Professionalism Group, A Noble Mission

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Preparing You for a Competitive Job Market by Helping You to Build Valuable Job Search Skills
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Since the Professionalism Plan was adopted in full last spring, great
strides have been made toward its implementation. Eleven of the 18
initiatives are well underway. These are the initiatives that comprise
the Professionalism Plan:
• Job Bulletin Exchange with other
law schools. This service is especially helpful
for graduates located in other states or
interested in practicing law in a specific state
or geographical region. A graduate may
receive job bulletins from five other law
schools.
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Reshape the class on Professional Responsibility.
2.
Require all students to undergo a first-year professionalism and
career review.
3.
Require all students to build a portfolio reflecting their professional
growth and activities throughout their three years in law school.
4.
Consider further refinements to the curriculum to infuse
professionalism themes.
5.
Expand the role of lawyer/mentors in each student’s development.
6.
Monitor professionalism of students.
7.
Create an elective course on Professionalism and Issues in the Practice.
8.
Fill the new PR/Professionalism faculty position.
9.
Create a student ethical oath and standards of professionalism.
10. Bring legal professionals’ influence into the school and the lives of
each and every student.
11. Bring State Bar Character and Fitness Committee, Attorney Discipline
Board, and Attorney Grievance Commission influences into the school.
12. Create a student-run mediation board to address conflicts between students.
13. Continue to emphasize professionalism among faculty, staff, and
administrators, and ensure that there are systems in place to review
and address unprofessional conduct.
14. Establish a standing Professionalism Advisory Committee.
15. Create a Center for Public Service and Professionalism in the classroom
building.
16. Create a place for student social interaction with staff and faculty.
17. Formally adopt the AALS recommendations on commitment to public service.
18. Create an Institute for Principled Administration in Higher Learning.
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This list was only the beginning. As work on the initiatives began, more ideas
developed around more ways Cooley can reach its students. To get inside of
them, to make them stop and think and wonder who they are and who they
can become, inspires the best in all of us and depends on the lawyer’s higher
conscience.
Amy Timmer
Associate Dean of Professionalism
and Students, and Professor
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Are you experiencing forced job changes
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outside the law? Are you curious about what
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the Career Services Office (CSO) at Cooley
is the place for you! Take advantage of all
the free resources available to you before
you spend a significant amount of money on
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The CSO provides numerous services for
all graduates, no matter where you are
located across the country or the world!
These services include:
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Telephone to guide you through the job
search process. Counseling services include
career analysis and assistance in identifying
areas of greatest strength and opportunity;
assessment of transferable skills and
overview of career interests, objectives, and
alternatives; exploration of job factors, such
as areas of practice, compensation, office
size, nature of work, billable hours, and
geographic considerations; résumé and
cover letter review and mock interviews; how
to initiate contacts and identify networking
strategies for additional job leads; and
job-offer analysis and salary negotiation
techniques.
• The Cooley Classifieds, a comprehensive, weekly publication of full-time job
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• The CSO is also a member of
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visiting the Lansing area to stop by our
office, meet with our staff, and utilize our
career development materials. Some of the
services the CSO can provide to you in
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Individual career counseling.
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Jobs for Lawyers — Effective Techniques for
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America’s Greatest Places to Work with a
Law Degree. Kimm Alayne Walton, J.D.
The Lawyers Career Change Handbook —
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Law Degree. Hindi Greenberg
What Can You Do with A Law Degree? A
Lawyer’s Guide to Career Alternatives Inside,
Outside and Around the Law. Deborah Arron
What Color Is Your Parachute? A Practical
Manual for Job Hunters and Career
Changers. Richard Nelson Bolles
Stating Your Case: How to Interview for a
Job as a Lawyer. Joseph Ryan
The Legal Job Interview: Winning the
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Clifford R. Ennico
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providing a complete range of resources
relevant to assisting your pursuit of this
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discussing various career-related topics.
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employment or changing jobs; balancing
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realities of the first year of practice.
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Volume XXV
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Contents
THOMAS M. COOLEY LAW SCHOOL Hilary Term 2003
Features
School News
Alumni Matters
A Noble Mission
2
A Noble Mission
2
My Journey to the Highest Court
8
Alumni Profile: Viviane Shammas
10
Mock Trial/Moot Court
11
Law Review
12
Law Journal
14
Graduation Highlights
15
Graduates: Swainson Class
16
Distinguished Student Award
17
Faculty Briefs
18
Alumni Association Acknowledgments
20
Partners in Progress
21
Alumni News
25
Letter from the Alumni President
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Class Notes
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My Journey to the
Highest Court
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Alumni Profile:
Viviane Shammas
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A Noble M
ission
How likely is it that a law school can have a real impact on the ethics and character of its students?
Most law schools in the country will tell you that you can lead students to the ethics class but you can't make them drink: The true
absorption of ethics and professionalism into one’s life is a personal matter that law schools can't really impact. And perhaps
because of that, many of the law schools that are trying to address the decline in ethical, moral, and professional standards by
those in the profession do so by writing more articles about civility or by setting up a Web page about professionalism. But there
hasn’t been an attempt to get inside the person and instill ethics. Until now.
Cooley Law School thought maybe it could do something more
— something that might have a real impact. And so in June of
2001, the Professionalism Committee was established by the
Dean of Thomas M. Cooley Law School, Don LeDuc, in response
to what he viewed as a decline of professionalism, ethics, and
moral character in the law school student body and in the legal
profession as a whole.
to “examine the law school experience and find ways to promote
and teach professionalism in everything we do.”
The committee membership was created by accepting every volunteer who offered their time to address this problem after receiving a call to action from Dean LeDuc. That call went out to all the
staff, students, and faculty of Cooley Law School, to local members of the bench and bar, and to Cooley alumni. The response
was overwhelming and an indication that Dean LeDuc was not
alone in his concern. With approximately 65 original members,
the committee got underway in June of 2001.
Working in five subcommittees, the committee wrote a professionalism plan that proposed initiatives that touch every aspect of
Cooley Law School. The initiatives affect how the administrative
offices do business with students, how students address personal
conflicts with each other, classroom and office deportment of faculty and staff, personal professional development of the student
separate from the classroom, commitment to public service, professional involvement by the bar with the school, and, of course,
bringing ethics teachings to every classroom.
There were no specific goals, only a request to try to fix what
was broken. In his call-to-action letter, Dean LeDuc stated: “The
problem [waning commitment to ethical, moral, and professional
standards] is not at all unique to Cooley; indeed, it preoccupies
all legal education and the legal profession. No one seems to
have a handle on either the causes or the cures. I admit to
searching for answers to the point of procrastination, because I
have little to propose. But I think we must try to improve the situation here.”
And so the committee determined its own course from the input
of its many and varied members. The chair asked the committee
After more than a year of intense work, the committee presented
its final report to the Dean, and now President, LeDuc in July
2002. The proposed plan was adopted in full, with the expectation that it would be implemented over several years, resulting in
permanent change to the culture and teachings of the law school.
The support of the president for the committee’s plan was immediate and surpassed what the committee proposed. He approved
the hiring of three full-time faculty members who would teach
half-time and commit themselves to implementing the professionalism plan initiatives half-time. Those new faculty members, along
with Professor Peter Kempel and Associate Dean Amy Timmer,
form the new Professionalism Department at Cooley Law School,
responsible for teaching Professional Responsibility and implementing the plan.
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PETER M. KEMPEL
Professor
A.B. University of Detroit 1965
A.M.L.S. University of Michigan 1967
J.D. University of Detroit 1971
While earning his law degree, Professor
Kempel was a legal assistant in the law department of Michigan
Consolidated Gas Company. After completing his legal studies, he
served as a research attorney for the Michigan Court of Appeals
and clerked for former Associate Supreme Court Justice Michael D.
O'Hara, then sitting on the Court of Appeals. He has served as a
member of the Michigan Bar Law Practice Management Section
and as president of Legal Aid of Central Michigan.
Professor Kempel joined Cooley Law School in 1973. A member of
the Cooley Legal Authors Society, Professor Kempel teaches
Professional Responsibility, Contracts, Sales and Negotiable
Instruments, Evidence, Statutory Construction, Jurisprudence,
Legislation, and Legislative Drafting.
The Professionalism Plan is ambitious and far-reaching. It has to
be in order to work. The entire culture of the school — our relationships with each other and the profession, our personal commitment to service and ethics, our classroom discussions and
studies, our involvement with lawyers as role models and mentors, even Cooley’s facilities — is being redesigned with professionalism in mind.
The truest sign of success?
The plan was supported by every member of every constituent
group that was affected. It was unanimously endorsed by the
Student Bar Association, the faculty, the
staff, the Alumni Association Executive
Board, the Alumni Board of Governors,
“Cooley’s
the Cooley Board of Directors, and the
mission takes
State Bar of Michigan.
seriously the
vital importance
of ethics and
professionalism
in the practice
of law,”
As it is implemented, this renewed focus
on professionalism will help Cooley Law
School graduate lawyers who have been
inundated with ethical and moral responsibility, who are trained in, and committed to, professionalism, and who each
have a personal portfolio reflecting their
growth and accomplishments as legal
professionals. They will leave Cooley with
a mentor, a strong sense of personal ethical character and expectations, training in professional responsibility, a personal code of
conduct, a record of public service, and an understanding of the
connection between their behavior and their profession. The
lawyers who participate as mentors will be engaged in the teaching of ethics and will be role models to their mentees, an experience that will serve to elevate their awareness of and commitment
to ethical conduct. They will be exposed to Cooley graduates who
will practice law ethically and thereby change the culture, one
person at a time.
Are ethics important enough to be part of a
law school’s mission?
At Cooley, the answer is definitely “yes,” answered Associate
Professor William Wagner, Director of Cooley’s new Center for
Ethics and Responsibility.
“Cooley’s mission takes seriously the vital importance of ethics
and professionalism in the practice of law,” Wagner said.
“Cooley has always been about teaching students the knowledge,
skills, and ethics needed for success in their career — and life.”
The center, Wagner explained, is committed to preparing individuals for the practice of law who inspire integrity in others, serve
society selflessly, and leave a legacy.
“If we desire to change the character of the legal profession”
Wagner said, “we must begin by changing individual hearts.”
Toward that end, the center has planned a number of professional development activities that are designed to develop personal
integrity and character, one student at a time.
“It is hoped that other legal professionals will begin to see something different about the individual integrity of the Cooley lawyer
and be inspired to act likewise,” Wagner explained.
Among the activities launched by the center are professionalism
luncheons, each with a presentation consistent with the center’s
mission and message.
The center also wants to ingrain in students a commitment to
service.
“Those given the opportunity to receive a higher education in law
are especially privileged …” Wagner said. “To whom much is
given, however, much is expected.”
To address that issue, a number of the center’s activities are
geared toward instilling and developing a sincere commitment
to service.
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NANCY WONCH
“Lawyering is not just another business. The center has a mission
to develop lawyers who, by the way they live and conduct their
affairs, will leave a legacy that the law is something more,”
Wagner said.
Associate Professor
A.A. Northwestern Michigan
College 1969
B.A. Eastern Michigan
University 1975
J.D., cum laude, Thomas M. Cooley Law School 1978
Prior to joining the Cooley faculty, Nancy Wonch was a partner
in the general practice firm of Anderson & Wonch, P.C., in
Lansing, Mich., with legal services offered in the areas of personal injury, Social Security, workers compensation, domestic relations, real estate, and probate. She also served as an adjunct
professor at Cooley.
As a student at Cooley, she won the West Publishing Book Award
in Trusts, served a year on the Scholastic Review Board, and was
recipient of the Dean’s Scholarship for two semesters. Ms. Wonch
has numerous awards to her credit, including the 2002 Leo
Farhat Outstanding Lawyer of the Year award from the State Bar
of Michigan, the Friend of Education Award from Delta Kappa
Gamma Sorority in 2001, the East Lansing Rotary Vocational
Service Award in 2001, the 1999 Hall of Fame from the Ingham
County Bar Association, the Resolution of Tribute from the Ingham
County Bar Association and the Champion of Justice Award from
the State Bar of Michigan, both in 1998, and the Lawyer of the
Year Award from Lawyers Weekly in 1977.
She was accredited as a mediator in 1998 and certified by the
National Board of Trial Advocacy as a specialist in civil legation
since 1992.
Past president: Ingham County Bar Association
Past president: Legal Aid of Central Michigan
Past president: Women Lawyers Association of Mid Michigan
Board member: Attorney Discipline Board 1996-2002
Member of the State Bar of Michigan Subcommittees on
Professional and Judicial Ethics: 1989-1996 (Chair: 1994-1996)
Former member: Friend of the Court Advisory Committee
Former member: Court Improvement Program, State Court
Administrator's Office
Lansing Board of Water and Light Commissioner 2001-present
Current Chair: Lansing Educational Advancement Foundation
Board of Trustees
Current Chair: Lansing School District Citizen Bond Forum
A complication of conscience
If you think that “law” is to “civilization” as “pod” is to “pea,”
you may be part of a small and shrinking minority. It seems that
the skin protecting and preserving our common values which
English philosopher John Locke summarized as “ … life, liberty
and the pursuit of property …” (“pursuit of happiness” as
Thomas Jefferson and our country’s founders were later to reinterpret it)— is thin in some spots, and torn in others.
What happened?
It is not an uncomplicated question. We don’t live in the same
world that Jefferson and Locke inhabited. We are removed further still by hundreds of years from English common law, yet
again another millennium from the Roman system, more still from
the Greek democracies and from the earlier Mosaic law and the
code of Hammurabi.
Earlier generations had their lawgivers, with ruling authorities
wielding the brute power to enforce that law. Many nations still
operate on that principle. But in the Enlightenment philosophy of
the 18th century, the philosophy codified in the U.S. Constitution,
every individual rules by his or her own personal authority and
the limit of enforcement is decided by democratic process.
Conscience complicates
The question of conscience complicates the law, because there is
no such thing in a constitutional republic as a “group conscience.” That would be a mere tyranny of the majority. Many
nations of the world still operate on that principle.
Conscience complicates the law, because it demands that individuals set their own limits of life, liberty, and happiness within that
elegant boundary made famous in Oliver Wendell Holmes’s
statement concerning one’s own arm and the other’s nose.
Is personal freedom a failed experiment?
Conscience complicates the law. It is no comfort to the lazy that
to be free means to participate in the process by which all can
enjoy freedom, because we all bear personal responsibility for
the outcome.
But this age may well decide if personal freedom was a failed
experiment. Dickens’s Oliver Twist has a character who, upon
learning that because British common law assumes that a husband speaks for his wife and that she cannot therefore give her
own testimony, responds “… the law is … a(n) idiot.”
Broadly, if one assumes inequality under the law, in any respect,
given our system, then indeed it makes the law “an idiot.” Yet to
a generation raised on the bread and circuses in which competition is favored over cooperation, and ethics is flexible … all is
fair, nothing is certain, and justice is not in the limit of behavior
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toward another, but in the outcome of a game that tests what one
can get away with. Personal freedom has become irrelevant and
unimportant, replaced by personal advantage.
One need not look far for examples of unequally administered
law, from the corporate scandals delivering a message that it’s
far wiser to steal millions than to steal a paltry sum, to the frequent spectacles of celebrity justice, one standard for the privileged and another for the disadvantaged. These examples neither
shock nor surprise. But this is not a revelation. Flouting the law
from a position of power and privilege has been the norm
throughout human history, even given those codes of conduct all
the way back to Hammurabi. Why would one expect it to be different now? Why would one expect human hypocrisy to go away
merely because there is a code of law carved on a stone tablet
or encased behind glass on yellowed parchment?
Embracing Professional
Behavior
• Take responsibility for your own actions and words
• Correct misunderstandings and misinformation
• Pay attention to detail
• Don’t criticize without offering a solution
• Volunteer to fix what is broken
• Try to figure it out yourself, first
• Follow appropriate channels in an appropriate manner
• Treat others with respect and dignity
• Work toward improvement, not destruction or the status quo
• Anticipate the impact of your behavior
• Behave in a way that will get a positive result
Authority vs. responsibility
• Take into account the demands on and limitations of others
This is why: The difference between the authoritarian administering of justice in earlier times, in which the assumption of a privileged class above the law was never abandoned — and the law
of this free and secular nation — lies in the rejection of any
authority over the individual. It is the difference between self-rule
and being ruled. If we did not “… hold these truths to be self evident … that all … are created equal …,” there would be no
point to a declaration of independence that differs in any significant way from other declarations of war and demands for justice
at any other time against any other oppressor. There would be
nothing in our constitution that differs in any significant way from
any other code of law that tolerates unequal justice.
• Commit to personal growth and learning
It is the very concept of individual freedom and equality that
gives a lawyer practicing in the United States a position of
unique responsibility. Responsibility, not privilege.
How is it that we come to an age when the role of the lawyer is
popularly viewed as preserving privilege and exploiting unfair
advantage? One might well ask how it comes to be that the
lawyer and the law get to be separate ideas. One might ask how
in a system of self-rule does the lawyer get away with treating the
law like “a(n) idiot.” There is no line in this country, separating
the law from the person. Even when the person is a lawyer.
Ethics ideas and ideals
If personal conscience complicates the law for everyone, then for
the lawyer it should be — logically consistent with the foundation
of law in our nation and in our time — a higher complication. A
higher conscience.
To be logically consistent, if one cannot expect more in terms of
professional responsibility and ethics from our lawyers, then one
should not expect more from our justice system. If lawyers do not
give more to the cause of justice, who will?
The Professionalism Group, which takes on this important question
in the course of their daily duties, emphasizes different aspects of
ethics and professional responsibility, and of sharing the common
ideal that the cultural change that produces more responsible and
ethical lawyers happens one law student at a time.
The team consists of Wagner and Associate Dean and Professor
Amy Timmer, along with Professor Peter Kempel and Associate
Professors Joan Vestrand and Nancy Wonch.
Ethics programs don’t operate in a philosophical vacuum but
instead prepare students for real issues in real life.
“Certain forces in modern day culture present problems that
students and new lawyers just don’t anticipate…. And so the
(ethics) program helps sensitize students to things like overreaching,
concealing information, and misrepresenting facts — the kinds of
things that happened at Enron,” Kempel noted, adding “I talk with
judges who say, ‘How do you communicate with these people?
How do you get across to them that what they’re doing is wrong?’”
Timmer indicated that much of the problematic shift in ethics has
been documented as far back as high school.
“There’s an organization in New Jersey called the Center for
Academic Integrity that keeps statistics on student cheating in
high school and college by self reporting…. The majority of
students say there’s no problem with cheating, and more than
half of them have cheated. And they do it because they’re pressured to get high grades and scholarships and they see other
people doing it and getting away with it and so they figure if I
don’t do it, I’ll be disadvantaged by it … the influences have
changed dramatically. The heroes used to be the ethical stand-up
people and they’re not the heroes anymore,” Timmer said.
Pop culture icons, while not likely heroes in too many people’s
books, often set a tone that the professors think is unhealthy.
“ If you look at what our culture does today,” said Wonch, “a
media education is “Survivor,” “Montel,” “Jerry Springer,” all of
which emphasize the worst traits in a human being. So they grow
up thinking that to get off the island, to get into a six figure
income — to win — you can stab people in the back, you can
lie, you can cheat, you can steal ... whatever it takes as long as
it’s justified by the zealous representation of the client. So you
have to change a mindset.”
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Changing mindsets includes moving toward instinctively doing the
right thing and away from an “ends justify the means” mentality.
Vestrand wants to get away from that mentality. “I think there’s a
large percentage of lawyers who want to know where the line is,
and they feel that, in order to represent the client as zealously as
possible, they need to be on the line as opposed to way over in
the right hand lane. They want to know how far can I go before I
cross the line, which I think is an unfortunate mindset.”
The dichotomy in mindset is evident at the student level through
the information they seek from professors.
Kempel said student questions range from the legitimate ‘help me
understand this,’ to ‘how can we skirt the rule without getting
caught?’
“I think we need to bring student focus back to what it means to
be a ‘good lawyer’— back to what doing a good job as a lawyer
requires in this situation,” Kempel said. The profession already
has rules that say if a client asks a lawyer to do something
improper or unethical, the lawyer must first explain to the client
that what the client has asked for is wrong and that lawyers do
not help clients break the law. And sometimes lawyers have to fire
their clients.
Integrity is the basic foundation. “Without it,” noted Wagner,
“one has nothing.”
“There are some standards of morality and truth,” Wagner said.
JOAN VESTRAND
Associate Professor
B.A. Albion College 1981
J.D. University of Detroit School
of Law 1984
Professor Vestrand joined the Cooley faculty in the summer of 2002 to teach
Professional Responsibility and to serve as a member of the law
school’s new Professional Responsibility Department.
Most recently she was a partner and shareholder in the firm of
Moore, Vestrand & Pozehl, P.C., in Southfield, Mich. Her practice focused on the representation of lawyers in disciplinary proceedings and court matters involving attorney ethics. She also
represented law students in Character and Fitness proceedings
and served as an expert witness in legal malpractice cases.
Prior to private practice, Professor Vestrand served as Associate
Counsel/Senior Prosecutor for the Attorney Grievance
Commission in Detroit, Mich. Before joining the commission, she
served as a staff attorney on the Judicial Tenure Commission.
Professor Vestrand has lectured extensively in the Detroit area
and published articles on a number of subjects. She is a member of the Oakland Bar Association, where she served as chair
of the Professionalism Committee 2001-2002; and the State Bar
of Michigan, where she served on the Grievance Committee.
She is a council member of the State Bar Law Practice
Management Committee. She is also a member of the American
Bar Association, Center for Professional Responsibility.
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Hilary Term 2003
“You don’t have to get technical about it, you don’t have to go
into detail about it … if you just think that lying, cheating, and
stealing are wrong … each of us can look at our heart and
decide whether what we are about to do is right or wrong.”
“You can’t teach integrity,” Wagner continued, but you can give
students the tools to make it a part of their fabric. “What we can
do is teach the students to look at their conscience. They are
going to have to make their own decisions about what they want
to do.”
Noted Timmer, “We teach them to take a rule of law and be able
to intellectually push it in either direction. And that’s fine when
you’re talking about evidence … but when you’re talking about
making a decision in your life … Here’s a perfect example: I handle the honor code violations in the school. When I send a letter
of investigation to a student, some of them write back and “play
lawyer.” Instead of being completely freaked out about this and
realizing that all of their integrity is on the line, they write back
and challenge the wording I’ve used in my letter. They are just
completely dissociated from themselves. They think lawyering is
something they do, and not something they are.”
Sometimes, “doing the right thing” is easier said than done.
Kempel noted that Plato taught that, if you know the right thing to
do, you’ll do it. “The big problem is, teaching what is truly the
right thing to do. Cooley’s Professionalism Plan presents the first
program where a law school administration, the school’s board,
the faculty, and the community have come together to say, ‘ethics’
is important, ‘professionalism’ is important,’ and I think that this
express recognition of the importance of ethics and
professionalism in the practice of law is what will get the
message across to students.
“When I was in law school, we had a property professor, James
Huddleston, who had a great deal of personal integrity and it
was his belief that faculty teach best by example, and I think
that’s what Cooley is doing. Cooley has invested in the
Professionalism Program, and it truly shows Cooley Law School’s
commitment to high ethical achievement. We are already starting
to see the students pick up on this.”
In addition to the students, the faculty, the staff, and the board
have all signed on in agreement with the Professionalism Plan
at Cooley.
“We want to change the culture,” Timmer said. “To do that, we
need to have everyone on board.”
Part of that change is integrating the concepts of integrity and
professionalism into classes across the board.
“One of the things that Nancy (Wonch) is doing,” said Kempel,
“is talking to the other faculty members about dealing with professionalism issues in the other substantive and procedural
courses in the curriculum. It’s what Professor Deborah Rhode at
Stanford has called “Ethics by the Pervasive Method.”
“We call it the golden thread,” noted Wagner.
Vestrand explained, “We want ethics to be a part of their curriculum from the moment they walk in this door until the time they
graduate. And what is so exciting is … the … enthusiastic reception we’re getting from the students. I taught professional respon-
WILLIAM WAGNER
sibility this fall and I told my 90 students that we want them to have
externship opportunities in ethics … and they’ve been knocking down
my door saying, ‘Professor, are you ready? Can we come in, can we
help, can we … do externships, can we help you with a program that
you and your group are planning?’ Probably 20 percent of my class
has been that way, and I think it’s wonderful that this is something
they’re interested in and really want to be involved in.”
“Integrity is vital to maintaining the fabric of democracy as we know
it today,” said Wagner.
“In a constitutional democracy, the other two branches of government
have all sorts of powers and abilities that the people have given them
to carry out their role … but where the judicial branch gets its power
to decide fairly under the rule of law is the perception that the people
have that it is capable of resolving disputes fairly, honorably, under
the rule of law. Every time a lawyer acts badly, a lawyer chips away
at that trust in the system.”
Lawyers can do tremendous good for the profession simply by not
speaking ill of others.
When a lawyer publicly questions another’s integrity, sanity, or intelligence, it does the profession a disservice.
“They erode the authority of the judicial system by eroding the confidence people have in those who are responsible for implementing the
system,” Wonch said.
Ethics, responsibility, and professionalism are valuable qualities, and
the Professionalism Group enthusiastically hopes to make them an
integral part of every student.
Summarized Wagner, “I’d like to see our program be a lighthouse to
show the way to go. It’s going to be up to those in the boats to decide
whether to follow that light or not, but we all have the choice.
Whether or not we will successfully navigate our way out of the situation that we got ourselves into, is not my goal. My goal is to provide
the light so that individuals who want to follow it, will follow it.”
