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A recent survey published February 5, 2001 in the Legal
Intelligencer shows that more first-year and summer associates at
Philadelphia law firms come from Temple than any other law school.
A poll of 23 center city firms revealed the following:
• With 57 graduating students hired for fall 2001, Temple Law
supplies by far the most first-year associates to center city firms.
Other law schools with five or more graduates going to local
firms are Villanova (43), Penn (27), Rutgers-Camden (27),
Georgetown (9), Pittsburgh (7), Harvard (6) and Widener (5).
• Summer associate hiring is also dominated by Temple, with 72
students working for Philadelphia firms in summer 2001. Other
law schools with five or more summer associates are Penn (43),
Villanova (35), Rutgers-Camden (18), Virginia (11),
Georgetown (10), Pittsburgh (9), Widener (9), Dickinson (8),
Harvard (8), Michigan (6), American (5) and William and
Mary (5).
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“The concept of a law library as just a collection of books—
or the bricks and mortar model—is no longer true. Today’s
library should connect people with information at any time,
day or night, wherever you are,” says Shyam Nair ’97,
Temple Law School’s assistant dean for computer and
information technology.
With over 511,000 volumes, Temple’s law library is one of
the largest in the country. New technologies have caused the
complexity of librarianship to grow exponentially. In addition
to its extensive print collection, the law library provides access
to a wide range of on-line and web resources, CD-ROM
collections, audio and video tapes, DVDs and other digital
media. The library has also expanded its facilities to easily
convert materials to digital format.
Last year the law library catalog was added to the
new integrated Temple University Library system (http://
diamond.temple.edu). The new system allows the law library
to provide electronic reserves, materials booking, accelerated
acquisitions, ordering, cataloging and interlibrary loans.
The integrated library system also provides law library patrons
easy access to additional resources of the university’s Samuel
Paley Library and the Health Sciences Center Library. Nair
and Necci both serve on the five-member university library
director’s executive council, which oversees university-wide
library policy.
Less than a decade ago, Nair says, the goal of the library
was to be “completely wired.” By 1993 the library boasted
“cutting-edge” technology with most study carrels wired for
network access. Today with many students coming to school
with notebook computers, the demand for access points is
steadily increasing. In keeping with the goal of “any time
anywhere” computing, the library will provide wireless
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In fall 2000 the law school announced the appointment of
one of its own—John Necci ’77—as library director. Necci
possesses the rare combination of skills necessary to run a law
library in the 21st century.
With an undergraduate
degree from Temple
University, Necci went
directly to law school.
Aware of the dramatic
impact computers were
having on libraries in the
early 80s, Necci
enrolled and took
courses at night in
Drexel University’s
masters program in
information studies,
and acquired an M.S.
in 1984. While
working full-time at Temple Law as a
reference librarian, Necci was promoted to head of
acquisitions, a position he held from 1984-86. Next came a
foray outside the law school, when Necci served for five years
as deputy director of the library of the U.S. Court of Appeals
for the Second Circuit. In 1991, Necci was lured back to the
law school as assistant director under then-director and law
school professor John Lindsey.
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Professor Boss Chair of
ABA Business Law Section
and Newly Elected Member
of ALI Council
On August 7, 2000 Professor Amelia H. Boss,
Charles Klein Professor of Law and Government,
became chair of the Business Law Section of the
American Bar Association. With 59,000 members,
it is the largest section of the ABA. Previous chairs
include a former FBI Director, a Delaware
Supreme Court justice, and a former general
counsel for the Securities and Exchange
Commission. Boss is the first law professor to
head the section, and only the second woman.
As chair, she is bringing the section’s spring
meeting to Philadelphia from March 22 to 25.
With the theme “rock around the clock in Philly,”
the meeting is hosted by major firms and
companies throughout the area. An emphasis
is being placed on attracting law students and
young lawyers to the meeting with special events
and programs.
Named one of the top 50 women lawyers in the
U.S. by the National Law Journal for her work in
electronic commerce, Boss is nationally and
internationally recognized for her achievements.
She has consulted with the White House Task
Force on Electronic Commerce, and has been a
member of the Permanent Editorial Board for the
Uniform Commercial Code and its executive
subcommittee since 1992.
Boss has been a pioneer in the emerging field of
electronic commerce since the dawn of electronic
data interchange. When she began her work and
publications on the legal implications of paperless
trade, they were often dismissed as being purely
academic with no practical application. The
exponential growth of the Internet and the
implementation of electronic technologies have
thrust those issues into the limelight.
The Uniform Electronic Transactions Act,
for which Boss served as the ABA adviser, is
complete. It has already been passed in 23 states,
and is pending in another 12 state legislatures.
She helped draft the ABA’s groundbreaking
report and model agreement on electronic data
interchange, and her book Electronic Data
Interchange Agreements: A Guide and
Sourcebook, was published by the International
Chamber of Commerce.
In the international arena, she has served on the
U.S. delegation to the United Nations’ Commission
on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL) as they
consider the topic of electronic and digital
signatures. Boss is also the U.S. delegate to the
United Nations Commission on International Trade
Law, a body concerned with the need to establish
internationally accepted laws for trade of all kinds,
including electronic commerce.
In November the Philadelphia Bar Association
business law section presented her with the 2000
Dennis H. Replansky Memorial Award in
recognition of her many significant contributions
to the business law community.
Elected to American Law Institute Council
Now crowning Boss’ rapidly growing list of
honors is her recent election to the council of the
American Law Institute (ALI). The council is the
governing body of the ALI, and is composed of
some 60 prominent judges, practicing lawyers,
and legal scholars. Her initial election is for an
interim term, with the recommendation that she be
elected by the membership to a regular term at its
annual meeting.
Boss, the Charles Klein Professor of Law and
Government, teaches courses in commercial law,
bankruptcy, electronic commerce, contracts, and
international business. She received an A.B. from
Bryn Mawr College in 1970 and a J.D. from
Rutgers University, Camden in 1975.
TRIAL TEAM WINS THE REGIONALS
13th Title in a Row!
The Temple trial team successfully defended its
Region XII championship title at the competition held
at the Criminal Justice Center in Philadelphia the first
weekend in February.
It was Temple’s 13th consecutive regional championship—an achievement unparalleled anywhere in the
country. The team of Cristina Marinucci and Mark
Nebrig defeated teams from Dickinson, Duquesne,
Maryland, Ohio State, Penn, Villanova, West Virginia,
Widener-Delaware, and Widener-Harrisburg in taking
top honors. Marinucci was awarded the John J. Scott
Memorial Plaque as best advocate in the final round.
In the double bracketed competition, a second team of
Alec Frick, Mike Malloy, and Velisha Thomas finished
as regional finalists, losing a close final round by a
single ballot to Maryland.
Marinucci and Nebrig travel to Dallas on March 21 to
compete for the national championship against the 24
winners and runners-up from the 11 other regional
contests. Temple has won the national championships
in three out of the last six and placed in the final four
in nine out of the last ten years.
The regional tournament was sponsored by Temple’s
LL.M. in Trial Advocacy Alumni Association and
directed by John T. Drost, director of the LL.M.
program. The teams are coached by Cristi Charpentier,
Director of Advocacy Programs, and alumni Greg
Hillyer ’00 and Kevin Toth ’98.
Dean Robert J. Reinstein congratulates
this year’s Beasley scholars at a
January 24 reception.
In this issue of Temple Esq., I am pleased to
present a current list of law faculty achievements
to our graduates and friends. Because of your
generosity, we are retaining and hiring the most
sought-after scholars in the country. Members of
the Temple law faculty are recognized nationally
and internationally for their work in such
emerging fields as cyberlaw, e-commerce, global
trade and public health
It is a special pleasure to acknowledge the
work of Professor Amelia H. Boss and Associate
Dean and Professor JoAnne A. Epps., who were
featured by the Philadelphia Legal Intelligencer
in their issue on Women in the Profession. Their
contributions to the profession are significant.
New faculty members included in this issue
are Assistant Professor Melissa Jacoby and
Assistant Professor Salil Mehra. Their presence
this year has strengthened our curriculum and our
reputation as a center of academic excellence.
Temple’s outstanding law faculty contributed
to our leading the list in the number of new
associates and summer interns at major law firms
in Philadelphia for the second year in a row. (See
article page one.)
It is with great sadness that I note the death of
Benjamin F. Levy ’66. Ben served as the
president of the Law Alumni Association from
1997 through 1999. His commitment to the law
school and its mission provide a great role model
for our students. He is missed but his contributions
to the progress of the law school continues.
