C Created by Dean Gordon Schaber in , the Dean’s Council has for nearly years been the key charitable organization advising and supporting Pacific McGeorge’s leaders. The Dean’s Council helps enhance the law school’s reputation and the quality of its educational programs by supporting scholarships, campus activities and facilities, and services to students. Members may designate up to percent of the amount of their Dean’s Council gift with percent reserved for the dean’s discretion. Thus, members are assured that the majority of their investment supports the programs and scholarships that are most meaningful to them personally, with the remainder contributing to the most pressing needs as determined by the dean. Dean’s Council members are invited to exclusive events with the dean and other speakers, as well as to a wide variety of on- and off-campus events, lectures, symposia and conferences, and VIP receptions during the holidays and at commencement. Additionally, fees at the annual MCLE events are waived for members, and special seating is provided. By alumni request, the Dean’s Council has created new member levels, so more alumni and friends can network with one another, as well as with other leaders at our law school and in the legal community: Recent grads may join for just $/year, with students or grads of the current year’s graduating class able to ‘test-drive’ membership for just $! Alums who graduated more than five years ago may join in their first year for just $—a % savings from the regular annual membership of $, (with alumni couples able to join at $,, or $ for their first year). Other membership levels, in which members receive special benefits and opportunities, include Dean’s Council Patron at $,/year, Cabinet Member at $,/year, and Dean’s Counselor for annual investment of $, or more. Dean Elizabeth Rindskopf Parker has said that she hopes every alum will become a Dean’s Council member. We hope, if you have not yet done so, that you will join this year! Remember, your first year is always at a discount, and your investment can be broken down into monthly credit card installments. You can join from the law school web site (http://www.mcgeorge.edu/alumni_resources/support_ mcgeorge/giving.htm) or by contacting John McIntyre at -- or [email protected]. 60 P A C I F I C L AW Spring *+ years of membership D’ C Thomas R. Bales Michael D. Belote Irving H. Biele*** Robert A. Buccola Francis B. Dillon** Thomas J. Feeney*** Ken & Bonnie Jean Kwong Douglas E. Love Timothy E. Naccarato Kenneth & Linda Olson Robert A. Parker* Daniel D. 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Mendonca Mike S. Mireles Mia P. Mosher Richard C. Mosher Kathleen M. Mullarkey Robert Murta John G. Neville Peter H. Pickslay Carolyn L. Pirillo Steven M. Polisar Aviva Radbord Gary E. Ransom Mark C. Raskoff Norman C. Robison Chester A. Rogaski June Rohwer Pistor Bilal Sadek Nidal R. Sadek William A. Saunders John Scriven John L. Shadek Margaret S. Shedd Philip H. Shedd James W. Shewan Steven P. Simpson Evan D. Smiley George A. Smith Judith A. Smith Karen L. Snell Richard R. Sooy Andrew P. Tauriainen Chance L. Trimm Elizabeth S. Trimm Stanley O. Van Vleck Peter P. Vlautin Bryan N. Wagner Stephen A. Weiner Rebecca M. Wilkins Mark M. Williams Wayne W. Wong Henry P. Yorston McGeorge Circle + Douglas H. Abel Harry A. Ackley Adekunle M. Aderonmu Harold G. Albright Bruce B. Alexander Thomas W. Alleeson Robert M. Allen Ronald A. Allison William G. Anderson Thomas W. Anthony Mary C. Armstrong Paul A. Bacigalupo Joseph Bakalarski Raymond E. Ball Ann H. Barber-Zagozda Nora G. Barlow Norman P. Barth Steven M. Basha Robert T. Beattie Jonelle C. Beck Mary E. Bell James P. Benoit Jeanne W. Benvenuti Robert K. Best Mark T. Boehme William