AMY TIMMER
Associate Dean of Students and
Professionalism, and Professor
Director of the Center for
Ethics and Responsibility, and
Associate Professor
B.A. Western Michigan University
1982
J.D. Saint Louis University 1986
Danforth Fellow (Law, post-doctoral)
Prior to joining the full-time faculty at Cooley Law School,
William Wagner served on the adjunct faculty at a number of
universities, including the University of Liberia, University of
Florida, Michigan State University, and Saint Leo University. His
areas of teaching and scholarship include professional responsibility/ethics, judicial process, and constitutional democracy and
the rule of law. He is a frequent speaker at world conferences
and has published a number of articles, books, and other
publications.
A former federal judge, Professor Wagner served as U.S.
Magistrate Judge for the Northern District of Florida.
Prior to his appointment to the federal bench, he served as the
chief American diplomat for the Department of Justice at the
American Embassy in Liberia. There he led a diplomatic mission
charged with strengthening democracy and the rule of law.
During his career in public service, he has provided international assistance to the justice sector institutions of numerous countries on five continents. Professor Wagner also served as a senior United States prosecutor, litigating hundreds of federal cases
and serving as chief of appellate litigation for the Office of the
U.S. Attorney.
Prior to serving in the Justice Department, Professor Wagner
served as legal counsel in the U.S. Senate, and as chief counsel
to the Senate Judiciary Committee of the Michigan legislature.
As chief counsel, he supervised all legislative issues involving the
separation of powers, due process, and other protections of individual rights and liberties, as well as anti-crime initiatives.
Professor Wagner has also held numerous pro bono appointments including: American Bar Association, V-Chair, Crime
Victims Committee; Federal Bar Association, Board of Directors
(NDFL); National District Attorneys Association Federal Working
Group on Child Exploitation, member; National Victim Center's
Federal Leadership Council, member; and Alachua Habitat for
Humanity Inc. - Chief Executive Officer & Executive Board of
Directors.
B.A. Michigan State University 1978
J.D., summa cum laude, Thomas M.
Cooley Law School 1988
Prior to joining the Cooley faculty, Dean
Timmer was an associate with the law firm of Honigman
Miller Schwartz and Cohn, where she practiced in environmental and contract litigation.
Before practicing law, Dean Timmer worked extensively in
state government, serving as assistant director of the
Michigan Department of Commerce and as a business
ombudsman for former Michigan Governor James Blanchard.
Her interest in professionalism stemmed from her work as an
Associate Dean of Students handling all the Honor Code and
discipline cases in the school. In 2001, she asked President
LeDuc if she could work with the Professionalism Committee.
As its second chair, she was responsible for compiling and
presenting the Professionalism Plan. She currently assists
other law schools with their own efforts to create
professionalism plans.
My Journey to the Highest Court
By Arthur A. Busch
Prosecuting Attorney, Genesee County, Michigan
Much like an athlete who dreams of
winning championships, every lawyer
dreams of having a chance to argue a
case in the U.S. Supreme Court.
Looking back at 2003, my star has certainly been in the right
place. The documentary feature movie, Bowling for
Columbine, in which I appear, garnered an Academy Award.
I participated in the pre-Oscar festivities in Hollywood, and
argued and won a case before the U.S. Supreme Court all in
nearly the same month. The latter, no doubt, is the legal profession’s version of the Oscars.
Prosecutors usually prevail in most murder prosecutions.
However, in the unusual gang-related murder case of Jones
vs. Vincent (U.S. Supreme Court Docket #02-0524), the prosecution was in for an uphill fight. The case arose from a murder outside a homecoming dance at Hamady High School, in
Mt. Morris Township, Mich. A jury convicted the defendant,
Duyonn Vincent, of first-degree, premeditated murder.
Duyonn Vincent’s conviction set the stage for a 12-year legal
battle that ultimately ended up before the U.S. Supreme
Court. It became the first Genesee County criminal case to
receive the attention of the nation’s highest court.
Vincent challenged his conviction in the Michigan Court of
Appeals and won. The court set aside his conviction and
ordered him re-sentenced for second-degree murder. They
found that trial judge, Donald R. Freeman, erred by first
acquitting Vincent of first-degree murder, then later reconsidering his ruling and allowing the jury to convict Vincent on
that charge. In setting aside the first-degree murder conviction,
the court ruled that Judge Freeman violated Vincent’s
constitutional rights by twice placing him in jeopardy.
The prosecution contended that Judge Freeman did not direct
a verdict of acquittal. His statements were ambiguous,
equivocal, and amounted to the court thinking aloud.
Moreover, Judge Freeman adamantly denied he had acquitted the defendant.
The prosecution then appealed. The Michigan Supreme Court
reversed the Court of Appeals in favor of the prosecution and
reinstated Vincent’s murder conviction.
The defendant then sought
review by the U.S. Supreme
Court, but that court denied
review of the alleged double
jeopardy violation.
The game of legal ping-pong
continued in the U.S. District
Court. Vincent petitioned for a
Writ of Habeas Corpus. U.S.
District Court Judge Paul
Gadola, a conservative Reagan
appointee, ruled in favor of
Vincent, granting him the relief
sought. In granting the writ,
Judge Gadola set aside the jury’s first-degree murder conviction and reversed the Michigan Supreme Court.
The prosecution then appealed to the U.S. Sixth Circuit Court
of Appeals in Cincinnati, Ohio. A three-member panel upheld
the granting of the Writ of Habeas Corpus by Judge Gadola.
The staff of the Michigan Attorney General, who assisted us,
believed the battle was now a hopeless cause. They recommended not continuing this uphill struggle. That is when assistant prosecutor Donald A. Kuebler, a 36-year veteran,
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stepped in. He wanted to take the
case to the U.S. Supreme Court.
justices. As with finals week in law
school, I pushed myself hard and
often late into the night.
The odds were long that the Court
would even hear the case, much
less prevail! The U.S. Supreme
Court receives approximately
9,000 requests for review each
year. They accept approximately
80 for argument. My case was
in the ditch, and nothing short
of a miracle was going to keep
it going. I decided to go for
it anyway.
After nearly four months of
immersion into the world of
constitutional law, April 21 soon
arrived.
The next turn in this unusual legal
journey took place behind the closed conference room doors
of the U.S. Supreme Court. At least four justices must agree to
take a case for review. In order for the U.S. Supreme Court to
take a case, it must resolve important questions of law for the
entire nation. It took five certiorari review conferences of the
Supreme Court before it agreed to hear the case. That may
be a near record for the Court.
When I learned that the Court struggled for weeks in just
deciding to accept the case, my worries grew. The prosecution had lost in three of the four
appellate courts that heard the
At least four
matter. Uphill might not fully
Justices must
describe this situation. Perhaps
we will never know what hapagree to take a
pened in those five meetings in
case for review
which the justices deliberated.
in order for the
On Jan. 10, 2003, they agreed
to hear the case. That decision
U.S. Supreme
resulted in the opportunity of a
Court to take
lifetime for me.
a case
My job was to convince the
nation’s highest court to settle a
split of authority between numerous federal and state courts on
the issue of double jeopardy and mid-trial acquittals. If the
Supreme Court ruled in favor of the prosecution, Vincent
would remain in prison, serving a life sentence without parole.
If it ruled for Vincent, he would be resentenced for seconddegree murder and would be immediately eligible for parole.
Soon I found myself with the support of the U.S. government
and 21 state attorneys general. The U.S. Solicitor General
received 10 minutes for oral argument. I had 20 minutes to
make the case with the Justices.
The preparations were intense. The Michigan Attorney
General’s staff scheduled sessions that lasted for hours at a
time. We debated the legal issues from every angle. There
were moot court practices in Lansing and Washington, D.C.
I faced off with some of America’s brightest lawyers posing as
I entered the ornate courtroom
after a brief orientation by the
Clerk of the Supreme Court. In the
front row were my children,
Annick, 16; Michael, 13; and
Britany, 12. They were awaiting
one of the most memorable civics
lessons of their young lives.
This was a moment to savor. Once at the counsel table I
organized my nine pages of prepared notes. It then struck me
how many important matters had been decided in this ornate
courtroom. Sitting nearby was Theodore Olson, Solicitor
General of the United States, who was there to observe the
oral argument. He was the lawyer who argued Bush vs.
Gore, the Supreme Court decision in the 2002 presidential
election case that literally made George W. Bush President of
the United States.
My opponent, David Moran, was sitting at the counsel table. I
shook his hand and wished him well. I leaned in his direction
and joked, “You’re very lucky I have a ‘C’ in my last name.”
Taking that with good humor he shot back, “No, I am lucky
my last name is not Gore!” Then suddenly, the Clerk called
the Court to order and the justices appeared.
Chief Justice William Rehnquist then called the case. I arose
nervously and addressed the Court with the traditional salutation, “Mr. Chief Justice … and May it please the court.” I
confidently delivered my introduction and thus began the
longest and most thrilling 20 minutes of my legal career.
There I stood fielding questions from the justices of the U.S.
Supreme Court.
I left the courtroom that day truly in awe. I also left with two
white quill pens, compliments of the Court to commemorate
this once-in-a-lifetime experience.
In May, we learned we had won! In a 9-0 decision, the U.S.
Supreme Court found in favor of the prosecution.
I want to thank my staff, particularly Donald Kuebler, Dale
DeGarmo, and John Schlinker for their excellent work. I also
want to thank Michigan Solicitor General Tom Casey, and
Michigan Attorney General Mike Cox and his staff,
particularly Brenda Turner and Janet VanCleave. I also want
to recognize the several lawyers and friends from Genesee
County who honored me by coming to Washington, D.C.
They watched a part of Genesee County history in the making.
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Alumni Profile
Viviane Shammas
When Viviane Shammas
(Grant Class, 1987) heard
that the 32-acre cornfield
behind her brother’s house in
Dexter Township, Mich., was
for sale, she knew there was
trouble on the horizon.
Located in one of the fastestgrowing areas of southeastern
Michigan, the farmland site
was an attractive prize for
developers.
unique nature of the project created roadblocks with governmental approval.
Because the township and county had never encountered a
boundary line transfer of a large parcel to a group of nine
adjacent land owners — with the resulting transfers apportioned and titled individually —
they weren't even sure it could
be done, much less how. It
could ... and Shammas was
the person to find the way.
Through brainstorming sessions and marathon workdays,
they discovered an exemption
to Michigan's Land Division
Act that allows each property
owner in a group such as this
to purchase property that is
adjacent to their existing
parcel.
That wasn’t exactly what nine homeowners whose backyards
abutted the cornfield had in mind when they bought their
homes.
The biggest challenges to the
whole deal — which start to
finish took exactly two months — were getting the homeowners to agree on a common plan and getting the government
officials to overcome their concerns about the unfamiliar plan
and make a decision.
When Shammas first learned of the situation, she found that
the homeowners didn’t feel they had any options — they
were about to be backyard neighbors to a huge development.
It got down to the wire, with the township supervisor making
her decision just days before the closing, but the perseverance
paid off and the homeowners bought their property.
Shammas would soon change that thinking, as well as the
future of the land.
“It’s a gorgeous thing they’ve done,” Shammas said of the
landowners, who planted trees, wildflowers, and other
groundcover once the farm crop was harvested. “It’s so cool.
It sends chills down your spine.”
“What if,” she queried in a letter to the homeowners, “you all
bought the land?” Shammas indicated the homeowners' initial
response was disbelief that such a thing could happen. But
she persisted.
“We knew we had to make this happen,” she recalled,
“because it was right.”
Shammas was the perfect point person. Armed with her law
degree, real estate license, and years of experience in both
fields, she knew what to ask and where to look for answers.
She also had the determination to keep going when the
The land preservation deal was a perfect blend of two of
Shammas’s primary interests, real estate and the law. It’s a
dual interest Shammas has had since her days in law school.
“From the moment that Professor John Fitzgerald first spoke in
my Real Property class as a freshman at Cooley, I was on the
edge of my seat, hanging on his every word from the front
row,” Shammas recalled. “I had been introduced to the outside world of real estate investment transactions through
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friends prior to enrolling at Cooley and had been quite
intrigued — which was in great part why I decided to pursue
my law degree — and here I was, learning the foundation of
it all!”
Shammas soon discovered she’d found her life’s calling.
“I graduated from Cooley 16 years ago, and the things I
loved then are still the things I love now.... I found that, no
matter what I did, I couldn't get this real estate interest to go
away.”
MOCK TRIAL
EXECUTIVE
BOARD: Front
row, from left:
Michelle Mauldin,
Kevin Wright,
Michelle Brya,
Jarrod Higgins.
Back row,
from left:
Cassandra
Harmon, Heidi
Rettinghouse,
Philip Lane,
faculty adviser
Peggy Rostorfer,
Lisa Demarest.
Mock Trial
For Shammas, real estate seemed to be the foundation of
everything else.
“My view has been that real estate law goes to the basics of
life: Everyone needs a corner of the earth to sit down and eat
or sleep on.”
In 1992, Shammas added to her knowledge base and
obtained her real estate license. Last year, she passed the
Real Estate Broker exam and is now an Associate Broker with
Real Estate One in Ann Arbor, Mich. She’s found the perfect
blend. She wears her real estate “hat” selling homes, and her
law “hat” providing representation in “For Sale by Owner”
matters.
MOCK TRIAL
BOARD: from
left: Stephen
Laucella, Matt
Galasso, Ammie
Rouse, Joseph
Yaksich, Jessie
Smith.
But it’s not all about farmland and homes for Shammas.
Dancing is now an important part of her life, specifically
ballroom dancing.
Four years ago, Shammas signed up for a community education class in ballroom dances. She soon moved to a dance
studio to better fit the classes in with her schedule. The passion for dancing grew quickly. After a couple months of
group classes, Shammas switched to private lessons and
eventually turned her focus to the art of International
Standard ballroom dance, which includes the waltz, foxtrot,
quickstep, tango, and Viennese waltz, dancing in the long
gowns. She has competed in professional-amateur competitions eight times over the last four years and has won a
number of trophies, medals, and dance scholarships.
In the pro-am format, the student dances with her instructor.
Shammas has also started working with another amateur. This
format, she explained, encourages new growth by requiring
her to hold her own and not rely on the instructor to cover
any mistakes.
Shammas is all about growing, whether it’s in the law, real
estate, or dance. “Between my work and my hobby, I’ve
found what I love to do. It’s great to do what you love, and
it’s never too late to start!”
Moot Court
MOOT COURT BOARD: Front row from left: Vickie Hughes, Tamika Brown, James Duquet,
Kimani King, Tara Whitaker, Felicia Johnson, and Sylvia Johannes. Back row from left: Tanesha
Scott, Aaron Kendal, Amy Church, Greg Mick, Annel-Stephan Norgaisse, Philip Lane, Michele
Mauldin, Kriston Neely
Not pictured: Gil Acevedo, Marc Amos, D. Joseph Auciello Jr., Mina Bahgat, Sandy Brown, Kim
Browning, Willie Brunson, LuAnn Kohler, Ben Landau, Marc Lawrence, Connie Marean, Ian Morton,
Julie Nash, Tedd Nesbit, Debbie Palmer, Danielle Perez, Deborah Perry, Renee Schattler-Houk, Lewis
Mith, Torrey Smith, Angela Thompkins, Demond Tibbs, Arathi Venkatesh, Briar Wilcox, Nikki Wright.
MOOT COURT:
Executive Board
Members, Front row
from left: Saira Khan
(secretary), faculty adviser Evelyn Tombers, Laurie
Hrydziuszko (chair).
Back row, from left:
Reza Yazdian (office
manager) and Yusuf
Wilson (vice-chair).
school news
Law Review
Research Fraud: A Sui Generis
Problem Demands a Sui Generis
Solution (Plus a Little Due Process)
Hesse v. Ashland Oil, Inc.: Parents’ Claim for Negligent Infliction
of Emotional Distress Barred by the Exclusive Remedy Provision
of the Workers’ Disability Compensation Act
By Daniel Goldberg
By Kristin Heyse
The article examines fraud associated with research
as compared to other types of fraud within the
medical community. Because research fraud is not
often motivated by pecuniary gain, safeguards such
as the False Claims Act (FCA) and the Office of
Research Integrity (ORI) may not adequately
address the problem.
In 2002, the Michigan Supreme Court overruled the Michigan Court of Appeals and
held that parents who witnessed their son’s death at his place of employment were
barred by the exclusive remedy provision of the Workers’ Disability Compensation Act
from bringing their claims for negligent infliction of emotional distress against their
son’s employer.
The author argues that when research fraud causes
minimal financial loss, the FCA’s remedial rationale
is diminished. The FCA’s primary focus is on
monetary loss and its repayment to the government.
This trivializes the effect of such fraud on doctors,
insurance companies, patients, and courts who rely
on the information. Financial loss associated with
funding fraudulent research may be so minimal that
it is not likely to be prosecuted. However, the effect
on a patient who has relied on the research could
be detrimental. Therefore, the FCA is generally an
ineffective remedy for research fraud.
Because of the lack of an appropriate remedy for
research fraud, the ORI was established. The ORI
sets forth specific reporting requirements and
remedies for research fraud. The Department
Appeals Board (DAB) then reviews the ORI’s recommendations. The author argues that ORI’s requirements are deficient in both process and result. First,
ORI is given jurisdiction over “research misconduct,” a term that has yet to be defined. Second,
the rate of DAB reversals of ORI findings suggests
an overall deficiency in the process. Finally, the ORI
process offers an accused absolutely no due
process protection.
In this Casenote, the author gives an overview of the history and purpose of Michigan’s
Workers’ Disability Compensation Act and the exclusive remedy provision thereof, and
she discusses Michigan’s treatment of the claim of negligent infliction of emotional distress. She also critically analyzes the holdings and reasoning in the Hesse case from the
Macomb County Circuit Court to the Michigan Supreme Court.
The author contends that a narrow reading of the statute is what led the Michigan
Supreme Court to bar the plaintiffs’ claims for negligent infliction of emotional distress. In
Hesse, the court based its decision on the “plain language” of the exclusive remedy provision of the statute, which states in pertinent part that an employee for purposes of the
provision includes “any other person to whom a claim accrues by reason of injury to, or
death of, the employee.” The author further contends that the Supreme Court made its
decision in error because it did not consider that the plaintiffs’ claims were independent
and nonderivative in nature — based upon injury to themselves from witnessing their
son’s death and not for injury to their son, the employee. As such, their claims should not
fall within the scope of the act because its purpose is to provide a remedy for employees
with work-related injuries. The plaintiffs in Hesse meet neither of those criteria.
Other jurisdictions’ treatments of the issue are discussed in the Casenotes and the author
identifies several policy reasons why the Michigan Supreme Court should have decided
that the claim of negligent infliction of emotional distress is an independent,
nonderivative cause of action and, therefore, not barred by the exclusive remedy
provision of the Workers’ Disability Compensation Act.
Reformation of ORI procedures, including narrowing
the definition of “research misconduct,” are
necessary and already underway. Various proposals
such as the adoption of due-process protections for
offenders are being considered and must be
adopted to make the ORI an effective tool in
combating research fraud.
If the ORI cannot effectively sanction those who
commit research fraud, other remedies are
necessary. Civil and criminal liability for research
fraud under the FCA can provide the appropriate
sanction on the offending party while offering a
remedy to those who are injured. Although this
would require an expansion of the FCA scope, such
an expansion is necessary to protect the public.
LAW REVIEW: First row, from left: Laurie Hrydziuszko, Michele Toler, Danielle Perez, Johnna Skyles, Kathleen
Scanlon, Lisa Harris, Karen Patrick, Jennifer Brant. Middle row, from left: Derrick Etheridge, Jake Gunter, Steve
Mann, Marc May, Majed Zeineddine, Ramon Cervantes, Kriston Neely, Heather Gray, Kim Fink, Harriet Miller-Brown.
Back row, from left: Gary Gensch, Kevin Stoops, Dominic Hamden, Jeremy Trapp, Sean Logsdon, Stephen
Laucella, Tom Novak, Juliana Sabatini, Frank McLaughlin.
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Piercing the Corporate Attorney’s Veil: The
Impact of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act on the
Attorney-Client Privilege
No Shirt, No Shoes, No Fourth Amendment
Protection: Analysis of the Fifth Circuit’s Decision
in United States v. Wilson
By Majed Zeineddine
By Marc May
Yes, you have probably heard about the Sarbanes-Oxley Act.
But if you have not, it was passed into law on July 30, 2002.
Its major purpose is to restore the public confidence by curbing
accounting misconduct and illegal corporate practices. It also
introduces ethical standards to the legal profession. For
instance, section 307 of the Act requires attorneys who represent publicly held corporations to report their client’s fraudulent acts to upper management and the board of directors, if
necessary. Most importantly, it empowers the Securities
Exchange Commission (SEC) to issue policies possibly mandating attorneys to disclose a client’s suspected wrongdoings
straight to federal regulatory agencies. The article addresses
the impact of such policies on the attorney-client privilege,
and it presents a proposal that would sufficiently protect
attorney-client confidentiality, on one hand, and adequately
guard the public interests against ongoing corporate
corruption, on the other hand.
In United States v. Wilson, the defendant was arrested outside his
apartment wearing only his boxer shorts. He never requested additional
clothing, nor did the officer obtain his consent to enter the apartment
to retrieve clothes. Once inside, the officer found incriminating evidence used to convict the defendant. The Fifth Circuit held that exigent
circumstances existed to justify the officer’s entry into the apartment in
the absence of a search warrant. This holding is inconsistent with other
“clothing retrieval” case law.
In attempting to identify the attorney’s obligations when confronted with client fraud, the SEC, the ABA, the courts, academia, and professionals all have been in an exhausting
debate. For example, the ABA approaches the issue through
the rules and codes of ethics that are substantially based on
the attorney-client confidentiality. However, the SEC puts significant emphasis on the investor’s confidence and public
interest when trying to define that confidentiality. Both sides of
the argument have legitimate grounds. According to the
author, if attorneys are compelled to disclose a suspected
client’s wrongdoings to third parties, such disclosure would
undoubtedly undermine the central character of the attorneyclient relationship and defeat the attorney’s role as defense
counsel. Furthermore, there is a strong connection between
the public interest and attorney-client relationship. Both the
fulfillment of an attorney’s duties to the client and the adherence to the code fundamentally protect the public interest.
Such protection can be best manifested in assisting the client’s
total compliance with securities regulations and policies. And
without the attorney-client confidentiality, the sense of loyalty
between the attorney and his client would be damaged; therefore, it would be difficult to comply with the professional conduct embedded with that confidentiality. Additionally, the
legal profession would be critically endangered if government
regulatory agencies attempted to impose additional responsibilities upon lawyers beyond the scope of the code. This
would seriously disrupt the attorney’s role as a counselor,
alienating him from the client’s inner corporate circle.
In the midst of this debate, this article proposes a statutory
approach that would mandate an in-house independent committee, rather than the general counsel, to disclose the client’s
suspected illegal act to federal government agencies. The proposed statutory approach provides detailed characteristics
that such a committee should possess. Finally, it furnishes
attorneys with clear guidelines on how to conduct themselves
when faced with a client’s financial fraud.
Retrieving clothing for an arrestee without a search warrant is not an
inherently unreasonable police practice. Case law has held that this
practice is reasonable where a defendant requests his clothes, where
the officer obtains consent to enter the residence, or when the officer
can show that exigent circumstances exist to justify his entering the residence to obtain clothing. Exigent circumstances have been shown to
exist where there is a legitimate and significant threat to the arrestee’s
health and safety if he remains partially clothed. Factually, a curtilage
filled with broken glass and strewn with beer cans has been held to
represent a legitimate and significant threat to an arrestee’s safety to
justify exigent circumstances to retrieve his shoes. Also, extremely cold
and snowy weather has been held to justify a warrantless entry.
However, the analysis in Wilson does not provide any factual support
or objective evidence to support exigency. The Fifth Circuit simply reasoned that exigent circumstances existed because public sidewalks and
streets, in and of themselves, posed a possibility of personal injury.
Other “clothing retrieval” case law has held that this alone, without
factual support, is insufficient to justify a warrantless entry into an
arrestee’s residence. Because of the factual insufficiency to support exigent circumstances, the Fifth Circuit’s holding in Wilson should be
reversed.
LAW REVIEW: Front row, left to right: Dana Cilla, Connie Marean, faculty adviser Professor
Evelyn Tombers, Mark G. Sands, Jennifer Shephard. Back row, from left: Marc Amos, Shawna
Stevens, Law Review secretary Dawn Beachnau, Herbie Gaylord, Kristen Heyse, J. Kevin Winters.
BENCHMARK
school news
Law Journal
The Thomas M. Cooley Journal of Practical and Clinical Law
The First Amendment is not the 8th
Sacrament: Exorcizing the Ecclesiastical
Abstention Doctrine Defense from Legal
and Equitable Claims for Sexual Abuse
Based on Negligent Supervision or
Hiring of Clergy.
By John S. Brennan
This article explores a defense, based upon First
Amendment principles, raised by churches and
church leaders accused of failing to properly screen
potential clergymen or properly supervise clergymen who then sexually abuse church members,
particularly children.
The clergy sex abuse scandal gained national and
international attention following the revelation
that Fr. John Geoghan, a priest in the Catholic
Archdiocese of Boston, had engaged in decadeslong sexual abuse of boys in the parishes to which
he was assigned, all with the knowledge of his
superior, the Archbishop of Boston. Instead of
being removed from his office, Geoghan was reassigned from parish to parish until public disclosure of his abuse forced the bishop to remove and
defrock him.