The number of student scholarships has grown
significantly in the past two years. Thirty entering
students have received full scholarships from the
Beasley Endowment. Our new Public Interest
Scholars Program, funded by Leonard Rubin’s
estate and contributions from other graduates and
their families, is creating opportunities for
students to have public interest careers without
the burden of educational loans.
Morris and Sylvia Barrack Hall is currently
under construction, and we expect to move our
admissions and career planning offices there next
fall. The lecture halls and classrooms will be
ready by January 2002. The renovations of
Shusterman Hall and the first and second floors
of Klein Hall have created exceptional changes in
the quality of life here for students and faculty.
We look forward to the further enhancements that
Barrack Hall will provide.
Finally, I am pleased to report that our
international programs are thriving. Last summer,
about one-quarter of our first-year students
attended our summer programs in Rome, Athens
and Tel Aviv. Our law program in Tokyo
continues to be the only semester-abroad program
offered by any American law school in Asia.
And this spring will witness the first graduates
of our unique Masters of Law program in
Beijing for Chinese judges, government officials
and lawyers.
With full adherence to our mission and with
the support of our graduates and friends, the
future of the law school promises to be exciting
and bright.
Robert J. Reinstein
2 • TEMPLE ESQ. SPRING 2001
FACULTY NEWS
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KELLY & MASS
MESSAGE FROM THE DEAN
Another year of
teaching excellence
Temple law school faculty
members continue to be prolific
outside the classroom. The year
2000 was a productive year for the
faculty as measured by scholarship
and participation in professional
organizations on state and national
levels. But it was also a year when
Temple law professors were
conspicuous in their frequent
appearances in the media—
commenting on a multitude of
issues. Whether it was the
presidential election, Elian
Gonzales, law suits against gun
manufacturers, or AIDS prevention,
Temple law professors were out in
front as experts.
Professor Alice Abreu was
featured on National Public Radio’s
“Radio Times,” a syndicated show
on which she discussed the marriage
penalty and the House-passed bill
that purports to fix it. In fall 2000
she chaired and spoke on a panel at
the Philadelphia Tax Conference,
which presented an overview of
international tax. Last May
Professor Abreu spoke as part of the
opening plenary panel at Lat Crit V
on “Political Economies of
Subordination in Lat Crit as
Perspective: Piercing the Veils of
Class and Identity in Traditional
Curricula.” Later in May she spoke
at the Penn State Tax Conference on
“Highlights in Corporate Taxation
Over the Past Year.” Professor Abreu
is serving as deputy editor of the
newsletter of the ABA tax section,
and will assume the editorship in
the fall. She has also accepted a
position on the board of visitors of
Brigham Young University School
of Law.
Associate Professor Mark F.
Anderson’s article, “The Prisoner
as Organ Donor,” was accepted for
publication by the Syracuse Law Review. Another article,
“There’s No Business Like Show Business,” has been
accepted by the Journal of Legal Education.
This winter, Professor Marina Angel gave a
presentation on “The Glass Ceiling in the Newly
Reorganized American Workplace” for the American
Arbitration Association’s Labor Management and
Employment Law Conference, and a presentation on
“Female/Male Conflict in Ancient Greece and Modern
Times” for the national conference of the Greek American
Women’s Network. Last February Professor Angel
organized and moderated the annual CLE conference for
the Pennsylvania and Delaware Valley Women Law
Teachers. In July, she spoke at the American Association of
Law Librarians annual meeting on “Sexual Harassment
After Farager and Burlington: Is your Library Practicing
Safe Policy?” In May, she participated in the Tel Aviv
University Faculties of Law, Humanities and Drama
interdisciplinary conference, “Common Threads: Susan
Glaspell’s Trifles and the Interactions of Arts, Law, and
Society in Addressing Violence Against Women.”
In February, 2000, Professor Jane B. Baron was a
panelist at a conference on critical legal studies held at
University of Miami Law School.
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connections throughout the library, so a student with a
wireless network card sitting anywhere in the library can
have access to all resources in the library and beyond.
Nair hopes to achieve this within the next two years.
This academic year, the law school saw major changes
in the use of technology in and out of the classroom with
use of the “Blackboard” software system for the
dissemination of course information for all classes and
converting all classrooms to “smart-rooms.” And in a
program developed by Director of Trial Advocacy Christi
Charpentier in the spring 2001 semester, students will
review their trial presentations with critiques on-line on
computers in the new multi-media center in the library.
“Exploring ways to enhance a student’s advocacy
competence and confidence is one of the ways to
build our strong program,” says Charpentier. The trial
advocacy faculty and administrators hope that the
Professor Scott Burris recently argued the case for
needle exchange on “Justice Talking,” the nationally
syndicated radio show. Burris published “Public Health
Surveillance of Genetic Information: Ethical and Legal
Responses to Social Risk” in Genetics and Public Health:
Translating Advances in Human Genetics into Disease
Prevention and Health Promotion, edited by Muin Khoury
for Oxford University Press. The following articles are
accepted for publication: “Unfunded Mandate: An
Empirical Study of the Implementation of the Americans
with Disabilities Act by the EEOC” (Kansas Law Review);
“Syringe Prescription to Prevent HIV in Rhode Island:
A Case Study” (American Journal of Public Health);
“Surveillance, Social Risk and Symbolism: Framing the
Analysis for Research and Policy” (AIDS); and
“Streamlining the Process: The EEOC’s Charge Priority
Policy and Individuals with Psychiatric Disabilities
(Psychiatric Services). Professor Burris received a grant
from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for a
research project entitled “A Structural Analysis of the Role
of Law and Human Rights in Preventing HIV.”
During the Presidential election dispute, Professor
Burton Caine was a frequent guest on news shows,
appearing twice with Jim Gardner on Channel 6 and twice
on WHYY’s “Radio Times,” and gave several interviews to
both the Philadelphia Inquirer and the Daily News. He
continues to lecture frequently for the American Civil
Liberties Union and the Pennsylvania Humanities Council
on the First Amendment and the Internet, hate speech, and
separation of church and state. In addition, Professor Caine
has spoken this year at Georgetown, George Washington,
New York Law School, and Touro on the Middle East
peace process. He again directed the law school’s summer
program in Israel, which this year attracted 25 students.
Professor Richard Cappalli’s article, “What Is
Authority?” was the lead article in the Temple Law Review.
The article focuses on the specific problems faced by
appellate courts in identifying when and how precedent
binds. The May-June issue of Judicature published
Professor Capalli’s article, “Improving Appellate Opinion.”
Professor Cappalli also directed Temple’s summer program
in Rome this year, which attracted 68 students from the
U.S.—52 from Temple—and four Italian students.
In January 2001 Associate Professor Susan L.
DeJarnatt was on the faculty for the 12th Annual
Education Forum of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania
Bankruptcy Conference and gave a talk on composition
theory and legal writing at the Pennsylvania and Delaware
Valley Women Law Teachers’ annual conference in
February. She also spoke about bankruptcy reform at the
Federalist Society’s conference, “Financial Services Meets
E-Commerce.” In July she presented a paper at the Legal
Writing Institute, and in August was part of the faculty for
the Pennsylvania Bar Institute’s fifth annual Bankruptcy
Institute. Her article, “In re MacCrate: Using Consumer
Bankruptcy as a Context for Learning in Advanced Legal
Writing,” appeared in the Journal of Legal Education.
Professor Jeffrey L. Dunoff, Director of the LL.M. in
Transnational Law Program, has been nominated to serve
on the EPA’s national advisory committee for a two-year
appointment. The committee advises the government on
environmental issues, especially those arising out of the
NAFTA treaty and the Environmental Side Agreement. He
also gave the following talks this fall: “Does International
Law Resolve International Disputes?” at the Woodrow
Wilson School at Princeton University; the Friel Scanlan
lecture at Temple Law School, “Global Trade at the
Millennium: What’s Wrong with the WTO”; “Civil Society
at the WTO: The Illusion of Inclusion?” at the International
Law Association conference in New York City; and “The
WTO in Transition: Some Questions About Constituents,
Competence and Coherence,” at George Washington
University Law School.
multi-media center in the library along with an on-line
web library for trial advocacy materials will become
a national clearinghouse for trial advocacy materials
and information.
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National Conference of Bankruptcy Judges in Boston,
where she presented “Putting a Price on Fame,”
in which she analyzed the intersection between
bankruptcy law and the right of publicity. Professor
Jacoby is vice-chair of the individual debtor
committee of the National Bankruptcy Conference;
she has also agreed to be a pro bono mediator for
the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Eastern District
of Pennsylvania.