E. Bonham Clarence L. Bradford Michael J. Bragg Joan E. Branin Christopher J. Breunig Leonard L. Broseker Jonathan D. Brown Dennis M. Campos Heather S. Candy John J. Cardile Donald L. Carper Wayne Cecchettini John B. Cinnamon Robert F. Cochran J. Michael Cochrane Clifford G. Collard Ronald W. Collett Timothy K. Colvin William S. Colwell Richard K. Corbin Michael D. Coughlan Judith A. Cregan James N. Crowell Elliott R. Curzon Susan R. Denious Mariel E. Dennis James D. Derich Jennifer L. Derrick John P. Doering David P. Drake Sonia L. Duffoo Jennifer Duggan Leslie A. Dunsworth Angelo A. DuPlantier Gregory W. Dwyer Jeffrey E. Ehlenbach Spring P A C I F I C L A W 63 Bruce T. Eigbrett Mark L. Eisenberg Eric Eisenlauer Howard E. Engle Robert F. Enzenberger Aaron B. Epstein Margaret A. Fainer Janice M. Fallman Frank J. Ferris Marjorie Florestal David Freudenberger Paul D. Fuller Gary H. Gale Christine V. Galves Daniel B. Gangwish Gregory C. Gardner William E. Gasbarro Daniel S. Glass Richard Glasson Frederick Graebe Harry K. Grafe Gregory D. Granger Gwendolyn Green Paul L. Grimm P. Michael Groff Eugene T. Gualco Elaine S. Guenaga Michael A. Guiliana Linda Gunderson Mark H. Gunderson Stuart C. Hall Lon D. Hamburger Mitri Hanania Darrell C. Harriman George C. Harris Barbara R. Harsch Patricia E. Hart James R. Hastings J. Chauncey Hayes Martin Heming Maureen P. Higgins Thomas M. Higgins Larry Hilliard Shelby L. Hladon Faye Holliman John W. Hudkins Rodney G. Hughes Craig I. Ihara William D. Ingersoll James S. Jacobs Leslie Jacobs David C. James Omar F. James John W. Jay Thomas E. Jeffry 64 P A C I F I C L AW Dan T. Jett Regina Jett Ronald D. Johnston Victoria L. Kalman James F. Kane Jennifer B. Kaufman Michael R. Kelly Shawn M. Kent Clark C. Kingery William D. Kodani Gretchen M. Lachance Jane L. Lamborn Amy L. Landers Mitchell Landsberg Robert A. Laurie Darlene M. Lee Frederick B. Lee Thomas C. Lee Wilmer J. Leon Pamela C. Loomis Gregory M. Lucas Charles Ludington John S. Lutch James W. Luther Brian W. Maas Hether Macfarlane Gordon J. Machado Steven E. Mair Michael P. Malloy Lawrence D. Marks Jeff B. Marschner Gregory L. Martin Linda Y. Masuda Don A. McCullough Robert P. McElhany J. Douglas McGilvray William McGrane Mary C. McGuire Driscoll Euell E. McKown Ryan J. Meckfessel Richard M. Mehigan J. Michael Memeo Michael J. Miller John A. Minkler William R. Mitchell Julie A. Mossler Michael B. Mount Mary-Beth Moylan Betty B. Muegge Harvey E. Mueller Virginia S. Mueller Dorothy Nash Holmes Gary A. Nelson Ralph R. Nevis Julia C. Newcomb Spring Timothy R. Nibler Walter S. Nomura Stephen M. North L. Jeffrey Norwalk Richard E. Nosky Bruce M. Notareus Patrick J. O'Connor Robert F. O'Neal Nancy Oprsal Dennis M. O'Reilly M. Anthony Oropeza David M. Parker William J. Pesce Svetlana V. Petroff Tony Plazibat Carl R. Poirot Simone C. Polak Edward G. Poole Jessica J. Poyner Kathleen T. Price Andrew J. Puccinelli Donald C. Pullen Scott Rasmussen James M. Ratzer Nancy B. Reardan Phyllis L. Redmond Paul K. Richardson Curtis D. Rindlisbacher Michael J. Ritter Jay E. Robinson Diana K. Rodgers Kevin D. Rodman Marcia A. Ross Mollie Runnion Steven C. Sabbadini Rachael Salcido Dwight M. Samuel Robert A. Saunders William J. Schmidt John F. Scoles Jill H. Scrivner Daniel J. Scully Sage Sepahi Jeffrey C. Sevey E. Paul Sickert Myrna B. Silver Dana B. Simonds Becky M. Smith Jennifer R. Smith Linda D. Smith Loren V. Smith Maurice B. Smith Roger A. Smith Duane V. Sparks Todd M. Spitler James C. Spurling William J. Staack Joseph L. Staats C.M. Starr Karen T. Stefano Lucy A. Steinberg Harriet A. Steiner Val G. Stephens Marsha L. Stephenson Miles A. Stern Karen Stevens Melinda C. Stewart Robin Stewart Gary S. Suganuma William R. Sykes Ward A. Tabor Andrew A. Talley