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his edition of Pacific Law features a description of
our pace setting initiative to “globalize the law
school curriculum.” This project rests on the
belief that today’s law students at every one of the
nation’s law schools must be trained for a world tomorrow
where the most successful lawyers will be those who are comfortable with and prepared to handle transnational matters.
At the same time, we recognize that not all law schools are
able to boast of a faculty broadly accomplished in issues of
transnational law and so they will need materials to guide
them. I am particularly proud that the Pacific McGeorge
faculty, under the leadership of Professor Franklin Gevurtz,
has taken the lead here. They are addressing the need for
all law students to be competent and successful in a world
where the growth in communications and transportation
capabilities increasingly create a marketplace that knows no
borders. Integrating international material into the basic law
school curriculum has been widely heralded as an idea long
overdue. Perhaps that explains why the faculty has been
awarded seven supplemental book contracts in less than a
year to do just that!
But there is a dark side to this borderless world, as well.
The / attacks teach us that a borderless world has both
positive and negative aspects. Our nation’s security can no
longer be divided into two parts: foreign concerns that are
the responsibility of our military and foreign policy experts,
and domestic security that is the responsibility of our traditional law enforcement authorities. The challenge of the new
borderless threats to this traditional dichotomy in our legal
system and its authorities is, of course, central to the current
discussion about the National Security Agency’s surveillance
activities. Whether you believe those activities were appropriate exercises of the President’s Constitutional authority will
likely be determined by how you view these threats and how
we should respond to them. Are we at war, justifying wartime
legal responses? Or should such threats be managed by our
law enforcement authorities? Or do we need some third
option, midway between wartime and peacetime legal
authorities? What role does Congress have in reviewing and
approving such authorities? How should we as lawyers and
citizens inform ourselves so as to understand and effectively
consider these issues?
These are some of questions that a fine law school should
consider. And I am pleased to tell you that Pacific McGeorge
is again in the lead. Two years ago we spearheaded the creation of a new section on National Security Law and Policy
within the American Association of Law Schools. And last
year we produced the first edition of a new Journal of
National Security Law and Policy. Faculty members are active
in teaching and speaking in this area and we have been fortunate, as well, to receive grant support for outreach activities.
We are now working on a yearlong grant-supported project,
“National Security Education for Citizen Leaders,” which we
hope will result in a model curriculum for other communities
interested in exploring the legal and policy issues of a shifting
national security paradigm. Again, with grant support, we are
exploring international legal responses to bioterrorism, building on earlier work in  to design a law school curriculum
addressing the problems posed by bioterrorism for our public
health law system.
Certainly we live in perilous times. Nonetheless, in this
challenge lies an opportunity. Pacific McGeorge has long
focused on the intersection of education and theory with
practical realities. We are well positioned to contribute to the
national debate on the future of law and national security
and I hope you are proud of the leadership role your law
school is taking in this debate.
To learn more about changes in the national security
paradigm, please visit our blog, ‘Pacific McGeorge National
Security Law & Policy for Citizen Leadership Pilot Program’,
at www.discussnationalsecurity.blogs.com.
With Warm Regards,
Dean Elizabeth Rindskopf Parker
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Pacific McGeorge is at the forefront
of a burgeoning movement to
prepare st Century students to
practice law in a world that has
become increasingly global.
*Pacific McGeorge Professor Thomas Main’s comment upon
publication of his new book, Global Issues in Civil Procedure.
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Under a dramatic new initiative by
Pacific McGeorge faculty, soon to
be gone are the days when law
students only encountered international or comparative law in
isolated elective courses. Instead,
all students will have exposure to
such global issues throughout their
core courses.
“There’s just no arguing that the
students being educated today, and
those who will come of age as
lawyers in the next couple of
decades, are going to be disadvantaged if they don’t have a much
better understanding of private and
public international law as well as
the legal systems of other
countries,” says Dean Elizabeth
Rindskopf Parker. “It would really
be hard to point to an area of law
where international is not going to
be relevant.” >
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Events in modern history and significant social change
have led to this point, says Parker, citing the fall of the Iron
Curtain, the increase in transnational trade and the rise of the
Internet as just a few of the key factors that have helped blur
boundaries between nations.
Addressing these changes is the task of the Institute for
Global Business—part of the Pacific McGeorge Center for
Global Business and Development. “Our declared mission is
‘To prepare attorneys for practice in the global economy.’
That means all attorneys, not just a few specialists—and not
just at Pacific McGeorge, but throughout legal education in
the United States” explains Institute Director Frank Gevurtz,
who is coordinating the faculty efforts to globalize the law
school curriculum nationwide.
How exactly is the Pacific McGeorge faculty planning to
introduce all law students to international and comparative
law issues?
It starts with a basic approach. Some law schools, most
notably the University of Michigan, are trying to achieve this
goal by requiring all students to take a course in international
or “transnational” law. Pacific McGeorge has a radically different solution. The faculty are following the advice of U.S.
Supreme Court Justice Stephen G. Breyer, when he said “The
world we live in is a world where it is out of date to teach
foreign law in a course called foreign law.” Accordingly, the
approach being worked on by faculty here involves introducing issues of international and comparative law pervasively
Now it has become
incumbent upon law
professors in general
to broaden their
expertise in international, transnational
and comparative
law issues—and present these broader
contexts in their courses, particularly in
the core curriculum.
—Professor Frank Gevurtz, director of the
Center’s Institute for Global Business
throughout required courses, including Contracts, Torts, Civil
Procedure, Property, Criminal Law, Constitutional Law,
Corporations and Professional Responsibility. In this way,
students come to view international and comparative law as
part of the constellation of issues that can come up without
warning in an era of increasing globalization—rather than as
something isolated from the concepts with which the attorney
of the future must be prepared to deal.
Needless to say, bringing about such a revolutionary
change in legal education—the st Century equivalent of the
earlier transformation of American legal education from a
home state to a national focus —is no small challenge.
“Integrating a more global approach into the law school
curriculum will be a departure for many
professors” notes Michael Malloy, director
of the Center for Global Business and
Development.
But Pacific McGeorge has a plan.
It starts with preparing materials that
professors here and at law schools across
the country can use to introduce international and comparative law issues into
basic courses. A tremendous milestone
toward achieving this end was achieved
when a proposal by Professors Gevurtz,
Carter, Main, Malloy and Sprankling
resulted in a decision by the legal publishing powerhouse, Thomson-West, to
publish a series of books, to be called the
“Global Issues” series, designed to allow
professors to introduce international and
comparative law issues into traditional core
law school courses.
The titles in the Global Issues series under contract
so far include:
• Global Issues In Civil Procedure, by Thomas Main
• Global Issues In Corporate Law, by Franklin Gevurtz
• Global Issues In Criminal Law, by Linda Carter and former
Pacific Mcgeorge faculty member Christopher Blakesley
• Global Issues In Property Law, by John Sprankling,
Raymond Coletta, and a professor from Florida
International
• Global Issues In Contracts, by Michael Malloy, and four
other leading internationally oriented contracts professors
• Global Issues In Torts, by Julie Davies and the author of
A Leading Torts Casebook
• Global Issues In Professional Responsibility, by George
Harris, John Sprankling and a leading comparative ethics
law professor.
According to series editor Gevurtz, future books include
titles in Criminal Procedure (under the same team doing the
book in Criminal Law) and Constitutional Law, where the
plan is to utilize strong scholars in that field such as Professors
Brian Landsberg and Leslie Jacobs.
ing professors from  law schools in the United States and
Canada met to plan how to introduce international and comparative law issues into the core curriculum. The participants
at the workshop included leading professors in traditional core
law school courses—such as authors of widely used casebooks
in Torts and Civil Procedure (including our
own Professors Levine and Main)—and
professors who are leaders in the fields of
international and comparative law. They
included deans and former deans, and
major players in the American Association
of Law Schools and the American Society
for Comparative Law. Professors from
Columbia and NYU in the East, to
Berkeley in the West were present.
During two working days, the participants addressed the goals to be obtained by
introducing international and comparative
law issues into the core curriculum; developed strategies for introducing such issues
into the core curriculum; devised means to
overcome challenges to globalizing the curriculum; and came up with concrete steps
that participants were to take to follow up
on the workshop. The results of the workshop are written up
in a -page report published in the Pacific McGeorge Global
Business & Development Law Journal, and available on the web
at www.McGeorge.edu/workshop. Professors around the
country have been downloading and discussing this report.
Step three: Spread the word
In January, the annual meeting of the Association of American
Law Schools was sandwiched by an opening-day workshop
on “Introducing International Issues into the First Year
Curriculum” and a final-day session on techniques to implement this goal. Pacific McGeorge faculty played a prominent
role. Dean Parker joined the dean of the Yale Law School and
others on the keynote panel for the opening-day workshop, >
Tahoe conference breakout sessions brought together renowned
professors in specific areas of legal education.
Even professors renowned for
advocating their individual
views agree on the need for a
global law curriculum.
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Photography: Steve Yeater
Photography: Steve Yeater
Step two: Assemble the best minds from
around the country.
Last August, the Center for Global Business and
Development sponsored a workshop at which forward think-
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Photography: Steve Yeater
Photography: Steve Yeater
Gorbachev’s surprise visit
enthralls Pacific McGeorge
By Jan Ferris Heenan
Second-year Evening classmates Matt Hooper and Dan King
quickly picked up the global vibe at Pacific McGeorge—and
the school’s plans for ramping things up on the international
stage—and decided, in Hooper’s words, “to help out.”
Hooper made a few phone calls to well-placed friends in
Washington, D.C. and—with plans largely kept under
wraps—invited former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev to
Pacific McGeorge for a mid-week visit in late October.
He agreed, the only stipulation being the event could not
be publicized.
Gorbachev, a key force in the end of the Cold War and
the recipient of the  Nobel Peace Prize, took part in an
hour-long, one-on-one Q&A with Pacific McGeorge Dean
Elizabeth Rindskopf Parker before an audience of more than
 attentive law students, faculty and alumni.
Faculty from 31 law schools
engaged in lively discussions during the August Tahoe conference
on "Globalizing the Curriculum."
and made the case for exposing all students to international
issues. Main moderated the Civil Procedure discussion group
while Gevurtz addressed implementation on the last day.
At the end of March, Gevurtz, Carter and Malloy will
be participants on a panel at the annual meeting of the
American Society for International Law on the effort to
introduce international issues into core courses.
Pacific McGeorge has also started a Listserv
([email protected]) through which
professors from all over the country exchange ideas about
how to introduce international issues into their classes.
Step four: Do it.
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Photography: John Blaustein
A few weeks ago, students in a Business Associations class
at Pacific McGeorge engaged in a vigorous discussion with
Winfried van der Muijsenbergh—a member of the school’s
international board of advisors—on European corporate governance approaches, particularly as they involve very different
philosophies about employee representation management
compensation. Students in Carter’s Criminal Law class are
working through materials involving prosecution of
International human rights violations. For years now Malloy
has interlaced problems and simulations involving the
Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods
into the narrative arc of his full-year Contracts course, and in
his Business Associations class, students recently grappled with
the European Commission’s approach to insider trading
regulation—among many other transborder issues that arise
throughout the course.
So what will this all mean for the future of Pacific
McGeorge, its students, graduates and faculty?
In part, it represents the next step in a three-decade
tradition of leadership by the law school in responding to the
legal impact of the global economy. “We’ve been doing this for
about  years; we have managed to ‘internationalize’ our
faculty,” says Parker, referring in large part to the school’s
pioneering LL.M. in Transnational Business Practice and
overseas programs.
In part, it represents the recognition of the Pacific
McGeorge faculty that international issues have become inexorably intertwined with domestic ones. Even nationally recognized scholar Sprankling, in a subject as seemingly grounded
in domestic law such as Property, is now working on an article
on the International Human Right to Property. As Davies
explains, "Now that I have gotten into the globalizing the
curriculum initiative, I keep wondering why I didn't do it
earlier. I was a Spanish major in college and one of my
greatest joys was learning about the ideas and culture of other
countries. This project will allow me to bring that aspect of
my background into harmony with my interest in law. I hope
to enrich my teaching and my students' education in the
domestic torts course, and to move on to scholarly projects
that allow me to learn from other legal systems."
In sum, it represents the commitment of Pacific McGeorge
faculty to educate all of their students for practice in the
st Century.
Dean Elizabeth Rindskopf Parker draws on her work in Washington,
D.C., to ask questions of Gorbachev.
Security was tight for Mikhail Gorbachev's visit.
“It was just one of those incredible experiences you can
never really express in words,” says Hooper, who worked in
the high-tech industry, serving military clients among others,
before enrolling at Pacific McGeorge.
“Our school is making such incredible efforts to really
expose the students to globalization of the law and the world
economy,” he continues. “We just thought, ‘Hey, we both
have connections. We could probably do things to assist’.”
The two formed “Students for a Better McGeorge” and
began developing a speaker series. They set their sights on
Gorbachev, who planned to visit the U.S. in fall .
That the dean had studied the ex-Soviet leader so closely
while serving as general counsel for the Central Intelligence
Agency and other federal agencies made the on-stage
exchange all the more exhilarating, Hooper says.
Gorbachev described his brief career as a lawyer, his rise
to political power, and the tumultuous times of his reign
over the Soviet Union from  to . “In a totalitarian
society such as the Soviet Union, there was no dissent, and
a democratic process could only begin from above,” he said.
“It was a confluence of historic events that affected a
generational change and allowed the introduction of
perestroika and glasnost.”
He tied the problems of Third World poverty to current
terrorism and security concerns. “It is hard to imagine a
calm, safe and secure world where so many people live in
backwardness and poverty,” he said.
Gorbachev’s “surprise appearance” drew national media
attention. An Associated Press story featuring his comments
appeared in more than  newspapers.
Hooper and King are working to line up their next
speaker. Considering security and other concerns, theirs is
indeed an ambitious quest. “The goal is to get pretty much
every world leader to know where McGeorge is and to enjoy
their (interactions) with our students,” says Hooper.
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Global Connections
Pacific McGeorge Covers the Globe
Gerald Caplan
United Kingdom
Moderator, contracts
conference in Gloucester,
England
Linda E. Carter
Senegal
Director, international
judicial conference
Omar M. Dajani
Rwanda
Researcher, gachacha
court hearings in Kigali
Julie Davies
Austria
Faculty, Pacific
McGeorge’s Summer
Salzburg program
Marjorie Florestal
Ghana
Advisor, trade issues
Fred A. Galves
Chile
Instructor, trial advocacy
program in Santiago
Franklin Gevurtz
Netherlands
Reporter, comparative
law conference in The
Hague
George Harris
Cambodia
Lecturer, criminal
defense training program
in Phnom Pehn
Brian Landsberg
China
Professor, summer program at Soochow
University in Suzhou
Thomas J. Leach
Italy
Professor, exchange program with the University
of Parma
(2004-2006)
Pacific McGeorge faculty members are
involved in numerous international projects. This list of foreign countries
includes nations with which they have
done legal consulting work, and countries visited for organizational meetings,
conferences, seminars and institutes
where they presented papers, taught or
lectured, and otherwise participated or
will do so later this year.
North America
Canada
Mexico
Carter, McCaffrey
McElwain, McCaffrey,
Carter
Central America
Nicaragua
McCaffrey
South America
Brazil
Chile
Weber
Galves, Leach,
Parker, Taylor, Weber
Europe
Austria
Carter, Davies, Galves,
Main, Malloy, Sprankling,
Weber
Denmark
Malloy
Ireland
Malloy
Italy
Leach
Greece
Malloy, Gevurtz
Netherlands
Carter, Gevurtz
Russia
Sims
Spain
McElwain
Parker
Switzerland
United Kingdom Caplan, Dajani, Malloy
Kojo Yelpaala
Ghana
Member, African Law
Institute steering committee
Gregory S. Weber
Brazil
Organizer, dispute resolution workshop in Manaus
Joseph E. Taylor
Chile
Instructor, trial advocacy
program in Santiago
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John G. Sprankling
Austria
Faculty, Pacific
McGeorge Summer
Salzburg program
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John Cary Sims
Morocco
Presenter, international
law conference in Fez
Claude D. Rohwer
Vietnam
Consultant on commercial code, government of
Vietnam
Elizabeth Rindskopf
Parker
Switzerland
Organizer, UN Security
Council conference in Geneva
Timothy Naccarato
Angola
Consultant, legal system
system study in Luanda
Luanda
Eric McElwain
Mexico
Speaker, conference
on globalization in
Mexico City
Stephen C. McCaffrey
Nicaragua
Advisor, International
Court of Justice waterways
dispute
Michael P. Malloy
Uganda
Faculty, International
Law Institute in Kampala
Thomas Main
Austria
Faculty, Pacific
McGeorge Summer
Salzburg program
Middle East
Palestine
Jordan
Dajani, McCaffrey
McCaffrey
Africa
Angola
Ethiopia
Ghana
Kenya
Morocco
Rwanda
Senegal
Uganda
Naccarato
McCaffrey
Florestal, Yelpaala
McCaffrey
Sims
Carter, Dajani
Carter, Weber
Malloy, McCaffrey
Asia
Cambodia
China
India
Vietnam
Harris, Carter
Parker, Landsberg, Malloy
McCaffrey
Rohwer
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Global Center Hits
Its Stride Quickly
A
lthough less than two years
old, the Pacific McGeorge
Center for Global Business
and Development has already built a
national reputation in the international
legal arena.
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Professor Alastair Lucas from the University of Calgary delivered the
keynote luncheon address on the second day of "The Business of
Climate Change" conference.
 and offered a short course on e-commerce to kick off
the relationship. “I expect to repeat the course again in the
future,” Malloy says. “We continue to encourage shorts visits
by Pacific McGeorge faculty to ILI-Uganda, and plans are
underway for an advocacy program to be designed and presented by our faculty under the auspices of ILI-Uganda.”
Malloy has had frequent discussions with representatives
of the Macau University of Science and Technology and the
Hong Kong WTO Research Institute on future collaborations. “The long-range objective here is the possibility of a
collaborative LL.M. program with activities sited in China
rather than in Sacramento, and drawing directly on the burgeoning Chinese market demand for advanced legal training,” Malloy explains. A first step in this collaboration has
already been achieved. In late February, the vice provost and
Professor Gary Miller, the College of the Pacific's dean, was one of
the featured panelists on the opening day of "The Business of Climate
Change" conference.
One of Malloy’s initial
goals for the center as
a whole, the extension
of Pacific McGeorge’s
existing international
Photography: Steve Yeater
“The center has really taken off,” says Dean Elizabeth
Rindskopf Parker. “It has done some remarkable things that
have earned it acclaim throughout legal education. The twoday Tahoe summit last summer brought together the leading
American scholars in international law. And our conference
programs, on-campus and at recent AALS conventions, have
attracted much attention.”
Under the direction of Professor Michael Malloy, a prolific
international scholar, the center operates three institutes: the
Institute for Global Business, directed by Professor Franklin
Gevurtz; the Institute for Sustainable Development,
directed by Professor Gregory Weber; and the Institute
for Development of Legal Infrastructure, now led by
Professor Leslie Jacobs.
“I’m particularly pleased that Professor Jacobs has accepted
the dean’s invitation to become the first permanent director of
the Institute for Development of Legal Infrastructure,”
Malloy says. “Her significant scholarly contributions in constitutional law—particularly free speech and government
action and more recently in bioterrorism and public health—
place her in a unique position to lead efforts to advance the
study and implementation of legal infrastructure initiatives.”
The center’s most recent success was a two-day February
symposium sponsored by the Institute for Sustainable
Development that addressed the topic of “The Business of
Climate Change: Challenges and Opportunities for
Multinational Business Enterprises.” Weber assembled a stellar group of leading experts from around the world to discuss
that timely topic. “It was well-attended, fascinating and
lively—a tribute to really excellent work by Greg Weber, who
conceived of the conference, arranged for the speakers and
kept the symposium moving,” says Dean Parker. The symposium was web cast and is available on the law school web site.
The proceedings will also be published in an upcoming
volume of the new Pacific McGeorge Global Business and
Development Law Journal. The event was preceded by a meeting of the center’s board of advisors that featured a dinner
talk by Professor Geoffrey Hazard, a University of
Pennsylvania Law School professor who is one of the foremost authorities on legal ethics.
In October, the center hosted a conference on “Judicial
Influences on Economic Development: Opportunities for
Architecting Legal Infrastructures” at the law school that
explored the relationship between various legal systems and
their effect on a nation’s investment and business environment. That followed a February  conference,
“Transboundary Freshwater Ecosystem Restoration: The Role
of Law, Process, and Lawyers,” that featured more than 
international water law and environmental law authorities.
One of Malloy’s initial goals for the center as a whole, the
extension of Pacific McGeorge’s existing international ties in
Europe and Asia into new areas, has also prospered. The
center has developed a relationship with the International
Law Institute in Kampala, Uganda. He visited that city in fall
dean of the law faculty at Macau University invited Malloy to
serve as a visiting professor of law, initially for a three-year
period. “The purpose of this appointment is three-fold,”
Malloy says. “It would initiate collaboration [between Macau
University and the center] with the relatively modest step of a
faculty visit or exchange; it would provide a basis for consultative and design services by the center in support of the
Macau LL.M. program; and it would inaugurate the Center’s
role as a content-provider to Macau's new LL.M. program.”
Discussions involving consortium activities among the
center, the American University of Armenia, and American
University in Washington, D.C., are underway. In the
meantime, the law school’s cooperative activities with the
University of Salzburg have continued to expand, and now
include a collaborative LL.M. program with the University of
Salzburg Faculty of Law, as well as regular faculty exchanges
and Pacific McGeorge’s long-standing summer program. In
the fall  semester, Malloy served as “Gastprofessor” at
Salzburg, offering a course in Transnational Business
Transactions in a compressed schedule. The class included
nine LL.M. students who later came to the Sacramento
campus in January for pre-internship courses during the full
spring semester. Salzburg expects to make the Transnational
Business Transactions course a regular feature of its program.
The center continues to expand its reach. “With Dean
Parker’s inspiration and support, with key contributions from
the center’s institute directors and staff, and with the growing
involvement of the entire law school faculty, Pacific
McGeorge is regaining its place as an international leader in
legal education, research and service,” Malloy says.
ties in Europe and Asia into new areas,
has also prospered.
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Continuity and Change:
Facing limited
space on one hand
and rapidly growing
The Law Library
Envisions Its Future
student needs on
the other, the
Gordon D. Schaber
Library has finished
the first phase
of an ambitious,
decade-long
By Robert T. Wazeka
remodeling program.
n redesigning and expanding the law library, one of
our guiding principles has been to give our students
a wide variety of study spaces,” says Kim Clarke,
assistant dean for library and research services at
the Gordon D. Schaber Law Library. “If experience
has shown us anything,” she says, “it’s that students have
different ways of studying. Some want to study collaboratively in groups, some want to use laptops, some don’t
want to use laptops, some want to spread out, some want
to curl up by themselves in a chair, some want their study
space to be dead quiet. We’re trying to create spaces that
meet all those needs.”
At a time when libraries of all kinds, and especially law
libraries, are wrestling with the question of how much and
how fast to convert from print-based to digital materials,
Clarke and her staff of nine professional librarians, most of
whom have law degrees, haven’t forgotten the essential part
of a library—to provide real service to real people.
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At the Schaber Law Library, that service extends beyond
students and faculty to include alumni, visiting scholars,
the legal profession and sometimes the general public.
Alumni and local attorneys have the same circulation
privileges as the students and are invited to come into the
library to do research, or to get research assistance in person,
by phone or by e-mail. One Pacific McGeorge graduate
recently asked a reference question by cell phone while on
his way to court. As for visiting faculty, says Clarke, “they
never leave us. One visiting professor even e-mails us
periodically from Israel with research questions.”
Serving student needs is a key component of the threephased redevelopment plan the library hopes to complete by
the spring of  at a total cost of $ million. In addition
to a variety of study spaces, students expressed interest in a
lounge, a coffee bar, outside seating and more readily available technological resources. All of these have been worked
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be met was to keep the entire library open daily for 
hours. As a compromise, one classroom opens when the
library closes to accommodate night-owls and early risers.
Three other needs are also being addressed by the plan.
One is to rationalize the floor plan, which is so difficult to
fathom that University of Pacific President Donald DeRosa,
after a tour of the library, said he felt like trailing bread
crumbs behind him so he could find his way back. Second
is the need to address the campus-wide shortage of office
space. The planned second-floor faculty office wing will
help in this respect while also bringing faculty closer to students and to research materials. Finally, the library, whose
shelves are  percent full, needs more shelf space. The collection is estimated to grow at the rate of , volumes
annually on top of the present , volumes—the
seventh-largest law collection in California.
Students, faculty, administrators and librarians were all
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involved in one or more phases of the planning process,
which included visitations to other academic law libraries,
among them Loyola, Southwestern, Stanford, UC Berkeley,
UCLA, USC and USF. Despite having more students than
most law schools in the state, Pacific McGeorge currently
runs the third-smallest library among California law
schools at , square feet. The expansion, however, will
bring that number to ,+ square feet, a figure that’s
comparable to the better law libraries in the state.
During Phase  of the new design, completed last
summer, compact shelving was erected in the first-floor
stacks. Private study rooms for four to eight people were
remodeled and a classroom for seminars and presentations
was added. Electrical outlets and wired network connections, previously unavailable, were installed at every table
and carrel, and improvements were made in lighting and
in the soundproofing of study rooms. “The new arrange-
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ment makes great sense,” says Michele Finerty, head of
technical services. On the first day of school after Phase ,
all the tables were filled with students studying.”
The primary work during Phase  will be the construction of a large, two-story study area extending slightly out
into the main campus quadrangle. A lounge and coffee bar
will be built on the first floor along with a variety of study
spaces, while the second-floor portion of the addition will
consist entirely of study space. Depending upon the level
of funds raised over the next two years, construction is
projected to start in the summer of  and be completed by August .
Phase , set to begin in June  and to be completed
by spring of , will be the most extensive. The whole
central part of the library—the Reference/Reserve Room,
the Information Commons and the Treatise Room—will
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1 Microfiche Collection – The microfiche collection for government documents remains along the first-floor west wall.
2 Multimedia Viewing Booth – Students can watch tapes or
DVDs of their classroom performances.
3 Technology Upgrades – The library remodeling made
laptop use easier in most places throughout the building.
4 Compact Shelving – New space-saving shelving allows the
staff to put more books in limited space.
5 Microfiche Control Pad – The Remstar microfiche storage
system can be turned with this control pad.
6 New Study Carrels – Rich wood-grain furniture with Internet outlets and task lighting has replaced Nixon-era carrels and desks.
7 Outdoor Areas – The library offers a courtyard where students can make cell phone calls or soak up the sun.
8 Wireless Computing – Wireless access is available through
more of the library after the first phase of remodeling.
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• A self-contained computer training lab and a
printing/copying room;
• A reserve/reference room with open stacks (currently,
the reserve stacks are closed);
• A new integrated office area for the library staff, including a technical services area with workstations to sort
mail, order library materials, create records for the
online catalog, and process library materials; and
• The faculty office wing.
Although the library is investing heavily in digital materials—for example, it currently subscribes to  different
legal and inter-disciplinary databases—it is simultaneously
beefing up its print collection. “Books aren’t disappearing
from law as fast as people think they are,” says Clarke.
“Many people prefer to read books in print rather than
electronically. Some materials, such as legal treatises
and international and foreign materials, aren’t available
electronically. LexisNexis and Westlaw aren’t the only
publishers out there.”
Risk to over-investing in databases can cost up to
$, a year. “If you need to cancel a database subscription,” Clarke points out, “you lose access to the entire
database, even for the years to which you’ve subscribed.
This wouldn’t be true with a print collection.”
If any proof is needed that print is still relevant, the
use of print materials at the Schaber Library increased by
 percent in -.
No matter what cutting-edge technological resources a
library might acquire or how many statutory tomes it
might set out across its shelves, none of this matters if
students, faculty and alumni don’t know how to gain
access to what they want. “We want to be proactive,” says
Judy Flader, head of public services, “and to reach out to
students and faculty with materials and suggestions that
might guide their research rather than wait for them to
come to us.”
Examples of how the library is being proactive abound.
Having already published  research guides in numerous
subject areas, the staff is planning to do more, perhaps as
many as three per year. “We want our research guides to
help people navigate between print and digital,” says reference librarian Teri Townsend. Clarke adds that the goal is
“to create a research guide for every Pacific McGeorge
course that has a writing requirement.”
Clarke teaches a course called Advanced Legal Research,
and Paul Howard, the foreign and international law librarian, will be teaching an international version of the same
course, pending faculty approval. The librarians are often
asked to conduct research presentations in classes or for
the off-campus clinics and law review students. Three students are currently employed as library research assistants
who conduct research for faculty members under the
supervision of a librarian. Increasingly, the staff is working
to help students develop their video and presentation skills
to meet new trends in law.
No one can predict what changes in technology, law
and society will occur over the six years it will take for the
library’s expansion and re-design to be fully implemented.
One thing is certain, however. As time goes by, the fundamental thing, service to users, will still apply.
Darling Foundation Makes
$1.5 Million Gift to Schaber Library
hen Dean Elizabeth Rindskopf Parker
arrived at Pacific McGeorge in , one
of the first visits she made was to the
Hugh & Hazel Darling Foundation’s
trustee Richard Stack. The Darling
Foundation is a long-time supporter of law libraries throughout Southern California, and Stack has been involved in several library projects. His advice proved to be inspired. He
recommended that Dean Parker begin visiting other law
school libraries. Her visits showed the dean what the best law
libraries have done to provide services to students, alumni
and practitioners, as well as to create comfortable environments that take advantage of natural light and have floor
plans that are logical and fit well into their environments.
Informed by these visits, Pacific McGeorge created plans
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for a library renovation—and among the first places the dean
visited to review the plan was the Darling Foundation.
Setting aside its traditional Southern California focus, the
foundation recently made a $. million commitment to the
Gordon D. Schaber Law Library renovation project.
“We are simply thrilled to have the Darling Foundation’s
support,” said Dean Parker. “Southern California is dotted by
law libraries that have received support from the foundation,
but this is their first substantial investment in a Northern
California law library. We still have a long way to go to complete funding for the project, but the Darling Foundation’s
support is an important first step.”
To learn about the library project, including naming and
other support opportunities, contact John McIntyre at
[email protected] or --.
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Data mining, terrorist profiling and
international cooperation emerged as
critical themes during the first in a
new series of workshops on national
security law and policy sponsored
by Pacific McGeorge. Thirty-two
citizen leaders and nineteen
Weapons Inspector
academics attended the two-day
David Kay’s Appearance
session at the Claremont Resort
and Spa in Berkeley, California on
Highlights First Pacific
October -. Funded by a
McGeorge Workshop
one-year grant from the U.S.
Department of Education, the
By Robert T. Wazeka
workshops are designed to provide
a framework for educating citizen
leaders on the national security challenges faced by the U.S. and other
countries in the aftermath of the terrorist attacks that began in the s.
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National Security
Dialogue Reaches
Out to Citizen
Leaders
Following opening remarks from Pacific McGeorge Dean
Elizabeth Rindskopf Parker, RAND Senior Policy Analyst
Gregory F. Treverton gave an extensive overview of the emerging threats to national security. On the second day, participants attended a series of breakout working sessions, each
lasting less than an hour. The  sessions covered a variety of
topics: dialogue with citizen leadership; the perspective of
law enforcement; the ideological, religious and political causes
of terrorism; the methods of terrorist attack; the effect of government restructuring on our security; domestic information
gathering and threat assessment; surveillance, data mining
and civil liberties; forums for prosecuting terrorists; the dual
role of the National Guard; and lessons learned in business
recovery from the Toronto (SARS epidemic) and New
Orleans disasters.
In his concluding keynote address, former International
Atomic Energy Agency/United Nations Special Commission
Chief Nuclear Weapons Inspector David Kay stated that a
large number of nation states, including some U.S. allies, are
so bankrupt and dysfunctional that they are on the brink of
failing. The successful nations, he argued, must help the less
successful ones if we are to preserve our collective security.
Kay stressed the importance of studying the terrorist movement. “To connect the dots, we must first collect the dots,”
says Kay.
The subject of data mining, which stirred interest at the
workshop, has moved into public consciousness following
revelations that the National Security Agency used data
mining as part of its warrantless surveillance efforts on
American citizens following /. “Data mining and automated data-analysis techniques should not be embraced without guidelines and controls for their use,” said Mary De Rosa,
senior fellow at the Center for Strategic and International
Studies. Data mining is “a process that uses algorithms to discover predictive patterns in data sets”; automated data analysis
applies models to that data “to predict behavior, assess risk, or
determine associations.” Such techniques are already being
used, for example, by banks to detect possible credit fraud, by
the Treasury Department to uncover money laundering, and
by Las Vegas casinos to prevent fraud, cheating and theft.
The potential problems associated with data mining, De Rosa
said, are unjustified invasions of privacy, false positives and
mission creep.
Nasra Hassan, director of United Nations Information
Services, profiled suicide bombers based on her extensive
interviews with members of Hamas and Islamic Jihad
ten years ago. Her findings, originally published in The
Atlantic and The New Yorker, defied the prevailing conventional wisdom. “None of the suicide bombers,” she said
at the workshop, “were uneducated, desperately-poor,
David Kay was in the
pre-Iraq war spotlight.
simple-minded or depressed. Many were middle class and,
