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— President Franklin D. Roosevelt

Inaugural Address, January 1941

To us there has come a time,

in the midst of swift happenings,

to pause for a moment and take stock

— to recall what our place in history

has been, and to re d i s c o v e r

what we are and what we may be.”

CO N T EN T S f a l l 2001

> Letters to the Editor 2> Message from the Dean 3

The Stuff of Dreams How philanthropy and alumni support has fed USC’s ex c e l l e n c e 4

A Contagious Habit PILF plants the seeds of a lifetime commitment to public interest work 8

Surfing the Body Po l i t i c Interdisciplinary studies in law and politics hit the We b 1 2

B r i e f s Commencement 2001; Street Law revived; PILF auction 2001; and more 16

Student News S h a t t u ck Awards honor the cream of the crop 2 2

Faculty News Ventures in Europe; workshops; faculty experts in the news 2 6

Centers CLEO brings economics stars to USC; CCLP peeks into the ‘real’ West Wi n g 40

C l i n i c s Immigration Clinic posts first wins; another challenging case for PCJP 4 2

C LE Napster’s chief at Internet law institute; corporate counselors tackle a new economy 44

Discovery Pr o fessor Eric Talley examines the future of stock-option litigation 45

Closer Pr o fessor Erwin Chemerinsky returns to high sch o o l 80

Reunions The Classes of ’51, ’56, ’66, ’71 and ’96 celebrate years gone by 46

Alumni News The Irmas Golf Tournament at 20; alumni welcome a new dean 49

Class Notes Columns by class reporters; alumni profiles; alumni books 50

Focus on Philanthropy by Gerry Yaroslow ’76 5 9

In Memoriam 76

B a ck to School A crop of USC law grads join the ranks of academia 78

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G R A D UAT E S

FE AT U RE S

COV ER PHOTOGRA PHY BY MICHELE A.H. SMI T H

Immigration Clinic Ku d o s

As 1996 and 1997 graduates of the LawSchool, we wanted to let you know howp roud we are that USC has developed twon ew clinical programs in family violence andimmigration (“The Real World,” U S C L a w,spring 2001, Page 8). We are part i c u l a r l ye xcited about the Law School’s commitmentto the Immigration Clinic. We have firsthandexperience with the plight of immigrants inCalifornia, having had a family friend bilkedfor thousands of dollars by a notario pro m-ising expedited legal status. We also are awareof the plight of thousands of political re f u g e e sin California whose cases are not appro p r i-ately considered because they lack legalcounsel. The Law School deserves specialrecognition for taking a stance to re p re s e n timmigrants at a time when the political windsd i s f a vor their access to justice, as demon-strated by the ban on immigration work for an agency receiving Legal Se rvices Corp.funding.

Joanna Joyce Weiss ’97Jason A. Weiss ’96Costa Mesa, Calif.

Philip Tavlian, Esq.First Armenian Pre s byterian Churc hCentennial CommitteeFresno, Calif.

Another Armenian Connection

On behalf of the Session and Congregation of California’s oldest Armenian Church, I wishto express my heartfelt appreciation for Associate Dean John G. To m l i n s o n’s re t ro s p e c t i ve art i c l e“ Four Odysseys, One Law School” (U S C L a w, spring 2001, ).

The distinguished counsel Arakelian M. Astor ’16 embodied the essence of the Armenianimmigrant experience in the Golden State. J. George Ohannesian ’09 and Aram Oh a n n e s i a n’10 we re the children of Giragos and Elizabeth Ohannesian, charter members of our congre-gation. George Ohannesian was the son-in-law of our second pastor, Re v. George H. Fi l i a n .The Ohannesian brothers we re among the ve ry first members of the Fresno Armenian commu-nity to earn graduate degrees, and they faithfully served their congregation and ethniccommunity in the decades following their graduation from the USC Law School. Fe l l owFresnans Aram Sa royan, the author’s uncle, and Alex Pilibos re c e i ved their legal education atU S C during the deanship of Judge Gavin Craig and went on to distinguished careers at the barand in California commerc e .

Please extend our sincere thanks to Dean Tomlinson for his fascinating look at the immi-grant students whose lives and careers so deeply enriched the USC Law School, the Californialegal profession and our society as a whole.

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Changing lives — with more than a little help from our friends

When we think of life-changing experiences, our thoughts cling to major events — graduation,marriage, births, deaths — “big days” that measure our growth, open doors to new opport u-nities and mark the passage of time. Obtaining a J.D. is certainly one of those life-changingexperiences: Graduating from law school affirms your talent, knowledge and ability to ove r-come challenges. It also opens doors to opportunities for growth and success.

But we often forget how smaller, less obvious events also change our lives. I thought ofthis recently while watching a film called “Sliding Doors,” which illustrates how life is a seriesof turning points, crucial junctures where seemingly small decisions or events shift a life’spath entire l y. In “Sliding Doors,” the turning point was a random event — a change in a child’spath up a stairway — but intentional, helpful acts also alter the course of a life.

At the USC Law School, we change lives intentionally. Our mission is to provide a top-quality educational experience that will change students’ lives and the lives of those with whomthey work. The act of teaching is, itself, a conscious effort to change somebody’s life, to inspirea student to do more and be better. Our professors don’t just teach: They listen, guide andencourage. Some have inspired students to follow in their academic footsteps; on Page 78, yo u’l lread about USC law graduates who are teaching at law schools around the country, passingto another generation of lawyers lessons and ideas gleaned from USC mentors.

Su p p o rting programs that serve others is also a central mission of the Law School. Our clin-ical programs, for example, provide free, high-quality legal services to at-risk children, poorvictims of family violence, nonprofit organizations in USC’s neighborhood, immigrants seekinga better life, and people who’ve been swept up in the criminal justice system. We re it not for thestudents and professors in our five clinics, many people would not get the legal help they sodesperately need. On Page 42, you will read about some of the people whose lives we re changedthanks to our students and clinical professors.

Our Public In t e rest Law Foundation is also changing lives. PILF summer grants enabled 25law students to work full time this summer in public interest agencies around the country. T h e s egrants help agencies better serve their communities and give students a sense of how fulfillingpublic interest work can be. As you will see on Page 8, PILF is changing how students viewthe law by showing them that pro bono and public interest work can be an integral part of theirc a reers, no matter where they work .

And behind the scenes are the people who make these efforts possible, thousands of peoplewho, through their support of USC, change lives in small and big ways eve ry day. Some namesstand out — the people and organizations who give hundreds of thousands of dollars to theLaw School are often profiled within this magazine. But those who give $500 or $100 — ore ven $30, which the ove rwhelming majority of our students contribute to PILF each year —also provide vital re s o u rces for important programs. To you, such a gift might be a random act,a last-minute thought near the end of a tax ye a r. To the student who is able to attend USCbecause of a scholarship, or to the victim of domestic violence who gets help from our Fa m i l yViolence Clinic, or to the child whose adoption is finalized by a PILF grant recipient, thatgift is life-changing.

On behalf of USC and the people we help, I thank you for your continued support.

by Dean Matthew L. Spitzer ’77

D re a m sIn 1911, USC Law School Dean Fr a n kMo n roe Po rter dreamed of legal educationwith his eyes wide open. He fancied a lawschool of permanent faculty, talented studentsand an on-campus law building; but especiallyhe dreamed of an endowment. And hed reamed aloud. Law students who edited the1911 St a re De c i s i s yearbook playfullyc a rtooned the dean in his pajamas, dre a m i n g“The De a n’s Dre a m”: a multi-storied lawbuilding and a $250,000 estate gift that chal-lenged other “public-spirited citize n s” to helpc reate a half-million-dollar endowment.

T h e re was nothing furt i ve or shy about hisvision: His eyes we re on the endowment prize.

But a dean’s dream and a student’s decla-ration we re neither reality nor accomplishmentin 1911. Despite a ve ry successful 23-ye a rdeanship — which included hiring a perma-nent faculty, improving the quality of thestudent body and constructing a new building— Dean Po rter never achieved the dream of a$500,000 endowment. Mo re than 50 ye a r swould pass before the Law School had estab-lished a culture of philanthropy supported bya cadre of successful, loyal and generous grad-uates, a staff with fund-raising acumen, anda $500,000 endowment. This essay explore ssome of the words, events and deve l o p m e n t sthat helped create the culture of philanthro p ythat has become such an integral part of thelife and history of the USC Law School.

The Stuff of Dre a m s

In 1904, Dean Po rter assumed leadership ofthe school and its $1,200 endowment. In1965, the endowment was nearly $500,000;by 1980, it topped $5.5 million. Today them a rket value of the Law School endow m e n tis more than $140 million, one of the 10largest endowments among private Americanlaw schools. The spectacular growth of re c e n tyears stems in part from a bullish stockm a rket, but credit also lies with those gratifiedgraduates who have contributed large gifts.The late Je r ry Wiley ’67, who did more thana little giving to — and asking on behalf of —the Law School, thought great American lawschools we re more alike than different: T h e yhad great faculty, great students and gre a tfacilities. He might have added a forth simi-larity: They have great endowments, builtupon gifts from generous donors.

Ph i l a n t h ropy and volunteerism are amongthe most celebrated American cultural habits;education and religion are the two leadingbeneficiaries of philanthro p y. Americans liketo speak of philanthropy as a virtue, perhapsforgetting that in a country without nationalc h u rches and aristocracies, Americans mustvolunteer time and tre a s u re to establish andperpetuate institutions of importance. Earlyp r i vate American universities, often fashionedf rom religious institutions, understood thenecessity of full hearts and full tre a s u re s ;

c o n g regations became university alumni, andtithing became university annual funds.

By 1900, when USC began its adve n t u rein legal education, private law schools we rebusy forming alumni associations to estab-lish professional networks among graduates,to reengage graduates in the life of the school,and to encourage giving. Ha rva rd had a lawalumni association by 1886 and, in 1887,began publishing the Ha rva rd Law Re v i e w, inp a rt to reconnect alumni to their alma mater.The Yale Law Re v i e w informed graduatesabout legal issues as well as the school’s finan-cial needs. As Louis D. Brandeis, an 1877Ha rva rd law graduate and a founder of theHa rva rd Law Association, observed: T h eneeds of a law school “may be used to bindsuccessful graduates and others to the schoolby keeping them alive to its growth and pro b-l e m s” and “by acquainting them with theg rowth of legal education.” What Ju s t i c eBrandeis re c o g n i zed in the connectionb e t ween alumni, philanthropy and the vigorof Ha rva rd Law School was soon coin of thep r i vate law school realm.

But Dean Po rter needed only to looklocally for his philanthropic cues. Ph i l a n -t h ropy created USC in 1880 and has been anintegral part of university culture ever since.From the onset, trustee minutes re p o rt e dcontributions of stock, cash, real estate andgifts-in-kind — even a pair of water buffalo

The Stuff of

A century of giving has instilled a culture of philanthropy at USC— and fulfilled an early dean’s lofty dreams

by Associate Dean John G. To m l i n s o n

F E AT U R E S

N E W S

G R A D UAT E S


horns. Dean Po rter himself had fund-raisingexperience gleaned from activities with theLos Angeles Me t h o d i s t - Episcopal Church andhis campaign for mayor of Los Angeles.

The sources, then, for Dean Po rt e r’s dre a mof a new law building and an endow m e n twe re personal, professional and institutional.For him, the Biblical admonition, “W h e reyour tre a s u res are, there will be your heartalso,” must have been familiar, comforting —and instru c t i ve. The 1911 “De a n’s Dre a m”c o r rectly foretold that philanthropy would bea permanent part of the Law School culture .

P romoting pro g ress and development

Fo rt y - f i ve years would pass between the“ De a n’s Dre a m” and a time when the LawSchool would organize itself around thenotion that volunteers, shaped into an alumniassociation, could ask graduates to prov i d efinancial support for the school. Still, many ofthe philanthropic elements that now comprisethe modern law school surfaced during theyears between 1911 to 1956. With theencouragement of law school administrators,Gavin W. Craig ’01 formed the Law SchoolAlumni Association just after his graduation;the association began as a networking organ-ization that feted its members at dances,banquets and “smokers.” Well before 1940,graduates spoke of the USC legal network asa compelling reason to study law at USC.

While the Alumni Association dancedand ate its way into the fabric of the LawSchool, it also began developing a re l a t i o n s h i pwith students. The Alumni Aw a rd for topstudent was established in 1907; Ke m p e rCampbell was its first recipient. And,although most early graduates came fro mfamilies of modest means and few appare n thabits of philanthro p y, the AlumniAssociation Scholarship appears in the LawSchool catalog in 1940.

Some graduates also gave monies sufficientto endow scholarships. The 1926-27 LawSchool catalog notes three scholarships, two

named and one anonymously funded. T h ef o l l owing ye a r, the S o u t h e rn Ca l i f o rnia LawRe v i e w heralded the gift of Ha r ry J. Bauer ’09,USC trustee and chair of the unive r s i t y’s semi-centennial campaign. Mr. Bauer endowed a$100,000 scholarship, then the largestcommitment made to the Law School; thate n d owment provides scholarships to this day.

As gifts arrived, the culture of philan-t h ropy developed. The S o u t h e rn Ca l i f o rn i aLaw Re v i e w’s editors proclaimed in a 1928issue that, to “p romote the pro g ress and deve l-opment of this school of law,” members of theClass of 1928 each pledged “not less than fiftyd o l l a r s” to create an unrestricted endowe dt rust fund. Ranney C. Draper ’28 anticipated$4,000 in pledges; he wrote that “c e rt a i nintangible benefits [would] follow” from thesenior class commitment, and that studentsb e l i e ved their gifts would “form a strong bondb e t ween the Law School and its graduates byreason of the fact that they will have playe da vital part in the building of its future . ”Noble though they we re, Mr. Dr a p e r’s word s

we re richer than his classmates: Trustee re p o rt sf rom 1928 to 1940 reflect few gifts from 1928graduates. Their intentions we re good, buttheir timing was bad: the Great De p re s s i o nlikely restrained their giving.

Lean management also hampered deve l-opment efforts at the Law School. Making thecase for philanthropy was one thing; havingadministrators able to ask for gifts andmanage the development process was fourdecades in the future. Lack of fund-raisingstaff notwithstanding, the Law School named

its first professorship in 1945. Funded in partby a testamentary gift, the He n ry W. Bru c eProfessorship in Law honored the 1929 grad-uate for his nearly 30-year relationship withthe unive r s i t y. Mr. Bruce, who also earned ab a c h e l o r’s degree from USC, later served asU S C ’s vice president for finance.

After World War II, the G.I. Bill support e dmany USC law students, but it was discove re dincome, not earned income. Edwin F. Be a c h’50, student editor of the school’s dire c t o ryand student handbook, observed that theschool was “really quite deficient in the matterof scholarships.” He encouraged students toput their education to work by advising othersto establish scholarships at the Law School.

For the advancement of the school

M r. Be a c h’s clarion for scholarship supportechoed similar calls heard throughout the LawS c h o o l’s first 50 years; in re t rospect, they havethe sound of solo voices in search of ano rchestra and a chorus. That chorus — avolunteer chorus — took shape in the form of

Legion Lex in 1956. Legion Lex’s foundingm a rked a decisive shift in the philanthro p i ch i s t o ry of the Law School. With the slogan,“ Formed for the advancement of the school ofl a w,” Legion Lex re p resented a culmination ofinformal fund-raising practices and madep h i l a n t h ropy a formal part of the Law School.

C o n c e i ved by Tom Nickel in the USCd e velopment office, Legion Lex attractedDean Ro b e rt Kingsley’s eager support. T h a n k sto willing volunteers who personally re c ru i t e dannual gifts from graduates and friends of the


R a n n e y D r a p e r ’ s a s s e r t i o n that philanthropy was the way

to promote the programs and development of this school was righton mark: At USC Law School, p h i l a n t h ro p y has made the

stuff of deans’ d re a m s r e a l.

Law School, Legion Lex had 371 annualdonors within four years of its founding; by1968, nearly 1,200 persons made annual gifts.By 1970, 50 percent of non-tuition incomecame from Legion Lex contributions. Gi f t swe re designated for the highest need asdefined by deans; over the years, Legion Lexcontributions have helped remodel the oldlaw school building, construct the pre s e n tbuilding, and fund library acquisitions, schol-arships, student loans and professorships.

By 1965, Legion Lex’s success was evident.The organization had identified a loyal andg rowing population of generous graduates;some with the inclination and capacity latermade larger gifts, particularly planned giftsfrom their assets. When the Law Schoolannounced in 1965 a $2.7 million campaignfor a new building, Legion Lex committed$100,000. At the same time, the school hired afund-raising staff person who gave permanenceto the philanthropic enterprise.

With the construction of the Musick LawBuilding in 1969 — El von Musick ’15 andhis wife provided the naming gift — came an ew era in the pace and size of contributions.The testamentary gift of another graduate,John W. Barnes ’27, LL.M. ’29, prov i d e dnearly $1 million and generated more inmatching funds. A campaign led by De a nDo rothy Nelson exceeded goals. The LawSchool re c e i ved its first $1 million endow-ment in 1976 from the William and Fre d e r i k aGo rdon estate; the gift was the result of estatew o rk conducted by Go rdon Ma c Donald ’34.

After opening the Musick Law Building in1971, Dean Nelson invested her time andre s o u rces in development. Se rved in part byJe r ry Wi l e y, soon thereafter a deve l o p m e n to f f i c e r, Dean Nelson also benefited from thew o rk of former law pro f e s s o r, then unive r s i t yvice president for legal affairs, Carl M.Franklin, who helped attract four endowe dlaw professorships. When Dean Nelson leftthe deanship for the 9th U.S. Circuit Courtbench, she passed to Scott Bice a faithful

contingent of Legion Lex donors, amongthem the philanthropists who moved the LawS c h o o l’s endowment from $5.5 million to oneof the nation’s top law school endowments.

The Franklin Mint

The late Syd Irmas ’55 once described howwell-suited Scott Bice was for the deanship heassumed in 1980. A 1968 graduate of the LawSchool, Dean Bice knew the recent historyof the Law School; he had served as bothfaculty member and administrator. Mr.Ir m a s’s only concern was whether Dean Bi c ecould become a successful fund raiser. Te l l i n gthe story decades later, Irmas chuckled at hisconcern. Under Dean Bi c e’s watch, the LawSchool endow m e n t’s market value grew fro m$5.5 million in 1980 to $140 million at theend of the year 2000.

Dean Bice declared his commitment toattracting financial re s o u rces for the LawSchool from the onset. In his first “From theDe a n” essay in the fall 1980 USC CITES, he vowed to dedicate 50 percent of his time tofund-raising activities. Certainly he harve s t e dthe work of his predecessors; ultimately heinherited also the good work of capablep rofessors whose teaching served USC lawgraduates well. And he arrived at a cru c i a ltime in the lives of graduates whose p rofessional successes, wealth and sense ofgratitude combined to make giving possible.Dean Bice led three fund-raising campaigns,the last of which, the “Campaign for theSecond Century,” exceeded $50 million incash and pledges. The development staff grewf rom one person in 1980 to eight in 2000. The philanthropic successes of the Bice ye a r sa re re c o rded on plaques throughout the Law School.

Perhaps the greatest boon to Dean Bi c e’st e n u re was the wisdom, loyalty and genero s i t yof Carl M. Franklin, arguably one of the mosti m p o rtant philanthro p y - c e n t e red persons inU S C ’s history and certainly in the eleemosy-n a ry life of the Law School.

Professor Franklin joined the Law Schoolin 1953 and taught legal accounting, interna-tional law, common law actions andrestitution until 1960, when he assumed therole of USC vice president for financial affairs.From 1973 to 1983, he was chief of legalaffairs. Professor Franklin served the unive r-sity in other ways, too: He and his late wife,C a rolyn Craig Franklin, have participated inraising more than $150 million for USC. Heestimates that at least half of those dollarss u p p o rted Law School endowments forp rofessorships, chairs and scholarships; addi-tional Franklin family gifts helped build thelaw building and its libraries and prov i d e du n restricted funds for other projects. Pro f e s s o rFranklin has asked for gifts, and he has madethem. T h i rt y - t h ree chairs and pro f e s s o r s h i p sadorn the Law School; Carl and Caro l y np a rticipated in the funding of 26. He facili-tated seven of 27 gifts of $1 million or moref rom persons or foundations. Fi t t i n g l y, theacademic position held by the dean of theLaw School is the Carl Mason Franklin De a n’sChair in Law, created in 1983. A chair in lawand religion bears Caro l y n’s name.

Professor Franklin also has served as a wisementor — first to Dean Kingsley, who hire dhim in 1953, and later to deans Orrin Eva n s ,Nelson, Bice and now Ma t t h ew Sp i t zer —i m p a rting the virtues and skills of patience, al ove of legal education and the ability tod e velop and sustain deep, caring re l a t i o n s h i p s .Pro f e s s o r, philanthropist and deve l o p m e n tp rofessional extraord i n a i re, Carl Franklin wasthe person Dean Po rter dreamed of in 1911— the year Professor Franklin was born.

The culture of philanthropy is an integralaspect of the history of all American lawschools, and, after a century, philanthropy hasmade extraordinary contributions to the lifeof this Law School. Ranney Dr a p e r’s assert i o nthat philanthropy was the way to promote thep rograms and development of this school wasright on mark: At USC Law School, philan-t h ropy has made the stuff of deans’ dreams re a l .


FE AT U RE S PHIL A N T HR O PY


by Melinda Myers Va u g h n

PILF is changing the culture of the USC Law School as it spreads its

public service messa g e

A Contagious Habi t

U SC law students appeared before Judge Carol Williams Elswick (a 1979 political science graduate of USC) on AdoptionD a y. Students worked with attorneys at the Alliance for Children’s Rights to help finalize adoptions for several ch i l d r e n .Photography by Michele A.H. Smith.


F E AT URES PILF

Vargas family is scattered a b o u ta stuffy court room waiting

a rea swamped with children clutching teddybears, volunteers handing out bagels andp a rents snapping photographs. Pe d ro Va r g a sand his wife, Charmon, keep watchful eyes ontheir six girls — three to whom Charmong a ve birth, three to whom the family willbecome legally bound today — as theyscamper about the room.

It is a rare day at the L.A. De p e n d e n c yC o u rt: Eve rybody here is smiling.

Adoption Day is a ritual at this court-house. T h ree or four Sa t u rdays a ye a r, judgesand court staff volunteer time to help finalizeadoptions for hundreds of low-income Los Angeles families. Cert a i n l y, the day is aspecial one for families such as the Va r g a s e s .Pebbles, 6, has been living with the Va r g a sfamily for three years; her sisters, Camille, 1 - a n d - a - h a l f, and Ma ry Jane, 3, came to theVargases shortly after their births. When itbecame clear that their birth parents couldn’tkeep them, Mr. and Mrs. Vargas decided toadopt rather than see the girls split up in thefoster care system. For this family, Ad o p t i o nDay is the culmination of several years offoster parenting, navigating the family courtsystem and waiting.

For a handful of USC law students, thisAdoption Day is also important: The daym a rks the first time they will appear before ajudge on a client’s behalf. As the Vargases andother families wait somewhat impatiently fortheir turn before the judge, Michael Sm i t h’03, Erin Ga rdiner ’03, Vanessa Soto ’03 andDarlene Wanger ’03 pace back and fort h ,practicing their lines and conferring with theirs u p e rvising attorney from the Alliance for

C h i l d re n’s Rights. Their work is making thisday possible for the Vargas family and seve r a lothers; and, as they guide their familiest h rough the adoption process, these studentsnot only learn how the adoption pro c e s sw o rks, but also how satisfying it is to prov i d esuch meaningful service to others.

“ It’s wonderful to see mothers crying tearsof joy at the Dependency Court,” Ms. So t osays after emerging from the court room withthe Vargas family. “I was surprised at what anemotional day it was. It was really incre d i b l e . ”

Ms. Soto was among dozens of USC lawstudents who vo l u n t e e red in public intere s tlegal positions last year with help from theLaw School’s Public In t e rest Law Fo u n d a t i o n( PILF). The student-managed foundationw o rks with public interest organizations toc reate summer positions and school-ye a rvolunteer opportunities for law students while meeting critical community needs forl ow-cost legal services. Established in 1987,PILF has become part of the fabric of a USClegal education, creating a culture of service at the Law School that touches hundreds of students each ye a r. This ye a r, PILF handedout a re c o rd number of summer grants andexpanded its reach among students with awell-attended speaker series, dozens of legaltraining and clinical programs and a slate ofsuccessful fund-raising programs. Its successhas positioned PI L F, winner of USC’s 2001Student Organization Volunteerism Aw a rd, as a campus leader in community service. And, as one of the first — and still one of the largest and most successful — student-ru npublic interest law programs in the c o u n t ry, PILF has become a model for lawschools nationwide.

Indeed, a growing public interest move-ment in law schools is changing the culture oflegal education as students learn they cana c h i e ve academically and still find time tovolunteer with public interest agencies. T h e yalso are learning that a demanding corporatec a reer and public interest work do not have tobe mutually exc l u s i ve. Pa rticularly at USC,w h e re PILF has become the largest and mostp rominent student organization in the LawSchool, public interest is increasingly viewe das part of a lawye r’s job, no matter where a career in the law may lead.

“When I worked at the Alliance forC h i l d re n’s Rights, I began to see how incre d-ible it is to simply be able to read, to thinkc r i t i c a l l y,” says Sara El zerman ’02. Ms.El zerman worked at the Alliance during herfirst year of law school; last ye a r, she serve das co-chair of PI L F ’s pro bono activities.“ Public interest work is not just import a n tbecause yo u’re a first-year law student. It’si m p o rtant because you we re able to eat bre a k-fast this morning, because you know yo u’renot going to lose your food stamps if yo uargue with someone about your rights. This isone reason why PILF has been successful: Byw o rking in these places where yo u’re able tohelp people, you begin to re a l i ze how luckyyou really are.”

Public interest: A USC tradition

PILF was established at USC in 1987 by lawstudents who wanted to bridge the gapb e t ween the Law School and the community.Beginning that ye a r, tuition bills included a$10 “t a x” to fund public interest grants.Students could opt out of the tax by checkinga box, but practically all students contributed

The

— and continue to contribute — to PI L F.The “n e g a t i ve check-off system” raised about$12,000 that first ye a r. When the late Syd n e yIrmas ’55 and his wife, Au d re y, heard thatstudents we re taxing themselves to pay forpublic interest activities, they matched thestudent fund with a $12,000 grant. They alsoestablished an endowment that continues top rovide re s o u rces for PI L F.

PILF offered 12 summer grants in 1988. It was the beginning of a USC tradition thathas grown immensely in scope and vision.Now, students pay a $15 “t a x” each semesterto support PI L F, and other fund-raisers, suchas the annual auction and the “Donate a Da y’sSa l a ry” program, bring in nearly $90,000annually for the Sydney and Au d rey Ir m a sPublic In t e rest Fund and draw wide supportf rom students, faculty, alumni and commu-nity members. This summer, 25 law studentsre c e i ved PILF grants to work full time inn o n p rofit organizations around the country ;s e ven other USC students re c e i ved publici n t e rest grants funded by friends, alumni andstudents, including the yearlong Sydney andAu d rey Irmas Fe l l ow s h i p, worth $37,500, fora graduating student. USC’s PILF grantsi n c reased by $500 this year; first-time grantrecipients re c e i ved $4,500 and those in theirsecond summer of service re c e i ved $5,500.

Ac c o rding to Vicky Rateau, program asso-ciate at the National Association for Pu b l i cIn t e rest Law (NAPIL), USC’s public intere s tgrant program is one of the nation’s largest.Most law schools award eight to 18 annualgrants ranging from several hundred dollars to $5,500. These programs are making ad i f f e rence: Last ye a r, law students in theUnited States raised more than $3 million infunding for grants to support 1,500 studentsw o rking in public interest positions.

The surge in student volunteerism hasbeen a boon to public interest law agencies.Amy Pellman, supervising staff attorney at theAlliance for Childre n’s Rights, says theAlliance has come to rely on student assis-

tance. “We only have five staff lawyers, and wes e rve 5,000 children each ye a r,” she says.“ Students are vital to the operation of ourorganization. They help with intake andre c e i ve calls from the community, conductlegal re s e a rch and writing, help with adoptionand guardianship paperw o rk, assist with legalclinics and help individual families.

“ It’s a good experience for them, too,” sheadds. “T h e re are n’t a lot of first-year lawstudents who get to go to court or learn to doa guardianship from beginning to end. T h e rea re n’t a lot of first-year students who havefamilies truly see them as their advo c a t e s . ”

This ye a r’s PILF grant recipients work e dwith a broad range of public interest agencies,p roviding desperately needed legal assistancefor low-income families, victims of domesticviolence, immigrants, homeless people andvictims of discrimination. Eli Pa l o m a re sre c e i ved a PILF grant after securing a summerposition with Bet Tzedek Legal Se rvices, hisfirst choice for a summer job. “I thought I’dlearn a lot more about the law doing publici n t e rest than working at a firm,” he says. Andlearn he did: Most of his cases we re related tohousing law — helping tenants fight unlawfulevictions or illegal rent increases — but he alsoassisted in cases involving government bene-fits payments, bankruptcy and immigrationissues. “I targeted Bet Tzedek because I felt

I could offer them a bridge to the Latinoc o m m u n i t y,” says Mr. Pa l o m a res. “You cansee the timidity in people when they comeh e re for help, and if they have someone herewho speaks their language, they feel so muchm o re comfort a b l e . ”

Wo rking at the Alliance for Childre n’sRights enabled Mr. Smith, a graduate of theUn i versity of Sussex and a former publicschool teacher, to pursue his interest in c h i l d re n’s health care issues. Along with thre eother USC law students, Mr. Smith spent hissummer working closely with clients, filing foradoption or guard i a n s h i p, obtaining publicbenefits, name changes and emancipations,and re s e a rching issues relating to health care ,public benefits and foster care. “I am re a l l yi m p ressed with PI L F,” says Mr. Smith, whovo l u n t e e red at the Alliance through springsemester and re c e i ved the Si d l e y, Au s t i n ,Brown and Wood Public In t e rest LawFe l l owship to work there full time during thes u m m e r. “The grant program is excellent. Itw o u l d’ve been a lot more difficult to do whatI wanted to do this summer without the grant.”

PI L F ’s success can be measured by morethan the growth of its grant program, howe ve r.An increased level of organization and activityt h roughout the broad scope of PI L F ’sp rograms has raised student participation ande l e vated the organization’s presence at the LawSchool. Students participated in dozens ofclinics and training sessions last ye a r, and manypursued volunteer opportunities beyond thoseo r g a n i zed by PI L F. “We viewed clinics as ajumping off point,” says Ma ry Beth Lipp,2000-01 co-chair of pro bono activities. “Weg i ve students the gist of what public intere s tw o rk is and then provide them with re s o u rc e sand information so they can establish theirown relationships with organizations.”

“ PILF has become so pre valent at USC,”says Ms. Ga rd i n e r, PILF pro-bono co-chairthis ye a r. “T h e re’s always something going on.The consistency and diversity of pro g r a m sh a ve made it ve ry accessible.”

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i m p o r tant because you’re a first-

year law student. It’s important

b e cause you were able to eat

b reakfast this morning, beca u s e

you know you’re not going to lose

your food stamps if you argue

with someone about your rights.

A broadened vision of legal education

By making public interest opportunities soaccessible, PILF has effected a noticeablechange in the way students view their care e rgoals and their duties as attorneys. Ms.Wanger didn’t know what public interest lawwas when she came to USC. “I had nocommunity service experience,” she says. “I’djust never taken the time for it. But I went toa PILF meeting at the beginning of my firstye a r, and public interest work sounded inter-esting. I started signing up for whatever wasa vailable — I did the Public CounselHomelessness Pre vention Project clinic, thecounty bar Ba r r i s t e r’s Domestic Vi o l e n c eProject, Adoption Day — and I just re a l l ye n j oyed it.”

When it came time to apply for summerjobs, Ms. Wanger looked for public intere s to p p o rtunities and took a position with the Alliance for Childre n’s Rights. “PILF has broadened my vision of what you can do with a legal education,” she says. “It gave me something that contradicted that cliché view of the world of selfish lawye r s .T h e re’s a lot of good that you can do with a law degre e . ”

Olivia Kim ’03 hadn’t heard of publici n t e rest law before coming to USC either, butshe was hooked after attending her first PI L Fmeeting and a clinic with Public Counsel’sHomelessness Pre vention Project. She loggedm o re than 130 volunteer hours with Pu b l i cCounsel and the Legal Aid Fo u n d a t i o nduring the school year and served as a students u p e rvisor for the Homelessness Pre ve n t i o nProject — an unusual accomplishment for af i r s t - year law student. She re c e i ved a Si d l e y,Austin, Brown and Wood Public In t e rest LawFe l l owship to work at Public Counsel fulltime during the summer, and this fall she tookon the role of PILF vice president. “It’schanged my whole perspective,” Ms. Kim saysof her PILF experiences. “Now, when I’mt rying to find a job, I’m looking carefully atwhat public interest opportunities firms offer.A year ago, I wouldn’t have even thoughtabout it. Now it’s ve ry important to me.”

Sh owing students that public interest workcan be a part of any career has become ap r i m a ry goal of the organization. “PILF is fore ve ryone, no matter what your career goal is,”says Nicolle Cumberland ’03, PI L F ’s 2001-02p resident. “It’s part of what attracted me to

PI L F. It wasn’t like you could only part i c i p a t eif public interest was going to be your life. A lot of my friends who we re committed tocorporate jobs got invo l ved with PI L F, too.They saw you can do both.”

“ I ’ll always make pro bono work a part ofmy care e r,” says Ms. El zerman, who came toUSC with an interest in childre n’s law but hassince become enamored with tax law. Sh e’sn ow pursuing a dual J.D. degree with am a s t e r’s in business tax. “You can always servethe community through a corporate job, andt h a t’s part of what we want people to under-stand. T h e re are needs in eve ry area — peopleneed help filing taxes; people need helpkeeping their small businesses going. You can follow your intellectual passion withoutsacrificing a commitment to service.”

“ PILF encourages a habit of pro bonos e rvice by exposure,” adds Ms. El ze r m a n .“We’re letting people know it’s an option andexposing them to how it feels to help others.It’s really a contagious habit. Once they experience it, we’ve caught them.”

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2 0 01 PILF Grant Recipients

Semara Belgarde ’03Legal Aid Foundation of Los Angeles

Shannon Boyce ’03Legal Aid Foundation of San Bernardino

Larry M. Chattoo ’03HIV & AIDS Legal Services Alliance

Carlton Davis ’03Legal Services of Northern California

Leslie De La To r re ’03Legal Aid Foundation of Los Angeles

M i chelle Deleye ’03Bet Tzedek Legal Services

Stephen Dunkle ’03Public Counsel

Nicolle Cumberland ’03Y WCA Domestic Violence Project

Erin Gardiner ’03Alliance for Children’s Rights

Amber Grayhorse ’03N A ACP Legal Defense and Education Fund

Leon Hazany ’03Western Law Center for D i sability Rights

Steve L. Hernandez ’03Fair Housing Council of San Gabriel Va l l e y

Janet Hong ’02Public Defender Service for District of Columbia

Anne Hwang ’02 Southern Center for Human Rights

Jonathan Judge ’03Protection & Advocacy Inc.

Kasie Lee ’03Legal Aid Foundation of Los Angeles

Sean Matsler ’03Anti-Defamation League

Paul Maxon ’03National Lawyers Guild

Eli Palomares ’03Bet Tzedek Legal Services

Robert Rapfogel ’03West Te xas Legal Services

Vanessa Soto ’03Alliance for Children’s Rights

Jennifer Sta a ck ’02Anti-Defamation League

Tiffany Zwicker ’03Break the Cycle

S i d l e y, Austin, Brown &Wood Public Intere s tFe l l o w s

Olivia Kim ’03

Homelessness Prevention Project, Public Counsel

M i chael J. Smith ’03

Alliance for Children’s Rights


A new r e s e a r ch center examines the role of

Surfing the Body Po l i t i c

When the 2000 presidential election firstbegan its descent into legal quagmire, Bi l lClinton observed, “The American peopleh a ve spoken. It’s just going to take a while todetermine exactly what was said.”

In its simplest form, democracy is gove r n-ment by the people. Elected officials aresupposed to gauge the pre f e rences and va l u e sof the populace and create laws based on thepublic will. But deciphering the will of thepeople is not an easy task in a nation of 275million residents, even without the complica-tions that encumbered the recent election.How do we know what the public will is? Howreliable are the eve r - p resent surveys and pollsthat claim to measure public pre f e re n c e s ?W h e re do those pre f e rences come from? Howf i xed are they? To what extent do the politi-cians who claim to follow the will of the peopleactually manipulate and shape that will?

Despite their re l e vance, such questions arenot often the subject of academic study.Se veral institutes around the country studyc i t i zen knowledge of the political process andc a p t u re public opinion data, but nonea d d resses the connections between law, polit-ical institutions and public opinion. To fill theg a p, the Law School has joined forces with theCalifornia Institute of Technology and otheracademic departments at USC to create theUSC-Caltech Center for the Study of Lawand Politics (CSLP). Initiated with a seedgrant from USC’s provost and support fro mthe Law School and Caltech, CSLP’s missionis to generate and fund quantitative, empiricalre s e a rch on the intersections of law, politicalinstitutions, public policy, citizen know l e d g eof politics and public opinion. Top scholars infields ranging from law, political and socialscience, economics and statistics have joinedthe center to examine how the public will is

m e a s u red, defined, shaped and manipulatedand how perceptions of the public influencethe American political process.

“This center is not just about the theoryand philosophy of law and politics,” saysEd w a rd J. Mc C a f f e ry, CSLP’s dire c t o r, theMaurice Jones, Jr., Professor of Law at USCand a visiting professor of law and economicsat Caltech. “We aim to provide quantitative ,empirical analyses of how the law intersectswith other components of democracy.” And,he notes, as a cross-campus, cro s s - d i s c i p l i n ere s e a rch center, CSLP is a logical next step inthe interd i s c i p l i n a ry pro g ression launchedwithin the legal academy by law andeconomics scholars more than 30 years ago.

“This is, in a way, a new generation ofpeople in the field of law and economics,”a g rees Caltech Professor R. Michael Alva rez, apolitical science scholar and CSLP’s associated i re c t o r. “We’re trying to invigorate differe n tp a rts of legal study in the way the law andeconomics movement did by bringingtogether scholars in disparate disciplines.Pa rticularly in the aftermath of the last pre s i-dential election, there’s a unique opport u n i t yto study the intersections of law and politics.”

Polling in the digital age

One of those intersections is the role publicopinion plays in lawmaking. Although publicopinion carries great weight in the Americanpolitical process, the primary tool for meas-uring that opinion — polling — is a costlyp rocess that often produces questionable data.With that in mind, several CSLP re s e a rc h e r sa re studying ways to improve public opinions u rveys. A major goal: De veloping a re l i a b l eInternet survey mechanism to reduce costs ofpublic opinion polling and produce faster andm o re credible statistics. If successful, the

p roject could result in broader access to publicopinion measurements for scholars, re s e a rc h e r s ,media and political institutions — and a moreaccurate guide for social discourse and publicpolicy deve l o p m e n t .

Web surveys are already widely used withva rying degrees of re l i a b i l i t y. Many Web sitesconduct informal opinion polls to engagev i ewers or capture demographic informationfor adve rtising. CSLP is aiming for somethingm o re substantial: T h rough its Web site, thecenter has developed a Web survey mecha-nism and a database of nearly 15,000 peoplewho respond to periodic online polls re l a t i n gto CSLP re s e a rch projects. Using va r i o u smeans of Internet adve rtising (and the occa-sional gift-certificate drawing), CSLP hasdrawn tens of thousands of people to its site.As many as 40 percent of those who view thesite fill out an information form, prov i d i n gdemographic information, answering ques-tions that help re s e a rchers gauge politicalk n owledge, and providing an e-mail addre s sto which future questionnaires can be sent.The center has re c e i ved thousands of surve yresponses from its pool of participants. (To seeh ow it works, visit http://surve y.caltech.edu.)

CSLP scholars are using the electro n i cs u rvey mechanism to gather data for theirre s e a rch projects, and center affiliates haveconducted simultaneous telephone surveys tosee how responses to Web and telephones u rveys compare. The benefits of In t e r n e tpolling are increasingly apparent: Pro f e s s o rA l va rez notes that a simple telephone surve yof 1,500 adults can cost up to $40,000. Fo c u sg roups and face-to-face interv i ews are morecostly and generally more difficult to coord i-nate. In contrast, he says, “you could spendabout $10,000 to obtain e-mail addresses, inre l a t i vely short ord e r, for about 8,000 to


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p u b l i c opinion in lawmaking and how the Web might give polling new f l e x i b i l i t y and c r e d i b i l i t y

12,000 people. And there’s virtually no costassociated with putting a survey online andsending e-mails out.”

Web surveys might also be more re l i a b l e .Early re s e a rch indicates that people may bem o re likely to respond truthfully to In t e r n e ts u rveys than telephone or face-to-face ques-

tioning, says Professor Mc C a f f e ry. “On thetelephone, people tend to under-re p o rtd i s c r i m i n a t o ry or biased beliefs because theyd o n’t want to say such things out loud,” hesays. “Although it’s complicated, Web surve y smight in some ways be more cre d i b l e . ”

And, in an age of changing lifestyles, theWeb provides access to an increasingly hard -t o - reach segment of people. When telephonepolls began taking hold during the 1960s and’70s, Professor Alva rez explains, most peoplewe re home in the evenings and willing to talk.A normal response rate was 80 percent of thepeople contacted. To d a y, people are muchm o re likely to let a telephone ring withouta n s wering it. Adults with jobs and children areoften away from home in the evenings; forthose who are home, caller ID technology cans c reen out unknown callers. “Te l e p h o n es u rveys are increasingly skewed to people whoa re at home in the evenings and willing toa n s wer the phone — which means we’remissing some people,” says Professor Alva rez .

Fo rt u n a t e l y, the people who are most likelyto respond to Web surveys fill in some of thegaps. Un f o rt u n a t e l y, those people re p re s e n tone of the primary methodological pro b l e m sof Web surveys: the digital divide. In t e r n e ts u rvey participants are more likely than thea verage American to be white, middle-class,well-educated and young, so results can’t beassumed to re p resent the general publicwithout adjustment. T h e rein lies CSLP’s chal-lenge: How can Web survey results beadjusted to reflect a broader public will?

That Web survey participants are self-

selected also presents problems. A telephones u rvey can be conducted using randomlygenerated telephone numbers, whichi m p roves the odds of getting a re s p o n d e n tpool that reflects the general populace. Asimilar database of randomly generated e-maila d d resses is difficult to create, and people

generally trash unsolicited e-mails. So, beforeWeb re s e a rchers can even ask a question, theymust entice people to sign up for surveys. T h epool of respondents is skewed, then, to thetype of person willing to take surveys. CSLPhopes to re s o l ve some of these issues.

“We are working with statistical tools toalleviate the problem with self-selection,” saysProfessor Alva rez. “With re g a rd to the digitaldivide issue, we hope it will diminish in time,that computers and Internet access willbecome as widely available and used as thetelephone. Meantime, we’re studying whetherit might be possible to use sophisticated statis-tical tools to mitigate the differences betwe e nWeb users and the general public.”

To w a rd a better measure

Still, methodological problems persist forboth online polls and those conductedt h rough more traditional means; other CSLPstudies are tackling some of those issues. Fo rinstance, re s e a rch shows people often re s p o n dd i f f e rently to the same question depending onh ow the question is worded. Pro f e s s o rMc C a f f e ry is now studying public perc e p t i o n sof tax and how attitudes tow a rd tax changewhen questions are framed differe n t l y.

“With tax, eve rything can be framed aseither a penalty or a bonus,” he says. “T h e‘marriage penalty’ can be framed as a ‘s i n g l e sb o n u s .’ People are generally penalty averse. Soif you play with the wording, what happens top e o p l e’s attitudes and responses?”

In another study, Professor Mc C a f f e ryand CSLP member Timur Kuran, a USC

p rofessor of economics and law, are examiningh ow a person’s self-perception affects his orher responses to survey questions. A re c e n tSt a n f o rd study found that Asian womenp e rformed better on math tests when theyidentified themselves as Asian than when theyidentified themselves as women. That finding

p rompts questions for pollsters: Do peopletalk differently about issues if they are primedto be thinking about themselves as part of aspecific group? Is a person’s self-perc e p t i o nwhen using a telephone different from whenusing a computer? Is a person more likely torespond to online questions in a morethoughtful or honest way than he or shemight during a telephone conversation?

“We’re not trying to be the next Ga l l u p,Harris pollster,” says Professor Mc C a f f e ry.“We’re interested in looking at public opinionon certain issues, but we’re also ve ry intere s t e din studying the means and methods of gettingpublic opinion and how those means andmethods are shaping policy debates.”

By studying the role of public opinion inour political process and working to improvethe way public opinion is measured, thecenter is positioned to have its own role inshaping policy debate. An election re f o r mstudy has already garnered widespread atten-tion among policymakers and the media (seesidebar), and the ve ry nature of CSLP’s workis likely to influence perceptions of the inter-action between government and people — aswell as the interaction between the legalacademy and diverse academic disciplines.