Like several of his colleagues, Professor David
Kairys was a frequent commentator on local and
national media during the election controversy, and
published an op-ed piece in the Washington Post on
alternatives to the electoral college. He was also the
subject of a profile in the Philadelphia Inquirer
Magazine due to his high profile in anti-handgun
litigation. Recent publications include “The Origin
and Development of the Governmental Handgun
Cases” and “The Governmental Handgun Cases and
the Elements and Underlying Policies of Public
Nuisance Law,” both in the Connecticut Law Review.
He also gave the opening
talk and moderated a panel
at the Connecticut Law
Review symposium, “Guns
and Liability in America.”
Professor Kairys is currently
advising about 20 cities and
counties that have sued
handgun manufacturers and
is participating in a few
of those cases. He also
delivered the Caplan lecture,
on the subject of gun
control, at the University of
Pittsburgh Law School.
Professor Jan M.
Levine’s article, “Legal
Research and Writing: What
Schools Are Doing and Who
Is Doing the Teaching,” was
published in Scribes Journal
of Legal Writing. An article co-authored with
Professor Stanchi, “Women, Writing and Wages:
Breaking the Last Taboo,” will be published by
William and Mary Journal of Women and the Law. A
second piece, also co-authored with Professor Stanchi,
“Gender and Legal Writing: Law Schools’ Dirty Little
Secrets,” will appear in the Berkeley Women’s Law
Journal. Professor Levine serves on the Association of
Legal Writing Directors’ board of directors, and was
elected to the executive committee for 2000-2001 and
was appointed to the ABA’s communications skills
committee of the section of legal education and
admissions to the bar.
Professor Laura Little’s book review essay,
“Negotiating the Tangle of Law and Emotion,” was
accepted for publication by Cornell Law Review.
Another article, “Envy and Jealousy: A Study of
Separation of Powers and Judicial Review,” will be
published in Hastings Law Journal in early 2001.
Professor Little is also working on an article on the
role of formalism and functionalism in conflict of
laws opinions.
In fall 2000, Assistant Professor Salil K. Mehra
completed an article for the University of Chicago
Legal Forum entitled “Information in an Antitrust
Age,” concerning the inapplicability of established
structured rules of reason to e-businesses. Professor
Mehra joined the Temple law faculty in August 2000.
Professor Frank M. McClellan served on a panel
at the District of Columbia Judicial Conference held
in June, presenting a critical analysis of conflicting
federal and state standards governing the admission of
scientific evidence in product liability and medical
malpractice cases. He is currently serving on a
subcommittee of the racial and gender bias committee
established by the Pennsylvania Supreme Court.
Professor Eleanor W. Myers was recently
appointed by Judge Becker, Chief Judge of the Third
Circuit Court of Appeals, as associate reporter to the
Third Circuit task force on selection of class counsel.
This 15-member task force consists of lawyers, judges
and academics. Its purpose is to evaluate the use
of competitive bidding to chose lead counsel in
complex class actions. Last summer Myers taught in
the program for visiting Chinese students, offering a
course, “The American Legal Profession,” which
exposed the students to many different kinds of
lawyers, including Justice Scalia, large firm lawyers,
in-house lawyers, and trial lawyers. Myers also
published, with Professor Ohlbaum, “Discrediting the
Truthful Witness: Demonstration of the Reality of
Adversarial Advocacy” in the Fordham Law Review’s
annual special issue on legal ethics.
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Professor JoAnne A. Epps, Associate Dean for
Academic Affairs, was among the Temple Law
School faculty appearing frequently in the media this
year. She appeared on CNN’s “Burden of Proof,”
broadcast live from the Republican National
Convention; was featured in an ABA Journal article
on the role and use of expert witnesses; and authored
an opinion piece published in the National Law
Journal on August 28, 2000.
Professor Epps was also appointed to a second
three-year term as a member of the ALI-ABA
committee on professional education, which functions
as ALI-ABA’s governing board. She will serve on the
Philadelphia Bar committee designed to plan the Bar
Association’s bicentennial celebration in 2002 and,
along with Professor Phoebe Haddon, has been
appointed to the committee to promote fairness in the
Philadelphia court system. She participated in a panel
on racial profiling for a CLE program jointly
sponsored by the Barristers’ Association and the
Philadelphia chapter of the Howard Alumni
Association, and, along with Professors Louis Natali
and David Sonenshein, taught a CLE course on
evidence for criminal litigators.
Visiting Assistant Professor Kristin B. Gerdy
made the following presentations: “Creating Legal
Research Problems and Assignments that Work,” at
the American Association of Law Libraries annual
meeting, and “Adult and Experiential Learning Theory
in the Legal Research Classroom” and “What If?:
Evaluating Learning in the Legal Research
Classroom,” both at the Teaching Research in
Academic Law Libraries Institute in Philadelphia.
With Professor Jan Levine, Gerdy delivered a
workshop, “Opening Windows,” at the 2000 Legal
Writing Institute Conference in Seattle. Also with
Professor Levine, she is writing “A Law School Guide
to Computers and Software,” for Aspen Law &
Business. “Teachable Moments: What is the difference
between substantive and procedural law? And how do
I research procedure?” was published in fall 2000
Perspectives: Teaching Legal Research and Writing.
In November, Associate Professor Theresa
Glennon presented “OCR and the Misplacement of
African-American Students in Special Education:
Conceptual, Structural, Strategic and Administrative
Barriers to Effective Enforcement,” co-authored with
Megan Whiteside Shafer, at the “Minority Issues in
Special Education” conference sponsored by the Civil
Rights Project at Harvard Law School. She also
presented at a continuing education seminar for
teachers, school administrators, psychologists and
lawyers on “Section 504: Schools’ Obligations to
Identify and Evaluate Students.” Glennon has agreed
to join the Institutional Review Board for Public/
Private Ventures.
Professor Richard Greenstein spoke on a panel at
the ABA Business Law Section’s meeting at the ABA
annual meeting, held in New York in July. The panel,
arranged by Professor William Woodward, was titled,
“Deregulating Choice of Law: The Ups and Downs of
Changing the Contractual Choice of Law Rule in UCC
Article 1.”
Professor Samuel Gyandoh directed and taught at
Temple Law School’s summer program in Athens in
which 25 U.S. law students participated. During the
summer Professor Gyandoh visited Ghana, where he
contracted to co-write and publish The Constitutional
Law and History of Ghana, a companion to his
previous book, Sourcebook of the Constitutional Law
of Ghana. Third World Legal Studies, the journal of
which Professor Gyandoh has been editor-in-chief for
over a decade, published a summer volume with the
theme “Postcolonialism, Globalization, and Law.”
Professor Phoebe A. Haddon co-chairs, with
Andre Dennis, the race subcommittee of the
Pennsylvania Supreme Court committee on race and
gender bias. She spoke on diversity issues to the state
Legal Services conference in September; in July,
Professor Haddon helped plan and then conducted the
first training for tipstaves of the Court of Common
Pleas; in June, she represented Temple at the Carnegie
Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching’s
seminar on its program on preparation for the
profession. Professor Haddon has been asked to serve
as a member of the Reinvestment Fund’s predatory
lending project advisory board, and was appointed to
the Smith College presidential search committee, and
to the lawyers advisory committee of the Third
Circuit. Her article, “What Teachers Can Learn from
the MDP Controversy,” has been accepted by the
Journal of Legal Education.
Assistant Professor Melissa Jacoby, who joined
the faculty this year, finished an article, “Rethinking
the Debates Over Health Care Finance: Evidence from
the Bankruptcy Courts,” with co-authors E. Warren
and T. Sullivan, for the NYU Law Review. She was
also on the faculty of the annual meeting of the
Louis M. Natali Jr. held a training
program for Texas death penalty lawyers at
Houston Law School. The program was cosponsored by NITA and the administrative
office of the U.S. Courts.
Professor Edward D. Ohlbaum, Director
of Trial Advocacy and Clinical Legal
Education, co-chaired and delivered the
keynote address for “Bridging The Gap
Between Evidence and Advocacy,” a
symposium at Stetson University College of Law. The address
will be published as an article in a forthcoming Trial Advocacy
Symposium issue of Stetson Law Review. In the past year Ohlbaum
also offered CLE programs for PBI, ALI-ABA, NJICLE,
Montgomery County’s Public Defender’s Office, and Berks County
Inn of Court; taught a course on Pennsylvania evidence for
Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas judges; and moderated a
media, advocacy and ethics program for PVLA.