unless they were fugitives, held paying jobs. More than half
were refugees from what is now Israel. Two were sons of
millionaires. They all seemed entirely normal members of
their families.”
In a follow-up letter to participants, Dean Parker outlined
five topics for in-depth discussion and a sixth tabletop exercise. The topics include the national security paradigm shift;
radical Islam; international law and public diplomacy; the
right to privacy; and the roles of the business community,
private citizens, and first responders.
The workshops, under the direction of the Capital Center
for Government Law and Policy, are part of Pacific
McGeorge’s efforts to bring national security law and policy
to the forefront of public attention.
Professor John Cary Sims and Dean Parker are founding
members of the Association of American Law Schools’ new
section on National Security. In January, the section held a
two-hour program on “Outsourcing the War on Terrorism:
Extraordinary Rendition, Shadow Warriors, Dirty Assets and
Battlefield Contractors” at the AALS Annual Conference in
Washington, D.C.
Pacific McGeorge also oversees publication of the
Journal of National Security Law & Policy, a semiannual,
peer-reviewed publication that features contributions from
practitioners and academics across the political spectrum.
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REALITY BITES
Three alumnae find fun
and fame, but no fortune,
on reality TV shows
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“I figured with David Kelley
behind it, it wouldn’t be something
distasteful or slimy,” Silva says. “I
thought it would be kind of fun.”
Silva, ’, was one of three
McGeorge graduates who appeared
on reality shows last year. Jennifer
Le, ’, was on “The Apprentice:
Martha Stewart,” and Candice Fields, ’, saddled up for a
cowboy series on Country Music Television. Though none
came out on top, they all said the experience was worth it.
Kelley’s short-lived show was aired first on NBC and then
Bravo. It pitted teams of lawyers against each other in front of
judges and juries. The contestants argued real cases, pulled
from courthouses, with outcomes that were binding on the
parties. High-profile criminal defense lawyer Roy Black was
the managing partner of the “law firm.”
Silva, a former prosecutor with the Sacramento County
District Attorney’s office and the California Department of
Justice, was working as a labor and employment lawyer at
Cook Brown LLP in Southern California. She sent in her
resume and a photograph, did an on-camera interview, and
met with Kelley’s publicity people
and corporate lawyers, who asked
her ethical questions.
“They didn’t make you try a case
or see what you were like in the
courtroom,” she says. Silva thinks
much of the selection process was
based on personality, youth and
looks. “It’s pretty obvious if you look
at the cast, nobody was ugly or fat,
and attorneys are not the most
attractive people.”
In her first case on the show,
Silva and two other lawyers had to
defend a man whose big mastifftype dogs had mauled a much
smaller neighbor dog named Bingo.
Bingo was already missing a leg.
“The dog limped into court on
three legs,” Silva says. “Guess
Regina Silva joined
who won?” >
‘The Law Firm.’
NBC Universal Photo: Bjerke
Jennifer Le
R
egina Silva saw the advertisement in the Los Angeles Daily
Journal in . Trial attorneys were wanted for a new reality
television show called
“The Law Firm,”
produced by David E.
Kelley, the creator of
“Ally McBeal,”
“Boston Legal,” and
“The Practice.” Silva
applied and became a
contestant.
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Silva stayed on the show for four episodes but was eventually booted by Black after he felt she hadn’t defended one
client zealously enough. The woman, Silva says, made nasty
remarks about “Mexicans,” not realizing Silva was Latina.
Still, Silva says, she found the experience challenging and
it helped her transition between working full time and doing
contract work for Cook Brown so she could care for her
mother in San Diego.
“I knew I’d be practicing law before and after,” she says.
“Other people on the show were using it as a way not to be
attorneys anymore. They thought they would be discovered
and be on TV afterward. That didn’t happen.”
Two attorneys who work for Pacific McGeorge’s
California Parole Advocacy Program were also featured on
“The Law Firm.” Chris Smith, a staff attorney for the
Institute for Administrative Justice operation in Los
Angeles, and Deep Goswami, a CPAP contract attorney,
each went deep in the episodes.
Jennifer Le made it onto “The Apprentice: Martha
Stewart” last year, and the entrepreneurial thrust of the program helped persuade her to start her own practice.
“I tried out for the show because I’m a huge fan of
Martha Stewart,” Le said. “I really admired her for having
created this empire starting from nothing. She was inspirational while I was stressed out taking the bar. I thought,
wow, she’s making a billion bucks baking pie.”
Le, a former Orange County prosecutor, also said she
loves to cook at home and grew up working in her family’s
restaurant.
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Interviewed on the Today show
afterward, Jennifer Le took the
opportunity on national television
to give a plug to her new solo
criminal defense practice. That
practice is doing well, she said,
now that she has found a niche as
a Vietnamese-speaking lawyer in
Orange County, which has a large
Vietnamese population.
Photography: CMT
Photography: NBC Universal
Jennifer Le, left, turned florist on ‘The Apprentice: Martha Stewart.’
On the show, Le had to work with a diverse group of
individuals to run a flower shop, renovate a hotel suite,
create a children’s book, and bake a wedding cake, all under
tremendous time pressure. Stewart showed her the door
after a salad dressing she and her team marketed failed to
fly off the shelves as fast as their competitors’ product.
“I was upset at the time,” Le says. “I don’t like losing.
But I realized it was for the best. After all was said and
done, I realized I didn’t want to work for someone else,
even someone like Martha Stewart. It was the catalyst for
opening my own law practice.”
Interviewed on NBC’s Today show afterward, she took
the opportunity on national television to give a plug to her
new solo criminal defense practice. That practice is doing
well, she said, now that she has found a niche as a
Vietnamese-speaking lawyer in Orange County, which has a
large Vietnamese population.
“It’s really worked out perfectly,” she said. “I’m so much
happier.”
Candice Fields, a Sacramento litigator, lived out her
childhood fantasy of being a cowgirl when she appeared on
the Country Music Television show “Cowboy U: Texas.”
The program took city slickers and turned them into
cowhands.
Fields talked her way onto the show with a gushing letter
about her longtime desire to be a cowboy followed by an
audition interview that she describes as “being on the
wrong end of a deposition.”
With the blessing of her colleagues at Segal & Kirby, she
set out for a three-week adventure at a ranch in Alpine,
Texas. Fields quickly acquired the moniker “Cowgirl
Candy” and saddled up to rope and ride.
Eight urban cowboys faced the elements, the animals
and a straw boss who ran them around like recruits at a
boot camp. She was able to grin and bear the everyday tasks
such as cleaning out a stable that confronted the novice
cowhands, but admits “those horns on some of the animals”
caused a bit of concern.
Candice Fields felt comfortable in the corral.
Contestants were rated on guts, determination and
improvement. Fields was doing well in all three categories
until a hand injury forced her off the show before the
final rodeo. As one of her instructors, a champion bull rider,
told her, “Candy, if I ever need a lawyer, I’d sure want you
on my side.”
The experience inspired her to take up horseback riding as
a regular hobby. She joined the Cowboy Lawyers Association,
a -year-old group that brings together attorneys and judges
from around the state on weekend rides. She also is a member
of West Sacramento Trail Riders Association and the
Sacramento Sheriff ’s Posse.
“I didn’t know what fun I had been missing,” Fields told
the Sacramento Bee. “My closet has a split personality: suits
and heels for court, and boots and Wranglers for just about
everything else.”
Being a contestant on the show was “a great life lesson,”
says Fields.
They didn’t know much about roping and riding, but the cast of
‘Cowboy U: Texas’ was a good-looking bunch.
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Family, Alumni, Friends
Celebrate Rohwer’s Reign
More than  alumni, students, faculty and friends
gathered to celebrate the
remarkable teaching career
of Professor Emeritus
Claude Rohwer in October
at Sacramento’s Memorial
Auditorium.
Associate Justice
Anthony M. Kennedy of
the Supreme Court of the
United States was among
the speakers who paid tribute to Rohwer, who stepped
down as associate dean for
international affairs last
spring.
President Donald
DeRosa and Provost Phil
Gilbertson presented the
Order of the Pacific, the
University’s highest honor,
to the last remaining
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member of the law school’s
first full-time faculty.
Speakers included
Professors Charles Kelso
and Rachael Salcido; attorneys Hayne Moyer, ’, and
Joe Genshlea; and Susan
McCaffrey, Claude’s daughter, who led a large Rohwer
family contingent on hand
for the festivities.
“When it was my turn to
speak, I commented about
the quality of the folks who
work out here on Fifth
Avenue,” says Rohwer. “Of
course I meant every word
of it, but I suspect my comments were unnecessary.
The quality of the event
spoke louder than any
words could do about the
talents and dedication of
those who planned it. My
family was stunned.”
“I also want to thank all
my former students who
showed up or sent messages,” Rohwer says, “. . .
but it’s too late to change
anybody’s Contracts grade.”
Displaced Law Student
Returns to New Orleans
Simon Rawls  returned
to Loyola University School
of Law in New Orleans after
spending the fall semester at
Pacific McGeorge as a visiting student displaced by
Hurricane Katrina.
Rawls, a New Orleans
native, came to Sacramento
through the efforts of Jason
Hauer , whom he had
met at a summer abroad
program last year. Rawls
took Criminal Procedure,
Wills & Trusts,
Administrative Law, and
Photography: Steve Yeater
School News
Photography: Steve Yeater
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Justice Anthony Kennedy was there, but the spotlight was on Professor Emeritus Claude Rohwer at
an elegant fall gala held at Memorial Auditorium in his honor.
International Business
Transactions to remain on
track for a May  graduation from Loyola.
“I’ve had a very pleasant
experience here,” Rawls
says. “Dean Carin Crain
was particularly helpful and
my professors and classmates brought me up to
speed even though I arrived
more than three weeks after
classes had begun.”
Rawls left New Orleans
for higher ground less than
 hours before the hurricane hit and the levees
broke. With only the
clothes on his back and a
handful of supplies, he
made his way to northwestern Louisiana by car.
“A couple days later,
Jason emailed me to see if I
was still alive. One thing led
to another and I gratefully
accepted your law school’s
generous offer to come out
and study here,” he says.
“This would have been a
great place to go to school
for three years, but I need to
get back home.”
The Student Bar
Association raised more
than $, on Pacific
McGeorge’s Katrina Relief
Day, September . Libby
Jacobson, , Kendall
Dawson, , Michael
Muse-Fisher, , Mario
DeBernardo, , Kyle
Siems,  and Jennie
Phillips,  organized the
fundraising efforts and student, faculty, staff and area
business donations to the
American Red Cross.
Anthony Lewis
Author’s Appearance
Connects with Students
Pulitzer Prize-winning
journalist Anthony Lewis
lent his perspective on
Supreme Court rulings and
wartime presidential powers
in a riveting discussion with
Dean Elizabeth Rindskopf
Parker before  students,
faculty and alumni on
January  in the Gordon
D. Schaber Law Library.
Lewis is the author of
Gideon’s Trumpet, the 
classic about a Florida
prisoner who prepared a
petition in pencil to the
Supreme Court of the
United States because he
was not provided counsel
at his trial. All Pacific
McGeorge entering students
were sent a copy of the
book last summer before
starting classes. A longtime
New York Times columnist,
Lewis has been a lecturer in
law at Harvard Law School
for  years and has written
two other books.
Lewis touched upon
many constitutional anomalies in American history,
including the Sedition Act
of , Abraham Lincoln’s
suspension of habeus
corpus during the Civil
War, -year sentences
handed out to anarchists
for throwing leaflets off a
building in the s, the
internment of JapaneseAmericans in World War II,
and current deviations in
the war on terror.
ABA, AALS Visit
For Site Evaluation
Law-school evaluators will
visit our campus in April so
that Pacific McGeorge can
maintain its accreditation.
All  ABA-accredited law
schools are required to participate in a full sabbatical
site evaluation every seven
years. The purpose of the
evaluation is to demonstrate
to the ABA and the
Association of American
Law Schools that students
are still being provided a
quality legal education.
The visit to Pacific
McGeorge, set for April
-, will include the following ABA-selected team
members, chaired by
Dean Lisa A. Kloppenberg,
University of Dayton
School of Law: President
Daniel O. Bernstein,
Portland State University,
M. Carr Ferguson,
University of San Diego
Law School, Professor Betsy
McKenzie, Suffolk
University Law School,
Associate Professor Suzanne
Rowe, University of Oregon
School of Law, Professor
Nicolas P. Terry, St. Louis
University School of Law,
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Chair Honors Schaber
Pacific McGeorge
announced the completion
of funding for the law
school’s first academic chair
on February  at a gathering
of donors to the Gordon D.
Schaber Chair in Health
Law & Policy held
at the Sierra Health
Foundation in Sacramento.
The Schaber Chair will
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The law school’s first academic chair, the Gordon D. Schaber Chair in Health Law & Policy, was officially
announced at a February event honoring donors. From left, the late dean’s nephew, Randy Schaber, with
Dean Elizabeth Rindskopf Parker, Professor Clark Kelso and Hayne Moyer, ’75.
support research, scholarship and programs on legal
issues that arise in, or have
impact on, health law and
policy. The chair honoring
the late dean will be filled
on a rotating basis, with a
one- to three-year term, by a
distinguished current or visiting faculty member.
Just as Dean Schaber had
foreseen and pioneered the
growth of clinical legal education and the internationalization of business law, he
accurately predicted an
increased need for legal
structure surrounding the
American health care system
in the st century.
As part of the evening’s
program, the law school
hosted a mini-health care
workshop and planning session that featured legal and
health experts. Discussion
topics included equity and
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ethics in health care delivery systems, public health
and disaster response, and
end-of-life decision-making
and care.
Trial Teams Score
Rare Double Victory
Both Pacific McGeorge
teams competing at the
Texas Young Lawyers
Association National Trial
Competition in early
February in Spokane,
Washington, emerged
victorious. The regional
co-champions advanced to
the TYLA national finals in
Dallas in March.
Brandon Takahashi 
and Jason Schaff ,
coached by alums Jamie
and Matt Pearson, ’, and
Maria Wilson , David
Graulich  and Rashaan
Jones , coached by
alums Bill Barry, ’, and
Carrie Bonnington, ’,
pulled off this remarkable
feat against formidable
opposition. In the finals they
defeated Stanford and the
University of Washington,
the latter a perennial victor.
Graulich was named the
outstanding advocate of the
regional.
According to professors
in the Center for Trial Advocacy and Dispute Resolution,
Cary Bricker, Joe Taylor and
Jay Leach, the TYLA competition is considered by many
as the biggest of all national
tournaments, and it is rare
for a school to take both
top places.
Pacific McGeorge has
advanced to the NTC finals
only three times before this,
dating back to . This
year’s teams have almost
doubled that record with
these wins.
Photography: Steve Yeater
Health Law & Policy
Photography: Steve Yeater
and Professor Dale A.
Whitman, University of
Missouri, Columbia School
of Law.
During their visit, the
evaluation team typically
meets with the dean and
leaders of the faculty and
administration. Also, the
team customarily meets
with every faculty member,
sits in on classes, and holds
open meetings with students, alumni and others
who are familiar with the
law school. Upon completion of the visit, the evaluation team prepares a
summary report covering
the law school’s operations,
academic program, bar passage rates, student services,
information resources,
financial resources, physical
facilities and technological
capacities.
The site evaluation
process is a standard procedure set forth by the ABA
for all accredited law
schools. The team is here to
learn about the law school
and to ensure that Pacific
McGeorge students are in
good hands—as they most
surely are.
ABA President Greco
Commencement Speaker
Michael S. Greco, the
current president of the
American Bar Association,
will be the speaker at the
Pacific McGeorge commencement ceremony concluding the law school’s
nd academic year on
Saturday, May  at
Memorial Auditorium.
Greco, a partner in the
Boston office of Kirkpatrick
& Lockhart Nicholson
Graham, LLP, is a trial
lawyer with more than 
years of litigation experience
and has served as arbitrator
and mediator in complex
business and other disputes
on both the state and
national levels.
Long active in the ABA,
Greco has chaired the ABA’s
Standing Committee on the
Federal Judiciary and its
Section on Individual
Rights and Responsibilities.
Post /, he served on the
ABA Task Force on
Terrorism and the Law, and
on the Standing Committee
on Law and National
Security and its
Commission on Women
in the Profession.
Greco earned his J.D.
from Boston College Law
School in , where he
served as editor in chief of
the Boston College Law
Review and as class president, and then clerked on
the U.S. Court of Appeals
for the Second Circuit. He
received his B.A. from
Princeton University.
Pacific McGeorge will
award  Juris Doctor
More than 500 attorneys attended the Pacific McGeorge Alumni Association's 11th Annual Sacramento
MCLE event on January 21. One of the highlights of the day was a skit by members of the Anthony M.
Kennedy Inn of Court. Above, Presiding Justice Arthur G. Scotland, '74, of the Third District Court of
Appeal takes audience questions following the legal ethics program.
degrees and  Master of
Law degrees at the graduation exercise.
New Class Credentials
Remain at High Level
The August  entering
class stacked up well against
the previous year’s strong
contingent with the same
median Day Division LSAT,
, and a slightly better
median Day Division GPA,
., than the  incoming group.
The class included 
Day Division students and
 Evening Division students, down slightly from
last year’s entering total of
. More than  states are
represented in the first-year
student body along with
four foreign countries.
Women comprise
 percent of the class
while ABA-designated
ethnic/racial minority students make up  percent.
Applications for the
Day Division totaled ,,
down less than  percent
from last year’s decade-long
high of ,. A survey of
the country’s best-known
law schools revealed a
similar  percent decrease
in applicants.
The University of
California dominates
Pacific McGeorge’s feeder
schools with more than 
percent of the students
coming from that system.
A total of  newcomers
are from UC Davis, 
from UC Berkeley, and 
apiece from UCLA and
UC Santa Barbara.
Brigham Young University
has the most graduates of
any private school in the
new class, .
The school’s overall J.D.
enrollment last fall stood at
, with an additional
 LL.M. candidates
seeking higher degrees in
Transnational Business
Practice, Government and
Public Policy, and
International Water
Resources Law. The
Evening Division, which
has grown in recent years,
now boasts its highest
number of students ()
since the - academic
year. The Evening Division
represents  percent of the
J.D. enrollment, its largest
percentage in more than
two decades.
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Photography: AP/World Wide Photos
Seargeant
to the Rescue
By Michael Curran
Kristi Seargeant isn’t just a supermom, she’s a superheroine—and a pretty good law student to boot.
The Pacific McGeorge student, Sacramento City
Fire Department battalion chief and mother of two
returned to her studies in mid-September after
 days spent rescuing stranded victims of Hurricane
Katrina in flooded New Orleans.
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knee-deep water, desperate for the basic human services.
I hadn’t seen that level of urban poverty and widespread
destruction. I kept asking myself, ‘Is this America?’ ”
It was not the first time Seargeant bore witness to
American history. She spent  days in New York City after
the / terrorist attacks with her team, searching unsuccessfully through fallen buildings for survivors of that disaster.
Seargeant described driving by the Superdome each day
and the throng of newly homeless people stranded inside and
out. “There were thousands of people, including kids and
babies, along the side of the road with no food, no water, no
shade and no toilets. It was  degrees with  percent
humidity,” she says.
Seargeant’s team and other crews from California rescued
approximately  people, the bulk of them in the first few
days. Seargeant’s team wrecked each of their three boats on
fence tops and debris hidden by the flood. They borrowed
more equipment and commandeered other water craft.
“By Day , things were a lot better,” Seargeant says. “But
there were no rest days and the long, -hour days really took
a lot out of our guys.”
Seargeant returned to the Pacific McGeorge campus on
September . The fourth-year Evening Division student,
who ranks in the top quarter of her class, found out she had
made the law school’s Mock Trial Competition Team.
“I was pleasantly surprised, but more interested in catching
up with my classes. I had brought along my Remedies book,
but didn’t find time to read it until my flight home,” she says.
“Fortunately, Dean (Carin) Crain had arranged to tape my
classes and my classmates saved and shared all their notes
with me. But I still have a lot of catching up to do.”
Seargeant also had some catching up to do at home where
her husband and two small children are used to her -hour
shifts at the busy Oak Park Fire Station and the endless emergencies that affect the life of a firefighter.
Photography: Steve Yeater
Photography: Steve Yeater
Kristi Seargeant in front of the Oak Park Fire Station.
Seargeant was the co-leader of a -member
Sacramento-area Urban Search and Rescue
water team that was called in by the federal
government following the catastrophic hurricane’s landfall. She was the only woman in the
elite rescue unit, which performed heroically
in the devastated Louisiana metropolis.
“We got the call the evening the levees
broke and less than  hours later (August )
we were on a giant C- transport flying out of
Travis Air Force Base with three inflatable
boats and the rest of our equipment,”
Seargeant says.
The scene that awaited Seargeant and her
group was one of the most surreal in modern
American history. “The people left behind
were those too poor to leave the area before
the hurricane hit,” said Seargeant. “People
were trapped on small islands of land and
Scenes like this greeted Seargeant in New Orleans.
What’s in mom’s future? “A normal legal job might be
nice,” Seargeant says. “I’m interested in public safety
employment law, proactive and preventative uses of the
law, litigation.”
Needless to say, the thought of -hour workweeks and
large billable hour requirements don’t faze this woman.
“I have already been able to apply some of what I learned
from my externship last semester at the California State
Public Employment Relations Board at my work for the fire
department, so that has been invaluable training and very fascinating,” Seargeant says.
One of Seargeant’s main supporters in her efforts to transition to a legal career is her boss, Chief Joe Cherry, ’, himself a graduate of the law school. “She contacted me and I
encouraged her in her plans to go to Pacific McGeorge,” says
Cherry, who practiced personal injury and bankruptcy law
with the Sacramento firm of Ryan & Fong and is still of
counsel there.
“Kristi is only the second woman ever to hold the title of
battalion chief in our department and she clearly could go
higher,” says Cherry. “She’s a terrific individual, a great firefighter, and she’s going be a good, solid lawyer.”
Kristi Seargeant 4E makes her case in International Advocacy.
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TAKING THE WIND
OUT OF THEIR SAILS
By Steve Kennedy
Graduating McGeorge student
Katie Pettibone loves to compete—
and beat—male yachtsmen
“
Generally, I’m better than
Joe Blow, but people are
always talking about
strength when it’s not an
issue. I cannot stand sailing
with people who can’t see
the forest for the trees.”
Photography: John Blaustein
—Katie Pettibone
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After some  McGeorge School of Law students earn
their degrees this spring, they will begin the process of turning their tassels into a profession.
But they’ll be following classmate Katie Pettibone, who
turned professional years ago. Pettibone, on course to graduate with a J.D., has packed a lifetime of travel into her 
years and has hung out several sails before she will hang out a
shingle. She’s a professional sailor, rare enough for a law student but even rarer for her gender.
From the comfort of a boat deck as a spinnaker trimmer
or watch captain, she has seen more of the world’s coastlines
than those of the United States, twice sailing around the
world (, miles) in competition, once chronicling a race
for the New York Times. On three other occasions, she raced
in the America’s Cup. Last summer, the -foot- blonde was
one of only two women on a French-dominated boat that
sought a spot in the  Cup in Valencia, Spain.
“I’m always trying to push my comfort zone envelope,”
she says. “I’m always about pushing myself mentally
and physically.”
In a perfect world, she might sail for several more years.
Unfortunately for her, professional woman sailors aren’t in
high demand. “A lot of professional sailors don’t think [about
having women on their boats] at all,” she says. “Between big
events, it’s very difficult to make a living.”
Though she wasn’t particularly pushed into sailing from
her roots in Port Huron, Michigan, Pettibone’s maternal
grandmother provided some of the nautical bloodlines that
Katie’s older sister, Debbie, took to as well. They jumped on
large boats with their family by the time they were in middle
school and, once they could help sail the vessels, formed their
competitive spirit, perhaps unknowingly. The boat Pettibone
sailed won the Port Huron to Mackinaw Race in ; that
was just the beginning.
Pettibone graduated with a degree in biology, with a
marine science specialty, from the University of Miami, FL in
, after taking a one-year sabbatical to race on Bill Koch's
all-woman team that challenged for the America’s Cup in
. Out of  female athletes, 28 made the team. “We
were trained by the best, and that’s where I got a chance to be
a professional,” she says.
The Mighty Mary boat, one win short of beating Team
Dennis Conner, debunked the myth that women weren't
strong enough or talented enough to compete for the
America’s Cup. But that event wasn’t going to define her life,
despite presumptions from a few. “Some people said, ‘This is
the biggest thing you’ll ever do,’ ” the admittedly stubborn
Pettibone says. “I said, oh my God, just shoot me now.” >
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Pettibone eventually wound her way to Pacific McGeorge,
appreciating the access to the administrators, the professors’
interest in individual students and the school’s flexibility had
she needed to take a semester off. Still, from sailing to law
school?
“It’s hard to be at the top of something and start something new,” she says. “This was a way to push myself intellectually. As much as I love yachting, I wanted more intellectual
stimulation.”
Not that she has given up athletics—she still finds time to
work out, at least four days a week, ideally for two hours a
day. “I think I would have been a professional athlete no
matter what,” Pettibone says. “I chose sailing because I
wanted to compete against the guys. I wanted to play rough.”
She ran track and played volleyball and soccer in high
school, but those sports weren’t physical enough for a woman
with “genetically strong quads.” “Some of the girls I played
soccer against in high school, it was a joke,” she says, recalling
her days in that sport, mostly as a defender.
When it came time to challenge the stereotype of women
not being suited for positions on world-class boats, Pettibone
was ready to counter that thinking.
“Generally, I’m better than Joe Blow, but people are
always talking about strength when it’s not an issue,” she says.
“I cannot stand sailing with people who can’t see the forest
for the trees. It is incredibly frustrating because you want
the people throwing millions of dollars into our sport to
be rewarded.”
As sporting as she is, at some point she’ll need to make a
regular living, perhaps putting her law degree to use, preferably near water in a city such as San Francisco or Miami,
maybe on the East Coast, even overseas. International law is
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Katie Pettibone, helmswoman, driving Amer Sports Too to the limit in
the Volvo Ocean Race.
Steve Kennedy is a free-lance writer living in Sacramento.
Photography: Steve Yeater
Photography: Rick Tomlinson
Heading into the Southern Ocean out of Capetown, South Africa,
during leg two of the Volvo Ocean Race.
ing,” she says. “It could be just as satisfying as sailing.” In the
meantime, she’s finishing her second semester as an intern in
Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger’s office.
“Politics interest me, but I still have competitive bones in
my body,” Pettibone says. “I still would like to do another
Cup, but I don’t know if that will work out.”
One competition she hasn’t entered is the Olympics. She
would probably be in the Yngling class if she qualified, but
the United States Olympic Committee doesn’t budget much
for sailing, so she and her teammates might have to raise
$, before they could compete in . Even with the
funding, Pettibone isn’t certain she’d have the physical stamina by then. Her position as trimmer “isn’t good for my bad
knees,” she says. “So I’ve kind of shelved [the Olympics]. But
you never know.”
Small Clinic
Packs a
Punch for
Justice
Mary Ross, left, and
Professor Julise Johanson
he nascent Pacific McGeorge Crime Victims Clinic
scored several successes in its first year of operation,
highlighted by the dogged work of Mary Ross, ,
who secured restitution for an Elk Grove family who lost
their child to a senseless  shooting.
Ross obtained a $, restitution order, got the order
converted to a judgment, and stayed on the case until the
money was paid to the mother, father and stepfather of
a -year-old boy who was gunned down by a carload
of juveniles.
“It felt good to win the judgment, but being a mom
myself I know there’s nothing that can ever bring back what
was taken from them,” says Ross.
For more than two decades, Pacific McGeorge has
operated the state-funded Victims of Crime Resource Center
with its toll-free telephone information service for California
residents. Last spring the law school launched the Crime
Victims Legal Clinic after being selected for a federally
funded pilot project. The National Crime Victim Law
Institute, located at Lewis & Clark Law School, administers
the project with funding from the Office for Victims of
Crime, U.S. Department of Justice.
“The NCVLI has nine sites and hopes to replicate
programs that show best practices throughout the country,”
says Professor Julise Johanson. “Ours is one of only two law
school models; the others are nonprofits.”
Ross, who works as a full-time legal secretary while attending evening classes, had worked at the resource center last
summer and became interested in victims’ issues. She enrolled
in the clinic course last fall, along with three other students.
“Often victims feel frustrated because the defendant has
few assets from which to collect restitution, but the family
of three of the boys involved in the shooting owned a
million-dollar home,” says Johanson. Armed with that
information, Ross and Johanson knew they might get some
measure of justice.
The parents had been held liable for the juveniles’ actions.
Ross converted the minute orders to judgments, recorded the
judgments, and, as a result, a lien was placed on their prop-
erty. When the homeowners tried to first sell, then refinance
the house, the title company balked. Finally, the parents
agreed to write the restitution checks.
“Mary is very modest about her work on this case. She had
the follow-through and attention to detail to make this
happen,” says Johanson.
Michelle Brooks, the mother of the deceased victim, is
even more effusive about Ross and the clinic. “I can’t say
enough about Mary’s efforts. It wasn’t about the monetary
value; it was the principle of the matter,” says Brooks. “The
parents needed to be held responsible for the boys’ conduct.
When a home-wrecking tragedy like this strikes someone,
you need something like that clinic to help you navigate
through the legal machinery.”
The clinic has had other success stories, including another
case that helped quash defense subpoenas that would have
brought in psychological evidence against a molested juvenile
victim, forcing a defendant plea bargain.
The clinic is also involved in other activities to promote
the NCVLI’s national strategy on victims’ rights by bringing
impact litigation that would flesh out the language of statutes
with needed case law.
The Sacramento law firm of Porter Scott Weiberg &
Delehant has partnered with NCVLI and the clinic to argue
in amici before the California Supreme Court in People v.
Giles that when a defendant renders a victim of domestic violence unavailable to testify at trial because he killed her or
injured her so severely she was not able to testify, the defendant has forfeited his right to confront that witness. The
appellant argues that the murder victim’s statements were not
admissible and impermissible hearsay evidence at trial.
“This litigation helps create a system for victim rights’
enforcement, advancement and education,” says Porter Scott
attorney Laura Marabito, who heads that firm’s pro bono
team. “Given the frequent unavailability of domestic
violence victims to testify at trial, this area of law is
particularly important.”
The clinic is always on the lookout for cases that will
have an impact on victims’ rights.
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Photography: John Blaustein
Faculty News
Photography: John Blaustein
Special Envoy Terje RoedLarsen, who represented
that organization in the
Middle East peace process
and was the UN’s personal
representative to the
Palestine Liberation
Organization and the
Palestinian Authority.
Dajani a Big Hit
on National TV
Craig Manson
Secretary Manson
Returns to Faculty
Craig Manson, ’, has
returned to the Pacific
McGeorge faculty as a distinguished visitor and lecturer in law after serving
four years as Assistant
Secretary of the Interior for
Fish and Wildlife and Parks.
Interior Secretary Gale A.
Norton announced
Manson’s resignation from
his federal post, effective
December , in
Washington, D.C. “You
have accomplished much in
your service overseeing the
National Park System and
the Fish and Wildlife
Service,” she wrote in a
thank-you letter to Manson.
“State officials and sportsmen praise the new attitude
of cooperation you brought
to wildlife management.”
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Manson had served as
a Sacramento County
Superior Court judge
before President George W.
Bush nominated him for
the Interior Department
post and the U.S. Senate
unanimously confirmed
that nomination in January
. He had served as
general counsel of the
California Department of
Fish and Game from 
to  after being in private practice in Sacramento
from  to . An Air
Force Academy graduate,
Manson served on active
duty in the Air Force from
 to .
Manson served as
editor-in-chief of the
Pacific Law Review, was
elected to the Order of the
Coif, and was named
Outstanding Graduating
Professor Omar Dajani
was so impressive in his
first appearance on The
News Hour with Jim Lehrer
on nationally televised PBS
that he was asked back later
that same week.
When the network
needed expertise on the
forced evacuation of Jewish
settlers from the Gaza Strip,
it called upon Dajani, a
former senior legal adviser
to the Palestinian Authority.
On the August  show, he
explained the Palestinian
connection to the land in
the pre- war era and
the refugee population that
was stranded there after
that war.
The show’s producers
were taken with his knowledge and composure and
invited him back four days
later to again discuss the
Mideast drama. In his
second appearance, he
expounded on the logic
behind the destruction of
the settlers’ homes and the
Palestinians’ need for
urban, multi-family
dwellings.
Dajani joined the faculty
in  after serving as an
adviser to United Nations
and was the president of
the law school’s Order of
the Coif chapter for 
years. He also co-directed
and helped to overhaul the
Appellate Advocacy program several years ago.
Miller is the author of
Federal & California
Evidence Rules, a practiceoriented publication he
updates annually, and the
co-author of Practicing
Persuasive Written and Oral
Advocacy. Since , he
has been a member of the
Criminal Law and
Procedure Drafting
Committee for the Multistate Bar Examination.
Professor David Miller
Veteran Professor
To Retire in August
Professor David Miller,
noted for his expertise in
the field of evidence and
his wry classroom observations about the legal profession as it existed during the
s, is retiring after 
years on the faculty.
Miller has taught
Evidence, Criminal Law
and Criminal Procedure to
thousands of Pacific
McGeorge students since
arriving from the
University of California,
Davis School of Law faculty in . He is teaching
two sections of Evidence
and leads a clinical hub
this spring.
A former assistant U.S.
attorney for the District of
Columbia, Miller served as
the interim Associate Dean
for Academic Affairs for 
months in the early ’s
Anne Bloom
Bloom Stays Busy
War that has been blamed
for causing birth defects
and cancer.
Bloom also has been
appointed to the board of
the Coalition for Clean Air,
a California-based environmental group, and has two
law review articles pending.
“From Justice to Global
Peace: A (Brief ) Genealogy
of the Class Action Crisis,”
will be published by the
Loyola of Los Angeles Law
Review later this year. The
article explores how and
why class action lawsuits
have come under attack
and argues that the roots of
the current class action
“crisis” lie in attempts to
apply class action law to
mass torts.
“Milking the Cash Cow
and Other Stories: Media
Coverage of Transnational
Workers’ Rights Litigation”
has been accepted for publication in the University of
Vermont Law Review. The
article looks at how the
print media covered three
precedent-setting cases that
involved novel legal claims.
Outside Classroom
Professor Anne Bloom
filed an amicus brief on
October  in the U.S.
Court of Appeals for the
Second Circuit Court on
behalf of the Veterans of
Foreign Wars, American
Legion and other veterans’
groups in the In re “Agent
Orange” Product Liability
Litigation case.
Roger Doyle  assisted
Bloom on the brief, which
is for a case involving a herbicide used in the Vietnam
Globetrotter McCaffrey
Has Two New Clients
Professor Steve McCaffrey
is representing the government of Nicaragua in a case
involving use of the San
Juan River brought by
Costa Rica in the
International Court of
Justice at The Hague,
Netherlands, last fall.
He traveled to Managua,
Nicaragua from
November - to discuss
the Dispute Regarding
Navigational and Related
Rights that was brought
before the UN’s primary
tribunal. Nicaragua will
have nine months to prepare a counter-memorial
after Nicaragua files its
memorial next May. The
San Juan River forms the
boundary between
Nicaragua and Costa Rica.
The dispute goes back
to an  treaty that
granted sovereignty over
the river’s waters to
Nicaragua, while also recognizing certain rights for
Costa Rica.
McCaffrey flew to
Entebbe, Uganda after
Thanksgiving to participate
in the final round of Nile
negotiations. He continues
in his role as the legal
adviser to the Nile River
Basin Negotiating
Committee.
He then traveled to
Ramallah and Jericho in
the West Bank, where he
consulted with the project
team on providing legal
advice to the Palestinian
Authority in preparation
for final status negotiations
with Israel.
Earlier, he had been in
New Delhi, India from
September - as a water
law consultant to that
nation’s government. He is
advising India on a dispute
with Pakistan over a dam
the former is constructing
on the Chenab River, one
of the streams in the Indus
River system.
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Senior while in law school.
From  to , he
was an adjunct professor
here, often teaching
Employment Law. The
 Pacific McGeorge
Alumnus of the Year Award
winner is teaching
Administrative Law
this spring.
Professor
Gregory Weber
Seeking Solutions to Major Natural Resources
Management Disputes
                   