“The questions people ask about law areintrinsically interd i s c i p l i n a ry,” says Pro f e s s o rMc C a f f e ry, “Lawyers alone don’t have all theskills to answer these questions, and othersd o n’t have the knowledge of law. It is time tom ove beyond law and economics and begini n vestigating the law in other disciplinarycontexts as we l l . ”


The very nature of CSLP’s work is likely to i n f l u e n c e perceptions of the interaction between government and p e o p l e.


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Counting on reform: C SLP examines methods for improving elections

In his popular play “Jumpers,” Tom St o p p a rd wrote: “It’s not the voting that’s democracy;i t’s the counting.” He couldn’t have found better proof of his witticism than the 2000 p residential election.

Even before the election, re s e a rchers at the USC-Caltech Center for the Study of Law andPolitics (CSLP) we re examining methods for counting votes and investigating the efficacy ofvoting technology, says Professor Ed w a rd J. Mc C a f f e ry, CSLP dire c t o r. After the election,the center decided to expand its re s e a rch into popular perceptions of voting. With convincingresults from a compre h e n s i ve post-election surve y, a major academic conference and a fort h-coming book, the center is shaping public discourse and policy on how elections can bei m p roved to ensure that eve ry vote counts.

The center sees a mandate for such reform: In a telephone survey conducted in Ma rch, 77p e rcent of 1,500 respondents said election reform is an important or ve ry important issue,e ven though just 4 percent had personally experienced voting problems. Su p p o rt for reform wasb i p a rtisan: 74 percent of Republicans, 85 percent of Democrats and 75 percent of independentsor third - p a rty identifiers saw changing the way we vote as an important issue. (The centerconducted a simultaneous survey online, but its results had not been analyzed at press time.)

“ It is rare to see 77 percent of Americans agree on anything, especially on political re f o r m s , ”says Professor R. Michael Alva rez, CSLP associate dire c t o r. “But the public is quite bipar-tisan in support of election reform as a priority, so there is a unique window of opport u n i t y. ”

At a CSLP-sponsored conference in June, scholars from around the country presented ideasfor reform. Among them: Fred Solop of No rthern Arizona Un i versity discussing the successof online voting in Arizo n a’s 2000 Democratic presidential primary election; Michael Tr a u g o t tof the Un i versity of Michigan discussing Ore g o n’s experience with mail-in ballots; Jeb Ba r n e s ,a political science professor at USC, discussing congressional proposals for reform; KathleenFr a n k ovic of CBS discussing issues associated with media projections and exit polls; andProfessor Alva rez discussing the process of counting — and recounting — ballots. Other part i c-ipants included USC law professors Susan Estrich and Erwin Chemerinsky; Tre vor Po t t e r,former chair of the Federal Elections Commission; and Pamela Karlan, professor of law at St a n f o rd Un i ve r s i t y.

“The conference brought together an interd i s c i p l i n a ry group of scholars to attack the p roblems of election reform and to look at the issues in light of the realities of the politicsand the legal system of this country,” said Ann Cr i g l e r, professor of political science at USC,d i rector of the Un ruh Institute of Politics and a member of CSLP. Professor Crigler o r g a n i zed the conference and is working with Wellesely Professor Marion Just, Pro f e s s o rMc C a f f e ry and publishers to produce a book based on the conference. The book, she says, willmake specific recommendations for election reform.

A l re a d y, CSLP has become a critical voice in the discussion. The center’s survey re c e i ve dwide media coverage, and CSLP members have testified before Congress on the issue. CSLPre s e a rch also has been re f e renced by policymakers — including Re p. Maxine Waters and Se n .Joe Lieberman — as they advocate election reform. As the political machine moves to addre s sthe issue, CSLP will undoubtedly continue to frame the discussion. “It’s common to think thatAmericans have a short attention span and are quick to forget even big issues,” says Pro f e s s o rMc C a f f e ry. “But our findings show that, while citizens are generally willing to move beyo n dthe last election and get on with life as usual, concern over voting fairness has not gone away. ”

C SLP Members

E d w a rd J. McCaffery

Maurice Jones, Jr., Professor of Law, USC Law School, and visiting professor of lawand economics, Caltech; director, CSL P

R. Michael Alvare z

Associate professor of political science,C a l t e ch; associate director, CSL P

Jeb Barnes

A s s i s tant professor of political science, USC

Linda R. Cohen

Professor of law and social science, USC Law School, and professor of economics,University of California, Irvine

Ann Crigler

Associate professor of political science, USC; director, Unruh Institute of Po l i t i c s

Jonathan Katz

Associate professor of political science, USC

D. Roderick Kiewiet

Professor of political science and dean of graduate studies, Caltech

Timur Ku r a n

Professor of economics and King Faisal Professor of Islamic Thought and Culture, USC

John Matsusaka

Professor of finance and business economics, USC

Robert P. Sherman

Associate professor of economics and s tatistics, Caltech

Matthew L. Spitzer

Dean and Carl M. Franklin Professor of Law, USC Law Sch o o l

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Law School responds to terrorism with silence, reflection and solidarity

Students and professors at the USC Law School responded to the attacks of Sept. 11 with effort sto understand the implications of the event and to support those affected by the tragedies.

At the request of Dean Ma t t h ew L. Sp i t zer and the Student Bar Association, pro f e s s o r sbegan all classes and events with a moment of silence during the week after the attacks. Ma n ystudents and faculty participated in a campuswide blood drive, and the Student Bar Associationplanned a November blood drive to help meet the recurring need for blood among burn victims.

Ma ry Beth Lipp ’02 coordinated a reflection service on Sept. 20 that enabled faculty, staffand students to discuss the events and remember the victims. The service, sponsored by morethan 20 law student organizations, included re m a rks from students and faculty and ended witha slide presentation documenting memorial services around the world. “I think there’s atendency to keep going,” Ms. Lipp said at the beginning of the service. “We have obligations,i n t e rv i ews, classes. But at this time it is necessary, important and appropriate for us to cometogether as a law school to reflect on what happened.”

Dean Ma t t h ew Sp i t zer and Associate Dean Lisa Mead encouraged students to talk to friendsand family about the events. “Do n’t feel bad about getting counseling,” Dean Sp i t zer said. “Ta k ep o s i t i ve steps. I wish I could make it all go away for you, but I can’t make it stop. In the longrun, it will be your generation’s responsibility to deal with this new threat, and to be smart, vigilant and strong in dealing with it.”

Professor Ronald Ga ret commended students, faculty and staff for their “enormous depthof feeling” and their kindness to each other in coping with the news, noting that “in my ow nclasses, there have been wet eye s . ”

C o u rtney St u a rt ’02 discussed her feelings of confusion and loss. “This is the first time I can’ttell myself that the media is blowing it out of pro p o rtion,” she said. “T h e re is a gaping holein the landscape of New Yo rk and a gaping hole in the hearts of all Americans. I want to wakeup peacefully to banal NPR news. But, suddenly awakened, I feel it is time to arise, not to goback to sleep. I beg that we don’t take this awareness for granted.”

Professor Ma ry Dudziak offered a historical context for the events, reminding students that“moments of crisis are often moments of transformation. It is not a coincidence,” she added,“that some of our most cherished civil rights protections came into our Constitution after a civilw a r. We have to ask ourselves what we will do with this moment. It is the duty of surv i vo r s . ”She quoted Roland B. Gittelsohn, a military chaplain who dedicated the graves of soldiers killedon Iwo Jima during World War II: “He re lie officers and men, Ne g roes and whites, rich andp o o r, together. He re no man prefers another because of his faith or despises him because ofhis color. Theirs is the highest and purest democracy. W h o e ver of us lifts his hand in hate againsta bro t h e r, or thinks himself superior to those who happen to be in the minority, makes ofthis ceremony and of the bloody sacrifice it commemorates an empty, hollow mockery. ”

Professors Edwin “Rip” Smith and Erwin Chemerinsky participated in a unive r s i t y - s p o n-s o red “t e a c h - i n” on Sept. 24 to answer student questions about how the attacks might affectcivil rights and national security. Professor Smith was applauded when he noted that a bombingcampaign against Afghanistan might not re s o l ve the problem. “Afghanistan has no functioninge c o n o m y,” he said. “T h e re are no dangers created by these hungry people.”

Professor Chemerinsky asked students to be wary of attempts to curb civil rights in the nameof national security. “The terrorists took away our sense of security,” he said. “We can’t let themn ow be responsible for taking away our basic freedoms.”


Top: Pr o fessor Erwin Chemerinsky speaks during auniversitywide “teach-in” about civil rights issuesrelated to the attacks; bottom: Dean MatthewSpitzer comforts students during a reflection serviceat the Law School.

Actor entertains, inspires Class of 2001

Ac t o r, attorney and former Yale Law Schoolcutup Ben Stein feted the Class of 2001 at USC’s May commencement cere m o n yhonoring 195 members of one of the most diverse graduating classes in Law School history.

Presiding over his first graduation cere-mony as dean, Ma t t h ew L. Sp i t zer noted thatgraduation is “a team effort” to whichstudents, staff, faculty, family, friends andalumni contribute. He particularly thankedalumni: “Our alumni are, for some of yo u ,your parents, aunts and uncles, and for manyof you, your future employers. They arec rucial to your having gotten here; theiraccomplishments made this an intere s t i n gand inviting place to come, and their contri-butions provided re s o u rces that made yo u reducation possible.”

M r. St e i n’s words to the Class of 2001reflected a life divided between the legalp rofession and the entertainment business. Ap ove rty and trial lawyer who has taught lawand culture courses at American Un i ve r s i t y,the Un i versity of California, Santa Cruz, andPe p p e rdine Un i ve r s i t y, Mr. Stein is the starof the Comedy Central game show “Win Be nSt e i n’s Mo n e y.” In a speech punctuated byjokes and laughter, Mr. Stein reflected on histime as a trouble-making student at Yale LawSchool, where one of his professors was USC’sown Larry Simon. Mr. Stein cre d i t e dProfessor Simon with both keeping him inlaw school and helping him find a career ine n t e rtainment: When Mr. Stein contemplatedd ropping out, Professor Simon helped himarrange to take a drama class.

Ac c o rding to Mr. Stein, the legal pro f e s-sion has its good and bad sides. The badincludes hard work, long hours anddemanding clients. The good parts, howe ve r,make a life in the law worthwhile: “T h eAlmighty has commanded us to do justice,l ove merc y, and walk humbly with yo u rGod,” he said. “Yo u’re in a position to help

people do justice and love merc y. W h e nyo u’ve reached the vantage point of 56, yo uwill think more about the good yo u’ve donethan the money yo u’ve made.”

PILF boosts grant funding

U S C ’s Public In t e rest Law Fo u n d a t i o ni n c reased its summer grants this ye a r, thanksto the continued support of students, alumniand friends of the Law School.

During its spring pro bono luncheon,PILF awarded a re c o rd 25 summer grants tolaw students who had committed to work i n gin public interest positions during thes u m m e r. First-time recipients re c e i ve d$4,500, and students in the second year ofs e rvice re c e i ved $5,500. Both grants we re up$500 from last ye a r. PILF also awarded itsSydney and Au d rey Irmas Fe l l owship toBe r n a rdo Merino ’01; the $37,500 fellow s h i pis enabling Mr. Merino to work for a year at the Immigrant Legal Re s o u rce Center inSan Fr a n c i s c o.

Roger Coggan ’74 was named PI L F ’s 2001Outstanding Graduate for his commitment topublic interest work and his 12 years of s e rvice as director of legal services at the LosAngeles Gay and Lesbian Center. Among hismany accomplishments: creation of an immigration law project, which has prov i d e dlegal services to thousands of clients fro mm o re than 100 countries. Mr. Coggan alsod e veloped gay and lesbian sensitivity trainingcourses for Immigration and Na t u r a l i z a t i o nSe rvice officials.

The Los Angeles County Bar Association( LACBA) honored students who dedicatedm o re than 30 hours to public interest work .Six students we re re c o g n i zed for vo l u n t e e r i n gm o re than 50 hours. “T h e re are wonderf u lo p p o rtunities out there to do good forpeople, to give back to the community,” Rex Heinke, LACBA president, told students.“ I ’m delighted to see so many of yo ucommitted to doing that.”


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Top: Pr o fessor Mary Dudziak, left, students Casey Johnsonand Corrie Lyle, and Pr o fessor Charles Whitebread spurbidding during the 2001 PILF auction. Among the evening’shighlights: Mr. Johnson appeared on stage in four diffe r e n tevening gowns during the live auction. Bottom left: Studentscheer winners at PILF’s silent auction. Right: Roger Coggan’ 74 accepts PILF’s 2001 Outstanding Graduate Aw a r dduring the annual pro bono lunch e o n .

The Class of 2001 was one of the most diverse ever to attend the Law School. Forty-two percent of

graduates identified themselves as ethnic minorities. The class was approximately 16 percent Asian,

14 percent Hispanic and 12 percent African America n .

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Factor Foundation grant boosts Family Violence Clinic

The Max Factor Family Foundation hasa w a rded a thre e - year $100,000 grant toU S C ’s new Family Violence Clinic. The giftwill support the clinic’s myriad services toviolence victims, says Stacey R. Tu r n e r, clin-ical teaching fellow and director of the clinic.

The Factor foundation has historicallys u p p o rted health care initiatives with its char-itable giving, and programs that work top re vent violence are a priority. This gift is notthe foundation’s first to the Law School; it alsop rovided seed funding for the Law School’sReview of Law and Wo m e n’s St u d i e s.

“This is our second substantial gift to allowstudents and faculty to examine andcontribute to the solution of challenges raisedby gender discrimination and domesticviolence,” said Max Fa c t o r, III, one of thef o u n d a t i o n’s three trustees. “I’m a full-timeneutral, specializing in mediation of business,e m p l oyment and real estate disputes. In thatc a p a c i t y, I’ve seen the value of improv i n gcommunication and facilitating discussion toease tension and empower people to makedecisions for themselves. I believe that’s whatthis clinic does — it provides informationand re s o u rces to empower victims of domesticviolence to make decisions for themselve s . ”

The foundation’s gift will greatly enhancethe clinic’s efforts to serve clients. “T h e s efunds allow us to take clients who haven ow h e re else to go,” says Ms. Tu r n e r. “We aredealing with several clients who, due to theirimmigration status and the fact that they a re not on we l f a re, do not qualify for legalassistance from other agencies.”

De veloped by the Law School in part n e r-ship with USC’s Keck School of Me d i c i n eand the USC School of Social Wo rk, theFamily Violence Clinic provides legal serv-ices and a range of social and medicalre s o u rces to victims of domestic violence,elder abuse and neglect. (For clinic news, sees t o ry on Page 42.)

Moot Court finalists debate Fifth, Eighth Amendment rights

Can a defendant’s pre - a r rest, pre - Mi r a n d asilence in the face of police questioning beused against him in court? Does a sentenceof chemical castration for a convicted rapistconstitute cruel and unusual punishment?

Moot Court finalists Jessica Kaplan ’02,David Levine ’02, Jennifer Wayne ’02 andTyler Barnett ’02 argued both sides of theseissues during the 53rd annual Hale Mo o tC o u rt competition at USC, the culminationof the yearlong moot court honors pro g r a m .The final hypothetical case invo l ved a rapist’sappeal of his conviction. He claimed that thestate violated his Fifth Amendment right to avoid self-incrimination by using his p re - a r rest, pre - Miranda silence as evidenceduring his trial. He also claimed that hissentence to medrox y p ro g e s t e rone acetate( M PA) treatment, or chemical castration,violated the Eighth Amendment pro t e c t i o nagainst cruel and unusual punishment.

A panel of three judges — Stephanie K.Seymour of the 10th U.S. Circuit Court ofAppeals in Tulsa, Raymond C. Fisher of the9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals inPasadena, and Carlos Lu c e ro of the 10th U.S.C i rcuit Court of Appeals in De n ver — gave


Top: Pr o fessor Erwin Chemerinksy congratulates JodyLeibman, a member of the 2000-01 Moot Court bo a r d .Below: The 2001 Hale Moot Court finalists, left to right, Ty l e rBarnett, Jennifer Wayne, Jessica Kaplan and David Le v i n e ,with U.S. Circuit Court judges Carlos Lucero, StephanieSeymour and Raymond Fisher.

The Class of 2004Number of students . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2 10Median G.P. A . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3 . 55Median LS AT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .164Wo m e n . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .106M e n . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .104African American . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2 2L a t i n o . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2 3Asian American . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2 9Middle Eastern, Armenian, East Indian . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1 3Graduates of schools outside California . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .91

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top honors to Jessica Kaplan. Jennifer Wa y n ewas ru n n e r - u p.

Grad boosts scholarship fund

Thomas L. Ro q u e m o re ’53 has contributedanother $100,000 to the scholarship endow-ment he established last year to honor his latewife, Do l o res M. Ro q u e m o re. The Thomas L.and Do l o res M. Ro q u e m o re ScholarshipEn d owment Fund provides financial assis-tance to USC law students who earnedundergraduate degrees at the Un i versity ofSouthern California.

M r. Ro q u e m o re created the scholarship toe x p ress his appreciation to USC for the signif-icant role it has played in his life. He says hehas enjoyed seeing the Law School and theu n i versity become nationally pro m i n e n t .

“T h e re have been many beneficial changesand advancements made from the time Iattended USC after World War II to thep resent time,” says Mr. Ro q u e m o re, whosefond memories of USC include a car-chasingstray dog adopted by students in the late ’40s.The mongrel, nicknamed George Ti re b i t e r,was the school’s honorary mascot for seve r a lyears before he met an untimely death on thes t reet in front of the old Law School building.

M r. Ro q u e m o re earned his bachelor’sd e g ree in accounting from USC’s School of Business Administration in 1951 afters e rving as a pilot in the U.S. Marine Corpsduring World War II. He completed an LL.B.at the Law School in 1953 and, in 1954,founded a civil and business law practice inLos Angeles. Mr. and Mrs. Ro q u e m o re we remarried more than 55 years; she passed awayin 1999.

S t reet Law schools teens in legal ed

High school students from around LosAngeles got a sneak peek at college life and theLaw School this spring, thanks to St reet Law,a law student organization that works witha rea high schools to improve teens’ under-standing of the law and legal education.

Mo re than 100 students from Do r s e yHigh School and Wo o d row Wilson Hi g hSchool visited the Law School during twoday-long events. They sat in on mock trials,learned how to apply to college, checked outU S C ’s campus and the Law School building,h e a rd from professors and lunched withmentor law students. Nearly 50 law studentshelped with the events. Doughnuts we redonated by Krispy Kreme, and Lexis-Ne x i ssupplied folders and pens for part i c i p a n t s .

A chapter of St reet Law, a national organ-ization that promotes practical law educationfor high school students, first launched atUSC in 1992, but its activities lapsed in 1998.This ye a r, with help from associate deans Bi l lHoye and Karen Lash, several first-, second-and third - year law students joined forces tore v i ve the organization.

“I identify with the group of kids we we res e rving — low-income, first-generationcollege-bound kids who are motivated — andI thought if I’d had a law student of colortalking to me about education it would havereally gotten me excited about the possibili-ties,” said Pablo Palomino ’02, one of thestudents behind St reet Law’s re v i val. “For me,St reet Law facilitates a sense of pride in thisinstitution because it makes itself available tothese kids.”

Law School events online

Need something to do? The Law School has alot going on, and now it’s all listed online. T h es c h o o l’s new online events calendar offers acomplete listing of Law School community,student, faculty and alumni events. Ac c e s s i b l ef rom the “Quick Links” menu on the LawS c h o o l’s home page (www. l a w.usc.edu), thes e a rchable calendar lists eve rything fro mfaculty workshops and continuing legaleducation institutes to class reunions andstudent organization meetings.


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During one of Street Law’s mentor days, USC s t u d e n t sspent a lunch hour with teens from Woodrow Wilson HighS chool, discussing college life, law school and the value ofe d u c a t i o n .

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La Raza honors legal pioneer

When Judge Albert Armendariz ’50 came tothe USC Law School in 1947 to earn a lawd e g ree, he was the only Hispanic student inhis class. When he returned in Ma rch toaccept the La Raza Lifetime Ac h i e ve m e n tAw a rd, he spoke to a classroom full of Latinolaw students.

“I am extremely proud to have the chanceto address something I never thought I’d see,”Judge Armendariz said with awe as he gaze dupon members of USC’s La Raza LawStudent Association and re p re s e n t a t i ves fro mLos Angeles’s Hispanic legal community.

A re t i red Texas Court of Appeals judge,Judge Armendariz was the earliest Hi s p a n i cgraduate of the USC Law School to be namedto the bench. He was the 1954 president ofthe League of United Latin-AmericanC i t i zens and co-founder of the Me x i c a n -American Legal Defense and Ed u c a t i o nFund. In 1954, he helped argue a pivotal case,He rnandez v. the State of Te x a s, which re c o g n i zed Hispanic Americans as a distinctclass entitled to equal protection under the 14th Amendment.

“We we re ve ry successful,” he told students.“You are the pro o f. ”

He also reminded students that work i n gwith people of all ethnicities and races isi m p e r a t i ve to the cause of civil and humanrights.

“ If we do not learn how to get along witheach other, this nation will fall,” he said. “Weh a ve no business turning a deaf ear whensomeone says something [dero g a t o ry] aboutblacks or Asians, because tomorrow they willsay it about you. In eve rything we do in life,remember that we are all Americans.”

Students getting more ca reer help

Beginning this fall, all first-year lawstudents will be meeting with career coun-selors during their first year of school to cre a t eindividual career planning strategies.

Administrators in the Law School’s care e r

s e rvices office hope this re q u i red career plan-ning meeting will encourage students to takemaximum advantage of re s o u rces provided bythe Law School. Eden Ku s m i e r s k y, director ofc a reer services, says the meetings are designedto ease student worries over the sometimesove rwhelming job search pro c e s s .

“ It can take quite a lot of initiative to comeinto the career services office, especially if yo ua re swamped with classes, are scared ofw o rking, or feel like your interests are dive r-gent from your classmates,” she says. “We arehoping that students will feel re a s s u red to have a private place to speak with someone who can, without judgment, help them navigate their three years tobest position them for their career goals.”

Anonymous grad funds scholarships

An anonymous graduate of the Law Schoolhas established four scholarships to supportminority students at the USC Law School.The scholarships will provide full tuition fort h ree years to academically qualified minoritystudents. The first scholarships will bea w a rded this fall.

New staffers in ca reer services, library

Two new faces joined the career services andlaw library staffs this fall. Erika Schreiber is then ew associate director for counseling in care e rs e rvices, and Jennifer Murray is a new re s e a rc hlibrarian in the library’s re f e rence depart m e n t .

Ms. Schreiber will provide career coun-seling for law students and alumni. Sh e’ll alsoassist in planning career workshops andp rograms such as the Alumni Mock In t e rv i ewProgram. She is a 1998 graduate of the UCLASchool of Law and holds a bachelor’s degree in psychology from Saint Olaf College. She was most recently a labor and employ-ment associate with Greenberg Glusker Fi e l d sClaman Machtinger & Kinsella, where she advised employers on compliance with federal and state employment laws,including those governing hiring, discipline,


Top: Norma Garcia ’02, 2000-01 La Raza president, andGenoveva Meza ’02, vice president, share a laugh with JudgeAlbert Armendariz ’50, recipient of La Raza’s Life t i m eA chievement Award. Bottom, left to right: new Law Sch o o ls t a f fers Jennifer Murray and Erika Sch r e i b e r.

termination, benefits, leaves of absence andwage payment.

Ms. Murray provides re s e a rch and re f e r-ence services to law students, faculty, staff andthe public. She also teaches legal re s e a rc hp rograms and assists in developing thel i b r a ry’s international collection. She re c e i ve dher bachelor’s degree in political science fro mA r i zona State Un i versity in 1994, her jurisdoctorate from ASU in 1998 and her master’sin library science from the Un i versity ofA r i zona in Ma y. She was previously an internat the ASU College of Law Library and asenior library assistant at the Un i versity ofA r i zo n a’s law library. After graduating fro mlaw school, she practiced law in the areas ofdomestic relations and employment law.

IP student award honors L.A. attorney

Friends and colleagues of the late Ro g e rSherman, a Los Angeles entert a i n m e n tattorney and senior partner at the Be ve r l yHills law firm of Mitchell, Silberberg &K n u p p, have established an annual academicscholarship in memory of his contributions tothe legal profession and the community.

The Roger Sherman Memorial Pr i ze inIntellectual Pro p e rty at the Un i versity ofSouthern California Law School will bea w a rded to a student who demonstratesoutstanding academic promise and dedicationin intellectual pro p e rty coursew o rk. The first$1,000 prize will be awarded this ye a r.

“We’re honored that Ro g e r’s distinguishedc a reer is being re c o g n i zed and celebratedt h rough the establishment of a memorial fundthat will encourage and honor academic e xcellence in an increasingly important fieldof law,” said Dean Ma t t h ew L. Sp i t ze r.

During his 40-year career as an entert a i n-ment attorney, Mr. Sherman re p resented andadvised companies and individuals in all are a sof the entertainment industry — includingactors, writers, producers, directors, distributorsand financiers — and was a highly re g a rd e de x p e rt in independent film financing, physical

p roduction and the worldwide distribution oftheatrical motion pictures. He was a graduateof Yale Un i versity and Yale Law School.

A friend and philanthropist turns 90

Fa c u l t y, family and friends gathered in theC a rolyn and Carl Franklin Faculty Loungein Fe b ru a ry to celebrate Professor Em e r i t u sCarl Fr a n k l i n’s 90th birthday and his nearly50 years of service to the USC Law School.

A beloved educator and administrator who has helped guide the Law School and theu n i versity through a half-century of changeand growth, Professor Franklin has served as ap rofessor at the Law School as well as vicep resident of finance, vice president of legalaffairs and vice president of the unive r s i t y. Heis now vice president and professor emeritus,keeping regular hours in his third-floor officeat the Law School. He and his late wife,C a rolyn, have been among the Law School’smost generous donors and support e r s .

“Carl, we — the entire USC Law Schoolfamily — want you to know that we aredelighted to celebrate your 90th birt h d a y, andthat we are honored to have been the object of48 of your years of hard work and dedica-tion,” said Dean Ma t t h ew L. Sp i t zer duringthe Fe b. 28 celebration. “We are ve ry impre s s e dand perhaps just a bit envious of both yo u rpersonal and professional accomplishments,your charm, your sweet disposition and, ofcourse, your wonderful head of hair. ”

In addition to compliments from the deanand a lavish birthday cake, Professor Fr a n k l i nre c e i ved an official proclamation from the Los Angeles City Council. The pro c l a m a t i o nh o n o red his “lifetime of service and commit-m e n t” and extended the council’s gratitude tohim and his wife, Carolyn, “for their enduringlegacy of love, generosity and loyalty that hastouched the lives of all who are associated withthe Un i versity of Southern California and willcontinue to do so for generations to come.”


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Pr o fessor Emeritus Carl Franklin celebrated his 90 t hbirthday at the Law School with help from Dean Matt Spitzerand Vice Provost Marty Levine, as well as numerous familyand friends.

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”Regardless of your future choices, don’t ever takeyour knowledge for granted; don’t forget yourprivilege; don’t lose sight of your power as ahuman being and as a lawyer. Most of all, don’tever forget those who have less privilege.

— ROGER COGGAN ’74

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lvin Lee ’01 was among those studentswhose service to others was exc e p t i o n-

ally generous. A mentor and leader during hist e n u re at USC Law School, he was known forsaying “Hi” to eve ryone he knew — and atUSC, that included pretty much eve ryone.

As 1999-2000 president of the AsianPacific American Law Students Association,M r. Lee created opportunities for APA L S Astudents to serve their community as well as toget to know their fellow classmates better andto excel in their law school classes. “Hes u p p o rted, nurt u red and did whatever hecould to help APALSA students,” said onen o m i n a t o r. He also vo l u n t e e red with the Law School’s admissions office, serving as acontact and guide for pro s p e c t i ve Asian-American students and assisting in generalre c ruiting efforts. A nominator credited M r. Lee with “setting an example to fellowclassmates of how to be a balanced, we l l -rounded person who knows how to workh a rd, play hard and be an overall positivecontributor to the Law School.”

Anita Famili ’01 also set a positiveexample for her classmates: She came to USCLaw School to find ways to protect the civilrights of Middle Eastern Americans and otherethnic minorities in America; by her secondyear here, she was well on her way.

As co-founder of USC’s Middle EasternSouth Asian Law Association (MESALA ) ,Ms. Famili helped provide what De a nMa t t h ew L. Sp i t zer called “an import a n tf o rum for exploration and discussion of issuesof race, gender and ethnicity” that bro a d e n e da w a reness of the discrimination that manyMiddle Eastern and South Asian Americansface. The organization is one of few suchstudent groups in the nation; already it boasts

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P re p o n d e r a n c e of p re e m i n e n c e

The Law School’s 2001 student awards ceremony was, as always, a welcome spring break from classes and routine. Th eannual picnic and ceremony were held in Crocker Plaza. As students awaited the names of award winners, photographerBarbara Grover captured some of the excitement of the moment. This year’s Shattuck Award recipients, left to right: AlvinLee, Anita Famili, Carol Silberberg, Stephen Marquardt, Lori Tr i b b e t t - Williams and Seth Le v y.



As usual, the 2001 Shattuck Aw a rd recipients give USC a good name. Named for and funded by Edward S. and

Eleanor J. Shattuck, the awards honor the cre a m - o f - t h e - c rop — six students voted by their peers and professors as most likely

to succeed, thanks to hard work, persistence and dedication to the Law School, the profession and community service.

In a 1965 letter to Law School Dean Orrin Evans, Mr. Shattuck said his awards should recognize “students who appear to have

the greatest potential in the legal pro f e s s i o n .” Noting his own inability to get the highest grades, he designed the awards to honor

the student who works “like the dickens” and makes contributions beyond the classro o m .

m o re than 50 members. Ms. Famili didn’tlimit herself, though; she also vo l u n t e e re dwith numerous student organizations ands e rved on not one but two law journal staffs:the S o u t h e rn Ca l i f o rnia Law Re v i e w and theS o u t h e rn Ca l i f o rnia Review of Law andWo m e n’s St u d i e s.

Like Ms. Famili, Ca rol Silberberg ’01matched excellence in academic pursuits withv i g o rous service to others. As a first-year SBAre p re s e n t a t i ve and second-year class pre s i d e n t ,she raised the bar for service: She compiledand distributed a list of students’ names,contact information and birthdays and helpedc reate an electronic discussion group for herclass. She stuffed student mailboxes not onlywith notes about important dates, but alsowith holiday treats and finals-week surprises.“I have never re c e i ved such a high level ofs e rvice from a member of student gove r n-ment,” said one classmate.

A staff member of the S o u t h e rn Ca l i f o rn i aLaw Re v i e w and a member of the Pu b l i cIn t e rest Law Foundation, Ms. Silberberg alsowent beyond the call of duty as a Lawye r i n gSkills Program instru c t o r. She taught with the skill and patience of a veteran teacher — she holds a master’s degree in educationand taught for five years before coming to USC — and also offered advice andencouragement to fellow instructors. “Caro lwill be an outstanding member of the legalc o m m u n i t y,” said a classmate. “We are luckyto have her. ”

The Law School also is lucky to have hadSt e ve Ma rq u a rdt ’01 within its ranks. He isperhaps one of the most invo l ved studentse ver to grace the school’s hallways. Among hiscommitments: president of the Student Ba rAssociation and PI L F, member of the Po s t -

Conviction Justice Project and Criminal LawSo c i e t y, volunteer with the Ba r r i s t e r’sDomestic Violence Project and the Ba r r i s t e r’sHomelessness Pre vention Project, St reet Lawmentor and USC presidential fellow.

He also vo l u n t e e red with PI L F, part i c i-pated in Law School legal clinics and work e dfor the Inner-City Law Center, where hehelped file class-action suits against slumlord s .His public interest work allowed him tocontinue a tradition of community serv i c ethat began in full before he came to USC,when he spent two years living, teaching andw o rking in Central America. Classmates,p rofessors, staff and administrators praisedM r. Ma rq u a rdt for his talent, skill and dedication to others. “He is not only an inspiration and guide to other law schoolstudents,” said one nominator, “but also aleader and giver in the purest sense.”

Lori Tr i b b e t t - Williams ’01 was a give ras well. In fact, to hear her friends tell it, this “incredible woman” is a saint. “A ne x t remely encouraging person to know,” saidone classmate. “A steady personality thatstands out among the crowd of ambitious buts t ressed-out law students,” said another.Re s o u rceful, kind, support i ve. The list goes on.

By the time Ms. Tr i b b e t t - Williams cameto USC, she’d already had a 10-year career asa legal secre t a ry, during which she earned ab a c h e l o r’s degree, got married and had a baby.At USC, even as she split her time betwe e nstudies and mothering a toddler, she served ase xe c u t i ve and development editor of theS o u t h e rn Ca l i f o rn i a Review of Law andWo m e n’s St u d i e s, secre t a ry of the Black LawStudent Association, coordinator of a speakerseries that tackled subjects such as “Women inPrison,” initiated a black history celebration

and established a newsletter and mentorp rogram for incoming African-Americanstudents. But her optimism is what drewpeople to her: “Sh e’s a ve ry happy person,”said one nominator, “and a joy to be aro u n d . ”

Seth Levy ’01 also kept an impossiblybusy schedule, albeit a frequently off-campusone. After completing a regular internshipwith the legal services department of the Los Angeles Gay and Lesbian Center duringhis second ye a r, Mr. Levy put down ro o t s ,b roadening his efforts by volunteering withnot only the legal clinic but also the center’smyriad legal service programs. Altogether, helogged more than 400 hours of service duringhis second and third years.

He also laid the gro u n d w o rk for acontinued partnership between the Gay andLesbian Center and the Law School, byre c ruiting and training eight USC lawstudents to continue his work in the center’slegal clinic. “No job is too small or too bigfor him,” said the center’s director of legals e rvices. “He has his heart in helping people.His efforts have made a real difference in the lives of the people who come through our doors.”

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A natural advocate

In his application to USC Law School, Ry a nWilliams ’01 w rote of his commitment tojustice, the law and his desire to be a pro s e-cuting attorney. He stuck with thatcommitment through law school, impre s s i n gfaculty and peers with his skill and dedicationto trial work in his trial advocacy class and thePost-Conviction Justice Pro j e c t .

As the 2001 recipient of the Mason Brow nTrial Ad vocacy Aw a rd, Mr. Williams wash o n o red for his strong commitment to publici n t e rest endeavors and his aptitude for trialw o rk. The award was established by theArnold & Po rter Foundation in honor of the late Mason C. Brown ’70, an accomplished trial attorney who was i n t e re s t e d in promoting the careers of p romising young trial attorneys.

M r. Williams indeed has a pro m i s i n gc a reer ahead. “He is a natural advocate,” saida nominator. “Wo rking with Ryan has beena pleasure and a privilege.” Professors point toa closing argument he delive red at a federal

e v i d e n t i a ry hearing on behalf of a PCJP clientas an example of his ability to take commandof a court room. “He handles himself like aveteran,” said a pro f e s s o r. “It was one of thebest closing arguments eve r.” (See story onPage 43.)

The judge on the case must have agre e d .After grilling Mr. Williams with we l l -a n s we red questions, the judge made it a pointto state on the re c o rd that Mr. Wi l l i a m s’ clienthad re c e i ved “o u t s t a n d i n g” re p re s e n t a t i o n .

Dedicated to service, justice

For Cynthia Sa n d oval ’01, it was a simplelunchtime lecture that sparked her commit-ment to civil and social justice.

During her first year at the Law School,she heard Ve ronica B. Hahni ’94, attorney forthe HIV and AIDS Legal Se rvices Alliance,speak about volunteer opportunities. T h el e c t u re launched a two-year stint with theorganization, where Ms. Sa n d oval vo l u n-t e e red countless hours preparing documents,i n t e rv i ewing clients and providing testamen-

t a ry planning services to victims of HIV andAIDS. She met with clients at hospices,c o n valescent homes and private residences allover Los Angeles County — whenever andw h e re ver clients needed assistance.

Her efforts we re re c o g n i zed with the 2001L o ren Miller-Earl Johnson, Jr., Equal Ju s t i c ePr i ze, an award created by Justice Johnson, a former USC law pro f e s s o r, to honor thet h i rd - year student who shows the gre a t e s tcommitment to social justice.

Ms. Sa n d ova l’s supervisor at the Alliancepointed to one incident that demonstratedher dedication to the job. Ms. Sa n d oval oftenused her Spanish language skills to translatedocuments for Spanish-speaking clients.Once, unsure of her translations, she faxed astack of documents to her mother in Chicagofor pro o f reading. Ms. Hahni praised Ms.Sa n d ova l’s skill, flexibility, dependability and“significant efforts on behalf of so many of ourclients.” She added, “I will sorely missCynthia as she moves on to Paul, Hastings inthe fall — but hope that she will continue toshine as one of our pro bono attorneys!”


Aw a rds honor excellencein the courtroom, classroom and community

Left to right: Winner of the Mason Brown Trial Advocacy Award, Ryan Williams, with Laurie Brown, wife of the late MasonBrown, and her daughter Alison Brown; Cynthia Sandoval, winner of the Miller-Johnson Equal Justice Prize; and JoLy n nEdmiston and Noel Ragsdale, recipients of the SBA staff and faculty awards, respectively.



The dean’s secret to success

Students, faculty and administrators usew o rds such as “p rofessionalism personified,”“utterly inva l u a b l e” and “a model of hardw o rk” to describe Jo Lynn Ed m i s t o n. T h eLaw School community has long known thatMs. Edmiston is a driving force behind thes c h o o l’s success, and the Student Ba rAssociation re c o g n i zed her efforts with the2001 SBA Outstanding Staff Aw a rd .

Ms. Edmiston joined the Law School in1978 as an administrative assistant to then-p rofessor Scott Bice. When Professor Bi c ebecame dean in 1980, he asked Ms. Ed m i s t o nto make the move with him. As assistant tothe dean, she quickly became an indispensableasset to the entire Law School. Twenty years later, she began work under the n ew dean, Ma t t h ew L. Sp i t ze r, and her skill,dedication and experience — as well asf requent late nights at her desk — ensured asmooth transition.

Stephen Ma rq u a rdt, president of theStudent Bar Association, noted that Ms.Ed m i s t o n’s dedication to students was part i c-ularly evident this year when she organize de vents that allowed eve ry student in the LawSchool to meet and converse with De a nSp i t zer during the first year of his tenure .“The Law School community has felt therew a rds of Jo Ly n n’s commitment and hardw o rk for over 20 years,” Mr. Ma rq u a rdt said.

Well-rounded and committed

Few law school professors can claim a care e rh i s t o ry as eclectic as that of the recipient of the2001 SBA Outstanding Faculty Aw a rd: Aftergraduating from Ha rva rd Un i ve r s i t y,Professor Noel Ragsdale w o rked in Londonoperating a crafts store, worked as a journalist,attended law school at the Un i versity ofCalifornia, Be rk e l e y, clerked for a judge andspent five years with the Los Angeles law firmof Mu n g e r, Tolls and Ol s o n .

But when she came to USC in 1983, hercommitments we re clear: For nearly 20 ye a r s ,Professor Ragsdale has dedicated herself topublic interest work and to providing hands-on learning opportunities for law students.She has worked closely with students as ap rofessor of trial advo c a c y, served as a super-vising attorney in the Post-Conviction Ju s t i c eProject and heads the Em p l oyer Legal Ad v i c eClinic, currently the only clinic in the countrythat gives students the opportunity to re p re-sent small community-based nonpro f i torganizations. She also serves as USC’s facultyre p re s e n t a t i ve to the National CollegiateAthletics Association, supervising USC’scompliance office and investigating andre p o rting all NCAA violations to the PAC 10C o n f e rence and NCAA members of the PAC 10 Council.

SBA president St e ve Ma rq u a rdt ’01 re c o g-n i zed Professor Ragsdale’s commitment toclinical education and thanked her for using“her position to not only influence thestudents who sit before her in the classro o mbut also to enrich the lives of countless indi-viduals in the Los Angeles community.”

other award sSydney and Audrey Irmas PILF Fe l l o wBernardo Merino ’01

Trope & Trope / Harriet Buhai Family Law Student Fe l l o wHazel Kim ’02

Adam Freeman Scott Memorial Grant Fernando Gaytan ’02

2 0 01 NAPIL Fe l l o wLinda Hoos ’01

S i d l e y, Austin, Brown & Wood Public Interest Law Fe l l o w sOlivia Kim ’03M i chael Smith ’03

S i d l e y, Austin, Brown & Wood Family Violence Clinical Fe l l o w sSheiva Taban ’03 Catherine Popham Durant ’03

S i d l e y, Austin, Brown & Wo o dImmigration Clinical Fe l l o w sRooha Asifuddin ’02 Brian Recor ’02

2 0 0 0 - 01 Po s t -Conviction Justice Project SupervisorsMaria Hall ’03 Jeremy Mittman ’03 Kara Oien ’03 Julie Pa l u ch ’03 Sean Sullivan ’03

PILF Outstanding Student Aw a rdLinda Hoos ’01

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Jennifer H. Arlen

Jennifer Arlen, Ivadelle and T h e o d o re Jo h n s o nProfessor of Law and Business and dire c t o rof the Center in Law, Economics andOrganization (CLEO), is visiting at Yale LawSchool during the 2001-02 academic ye a r.Earlier this ye a r, she taught business law andeconomics as a visiting professor at theCalifornia Institute of Te c h n o l o g y. In Ju n e ,Professor Arlen organized the 2001C o n f e rence on Behavioral Law, Ec o n o m i c sand Organization with CLEO’s other dire c-tors, Bentley MacLeod and Eric Talley (sees t o ry on Page 41). The conference was co-s p o n s o red by the Sloan Foundation, Caltechand CLEO. She also conducted a continuinglegal education Webcast, “Fi d u c i a ry Duties ofC o n t rolling Sh a reholders,” sponsored by theNational Practice Institute. Professor Arlenp resented “To rts and Authority: AnEconomic Analysis of Medical Ma l p r a c t i c eL i a b i l i t y” at the American Law andEconomics Association annual meeting, theCalifornia Institute of Technology and theUSC Marshall School of Business. Sh econducted an all-day continuing legal educa-tion presentation on “Corporate Gove r n a n c e :Responsibility and Liability of Officers andDi re c t o r s” for the National Practice In s t i t u t eand the Washington Bar Association inSeattle. In Ma rch, she commented on a paperby John Coates and Guhan Su b r a m a n i a n ,“ Do Ta k e over Defenses Matter? Evidence onBid Outcomes and Bid Incidence from the1990s M&A Ma rketplace,” at the Va n d e r b i l tLaw and Business Symposium. Pro f e s s o rArlen also presented “En d owment Ef f e c t sWithin Corporate Agency Relationships,” co-written by Dean Ma t t h ew L. Sp i t zer andProfessor Ta l l e y, at the Un i versity of Mi c h i g a nLaw School. She continued her service aseditor of the Jo u rnal on Empirical andExperimental St u d i e s, an electronic publicationof the Legal Scholarship Ne t w o rk .

Jody D. Armour

Jody Armour, professor of law, conducted aseries of lectures at major universities acro s sPoland at the request of the U.S. De p a rt m e n tof State and the American Embassy in Po l a n d(see story on next page). His lectures included“The Civil Rights Movement and RaceRelations in the Last Decade of the 20thC e n t u ry,” “Race, Hi p - Hop Cu l t u re, and theL a w,” “St e reotypes, Prejudice and Po l i t i c a lC o r re c t n e s s” and “Hidden Bias in Cr i m i n a lJustice.” At a Western State Law Schoolsymposium on racial profiling, Pro f e s s o rArmour spoke with Kadiatou Diallo, themother of a 23-year-old African studentmistakenly killed by four New Yo rk Citypolice officers, and Milton Grimes, whore p resented Rodney King in his civil rightssuit against the city of Los Angeles. Hemoderated a panel discussion at USC, “Hi p -Hop 101,” featuring re c o rding artists andi n d u s t ry exe c u t i ves. Professor Armour alsod e l i ve red the keynote address at the Eq u a lJustice Colloquium hosted by UCLA Schoolof Law and Pe p p e rdine Un i versity School ofL a w. He discussed his recent re s e a rch at afaculty colloquium at Em o ry Law School andp resented a lecture to Em o ry law students onmaintaining a commitment to social justice.His article, “In t e r p re t i ve Constru c t i o n ,Systemic Consistency, and Critical Norms inTo rt Law,” was published in the symposiumissue of the Vanderbilt Law Re v i e w.

Scott H. Bice

Scott Bice, Ro b e rt C. Pa c k a rd Professor ofL a w, returns to the Law School this fall after ayearlong sabbatical. He delive red a paper ata July conference on law school curriculum inthe 21st century at the Un i versity ofMinnesota. In June, Professor Bice was electedt re a s u rer of the Chancery Club, a Los Angelesorganization of lawyers.

Vi cki L. Bro w n

Vicki Brown, assistant dean, was a panelist atan academic leadership development work-shop for tenure-track assistant professors andtheir department chairs. The workshop wass p o n s o red by USC’s provost and theAcademic Senate.