Timothy J. Tomashek Robert E. Towne Ann L. Trowbridge Stanley G. Tufts Donald S. Turner William J. Turpit Robert S. Van Der Volgen Lance R. Van Lydegraf Michael E. Vergara Edwin Villmoare R. Todd Vlaanderen Sim von Kalinowski Clarence Walden David A. Wallis Elizabeth A. Weeks Glenn E. Wichinsky Katherine Williams Terrence D. Williams Neal R. Winchell Jimmie Wing Joseph R. Winn Judith K. Winn David L. Winter Michael M. Wintringer Sean A. Wong Michael D. Worthing Crystal Wright Randolph C. Wright Kamal Yackzan Linda Yackzan Leilani Yang Marlene Q.F. Young Honorary Alumni Claude D. Rohwer Class Gifts Paul L. Ross Charles M. Asbury Joseph Cooper James W. Luther Dale W. Mahon Patricia S. Mar Karl F. Munz Peter H. Pickslay Gordon P. Adelman Richard K. Corbin Ross E. de Lipkau John A. DeRonde David B. Johnson Darrel W. Lewis Jeff B. Marschner Robert P. McElhany M. Anthony Oropeza Roberta Ranstrom Dwight M. Samuel Glendalee Scully James L. Stevens Peter P. Vlautin F.L. Willis Richard J. Yrulegui - - Harry A. Ackley John Q. Brown Francis B. Dillon Robert G. Harvey Patrick R. Murphy Tom T. Okubo Elmer B. Pirtle Harry K. Grafe Loren V. Smith Edward J. Tiedemann Clarence L. Bradford Geoffrey Burroughs Robert F. O'Neal Jack C. Crose Philip H. Shedd Clarence Walden Gary M. Gallery Burl W. Waits Jimmie Wing Timothy R. Nibler Ronald B. Robie Stephen A. Brandenburger Aaron B. Epstein Eugene T. Gualco J. Douglas McGilvray Anthony M. Skrocki Roger A. Smith Ronald D. Alling Rae L. Anderson Raymond E. Ball Robert K. Best Harold L. Ford Robert C. Hight Chester A. Rogaski Ronald S. Smith Howard J. Stagg Neal R. Winchell Charles C. Asbill Glenn A. Fait H. Vincent Jacobs Arjuna T. Saraydarian John F. Scoles Borden D. Webb Stephen A. Weiner Bertram C. White Donald L. Carper Eric Eisenlauer Glenn A. Fait Frederick Graebe Robert K. Hanna Wayne Hinsdale Euell E. McKown Vigo G. Nielsen Nancy B. Reardan Norman C. Robison John F. Scoles Antonio Torlai Borden D. Webb Stephen A. Weiner Bertram C. White Robert M. Allen Jerrold B. Braunstein Lon D. Davenport Stephen J. Egan Britt Evans Roger G. Gilbert Rodney G. Hughes David J. Kristjanson Frederick B. Lee David P. Mastagni Michael J. Ritter Karen Stevens Joe Weninger Ronald W. Collett Robert C. De Voe Richard S. Gerdes P. Michael Groff John M. Hunter John O. Jamison Marshall Johnson Gayle J. Lau James L. Lopes Steven P. Martini James B. Pierce Steven M. Polisar Gary E. Ransom John E. Riddle Lee W. Salter Arthur G. Scotland James W. Shewan Nancy L. Sweet Louis S. Test Lance R. Van Lydegraf Ronald E. Blubaugh Michael J. Bragg Connie M. Callahan Robert F. Cochran James N. Crowell Michael T. Fogarty Bryan C. Hartnell John W. Hawkins Omar F. James Warren A. Jones Jack E. Kennedy Robert A. Laurie Deidra E. Lowe Michael B. McDonald Terence K. McGee Hayne R. Moyer Betty B. Muegge Walter S. Nomura R. Mark Rose Margaret S. Shedd Thomas A. Smith Jeffrey A. Smyth Joseph L. Staats Robin Stewart Edward H. Telfeyan Elleene K. Tessier Lee A. Thorson Robert C. Tronvig Spring P A C I F I C L A W 65 Gregory F. Andrews Mary C. Armstrong Laura E. Arnold William E. Bonham Pamela A. Bair David E. Boyd George D. Cato Christopher R. Chandler J. Michael Cochrane Charles B. Coyne Richard K. Dickson Laurence P. Digesti Stephen T. Emery Mathew D. Evans Reed M. Flocks Randolph H. Getz F. Charles Gieseler Richard H. Halladay John W. Hudkins James S. Joiner Vreeland O. Jones Fern M. Laethem Douglas L. Lashley James R. Lewis Robert C. MacKichan Don A. McCullough Roberta E. Mendonca Terry R. Menefee Michael B. Mount Julia C. Newcomb Gary W. Norris Mark C. Raskoff Jill H. Scrivner R. Michael Smith Richard G. Sorenson Val G. Stephens Roger Teeslink Arthur R. Titus David S. Walsh Katherine Williams David F. Anderson Daniel E. Angius Louise