By Michael Spurgeon
Director, Institute for
Sustainable Development
and Professor of Law
A.B., Williams College
J.D., University of California,
Hastings
Courses Taught
Civil Procedure, Administrative
Law, Alternative Dispute
Resolution, Civil Pre-Trial
Litigation
Private Sector
Associate, Kronick, Moskovitz,
Tiedemann & Girard; Senior
Attorney, Court of Appeal,
Third Appellate District
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Spring 
Photography: Barry Robinson
Recent Scholarship
Cases and Materials on Water
Law (7th ed., West 2005) (with
G. Gould, D. Grant); California
Civil Discovery (6th ed.,
LexisNexis 2005)
(with J. Hogan)
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Photography: Steve Yeater
H
Professor George Gould, of the California Water Law and
Having grown up along the banks of the mighty Potomac
Policy Reporter, and his credits include multiple articles and
River, Professor Gregory Weber was immediately struck by the
co-authorship of four law books. In  he joined the faculty
pressing water issues in the West when he moved to California
at Pacific McGeorge where for the first seven years his writing
in . “The Potomac was a mile wide where I lived. It is 
and teaching focused on natural resources issues.
miles wide where the mouth of the river meets the
Weber claims the real pivotal moment came in  when
Chesapeake Bay,” he says. “For someone who grew up along
he went on sabbatical and served as a consultant to the Forest
such a large body of water, seeing the number of interests
Stewardship Council in Oaxaca, Mexico. Developing a dispute
competing for the comparatively small rivers in California
resolution protocol for a multi-national NGO that promotes
really opened my eyes to the importance of sound natural
sustainable forestry, he finally saw that he’d reached his original
resources management.”
career goal. “My sabbatical was a watershed event because that
The more he learned about natural resources issues, the
was the first time I realized the perfect intersection between my
more he became certain that his future somehow would be
interests in natural resources and in alternative dispute resolurelated to those issues. He just wasn’t sure how. While he tried
tion. That’s when I realized that Pacific McGeorge wasn’t just a
to figure it out, he decided to go to law school. And then a
fine law school, but also was the perfect place for me because
lucky thing happened. He was in a car accident.
of the law school’s affiliation with the
“When I was in the process of applying
Center for Collaborative Policy.”
to law schools, I had a job working in a
The stated mission of the Center for
landscaping nursery,” he says. “One afterCollaborative Policy “is to build the capacity
noon a co-worker was giving me a ride
of public agencies, stakeholder groups, and
home, and we were involved in a traffic
the public to use collaborative strategies to
accident. My friend was Mexican. He
improve policy outcomes.” Weber, who
didn’t speak any English and he didn’t have
joined the Center upon his return from
insurance, so he was afraid of involving the
Mexico, points to the Sacramento Water
police. But as chance would have it, I knew
Forum as an example of how the Center
the driver of the other car, too. Because I
Professor Gregory Weber’s career
combines natural resource management and
was the only one who could speak English
has taken a winding route.
collaborative approaches to dispute resoluand Spanish, I brokered a deal that
tion. “In a seven-year period and with more than  stakeholdresulted in the two drivers swapping cars. The deal probably
ers involved, the forum ended  years of litigation over lower
was worth $, and they both were happy with the result.”
American River water with a win/win solution that was emiThat positive outcome suddenly made him realize that he
nently superior to any traditional solution,” he says. “In fact,
was more interested in alternative processes to resolve disputes
because of the collaborative process there’s actually more water
than in the adversarial nature of traditional judicial structures.
available both to the environment and to urban consumers.”
He decided that while he should go ahead and get a law
While Weber remains as an associate of the center, he
degree, the traditional training might be most useful in showhasn’t worked on any of the center’s current projects since
ing him what not to do. He was certain the future’s natural
becoming director of Pacific McGeorge’s Institute for
resources issues would become increasingly complex, he
Sustainable Development. “At the Institute we are trying to
believed that the most effective means of resolving those issues
apply the principles of the Center for Collaborative Policy on
would involve getting people and institutions to work
an international scale. I’m finally doing the work I first set out
together instead of at odds with one another, and he realized
to do. My personal journey took some directions that I didn’t
his ultimate career goal would combine his natural resources
anticipate when I began, and I took  years to get where I
interests with his alternative dispute resolution interests.
started to go, but I got there. In fact, that’s my advice for stuBut like a river winding its circuitous way toward the
dents. They should take the tools and opportunities that arise
ocean, Weber’s legal career took a lot of twists and turns
to further their careers, but they shouldn’t forget the goals that
before he fully realized his original goal. After law school,
inspired them to go to law school in the first place. Students
Weber clerked for Justice Edmund Burke of the Alaska
who remember their original goals will reach them.”
Supreme Court and then spent two years practicing with
Kronick, Moskovitz, Tiedemann & Girard, a leading
California water resources law firm. From -, he was a
This is the fifth in a series of Pacific Law articles on members of
the Pacific McGeorge faculty who pursue excellence inside and
senior attorney for the California Court of Appeal, Third
outside the classroom.
District, in Sacramento. He was co-founder, along with
The University of the Pacific McGeorge School of Law
Pacific
McGeorge
Faculty
Research &
Scholarship
faculty not only excel in the classroom, they render
public service to the university and the profession.
Our faculty also engage in research and scholarship to
further The Rule of Law. Below is a listing of selected
- Pacific McGeorge faculty publications.
Anne Bloom
From Justice to Global
Peace: A (Brief) Genealogy
of the Class Action Crisis,
 L. L.A. L. R.
___ (forthcoming )
Milking the Cash Cow
and Other Stories:
Media Coverage of the
Transnational Workers’
Rights Litigation,
 V. L. R.
___ (forthcoming )
Rupture, Leakage and
Reconstruction: The
Regulation of Sex in the
Breast Implants Controversy
 C. J.G  L.
 ()
Linda E. Carter
Lessons from Avena: The
Inadequacy of Clemency
and Judicial Proceedings for
Violations of the Vienna
Convention on Consular
Relations,  D J.
C. & I’  ()
Raymond R. Coletta
G I 
P L (ThomsonWest) (forthcoming )
(with J. Sprankling, other)
W  E
 F I
(West) (forthcoming )
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Omar M. Dajani
Surviving Opportunities:
Palestinian Negotiating
Patterns in Peace Talks with
Israel in H I 
P N:
C-C S
 (Tamara Cofman
Wittes, ed., )
End of Conflict and Other
Fictions: Competing Visions
of Peace and Justice Across
Cultures ___(forthcoming
) (B
U P)
Julie A. Davies
Global Issues in Torts
(Thomson-West)
(forthcoming )
Universal Health Insurance:
The Key to Meaningful Tort
Reform, ___W. U. J. L.
& P. P. ___ (forthcoming )
Report on the Pacific
McGeorge Workshop on
Globalizing the Law School
Curriculum,  P.
MG G B.
 D. L.J. ___ (forthcoming ) (with others)
Franklin A. Gevurtz
G I 
C L
(Thomson-West)
(forthcoming )
Spring 
George A. Gould
C  M 
W L (th ed., West
) (with D. Grant,
G. Weber)
George C. Harris
The Rule of Law and the
War on Terror: The
Professional Responsibilities
of Executive Branch Lawyers
in the Wake of 9/11, 
J. N’ S L. &
POL’Y ___(forthcoming
)
Leslie Gielow Jacobs
United States Legislation
and Presidential Directives
in E o
B D
(J. Wiley )
Bioterrorism Defense:
Current Components and
Continuing Challenges
in H S:
L  P
(W. N, ed., )
A Troublesome Equation in
Government Funded
Research: “Sensitive But
Unclassified” = Secret But
Unconstitutional,  J. N’
S L. & POL’Y 111
()
Ruth Jones
The Extrajudicial Resolution
of Sexual Abuse Cases: Can
the Church Be a Resource for
Survivors,  S U. L.
R.  ()
Amy L. Landers
Let the Games Begin:
Incentives to Innovation in
the New Economy of
Intellectual Property Law, 
S C L. R. ___
(forthcoming )
Brian K. Landsberg
Book Review, Howard Ball,
Murder in Mississippi
(Univ. Press of Kansas),
 J. INTERDISCIPL’Y H.
 ()
Report on the Pacific
McGeorge Workshop on
Globalizing the Law School
Curriculum,  P.
MG G B.
 D. L.J. ___(forthcoming ) (with others)
Lawrence C. Levine
T L  P
(d ed., LexisNexis)
(forthcoming )
(with others)
Thomas O. Main
T
L 
C P
(Oxford) (forthcoming
) (with S. McCaffrey)
ADR: The New Equity,
 U. CIN. L. REV. ___
(forthcoming )
G I  C
P
(Thomson-West )
F R o C
P 
R  S
(Aspen )
(with S. Subrin, et al)
Report on the Pacific
McGeorge Workshop on
Globalizing the Law School
Curriculum,  P.
MG G B.
 D. L.J. ___(forthcoming ) (with others)
Michael P. Malloy
G I 
C
(Thomson-West)
(forthcoming) (with others)
B  
T-F C
(Carolina Academic Press,
forthcoming )
I T
 I
(Kluwer Law International,
forthcoming )
(with others)
I B:
C, M 
P
(2d. ed., Carolina
Academic Press, )
Emerging International
Regime of Financial Services
Regulation  T’
L.  ()
Christine Manolakas
Tax Discrimination and
Trade in Services Between
Canada and the United
States: Deciphering the
Landscape, in T
 V 
T (Irwin)
(forthcoming )
(with C. Brown)
The Presumption of Undue
Influence Resurrected: He
Said/She Said is Back,
 MG L. R. ___
(forthcoming )
Stephen C. McCaffrey
U
I L
(Lexis) (forthcoming )
T
L 
C P
(Oxford) (forthcoming
) (with T. Main)
The Human Right to Water
Revisited, in W 
I E
L, (E. Brown Weiss, et
al, eds., )
B L 
R
(Aspen, , Cumulative
Supplement No. )
The Danube River Basin in
T M-G
 W: F C
S  (M. Finger, et
al., eds., )
B  F
S L
(2d. ed., Carolina
Academic Press, )
The Fifty-Sixth Session of the
International Law
Commission,  E.
P  & L. 109 ()
David W. Miller
F  C
E R
(Aspen )
Claude D. Rohwer
C   N
(th ed., West, forthcoming
) (with A. Skrocki)
P P
W  O
A, C F III
(Aspen ) (with M.
Vitiello and M. Fontham)
Rachael Salcido
Doctrinal Divisions and Issues in
Environmental Law in
E  L 
S: A 
G P
(forthcoming )
(with S. McCaffrey)
John E.B. Myers
M  E 
C, D, 
E A C
(Aspen)
(forthcoming )
Legal Issues for Mental
Health Professionals Treating
Victims of Child Sexual
Abuse in H 
 T 
A  N
C (P. F. F,
ed., )
Jan Rein
W, T, 
P  
T- Century
(Aspen) (forthcoming
) (with others)
Elizabeth Rindskopf
Parker
Law Schools Cannot Be
Effective in Isolation,
 BYU E. & L. J. 
(with S. Redfield)
Globalizing the Law School
Curriculum: Affirming the
Ends and Recognizing the
Need for Divergent Means,
 P. S. I’ L. R.
 ()
Gregory C. Pingree
Rhetorical Holy War:
Polygamy, Homosexuality,
and the Paradox of
Community and Autonomy,
A U
J  G,
S P,  
L (forthcoming )
John G. Sprankling
U P
L (nd ed., Lexis)
(forthcoming )
G I  P
L (Thomson-West)
(forthcoming )
(with G. Weber, other)
Michael Vitiello
Teaching Effective Oral
Argument Skills: Forget About
the Drama Coach, M. L. J.
R. __ (forthcoming )
P P
W  O
A, C F III
(Aspen )
(with D. Miller and M.
Fontham)
Professor Kingsfield: The Most
Misunderstood Character in
Literature  H L. R.
 ()
Gregory S.Weber
C  M 
W L
(th ed.,West )
(with G. Gould, D. Grant)
C C D
(th ed., LexisNexis )
(with J. Hogan)
Spring 
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Photography: Steve Yeater
Dear Fellow Alumni & Friends,
Pacific McGeorge is moving
forward in ways I could not
have imagined just a few years
ago. As an example, I am
pleased to report that, despite a
national downturn in law school
applications of approximately
 percent, the law school’s applications and applicant
credentials remain high and continue to rise. This may be
yet another beneficial result of Pacific McGeorge’s rise in
national rankings.
The law school continues to focus on the dual need to prepare every student for success, as well as to ensure that Pacific
McGeorge is playing a meaningful role in our nation and
communities. The faculty continues to produce excellent
scholarship, yet also to lead in national initiatives: Examples
include Professor Frank Gevurtz’s leadership of the effort to
internationalize the legal curriculum at law schools around the
nation; Professor John Sims’ co-editing and production of the
new peer-reviewed “Journal of National Security Law &
Policy”; Professor Clark Kelso’s effort to orient the new
Schaber Chair in Health Law & Policy to address the most
pressing and relevant issues; and, of course, Dean Parker’s
leadership of the “K-” project to build a national pipeline
of diverse students well prepared to succeed in law school.
These are just a few examples of the strategic thinking
that contributes to student learning, as well as generates
excitement and pride among students, faculty, alumni and
the community.
The law school is doing its part to build Pacific
McGeorge’s reputation and to demonstrate ways that the legal
profession can add value to our society. I hope you will agree
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With best regards,
Pacific
McGeorge
Alumni
Board of
Directors