Lee W. Campbell

Lee Campbell, clinical professor of law, wasappointed to the civil subcommittee of theJudicial Council Task Fo rce on Ju ryIn s t ructions by California Su p reme CourtChief Justice Ron George. The task force is drafting new civil and criminal jury i n s t ructions that are intended to be moreunderstandable to juro r s .

Alexander M. Capro n

Alexander Capron, He n ry W. Bruce Pro f e s s o rof Law and Un i versity Professor of Law andMedicine, testified before Congress in June ontwo bills aimed at pre venting the cloning ofhuman beings. On behalf of the Na t i o n a lBioethics Ad v i s o ry Commission, he conve ye da recommendation that a thre e - t o - f i ve ye a rmoratorium be placed on re p ro d u c t i vecloning. One of the nation’s fore m o s tbiomedical ethicists, Professor Capron alsoo f f e red testimony in a personal capacity,urging that a provision in a congressional billplacing a permanent ban on re s e a rch cloning— the practice of cloning embryos for basicre s e a rch and to develop medical treatments —be changed to a moratorium. Pro f e s s o rC a p ron also testified on the impact of humangenome re s e a rch on worldwide health beforethe World Health Or g a n i z a t i o n’s advisorycommittee on health re s e a rch and coopera-tion, which met in Ge n e va in June. Earlierthis ye a r, Professor Capron published aneditorial, “Brain Death: Well Settled Yet St i l lUn re s o l ved,” in the New England Jo u rnal ofMe d i c i n e. He also spoke on “Re s e a rch Et h i c s”at the No rthridge Hospital Medical Centerand on “End of Life Is s u e s” at a medical staff


Left to Right: >J e n n i fer ArlenJody Armour

Scott BiceVi cki Brown

Lee Campbell

education session at City of Angels Me d i c a lCenter and at the Annenberg Center atEi s e n h ower Medical Center. His editorialc o m m e n t a ry, “Reexamining Or g a nTransplantation,” appeared in the Jan. 17Jo u rnal of the American Medical As s o c i a t i o n.His chapter on “Genetic Discrimination inInsurance: Is It Ever Ethically Ac c e p t a b l e ? ”was published in Biomedical Re s e a rch Et h i c s :Updating In t e rnational Gu i d e l i n e s. His 1997a rticle on the Su p reme Court’s assisted suicidedecisions, “Death and the Court,” wasreprinted in Pe r s p e c t i ves: Death and Dy i n g, andhis 1998 article “Punishing Mo t h e r s” wasreprinted in the ninth edition of Taking Si d e s ,Clashing Views on Controversial Bi o e t h i c a lIs s u e s. Professor Capron lectured on theethical and legal implications of humane m b ryonic stem cell re s e a rch in a USC under-graduate biology course in April and on theethical, social and legal issues surro u n d i n gfamily studies in a graduate class at USC’sKeck School of Me d i c i n e .

Erwin Chemerinsky

Erwin Chemerinsky, Sydney M. Ir m a sProfessor of Public In t e rest Law, Legal Et h i c sand Political Science, re c e i ved the Clare n c eDa r row Aw a rd from the Pe o p l e’s College ofL a w. The award honors public intere s tpioneers; previous recipients include Ne l s o nMandela, the late civil rights attorney Jo s e p hPo s n e r, and 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Ap p e a l sJudge Stephen Re i n h a rdt. Pro f e s s o rChemerinsky was profiled in a Ma rch 6 L o sAngeles Ti m e s a rticle, “He Trains LegalEaglets.” Noting that Professor Chemerinskyis a nationally known legal expert as well as akey figure in Los Angeles civic affairs, thea rticle traced Professor Chemerinsky’spersonal and professional life and includedw o rds of praise from colleagues, city officialsand academics from around the state.Professor Chemerinsky’s new casebook,Constitutional Law, was published by AspenLaw and Business in April. He also published

“Against Sove reign Im m u n i t y” in the St a n f o rdLaw Re v i e w; “Bush v. Go re Was No tJu s t i c i a b l e” in the No t re Dame Law Re v i e w;and “The Ex p re s s i ve In t e rest of Associations,”with Loyola law professor Catherine Fisk, inthe William and Ma ry Bill of Rights Jo u rn a l. In

Ma y, Professor Chemerinsky argued An d ra d ev. Ca l i f o rn i a in the 9th U.S. Circuit Court ofAppeals, focusing on whether a sentence of 50years in prison is cruel and unusual punish-ment for the crime of stealing $150 worth ofvideotapes. He published several op-eds:


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< Left to Right: A l exander CapronErwin Chemerinsky

Professor offers lessons on diversity to students in Po l a n d

When the American embassy in Poland invited Professor Jody Armour to speak to Polish studentsabout racism in America, the U.S. State De p a rtment was hesitant. “The State De p a rtment toldthe embassy that race relations is a passé subject in America in light of Colin Powe l l’s appoint-ment as Se c re t a ry of State,” Professor Armour says.

When he visited Poland for two weeks last spring, Pro f e s s o rA r m o u r’s experiences confirmed that the subject of race re l a-tions is extremely re l e vant not only in America, but in Po l a n das well. As the former East Bloc country begins to questiontraditions of ethnic and gender discrimination, academicleaders there are hoping to gain insight into the dynamics ofd i versity by studying America’s struggles with race. To help,Professor Armour spoke to university students in Wa r s a w,Gdansk, Kraków and Lublin on subjects such as the civil rightsm ovement, the current status of American race relations andpolitical correctness.

His ideas touched a nerve: “[Professor] Armour managed toexplode certain myths and stereotypes and shed new light ontothe seemingly familiar issues,” said a State De p a rtment re p o rt .“The students did not simply sit through the lectures. T h e yk n ew that what they had heard … had to do with their imagesof themselves and others, their own identities and their ve ry perceptions of the world. The enthu-siastic response … clearly prove[s] that there exists a genuine need in Polish society [and] academiato discuss issues of racial and ethnic dive r s i t y. ”

Professor Armour noted striking similarities in the dual nature of race relations in Americaand Poland. He visited the concentration camp at Auschwitz and was impressed by the country’se f f o rt to confront its tragic history. But later, he passed by a Kraków store full of toys and caricature sp o rtraying stereotypical images of Jews — caricatures that echoed America’s “Sa m b o” characteri-zations of African-Americans. In Poland, as in America, discrimination and stereotypes persist despiteb roader acceptance of the ideals of equality and tolerance.

Professor Armour also was struck by the popularity of American hip-hop culture among yo u n gPolish people. He encouraged students to be wary of the “gold chains and fancy cars” stere o t y p e soften perpetuated by hip-hop culture.

“The trip enriched my understanding of the global nature of problems of discrimination, biasand social justice,” said Professor Armour. “It also drove home to me how important it is that wetake responsibility for the images and messages that our cultural institutions generate. We are estab-lishing stereotypes in the minds of not just American citizens, but also the world’s citizens.”

— Ryan It o

Pr o fessor Armour’s tour of Eastern Europebrought home the widespread effects ofAmerican racism.

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“O’er the Ramparts We Watched,” inCa l i f o rnia Lawye r; “The Se l f - In f l i c t i n gWound,” in Ca l i f o rnia Bar Jo u rn a l; “Ma yo r’sPower Play Sets Back LAPD Reform,” “Fo rA n s wers on Rampart We Ha ve to AskQuestions,” and “Disabled Feel the Sting ofan Arbitrary Court” in the Los Angeles Ti m e s;“ Senators Should Fight for Middle Gro u n dand Block Ashcroft,” in the Los Angeles Ti m e s ,reprinted in the Houston Chro n i c l e and theMilwaukee Jo u rnal Se n t i n e l; and “When Do e sState Sove reign Immunity Protect Cities andCounties?” in the Los Angeles Daily Jo u rn a l.Professor Chemerinsky spoke on sove re i g nimmunity and civil rights claims at theDefense Re s e a rch Institute conference on civilrights in San Diego; on conserva t i ve judicialactivism and the Rehnquist court at Te x a sSouthern Un i ve r s i t y’s Thurgood Ma r s h a l lSchool of Law; on recent developments inconstitutional law to the Ne vada Ju d i c i a lC o n f e rence, the Federal Bar Association inMadison, Wis., the 1st Circuit Ju d i c i a lC o n f e rence, and federal district court judgesin Washington, D.C.; on “Policing the Po l i c e”at an American Bar Association appellatejudges seminar in Phoenix; on recent deve l-opments in civil rights law at Ge o r g e t ow nUn i versity Law Center and Chicago-Ke n tCollege of Law; on the Constitution and the2000 election at the San Diego Ba rAssociation; on federalism and spendingp ower at a Chapman Law School symposium;on federalism decisions at the Anti-Defamation League in New Yo rk City; onrecent Su p reme Court decisions at theNational Practice Institute at the Un i versity ofMinnesota Law School and at the Te n n e s s e eJudicial Conference; on federalism and indi-vidual rights at Wayne State Law School; onimpediments to police reform at a confere n c eon women and policing; and on privacy andthe First Amendment at the ABACommunications Fo rum. He also spoke tojudges from Alaska, Virginia and the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. Pro f e s s o r

Chemerinsky presented “Why the Su p re m eC o u rt is Wrong About the EstablishmentC l a u s e” at a conference on law and re l i g i o nat Loyola Un i versity Chicago School of Law;“ Sove reign Immunity Should Be Ab o l i s h e d”at St a n f o rd Law School; and “A g a i n s tSove reign Im m u n i t y” at the Un i versity ofNo rth Carolina and the Un i versity of Fl o r i d a .

G e o f f rey Cowan

Ge o f f rey Cowan, professor of communicationand law and dean of the USC AnnenbergSchool for Communication, is a principali n vestigator for three major Annenberg p rojects: a grant on campaign-finance disclo-s u re funded by the Pew Charitable Trusts; thePew Hispanic Center; and the Fo rdFoundation-funded Institute for Justice andJournalism. He moderated a three-day AspenInstitute conference on media pluralism inSantiago, Chile, and a videoconference of theCouncil on Fo reign Relations with part i c i-pants in New Yo rk City and Los Angeles. He also moderated a panel with Dr. Art Ul e n eand Todd Pu rdham on health communica-tion. He gave the keynote speech at a NewDemocratic Ne t w o rk luncheon; was a hostand judge in interv i ews for White Ho u s eFe l l owships; was appointed to a bipart i s a ncommission on Internet political practices byGov. Gray Davis; and is a founding memberof the Vera Institute for Ju s t i c e’s Po l i c eAssessment Re s o u rce Center board .

David B. Cruz

David Cruz, associate professor of law, spokeon “Civil Unions: Ex p re s s i vely Inferior or‘ Separate But Eq u a l’?” at a panel on“Vermont: Status Now and W h e re We AreGo i n g” at an American Bar Associationmeeting in San Di e g o. He presented “On‘ Na t u re’ Worship: Disestablishing theReligion of Ge n d e r” at the seventh annualL a t Crit Conference in Gainesville, Fla., andhe discussed “Transcending Boundaries: T h eConstitution, Families, Federalization and

Fe d e r a l i s m” on a panel at the annualAmerican Association of Law Schools confer-ence in San Fr a n c i s c o. In addition, Pro f e s s o rCruz spoke on “Marriage as Pro p e rt y” as aninvited panelist at a symposium on same-sexmarriages, domestic partnerships and civilunions at Capital Un i versity Law School inColumbus, Oh i o. He published “ ‘Just Do n’tCall it Ma r r i a g e’: The First Amendment andMarriage as an Ex p re s s i ve Re s o u rc e” in theMay S o u t h e rn Ca l i f o rnia Law Re v i e w.

Mary L. Dudziak

Ma ry Dudziak, professor of law and history,has re c e i ved numerous accolades for herrecent book, Cold War Civil Rights: Race andthe Image of American De m o c ra c y. The bookwas named a finalist for the Ro b e rt F.Kennedy Book Aw a rd, which honors booksthat reflect “Ro b e rt Ke n n e d y’s purposes, hisconcern for the poor and the powerless, hiss t ruggle for honest and evenhanded justice,his conviction that a decent society musta s s u re all young people a fair chance, and hisfaith that a free democracy can act to re m e d ydisparities of power and opport u n i t y.” C o l dWar Civil Rights was favorably re v i ewed by theWashington Ti m e s, which said the book was“e xceptionally well done,” and by theAmerican Political Science Association’s elec-t ronic magazine Law and Politics Re v i e w.Ha rva rd Law Re v i e w called the book “anuanced, scholarly appraisal of the re l a t i o n-ship between foreign policy and the civilrights story,” and Academia: An On l i n eMagazine and Re s o u rce for Academic Li b ra r i e slisted it as a “Un i versity Press Be s t s e l l e r.” T h eJa n u a ry 2001 edition of The American Lawye rcalled Cold War Civil Rights a gro u n d b re a k i n gbook about the complex relationship betwe e nA m e r i c a’s domestic fight for civil rights andthe international fight against communismduring the Cold Wa r. Professor Du d z i a kspoke about Cold War Civil Rights at theInstitute for Governmental Studies at theUn i versity of California, Be rkeley; the


Left to Right: >Geoffrey Cowan

David CruzMary Dudziak

Cro s s roads High School “Fe s t i val of Re a d i n g”in Santa Monica; the Un i versity of California,San Diego; Barnes and Noble in West LosAngeles; Midnight Special Books in Sa n t aMonica; and Borders Books and Music inWashington, D.C. In Ma rch, Pro f e s s o rDudziak spoke on two panels at the annualmeeting of the Western Political ScienceAssociation. During the first panel, “Au t h o rMeets Readers: Ma ry Du d z i a k’s Cold Wa rCivil Rights,” Professor Dudziak responded topolitical scientists’ questions and commentsabout her book. She also was a panelistdiscussing the 2000 presidential election.Professor Du d z i a k’s book was the subject of a presentation offered by Un i versity ofVirginia law professors Michael Klarman andCu rtis Br a d l e y, with a response from Pro f e s s o rDudziak, during the Un i versity of Vi r g i n i aLaw School’s Program in Legal andConstitutional Hi s t o ry; Professor Du d z i a kalso presented “The Constitution as ColdWar Pro p a g a n d a” at another Un i versity ofVirginia Law School work s h o p. In addition,she presented “Birmingham, Addis Ababa andthe Image of America: International In f l u e n c eon U.S. Civil Rights Reform During theKennedy Ye a r s” at a faculty workshop at theUSC Center of International Studies. Sh ep a rticipated in a Cold War conference at theUn i versity of California, Santa Barbara, whereshe chaired a panel on “New Pe r s p e c t i ves onthe Cultural Cold Wa r” and commented on ap a p e r, “The American Team: U.S. At h l e t i cGoodwill Tours, 1954-1968,” by Da m i o nThomas. She was a panelist discussing “T h eLa Pietra Re p o rt” on the internationalizationof the study of American history at a meetingof the Organization of American Historians inLos Angeles. She served as commentator ona panel on “Law and Professionalism as anIn s t rument for Social Mobility in 20th-C e n t u ry America” at the annual meeting ofthe Law and Society Association in Bu d a p e s t .In June, Professor Dudziak published the op-ed “Could Allen Iverson Help Us All Ge t

Along?” in the Los Angeles Ti m e s and “U.S., asGlobal Leader, Must Drop De a t h - Pe n a l t yPr a c t i c e” in the Los Angeles Daily Jo u rn a l.

Susan Estrich

Susan Estrich, Ro b e rt Kingsley Professor ofLaw and Political Science, discussed her recent book, Sex and Powe r, on CSPA N ’s“Book Notes,” at a joint meeting of Wo m e nin Film and Women in Technology in Be ve r l yHills, and at the Los Angeles Ti m e s B o o kFe s t i val. The book was listed on the L o sAngeles Ti m e s bestseller list in Ma rc h .Professor Estrich was the keynote speaker atthe American Association of Un i ve r s i t yWomen convention in Costa Mesa, Calif. She published an op-ed in USA To d a y,“Wooed by a Washington Wo l f,” blastingU.S. Congressman Ga ry Condit for his slowresponse to speculation over his invo l ve m e n twith Chandra Levy, a USC social workstudent who disappeared this spring whilecompleting an internship in Wa s h i n g t o n ,D.C. Professor Estrich’s op-ed, “Chaleff Fi r i n gSends a Message to Pa rks,” was published inthe Los Angeles Ti m e s, and her column, “Gi r l s ,In t e r rupted: Mo re Women Pa rtners? It’s Upto Us to Fight,” appeared in the pre m i e re issueo f JD Jungle magazine. She discussed the 2000election at Claremont Mc Kenna College, theOrganization of American Historians, and a conference sponsored by the Jesse M. Un ru hInstitute of Politics. She was one of thre ep l e n a ry speakers at the Law School Ad m i s s i o nC o u n c i l’s annual meeting and educationalc o n f e rence, where she discussed women and the legal profession, and she spoke at the Dallas Wo m e n’s Museum, the 92nd St reet Y in New Yo rk City, and at ac o n f e rence on economic development inBelgrade, Yu g o s l a v i a .

Darin K. Fox

Darin Fox was named associate dean,assuming a more superv i s o ry role in informa-tion services as well as additional teaching

responsibilities in the first-year legal re s e a rc hcourse. Dean Fox is serving his third year aschair of the Southern California Associationof Law Libraries’ information technologycommittee. He is also serving his second ye a ras Webmaster for the American Association ofLaw Libraries’ section on computer serv i c e s .

Niels W. Fre n z e n

Niels Fre n zen, clinical assistant professor ofl a w, discussed defending clients in immigra-tion proceedings that invo l ve terrorism ornational security allegations at the AmericanImmigration Lawyers Association’s annualregional meeting in Los Angeles in April andat the annual conference in Boston in Ju n e .An op-ed, “INS Must Stop Using Se c re tEvidence,” which originally appeared in aDecember 2000 Los Angeles Ti m e s, wasreprinted in a supplement to the Ma rch issueof the Washington Re p o rt on Middle Ea s tA f f a i r s. The article addresses the Im m i g r a t i o nand Naturalization Se rv i c e’s use of secre tevidence in deportation cases against noncit-i zens. Professor Fre n zen wrote another op-ed,“ Funneling Immigrants To Their De a t h s , ”criticizing U.S. Border Pa t rol practices andsuggesting these practices have increased thenumber of deaths at the bord e r. The art i c l ea p p e a red in the Los Angeles Ti m e s in May andwas reprinted in the Houston Chronicle a n dthe Tucson Ci t i ze n.

Ronald R. Gare t

Ronald Ga ret, Carolyn Craig Fr a n k l i nProfessor of Law and Religion, pre s e n t e d“The Biblical and Constitutional Tr a d i t i o n s”at the Reform congregation Ohr Ha To r a hand at a Loma Linda Un i versity study gro u p.He also spoke on “Our Ancient Faith: T h eBible and the Constitution” at a Pa rk LaBre aResidents Association meeting. He also spokeabout legal education to Dorsey High Schoolstudents visiting the Law School through theSt reet Law pro g r a m .


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Ariela J. Gro s s

Ariela Gross, professor of law and history,re c e i ved tenure and was promoted to fullp rofessor of law with a courtesy appointmentto USC’s history department. Professor Gro s sp resented a paper, “Be yond Black and W h i t e :Cultural Ap p roaches to Race and Sl a ve ry,” ata Un i versity of Virginia Law School facultyw o rk s h o p. “Be yond Black and W h i t e” waspublished in the Columbia Law Re v i e w, Vo l .101 (2001). She participated on a “Law andSt r a t i f i c a t i o n” panel at the Law, Cu l t u re andHumanities Meeting at the Un i versity ofTexas, where she also presented “Trials asNa r r a t i ve and Pe rf o r m a n c e” as part of a panelon law and performance, which she chaire d .She presented “Choosing Up Sides: Are You aL a w yer or Are You a Historian?” at a confer-ence on law and literature at the Un i versity ofCalifornia, Irvine, and “Bi rth of a RacialNa t i o n” at the Tel Aviv Un i versity LegalHi s t o ry Wo rk s h o p. Professor Gro s s’s essay,“The Law and the Cu l t u re of Sl a ve ry :Na t c h ez, Mississippi,” was published in L o c a lMatters: Race, Crime and Justice in theNineteenth Ce n t u ry South. Professor Gro s ss e rves on the the steering committee forU S C ’s Center for Law, Hi s t o ry and Cu l t u re .

Carrie L. Hempel

Carrie Hempel, clinical professor of law,discussed clinical education in the Un i t e dStates with faculty and students at thre eu n i versities in Yugoslavia as part of theAmerican Bar Association’s Central andEastern Eu ropean Law In i t i a t i ve (see story onnext page). Professor Hempel also spoke at aweeklong conference on clinical legal educa-tion at the Un i versity of Marmara in Is t a n b u l ,Tu rk e y, and she participated on a paneldiscussing innova t i ve clinical programs at theEqual Justice Colloquium hosted by UCLASchool of Law and Pe p p e rdine Un i ve r s i t ySchool of Law. An article in the summer issueof The College, the newsletter of USC’sCollege of Letters, Arts and Sciences, high-

lighted Professor He m p e l’s work in the Po s t -Conviction Justice Project. Professor He m p e l ,who earned her B.A. from the college in 1981,discussed her passion for justice and here f f o rts on behalf of incarcerated women.

William J. Hoye

William Hoye was named associate dean anddean of admissions, assuming direct re s p o n s i-bility for enrollment services. He also has beenappointed chair of the Association ofAmerican Law School’s section on pre - l e g a leducation and admission to law school. He served as chair of the Law SchoolAdmission Council’s annual meeting andeducational conference, which attracts deans,faculty and admissions officers from all of then a t i o n’s accredited law schools. Dean Hoyeo r g a n i zed and planned all of the sessions inthe confere n c e .

G regory C. Keating

Gre g o ry Keating, professor of law, pre s e n t e d“ Be yond Cost-Justified Pre c a u t i o n” at aNo rt h western Law School faculty work s h o pin April and at a conference on negligence andthe law sponsored by the Cegla Institute at Te lAviv Un i versity in June. He presented a USCfaculty workshop on “Ir reparable In j u ry and Fair Pre c a u t i o n” in Ma rch. His paper,“The T h e o ry of Enterprise Liability andCommon Law Strict Liability” appeared in the Vanderbilt Law Re v i e w in April. The paper was published as part of a symposium, “Restatement T h i rd of To rt s :General Pr i n c i p l e s . ”

Daniel M. Klerman

Daniel Klerman, professor of law and history,re c e i ved tenure and was promoted to fullp rofessor of law with a courtesy appointmentin USC’s history department. He re c e i ved theSelden So c i e t y’s David Yale Pr i ze for distin-guished contribution to the history of the lawsand legal institutions of England and Wa l e s .Professor Klerman taught a course in intellec-

tual pro p e rty and high technology at theIn t e rd i s c i p l i n a ry Center (IDC) in He rz l i y a ,Israel, and gave four workshops in Is r a e l ,including presentations on “Female Pr i va t eProsecutors in 13th-Century En g l a n d” at theHe b rew Un i versity Law School faculty work-shop and “Economic Analysis and LegalHi s t o ry: Settlement and the Selection of Casesfor Litigation in 13th-Century En g l a n d” atlaw and economics workshops at Tel Aviv andHe b rew universities. His article, “Se t t l e m e n tand the Decline of Pr i vate Prosecution in1 3 t h - C e n t u ry England,” was the lead art i c l ein the Fe b ru a ry Law and Hi s t o ry Re v i e w.Professor Klerman presented “Ec o n o m i cAnalysis and Legal Hi s t o ry: The Selection of1 3 t h - C e n t u ry Criminal Disputes forL i t i g a t i o n” at Yale Law School’s law,economics and organization workshop inJa n u a ry. He also presented “Ju r i s d i c t i o n a lCompetition and the Evolution of theCommon Law” at a faculty workshop atGeorge Mason Law School and “T h eSelection of 13th-Century Criminal Di s p u t e sfor Litigation: An Economic Analysis” at theopening plenary session of the 15th Br i t i s hLegal Hi s t o ry Conference in Ab e ry s t w y t h ,Wales, and at the Me d i e val Academy ofA m e r i c a / Me d i e val Academy of the Pa c i f i cjoint meeting in Tempe, Ariz. He pre s e n t e d“ Statistical and Economic Methods in LegalHi s t o ry” at a symposium on empirical andexperimental methods in law at the Un i ve r s i t yof Illinois College of Law. In April, Pro f e s s o rKlerman presented “Legal and Te c h n o l o g i c a lProtection of Digital Intellectual Pro p e rty: A Symbiotic Re l a t i o n s h i p” at a USC engi-neering department re t reat in Santa Mo n i c a .

K a ren A. Lash

K a ren Lash, associate dean, was named co-chair of the California Access to Ju s t i c eCommission along with California appellate Justice Earl Johnson, Jr. T h ecommission seeks ways to improve thed e l i ve ry of legal services to moderate-income


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and poor Californians and is made up ofjudges, lawyers, political appointees and re p re-s e n t a t i ves of California’s religious, labor andeducation communities. Dean Lash also wasnamed to the U.S. District Court Ma g i s t r a t eJudges Merit Selection Panel, which re c o m-mended candidates for five open magistratepositions in the Central California District. InMa rch, Dean Lash delive red two talks as apanelist at the annual American Ba rA s s o c i a t i o n / National Legal Aid and De f e n d e rAssociation Equal Justice Conference in Sa nDiego, where she discussed the role lawschools can play as access-to-justice part n e r s .

G e o rge Le f c o e

George Lefcoe, Florine and Ervin Yo d e rProfessor of Real Estate Law, moderated apanel on “The Role of Mediation, Arbitrationand Ombudsmen in the Land-Use Are n a” atthe Un i versity of De n ve r’s Rocky Mo u n t a i nL a n d - Use Institute. Other panelists includedthe Honorable Michael M. Zi m m e r m a n ,former chief justice of the Utah Su p re m eC o u rt, and Alex S. LaBeau, gove r n m e n taffairs director for the Idaho Association ofRealtors. He also coordinated the USCTr a veling Land-Use Seminar in Eu rope (sees t o ry on Page 32).

Martin L. Le v i n e

Ma rtin Levine, university vice provost forfaculty and minority affairs and UPSFoundation Chair of Law and Ge ro n t o l o g y,spoke at the annual meeting of the Na t i o n a lAssociation of College and Un i ve r s i t yAttorneys on faculty re t i rement policies.

Thomas D. Ly o n

Thomas Lyon, professor of law, was award e da Haynes Faculty Fe l l owship for his pro p o s a l ,“ Refining a St ru c t u red In t e rv i ew forQuestioning Young Children About Se x u a lAbuse.” His paper, “Reducing Ma l t re a t e dC h i l d re n’s Reluctance to Answer Hy p o t h e t i c a lOa t h - Taking Competency Questions,” co-

written by Karen J. Saywitz, Debra L. Kaplanand Joyce S. Dorado, was published in theFe b ru a ry 2001 issue of Law & Hu m a nBe h a v i o r. Professor Lyon was named chair ofan American Ps ychological Association taskf o rce on developmental psychology and thechild witness, which will bring together

p s ychologists and legal professionals toi m p rove the process for questioning childre nduring investigations and in court. At the12th annual Be yond the Bench confere n c ein Un i versal City, Calif., Professor Lyon spokeon “Children and Truth: Recent Re s e a rc h . ”He also spoke at an AALS conference in Sa n


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Law — and hope — take hold in Yugoslavia

Emerging from the shadow of Slobodan Milosevic, Yugoslavia is embracing the rule of law as a patht ow a rd democracy and freedom. But preparing future lawyers to sustain this new social stru c t u reis proving difficult for the nation’s law schools, which have few re s o u rces and little precedent fors t rong legal education.

To help, the American Bar Association’s Central and Eastern Eu ropean Law In i t i a t i ve (CEELI)sent Clinical Law Professor Carrie Hempel to thre eYugoslavian universities to explore possibilities forestablishing clinical education programs. At theu n i versities of Belgrade, Nis and Novi Sa d ,Professor Hempel met with students and pro f e s s o r sto discuss the concept of clinical education andgauge interest in establishing programs that wouldenable students to learn by working side-by - s i d ewith practicing lawye r s .

Clinical programs, internships and vo l u n t e e rw o rk are standard fare in American law schools, butin Yugoslavia, learning-by-doing is a fore i g nconcept. “The idea of clinical education is new intwo ways,” explains Professor Hempel. “It intro-

duces a ve ry different kind of teaching, which relies heavily upon interaction between teachersand students, and it introduces the practical application of the law in legal education. Now, there areno courses in which students actually work with real clients or learn professional skills. Even the ques-tion and answer sessions I conducted we re ve ry unusual. Most classes there are taught by lecture, withno questions and ve ry little interaction.”

Professor Hempel said students we re especially re c e p t i ve to the idea of clinical education, butYu g o s l a v i a’s depressed economy presents a stumbling block. “Law schools just don’t have there s o u rces to start clinical programs on their own, nor do they have the re s o u rces to assign pro f e s-sors to courses with just eight or 10 students,” she said, noting that some courses have as many as1,000 students. Still, she sees opportunities: CEELI could help schools seek funding from externals o u rces and develop partnerships with legal organizations to provide opportunities for studentswithout burdening professors.

Although challenges loom, Professor Hempel says student enthusiasm is a good start. “The senseof hope and interest in creating a democratic government and a just legal system was palpable,”Professor Hempel says. “T h e re is a great sense that they have made it through a terrible time, andthey are striving to become a country where the rule of law is internalized. And after all, the move-ment to oust Milosevic started on Yu g o s l a v i a’s campuses.”

Pr o fessor Hempel, far left, worked with several Yu g o s l a vp r o fessors and attorneys to assess clinical educationopportunities in Yugoslavia’s law sch o o l s .

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Francisco on “What Ha ve We Learned Ab o u tC h i l d ren as Victims and Witnesses in theCriminal Trial Process?” In Ma rch, Pro f e s s o rLyon spoke to Los Angeles deputy districtattorneys on interv i ewing children, and hed e l i ve red talks on “Suggestibility of Childre n”a n d “A g e - Ap p ropriate Questioning of Childre n”

at the ninth annual Childre n’s Ju s t i c eC o n f e rence in Seattle. He spoke to thep s ychology department of the Un i versity ofCalifornia, Riverside, on “The Effects ofReassurance or the Oath on Childre n’sHonesty: Re s e a rch With Ma l t re a t e dC h i l d re n” and on “Children and the Tru t h” at

the Phoebe C. El l s w o rth Ps ychology andJustice Symposium at Mount St. Ma ry’sCollege. Professor Lyon co-chaired a sympo-sium on “Ef f e c t i vely In t e rv i ewing Yo u n gC h i l d ren,” gave a presentation on “T h eEffects of Reassurance and Promising to Te l lthe Truth on Young Ma l t reated Childre n’sFalse Re p o rts of a Minor Tr a n s g ression,” anddiscussed “Understanding Ma l t re a t e dC h i l d re n’s Experiences with Foster Care”during the Society for Re s e a rch in ChildDe ve l o p m e n t’s biennial meeting inMinneapolis. In Ma y, he spoke on “Ju ve n i l eInjustice — What is the Law?” at Youth inPeril: Covering Abuse, Neglect and Fo s t e rC a re, a conference for journalists sponsore dby the Foundation for AmericanCommunications. In June, he spoke on“ De velopmentally Ap p ropriate In t e rv i ew i n gSt r a t e g i e s” at the National Colloquium of theAmerican Professional Society on the Ab u s eof Children in Washington, D.C.

W. Bentley MacLe o d

W. Bentley MacLeod, professor of economicsand law, re c e i ved a National ScienceFoundation grant for re s e a rch he isconducting with USC Professor He r b e rtDawid on “The Evolution of Ba r g a i n i n gC o n ventions.” Professor MacLeod was avisiting scholar at the Center for Ec o n o m i cStudies at the Un i versity of Munich in Ju n e .He presented “Cognition and the T h e o ry ofLearning by Do i n g” at the Ec o n o m e t r i cSociety meeting in New Orleans; theUn i versity of California, Irvine; the AmericanLaw and Economics Association meeting inWashington, D.C.; the Hans Mo e l l e rSeminar at the Un i versity of Munich; and theMaison des Sciences Economiques in Pa r i s .He also presented a faculty workshop on“To rts and Authority: An Economic Analysisof Medical Ma l p r a c t i c e” with Professor Arlen.He coordinated the Conference on Be h a v i o r a lEconomics, Organizations and Law 2001with fellow CLEO directors, Professor Arlen


Seminar studies modern quandaries of historic cities

Visitors to Venice might notice the exorbitant price of a night’s stay or meal within the water city,but they likely don’t contemplate the troublesome realities of doing business or living in a placew h e re eve ry morsel of bread and eve ry ounce of trash must be transported by boat.

Such thoughts we re top-of-mind for a group of35 real estate experts who trekked from California toItaly this summer under the guidance of Pro f e s s o rGeorge Lefcoe, who coordinates USC’s Tr a ve l i n gL a n d - Use Se m i n a r.

The seminar, which studies the variety of land-useand development problems confronting modernEu rope, grew out of Professor Lefcoe’s own impatiencewith common travel. “I’m a terrible tourist,” he says.“After a few days, I grow restless, wandering aimlesslyt h rough unfamiliar streets and vast museums. I beginto notice features that differ markedly from U.S. citiesand wonder how to account for the differences.”

To get answers, he began arranging expert-led toursand discussions with Eu ropean officials. Fo u rt e e n

years later, the seminar is an annual tradition among L.A. real estate experts; recent travelers includeCity Councilman Joel Wachs; attorney Davina Kohanzadeh Massey ’00; Professor Scott Bice ’68and his wife, Barbara; and USC arc h i t e c t u re grads Douglas Mo reland and Jeff Skorneck.

Pa rticipants convened this year in Venice, where city councilmembers and developers hope tocontain a fleeing residential community by attracting new businesses to some of the city’s underu s e dor vacant historic buildings. Next stop was Trieste, Italy: Once the trade hub for the entire Au s t ro -Hungarian region, this city on the Adriatic Sea now struggles to find new uses for a massivecollection of abandoned warehouses that comprise the city’s historic port. The seminar concludedin Ljubljana, Sl ovenia, where planners are trying to make room for rapid economic growth withoutspoiling the magnificent countryside or destroying the scale of this perfectly planned city.Complicating matters is the dearth of private developers in Sl ovenia, a country just 10 years re m ove df rom communist rule.

Next ye a r, the seminar visits It a l y’s Naples, Capri and the Amalfi coast.“ It’s really about understanding where yo u’ve been,” says Professor Lefcoe. “For us, that means

locating the experience in a familiar context. Real estate is a frame of re f e rence shared by all themembers of our gro u p. These trips are not for eve rybody; it’s not a leisurely holiday. But our genero u shosts present some magical moments which lead us to an understanding of the places we visitthat none of us could achieve on our ow n . ”

Pr o fessor Lefcoe, far left, and members of his arch i-tectural seminar discuss architect Jose Plecnik’slegacy in Ljubljana, Slovenia, as they study a 13th-century monastery that Mr. Plecnik reconstructed inthe 1950s.

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Edward McCaffe r yLisa MeadElyn Saks

Robert Saltzman

and Professor Ta l l e y, and presented “OnOptimal Contracting with Su b j e c t i veEva l u a t i o n” during the conference.

E d w a rd J. McCaffery

Ed w a rd Mc C a f f e ry, Maurice Jones, Jr. ,Professor of Law, delive red the sixth annualHugh J. and Frank Tamisiea Lecture, “De a t h ,Luck and Ta xes: Comments on the Estate Tax and Be yond,” at the Un i versity of Iow aCollege of Law. Prior presenters includeJustice Antonin Scalia, Cass Sunstein andR i c h a rd Epstein. The lecture was published inthe Iowa Law Re v i e w. Professor Mc C a f f e ry’st w o - p a rt article, “When Will They Eve rLearn?” was posted in the online journal, T h ePro g ress Re p o rt. In Fe b ru a ry, Pro f e s s o rMc C a f f e ry presented a faculty workshop atthe Un i versity of Iowa College, “You Ge tWhat You Vote For: Women, Men and Fi s c a lPo l i c y,” co-written by Michael Alva rez ,p rofessor of political science at Caltech andassociate director of the USC-Caltech Centerfor the Study of Law and Politics, whichProfessor Mc C a f f e ry directs (see story on Pa g e12). A thre e - p a rt article on the estate taxwritten by Professor Mc C a f f e ry and ChuckCollins, co-director of United for a Fa i rEc o n o m y, appeared in American Pro s p e c tonline. Professor Mc C a f f e ry addressed taxreform in his keynote speech at a CatoInstitute luncheon seminar, “Pe r s p e c t i ves onPolicy 2001.” In April, Professor Mc C a f f e ryp resented “Thinking about Tax,” a lecture co-written with Un i versity of Pe n n s y l va n i aProfessor Jon Ba ron, at Pe n n’s De c i s i o nProcesses Lecture Series. Professor Mc C a f f e ryalso delive red a guest lecture, “Taxing Ge n e s , ”to a biotech seminar at Loyola Law School.

Lisa M. Mead

Lisa Mead was named associate dean anddean of students. She will assume re s p o n s i-bility for student affairs, including studentorganizations and activities, student trave l ,c o n d u c tp ro b l e m s ,c o m p l a i n t s ,moral chara c t e r

c e rtifications, academic counseling, nonacad-emic counseling, academic support, studentpetitions and other miscellaneous services. InMa y, she completed her second term as amember of the National Association for LawPl a c e m e n t’s board of directors.

Elyn R. Saks

Elyn Saks, Orrin B. Evans Professor of Lawand Ps yc h i a t ry and Behavioral Sciences,published a chapter, “Ps ychoanalysis: Pa s t ,Present and Fu t u re Contributions to theL a w,” in The Evolution of Mental Health Law.She also published an article, “Ps yc h o a n a l y t i cContributions to Humanizing the Law,” inthe June edition of C l i o’s Ps yche of thePs yc h o h i s t o ry Fo ru m. She spoke in Sa nFrancisco on capacity and the geriatric psyc h i-a t ry patient and on capacity to consent and onmechanical restraints to a Los Angeles chapterof the Alliance of the Mentally Ill. Pro f e s s o rSaks spoke on capacity to consent to t reatment to doctors at Ve rdugo Hi l l sHospital and at a conference co-sponsored by the Office for Human Re s e a rc hProtections and USC. In June, she pre -sented re s e a rch on informed consent top s ychoanalytic re s e a rch to the In t e r n a t i o n a lPs ychoanalytic Association.

Robert M. Saltzman

Ro b e rt Saltzman, associate dean, was namedto a two-year term on the Law SchoolAdmission Council committee on test d e velopment and re s e a rch. The committee is re v i ewing plans for changes in the LSAT,including development of a computerize dversion of the test. Dean Saltzman alsop resented and moderated a plenary paneldiscussion at the annual conference of theNational Association for Law Pl a c e m e n t(NALP), the association of law schools andlegal employers, in Phoenix. The pre s e n t a t i o nfocused on the role law schools and legale m p l oyers should play in setting pro f e s s i o n a lexamples for students.

Dan Simon

Dan Simon, associate professor of law,p resented “Ps ychological Insights into Bush v.Go re: Legal Realism Re f i n e d” at a Law andSociety Association meeting in Bu d a p e s t .

Edwin M. Smith

Edwin Smith, Leon Be n well Professor of Lawand International Relations, delive red thef e a t u red speech, “Peace Operations: Re s -ponding to Conflict in a New Mi l l e n n i u m , ”at the annual meeting of the So u t h e r nCalifornia Division of the United Na t i o n sAssociation of the United States at UCLA’sTom Bradley International Ha l l .

Matthew L. Spitzer

Ma t t h ew Sp i t ze r, Dean and Carl M. Fr a n k l i nProfessor of Law, spoke about law schoolfund-raising at the annual AALS confere n c ein San Fr a n c i s c o. He also spoke about thef u t u re of digital television to the San Di e g oInns of Court .

Nomi M. Stolzenberg

Nomi St o l zenberg, professor of law, wasnamed co-director of USC’s Center for Law,Hi s t o ry and Cu l t u re. She delive red a talktitled “The Return of the Re p ressed: Il l i b e r a lGro u p s” at a symposium on liberals and illiberalism at the Un i versity of San Di e g oSchool of Law. An article based on the talk will be published in the Jo u rnal ofC o n t e m p o ra ry Legal Is s u e s.

Christopher D. Stone

Christopher Stone, J. Thomas McCarthyTrustee Professor of Law, published“A g r i c u l t u re and the En v i ronment: Challengesfor the New Millennium” in the BrazilianEn v i ronmental Law Re v i e w. The article is basedon the keynote address Professor Stone deliv-e red at the fourth International Conference onEn v i ronmental Law.


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Eric L. Ta l l e y

Eric Ta l l e y, professor of law, was a visitingp rofessor of law at Caltech’s Division ofHumanities and Social Sciences during thespring term, teaching a class in corporatefinance. He presented “Trade Se c rets andMutual In ve s t m e n t s” at a law, economics andorganization workshop at Yale Law Schooland at the American Law and Ec o n o m i c sAssociation conference in Ma y. He alsop resented “The Corporate Op p o rt u n i t yDoctrine and Independent Ne g o t i a t i o nC o m m i t t e e s” at the USC Institute forCorporate Counsel; “Fi d u c i a ry Duties andIndustrial De ve l o p m e n t” at the Un i versity ofCalifornia, Davis, Dykstra CorporateGovernance Symposium; and “En d ow m e n tEffects, Other Re g a rding Pre f e rences, andCorporate Law” at Cornell Law School.Professor Talley presented “En d ow m e n tEffects and Corporate Agency Re l a t i o n s h i p s , ”co-written by Professor Arlen and De a nSp i t ze r, at Vanderbilt Law School’s Joe Da v i sC o n f e rence on Law and Business in Ma rc hand at a Un i versity of Cincinnati School ofLaw workshop in April. In June, he coord i-nated the 2001 Conference on Be h a v i o r a lEconomics, Organizations and the Law withf e l l ow CLEO directors Professor Arlen andProfessor Ma c L e o d .

S tacey R. Tu r n e r

Stacey Tu r n e r, Bradway Clinical Te a c h i n gFe l l ow and supervising attorney, Fa m i l yViolence Clinic, testified before the CaliforniaAssembly public safety committee re g a rd i n ghabeas and battered women in prison. Sh ea d vocated passage of SB 799, which wouldpermit battered women convicted of killingtheir batterers before 1992 to apply for a newtrial if expert testimony concerning Ba t t e re dWo m e n’s Sy n d rome was not presented at theirtrial. In 1992, the state legal code was changedto allow such testimony in criminal trials.

Mark I. We i n s t e i n

Ma rk Weinstein, associate professor of financeand business economics and law, pre s e n t e dseminars at Tel Aviv Un i versity and He b rewUn i versity of Je rusalem on his paper “LimitedLiability in California: 1928-1931.”

Charles H. Wh i t e b re a d

Charles W h i t e b read, George T. and Harriet E.Pfleger Professor of Law, delive red his lectureon first-year exam taking techniques to lawstudents at Minnesota, Hamline and Wi l l i a mMitchell. The speeches concluded Pro f e s s o rW h i t e b re a d’s tour of 72 law schools this ye a r.He also delive red a speech on recent Su p re m eC o u rt decisions to Ohio prosecutors inColumbus, to the Criminal Ad vo c a c yProgram in De t roit and to Minnesota judgesin Minneapolis. He filed his final re p o rt withthe State Justice Institute as an outside eva l-uator of the Un i versity of Vi r g i n i a’s graduatep rogram for judges. In April, he spoke to theOrange County Business Trade Lawye r sAssociation in Costa Mesa on recent Su p re m eC o u rt decisions.

New Fa c u l t y

Gillian K. Hadfield

Gillian Hadfield has joined the Law School asa professor of law. Professor Hadfield will beon leave during the 2001-02 year as she isw o rking with the Law and Ec o n o m i c sConsulting Group in Be rk e l e y, but she willattend several USC workshops thro u g h o u tthe ye a r. She is a member of the Center inL a w, Economics and Organization and wasan Olin Fe l l ow in Law and Economics for thespring 2001 semester at the Law School. Sh ewas previously a professor of law at theUn i versity of To ro n t o. Professor Hadfield isthe former president of the Canadian Law andEconomics Association and a member of theInstitute for Policy Analysis board of advisers.She earned a Ph.D. in economics fro mSt a n f o rd Un i versity in 1990, a juris doctorate

f rom St a n f o rd Law School in 1988 and ab a c h e l o r’s degree in economics from Qu e e n’sUn i versity in 1983. Her re s e a rch intere s t sinclude contract theory and law, theories ofconflict and dispute resolution and economicsof legal institutions and organizations. Sh erecently presented a USC faculty work s h o pon the “Allocation of Legal Ef f o rt between theDemocratic and the Economic Functions ofthe Legal System: Evidence from On t a r i o. ”

Linda R. Cohen

Linda Cohen has joined the Law School asp rofessor of social science and law. She alsoholds an appointment as professor ofeconomics at the Un i versity of California,Irvine. She holds a doctorate in social sciencesf rom the California Institute of Te c h n o l o g y.Professor Cohen’s re s e a rch interests lie in theintersection of economics, law and politicale c o n o m y. Her current re s e a rch focuses ong overnment policies for re s e a rch and innova-tion and on the relationship between thejudicial and legislative branches in formu-lating administrative policies. Re c e n tpublications include “Intellectual Pro p e rt y,A n t i t rust and the New Ec o n o m y,” with Ro g e rNoll, in the Un i versity of Pittsburgh LawRe v i e w, spring 2001, and “The Gove r n m e n tLitigant Ad vantage: Implications for theL a w,” with Dean Ma t t h ew Sp i t ze r, in theFlorida State Un i versity Law Re v i e w, 2000.Professor Cohen is a fellow and member ofthe California Council for Science andTechnology and recently served on twoNational Re s e a rch Council committees. Sh eis also a member of the Ad v i s o ry Panel for thePublic In t e rest Energy Re s e a rch Program forthe California Energy Commission.