The article recounts this story and then focuses on
the defense, raised successfully in some jurisdictions, that imposing a tort standard of care in the
hiring and supervision of clergy violates the First
Amendment’s separation of church and state. The
defense, sometimes referred to as the “ecclesiastical
abstention doctrine” is meant to protect the
church from secular interpretation of and interference with church doctrine, beliefs, and internal
governance. The article reviews cases and arguments raised in support of and in opposition to the
defense and concludes that judicial review of facts
establishing supervisory control over clergy in light
of neutrally applied tort standards established to
protect the public from harm due to negligent hiring and supervision of employees does not offend
the First Amendment. In addition, the article
argues that when the steps taken by a church to
prevent abuse prove to be failing, in a properly
proved case in which harm is clearly threatened,
courts are constitutionally permitted to fashion
appropriate equitable relief, including the removal
of the clergyman from his position if necessary for
the protection of minors.
Some Thoughts on Preserving Democratic Institutions and
Protecting Children
By William Wagner
Summary: Since Marbury v. Madison, it has been the province of the
judiciary to say what the law means.1 The author of this essay suggests
that when a court steps beyond this limited duty, it undercuts the legitimacy of its own institution and threatens governance under the rule of
law. The author addresses this matter in the context of American Library
Association, Inc. v. United States, a case now before the U.S. Supreme
Court,2 (reviewing congressional amendments to the United States
Code by the Children’s Internet Protection Act).
1 Marbury v. Madison, 5 U.S. 137, 177 (1803).
2 201 F. Supp. 2d 401 (E.D. Pa. 2002), prob. juris. noted, 123 S.Ct. 551 (2002).
LAW JOURNAL: Front row, from left: T’Shura Ann Elias, Patricia Wilson, Rehana Rasool, Syntoria
Spencer, Duana Lara, Erika Domariew, Rose Billeci, Shital Bhakta. Back row, from left: Jim Bong,
Nedra Thompson, Amy Cao, Anda Ackie, Nicole Fox, Lisa Lanxton, Melisa Platte, Paul Vargas, Caryl
Williams, John Frame, Stephen Laucella. Not pictured: Wesley Nicholls, Scott Carrington, Jerome Davis,
Robert Ost.
LAW JOURNAL:
Front row, from
left: Dionne
Osborne, Heidi
Rettinghouse,
Natasha Preston,
Nadia Lescott. Back
row, from left:
Rogelio Chapa,
Leandro Vicuna,
Felina Vaughn,
Majed Zeineddine,
Samuel Henderson.
Not pictured: Jodi
Copenhaver
BENCHMARK
school news
Graduation
HIGHLIGHTS
Swainson Class
Members of the Swainson Class
received their juris doctor
degrees January 18, 2003.
Members of the John B. Swainson Class received their
juris doctor degrees Jan. 18, 2003. John T. Berry,
Executive Director of the State Bar of Michigan gave the
commencement speech, and Stephen Boehringer gave
the valedictory remarks.
Ryan Kauffman earned both summa cum laude status
and the President’s Achievement Award, marking only
the second time in the history of Cooley Law School that
one individual earned both awards.
Left: Stephen Boehringer made the valedictory remarks and Professor Phil Prygoski
(right) won the Stanley E. Beattie Teaching Award. Below, President and Dean
Don LeDuc; Ryan Kauffman, summa cum laude and winner of the President’s
Achievement Award; and John T. Berry, Executive Director, State Bar of Michigan.
The summa, who is the student with the highest overall
grade point average, is the recipient of the school’s
James E. Burns Memorial Award. The President’s
Achievement Award is bestowed upon the student who
achieved the biggest academic increase between
incoming index and graduating grade point average.
Professor Phil Prygoski was the winner of the Stanley E.
Beattie Teaching Award. This is an honor voted on by
the graduating class each term.
John B. Swainson
Graduation Faculty, board
members, graduates,
and the audience
listen during the Jan.
18, 2003 graduation
ceremony.
BENCHMARK
Graduates
Swainson Class
Antonio M. Adams
Guadalupe G. Aguirre
Gioconda Viviana Andrade
Robert James Andretz, CUM LAUDE
Daniel Andrews-Wilberforce
Dennis Robert Armistead
Vicki L. Armstrong, CUM LAUDE
Lisa Bailey
Cherami L. Ball
Laura Ann Baluch, MAGNA CUM LAUDE
Wilbert Steven Barefoot, LEADERSHIP
ACHIEVEMENT AWARD
Joann Baumann
Brendon Russell Beer, CUM LAUDE
LaShell Bell
Anna K. Bilowus
Dave Mukherjee Biswas
Regina R. Blough, CUM LAUDE
Rajesh Kumar Bobal
Stephen R. Boehringer, CUM LAUDE,
LEADERSHIP ACHIEVEMENT AWARD
Brett Alan Border
Alexandria Starr Bourcier
Martina A. Brady, CUM LAUDE
Passion Vongretchen Briscoe
Miranda Byrd, CUM LAUDE
Frederic D. Byrne
Karla Calahan
Christopher John Campa
Janice Denise Carlton
Christina Catipay,
Harjinder Chahal
Kristy Ann Christensen, CUM LAUDE
Lawrence John Chrum
Kyia Orville Clardy
Laura Ann Clifton, CUM LAUDE
Diane L. Dagger
Jared L. Darrington, CUM LAUDE,
Lipi Datta
Harla Davison
Fazia Deen-Bachus
Betty Delma
Kimberly A. Dickinson, MAGNA CUM LAUDE
Travis E. Ellison III
Anthony Elmore
Nathan Herald Erb, CUM LAUDE
Joshua F. Fannon
Chad Patrick Favre
Patricia A. Fernandez, CUM LAUDE
Maureen Fitzgerald
David Marcel Fleischer
Carrie Elizabeth Folts
Matthew W. Frank
Darling De LosAngeles Garcia
Valerie Marie Garcia
R. Nathan Gonzales
Ni’aisha Surida Gonzalez
Hiram L. Griffin Jr.
Gordon Ray Haan, CUM LAUDE
Heidi Hagen
Donna L. Hansel
Timothy Lee Haraminac
Christopher R. Harris
Kara Henigan, CUM LAUDE
Heather Grace Horwath, CUM LAUDE
Monica E. Hoyos
Crystal Lynn Hundt, MAGNA CUM LAUDE
Lynne Tyler Ingram
Shawn A. Jiles, CUM LAUDE
Roger Dale Johnson
Tanya Matrice Jones
Killy Patrick Kang
Ryan Kenneth Kauffman, SUMMA CUM LAUDE,
PRESIDENT’S ACHIEVEMENT AWARD
Loretta Barbara Kendall
Tyra Shareen Khan, CUM LAUDE
Anetra Leta King
Ronald Don Klein, CUM LAUDE
Suzanne Klein, MAGNA CUM LAUDE
Jeffrey T. Kortes
Laura M. Kotarba
Diana Lynn Krueger
Tracey L. Lackman, CUM LAUDE
Ivan L. Land
Yves Pierre Laventure, CUM LAUDE
Andrew R. Lockard
Gina M. Longobardi
Dianne Marie Longoria
Gary Edward Mailloux
Tamika D. Marshall
Frances S. McGinnis
John D. Mead, CUM LAUDE
Matthew Charles Meador, CUM LAUDE
Hope Fatima Mercado
Grace Audrey Miller
Steven A. Miller
Melissa S. Mitchell, CUM LAUDE,
Arnold A. Moncada Jr.
Dana Y Moore
Timothy M. Moore
Terri LaFew Morton
Amy M. Moya
Michael Neri
Alecia Michelle Noteboom, MAGNA CUM
LAUDE, LEADERSHIP ACHIEVEMENT AWARD
Andrew Nunnally
Antonio Otero
Larra Shepard Otero
James Donnie Patterson
Deanna Raé Pelton, CUM LAUDE
Catherine L. Petrovich
Sharlina Nekeshia Pye-Mack
M. Joseph Rafferty Jr.
Christine A. Rathburn
Renet Maxine Richardson
Brandy Giovanni Robinson
Trevor Matthew Robinson
Wesley D. Rogers
Amanda Louise Roggenbuck-Crips
Leigh A. Rogner
Beverley Devon Ross
James Lyle Rossiter, CUM LAUDE
Ruth A. Rowley
Ejaz A. Sabir
Jason Robert Schachner
Randal Lawrence Schmidt, CUM LAUDE
Eilisia Grace Schwarz
Christopher Jeffrey Scott
Thomas J. Seger
Anthony Francois Segree
Athanasios S. Sianis
Ryan Simmons
Ryan Paul Stecovich
Beth Ann Striegle
Terry R. Sutton
Robert Michael Tedders
Miguel Angel Terc Jr.
Margaret F. Terrasi
Gregory Paul Thatcher
Angela Thompkins
Jennifer L. Thornburg
Christopher L. Tomasi, CUM LAUDE
Aaron J. Tracy, CUM LAUDE
Judith Ann Varga
Justin Jerome Walker,
Lori Nichole Walker, CUM LAUDE
Tina Walker
Williamson Newell Wallace III, CUM LAUDE
William Ward Jr.
Chaiyot Wattanachaiyot, CUM LAUDE
Autumn Layne West
Felisha B. White, CUM LAUDE
M. Sue White, CUM LAUDE
James Raymond Wiesneth Jr.
Cassandra Ann Williams
Samuel Williams Jr.
Katrina Yvette Wilson
Christopher Larry Wynn, CUM LAUDE
Richard H. Yetter III
Mijija Yoo
Shannon Elizabeth York
Adam K. Zickerman
school news
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D.S.A.
Distinguished Student Award
Alumni Association Vice
President Toy Grants the 2003
Alumni Memorial Scholarship and
the Distinguished Student Awards
for Otis M. Smith Class
The faculty, staff, and student body of the
Thomas M. Cooley Law School gathered in
the Auditorium on Friday, March 28, for the
Honors Convocation of Hilary Term 2003.
Alumni Association Vice President Charles
R. Toy of the 1981 Kavanagh Class was on
hand to grant the Distinguished Student
Award to two members of the graduating
Otis M. Smith Class and to award the
Alumni Memorial Scholarship.
Leadership
Achievement Award
recipients, from left,
Willie H. Brunson,
L. M. Kohler, Sandy
Nadeen Brown,
Laurie Anne
Hrydziuszko, and
Paul Zelenski,
Associate Dean of
Enrollment and
Student Services.
After graduation, Mr. Altenhof will sit for the
July 2003 Bar Examination in his home state
of Indiana. He is considering an offer of a
part-time position handling domestic violence cases for the Elkhart County
Prosecuting Attorney’s Office. Alternatively,
he may accept an offer from a local law
firm dealing with city government matters
and general practice. Eventually, Mr.
Altenhof aspires to become a full-time
prosecuting attorney or a partner in a law
firm specializing in litigation.
Mr. Yazdian plans to sit for the Ohio Bar
Examination in July. He seeks a position in a
large law firm in Cincinnati, Ohio. Mr.
Yazdian will specialize in litigation and is
working toward becoming an executive and
legal counsel for a medical company in the
area. Eventually, he is considering seeking
elective office on the Cincinnati City Council
and, later, as governor of Ohio.
Charles M. Toy (center), vice president of the Cooley Alumni
Association, with Distinguished Student Award winners Mark D.
Altenhof (left) and Reza Yazdian (right).
The students nominated for the Distinguished
Student Award furnished a variety of
information, including résumés and letters
of reference that were reviewed by the
Executive Committee. Nominees were also
personally interviewed as part of the
selection process. Eight students were
nominated to receive the award.
Members of each graduating class are
evaluated on the criteria of character,
academic accomplishment, leadership, and
extracurricular activities in the decision to
grant the Distinguished Student Award. The
Hilary Term award was given to Mark D.
Altenhof and Reza Yazdian of the Otis M.
Smith Class.
were interviewed by the Executive
Committee of the Alumni Association’s Board
of Governors on Feb. 27.
The 2003 Alumni Memorial Scholarship, in
the amount of $2,130, was awarded to
Rogelio Chapa of the Harry S. Toy Class. He
hails from Los Angeles, Calif., and will take
that state’s bar examination after he graduates in September 2003. Mr. Chapa plans
to establish a practice in San Diego. He has
a strong interest in assisting clients with
immigration problems and plans to work
with a program in Tijuana, Mexico, where
he served as a volunteer prior to attending
Cooley Law School.
The scholarship is derived from income from
the Alumni Memorial Scholarship Fund. That
fund is supported by the generous contributions of many alumni, and by the proceeds
from the Alumni Golf Outing, which is held
each July. This year’s outing is scheduled for
Saturday, July 12, at the Wheatfield Valley
Golf Course near Williamston, Mich. All
Cooley students, faculty, staff, and
alumni are cordially invited to attend.
Contact Darryl
Parsell at the
Alumni Relations
Office on the
10th Floor of the
Cooley Center.
Call (517) 3715140, extension
2038, or e-mail
[email protected] for more
information.
The Alumni Memorial Scholarship is granted
each Hilary Term to a current student who
has successfully earned at least 30 credit
hours, has not been on academic probation
for at least
three terms,
exhibits financial need, and
is a positive
force in the
Cooley community. In Hilary
2003, 27
students
applied for the
Alumni
Memorial
Darryl Parsell, Director of Alumni Relations; Rogelio Chapa, winner
Scholarship.
of the 2003 Alumni Memorial Scholarship, and Charles M. Toy, vice
Three finalists
president of the Cooley Alumni Association.
school news
Faculty Briefs
Brendan Beery,
Assistant Professor,
Spoke, on Legal Research
and Legal Writing for Legal
Assistants at the Half Moon
L.L.C. Seminar: Basics of
Legal Assisting in Michigan,
on March 28, 2003, in
Lansing, Mich.
John S. Brennan,
Professor
Published, an article,
“The First Amendment is
Not the 8th Sacrament:
Exorcizing the Ecclesiastical
Abstention Doctrine Defense
From Legal and Equitable
Claims for Sexual Abuse Based on Negligent
Supervision or Hiring of Clergy,” in the
Thomas M. Cooley Journal of Practical &
Clinical Law.
Mark Cooney,
Assistant Professor
Reappointed, as chair, to
the Federal Practice
Committee of the State Bar’s
Appellate Practice Section.
Patrick Corbett,
Associate Professor,
Attended, a presentation
entitled "Seizure Procedure
for Digital Media,"
Michigan High Tech Crimes
Investigation Association,
on Feb. 19, 2003, in
Lansing, Mich.
Attended, a presentation
entitled "Wireless Security,"
Michigan Chapter of InfraGard, at Davenport
University, on Feb.19, 2003, in Grand
Rapids, Mich.
Attended, a conference entitled "Preparing
for Cyber Warfare," Michigan Chapter of
InfraGard, at Walsh College, on March 19,
2003, in Novi, Mich.
Organized, "Anatomy of a Computer Crime
Case" Conference, Forensic Science Institute of
Thomas M. Cooley Law School, in conjunction
with the Michigan Chapter of the High Tech
Crime Investigations Association, on March
21, 2003, in Lansing, Mich.
Attended, a presentation entitled "Wireless
Technology," Mid-Michigan Information
Security Special Interest Group, on April 8,
2003, in Lansing, Mich.
Attended, a Web presentation entitled
"Legal Liability for Information Security: Ask
the Experts," SANS Institute, on April 23,
2003, in Lansing, Mich.
Cynthia M. Dennis,
Assistant Professor
“Expanding Students’ Views
of the Dilemmas of
Womanhood and
Motherhood Through
Individual Client
Representation,” in 46
Howard Law Journal 269 (2003).
Spoke, on a panel on “The Challenges of
Doing Transformative Work, at the 17th
annual Midwest Clinical Conference on March
13, 2003, in St. Louis, Mo.
Mentioned, in the Ford Foundation Report,
“Pregnant and Punished,” in winter 2003.
Recognized, in Marie Claire, “Pregnant
Women Sent to Prison,” in January 2003.
Attended, the AALS Workshop on Clinical
Legal Education May 14-17, 2003, in
Vancouver, Canada.
Attended, the AALS Annual Meeting in
Washington, D.C., in January 2003.
Barry Dubner,
Professor,
Invited, to speak at a
symposium on pesticides,
law of the sea, and
international trade, titled
“Pesticides: What Will the
Future Reap?,” at William
and Mary School of Law in
Williamsburg, Va., March 28–29, 2003. He is
chairman of the Law of the Sea Committee,
ABA Public International Law Section.
Authored, an article, “On the Importance of
Regulating the International Trade of Pesticides
— A Look at the Current Status of
Conventional Wisdom (and Lack Thereof) on
the Subject,” for the William and Mary
Environmental Law and Policy Review
(2002/2003).
Judith Frank,
Professor,
Volunteering, with the
Ingham County Probate
Court during her sabbatical
during Trinity Term 2003.
She will assist with case
management and other
administrative tasks.
Richard Henke,
“Comparative Fault in
Products Liability:
Comparing California and
New Jersey,” in the
Thomas M. Cooley Law
Review, Vol. 19, No. 3.
Keith Hey, Dean
Emeritus and
Professor,
Co-taught, with Associate
Professor Terry Cavanaugh,
the Equities & Remedies
course as part of Cooley’s
Foreign Studies Program in
Australia and New Zealand, in Hilary Term
2003. Hey taught the second half of the class
at Canterbury University School of Law in
Christchurch, New Zealand. Cavanaugh taught
the first half of the course at Monash
University School of Law in Melbourne,
Australia.
Presented, to the Canterbury (New Zealand)
University Law Faculty, a talk on Directions in
Legal Education in the United States.
Eileen Kavanagh,
Appointed, to the East
Lansing, Mich., Zoning
Board of Appeals by the
East Lansing City Council.
Joseph Kimble,
Professor,
Produced, his first volume
as the editor-in-chief of the
Scribes Journal of Legal
Writing. The Scribes
Journal is distributed to
more than 8,000 judges,
lawyers, and law professors.
Published, an article
entitled “How to Mangle
Court Rules and Jury Instructions” in the
Scribes Journal of Legal Writing.
Selected, as the next president of Clarity, the
international association of lawyers and other
professionals who advocate plain legal language. Professor Kimble has been the U.S.
representative for many years and the membership secretary in recent years.
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Kimberly O’Leary,
Professor,
Promoted, to full professor
with tenure at Cooley Law
School, effective Jan. 1, 2003.
Nora Pasman-Green,
Professor,
Named, a CALI Remedies
Fellow. CALI (The Center for
Computer Assisted Legal
Instruction) has named six
faculty members to be part
of its Remedies Fellowship.
The purpose of the fellowship program is to develop
computer-mediated instructional materials. The fellowship will last for
seven months.
Invited, to make a presentation, “Using
Technology in Teaching Law,” at the annual
meeting of the Southeastern Association of
Law Schools in July 2003.
John P. Rooney,
Professor,
Attended, a conference,
Inference, Culture &
Ordinary Thinking in Dispute
Resolution, on April 27–29,
2003, at Cardozo School of
Law in New York City.
Marjorie Russell,
Professor,
Conducted, a training
seminar for the education
faculty of the Criminal
Defense Attorneys of
Michigan (CDAM), on
Feb. 1, 2003, at Cooley
Law School. In a smallgroup setting, the subject was teaching
cross examination skills.
Served, as a trainer at the CDAM winter
conference, Feb. 27–March 1, 2003, in Novi,
Mich., teaching opening statement and cross
examination skills.
Served, on the faculty for a regional training
seminar of the Trial Lawyers College, March
5–9, 2003, in Toccoa, Ga. The subjects were
voir dire and opening statements.
Named, chairperson of the new Practice,
Advocacy, & Litigation Skills Department at
Cooley Law School. The department will focus
on practice skills, including pre-trial, trial,
appellate, and alternate dispute resolution.
Otto Stockmeyer,
Senior Professor,
Reappointed, by
Michigan Speaker of the
House Rick Johnson to a
three-year term on the
Reimbursement Committee
established by Blue
Cross/Blue Shield of Michigan and participating hospitals. The committee meets quarterly
to adjust payment rates for hospital services
provided to Blues subscribers.
Quoted, in Lawyers Weekly USA, Jan. 6,
2003, pg. 3, in the Small Firm Quick Tips
section regarding instructions on damages.
Profiled, in the Michigan Authors and
Illustrators database established by the
Michigan Association of Media in Education
at www.mel.org/miai/miai.
Kathy Swedlow,
Assistant Professor,
Published, “A State by
State Review of PostConviction DNA Testing
Statutes,” in the inaugural
issue of the Online Journal
of Justice Studies. The
journal is a peer-reviewed
international journal which publishes articles
regarding criminal justice issues. She was
invited to submit her article after the editor
heard her speak at the annual meeting of
the American Society of Criminology on
Nov. 14, 2002.
Spoke, at the annual meeting of the American
Society of Criminology, on Nov. 14, 2002.
Published, “When Can Defense Counsel’s
Decision Not to Present Mitigating Evidence
Be Challenged as Ineffective Assistance?” in
Preview of United States Supreme Court
Cases, Issue #6 (March 21, 2003).
Published, “Forced Medication of Legally
Incompetent Prisoners: A Primer,” in Human
Rights, Vol. 30, No. 2 (spring 2003).
William Wagner,
Named, Director of the
Center for Ethics &
Responsibility, at Cooley
Law School.
Spoke, on “Professionalism
in the Legal Profession — Why We Must Start
in Law Schools,” to the Legal Education and
Professional Standards Committee of the State
Bar of Michigan, on Feb. 14, 2003.
Launched, the Center for Ethics and
Responsibility Luncheon Lecture Series at
Cooley Law School, in February 2003.
Authored, a report on anti-corruption efforts
in Nigeria, made to the U.S. Department of
Justice and to the U.S. Department of State,
on Feb. 5, 2003.
Published, a legal essay, “Some Thoughts
on Preserving Democratic Institutions and
Protecting Children,” in the Journal of
Practical & Clinical Law, Spring 2003 edition.
William Weiner,
Associate Dean and
Professor,
Spoke, to the staff of the
Legislative Service Bureau,
with Phil Prygoski. The two
presented a review and
update about the U.S.
Supreme Court.
Spoke, about constitutional rights to a group
of Boy Scouts from Troop 2, Chief Okemos
Council. This was part of the requirement for
becoming First Class scouts. “They asked great
questions!”
Judged, arguments at the Midwest regional
meeting of the Jessup International Law Moot
Court Competition, held in Ann Arbor, Mich.
Spoke, about careers in public international
law at the Public Law Careers Symposium at
Cooley, sponsored by the Cooley Public and
International Law Concentration and Western
Michigan University’s MPA program.
Appointed, to a new position at the law
school, as Associate Dean for International,
Graduate, and Extended Programs.
Nancy Wonch, Associate Professor,
Spoke, at the Institute for
Continuing Legal Education,
on Nov. 19, 2002, on
“Practical Ethics and Ethical
Practices: Selected Hot Topics
in Being More Successful
and Staying Out of Trouble.”
Topic: “Work Smarter
Without Working Harder:
Avoiding Grievances and Malpractice Peril.”
Spoke, at the Marvin Beekman Training
Center, on Feb. 13, 2003, for the Parent
Action Committee on Securing Supplemental
Security Income and/or Social Security
Dependents Benefits for Your Disabled Child.
Spoke, at the Ingham County Bar
Association Brown Bag Lunch, on Feb. 5,
2003, on “The Cooley Professionalism Plan
and How it Relates to Local Practitioners.”
Serving, on the Lansing School District Bond
Forum Task Force, as chairperson 2002–2003.
Serving, on the Lansing Board of Water and
Light Board of Commissioners 2002–2003.
Awarded, the Leo Farhat Outstanding
Attorney Award by the Ingham County Bar
Association.
Alumni Association Board Members
and Representatives Thanked for
Service to Cooley
Alumni have generously given of their time to represent classmates as class representatives to the Alumni Association’s
Board of Governors by attending the annual meeting in
Lansing each Michaelmas Term. Some members of that
group have gone above and beyond the call of duty by giving
additional service on the executive committee.
Executive committee members meet monthly at Cooley Law
School to transact the ongoing business of the Alumni
Association. Further, the executive committee members and
many class representatives have helped the school by planning
and staffing events, including our Grand Rapids Law Day
Lunch, the annual Alumni Memorial Scholarship Golf
Outing, and the Alumni Reception at the Annual Meeting of
the State Bar of Michigan.
Alumni Executive Committee members: President M.
Carol Bambery (Morell Class, 1985), Vice President and Class
Representative Charles R. Toy (Kavanagh Class, 1981), Past
President Jeff Haarer (Copeland Class, 1989), Treasurer and
Class Representative Henry Legere, Jr. (Carpenter Class, 1993),
Secretary and Class Representative Suzanne Lowe (Long Class,
1981), Member at Large and Class Representative Aletha L.
Honsowitz (Witherell Class, 1990), Member at Large and Class
Representative Julie Clement (McDonald Class, 1998), Member
at Large and Class Representative Diane Britt (Chandler Class,
1983), and Past Presidents’ Committee Chair and Class
Representative Virginia P. Allen (Wing Class, 1982).
Alumni Class Representatives: Barry F. DeVine and Jerry
Sutton (Cooley Class, 1976), Raymond Buffmyer and Norman
Gaffney, Jr. (Campbell Class, 1976), Stephen D. Gorsalitz and
Glen L. Ziegler (Fletcher Class, 1976), Haywood Julian and
Phyllis Groenewoud (Christiancy Class, 1977), John W. Ujlaky,
Sr. and F. Georgann Wing (Felch Class, 1977), Mary Ann
Cartwright and Paul K. Fershee, Jr. (Graves Class, 1977),
Gordan C. Boardman and Mary Elizabeth Low (Marston Class,
1978), Robert Birach (Ransom Class, 1978), Keith A. Pretty
(Kelly Class, 1978), Angela Baryames King and Kimberly C.
Colgate (Butzel Class, 1979), Darryl J. Parsell and Richard G.