Professor Rafael A. Porrata-Doria Jr. was recently awarded the
Meritorious Service Medal by the U.S. Department of Defense for
his contribution to the drafting and revision of the United Nations’
peacekeeping rules of engagement. He was also elected to the
executive committee of the Yale Law School Association, and has
just completed two years of service as chair of the Association of
Yale Alumni. Professor Porrata-Doria recently delivered “Thinking
Like a Lawyer” to the St. Thomas More Society.
Associate Professor David G. Post was the keynote speaker
at the Technology Institute of the Pennsylvania Bar Institute in
February. Also in February, he spoke at a symposium on the Internet
at Drake University. Post has also presented at a number of
conferences concerning the legal issues raised by Napster, most
recently the “Future of Music” conference held in Washington, D.C.
He is currently writing a book on Thomas Jefferson and the Internet.
During November and December, Professor Mark Rahdert,
Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, did a series of radio and
newspaper interviews, including two appearances on WHYY’s
“Radio Times,” concerning the various judicial challenges and
appeals in the aftermath of the election. In October, he moderated a
citizens’ forum on the Philadelphia police department’s handling of
protesters during the Republican National Convention. Last summer,
Professor Rahdert taught constitutional law to the visiting Chinese
LL.M. students. His op-ed piece, “Say It’s a Cliché, Just as Long as
You Say It,” responding to the Supreme Court’s decision in United
States v. Dickerson, was published in the National Law Journal in
July. He gave a presentation on legal education at Temple University
to a group of visiting Fulbright Scholars, and wrote an article
entitled “Do College Students Have a First Amendment Right Not to
Support Student Activities?” for the March 2000 edition of Dechert
Alumni News.
Dean Robert J. Reinstein appeared twice on CNN. In his first
appearance he discussed Temple Law School’s unique program in
China, in his second the possible effects of the election on the
Supreme Court.
continued on page four
TEMPLE ESQ. SPRING 2001 • 3
Temple Alum Carl S. Primavera ’78 Is 74th
Chancellor of the Philadelphia Bar Association
The new millennium continues with
three Temple law grads succeeding
one another as chancellors of the
Philadelphia Bar Association. Carl S.
Primavera ’78 took over the office on
Jan. 1 from Doreen S. Davis ’78. He
will be followed in 2002 by Allan H.
Gordon ’66.
Primavera, a soft-spoken leading
land use practitioner, is a partner in
Klehr, Harrison, Harvey, Branzburg &
Ellers. He notes that Philadelphia Mayor
John F. Street ’75, a former member of
the firm, is just one of many influential
Temple alums who are now key players
in Philadelphia. “I think it is because we
try harder,” Primavera says. “A lot of us didn’t come
from real privilege. We were maybe the first lawyers
in our families. That gave us a certain drive, a certain
edge to want to achieve. . . . If you make that kind of
commitment and you have that kind of drive, sometimes
you will achieve great things.”
The south window in Primavera’s own fourth floor
office looks out on a scene of busy construction, the
Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts, new home of
the Philadelphia Orchestra. The sounds and sights are of
interest to Primavera, not only because he specializes in
zoning and land use, but because he comes from a
musical family.
“My father, Joseph Primavera, is a musician,” he
says. “He played in the Philadelphia Orchestra as a violist
and then he retired and went into teaching. He still
conducts the Philadelphia Youth Orchestra.”
Both of Primavera’s grandfathers came to America
from Italy. His paternal grandfather was a violin maker,
who established a violin-making shop off Rittenhouse
Square. “People were always interested to see if I would
pick that up,” he says. “I played the violin and piano as a
young person, but I just didn’t have the talent.”
Instead, Primavera was influenced by the brilliant
fictional attorney Perry Mason who won cases every
week on television. “I remembered the way Perry Mason
would command everyone’s attention in the courtroom
and the way he was held in such high respect and the way
he would help people,” Primavera recalls.
“We all knew it was Hollywood, since nobody can
solve all of the world’s problems one week or one show
at a time,’’ Primavera points out. Still, the show awakened
an interest in the law.
He sought out attorney friends of the family and asked
why they chose the profession and if they were enjoying
the experience. “And uniformly, they were all happy to be
lawyers back then,” he says.
After graduating from high school in Upper Darby,
Primavera pursued his future career at Penn State. He
majored in pre-law and political science, graduating in
1975 with highest honors and a Phi Beta Kappa key.
That fall Primavera enrolled as a day student at
Temple Law School, working part time in the law firm
of Presenza & DiBona. After law school he clerked a
year for DiBona’s father, Common Pleas Court Judge G.
Fred DiBona, and then joined the Philadelphia
Redevelopment Authority.
FACULTY NEWS continued from page three
Professor Charles H. Rogovin has been appointed to
the advisory board of Project RISE, the anti-organized
crime and anti-corruption project of the International
Brotherhood of Teamsters.
Professor Peter Sevareid attended Gonzaga Law
School’s Institute for Law Teaching conference entitled
“Reflecting on Our Teaching” for two days in
Leavenworth, Washington.
Over the past few months, Professor David A.
Sonenshein has conducted seminars on evidence and
professionalism for the Montana and Texas bars, with
Judge Gerald Tjoflat of the 11th Circuit, and for the New
Mexico bar. In addition, he lectured on evidence to
attorneys from the U.S. Department of Justice in
Washington, D.C.
Associate Professor Kathryn M. Stanchi was
appointed to the editorial board of the Journal of Legal
Writing and the Legal Writing Institute plagiarism
committee. Her article, co-authored with Professor Levine,
“Women, Writing and Wages: Breaking the Last Taboo,”
will be published by the William and Mary Journal of
4 • TEMPLE ESQ. SPRING 2001
“That was good, because it gave me
insight into the way government works,”
Primavera says. “This was a time when
there was a lot of federal money coming
from HUD to the city funneled through
the Redevelopment Authority. It was
everything from your traditional urban
renewal to slum abatement to the
development of Society Hill. That’s
where I developed my interest in
government affairs and city agencies.”
In 1983, Primavera joined Mesirov
Gelman Jaffe Cramer & Jamieson,
becoming a partner and chair of the
firm’s litigation department. “That was
a great experience because they had a
tremendous number of people who were icons,” he says.
“I worked with all of them, and to work with people at
that level as a young person is priceless.”
Primavera joined Klehr Harrison as a partner two
years ago. “This firm was basically founded by all
Temple graduates,” he says. “I’ve been able to maintain
a litigation practice along with what I’d call regulatory
practice features. Most of the time, if I have a matter, real
estate is at the heart of it.”
As Primavera’s career blossomed, he began an active
involvement in Philadelphia Bar Association and Bar
Foundation activities. He was chair of numerous bar
committees before being elected to the Association’s
Board of Governors in 1992, and serving as a trustee of
the Foundation. Always interested in his Italian heritage,
he was a chancellor of the Justinian Society, and also
served as a board member of the Philadelphia Trial
Lawyers Association.
The new chancellor and his wife Christina are parents
of Andrew, age 9. “I’m kind of the new age father,” he
says. “I take my son to school, so we have a little bit of
time together in the morning. Then I’m in the office
running between business and the bar. I usually get home
in time to read him a story.”
Primavera adds, “A lot of our life, like most parents
today, revolves around Andrew. A lot of the things that I
do with clients or the bar, I include my family.”
This is one of the messages he would like to share
with young lawyers. He hopes they will “look at ways to
kind of bundle together family, friends, law networking
—that kind of thing.”
One of the programs he plans to implement during his
year as chancellor involves efforts to keep young lawyers
in Philadelphia after they graduate. “We lose a lot of
young lawyers to New York and Washington,” he says.
“What we are hoping is that the young people who come
out of local schools realize that we have as much
opportunity here as anywhere. Our firms are excellent,
and Philadelphia is just a great city to live in.”
The initiative is a variation on the Russell Conwell
“Acres of Diamonds” theme of finding treasure in your
own backyard—and a nice reflection on the success of so
many Temple law grads.
“If you make education available and affordable,
you’re going to strengthen society and make the city and
area that much better by adding so many new people and
so much depth and breadth to the mix,” says Primavera.
“It’s a great message.”
—Janet Blom Shea
Women and the Law. A second piece, also co-authored with
Professor Levine, “Gender and Legal Writing: Law
Schools’ Dirty Little Secrets,” will appear in the Berkeley
Women’s Law Journal.
Professor James Strazzella, James G. Schmidt
Professor of Law, has been elected for a new term on the
Council on Legal Education Opportunity.