Visiting Fa c u l t y

Adam Wi n k l e r

Adam Winkler is the 2001 Olin Fe l l ow of theCenter in Law, Economics and Or g a n i z a t i o n .M r. Winkler completed his juris doctorate,

Left to Right: >Eric Ta l l e y

Stacey Tu r n e rMark We i n s t e i n

Charles Whitebread Gillian Hadfield3 4 USCLAW f a l l 2001

with Order of the Coif and Magna Cu mLaude honors, at New Yo rk Un i versity Schoolof Law. He also completed a master’s degre eand is a Ph.D. candidate in political science atthe Un i versity of California, Los Angeles. Hi sd i s s e rtation focuses on the development ofregulations governing corporate invo l ve m e n tin the electoral process. Mr. Winkler haspublished numerous articles on re s e a rch thatcombines corporate law, constitutional lawand political history. Recent publicationsinclude “A Re volution Too Soon: Wo m a nSuffragists and the ‘Living Constitution,’ ” i nthe New Yo rk Un i versity Law Re v i e w ( 2 0 0 0 ) ,and “Vo t e r s’ Rights and Pa rt i e s’ Wro n g s :Political Pa rty Regulation in the State Court s ,1886-1915,” in the Columbia Law Re v i e w(2001). He was a fellow of the Wi l l a rd J.Hurst Legal Hi s t o ry Institute in June 2001and a fellow of the Sloan Program for theStudy of Business in Society in June 2000. Asa lecturer at USC, he will teach a seminar on“Corporations: Public and Pr i va t e . ”

Joint Appointments

The university has re n ewed joint Law Schoolappointments for Ge o f f rey Cowan, pro f e s s o rof communication and law and dean of theAnnenberg School for Communication; W.Bentley MacLeod, professor of economics andlaw; John Rolph, professor of information andoperations management in the Ma r s h a l lSchool of Business; and Ma rk We i n s t e i n ,associate professor of finance and businesseconomics and law. In addition, the follow i n gp rofessors have re c e i ved joint appointmentswith the Law School.

Timur Ku r a n

Timur Kuran, professor of economics andKing Faisal Professor of Islamic Thought andCu l t u re, has been teaching at USC since1982. He re c e i ved tenure in 1988 and serve das chair of the department of economics fro m1994 to 1996. Professor Kuran graduated

f rom Princeton Un i versity in 1977 andearned master’s and doctoral degrees ineconomics from St a n f o rd Un i ve r s i t y. He editsthe book series Economics, Cognition andS o c i e t y published by the Un i versity ofMichigan Press and is the author of Pr i va t eTruths, Public Lies: The Social Consequencesof Pre f e rence Fa l s i f i c a t i o n.

Kevin J. Murphy

Kevin Mu r p h y, professor of finance and busi-ness economics in the Marshall School ofBusiness, is an international expert in exe c u-t i ve compensation and incentives inorganizations. He holds a bachelor’s degre ef rom the Un i versity of California, Los Angeles,and master’s and doctoral degrees from theUn i versity of Chicago. His re s e a rch intere s t sa re corporate finance, exe c u t i ve compensa-tion, human re s o u rce management andvalue-based management. He is the associateeditor of the Jo u rnal of Financial Ec o n o m i c s,the Jo u rnal of Accounting Ec o n o m i c s and theJo u rnal of Corporate Fi n a n c e.

Hilary M. Sch o r

Hi l a ry Schor, professor of English and genderstudies, is the director of the USC Center forFeminist Re s e a rch and chair of the Collegeof Letters, Arts and Science’s gender studiesp rogram. She also has been named co-dire c t o rof USC’s Center for Law, Hi s t o ry and Cu l t u re(CLHC). Professor Schor is a specialist inVictorian literature, feminist theory and lawand literature. Professor Schor re c e i ved herdoctorate from St a n f o rd Un i versity andreturned to St a n f o rd in 1994 as a St a n f o rdHumanities Center Fe l l ow. She is the authorof Dickens and the Daughter of the House: A Study of Women, Pro p e rty and Na r ration in Dickins’s Fi c t i o n, and S c h e h e rezade in the Ma rketplace: Elizabeth Gaskell and theVictorian Nove l. She re c e i ved a 2001-02 Jo h nSimon Guggenheim Memorial Fe l l owship for her new book on women, curiosity and re a l i s m .


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< Left to Right: Linda CohenAdam Wi n k l e rTimur Ku r a nKevin MurphyHilary Sch o r

m i l e s t o n e sDean Scott Altman and his wife, Laura Fr y’92, welcomed the birth of their second child, Rachel Marie, on March 30. Their son,Benjamin, is 6. P rofessor Dan Klerman a n dhis wife, Lisa von der Mehden, announcedthe birth of their first child, Jerry Joshua, onMay 18. Grace Lester Talley was born Aug.8 to P rofessor Eric Ta l l e y and his wife, GillianLe s t e r. Grace is their first child. P ro f e s s o rEmeritus Carl Fr a n k l i n celebrated his 90 t hbirthday in February (see story on Page 21).

Los Angeles Ti m e s ( May 13, 2001): In thefirst ruling of its kind in California, an appel-late court decided that a father’s obligationto pay child support ends when his pare n t a lrights are terminated. “It is obviously new in California, but it is an issue that has been addressed in other states and has had asimilar outcome,” noted Associate Dean Scott Altman. “It’s not a shocking kind of decision.”

Los Angeles Ti m e s ( Ma rch 11, 2001): W h e nthe Cy p ress (Calif.) Police De p a rtment begancrafting a plan to study whether its officerspractice racial profiling of motorists, Pro f e s s o rJody Arm o u r called it a good first step. “If I’man officer and know that someone is keepingtrack of me,” he said, “I may be more care f u lto avoid racially discriminatory stops.”

Los Angeles Ti m e s (Jan. 10, 2001): Pro f e s s o rMichael Bre n n a n discussed the conviction offour men found guilty of murdering anAnaheim woman — even though pro s e c u t o r sdid not know who pulled the trigger. “Lawsp rovide authorities with wide leeway to pro s-ecute suspects in gang-related shootings,” saidProfessor Brennan. “Especially if they canp rove the suspects we re acting as part of alarger gro u p. ”

U.S. News & World Re p o rt (July 9, 2001):As the Food and Drug Ad m i n i s t r a t i o ncracked down on a religious sect’s efforts to

clone a human baby, Professor A l e x a n d e rCa p ro n questioned the FDA’s authority. “T h eauthority that they’re asserting is somethingt h e y’ve never asserted in the fertility fieldb e f o re,” he said, noting that the FDA ischarged with regulating safety concerns only;if scientists can prove human cloning safe, theFDA would not have the legal authority tostop the pro c e s s .

Wall St reet Jo u rnal ( April 18, 2001): W h e np romoters of the film “The Te nC o m m a n d m e n t s” installed 6-foot-tall stonetablets inscribed with the religious laws inpublic spaces around the country, Pro f e s s o rErwin Chemerinsky p rovided legal analysis.“The question is,” said Pro f e s s o rC h e m e r i n s k y, “To a reasonable person, doesthis convey a religious message?”

Los Angeles Ti m e s ( Ma rch 22, 2001): In theheat of the L.A. mayoral primary, Pro f e s s o rSusan Estrich discussed candidates’ campaignstrategies. “The challenge is to define a re a s o nthe city needs you at a time when it’s not clearwhat it does need, or rather who,” saidProfessor Estrich. “So what you hear aboutis, ‘Who do you like?’ not, ‘Who do we need?’”

San Francisco Chronicle ( Ma rch 22, 2001):The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Ap p e a l sopened the door to immigrant battere dwomen and children seeking asylum when it

p rohibited immigration officials fro md e p o rting a Mexican girl who fled her countryand a lifetime of abuse from her father.Professor Niels Fre n ze n, one of the girl’sl a w yers, said the ruling sent a strong messageto governments that don’t protect domesticviolence victims. “President [Vicente] Fox [ofMexico] should be embarrassed by this,” hesaid. Noting that treatment of domesticviolence is far from perfect in the Un i t e dStates, Professor Fre n zen was hopeful that thecase might “raise the profile of domesticviolence in Me x i c o. ”

The Salt Lake Tr i b u n e (July 23, 2000):When police confiscated 3,500 hallucino-genic peyote buttons from a medicine man inthe Na t i ve American Church (NAC) inBenjamin, Utah, questions arose over whetherthe peyote should be destroyed, returned tothe medicine man or turned over to othermembers of the NAC who claimed the medi-cine man was an imposter. The squabblehighlighted the difficulty police face in inter-p reting what use of peyote is “re l i g i o u s”enough to enjoy constitutional protection. “Iforiginality or purity is the test” of a re l i g i o n’sva l i d i t y, said Professor Ronald Ga re t, “m a n yreligions will fail. Once a court is asked toadjudicate … it’s put into a position where itmight run afoul of the First Amendment.”

Minnesota Public Ra d i o, “Ma rk e t p l a c e”( Aug. 22, 2000): A California Su p reme Court

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In The News

A sampling of recent news articles and broadcastsfeaturing the expertise and insight of

USC Law School professors

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decision upholding prenuptial agre e m e n t s ,e ven when just one party has a lawyer and thea g reement waives spousal support, raisedconcern with Professor Ariela Gro s s, who sawthe case as part of a dismal national tre n d .“What I see is a return to a ve ry formalisticv i ew of contract law that isn’t so interested ininquiring into the actual, realistic circ u m-stances of how people enter into contracts andwhat their intentions are . ”

Los Angeles Ti m e s ( May 4, 2001): W h e npolice raided the home of an Orange Countybusinessman who persistently refused to payt a xes under the claim that the law does notapply a tax on personal wages, Pro f e s s o rThomas Gr i f f i t h helped set the re c o rdstraight. “Businesses clearly have an obliga-tion to withhold taxes,” he said. “If [thebusinessman] ends up in court, it’s clear-cut.He’d lose.” Professor Griffith was interv i ewe dby Fox News Channel on the same subject.

New Yo rk Ti m e s ( Fe b. 22, 2001): As moreand more people seek legal advice and serv i c e sonline, the legal profession is facing a funda-mental change, noted Professor Gi l l i a nHa d f i e l d. “The source of value and mark e tp ower is the difference between what lawye r sk n ow and what consumers know,” she said.“Anything that makes consumers feel thatthey know more will reduce the demand forlegal serv i c e s . ”

Ha’ a re t z ( Aug. 30, 2000): Professor E h u dKa m a r contemplated reasons for a rash ofrecent Israeli business registrations inDe l a w a re. “If the question is either De l a w a reor another state in the U.S., I supposeDe l a w a re has the advantage, especially if acompany is about to go public,” he toldIs r a e l’s most prominent new s p a p e r. “On ething is certain — American investors, whoa re ve ry familiar with the laws of De l a w a re ,see registration there as more adva n t a g e o u sthan the registration of a company in Is r a e l . ”

Chicago Tr i b u n e ( April 21, 2001): The Wi n dDone Go n e, a parody of Gone With the Wi n d,d rew national attention when a federal judgeb a r red its publication, saying the book consti-tuted unabated piracy of the original text.“The Su p reme Court allows for paro d i e swhich make fun of original works anda d vance the culture,” Professor Dan Klerm a nexplained. “But the court said there must be ave ry factual inquiry. You have to ask, ‘Did thep a rody take too much of the original?’” Anappeals court didn’t think so, and the ban waslifted in Ma y.

Los Angeles Ti m e s (July 16, 2001): Inblocking a deve l o p e r’s plan to gate theentrance of a luxury residential deve l o p m e n t ,county officials said they we re protecting therights of people who used the private road toaccess hiking trails. Although state law award s“p re s c r i p t i ve rights” to people who use a pro p-e rty for several years without the ow n e r’sconsent, Professor George Lefcoe said thecounty can’t pre vent private owners fro mrestricting access to a private road simplybecause the county wants the road to re m a i nopen. “The county is way exceeding its juris-diction,” he said. “What they are doing isp u r p o rting to re c o g n i ze a nonexistent claim.It’s a claim nobody has asserted. For them tosuggest they have an obligation to honor theserights is absurd . ”

LA We e k l y (Jan. 22, 2001): A board gamedesigned to encourage children to re veal inci-dents of molestation and sexual abuse couldfoster false memories and damage a child’sc redibility in court, according to Pro f e s s o rThomas Lyo n. “It is easy to imagine that af a m i l y - c o u rt judge would look ve ry skepti-cally on allegations if it was found out that thechild was playing the game,” he said. “Itc reates this appearance of suggestion.”

New Yo rk Ti m e s (July 16, 2000): It’s no coin-cidence that the push to abolish the estate tax

came at a time when wealthy people areplaying a larger-than-ever role in politicalcampaigns, said Professor Ed w a rd McCa f f e ry.The mere threat of a repeal of the tax is goodfor both Republicans and Democrats because“it keeps the campaign contributions comingin,” he noted. “You don’t need a lot of peoplewho care about this issue, because the peoplewho care about it have a lot of money.”

Associated Pre s s ( April 17, 2001): Convictedat age 16 of killing two people in a 1979 Sa nDiego school shooting, Brenda Spencer losther parole bid this spring but offered newinsight into her case during the paro l ehearing. For the first time, Ms. Spencer linkedher violent behavior to abuse she suffered athome. “In all of these school shootings, wec o l l e c t i vely ask, ‘What could have caused ourc h i l d ren to behave this way?” said Pro f e s s o rDenise Meye r, who, with students fro mU S C ’s Post Conviction Justice Project, re p re-sented Ms. Spencer at the hearing. “She toldus why — a terrifyingly abusive home life.”

Christian Science Monitor ( April 16, 2001):Professor Noel Ragsdale explained that whilethe law offers some protection for employe e s ,e m p l oyers have a lot of leeway in firingpeople. “If yo u’re an at-will [employee], thequestion is not whether the employer had agood reason, it’s whether they had an illegalreason,” she said. “The reason can be thatyo u’re Aries, and the manager doesn’t likeAries. It might be a crazy reason — but itw o n’t be because of being Asian or female.”

A B C ’s “Good Mo rning Am e r i c a” (Jan. 11,2001): Si x - year-old Molly Nash, born witha rare form of anemia, re c e i ved a life-savingblood transplant last fall from her infantb ro t h e r, Adam — a child conceived in a testtube by Mo l l y’s parents in an effort to savetheir daughter’s life. “It looks like they we reusing the child as a medicine cabinet,”Professor Michael Sh a p i ro c o m m e n t e d ,


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though he felt that the effort was acceptableunder the circ u m s t a n c e s .

Las Vegas Re v i e w - Jo u rn a l (June 12, 2001):Professor W. David Sl a w s o n commented ona government investigation into Ha r r a h’sEn t e rt a i n m e n t’s pending acquisition ofHa rveys Casino Re s o rts. The Federal Tr a d eC o m m i s s i o n’s job in such a case, Pro f e s s o rSlawson said, is to determine whether the twofirms operate in the same “p roduct mark e t”— casino gaming — and the same geographicm a rk e t .

Los Angeles Times (Jan. 23, 2001): T h e re’sa reason for the extensive delays in the effortto extradite a fugitive Orange County doctorf rom Argentina for alleged crimes in connec-tion with the 1994 Un i versity of California,Irvine, fertility clinic scandal, Professor Ed w i nSm i t h explained. “Fraud is complicated top rove, and prosecutors will have to prove

fraud under Argentine law and under U.S.l a w,” he said. “What looks like a simple viola-tion of law to us doesn’t look so easy whenasking another country to enforce our laws.”

Los Angeles Ti m e s ( April 29, 2001): Pro f e s s o rChristopher St o n e questioned the judgmentof environmental groups that are negotiatingaway their right to protest in exchange forconcessions with land developers. “Yo u’ve gotorganizations — the ve ry purpose of whichis to monitor and speak out — and they agre enot to engage in the ve ry function for whichthey have been established and for which theya re being financed by people who makevo l u n t a ry contributions,” he said. “It re a l l ysounds bad.”

The Los Angeles Daily Jo u rnal (June 12,2001): In a story about USC’s new Fa m i l yViolence Clinic, Clinical Fe l l ow St a c eyTu rner described how students are part i c u-

larly suited to work with domestic violencevictims: “[Students] have so much energy,they lack cynicism and they really spend timewith a client,” she said. “Students don’t knowtheir limitations, so they can come up withm o re cre a t i ve options. They teach victimsh ow to be advocates for themselve s . ”

Wall St reet Jo u rn a l ( April 12, 2001): T h erise in litigation over employee stock optionsis not likely to fade with the dot.com age thathelped spark the trend. Said Professor Er i cTa l l ey: “T h e re’s a consensus among legalacademics that this is becoming a re a l l yi m p o rtant part of employment law.” Pro f e s s o rTalley was also a source for a Sept. 27, 2000,Jo u rn a l a rticle on the subject: Disputes ove rstock options have opened up the “litigationfloodgates in the last year and a half,” he said.“The stakes in these disputes are big — bigenough to fight ove r. ”


”“Election E x c e r p t s

We accept the ca s e s we don’t like because we believe the process overall is a desirable one.

Pr o fessor Erwin Chemerinsky in a story about the Supreme Court’s role in the election andthe historical relationship between the public and the court (Los Angeles Ti m e s, Dec. 17).Pr o fessor Chemerinsky was the second-most frequently cited law professor by the nation’smedia during the election saga, according to Legal Ti m e s.

Pr o fessor Mary Dudziak speculating on the magnitude of the Supreme Court’s involvementin the 2000 presidential election (P o rtland Press Herald, Dec. 12).

If the court really inserts itself into this process, as it seems to be doing, it could have a long-term

impact in the way the court is perceived and the way the judiciary as a whole is perceived.

I’ve been trying for years to get people to realize that when you vote for president, you’re voting for the

Supreme Court. … I think the Supreme Court has done my job for me on this one.

Pr o fessor Susan Estrich, discussing whether political partisanship played a part in the SupremeCourt’s election ruling (“The Edge With Paula Zahn,” Dec. 15).


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Workshops Spring and Summer 2001> Faculty

Jennifer Arlen and Bentley MacLeod

Professors of law, US C

“An Economic Analysis of Medical Malpractice”

Jennifer Gerarda Brown

D i r e c t o r, Quinnipiac Center of Dispute Resolution

“ U n p a cking Unit Cohesion: An Inclusive Co m m a n d ”

Catherine Fisk

Professor of law, Loyola Law Sch o o l

“ Working Knowledge: Ownership of Intellectual

P r o p e rty in the 19 t h -Century Employment Relation”

R i chard Fo r d

Professor of law, Stanford University

“A Reluctant Critique of Legal Identity Politics”

Gillian Hadfield

Professor of law, US C

“ The Allocation of Legal Effort Be tween the

Democratic and the Economic Functions of the

Legal System: Evidence from Ontario”

Greg Ke a t i n g


“Irreparable Injury and Fair Precaution”

Julie Stone Pe t e r s

Professor of English, Columbia University

“‘Literature,’ the ‘Rights of Man,’ and the Narratives

of Law: Historical Ba ckgrounds to the Culture

of Te s t i m o n y ”

> Center in Law, Economics and O rganization (CLE O )

Ian Ay r e s

Professor of law, Yale University

“Dilution Mechanism for Valuing Corporations in

Bankruptcy”

Bernard Black

Professor of law, Stanford University

“ Does Corporate Governance Matter? A Crude Te s t

Using Russian Data”

Steven Croley

Professor of administrative law, UC Be r k e l e y

“ White House Review of Agency Rulemaking”

Merritt Fox *

Professor of law, University of Michigan

“Civil Liability and Mandatory Disclosure”

* e xtended-stay visitors

Paul Milgrom*

Professor of economics, Stanford University

“Putting Auction Theory to Work: Ascending

Auctions with Package Bidding”

Uriel Procaccia*

Visiting professor of law, Columbia University

“ The Constitution and the Endowment Effect”

Margaret Slade

Professor of economics, University of British

Co l u m b i a

“Mergers, Brand Competition, and the Price of a Pint”

Lars Stole

Professor of economics, Chicago Business Sch o o l

“Monetizing Social Exch a n g e ”

Joel Wa t s o n

Professor of economic theory, UC San Diego

“ The Law and Economics of Costly Contracting

and Recontracting”

Simon Wi l k i e

Assistant professor of economics, Caltech

“ Coasian Transfers: A Study of Games Wi t h

Endogenous Side Payments”

Muhamet Yildiz

Associate professor of economics, Stanford

U n i v e r s i t y

“ Bargaining Over Risky Assets”

C LEO/Applied Micro e c o n o m i c s

Jennifer Arlen


“ To rts and Authority: An Economic Analysis of

Medical Malpractice Liability”

Dan Bernhardt

Professor of economics, University of Illinois

“Analyst Compensation and Forecasts: Th e o r y, Te s t s ,

and Evidence”

Eric Ta l l e y


“ Trade Secrets and Mutual Investments”

C LEO Summer Workshop Series

Edward McCaffery


“Is There a Gender Gap in Fiscal Political

P r e f e r e n c e s ? ”

Kevin Murphy

Professor of finance and economics, US C

“Discretion in Executive Incentive Contracts Th e o r y

and Evidence”

Gideon Parch o m o v s k y *

Professor of law, Fordham University

“ G i v i n g s ”

Eric Ta l l e y


“A Defense of Shareholder Favoritism”

Andrew J. Wi s t r i ch

Magistrate Judge

U.S. District Co u rt for the Central District

of California

“Judicial Susceptibility to Cognitive Illusions”

Jan Zàbojnìk

Professor of finance and business economics, US C

“Entry Deterrence vs. Bu yout in a Dynamic Model:

An Investigation of a Merger Mystery”

> Center for Law, History and Culture ( C LH C )

Hendrik Hartog

Professor of history and law, Princeton University

“Man & Wife in America: A History”

> Pacific Center

Miriam P. Cotler

Chair of Health Sciences, Cal State Nort h r i d g e

“ Conflicting Roles for Health Professionals Protecting

Patients’ Rights During Investigations”

M i chael R. Cousineau

Professor of clinical public administration, US C

“Effectiveness of Independent Health Co n s u m e r

Se rvices in a Legal Se rvices Environment”

> Center for Communications Law andPolicy (CC LP )

M i chael Gerhardt*

Professor of law, College of William & Mary

“ Translating Theory into Practice: The Norms of

Constitutional Argumentation”

Sandra MacPherson*

Professor of English, University of Chicago

“ Sex Accidents On Pornography and

Products Liability”

Christopher S. Yo o *

Assistant professor of law, Vanderbilt University

“ Ve rtical Restraint Theory as a Basis for

Media Regulation”

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USC Pacific Center honors “A m e r i ca’s Wellness Doctor”

Dr. Arthur Ulene was awarded the 2000Genesis Aw a rd for Ethics in He a l t h c a reCommunication this spring by the co-dire c-tors of USC’s Pacific Center for Health Po l i c yand Ethics, Dr. David Goldstein, chief ofgeneral internal medicine at the Keck Schoolof Medicine, and Alexander Capro n ,Un i versity Professor of Law and Medicine.

K n own as “A m e r i c a’s Wellness Do c t o r”during two decades of regular guest appear-ances on NBC’s “To d a y” show, Dr. Ulene wash o n o red for his cre a t i ve leadership in usingthe media to educate the public about healthissues. A clinical professor at the Keck Schooland a board - c e rtified obstetrician and gyne-cologist, Dr. Ulene has produced more than50 books, videos and audio programs onnutrition, medicine and wellness during thepast 20 ye a r s .

The Pacific Center created the Ge n e s i sAw a rd in 1993 to honor individuals who havea d vanced the center’s goals of pro m o t i n geducation, legislation and interd i s c i p l i n a rycollaboration in re s e a rch and teaching aboutthe ethical and legal aspects of health care andbiomedical re s e a rc h .

Pacific Center conference studieshuman subjects pro t e c t i o n s

The Pacific Center teamed with USC’sschools of social work, law and medicine, aswell as state and federal officials, to pre s e n t“ Informed Consent, Cultural Values andRe g u l a t o ry Ove rv i ew: A Closer Look atBehavioral Issues in Biomedical and So c i a lScience Re s e a rch,” a two-day summer confer-ence that trained medical practitioners onchanging laws protecting human subjects inmedical re s e a rc h .

The conference included speakers from arange of disciplines and USC depart m e n t s ,including the Law School. Professor Capro ns e rved on the confere n c e’s planningcommittee and introduced a session on

“ Ethical, Legal and Social Implications ofHuman Genome Re s a rch.” Law Pro f e s s o rThomas Lyon discussed re s e a rch with chil-d ren; Professor Elyn Saks pre s e n t e d“ Obtaining Consent from Subjects withDiminished Capacity” and served on a paneldiscussing “How to Collect Data Se n s i t i ve l yand Et h i c a l l y.” The conference was designedto help nurses, physicians, psychologists, soci-ologists, social workers and other re s e a rc h e r slearn to successfully navigate laws gove r n i n gthe use of human re s e a rch subjects and to better understand ethical issues re g a rd i n gsuch re s e a rc h .

Former White House legal staffers offerinside view of ‘the real West Wi n g ’

Former deputy White House CounselWilliam Marshall and former Counsel to theVice President Lisa Brown gave students ani n s i d e r’s look at the workings of the W h i t eHouse during “Life in the Real West Wi n g :Media, Law and the White House,” pre s e n t e din April by the Center for CommunicationsLaw and Po l i c y.

“The real power of the media is not itsability to tell the public which way to believeon a certain issue,” said Mr. Marshall, aformer Clinton administration staffer andc u r rent professor at the Un i versity of No rt hC a rolina, Chapel Hill. “It’s the power to setthe agenda. The media will call and ask,‘What is your position on X, Y and Z?’ Ou rjob is to make it look like the White Ho u s eis on top of things. Eve rything else gets setaside. T h e re is a constant battle to not let themedia dictate policy. ”

Ms. Brown, who worked at the W h i t eHouse during President Clinton’s impeach-ment trial, said her position as counsel to thevice president often pitted her lawye r l yinstincts against demands of timeliness.“T h e re’s a tension between needing torespond quickly to the media and doing whata lawyer would do: slow down and look care-fully at what’s going on.” Still, Ms. Brow n


Top: Dr. Art Ulene, center, holds his 2000Genesis Award. He is flanked by Pa c i f i cCenter co-directors Dr. David Goldstein(left) and Pr o fessor Alex Capron. Center:CLEO’s Conference on BehavioralEconomics, Law and Organization drew alarge crowd of scholars. Bottom: GailPesyna, of the Sloan Foundation, andCharlie Munger listen to a presentation atthe CLEO confe r e n c e .

added, despite the distractions of mediademands and the difficulties faced by W h i t eHouse counsel during the impeachmentp rocess, “most of us just kept doing our jobs.We believed deeply in what that administra-tion hoped to accomplish.”

Law and economics conference draws a diverse, scholarly cro w d

The Center in Law, Economics andOrganization (CLEO) teamed with theCalifornia Institute of Technology in June tohost the first Conference on Be h a v i o r a lEconomics, Organizations and Law. T h ec o n f e rence drew more than 50 scholars fro ma round the country. Or g a n i zed by CLEO’sd i rectors — Jennifer Arlen and Eric Ta l l e y,p rofessors of law at USC; Colin Camere r,p rofessor of economics at Caltech; andBentley MacLeod, professor of economics andlaw at USC — the June conference was spon-s o red in part by the Alfred P. Sl o a nFoundation, which provided a $30,000 grant.

Speakers included Simon Gächter of theUn i versity of St. Gallen, Sw i t zerland, whop resented “In c e n t i ve Contracts andVo l u n t a ry Cooperation”; Professor Camere r,who presented “An Experimental Ap p roach toCultural Conflict”; Professor Ta l l e y, whop resented “En d owment Effects Wi t h i nCorporate Agency Re l a t i o n s h i p s”; Se n d h i lMullainathan of the Massachusetts In s t i t u t eof Te c h n o l o g y, who presented “En j oying theQuiet Life? Managerial Behavior Fo l l ow i n gA n t i - Ta k e over Legislation”; Do n a l dL a n g e vo o rt of Ge o r g e t own Law School, whop resented “Monitoring: The Law andPs ychology of Compliance”; Peter Huang ofthe Un i versity of Pe n n s y l vania Law School,who presented “Emotions and Se c u r i t i e sRegulation: Beliefs, Fears and Feelings ofGuilt in Securities In ve s t i n g”; ProfessorMacLeod, who presented “On the Ec o n o m i c sof Su b j e c t i ve Eva l u a t i o n”; George Loewe n s t e i n ,of Carnegie Mellon Un i ve r s i t y, who pre s e n t e d“Incorrect Intuitive Ps ychological T h e o r i e s

and Their Consequences for Regulating On e’s Own and Ot h e r s’ Be h a v i o r”; andBenjamin E. Hermalin, of the Un i versity ofCalifornia, Be rk e l e y, who presented “T h eEffect of Affect on Economic and St r a t e g i cDecision Ma k i n g . ”

Summer workshop series attracts c ro s s - campus intere s t

A new summer workshop series sponsored byCLEO is providing a unique opportunity forfaculty from across campus to hear interd i s-c i p l i n a ry presentations on subjects rangingf rom psychology and economics to interna-tional relations and law. This summer,p rofessors from the Marshall School ofBusiness, the economics department and theLaw School, as well as a federal court judge,o f f e red presentations on male and femalepolitical pre f e rences, corporate share h o l d e rf a voritism, judicial decision making andcontract incentives for business exe c u t i ves (seePage 39 for a complete list). USC is one of fewmajor U.S. law schools to implement asuccessful summer academic work s h o p.

C LEO to post scholarly papers online

CLEO has launched a working-paper serieson the Economics Re s e a rch Ne t w o rk’sre s e a rch institute list.

The economics network is a section of the Social Science Re s e a rch Ne t w o rk( w w w.ssrn.com), which posts academicpapers online to promote the dissemination of frontline re s e a rch in social science fields.CLEO is among a small number of leadingre s e a rch institutes that support a work i n g -paper series on the Economics Re s e a rc hNe t w o rk .

The new series enables CLEO-affiliatedscholars, as well as Law School faculty, to sharetheir re s e a rch with colleagues around theworld. Submissions for the CLEO series willbe accepted from USC faculty of all disci-plines whose re s e a rch pertains to law andeconomics. Professor Bentley MacLeod will

accept and re v i ew submissions and managethe online content of the series. Papers will also be posted on CLEO’s Web site( h t t p : / / l a w we b. u s c . e d u / c l e o ) .

CLEO manages two additional Law Schoolw o rking-paper series on the Legal ScholarshipNe t w o rk, another section of SSRN. One seriesfocuses on law and economics, and the otherfocuses on jurisprudence and public policy. AllLaw School faculty are invited to submit papersto these series. Professor Eric Talley managess u b m i s s i o n s .

New re s e a rch center studies the law’s place in history and culture

A growing cadre of legal historians andtheorists at the Law School have part n e re dwith colleagues across campus to create theCenter for Law, Hi s t o ry and Cu l t u re (CLHC).

The new re s e a rch center will generate ands u p p o rt re s e a rch on law from a historical andcultural perspective; legal history, law, litera-t u re and cultural analysis are among the fieldsb rought together by CLHC. USC LawProfessor Nomi St o l zenberg is co-director ofthe new center, along with Hi l a ry Schor, ap rofessor of English and gender studies atU S C ’s College of Letters, Arts and Sciences.Professor Schor also holds a joint appoint-ment at the Law School (see Page 35).

CLHC sponsored a workshop at the LawSchool last year (see Page 39 for listing), andit is planning a full slate of activities for thisye a r. Se veral Law School faculty serve on the center’s steering committee, includingp rofessors Ma ry Dudziak, Ariela Gross andDaniel Klerman.


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c e r tain issue. It’s the power to set the agenda.— WILLIAM MARSHALL, FORMER WHITE HOUSE COUNSEL,

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Employer Legal Advice Clinic continues service to nonpro f i t s

As the Em p l oyer Legal Advice Clinic shifts itsfocus to nonprofit organizations, it is fillinga critical need in the Los Angeles nonpro f i tc o m m u n i t y, according to John Kotick ’72,e xe c u t i ve director of the Center for He a l t hC a re Rights and a recent client of the clinic.

The Center for Health Care Rightsp rovides educational, outreach, counselingand re s e a rch services to people who re c e i veMe d i c a re benefits. The center employs 25people and has a staff of 35 volunteers whooffer counseling to Me d i c a re beneficiariest h roughout Los Angeles County.

After joining the agency last ye a r, Mr.Kotick determined that the center needed anupdated employee manual to ensure compli-ance with new labor laws. He sought advicef rom Matrix, an agency that provides infra-s t ru c t u re development services to nonpro f i torganizations in California. Matrix pro m p t l ysent him to Professor Noel Ragsdale andU S C ’s Em p l oyer Legal Advice Clinic.

Professor Ragsdale and clinical studentCarlos Banuelos ’01 met with Mr. Kotick andhis staff to assess the center’s needs and, afterre s e a rching labor laws and rewriting employe epolicies, created a “brand new, up-to-datee m p l oyee manual” for the center.

“I can’t overstate the difficulty nonpro f i t sh a ve in maintaining personnel systems,” Mr.Kotick said. “We don’t have extra funding toh i re outside counsel. To have someone whois willing to do the re s e a rch, do the writing,and produce a manual that is up to date isreally an incredible service. It saved us anenormous amount of staff time.”

Professor Ragsdale said Matrix has re f e r re ds e veral organizations to the clinic, wherestudents have been able to provide a widerange of services, including assistance inrevising employee manuals, drafting jobdescriptions and contracts, and deve l o p i n ga p p ropriate classifications for employe e s ,contractors and consultants.

Family Violence Clinic expands client services, legislative advoca c y

The Law School’s new Family Violence clinicis rapidly expanding its size and scope of serv-ices. During the summer, two students —Sh e i va Taban ’03 and Poppy Durant ’03,recipients of the Si d l e y, Austin, Brown andWood fellowships in family violence —assisted clinic director Stacey Turner in inter-v i ewing, counseling and re p resenting clients,re s e a rching legal issues related to child custodyand visitation, developing educational mate-rials for family law agencies and clients, andtraining domestic violence victim advo c a t e sand counselors on pertinent legal issues.

Ad vocacy is taking a more prominent ro l ein the clinic’s efforts, Ms. Turner said. T h eclinic participated in legislative and policymeetings at the California Alliance AgainstDomestic Violence and the Los AngelesDomestic Violence Council; Ms. Durant willattend a California Alliance conference thisfall to re p o rt on the clinic’s re s e a rch and toassist in developing and drafting pro p o s e dlegislation. Students also submitted formalcomments on proposed changes to the ru l e sof court and legal forms relating to family lawand domestic violence.

From its launch in Ja n u a ry to the end ofthe summer, the clinic assisted more than 50clients, providing direct re p resentation to 12clients and working with the Law School’sImmigration Clinic to complete two clients’applications for legal residency status underthe Violence Against Women Act (VAWA ) .Ms. Turner noted one particularly challengingcase last spring: Rachel Miller ’01 linked aclient to medical and counseling serv i c e s ,p a rticipated in negotiations to have criminalcharges against the client dropped (the chargeswe re in connection to a false re p o rt filed bythe client’s abuser), obtained a re s t r a i n i n go rder against the abuser, and assisted the clientin obtaining counsel for filing a VAWA appli-cation. Few legal service providers offer such ab readth of services, said Ms. Tu r n e r.


Left to Right: >Noel RagsdaleStacey Tu r n e rNiels Fr e n z e n

M i chael Brennan

Clinical supervising attorneys:

Noel Ragsdale (Employer Legal Advice);

Stacey Turner (Family Vi o l e n c e ) ;

Niels Frenzen (Immigration);

M i chael Brennan, Carrie Hempel, Denise Meyer

( Po s t -Conviction Justice Pr o j e c t ) ;

Lee Campbell (Children’s Issues)

Immigration clinic logs first wins, builds new partnerships

U S C ’s new Immigration Clinic capped itsfirst academic semester last spring with twovictories in asylum cases. Ha zel Kim ’02helped a Middle-Eastern nuclear physicistsuccessfully argue that because of his disagre e-ments with his gove r n m e n t’s nuclear policies,his life would be in danger if he returned tohis native country. Pablo Palomino ’02 helpeds e c u re asylum for an activist from Ba n g l a d e s hwho had been beaten and tort u red for hispolitical activities.

During the summer, Si d l e y, Austin, Brow nand Wood Fe l l ows Rooha Asifuddin ’03 andBrian Recor ’03 continued the clinic’s workwith clients from several countries, includingCambodia, Russia, Kenya, Ethiopia andMe x i c o. In addition, they assisted Ni e l sFre n zen, clinical assistant professor andd i rector of the Immigration Clinic, in initi-ating community partnerships to expand thec l i n i c’s referral base and enhance its ability tos e rve immigrants.

T h rough a partnership with the CoalitionAgainst Sl a ve ry and Trafficking (CAST), theclinic is beginning to accept referrals and assistin investigating residency options for immi-grants who have been held in invo l u n t a rys e rvitude in the United States. Im m i g r a n t sheld as material witnesses in cases invo l v i n gs l a ve ry and human trafficking, for instance,may be able to re g u l a r i ze their immigrationstatus under new laws; others may haveg rounds to seek political asylum. The clinicis also working with the Program for To rt u reVictims (PTV), which provides medical andp s ychological care for victims of tort u re. PTVwill refer immigrant clients for assistance inseeking asylum or other relief under immi-gration laws, said Professor Fre n zen.

Po s t -Conviction Justice Project wins another long-fought battle

Post-Conviction Justice Project client RhondaDyas was ord e red released from prison thissummer after a judge ove rturned her murd e rcase based on evidence that the shackles shewas forced to wear in court pre vented herf rom receiving a fair trial.

Ms. Dyas was convicted in 1991 of aidingin a ro b b e ry that resulted in a murd e rcommitted by her codefendant. Ms. Dyas wasf o rced to wear leg shackles during herR i verside County trial, despite the fact thatshe had no prior re c o rd of violence and wasnot an escape risk, according to Stacey Tu r n e r,a supervising attorney on the case.

“ It’s ve ry unusual for a defendant to beshackled in the court room during trial,” saidProfessor Denise Me ye r, also a superv i s i n gattorney for Ms. Dyas. “Defendants typicallywear street clothes and are guarded by plain-clothed police officers. Like wearing a prisonuniform at trial, shackles convey subtlemessages to the jury that the court thinks thisperson is dangerous. In a murder trial, thatimplies that the accused can’t be trusted ands h o u l d n’t be presumed innocent.”

Ms. Dyas’s attorney in the murder trialobjected to the shackles, but the judge ove r-ruled, believing that the jury probably couldnot see them. But, over the course of seve r a lyears, PCJP students located and interv i ewe dj u rors who confirmed they had seen Ms. Dyasin shackles during trial. Students brought thatevidence to an evidentiary hearing in Ma y2000; Brandy Davis ’01 and Ryan Wi l l i a m s’01 examined witnesses and delive red openingand closing arguments, convincing Ma g i s t r a t eJudge Je f f rey Johnson that Ms. Dyas had beendenied due process and a fair trial.

After complimenting the students on their“o u t s t a n d i n g” re p resentation of Ms. Dyas, thejudge recommended that her conviction beove rturned. U.S. District Court Judge Ha r ryL. Hupp ord e red her release in June 2001, butthat decision was being appealed at press time.

C h i l d ren’s Issues Clinic assists with Adoption Day

The Childre n’s Issues Clinic participated inAdoption Day this spring, in addition tocontinuing work on a range of cases invo l v i n gc h i l d ren and caretakers in civil actions.

The clinic participates in two Ad o p t i o nDay events each ye a r, helping families finalizeadoptions in a marathon event held at the LosAngeles Dependency Court. This spring,students helped finalize 25 adoptions. (Se erelated story on Page 8.)

The clinic also accepted numerous addi-tional case referrals from Public Counsel, thepublic interest branch of the Los Angeles andBe verly Hills bar associations. The clinichandled cases involving enforcement ofs c h o o l s’ obligation to provide special educa-tion for children with disabilities andp rovided legal services to homeless children inurban schools. Professor Lee Campbell, super-vising attorney for the clinic, has noted arecent increase in cases involving the enforc e-ment of school discipline rules. Sh e’s alsonoticed a decrease in the number of casesw h e re the clinic is asked to set up prov i s i o n a lg u a rdianships for children whose pare n t ssuffer from AIDS, likely due to improve dt reatments and extended life expectancies forAIDS victims.


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Children’s Issues Clinic participant Leslie Howell ’01, secondfrom right, assisted the Sandoval family (from left, Ralph,Johnny Perez and Marelina) in finalizing Johnny’s adoptionthis spring.

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N a p s t e r, music industry execs debate future of online music

Napster and other Internet music providers may have attracted the ire of the music industryand the courts, but their success with consumers portends big changes in the way music isp romoted and distributed.

At least this is one point upon which a panel of experts could agree during the 2001Computer and Internet Law Institute, sponsored by USC’s continuing legal education pro g r a m .C h a i red by Ronald Johnston ’73 of Arnold & Po rt e r, this ye a r’s institute assembled dozens ofcomputer law and intellectual pro p e rty rights experts who addressed issues ranging from onlinet r a d e m a rks and privacy to the telecommunications convergence and the new patent landscape.One panel — including Hank Ba r ry, interim CEO of Napster; Ha rvey Ge l l e r, senior vice pre s-ident of business and legal affairs at Un i versal Music Group; I. Fred Koenigsberg of White &Case; and David Nimmer and Lois Scali of Irell & Manella — focused on the future of online music.

“When copyright law runs into new technology,” said Mr. Koenigsberg, “unless copyrightadapts itself, it will be run over as if by steamro l l e r.” Mr. Koenigsberg asserted that the industrymust address several issues in response to the growing popularity of online music; simplelicensing for online distribution must take place, he said, and global licensing must be theultimate goal.

“ Simple licensing is at the core of where we need to go,” agreed Mr. Ba r ry, noting thatexisting compulsory distribution rights re m ove the need for radio stations to negotiate withindividual artists for the right to broadcast music. “The best way for the market to move forw a rdis compulsory licensing for the Internet, not just for compositions, but for sound re c o rd i n g sas well.”

Experts advise corporate counselors on coping with the new economy

Te c h n o l o g y, government regulation and the changing economy have produced multiple newchallenges for attorneys who advise companies. To help, presentations at the Law School’s 2001Institute for Corporate Counsel addressed a range of recent developments and emerging tre n d sin a variety of issues of particular interest to corporate counselors.

Michael Evans of Ernst & Young, St e ven Spector of Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, and Wi l l i a mWeintrab of Pachulski, Stang, Ziehn, Young & Jones discussed the demise of many neweconomy companies and related legal problems. Stephen Smith of Morrison & Foerster andMolly Boast, senior deputy director of the Federal Trade Commission’s bureau of competition,discussed legal issues surrounding e-marketplaces, which provide efficient pro c u rement optionsfor various industries; some experts believe e-marketplaces inhibit competition and raise anti-t rust issues. Frederick Lorig of Bright & Lorig and Daniel Bi s h o p, senior vice president andgeneral counsel at UNOVA, discussed the scope of the new business method patent, whicha l l ows businesses to patent processes, such as systems for transacting business or processing data.

Other sessions included “Commerce in Cyberspace,” “The Wo rkplace Newly Shaped bythe Courts and the Legislature,” “Ethics and Character in the Wo rkplace,” “In t e rested Pa rt yTransactions and Other Corporate Governance Issues,” “Recent SEC De velopments,” “Sp e c i a lIssues Governing the Em p l oyment of Technology Wo rkers,” and “A 360-De g ree Pe r s p e c t i ve ofthe Em p l oyment Litigation Scene.”

This ye a r’s institute was chaired by He n ry Fields of Morrison & Fo e r s t e r.


Top: Napster’s Hank Barry discusses thefuture of online music. Bottom: RonaldJohnston, chair of the Computer andInternet Law Institute, with Lois Scali andDavid Nimmer.

Chaotic stock markets inevitably unleashanxieties over inflation, interest rates, unem-p l oyment and pro d u c t i v i t y. But amid themost recent commotion lurks another hazardthat has — until recently — gone re l a t i ve l yunnoticed: employment litigation. Qu i e s c e n tfor much of the past century, employe ecompensation disputes are beginning to claimp recious space on already-swamped judicialdockets. Leading the charge are literallyd o zens of costly lawsuits over the infamousstock-option plans that firms routinely show-e red upon employees during the late ’90s. Inlight of this ominous trend, the time has cometo reconsider whether the options-compensa-tion game is ultimately worth the candle.