L. Chiu Clifford G. Collard William E. Gasbarro Scott J. Hallabrin James R. Hastings Howard M. Hoffman Sharlene Honnaka Craig I. Ihara Samuel L. Jackson 66 P A C I F I C L AW Sarah B. Johnson R. Marilyn Lee Anthony L. Leggio Herbert I. Levy Stacy A. McGill Steven G. McGuire Richard M. Mehigan Jennifer Miller Moss Kathleen M. Mullarkey Timothy E. Naccarato Dorothy Nash Holmes John G. Neville Susan L. Oldham Lance H. Olson John L. Shadek Charles W. Trainor Douglas P. Wiita Terrence D. Williams Daniel R. Allemeier David Allen Thomas W. Anthony Robert W. Armstrong Gilles S. Attia Ann H. Barber-Zagozda David J. Beauvais Thadd A. Blizzard Steven A. Block Suzan E. Boatman Bruce W. Busch Philip Clarkson J. Richard Creatura Deborah M. DeBow David P. Drake Gregory W. Dwyer Robert H. Faust John D. Feeney Mark W. Gilbert Richard Glasson Linda Gunderson Mark H. Gunderson Maureen P. Higgins Clark C. Kingery Jane L. Lamborn David R. Lane Richard B. Lewkowitz Rudolph E. Loewenstein Michael J. Margosian John R. Masterman Mary T. Muse Andrew J. Puccinelli Steven C. Sabbadini William J. Schmidt Diana P. Scott Spring Richard R. Sooy William J. Turpit Mark C. Wood Randolph C. Wright Thomas R. Yanger William P. Yee Alfred E. Yudes Allan S. Zaremberg Louis J. Anapolsky Robert T. Beattie Clifford P. Berg Bradley A. Bristow Douglas S. Cumming James L. Davis Noël M. Ferris Gary H. Gale Paul L. Grimm Candace L. Hage-Xanttopoulos Darrell C. Harriman J. Chauncey Hayes Paul S. Hokokian John W. Jay Mark S. Jennings Debra J. Kazanjian Jeffrey L. Kuhn Russell E. Leatherby Carol R. Loewenstein J. Michael Memeo Arther R. Montandon Patrick J. O'Connor Dennis M. O'Reilly Judith A. Smith C.M. Starr Shawn G. Stinson Mark M. Williams Joseph R. Winn David L. Winter Gerrit W. Wood Bruce B. Alexander Barry E. Crowell Faith Geoghegan Dan T. Jett Regina Jett Christina H. Jones Janssen Christian M. Keiner Michael R. Kelly Stephen S. Kent Joseph E. Maloney Steve Y. Masuda Joseph A. Mc Intosh Michael J. Miller Karen Mitchell John A. Norwood Gregory D. Ogrod Martha Opich Richard Opich R. Parker White Scott Rasmussen Daniel D. Richard Paul K. Richardson Daniel J. Scully Maurice B. Smith Lucy A. Steinberg Sim von Kalinowski David A. Wallis Michael D. Worthing Mark E. Buechner Thomas M. Dunipace Bruce T. Eigbrett Jerone J. English Janice M. Fallman Kathleen T. Friedrich Salvatore C. Gugino Patricia E. Hart William D. Ingersoll Laszlo Komjathy Ronald R. Lamb Mark L. Mausert Patrick J. McGrath Marshall M. Mercer William R. Mitchell Donald C. Pullen Lael Stabler Miles A. Stern William R. Sykes Andrew A. Talley Patricia S. Tweedy Phillip R. Urie Sharon J. Waters Judith K. Winn William G. Anderson Anonymous Gary R. Bricker Jonathan D. Brown Ronald W. Brown John J. Cardile Pamela Cogan William S. Colwell Jeffrey E. Ehlenbach J. Neil Gieleghem Carroll C. Jacobson James F. Kane Mark W. Knobel Thomas C. Lee Linda Y. Masuda Kevin D. Rodman Wesley H. Schermann Lawrence W. Stevens Marc W. Trost Donald S. Turner William J. Ward Glenn E. Wichinsky Roy J. Chastain John B. Cinnamon Elliott R. Curzon Mariel E. Dennis Thomas E. Drendel Morrison C. England Amanda Lowe Gregory P. Matzen Mary C. McGuire Driscoll David M. Parker Ward D. Skinner James C. Spurling Harriet A. Steiner Marsha L. Stephenson Paula G. Tripp R. Hillary Willett Adekunle M. Aderonmu Alison E. Aleman Robert A. Aronson Norman P. Barth Raneene P. Belisle Mark L. Eisenberg Margaret A. Fainer Andrea L. Hoch David L. Hunt David C. James Jennifer B. Kaufman Carl R. Poirot Jay E. Robinson Scott S. Slater Margaret C. Stark-Roberts Victoria A. Villegas Bryan N. Wagner John J. Waters Charlotte M. Bible Todd S. Bissell Mark T. Boehme Frank J. Christy Anne C. Fadenrecht Gail R. Fadenrecht Daniel B. Gangwish Thomas O. Jacob Myra