Hayhoe (Wiest Class, 1979), Larry Betz (Clark Class, 1979),
Brett J. Bean and Christine Mikrut Campbell (Potter Class, 1980),
Michael J. DeFors and David M. Stewart (Bushnell Class, 1980),
H. Kirby Albright and Sharon A. Ellis (North Class, 1980), M. J.
Stephen Fox and Robert Wilson (Dethmers Class, 1981), James
Siver and Charles R. Toy (Kavanagh Class, 1981), Suzanne Lowe
and José Brown (Long Class, 1981), Rachel J. Asbury and Jeffrey
J. Steffel (Wing Class, 1982), Donna Kay Hasenauer and Mary
Pat Jaracz (Goodwin Class, 1982), Fred E. Bell III and John R.
Scholten (Brooke Class, 1982), Krista Krause and Allen
Schlossberg (O’Hara Class, 1983), Diane Britt and Charles Fleck
(Chandler Class, 1983), Beverley Nettles-Nickerson and Daniel
Nickerson, Jr. (Blair Class, 1983), Raymond Reynolds and Kevin
Thom, (McAlvay Class, 1984), Lawrence Friedman and Vicki
Anderson Pinckney (Carr Class, 1984), Amy H. Bailey and Billie
Jo O’Berry (Manning Class, 1984),
Brian Bridson and Michael A. Darby (Smith Class, 1985), M.
Carol Bambery and Edward F. Cook (Morell Class, 1985), Kevin
Hayes (Whipple Class, 1985), Judith A. Frank and Janice
Cunningham (Mundy Class, 1986), Linda Maloney (Miles Class,
1986), Louise Alderson and Krystal Walters Rourke (Sherwood
Class, 1986), Tanya Marcum and James F. Mauro (Champlin
Class, 1987), Thomas C. Rombach and Lynne A. Taft (Morse
Class, 1987), Maureen Burns Van Hoven and Mitchell Dembo
(Grant Class, 1987), David Carbajal and Carlo P. Ginotti (Green
Class, 1988), Keldon Scott and Amy Timmer (Pratt Class, 1988),
Carolyn M. Boegner and Michael Pelot (Martin Class, 1988),
William Metros and Dennis P. O’Neill (Copeland Class, 1989),
Mary Ann Fry and Brian Draper (Douglass Class, 1989), Judy
Walton and Konstandenos Bazianos (D. Johnson Class, 1989),
Kathryn Martel and Mary Zuhl Crouch (Bacon Class, 1990),
Patricia Len Staley and Kathleen Maine (E. Wilson Class, 1990),
Aletha Honsowitz and Marie Shamraj (Witherell Class 1990),
Charlotte Allen and M. Jean Ligon (Turner Class, 1991), Rebecca
Walsh and T. Lynn Hopkins (Lawrence Class, 1991), Kristin Smith
and Stephen Pottinger (Krinock Class, 1991), Jack Jordan and
Karen Sutliff (McGrath Class, 1992), Debra Blews and Cindy
Faulkner (Durand Class 1992), Shelley Kranz (Hooker Class,
1993), Barry Price and Tammy Brown Asher (Moore Class,
1993), Henry Legere and Jim Weeks (Carpenter Class, 1993),
Lea Dillard and Lyle Marshall (Ostrander Class 1994), Lisa
Sullivan and Lee Reimann (Williams Class, 1994), David Brink
(Person Class, 1994), Robert Hackett and David Zoglio (Bird
Class, 1995), Barry Bohmueller and Molly M. Jason (Steere
Class, 1995), Ridley S. Nimmo II and Lisa Marie Pohl (Kuhn Class,
1995), Carol A. Friend and James Holcomb (Stone Class, 1996),
Kimberly Ann Shinabarger and Denise Winiarski (Moody Class
1996), C. Adam Purnell (Black Class 1996), Brenda Popplewell
and Kevin Roragen (Adams Class 1997), Carol Thomas and
Elizabeth Weihl (Voelker Class, 1997), Audra Foster and
Margaret Chamberlain (Fellows Class, 1997), Jonathan White
and Fred Trost (Sharpe Class, 1998), Julie Clement and Marie
Wolfe (McDonald Class, 1998), Linda Mullins and Adrienne
Payne (Snow Class 1998), Ronald Grim and Robert Wilcox
(Flannigan Class, 1999), Michael Jimenez and Christopher
Pianto (Fead Class, 1999), Michael Carr and Kathy Martin
(Weadock Class, 1999), Tammy Browning-Smith and Phoenix
Hummel (Jay Class, 2000), Nana Bailey and Theresa Knight
(Rutledge Class, 2000), Laurie Berner and Giuseppina Fricano
(Cushing Class, 2000), Candy Keysor and Michael O’Malley (J.
Wilson Class, 2001), Douglas Romero and Stacey Lott (Blair Jr.
Class, 2001), John K. Guthrie and Thelma Ogbon-Kalu (Iredell
Class, 2001), Kay Granath and Robin Prowell (T. Johnson Class,
2002), Rhonda Kunkel and George Sotiropoulos (Paterson Class,
2002), Sara Eberhardy and Lynnell Peace (Chase Class, 2002),
Amanda Crips and Miguel Terc (Swainson Class, 2003). Board
of Governors Members at Large are Lawrence J. Kish (Marston
Class, 1978), John J. Smith (Smith Class, 1985), and Burt W.
Burleson (Mundy Class, 1986).
alumni matters
Partners
IN
PROGRESS
By James D. Robb
Associate Dean of Development and Alumni Relations
T
The alumni partners in progress section is dedicated to highlighting the
partnerships between Cooley and its graduates.
The year 2002 was an outstanding one for Cooley, a year in which we have
many reasons to be grateful. Among those reasons is that Cooley’s many
alumni and friends gave generously to the school during the year. We
received a total of $255,802.21 in donations from 558 donors, including
334 alumni.
Your gifts are critical to our ability to provide an outstanding educational
experience to our students while at the same time keeping their tuition affordable. This year, you funded numerous student scholarships, helping deserving
students to pay for their education. You helped us to improve our student services that provide academic support, offer personal counseling, and assist our
students to find jobs literally across the nation. You let us expand the range
and scope of student activities that enrich the educational experience at
Cooley. You made the time spent at Cooley much more comfortable, pleasant,
enjoyable, and rewarding for the many students who have come so far from
home to pursue their dreams of becoming lawyers.
Capital Contributors’ Club
($100,000 to $249,999)
The Charles J. Strosacker Foundation
Chairman’s Club
($10,000 to $24,999)
G. Michael Stakias (Campbell, 1976)
Dean’s Council ($5,000 to $9,999)
Arnold and Lynn Markowitz
Michael & Peggy Pitt Charitable
Annuity Lead Trust
James J. Vlasic (Ransom, 1978)
Fellows’ Club ($2,500 to $4,999)
Carey S. Bernstein (Montgomery, 1992)
Raymond J. Brennan
Capital Area United Way, Inc.
Image Creative Group, L.L.C.
Don LeDuc
Keith Miller (Copeland, 1989)
Partners’ Club ($1,000 to $2,499)
Virginia P. Allen (Wing, 1982)
Jeanette R. Buttrey (Turner, 1991)
Rush Clement
Consumers Energy Company
Nino A. Coviello (Champlin, 1987)
Lisa Marie Coyne
Patrick L. Fuller (Smith, 1985)
Marion M. Hilligan (D. Johnson, 1989)
Peter D. Jason
Peter M. Kempel
David A. Lee (Clark, 1979)
Keeley McDonald Riddle (Sharpe, 1998)
Dan L. McNeal
Charles C. Mickens
Helen Pratt Mickens (Bushnell, 1980)
John R. Nussbaumer
James L. Pfeiffer (Miles, 1986)
Michael B. Rizik, Jr. (Kavanagh, 1981)
James D. Robb
Friends’ Club ($500 to $999)
Margaret L. Brown (Green, 1988)
Sean F. Carroll (Turner, 1991)
John C. Colpean (Ransom, 1978)
Janice Cunningham-Transeth
(Mundy, 1986)
Gerald B. Eisman (Ransom, 1978)
Cindy Faulkner (Durand, 1992)
John W. Fitzgerald
Judith Frank (Mundy, 1986)
Olga D. Friedman
Anthony H. Gair (Potter, 1980)
Steven Goolnick (Potter, 1980)
Richard C. Henke
James M. Hicks
Melvin Butch Hollowell
Ieva Inglis
Kaufman & Serota
Eileen Kavanagh
Dermot F. Kennedy (Wing, 1982)
R. Joseph Kimble
Steven M. Krause (Ransom, 1978)
Stephen J. McCurrie (Montgomery, 1992)
Lawrence W. Morgan
National City Corporation
Plante & Moran
Dale Robertson (Sherwood, 1986)
Marjorie P. Russell (Chandler, 1983)
John N. Scott
Christopher Shafer (Hooker, 1993)
State Employees Credit Union
N. Otto Stockmeyer, Jr.
Allen R. Stout (Long, 1981)
Such Video, Inc.
Sutton Advisors, P.L.C.
Thrun, Maatsch & Nordberg, P.C.
Steven Transeth (Wing, 1982)
Sally VanDenBerg (Rutledge, 2000)
Variable Annuity Life Insurance Company
Saji Vettiyil (Krinock, 1991)
Virginia J., Inc.
F. Georgann Wing (Felch, 1977)
Advocates’ Club ($250 to $499)
Aivazoglou & Mikropoulos
Marylynn Bain
Gary Bauer (Green, 1988)
Cherie L. Beck (Flannigan, 1999)
Barry Berger (Kavanagh, 1981)
Peter B. Cagle (North, 1980)
Dennis M. Callen (E. Wilson, 1990)
Gary R. Campbell (Flannigan, 1999)
Terry Carella
Charles P. Cercone
David G. Chopp (Moore, 1993)
Edward F. Cook (Morell, 1985)
Joseph C. Correnti (Green, 1988)
Mary E. D'Isa
Brent V. Danielson (Cooley, 1976)
Frank DiGiacomo (Fellows, 1997)
William Ferrigan (Cooley, 1976)
Virginia Frezell
Stephanie Gregg
Phyllis D. Groenewoud (Christiancy, 1977)
William H. Harsha (Wing, 1982)
Murray Hershman (Kelly, 1978)
Ronald D. Higgerson (Blair, 1983)
Paul Hillegonds (Miles, 1986)
Aletha Honsowitz (Witherell, 1990)
Edward D. Knight, III (McAlvay, 1984)
Andrew J. Krause (North, 1980)
Nell Kuhnmuench (Marston, 1978)
Salvatore F. Lanza (Brooke, 1982)
Henry J. Legere, Jr. (Carpenter, 1993)
Charles L. Levin
Everyone knows that the cost of attending law school is high. Graduates from
some schools find themselves limited, indeed trapped, by the excessive weight
of their student loan debt. I am glad to report, however, that Cooley has made
great progress toward reaching its goal of being the most affordable
unsubsidized, private law school in the United States. Already, our tuition rate is
the second lowest of the six law schools in Michigan. We must do what we can
to maximize the opportunities and choices available to our students when they
graduate. To do that, we will need your financial help more than ever. Later this
year, we will ask you to give to Cooley. For now, though, we offer our thanks
to those who so generously supported our students in 2002 through this Honor
Roll list.
We have listed donors by their giving level and, for alumni donors, by their
graduating class. We have also listed, for the first time, those donors who have
shown their sustaining support for Cooley by giving for 10 or more years in a
row. To all of those listed: We appreciate what you have done for our students.
Please accept our thanks.
Ronald W. Lowe (Wing, 1982)
Dale Malewska (McAlvay, 1984)
Annette Hardy Malone, M.D.
Salvatore Marabondo (Whipple, 1985)
Ann Marks (Jay, 2000)
Brian J. McKeen (Wing, 1982)
Robert T. Meeks (Christiancy, 1977)
Michigan Supreme Court Historical
Society, Inc.
Konstantinos Mikropoulos (Turner, 1991)
M. Ann Miller
Lawrence P. Nolan (Cooley, 1976)
Lucille H. O'Connor (Moore, 1993)
Charles A. Palmer
Darryl J. Parsell (Wiest, 1979)
Nora J. Pasman-Green
Philip J. Prygoski
Danny R. Quesenberry
Thomas C. Rombach (Morse, 1987)
Eldonna M. Ruddock (Hooker, 1993)
Charles J. Senger
Thomas Spangler
Roberta Studwell
Amy Timmer (Pratt, 1988)
Charles R. Toy (Kavanagh, 1981)
Fred Trost (Sharpe, 1998)
Donald J. Walter (Manning, 1984)
James M. Williams (Durand, 1992)
Patrons’ Club ($100 to $249)
The Advocates
Mark R. Almas (Sharpe, 1998)
Stuart Altman (Kuhn, 1995)
Anthony R. Alvarado
American Society of Media
Photographers, Inc.
Nicholas Ancel
Anderson & Wonch, P.C.
Tammy L. Asher (Moore, 1993)
Association of Independent Colleges &
Universities of Michigan
Auto-Owners
Timothy Ayres (Goodwin, 1982)
Bambery Law Office, P.C.
M. Carol Bambery (Morell, 1985)
Pamela Bartlett
Dawn C. Beachnau
Brett J. Bean (Potter, 1980)
David A. Becker (Kelly, 1978)
Elizabeth S. Beckley (Montgomery, 1992)
Richard A. Behof (Person, 1994)
Bruno Bellucci, III (Bacon, 1990)
Ross A. Berlin (Kavanagh, 1981)
Gregory Bill (Dethmers, 1981)
Gordon C. Boardman (Marston, 1978)
James Bonfiglio (Cooley, 1976)
Barbara M. Bonge (Morse, 1987)
Borchard & Baur, P.C.
Marshall T. Bower (McAlvay, 1984)
James Boyd (Kavanagh, 1981)
Thomas E. Brennan, Jr. (Marston, 1978)
Thomas E. Brennan, Sr.
William and Susan Brennan
M. Colin Bresee (Person, 1994)
John F. Brower (Bird, 1995)
Dena Brown (Steere, 1995)
Raymond G. Buffmyer (Campbell, 1976)
Louis Bugbee (North, 1980)
Arthur Busch (Wing, 1982)
Karen Butler (O'Hara, 1983)
Mary Terpstra Cagle (Bushnell, 1980)
Arylie Ann Campbell Trust
Ellen M. Brennan Campbell
Capitol Cadillac Corp.
Mary Ann Cartwright (Graves, 1977)
John and Geneva Cawood
Elaine Charney (Marston, 1978)
Mary Chartier-Mittendorf
(T. Johnson, 2002)
Gary R. Chopp (Kavanagh, 1981)
Julie Clement (McDonald, 1998)
Mary M. Conklin (Morell, 1985)
Colleen Love Conlin (Ransom, 1978)
John Cozean (Sharpe, 1998)
John J. D'Alessandro (Whipple, 1985)
Patricia A. D'Itri (Sharpe, 1998)
Michael A. Darby (Smith, 1985)
Brent A. Davis (Voelker, 1997)
Bruce E. Davison & Shelby
Nuenke-Davison (Goodwin, 1982)
Jonathan S. Dean (Morse, 1987)
Susan E. Dean (Green, 1988)
David W. DeBack (McAlvay, 1984)
Ann D. Deely (Moore, 1993)
Michael J. DeFors (Bushnell, 1980)
Catherine DeMaso
Paul B. desLauriers (Carpenter, 1993)
Charles L. Doney
Tony Dowling (Steere, 1995)
Margaret Doyle
Ruth M. Drago
John Burns Earle, III (Montgomery, 1992)
Robert C. Ellis (Morse, 1987)
Sharon Alston Ellis (North, 1980)
Steven Ettinger
Diana S. Farhat (Moody, Jr., 1996)
Norman Fell
Robert A. Fisher
Fluor Foundation
Michael R. Foreback
Audra Foster (Fellows, 1997)
Dustin S. Foster (Fellows, 1997)
Michael S. Freud (Campbell, 1976)
Mary Ann Fry (Douglass, 1989)
Katherine S. Gardner (Blair, Jr., 2001)
Thomas R. Garland (Copeland, 1989)
Michael J. Gibson
Dean Goldblatt (Turner, 1991)
John D. Golden (Potter, 1980)
William Graham (D. Johnson, 1989)
John Greene (North, 1980)
The Groesbeck Group, Ltd.
Roger and Marilyn Grove
David L. Grumbine (Graves, 1977)
John L. Hackman (Smith, 1985)
Karl Hand (Moore, 1993)
Mariko F. Hathcock
Frederick Headen (Sherwood, 1986)
A. Ross Heath (Felch, 1977)
Thomas E. Heffron (Carr, 1984)
Joan Hentchel
Charles W. Heran (Dethmers, 1981)
Jeanne M. Heran (McAlvay, 1984)
John C. Heugel (Bushnell, 1980)
Hi-Ball Crane Company
Beverly Holaday (Grant, 1987)
Michael K. Horowitz (Douglass, 1989)
Hubbard, Fox, Thomas, White &
Bengston, P.C.
G. Patrick Hunter (Champlin, 1987)
James G. Hurley (E. Wilson, 1990)
Douglas R. Inglis
Vivian Jackson-Boko
Vincent E. Johnson (Montgomery, 1992)
Kim Kauffman Photography, Inc.
Richard A. Kerbawy (Christiancy, 1977)
Michael P. Kimbrell (Flannigan, 1999)
Eva A. Kipper
Lawrence J. Kish (Marston, 1978)
Robert R. Kopen (Butzel, 1979)
Kositchek's
John F. Krane
Robert S. LaBrant (Chandler, 1983)
Lansing Sanitary Supply, Inc.
Paula Latovick
Anne E. Lawter (Black, 1996)
Peter Lemmer (O'Hara, 1983)
George D. Lenard (McAlvay, 1984)
Cheryl Loeffler (Pratt, 1988)
Sheila Lovelace
Suzanne Lowe (Long, 1981)
Anthony Lucci (Moody, Jr., 1996)
Timothy M. Lynch (Morell, 1985)
William Ian MacDonald (Bushnell, 1980)
Carol J. Mackela (Copeland, 1989)
Vinita Sharma Malhotra (Snow, 1998)
Jane E. Markey (Dethmers, 1981)
Kathy A. Martin (Weadock, 1999)
Mable Martin-Scott
Jeffrey L. Martlew (Campbell, 1976)
William C. Mathewson (McAlvay, 1984)
Thomas A. Matthews (Marston, 1978)
A. Todd Mayo (Williams, 1994)
Patrick and Joan McCoy (Ransom, 1978)
Michael D. McCulloch (McAlvay, 1984)
Gary McEntee (Sharpe, 1998)
Douglas McFadden (Marston, 1978)
Patrick J. McGraw (Goodwin, 1982)
Timothy K. McGuire (Goodwin, 1982)
Michael McQuagge (Fellows, 1997)
Med Law Consultants, P.C.
Ann E. Meilus-Smith (Williams, 1994)
John Michaud
Michigan Brush Manufacturing
Company, Inc.
James E. Mies
Robert Allen Moore (Graves, 1977)
Monty C. Moyer
Joseph Nelson
Mitchell H. Nelson
Kathleen Neros
Beverley Nettles-Nickerson (Blair, 1983)
James A. Newton (Blair, 1983)
Steven Nicholas (Miles, 1986)
Ronald K. Niesen (Witherell, 1990)
Omar A. Obeid (Sharpe, 1998)
Peter G. Pangis (Hooker, 1993)
Robert A. Pecchio (McAlvay, 1984)
Linda L. Peck (Jay, 2000)
Brian Petrequin (Fellows, 1997)
Ernest A. Phillips
Mary Ann Pierce (Green, 1988)
Stephen Pierpoint (Miles, 1986)
Lawrence Ploucha (Kelly, 1978)
Brenda Popplewell (Adams, 1997)
David L. Porteous (Felch, 1977)
Darin S. Portnoy (Witherell, 1990)
Steven A. Ramey (Green, 1988)
Richard A. Randall (Long, 1981)
Mark D. Raven (Butzel, 1979)
William D. Renner, II (Kelly, 1978)
Frank Harrison Reynolds (Kelly, 1978)
Willard A. Robinson
Joseph D. Rocco (E. Wilson, 1990)
Kevin Roragen (Adams, 1997)
Timothy J. Rosell (Stone, 1996)
Kent A. Rozycki (Wing, 1982)
Marianne E. Samper (Christiancy, 1977)
Jon L. Sandler (Marston, 1978)
Kay Wright Sandler (Dethmers, 1981)
Eric P. Santoro (Jay, 2000)
Joseph Schenkel (E. Wilson, 1990)
Steven Schinker (Durand, 1992)
Alice J. Schleicher, Inc.
Lawrence P. Schneider (Christiancy, 1977)
William E. Schoettle
Keldon K. Scott (Pratt, 1988)
Sandra K. Selman (Williams, 1994)
Christopher A. Sevick (T. Johnson, 2002)
Stephanie M. Sewak (Hooker, 1993)
Gerald L. Shidaker (E. Wilson, 1990)
Law Offices of Shook Hardy
& Bacon, L.L.P.
Michelle A. Simmons Brown
(Durand, 1992)
Laura A. Simoldoni (Moore, 1993)
David J. Skala (Clark, 1979)
Michael F. Skinner (McAlvay, 1984)
L'Mell M. Smith (Butzel, 1979)
Michael J. and Susan S. Solner
(Clark, 1979)
William J. or M. L. Somerville
(Butzel, 1979)
Jeffrey John Steffel (Wing, 1982)
Robert C. Steinman (Marston, 1978)
Robert J. Stommel (Turner, 1991)
The Strickland Family Foundation
Linda Sutton (Dethmers, 1981)
Kathy Swedlow
Michele Teny-Borsellino
(Ostrander, 1994)
Gregg S. Theobald (Flannigan, 1999)
Mark Jacob Thomas & Associates
(Marston, 1978)
Evelyn C. Tombers (Lawrence, 1991)
John M. Tranter (Carpenter, 1993)
James E. and Marilyn R. Truesdell, Jr.
Gene F. Turnwald, P.C. (Lawrence, 1991)
James F. VanDam (Campbell, 1976)
Joseph W. VanderHorst (Hooker, 1993)
John G. VanSlambrouck
(Kavanagh, 1981)
Emil and Gloria Waeiss
Ardena Walsh (Dethmers, 1981)
Walter & Haverfield, L.L.P.
Gil Wanger
Terry Tabackman Warren (Mundy, 1986)
William P. Weiner
Victor Weipert, Jr. (McAlvay, 1984)
David Whipple (Butzel, 1979)
Janice U. Whipple (Butzel, 1979)
William C. Whitbeck
William G. Whitcomb (Clark, 1979)
William T. Willbrandt (Moore, 1993)
Nancy A. Wonch (Kelly, 1978)
Shelley K. Woodworth
Louie J. Yanza (Bird, 1995)
Andrew R. Young (Montgomery, 1992)
Donors (less than $100)
Nosa Aduwa (Cushing, 2000)
Supreeya Aksornpan
Maria Alaimo (Moody, Jr., 1996)
Charlotte L. Allen (Turner, 1991)
Robert Jeffrey Alpiner (Mundy, 1986)
Marilyn J. Ancel-Hurst
Demetry Apostle (Black, 1996)
Stephen C. Arber (Carpenter, 1993)
Susan Gail Bailo (Kelly, 1978)
G. Ann Baker (Wiest, 1979)
Elizabeth L. Band (Montgomery, 1992)
Steven M. Basha (Wiest, 1979)
Bear Associates
Laurie and William Berner
(Cushing, 2000)
Brian Bertsch
Larry Betz (Clark, 1979)
Kathryn A. Bielefeldt (Steere, 1995)
Richard F. Bingler (Lawrence, 1991)
Carl D. Binns (Jay, 2000)
Richard J. Boruszewski
James H. Bradberry (Wiest, 1979)
Paul Mangan Brandenburg (Blair, 1983)
William M. Braslawsce
(Montgomery, 1992)
John Brennan
Diane Britt (Chandler, 1983)
Dana E. Brown (Kuhn, 1995)
Jose T. Brown (Long, 1981)
Tammy L. Browning-Smith (Jay, 2000)
Jennie B. Bryan (Mundy, 1986)
Carrol A. Buck
Jane F. Campbell (Wing, 1982)
Barbara Carmichael
James D. Casale (Kavanagh, 1981)
Michael F. Cavanagh
Terrence F. Cavanaugh
Laura J. Hess Champagne
(Dethmers, 1981)
Dennis P. Chapman (Rutledge, 2000)
Robert G. Collins (Adams, 1997)
Patrick E. Corbett
Maura D. Corrigan
Michael P. Cox
Louis U. G. Crenshaw (Felch, 1977)
Kelly L. Crosser (Blair, Jr., 2001)
Catherine M. Davis (Potter, 1980)
Terence A. Davis
Catherine M. Devine
Steven Dickinson
Jackie Dodd (Lawrence, 1991)
Scott Doggett (Bacon, 1990)
H. Kevin Drake (Bushnell, 1980)
Barry H. Dubner
Patrick M. Duff (Brooke, 1982)
Exponent, Inc. (J. Wilson, 2001)
Bruce M. Familant (Weadock, 1999)
J. Michael Fedewa, Jr.
Randy L. Fielder
Samuel J. Finnessey, Jr. (Cushing, 2000)
First National Bank of America
William L. Fisher (E. Wilson, 1990)
Leah K. Fitch
Mitchell Fox (Manning, 1984)
Kay L. Frechen
Gregory Froehlich (Adams, 1997)
Robert L. Gariepy (Graves, 1977)
Jacob S. Ghannam (Butzel, 1979)
Holly E. Glazier (Adams, 1997)
Stephen J. Gobbo (Bird, 1995)
Mick Grewal (Hooker, 1993)
Virginia L. Grinnell
Robert J. Gronauer (Moody, Jr., 1996)
Dolores Gutstein
Jeff Haarer (Copeland, 1989)
Heidi Hagen (Swainson, 2003)
Lou Ann Hall
Michele L. Halloran (Butzel, 1979)
Lisa A. Hanson (Fead, 1999)
Hugo R. Harmatz (Krinock, 1991)
Ellen M. Harvath (Pratt, 1988)
Michael P. Hatty (Butzel, 1979)
Hendricks & Watkins
Louise Herrick (Jay, 2000)
Keith J. Hey
William G. Hurst
Timothy J. Innes
Brian James
Janet D. John (Kuhn, 1995)
Jared Johnson (Sharpe, 1998)
Julienne Y. Kanazeh (Fead, 1999)
William H. Kerbin, Jr. (Chase, 2002)
Dorean M. Koenig
Korner Kitchen
Victor S. Kostro (Moore, 1993)
Barbara Kowalk
Stephen P. Krupp (Steere, 1995)
Dawn M. Lacasse (Carpenter, 1993)
Michelle Lahey Reed (Cushing, 2000)
Lewis Langham (Blair, Jr., 2001)
Robert F. Lazenby (Mundy, 1986)
Michelle O. Lewis
Deborah A. Liverence (Bird, 1995)
Jesse Lothamer (Mundy, 1986)
Stacey Murphy Lott (Blair, Jr., 2001)
Richard and Ann Lucas
Timothy E. MacDonald
Neil MacVicar (Morse, 1987)
Gerald Malling (Felch, 1977)
Susan L. Mallory (Wiest, 1979)
Mary Marafioti (Sharpe, 1998)
Linda Markham
Rita Marsala
Kathryn Martel (Bacon, 1990)
Patricia Martin
Wendy J. Maxfield-Birrell
(Champlin, 1987)
Thomas E. McIntire (Whipple, 1985)
Kevin J. McQuillan (Chandler, 1983)
Paul J. Millenbach (Douglass, 1989)
Miller, Canfield, Paddock & Stone, P.L.C.