The legal maelstrom surrounding stock-option plans is more than a little iro n i c :Indeed, equity compensation is traditionallyc o n s i d e red a means for avoiding litigation,not inviting it. While employment and corpo-rate law generally discourage the use of“s t i c k s” (such as termination or fiduciary dutylitigation) to motivate workers, courts aretraditionally a much softer touch when itcomes to using “c a r ro t s” (such as stockoptions) to achieve similar ends. So whatg i ves? If options are such clever devices, whats t i r red the slumbering jurisprudential giant?

A n s wering this question re q u i res one toa p p reciate a key factor differentiating ru n - o f -the-mill stocks from options: mark e tvo l a t i l i t y. With ord i n a ry stocks, a vo l a t i l em a rket means greater risk and usually lowe rvalue. Volatility also makes options risky.Howe ve r, unlike stocks, options have a criticalf e a t u re that can make them more attractive inthe presence of risk: Fl e x i b i l i t y. When yo ure c e i ve a future option to purchase shares (at,s a y, today’s pre vailing market price), you canwait to see how well the stock performs beforeacting. Should the price rise above curre n tl e vels, you can exe rcise your option and

pocket the difference. Should it fall, you walkaway losing only what you paid up fro n t(possibly in the form of foregone wages). Infact, volatility is what makes options va l u a b l e ,not only to employees, but also to cash-s t a rved employers who can ill affordsignificant salary commitments. Add to thisthe widely held belief that options — bymaking employees “think like” share h o l d e r s— motivate hard work, and their popularityis easy to understand.

Ne ve rtheless, options are risky, and theyg row riskier the longer they’re held open.With employees, this holding period tendsto be particularly lengthy. For starters, manye m p l oye e - owned options don’t vest until ane x t e n s i ve period of time elapses. Once ve s t e d ,they frequently have distant exe rcise dates.Fi n a l l y, tax and securities laws (at least in somecases) conspire to discourage employees fro mselling or exe rcising their options until re l a-t i vely late in the game. In the interim, thevalue of an employe e’s compensation packagecan swing wildly, evaporating entirely ormultiplying many times ove r.

And big swings make for large stakes —large enough to fight ove r. Add to this the factthat the lion’s share of stock-option agre e-ments we re hastily drafted and adopted, andyou have a recipe for disaster. During thedramatic market expansion in the late ’90s,

e m p l oyers often searched for cre a t i ve ways toreduce their exposure to employee option-holders through mergers, borrowing orstrategic termination of employees. In anumber of notable cases, employees foughtback in court, alleging bad-faith breach ofcontract, discrimination and even fraud. Asignificant fraction of the damages these liti-gants claimed consisted of foregone incomef rom wrongly withheld options. Such effort swe re buoyed last year by the CaliforniaSu p reme Court, which, in Guz v. Be c h t e l,held that even at-will employees may havevalid breach-of-contract claims against ane m p l oyer who terminates them as a merep retext for cheating them out of othercontractual rights.

Most of the disputes currently in litigationa re the by p roducts of a bullish market, filedb e f o re significant slides took a seve re toll onthe value of employe e s’ options. With fewe rspoils to wrangle ove r, one might guess thetide of litigation should now subside. Do n’tbet on it. Alre a d y, employees holding wort h-less options have filed suits against theire m p l oyers alleging misre p resentation, securi-ties fraud and broken promises of IPO riches.And corporate boards are under significantp re s s u re to “re - p r i c e” managerial options,a b rogating the non-renegotiation prov i s i o n sfound in many agreements and inviting deriv-a t i ve suits by irate share h o l d e r s .

In the end, the stock-option re volution hasp a rtially succeeded in eluding traditionale m p l oyment law. But in so doing, it has awak-ened contract, corporate and securities law,formidable behemoths themselves that won’twithdraw gently into hibernation. Ma n y, ofcourse, will continue to insist that equitycompensation is an indispensable componentof the economy. From a legal perspective ,h owe ve r, it may only add another costly ve r s eto an all-too-familiar refrain.


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This year marked the 20th annive r s a ry of the Sydney M. Irmas USC Law School Go l fTournament. A crowd of 175 golfers, alumni and friends gathered at the Wi l s h i re CountryClub on April 23 to golf and share stories from past ye a r s .

The first golf tournament was held in 1982 at the Riviera Country Club. All of the pro c e e d sf rom these tournaments fund Law School scholarships. This ye a r, the tournament raised nearly$140,000, thanks to the support of golfers, sponsors and proceeds from an auction and raffle.

The day began with a barbecue lunch and a “shotgun start” to the tournament. A cock-tail reception and awards banquet we re held in the evening. Scores we re tallied by Pa t r i c kCollins ’98; winners for “Closest to the Pi n” included John Po rter for Hole No. 4; Rick Lyo nfor Hole No. 7; and Matt Sh a c k e l f o rd for Hole No. 13. David Holt won for “Dr i ve forAc c u r a c y”; Jason Counsil won the “Me n’s Longest Dr i ve” and Cynthia Lyons won the“Wo m e n’s Longest Dr i ve”; So r rell Trope ’49, Linda Trope, Jeff Kylee, Mike Miller and Ro bIrmas won “1st Place Low Ne t”; and Joe Po rter ’71, LeRoy Bobbitt, Raphael Tisdale, Lark i nArnold and Stephen Barnes won “1st Place Low Gro s s . ”

Next ye a r’s tournament will be held April 22, 2002, at the Wi l s h i re Country Club. ContactApril Gallegos at (213) 740-6143 for details.

— Elina Ag n o l i

D o n o r s

So r rell Trope (beverage stands and cart, award s )Charles J. Lyons, Jr. (souvenir putters)Au d rey and Sydney Irmas Charitable

Foundation (dinner)R i c h a rd F. Alden (barbecue lunch)Stolpman Vi n e y a rds (red dinner wine)Thomas V. Gi r a rdi of Gi r a rdi & Keese

( s o u venir coffee mugs)William P. Hogoboom (cocktail re c e p t i o n )Phillip L. Bosl of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher

(the putting gre e n )Lee L. Blackman (hole-in-one)Seijas Court Re p o rters (tee gift bags)Hutchings Court Re p o rters (t-shirt s )Janney & Janney Attorney Se rvices

(water bottles)

Tee and Green Sponsors

C. Neil AshBa k e r, Keener & Na h r aPhillip L. BoslJonathan M. Br a n d l e rR i c h a rd ChernickPaul CholodenkoRalph M. Dru m m o n dRon Fr a n k e lThomas V. Gi r a rd iAl Hodges and AssociatesWilliam P. Hogoboom (two tees)Marshall T. Hu n tJanney & Janney Attorney Se rvices (two tees)Kelly Pa p e rMalcolm M. Lu c a sMilbank, Tweed, Hadley & Mc C l oyGa ry C. Ot t o s o nA rch V. Pa l m e rR i c h a rd G. Reinjohn & Di xon M. Ho l s t o nVoorhies & KramerWyman, Isaacs, Blumenthal & Ly n n e

Silent Auction and Raffle Sponsors

Nick BozickFredrick M. Fl a mSue Waggener and St e ve Mc Cr a c k e nAngel Sepriano of Um b e rt o s

Sydney M. Irmas golf tournament celebrates 20 years

Left to right, Irmas Golf Tournament winners Fred Edwards, Ira Burkemper ’94, Mike Tomasulo ’94, Richard Norman ’61and Hodge Dolle ’61.

Alumni honor Dean Spitzer with receptions around the country

Alumni around the county welcomed Dean Ma t t h ew Sp i t zer to his new post at the Law Schoolby sponsoring regional receptions in his honor. Graduates and friends of the Law School hostede vents last spring in New Yo rk City, Washington, D.C., San Diego and Santa Ba r b a r a .

Alumni in Washington, D.C., gathered at the Congressional Country Club in May to meetthe dean. Norm Ba rker ’72 and Frederick Ryan ’80 hosted the event. In New Yo rk City, John Sl u s h e r’94, Felipe Prestamo ’84 and Sheri Kocen ’78 coordinated a June reception at Ni k e’s headquar-ters, where Mr. Slusher works.

Alumni in Santa Barbara held a reception at the Santa Barbara Contemporary Art Mu s e u m .Joseph Nida ’65 sponsored the event. In San Diego, Beth Dunn ’82, Judge Lawrence Irving ’63 andthe William L. Todd, Jr., (’57) Inn of Court hosted a reception in the dean’s honor. Additional re c e p-tions are planned for Orange County and San Fr a n c i s c o.

Golf Tournament sponsors

GR A D UAT ES C L A SS NOT ES

Class Notes

> Class of 1950Travel pre-dominates the responses for this issue.Outstanding are the adventures of H o n . R o b e r tA r m s t ro n g and Eleanor, especially their June tripto London. For his delightful account, e-mail him( M a r ch through August) at JudgRWA @shieling00.demon.co.uk or (October throughJanuary) at RWA RMST RONG @ l a s c . c o . l a . c a . u s .C. Neil Ash and June recently returned fromanother European trip. Plans include followingTrojan football to Oregon and South Bend this falland next year their third USC Law School cruise.H o n . M. Ross Bigelow and Millie moved fromCrestline to Temecula, Ca. Their last cruise was onthe “Crown Odyssey” touring Italy. His youngestd a u g h t e r, Tricia Ann Bigelow (Murray) is Judgeof the Superior Court, Los Angeles County, Dept.102 CCB. He proudly reports that “She is alecturer at trial judges college and orientation ofnew judges each year. She is even on the CA L JICc o m m i t t e e .” Willis M. Bro o k s spent five years inEurope on vacation. (Doesn’t say when.) Hecontinues the full time plus practice of law inBeverly Hills. Philip D. Donovan has a “great wifeand 4 wonderful children and one 7 year oldg r a n d ch i l d .” Yearly vacations are usually to Canada.Hon. David N. Eagleson is still doing ADR work.Albert J. Ghiradelli reports “My wife Olga, and Itook a Rhine River cruise in May with Tr o j a nTravelers. We were pleased to renew our oldfriendship with classmate Judge Bob Armstrong

and his wife, Eleanor, who also were part of theTrojan contingent. One of my reasons for signingup on this cruise was to visit the ruins of the bridgeat Remagen, a bridge my infantry regimentcrossed in WWII, two days before its tragicc o l l a p s e .” Ralph B. Helm’s w i fe Alice is having abalance problem, but hopefully with medical helpshe will be better soon. They have visited theArmstrongs in Scotland. Lee W. Landrum is withPrudential California Realty in Encinitas. Currentlya broker/lawyer/arbitrator/mediator, after 45years of practicing law. John H. Larson and Lo u i s ewent with 10 people to Brandon, Mo. this spring.Appointed to the Governor’s Commission on

Veteran’s Homes and also chosen as mayor pro-tem of the City of Seal Beach. His e-mail addressis [email protected]. Hon. Murry Luftig m a r r i e dto Rita since June 22, 1947, 4 children and 7g r a n d children. Retirement is spent on an unfin-ished novel, painting and travel, including a familyreunion, 16 members in Hawaii. Raymond E. Ottreports “Still enjoying life in the desert, (age 75 )although my wife passed away in Fe b r u a r y. I havebeen retired since 1986 (from municipal lawe m p l o y m e n t ) .” Hon. J a ck T. Ryburn “ Went toChicago for a Board meeting-cold and rainy inJ u n e .” Going on the Sea Goddess cruise plannedby the Law School next June. Wanda Yo u n gS a n ka r y took her ten-year-old granddaughter ona trip to Europe on the QE2 luxury liner lasts u m m e r, staying in Zurich, London and NYC (in afriend’s penthouse). Very involved in Democraticcauses. Would love to hear from her classmates.Iver E. “Dick” Skjeie is retired from the CaliforniaAttorney General’s Office where he headed the“Government Law” section representing StateConstitutional Executive Officers, control agenciesand appellate justices. He was General Counsel ofDevelopment of 14 California State prisons. Te dS u l l i v a n and Evelyn will celebrate their 50thwedding anniversary next spring. Just had their9th grandchild. Travel this year will be limited to a2-month stay in Chula Vista in their R.V. Says thatwith advancing age, trips keep getting shorter.Sends greetings to all our classmates. B e nS u s m a n has been retired for 22 years and reportsthat life is sensational. “Get up in the morning, lookat the ocean, pinch myself and start another great

d a y, doing very little. Traveling and fishing take upthe slack .” His e-mail address is [email protected]. Dan J. Ta n g a l a k i s married to Mary Lo u i s esince January 1949. They have 5 children and10 grandchildren. Still practices law occasionallywith son Phillip Ta n g a l a k i s in Culver City. Recentlytook 4 granddaughters abroad and to Greece tofind their cultural roots. E-mail addresses: If youwould like your classmates to communicate withyou by e-mail please send your address for then ext issue. Ideas for our 55th reunion: JudgeRyburn wrote “A member of another class hasinvited the members of the class to his Villa inFrance for their next reunion. If anyone in our classhas any such exotic ideas for our 55th Reunion,please let us know.”

Shirley Olsen, Class Report e rr i ch a r d @ f r a z m t n . c o m .

> Class of 1951Looking fit and handsome, and brimming withc o l l e g i a l i t y, in May the following members(spouses) of the class descended upon thePeninsula Hotel, Beverly Hills for a good brunchand successful Fiftieth Reunion: Volney Brown, Jr.( Peggy), Bill Camil (Anne), G e o rge Cox ( M a r yFrances), G e o rge DeRoy (Honey), Vern Fo s t e r(Ines), Fred Flam, M i chael Franklin (Betty), N a t h a nG o l l e r (Irina Maleeva), Ned Good (Margaret), D a v eG r a f, Stuart Hillman, Jim Kolts (Dorothy), M a r v i nLe v i n (Ruth), Ann Stodden (Ed Mayer), Te d d yS m i t h, Donald Von Mizener ( Yvonne), A r tWa s s e r m a n (Harriet), H a rold Wax (Lila Mayer),Robert We i l (Dorothy), Robert Wolf ( M i l d r e d ) ,Charles Wo o d m a n s e e (Nancy), and Milton Zerin(Helen). See group photo at the beginning of thissection. Milt Zerin presided in his charming lawp r o fessor manner, recounting facts sprinkled withaphorisms, e.g. “life is like a roll of toilet paper, itgoes faster towards the end.” Dean M a t t h e w

S p i t z e r, attending with his lovely wife, spoke brieflyof the progress of the Law School, which made usproud. Meanwhile, the capable Keven Jones,Reunion Coordinator, and his staff coordinated,comforted and coddled. Thank you Dean! Th a n kyou Keven! Attendees were delighted to chat withe a ch other and learn that “for the most part they


On the Honor Roll

G e o rge R. Richter ’33 was honored by theCalifornia Bar Association during its annuala w a rds luncheon in April for his outstandingc a reer and contributions to the legal pro f e s s i o n .Now re t i red, Mr. Richter held numerous lead-ership positions throughout his care e r, includingchair of the California Commission on Un i f o r mState Laws and chair of the Los Angeles CountyBar Association’s commercial law and bank-ruptcy section.

were in good health” (Wax); that Kolts “still hasgreat jokes” (Woodmansee); that they “are welland active” (Cox); or, more colorfully, that they “arestill alive and cooking.” (Camil). What is particularlygreat about our class is “the congeniality andfriendliness of classmates” (Zerin), “the historicinterval in which we have lived and worked” (Cox )and that “we were very eager” (Kenneth Holland).Von Mizener spoke for most in commenting thatthe best thing about the reunion was “goodc o m p a n i o n s .” For non-attendees the worst thingwas being unable to attend: R i ch a rd McWi l l i a m s(in Europe), Sheldon Caplow (ill, but now recov-ering well), Kenneth Holland (“I missed all of youon May 20”), Marshall Davis (“sorry I missed thereunion”) and J a ck Fe l t h o u s e (his wife just passedaway – by acclamation we extended to Jack oursympathy and warm regards). We have decided tomeet for a 55th Year Reunion and the followingare willing to serve on the planning committee:Holland, Cox (“God willing and the creeks don’trise), Brown, Zerin, Von Mizener and Wax, whocollectively have volunteered Stodden withoutconsulting her. In news unconnected to thereunion, Don Bro w n continues to practice full time.So does Ned Good, who not remarkably wants thecaps on medical malpractice cases eliminated, andArt Wasserman “same old practice, same oldairplane (30 years)”. Von Mizener will retire as soonas he can convince some of his clients “not to dowhat they are thinking of doing.” Most of the restof us are already retired, including Seymour Lazarwho is living it up in Palm Springs. Art Wa s s e r m a ntook Marty Munson to lunch and reports (thingsnever change) that he “won’t be serious abo u ta n y t h i n g .” The Waxes are cavorting in the So u t hPacific, the Zerins in Eastern Europe where theysomehow missed seeing the McWilliams, all whileMarshall Davis and Kenneth Holland stay homeand play better tennis and golf, respectively. In themeantime, those returning the class questionnairethink the principles of the founders are in jeopardy,as follows: “the sanctity of the Constitution”(Holland); the free exercise of religion, (as) threat-ened by political correctness” (Davis); “separationof Church and State” (Woodmansee); the SecondAmendment (“thank God”) (Don Brown), “God

save us!” (Volney Brown); “irrational violence”precluding “life, liberty and the pursuit of happinessfor many” (Zerin); and, “independence of the judi-c i a r y.” (Camil). Holland spoke for most of theforegoing by recommending that our legislators“read the Constitution”. Finally, Don Brown (whois practicing law full time) probably spoke for all ofus in commenting “every day above ground is agood day.” Indeed.

Volney Brown, Jr., Class Reporter

> Class of 1952In less than ten months that venerable Class of1952 will assemble to celebrate its 50th Ye a rReunion. The Law School alone cannot fashion a

memorable and successful reunion. Those of youwho have available time should respond to thes chool’s request for volunteer members of thereunion planning committee. Speaking of theconcept of “time,” based upon my observation fromthe responses over the years to my requests forinformation for this column, it is clear beyond cavilthat the Class of 1952 took the advice of anEnglishman known only as Marsden. Hecomposed a thought-provoking poem entitled“ What is time?” He answered his question inseveral ways. Two of them, I think, exemplify ourclass. First: “I asked an aged man, with hoary hairs,wrinkled and curved with worldly cares; “Time isthe warp of life ,’ said he; ‘O, tell the young, the fair,the gay, to weave it well!’” His second response



Judge Ferguson honored for role in establishing Public Law Center

Wa r ren J. Ferguson ‘49, senior circuit judge of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, re c e i ve dthe inaugural Fo u n d e r s’ Aw a rd from the Public Law Center of Orange County. The award honore dJudge Fe r g u s o n’s path-breaking career on the bench and his pivotal role in the development ofthe Public Law Center.

Judge Ferguson began his legal career in Fu l l e rt o n ,C a l i f., as one of just 49 lawyers in all of Orange County.He spent nine years in private practice with the law firmof Ferguson & Judge before accepting an appointment tothe Anaheim Municipal Court. In 1961, the gove r n o rof California appointed Judge Ferguson to the Or a n g eCounty Superior Court. In 1966, President Ly n d o nJohnson appointed him to the district court, makingJudge Ferguson the first judge to serve in the new CentralDistrict of California. In 1979, President Jimmy Cart e re l e vated Judge Ferguson to the 9th Circuit Court; heassumed senior status in 1986.

Judge Ferguson has played a prominent role in the development of the legal communityin Orange County and has re c e i ved numerous awards and honors. He is widely credited with helping to bring a federal courthouse to Santa Ana, Calif., and in 1981 he founded AmicusPublico, which helped link pro bono attorneys to needy clients. Amicus Publico eventually evo l ve dinto the Public Law Center, the public interest branch of the Orange County Bar Association.The Public Law Center provides pro bono legal services to poor and underre p resented communitiesin Orange County.

Hu n d reds of friends and family joined Judge Ferguson at the Public Law Center’s annual a w a rds banquet in Ju l y, including a few of the many USC law graduates who have clerked for Judge Ferguson.

Judge Warren Ferguson with some of the peoplewho have clerked for him over the years, includingU SC law graduates Sheryl Gordon McCloud ’84,far left, Laurie Hasencamp ’85, third from left, andKaren Lash ’87, far right.


built upon the first and was couched in theseterms: “I asked my Bible, and methinks it said,“ Time is the present hour, the past has fled; Live!Live today! Tomorrow never yet on any humanbeing rose or set.” Our class has acquitted itselfwell on the field of the practice of law. And it haslived—and continues to live—today, either in thepractice of law or in some challenging secondc a r e e r, frequently closely related to the practice ofl a w. Charles (“Chuck”) Baka l y, Jr. has since 199 5been in the camp of those class members whofollowing retirement from the active practice ofl a w, opted for a new one closely related to activepractice. He retired from O’Melveny & Myers after38 years, including 17 years on its managementcommittee and 5 years as head of its New Yo r koffice. He now serves as vice president of JA MSand participates actively in mediating complex liti-gation disputes. The last four years he divertedsome of his attention from mediation by spendinga week at a Montana guest ranch, riding horsesand fishing with his five grandchildren. Additionalrest and recreation is achieved by trips to Greeceto visit his first cousins. L a w rence Fr a n k l e y is firmlyensconced in a retirement mood. He still spendsone half of each year at his home in the UnitedKingdom and the other half in the States.S a n d w i ched into that “difficult and demanding”retirement mode is travel to other parts of thisinteresting world of ours. William (“Bill”) B. Jonesspent nine years practicing law in Los Angeles atw h i ch time he embarked upon a fascinating andchallenging career with our State Departmentserving from 1962 to 1984, as a Deputy AssistantSecretary of State. He was the Chief of U.S.Mission to UNE SCO, Paris, as Ambassador toHaiti, 1977- 1 980. Then as a State DepartmentDiplomat in Residence, Hampton University, as amember of the Law of the Sea Treaty Task Fo r c e ,and as a member of the Inter Agency Groupdealing with the survivability of the governmentin the event of nuclear war. Eschewing significantretirement, Bill has been a university teach i n gp r o fessor for the past ten years, currently teach i n gat Hampden-Sydney College in Virginia, and in theDiplomacy and African American StudiesDepartment at Pepperdine University in Malibu.Several years ago J a ck R. Le v i t t retired as a

Superior Court Judge in the County of San Diegoelecting instead to live in Bozeman, Montanawhere he has lived for several years engaged inpro bono settlement work for the local districtcourts. When he can find the inner strength andfortitude to give up (temporarily) golf, fishing(stream and ice), playing pool and to foregosupporting participation by his grandchildren intheir baseball and soccer games, he has gone oncruises from Hong Kong to Athens and fromBarcelona to Istanbul. Fre d e r i ck (“Fred”) M.N i ch o l a s is one of those class members whobecame involved in several new careers sinceretiring from the practice of law. For him, realretirement is for others. He presently is engagedin real estate development and cultural serviceon specific sites for museums and art institutions.Presently he is representing Art Center in its nego-tiations with the City of Pasadena to develop theGlenarm Power Plant location as a cultural facilityfor Art Center. He recently was appointed anhonorary trustee of Art Center’s College of Design.In addition to actively pursuing his new profe s s i o n ,he, of course, also devotes quality time to be withhis wife, his three children and three stepch i l d r e n ,and his eight grandchildren. Don Olson r e t i r e dfrom the practice of law in 1977 and moved toNewport Beach where he bought a boat and haslived for the past 23-1/2 years at the Balboa BayClub. In lieu of practicing law Don has becomeinvolved in the development of commercial prop-e r t y, as an owner, a co-owner, or limited partnerin various real estate endeavors. Don’s early prac-tice of the law was complemented by hisconcurrent operation of a candy/ice cream parlorin Culver City, through which enterprise hea chieved recognition by authoring an article enti-tled “Lawyer with a Sweet Law Pr a c t i c e .” Itappeared in many U.S. and Canadian newspapers.

Don, like many of us, ignored the advice (apoc-ryphal, or course) frequently given to personscontemplating attending a reunion, especially afiftieth. It is this: “If you want to stay young, eat well,exercise and don’t attend class reunions.” Likemany of us, Don left his last reunion feeling older,but now, however, he once again feels like he isa mere 30 or 40 years of age. More power to him!To confirm his point Don enclosed a picture ofhimself taken a few months ago showing himstanding beside a helicopter aboard an aircraftc a r r i e r. Paul Eugene Overton, another of ourretired San Diego Superior Court judges still livesin San Diego. While he has nothing new to reportconcerning his present or recent activities, weknow based upon his prior reports that he muststill be “happy in retirement,” visiting his four ch i l-dren and six grandchildren and “traveling all over!”In closing this quarter’s report, it appears fromrecent information provided by members of ourclass that many of them have elected not to abideby Walter Wriston’s (former CEO of Citibank)characterization of rules on “mandatory retirementages:” “Statutory Senility.” (New York Ti m e s, April25, 1993) Members of our class, to hark back tomy opening remarks, are still weaving their “time”well. They continue to live “today,” and spend notime contemplating or worrying whether the sunwill indeed rise again tomorrow.

J a ck T. Swafford, Class Report e rj a ck s @ l a g e r l o f . c o m

> Class of 1953The Class of 1953 has finally broken radio silenceand the Class Reporter has prepared this report onthe activities of its members many of whom areenjoying their golden years by hitting the links,traveling to exotic places all over the world,acquiring all kinds of strange diseases or justbecoming couch potatoes and enjoying life afteralmost 50 years of law practice. The usualsuspects replied to the class questionnaire, but it’salways nice to have a few names that haven’treplied before! Wiley Bunn and his wife, Marilyn,celebrated their 50th anniversary on June 19ththis year and are taking their family on an Alaskancruise, which will include 4 children and their


On the Honor Roll

S o r rell Trope ’49 was included in a roundup ofthe nation’s "Killer Lawyers" in the May 2001issue of Fo r b e s magazine. The article listed Mr.Trope as one of the top divo rce lawyers in thec o u n t ry and noted that his Los Angeles firm’s listof clients includes Ho l l y w o o d’s elite.

Class of 1 9 5 2 50 -Year Reunion

Fr i d a y, April 12, 2002

Call Reunion Coordinator Keven Jones at

(213) 740-6143 for details

spouses, and 9 excited grandchildren. Wiley musthave hit the lottery! He is still practicing with Bunn& Bunn in Pasadena specializing in estate andprobate law and doing a little mediation on theside. Loyal Frazier is still in Oxnard and is enjoyinga second career. Loyal and his second wife (he’s awidower) have 14 grandchildren with 2 grandch i l-dren graduating from college and 2 graduatingfrom high school in June. He is still working abo u t20 hours a week and his practice is restricted toreal estate planning and business. Loyal justreturned from a 2-week trip to Scotland playinggolf, sightseeing and doing a little shopping (watchthose kilts, Loyal! You’d better wear somethingunderneath them.) He is still active in civic affairsin Oxnard and is past president of the Ve n t u r aCounty Bar Association. He hears from Bill Evansnow and then who continues to practice in Lo sA n g e l e s . Charlie Ly o n s continues to be a memberof the Board of Councilors of the Law Sch o o l .Charlie lives in Lakewood and has a house inR a n cho Mirage. He is still in the same businessworking in real estate and commercial propertiesin Los Angeles and Orange Counties. He plays alittle golf, is in good health, and is enjoying life withMary Lou. Elaine Fisch e l has retired, lives in Lo sAngeles and does a lot of traveling to all kinds ofplaces like the West, the Far East and the Ozarks(the Ozarks?). Bernie Silver has the same wifeCecile, and is slowly adding grandchildren. He andhis wife reside in Pacific Palisades. A famousquote from Bernie is “Work is for people who don’tknow how to fish”. I agree! Ed Coleman still hangshis shingle in Las Vegas, is married with four ch i l-dren and 2 grandchildren. Sterry Fa g a n, retiredfrom the Superior Court bench and lives in IndianWells. He’s almost retired but still doing a little arbi-tration through Judicial West in Santa Ana. Heplays a lot of golf, and hits some links with some ofhis regulars and does a lot of traveling. C l a re n c eF l e m i n g still lives in Pasadena on Orange GroveAvenue and has moved his offices. (Yes, Clarence,the law school is going to get your office addressright once and for all!) Clarence is a brave soul. Hejoined Annandale Country Club and is trying tolearn golf. I hope it doesn’t destroy his sanity! Iremember the days in the basement of the old laws chool where Clarence showed he could be a

pretty good athlete (he usually won the “waste-basket target” competition). So perhaps he mayfool us all and become a scratch golfe r. Clarenceand Bunny do a lot of traveling, but as he said inresponse to an inquiry concerning pro bo n oa c t i v i t y, political campaigns and bar associationoffices “Been there, done that!”, and he asks “Isthere anything else left to do?” Please don’t temptus Clarence! He reports that former SuperiorCourt J u d g e Mort Franciscus lives about a 3-minute walk from where he lives. Mort is retiredfinally from the Superior court bench and lives inB u s ch Gardens with his lovely wife Sandy. G e o rg eM i t ch e l and Owen Strange are of counsel to theirfirm; Booth Mitchel & Strange. George plays a lotof golf these days and keeps his hand in with afew litigation matters. Owen resides in Ranch oSanta Fe and still enjoys a good cigar. (What aguy!) M y ron Blumberg still lives in MammothLakes and is still communing with nature. He is stillan active member of the State Bar of California,but is semi-retired, and founder of the DisputeResolutions Center of the Eastern Sierra (what thehell can they mediate up there besides whocaught the biggest trout in Lake Crowley?). J i mB e n t s o n is still hanging his shingle in Seal Beach ,California. One of the great quotes from the ques-tionnaire “For the time being, all of our rottenchildren are out of our Huntington Harbor condo-minium residence and we are enjoying the peaceand tranquility.” “Bravo” for you my friend! Jim stilldoes estate planning trusts and probate law inSeal Beach and sends out his ugly litigation casesto his son Jim Jr., who is an attorney in San Diego.Andy Davis is practicing law with his son onWilshire Boulevard in Los Angeles. Bob Mallicoatstill resides at Pitchfork Ranch in Leona Va l l e y,California, but maintains his offices in Beverly Hills.Bob has a son Christopher who graduated fromlaw school in May of this year. Bob still continueshis membership with the Los Angeles Conventionand Exhibition Center Authority as one of itscommissioners. He still continues to raise llamasand at present has a herd of 89. I’ll ask again Bob,“ What the hell do you do with llamas? Do you petthem, shear them, or eat them?” Ted Eck e r m a nis retired and lives in Pasadena with his lovely wifeNancy of 28 years. Ted had open-heart surgery

in September 1998 and retired from law practicein March of 1999. He was a family law specialistuntil his retirement. Cliff Anderson and his wifeMadeline live in Monarch Bay and Cliff is doing alittle family law mediation from time to time. Fo r m e rChief J u s t i c e Malcolm Luca s still resides inBeverly Hills, is married to the lovely and livelyFiorenza, and is still doing “big ticket” arbitrationand mediations. Your Class Reporter, R i ch a rd sB a rg e r, continues to practice law with Barger &Wolen LLP, but little by little is limiting his prac-tice by retaining only a few clients. One of thesedays he is just going to haul off and retire from lawpractice altogether. The only thing standing in theway of that at the present time is, he doesn’t knowwhat the hell to do with his time! He went backto school and received his fire and casualty insur-ance license and he may assist his oldest son inmanaging his general agency. NOW DON ’ TF ORGET THIS CL ASSM ATES; 2003 marks the50th anniversary of our class (Ughhh!). We have95 living members in our class, and we should bethinking about how to make our 50th anniversarya memorable event. We’re all a little too old fortoo much damn revelry, but at least we can plan tohave a good time, have a good meal, tell lies, drinksome good wine, and see old friends. Let’s bethinking about where we are going to have ourreunion and let’s try to make it a fun event. Contactme at (213) 680 - 2 800 or [email protected] orKeven Jones at the law school at (213) 740 - 2 6 40or [email protected].

R i chards D. Ba r g e r, Class Report e r

> Class of 1956Where have all the years gone? It seems like onlyyesterday we were sitting in Pr o fessor Howell’scode pleading class and he was explaining, in hiserudite and clear way, the meaning of “cause ofa c t i o n .” In celebration of those law school years,our class met for its 45th year reunion. It was heldSaturday night, April 21, 2001, at the RegencyClub in Westwood. It was a wonderful evening,seeing everyone, chatting during the cocktail houron the patio of the Regency Club which is on the20th floor of an office building at Wilshire andWestwood Boulevards, overlooking the entire city




all the way to downtown Los Angeles. The foodwas first rate - the best I recall at any of ourprevious reunions. A big plus to the evening washaving new Dean Matthew Spitzer and his wifeJean there. Dean Spitzer spoke to us about theoverall status of the law school, touching on anumber of matters, all to the positive. Our class-mates in attendance were: Roy Aaro n, who isdoing mediations and business consulting. J o h nA rg u e, Chairman of the USC Board of Tr u s t e e sand the Rose Hills Foundation. Orville Armstro n g,Associate Justice of the California Court ofAppeal, Second Appellate District, Division 5 indowntown Los Angeles. Orville had an illustriouscareer as a lawyer and a partner in two large lawfirms in downtown Los Angeles, he was Pr e s i d e n tof the State Bar, and Judge of the Los AngelesSuperior Court before being elevated to the appel-late court. Yvonne Brathwaite Burke, Los AngelesCounty Supervisor. Before her election to theBoard of Supervisors, Yvonne was elected to theHouse of Representatives, where she served herdistrict with distinction for a number of years. M a t tB y r n e, Senior Judge, U. S. District Court, CentralDistrict of California. Matt was honored lastNovember at a dinner at the Biltmore Hotel withover 1,000 judges, lawyers, law clerks, friends, etc.in attendance. It was held to commemorate Matt’s30 years as a judge of the U.S. District Court andto praise him for a distinguished career in law.Dewey Fa l c o n e, Los Angeles Superior CourtJudge sitting in Norwalk. Dewey has been a benchofficer for a number of years and still enjoys doingit. Irving Fe f f e r, Judge of the Los Angeles CountySuperior Court, sitting in a general civil trial depart-ment in downtown Los Angeles. Irv still enjoyspistol shooting on a regular basis, still runs everyday with his running partner, and still enjoys verym u ch being on the bench. His step-son AndrewClavin is on the Stanford University football team,even though Irv still remains a loyal Trojan. P a u lG e r a g o s, is practicing with his sons, Mark andM a t t h e w, in downtown Los Angeles. Their practiceis divided equally between criminal defense andgeneral civil/business litigation. Les Gold is apartner with Mitchell, Sibberberg & Knupp, on thewest side of Los Angeles. Allan Gro s s m a n, I havea general civil litigation and appellate practice in


Pioneers honored for service to community and university

Fi ve USC Law School graduates we re featured in “Trojans of Ebony Hue: Role Models For AllGenerations,” an exhibit and guide developed by USC’s Black Alumni Association in celebration ofBlack Hi s t o ry Month. The exhibit highlighted the legacies of African-American men and womenwhose achievements and dedication paved the way for generations of black students and commu-nity leaders in Los Angeles.

The exhibit noted the varied career of C l a re n c eThompson ’04, the first African-American to graduatef rom the Un i versity of Southern California. After finishinglaw school, Mr. Thompson studied economics and soci-ology at Ha rva rd Un i ve r s i t y, published a book, worked inthe Boston Chamber of Commerce, built a hard w a re busi-ness in the Philippines, manufactured war supplies inFrance, worked in rolling mills, paper mills, machine shopsand department stores in Ge r m a n y, France and It a l y, andl e c t u red and wrote at schools throughout Eu rope.

Twe n t y - t h ree years after Mr. Thompson graduated,Helen Wheeler Riddle ’27 became the Law School’s firstfemale African-American graduate. She was praised for asuccessful career in management with the U.S. Po s t a lSe rvice and a life dedicated to civic and community serv i c e .She was a member of the National Association for theAd vancement of Colored People and a charter member ofAlpha Kappa Alpha, a black soro r i t y.

After Edwin L. Jefferson ’31 graduated from the USC Law School, he sought membership withthe Los Angeles County Bar Association. The association, at the time open only to whites, turnedhim away. Ten years later, Mr. Jefferson was a municipal court judge, and the bar association wasseeking h i m. As the “Tro j a n s” exhibit noted, Judge Je f f e r s o n’s prominence continued to grow: Helater was appointed a Superior Court judge and associate justice of the California Court of Appeal.

The exhibit praised Crispus Attucks Wright ’38 for not only being a role model, but also pavingthe way for others to follow in his footsteps. Mr. Wr i g h t’s $2 million gift to the Law School in1997 established scholarships for students committed to serving minority and underre p re s e n t e dcommunities. Mr. Wright also was a pioneer in the law: He co-founded the John M. LangstonBar Association, the principal black legal association in Los Angeles, and helped win the Su p re m eC o u rt battle to end racist real estate covenants in the United States.

Los Angeles County Su p e rvisor Yvonne Brathwaite Bu rke ’56 was praised for a career of publics e rvice “focused on the needs and education of childre n” and marked by “f i r s t s”: She was the firstAfrican American woman elected to re p resent California in Congress and the first to serve as chairof the Los Angeles County Board of Su p e rvisors. She also has served as chair of the L.A. Fe d e r a lRe s e rve Bank and vice chair of the 1984 Olympic Organizing Committee and was named one ofA m e r i c a’s 200 Fu t u re Leaders by Time m a g a z i n e .

Encino where I have officed since 1974. M a rc u sK a u f m a n, retired Associate Justice of theCalifornia Supreme Court. Mark spent three yearson the Supreme Court and 17 years on the Fo u r t hDistrict Court of Appeal in San Bernardino. It wasgood seeing Mark and his wife Eileen. Mark notedthat they have been married for 50 years. R u s t yLe w i s is a retired PANAM pilot and aviation lawyer.Rusty was a World War II pilot and was shot downover a small town in Germany and became a pris-oner of war. He was astonished by how kindly hewas treated by the Germans on his recent visitthere. Bob Mitch e l l – he and his wife had justreturned from their honeymoon. “After wanderingin the jungles of semi-retirement for a number ofyears I returned to full-time practice in Norwalk,” hesaid. Bruce MacLach l a n, is with the firm of Mugg& Harper in San Bernardino, where, for the mostpart, he does personal injury defense, as well asdoing some plaintiff’s work. Recently I called Bruceto help me out with an appearance in the SanBernardino Superior Court. He got one of theyounger people in his firm to do it and I sincerelyappreciated his help in that matter. Len Marangihas been with Hahn & Hahn in Pasadena sincegraduation. Len is now a senior partner in the firmand a stalwart of the Pasadena bar. Bob Wa r re nalso went from graduation to Gibson, Dunn &Cruther where he has been ever since. Bob is asenior partner in the firm, still trying major firstamendment cases, and is an active supporter ofthe law school and the University. Lillian Wo r t h i n gWy s h a k is practicing in Beverly Hills and alsoworks as a real estate broker. Lillian’s specialty istax law, and she states, “I’m a certified taxs p e c i a l i s t .” Robert Zakon, has been on the benchfor the past 20 years or so as a Los AngelesSuperior Court Commissioner hearing domesticrelation cases in the North Valley District, San

Fernando Court. Bob has no plans on retirementfrom the bench. It is with great sorrow I report thatour beloved classmate Leon Le o n i a n passed awaySeptember 11, 2001. As you may know, Leon wasa very successful businessman in the medical field.His corporation owned hospitals, nursing homes,retirement homes, etc., all over the country. For anumber of years before his passing he volun-teered full-time at an Armenian charity in MissionHills, the Ararat Home, where he served as vice-chairman. He was loved by many and will begreatly missed. Be well, and I hope to see all ofyou, as well as our other classmates who wereunable to attend this function, at our 50th yearreunion.

Allan F. Grossman, Class Report e r

> Class of 1957The Law School Class of 1957 respondedadmirably to the questionnaire for information forthis column. However, many responded that therewas no change with respect to where they lived orworked, family circumstances, professional activ-ities, travel and vacation activities, and communityservices. Given the “maturity” of our class, theadage “no news is good news” appears applicable.E a ch member of the Class of 1957 received acopy of a letter written to the Law School from the2000-2001 recipient of the Class of 1957S cholarship, thanking the School and our class forit. The recipient, Ms. Jennifer Ybarra, graduatedMagna Cum Laude from UCLA in 1999. Shesays: “When I applied to law school as an under-graduate, USC was my first choice. I canremember receiving my acceptance letter andjumping around my living room. Notice of thes cholarship eased my worries concerning thefinancial demands that I was to incur in law sch o o l .I hope to finish law school in another two years.Because I am also pursuing a Public Po l i c yDegree at USC, my experience here will last forfour years. ... In closing I would like to say that Iappreciate the opportunity that you have providedme to attain my goals and attain a law sch o o ld e g r e e .” These reports make contributing to ourClass Scholarship Fund most rewarding. Now toour classmates’ responses: Ralph I. Callen r e p o r t s

that he attended the International Square DanceConvention in Anaheim, California, this past June.Dan Cathca r t (of Ferdinand Marcos fame) indi-cates that he is now “of counsel” to the firm ofMagana, Cathcart & McCarthy. He is currentlyworking part time as a court-appointed child advo-cate (CASA) volunteer. He continues to enjoy lifeand time with his five grandchildren. J a ck E.G o e r t z e n says that this past year he celebrated45 years since the Class of ‘55 graduated. Wh i l enoting that he enjoyed a good time, he said thateveryone except himself looked a lot older thanthey did in 1955. He did not explain why he wasattending the Class of ‘55 reunion when he grad-uated in the Class of 1957. I have been told thatage shows in ways other than changes in physicalappearance. He notes that he and his wife enjoyeda cruise to Alaska and Canada this past year withthe International Academy of Trial Judges. Inclosing he said, “It’s just nice to still be around tosend in one of these questionnaires.” Ray R. Goldiereports that he has essentially retired from litiga-tion, but continues to handle certain selectlitigation in the fields of his certification (wills, trustsand probate law). He adds that “the ‘old man’ ofthe Class of ‘57 celebrated his 81st birthday onApril 1, 2001, and enjoys his activity in the fieldof wills, trusts and probate law.” William S. (Bill)J o h n s t o n e reports no additions to family orchange in professional activities. He and his wife ,Lynne, and, on occasion his two daughters, havetraveled both in summer and winter to their condo-minium in Snowmass Village, Colorado. In addition,trips to the Tuscany area of Italy, Santorini, Greece,and heli-salmon fly-fishing in Alaska have provedto be enjoyable experiences. They intend to partic-ipate in next year’s Law School Mediterranean tripon the Seaborn Goddess. As for continuedcommunity services, Bill continues to serve as aDirector of the San Gabriel Valley Council of BoyScouts of America and as a member of thePasadena Tournament of Roses Fo o t b a l lCommittee. He has been appointed Chair of theRose Bowl Management Committee effe c t i v eJanuary 2002. Such Committee is responsible forthe overall management of the Rose Bowl gameon New Year’s Day. This year the game will beplayed on January 3, and it will be the site of the



On the Honor Roll

Marshall B. Grossman ’64 was appointed to theCalifornia Commission on Judicial Pe rf o r m a n c eby Gov. Gray Davis. Mr. Grossman is a seniorp a rtner and business litigation specialist at theLos Angeles firm of Alschuler Grossman St e i n& Kahan.


college national championship game. Arnold S.M a l t e r reports that he continues consulting, prima-rily in China-related activities where he is currentlythe U.S. lawyer for the City of Shanghai, China.Philip F. Marantz proudly announces that he is agrandfather again for the tenth time, the luck yyoung grandchild being Dorothy Childs. As withmany of our classmates, he indicates that he issemi-retired. Dean R. Picl, in response to theinquiry as to additions to his family, questions “atmy age?” As with others, he is semi-retired, but stillhandles death penalty and life without possibilityof parole murder cases. Billy A. Robbins r e p o r t sthe birth of a new grandson, Cole Ryder Robbins.Cole was born during the last Ryder Cup match– thus the middle name. I certainly hope the youngman will enjoy golf as he grows up. Billy indicatesthat he is co-chair of the Marketing/Pr a c t i c eDevelopment Committee of the Los Angelesoffice of his firm, Fulbright & Jaworski. He foundedand is currently president of the Te ch n o l i n kAssociation, a 501(c)(6) association created toassist startup and emerging companies byproviding needed resources for such companies.Joseph A. Th o m a s reports that he concluded afour-year term in February 2001 as a member ofthe Board of Administration of the CaliforniaPublic Employees’ Retirement System (the largestpublic retirement system [non-governmental] inthe world). He reports that he just returned fromthree weeks in Italy in April, and will be leaving inOctober for a trip around the world with stops inChina, India and points West. William L. (Ted) To d d ,J r. responds that he is still engaged part-time asa private judge, handling mediation, arbitration andsome Superior Court support work. Insofar astravel and vacation are concerned, he and his wifetraveled to Maui and Spain this year (spending twoweeks touring Northwest Spain with his MethodistC h u r ch choir). Moreover, he directed a$1,000,000-plus remodel drive for the ch u r ch, andcontinues as vice chair of the Board of Trustees atthe Claremont School of Theology (formerly theUniversity of Southern California School ofReligion). He continues as a board member of thePacific Media Ministry, and Sharp Rees StealyMedical Corporation. He plays golf as often aspossible at the La Jolla Country Club, and

continues as an active member of the To d dAmerican Inn of Court. “Enough of this semi-retired business”, says Arnold Wa y n e. He isnow fully retired from the practice of law.Respectfully submitted,

Bill Johnstone, Class Report e rw j o h n s t o n e @ h a h n l a w y e r s . c o m

> Class of 1960Since the unfortunate phase out of Trial by Battleand Trial by Ordeal when the class of 1960 grad-uated 41 years ago, the news is largely geriatricwhining these days. Ed Sokolski et.ux. Reneérecently celebrated their 52nd wedding anniver-s a r y. Ed admits to having reached his 79th birthdayand still has an active Trademark & Tr a d e n a m epractice. He has a son-in-law being groomed inthe wings to take over the practice. Ed is veryactive in Rotary down Redondo Beach way. O r v i l l eM a r l e t t and Jeane live in Newport Beach. Orvclaims to be semi-retired and maintains his officein his home. He reads and plays tennis a gooddeal. Sadly, Paul Gerg e n ’ s w i fe Thelma reportsthat Paul had a devastating stroke in January of1 997 and has been in a nursing facility ever sincethat time. Bev Gore (Schneider) reports in fromBratenahl, Ohio to say she and her husband travel,travel, and do more traveling – Egypt, Morocco,Ireland, South Africa, Vienna, Hungary, Spain andScotland. Bev has come to Southern California acouple of times in the past year. She says she’s“enjoying the good life .” Bob Bastien is in DuQuoin,Illinois and is retired from his position as a CircuitJudge for the State of Illinois. He and his wifeVerna have 3 adult children and 8 grandch i l d r e n .Bob’s e-mail address is [email protected] Wi t t is still “of-counseling” in San Diego andreports that the San Diego County Board ofSupervisors appointed him chair of the San DiegoCounty Campaign Finance & Control Commission– in anticipation of an eventual County ElectionCampaign Finance Ordinance. This, of course, willrequire John to personally remove all hangingchads from every ballot cast in San Diego Countyfor every election in the future. He became pres-ident of the Boys & Girls Foundation of San Diegoon July 1, 2001, and continues to sit on several

boards, including The Armed Services Y.M.C.A., St.Paul’s Senior Homes & Services, Inc., and theMuseum of Man. John admits spotting B e nM c Ke s s o n from time to time as Ben appears to beenjoying retirement in Northern San Diego County.Bob Robbins has retired and can now be reach e dat bo b a n d [email protected] in Lincoln, California.Bob’s doing pro bono work for the Placer CountyLegal Aid and Roseville Senior Center. Ed Nanceand Betty are the proud owners of three new race-horses. He has sugarplum dreams of the Ke n t u ck yDerby in 2002. Ed’s e-mail address is [email protected]. Your faithful Class Reporter, J a m e sM. Sutton the Judge, just got back from a mid-Julyjudicial conference in Montreal, Quebec which wasextended with a 5-day stay in New York City todo the usual tourist stuff.