Executive Committee
J. Brian Putler ’85
President
William D. Harn ’93
Vice President
Richard A. Harris ’80
Treasurer
TBD
Secretary
Directors
Term Expires 2006
Robert W. Armstrong ’78
Rocky Copley ’81
Brian Putler ’85
Catherine MacMillan ’94
Shanti Patching ’01
Douglas P. Wiita ’77
Term Expires 2007
Eric L. Barnum ’94
James M. Day, Jr. ’73
Bay Area alumni prove to be
culture vultures as well as legal eagles
The Bay Area Alumni Chapter has been one
of the most active in recent years as evidenced by the  alums that turned out on
October  for a chapter reception and tour of
San Francisco’s Asian Art Museum.
Catherine MacMillan, ’, and Sarah
Goldstein, ’, organized the event, one of
several successful recent gatherings of Pacific
McGeorge grads in the Bay Area. The chapter held its own MCLE luncheon program
on March  at Morrison & Foerster that featured a talk by Shadi Zokaei, LL.M. ’, on
ethics in the electronic age. Rachel Slutsky,
’, helped coordinate the program that was
co-sponsored by Robert Half Legal Services.
Dean Elizabeth Rindskopf Parker,
Assistant Dean Ruthe Ashley, Alumni
Association President Brian Putler, and Professor Larry Levine were among the  attendees at a New York Area Alumni reception on
November . A return to the “Big Apple” is
tentatively scheduled for November .
A first-ever Modesto reception, organized
by Dustin Johnson, ’, took place on
March  and fall receptions are planned in
Reno and Las Vegas. Sean Wong, ’,
welcomed members of the new Pacific
McGeorge Asian Pacific American alumni
chapter to his home on January  with
members of the student APALSA group also
in attendance.
Two annual events run by the Alumni
Association and the Sacramento chapter
have become popular with students. Each
August, alumni stage a welcome-back barbecue on campus. Every March, six alums
each play host to upper-division students
with specific legal interests on Dine with
Alumni weekend dinners.
The Alumni Association sponsored an
alumni breakfast last fall at the State Bar of
California’s Annual Meeting last September
in San Diego and will do so again at this
year’s confab on October  in Monterey.
The European Alumni Chapter will hold a
reunion conference on May ,  in
Copenhagen, Denmark. For information on
these and other alumni events, please visit
our web site, www.mcgeorge.edu, or call
--.
Morrison C. England, Jr. ’83
J. Neil Gieleghem ’82
Charles K. Manock ’92
John R. Masterman ’73
Dennis J. Olmstead ’84
Michael G. Polis ’94
Diana K. Rodgers ’94
Diana P. Scott ’78
Margaret S. Shedd ’75
D. Ron Thompson ’79
Term Expires 2008
Erin M. Dunston ’99
Scott M. Hervey ’95
Geralynn Patellaro ’93
Evan D. Smiley ’92
Andrew P. Tauriainen ’01
SBA President
Ric Asfar ’06
The members of the 2006 University of the Pacific, McGeorge School of Law Alumni Board: Front row,
(from left) Diana Rodgers ’94, Scott Hervey ’95, Catherine MacMillan ’94, Margaret Shedd ’75, outgoing board
member Tami Stoller ’97, Judge Morrison England ’83, and Richard Harris ’80. Back row, Evan Smiley ’94, Ric
Asfar ’06, Brian Putler ’85, Michael Polis ’94, Dean Elizabeth Rindskopf Parker, Neil Gieleghem ’82, Dennis
Olmstead ’84, James Day, ’73, Andrew P. Tauriainen ’01, and Rocky Copley ’81. Not pictured, Robert
Armstrong ’78, Eric Barnum ’94, Erin Dunston ’99, Charles Manock ’92, John Masterman, ’73, Shanti
Patching ’01, Geralynn Patellaro ’93, Diana Scott ’78, Ron Thompson ’79, and Douglas Wiita ’77.
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Photography: Steve Yeater
Message from
The Alumni Board
President
that it’s time for each of us, every alum, to figure out how we
can make a contribution. Every one of us has something to
gain from engaging with the law school after we graduate and
are established in our careers. Alumni support to the school is
essential and can be in many important forms—through
guidance to students or prospective students, hiring young
alums, service on a committee or participating in an alumni
chapter, as well as by providing charitable support. The law
school’s rate of ascent is fueled by alumni engagement. Your
guidance and insights on this are vital, and I hope you will
share your thoughts with me and the other members of your
Alumni Board.
There are many reasons for us to be proud to call ourselves
Pacific McGeorge alumni. I hope you are, and if you’re not,
I hope you will tell me why! If ever you have comments,
concerns, or suggestions—for any reason—please contact me
at [email protected].
Gordon Adelman
Senior Partner, Matheny, Sears,
Attorney. I finally went inactive! In
Linkert & Long. I just completed
case you didn't know - after 70
Class Representatives
my service as President of the
years of age the inactive fee is
The Honorable
Association of Defense Counsel of
waived! (Sacramento, CA)
music programs, crafts, reunions,
Raul A. Ramirez
Northern California and Nevada—a
etc. (Bellingham, WA)
Ramirez Arbitration & Mediation
most rewarding experience. Our
Services
law firm continues to grow and
3600 American River Drive
prosper. Wife Liz and I now reside
Suite 145
on 10 acres in Chicago Park,
Class Representatives
Sacramento, CA 95864
California. Our son, Aaron, and his
Rudy Nolen
(916) 392-3874 Home
family live in San Francisco where
(916) 488-4050 Business
he is an executive with Yahoo.
Paul L. Ross ’37
Enjoying retirement. Traveling,
Francis B. Dillon ’50
Law Office of Francis B. Dillon.
After 43 years in present office at
10th and J, have moved as of
January 1st this year to 9th and K.
The J Street building was sold to
Daughter Ashley and her family