Miller, Johnson, Snell & Cummiskey, P.L.C.
Marla Mitchell-Cichon
Amy M. Moya (Swainson, 2003)
Mary Jo Murtaugh (Kuhn, 1995)
Marcia Nawrocki Verburgt
(Lawrence, 1991)
Kathy Neville (Champlin, 1987)
Marion Norwood
Michael J. O'Connor (Sherwood, 1986)
Richard S. O'Connor (Carr, 1984)
Daniel A. Olson (Moody, Jr., 1996)
Robert L. Ost
Kenneth J. Ottaviano (Moody, Jr., 1996)
Parthenon Restaurant & Deli, Inc.
Michael Pelot (Martin, 1988)
Phillips Petroleum Co.
V. Anderson Pinckney (Carr, 1984)
Melissa Lopez Pope (Fead, 1999)
Price, Heneveld, Cooper & Litton
Pamela Wynn Quada (Stone, 1996)
Andrew & Patricia Quinn
Jeffrey Rappaport (D. Johnson, 1989)
Mark A. Reading (Cooley, 1976)
Patricia E. Rice (Morse, 1987)
Richmond M. Riggs (Long, 1981)
William R. Roberts (J. Wilson, 2001)
John L. Rodabaugh, II (Hooker, 1993)
Joseph C. Rotello (Williams, 1994)
Krystal Kay Rourke (Sherwood, 1986)
Sandra L. Russell
Kimra A. Schleicher (Hooker, 1993)
John Schmieding (Moore, 1993)
Theresa Schurman (Blair, Jr., 2001)
Cody W. Schwiesow
Shari Shugart (Sharpe, 1998)
Jodi E. Silberman
James L. Simon (Marston, 1978)
B. Michelle Smith (Cushing, 2000)
Smith Gilbert, P.C. (Morrell, 1985)
Robert M. Smith (Paterson, 2002)
Susan Sandmeyer Spainhour
(Miles, 1986)
Melinda Fox Staley (Fead, 1999)
Robert W. Stocker, II
Stephen Stohl (Marston, 1978)
Dennis W. Strelchuk (Smith, 1985)
Duane Strojny
Tom Swan
Kenneth P. Tableman
Laurie A. Taylor
Francis J. Thiel (Ostrander, 1994)
Nancy Totzke
Eric M. Trombley (Blair, Jr., 2001)
Ronald J. Trosty
Joan P. Vestrand
Marlene R. Watson
B. Joan Webkamigad
Ingeborg Weinberger
Karl J. Weyand (Bushnell, 1980)
Sunita Mathur White
Wendi S. Weisman Wieczorek
(E. Wilson, 1990)
Scott G. Wilcox (Flannigan, 1999)
John L. Wilkins (Fellows, 1997)
William S. Wilkinson
Michael P. Williams (Person, 1994)
Andrew R. Wilson (Moody, Jr., 1996)
Patricia M. Wilson
Daniel Wittum
Eric T. Wooden (Durand, 1992)
Sherida Wysocki
Claudia J. Zacks (Whipple, 1985)
Paul Zelenski
Lori J. Zellers (McDonald, 1998)
Lawrence Zoet (Morse, 1987)
George Zulakis (Marston, 1978)
1976, Campbell Class - $10,530.75
Bear Associates
Raymond G. Buffmyer
Michael S. Freud
Jeffrey L. Martlew
G. Michael Stakias
James F. VanDam
1976, Cooley Class - $1,350
James Bonfiglio
Brent V. Danielson
William Ferrigan
Lawrence P. Nolan
Mark A. Reading
Walter & Haverfield, L.L.P.
1977, Christiancy Class - $991
Phyllis D. Groenewoud
Richard A. Kerbawy
Robert T. Meeks
Marianne E. Samper
Lawrence P. Schneider
1977, Felch Class - $861.22
Louis U. G. Crenshaw
A. Ross Heath
Gerald Malling
David L. Porteous
F. Georgann Wing
1977, Graves Class - $320.50
Mary Ann Cartwright
Robert L. Gariepy
David L. Grumbine
Robert Allen Moore
1978, Kelly Class - $1,200
Anderson & Wonch, P.C.
Susan Gail Bailo
David A. Becker
Murray Hershman
Lawrence Ploucha
William D. Renner, II
Frank Harrison Reynolds
Nancy A. Wonch
1978, Marston Class - $1,816
Gordon C. Boardman
Thomas E. Brennan, Jr.
Elaine Charney
Lawrence J. Kish
Nell Kuhnmuench
Thomas A. Matthews
Douglas McFadden
Jon L. Sandler
James L. Simon
Robert C. Steinman
Stephen Stohl
Mark Jacob Thomas & Associates
George Zulakis
1978, Ransom Class - $7,110.25
John C. Colpean
Colleen Love Conlin
Gerald B. Eisman
Steven M. Krause
Patrick and Joan McCoy
James J. Vlasic
1979, Butzel Class - $820.50
Jacob S. Ghannam
Michele L. Halloran
Michael P. Hatty
Robert R. Kopen
Mark D. Raven
L'Mell M. Smith
William J. or M.L. Somerville
David Whipple
Janice U. Whipple
1979, Clark Class - $1,470.50
Larry Betz
David A. Lee
David J. Skala
Michael J. and Susan S. Solner
William G. Whitcomb
1979, Wiest Class - $576.75
G. Ann Baker
Steven M. Basha
James H. Bradberry
Susan L. Mallory
Darryl J. Parsell
1980, Bushnell Class - $2,146.83
Mary Terpstra Cagle
Michael J. DeFors
H. Kevin Drake
John C. Heugel
William Ian MacDonald
Helen Pratt Mickens
Karl J. Weyand
1980, North Class - $850
Louis Bugbee
Peter B. Cagle
Sharon Alston Ellis
John Greene
Andrew J. Krause
1980, Potter Class - $1,550
Brett J. Bean
Catherine M. Davis
Anthony H. Gair
John D. Golden
Steven Goolnick
1981, Dethmers Class - $910.25
Gregory Bill
Laura J. Hess Champagne
Charles W. Heran
Jane E. Markey
Jon L. and Kay Wright Sandler
Kay Wright Sandler
Linda Sutton
Ardena Walsh
1981, Kavanagh Class - $2,295
Barry Berger
Ross A. Berlin
James Boyd
James D. Casale
Gary R. Chopp
Michael B. Rizik, Jr.
Charles R. Toy
John G. VanSlambrouck
1981, Long Class - $810
Jose T. Brown
Suzanne Lowe
Richard A. Randall
Richmond M. Riggs
Allen R. Stout
1982, Brooke Class - $263
Patrick M. Duff
Salvatore F. Lanza
1982, Goodwin Class - $600
Timothy Ayres
Bruce E. Davison & Shelby Nuenke-Davis
Patrick J. McGraw
Timothy K. McGuire
1982, Wing Class - $4,006.50
Virginia P. Allen
Arthur Busch
Jane F. Campbell
William H. Harsha
Dermot F. Kennedy
Ronald W. Lowe
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Brian J. McKeen
Kent A. Rozycki
Jeffrey John Steffel
Steven Transeth
1983, Blair Class - $550
Paul Mangan Brandenburg
Ronald D. Higgerson
Beverley Nettles-Nickerson
James A. Newton
1983, Chandler Class - $860.75
Diane Britt
Robert S. LaBrant
Kevin J. McQuillan
Marjorie P. Russell
1983, O'Hara Class - $225
Karen Butler
Peter Lemmer
1984, Carr Class - $195.50
Thomas E. Heffron
Richard S. O'Connor
V. Anderson Pinckney
1984, Manning Class - $260.25
Mitchell Fox
Donald J. Walter
1984, McAlvay Class - $1,775
Marshall T. Bower
David W. DeBack
Jeanne M. Heran
Edward D. Knight, III
George D. Lenard
Dale Malewska
William C. Mathewson
Michael D. McCulloch
Robert A. Pecchio
Michael F. Skinner
Victor Weipert, Jr.
1985, Morell Class - $608
M. Carol Bambery
Mary M. Conklin
Edward F. Cook
Timothy M. Lynch
Smith Gilbert, P.C.
1985, Smith Class - $2,320.50
Michael A. Darby
Patrick L. Fuller
John L. Hackman
Dennis W. Strelchuk
1985, Whipple Class - $470.50
John J. D'Alessandro
Salvatore Marabondo
Thomas E. McIntire
Claudia J. Zacks
1986, Miles Class - $2,600
Paul Hillegonds
Steven Nicholas
James L. Pfeiffer
Stephen Pierpoint
Susan Sandmeyer Spainhour
1986, Mundy Class - $1,990.25
Robert Jeffrey Alpiner
Jennie B. Bryan
Janice Cunningham-Transeth
Judith Frank
Robert F. Lazenby
Jesse Lothamer
Terry Tabackman Warren
1986, Sherwood Class - $851.25
Frederick Headen
Michael J. O'Connor
Dale Robertson
Krystal Kay Rourke
1987, Champlin Class - $1,555.75
Nino A. Coviello
G. Patrick Hunter
Wendy J. Maxfield-Birrell
Kathy Neville
1987, Grant Class
Beverly Holaday
1987, Morse Class - $880
Barbara M. Bonge
Jonathan S. Dean
Robert C. Ellis
Neil MacVicar
Patricia E. Rice
Thomas C. Rombach
Lawrence Zoet
1988, Green Class - $1,935
Gary Bauer
Margaret L. Brown
Joseph C. Correnti
Susan E. Dean
Mary Ann Pierce
Steven A. Ramey
1988, Martin Class
Michael Pelot
1988, Pratt Class - $636.14
Ellen M. Harvath
Cheryl Loeffler
Keldon K. Scott
Amy Timmer
1989, Copeland Class - $3,230
Thomas R. Garland
Jeff Haarer
Carol J. Mackela
Keith Miller
1989, D. Johnson Class - $1,195
William Graham
Marion M. Hilligan
Jeffrey Rappaport
1989, Douglass Class - $210.25
Mary Ann Fry
Michael K. Horowitz
Paul J. Millenbach
1990, Bacon Class - $225
Bruno Bellucci, III
Scott Doggett
Kathryn Martel
1990, E. Wilson Class - $920.50
Dennis M. Callen
William L. Fisher
James G. Hurley
Joseph D. Rocco
Joseph Schenkel
Gerald L. Shidaker
Wendi S. Weisman Wieczorek
1990, Witherell Class - $650
Aletha Honsowitz
Ronald K. Niesen
Darin S. Portnoy
1991, Krinock Class - $525
Hugo R. Harmatz
Saji Vettiyil
1991, Lawrence Class - $431.85
Richard F. Bingler
Jackie Dodd
Marcia Nawrocki Verburgt
Evelyn C. Tombers
Gene F. Turnwald, P.C.
1991, Turner Class - $2,092.20
Charlotte L. Allen
Jeanette R. Buttrey
Sean F. Carroll
Dean Goldblatt
Konstantinos Mikropoulos
Robert J. Stommel
1992, Durand Class - $1,503
Cindy Faulkner
Steven Schinker
Michelle A. Simmons Brown
James M. Williams
Eric T. Wooden
1992, Montgomery Class - $4,300
Elizabeth L. Band
Elizabeth S. Beckley
Carey S. Bernstein
William M. Braslawsce
John Burns Earle, III
Vincent E. Johnson
Stephen J. McCurrie
Andrew R. Young
1993, Carpenter Class - $642.25
Stephen C. Arber
Paul B. desLauriers
Dawn M. Lacasse
Henry J. Legere, Jr.
John M. Tranter
1993, Hooker Class - $1,151.25
Mick Grewal
Peter G. Pangis
John L. Rodabaugh, II
Eldonna M. Ruddock
Kimra A. Schleicher
Stephanie M Sewak
Christopher Shafer
Joseph W. VanderHorst
1993, Moore Class -$1,491
Tammy L. Asher
David G. Chopp
Ann D. Deely
Karl Hand
Victor S. Kostro
Lucille H. O'Connor
John Schmieding
Laura A. Simoldoni
William T. Willbrandt
1994, Ostrander Class - $150
Michele Teny-Borsellino
Francis J. Thiel
1994, Person Class - $400
Richard A. Behof
M. Colin Bresee
Michael P. Williams
1994, Williams Class - $325
A. Todd Mayo
Ann E. Meilus-Smith
Joseph C. Rotello
Sandra K. Selman
1995, Bird Class - $445.50
John F. Brower
Stephen J. Gobbo
Deborah A. Liverence
Louie J. Yanza
1995, Kuhn Class -$201.25
Stuart Altman
Dana E. Brown
Janet D. John
Mary Jo Murtaugh
1995, Steere Class - $342.25
Kathryn A. Bielefeldt
Dena Brown
Tony Dowling
Stephen P. Krupp
1996, Black Class - $110.25
Demetry Apostle
Anne E. Lawter
1996, Moody, Jr. Class - $485.51
Maria Alaimo
Diana S. Farhat
Robert J. Gronauer
Anthony Lucci
Med Law Consultants, P.C.
Daniel A. Olson
Kenneth J. Ottaviano
John Rishar, Jr.
Andrew R. Wilson
1996, Stone Class - $149
Pamela Wynn Quada
Timothy J. Rosell
1997, Adams Class - $361.50
Robert G. Collins
Gregory Froehlich
Holly E. Glazier
Brenda Popplewell
Kevin Roragen
1997, Fellows Class - $951.25
Frank DiGiacomo
Audra Foster
Dustin S. Foster
Michael McQuagge
Brian Petrequin
John L. Wilkins
1997, Voelker Class
Brent A. Davis
1998, McDonald Class - $246.01
Julie Clement
Andrew Jarvis
Lori J. Zellers
1998, Sharpe Class - $2,390.25
Mark R. Almas
John Cozean
Patricia A. D'Itri
Jared Johnson
Mary Marafioti
Keeley McDonald Riddle
Gary McEntee
Omar A. Obeid
Shari Shugart
Fred Trost
1998, Snow Class
Vinita Sharma Malhotra
1999, Fead Class - $38.75
Lisa A. Hanson
Julienne Y. Kanazeh
Melissa Lopez Pope
Melinda Fox Staley
1999, Flannigan Class - $1,010.75
Cherie L. Beck
Gary R. Campbell
Michael P. Kimbrell
Gregg S. Theobald
Scott G. Wilcox
1999, Weadock Class - $116
Bruce M. Familant
Kathy A. Martin
2000, Cushing Class - $115.75
Nosa Aduwa
Laurie and William Berner
Samuel J. Finnessey, Jr.
Michelle Lahey Reed
B. Michelle Smith
2000, Jay Class - $768
Carl D. Binns
Tammy L. Browning-Smith
Louise Herrick
Ann Marks
Linda L. Peck
Eric P. Santoro
2000, Rutledge Class - $550
Dennis P. Chapman
Sally VanDenBerg
2001, Blair, Jr. Class - $291
Kelly L. Crosser
Katherine S. Gardner
Lewis Langham
Stacey Murphy Lott
Theresa Schurman
Eric M. Trombley
2001, J. Wilson Class - $41
Exponent, Inc.
William R. Roberts
2002, Chase Class
William H. Kerbin, Jr.
2002, Paterson Class
Robert M. Smith
2002, T. Johnson Class - $200
Mary Chartier-Mittendorf
Christopher A. Sevick
2003, Swainson Class - $20.50
Heidi Hagen
Amy M. Moya
The 21st Century Club
The following donors have completed
their pledges of a minimum of $2,500 in
support of the 21st Century Campaign.
Founding members completed their
pledges by July 1, 2000. Life members
have completed their pledges since
July 1, 2000. To participate in the 21st
Century Campaign, the donor is required
to make a pledge of $2,500, payable in
annual minimum installments of
$100.00. Presently, more than 300 alumni and friends have pledged to this campaign. Payments on those pledges can be
used for restricted or unrestricted purposes at the discretion of the donor. To
pledge, contact the Alumni Relations
Office at (517) 371-5140, ext. 2038 or
(800) 243-ALUM.
Founding Members
Virginia Peterson Allen (Wing 1982)
Cherie L. Beck (Flannigan 1999 )
Ross Berlin (Kavanagh 1981)
Debra Blews (Durand 1992)
Edward Blews (Copeland 1989)
James Bonfiglio (Cooley 1976)
Thomas E. Brennan, Jr. (Marston 1978)
John A. Carras (Voelker 1997)
Elaine Charney (Marston 1978)
Kimberly Colgate (Butzel 1979)
David G. Cotter (Cooley 1976)
Michael P. Cox
John E. Cozean (Sharpe 1998)
Brent Danielson (Cooley 1976)
Joseph J. Farah (Wiest 1979)
Marc A. Fishman (Cooley 1976)
Judith A. Frank (Mundy 1986)
Anthony H. Gair (Potter 1980)
Bruce M. Gale (Ransom 1978)
Richard S. Gravante (Champlin 1987)
Roman S. Gribbs
The Cooley Continuity Club
Cooley gives special thanks to the follow- Catherine Groll (Montgomery 1992)
ing donors who have demonstrated their George R. Hamo (Kavanagh 1981)
faith in Cooley’s students by having given Keith J. Hey
Marion M. Hilligan (Johnson 1989)
to the school during each of the last 10
Steven M. Krause (Ransom 1978)
or more years.
Don LeDuc
Anthony R. Alvarado
Henry J. Legere, Jr. (Carpenter 1993)
Marylynn Bain
Susan L. Mallory (Wiest 1979)
Dawn C. Beachnau
Lawrence Manning (Brooke 1982)
Brett J. Bean (Potter, 1980)
Jeffrey L. Martlew (Campbell 1976)
Cherie L. Beck (Flannigan, 1999)
Kevin T. McGraw (Green 1988)
Raymond J. Brennan
James C. McLaughlin (Morell 1985)
Robert T. Meeks (Christiancy 1977)
David G. Chopp (Moore, 1993)
Helen Mickens (Bushnell 1980)
Michael P. Cox
Keith Miller (Copeland 1989)
Mary E. D'Isa
Peggy L. Miller (Bacon 1990)
H. Kevin Drake (Bushnell, 1980)
Donna T. Morris (Graves 1977)
Norman Fell
Patricia T. Morris (Turner 1991)
John W. Fitzgerald
Mark A. Murphy (Lawrence 1991)
Judith Frank (Mundy, 1986)
Lawrence Nolan (Cooley 1976)
Elliot B. Glicksman
Donald D. Panarese, Jr. (Chandler 1983)
Hugo R. Harmatz (Krinock, 1991)
James L. Pfeiffer (Miles 1986)
James M. Hicks
Brenda Popplewell (Adams 1997)
Peter D. Jason
David L. Porteous (Felch 1977)
Peter M. Kempel
Mark D. Raven (Butzel 1979)
R. Joseph Kimble
Thomas C. Rawson (Kelly 1978)
Paula Latovick
Dale Robertson (Sherwood 1986)
M. Ann Miller
Thomas C. Rombach (Morse 1987)
Lawrence W. Morgan
Marjorie Russell (Chandler 1983)
John R. Nussbaumer
Donald G. Self, Jr. (Kuhn 1995)
Charles A. Palmer
Richard H. Shoemaker (Campbell 1976)
Nora J. Pasman-Green
Howard J. Soifer (Christiancy 1977)
Ernest A. Phillips
William J. Somerville (Butzel 1979)
Philip J. Prygoski
G. Michael Stakias (Campbell 1976)
Danny R. Quesenberry
Gerald E. Stopczynski (Moody 1996)
Willard A. Robinson
Jerry G. Sutton (Cooley 1976)
Thomas C. Rombach (Morse, 1987)
Linda Sutton (Dethmers 1981)
Marjorie P. Russell (Chandler, 1983)
Amy Timmer (Pratt 1988)
John N. Scott
James J. Vlasic (Ransom 1978)
Charles J. Senger
F. Georgann Wing (Felch 1977)
N. Otto Stockmeyer, Jr.
Glen L. Ziegler (Fletcher 1976)
Amy Timmer (Pratt, 1988)
Life Members
Nancy Totzke
Nino Coviello (Champlin 1987)
Charles R. Toy (Kavanagh, 1981)
Richard G. Hayhoe, Jr. (Wiest 1979)
Ronald J. Trosty
James T. Heos (Cooley 1976)
William P. Weiner
Robert T. Meeks (Christiancy 1977)
F. Georgann Wing (Felch, 1977)
Michael B. Rizik, Jr. (Kavanagh 1981)
James M. Williams (Durand 1992)
Alumni Golf Outing
O
n Saturday, July 12, 2003, the Alumni
Memorial Scholarship Golf Outing will be held at
Wheatfield Valley Golf Course located at 1600
Linn Road, near Williamston, Mich. As in years
past, it is a four-person scramble with a shotgun
start. The check-in time is 7:30 a.m. The fee of
$85 per person includes 18 holes of golf, golf
cart, a steak dinner, soft drinks, and beer. The
hole-in-one contest entry and prizes are all
included with the registration fee.
Saturday July 12
Everyone is welcome, so bring your friends, relatives, and clients. Partial teams will be combined
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with other partial teams. Please contact Darryl
Parsell for information at (800) 243-ALUM, in the
Lansing area at (517) 371-5140, ext. 2038, or by
e-mail at [email protected].
Wheatfield Valley Golf Course is located 27
minutes southeast of the state capitol and
Cooley Law School. Take I-96 to Exit #117
(Williamston/Dansville). Drive north one-half mile
on Williamston Road to Linn Road and make a
left (west) turn on Linn Road. Go three-fourths of
a mile and Wheatfield Valley Golf Course will be
on the south side at 1600 Linn Road. Wheatfield
Valley is a “soft spikes” golf course.
Registration Form
Registration must be
received by June 27
Return to:
Darryl Parsell
Alumni Relations Office
Cooley Law School
P.O. Box 13038
Lansing, MI 48901
Captain
Graduating Class
Player 2
Graduating Class
Player 3
Graduating Class
Player 4
Graduating Class
Captain’s phone number:
(
)
Captain’s e-mail address:
Enclosed is a check payable to Cooley Law School Alumni Association in the amount of $85.00 per person.
BENCHMARK
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alumninews
Alumni Mentoring Has Big Impact
The alumni mentoring program at Cooley puts senior-level law students and recent
graduates in touch with Thomas Cooley Law School alumni for networking purposes.
After a student has spent three years in Lansing, he or she would like to have contact
with an experienced attorney in the area where the student plans to return after
graduation. Our thanks go out to those who have volunteered and served as
mentors to these students and recent graduates.