Judge James M. Sutton, Jr., Class Report e rj m s u t t o n j r @ a o l . c o m .

> Class of 1961Our 40th Year Reunion was held on June 16,2001 at the California Club in downtown Lo sAngeles. Those of you that were not able to attendmissed a great time. Phil Nich o l s o n served as ourMaster of Ceremonies and each member of ourclass in attendance gave a brief comment oncurrent or past activities. Phil reports that he stillpractices in Century City and enjoys in his leisuretime bicycling, motorcycle trips with his family andstudying music. Also in attendance was J a r re t tA n d e r s o n, who continues to practice in Glendalewith emphasis in litigation. He has 3 children and3 grandchildren. Larry Bamberger is employedby the State Compensation Insurance Fund withoffices in Glendale. He reports that he is happyin his field and enjoys, in his leisure time, playingtennis, skiing, travel and movies. Frank Gafkowskihas retired from the bench and moved to Pa l mDesert. He serves the courts on assignment in SanBernardino County and has received his Master’sdegree in Dispute Resolution. Harvey Gerber i sa member of the Rancho Mirage City Counsel,where he lives on the 5th green of the Nich o l a sGolf course. He is currently retired, but handleda number of class action matters during his yearsof practice. Judith O. Hollinger attended with her


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husband, Glen, and has recently retired from theb e n ch. She reports that she is doing privatejudging and has 5 children (one an attorney) and1 grandchild. Just before the reunion, Judith andGlen returned from a month trip to Europe – Pa r i s ,Venice and Rome where they enjoyed a privatetour of the Sistine Chapel after it was closed to thepublic. Gideon Kanner is a Pr o fessor of LawEmeritus and a columnist for the National LawJ o u r n a l. He is a frequent guest lecturer at manyuniversities and places of higher education inEurope. He serves as “of counsel” to a firm inSanta Monica. R i ch a rd Norman is active in his firmin Ventura and all 3 of his children are attorneys.He enjoys golfing and traveling with his wife, Jean.E v e rett Dick e y has also retired from the bench, butsets on assignment in Orange County. D o n a l dLo z e is still engaged in the theatrical industry andenjoys his leisure with his wife, Ann. He reportsthat he is currently working on a play which hehopes to have into production by this time nex ty e a r. Phil Rudnick still wears his cowboy boots andhat and is engaged in practice as well as farmingin the Bakersfield area. Robert Sch a l k a t t e n d e dfrom Santa Cruz. He and his wife have 3 sons anda daughter. During his time away from the officehe enjoys traveling, golf and plans on a trip toAfrica in early 2002. Hodge Dolle practices landuse and condemnation law in Santa Monica. Hehas 4 daughters and 6 grandchildren, the last ofw h i ch was born in June and weighed 10 lbs. Hetravels, golfs and is an active supporter of USC. Herecently finished a term as a commissioner on theL.A. Board of Zoning Appeals. Donald Yo ka i t i slives in Rancho Mirage and enjoys boating. Yo u rhumble reporter, Charles Wh i t e s e l l, practices inGlendale with emphasis on family law (ch i l dcustody), elder abuse (financial) and wills andtrusts preparation and litigation as well as ageneral practice. He and his wife just celebrated40 years of marriage, have 3 children and 3 grand-sosn. Their leisure time is spent on traveling,residing part-time at their home in Cabo SanLucas and, of course, fishing. Others heard from,but not able to attend the Reunion were: R o n a l dG o l a n is a commissioner of the Palm SpringsAirport and has a civil trial and transactional prac-tice. Robert Cleaves is active as CEO of the

Wilderness Conservancy and preservation ofendangered wildlife. He is a solo practitioner in Lo sAngeles. S tanley Epstein is married to Renata andhas 2 children and 3 grandchildren. He still prac-tices law in the Marina Del Rey area and serves asan Arbitrator and Pro Tem. Paul Fe g e n practices inCentury City with emphasis in personal injury ands exual harassment. Malcolm Le v i n t h a l is a solo

practitioner in Santa Barbara in the field of busi-ness and corporate law. Robert O’Brien is retiredfrom the bench but serves on assignment. He has2 children and 2 grandchildren. M i chael Sagar i ssurfing in Laguna Beach and when not doing thatcan be found in his office where he practicesgeneral law. Randy Siple is retired and a farmerin Ventura County. He spends his non-farming



Grad’s battle to protect wildlife takes flight

When he witnessed his first migration of wildebeests and zebras through the Se rengeti Plains, R o b e r t

Cleaves ’61 was so awed that he became temporarily disoriented. He had to land his rented plane ino rder to re c over his sense of dire c t i o n .

A former jet fighter pilot and 35-year veteran of the U.S. AirFo rce, Mr. Cleaves landed the plane safely on a cattle trail near aremote Masai village — but some might say that he never quitere c ove re d .

That 1968 flight — part of a safari vacation he took with hiswife, Emmy — ignited a passion for animals and for the Africanwilderness that continues to intensify. As founder and CEO of theWilderness Conserva n c y, Mr. Cleaves has combined that passionwith his piloting skills and aircraft expertise to help pre s e rvewilderness lands in Africa and to stem the tide of poaching thatt h reatens the existence of some of the world’s most magnificentanimals and ecosystems.

His efforts began in full after he saw firsthand the deva s t a-tion of poaching: During a canoeing trip in on the Za m b ezi Rive rin Zi m b a bwe in 1986, he saw three black rhinos, slaughtered anddehorned. He was horrified. “When the trip was ove r,” says Mr.

C l e a ves, “I arranged to meet with the director of the Zi m b a bwe De p a rtment of National Pa rk sand Wildlife Management, and I asked what they needed to help combat the poaching. He said theyneeded an airplane.”

M r. Cleaves returned to the United States and began raising money for planes that would allowwildlife agencies to search for poachers from the air. Soon, he’d sent five two-seater prop planes;he continues to fly his own poacher-hunting missions there eve ry ye a r. By 1992, Mr. Cleaves hadre t i red from his successful civil law practice to dedicate himself to wilderness issues full time. Hefounded the Wilderness Conservancy to generate support for conservation, environmental educa-tion and antipoaching programs. Thanks to his efforts, many poachers have been imprisoned andthe problem has been nearly eliminated in some areas.

“When you see animals in the wild you can’t help but want to pre s e rve their world,” says Mr.C l e a ves, who has garnered numerous awards, including the 1997 United Na t i o n s’ Earth Da y - E a rt hFair International En v i ronment Aw a rd, for his work. “Baboons, for instance, are so family oriented.So are elephants. T h e re’s a feeling that we’re alike in some way. When you see them being killedfor their tusks and horns, you have to help them. And this is one way I can truly offer something, byputting my legal and military and aviation experience to use in protecting them.”

Robert Cleaves ’61, lower right, and anarmed parks official take a poach e rinto custody.


time playing jazz and developing an organic certi-fication business. Tom Vi c e l j a lives in Hawaii. Heworked in the aerospace industry and retired in1 998. He teaches in the public schools. S h e l d o nS l o a n is also retired from the bench and is a“legislative advocate.” He served on the MemorialColiseum Commission. He and his wife have 4ch i l d r e n . Walter Zifkin is CEO of William MorrisA g e n c y, has a son attending Boalt Law School andenjoys sailing. Donald Reisner lives in Sacramentowhere he is a “legislative advocate.” He and Marilynhave been married for over 40 years and have 4girls and many grandchildren. Art Rozell is retiredand has “nothing to report.” Gerald Po i r i e r is retiredand lives in Diamond Bar. Allen Neelley is doingbusiness as “The Manhattan Sportsman” in Utahwhere he serves as a professional hunting andfishing guide. Martin We e k e s is retired from theL.A. County Counsel’s office and has 3 daugh-ters and 4 grandchildren. J e rome Janger does realestate transactional and patent law. He has 3 sonsand 2 grandchildren. Let me hear about youraccomplishments, travels and other activities soyou can be included in the next report. Also, put onyour calendar to attend our 45th Year Reunion in2 0 06.

Charles Whitesell, Class Reporter c w h i t e s e l l @ e a r t h l i n k . n e t

> Class of 196 2Let’s start this edition of “Class Notes ‘62” with alittle math quiz: If college graduates start travelingto the USC Law School from variouscolleges/universities, the military and/or discardedvocational endeavors in September 1959, whenwill they arrive in September 2001? If youanswered 42 years, you are there. Now the diffi-cult question: Where will they be and what will theybe doing in 2001? All of you know the answer –but are reluctant to answer. The following winninganswers are being published and shared. J e ro l dC o h n is toiling with the Worker’s CompensationAppeals Board, where he is a judge. He and wife ,N a n c y, have two daughters, Dana and Lisa, highs chool cheerleaders who are starting to look for ”aplace to go to college next year.” Our “frequentf l y e r,” Kent Fro e h l i ch, says he lives in Los Angeles

but this may be one of those “residence vs. domi-cile” issues. He just returned from a three-monthsojourn to Russia, the Czech Republic, Belarus,Poland, Finland, Norway, Sweden, France andEngland. His next trip (by the time you are readingthis) will be to Scotland, Ireland and Wales. Livingin Upland, Fred Golles is enjoying the “RetiredL i fe” and would enjoy hearing from members ofthe Class of “62.” Jerry Miller, wants to have our“ 40th Class Reunion” during assize time so thatMarv Katz can re-enact his recital for (Pr o fe s s o rHenry Springmeyer in the case involving conditionalassault: ‘Were it not for assize time ... I’d run youthrough. ... ‘ Marv will bring his sword and otherprops.) The Law School sent a questionnaireregarding the 40th Reunion. It looks like we mayhave a theme and entertainment, thanks to Jerryand Marv. Jim Pe r z i k is still with the Lakers andis sporting the most recent “NBA ChampionshipR i n g .” His wife, Judy, is involved in the creation ofinteractive CD’s and tests involving education andthe arts. Their son, Jordan, is a senior at BostonUniversity in the Film School. Jim is working part-time with large blocks of time for traveling. Th e i rlast trip was a month in Australia. Gene Reard o nlives in Aspen, Colorado, with spouse Diana andstepson Max where the family skis about 100days a season. They also hit the powder in Vail andBeaver Creek, Utah. Proud dad Robert We l bo u r nreports on his three sons. Edward married CaryElliott (USC ‘95) in a ceremony at The GrandWauela Hotel on May 6, 2001. Sons Rob andJohn are single. John, the football player, is the

starting left guard for the Philadelphia Eagles(Number 76). A 33-year member of Rotary, Bobenjoys scuba diving and is planning a trip to theH u m boldt Current (36 hours by boat from CostaRica) next Fe b r u a r y. I sadly report the passing ofour friends, Robert “Bob” Berg s t e n and Wa rdM o r r i s. Bob retired from Pa r k e r, Stanbury, et. al. acouple of years ago and was living in the Pa l mDesert area. Ward was living in Fort Lauderdale,Florida, where he passed the bar exam in 1997,after his retirement. Both were good “trial lawyers”and both worked in defense firms where theywere partners. We will miss both of our colleagues.“ Ta Ta For Now.” Enjoy the sunrises and thesunsets with those you love.

Judge John C. Wo o l l e y, Class Report e rj w o o l e y @ s u p e r i o r. c o . o r a n g e . c a . u s

> Class of 1965Robert Ke n d a l l writes to say that he and his wifeNelda live in Orange County where Bob is apartner in a medium sized firm. When not workingthey enjoy cruising on their trawler along the coastand coastal islands. With four kids and threeg r a n d children, work and play, they keep busy. J i mU k ro p i n a retired this last Fe b r u a r y. He and his wifeLois took a Stanford trip along the Ancient SilkRoad in December. Had to work Stanford insomehow and Jim’s trip was perfect. He is on anumber of corporation boards, so retired but busy.Jim states that he runs into Hon. D i ckran Te v r i z i a nonce in a while and sees Mike Gless and his wifeKathy for dinner on an annual basis. Chris Rolinhas relocated his office and home to the valley.Now a sole practitioner and loving it. He and hisw i fe Debbie journeyed to Spain with ABOTA andhad a wonderful time. Gerry Gerstenfeld is also inthe valley and doing mediation and arbitration. H o n .

R i ch a rd Huffman is still with the Court of Appealand is Chair of the California Judicial Councilalong with teaching at University of San DiegoLaw School. His wife is a Special Advocate withthe Juvenile Court and his son, Richard, is with theSan Diego District Attorneys Office. S h a n n o nTro w e r has been retired since 1992 and is livingin Palm Desert, California. Another lucky one isE d w a rd “Ted” Ku h r a u


On the Honor Roll

Candace D. Cooper ’73 re c e i ved the Ha r r i e t tBuhai Center for Family Law CommunitySe rvice Aw a rd in recognition of her efforts top romote gender and racial equality in the court s .Justice Cooper also was appointed by CaliforniaSu p reme Court Chief Justice Ronald M. Ge o r g eto head a new state panel on judicial service. T h epanel will study the quality of the Californiaj u d i c i a ry and identify best practices in benefitsand compensation issues in an effort to attractand retain highly qualified judges to careers onthe bench.

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GR A D UAT ES F OCUS ON PHIL A N T HR O PY

Choosing to be ch a r i t a b l e in a tax-wise way with your IRA or qualified plan

If, at the time of your passing, you could leave $100,000 to your favorite charity, or, fro mthe same $100,000, you could leave more than $70,000 to the taxing authorities and lessthan $15,000 to each of your two adult children, what would you do? That is the choicep resented under current law to a re l a t i vely we a l t h y, unmarried individual who has at least$100,000 in an Individual Re t i rement Account (IRA) or a qualified pension, pro f i t - s h a r i n gor re t i rement plan.

A married person can leave unlimited amounts to a surviving spouse without having estatet a xes imposed because of the marital deduction. Howe ve r, upon the death of an unmarriedperson (with a substantial net worth), all of his or her assets are subject to federal and state estatetax at approximately a top marginal estate tax rate (in 2002) of 50 percent, unless those assetspass to charitable beneficiaries. In addition, the IRA (or qualified plan) is subject to federal andstate income tax – potentially at approximately a 40 percent marginal rate (with a deductionon the income tax return for the federal estate tax produced by the IRA) – when distribu-tions are made to people or trusts for people. As a result, the overall taxes on the IRA coulde xceed 70 percent. On the other hand, no federal or state estate or income taxes apply whenIRA or qualified-plan distributions are made to a qualified charitable organization.

At these tax rates, naming the two children as the beneficiaries of a $100,000 IRA allow seach to inherit only about $14,000 and gives the federal and state governments decision-makingauthority to spend about $72,000. An inheritor of a large estate will not “f e e l” his or her inher-itance being reduced by $14,000 or so, but the charity certainly will feel, and ve ry mucha p p reciate, the benefit of the full $100,000 contribution.

New U.S. Tre a s u ry Regulations, issued in Ja n u a ry 2001, now allow for a charity to be namedthe beneficiary of an IRA or qualified plan without negatively affecting, as was previously thecase, the IRA ow n e r’s or plan part i c i p a n t’s withdrawal schedule during his or her lifetime. Ofcourse, if the plan participant decides to name a qualified charitable organization as the bene-f i c i a ry of the IRA or qualified plan, he or she should first seek professional advice about howthe overall estate plan is affected and whether the charity should be the beneficiary of a separateIRA or a co-beneficiary of an IRA. In the latter case, the charitable portion should be separatedout no later than Dec. 31 of the calendar year following the ow n e r’s or part i c i p a n t’s death.

While there is both an estate tax on the estates of unmarried people and an income taxl a w, be aware of the impact these two tax systems have on IRAs and qualified plans and yo u roverall estate plan. The new federal estate tax law provides for a gradually increasing exe m p t i o nuntil 2010, when the federal estate tax law is scheduled, as of now, to be abolished – until 2011,when, amazingly, it is scheduled to return with a $1 million exemption. During the coming decade, we likely will see political debate re g a rding the estate tax law and, eve n t u a l l y, some modifications.

In any case, by using an IRA or qualified plan, you can design a ve ry charitable estateplan without substantially affecting the people who would benefit from the rest of your estate.If the estate tax law is indeed abolished, or the new exemption exceeds your net worth, yo ualways can revise your beneficiary designation. On the other hand, if either event occurs, yo umay want to keep the charitable beneficiary designation because the rest of your net wort h ,passing to your family members, will not be reduced by estate taxes.

Ge rald M. Ya ro s l ow is a Ca l i f o rnia certified specialist in estate planning, trust and probate law and a fellowof the American College of Trust and Estate Counsel. He is is a sole practitioner in Los Angeles.

By Gerald M. Yaroslow ’76



who now lives on Bainbridge Island in Wa s h i n g t o n .Terry Bridges and his wife Sharon have beenmarried for 30 years and have three children andfour grandchildren. He practices in Riverside butlives in Newport Beach. He is still representing thef r a n chiser in franch i s e r - f r a n chisee disputes.Walking tours of Europe are their vacation ofchoice. Hon. Keith Sharro w is retired and now livesin Yuma, Arizona. He and his wife will be cele-brating 56 years together this November. Hon. B i l lH u s s is very active in the arbitration field. He hadbeen elected to several international mediationacademies but the one I liked is the Wo r s h i p f u lCompany of Arbitration, a part of the London guildsystem. H o n . James Harmon writes that he is in histhird term on the bench in El Centro. He justfinished up as presiding judge of the court and isb a ck to a trial calendar doing a variety of matters.He and Mary are the proud parents of four ch i l-dren ranging from lawyer to 3rd grader. H. A.G e i s e n d o r f e r is retired and traveling a lot. Mostrecent trip was China. Robert M. Martin writes tosay that he has learned that he is a part of thegreatest generation per Tom Brokaw and at 78 hebody surfs and golfs regularly. He, as all of usseem to be doing, is enjoying his children andg r a n d children. Joe Nida and his wife Jill celebratedtheir 13th wedding anniversary. Joe is an activeofficer in several corporations and involved inventure capital in the Santa Barbara area. Wr i t e .It is always nice to catch up with each of you andfind out what you have been doing.

John A. Torribio, Class Report e rt o r r i b i o l a w @ y a h o o . c o m

> Class of 1966The Class of 1966 held its 35th Year Reunion onJune 2, 2001 and a good time was had by all inattendance. It’s hard to believe it’s been thirty-fiveyears since we were all “launched into the legalcommunity” for good or bad. Dave Andersonwrites that he is now officially retired from thepractice of law and still living in Santa Barbara. Ithink this is the second or third time Dave hasretired, so I wonder how long this one will last.While Dave is not practicing law he still keeps busyas the Co-Director of the Santa Barbara Museum

of Natural History while leading an active phys-ical life snorkeling, swimming, skiing, etc. Davesends his regrets to all those at the reunion ashe was unable to attend. James C. Bageman, whowas at the reunion, is also retired, living in Po r t o l aValley where he is now into real estate develop-ment – which he says beats practicing law.L a w rence W. Campbell is the Senior CorporateAttorney with Solar Turbines in San Diego. Larrysays that he is enjoying some of the “most inter-esting work of his life” and has no plans to retire.Stephen Gooch has wandered all the way toTexas where he is Senior Counsel for Santa FeInternational Corporation – a major international oiland gas drilling contractor. Steve has traveledextensively in his job, especially to the Middle East,Southeast Asia and many other places where oiland gas exploration occur. Another retired, but nottired, member of our class is Brad Le o n a rd, w h omay have achieved a first for our group. Hebecame a great-grandfather in July 2000. If thereare others of you out there who have achieved thisrare distinction, I apologize for the oversight but it’sprobably because you never bothered to tell me.Judge James Jack m a n is now retired from theOrange County Superior Court and does alterna-tive dispute resolution work to keep busy. Te r r yM c G a u g h e y is still practicing law in To r r a n c e ,California. Terry writes that both his son anddaughter are in “the law field.” His son is a prac-ticing attorney and his daughter is in her secondyear of law school. Another of our classmates whois still “laboring in the trenches” is Dudley Muth.Dudley is the Chief Compliance Officer andGeneral Counsel for Annuity Scout.Com. Dean W.We i n e r also still enjoys the practice of law in Mesa,

Arizona, and has managed to find time to travelex t e n s i v e l y. His travels include a recent ten-dayvisit to China where he says the people were very“ f r i e n d l y, honest and clean.” Dean also learned justenough Chinese to “go beyond the usual touristc o r r i d o r s .” Last, but not least, John Westwater i senjoying his semi-retirement from U.S. Tr u s tCompany; John works half time. He and his wifeare enjoying their life in Pauma Va l l e y, although hisgolf game hasn’t improved the way he ex p e c t e d .You need to completely retire for that to happen,John. I am still sitting as a Superior Court Judge inLos Angeles County and actually enjoy it verym u ch. In November 2000 I had the great privilegeto swear in our youngest daughter and some ofher friends as new attorneys. She works for a largelaw firm in Orange County doing corporate andtransactional work. Thanks for the manyresponses. Look forward to hearing from somemore of you in the future.

Judge Chris R. Conway, Class Reporter

> Class of 1969Gerald Collier wrote in from Lake Arrowhead tosay that he is retired from active practice andspends most of his time playing duplicate bridgearound the U.S. He is a member of USCAssociates, a life member of Legion Lex and a verygenerous supporter of our Class of 1969S cholarship Fund. Thanks Gerry, and that is a notso subtle hint to the rest of you (in my othercapacity as class representative to the Legion LexAnnual Fund). R i ch a rd Dombro w reports that heis still taking 16 weeks off each year to travel. Inaddition, he tries to fly his airplane, a 250C o m a n che, 3-4 times each week and has aninstrument and commercial rating. He flies doctorsto Mexico once a month for Flying Sams and otherorganizations. He says that he will become an“empty nester” in September 2001. Then he willget some real time off. Mark Fr a z i n has recentlybeen appointed to the Los Angeles Superior CourtJuvenile Court as an “as-needed Refe r e e .” S t e v eG a l t o n continues at the firm of Galton & Helm, ina specialized practice limited to the representationof life, health and disability insurers in trials and civillitigation matters. Steve is still married to Grace

On the Honor Roll

Julie I. Bornstein ’74, California’s director of thed e p a rtment of housing and community deve l-opment, was named a 2001 Fannie Ma eFoundation Fe l l ow of the Program for Se n i o rExe c u t i ves in State and Local Government atHa rva rd Un i ve r s i t y’s John F. Kennedy School ofGovernment. Ms. Bornstein was one of 10community leaders from around the countryto re c e i ve the honor.



( 38 years) and is living in La Canada. He andGrace enjoy traveling and have been to mostplaces in the U.S., Europe and Asia. Steve alsoreports that the “Helm” in the firm, namely H u g hH e l m, went “of counsel” in January 2000 andessentially retired from the firm. He is living onLido Island in Newport Beach, where he isPresident of the Lido Island Homeowner’sAssociation. In my years of acting as ClassR e p o r t e r, I have learned to try to squeeze the mostfrom the few responses that I get for each article.Although I normally cull the information and edito-rialize, this one I think I better just quote verbatim.My old friend Jay Gould reports: “I know you haveheard from the grapevine . . . that I haven’t workedsince 1991; that I have been sailing in the So u t hPacific for the last 10 years; that I have beenadopted by a significant family in Vanuatu; and,that I have clubbed to death several wild pigs aspart of their Grade Taking Ceremonies, and I amnow a middle level Chief within the country ofVanuatu – for real! – I am a member of the Councilof Chiefs in the village of Labultamata, Pe n t e c o s t ,Vanuatu. Now, what you haven’t heard is that Ihave stopped sailing and sold my boat; that I am inthe process of divorce #3, that I now live inM e l bourne, Australia, and that I have a newpersonal and business partner – Pauline PhuongTruong – an Australian Vietnamese attorney wholeft Vietnam during 1977 at the age of 3 in thebottom of a fishing boat (she is one of the firstVietnamese migrants to Australia); that we haveformed a company ... for the purpose of facilitatingintroductions between Vietnamese businessesand Western businesses in Europe and the UnitedStates. ...” Jay, thank you for making this gig inter-esting. Jay is going to be in Los Angeles inSeptember 2001. I hope to meet with him and Iwill report back to you in the next issue. I won’tbe taking my pet pig. Because I am doing this inmostly alphabetical order, Don McNelley falls intothe “how do I follow that” position. Don is practicingas a sole practitioner in Indian Wells. He has beenmarried to Lovelace since 1965 and has 3 ch i l-dren and 7 grandchildren ranging in age from 18to 9. Will he be the first in our class to reach greatgrandfather status? Don is a member of the Boardof Trustees of St. Margaret’s Episcopal School and

a member of the Board of Directors of FIND ,C o a chella Valley Food Bank. As to my inquirya bout retirement, he replied, “I thought abo u tretiring sometime soon, but somehow word gotout to my creditors and all opposing counsel. Th e yq u i ckly banded together and got an injunction,enjoining me from having any more thoughts ofretirement and ordering me to continue workingi n d e f i n i t e l y.” Robert Sch i b e l is living in Pa c i f i cPalisades and practicing as a certified family lawspecialist in Santa Monica. Ben (“Bunky”) Sch u ckreports from Ventura that he got married inDecember 2000. Sounds like a match made inheaven as his wife Lani likes to surf, fish and ridewith Bunky on his Harley. He is still working hard,with 3 kids in college now and 2 more to startsoon. However, he still has time for his numerouscommunity service activities and to hunt with DickDombrow at least once a year. Pete Williams i n d i-cates that he has slowed down considerably in hislaw practice and plans to travel a bit more when hiskids leave the nest. His daughter Katie has alreadydone so, turning down Stanford among others toattend USC as a Trustee Scholar at the MarshallS chool of Business. Of course, Pete still has plentyof time for golf and notes that he just spent moremoney on 2 new golf clubs for his wife than hespent on his first car. No big deal Pete, I rememberthat car. Maybe he is playing cupid as well. I knowhe has a regular USC golf game with Tom Wa l l e yand Trav Wo o d (Joe Jaconi, too). Pete reports thatTom is “set to tie the knot with a beautiful newlady” and I know Trav is planning to get marriedsoon as well. So r r y, but with Gould, Sch u ck, Wa l l e yand Wood, this is turning into a matrimonial report.As for me, Bob Rosenberg, I am still practicingmostly real estate as a sole practitioner in BeverlyHills. My son Todd just started in the MBA program

at USC, and my daughter Allison (who is an adver-tising executive) just moved into a new house withher husband. My wife Jackie has just been inter-viewed by the Los Angeles Ti m e s for a fe a t u r earticle on her business, “Babies First Class”.H o p e f u l l y, that is my retirement.

Bob Rosenberg, Class Report e rr i r @ j w d b . c o m

> Class of 1971First of all, for those of you who were not able toattend our 30th Year Reunion – we missed you!It was a wonderful event and a great opportunityto renew old acquaintances. Lynn D. Fe i g e rattended with her husband, John A. Wo o d r u f f

( “ Wo o d y ” ). They have one son, Joshua, who is oldenough to stay home and watch himself whileMom and Dad are off gallivanting around. Lynn hasresided in the Denver, Colorado, area since grad-uating Law School. Her practice concentrates onemployment and civil rights problems. I waspleased to learn that she tried the first sex u a lharassment case under Title VII in the UnitedStates. Congratulations, Lynn! She and Woody areavid sailors and enjoy cycling, skiing, traveling andfixing up old houses. Barbara Gord o n, whom thisreporter has not seen in almost 20 years, camedown from Kentfield, California, to enjoy theevening. She has three sons, Benjamin, 21 yearsand her 18-year-old twins, Charlie and Mich a e l .She was formerly a partner at Howard, Rice, Nemoet al. but withdrew after the birth of the twins. Wecan all imagine what life must have been like withthree small children at home! Her specialty iscommercial law and bankruptcy. Rumor has it thatshe may be moving to one of the So u t h e r nCalifornia beach cities in the near future. We lookforward to seeing you, Barbara. I had a wonderfultime at the reunion sharing the evening withE d w a rd R. Gilda and his wife Karen. Ed main-tained a practice in Monterey, California for many,many years and commuted daily from Big Sur. Butas things would have it two more people movedinto the Big Sur area and he felt it was becominga little too crowded. So, he and the family pick e dup sticks and moved north to Petrolia, California.Ed is no longer practicing law. He and his wife own

On the Honor Roll

M i chele Anthony ’80 was one of 25 U.S. busi-nesswomen honored by NOW Legal De f e n s eand Education Fund at “Aiming High: ACelebration of the Power of Women,” mark i n gN OW Legal De f e n s e’s 30th annive r s a ry. She ise xe c u t i ve vice president of Sony Mu s i cEn t e rt a i n m e n t .




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and operate the Lost Coast Lodge. I understandthat they have a lot more breathing room. It wasgreat renewing my relationship with Ed and Ka r e n .Barry A. Currier, who was not able to make thereunion, called and asked me to extend his specialregrets. Barry recently resigned as Dean of theCumberland School of Law at Samford Universityin Birmingham, Alabama. He has accepted anappointment as Deputy Consultant on Le g a lEducation at the American Bar Association. Th eA.B.A. is the national accrediting authority for legaleducation. In his new position, among other things,Barry will work on issues improving the quality oflegal education. Barry and his wife, Marilyn, nowlive in downtown Chicago and commute to theirgetaway in Sonoma, California, as often aspossible. They have one daughter, Christine, whois a special education teacher in Minneapolis anda son who is currently an executive in the tech-nology industry in San Francisco, California. Th e yhave one grandchild, We s l e y. Keep up the goodwork Barry. A special guest at the reunion was aB l a ck graduate of the Law School Class of 1946 ,Judge James Reese (retired). Paul Morantz i scurrently writing a book on the organizationSynanon. Paul has spent his life working to bringto court such cults and brainwashing organizationsthat kidnap people. Because of his investigationsPaul has feared for his life and he has been underpolice protection three times during his career.S h o w Time is producing a movie based on his lifeand book. Interestingly, Lance Spiegel shared withall of us his experience in trying his very first case.It was before Judge Reese and Lance won. Wewere all pleased to have one of the Class of 1971S cholarship Fund recipients, Mr. Timothy Beck e r,as another guest that evening. Pr o fessor Mich a e lShapiro has not lost that wonderful dry sense ofhumor and sharp wit. He was definitely a plus thatevening. In closing, I would like to thank a mostspecial guest, Dean Matthew L. Spitzer. DeanSpitzer is a brilliant conversationalist and was anoutstanding guest speaker. We all wish him muchsuccess as he leads the USC Law School into the21st century. Have a wonderful New Ye a r. See youin the spring.

Joseph E. Po r t e r, III, Class Report e rPo r t e r 3 l a w @ h o m e . c o m

> Class of 1972My usual trolling letter and questionnaire to ourclassmates were casualties to two real estatetransactions during the weeks before the articledeadline. We sold a historic Center City Philadelphiabuilding to a Swiss insurance company and a newhotel in Andover, M a s s a chusetts, to privateinvestors. So I took to the telephone instead andhad some enjoyable conversations, which I recounthere. Neil Bahan was in New Zealand in July onvacation with his daughters. He visited Australiaand Maui with them before returning to his Irvineoffice. Neil resides permanently in Ke t chum, Idaho,but he practices law in Irvine and typically spendsthe business week there. It goes without sayingthat Neil is also a private pilot. D i ck Daviscommented from his Pasadena home that heconsiders himself to be the all-time luckiest personin the world despite a recent hospital stay causedby pneumonia. Dick has been widowed manyyears and reminded me that when he graduatedfrom Stanford only one of our first-year profe s s o r shad been born. In other words, law was Dick ’ ssecond career. He speaks fondly of Tom Harneywith whom he has maintained a bi-coastal friend-ship over the years. Tom practices in Atlanta at alarge firm, Kilpatrick Stockton, which I encounterin my land development activities there. When wespoke, Tom said that he and family have resided inAtlanta since graduation. He speaks with the samedeliberate pace today as he did in 1972. M a r kFre d k i n has practiced law in San Jose with thesame firm for over 25 years and specializes incomplicated civil litigation. He completed three jurytrials this year. Mark’s partners are friends withwhom he attended Stanford as an undergraduate.He is married with two daughters, one of whomis a second year law student at UCLA. Mark spenteight years as City Councilman and Mayor of hishometown, Montesereno, enough politics for a life-time. The Fredkins enjoyed a vacation in SantaFe this summer. John Johnson, a Los AngelesSuperior Court Commissioner, spoke to me from hischambers to report a recent transfer in responsibil-ities. He presides over an Early Disposition Courtw h i ch has been created to respond to the 1-day, 1-trial rule for jurors in California. Because of the rule,jurors are at a premium and the system is

responding in Compton with John’s hearings toresolve felony cases by stipulation prior to trial. Th i s“worker bee of the judicial system” will enjoy aweek of vacation with his wife Robin and theirdaughter in Washington, D.C., this summer. Robinis a clinical professor at the USC medical campus.John is a close friend of R i ck Edward s who hasbeen encouraging him to seek appointment as aSuperior Court Judge. Rick had just returned froma July vacation in St. Petersburg, Russia, where heis building a dacha in his wife’s village! R u s sKidder spoke to me from his Newport Beachoffice about his financial consulting business,Quadrille Corporation. He has been in businessover seven years providing investment financing tosmall companies. Sometimes he consults on howbest to take a company public. Other times heprocures financing for a small public company in agrowth mode. Either way, his sources in Europeprovide the dollars and an opportunity for Russto spend time abroad on business and pleasure.Russ enjoys his work and has no plans to retire.He says the flexibility that he enjoys could not beimproved. He plans a Colorado trip to visit a sonand daughter who both live there. Russ mentionedthat the exploits of Tom Gasparini on the golfcourse at Cota de Casa merit my recording themhere. I will give Tom a rebuttal in the next column.Ellen Ke h r is a Deputy Attorney General in Lo sAngeles, the same office where Earl Plowmanworks. She has been in the job since graduationand enjoys writing appellate briefs enough to havejust finished a 300-page response in a deathpenalty case. She is also a passionate quilter andhopes to enter the Los Angeles County Fa i rcompetition this year with one of her best. Ellenresides in Los Angeles with her husband, also ana t t o r n e y, and two daughters. Her older daughterwill graduate from USC Law School next June,exactly 30 years after us! Whew! Ellen mentionedseeing Frances Noble at a recent book signingand commented on how well she looked. Th econversation with Ellen reminded me of the poten-tial for a Class of 1972 Reunion next year to mark30 years after our graduation. I hope to seeeveryone then.

J a ck Ba k e r, Class Report e rj b a k e r @ b r i ck s t o n e . c o m


> Class of 1977Fantastic trips, professional achievements, andkids seem to be the themes of your responses tothis year’s questionnaire. Before updating you onour individual classmates’ activities, two class-widepieces of news. First, believe it or not, next Junewill mark the 25th anniversary of our graduation.By the time you read this, plans for a 25-yearreunion should be well underway. Please partici-pate in the event planning to the extent that youare able and, most importantly, do come to thereunion party. The 20-year reunion was muchmore enjoyable than many of us thought it wouldbe and, with good planning and a big turnout, thisone can be even better. Second, I am happy toreport that the recipient of the Class of 1977S cholarship this year is Mr. Sachin Mehta, asecond-year student, who graduated from UCL Ain 1999; he is interested in medical malpracticeand insurance law. On to the news about ourclassmates: Bill Banning practices with BanningM i cklow Bull & Lopez LLP in San Diego. Started in1 998, the firm specializes in representing plaintiffsin catastrophic personal injury and wrongful deathclaims and insurance bad faith cases. Bill reportsthat he his having more fun and making moremoney that when he was a partner in a big firm. Heand his wife have three daughters and two sons.Dan Beharry has left private practice inConnecticut after 23 years, with a brief interludeat an in-house position. He is now in a more busi-ness-oriented position with Chardan Ve n t u r e s ,located in Solana Beach. He has been married tohis wife Paula since 1974 and they have twodaughters, Sarah, age 18, who is off to college thisfall, and Meghan, age 12. Jeff Carlisle continues ininsurance coverage work at Lynberg & Wa t k i n sand is the Managing Shareholder of that firm. Hejust survived one of those milestone birthdays thatshall always pass unmentioned in this column. Hiseldest son Kellen is off to college, his son Brandonis a junior in high school, and daughter Chelseais in sixth grade. D o l o res Cord e l l continues hersolo employment law practice, advising small andmedium-sized businesses. Both of her children areon their own now, allowing her new freedom.Dolores recently spent a week of English Country

Dancing in Mendocino and has been attending alot of costume balls; she reports that she owns 20evening gowns, including re-creations of 19thcentury gowns, with metal boning, hoop skirts, andthe lot. Mary Ann Galante continues to work in theRiverside County Public Defender’s office andfocuses on death penalty cases. She recently wona not guilty verdict in a first-degree murder case,after the jury deliberated for only two hours. Shehas also been promoted to a management posi-tion in her office, supervising felony trial attorneys.Eric Goldner practices family law, including divorceand adoption. Married in 1998 to Kathleen Hall,Eric goes to Maui as much as possible and raisesmoney for cancer research through a group calledthe Concern Foundation. Susan Gro d e heads theE n t e r t a i n m e n t /IP /New Media practice at Ka t t e n ,M u chin & Zavis. Under her leadership, the depart-ment has grown from 6 to 25 lawyers. Susan isthe grandmother of twins and continues to serveon the Board of the Center Theater Group at theMusic Center, among other charitable and probono activities. She recently spent a month inTuscany with family and friends, living in a farmhouse in the middle of a working vineyard. N a n c yM c C l e l l a n d chairs the Labor and EmploymentPractice Group at Gibson Dunn & Crutch e r. Sheand her family recently returned from a trip toJapan and she is planning to explore Cuba inN o v e m b e r. Nancy and her husband have beenmarried for 37 years and lived in the same housefor 24 years. Her daughter Kamen now lives inWalnut Creek and daughter K.C. recently returnedto L.A. from Boston. Rob Nau practices in CenturyCity with Alex a n d e r, Nau, Lawrence & Frumes andlives in Beverly Hills. Rob Owens still practices andalso co-owns the Provo Angels minor leaguebaseball team. The team is the Pioneer Le a g u eaffiliate of the Anaheim Angels and Rob promisesfree tickets to any class members who go to Pr o v o ,as well as discounted rates at a hotel in Pr o v o .He encourages people to ch e ck out the team’swebsite at www.provoangels.com. Linda Pe t h i ckpractices in Irvine and sends her best to everyone.John Holmes Serrano practices personal injuryand criminal law in San Diego. He is happilymarried with five sons, ranging from 8 to 28. Heworks with the Boy Scouts and his ch u r ch and also

had a recent unspeakable milestone birthday. M a t tS p i t z e r reports that what he does professionally isadequately described elsewhere in this magazine.He has now been married 28 years; he and Jeanhave a 14-year-old daughter, Amanda, and a 3-year-old dog. They are looking forward to a cruisein June 2002. Commissioner Bobbi Ti l l m o n w a skind enough to host several high school studentson a tour of her family law courtroom in SantaMonica last fall; by random chance, the groupincluded your class reporter’s daughter Alex a n d r a .Mark Van Brussell chairs the labor and employ-ment department of the Sacramento office ofSeyfarth Shaw. He has a case pending before theCalifornia Supreme Court. He and his wife havebeen married 27 years and have three kids, ages14-20. They recently had a three-week trip toEurope. He also reports that he enjoyed workingas co-counsel on matters with classmates B o bE v n e r and Dwight Armstro n g. Ed Wa l t o ncontinues to practice in San Diego. The ever lovelyNoreen teaches at Poway High. One of their sons,Luke, was captain of Cal’s undefeated nationalchampionship crew team and was named twice tothe All-Pac-10 team. Your reporter continues topractice at the Los Angeles office of White &Case, where he heads the litigation departmentand has deeply enmeshed in energy litigation thisy e a r. He and Katie just returned from a vacation inScotland. M i chael Yu s k i s is a realtor in NewportB e a ch, specializing in apartment sales and invest-ment properties. He divides his time betweenNewport Beach, Palm Desert, and Maui. Pleasefeel free to send me any information about your-self or any of our classmates any time throughoutthe year. Stay in touch.

Dan Woods, Class Reporter

> Class of 1981Sincere condolences to Ron St. John on theuntimely death of his stepson, Jordan, in April2001. Jordan was a promising football player atOrange Coast College and died in a head-on auto-mobile collision just three weeks before his 18thb i r t h d a y. There is a memorial website ath t t p / / j o r d a n c o n n o l l y.netfirms.com. Trudi Fo u t t sLo h is actively involved in politics. She is currently




the National Chair of the Women’s Le a d e r s h i pForum of the Democratic Committee. She is alsoa founding Advisory Board Member of theWomen’s Vote Center and served as a member ofAl Gore’s Finance Council in the last presidentialelection. She has been married for 17 years toD r. I r v. Lo h and has two middle school-age daugh-ters who are involved in music and volleyball. D a v i dD i ck is a partner at the recently formed San Diegofirm of Hogan, Guiney & Dick, LLP. He primarilyrepresents developers and specializes in realestate and business transactions. He has alsobeen married for 17 years to Mary Alice Godfreyand has four children, a boy (12) and three girls(10, 7 and 4). They live in Point Loma near marriedclassmates M i chael O’Halloran and M a rg a re tM a n n. David has served as a member of the SanDiego Housing Commission since 1984 and hasbeen active in local politics. Kevin Marc y lives inMalibu with his fiancé Abigail and their twoArabian horses. Kevin is currently ex e c u t i v eproducing the biopic of Jackie Gleason titled “Th eGreat One” for HBO. Classmate Paul Le v i n e i snegotiating his deal.