2080 Rocky Springs Road
(916) 933-0843 Home
Terence B. Smith
live and love in Steamboat Springs,
entire building, top to bottom. On
929 Roeder Way
Colorado. We have four beautiful
January 1st, entered 55th year of
Sacramento, CA 95822
and brilliant grandchildren. Life is
George F. Wolcott
practice. (Sacramento, CA)
(916) 386-6486 Business
good. (Sacramento, CA)
3611 Orchard Street
George W. Goldsmith, ’54
(916) 446-4273 Home
He died in Carmichael at the age
Henry W. Crowle
of 85 after a short illness. A former
General Counsel, Brandenburger &
World War II bomber pilot, he
began his legal career as a deputy
(916) 733-0600 Business
West Richland, WA 99353
Davis. I represent a Sacramento-

(509) 967-3188 Home
based company, founded in 1932,
Class Representatives
The longtime Reno City Attorney
district attorney in Sacramento and
that identifies and locates lost and
Phil Hiroshima
announced that she will not seek
was in private practice until his
unknown heirs throughout the
Hiroshima, Jacobs, Roth & Lewis
re-election to the post she’s held
United States, Europe, the Russian
1420 River Park Drive, 2nd Floor
for nearly two decades but will run
States and the Far East. The com-
Sacramento, CA 95815
for justice of the peace. She is in

pany also offers related services,
(916) 395-2939 Home
the last year of her fifth term as
including preparation of genealogi-
(916) 923-2223 Business
city attorney, first winning election
Class Representative
documentation, claim verification
Mr. Burl W. Waits ’66
of eligible beneficiaries, and court
Waits Law Corporation
testimony. This position has provid-
1340 Florin Road, Suite 200
ed me with new and interesting
Sacramento, CA 95831
challenges and a real career
Nancy B. Reardan
real property transactions and
(916) 391-2230 Home
change, yet within the practice of
Jack and I are still enjoying retire-
estate matters. Sold our orchard
(916) 428-3103 Business
law. What makes it even more
ment, playing tennis, visiting prog-
and developed some building lots,
interesting is that the owner of the
eny, and having lunch together.
which we sold to a builder. Are in
business, Bill Davis, is a high
May you all be so lucky! (Elk
the process of building a wine loft,
Ronald B. Robie ’67
school classmate of mine and we
Grove, CA)
a place for 8 small wineries to
In January, I begin my 36th year
reacquainted ourselves while work-
make, store and sell their wines.
as an adjunct professor at Pacific
ing on our 40th reunion committee
Skiing when there is enough snow.
McGeorge. (Sacramento, CA)
several years ago. After 30 years of
James L. Mikacich ’69
litigation, he noticed that I need-
Proprietor, Mikacich Law Office.
ed/wanted a change and offered
Dividing our time between Lincoln
me a position as General Counsel
and Truckee. Visiting children and
(I also do some case management
families between California and
work). I continue to do private
Florida. Working less hours, play-
mediations and arbitrations and
ing and traveling more. Enjoying
maintain my position on the AAA
seeing and finding old friends,
construction and commercial pan-
Gordon P. Adelman
Granite Bay, CA 95746
classmates, and meeting new
els. It provides me a perfect blend
1301 - 43rd Avenue
(916) 791-4063 Home
friends. (Roseville, CA)
of legal disciplines as I approach
Sacramento, CA 95822
(916) 443-2011 Business
the “senior” status of my career.
(916) 421-3082 Home
The Honorable
cal charts, procurement of heirship
(Sacramento, CA)
(509) 946-3588 Business
Patricia A. Lynch
in 1986. (Reno, NV)
Eugene L. Paine
10076 Mills Station Road
Sacramento, CA 95827-2204
(916) 361-8491 Home
George F. Wolcott
Attorney, Law Office of George F.
Wolcott. I am still working as a
small town lawyer, now primarily