Arkansas
Tim Cribb (Durant Class, 1992)
Arizona
Larry Boswell (Bird Class, 1994)
Deborah A. Liverance (Bird Class, 1995)
Rick Poster (Black Class, 1996)
David W. Reichel (Black Class, 1996)
California
Michael Anderson (Felch Class, 1977)
George Gingo (Johnson Class, 1989)
Kevin McQuillan (Chandler Class, 1983)
Eugene Oak (Bacon Class, 1990)
Dawn Richardson (Moody Class, 1996)
Roger Ridley (Christiancy Class, 1977)
Evan Scheffel (Kuhn Class, 1995)
Peter Schuman (Kuhn Class, 1995)
Alisa Steinhauer (Turner Class, 1991)
Deborah Cameron Vian
(Lawrence Class, 1991)
Thomas Watt (Dethmers Class, 1981)
Craig T. Wormley (Bird Class, 1995)
Colorado
Karl Berg (Wilson Class, 1990)
Connecticut
Christopher Dolberry (Flannigan Class, 1999)
Laurel Fedor (Montgomery Class, 1992)
Florida
Manuel Alvarez (Stone Class, 1996)
Shannon Brown (Voelker Class, 1997)
Bradley D. Bryant (Fead Class, 1999)
Lisa Davis (Fead Class, 1999)
Lara Edelstein (Steere Class, 1995)
Christopher A. Ferry (Fead Class, 1999)
Mitchell Fox (Manning Class, 1984)
Sharon Hanlon (Goodwin Class, 1982)
Jason Helfant (Jay Class, 2000)
Harvey Hesse III (Moody Class, 1996)
Michael Horowitz (Douglass Class, 1989)
Bruce R. Insana (Black Class, 1996)
Luis E. Insignares (Martin Class, 1988)
Anthony Kunasek (Williams Class, 1994)
Andrew Marchese (Steere Class, 1995)
Angela (Tyree) Miller (Miles Class, 1986)
David Oaks (Clark Class, 1979)
Julie Parker (J. Wilson Class, 2001)
Michelle Reddin (Flannigan Class, 1999)
Lorna J. Scharlacken (Black Class, 1996)
Samantha Stevins (Rutledge Class, 2000)
Victor Veschio (Sharpe Class, 1998)
Steven Waldman (Moody Class, 1996)
Tod Weston (Douglass Class, 1989)
Georgia
Philip Botwinik (Williams Class, 1994)
Tim Chandler (Black Class, 1996)
Robert J. DiVito (Lawrence Class, 1991)
Vaughn Fisher (Steere Class, 1995)
Karen Fultz (McDonald Class, 1998)
L. Paul Hudgins (Montgomery Class, 1992)
Jefferson Kennelly (Hooker Class, 1993)
Ray Lail (Ostrander Class, 1993)
Dana Y. Moore (Flannigan Class, 1999)
Sheri Rosenthal (Steere Class, 1995)
John P. Rutkowski (Bird Class, 1995)
Illinois
Thomas Crawford (Montgomery Class, 1992)
Lisa Edgar (Wilson Class, 1990)
George G. Leynaud (Chandler Class, 1983)
Marcia J. Nawrocki-Verburgt
John Nocita (Turner Class, 1991)
Christopher Nudo (Moore Class, 1993)
Judith Parker (Moore Class, 1993)
Mary Anna Planey (Jay Class, 2000)
Carlo Reyes (Fead Class, 1999)
Adele M. Saaf (Kuhn Class, 1995)
Timothy A. Stratton (Fead Class, 1999)
Indiana
Patrick Baker (Rutledge Class, 2000)
Michelle Simmons Brown
(Durand Class, 1992)
Dale S. Coffey (Steere Class, 1995)
Donald J. Engel (Flannigan Class, 1999)
William Fisher (E. Wilson Class, 1990)
William H. Harsha, III (Wing Class, 1982)
Linda Loepker (Manning Class, 1984)
Ryan Lynch (Cushing Class, 2000)
Kenneth Owens (Witherell Class, 1990)
Kimra Schleicher (Hooker Class, 1993)
Holli Shorter-Pifer (Green Class, 1988)
Michael Smith (Douglass Class, 1989)
Allen Stout (Long Class, 1981)
Randi Zimmerman-Irgang
(D. Johnson Class, 1989)
Iowa
Aaron Siebrecht (McDonald Class, 1998)
Kentucky
Paul Couch (Cushing Class, 2000)
Reid Glass (Hooker Class, 1993)
Vincent Johnson (Durand Class, 1992)
Earl-Ray Neal (Stone Class, 1996)
Leslie Howton Rudloff
(Flannigan Class, 1999)
Louisiana
Claurisse Campanale (Hooker Class, 1993)
Maine
Calien Lewis (North Class, 1980)
Maryland
Alison Goldenberg (Steere Class, 1995)
John Kaden (Carpenter Class, 1993)
Alison Kramer (Kuhn Class, 1995)
Joseph R. Laumann (Fellows Class, 1997)
Jennifer Light (Lawrence Class, 1991)
Chip Lipscomb (McDonald Class, 1998)
Marc Ominky (Stone Class, 1996)
Susan Polaski-Tibbs (Kuhn Class, 1995)
Ernie Rafailides (Steere Class, 1995)
Jon Sandler (Marston Class, 1978)
Massachusetts
Joseph Correnti (Green Class, 1988)
Anthony A. Fatemi (Sharpe Class, 1998)
Murray Hershman (Kelly Class, 1978)
John G. Kaden (Carpenter Class, 1993)
Anthony Keck (Carr Class, 1984)
Alison P. Kramer (Kuhn Class, 1995)
Joseph R. Laumann (Fellows Class, 1997)
Howard Lewis (Carpenter Class, 1993)
Michigan
Rebecca Abraham (Cushing Class, 2000)
Omar Anderson (Rutledge Class, 2000)
Barry Brickner (Campbell Class, 1976)
Terrence Bronson (Campbell Class, 1976)
William Carmody (Chandler Class, 1983)
James Carolan (Miles Class, 1986)
Margaret Chamberlain (Fellows Class, 1997)
Matthew Coffey (Douglass Class, 1989)
Bill Colovos (Carr Class, 1984)
Sharon Stowers Craig (Snow Class, 1998)
Charles Cuzydlo (Adams Class, 1997)
Ron David (Carr Class, 1984)
Terry Dawes (Hooker Class, 1993)
Jay Drick (Cooley Class, 1976)
John Farrell (Felch Class, 1977)
Allison Folmar (Flannigan Class, 1999)
Lawrence Friedman (Carr Class, 1984)
Anthony J. Garczynski
(Williams Class, 1994)
Robert L. Gariepy (Graves Class, 1977)
Beth Gibson (Montgomery Class, 1992)
David M. Gilbert (Clark Class, 1979)
Ron Grim (Flannigan Class, 1999)
MaryBeth Hudgens (Fead Class, 1999)
Brenda Hutson (Sharpe Class, 1998)
Lisa Imerman (Sharpe Class, 1998)
Julie Jensen (Montgomery Class, 1992)
Jody Jernigan (Fead Class, 1999)
Dale Kelly (Kavanaugh Class, 1981)
Charles Kleinbrook (Grant Class, 1987)
Timothy Kovach (Whipple Class, 1985)
Roy Kranz (Sharpe Class, 1998)
Kathleen Krumm (McDonald Class, 1998)
Dawn LaCasse (Carpenter Class, 1993)
Ron Lowe (Wing Class, 1982)
Ross Luxon (Lawrence Class, 1991)
Timothy Lynch (Morrell Class, 1985)
George Lyons (Moody Class, 1996)
Marvin Marks (Goodwin Class, 1982)
Tina Meyer (Flannigan Class, 1999)
John Moritz (Wing Class, 1982)
William Morrison (Cushing Class, 2000)
Marjorie Nanian Mugerian
(Goodwin Class, 1982)
Brian Potestivo (Douglass Class, 1989)
Randy Price (Adams Class, 1997)
Andrea Propst (Moore Class, 1993)
Steven Reed (Krinock Class, 1991)
Robert Rollinger (Campbell Class, 1976)
Tom Rombach (Morse Class, 1987)
Cheryl Ronk (Kuhn Class, 1995)
Jodie Roosien (Stone Class, 1996)
Shannon Watkins Schlegel
(Rutledge Class, 2000)
Richard Soranno (Bushnell Class, 1980)
John Streby (Campbell Class, 1976)
Andis Svikis (Chandler Class, 1983)
Lynne A. Taft (Morse Class, 1987)
Debbie Taylor (Flannigan Class, 1989)
Amy Timmer (Pratt Class, 1988)
Roger Treice (Carpenter Class, 1993)
Joseph VanderHorst (Hooker Class, 1993)
Rebecca Eaton Walsh
Stacey Walters (McDonald Class, 1998)
Jessica Weiler (T. Johnson Class, 2002)
David Whipple (Butzel Class, 1979)
Pamela Wynn-Quada (Stone Class, 1996)
Minnesota
Richard Edinger (Stone Class, 1996)
Missouri
John E. Cozean (Sharpe Class, 1998)
Robert Johnson (Mundy Class, 1985)
Kenneth Schwartz (Person Class, 1994)
Montana
Deborah (Elmore) Butler
(Douglass Class, 1989)
Nevada
George Beckingham (Durand Class, 1992)
Ellen Bezian (Black Class, 1996)
Steven Goldstein (Voelker Class, 1997)
Bob Gronauer (Moody, Jr. Class, 1996)
Tracy L. Itts (Voelker Class, 1997)
Matthew Johnson (Moody Class, 1996)
Kirk Kaplan (Stone Class, 1996)
New Jersey
Gail Abrams-Gornstein
(Person Class, 1994)
Ron Bar-Nadav (Black Class, 1996)
Heather Blitz (Montgomery Class, 1992)
Christopher Cronenwett
(McDonald Class, 1998)
Dan DuBois (Flannigan Class, 1999)
Christopher Garibian
(Adams Class, 1997)
Heather Gray (Montgomery Class, 1992)
Ted Hanratty (Voelker Class, 1997)
Patricia Horsting (Bird Class, 1995)
David A. Krenkel (Bird Class, 1995)
Kimberly LaMountain (Bird Class, 1995)
Siegfried Limjoco (Fellows Class, 1997)
John Marabondo (Mundy Class, 1985)
Alan Markman (Carpenter Class, 1993)
Stephen McCurrie
(Montgomery Class, 1992)
Lee Perlman (Carpenter Class, 1993)
Stephania S. Saienni (Sharpe Class, 1998)
Gerard Tamburino (Durand Class, 1992)
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Jennifer (Kovach) VanderWiele
(Hooker Class, 1993)
Stephen Vanna (Sharpe Class, 1998)
Michael Weingartner (Lawrence Class, 1991)
Andrew Young (Montgomery Class, 1992)
New Mexico
Bill Keeler (Voelker Class, 1997)
Timothy Steider (Carpenter Class, 1993)
New York
Stuart Altman (Kuhn Class, 1995)
Dana E. Brow (Kuhn Class, 1995)
Matthew Butler (Flannigan Class, 1999)
Heather Camp Burns
(Flannigan Class, 1999)
Claurisse Campanale (Hooker Class, 1993)
Mark Carney (Champlin Class, 1987)
James DeFilippo (Sharpe Class, 1998)
Samuel J. Finnessey, Jr.
(Cushing Class, 2000)
Mark Gugino (Bird Class, 1995)
Erol Gurcan (Green Class, 1988)
Anthony J. Hatab (Blair Class, 1983)
Patricia Horsting (Bird Class, 1995)
Kolette Kresses-Piasecki
Sean McCaffrey (Krinock Class, 1991)
Stephen J. McCurrie
Michael Metzger (Lawrence Class, 1991)
Christian T. Novay (Fellows Class, 1997)
Brandon Piasecki (Lawrence Class, 1991)
Robert Ross (O’Hara Class, 1983)
Lorna Scharlacken (Adams Class, 1996)
Doug Stiller (Lawrence Class, 1991)
Louis P. Violante (Weadock Class, 1999)
James E. Walsh (Stone Class, 1996)
Todd J.W. Wisner (Durand Class, 1992)
North Carolina
Hal Berger (Voelker Class, 1997)
Angela Brown (Bird Class, 1995)
Robert G. Scott (Flannigan Class, 1999)
Ohio
Robin Bohnert (Morse Class, 1987)
David Carter (McDonald Class, 1998)
James Garvin (Steere Class, 1995)
Judge William Harsha (Wing Class, 1982)
John Kahler II (Stone Class, 1996)
Thomas Perotti (Steere Class, 1995)
Jeannine Notaro Pratt
(Carpenter Class, 1993)
Scott Singer (Stone Class, 1996)
Oregon
Ronald Guerra (Lawrence Class, 1991)
David Weiss (Wilson Class, 1990)
Pennsylvania
Gail Abrams-Gornstein
(Person Class, 1994)
Brad Allen (North Class, 1980)
Barry Bohmueller (Steere Class, 1995)
William Braslawsce
Angela Dobrinoff (Lawrence Class, 1991)
Andrew Edelberg (Person Class, 1994)
Mitchell Goldman
Warren Hampton (Johnson Class, 1989)
Thomas Jones (Green Class, 1988)
Billy Love (Morse Class, 1987)]
Irene Lubin (Moore Class, 1993)
Frank Martocci (Krinock Class, 1991)
Joseph McIntosh (Adams Class, 1997)
Kristen Morris (Carpenter Class, 1993)
Ryan Mulderig (Flannigan Class, 1999)
Christina T. Novajosky (Stone Class, 1996)
Russell J. Ressler (Stone Class, 1996)
Joseph Vaccaro (Flannigan Class, 1996)
Anthony W. Ziccardi (Stone Class, 1996)
Rhode Island
James Devine, Jr. (Moore Class, 1993)
Steven Hartford (Witherell Class, 1990)
Robyn Sisti (Moore Class, 1993)
South Carolina
Gregory Blanton (Turner Class, 1991)
Trent Chambers (Black Class, 1996)
Rose M. DeVries (Weadock Class, 1999)
Margaret Evans (Steere Class, 1995)
Tammie Hoffman (Flannigan Class, 1999)
Gary James (Fellows Class, 1997)
Tennessee
Hershel Kogel (Montgomery Class, 1992)
Aimee Tenaglia (Black Class, 1996)
Texas
Chad Berry (Voelker Class, 1997)
Catharine (Caeli) Blount
(Bacon Class, 1990)
R. Nathan Brin (Graves Class, 1977)
Diane Hamelin Given
(Brooke Class, 1982)
David Karlen (Krinock Class, 1991)
Stephen P. Krupp (Steere Class, 1995)
Randall Reynolds (Lawrence Class, 1991)
Patrick Thornton (Green Class, 1988)
Utah
Scott Charlier (Lawrence Class, 1991)
Vermont
Jeffery Tobin (Morse Class, 1987)
Virginia
Dennis P. Cuevas (Ostrander Class, 1994)
Steven Frank (Witherell Class, 1990)
John Paul Gregorio (Kuhn Class, 1996)
Cooley Departments Thank Alumni
Admissions
The Admissions Office would like to thank the following alumni
for helping to promote Cooley Law School during the 2002
recruitment season: Maria Alaimo, LSAC New York Law
School Forum; Mark Dotson, LSAC Atlanta Law School Forum;
Helen Mickens, Lansing Chamber of Commerce Business Expo;
Debra Hirsch, Oakland University Graduate School Fair; and
Veta Hurst, LSAC Washington, D.C., Law School Forum.
We truly appreciate their generosity in giving of their time and
in sharing the Cooley experience with prospective students. If
you would like to volunteer to represent Cooley Law School at
a recruitment event in your area, please contact Deputy
Director of Admissions Tony Alvarado at (517) 371-5140, ext.
2248 or <[email protected]>.
Planning and Programs
The Planning and Programs Department would like to acknowledge and thank the following legal offices who generously
donated their time and expertise to the Thomas M. Cooley
Externship Program. Externship supervisors bridge the gap
between the academic and professional world for our students.
Without Externship Supervisors, Cooley would be unable to
offer a quality clinical experience to all of our graduates. In
2002, a total of 249 legal offices supervised 340 externs,
allowing students to select externship opportunities that have
prepared them well for practice in their home states and in
their chosen fields.
Manolita Marmol Holadia
(McGrath Class, 1992)
Stephen Julias (Sharpe Class, 1998)
Steven Y. Lee (Moody Class, 1996)
Kimberly Michaud
(Ostrander Class, 1994)
Neil Motter (Turner Class, 1991)
Jim Sandiford (Williams Class, 1994)
Philip Carter Strother
(Fellows Class, 1997)
H. Evans Thomas (Black Class, 1996)
John Wheelock (Williams Class, 1994)
Daniel Zavadil (Montgomery Class, 1992)
Washington
George Beckingham (Durand Class, 1992)
Michael Carpenter (Witherell Class, 1990)
David S. Engle (Montgomery Class, 1992)
Megan Goodrick
Jason M. Hanson (Fead Class, 1999)
John Kapuza (Kuhn Class, 1995)
Jefferson Kennelly (Hooker Class, 1993)
Washington, D.C.
John J. Karasek (Lawrence Class, 1991)
John Smirnow (Ostrander Class, 1994)
West Virginia
Jeffrey Barton (Stone Class, 1996)
William Valentino (Ostrander Class, 1994)
Wisconsin
Robert Dorf (Moody Class, 1996)
Mary Ellen Doucette-Lunstrum
(Bacon Class, 1990)
Michael Fitzpatrick
(Ostrander Class, 1994)
Peter A. Flessas (Krinock Class, 1991)
David Knaapen (Manning Class, 1984)
Ron Niesen (Witherell Class, 1990)
Martin Stein (E. Wilson Class, 1990)
Rick Steinberg (Adams Class, 1997)
Bradley Stern (Rutledge Class, 2000)
If you would like
to volunteer to
represent Cooley
Law School at a
recruitment event
in your area,
please contact
Deputy Director
of Admissions
Tony Alvarado, at
(517) 371-5140
ext. 2248.
10th Judicial Circuit Court of Florida
13th Judicial Circuit
(Kanawha County) Court
8th Prosecutorial District, North
Carolina
Alapaha Judicial Circuit District
Attorney
Alaska Public Defender Agency
Allen County Superior Court
Andracki Law Office
Andrews & Kurth Mayor Day
Caldwell & Keeton
Antrim County Prosecutor
Aquilina Law Firm
Archdiocese of Detroit
Bay County Prosecutor
Beitchman & Hudson
BellSouth Corporation
Bennett & Secrest
Bernard S. Brody
Bernick Omer & Radner, PC
Bertha Helmick
Black Entertainment Television
Bodwin & Fuzak
Boucher & Enright PC
Broward County District Attorney
Bueche Failer O'Callaghan
& Zintsmaster
Burger & Associates
California Rural Legal Assistance
Carey Filter White & Boland
Carter & Reiter
Charles N. Simkens PC
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Charleston County Public Defender
Chester County Public Defender
Cindrich & Associates
City of Chicago, Department of Law
Civil Law and Judiciary Committee
Coconino County Attorney
Columbia County Public Defender
Cook County Public Guardian
Cook County State's Attorney
Crabbe Brown & James LLP
Currie Kendall Polasky & Meisel PLC
Dade County State's Attorney
Daniel Stephens
Debra Fannin Graham
Defender Association of Philadelphia
Denver District Attorney
Detroit Newspapers
Dickinson & Gibbons
Dickow & Associates
Douglas County District Attorney
Douglas County State Court
Douglas Mortensen
DP Fox Ventures
Duane Hildebrandt
E. Stacy Lewis
Eaton County Circuit Court
Eaton County Prosecutor
Ebher O. Rossi Jr.
Elkhart County Prosecuting Attorney
Epstein Lipsey & Clifford PC
Equal Employment
Opportunity Commission
Fakhoury & Lum PLC
Federal Public Defender's
Office, Grand Rapids
Ferguson Stein Chambers Wallas
Adkins Gresham & Sumter, PA
Florida Department of Health
Florida State's Attorney's
Office - Tampa
Foster Swift Collins & Smith PC
Foster Zack & Lowe, PC
Franklin County Children’s Services
Fraser Trebilcock Davis & Dunlap PC
Fulton County District Attorney
G. Sal Gani, PC
Gallager Duby, PLC
Gallo & Iacovangelo
Galyon Law Office
Garmo & Garmo
Garner & Duggan
Genesee County Prosecutor's Office
Gersten, Savage, Kaplowitz,
Wolf & Marcus LLP
Goldman & Grant
Granger Law Firm
Grossman Roth & Partridge
Grower Shipper Association
of Central California
Hazelwood & Webber
Hendricks & Watkins
Hillsborough County Public Defender
Hinshaw & Culbertson
Howard & Howard
Hubbard Fox Thomas White
& Bengtson PC
Huron County Prosecutor
Immigrant & Refugee Appellate Center
Ingham County 30th Circuit Court
Ingham County 54A District Court
Ingham County Prosecutor's Office
International Law Group
John DeMarco
John E. Choate, Jr.
Kalamazoo County Prosecutor's Office
Kalniz Iorio & Feldstein
Kansas Legal Services
Karlin & Karlin
Keith Watson
Kemp Klein Umphrey & Edelman PC
Kent County Circuit Court
Kent County Prosecutor's Office
Kenton County District Attorney
Kevin Levine
Kitch Drutchas Wagner
DeNardis & Vallituti
Kronzek & Cronkright PLLC
Lamson & Looney PC
Lansing City Attorney
Law Office of Brent Johannsen
Law Office of Daniel Stephens
Law Office of Ellen Bezian
Law Office of John A. Dodge
Law Office of Joseph Filip
Law Office of Patrick Thornton
Law Office of Thomas Schraw
Law Office of Thomas Swihart
Law Offices of Adam Rodgers
Law Offices of James E. Thompson
Law Offices of Melonie Wandji
Law Offices of Ray Paige
Legal Aid and Defender Association
Legal Services of
South Central Michigan
Legal Services of Southern Michigan
Livingston County Prosecutor
Los Angeles County District Attorney
Macomb County Prosecutor
Mallory Cunningham Lapka & Scott
Maricopa County Attorney's Office
Mark Geary
Marshalls & Dent
Martin W. Hable
May & Green
McBath & Mattson, PA
Mecklenburg County Public Defender
Melissa Allen
Mercer County Prosecutor
Merchant & Maddaloni
Meridian Law Center PC
Michigan Attorney General Liquor Control
Michigan Attorney General Lottery & Racing Division
Michigan Attorney General State Affairs
Michigan Association of School Boards
Michigan Attorney General Community Health Division
Michigan Attorney General Consumer Protection Division
Michigan Attorney General Corrections Division
Michigan Attorney General - Habeas
Corpus Division
Michigan Attorney General Health Professionals Division
Michigan Attorney General High Tech Crime Unit
Michigan Attorney General Natural Resources Division
Michigan Attorney General Revenue Division
Michigan Attorney General Tort Division
Michigan Commission on
Spanish Speaking Affairs
Michigan Court of Appeals
Michigan Department of Civil Rights
Michigan Department of
Environmental Quality
Michigan Department of
Natural Resources
Michigan Economic
Development Corporation
Michigan Financial Institutions Bureau
Michigan Protection and Advocacy
Michigan State University Student Legal Services
Michigan Supreme Court
Middlesex County Prosecutor
Milwaukee County
District Attorney's Office
Murphy Benton & Spagnuolo
Nathan & Nathan, PC
New York Surrogate Court
Nolan Thompsen & Villas PC
Northeast Ohio Legal Services
Office of the Crown Attorney, Toronto
Office of the General
Counsel - Jacksonville, Florida
Office of the State Attorney, Ft. Meyers
O'Hagan, Smith & Amundsen
Olson & Associates
Ottawa County Prosecutor
Outagamie County District Attorney
Owen & Galloway
Parish Law Firm
Pennsylvania Attorney General,
Medicaid Fraud Control Section
Percy Beauford Law Offices
Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas
Pinal County Attorney
Podell, Ugent & Haney, SC
Porter County Prosecutor's Office
Prince George County State's Attorney
Queens County District Attorney
Querrey & Harrow
R. Bruce Carruthers
Raleigh & Cahill
Rapaport Pollock Farrell & Waldren
Raskin Nagel & Jaffe
Reeves Chavez Albers
Anderson & Montes, PA
Regina Mitchell Taylor
Robert Baldori
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Robinson & Associates
Ron Sutton
Ruiz & Associates
Ryan Jamieson Morris & Ryan
Saginaw County Prosecutor
Scott County Commonwealth's Attorney
Secrest Wardle Lynch Hampton
Truex & Morley
Securities and Exchange Commission
Senate Majority Policy Office
Sinas Dramis Brake Boughton
& McIntyre PC
Smith & Brooker, PC
Smith Schroeder & O'Connell
South Brooklyn Legal Services
Sparrow Hospital
St. Joseph County Prosecutor
Stan G. Wyrick
Stark County Prosecutor
State Bar of Michigan
State of Illinois Office of the Attorney General
State Secretariat for Economic Affairs
Steinhardt Pesick & Cohen
Stewart & Stewart
Superior Court of Fulton County
Supreme Court of Georgia
Susie H. Moore
Sutton Sports Management
Theodore Krebsbach & Associates
Tupper & Associates
U.S. Attorney's Office - Brooklyn
U.S. Attorney's Office - Grand Rapids
U.S. Court of Appeals for
the 4th Circuit
U.S. Court of Appeals for
the 6th Circuit
U.S. Department of Transportation
U.S. District Court for the
Eastern District of Michigan
Northern District of Illinois
Southern District of Alabama
U.S. District Court for
the Western District of Michigan
Utah County Public Defender
VanBuren County Prosecution
Warren Foundation
Washtenaw County Public Defender
Watkins Bates & Carey
Watson & Burleson
Wayne County Circuit Court
Wayne County Prosecutor
Webb Law Office
Weldon and Cannan
Westmoreland Patterson & Moseley
Wexford County Prosecutor's Office
Wilentz Goldman & Spitzer
Williams Williams Ruby & Plunkett PC
Wisconsin Public Defender's Office
Wm. Burt Burleson & Associates, PLLC
Young & Basile
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Alumni Organize State and Regional
Alumni Associations.
Thomas M. Cooley Law School alumni have organized
state and regional alumni associations to better address
needs that are specific to their home areas and to find
new ways to support the law school. These associations
have social events to facilitate networking and case
referral, and also raise funds to support scholarships for
current students from the area. Following are the names of
alumni who serve as officers. Their efforts to found these
new associations have been instrumental to the success of
the groups.
Arizona Alumni Association: President - David Reichel
(Black Class, 1996), Vice President - Jeffrey L. Victor (Carr
Class, 1984), Secretary - Deborah A. Liverence (Bird
Class, 1995), Treasurer - Solomon Kanu (Weadock Class,
1999).
Carolina Alumni Association (N.C. and S.C.): President Bob Scott (Flannigan Class, 1999), Vice President - Tia
Hartley (Flannigan Class, 1999), Secretary - Lisa Hatley
(Fead Class, 1999), Treasurer - Roddy Brown (Person
Class, 1994).