Professor Jan Ting, Director of the Graduate Tax
Program, emerged as a popular legal spokesperson during
the Elian Gonzales INS hearings last spring, appearing
on the “Today Show,” Court TV, NBC Evening News,
MSNBC and “Dateline.” He was quoted in the New York
Times, Wall Street Journal, USA Today, U.S. News and
World Report, and the Miami Herald, among others, and
was the subject of an article in the Philadelphia Inquirer.
Ting’s comments were also published on the op-ed page of
the New York Times in April. Professor Ting supported the
INS effort to reunite Gonzales with his father. This
fall, Ting participated in the quadrennial Presidential
election debate with Professor Sonenshein, sponsored
by the Student Bar Association, and debated Professor
Natali on the death penalty, sponsored by the Black Law
Student Association.
New Bar Foundation Head Is
Heather Bendit ’92
Heather McBreen
Bendit ’92 was
named Director of
the Philadelphia Bar
Foundation, the charitable
arm of the Philadelphia
Bar Association. Bendit,
who was director of
development of the Public
Interest Law Center of
Philadelphia (PILCOP) for the past four years,
will head the 36-year-old organization whose
stated mission is the promotion of “equal
treatment, equality of citizenship and equal
access to justice by supporting the delivery of
free legal services to Philadelphia’s most
vulnerable citizens.”
Bendit brings considerable fundraising skills to
her new position. As director of development for
PILCOP, she was responsible for developing
organizational and financial resources to support
the delivery of free legal services to victims of
abuse and discrimination. During that time, she
increased annual non-fee revenues by more than a
half-million dollars and obtained the largest
foundation and government grants in the
organization’s history.
Bendit says that her paramount goal as the new
director of the Philadelphia Bar Foundation is
expanding the foundation’s capacity to deliver
legal services. “I am delighted to have the
opportunity to work with one of the nation’s most
prominent legal communities in supporting one
of the nation’s most vibrant public interest
communities.”
Bendit is a member of the executive committee
of the Philadelphia Bar Association’s public
interest section and also a member of Leadership,
Inc., class of 1998. She has served as a member
of the program committee for the Center for
Responsible Funding and as a volunteer instructor
for Presidential Classroom, a leadership and civics
training program for high school students.
Albert S. Dandridge III ’78 on
PBA Board of Governors
Temple Law alumnus
Albert S. Dandridge III
’78 has been elected to a
three-year term on the
Philadelphia Bar
Association’s board of
governors. Dandridge,
a partner with the
Philadelphia firm of
Schnader, Harrison, Segal
& Lewis, also earned an LL.M. from the University
of Pennsylvania Law School.
Dandridge is currently a member of the
association’s executive committee of the business
law section. He is also a member of the Securities
and Exchange Commission’s municipal groups and
chairman of the annual government forum on small
business capital formation. He also sits on the
board of governors for the Philadelphia Stock
Exchange and is a member of the American Law
Institute. He is a former member of the board of
directors for Womens Way, Temple Law Alumni
Association, Community Legal Services, and
served as chair of the hearing committee 1.17
for the disciplinary board of the Supreme Court
of Pennsylvania.
Professor William J. Woodward Jr. was asked by the
Third Circuit to serve on a merit selection committee to
choose the next bankruptcy judge for the Eastern District
of Pennsylvania, which made its recommendations in
October. Also in October, Professor Woodward presented
“Neoformalism in a Real World of Forms” at a conference
on contracts at the University of Wisconsin. The paper will
be published in the University of Wisconsin Law Review. In
the summer, he organized and co-moderated a program,
“Deregulating Choice of Law: The Ups and Downs of
Changing the Contractual Choice of Law Rule in UCC
Article 1,” for the ABA business law section of the New
York portion of the annual meeting of the ABA.
1955
Martin M. Krimsky has become special
counsel to Greitzer & Locks, a firm that
specializes in complex litigation,
bankruptcy reorganizations, product
liability, consumer fraud, and class actions.
Krimsky is an experienced trial lawyer
specializing in medical malpractice, toxic
litigation, product liability, and serious
personal injury.
Lewis R. Linet ’24
In the early 1950s, a group of
Philadelphia firemen and policemen
came to Lewis R. Linet’s office at
Broad and Chestnut Street. They
represented some 1000 police and
firemen who couldn’t get promotions
because of a law which gave
preference in hiring and promotions
to veterans. The law dated back 100
years to Civil War times.
Linet, who had a solo practice,
was their third choice, he says. They’d
already been turned down by two
of the largest firms in Philadelphia,
who said the discriminatory law
could not be changed because it
was constitutional.
“I said to the men, I know nothing
at all about the law in this case, about
what you have to pass to become a
policeman and to become qualified for
promotion,” Linet says. Still, he
agreed to look up the law, at no
charge. “I said, come back in two
weeks and I’ll either take the case or I
won’t. If I feel I can’t win it, it won’t
cost you a nickel.”
With the help of an assistant, Linet
spent two days at the library in City
Hall poring over cases and reading the
briefs already prepared by the big law
firms. He recalls, “Everything I read
said the law was constitutional,
in courts in California, in Michigan,
everywhere. It’s constitutional so you
can’t change it.”
But one case offered a sliver of
hope. The President Judge of the
Pennsylvania Supreme Court had
written an opinion declaring the law to
be constitutional, but added, “ ‘I
personally feel that the public gets
hurt.’ I looked at that and I said to
myself, why do I have to argue
constitution? This is public policy...if
you don’t have a good fireman, it’s the
public who suffers.”
Linet took the case, lost in the
lower court, but won on appeal to the
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania,
which threw out the constitutional
question. “It was a big thing,” Linet
recalls. “Judges and lawyers from all
over the country wrote, asking for
copies of the brief.”
A daily newspaper proclaimed,
“Pa. Supreme Court changes existing
100-year-old law on promotions for
non veterans of the armed services.
The case affects all civil service
employees in Pennsylvania and
restores promotion opportunities
based solely on merit.”
Now 97 years old, Linet retired
from the active practice of law seven
years ago. He was a one-year-old baby
when his parents immigrated from
Russia in 1904. His father was a
musician who played the cornet in the
1964
Lewis Linet ’24 in 1926
Russian army, ending up as assistant
conductor. But Russia “was covered
with antisemitism, ” Linet says. “He
decided to come here.”
The family moved to Minneapolis,
and then to Snyder Avenue in South
Philadelphia. Linet recalls, “From the
time I was a child—and I mean 8
years of age—from that time to the
present day, I’ve always made up my
mind about everything in my life. I
would say to my mother, ‘This is
what I want to do.’ ‘Fine, good.’ And
we got along beautifully.”
When he was 8 years old, young
Lewis said to his mother, “Why
don’t you join the library so I can
get books?...I went there every week
by myself with my mother’s ticket
and got books to read. That was
the beginning.”
Linet began to read everything he
could find about lawyers. In this way,
he learned that Philadelphia had a
special ruling which allowed
graduates of Central High School
to go directly into law school, after
passing an exam. Ever supportive, his
family sold their house and moved to
North Philadelphia so Linet could
attend Central.
At age 17, Linet was admitted to
Temple Law School by Dean Francis
Chapman. He attended classes in the
Wilson Building at 16th and Sansom
Street, and later at 1521 Locust
Street, graduating first in his class. A
month later, he opened his own office
in Center City.
Over the years Linet has practiced
almost every kind of law, with the
exception of criminal law. His
practice ranged from representing the
Shamokin Coal Haulers Association
and the four realty boards in
Philadelphia, to serving as counsel
to the Mexican government. Other
activities included serving as a
Masonic Master in 1937 and two-anda-half years in the Coast Guard
during World War II.
He says the best part of the law
was “helping people,” and adds, “I
liked it because it involved history
and literature and travel and a mixture
of things—people all over the world.”
— Janet Blom Shea
Robert J. Coleman was re-elected to a
three-year term on the board of directors
of Marshall, Dennehey, Warner, Coleman
& Goggin.
Edwin L. Scherlis spoke at the CLE
seminar, “Educating Against Insurance
Fraud,” held in Philadelphia in December.
Scherlis is a shareholder with Marshall,
Dennehey, Warner, Coleman & Goggin in
their professional liability practice group.
1965
David T. Sykes has received the
Philadelphia Bar Association’s Fidelity
Award for his efforts to establish, nurture,
and sustain the Consumer Bankruptcy
Assistance Project, which provides legal
help to indigent Philadelphians. Sykes is a
senior partner and vice chair of Duane,
Morris & Heckscher, and also serves as a
federal court mediator and arbitrator.
1968
Robert Rovner was presented with an
award by the Temple University Board of
Trustees for four years of distinguished
service. Rovner interviewed Temple
President David Adamany on his radio
show on WNWR 1540 AM.