Enjoying life. (Richland, WA)
1039 Eileen Way

Sacramento, CA 95831
Class Representative
(916) 393-9032 Home
Gary L. Vinson
Class Representatives
Jeff B. Marschner
9137 Purdy Lane
Steven P. Martini
Author, Steven P. Martini, Inc.
Steve is on the book tour circuit
after the release of his latest novel,
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by Jan Ferris Heenan
El Dorado Hills, CA 95762-9730
developers who are rehabing the
retirement in 1985.
Harold Robbins
Lives On
In Podrug’s
Steamy Novels
Junius Podrug, ’, read
more than  Perry
Mason novels before
going to law school. He
figured his own practice
would bring scads of
falsely accused beauties
to his doorstep—both
for legal counsel and
romance.
Reality proved otherwise during the
 years Podrug practiced law, first in
Sacramento and later in Beverly Hills. “My
first client had a lawyer who spit on her. She
was crazy…and it went downhill from
there,” he says in trademark deadpan style.
So Podrug opted out. He gave up his private practice in  to write full-time. He
has since published four books under his
own name, three of them thrillers starring
comely heroines, truth-seeking reporters and
other engaging characters.
Yet readers may be more familiar with
Podrug’s other body of work: the novels he
has written under the banner of the late
Harold Robbins, whose steamy and
oft-explicit novels include best-sellers such
as The Carpetbaggers and The Betsy.
Podrug has written four Robbins titles
since —including Blood Royal, which is
set partly in Modesto—and has two more in
the pipeline. Podrug first met Robbins
through a mutual friend and Robbins’ widow,
Jann, asked Podrug to carry on posthumously
for the author, who died in .
“Harold was a wonderful and irreverent
person,” recalls Podrug, who now lives on
Cape Cod. While the two never collaborated
when Robbins was alive, he wrote a publicity
blurb for Podrug’s  novel, Presumed
Guilty, and proclaimed it “A wild, rocketing
thriller!”
Podrug’s own books have been translated
into several languages, including Spanish,
Swedish and Romanian. Still, he considers
the work he does under Robbins’ byline to
be better written. “My books are too complicated, too esoteric, too scholarly, too convoluted,” Podurg explains.
“I sat down and read A Stone for Danny
Fisher and realized Harold Robbins was writing picaresque novels…the ne’er-do-well who
rises from the bottom. His books were really
quite simple.”
Podrug has twice written female lawyers
in as his lead characters, once in his own
book and once for Robbins. Still, he rarely
misses his first vocation and, even less so, the
logistics of working in Los Angeles. “I don’t
miss trying to fight my way to  different
courthouses,” Podrug says. “Sometimes you
read about a case and your sense of justice
wells up. But ultimately it became about
money and money is not a long-term
motivator.”
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Alumni News
- 
Douglas A. Sears
Double Tap, which is built around
in punitive damages to 200,000
Karl O. Durand
Community Bank, a subsidiary
the misuse of power, the ethics of
workers who sued Wal-Mart
Professor & Paralegal Program
of Western Sierra Bancorp.
computer technology and corporate
because the huge retailer denied
Chair, McIntosh College. For sever-
(Auburn, CA)
greed. Martini, who writes out of
them state-mandated meal breaks.
al years I have been teaching at
Bellingham, Washington, has writ-
Sabraw is one of the most highly
McIntosh College, a career college
ten several bestsellers and a couple
sought after complex litigation
located in Dover, NH. I was recent-
of his thrillers have been made into
judges in the state and regularly
ly appointed the chair of the
movies. (Bellingham, WA)
volunteers as a judge in the trial
Paralegal Program. I do not miss
Advocacy program. (Oakland, CA)
the practice of law at all. Still
Stan Mayfield
Retired. Just a short follow-up to
Michael J. Schneider
my last news note of a couple of
Owner, Law Office of Michael J.
years ago. Our plans have come to
Schneider, P.C. Despite an expen-
fruition. Mako and I have been liv-
sive learning experience courtesy of
ing in Toyama-Shi, Toyama-Ken
Raytheon last April (tough products
Japan since last December. Many
case), I still made a living in 2005.
wonderful experiences with old and
The highlight for me was my mar-
new friends. We will be moving to
married to Joyce (33 years). We
have two lovely granddaughters,
the youngest being 1 year old. I
never miss living in California,
except maybe during a blizzard.
(Dover, NH)

David E. Smith
Class Representatives
Kershaw, Cutter & Ratinoff. In
R. Marilyn Lee
December of 2005, I accepted a
2124 Bagley Avenue
partnership position at the
Los Angeles, CA 90034
Sacramento firm of Kershaw,
(310) 836-9494 Home
Cutter & Ratinoff. At this new firm,
I will continue to handle class
action, mass tort and catastrophic
injury cases involving drugs and
pharmaceutical products, medical
malpractice and medical products,

Class Representatives
Thomas O. Freeburger
California State Housing Finance
Agency
Office of the General Counsel
Post Office Box 4034
Gary F. Zilaff
Law Offices of Gary G. Zilaff
Post Office Box 160425
permit, so my nerves are a little
further this end in June I met with
shaky. I'm coaching his recreational
the dean & chapter of Lincoln
league basketball team, playing
Cathedral which own the 1215
golf on a regular basis, and still
issue of the Magna Carta which
seeing some of the old Moonies.
will go on tour. If you go to
All in all, life is good.
England, Lincoln is one cathedral
(Fair Oaks, CA)
you must see. I have added an
aston to the garage. (Reno, NV)
Daniel Wong
Assistant Solicitor General, Nevada
Sacramento, CA 95812-4034
Steve Worthley
Attorney General's Office. Greetings
(916) 323-3151 Business
He began his second term as the
from the Nevada Attorney General's
(916) 739-8910 Home
chairman of the Tulare County
Office. 2005 has been an interest-
Board of Supervisors. First elected
ing year having been appointed
Sacramento, CA 95816
(916) 920-5025 Business
United States in 2007-2008. To
Peggy Chater-Turner
District Attorney's Office -
to the board in 1998, the Dinuba
assistant solicitor general in
probate attorney previously chaired
December 2004 and promoted to
the board in 2002. (Dinuba, CA)
chief solicitor general on July 1,
mesothelioma and asbestos injury
The Honorable
Nicholas K. Lowe
claims, elder abuse and nursing
John A. Behnke
riage in June to my beautiful,
Law Offices of Nicholas K. Lowe. I
home negligence cases. During the
Superior Court Judge, Mendocino
Kawagoe-Shi, Sattama-Ken next
smart, investigator/office manager,
have made an abrupt change in
past year I have been actively
County Superior Court. Behnke
Jane Fern (now J. Schneider). Life
my career. I am now doing a full-
engaged in trials, as well as inves-
was appointed to the Mendocino
Salem, Oregon by late spring of
is good. It got better when son
time mediation practice. Please
tigation and discovery, on the
County Superior Court by Governor
Paul N. Balestracci

Classmates are working less hours
December and plan to be back in
2007. This is a great way to spend
Matt decided to go to Ithaca
spread the word and call me to
Plaintiff's Management Committees
Arnold Schwarzenegger. He was
Principal, Neumiller & Beardslee.
Class Representatives
a retirement. (Toyama-Shi, Japan)
College instead of playing junior
schedule one! (Sacramento, CA)
on both the California Diet Drug
Has been elected chairman of the
Law Office of Elisa R. Zitano.
the managing partner of the Ukiah
Barbara L. Haukedalen
JCCP in Los Angeles, as well as
board of directors for Catholic
During 2005 I opened my own
law firm of Carter, Behnke, Oglesby
(916) 323-9270 Business
the Tenant Health Care JCCP in
Healthcare West, San Joaquin
office in downtown Sacramento,
and Bacik. (Ukiah, CA)
level hockey in 2005-6. He is
Cameron L. Reeves
doing well and liking school. I
I retired on October 1 from Office
hope I am not awakened from this
of County Counsel, Lake County,
having served six terms (24 years)
in that position. (Lakeport, CA)
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Class Representatives
Ervin A. DeSmet, Jr.
4411 - 244th Street, SE
Woodinville, WA 98072
pleasant dream. Got to do some
duck, goose, and pheasant shoot-
Ira Rubinoff
711 Saddleback Drive
Marysville, CA 95901
Administrative Law Judge, Workers'
Compensation Appeals Board,
Fresno. (Fresno, CA)
tiffs settled their unnecessary heart
surgery claims for over $400 mil-
Phillip W. Kell
Chief Operating Officer, California
Baptist Foundation. I still call
Auburn, CA 95603
(530) 889-7000 Business
County Board. The Stockton attor-
Judith A. Smith
ney is a principal with Neumiller &
6241 Louth Way
Beardslee, where he is head of the
Citrus Heights, CA 95621
litigation department. (Stockton, CA)
(916) 722-2337 Home
Elisa R. Zitano
providing Medicare lien research
and consultation, support services
in complex medical cases, and
contract services in diet drug class
Great time. In November got to
Proprietor, Nissen & Douglas. For
also selected for membership in
spend a few days sneaking up
the best in gifts made from wood,
ABOTA, the American Board of
salmon streams trying to arrow a
please visit my web sites:
Trial Advocates, so it has been a
brown bear...lots of fun and saw
www.JacksBowls.com and
busy year. 2006 promises to be
plenty of great country and big
www.Poker-Chip-Racks.com and
equally challenging as I have
tracks...but no shots. The year
visit the galleries where my work is
recently been elected to be an at
ended peacefully, as I hope it did
shown: www.hangitupgallery.com
large member of the Board of
for all of you. (Anchorage, AK)
and www.goldcountryartists-
Directors of the Consumer
gallery.com. Send your email
Attorneys of California. Wife Elisa

address to me at
Zitano (McGeorge class of 1979)
[email protected] to receive my
and daughter Arianna are doing
Steven G. McGuire
Secretary of State for Legislative
Gary H. Gale
periodic and often entertaining
well and are equally busy with
Nevada State Public Defender. I’m
and Constituent Affairs for the state
Mortgage Consultant, Golden Bear
Class Representatives
Bowl News newsletter. You will be
their professional and educational
in the middle of an unprecedented
of California. She previously served
Mortgage. I left the bankruptcy law
pursuits. (Sacramento, CA)
third term as the Nevada State
as general counsel and legislative
practice 12/31/03. I've kept my
Public Defender. Our office fought a
director to a former Assembly
law license active, but since
$250 fine for refusing to provide
speaker. (Sacramento, CA)
3/1/04 I've been originating pur-
R. Steven Corbitt
130 Amber Valley Drive
You can also enjoy my very popular
John W. Hawkins, LTD. I am semi-
Orinda, CA 94563
column: Medical News The Shop.
retired at age 70 and was appoint-
(925) 254-2741 Home
As of this writing I still have four
ed by the Nevada Supreme Court
(415) 374-2101 Business
fingers and one thumb on each
under their alternative dispute pro-
hand (of which I have two), which
gram as a Nevada Supreme Court
Lars H. Gantzel
settlement judge (mediation pro-
Post Office Box 6433
gram). I do that and continue as
Incline Village, NV 89450
arbitrator for the Second Judicial
(949) 499-1070 Home
is no small miracle. Happy 30th
Anniversary. (Gold River, CA)
Gerald D. Waite
Deputy District Attorney, Benton
County District Attorney's Office.
After practicing 28 years in Las
Vegas, Nevada, I have returned to
Corvallis, Oregon and am now a
Fresno home. My work is very
rewarding and challenging. Our
foundation is affiliated with over
1900 Baptist churches in
California. In 2005 we helped provide millions of meals for hurricane
victims and provided thousands of
immigrant workers shoes, clothing
and health supplies. God is good.
(Fresno, CA)
name to police all the way from
Justice Court in Winnemucca to a
5-4 loss in the U.S. Supreme
Court. (Carson City, NV)
Bruce W. Busch
CCTLA and at the CAOC statewide
fishing and sitting with hospice
She won an $800,000 verdict
convention. Also had a wonderful
patients. In September, I spent 10
($670,000 net) in a Sacramento
visit to Italy and England. Husband
wonderful days fishing for silver
Superior County premises liability
David Smith (76D) recently accept-
salmon on Alaska's Tsiu River.
trial involving a plaintiff who fell
ed a partnership with Sacramento
(Sequim, WA)
and suffered back injuries at a
firm of Kershaw, Cutter & Ratinoff.
sporting goods store.
Daughter Arianna is exploring grad
(Sacramento, CA)
school options! (Sacramento, CA)
Theresa D. Carroll
She was appointed Assistant
Richard Glasson
He announced his intention to seek
reelection to the Tahoe Township
Justice Court next November.
Robert Pelner
Judge Glasson, who practiced with
The Honorable
County, Oregon, located in
He died at the age of 60 in
Manoukian, Scapello & Alling for
James L. Roeder
Corvallis, Oregon. (Corvallis, OR)
Sheboygan, Wisconsin. A former
12 years, is completing his first
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Judith Kent
chase and refinancing home loans
for residential and rental properties. My focus has been refinancing
debtors out of Chapter 13 bankruptcies, and other subprime trans-
I retired from Sacramento County
Public Defenders Office March 28,
2005. I love retirement because I
get to spend lots of time with my
granddaughter, born December 14,
2004. (Sacramento, CA)
actions, but I also handle A paper
William F. Meese
loans. It's been a lot of fun, a lot
He died at the age of 58 in a hos-
less stress, and a real learning
pital in Schuyler, Virginia. He oper-
experience. My wife of 16 years,
ated a general law practice in that
Kymberly, is the Sacramento
state for 15 years after practicing
Randolph C. Wright
branch manager of Mortgageit
law for 10 years in Anchorage,
Owner, Law Offices of Randolph C.
Lending, a wholesale lender, so we
Alaska. (Schuyler, VA)
Wright. I have become involved in
have both sides of the equation
the tour of the Magna Carta of the
covered. My oldest son just got his
Retired Superior Court Judge,
Air Force major, he practiced law
six-year term on the Stateline
The Honorable
Donohue McKenney & Bergquist.
Placer County Superior Court.
in the Sacramento area for several
bench. (Zephyr Cove, NV)
Ronald Sabraw
Hello to all from the Frozen North.
Roeder has been named to the
years after graduation from law
He presided over the Alameda
Wish you were here. Let's get
board of directors of Auburn
school before returning to his
County Superior Court civil trial in
together in the city next fall.
which a jury awarded $115 million
(Minneapolis, MN)
Spring 
tures regarding Medicare liens to
Staying busy gardening, traveling,
deputy district attorney for Benton
native Wisconsin. (Sheboygan, WI)
action litigation. I presented lec-
(916) 654-2630 Business
Noel Ferris
Gary Kirby Bergquist
P A C I F I C L AW
than me. (Carson City, NV)
lion dollars. During 2005 I was
John W. Hawkins
46
2005. I hope all of my 79D
Jack H. Nissen
the first to see my newest works.
District Court (ADA). (Reno, NV)
Redding, in which over 700 plain-
11562 B Avenue
ing in North Dakota in October.
(425) 486-7618 Home
(425) 990-4510 Business
Terry R. Menefee
Placer County
Spring  P A C I F I C L A W 47
for Delta Airlines. Recently
Presiding Judge, Superior Court of
authored a book entitled
El Dorado County. Still living and
Conversations on Success with
Class Representative
working in beautiful South Lake
John Gray who wrote Men are
Ms. Debra Steel Sturmer
Tahoe. In September of 2005, I
from Mars, Women are from
1475 Monterey Boulevard
was appointed by Chief Justice
Venus. Currently speaking on the
San Francisco, CA 94127
George as a member of the Judicial
topics of leadership and the sci-
(415) 887-3660 Business
Council of California. in 2005, I
ence of achievement. Elected to
2004 graduate of Pacific
After many months of discussions,
McGeorge. She has proved to be a
I decided to join Jackson &
crackerjack find and keeper. Shiela
Wallace, working out of their
and I celebrated our 22nd wedding
Orange County office. Gaby
anniversary by attending my 40th
Jackson, the founder of the firm, is
high school reunion in Fairfield
a mother of three and an unbeliev-
[both on August 20th]. Our twins
able success story—and a class-
turned 21 in the summer and we
mate at McGeorge! So, I guess
had a trip to Tahoe celebration that
was appointed by the Chief Justice
the boards of Atlanta Technical
there was a reason why I attended
included both my older children
Carleton R. Cramer
to chair the Council's Rules and
College and the 100 Black Men of
McDuck. (Orange, CA)
and their spouses. The karaoke
Attorney/Professor. I am currently
Projects Committee. I continue to
Atlanta. (Marietta, GA)
night in Truckee was a memorable
serving as chair of the
serve as the presiding Judge of our
event. We hope to see the twins
Transnational Studies Department,
court, a position I've held since
graduate from college in the
College of Security Studies, at the
1999. In February of 2006, I am
upcoming year. I've become more
Asia Pacific Center for Security
rotating into an assignment of