M. Kaichi Marsha M. Lang Steven E. Mair Edward G. Poole Brian Putler Dana B. Simonds Steven P. Simpson Eric H. Sonnenberg Mark A. Steed Ward A. Tabor Robert E. Towne Timothy Blaine Brian H. Charter Alberta C. Chew Ralph S. Coppola Mary L. Cote Michael D. Coughlan Andrew M. Cummings John A. Don Robert F. Enzenberger Kenneth H. Flood Lon D. Hamburger Thomas E. Jeffry Brian J. Plant Genaro C. Ramirez Steven D. Rick Brian J. Sacks E. Paul Sickert Faye A. Taylor Wayne W. Wong Paul A. Bacigalupo Michael D. Belote Everett D. Emerson Carole J. Gray Brian J. Heffernan Charlotte M. Hegle Esther Jackson Mark R. Jensen Victoria L. Kalman Shane D. Kramer Dorothy S. Landsberg Richard E. Nosky Harold M. Thomas Kathryn J. Tobias Gregory D. Granger Kathryn M. Kohlman Druliner Lawrence D. Marks Thomas A. Neil Robert E. Oakes James M. Ratzer Michael M. Wintringer Lexis Allen Ruthe C. Ashley Leonard L. Broseker Daniel S. Glass Randal W. Graves Vinton J. Hawkins Thomas M. Higgins George C. Hollister Rosemary Kelley Thomas F. Klumper Brian W. Maas Gregory L. Martin Bruce M. Notareus Suzanne E. Rogers Christopher L. Russell Michael I. Sidley James G. Stanley John R. Thacker Chance L. Trimm Elizabeth S. Trimm Michael E. Vergara Henry P. Yorston Anonymous Nora G. Barlow Mark E. Berry Clay Calvert Susan R. Denious John A. Lambeth Anna L. Locke Svetlana V. Petroff Bruce A. Scheidt Jeffrey C. Sevey Robert S. Van Der Volgen Stanley O. Van Vleck Frederick G. Wiesner William W. Bunting Annette DeAndreis John L. Gezelius Todd F. Haines James S. Jacobs Patricia K. Lundvall Stephen M. North L. Jeffrey Norwalk Carolyn L. Pirillo Simone C. Polak Phyllis L. Redmond Joan E. Reid Curtis D. Rindlisbacher Matina Romas Kolokotronis Peter C. Schreiber Thomas J. Welsh Marlene Q. Young Carolyn B. Altman Katharine C. Baragona John P. Doering Angelo A. DuPlantier Eric A. Elberg Deborah A. Glynn Joy Harn Marcia A. Ross Evan D. Smiley Melinda C. Stewart Jennifer Wilke-Berry Krishna A. Abrams Jacqueline E. Bailey Michael K. Brisbin Christopher W. Ewing Elaine S. Guenaga William D. Harn Michael B. Harper Shelby L. Hladon Stephen R. Holden Betty J. Jones Mark S. Klitgaard Geralynn Patellaro Myrna B. Silver Ann L. Trowbridge Steve R. Tuszynski Sean A. Wong Spring P A C I F I C L A W 67 Eric L. Barnum James P. Benoit Nicole M. De Santis Leslie A. Dunsworth Darcy K. Houghton Peter N. Lindquist Catherine C. MacMillan Valli K. Mendlin Mia P. Mosher Teri A. Ostling Michael G. Polis Diana K. Rodgers Julie A. Shepard William J. Staack Teresa A. Stanley Robert L. Angres Mark H. La Rocque Michael D. Lee Douglas E. Love Jennifer M. McGrath Andrew S. Mendlin Richard C. Mosher Donna L. Reynolds Steven M. Rotblatt Linda D. Smith Adrienne Brungess Jeffrey B. Carra Christina L. Coyne William Davis Jennifer L. Derrick Lauren R. Diefenbach Gregory C. Gardner Gustavo E. Matheus James R. McGuire Amy Ruggles Vanessa W. Whang John C. Cha Christine V. Galves Michael A. Guiliana Mitri Hanania Jessica J. Katz Roberta L. Larson Thomas W. McGee John P. McGill Deborah B. McKinley Scott S. Mehler Julie A. Mossler 68 P A C I F I C L AW Kathleen T. Price Matthew J. Rexroad Colette M. Skaggs Erik K. Spiess Tami S. Stoller Gary S. Suganuma R. Todd Vlaanderen Jeanne Wexler Linda Yackzan Leilani Yang Teri L. Block Timothy K. Colvin Jeffrey N. Klink Mike S. Mireles Jessica J. Poyner Janet E. Bender Heather S. Candy Derek P. Cole Dora A. Corby Kathryn M. Davis Jana Du Bois Sarah K. Holt Shawn M. Kent Rodney R. Moy Ralph R. Nevis Sage Sepahi Jonelle C. Beck Judith A. Cregan Margaret C. Felts Daniel L. Hitzke Becky M. Smith Michael A. Sollazzo Todd M. Spitler Kerrie D. Webb Juanita C. Barrena Hendrick S. Crowell Jerry R. Dagrella Mary C. Garcia Carolee D. Johnstone Gretchen M. Lachance Ryan J. Meckfessel