John B. Jameson, Class Reporter

> Class of 1985Despite the fact that I am currently lounging on aspectacularly clear aquamarine Maui beach, withmy ever incredible wife and two handsome andtalented boys (who are presently utilizing theirtalents to drown one another) (“Scott, please stoppouring sand in your brother’s snorkel while he’strying to look at the fish!”), I am so dedicated toyou, my classmates, that I am spending part of myvacation writing this article in order to beat thepublishing deadline. Not. “Another Mai Tai, please.”[TWO WEEKS LAT ER] I’m now back at work. ButHawaii was great! I’d suggest we have our nex treunion there, but Todd Anderson has a betteridea: Apparently after building 13 million squarefeet of warehouses, Todd needed a new ch a l l e n g e ,so he purchased a 300-year-old Italian villa,complete with its own ch u r ch, houses, winemaking facilities, and 300-year-old plumbing. To d dhas offered it up for our 20th reunion so long aswe promise to bring a wrench, some spackle, and

plenty of TP. He decided to buy it after the lastannual summer get-together with the Paul Smith,Ted More t o n, Tom Myers, Lou Raymond, and P a tand Rhea [Caras] Rendon families resulted in 21kids!!! running amuck around his yard. Paul ispersonally responsible for SIX of them (he addedone since the last article, just to make sure he wasmentioned this time); Todd is up to four with hisnew child. And speaking of one of my favoritesubjects – other people’s babies – rumor has itthat Sam Kraemer has surrounded himself withwomen, adding a third daughter and a female dogto his family; and Stuart To chner and his wife Bettyare expecting twins in the fall. Thanks to S a n d r aKo s s a c o f f for the news, though how she has timefor her classmates with her busy schedule isbeyond me. Consider this: Sandra spent her 40 t hbirthday in London, then on safari in Kenya; shefollowed this with some quick scuba lessons fora trip to Florida where she visited sharks (I don’t doLawyer Jokes), before heading off to the GreatBarrier Reef to visit more sharks (I still don’t doLawyer Jokes) and plan her winter ski trip whichwill coincide with her attendance at the 2002Olympic games in Salt Lake City. Can a visit to anItalian Villa be far behind? AND NOW FORSOME T HING COMPLE T ELY DIFFERENT: Don’tyou love hearing about how some of us are doingthings outside the law? Like Larry Vanden Bos’sfood business and Todd Anderson’s d e v e l o p m e n tbusiness? Well how about this: Rob Ya r i n, whoused to commute to D.C. every week for two yearsproducing “Chris Matthews’ Hardball” on CNBC, isnow a “consultant” with Frank Magid Associates,“one of the world’s premier media and entertain-ment research and consultation companies” (atleast according to the web site). I still don’t knowwhat Rob does, but I’m sure his three sons aregrateful for the change in commute. (Thanks to

Number One Field Correspondent and Pe r m a n e n tWinner Of The Something Completely Diffe r e n tAward Amy Tr a s k for the head’s up.) D o n a l dM c C o n n e l l left lawyering ... but did not get very far.A future Chris Stone, Donald is now an AssistantPr o fessor at Trinity Law School in Santa Anawhere he teaches something that sounds way toom u ch like the incomprehensible (I mean “incom-parable”) LL&E: “Legal Institutions and Va l u e s .”After ten years helping to build Nex t e lCommunications into a national wireless company,perpetual entrepreneur Joe Deni f o u n d e dN extgen Power Systems, now “a leading supplierof on-site power reliability systems” (huh?), with 10offices nationwide and $50 million in annual sales.(I’ll have to ask our other Energy Dudes, A l a nWa s k i n [ I n d e ck Energy], John Lamb [Enron Wi n d ]and Phil Sch n o r b a ch [now with Tex a sIndependent Energy in Dallas] what the heck thismeans. Sounds good, anyway.) I’m not sure whatJim O’Brien is doing, but based on his ch e e s ywebsite photo, it can’t involve too much stressfullaw because he doesn’t seem to be aging. Checkit out . (Hint: he’s the guy with no tie.) Thanks toSteve Vi n i n g for the excellent internet sleuthing(i.e., blame Steve, Jim, if you get a bunch of spame-mail after this is published.) WE ARE VERYCOOL: This new category is to celebrateCatherine (Batson) Bauer’s entertaining andinsightful article in a Bankruptcy Report e r a bo u tthe meaning of life ... from the perspective of anunemployed future judge. Really. You can find itin Lexis’ “Bankruptcy Law Newsletters” library byconducting the following search: “hideous andsuicidal and (‘got a package’ w/20 vacation) and“great looking in-house attorney” and (life m a t e sw/3 “freak out”) and (laid w/5 “good thing”) andf i s t f i g h t .” (Thanks to Teri (Groves) Paul for the tip,though I’m proud to say I figured out the searchlogic all by myself.) By the way, did you see thereports on Pam Ko s l y n ’ s major $14.3 millionverdict ($10 million in punitives) against DeathRow Records and Suge Knight? Quite the story.Congrats, Pam. CL ASSM ATE SI T INGS: Jill Lifterwent to court to argue a summary judgmentmotion in “an intriguing sexual assault case” andfound herself face to face with ... M a rc Sherman.S c a r e y. Ty Posser surfaced recently ... in a sushi


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Phyllis Shibata ’81 was named a commissionerof the Los Angeles County Superior Court ,p residing over a misdemeanor criminal calendarc o u rt in West Covina. She previously served asa deputy public defender in Los Angeles andR i verside counties.

line ... in front of Amy Tr a s k (who gets mentionedtwice because she sent me some good stuff forthis article). Ty, reportedly “looking distinguishedand prosperous” (are you sure it was Ty, Amy?) andliving with his wife and two children in “swankyOakland Hills” is a real estate partner with the S.F.office of Baker & A Ton Of Other At t o r n e y sAround The World. Speaking of Amy, she wasseen recently on the witness stand in an L.A.Superior Court, quietly reminding herself why sheleft the law to join pro football’s elites. In the smallworld department, the L.A. Ti m e s r e p o r t e rcovering the trial turned out to be “best of friends”with our own Mark We r k s m a n. Verdict, shmerdict,A m y, it’s time to play football! QUICK UPDAT E :Terry Gill is now with the really big Denver firm ofSherman and Howard ( but no cheesy photo). Iinvite you to stop by and visit Terry ... during thewinter ... with your skis. John Gottes has figuredout how to avoid those pesky client calls in themiddle of the night ... he now represents the dead(conservatorships, trusts and decedents’ estates ifyou want to get technical). (Actually, John still getscontacted, just not by phone. Ooooohhhh.) Wi t hover 30 jury trials under his belt, David Caro t h e r sis now the managing partner of the San Diegooffice of Carlton, DiSante & Freudenberger (ch e ckout his cheesy photo at www. c d f l a bo r l a w.com). Buthe must have caught the Todd Anderson bugbecause he is spending most of his time (andmoney) fixing up his recently-purchased 100-year-old house. (Dave, take heart, your plumbing is200 years more modern than Todd’s!) Gary Rosshas entered himself in the Cheesy Photo contest,with an EXT REMELY strong showing atw w w.rossandmorrison.com. Gary is a fe a t u r e dspeaker at this fall’s CEB “Fundamentals ofEmployment Law” seminar. Speaking of irony, I likeFrank Liberatore ’ s tag line on his website atw w w. J a cksonlewis.com: “All we do is work.” Yo u rFaithful Scribe is doing the same old stuff: mediating, teaching (negotiations and mediation)at the Law School, litigating, writing important articles like this, being a dad, and just trying to be a good human. Keep in touch ... please. ’ Til next time,

Mike Young, Class Report e r

> Class of 1986Forget President Bush and Governor Davis, we’vegot our own politico right here in the Class of1 986. Steve Del Guerc i o was the top vote-getterin the La Canada Flintridge City Council electionand is serving a four-year term. Of course hecouldn’t have done it without the indomitable helpof Armen Hairapetian, Sam Balisy, and yourintrepid Class Reporter. Another government legaleagle is Pat Hanly, who is an Assistant UnitedStates Attorney in Sacramento, where he fightscrime on a daily basis putting narcotic and whitecollar criminals behind bars. Billie Jan Goldstein,on the other hand, keeps the government in ch e ckas an Assistant Public Defender in Miami, Floridaand in her first case overturned the 7- y e a rsentence of a 19 year-old defendant. Closer tohome, Anthony Miera, is Deputy City At t o r n e y, CivilLiability Division for the City of Los Angeles. To n ymarried Kimberly Dawn Phillips in September1 999. Apologies to Lance Gams – he’s not adistrict attorney in Santa Monica. Lance, who lefthis partnership in Downtown after 14 years offond memories and incredible litigation ex p e r i e n c e ,is Deputy City Attorney for the City of SantaMonica. In his free time, Lance “chills” with thelikes of Chris Kanjo, Tom Larkins, and Phil Ewen.Brian Cohen is President of Farmers FinancialSolutions, LLC, and also serves as Chairman of theBoard of the Wellness Community, West Lo sAngeles, which is devoted to providing freep s y chological support to people fighting cancer.Brian and his wife are raising their two ch i l d r e n ,Sarah and Claire. A n d rea Wh i t e is in charge ofS t r a t e g y, Policy & Governance for To y o t a ’ seBusiness group. Congratulations to M i ch a e lD a S i l v a who received the California State Bar’sWiley Manuel Award for Pro Bono Service for

2000. David Vo s s and his wife Allison areexpecting their first child and, when he’s not prac-ticing law at his firm, Dave races sailboats andspends time at vacation homes in Cabo San Lu c a sand at June Lake. So, Dave, can we use the Caboplace over Spring break? David Olson is practicingat Agapay, Levyn & Halling and also plays for SternPunishment, a lawyers league softball teamcomprised of Scott Fo r a k e r , Fred James, M a r kK i ta b a y a s h i, Bob Mitro v i ch, and Lance Gams. Th ename represents the team’s single-mindedpurpose of defeating a competing team led byM a rc Stern. Keith Robinson recently won a trialthat imposed crushing punitive damages on theother side. Congratulations to Robert Chavez a n dw i fe Christina who welcomed their third child, Chloe Anne Roberta, in June, and to Melissa Cohen who is expecting her second ch i l din August.

C. Dana Hobart, Class Report e rH o b a r t D @ HBD l a w y e r s . c o m

> Class of 1987Lisa Kloppenberg has recently been appointedDean of the University of Dayton School of Law.Lisa is one of only 25 women nationwide whoserve as the dean of a law school and she is oneof the youngest law school deans in the country.Donald C. Miller and his wife, Beth, recently cele-brated their 17th wedding anniversary. The Millerslive in La Canada Flintridge and have two ch i l-d r e n — B u ckley (age 7) and Haley (age 4). Don is acivil litigator, with an emphasis on general businessand real estate matters at Sandler and Rosen, LLP,in Los Angeles. Allison Hope We i n e r reports thatafter a few years of free-lance writing she hasaccepted a position as a staff writer atE n t e rtainment We e k l y. Although she is officiallyout of the practice of law, many of her storiesinvolve legal issues. Allison is also completing workon her second book, which is in development at“ S h o w t i m e .” Lisa F. Hinch l i f f e is still trying to solvethe work-family balance mystery by dividing hertime between her part-time Of Counsel job, herfamily (sons are 9 and 5 years old) and volunteeractivities. Lisa is still practicing labor and employ-ment law at Baker & Hostetler LLP (14 years in



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John W. Heilman ’82 was elected to his fifth termas mayor of West Hollywood in April. Hi saccomplishments as mayor include establishingthe West Hollywood Community Ho u s i n gC o r p. and helping to create the city’s re c yc l i n gp rogram.


one place!). Pegine E. Grayson has accepted theposition of Executive Director of the We s t e r nCenter on Law & Po v e r t y. Pegine can be reach e dat [email protected]. Harmon M. Kaslow i sPresident of Kismet Entertainment Group. He isthe Executive Producer of “Night of theWe r e w o l v e s .” Harmon and his wife, Vivian, havethree boys Aharon (10), Arthur (3), Ben (1) andare expecting their fourth child. J o rdi Stringfellowreports that the last decade has included ten yearsas a television business affairs executive andraising her two children, Stevie (11) and Samantha(8), with her husband of 17 years, Dean. Jordi’svolunteer efforts have ranged from Cub Scoutleader to a member of City of Hope’s “CampaignGenetics” Committee where she has spoken atseveral events regarding her successful fightagainst breast cancer. Sandra J. Harris is theAssociate Regional Director, Enforcement for theSecurities and Exchange Commission. Earlier thisy e a r, she addressed representatives from over 20countries at the International Organization ofSecurities Commissions’ Conference on MarketManipulation in Beijing, China. Susan M. Carter-S o o H o o divides her time between her job asAssistant Claims Counsel at LandAmerica andfamily life with husband Jon and their three bo y s– C.J. (8), Dalton (5) and Tanner (1 1/2). Th o m a sJ. Pierry, III and his wife, Suzanne, are the proudparents of Daniel, their one-year-old bo y. Tom hasmodestly avoided reporting the success of hisargument before the United States SupremeCourt (Rambo v. Metropolitan Stevedore). Th a tcase extended injured longshoreperson’s rights topossible future worker’s compensation. James N.B i a n c o taught a course in Criminal Procedure atthe Law School last fall and will teach the samecourse this year. Jim received the Byron AppletonPro Bono Award from the Santa Monica BarAssociation earlier this year. John M. Espar h a smoved to his hometown, Michigan City, Indiana,and opened a general practice law office. Johnalso serves part time as a County Prosecutor andthe City At t o r n e y. Lorraine M. Daly continues toserve as the General Counsel at Axium. Last yearshe bought a home in Redondo Beach where shecontinues to pursue her favorite hobby, roadcycling. Lorraine’s cycling has included three trips

to France to partake in the most ch a l l e n g i n gmountain rides in that country. While his wife worksas a CPA, Nicolai Anikouch i n e has left the prac-tice of law and works entirely in music. He has ap r o fessional group, a college group, a high sch o o lgroup and a ch u r ch gig. Touring with these groupshas taken Nicolai to Russia, Finland, Hungary,Austria, Czech Republic and Hawaii. The RussianGovernment recently confirmed that before therevolution, the Czar granted the noble title ofPrince to the Anikouchine family.

Jon Robertson, Class Reporter

> Class of 1989Thanks to those who replied to the most recentquestionnaire. If you have not responded recently,please take a few minutes to e-mail( J z a r i a n @ f o g z l a w.com) or write me in care of theLaw School, any time, so I can include yourupdates in future columns. ... D a r ren Aitken a n dR i ch Cohn are partners in practice with Darren’sf a t h e r, Wylie Aitken. Their firm, renamed Aitken,Aitken & Cohn specializes in plaintiff’s tort litiga-tion. Rich is president of the Orange County Tr i a lLawyers Association, while Darren serves on theboards of the Constitutional Rights Fo u n d a t i o nand the Public Law Center. ... Matt Cavanaugh i snow with Akim, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld LLP( Los Angeles), following the recent merger of hislaw firm. Matt reports parting with a significanto t h e r, but has picked up a dog and a rabbit andclaims to be “way ahead.” Matt also reports thatM i chael Baranov has an office in the samebuilding. ... Turner Swan has accepted a positionas General Counsel of Causeway CapitalManagement LLC (Los Angeles), a start-up invest-ment adviser firm to mutual funds and institutions.... Judith Seeds Miller is a name partner in the San

Fernando Valley law firm of Davis, Miller &N e u m e i s t e r, specializing in immigration and natu-ralization law. She reports regular contact withPatsy (Wright) Stout and S h a ron Bryan. ... Wa r re nH o d g e s is now Of Counsel to the Pasadena lawfirm of Bensinger, Grayson, Ritt, Gee & Botterud,w h i ch specializes in employment and business liti-gation. Warren was married last year (Audrey), andthe couple welcomed their first child (Natalie) in2001. ... Maryann Ke l l y was also recently married,in November of 1999 (Michael Martin), andwelcomed a son (Loyal Seamus) last year.Maryann is a financial advisor and partner on aWealth Management Team at Pa i n e We b b e r,focusing on cash management and personalinvesting strategies. ... Adding to the list of nuptials,Hope Mortimer was married last year on NewYear’s Eve (Stephen Pilch) and honeymooned inBrazil. She reports that Christine (Lang)M a c M a h a n (Charlotte, NC), K a ren (Goldberg )D i n i n o and Th e resa Patzakis all attended herwedding. Hope has joined Gap, Inc. (SanFrancisco) as Senior Director, Real Estate Strategyfor Gap, Banana Republic and Old Navy stores. ...Kurt Bridgman has joined the law firm of Lo w, Ball& Ly n ch (San Francisco) and continues to practicelitigation. ... Brad Ku e n n i n g now maintains officesin Pasadena and Woodland Hills. ... Lisa Mead w a spromoted to Associate Dean of the Law School inJuly 2001 and is now responsible for studentadvising, student counseling and the clinicalinternship program. ... D e borah Cantre l l is steppingdown as executive director of the Western Centeron Law and Poverty to join the faculty at Yale LawS chool. ... H o w a rd Te i ch n e r is Vice President ofGreat West Egg Industries (Los Angeles), pack e r sof fresh and frozen egg products. ... R e n a ta Tu r n e rcontinues to practice law in Atlanta, Georgia, andis counsel for the Domestic Violence Program forthe Atlanta Volunteer Lawyers Foundation. ...Weighing in with a most colorful news item, B re t tWi l l i a m s o n, who is still with O’Melveny & Myers,recently was a finalist in Parker Bros.’ annualMONOP OLY® tournament in Sarasota, Florida.... And I remain a partner in the law firm ofFriedemann, O’Brien, Goldberg & Zarian LLP (Lo sAngeles), specializing in complex business, intel-lectual property and commercial litigation. Showing


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D e borah S. Th o re n - Peden ’82 was awarded theCalifornia Bankers Association’s 2001 Ro b e rtFr a n d zel Aw a rd for providing superior legalassistance to the state’s banking industry. Ms.T h o re n - Peden serves on the association’s re g u l a-t o ry compliance committee.




or by calling (213) 740 - 6 1 4 3

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early symptoms of a mid-life crisis, I climbed Wh i t eMountain Peak (14,250 ft.) this summer. ... Pleasekeep sending your updates! Best regards.

John N. Zarian, Class Report e r

> Class of 1990BBQ HIGHLIGH TS: Well, we could not haveasked for nicer weather for our first Reunion BBQ .I t was great to see everyone again and to meetsome of the children and spouses whose nameshave appeared in our articles. The young kidsruled, and kept busy with the monkey bars,bubbles, s’mores and swings. We would like tothank Bruce Lathro p and Christine Lawton’shusband, Curt Wilson, for keeping the BBQ sgoing, and send out a special thanks to D e l i aS w a n and her daughter Jenny Meyer for settingup the croquet court. Bruce attended the BBQwith his wife Justine, daughter Lindsay and sonJohn, who was resting comfortably in utero. (Johnwas born just 3 weeks later!) Other classmatesin attendance were Christine Lawton (with Curt,and daughters Eleanor and Audrey), Sue (Odell)M c G i n n i s (with husband Matt, and twins Nicoleand Luke), Doug Emhoff (with son Cole anddaughter Ella), Lori Lo o (with daughter Delaneyand son Quinten), Mark Fe l d m a n, Amy (Del Pe ro )H o f f (with son Alec), Dorit (Rubinstein) Saines,John Nantro u p (in from Simi on his Harley, withc o l l e g e - bound daughter Jennifer), and G reg Nylen(in from Topanga, with wife Mary Ann Fr e r i ck s ) .T HO SE RE GRE T TA BLY MISSINg: Of course, wemissed all of you! Living out-of-town preventedmany classmates from attending the BBQ, andbirthday parties and travel kept a few more of youa w a y. We received regrets from M a rc Goodman,who was attending a toddler party with sonA l exander at Chuck E. Cheese, and Chris Olsenand Cheryl (Wright) Olsen, who were busy inValencia with back - t o - b a ck birthday parties fortheir two girls, Carly and Olivia. Matt Ko a r t was inEngland with his family of 5. Alexandra (Day)M o n t g o m e r y was at Stanford Sierra Camp onFallen Leaf Lake with her beau Sidney and his twosons, Evan and Kendall. (This was Alex a n d r a ’ s15th trip to the Camp, and the 3rd trip for Sidney



A LUMNI BOO KS

Why Our Drug Laws Have Failed and What We Can Do About It

Judge James P. Gray ’71 has spent much of his career observing how ournation handles illegal drug use. He has fought for change in America’s dru gpolicies on more than 100 radio and TV shows, as well as at numero u snationwide drug forums. Now, drawing on his extensive experience as afederal pro s e c u t o r, criminal defense attorney, and congressional candi-date, Judge Gray — of the Superior Court in Orange County, Calif. — haswritten a scholarly book hailed by both critics and colleagues. With a some-times stinging portrayal of America’s failed war on drugs, Judge Gr a yp resents arguments for why a new and more effective national drug contro lpolicy is needed — and how that policy can be cre a t e d .

D i v o rce and Finances: Know Your Rights Clearly and Quick l y

This 72-page book is a quick and easy read that defines what someoneshould know before beginning to negotiate a marital settlement agre e m e n t .A family law attorney with the Los Angeles law firm of Nachshin &Weston, Stephanie I. Blum ’94 hopes D i vo rce and Finances, Know Yo u rRights Clearly and Qu i c k l y is the first of many such books. “Most peoplegoing through a divo rce overlook many financial details that later comeback to haunt them,” Blum explains. “I’ve taken particular interest inhelping people circ u m vent long-term disappointment and to also helpthem understand their most basic rights as they move through the divo rc ep rocess.”

The Situe Stories

The Situe, or Arab grandmother, ties together the 11 short stories in thiscollection published by Frances Khirallah Noble ’72. Drawn from Ms.No b l e’s own experience and the tales told by grandmothers, aunts and otherfemale re l a t i ves, The Situe St o r i e s tell of immigrants torn between twoc u l t u res, the lure of capitalist success versus the cost of assimilation, maritaland parental tensions, youth and age, innovation and tradition. With thiscollection of tales about an extended Arab family in 20th-century America,Ms. Noble proves to be a deft and accomplished novelist. A lawyer andw r i t e r, Ms. Noble lives in Santa Monica with her husband and two childre nand is at work on her next nove l .

— Elina Ag n o l i


and his boys.) Pete Block was in Hawaii on am u ch-deserved vacation (see Promotions andShuffles below), Mark Huang was out of thec o u n t r y, and (Paul) Kevin Wo o d was out of town.FA MILY BU SINE SS: Laura Forbes and husbandMike Huntley (MBA ’95) welcomed twin bo y sBlake Cabot Huntley and Mitchell Louis Huntleyon November 28, 2000. The twins join bigbrothers Nicholas (5) and Christopher (3?).Anthony Rayburn and his wife, Cassandra Shivers,have a 2-year-old daughter, Maureen RoseRayburn, and are expecting another child inN o v e m b e r. Shirley Paine discovered the man ofher dreams, Rowan Morrigan, at a workshop atEsalen (in Big Sur). After trips to France andHawaii, the couple has settled in Bel Air, andShirley has transferred to Foley & Lardner’s Lo sAngeles office. Shirley is a partner in the firm’sHealth Law Department, co-chair of the HealthCare Provider Law Practice Group and a memberof the Long Term Care Practice Group. PUBLICSER V ICE: James Bozajian was re-elected to asecond, 4-year term on the Calabasas CityCouncil, and the Office of the U.S. Attorney inSanta Ana can now count Robert Ke e n a n a m o n gits ranks. PROMOT IONS AND SHUFFLES: LionsGate Entertainment Corp. has named Peter Blockas President of Home Entertainment, Acquisitionsand New Media. In his new capacity, Pete willdirect a home video operation encompassingthree wholly-owned brands – Trimark, Studio andAv a l a n che – each with a distinct product line. Pe t ewill also oversee various aspects of the TVlicensing department, including Pa y - Pe r - View andvideo on demand, especially as it pertains toInternet venture CinemaNow (i.e. cinemanow. c o m ) .Leah DeLancey has been elected to the Baker &Hostetler partnership. Leah will continue to prac-tice in the area of Tax, Personal Planning andEmployee Benefits in the firm’s Long Beach office.Sherry (Maxwell) Du Po n t has returned toSouthern California as Senior Counsel in Cox ,Castle & Nicholson’s Irvine office. You may recallthat Sherry left the Cox, Castle firm back in 1997to work in Dallas, Texas, in the law department ofThe Archon Group (a wholly-owned subsidiary ofGoldman, Sachs & Co.). Tod Devine, who hadspent some time at a Disney subsidiary, has

returned to The Walt Disney Company, where hewill rejoin the Te chnology Law Group. G a r yS o m m e r s t e i n has left his in-house position atAndrew Solt Productions for a corporate andentertainment practice at Christensen, Miller, Fink,Jacobs, Glaser, Weil & Shapiro, where he is OfCounsel. (It should be noted that Christensen,Miller was founded by USC Law alum Terry N.C h r i s t e n s e n ’65, and now includes O.J. Simpsond e fense attorney Robert Shapiro among its part-ners.) SEEN AROUND TOWN: Jonathan Berg e rgraced The Shubert Theatre (Los Angeles) for aperformance of Dame Edna: The Royal To u r. And,your class reporters joined Garry Marshall a n dJ a ck Klugman for Charlayne Woodard’s In RealL i fe at the Mark Taper Forum. Wishing you andyours a fabulous Fall!

Mary Ann Soden, Class Report e rm a s o d e n @ h o t m a i l . c o m

Molly Hansen, Class Report e rm h a n s e n @ d 2 . c o m

> Class of 1991Ten years! Ten years since we sat and ponderedLL&E, torts a la Bice, contracts with the Cras andl i fe with Erwin ... ten years! For those of you whoenjoyed the reunion, and for those of us whom lifekept away, here are the latest sharings: Le s l i eD a v i s, [email protected], writes fromthe Nevada State Courts that she and husbandPierre Picart have an 11-month-old son, Nathaniel.Leslie asks us to overlook the fact that she isn’ta better correspondent! Bill Sca r f f, reunion plannerextraordinaire, writes that and his family havemoved to Laguna Niguel. Ws c a r f f @ h o m e . c o m .Angela Ball writes in from San Francisco that herson Zachary just turned two and “already he’s avery stubborn bo y.” She is still with Alameda

C o u n t y, working as a research attorney assignedto the Appellate Division and civil [email protected]. Misty Scrantonreports in that she has a baby boy and is doingwell. C l a i re Sophia (Gyongyi) Bard o s,C l a i r e [email protected], finally reports in from themountains of New Mexico, and a cybercafe inBrazil to tell us she legally changed her name toClaire Sophia – although “anyone who can spelland come close to pronouncing my Hungarianname is welcome to continue using it!” She lives inthe mountains of New Mexico and is taking asabbatical from the law “to do the writing I’vealways wanted to do.” Elizabeth Webb has takenherself to Sussex, England, is divorced “happily”and now owns a 27- bedroom hotel in Eastbo u r n eEngland – “a tourist spot on the Channel southof Lo n d o n .” She writes, “I love it here in Englandbeing a hotelier.” For those of you planning visits:[email protected]. Cindy Aro n b e rg, [email protected], reports in as Deputy StateController for Boards & Commissions, sits on theState Lands Commission and other boards andcommissions and notes that the most insightfulcomment she heard about the presidential elec-tion “is contained in Justice Stevens’ scathingd i s s e n t .” She also reports that Yelena Ye r u h i m i ssuccessfully practicing real estate transactionall a w. The G r e g s t e r ( G reg) Burnight announces thathe and wife Shannon “are blessed with awonderful happy son, Hayden Gregory,” born inJ a n u a r y. He writes that he is in regular touch withthe class princes: Bill Scarff, Jeff Parker, D a v i dR o s e n, Tom Cro k e, S t rohe LaCro i x, Bo Kaemerle,Bill Butler, Dennis Wi l s o n, Jeff Coyne, P a u lM u r p h y, D i ron Ohanian and Doug Fe i ck. Fr o mNew Mexico, Shawn Boyne reports that she willbe attending the University of Wisconsin thissummer to focus on comparative criminal lawstudies, and was recently on a Court TV docu-m e n t a r y, “Death in the Desert.” She has alsowritten an article for the University of New MexicoLaw Review on important developments in NewM exico law. G e o rge Phillips, GP h i l l i p s @ a s t o r -phillips.com writes that he left O’Melveny & Myersto work at Astor & Phillips, a 12-lawyer firm indowntown L.A. He is a partner with his brother( U SC Law ’85) which he notes “can be ch a l-


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Stephen A. Del Guercio ’86 was elected to the LaCanada Flintridge City Council in Ma rch. Mr.Del Gu e rcio practices health and business law inLos Angeles with Demetriou, Del Gu e rc i o ,Springer & Fr a n c i s .

lenging at times” (um hum). He spends half histime on business litigation and the other half inestate planning and general business law repre-senting closely held companies. Todd Bloomfieldannounces a second baby is expected any daynow and that he “has not bumped into D a v i dA r m s t ro n g in the Santa Monica Courthouse forseveral months.” Allison Dolgas Cato a n n o u n c e sthe birth of Kara to join 4-year-old Kyle. She is stillpartner at Procopio, Cory in San Diego but is nowenjoying an “alternative work sch e d u l e .” Shedescribes being eight months pregnant andd e fending a large clothing/licensing company andits CEO. By contrast, a later trial involving a publiclytraded corporation in a stock option case seemedtame. [email protected]. John Douglas, writesthat he is now defending clients in Mental HealthCourt. [email protected]. He reports seeingG reg McCambridge, Los Angeles County Pu b l i cD e fender’s office, and Spencer Hart, L.A. CityAt t o r n e y, in the Criminal Courts building down-town. Pam Rosenthal Reynolds, [email protected], says that it’s “old news” that shemarried a wonderful man, David Reynolds, a filmc o m p o s e r. But the new news is baby boy Jack ,born in October, “is the light of our lives.” Sherecently accepted a position as Vice Pr e s i d e n t ,Business & Legal Affairs at MGM in the HomeEntertainment Division and will be leavingParamount Pictures. Pam writes that S t e p h a n i eS ch ro e d e r (now there is a name I’ve not heard ina long time) has been at Paramount the past fe wyears in the Theatrical Legal Affairs department,doing well and “still great fun!” Stephen Z. Sta r rmoved laterally to Paul, Hasting, Jonofsky &Wa l k e r, continuing in bankruptcy law, but in theirNew York office. He writes that he won’t be able tomake the reunion, but would be glad to hear fromother classmates who are in New York, or passingthrough. [email protected]. D e r r i ckN g u y e n (another name I’ve not heard in a longtime), [email protected], writes in from Uem H. Do& Associates in We s t m i n s t e r, Calif. He reports thatwith trade normalization between the U.S. andVietnam, he is traveling to Vietnam, working onvarious projects. He was successful on an appealinvolving a case of first impression, but doesn’t giveus any more facts. He shared an office with J o e l

M a rg o l i s ( U SC Law ’90), shares cases with J o h nH a m i l t o n (what’s he up to?) and occasionally talksto Mike Av i l a (ditto). Ted McNamara has a newaddress in Sherman Oaks, Calif., and reports that“after sitting at a desk all day, it’s nice to be able togo home and work on my hillside garden.”Elizabeth “Lili” Shaver Duquette writes in fromIllinois that she is now teaching Evidence andEuropean Union Law at DePaul, Northwesternand the University of Chicago. [email protected]. She reports that she and J o a n n eG u z m a n - H a y s, Ed Hays ( U SC Law ’92), Le eYa n g, Lise Anderson, Laurie Wilson Espinosa a n dPatty Campbell had their own reunion in LasVegas and are “quite the craps team!” Apparently,Patty was the coach. Adam We rg e l e s,[email protected] writes in from SantaMonica, Calif., that he is still general counsel ofQuisic. Melissa Balaban, [email protected],also reports in from Santa Monica that she is stillworking with Employment Practices Solutions asa human resources consultant doing sex u a lharassment, diversity training, employee complaintinvestigations and policy development. Shec o n fesses that “due to his ridiculous works chedule” she only occasionally sees her husband,Adam Wergeles. They are celebrating their 10thanniversary in Bali with their two daughters. L i s aL i t w i l l e r, [email protected], announces she isnow assistant professor of law at ChapmanUniversity School of Law in Orange, Calif., and isworking on a scholarly project examining thecontinued viability of diversity jurisdiction. J e f fP a r k e r, [email protected], writes “same place,same stuff,” – except that he made partner atSheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton (master ofunderstatement, he — congratulations, Jeff!). Alsothat he and his wife now have Connor, 6, and Julia,

3. He reports seeing Dave Rosen in federal courtin Santa Ana “doing a fabulous job explaining whyall the money the government was trying to takefrom his client had ‘disappeared.’” David Hooverannounces from Japan his marriage last year toYasuyo Hirai, personal manager at the law firmwhere he works. dhoover @ssd.com. His law firmmerged last summer with a Cleveland-based firmof about 675 lawyers worldwide, 16 of those inTokyo. He recounts that Tom Moglovkin was in thewedding party – held on the hottest day of 2000.(It would be wonderful to see you again, too, Dave.Congrats!) Chad Coombs, coombs@GT E . n e t ,writes that he joined the accounting firm ofGrobstein, Horwath & Co. as a principal and worksin the firm’s tax department. He earned his Masterof Business Taxation degree from USC last yearwhile working full time as a bankruptcy and taxlawyer (whew!). He notes it took a little over threeyears to complete, and he made the Phi Kappa Phihonor society (congrats Chad!). Ten years ago, hepublished an article in American Bankruptcy LawJ o u r n a l regarding original issue discount in bank-ruptcy cases, “which was cited – and followed – inIn re ICH Co r p.” Andy Ke r r, [email protected] that since graduation he has lived and prac-ticed in Washington, D.C., Asia and the SiliconVa l l e y, currently inhouse at Intel. He reports that hedoesn’t get to L.A. as much as he would like, but still follows USC’s sports teams and the newsa bout the Class of ’91. And on that note, takecare all!

Terri Villa-McDowell, Class Report e rt v i l l a m c d o w e l l @ h r c . c o . l a . c a . u s

> Class of 199 2Almost 10 years have passed since our USC LawS chool graduation, and the collective headline is“Kids, Family & Kids”: Sean Luner and M a rg a re tB a i r have two children, Jonathan (3) and Rebecca(1), and should have a new baby by the time weget to print. Ed Hays is a partner at Rus, Miliband& Smith in Irvine with two kids, Eddie (6) and Emily(4). Ed, along with Ed Castro and Bill Flevare s,registered to run in the October Marine CorpsMarathon in Washington, D.C. K a ren Fe l dcontinued to swim competitively after law sch o o l



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Kelley P. Meehan ’90 was selected unanimouslyby the New Orleans City Council as director ofits utilities re g u l a t o ry office. Mr. Me e h a n’sresponsibilities as director will include ove r-seeing the council’s utility consultants andhandling re g u l a t o ry issues related to thetelecommunications industry.


and was named an All-American for 4 yearsbefore she had her son (now 4 years old). Ka r e nsays Erik Howell is a distinguished school bo a r dmember for a district in the Central Coast, andM a rcus Bastida is working on a DVD project. G a i lC e c chettini Wh a l e y is living in Elk Grove, Ca., andhas a daughter Madison (6), a son Jack (3 ?) andshe and her husband Doug are expecting theirthird child soon. Brian Silikovitz and Alice Andre -C l a r k married last year and should have a baby girlby the time you read this. They live in Boston whileAlice pursues her Ph.D. at Harvard (Alice previ-ously got a Master’s in Public Policy from Harvardand Brian got an LL.M. in Taxation from NYU).Sheri Po r a t h married Marshall Rockwell 3 yearsago, is on a respite from practicing law whiletending to their son Jacob (2), and is Vi c ePresident of her synagogue. Antoinette Carter a n dStephen Ard i s have two children and are planningon adopting a third (or more) in December. Wh i l eTerri Ke v i l l e is busy at Manatt Phelps in L.A., herson Jordan just graduated from law sch o o l .Elizabeth (Evans) Snyder returned from Chicago,is now living in San Clemente, working in NewportB e a ch and keeping busy with her son Evan (2 ?)and daughter Megan (1). Jill Bro n f m a n has a sonJoey (1). Leslie de Moraes has two new grand-children, Jordan (1) and Ethan (6 months). Le s l i eand her husband Ron generally split their timebetween Massachusetts and Colorado, but will bein Salt Lake City as Ron directs the opening andclosing ceremonies for the 2001 Winter Olympics.Raymond Kim and his wife Yonnie have two sons,Noah (5) and Evan (2). Raymond is at GreenbergTraurig and has been working on a big case withLarry Jones who is at Fogel Feldman, etc.Kathleen Lacey recently took a family vacation(with her 3 daughters) to Paris, Prague, Vienna &Budapest. Harvey Silberman is a single father tohis son RJ (8), heads the domestic violence unitfor Neighborhood Legal Services in Pacoima and,for the fourth year, teaches Family Law at USC .John Berg l u n d and his wife Stacy have a daughterHannah (1) and are living in Redding, Ca. Johnserves as the supervising attorney of the ShastaCounty D.A. Family Support Division. Eric Blumand I have two sons, Brian (2) and Kevin (9months). Eric started his own practice in Newport

B e a ch this year, is a judge pro tem in OrangeCounty Superior Court and an arbitrator for theBetter Business Bureau; I still am at Jones Dayin Irvine. Laura Fr y and Scott Altman have two ch i l-dren, Benjamin (6) and Rachel (7 months).Reynolds Cafferata and his wife Becky have twochildren, Taylor (8) and Henry (4). Reynolds is atRiorden & McKinzie working in Tax ExemptOrganizations. G regory Le e and his wife Dana arerunning two casinos and living in Las Vegas withtheir son Graham (2) and daughter Katie (1). Gregsees Mike Alonso on his trips to Las Vegas andsees John Antoni when Greg visits So u t h e r nCalifornia. Abel Le z ca n o and his wife Tracy Pu m i l i a

have a son Lucas (3) and daughter Maggie (1).Abel is a partner at Del, Shaw, etc., a bo u t i q u eentertainment firm. Anne-Marie (Funk) Readerand her husband Scot Reader (Class of 199 3 )have a son Nicholas (3) and should have a newbaby girl by the time you read this. Anne-Marie andher family went to New York in January for thewedding of Marlane Melica n. Lisa (Rubin) Steinand her husband Scott Stein (Class of 1991) havea daughter Natalie (2 ?). Dianne Costa l e s m a r r i e dMatthew Haines earlier this year and is a partnerat Dale, Braden & Hinch c l i f fe in L.A. Arnold Wo o i sa partner at Hill, Farrer & Burrill in LA. Ti mS h a t t u ck is a partner at Woods, Fuller etc. in SiouxFalls, S.D., doing civil litigation. Daniel Hayes w a sa partner at Manatt Phelps in L.A. and this yearjoined Selverne, Mandelbaum & Mintz as a partnerrepresenting bands such as Tool, Linkin Park andXzbit. Jay Smith is working at Steptoe & Johnsonin L.A. A n d rew Cowan is having a great time asa federal prosecutor with the U.S. Attorney’s Officein LA. Raj Ta n d e n is a tax associate at Morrison& Foerster in LA. Valerie Salkin married Alan

Shuman in 1998 and loves working in the L.A.County D.A.’s Office. Valerie says B e l y n d aBridgeland Reck is the new president of CaliforniaWomen Lawyers and Lisa Shukiar Newnan is theproud mom of daughter Kayla. Susan Matsui i sat Sheppard Mullin in Orange County and shouldbe a new bride, married to Russell Matsuda, by thetime you read this. Mark Fa l l is now at Jones Dayin L.A., still happily married to Jane and living inSan Gabriel. Sylvia Vi r s i k is newly engaged andis on the Planning Committee for the Bet Tz e d e kJustice Ball. Sylvia ran into Steve Wi n t e r s t h i ssummer at a Starbuck’s in Century City. Steve isplaying in a band and living in Washington. A u d r yR o h n was the Ventura County Deputy DistrictAttorney of the Year in 1998, is a nationally recog-nized expert on elder abuse law, and authoredelder abuse legislation regarding Evidence Code§ 1109 (signed into law on 7- 7-00). As you cantell, we’ve all been busy during the past (almost)ten years!

M i chelle (Nuszkiewicz) Blum, Class Report e rm b l u m @ j o n e s d a y. c o m

> Class of 199 3Do I have news for you! Our newlyweds: M a r t yB ro w n s t e i n married Kari Ann on June 10. A n d yD o u g l a s wed Jean Shin, a Class of 1989 USCundergrad, on July 15. David Reiner was Andy’sbest man and Kelly Allegra We i l and Lisa HattonH a r r i n g t o n were also in attendance. If you wish tocongratulate him, Andy is now with Stroock &S t r o o ck & Lavan in Los Angeles in its FinancialServices Litigation Practice Group. Perry Hugheswill marry Jennifer Nichole Flores on September8. Our new parents and parents-to-be: Phil Bakerand his wife Tina welcomed Chloe into the worldthis past winter. Now Phil Baker, Jr., who is twoyears old, has a new playmate. Marla SmithChabner is the proud mom to Benjamin Oliver,born May 22, weighing 4 pounds, 14 ounces andmeasuring 17 1/2 inches. It was such a thrill forme and my husband Mitchell to get to meetBenjamin before Marla was released from thehospital. Patricia Byars Cisnero s and her husbandDavid had their third child, Pa t r i ck David Cisneros,in January. Given its flex i b i l i t y, Patricia highly


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Eve H. Karasik ’91 is the first woman to serveon Stutman Treister & Gl a t t’s thre e - m e m b e re xe c u t i ve committee, which directs the firm’sday-to-day operations. Ms. Karasik, who is alsos e c re t a ry - t re a s u rer of the Women Lawye r’sAssociation, has been with the Los Angelesb a n k ruptcy firm since 1991 and made part n e rin 1997.

recommends her job as a research attorney for theFourth District Court of Appeal, Division Two, inRiverside, particularly for those classmates withchildren. David Lawson’s third son was born onJune 18. David is living in Reston, Virginia, workingfor Cooley Godward, practicing in the area ofcommercial lending for banks and tech n o l o g ycompanies. Philip Large McKay is a daddy. Hisd a u g h t e r, Savannah Jane, was born on June 15,weighing in at 8 pounds, 9 ounces and measuring22 inches long. Phil reports that baby and MomLynette are doing well. When not ch a n g i n gSavannah’s diapers, Phil is busy at his firmGunnson, McKay & Hodgson in Monterey, devel-oping patent portfolios and strategies for new andexisting Silicon Valley and Monterey clients,camping and hiking in the Monterey and Big Surarea, serving on the Board of Directors for theMonterey Vista Neighborhood Association, andkeeping busy with the Monterey First Pr e s b y t e r i a nC h u r ch. Stephanie Stenger Montgomery sent mea picture of her new adorable baby bo y, Wa l k e rKe r r y, born on June 14, weighing 8 pounds, 14ounces and measuring 22 inches. So that Wa l k e rand brother Luke have plenty of room to play,Stephanie has moved to a new home inSpringfield, Missouri. Nora Manjikian Simoniangave birth to her second child, Lorie Suzanne, onDecember 15, 2000. Jennifer Wright Tu cker h a sa new daughter, Lea Tu ck e r, who joins big sister,Maia Tu ck e r, who is two years old. For now,J e n n i fer has elected to take a very extended leaveof absence from the employment law departmentof Davis Wright Tremaine in Seattle to care for hergirls. Todd Va l d e s ’ s son, Alexander James, wasborn on April 20, 2000. At birth, Alex a n d e rweighed 9 pounds, 2 ounces. Ann-Marie Vi l l i ca n aand her husband Robin are expecting in lateFebruary 2002. However, Ann-Marie hasn’tslowed down a bit. She still continues to sell resi-dential real estate with Dilbeck Realtors inPasadena, along with coordinating through herhusband’s restaurant outside events for the RoseBowl, including Galaxy soccer games, New Ye a r ’ sactivities, and NSY NC concerts. For fun thiss u m m e r, she and Robin, who love to sail, took acruise on Royal Caribbean through the Bahamasand sailed the America’s Cup sailboats in a recre-

ated racecourse. If you want to see Ann-Mariepregnant and live in Adelphia Cable territory, sheappears regularly on two talk shows hosted by BillRosendahl, “Week in Review” and “Local Ta l k .” O u rLatest Part n e r s: Phil Baker is a partner with MitchMulbarger at Baker Keener & Nahra in SantaMonica, formerly Baker Silberberg & Ke e n e r. Philalso serves as a Commissioner on the Lo sAngeles Department of Transportation and aDirector on the Association of Southern CaliforniaD e fense Counsel. Bill Berner made partner atWeston, Benshoof, Rochefort, Rubalcava &MacCuish in Los Angeles in Fe b r u a r y. Le eH e j m a n o w s k i became a shareholder of SeltzerCaplan McMahon Vitek in San Diego in January,where he has worked since graduation. Le e ’ spractice involves complex business litigation, realestate litigation, and high net-worth marital disso-lutions. David Wa n g made equity partner at Lyon &Lyon in Irvine, where he specializes in patent liti-gation, licensing, due diligence, and prosecution. (Idon’t know where he finds the time, but David isalso a real estate agent at First Estates in Coronadel Mar.) Elayna Yo u ch a h became equity partnerin June with Sch r e ck Brignone Godfrey in LasVegas. Other Notewo rthy Career Mov e s: InOctober 2000, M o n i ca Arbo l e s became Vi c ePresident of Human Resources and AssistantGeneral Counsel for Luminent, Inc., a fiber opticscomponents manufacturer in Chatsworth. In thisc a p a c i t y, Monica is responsible for the company’shuman resources, administrative, and employmentl a w, contracts, and intellectual property matters.Although working hard, Monica reports that she ishaving great fun being on the executive manage-ment team and deciding which law firms to hire.Ken Barnett is now Vice President and ManagingAttorney for Singer Asset Finance Company. If youare ever in New York, you should ch e ck out a newplay by Doug Field titled “Down South” that theNew York Ti m e s described as “a ch e e r f u l l yr a u n chy satire of the strait-laced Middle-Americanvalues” that is “far more interested in giddy innu-endo and sexual slapstick than genuine socialc r i t i c i s m .” Furthermore, the Ti m e s critic writes, “Mr.Field is a prolific and reasonably clever double-entendrist as well as a gleeful vulgarian, and thereare moments when anyone but a Puritan might be

forced to yield to a giggle and a blush.” Can’t waitto visit my parents in New York so I can see Doug’sp l a y. Steven Gal is Vice President and GeneralManager of the Marketing Solutions Group atHNC Software in San Diego, providing marketingsolutions to some of the largest bank card issuersin the world. Randy Gray has joined Bradford &Barthel in Fresno and recently filed a writ with theFifth District Court of Appeal on behalf of Wa l m a r tin an employment law dispute. After the courtaccepted the writ, the case settled for 75% lessthan the plaintiff’s previous demand. In his sparetime, Randy also handles pro bono cases forelderly clients. Kathy Soll Goldstein is a stay athome mom, busy raising Jake (5) and Jenna (2),participating in the School on Wheels Tu t o r i n gProgram, and taking parenting classes. E l i z a b e t hG re g o r y joined Bass, Berry & Sims in Nashvilleand has expanded her entertainment law prac-tice to include country music clients. H o w a rdLe v k o w i t z is a Portfolio Manager and Pr i n c i p a lwith Special Value Investment Management in Lo sAngeles, an affiliate of Tennenbaum & Co. Le eL u b i n started his own firm, Le a ch, Lubin &Associates in Woodland Hills. Gadi Navonconfirmed that he is at Brobeck, specializing inintellectual property transactions for companies inthe high tech and life sciences industries. D a v i dPe n d l e t o n is in his third term in the Hawaii Houseof Representatives and is now seeking an appoint-ment in the federal executive branch. Don Po o lmoved to a new firm in Fresno, representing cred-itors throughout central and northern California.Scot Reader left his job with Alcatel in July to starttwo new businesses – a patent consulting firmand Patentrithms, a company which is developingsoftware tools for financial institutions, patent lawfirms, and other organizations with patent assets.David Reiner is a businessman and attorney inU l a a n b a a t a r, Mongolia, where he lives with his wifeBolorma and their daughter Sarnai. Does Davidhold the record for living the farthest from USC ?Don Rory moved to Santa Monica from Oaklandfor his wife Lemise, who has been accepted intothe UCL A’s Master of Fine Arts program forscreenwriting. Don continues to work in-house atKorve Engineering and has transferred to its Lo sAngeles Office. Welcome back, Don. After making




partner at Lyon & Lyon, Sheryl Silverstein d e c i d e dto go in-house and joined Structural GenomiX inSan Diego, where she can be on the cutting edgeof biotechnology patent law. So that’s the scoopthis time. Thanks again for all your good materialand helping me write this article. Please continueto keep in touch and to share your news.