active in the collaborative practice
Studies.
exclusively criminal cases. (South
Class Representatives
James R. Donahue
Lake Tahoe, CA)
Paula G. Tripp
Martha Opich
Of Counsel, Douglas Kraft &
Associates. In addition to my day
job representing lenders in real
estate and commercial transac-
of family law. It's a new process in
tions, and investors in real estate
which a divorcing couple, together
transactions, as of Fall 2005 I
with trained professionals, work as
became the director of the
a team to resolve disputes respect-
Business and Community
fully, without going to court. I rec-
Development Clinic at Pacific
ommend the approach wholeheart-
McGeorge. It is very rewarding to
edly. (Sacramento, CA)
work with students as they learn to
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He won a defense verdict for the
Bruce Miroglio
St. Helena Unified School District
He was the subject of a major
in an 11-day sex discrimination
feature story in The Napa Valley
trial in Napa County Superior Court
Register. He is the managing part-
in a case where a teacher charged
ner and lead courtroom litigator at
that she was not rehired because
Gaw Van Male Smith Myers &
Anderson, McPharlin &
Conners, LLP
444 South Flower St., 31st Floor
Los Angeles, CA 90017
(562) 988-1210 Home
(213) 236-1646 Business
represent clients with respect to
Roberta C. Lagomarsini
of a perception that she was a les-
Miroglio, the largest law firm in
Retired and moved to Bishop,
bian. He is a partner in the law
Susan H. Hollingshead
their business-related needs.
Napa and Solano counties.
California. Enjoyed the good life-
firm of Caulfield, Davies &
(916) 791-5405 Business
(Sacramento, CA)
(Napa, CA)
hiking, fishing, skiing, gardening
Donahue. (Sacramento)
Melvin E. Raatz
and just plain relaxing!
He died at the age of 55 in Gold
(Bishop, CA)
River. He was formerly a partner in
Robert C. Anderson
Kent Morgan
Lisa K. Hightower
He has joined the Reno, Nevada
He officially declared his candidacy
Assistant General Counsel,
office of Hale Lane as a new
for Salt Lake County district attor-
shareholder. The former Jones
the law firm of Barrett, Harper,
Ronald Lamb
California Department of Social
ney. The veteran prosecutor, who
He has joined Wilke, Fleury,
Services, Sacramento. Fifteen years
Vargas partner has been listed in
Woll, Raatz & Stenson, but had
was involved in the case against
Hoffelt, Gould & Birney LLP in an
at DSS and still having fun—but
The Best Lawyers in America in
retired in recent years for health
Elizabeth Smart’s kidnappers, will
of counsel capacity. A specialist in
working way too many hours.
both corporate law and tax law
reasons. (Gold River, CA)
try to replace the current D.A. who
Madeleine is in 3rd grade at
since 1989. (Reno, NV)
medical malpractice defense and
is not running for re-election in the
administrative law, he previously
St. Ignatius! How time flies. I man-
Utah capital district. (Salt Lake
Steven Cranfill
was the managing partner of Rust,
age a staff of 17 lawyers. In my
City, UT)
Law Office of Steven Cranfill. Our
Armenis, Schwartz, Lamb & Bills.
spare time I'm vice president of the
(Sacramento, CA)
St. Ignatius Parent Club Board, I'm
Carol A. Rader
in June, 2005. We have been in
a Brownie Girl Scout troop leader,
Retired. I retired from the
Cody, Wy. for 21 years. I am city
and I'm the Western Region chair-
Department of General Services on
attorney, and continue to lobby in
person of the American Association
August 2, 2005. I have 4 grand-
the state legislature. The Buffalo
of Public Welfare Attorneys
kids ages 2, 4, 6 and 8 in
Bill Historical Center is a great
(AAPWA). Still play the piano and
Batesville. My son and daughter-in-
place to visit, and I am pleased to
sing a bit. I've passed the music
law and my husband and I have
serve on its Board. I am involved
Alice Honey Ware
gene on—Madeleine is starting her
purchased an antique and col-
with the state bar organization,
Attorney/Executive Director of the
third year of piano lessons.
lectibles store and a log home on
and the local community college
Legal Center for the Elderly and
Stephen is still an official court
63 acres. I doubt I will have time
board as well. Fly-fishing skills
Disabled. I have returned to
reporter for Sacramento County.
to practice law with all the new
improve each year, golf does not.
Sacramento after 20 years away
(Sacramento, CA)
things and our ongoing antique
Best wishes to all you
serving in non-profits world-wide,
Dodge parts business. I think all of
Robert A. Jones
84-E's. (Cody, WY)
the rest of my family from Ohio,
Attorney. I was appointed Acting
Florida, and Oregon will be coming
Elliott R. Curzon
Labor Commissioner for the State
for our first Christmas in Arkansas.
Partner, Dechert LLP. From the
of California in December 2005
(Batesville, AR)
Late Bloomers Club—I left my
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Fritz-Howard R. Clapp
Jennifer J. Tachera
Law Office of Fritz-Howard Clapp
I retired from state service. I paint,
Post Office Box 340458
travel and volunteer at KVIE and
Sacramento, CA 95834-0458
the diRosa Preserve in Napa.
(916) 548-1014 Home
(Sacramento, CA)
(916) 548-1014 Business
Jennifer J. Tachera
2201 2nd Avenue
Sacramento, CA 95818-3116
Paul L. Brimberry
Attorney at Law & Mediator, Law
including Australia (I now have
Office of Paul L. Brimberry. 2005
dual citizenship), Croatia, Eastern
was a milestone year for me.
Europe, and Southern Spain. I now
Shiela and I moved back into our
house in June after being displaced
for almost two years after the
explosion and fire. I hired my first
ever associate, Michelle Hahn, a
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serve as the new Executive director
of the Legal Center for the Elderly
and Disabled in Sacramento, CA.
(Sacramento, CA)
Spring 
first grandchild, Macey, was born
cushy but futureless job at the
from the position of chief counsel
which I still occupy.
William L. Thompson
NASD six years ago to venture
(Walnut Creek, CA)
Thompson Communications.
back to private practice. After suc-
Retired, after 25 years as a pilot
cessfully weathering the business
Versatile Hoch
Takes Over
As Schwarzenegger’s
Legal Affairs Secretary
by Jan Ferris Heenan
Andrea Hoch, ’D, has
juggled all kinds of cases
in her two decades in
public service, from litigating against the nation’s
tobacco giants to the
mammoth task of
revamping California’s
workers’ compensation
system.
In October, Hoch’s career path took yet
another notable turn when she was picked by
Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger to be his
secretary of legal affairs.
As his top legal adviser, Hoch is responsible
for a range of tasks, from parole reviews (an
average of  a month) and clemency requests
to analyzing legislation and tracking pertinent
litigation in the various state departments.
Hoch oversees a relatively small staff of six
attorneys, including Jessica Mascio Mahoney,
’, five assistants and two interns. The team
also advises the governor and his office on
appointments, conflicts of interest and
constitutional issues, and whatever other
legal matters crop up each day.
The issues are unpredictable, the hours
long—and Hoch is clearly in her element.
“I would say that this is the most exciting
job I’ve had in my legal career, and that’s not
to say that my other jobs have not been interesting and challenging,” says Hoch, who spent
 years in the state Attorney General’s office.
“What’s really exciting about it is that you
have the opportunity to be involved in highlevel discussions and to provide your legal
input and analysis to policy decisions.”
This is the second time that
Schwarzenegger has recruited Hoch for a highprofile post. In , she was brought in as
the administrative director of the California
Division of Workers’ Compensation to reform
the state’s $ billion program as mandated by
Senate Bill . The work, Hoch says, was
“extremely challenging” and the deadlines
ambitious. “What I thought was exciting was
to be part of the solution for the
governor…and making progress in the system
gives you a tremendous sense of satisfaction.”
Hoch enjoys working for Schwarzenegger, a
boss she lauds as a gracious quick study who is
not afraid to make decisions. “I saw this
administration as an opportunity for change.
I wanted to be part of that,” she says.
The job requires long hours and the occasional seven-day work weeks for Hoch, who’s
married to attorney Stephen J. Egan, ’. But
it is precisely Hoch’s work ethic that has kept
her grounded. “My philosophy is to concentrate on the job you’re doing, work hard,
prove yourself and the opportunities will
present themselves,” Hoch says.
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Photography: Steve Yeater
Suzanne N. Kingsbury
Claudia Morehead
slowdowns following 9/11, Dechert
elected me to the partnership this
year. Scaling this rung of the career
ladder is especially sweet at my
age (just turned 50), and none too
soon with teenage daughters soon
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member of the Nevada Air National
endorsement of U.S. Senator
Guard who served in Desert Storm,
Barbara Boxer. Corbett is a former
and most recently flew for FedEx
three-term State Assemblywoman
Class Representative
Airways. (Reno, NV)
from San Leandro.
Patricia A. Day
California State Department of
David W. Tyra
(San Leandro, CA)
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encourage any questions or com-
still be reached using the email and
Gregory F. Buhyoff
ments you may have regarding the
invite my colleagues to join me for
Of Counsel, Weide & Miller.
issues of senior lawyers whether
the sailing adventure of a lifetime.
Buhyoff has joined the Las Vegas
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they are seeking employment or
Plan on about 10 days sailing (min-
firm of Weide & Miller as of coun-
Megan Halvonik
starting the retirement process. You
imum) resulting in a two week
sel. Previously with Baker &
may contact the committee via the
vacation. As of 12/12/05, I am
McKenzie in San Francisco and
California Bar Association web
heading from San Francisco to
Hong Kong and a solo practitioner,
page http://www.calbar.ca.gov;
Greece! (Sacramento, CA)
his practice focuses on trademark
He has joined Kronick, Moskovitz
Gael A. Gisvold Mueller
1635 Vallarta Circle
Tiedemann & Girard in
Finally opened my own shop with
Sacramento, CA 95834
Sacramento as a partner. A former
my husband practicing criminal
(916) 821-0700 Home
partner at Seyfarth Shaw, his
defense exclusively. Really wish I
(916) 927-1914 Business
practice focuses on the represen-
hadn't waited 20 years to do it.
Frank Bacik
tation and advisement of public-
Having more fun than is legal (at
Programs- Program Development
(415) 826-0401 Home
CEO of Carter, Behnke, Oglesby &
and private-sector employers in all
least in Kern County!).
Unit 180 Howard Street San
(510) 622-4000 Business
Bacik. I'm too young to be manag-
areas of employment and labor
(Bakersfield, CA)
Francisco, CA 94105-1639
great students, avid athletes—row-
Chris Scott Graham
law. (Sacramento, CA)
ers (both) and a cross-country run-
Partner, Dechert LLP. Chris Scott
ner (Sarah). (Washington, D.C.)
Graham was chosen to lead an
to enter college. My practice is
Social Services
focused on broker-dealer regulation
and I am part of the largest finan-
State Hearings Division
1515 Clay Street, #1203
cial services (mutual funds/ hedge
MS 28-02
funds/advisors/broker-dealers and
Oakland, CA 94612
related areas) practice group of any
firm in the world. Daughters
Rachel (16) and Sarah (15) are
whether the San Jose mayor
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deceived the city council about the
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costs of a trash-hauling contract.
Cheryl L. Van Steenwyk
independent investigation into
Donald A. Phin
Employer Advisors Network, Inc.
Things are going great in Florida.
Kyle is four, James and Dan 27
His highly critical report renewed
and 25. Most of my time is spent
calls for the mayor’s resignation
speaking (see donphin.com)
and may have derailed the latter’s
and product licensing (see
future political career. He is the
hrthatworks.com). Having more
managing partner of Dechert LLP’s
fun than litigating!
Palo Alto office. He formerly prac-
(West Palm Beach, FL)
ticed with Berliner Cohen and
3361 Cortese Drive
Rossmoor, CA 90720
(310) 788-4400 Business
Janice N. Keller
Milton Swanson still alive? Will
In January, I retired from the Santa
Wild Bill Spencer ever run for high
San Juan Capistrano giving his
plaintiff client $3.3 million in
Barbar County Public Defender's
exchange for the title and deed to
house and property they owned
that was adversely impacted by
grading changes to a landslide area
adjacent to their property. The
plaintiffs had previously brought a
after a 1997 landslide. Tomassian
with my domestic partner & our
McGeorge Alum), John Behnke has
solo practitioner. (Sacramento, CA)
Ralidis. (Los Angeles, CA)
Christine C. Fitzgerald
Tim Roberts
Senate and will run for Secretary of
She tried an eminent domain just
He was named Monterey County
State next year. Although the
compensation case in Kings County
Superior Court traffic commissioner
Sacramento-area Democrat has not
Superior Court that resulted in a
by that court’s judges. He has
made a formal announcement, she
$2.5 million settlement for her
been a prosecutor with the
intends to run against Republican
client for a large parcel of land
Monterey County District Attorney’s
incumbent Bruce McPherson, who
acquired by CalTrans to widen and
Office for 10 years, most recently
was appointed to the office when
realign a major highway. She is a
handling an attempted murder
Kevin Shelley resigned the post last
condemnation law specialist.
case. (Monterey, CA)
year. (Sacramento, CA)
Senator Ortiz is completing her
second term in the California
been taken away to serve on the

Mendocino Superior Bench. We
have offices in Ukiah (Mendocino
County), and Eureka old town
(Humboldt County), and serve a
wide variety of business, land use,
resource, environmental, and real
estate clients in all civil trial and
Sandra G. Lawrence
appellate courts and administrative
Dyer, Lawrence, Cooney &
agencies. My wife, Robin and I
Penrose
have two kids and two homes; one
2805 North Mountain Street
near each office. (Ukiah and
Tamara J. Gabel
Carson City, NV 89702
Eureka, CA)
Attorney. We opened our office in
(775) 885-1896 Business
Hagop T. Bedoyan
2000 doing exclusively environmen-
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tal law—transactional and regulato-
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ry—for our clients. (Woodside, CA)
Lisa A. Specchio
William W. Palmer
514A - Hill Drive
1241 Carter Road
Glendale, CA 91206
Sacramento, CA 95864
(818) 247-4010 Home
(916) 972-7757 Home
(213) 244-9640 x5921 Business
(916) 972-0761 Business
(Burlingame, CA)
questions of the day.
School. I am Class of 1986D.
Law Advisory Commission by the
Jack A. Gould
with former classmates Dave
(Costa Mesa, CA)
Boston College Distinguished
State Bar Board of Governors for
Attorney, Federal Election
Jonathan B. Conklin
Teaching Award (2004).
the 2005-2006 fiscal year. He is a
Commission. Still working at the
(Newton, MA)
partner with the Fresno firm of
Federal Election Commission. At
Caswell, Bell & Hillison LLP.
home we are learning how to live
Brooke B. Vos
Billie B. Line, Jr.
(Fresno, CA)
with a teenager and a pre-teen. I
Law Office of Brooke Birkie Vos
7103 Criner Road SE
District Attorney's Office. Fladager,
Donne Brownsey
am looking forward to attending
1430 Lincoln Avenue
Huntsville, AL 35802
the prosecutor who played a key
Vice President, Sacramento
the 20th Anniversary Class
San Rafael, CA 94901
(256) 881-0342 Home
role in the conviction of Scott
Advocates. Chair, ABA ADR
Reunion. I hope someone is plan-
(415) 924-8771 Home
(256) 489-3476 Business
ning it! (Washington, DC)
(415) 302-5824 Business
He was appointed to the Fresno
County Superior Court by Governor
Arnold Schwarzenegger. He currently serves as deputy chief of the
United States Attorney's Office in
Fresno. He joined the office as an
Birgit A. Fladager
Prosecutor, Stanislaus County
now 10 and 13. Had an opportu-
assistant U.S. attorney in 1990
Peterson, announced that she will
Section on Legislation.
nity to appear before class of '84
after serving as a deputy district
run for Stanislaus County District
(Sacramento, CA)
Daniel A. Johnson
Ruthe Ashley
State of Connecticut Workers'
alum The Honorable Corey Cramin
attorney for Kern County for five
Attorney. The previous DA retired
She was appointed to chair the
Compensation Commissioner.
of the Orange County Superior
years. (Fresno, CA)
Sharon V. Cooper
Partner, Sullivan Johnson LLP. I
at the end of July and the person
restarted my own firm in January
newly created State Bar Pipeline
Appointed by Governor M. Jodi
Ellen M. Corbett
named as interim DA does not
2005. I brought “Which Ones
Committee. She is the Pacific
Rell November 2004 to the bench
Pink?” to Sacramento on July 30,
McGeorge Assistant Dean for
as a Workers' Compensation
2005 as part of The Eagle 96.9
Career Development and a member
Commissioner for the state of
Mock Rock Fest.
of the California State Bar Board of
Connecticut. Wife, Kim and chil-
(Sherman Oaks, CA)
Governors. Her committee is
dren, Alex 11 and Lindsay 8 are
charged with developing a model
enjoying our life in Connecticut.
for encouraging underrepresented
Hope to visit McGeorge soon.
youth to consider law as a career.
(New Haven, CT)
as it was 21 years ago. (Irvine, CA)
There is lots of singing, dancing
James Stefflre
and many dinosaurs in our house.
He died unexpectedly at the age of
I'm also involved with school
59. He practiced law with
PTC—always looking for volun-
McDonald Carano Wilson LLP in
teers! Life is good. (Stockton, CA)
Reno for 13 years, was a 32-year
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area. (Sacramento, CA)
Deborah Ortiz
Austin and New York. I've visited
some days are easier than others!!
50
Owner, Law Offices of Kenneth W.
California State Bar's Bankruptcy
how my hair wasn't quite as dark
7 1/2 and Sam 4 1/2. Obviously
and I am in my 13th year as a
Professor, Boston College Law
Court. He made some crack about
two children in Modesto—Jolan
another of my partners (and
client, Mick Jagger? These are the
Time marches on. Our girls are
—close to 15 years now!! I live
San Francisco and the Sacramento
Assistant City Attorney (Ventura, CA)
Malaysia, India, Mexico twice,
Attorney, Wolfe & Wyman, LLP.
working with the court in Stockton
Kenneth W. Ralidis
He has been appointed chair of the
Eric T. Lamhofer
San Joaquin County. I am still
law practice in Sacramento, CA,
Peter D. Lemmon
Daniel L. Barnett
Throckmorton, Beckstrom &
Research Attorney - Superior Court,
Coast, CA, but such is life. Yet
cases.
Barry Mallen ever actually meet his
nity organizations. (Lompoc, CA)
Celeste L. Wheeler
He practiced law in Walnut Creek,
attorney for juvenile delinquency
Sacramento prevent that? Will
and involved in numerous commu-
Tomassian, LLP. (Irvine, CA)
(Fresno, CA)
920-8281. I continue in my family
1325 Howe Avenue, Suite 201
sively since then—Singapore,
still on the Lompoc City Council
is a partner in the Irvine firm of
Partner, Kapetan Brothers.
the county's chief deputy district
Office. I have been traveling exten-
Brooks and Mindy Caplan Kidd. I'm
successful suit against the city
office, or will his exploits in
Peter N. Kapetan
Court. The veteran prosecutor was
Medical Center at the age of 50.
strolled the McGeorge campus on a
case that ended with the City of
of the Santa Clara County Superior
Sacramento, CA 95825 (916)
[email protected]
have you gone, Joe Stogner? Is Eric
(Las Vegas, NV)
the Redwood Empire in North
20 years have gone by since I
(Palo Alto, CA)
Arnold Schwarzenegger as a judge
at the nexus of Wine Country and
Ms. Andrea C. Nelson
He was involved in an unusual
(415) 538-2219; or me directly at
lectual property counseling.
He was appointed by Governor
He died unexpectedly at UC Davis
Attorney. It's hard to believe that
daily basis. Some musings: Where
ing senior partner, president, and
and internet law and general intel-
Kurt Kumli
CEO of my seven-lawyer firm here
Class Representatives
Oppenheimer Wolff & Donnelly.
Services, Access & Fairness
James D. Taylor
Thomas P. Aplin
Serge Tomassian
Rodney Low in the Office of Legal
Spring 
Attorney, Corbett Professional
Corporation. Corbett has launched
her campaign for California state
Senate District 10. She seeks to
replace Liz Figueroa, who will be
termed out at the end of this year,
and has already picked up the
intend to run in the June 2006
election. (Modesto, CA)
Owner/Solo Practitioner, Law
Offices of Sharon V. Cooper. I have
been appointed to the State Bar
Committee for Equal Access to
Justice and Senior Lawyers. I am
honored to be a part of such an
important and vital committee. I
urge you to pay attention to the
work of this committee, and I
Bernhard Kreten
Weintraub, Genshlea, Chediak. I am
presently sailing the world. I can
Scott A. Barton
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David Prentice
Clay Calvert
solutions for the mortgage industry.
He has joined Best Best & Kreiger
Interim Dean, Penn State
She joined the company in 2003
as a partner in the firm’s
University. Calvert has been
as associate senior counsel after
Sacramento office. He spent the
appointed interim dean of Penn
serving as associate counsel for
past three years as county counsel
State University's Schreyer Honors
Farleigh, Wada & Witt PC.
of Madera County. Previously, as a
College, effective September 1. A
(Portland, OR)
principal in the firm of Prentice &
prolific scholar, Calvert is an asso-
Schaap, he served as attorney for
ciate professor of communications
the City of Colfax.
and law at Penn State and served
(Sacramento, CA)
as an adjunct professor last spring
at Pacific McGeorge. (State