Andrew R. Nelson Shanti R. Patching Andrew P. Tauriainen Ellen R. Yamshon Diane M. Young Spring Kristopher S. Young Amelia F. Burroughs Judy L. Ford L. Stephen Gizzi Shawn M. Thompson Scott N. Cameron James M. Claybar Serineh Karapetian Pamela C. Loomis James W. Mallonee Anthony K. McClaren Peter W. Perkins Kenneth P. Petruzzelli Edward F. Randolph Beverly J. Shane Rebecca A. Dietzen Jason P. Ebert Eden Forsythe Julia M. Hahn Dustin D. Johnson Ross W. Prout David J. Ramirez Thomas M. Swett Darren J. Van Blois Christopher M. Von Maack R. Todd Wilson Venus D. Johnson Robert A. Lytle Amber D. Pearce Heather L. Rae Roy G. Shannon Hong Tang Teri L. Townsend .. Ward D. Skinner John B. Cinnamon Faye A. Taylor Henry P. Yorston Thomas F. Klumper Svetlana V. Petroff Mark S. Klitgaard Peter N. Lindquist Hong Tang Businesses, Corporate Foundations, Law Firms & Organizations Advanced Attorney Services, Inc. Aioli Bodega Espanola Barbri Bar Review Boeing Borton, Petrini & Conron, LLP Bullivant, Houser & Bailey, PC California Advocates, Inc. Caltronics Carpenters Local Union 586 Cassano & Associates City of Sacramento Clark Hill, PLC DLA Piper Rudnick Gray Cary Downey Brand, LLP Dreyer, Babich, Buccola & Callaham, LLP Gold River Katrina Fund Hansen, Culhane, Kohls, Jones, & Sommer, LLP Intel Corporation Kronick, Moskovitz, Tiedemann & Girard McGeorge Southern California Alumni Chapter McGuireWoods, LLP Microsoft Corporation Moyer, Parshall & Tweedy, LLP Murphy, Austin, Adams & Schoenfeld, LLP Nageley, Meredith & Miller Neumiller & Beardslee Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe, LLP Palmer, Kazanjian & Holden LLP Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker, LLP Paulson Reporting Service, Inc. Peterson & Associates Porter, Scott, Weiberg & Delehant Post, Kirby, Noonan & Sweat, LLP Public Legal Service Society RGL Forensic Accountants & Consultants Richard R. Sooy & Associates Sacramento Estate Planning Council San Diego Court Reporting Service San Diego Volunteer Lawyer Program Schwartz, Semerdjian, Haile, Ballard, & Cauley, LLP Segal & Kirby Seltzer, Caplan, McMahon & Vitek Superior Court of Sacramento County Union Pacific Corporation United Way of Sacramento US Bank Vulcan Materials Company WD-40 Company Weintraub, Genshlea, Chediak & Sproul Wilke, Fleury, Hoffelt, Gould & Birney Foundations The AKT Communities Fund Arata Bros. Trust Mr. & Mrs. William D. James Foundation Morrison & Foerster, LLP The Parker Education Fund of the Sacramento Region Community Foundation The George H. Sandy Foundation The Telfeyan Evangelical Fund, Inc. The Walt Disney Company Wang Family Foundation Parents The Honorable and Mrs. Harold G. Albright Mr. and Mrs. Thomas W. Alleeson Mr. and Mrs. Richard C. Alpers Mr. and Mrs. Dennis Altnow Mr. Steven R. Bair Dr. and Mrs. Thomas R. Bales Ms. Mary E. Bell Professor Michael A. Berch Mr. Stephen A. Brandenburger Mr. Richard K. Corbin Mr. Laurence P. Digesti Ms. Sandra M. Ferrio Mr. Richard S. Gerdes Ms. Kay Gerjarusak Mr. Mark H. Gunderson Ms. Shelley Hall Ms. Jacqueline Harmon Mr. John W. Hawkins Mr. and Mrs. Martin Heming Mr. and Mrs. James M. Hendrickson Mr. Arthur S. Hicks, III Mr. and Mrs. Larry Hilliard, Jr. Ms. Karen Hobbs Mr. and Mrs. George Johnson Mr. and Mrs. Parker S. Kennedy Mr. and Mrs. Richard E. King, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Ken Kwong Mr. Anthony L. Leggio Mr. and Mrs. Ronald Louie Mr. and Mrs. Charles Ludington Mr. and Mrs. William McGrane Ms. Jennifer Miller Moss Mr. and Mrs. Gary A. Nelson Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth E. Olson Mr. and Mrs. Tony Plazibat Mr. Chester A. Rogaski, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Julito Rosario Mr. R. Steven Ruley Ms. Mollie Runnion Mr. and Mrs. Ramzi Sadek Mr. and