Diane Arkow Gross, Class Report e rD i a n e . G r o s s @ EE OC . g o v

> Class of 1994More change for our class. Many are thriving at lawfirms. Adam Calisoff became a partner atWildman, Harrold in Chicago, specializing inmergers and acquisitions and corporate law. Adamis in training for a triathlon. Dana Tre i s t e r, who is atM u n g e r, Tolles, and Toi, has three daughters, Olivia,Natalie, and Alexandra. They attended thewedding of Dan Ay a l a to Nancy. Tom Wa l s h is withWoolley & Russell litigating maritime and commer-cial matters. He and Staci have a daughter, Th e a .M i chael To m a s u l o is with Lyon & Lyon. G re gS h a n f e l d is practicing in bankruptcy and collec-tions/creditor rights at Price & Associates. Gregand Stephanie have a son, Ethan. Mark Beck m a nis working in New York at Kaye, Sholer. Vi n c e n tH e r ro n is with Latham & Watkins and he and hisw i fe purchased a home. Cammy and R o b e r tD u Po n t bought a house and became parents oftwins, Claire and Miles, who join big brother Kieran.Cammy recently moved to Arter & Hadden. Le eKo l o d n y is at Akin, Gump. William Te b b e is withM u s i ck, Pe e l e r, and he and his wife have twodaughters. M i chelle Elig Gillette is practicing IPlitigation with Coudert Brothers. Betty AnnD o w n i n g is with Smith Kaufman, a political andelection law firm, and has a daughter, Shoshana.Eric Hoffman is with O’Melveny & Myers inNewport Beach after spending a year in the To k y oo f f i c e . Leigh Combs Dundas is Of Counsel atB r o b e ck, Phleger, was recently married and hada honeymoon in Australia, New Zealand and Fiji.Terry German is with Livingston & Mattesich .Several of us are pursuing legal careers in theentertainment industry. Sylvia Smith-Huber is nowassociate counsel with HBO. Sylvia married Glenn,an orthopedic surgeon, and honeymooned on

Bora Bora. Adam Glick is with Warner Bros.Television, serving as Director of Business Af f a i r s .Adam and Lisa now have two daughters, Madelineand Zoe. Jenny Park is with the Writers Guild andhas a son, Joshua. Erik To u l o n joined Ka t t e n

M u ch i n as a partner in Entertainment/M e d i aTransactions. Ted Russell is the Vice Pr e s i d e n tof Litigation in the Fox Group Legal Department.Stevie Pyon is the Assistant General Counsel forD i r e c T V. Vaughn Gill, who has his own entertain-ment practice, and Antoinette, just had theirsecond baby, who joins sister, Lauryn. A number ofus have our own practices. Paul Rahimian s p e c i a l-izes in construction and real estate, and isengaged to Hava. Alex Pe re z and his brother,Roland, have a practice specializing in criminald e fense, business litigation, bankruptcy and immi-gration. Alex highly recommends the HollandAmerica Caribbean cruise he just completed. E r i cH o has his own IP practice. Lance Entre k i n a l s ohas his own practice and is engaged to marryKa t h r y n . Dara Caplan M a r i a s is happy in Ve g a swith Kenny and their daughter, Molly. Dara is prac-ticing in the areas of contract and corporate law,securities and estate planning. Many of uscommitted to government careers. D a w y nH a r r i s o n, a Senior Deputy County Counsel,bought a house, and is engaged to Lee. M i k eG a rc i a is with the PD’s Office in San Diego andmarried Tisha. Mike thanks everyone who sentwarm wishes. Congratulations, AUSA Te re s aM a ck, and To n y, on your daughter, Gianna, whojoins Anthony and Gabriel. A number of class-mates moved to jobs in-house. Neal Rubin is theSenior Litigation Manager for Cisco Systems, Inc.in Northern California. Neal and Amy have twodaughters, Ella and Sophie. John Slusher is insports marketing for Nike in NY. John, C h r i s t i n e( C a r r ) and their kids, Samantha and Alex a n d e r, aremoving back to Portland. Todd Durbin is in NYworking for Major League Soccer and is marriedwith two children. Elizabeth Moore became thegeneral counsel of Women.com Networks, and isgetting married to Paul. Elizabeth also just bo u g h ta house and went on a two-week safari to Af r i c a .A couple of us have left the practice of law, forn o w. Did you hear about R i ch a rd Rosenblatt?Unbelievable! Richard is now with drkoop.com,

serving as co-chairman and CEO. Richard and hisw i fe have two boys. Richard was also recentlyadded to the Law School’s Board of Councilors. I(Lorna Hennington) left my position as SeniorCounsel at Foley & Lardner to start a ch i l d r e n ’ sactivity and enrichment center, Child’s Play, sch e d-uled to open in September. Find happiness,

Lorna Hennington, Class Report e rl o r n a d h @ p a c b e l l . n e t

> Class of 1996Those who attended our 5th year reunion had ablast! Much thanks to all those who put it together.Please notice how two themes dominate thiscolumn. If you are the first to tell me the twothemes, I’ll take you to dinner – seriously! (Here’sa hint: M and H.) Charles Djou is on the fast track .He married Stacey Kawasaki in August of 2000,was elected to the Hawaii House ofRepresentatives in November, and is consideringa run for Lt. Governor of Hawaii in 2002! Jill Rohlfsis working at Gunderson Dettmer in Menlo Pa r k .M a n y, many thousands of thanks to Jill’s law firmfor touching off the salary wars last year fromeveryone still practicing law ... but especially frommyself and my new compadre, John Rosati, whojust joined me as an attorney recruiter at AlanMiles & Associates. John tells me that Tim Le e i sengaged to Mandy Dunnigan, whom I heard is a“real dog” (really!). In stark contrast to Tim, I amengaged to a beautiful woman somewhat youngerthan I (I share Jacob Stein’s p r e ference for“robbing the cradle).” We will be honeymooningin Hawaii, where Paul Roman honeymooned aftergetting married in April. G re t chen Corbell a n dhusband just had a little girl, Brigitte, on August 24,2000. Chris Sch e i t h a u e r is taking care of busi-ness behind the Orange Curtain at McDermott,Will & Emery in Irvine. Further south, Chris Aitkenis living in San Clemente with his wife and son. Herecently got his first quote in the newspaper downthere regarding one of his cases, and bo u g h tt i ckets to a U2 concert in Ireland on E-bay. H a l e hRahimzadeh Jenkins, who was married to RobertJenkins two years ago, reports that Chris Healeyand Tony Christopoulos are getting married: Chris


in August, and Tony in October. J e remy Naftel i stoiling away at Carlton, DiSante & Fr e u d e n b e r g e rin Sacramento (any politcal ambitions, Jeremy?).Cristina Marko is enjoying the desert sun at Glover& Van Cott in Phoenix. Allyson Sonenshine a n dhusband are on the move. They had their first babylast year, took him to Israel to meet family, andmoved from Hancock Park to Newport Beach .Allyson is back at McCutchen, Doyle after awonderful maternity leave. Lisa Shaw Roy m a r r i e dChristopher Roy two years ago. They are movingto the Southeast, where Lisa will teach Contractsat the University of Mississippi Law School, andChris will continue his work with the NLRB, in theMemphis Region. Lisa reports Tanisha (Wo o d s o n )S o u z a is practicing in Hawaii, where she justsuccessfully defended a $3 million arbitration.Chris Kn a u f is suing the LAPD for disabilitydiscrimination ... and loving it! Steve Va u g h a n g o tengaged to Ellen Waggoner — also an attorney,and needs a vacation (how about a honeymoon inHawaii?). Suzanne Havens Beck m a n just cele-brated the first anniversary of her marriage toDavid Beckman and moved into their new house.Lorin Fa i rch i l d is still at Columbia Pictures. Sheand her husband just bought a home in ManhattanB e a ch. Their neighbors are now Tim Le e and J u l i eG i a c o p u z z i. She regularly has lunch with Wa y n eK a z a n (’95), and her phone bills are outrageousdue to calls to Meg Lo m e n z o in Chicago. S t e p h e nH a r r i s is still trying to learn how to play golf, and isplanning a trip to the Caymans or Hawaii later thisyear (better go to the Caymans Steve – too manys i ckeningly cute honeymooners in Hawaii). Hesays he’s seen John Morning spending everyWednesday and Sunday night at the Law Sch o o lbasement playing NBA Jams. (Gee, I wonder howSteve knew that?) Stephen Hollingsworth r u n shis own law practice in Santa Monica, and ispromoting/managing/training a Tae Kwon Doathlete whom he hopes will compete in the 2004Olympic Games. Laura (Braunwald) Finkelsteinand husband Mark Finkelstein (’94) are having aton of fun with their son Zach, who is 1 ? year old.Laura works only two days per week to spend timewith Zach. Laura (Blint) Wi t h ro w and husband J.P.are moving to Boston. They will make a 3-weekroad trip vacation out of the move. Ellen Wi s e m a n

is working at Shearman & Sterling in New Yo r k ,and will be getting married in August. She recentlymoved to Long Island. Ellen included a picture of several apparent USC alumni holding signs supporting Charles Djou in his successfulelection bid for the Hawaii State House. If you have comments you’d like included in the next column, please e-mail me at trojanlawre-cruiter @yahoo.com or contact USC Law School.

Bill Vo ch o s ka, Class Report e r

> Class of 1997A Business Reference Manual ( U SC Law Sch o o lClass of 1997) sponsored by Sheppard, Mullin,R i chter and Hampton is being prepared and will beready for distribution shortly. A complimentary copyof the manual will be sent to each 1997 classmember and will be updated annually. We are stillt r a cking down some of our class members andhope to have a complete and accurate contact listin the near future. Since most of the responsesto our inquiry this time around focus on marriagesand new births, this edition will identifyspouses/significant others and children of ourclassmates (who made this information availableto me) and include other interesting tidbits. Pe t e rA f r a s i a b i and Janeen Afrasiabi have 2 “awesome”sons, Brennan (3) and Aiden (1); Craig Alexanderis married to Shannon Hunt Alexander ( both classof ‘97) and works for New Line Cinema in L.A.;M i chelle Bedro s i a n - Fro e l i ch and Ke n n e t hFr o e l i ch have a son named Austin; K i m b e r l yBerkley Ungar is married to David Ungar, andtogether they run a private franch i s i n g / e -commerce business in addition to practicing law;Katherine Black m o n - S o l i s is married to GabrielSolis and lives in Arkansas; Ronald Bowling p r a c-tices law in Irvine; Claudia Damy Bro w n and ClarkBrown have a 16 month old baby named Wi l l i a m ;Roger Buffington and Debora Buffington have a

daughter named Laura and a son namedJonathan; Gloria Castro is a Deputy At t o r n e yGeneral with the California Department of Justice;Scott Chaney is training horses in Pa s a d e n a ;Stephanie Chase does litigation in L.A.; A d a mC o l l i e r practices employment/labor law in Oregon;Nancy Conro y lives in L.A.; G reg Cord re y a n dStephanie Cordrey have a daughter named Skyler;Seth Cowell is with the military; William D’A n g e l o ,III works for Capital Insight, Inc., a venture capitalfirm in Irvine; R i ch a rd Davies does corporate lawin New York; Joshua Davis does business litiga-tion in L.A.; Sona De practices law in New Yo r k ;Chris Delson has a real estate practice in NewYork; J e f f rey Dennis and Jill Dennis were marriedin September ’99; Kevin Ehrhart and his wifeHeather Blanche are expecting their first child inOctober; Tara Fa l l o n - A l p i n and Jason Alpin havea baby due Oct. 1; Amber Faunt Le R o y has acorporate practice in L.A.; Cristina Fe l i x -C a r r a s c oand her husband, Bernie, live in L.A.; David Fe r re r i apractices law in Santa Monica and plays bass inthe rock band Pushover; Linda Fe r r y has a realestate/corporate practice in Arizona; J o h nF i l i p p o n e and Cassandra Hennigan Filippone livein L.A.; M i chael Fisch e r does commercial litigationin L.A.; Jason Fox is a transactional attorney in L.A.;Scott Gartner does M&A work in L.A.; D a v i dGivner gives tax advice in L.A.; Mark Goldman a n dAlanna Goldman had their 1st baby, Ryan Everett,in June ‘01; M i cah Gre e n married Vardit Af r i a tGreen in August ‘00 and recorded his first record;Craig Harbaugh does criminal law in Texas; D e re kH a s k e w is a lobbyist on energy issues inM a s s a chusetts; K a ren Howard is married toMatthew Ferreira; Miles Hunter has a realestate/corporate practice in New York; Ay a n oI ch i d a and Willy Eberlein have a 4 year old (Miya)and a 2 year old (Sophia); Trevor Ingold a n dKimberly Bell live in L.A.; Diana Iketa n i is trainingfor the 2002 L.A. Marathon; Wendy Imata n iPe l o s o and Sterling Peloso have a son and areexpecting a daughter in September; B r a n d iI w a f u chi Hamer married Spencer Hamer (class of‘95); S h a ron Jack s o n does business litigation inL.A.; Jason Kaplan is a wealth counselor of highnet-worth individuals and families in L.A.; Wendy Ke l l e r does labor/employment law in L.A.;



On the Honor Roll

John Peterson ’95 was selected to re p resent theLaw School on USC’s Alumni Association boardof governors. Glenn Sonnenberg ’80 s e rves onthe board as an at-large alumni re p re s e n t a t i ve .




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Tongeun Kim does M&A/capital market transac-tions in Hong Kong; James Ko u s o u l a s is marriedto Demetra and has a real estate practice in Irvine;Joyce Chiang Le e is married to Andy Lee and hasa corporate practice in Chino; Christopher Lippis VP and general counsel for eUniverse, Inc.;M o n i ka Lo y a is with the L.A. County DistrictAttorney’s Office working out of Long Beach ;L a u ren Mayo-Abrams is married to Bud Abramsand does employment law in Beverly Hills; M i ch e l eM c C o r m i ck - B e i l k e and Jared Beilke have a babyboy named Riley Daniel; Kristen McMich a e l a n dRol Wi l l i a m s ( both class of ‘97) plan to marry inNovember ‘01; Allen McNamee does real estateand employment litigation in L.A.; Heather McNeilland her husband, Craig Guenther, had a baby girl,Quinn Alexandra, in December ‘00; Todd Moore i smarried to Lisa Moore and does litigation inPasadena; Eric Mueller has a business litigationpractice in L.A.; Brian Mulherin does securitiesand business litigation in L.A.; Benjamin Nazarianis married to Hedyeh Nazarian; Tricia OrnelasG re e n l e e and Ken Greenlee have a daughternamed Emma Kathryn; Christopher Pisano d o e sreal estate litigation and municipal law in L.A.;Kelley Po l e y n a rd and Thomas Dupuis are enjoyingocean views with a small firm in Santa Monicaalong with Julie Ruhlin and Cheryl Madden; B r i a nS ch a r is married to Anne Marie Schar and has apatent law practice in Newport Beach; A d r i e n n eS h i m o n i s h i married Rick Elkind in July ‘00 andlives in Hawaii; Karina Sterman is married toJoshua Goode and does employment law inBeverly Hills; C h r i s ta Stern Eilers is married toEric Eilers and does real estate law in Wi s c o n s i n ;Adrienne Sung lives in Van Nuys; Tiffany Ta i a n dAndrew Dodge have a baby girl named CharlieHsing Dodge; Bradley Ta y l o r practices law inLong Beach; Roger Te f f t is married to Lesley D.Yo u n g (class of ‘95), published a coffee tablebook, and is expecting a baby in December;Christina Tu s a n is with the Attorney General’sOffice in L.A., specializing in consumer protectionissues; Anthony Ve n t u r a is married to MelanieVentura and practices law in San Jose; J o h nVe t t e r l i and wife, Sarina, live in New York and areexpecting their first child in December; M a r kWa t k i n s and wife, Jennife r, live in Costa Mesa and

have a 1-year-old son named Joshua; R o lWi l l i a m s does corporate securities work in Pa l oAlto and plans to marry Kristen McMich a e l ( a l s oclass of ‘97); Sandra Wi l l i a m s - M c D o n o u g h a n dhusband, Mark, are expecting their first child inOctober; Billy Wr i g h t and Kerry Garvis married inMay ‘01 and practice law together in L.A.; CaptainRobert Ya l e is with the Army Trial and Defe n s eService in Texas; Julianna Ya s i n s k i does employ-ment defense litigation in L.A. and recently retiredas the class reporter (thanks, Julianna, for a jobwell done!); and Vahan Ye p re m y a n practices lawin Glendale. Thanks to everyone who responded.If one of our classmates is not listed above and you know their whereabouts, please call me at (714) 424-8228 or forward their telephone number or email address to me atm w a t k i n s @ s m r h . c o m .

Mark Watkins, Class Report e r

> Class of 1998This time around some of our long missing class-mates emerged to let us know what they havebeen up to. For example, Zeeshan Ahmedani g o tmarried last year, is the proud father of a new babybo y, and is working at Latham & Watkins inOrange County. Debbie Appel is working with theSupport Network For Battered Women inMountain Vi e w, CA. To d d (I’m really starting to looklike a father and attorney) B a t e s joined White &Case as a litigation associate in June. D a w n ( I ’ mnot trying to catch up with Pa t r i ck) B i t t l e s t o n i spracticing commercial and business litigation forKlein, DeNatale in Bakersfield. She says her kidsC o n n e r, Jared and Sydney are doing fine. Pe t r aB r a n d o is living in London as legal counsel for FoxKids Europe. Christina Checel is practicing labo rand employment law with Morrison & Foerster inL.A. She is also working with the ACLU onWilliams v. State of California representing ch i l d r e nwho attend substandard public schools. Bill Chaseis with Poe & Chase in the town of Mayberry. OK ,it’s not Mayberry but it is a small mountain town 30minutes from Asheville, North Carolina. P a t r i ckC o l l i n s is still doing financial planning as CollinsFinancial Services. He specializes in personal,business, tax, and investment planning. M a r k

Fo s t e r got married in June, is living in Irvine, andpracticing real estate law with Allen Matkins. S t e v eG o l d s t e i n is living in Hawaii working with DwyerImanaka. Mark Gusta f s o n joined several of ourclassmates at White & Case as a litigation asso-ciate. Fr a n c e s ca Hare w o o d is with Wilson So n s i n iin Palo Alto, riding out the IPO slowdown workingon M&A, public company work and venture financ-ings. In September on the lovely island of Maui, K i aH a r r i s is going to make an honest man out oflongtime beau, Corey Birdsong. In the meantimeKia is keeping busy as an assistant D.A. in SanFrancisco litigating domestic abuse and hatecrimes. John Hindman is vice president ofcommunications at TVG. Hey John, what doesT VG do? Janet Hurd l e is practicing product liti-gation at Snell & Wilmer in Irvine and is gettingmarried in November. Christopher Lal is workingwith O’Melveny & Myers in Newport. In April K a r aL a n h a m moved to McKenna & Cuneo’s employ-ment practice. P a t r i ck Le e completed his fe d e r a lclerkship in Texas and is starting with Gray Cary inSan Diego. David Lunn married Deborah Powell inAugust 1998, and promptly added daughterKatherine December 8, 1999, and is ex p e c t i n ganother child in September. David is with Gallagher& Kennedy litigating commercial, product liability,and general liability cases. Rashel Mere n e s s i sriding high as the Director of Business Affairs forFox Broadcasting. William F. Mulholland II is withSnell & Wilmer in Phoenix. Ramon Pack is layingdown the law with the SEC in L.A. C h a sR a m p e n t h a l is at Testa, Hurwitz in Boston. G u sR e s e n d i z and wife were blessed with sonN i cholas Justin on April 4, 2001. Jon Rodrigueis with Pillsbury Winthrop in San Diego and nowhas son, Thomas Michael (June 16, 2001), to joinhim in shooting golf with C h u ck Davenport a n dDoug Detleras ( ‘ 96). In proper Trojan fashion Jon,C h u ck, and Doug led their respective golf teamsto a five under, three-way tie at the Paiute golfcourse in Las Vegas. Rumor has it that Rodrigueand Davenport fell to the more senior Detleras inthe tie-breaker – a “boat race drink off.” It wasnoted that Detleras left the drinking to his team-mates as he sat on the sidelines. Davenport wasreportedly playing from the women’s tees.Jacqueline Rodriguez is working on PG&E’s


corporate insolvency case with Levene Neale inCentury City. If you’re in Punta Mita, Mexico inSeptember look her up at the Four Seasons hotel.Cristina Rodriguez-Rios is returning from ex i l ein Santa Barbara, and will be spending more timein L.A. working with Nada & Maloney. M a r i aR o n ch e t t o is doing fine at White & Case in L.A.Sue Won So is doing transactional work withWhite & Lee in Menlo Park and spends her sparetime being an auntie, traveling, and hostingengagement and birthday parties. Wayne Songis happily married and living in Torrance, whilepracticing law with Milbank Tweed. Keith Wu r s t e rfinally did the right thing and married M e l i s s a(Harper) Wu r s t e r last September. Keith is prac-ticing IP litigation at Baker & Mckenzie in Pa l oAlto, while Melissa is practicing business litiga-tion with Berg & Parker in San Fr a n c i s c o .R e g r e t f u l l y, we received news that fellow class-m a t e Nii Ayikwei Ta g o e passed away in April2001 due to choking incident in Africa. Apparentlythe last update contained an error in my e-mail address. The correct address to e-mail classupdates to me, or just to chat, is patrick c @ e a r t h-l i n k . n e t .

P a t r i ck Collins, Class Report e r

> Class of 2 0 0 0John Hayashi recently won a trip anywhere in theworld in a contest sponsored by Lexis. Let’s helphim pick a destination, okay? First stop, Fr e s n oto visit Jason Hamm who works at Lang, Rich e r t& Pa t ch. Then, head east to visit Kirsten Doolittlewho lives with her husband Pat in Bethesda,Maryland, and practices union side labor law atD i ckstein, Shapiro, Morin & Oshinsky in D.C. Alsoin D.C., Luis Guzman works at OFHEO (Office ofFederal Housing Enterprise Oversight). Luis getsevery other Friday off, so he’ll show you around.Then, up to New England. First stop, Stamford,Connecticut, where M i chelle Riord a n is working atJ a ckson Lewis Schnitzler & Krupman. Th e n ,Boston, to see Diana Dre s s e r who will begin workat Testa, Hurwitz & Thibeault once she finishes herclerkship with the Supreme Judicial Court. Or,c a t ch up with Lorna Lo w e - S t re e t e r who is set toembark from Cambridge on an international tour.

This fall, Lorna begins filming “FIRE!” a documen-tary on violence against women and genderbiased law. Lorna will shoot in South Af r i c a ,Belgrade and Poland. Once abroad, meet up withclassmates who finished their clerkships and aretraveling before starting “the firm.” Justin Fa r a r, inbetween the Ninth Circuit and O’Melveny andMyers, will visit Tu r k e y, Greece, Italy and Spain.You’ll find Lindsay Dinn in Spain, Greece, Italy,Prague, Amsterdam, Paris and London betweenher District Court clerkship in Chicago andKirkland & Ellis in Los Angeles. Va n e s s aE i s e m a n n, between her District Court clerkship inOrange County and Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, willvisit Kenya and Tanzania. Finally, catch the smooth,soulful sounds of Eric Wa n g, who is currently asmash in Taiwan, sort of. In 1995, Eric wrote asong for the L.A. Boyz, a Taiwanese band. Recently,his song was sampled by a new Taiwanese bo yband. Because Eric didn’t get credit, make this alegal mission and help a classmate out. Of course,the best thing for you might be a trip up theCalifornia coast. In Sacramento, Dave To p p w o r k sat Gray Cary Ware & Fr e i d e n r i ch. When at hisoffice, look at pictures from his September 23,2000, wedding to Moira Topp and make interofficecalls to Jeff Solomon at the San Diego office. Wi tA s h b ro o k would be a fun NoCal to party with. He’sa tax consultant in the Personal FinancingCounseling practice at Ernst & Young in SanFrancisco and loves the city life. Also up north,Julie Wi l k i n s o n works at Sheppard Mullin andvolunteers with Camp Sunburst, a camp for ch i l-dren with HI V / A IDS. But, John, because you’rebased in San Diego, L.A. is the spot for you. Wh i l ehere, ch e ck out local boxing sensation J u s t i nS a n d e r s who recently won the Golden Glovesboxing competition, read about the victory and hisboxing legacy at http://cyberbox i n g z o n e . c o m/ box i n g / w 5 2 x-jm.htm. Or, you could witness theincredible skills of Chris Milligan at Meserve,Mumper & Hughes. As opposing counsel in agrueling ERISA case, I personally witnessedMilligan’s legal acumen. Then, golfing with D a v i dWa n g who works in the Corporate Finance depart-ment at Paul Hastings. For business, meet withChris Curry who provides for all your financialservices and needs at Prudential Securities. Nex t

up, Frances Campbell of Rossbacher &Associates who is still busy protecting consumersfrom unscrupulous business people. Fr a n c e scould help you see some classmates as shel u n ches with Wendi Fr i s ch of Hughes, Hubbard& Reed and Gabriela Garcia Ko r n a w e i g of Fr i e dFrank. Leon Altman of Latham & Watkins recentlybought a house. Other classmates to visit this finecity are A n i ta Lim, Arter & Hadden; N a talia M.G re e n e, Garrett & Tully; Lissete Garc i a, LawOffices of Ronald Richards & Associates; J e n n i f e rO h re n b e rg e r, Keesal, Young & Logan; C h a r i s s eS m i t h, Best Best & Krieger; Jamila Berridge,McDermott, Will & Emery; Jonathan Reiter,O’Melveny & Myers; Alex Guerre ro, Callahan,McCune & Willis. Finally, stop off in Irvine to visitJohn Bowerbank at Sheppard Mullin and A n t h o n yTa y l o r who jumpstarted his practice in municipallaw by switching firms to the Irvine office of Burke,Williams & Sorensen. Finally, John, back to youroffice at McKenna & Cuneo; it’s time to open upthe world for the newly engaged and newly wed.Sandra Benlevy is getting married in the fall whileBobby Benjy recently got engaged with SherylRiumehr and the two plan on marrying in March of2002. In June of 2001, M o n i ca Goel married Giland M o n i ca Sach (Boosta n f a r ) married Dr. JoelS a ch. Congratulations to all.

Matthew Matzkin, Class Report e rM a t t h e w. M a t z k i n @ k m z . c o m



GR A D UAT ES IN MEM O RI A M


In Memoriam

Robert G. Bereman ’49Leon H. Berger ’35George T. Callanan ’49Charles E. Donnelly III ’60Harry M. Dougherty ’36David M. Durst ’55Robert M. Fisk ’49John A. FitzRandolph ’64Leonard Mendelsohn ’34Samuel C. Moore Jr. ’57Milo V. Olson ’31Donald A. Reed ’68Gary T. Rowse ’73Nii A. Tagoe ’99Gerald S. Tarlow ’66

Patent attorney, USC supporter Ashley S. Orr ’47

A successful patent litigation attorney and an ardent lifelong supporter of his alma mater, AshleySt ew a rt Orr ’47 passed away in his San Di e g o - a rea home July 9 at the age of 83.

M r. Orr was in his first year at the USC Law School when World War II began. He inter-rupted his education with two tours of duty as an Army Air Corps bomber pilot in the Pa c i f i cb e f o re returning to USC to complete his degree. He graduated in 1947 with an LL.B. andbegan working with the U.S. At t o r n e y’s Office, specializing in government condemnation cases.One of his projects was the government land purchase that paved the way for constru c t i o nof Lake Isabella re s e rvoir in the Sierra Ne vada mountains. He later worked for a Pa s a d e n alaw firm and then became a partner at Kendrick, Ne t t e r, Orr & Bennett in Los Angeles. Hes p e c i a l i zed in patent litigation.

Though he re t i red to San Diego Country Estates nearly 20 years ago, his lifelong affilia-tion with the Un i versity of Southern California remained strong. He served as president ofthe USC General Alumni Association in the ’60s, served on the USC board of trustees and wasi n vo l ved with the San Diego alumni chapter of the university during his re t i rement. He helpedthe Law School establish a chapter of its Legion Lex fund-raising organization in San Di e g o.M r. Orr passed along his commitment to USC to his son, Ronald Orr ’72, who has also serve dwith both the alumni association and the unive r s i t y’s board of tru s t e e s .

“T h roughout my term as dean, Ash remained a loyal support e r,” said Professor Scott Bi c e ,dean of the Law School from 1980 to 2000. “He was also a defender of the Law School as itm oved from a regional training institution to a national-class teaching and scholarship one. Hes h a red the vision of what the Law School could become.”

M r. Orr is surv i ved by his wife, Na n c y, his son, and two grandchildren, Hailey and Justin.

Law School external relations assistant, E.J. Safirstein

Eliot J. Safirstein, external relations assistant to Associate Dean Karen Lash of the USC LawSchool, died July 31 at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center after suffering complications from hearts u r g e ry. He was 39.

“The Law School was truly privileged to have tapped his savvy, intelligence, talent andw o n d e rful demeanor,” said Dean Lash. “What we'll miss most, though, is his extraord i n a rykindness and gentleness. I have never known someone so thoughtful and empathetic.”

Born Sept. 28, 1961, in Ha rtsdale, N.Y., Mr. Safirstein earned a bachelor’s degree fro mVassar College in 1983 and a master’s degree in playwriting from the Un i versity of Wa s h i n g t o n .His play “Wa t e rw o rks,” published by Samuel French Inc., won the John Cauble Sh o rt Pl a yAw a rd in 1988 and was performed as part of the American College Theater Fe s t i val at the Jo h nF. Kennedy Center for the Pe rforming Arts in Washington, D.C. Last year he wrote an episode( “ Ge n e r a t i o n s”) of the CBS-TV drama “Family Law.”

M r. Safirstein moved to Los Angeles in 1991 to pursue a writing career and joined USCin 1993. At the Law School, he assisted Dean Lash in handling the Law School’s public andmedia relations efforts. He was a familiar and friendly face at the school for eight years, andstudents, staff, faculty, administrators, alumni and news re p o rters alike respected and appre-ciated his hard work, close attention to detail and dedication to the Law School.

M r. Safirstein is surv i ved by his wife, Liz Safirstein Leshin, of Los Angeles; parents, Jack andSue Safirstein, of Ha rtsdale, N.Y.; sister, Julie Ma s s e y, her husband, Kent Ma s s e y, and their sons,Scott and David Ma s s e y, of Ph i l a d e l p h i a .


GR A D UAT ES IN MEM O RI A M

Lisa Shaw Roy’s first months as a law schoolp rofessor are giving her a bit of déjà vu.

“I feel like I’m going through my first ye a rof law school again,” she said with a laugh.Fo rt u n a t e l y, she added, “I have really fondmemories of my first year at USC.”

Professor Roy is among an unusually largec rop of USC law graduates who re c e n t l yaccepted tenure-track teaching posts aro u n dthe country. Four recent graduates beganteaching this fall: Eric Claeys ’94 at St. LouisUn i versity School of Law; LaVonda Re e d -Huff ’97 at the Un i versity of Louisville Schoolof Law; Brietta Clark ’99 at Loyola LawSchool (in Los Angeles), and Professor Roy’96 at the Un i versity of Mississippi School ofL a w. Although many USC law graduates havejoined the ranks of academia over the ye a r s ,this ye a r’s group sets a re c o rd for the numberof graduates receiving tenure-track appoint-ments in one ye a r.

“I think it demonstrates the strength of thestudent body and the institutional commit-ment to helping students find great care e r s , ”said Professor Tom Griffith. Professor Gr i f f i t hw o rked closely with Professor Roy andProfessor Clark as they pre p a red for their jobs e a rches. “I think teaching is a wonderf u lc a re e r, so when I see a student who is qualifiedto teach and who wants to teach, I do eve ry-thing I can to help. It’s one of our duties asp rofessors to help students get great jobs, andteaching is the best job you can get.”

Indeed, many professors at the Law Schoolp rovided advice and encouragement to these students as they pursued academic positions and pre p a red “job talks,” pre s e n t a-tions of re s e a rch that pro s p e c t i ve pro f e s s o r sa re re q u i red to give during the interv i ewp rocess. “I really do feel like I owe this to the people at ’SC who helped me out,” said Professor Clark. “The library staff, the


L a Vonda Reed-Huff, Brietta Clark and Lisa ShawRoy (left to right) are connected by more thanp r o fession: Pr o fessor Clark was a student inPr o fessor Reed-Huff’s legal writing section atU SC, and Pr o fessor Roy was Pr o fessor Reed-Huff’s mentor through the Black Law StudentAssociation. Pr o fessor Tom Griffith sees anotherserendipitous connection among these youngp r o fessors’ achievements: “Diversity is so impor-tant in the teaching profe s s i o n ,” he said, “so I findit particularly gratifying that all three of theseincredibly talented African-American womenhave become profe s s o r s .”

Four grads head back to

campus for positions

at the head of the class

B a ck to Sch o o lPr o fessor Brietta Clark ’99, pictured above with a Loyola student, says her interaction with students is her favorite aspectof being a professor at Loyola Law Sch o o l .

administration, the faculty — eve ryone wasw o n d e rful to me.”

But, after a short conversation with anyof these new professors, one is convinced thatit was sheer talent and determination thatlanded them in their dream jobs.

Professor Clark said she had always wantedto teach. That desire was confirmed when shetaught legal writing as a student at the LawSchool and when, as a first-year associate withSidley & Austin, she helped start a springsemester tutoring program for first-year lawstudents at USC. She came to campus eve ryweek to coach students on their writing andstudying skills for their Constitutional Lawclass. “Se veral of those students who stru g g l e dduring their first semester re c e i ved honorsgrades during second-semester exams,” saidProfessor Griffith. “Brietta is one of the nicest,most dedicated people I’ve met.”

When Professor Clark expressed heri n t e rest in teaching, Dean Ma t t h ew Sp i t ze ro f f e red her a summer fellowship at the LawSchool, enabling her to focus on preparing apaper for her job talk. “The faculty set upmock interv i ews for me and they let me circ u-late my paper and gave me ve ry detailedfeedback,” she said. “They helped me atabsolutely eve ry point. Gi ven how we l lk n own they are and how respected they are, itwas incredibly helpful.”

After completing clerkships on the 9thU.S. Circuit Court of Appeals and the U.S.Su p reme Court, where he clerked for ChiefJustice William H. Rehnquist, Pro f e s s o rClaeys was invited to spend a summer at theLaw School as a fellow of the Center in Law,Economics and Organization. He, too, usedthe summer to pre p a re himself to “go on the mark e t” for a teaching position, havinghad a taste of the academic life as a lecture rat the Un i versity of Chicago Law School.While at USC, he presented a work inp ro g ress and talked to a wide range of p rofessors about his teaching interests and his re s e a rch.

“ It was ve ry helpful to get re a c q u a i n t e dwith my teachers as I put together my ow nre s e a rch agenda,” he said. “Now that I wasp reparing to go on the job market myself, Isaw the faculty in a ve ry different light fro mwhen I was a student. I came away ve ryi m p ressed at how eve ryone on the faculty, nomatter what specialty, agreed about what ittook to write successful articles and deve l o pa promising re s e a rch agenda.”

Professor Re e d - Huff settled on anacademic career after completing a clerk s h i pin the U.S. District Court in Philadelphia andafter a thre e - year stint at Paul, Ha s t i n g s ,Janofsky & Walker in Washington, D.C., andAtlanta. “I really enjoyed being a student,” shesaid. “I liked the theoretical and intellectualaspects of law school.

“I enjoyed my practice,” she added, “butclients are n’t interested in paying an attorneyto think at great length about tangentiallyrelated issues. Largely, you focus narrowly onwhat the client has re q u e s t e d . ”

Professor Re e d - Huff was in Atlanta whenshe decided to pursue a teaching job. Sh econtacted some of her former professors at USC — Associate Dean Karen Lash,

Professor Noel Ragsdale, Professor Griffith —and was roundly encouraged to go for it.Ma t t h ew Sp i t zer (now dean of the LawSchool) offered advice on her job talk, and Professor Griffith and his wife, Professor Linda Be res ’87 (a Loyola Law School professor) listened to Pro f e s s o rRe e d - Hu f f ’s job talk via speakerphone and offered feedback.

“We had some helpful hints, but after I

h e a rd her talk, I knew she was going to get aj o b,” said Professor Gr i f f i t h .

Professor Roy first thought about ateaching career as a second-year law student.“I found I had a deep interest in scholarlyissues,” she said. After completing a two-ye a rc l e rkship with the U.S. District Court inTampa, Fla., Professor Roy returned to LosAngeles to marry her Law School swe e t h e a rt ,Christopher Roy ’96. She also accepted a posi-tion with the law firm of Knapp, Marsh, Jo n e s& Doran in Los Angeles. She enjoyed herpractice, but her interest in an academic jobcontinued to grow.

She contacted Professor Griffith for advice,and soon he and his wife we re providing feed-back on her job talk, which focused onstudent-initiated religious speech in schools.She also came to campus to teach a mock classwith a handful of USC law students top re p a re for an interv i ew at one school thatre q u i red applicants to teach a 20-minute class.

“T h e re we re a lot of people at USC whowe re ve ry helpful,” says Professor Roy, notingthat Professors Elyn Saks, David Cruz andRonald Ga ret each offered advice and feed-back on her re s e a rch.

Getting an academic job can be a long,a rduous task — but the thrill of being in ac l a s s room makes the work worthwhile, saidProfessor Roy. “I love teaching,” she said. “It’sthe most challenging thing I’ve ever done asa lawyer — probably the most challengingthing I’ve ever done — but I love it. I learnso much from the students. Hearing theircomments, how they synthesize the informa-tion, it keeps it really fresh.”

GR A D UAT ES A LUMNI PR O FILES

It’s one of our d u t i e s as professors to help students get great

jobs, and t e a ch i n g is the best job you can get.

— USC LAW PROFE SSOR TOM GRIFFI T H

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FE AT U RE S C LO SER

The following is excerpted from a speechProfessor Chemerinsky gave to the Class of2001 at his alma mater, Un i versity ofChicago High School.

When I was asked to speak, I re a l i zed that Igraduated exactly 30 years ago as part of theClass of 1971. But then I re a l i zed that thismeans you look at me the same way my classwould have looked at someone from the Classof 1941. T h a t’s a really scary thought.

Ho p e f u l l y, I re a s s u re you when I tell yo uthat a good deal of what I learned, or didn’tlearn, at U-High didn’t matter much afterhigh school. For instance, I am pleased to beable to re p o rt that not being able to do a singlething in high school gymnastics has nota d versely affected my life. Si m i l a r l y, for thoseof you who, like me, struggled with highschool math, I can re p o rt that there is virt u a l l yno instance since 1971 when I have used asingle thing I learned in four years of mathclasses. Ac t u a l l y, I exaggerate just a bit; livingin Los Angeles for the past 18 years, I’ve va l u e dhaving learned the concept of logarithmsbecause the Richter Scale for earthquakes isbased on them. Living in L.A., it is ve ryi m p o rtant to know the difference between a5.2 and a 6.4 on a logarithmic scale.

In reflecting upon it, I re a l i ze that what Ilearned at U-High was invaluable; not for thefacts or formulas I memorized, which longsince have been forgotten, but for the skillsand broader lessons that I learned. I, like yo uI am sure, learned how to think, how to crit-ically examine an issue. Mo re than I re a l i ze dthen, I learned how to write and how tospeak. I learned how to re s e a rch. Eve rything Ido professionally — teaching and writing anda d vocacy — is ve ry much based on thew o n d e rful foundation I re c e i ved here.

I learned about fighting for change andh ow it is worth the fight even if it ends up

being unsuccessful. I was the president ofstudent government here my senior ye a r. Wehad a new principal that year who had beenaway from high schools for over a decade andundoubtedly found a high school in 1970quite different from those of the 1950s thatshe re m e m b e red. We fought the entire ye a r.She kept saying that the role of studentg overnment was to plan sock hops and mov i ep a rties, and we kept pushing for changes inthe rules, such as to allow students from allfour years to go off-campus during the schoold a y. I think that eve ry single proposal made bystudent government was rejected that ye a r.

I learned a great deal from this. I learnedthe importance of speaking out and fighting.I learned that the status quo wins most battles,but at the ve ry least one can make those inp ower squirm and feel uncomfortable whent h e y’re doing something that seems wro n g .I ’m still proud 30 years later that my highschool principal did not shake hands with meas I walked across this stage because it was aresult of my speaking out for things I care dabout. Over the past few years, I have hadpublic and heated battles with the mayor ofLos Angeles and, most re c e n t l y, its police chiefover issues that I care deeply about. T h elessons I learned here in student gove r n m e n th a ve served me well.

The importance of committing to goalslarger than oneself and working to achievethem, no matter how elusive the achieve m e n t

seems, is a lesson I’ve continued to learn. I wasin high school from 1967 to 1971, years oft remendous student activism. T h e re was a re a lsense that people had power and that changecould happen if we worked for it. This share dsense was empowering.

Now, 30 years later, I re a l i ze how difficultit is to bring about change. Almost 50 ye a r sh a ve gone by since Brown v. Board ofEd u c a t i o n, and public schools are more segre-gated than eve r. Mo re than 30 years have goneby since Lyndon Johnson declared his War onPove rt y, and the wealth gap between rich andpoor in this society is larger than eve r.

I think that this makes the task for theClass of 2001 more difficult than it was for us.You understandably have reason to be moreskeptical about the system and whether it canbe changed in meaningful ways.

As I speak to you 30 years after my grad-uation, I can tell you that while change ish a rder than my class ever could have imag-ined, I still deeply believe it is possible andthat you, individually and collective l y, canmake an enormous difference. St u d e n tp rotests ultimately did turn the tide and endthe Vietnam Wa r. In recent years, studentp rotests at colleges across the country causedu n i versities to stop having their apparel madein sweat shops and by slave labor. Just thisye a r, a student sit-in at Ha rva rd forced theu n i versity to agree to pay its employees aliving wage. Activism need not take the formof protests; it is anything you can do to makethings better. While in college, in graduateschool, in your careers, you can find ways todedicate yourself to causes greater than yo u r-self and to use your tremendous talents andeducation to improve your community ands o c i e t y. And whether you succeed or fail inyour ultimate quest, you will have the satis-faction that can be gotten only from pursuinga cause greater than yo u r s e l f.


Lessons from high school – 30 years laterby Erwin Chemerinsky

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