1969
Martin Burman, a workers’ compensation
judge, will serve as co-chair of the
workers’ compensation section of the
Philadelphia Bar Association.
1971
Stephen H. Frishberg spoke at the
Philadelphia Inquirer Intelligent
Investment Conference on Retirement Plan
Distributions in October 2000. Frishberg is
a shareholder of Flamm, Boroff & Bacine.
The new chair of the Philadelphia Bar
Association’s criminal justice section is
Stanley R. Krakower,
a partner with the
Philadelphia firm of
Krakower & Mason. He
began his one-year term
in the 358-member section
in January.
1972
The Honorable Nelson A. Diaz received
the American Bar Association 2001 Spirit
of Excellence Award, presented by the
ABA commission on racial and ethnic
diversity at the ABA midyear meeting in
San Diego. Diaz is a partner at Blank,
Rome, Comisky and McCauley.
1973
Thomas R. Bond, a shareholder with
Marshall, Dennehey, Warner, Coleman &
Goggin, was elected to the firm’s newly
created position of director of client
relations and development. Bond was also
elected to serve as a member of the board
of directors of the Pennsylvania Chamber
of Commerce and Industry. He has also
been selected by his peers to be included in
the 2001-02 edition of Best Lawyers in
America. Bond is director of the firm’s
workers’ compensation practice group.
1974
Kerry Kearney ended her term as
president of the Academy of Trial Lawyers
of Allegheny County, Pittsburgh. Kearney
is a partner in the litigation group of Reed
Smith where she handles technologyrelated cases.
Richard J. Woldow was named the
recipient of the 2000 Richland Township
Board of Supervisors Free Enterprise
Award. Woldow is the third-generation
family owner of the 68-year-old
Quakertown Farmers’ Market. Woldow
previously worked for Chicago Sports
Vision and CBS Television.
The Class of 1924
1975
Mark S. Blaskey
recently presented at
the Conference on
Planning for Closely
Held Businesses,
where he spoke on the
topic of business, tax,
and estate planning.
Blaskey is chair of
Cozen & O’Connor’s
estate planning and
administration
department in
the firm’s West
Conshohocken, Pa.
office.
Daniel J. Sherry
was a speaker at the
Pennsylvania Bar
Institute’s medical
malpractice seminar
held in November
2000, in which he
discussed ethics in
medical malpractice
litigation. Sherry is a
shareholder with
Marshall, Dennehey,
Warner, Coleman &
Goggin, and is a
member of the firm’s
health care liability
practice group.
1976
CLASS NOTES
ESQ. SPOTLIGHT
Timothy Abeel, of
Rawle & Henderson,
has been elected to the
board of directors of
the Trucking Industry
Defense Association.
TIDA is a national
organization devoted
to the defense of the
trucking industry in
personal injury,
property damage, and workers’
compensation litigation.
B. Christopher Lee,
a member of Jacoby
Donner, has been elected
to the board of trustees
of the Architecture and
Design Charter School of
Philadelphia. The school
was founded in 1999 as a
legacy project of the local chapter of the
American Institute of Architects.
1977
Arline Jolles Lotman recently discussed
the presidential election controversy on
WPVI-TV’s “Sunday Live” program.
Lotman spoke about the Florida election
dispute, absentee ballots, uncounted
ballots, election law, and constitutional
law. Lotman is special counsel to Greitzer
& Locks.
1978
Brian Bissey has been
named general counsel at
Victaulic in Easton, Pa.,
where he has been
corporate counsel for
11 years.
Blake C. Marles writes,
“I have been elected as chairman of the
board of Good Shepherd Home and
Rehabilitation Hospital, a regional facility
and one of only two independent
rehabilitation hospitals in Pennsylvania.”
1979
Ralph A. Bocchino spoke at the CLE
seminar “Educating Against Insurance
Fraud,” held in Philadelphia in December.
Bocchino is a shareholder with Marshall,
Dennehey, Warner, Coleman & Goggin
and chairs their amusements, sports, and
entertainment practice group.
Peter A. Gold has been elected to
the management committee of Blank,
Rome, Comisky & McCauley for a
three-year term.
1980
Anna Maria Farias has been inducted
into the 2000 Texas Women’s Hall of
Fame in the professional leadership
category, and was awarded the National
Leadership Eagle Award in Washington,
DC. Also, Farias was a spokesperson for
the Bush presidential campaign.
TEMPLE ESQ. SPRING 2001 • 5
NEW JERSEY
IMAGE STUDIO OF
JOSE LINARES ’78 SWORN IN AS NEW JERSEY SUPERIOR COURT JUDGE
Members of the class
of ’78 attending the
swearing-in of their
former classmate are:
(from left) Susanna E.
Lachs, Judge Jose L.
Linares, Jacquelyn A.
McNulty, Paul F. Gilligan,
Bonnie Bazilian Finkel,
Timothy J. McManus,
Stephen T. Russell and
Bruce J. Wisotsky.
Jose L. Linares ’78, a personal injury lawyer
born in Havana, was sworn in as New Jersey’s third
Cuban-American judge, and Essex County’s first.
The December 2000 ceremony in a Newark
courtroom was an emotional experience for Linares,
who was among six lawyers nominated by Governor
Christine Whitman to fill Superior Court vacancies
in Essex County.
“This is the culmination of my parents’ dream,”
says Linares, whose family left Cuba for Spain
when he was 13, eventually settling in Newark.
“To be part of a justice system unheard of in Cuba
is wonderful.”
Linares has fond memories of his Temple years,
saying, “I owe a great deal of my success to the
wonderful education I received there and the many
great friends I met whom I treasure to this day.”
Jay Barry Harris, a partner at Fineman & Bach, has been
named president of the board of directors of the Delaware
Valley Chapter of the American Liver Foundation.
Steven L. Sugarman, founding principal
of the Berwyn, Pa., and Cherry Hill, New
Jersey, firm of Steven L. Sugarman &
Associates, was inducted into the College
of Community Association Lawyers at
their conference in Nashville, Tennessee.
Sugarman represents condominium and
homeowner associations and lenders and
insurers in the community association arena.
1984
William E. Moore was named partner of Rubin, Glickman
and Steinberg in Lansdale, Pa., where his practice includes
criminal law, civil litigation, and workers’ compensation.
Last year, Moore was named by Governor Ridge to the
Pennsylvania Advisory Committee on Probation.
Marc S. Raspanti, a shareholder of Miller, Alfano &
Raspanti, was a featured speaker at the American Society
for Healthcare Risk Management’s conference in New
Orleans, Louisiana in November. Raspanti spoke on
“Healthcare Fraud: The Ultimate Risk You Can Never
Insure Against.”
1985
Carmin D’Aversa lectured on the topic of tax planning for
education as part of the 7th Annual Estate Law Institute
sponsored by the Pennsylvania Bar Institute.
James J. Kozuch has been named a
partner at Caesar, Rivise, Bernstein, Cohen
& Pokotilow, a firm that specializes in
intellectual property law in Philadelphia.
Kozuch is a registered patent attorney
who specializes in litigation, client
counseling, trademark prosecution, and
patent prosecution.
Arthur John Kyriazis is included in the
54th edition of Who’s Who in America.
Roseann B. Termini has written Food,
Drug and Medical Device Law: Topics and
Cases, a legal textbook that was published
in September. Termini has also written
“The Legal Authority of the U.S. Food
and Drug Administration to Regulate
Tobacco,” recently published in the St. John’s University
Law Review.
1986
Leslie A. Margolies, a family law attorney, is the
executive director of the International Adoption Center in
Elkins Park, Pa. The center provides international adoption
placement services and legal aid for residents of
Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware, and Maryland.
Margolies is also a single adoptive mother of Lilia, adopted
from Russia in 1997.
6 • TEMPLE ESQ. SPRING 2001
A proud group of Temple Law classmates
reciprocated that sentiment, joining the packed
courtroom to watch the swearing-in.
“My Temple experience was so positive and
rewarding,” continues Linares, “that I encouraged
my son Joseph, who is graduating from high school,
to apply. He did and was recently accepted.”
Linares, a Republican, has headed the New Jersey
Hispanic Bar Association and served as vice chair of
the Essex County civil bench bar committee. He was
also a member of the Essex County Bar Association
ethics committee and sits on the New Jersey
Supreme Court board of trial attorney certification.
Linares leaves the firm of Linares, Coviello and
Santana, where he specialized in medical malpractice
and product liability cases.