Florida Alumni Association: President - David K. Oaks
(Clark Class, 1979), Vice President - Mo El Deiry (Black
Class, 1996), Treasurer - Peter J. Frommer (Adams Class,
1997), Secretary -Cynthia Arevalo (Snow Class, 1998).
National Capital Area Alumni Association (D.C.,
Maryland, Virginia): Acting President/Vice President Kamal Nawash (Black Class, 1996), Treasurer - Edythe
Katz (Williams Class, 1994), Secretary - Chip Lipscomb
(McDonald Class, 1998), At-large Member - John Dodds
(Sharpe Class, 1998), At-large Member - Kimberly
Karcewski (Black Class,1996), At-large Member - Philip
Carter Strother (Fellows Class, 1997).
New Jersey Alumni Association: President - John A. Patti
(Turner Class, 1991), Vice President - Ron Bar-Nadav
(Black Class, 1996), Treasurer - Christopher L. Garibian
(Adams Class, 1997), Secretary - Doreen L. Neggia (Kuhn
Class, 1995).
New York Alumni Association: President - A. Joseph
Catalano (Snow Class, 1998), Vice President - Bruce
Teperman (McAlvay Class, 1984), Treasurer - Daniel Gair
(Stone Class, 1996), Secretary - Gary Young (Fellows
Class, 1997).
Ohio Alumni Association: President - Dave Morse
(Weadock Class, 1999), Vice President - Trevor Lyke
(Carpenter Class, 1993), Secretary - Roger Stark
(J. Wilson Class, 2001), Treasurer - Bill Cole (Black Class, 1996).
Pennsylvania Alumni Association: President - George
Gallenthin (Douglass Class, 1989), Vice President - Jeff
Wood (O’Hara Class, 1983), Treasurer - Warren
Hampton (Douglass Class, 1989), Secretary - Cynthia
Philo (E. Wilson Class, 1990).
Georgia Alumni Association: President - Vaughn Fisher
(Steere Class, 1995), Vice President - Karen Fultz
(McDonald Class, 1998), Secretary - Michelle Pollok
(Flannigan Class, 1999), Treasurer - Stephen Weizenecker
(Steere Class, 1995).
Southeastern Michigan Alumni Association (Macomb,
Oakland and Wayne Counties): President - Ron Lowe
(Wing Class, 1982), Vice President - Michelle Esperance
(Weadock Class, 1999), Secretary - Bob Alpiner (Mundy
Class, 1986), Treasurer - Thomas J. Borkowski (Moody, Jr.
Class, 1996).
Illinois Alumni Association: President - John Nocita (Turner
Class, 1991), Vice President - Marcia Nawrocki-Verburgt
(Lawrence Class, 1991), Treasurer - George Leynaud
(Chandler Class, 1983), Secretary - Richard Fonfrias
(Stone Class, 1996).
Texas Alumni Association: President - William Cox III
(Witherell Class, 1990), Vice President - Frank Denena II
(Durand Class, 1992), Treasurer - William Shaw
(D. Johnson Class, 1999), Secretary - Jude Menes (Fellows
Class, 1997).
Indiana Alumni Association: President - Patrick Baker
(Rutledge Class, 2000), Vice President - Claudia Zacks
(Whipple Class, 1985), Secretary - Michael J. Smith
(Douglass Class, 1989), Treasurer - Julie Warnick
(Lawrence Class, 1991).
Wisconsin Alumni Association: President - Karen Alt Butler
(O’Hara Class, 1983), Vice President - Bradley Stern
(Rutledge Class, 2000), Secretary - John Heuge (Bushnell
Class, 1980), Treasurer - Michael Fitzpatrick (Ostrander
Class, 1994).
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Cooley’s Grand Rapids Area Alumni
and Friends Celebrate Law Day 2003.
Cooley Law School’s annual Law Day luncheon was held on
May 1 at the University Club of Grand Rapids, in partnership with the Grand Rapids Bar Association and the Federal
Bar Association.
Sixty-seven guests, including Cooley’s graduates, faculty, and
staff, gathered at the University Club on the top floor of the
Fifth Third Center in downtown Grand Rapids. Associate
Dean Jim Robb gave the group an update on activities at the
law school, focusing on the opening of Cooley’s new location
at Western Michigan University’s Graduate Center in Grand
Rapids. The keynote speaker was Notre Dame Dean
Emeritus David Link. His address on the revival of the legal
profession through a focus on ethical behavior and cooperative conflict resolution was a great match with Cooley's professionalism initiative.
Alumni guests included members of the following classes:
Katherine Appel (Adams Class, 1997), Kurt Benson (Mundy
Class, 1986), Constance Bridgeman (Rutledge Class, 2000),
Charles Doolittle (Sherwood Class, 1986), Stephen Elkins
(Goodwin Class, 1982), Nancy Hillary (Black Class, 1996),
David Lincourt (Voelker Class, 1997), Diane Longoria
(Swainson Class, 2003), James Miller (Brooke Class, 1982),
Sal Pirrotta (Cushing Class, 2000), Lisa Pohl (Kuhn Class,
1995), Christopher Sossong (Flannigan Class, 1999), Helen
Love Van De Mark (Whipple Class, 1985), Pamela Wynn
(Stone Class, 1996), and Lori Zellers (McDonald Class,
1998).
These alumni guests were joined by a number of Cooley’s
administration, faculty, and staff, including Court of Appeals
Judge and Cooley Board Member Jane Markey (Dethmers
Class, 1981), Associate Deans Helen Mickens (Bushnell
Class, 1980), Ann Miller, Jim Robb, Duane Strojny, and Bill
Weiner. Professors Marion Hilligan (Johnson Class, 1989),
Kim O’Leary, Joan Schlender (Jay Class, 2000), William
Wagner, and Nancy Wonch (Kelly Class, 1978) were the
faculty guests.
Directors Bernice Davenport, Debra Hirsch (Sherwood Class,
1983), Darryl Parsell (Wiest Class, 1979), Librarian and
Alumni Executive Committee Member Aletha Honsowitz
(Witherell Class, 1990), Deputy Director Kathy Fox, and staff
members Barb Kowalk, Cynthia Kruska, and Cheryl Scott
were on hand to welcome the alumni. Kim Coleman, the
Executive Director of the Grand Rapids Bar Association,
co-hosted the event with Cooley.
The alumni guests enjoyed having an opportunity to socialize
with Cooley’s faculty and staff and the Grand Rapids Bar
Association’s staff and membership. The 2004 Law Day
Luncheon in Grand Rapids has been scheduled for Friday,
April 30, as Law Day falls on a Saturday next year. All
area alumni will be invited to attend the event, so please
“pencil in” the date on your calendar.
Left to right: Alumni Director Darryl Parsell, Judge Patrick C. Bowler - President of the
Grand Rapids Bar Association, Kimberly A. Coleman - Executive Director of the Grand
Rapids Bar Association, Judge James R. Redford - President of the Federal Bar Association,
Western Michigan Chapter Seated: Judge Robert J. Dugan - President Elect of the Grand
Rapids Bar Association
Cooley Law School and the Illinois
Alumni Association Host Lunch
Meeting in Chicago
Cooley Law School and the Illinois Alumni Association
joined forces to host an alumni lunch in Chicago Dec. 16.
Ten Illinois alumni joined the state’s alumni association
president, John Nocita (Turner Class, 1991), Vice President
Marcia Nawrocki-Verburgt (Lawrence Class, 1991),
Cooley’s Associate Dean for Development and Graduate
Programs and General Counsel Jim Robb, and Alumni
Relations Director Darryl Parsell (Wiest Class 1979) at the
Erie Café in downtown Chicago.
The group heard about Cooley’s partnerships with Western
Michigan University in Grand Rapids and with Oakland
University in Rochester, Mich. Illinois Alumni President
Nocita discussed the state alumni association’s plans for
the year. The group enjoyed the chance to network and to
become better acquainted.
In addition to Mr. Nocita and Ms. Nawrocki-Verburgt, the
alumni guests included Steve Banghart (Chandler Class,
1983), David Barry (Montgomery Class, 1992), Tom
Crawford (Montgomery Class, 1992), Tatiana Czaplicki
(Fead Class, 1999), Antara Nath (Cushing Class, 2000),
Theresa Orozco (Rutledge Class, 2000), Kenneth
Ottaviano (Moody, Jr. Class, 1996), Jeff Sakol (E. Wilson
Class, 1990), Bill Teitelbaum (Fead Class, 1999), and Eric
Wooden (Durand Class, 1992).
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Cooley Alumni Recently Elected
to the Bench are Honored at
January Reception.
On Jan. 7, 2003, Cooley Law School honored its
graduates who attained judicial offices in the 2002
November elections. The Michigan Judicial Institute
held an orientation program for these new judges in
Lansing, and the law school participated in this event
by providing a cocktail reception for all of the participants, giving special recognition to the law school’s
graduates in the group.
The 2003 New Judges’ Reception was held at the
Sheraton Lansing Hotel and drew 61 guests. The
guests of honor were the following newly elected
judges and Cooley alumni; 6th District Court Judge
Harold Closz III (Graves Class, 1977) from Muskegon,
4th Circuit Judge John McBain, Jr. (Morse Class,
1987) from Jackson, and 23rd Circuit Court Judge
William Myles (Long Class, 1981) from Tawas City.
Cooley Law School’s delegation to the reception was
led by Cooley Law School President and Dean Don
LeDuc and Board of Directors members Judge
Thomas E. Brennan, Jr. (Marston Class, 1978), Judge
Jeffrey Martlew (Campbell Class, 1976), and Larry
Nolan (Cooley Class, 1976). They were assisted by
Associate Deans Charles Mickens, Helen Mickens
(Bushnell Class, 1980), John Nussbaumer, Jim Robb,
and Amy Timmer (Pratt Class, 1988).
Cooley professors attending the reception included
Ron Bretz, Cynthia Dennis, Cindy Faulkner (Durand
Class, 1992), Norm Fell, Judy Frank (Mundy Class,
1986), Peter Kempel, Otto Stockmeyer, Evelyn
Tombers (Lawrence Class, 1991), Joan Vestrand,
William Wagner, Bill Weiner, and Nancy Wonch
(Kelly Class, 1978).
The Alumni Association’s Executive Committee also
sent a delegation to the reception, consisting of Past
President Virginia P. Allen (Wing Class, 1982),
Member at-large Diane Britt (Chandler Class, 1983),
Past President Jeff Haarer (Copeland Class, 1989),
and Member at-large Aletha Honsowitz (Witherell
Class, 1990).
The alumni who recently became members of the
judiciary at the reception had an enjoyable evening
strengthening their relationships with the faculty and
administrators from Cooley. The judges at the party
who graduated from other law schools had a great
time socializing with their colleagues and came away
with a very positive impression of the hospitality and
quality of Thomas M. Cooley Law School.
2002 Wreath Program a Great Success
A hearty thank you to all who participated in the 2002 edition of
the Alumni Association Holiday Wreath Program. The 22-inch
wreath, made of fresh balsam boughs from the Straits of Mackinac
region of Northern Michigan, remained priced at $29.95. The
purchase price not only included the wreath, but also shipping and
handling, and provided a tax deduction. The participants sent
wreaths as a wonderful seasonal gift to family and friends, and
even ordered wreaths for their own enjoyment. A record number
of orders has helped to raise over $2,000 to be used to support
alumni programs. Thanks to all who helped make the program a
success.
Cooley 5-K Race for Education —
Continuing a Strong Tradition
Nearly a year after media specialist Susan McCaffrey won almost
$3,000 for the Haslett High School library, she is still beaming —
and still spending.
When you’re spending someone else’s money, McCaffrey said,
you’re really careful how it’s spent.
McCaffrey won the money for the library in Cooley Law School’s 5K
Race for Education in 2002. Each year, the law school stages a 5K
run/walk in downtown Lansing. Participants designate an area educational institution to receive a monetary award should that participant’s name be picked in the post race drawing.
By chance, each year of the race, someone in Haslett has won one of
the prizes. Last year it was McCaffrey and she was thrilled.
“I’m happier winning it for the school than I would be for myself,”
she said.
McCaffrey’s name was picked as the winner of the 50 percent
proceeds drawing, and she was stunned to learn that she had netted
nearly $3,000 for Haslett High School.
McCaffrey has stocked the library with books on current issues, running, and of course, the law. She still has about half the money to
spend and plans to parlay a chunk of it into more books with a big
order this spring.
With the 2003 race coming up on Friday, June 6, McCaffrey is hoping to make it four in a row for her school.
She has some help. Her entire family is running in the race. The
McCaffreys aren’t the only ones enthused about the race in their corner of the world, Susan reported. “Everyone is talking about the
race,” she said. A contingent of some 30–40 people from Haslett
schools, including staff, parents, and students, will join the
McCaffreys to run this year’s Cooley 5K Race.
“It’s well known as a good race,” she said.
BENCHMARK
Letter from
the
Alumni President
Professionalism. “Professional status, methods, character or standards” The American Heritage
Dictionary of the English Language (1973).
This issue of Benchmark focuses on professionalism. Law schools throughout the United States have a
renewed focus on this topic. Law students begin their study of law with an emphasis on how to conduct
themselves as professionals. Professionalism is difficult to teach. Methods and standards of practice can be taught. Teaching
character is harder. Professionalism should be taught at home where we first learn to get along with each other.
Professionalism should be taught in elementary school in the classroom as well as the sports field. It should guide communities
in running local units of government. It should dictate behavior between family members and neighbors, in city halls, state legislatures, and in congress. We still expect it of elected officials. We expect it from judges. We expect it in people who graduate
from law school, medical school, and any other profession. We are sometimes disappointed. How do you teach professionalism in law school if it hasn’t been taught at home, in elementary school, or in the community?
How can we, as alumni, contribute to the professionalism effort? Look for opportunities with your law clerk or the court clerk.
We learn by following an example. Being able to trust someone’s word, being competent in the field, doing your legal
research, and being prepared are examples of professionalism that can rub off on someone else. As alumni, we can have a
role in helping Cooley teach professionalism. I’m going to keep that in mind the next time I give a law clerk an assignment,
talk to a colleague, or walk into the courtroom.
Sincerely,
M. Carol Bambery
P.S. Alumni golf outing is coming up on July 12, 2003. Proceeds go to
the Alumni Memorial Scholarship Fund that benefits Cooley students. For
details to play or to sponsor a hole, call Darryl Parsell, Alumni Director
1-800-243-ALUM!
classnotes
1976 Campbell
Class
DeVries, Kenneth J., was appointed Associate
Vice President for Development at Western
Michigan University. He had previously served
WMU as the director of planned and deferred
gifts since 1989. Prior to that position, he was in
private practice in Michigan and Illinois.
Donovan, Timothy J., received his first listing
in The Best Lawyers in America, 2003-2004
edition, in the field of personal injury litigation.
Donovan is a member of the law firm of Sinas,
Dramis, Brake, Boughton & McIntyire, P.C.
Streby, John, has published a novel of law and
politics, Rabbit Stew, about a loner wrongfully
accused of causing the death of the governor, and
The Benchmark encourages all graduates to contribute information to
the Class Notes. Please include graduating class name and year when
submitting your information. We encourage information about your law
practice and other accomplishments in the legal profession. The
Benchmark has a policy of not printing bar passage information.
the idealistic young lawyer who takes his case.
John is in practice at 444 Church St., Flint, Mich.
48502. Phone: (810) 767-2700.
Fletcher Class
Finn, Bernard F., has been listed in The Best
Lawyers in America, 2003-2004 edition. For
Finn, who is with the law firm of Sinas, Dramis,
Brake, Boughton & McIntyire, P.C., this is his second listing in the field of divorce and family law.
1977
Christiancy Class
Soifer, Howard Jay, 53, died Jan. 29, 2003.
He was a shareholder in the firm of Loomis,
Ewert, Parsley, Davis, and Gotting, P.C. He
specialized in litigation, zoning, and employment
law. He was an avid New York Yankees and
Michigan State University Spartans fan. His
passion for sports led him to represent several
prominent professional athletes. He was an active
member of the greater Lansing community and
also served as president of Congregation Shaarey
Zedek, 1998-2000. He received the 2001
Community Service Award from Impression 5
Museum.
Felch Class
Johnson, Byron J., was elected chairman of
the Council for Responsible Nutrition. He is the
nutrition and wellness industry relations director
for Access Business Group L.L.C, a subsidiary of
Alticor, Inc. Johnson holds the titles of chairman of
the CRN Board of Directors and Chairman of the
CRN Executive Committee.
class notes
Ujlaky, John W., has a song, “Standing Tall in
America,” coming out on CD (“New York, New
York”) this spring. The CD was produced by
Hilltop Records and Roy Stuart (Gomer Pyle,
USMC). Phone: (517) 323-1939.
Graves Class
Larkin, Michael E., was elected president of
Sinas, Dramis, Brake, Boughton & McIntyire, P.C.,
in Lansing. He joined the firm in 1988 and has
practiced personal injury law with the firm for
more than a decade. He primarily handles motor
vehicle negligence, premises liability and no-fault
insurance cases.
Miller, Kenneth V., was appointed to an eightyear term on the Western Michigan University
Board of Trustees. He is the vice president and
chief operating officer of Havirco, a Kalamazoo
investment management firm, which he has
co-owned since 1983. He is also owner of the
Millennium Restaurant Group.
1978
Ransom Class
Clark, The Hon. Arthur H., III, was elected
judge of the 7th District Court in Van Buren
County, Mich., starting in 2003.
Phone: (269) 637-5111.
1979 Wiest
Class
Gottlieb, Siri, has a private practice at 110 E.
Kingsley, Ann Arbor, Mich. 48104, in divorce
mediation, psychotherapy, and life coaching, with
a specialization in women contemplating career
change. Phone: (734) 662-5850.
Metzger, Clyde, along with Richard Baron
(Long Class, 1981) and Thomas Foley (Potter
Class, 1980), all former shareholders in the southeastern Michigan firm of Kitch, Drutchas, et al.,
have formed a new partnership called Foley, Baron
& Metzger, P.L.L.C., in Farmington Hills, Mich.
Zagaroli, Michael A., a member of the law
firm of Mika Meyers Beckett & Jones, P.L.C., in
Grand Rapids, Mich., was elected to the State Bar
of Michigan’s Representative Assembly. This is the
final policy-making body of the State Bar. He
practices in the areas of insurance and regulatory
law. Phone: (616) 632-8000.
1980 Potter
Class
Foley, Thomas, along with Clyde Metzger
(Wiest Class, 1979) and Richard Baron (Long
have formed a new partnership called Foley,
Baron & Metzger, P.L.L.C., in Farmington Hills,
Mich.
Golden, John D., is now a partner in the
Miami, Fla., office of Shook, Hardy & Bacon
L.L.P., a firm based in Kansas City. Phone: (305)
358-5171. E-mail: <[email protected]>.
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Jennings, Brian E., was elected chair of the
Elderlaw Section of the State Bar of New Mexico
for 2003. Phone: (505) 246-8676.
Luoma, The Hon. Mark E., was recently
elected judge in 93rd District Court for Alger and
Schoolcraft counties in Michigan. Phone: (906)
Bushnell Class
Regan, John Stephen Robert, died Oct. 20,
2002 in an automobile accident in Prescott, Ariz.
Prior to moving to Arizona, he practiced law in the
offices of Fitzgerald & Dakmak in Detroit, Mich.
North Class
Ihrig, Stephen D., went into private practice at
232 W. Michigan Ave., Suite 200, Kalamazoo,
Mich. 49007. Phone: (269) 345-2533; e-mail:
<[email protected]>.
1981 Dethmers
Class
Bill, The Hon. Gregory, was reassigned from
the family division to the criminal division of the
3rd Circuit Court.
Hemker, Joseph B.,
leader of Howard &
Howard’s Financial Services
Practice Group, was a
speaker at the American
Bankers Association’s
National Conference for
Community Bankers in
Hollywood, Fla., Feb. 11,
2003. He has successfully completed more than
100 financial institution merger transactions with
billions of dollars in transaction value. The firm
represents more than 150 financial institutions.
Hemker graduated summa cum laude from
Cooley.
Kavanagh Class
Haynes, The Hon. Janet A., Chief Probate
Court Judge for Kent County, was named one of
The 50 Most Influential Women in West Michigan
by the Grand Rapids Business Journal.
Long Class
Baron, Richard, along with Thomas Foley
(Potter Class, 1980) and Clyde Metzger (Wiest
have formed a new partnership called Foley,
Baron & Metzger, P.L.L.C., in Farmington Hills,
Mich.
1982 Wing
Class
Johnson, James R., has
joined the Bay City, Mich.,
firm of Skinner Professional
Law Corp., as an associate.
He has been a corporate
general counsel to three
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U.S. firms and the director of international operations for a U.S.-based corporation. He has also
been the chief operating officer, president and
CEO of a healthcare corporation. He has conducted mergers and acquisitions in Moscow and
Siberia, Russia; Poland, Western Europe, and
Australia. He has been an adjunct professor of
business at several colleges in Michigan and
Illinois. He is a former officer in the U.S. Navy. He
is also an active mountain climber, solo climbing
in South America, North America, and Australia.
He lives in Auburn, Mich., with his sons,
Christopher and Adam, and daughter, Alexandra.
Phone: (989) 893-5547.
1982 Goodwin
Class
Smolenski, The Hon. Sara J., Chief Judge
of 63rd District Court, was named one of The 50
Most Influential Women in West Michigan by the
Grand Rapids Business Journal.
1983 Chandler
Class
Anselmo, Danilo, was named reporter of
decisions for the Michigan Supreme Court. The
reporter of decisions edits and publishes decisions
of the state Supreme Court and state Court of
Appeals. The reporter also publishes court rules,
rules of evidence, and administrative rules.
Keenan, Kelly G., was appointed by Michigan
Gov. Jennifer Granholm as chief legal counsel for
the new administration. Previously, Keenan served
as deputy attorney general for external affairs
when Gov. Granholm was attorney general.
Marsh, Richard, was named Vice President,
General Counsel and Secretary of Myriad
Genetics, Inc. He leads the management of all the
company’s legal activities, including contracting,
corporate governance, and intellectual property.
Prior to joining Myriad, he served in various positions at Iomega Corp. Previous to that, he was in
private practice in Salt Lake City, Utah.
Blair Class
Jeffries, Brian C., with Jeffries & Newton, of
East Lansing, Mich., was elected to the Lansing
City Council as a member-at-large. Phone: (517)
353-3716.
1985
Smith Class
Bowler, Nannette, was named director of the
Michigan Family Independence Agency by Gov.
Jennifer Granholm. Previously, she was executive
director of the state Commission on Children. She
is also director of Michigan State University’s
Chance at Childhood Program.
Mittleman, David S., was appointed to the
Committee on Model Civil Jury Instructions by
Michigan Supreme Court Justice Maura D.
Corrigan. Mittleman is a partner with Church,
Kritselis & Wyble in Lansing, Mich.
class notes
1986 Mundy
33
Class
Cunningham, Janice K., has been granted a
fellowship to the American Academy of
Matrimonial Lawyers. She is the first attorney in
the mid-Michigan area to be named to this prestigious national organization. She is a partner in
the Lansing law firm of Mallory, Cunningham,
Lapka & Scott, P.C.
Miles Class
Dillon, James P., was named the vice president of claims for the Accident Fund Insurance
Company of America. Previously, he was claims
team manager of Accident Fund’s Southeast
Michigan Region. He has been with the Accident
Fund for 15 years and will oversee all claims
operations.
Mansour, Peter G., was appointed as a
magistrate to 48th District Court covering the
Michigan cities of Bloomfield Hills, Bloomfield
Township, West Bloomfield, Keego Harbor,
Orchard Lake, Sylvan Lake, and Birmingham.
Phone: (248) 932-3322.
1987 Morse
Class
McBain, The Hon.
John G., was elected
judge of the 4th Circuit
Court in Jackson County,
Mich., on Nov. 5, 2002.
Previously, he served as the
elected Prosecuting
Attorney of Jackson County
fox six years. Another Cooley graduate, Sheriff
Henry C. Zavislak (Ostrander Class, 1994), was
chosen by the county’s circuit court judges to finish the remaining two years of Judge McBain’s
term as prosecutor. Phone: (517) 788-4072.
Grant Class
Van Hoven, Maureen Burns, and her husband, David, announce the birth of two new sons,
Joshua and Eric, born on Feb. 10, 2003, and
weighing in at 7 lbs., 9 oz., and 6 lbs., 2 oz.,
respectively. They join their siblings, Ian, 7; Alex,
7; and Libby, 4. Maureen is an escrow attorney
for a business brokerage firm. She also serves on
the Hudsonville Zoning Board of Appeals, the
West Michigan Board of the ACLU, and the
Cooley Alumni Association Board of Governors,
and acts as Health Chair for the Grand Valley
Cooperative Pre-School. E-mail:
1988 Green
Class
Thornton, Patrick K., teaches sports law and
labor relations at Rice University in Houston,
Texas. Phone: (281) 565-3111; E-mail:
1989 Copeland
Class
Barrett, Malita, and her husband, Alfred
Fields, announce the birth of their first child,
Maria Liberty Fields, born on Oct. 9, 2002.
Phone: (313) 964-8095.
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1990 Wilson
1993 Hooker
Class
Rocco, Joseph D., and his wife, Helen Polyzos
(Voelker Class, 1997), announce the birth of their
son, Thomas Joseph, born on May 16, 2002.
Phone: (516) 731-5200. E-mail:
Philo, Cynthia M., was appointed to the
Board of Directors for the Pennsylvania Downtown
Center. As a board member, she will oversee
development and programming for the support of
downtown Main Streets and business improvement districts. She is the Executive Director of Old
City District, which is part of the PDC. She is also
the secretary of Cooley’s Pennsylvania Alumni
Association.