Mrs. George A. Smith Mrs. Joyce Talmachoff The Honorable Ronald W. Tochterman Mr. and Mrs. Carl Williams Mr. and Mrs. Howard L. Wolfe Dr. Kamal Yackzan Friends Douglas H. Abel Bernadine Adams Ronald A. Allison Laurie Aloisio & David Salem Nora J. Anderson Robert H. Appert Michael D. Arno Joseph Bakalarski Steven M. Basha Peter Benzian Lucille G. Blass Daniel J. Boyle Anita Branman David I. Brown Lee Buckner Dennis M. Campos Wayne Cecchettini Lynn Chao Robert Clayton Steven T. Davis Anthony DeCristoforo Ellen DeMaio James D. Derich Paul G. Dominguez Ronald E. Dosh Sonia L. Duffoo Harold L. Eisenberg Megan Elsea Howard E. Engle Donald H. Fado Amal Fattah LeRoy P. Fay Don Fellows Frank J. Ferris David Freudenberger Barbara L. Goldberg Donald W. Gorden Gwendolyn Green Dan S. Greene James C. Hagedorn Stuart C. Hall Barbara R. Harsch Sylvia A. Hatfield Donald H. Heller Fred A. Helms Faye Holliman Martin Huff A.L. R. Hughes Esther L. Huston Ronald D. Johnston Gary S. Jones J. Stephen Jones Robert R. Keeling Richard E. Kempster Charles C. Kobayashi William D. Kodani Rickey W. Konkel Mitchell Landsberg Darlene M. Lee Wilmer J. Leon Lois Levine Gregory M. Lucas Daniel Luna John S. Lutch Gordon J. Machado Raymond O. Mackey David A. MacMurdo Elva R. Manley Audrey G. Matthews Edward P. McBride Rudolf H. Michaels Harry G. Miller John A. Minkler Leslie M. Mitchell Steven F. Montalbano Harvey E. Mueller Virginia S. Mueller Hunter Murphy Nancy Oprsal William J. Pesce Margaret C. Preston Aviva Radbord Marshall E. Raley Marnie Regen Spring P A C I F I C L A W 69 June Rohwer Pistor Anne Rudin Bilal Sadek Nidal R. Sadek Robert A. Saunders William A. Saunders Cynthia SchaberHammond John Scriven Willard Shank Rebecca S. Singleton Geraldine Skarakis Karen L. Snell Duane V. Sparks Karen T. Stefano George S. Stewart J. Kelly Strader Mark W. Swanson Jacqueline Taber Marian D. Taylor Timothy J. Tomashek Stanley G. Tufts Edwin Villmoare Tom Wagner Jean Watkins Doris A. White Rosella L. Wilhelmi Joseph C. Wilkerson William A. Wilson Clellan N. Young C.F. Youngren Robert N. Zarick Matching Gifts Clark Hill, PLC (Daniel J. Scully '80) Intel Corporation (Gail R. Fadenrecht '85; Jeffrey C. Schneider '97) McGuireWoods, LLP (Eric L. Barnum '94) Microsoft Corporation (Christopher J. Breunig '92) Morrison & Foerster, LLP (Kathryn M. Davis '99; Christopher L. Russell '88; Patricia S. Mar '69) The Walt Disney Company (Jeffrey N. Paule '75) Union Pacific Corporation (John D. Feeney '78) 70 P A C I F I C L AW Vulcan Materials Company (Todd M. Spitler '00) Memorial Gifts James & Dorothy Adams Raymond H. Biele Raymond Burr Chris Connell Jerome J. Curtis, Jr. Loren S. Dahl Gary D. Damon Agatha Davies Anna Rose Fischer Clay Foss James L. Gilkison B. Abbott Goldberg Tracy G. Helms Travis Helsel William R. Knudson Alphonso Love, Sr. Tom McNally Carol J. Miller William K. Morgan Thelma Morasch Amy Olson Jeffrey Poilé Robert Puglia Mike Robinson Hilary Runnion Kamal Ramsey Sadek Gary V. Schaber Sue C. Welsh Albert F. Zangerle Schaber Society James Adams* Rosalie S. Asher* Katharine O. Biele* Irving H. Biele John Brownston* Dona Buckingham Peggy Chater-Turner Joseph Cooper Helen H. Crittenden Loren S. Dahl* Margaret K. Distler Mark S. Drobny Robert O. Fort* Louis F. Gianelli Gregory Graves Phil Hiroshima Ben E. Johnson Frank La Bella Spring Daniel R. Lang James R. Lewis Patricia K. Lundvall Sharon L. McDonald* Hayne R. Moyer Ramon E. Nunez Laraine C. Patching Ronald G. Peck Marc D. Roberts Georgia A. Rose* Anthony J. Scalora Donald Steed Sandra E. Stockman Bradley S. Towne *Deceased Faculty & Staff Lexis M. Allen Louis J. Anapolsky Sherri L. Anderson Michael B. Arkin Ruthe C. Ashley Adam Barrett Jeanne W. Benvenuti Deborah A. Berry Anne W. Bloom Cindy Bogue Stephanie