Howard M. Soloman, a shareholder with
Abrahams, Loewenstein & Bushman,
recently received a Harvester Award
from Philabundance. Soloman chairs the
board of Philabundance, an organization
which fights hunger in the greater
Philadelphia region by reclaiming surplus
food and distributing it to organizations
serving those in need. He was also recently elected to the
board of directors of Philadelphia Volunteers for the
Indigent Program.
Janis L. Wilson, of Marshall, Dennehy,
Warner, Coleman & Goggin, was a
panelist for the Pennsylania Bar Institute’s
“Ethics Potpourri.”
1987
Lew Evangelidis and Mary Jude Pigsley have moved to
Holden, Massachusetts, with their daughters, Hannah, 5,
and Lucy, 2. Evangelidis is with the firm of Pelligrini &
Seeley in Springfield, and Pigsley is with the Department
of Environmental Protection in Worcester. They welcome
any alumni visiting the area.
Peter J. Schankowitz writes, “I was just named President
of Television at Film Roman, Inc., producers of ‘The
Simpsons,’ ‘King of the Hill’ and other shows. I am
responsible for the development and production of all the
company’s television projects for network, cable, and first
run syndication.”
1988
Raymond G. Bush is currently chairman of the
Northampton County labor and employment committee,
and an adjunct instructor of human resources management
at Muhlenberg College. He recently contributed to books
entitled Labor and Employment Law in Pennsylvania;
Defending Wrongful Discharge Lawsuits in Pennsylvania;
and Practical Approach to Estate Administration. In
February Bush was a featured speaker at “Fundamental
Issues in Pennsylvania Human Resources Law,” a
Pennsylvania labor and employment law seminar under
the auspices of the National Business Institute, and will
contribute to the book of the same title published in
conjunction with the seminar.
Joseph Devine has joined the Philadelphia office of
Schnader Harrison Segal & Lewis as a partner. He
specializes in transactions involving publicly and privatelyheld companies.
Benjamin E. Leace, a shareholder with
Ratner & Prestia, was a member of a threeperson panel that spoke at the Forensic and
Litigation Services Conference held in
December in Philadelphia.
Janice Miller Staskin has been named vice president, legal
and business affairs of Universal Studios Hollywood and
Universal City Walk Hollywood. Miller will serve as legal
counsel regarding intellectual property rights, real estate,
and other business and legal concerns. Miller was
previously vice president, business and legal affairs for
Sega Game Works.
1989
Joel E. Fishbein has joined the firm of
Abrahams, Loewenstein, Bushman &
Kauffman as a shareholder in the civil
litigation section. Fishbein concentrates
his practice in the areas of medical
malpractice and product liability,
employment law, commercial litigation
and criminal defense work.
Ellen S. Podgor, LL.M., has co-authored a new book,
International Criminal Law: Cases and Materials, Lexis
2000, with E. Wise. Podgor is a professor at Georgia State
University College of Law.
Margaret Gallagher Thompson, a partner with Schnader
Harrison Segal & Lewis, has been elected to serve on the
board of directors of the Mental Health Association of
Southeastern Pennsylvania. Thompson is co-chair of the
trusts and estates department.
1991
Eric J. Phillips writes, “I have joined Orleans Corporation,
a publicly-traded residential real estate development
company, as associate counsel. My responsibilities will
include land acquisition and financing, corporate and
commercial matters.”
1992
Grace M. Deon has been named a shareholder at Eastburn
and Gray of Doylestown, Pa. She will continue to
concentrate her practice in commercial, employment, and
education litigation.
Alicia Fenton Greenaway and Keith Greenaway announce
the birth of a second daughter, Alana Zoe. Greenaway has
relocated to Boston, where she is a senior real estate
associate at Goodwin Proctor.
Scott M. Slomowitz has been named a
partner at Caesar, Rivise, Bernstein, Cohen
& Pokotilow. Slomowitz concentrates
his practice in patent prosecution,
infringement, validity and right-to-use
studies in the field of complex
electronics, computers and software,
telecommunications, Internet-related
inventions, and medical instrumentation.
Jerry L. Tanenbaum has been elected to partner at
Schnader Harrison Segal and Lewis, where he is a member
of the litigation services department and the intellectual
property practice group.
1993
Sheryl L. Axelrod of Blank Rome Comisky & McCauley
is a candidate for the executive committee of the
Philadelphia Bar Association’s young lawyers’ division.
Axelrod served as a coach for the Overbrook High School
mock trial team.
Ronee Korbin Steiner and Tracy Steiner are pleased to
announce the birth in October of their daughter Rebecca
Alice Steiner.
1994
Elizabeth “Terri” Allison has recently joined the firm of
Anapol, Schwartz, Weiss, Cohan, Feldman & Smalley,
where she concentrates her practice in medical malpractice
and personal injury litigation.
Lawrence M. Farnese Jr. has joined the
firm of White and Williams as an associate
in the commercial litigation department.
Howard S. Meyers and his wife Judy are
proud to announce the birth of their son,
Samuel Harrison, in July 2000. Meyers
was formerly a staff attorney and CPA
with the U.S. Securities & Exchange Commission’s
enforcement division in New York City,
and is now a partner at Meyers & Heim where he
practices securities and corporate law and white collar
criminal defense.
1995
Don Carley, an associate in the San Francisco office of
Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal, passed the patent bar
exam in October. He concentrates his practice in
commercial litigation and intellectual property matters.
Nicholas J. Guiliano recently appeared as
a guest of CNBC Business Center, and
participated in a five-part series
concerning common claims against stock
brokers, and what investors and brokers
can do to protect themselves. Guiliano
practices securities and investment fraud
litigation in Philadelphia.
Jenny Y.C. Cheng-Serfass and Steven Serfass are the
proud parents of Benjamin Alexander Serfass, born in
December. Both parents are associates of M.H. Philip
Law Office in Parlmerton, Pa.
Emmanuel O. Iheukwumere has published “The
Admissibility of Scientific Evidence under Pennsylvania
Law: An Excursion through the Frye Test,” with co-author
Craig L. Thorpe ’87, in the July 2000 edition of the
Pennsylvania Bar Association Quarterly.
IN MEMORIAM
1996
SIDNEY H. WILLIG
Former Law School Professor
Noted jurist, community leader, and law professor
Sidney H. Willig died November 17, 2000. A pioneer
in the field of food and drug law, he was on the
faculty of Temple Law School from 1967 to 1987.
A scholarship was established in his name when
he retired.
Willig earned a B.S. from Brooklyn College after
entering at age 14, and went on to get pharmacy and
law degrees from St. John’s University and Brooklyn
Law School. A World War II veteran who evaded
capture in occupied Holland for 148 days after his
B-17 crash-landed, he was commander of the Jewish
Veterans of Foreign Wars on Staten Island and active
nationally in veterans’ affairs. He was also President of
Temple B’nai Jeshurun.
Memorial contributions may be made to the Sidney
H. Willig Scholarship Fund.
HON. VINCENT A. CIRILLO ’55
Superior Court Judge
The Honorable Vincent A. Cirillo, a state superior
court senior judge respected by his peers and the
attorneys who appeared before him, died in November
at the age of 72. A Montgomery County prosecutor
from 1958 to 1962 and an assistant county solicitor,
Cirillo was appointed to the county bench in 1971 by
Governor Milton Shapp. He won election to a full
10-year term the following year. Before ascending to
the bench, Cirillo was a trial attorney.
Cirillo was a 1951 cum laude graduate of Villanova
University. After graduating from Temple Law School
in 1955, he served in the army in the Korean War.
During his legal career, Cirillo received numerous
awards, including the Legion of Honor of the Chapel
of the Four Chaplains in 1985, Man of the Year of the
Catholic War Veterans in 1974 and Man of the Year of
the Optimist Club of Norristown in 1978.
In 1997, the judge’s current and former law clerks,
staff, colleagues and friends established a scholarship
fund in his name. Contributions to the Honorable
Vincent A. Cirillo Scholarship Fund assist a student
who excels in the study of constitutional law.
BENJAMIN F. LEVY ’66
President, Law School Alumni Association
Benjamin Levy was “a person you could always
call upon to help—whether with a legal problem, in
the community or to work for Temple Law School,”
says law school classmate Allen Gordon ’66.
The entire law school community was saddened by
Ben Levy’s death on January 11, 2001 at the age of 59.
An active member of the executive committee and past
president of the Temple Law Alumni Association, he
was anticipating his upcoming 35th year reunion. A
basketball enthusiast, Levy was often seen cheering
the Temple Owls with friends from the law school.