Witherell Class
Tillman-Butler, Paula, was recently appointed
Legal Division Supervisor for Muskegon County
Family Court. Phone: (231) 724-6438; E-mail:
1991 Turner
Class
Blanton, The Hon. G. Derek, was recently
reappointed as Associate Chief Magistrate for all
of Horry County, S.C. He also serves as Municipal
Court Judge for the town of Surfside Beach, S.C.
E-mail: <[email protected]>.
Lawrence Class
Hasse, Michael R., has opened a practice in
San Juan, Puerto Rico, handling federal cases in
criminal and bankruptcy courts. For the past 12
years, he was an attorney in New London, Conn.,
practicing in civil, criminal, and bankruptcy.
Hasse & Associates is now located at 1126
Ashford Ave., #C-4, San Juan, PR 00907, as well
as at P.O. Box 35, New London, Conn. 06320.
Phones: (860) 444-2711 and
(787) 725-0333. E-mail: <[email protected]>
and <[email protected]>.
Lewis, Matthew A., and his wife, Karen,
announce the birth of their second child,
Christopher Matthew Lewis, who was born on May
10, 2002. Their first child, Adam, is 4. Phone:
(803) 750-0582. E-mail: <[email protected]>.
Krinock Class
Jackson, Blair T., announces the opening of
the Law Office of Blair T. Jackson, P.O. Box
533077 in Orlando, Fla. 32853-3022 Phone:
1992 Montgomery
Class
Kominos, Paul, has accepted the position of
Counsel to the Inspector General at the National
Archives and Records Administration in College
Park, Md. Previously, he was employed by the
National Security Agency, Office of General
Counsel. He lives in Columbia, Md., with his wife,
Melissa; son, Sam; and daughter, Alexis. E-mail:
BENCHMARK
Class
Wichmann, Steven C.,
has joined the intellectual
property law firm of Rader,
Fishman & Grauer, P.L.L.C.,
in Bloomfield Hills, Mich. as
an associate. He works in
all phases of patent and
trademark prosecution, specializing in mechanical devices including automotive components, manufacturing and construction
equipment and medical instructions. Previously, he
prepared and prosecuted patent and trademark
applications at several Michigan law firms. He
was also a systems engineer and patent liaison
engineer for Smiths Industries, and an aircraft
structural engineer with the U.S. Air Force.
Moore Class
Grande-Cassell,
David D., has joined Clark
Hill P.L.C. as a member of
the firm. He practices in the
areas of environmental law
and litigation, real estate
law, construction law and
litigation, commercial litigation, and health care law.
He is a frequent speaker and has authored several articles. He was an adjunct professor at Cooley
1993-1998. Clark Hill P.L.C. is a full-service law
firm with offices in Detroit, Birmingham, and
Lansing.
Mixon, Kathleen (Dyer), was named a
partner in the firm of Simone, Roberts & Weiss, in
Albuquerque, N.M. She practices in insurance
defense and complex tort defense. She and her
husband, Christopher Mixon (Moore Class, 1993),
have a three-year-old son. Phone: (505) 2989400. E-mail: <[email protected]>.
Rockman, Stephen, has
joined Clark Hill P.L.C. as an
associate. He practices in
the area of environmental
law and litigation, commercial litigation, health care
law, and corporate law. He
was a practicing pharmacist
for many years, and is the
founder and former editor
of the CAPA Report, the official newsletter of the
Capital Area Pharmacists Association.
Schmieding, John W., has taken a position as
General Counsel at Arthrex, Inc., in Naples, Fla.
Arthrex is a world leader in orthopedic medical
device manufacturing. Previously, he practiced for
eight years in Michigan. Phone: (239) 643-5553.
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Carpenter Class
Gozinsky, Andrew, is an estate and business
planning specialist with Northwestern Mutual
Financial Network in New York. Phone: (631)
Isaacs, Carol, was named deputy attorney general for the state of Michigan. Previously, she had
been senior deputy director of policy and legal
affairs for the Michigan Department of
Community Health since 1996.
Scutari, Nicholas P., was re-elected to a third
term as a Union County freeholder for Union
County, N.J. He also announces the opening of his
new law office at 1514 East St. Georges Ave.,
Linden, N.J. 07036. Phone: (908) 925-1956 or
(732) 494-2727. E-mail: <[email protected]> or <[email protected]>.
1994 Ostrander
Class
Thiel, Francis J., is Assistant County CounselUnion County Counsel. He also maintains a private practice in matrimonial, personal injury,
bankruptcy, and Social Security law. He and his
wife, Cathy, announce the arrival of Michael
Francis Thiel on August 12, 2002. Phone: (908)
Williams Class
Graves, L. Page, joined Cooley’s adjunct
faculty, teaching Michigan no-fault insurance law.
Phone: (517) 394-7500. E-mail:
Heiser, Joel S., has joined the law firm of
Bricker & Eckler L.L.P. as an Of Counsel member
of the firm’s Cleveland, Ohio, office. He has practiced corporate, energy, and public finance law
for over eight years. Previously, he was a senior
associate in the law firm of Arter & Hadden L.L.P.
Phone: (216) 523-5467. E-mail:
Kaufmann, The Hon. Patricia A., was
elected to the Buncombe County District Court in
Asheville, N.C. Previously, she was an assistant
public defender in Buncombe County.
Mayo, The Hon. Todd A., was appointed
municipal court judge in East Brunswick, N.J. He
continues as a principal partner in The Law Firm
of Mayo and Russ. Todd and his wife, Dana Wilt
(Steere Class, 1995), have two daughters, Haley
and Jada. Phone: (732) 613-3100. E-mail:
Person Class
Abrams-Gornstein, Gail, married Jeffrey
Glenn Gornstein on Oct. 20, 2002 at the PNC
Arts Center in New Jersey. She has also opened
her third law office in Red Bank, N.J., specializing
in complex estate and tax matters. Phone: (973)
Schwartz, Ken, of Clayton, Mo., announces
the birth of Elenoar Mary, born on Oct. 28,
2002. Phone: (314) 863-4654. E-mail
[email protected].
1995 Bird
Class
Rogers, Arthur O., II,
was named a shareholder
in the law firm of Howard
& Howard, P.C. He focuses
his practice in commercial
litigation, gaming law, and
intellectual property law.
He served as a judicial
clerk for the Hon. Stanley J. Latreille, Chief Judge
of the 44th Circuit Court in Michigan. He is a frequent author and speaker, and has taught as an
adjunct professor at Cooley.
Steere Class
Day, Sandra (Holliday) and David J. Day
(Voelker Class, 1997), announce that The Law Office
of David J. Day, P.A., will now practice as The Day
Law Office, and has a new location at 4108
Deltona Blvd., Spring Hill, Fla. 34606. The firm will
continue to practice in the areas of family law,
personal injury, bankruptcy, and estate planning.
Phone: (352) 684-6545.
Goldenberg, Alison, E. (Benis), was
appointed co-chair of the Newsletter Subcommittee
of the American Bar Association, Section of
Litigation, Woman Advocate Committee. She continues to serve as the Maryland State Coordinator
for the ABA’s Woman Advocate Committee. She is
a Senior Associate in the Litigation Department at
Gordon, Feinblatt, Rothman, Hoffberger &
Hollander, 233 E. Redwood St., Baltimore, Md.
21202. Phone: (410) 576-4283.
Kuhn Class
Kapuza, John S., has become a partner in the
law firm of Abeyta-Nelson, P.C., a personal injury
law firm in Yakima, Wash. He came to AbeytaNelson in 1996 and has since limited his practice
to personal injury law. Previously, he served on
the board of directors of the John Gavin Inn of
Court, where he also served as secretary.
Zotos, Andrew P., and Zotos, Amy L.,
announce the birth of their son, Nicholas Andrew
Zotos, born on Sept. 27, 2002. Andrew is a
senior associate at the AV-rated litigation firm of
DeCicco, Gibbons & McNamara, P.C. Amy is a
senior management
consultant for Metropolitan
Life’s Compliance
Department. E-mail
1996
Stone Class
DeGroat, Eric J., was
named a shareholder in
the law firm of Howard &
Howard, P.C. Eric concen-
trates his practice in all aspects of real estate law.
Formerly, he was a regulatory attorney with the
governor of Michigan, an attorney and hearing
referee with the Michigan Tax Tribunal and for the
last 10 years, a real estate broker.
Macheers, Charles, joined the Board of
Directors of the National Health Foundation.
E-mail: [email protected].
Moody Class
Commins, Kimberly, was promoted to full
partner with Hall Render Killian Heath & Lyman in
Troy, Mich. Phone: (248) 740-7505. E-mail:
Durr, William, was married July 6, 2002, to
Ellen Daugherty of Lansing, Mich. He is an attorney for the Michigan Court of Appeals.
Gronauer, Bob, and his wife, Elizabeth,
announce the birth of their second child, Ariana,
born on Nov. 27, 2002. Their first child, Sagan,
was born on March 27, 2001. Bob is with
Kummer Kaempfer Bonner Renshaw in Las Vegas,
Nev. Phone: (702) 792-7000.
Harrel, Jason W., has become a partner in
the firm of Richard S. Calone, L.L.P., a firm he has
been with since May 1997. He earned his LL.M.
in taxation from Golden Gate University School of
Law, and was certified by the California State Bar
as a specialist in taxation. His areas of practice
are in all matters concerning taxation and transactional matters. E-mail: <[email protected]>.
Kortering, David B., in November 2002, in
his first attempt for judicial office, ran against a
district court judge who has been on the bench
since 1972. He received nearly 40 percent of the
votes and reports that it was a great learning
experience. He said he met many interesting people and a fair share of not-too-friendly canines
along the way. Kortering practices with his father
at the Kortering Law Firm in Muskegon County,
Mich. His practice focuses on child neglect and
abuse cases, juvenile delinquency cases, criminal
defense and general civil litigation. Phone: (231)
728-6411; E-mail: <[email protected]>.
Black Class
Grant, Steven W., has become a partner in
the firm of Grant, Konvalinka & Harrison, P.C. in
Chattanooga, Tenn. His practice focuses on commercial litigation, estate planning, and probate.
Phone: (423) 756-8400.
1997 Adams
Class
Gregory, David, was named adjunct professor
by Northern Michigan University’s Masters of
Public Administration Program. He teaches
administrative law to masters candidates in
Lansing. He is also an attorney and lobbyist with
Kelley Cawthorne, P.L.L.C. E-mail:
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Roragen, Kevin J., has
become a shareholder with
the Lansing law firm of
Loomis, Ewert, Parsley,
Davis & Gotting, P.C. He
has been an associate with
the firm since 1997. He
concentrates his practice in
land use and zoning litigation, employment law,
ERISA, and commercial litigation. Phone: (517)
482-0700.
Voelker Class
Day, David J., and Sandra (Holliday) Day
(Steere Class, 1995) announce that The Law Office
of David J. Day, P.A., will now practice as The Day
Law Office, and has a new location at 4108
Deltona Blvd., Spring Hill, Fla. 34606. The firm
will continue to practice in the areas of family law,
personal injury, bankruptcy, and estate planning.
Phone: (352) 684-6545. E-mail:
Flynn, Allison, was promoted to Associate
Director of Compliance at UBS Warburg Ltd., in
London, UK. She is located at UBS AG, 100
Liverpool St., London, UK EC2M 2RH. Phone:
+44-20-7568 7576. E-mail:
Itts, Tracey L., has opened her own law firm at
725B South Eighth St., Las Vegas, Nev. 89101.
She practices primarily in the area of domestic
relations. Phone: (702) 735-4377; E-mail:
Melone, Karen Romano, took a job with the
Mahoning County Prosecutor’s Office as an
Assistant Prosecuting
Attorney-Juvenile Division.
In addition, on Oct. 26,
2002, she married attorney
James A. Melone. Phone:
(330) 726-8669.
Petroskey, Ann-Mary,
has become associated with
the law firm of Smith
Haughey Rice & Roegge in
Grand Rapids, Mich. She has a Master of Laws in
Taxation from Georgetown University Law Center.
She practices in the areas of business and tax
law. Previously, she was an associate tax consultant with PriceWaterhouseCoopers.
Polyzos, Helen, and her husband, Joseph D.
Rocco (Wilson Class, 1990), announce the birth
of their son, Thomas Joseph, born on May 16,
2002.
a year. Sekander leads the Working Group on
International Law for the Ministry of Justice
Transitional Government of Afghanistan, whose
purpose is to review treaties and develop and
implement human rights and trade laws.
Wood, Daniel M., announces the relocation of
the Wood Law Firm. P.L.L.C., to 402 Phoenix
Building, Bay City, Mich. 48708. Wood, a partner, is in the general practice of law with an
emphasis in criminal law, divorce, probate and
estate planning, and personal bankruptcy. Phone:
(989) 894-2481. E-mail:
Fellows Class
Petrequin, Brian L., was married on Feb. 14,
2001 to Emily J. Parodi in Las Vegas, Nev. He
has been an associate with the law firm of St.
John & Wayne, L.L.C. since 1998, concentrating
his practice in the areas of corporate law, corporate finance, lender’s counsel, mergers and acquisitions, intellectual property law, and Internet law.
The firm has offices in New York City; Rochester,
N.Y.; Philadelphia; and Newark, N.J. Phone:
1998 Sharpe
Class
Veschio, Victor H., Reported Case: LPP
Mortgage Ltd. v. Bank of America, N.A., 826
So.2d462 (3DCA 2002); Counsel for Appellee.
Phone: (813) 933-7722. E-mail:
McDonald Class
Thibault, Art, announces the birth of his son,
Matthew Arthur, born on Aug. 5, 2002. He joins
his sister Emily, age 4. In February, he presented
a paper at the New Jersey Institute of Continuing
Legal Education, “Defending the Reasonable
Accommodation Case Under the Americans with
Disabilities Act and the New Jersey Law Against
Discrimination.” In addition, the winter 2003 edition of the New Jersey Employment Law Quarterly
published his article, “Disability Discrimination:
Disparate Treatment or Failure to Accommodate –
Which One Is the Plaintiff Pursuing.” He is a senior associate at the law firm of Apruzzese,
McDermott, Mastro & Murphy, P.C., in Liberty
Corner, N.J., concentrating on labor and employment law on behalf of management. E-mail:
Walters, Stacey, accepted an associate
position at Bodwin & Fuzak, P.C., in East Lansing,
Mich. Practice areas will include personal injury,
insurance defense, estate planning, bankruptcy,
real estate, corporate formation, and collections.
Phone: (517) 332-5323. E-mail:
Sekander, Khalid, returned to his boyhood
home of Afghanistan in January 2003 as part of
a mission with the Afghan Ministry of Justice to
develop the country’s legal system and write its
constitution. The project is expected to take up to
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1999 Flannigan
Class
Meade, Robert J., was appointed as an officer (secretary) and member of the board of directors of The Reynolds Law Firm, P.C., in Lansing,
Mich. He focuses his practice in the areas of
estate planning, criminal law, and family law.
Nichols, Michael J., was appointed treasurer
on the board of directors of The Reynolds Law
Firm, P.C. The six-member law firm focuses on litigation, particularly in the criminal and family law
areas. He also handles contract drafting, review
and litigation, particularly in the area of
covenants not to compete. Phone: (517) 3720676. E-mail: <[email protected]>.
Vaccaro, Joe, recently started at Delany &
O’Brien, in Vorhees, N. J. practicing civil
litigation. Phone: (856) 429-0003.
Fead Class
Caffrey, Anthony, of East Lansing, Mich.
continues to operate the Web site
www.ezdozen.com. Phone: (517) 373-9435.
Czaplicki, Tatiana D., in May 2001 accepted
a position as an Assistant States Attorney with the
Cook County States Attorney’s office in Chicago,
Ill. E-mail: <[email protected]>.
Guminski, Janet L., recently joined Bauchan
Law Offices, P.C., in Houghton Lake, Mich. She
formerly practiced law in Jackson and Gaylord,
Mich. She has experience in divorce and family
law, wills, estate planning and administration,
real estate and other matters.
Phone: (989) 366-5361.
Hatley, Lisa (Coons), and Hatley, Chad,
announce the birth of their daughter, Amelia
Jacqueline, born on Jan. 7, 2003. Phone: (843)
Soe Myint, Zahnie L., joined the law firm of
Lorber, Greenfield, Polito & Pengilly, L.L.P., in
Phoenix, Ariz. The firm specializes in construction
defect and insurance defense litigation. Prior to
leaving his previous law firm, Soe Myint drafted a
Petition for Review to the Arizona Supreme Court.
The court found in Soe Myint’s favor, vacated the
Arizona Court of Appeals decision, and issued a
published opinion, thereby making law in Arizona.
Weadock Class
Taylor, Michael, is a staff attorney for Alex
Acosta, member of the National Relations Board.
Previously, he was a staff attorney for Arthur
Rosenfeld, General Counsel of the National Labor
Relations Board. E-mail:
class notes
2000 Jay
Class
Thelen, Kara Zech, an associate at Miller,
Canfield, Paddock & Stone, P.L.C., has relocated
from the firm’s Kalamazoo office to its Lansing
office. She practices in the areas of environmental
and regulatory law.
Rutledge Class
Bosnak, John Michael, a solicitor with the
Ninth Judicial Circuit in Charleston, S.C., is a
member of the SPCA. Phone: (843) 324-7391 or
(843) 758-1903.
Brigman, Constance L., co-authored with
Richard W. Harris, an article published in April
2003 in CCH TAXES Magazine, “Charitable
Contributions: Special Deductions Available to
Corporations.” E-mail:
Hellman, Donna, was appointed clerk to
Michigan Supreme Court Justice Clifford W.
Taylor in February 2003. Phone: (517) 3735532. E-mail: <[email protected]>.
Cushing Class
Berner, Laurie K., accepted a position as a
Risk Manager at Saint Mary’s Medical Center in
Saginaw, Mich. Phone: (989) 776-8242. E-mail:
Reed, Michelle (Lahey), and Shane M.
Reed (Iredell Class, 2001) announce the arrival
of their son, Jaxson David Reed, born on Dec. 27,
2002 at 3:20 p.m. in Charlotte, Mich. Jaxson
weighed in at 6 lbs., 6 oz., and measured 18
inches long.
2001 Wilson
Class
Ambrozaitis, Michelle (Williams), was
married in October 2002. She is also a new
assistant prosecutor in Clark County, Mich. Phone:
(989) 539-9831; E-mail:
Blair Jr. Class
Gregg, Randall, announces the opening of a
new law practice at 1020 S. Creyts Rd., Suite
305, Lansing, Mich. Gregg and two other attorneys in the firm focus their practice primarily on
real property. They also have a business law
practice. Gregg handles development, construction, land use, wetlands, riparian rights, and
environmental law.
McKneely, Roland, III, opened his own practice, the McKneely Law Firm, L.L.C., 400 Travis
St., Suite 305, Shreveport, La. Previously, he
worked at the Louisiana Court of Appeals. Phone:
(318) 424-1529. E-mail:
Mirarchi, Joseph Q., has joined the law firm
of Zenstein & Gallant, P.C., in Jenkintown, Penn.
The firm, with offices in New Jersey and
Pennsylvania, provides representation and counsel
36
in criminal and civil matters, including property
insurance claims, landlord/tenant matters, personal injury, Social Security disability and workers
compensation matters, small business, contract
and entertainment/sports representation, divorce
and family matters, wills and estate probate.
Phone: (215) 885-8800 or (267) 250-0611.
Reed, Shane M., and Michelle (Lahey)
Reed (Cushing Class, 2000) announce the
arrival of their son, Jaxson David Reed, born on
Dec. 27, 2002 at 3:20 pm in Charlotte, Mich.
Jaxson weighed in at 6 lbs., 6 oz., and measured
18 inches long.
White, George O., III, accepted a job as a
foreign professor of international commercial and
comparative law in China. He is a research scholar with the Halle Institute of Global Learning &
Emory University School of Law. In addition, the
University of North Carolina Journal of
International Law and Commercial Regulation
plans to publish an article by Mr. White on
Chinese foreign direct investment regulations in
their fall edition. Also, the University of Tennessee
Journal of Business Law plans to publish an article
by Mr. White on Chinese commercial dispute resolution practices. E-mail: [email protected].
Blankenship, Shayla, has joined the staff of
the Underground Railroad, Inc. Blankenship provides family law services to low-income domestic
violence and stalking victims in Genesee and
Lapeer counties.
Iredell Class
Bitter, Richard L., Jr., had an article published in the spring 2003 issue of Appalachian
Law Review on “The Jurisdiction of Tribal (Native
American) Courts.” In addition, he co-authored
an article with Thomas J. Sullivan (T. Johnson
Class, 2002) for the spring/summer 2003 edition
of the George Mason University Journal of Civil
Rights on the Supreme Court’s DeShaney decision.
Brower, Tracey, has joined the staff of the
Underground Railroad, Inc. As staff attorney,
Brower provides family law services to
low-income domestic violence victims who live
in Gladwin, Midland, Bay, and Arenac counties.
She assists in divorce, custody, and child
support cases.
Clark, Geoffrey, has returned to the Lansing
area from Oakland County, joining the practice of
John Charles Guyselman (Felch Class, 1977),
P.C., at 6005 W. St. Joseph, Suite 303, Lansing,
Mich. 48917. Phone: (517) 323-0400. E-mail:
Elliott, Justin, is an Equity Corporate HousingAccount Executive. In fall 2002, he started at
Wayne State, pursuing LL.M.s in Corporate
Finance and in Taxation. Phone: (517) 819-0692.
Pierce, John D., accepted a position with
Butler Burnette Pappas L.L.P., in Tampa, Fla., in
property insurance defense. In addition, he coauthored an article that was published in Today’s
Insurance Professionals, Winter 2002, Vol. 59,
No. 12, titled “Arson on Trial, A Matter of
Evidence.” It concerned the procedure and
evidence necessary to prove arson in a civil trial
in defense of an insurer. E-mail
BENCHMARK
2002 T.
Johnson Class
Franklin, Ramona N., accepted a position as
an assistant district attorney with the Harris
County District Attorney’s Office in Houston,
Texas. E-mail: <[email protected]>.
O’Neill, Julie, A., is a partner with the law
firm of Burleson, O’Neill & Garczynski, P.L.L.C.
The firm specializes in criminal law, family law,
and civil litigation, and has offices in Lansing,
Plymouth, and Grand Rapids, Mich. Ms. O’Neill
is primarily at the Lansing office at 416 N.
Homer, Suite 102, Lansing, Mich. 48912. Phone:
(517) 333-8600.
Paterson Class
Willis, Shaun Patrick, opened The Law Office
of Shaun Patrick Willis, P.L.C., at 225 W. Walnut
St., Kalamazoo, Mich. 49007, on Dec. 20, 2002.
Phone: (269) 207-4990.
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The Career Services Office:
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Since the Professionalism Plan was adopted in full last spring, great
strides have been made toward its implementation. Eleven of the 18
initiatives are well underway. These are the initiatives that comprise
the Professionalism Plan:
• Job Bulletin Exchange with other
law schools. This service is especially helpful
for graduates located in other states or
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or geographical region. A graduate may
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Reshape the class on Professional Responsibility.
2.
Require all students to undergo a first-year professionalism and
career review.
3.
Require all students to build a portfolio reflecting their professional
growth and activities throughout their three years in law school.
4.
Consider further refinements to the curriculum to infuse
professionalism themes.
5.
Expand the role of lawyer/mentors in each student’s development.
6.
Monitor professionalism of students.
7.
Create an elective course on Professionalism and Issues in the Practice.
8.
Fill the new PR/Professionalism faculty position.
9.
Create a student ethical oath and standards of professionalism.
10. Bring legal professionals’ influence into the school and the lives of
each and every student.
11. Bring State Bar Character and Fitness Committee, Attorney Discipline
Board, and Attorney Grievance Commission influences into the school.
12. Create a student-run mediation board to address conflicts between students.
13. Continue to emphasize professionalism among faculty, staff, and
administrators, and ensure that there are systems in place to review
and address unprofessional conduct.
14. Establish a standing Professionalism Advisory Committee.
15. Create a Center for Public Service and Professionalism in the classroom
building.
16. Create a place for student social interaction with staff and faculty.
17. Formally adopt the AALS recommendations on commitment to public service.
18. Create an Institute for Principled Administration in Higher Learning.
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This list was only the beginning. As work on the initiatives began, more ideas
developed around more ways Cooley can reach its students. To get inside of
them, to make them stop and think and wonder who they are and who they
can become, inspires the best in all of us and depends on the lawyer’s higher
conscience.
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Subscriptions are free and are sent by regular mail or e-mail. Subscribers who choose
• Reciprocity — some law schools offer
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and other resources of these other law
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• The CSO is also a member of
EmplawyerNet. This important on-line search
service provides access to thousands of legal
jobs across the country, as well as to a
variety of career-related information and
advice for a nominal fee. To obtain your
password and ID, contact EmplawyerNet
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The CSO invites graduates residing in or
visiting the Lansing area to stop by our
office, meet with our staff, and utilize our
career development materials. Some of the
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• An extensive library of resources,
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Jobs for Lawyers — Effective Techniques for
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Hilary Jane Mantis and Kathleen Brady
America’s Greatest Places to Work with a
Law Degree. Kimm Alayne Walton, J.D.
The Lawyers Career Change Handbook —
More than 300 Things You Can Do with a
Law Degree. Hindi Greenberg
What Can You Do with A Law Degree? A
Lawyer’s Guide to Career Alternatives Inside,
Outside and Around the Law. Deborah Arron
What Color Is Your Parachute? A Practical
Manual for Job Hunters and Career
Changers. Richard Nelson Bolles
Stating Your Case: How to Interview for a
Job as a Lawyer. Joseph Ryan
The Legal Job Interview: Winning the
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Clifford R. Ennico
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• The CSO also offers Alumni Access.
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