Braunstein Adrienne Brungess Mark Brylski Denai M. Burbank Geoffrey Burroughs Clay Calvert Ruben Cantu Gerald Caplan Jeffrey A. Carriker Linda E. Carter Zelia M. Cebreros Walter M. Clark Kimberley Clarke Ed M. Cleofe Patricia C. Coffee Raymond R. Coletta Armando Coro Mary L. Cote Carin N. Crain Walter R. Dahl Omar M. Dajani Julie A. Davies Brenda Dawson Paul M. Demersseman Joginder Dhillon Jennifer Duggan Morrison C. England Glenn A. Fait Kenneth C. Ferry Michele Finerty Marjorie Florestal Max Francis Kathleen T. Friedrich Laura L. Friudenberg Paul D. Fuller Fred T. Galves Franklin A. Gevurtz Kevin J. Gonzalez George C. Harris Lovelle R. Harris Robert A. Hawley Mark A. Hoime Carol J. Hunter Phillip L. Isenberg Sharleen B. Jackson Leslie Jacobs Julise M. Johanson Warren A. Jones Charles D. Kelso J. Clark Kelso Donna C. Kodama Mary Lou Lackey Amy L. Landers Brian K. Landsberg Wendie L. Lawrence Thomas J. Leach Guy Lee Lawrence C. Levine Elisa A. Levy Savka Ljuboje-Glisic Hether Macfarlane Sandra M. Maguire Thomas Main Michael P. Malloy Christine Manolakas Rosalee L. May Stephen C. McCaffrey Mary C. McGuire Driscoll John McIntyre Suzanne L. McNealy David W. Miller Mary-Beth Moylan Robert Murta John E. Myers Timothy E. Naccarato Kaiyee Ng Stella Obillo Rose M. Odom Martha Opich Ruben Pastrana Michael A. Pina Gregory C. Pingree Joe Pinkas Donald R. Prinz Cathleen Reis Donna L. Reynolds Elizabeth Rindskopf Parker & Robert Parker Beth Rivera Ronald B. Robie Christopher Robinson Pauline R. Rodriguez Todd Rohloff Matina RomasKolokotronis Anthony Sabala Rachael Salcido Richard Schickele Glendalee Scully T. Jed "Skip" Scully John C. Sims Sally Snyder John G. Sprankling Edward D. Spurgeon Max Stamm Joseph E. Taylor Paul Taylor Edward H. Telfeyan Barbara Thomas Jane Thomson Joe Tira Mary L. Toles Gordon Tomsic Teri L. Townsend R.K. Van Every Angelo Viramontes Michael Vitiello Francis S.L. Wang Jane E. Watkins Gregory Weber Elizabeth A. Weeks Nancy K. Whalen Philip H. Wile Crystal Wright Kam Yee Kojo Yelpaala Julie Young Laura W.Y. Young Lorna Zink Harriet E. Zook Students Jason L. Eliaser Gail Maiorana Alyssa B. Sherman Jennifer R. Smith Rebecca M. Wilkins The hand extended … Today’s Pacific McGeorge students look forward to taking the dean’s hand at graduation, just as you did. But right now they need another hand—from you. Your gift can help keep them on a path to success. Please offer them your hand through your tax-deductible charitable gift to Pacific McGeorge. And please do it today, so they can extend their hands tomorrow. Contact John McIntyre at 916-739-7152 or [email protected], or use the law school’s secure online giving page at http://www.mcgeorge.edu/alumni_ resources/support_mcgeorge/index.htm Spring P A C I F I C L A W 71 Admissions on an upswing Law schools across the nation have seen an increase in applications in recent years, but few as dramatic as Pacific McGeorge. Applications here have increased more than percent since the year . The number of applicants with LSAT scores in the th percentile or higher range has more than doubled since . The accompanying charts reflect some of the important statistical measures that show a law school on the move. 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 Annual Enrollment 2001 2002 Enrollment Day 2003 762 2004 2005 2001 2002 2003 2004 737 700 3.24 649 1,139 2005 Median Fall Day Entering Class GPA 610 3.19 1,066 394 Evening 359 319 1,036 316 278 1,037 LL.M 24 953 Median Fall Day Entering Class LSAT 158 20 18 Applications for Entering Fall Day Class 22 3.15 3.14 3.09 23 Percentage of Entering Class of Minority Designation 3,077 Evening 3,026 157 31.4% 156 29.1% 2,671 27.8% 27.3% 153 Day 152 25% 24.6% 24.1% 1,834 1,601 19% 72 P A C I F I C L AW Spring 17.3% 17.7%