Levy attended Temple University and graduated
from the law school in 1966. He was a former member
of the Philadelphia Bar Association Board of
Governors and remained active in the bar association
and Tau Epsilon Rau fraternity. In addition, Levy’s
interest in folk music motivated him to become active
and serve as president of the Philadelphia Folk Song
Society and the 21 Jewel Square Club.
His family and friends ask that donations be made
to the Temple Law Alumni Benjamin Levy Scholarship
Fund. The annual TLAA basketball reception has been
renamed in his memory.
Sharifa Johnson Atkins has joined the Boston firm of
Brown, Rudnick, Freed & Gesmer as an associate in their
commercial litigation department.
Deborah Jean DeNardo writes, “My solo practice with
an emphasis on family law is keeping me busy and in
December I was honored to receive the Northampton
County Bar Association’s Pro Bono Award for 2000.”
Sung Hoo Han has joined the Samil Accounting
Corporation (PricewaterhouseCoopers), the largest
accounting company in South Korea, as its director for
international tax-transfer pricing.
1997
Kelby Brick has left the National Association of the Deaf
to set up his own solo practice in Laurel, Maryland, doing
a variety of work including lobbying, business contracts,
civil rights, and estate planning. Brick has co-authored
Legal Rights: The Guide for Deaf and Hard of Hearing
People, and is currently planning a 2001 campaign for the
Greenbelt, Maryland, city council.
Peter G. Erdely has joined White and
Williams as an associate in their property
department.
Patrick J. Kelly has been named partner
in Synnestvedt & Lechner. Kelly, who
has a Ph.D. in molecular biology,
specializes in intellectual property
matters that relate to molecular biological developments
used in pharmaceutical gene therapy and the waste
treatment field.
Sunah Park writes, “I have been elected president for
2001 of the Asian American Bar Association of the
Delaware Valley. The legal organization supports the
fifteen Asian-Pacific Islander communities and the 250,000
Asian-Pacific Americans living and working in
Philadelphia, Southern New Jersey, and Delaware.”
Dara A. Penn of Simon Higgins & Morgan is a candidate
for the young lawyers’ division executive committee of
the Philadelphia Bar Association. Last year Penn served
as a member of the young lawyers’ division’s People’s
Law School.
James Shaw writes, “I have recently joined Shepherd,
Finkelman & Gaffigan in its Media, Pa. office. I
concentrate on consumer fraud and employment class
action litigation.”
Chine-Pang Wu is head of legal advisory for Taiwan’s
United World Chinese Commercial bank holding company,
and is working on setting up an Internet legal consulting
technology company.
ELIEZER RIVLIN LL.M. ’86
APPOINTED TO ISRAELI SUPREME COURT
An appointment in
September 2000 made Eliezer
Rivlin LL.M. ’86 a permanent
member of the 12-member
Israeli Supreme Court. Prior
to his appointment, Rivlin
sat on the District Court of
Beer’Sheva for 17 years.
Justice Rivlin is
“honored and humbled” by his
appointment to the highest court in Israel.
“My work at the Supreme Court is challenging,”
he says. “The present court is composed of some
extraordinary individuals.”
Rivlin earned an LL.B. at Hebrew University in
1968 and an LL.M. from Tel Aviv University Faculty
of Law in 1983 before entering Temple’s LL.M.
program, which he completed in 1986. He remembers
his time at Temple Law with great affection: “Professor
Peter Sevareid (who was then director of the LL.M.
program) did a lot for the students in the program. It
was an excellent opportunity for me to meet lawyers
from the U.S. as well as from all over the world.”
At Temple, Rivlin completed a thesis on the
comparative right to freedom of speech under the
U.S. Constitution and Israeli laws. His interest in
constitutional law was spurred by a course taught
by Professor Burton Caine, who later became his
thesis adviser.
Rivlin has since taught constitutional law and torts
at Ben Gurion University, Hebrew University and Tel
Aviv University, and was a visiting scholar at Harvard
University in 1997. He explains the significance
of receiving an LL.M. from Temple Law School:
“Temple gave me a huge advantage because of the
exposure to American law. This has vastly contributed
to my overall knowledge of law.”
1998
Melanie Renee Ellerbe of German Gallagher & Murtaugh
is a candidate for the young lawyers’ division executive
committee of the Philadelphia Bar Association.
Abbe F. Fletman, LL.M., was recently elected to the
board of trustees of the Women’s Law Project, for which
she has also served as pro bono counsel.
Michael B. Hayes has joined
Montgomery, McCracken, Walker &
Rhoads as an associate in their litigation
department, after serving as clerk for the
Honorable Justice Russell M. Nigro of the
Pennsylvania Supreme Court.
Brian M. Marriott is an associate with
Rawle & Henderson in their commercial motor vehicle
group. Marriott was formerly with Marshall, Dennehey,
Warner, Coleman & Goggin.
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If you haven’t come to the annual SPIN
auction before, here’s some advice: get there
early, and plan to stick around. There are lots of
laughs and bargains galore. This year’s SPIN
auction promises to be full of fun and surprises.
A sample from the long list of items last year’s
bidders walked away with:
• massages
• yoga lessons
• salon services
• first-edition and autographed books
• fencing lessons
• dinner with a professor
• dinner without a professor
• autographed Eagles jerseys
• autographed Flyers pucks
• admission to area museums
SPIN (Student Public Interest Network)
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LIVE AUCTION
Fox Club of the Liacouras Center
Tuesday, March 27
Reception 5:30 p.m.
Live Auction 6:00 p.m.
SILENT AUCTION
Klein Law Lobby
Monday, March 26, 10:00 a.m.-6:00 p.m.
and
Tuesday, March 27, 9:00 a.m.-3:00 p.m.
Liacouras Center Lobby
4:00-5:30 p.m.
Former Mayor Rendell Visits Law School
Rendell recounts experiences as Democratic National
Committee Chair during 2000 Presidential campaign
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SPIN AUCTION MARCH 26 & 27
Former Mayor
“If Clinton had
Edward G.
spent two weeks
Rendell did not
in Arkansas, we
hesitate for a
would have taken
second when a
Arkansas and
student asked the
I wouldn’t be
big question:
standing here.”
“What’s it gonna
He admitted
be, governor or
he did have a
senator?” He
dream job picked
expressed a strong
out in the wouldpreference for the
be Gore adminisjob of running a
tration. “I would
state, citing his
have liked
executive—rather
Transportation,”
than legislative—
Rendell confided.
skills as well as
“But I still want to
his age. “To be
contribute one
really effective in
Former Philadelphia mayor Edward G. Rendell spoke about the
more time, in an
the Senate you
Presidential campaign to a standing-room-only crowd at the Law
electoral sense.”
need to be there
School in January.
Rendell visited
for two terms.
the law school at
That’s 12 years. At my age, you have to be realistic,”
the invitation of the Jewish Law Student Association
explained Rendell, who was named General Chair of the
(JLSA), and sister organization Hillel of Temple
Democratic National Committee in 1999.
University. “We wanted to bring in a Jewish lawyer who
Rendell addressed a standing-room-only crowd in
also has made great strides in improving our city. Mayor
the Duane, Morris & Hecksher Moot Courtroom on
Rendell established himself as one of the greatest mayors
January 22. He spoke at length about the Presidential
in the city’s history,” says Steve Wittenburg, who, with
election and the Florida recount, reiterating his wellJane Berger and Sara Shubert, co-chairs JLSA. JLSA
publicized position that the Democrats might have
was joined by sister organization Hillel of Temple
benefited from using President Clinton more during the
University in hosting the event.
campaign. With his trademark candor, Rendell opined,
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Thursday, April 5
Intellectual Property Symposium
12:00-5:00 p.m., Shusterman Hall
James E. Beasley ’56, center back row, attended the
January 24 reception honoring the Beasley scholars.
Thursday, April 5
BLSA Scholarship Reception
Honoring Judge Petrese Tucker
6:00 p.m., Pyramid Club
Tuesday, April 10
Stern Moot Court Competition
Saturday, April 28
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Duane Morris & Hecksher Moot Courtroom
Founder’s Day Reception
Honoring The Hon. Lowell Reed
Reception, 4:30 p.m., Shusterman Hall
Dinner, 7:00 p.m., Radisson Twelve Caesars
Friday, May 4
Class of 1996 Reunion
Thursday, May 10
Class of 1971 Reunion
6:00 p.m., Downtown Club
Thursday, May 17
Commencement
6:00 p.m., Liacouras Center
Friday, May 18
Class of 1976 Reunion
6:00 p.m., Park Hyatt at the Bellevue
Sunday, May 20
Class of 1951 reunion
11:00 a.m., SugarLoaf Conference Center
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