College, PA)

John P. Kelley
Class Representatives
District in a four-day trial at Butte
Violet R. Radosta
County Superior Court that
Public Defender's Office -
Kent C. Cobb
Clark County
Co-Founder, Wheaton Capital. Co-
309 South 3rd Street, #226
founded Wheaton Capital, an oil
Las Vegas, NV 89101
and gas private equity fund which
(702) 455-4685 Business
allows investors to obtain outstanding annual returns through direct
Traci F. Lee
County Counsel's Office -
Oroville City Elementary School
involved a disability discrimination
claim by a former school employee. Kelley is a partner in the
Redding firm of Halkides &
Morgan. (Redding, CA)
Christopher D. Lonn
Attorney, Hymson & Goldstein, PC.
Jack Flader, Jr.
participation investing in natural
He has been appointed to the
gas and oil wells. We are just
Class Representative
Grand Toys International’s Board of
launching a private equity venture
Derek R. Longstaff
Directors as an independent mem-
which seeks to raise $15 million in
Longstaff Mejia, LLP
ber. Flader is managing director
private equity for a tremendous
50 California Street, suite 1500
and general counsel of the Hong
natural gas project in the Cotton
San Francisco, CA 94111
Kong-based Zetland Financial
Valley formation in East Texas.
Michael K. Brisbin
January 2006) and a Steely Dan
(415) 439-5391 Business
Group. Grand Toys is a publicly
Give me a call! (Tulsa, OK)
Of Counsel, Wilson, Elser,
tour in the summer and I am in
Molskowitz, Edleman & Dicker LLP.
Nirvana. Hope all is well with my
(San Francisco, CA)
classmates. (Scottsdale, AZ)
traded company. (Hong Kong)
John R. Brownlee
John N. Demas
Sacramento County
3331 Power Inn Road, Suite 350
Sacramento, CA 95826
(916) 875-4721 Business
(916) 419-3200 Home
2005 was quite a year! I met the
practice to a great law firm in
Scottsdale that is 4 miles from my
front door. All I need in 2006 is a
new Donald Fagen CD (out in
Marelene E. Hertoghe
He won a $765,000 settlement for
Bakersfield, CA 93311
Juvenile Dependency Referee,
a tow truck driver from his employ-
Jim Ferguson
Gregory W. McCracken
Sacramento Superior Court.
er and another defendant after the
He was sworn in as mayor of Palm
Lawyer/Planner, Robinson & Cole,
(Sacramento, CA)
driver was pinned against a garage
Desert in December. His four-year
LLP. It's pretty much the status
wall and seriously injured trying to
term on that city’s council ends
quo, save for how quickly Chloe
jump start a disabled car. The set-
with his term as mayor. A partner
and Lydia are growing. At work,
tlement was reached after a
in the governmental relations law
the land use and common interest
$1.575 million, three-way fault
firm of Ferguson & Bernheimer, he
development practice is slanting
verdict was reached in a six-day
previously served as mayor from
heavily towards documenting com-
Riverside County Superior Court
December 2000 to December
mon interest communities—as on
trial. (Sacramento, CA)
2001. (Palm Desert, CA)
the west coast, such communities
Brad P. Kaplan
Has joined Dechert LLP's litigation
was formerly with Howard Rice

Nemerovski Canady Falk & Rabkin.
Class Representatives
His practice focuses on complex
David M. Miller
commercial and business litigation
Miller|Mediation
matters, including chemical and
7041 Koll Center Parkway,
Nina A. Gross
Shelby L. Hladon
toxic exposure cases.
Suite 275
Legal and Compliance Officer,
Staff Judge Advocate,
(San Francisco, CA)
Pleasanton, CA 94566-3128
Alyco Advisory AG. (Zurich,
Comstkfotrapac. I'm really enjoying
(925) 631-9353 Home
Switzerland)
my job at Comstrkfotrapa in San
group as a special staff attorney in
the firm's San Francisco office. He
(925) 600-3030 Business

Class Representatives
Lieutenant Colonel
Schuitmaker, Cooper, Schuitmaker
Ferdinando P. Cavese
& Cypher, P.C. Please visit my web-
(618) 229-0806 Business
page at spaces.msn.com/mem-
Gregg S. Garfinkel
Stone, Rosenblatt & Cha
Craig A. Barbarosh
21550 Oxnard Street, Main Plaza,
Attorney. I am the managing part-
Suite 200
ner of the Orange County office of
Woodland Hills, CA 91367
Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman,
(818) 349-2787 Home
LLP. Co-chair of the National
(818) 789-2232 Business
Insolvency & Restructuring Group.
I have been married to Laurie for
Mark J. Reichel
twelve years with two great kids-
4601 P Street
Jason (8) and Jessica (6).
Sacramento, CA 95819
(Costa Mesa, CA)
(916) 498-5700 Business
Angela Cheek
Dorothy Anderson
She has been named vice presi-
Home with three kids in Moraga....
dent of Irvine-based Mavent Inc., a
life is busy and fun! (Moraga, CA)
provider of automated compliance
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bers/knotek...of course, the focus
of the page is my 17 month old
son, Paul...I'm just a proud daddy
these days! My firm's website is at
www.schuitmakerandcooper.com
I've been there for just over 6
months. Maybe by the time you
Diego, CA. I've been here a year
now and have been on 5 aircraft
carriers and 3 amphibious landing
east coast. Let's hope we don't
eventually face a rerun of the
1990s. Greetings to all fellow
evening division classmates!
(Hartford, CT)
Steven D. Weber
He was named to the North
law. I just wish I was home a little
Carolina Environmental
more! I was just selected for the
Management Commission by the
next rank (commander) and will
Speaker of the North Carolina
probably transfer next year. Just
House of Representatives. Weber is
waiting to find out where.
a partner in the Charlotte, North
(FPO, AP)
Carolina office of Parker Poe
updated to include me. Hope this
Senior Patent Attorney (San
finds everyone well! Here's to a
Clemente, CA)
(Paw Paw, MI)
of the real estate market on the
engagement is a fascinating area of
Libby H. Hope
Happy & Healthy 2006!
are one of the strongest segments
ships. Operational law and rules of
read this they will have the site
Adams & Bernstein LLP and the
head of the law firm’s
Environmental Law Practice Group.
Parker Poe has more than 170
Michelle C. Hopkins
lawyers in its five offices in the
Senior Staff Attorney, Los Angeles
Carolinas.
Superior Court. (Culver City, CA)
by Jonathan
by Michael
Kalstrom
Curran
love of my life and I moved my
10300 Single Oak Drive
(661) 868-2710 Business
Eglet Turns Heads,
Sways Juries in
Nevada Courtrooms
He won a defense verdict for the
What prompted attorney
Robert Eglet, ’, who’s
won  out of  civil
jury trials, to become a
trial lawyer in the first
place? Call it fate,
destiny or literally an
accident, but Eglet, a
senior partner with the
Las Vegas law firm of
Mainor Eglet Cottle,
found his calling early in
life by, well, losing his
way home.
Eglet’s father, a fighter pilot in Vietnam, was
stationed at the Post Graduate Naval School, in
Monterey, California, immediately after the
war. Eglet recalls it was there, in the th grade,
riding his bike home from school one day, he
took a wrong turn and found himself in front
of the county courthouse. He went inside and
wandered into the middle of a wrongful death
jury trial. He returned to watch, again and
again. “I knew right then, that’s what I wanted
to do,” Eglet says.
Today, Eglet returns again and again to the
courthouse. But he’s not watching; he’s trying
cases with astounding success—and many
others in the profession are watching. In June
, the Nevada Trial Lawyers Association
named Eglet “Trial Lawyer of the Year,” the
youngest lawyer ever to receive that statewide
honor. It was richly deserved because Eglet is
on a roll not seen before in that state. His last
 verdicts have all been multimillion-dollar
awards to his clients. “Robert Eglet’s skills as a
trial lawyer are at the present time unmatched
by any attorney in the state,” says one veteran
courtroom observer.
Eglet serves on the Nevada Law
Foundation’s Board of Trustees and was
recently appointed by the Nevada Supreme
Court to the Supreme Court Bench-Bar
Committee. But he’s most at home in the
courtroom where his competitiveness and sense
of duty to his clients drive him to outwork and
outwit opponents. Many of those clients have
suffered catastrophic injuries or are family
members of someone killed in an accident
involving negligence so he has no trouble
bringing a fever pitch to his courtroom oratory.
Eglet won’t rest on his laurels. He’s constantly learning in his daily work, whether it
involves a new technique in the courtroom,
learning about a product, an injury process
or a disease. “It keeps me stimulated,” he says,
“and that’s why I like it.”
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Class Representatives
Captain Laura H. Heller
Ryan J. Raftery
315 Belmont Avenue East,
Public Defender's Office -
Apt. 208
Sacramento County
Seattle, WA 98102
700 H Street, #270
(206) 817-2711 Home
Sacramento, CA 95814
(916) 874-6411 Business
Guy E. Ortoleva
190 Deerfield Drive
Christopher J. Kaeser
Hamden, CT 06518
886 La Sierra Drive
(203) 248-2008 Home
Sacramento, CA 95864
(860) 571-7130 Business
(916) 609-3736 Business
Christine Eavenson
Theresa A. Dunham
Sutter County District Attorney. My
Stephens
507 Borders Court
son, Connor, is well on his way to
Associate, Thelan, Reid & Priest.
El Dorado Hills, CA 95762-5429
a J.D. At four, everything is a nego-
My husband Mike and I welcomed
(916) 631-3640 Home
tiation. My daughter, Mary, 1, is
our daughter Rachel Mariana on
(530) 753-6400 Business
terrific. My husband, Mike, a
December 9, 2005. Our son, Eli
police sergeant, and I continue to
Michael, is 18 months. I will
fight crime in Yuba City.
return to work at Thelen, Reid &
(Yuba City, CA)
Priest in San Jose, where I have
Andrew Mendlin
He was named to the Modesto
Bee’s list of young community
worked since 2000, when my
Marcela Eggleton
I am the manager of contracts and
legal affairs for Nolte Associates,
Inc. (Sacramento, CA)
maternity leave ends in June.
Anthony L. Hall
(San Jose, CA)
He has joined the Reno, Nevada
leaders in that city. He is a partner
Kenneth L. Swenson
at the law firm of Curtis & Arata, a
Deputy Attorney General, Office of
member of the Modesto Planning
the Attorney General, State of
office of Hale Lane as a new shareholder. He previously practiced
with Littler Mendelson, counseling
clients and litigating on their behalf
Steven J. Oshins
Robert L. S. Angres
Commission, and a radio talk show
California. After nearly five years of
Attorney, Law Offices of Oshins &
Proprietor, Law Office of Robert
host. His wife, Valli Israels
handling employment, regulatory,
Associates, LLC. Married Michelle
L.S. Angres. I am enjoying living in
Mendlin, ’94, is a San Joaquin
and administrative matters, I
on April 9, 2005. Listed in Best
Clovis, a suburb of Fresno, and I
County deputy DA. (Modesto, CA)
moved to the government law sec-
Jennifer L. Kowitt
Lawyers in America in Trusts and
continue to do mostly appointed
tion where I hope to put the LL.M.
Attorney; Finnegan, Marks,
Estates and in Tax Law. Named
criminal appellate work in the
in Government Law and Policy I
Hampton & Theofel. Jennifer and
one of Nevada's Best Lawyers in
First, Second, Third, Fifth, and
earned in 2003, to greater use.
her husband, Mike, along with
the May/June 2005 issue of
Sixth District Courts of Appeal. My
Sherri and I have been blessed
their daughter, Reilly Rose, recently
Nevada Lawyer magazine. Named
wife, Michele, is a stay-at-home
with five children, now ages 5 to
returned to San Francisco. Jennifer
one of Southern Nevada's Best
mom with our 21 month old twins.
10. We are active in our church
rejoined Finnegan, Marks,
Lawyers in the December 9, 2005
In order to get out of the office
and with sports, music, and scout-
Hampton, & Thofel, where she
special supplement to In Business
more, I recently joined the panel of
ing. I continue to maintain a con-
originally began practicing in
Las Vegas weekly publication.
the California Parole Advocacy
nection with Pacific McGeorge, by
1997. Mike and Jen spent the past
(Las Vegas, NV)
Program. This program is run by
serving as a member of the adjunct
few years in London & LA.
faculty in the Appellate Advocacy
(San Francisco, CA)
McGeorge, and I am having a blast
John B. Palley
being a contract attorney for the
Johnson, Fort, Meissner, Joseph &
program. I represent parolees at
Palley. (Sacramento, CA)
hearings presided by a Board of
Stephanie B. Mizrahi
Professor, CSU - Chico. Mizrahi has
joined the faculty at California
State University, Chico as a tenuretrack political science professor. A
former CIA analyst when she came
to law school, Mizrahi taught last
year at Washington State
University and is working on her
dissertation research for a doctorate degree. Her dissertation is
focused on how policymakers react
Director of Planned Giving, CSU
Assistant Secretary, California EPA.
Sacramento. Mike and his wife Jen
(Chico, CA)
Tuck was named assistant secre-
are enjoying their two boys—
tary for policy at the California
Jordan and Jack. Mike likes to say
EPA by Governor Arnold
they are 1/2 boy and 1/2 puppy.
Schwarzenegger. The former
Mike also enjoys teaching grad and
California Council for
undergrad business courses at
Environmental & Economic
CSUS and Golden Gate University.
Balance general counsel was origi-
Jen is a stay-at-home mom and
nally the governor's pick to head
has her hands quite full. They are
the state Air Resources Board, but
living in Roseville. (Roseville, CA)
decides if probable cause exists to
Jonathan and I are still living in
revoke that person's parole. If prob-
Los Angeles and I started with
able cause is found, then I negoti-
Robie & Matthai in September,
ate for a shorter return to custody
2005. In addition to running into
time. If the parolee rejects the
classmates downtown, I am on the
negotiated settlement, then I repre-
Alumni Board of Directors and am
sent the parolee at his or her revo-
very fortunate to work with talent-
cation hearing before a BPH com-
ed, brilliant alumni and Dean
missioner. A rev hearing is akin to
Parker! I also work with two other
a bench trial but with more relaxed
Kummer Kaempfer Bonner
McGeorge alums, Mike O'Neill and
rules of evidence. There is not
Renshaw & Ferrario.
Craig Brunet. (Los Angeles, CA)
much paperwork, and I really enjoy
(Carson City, NV)
James W. Puzey
He is serving as president of the
Volunteer Attorneys for Rural
Nevada this year. The non-profit
organization provides free civil legal
services to residents in far-flung
Nevada counties. He is a partner
in the Reno, Nevada office of
Greg A. Ruppert
Attorney. Shayna Rae born on
Shannon S. Champion
After 2 1/2 years at FBI
September 16, 2005! That's No.
Senior Attorney, Verizon Wireless.
Headquarters as a unit chief in the
3! (Palo Alto, CA)
Enjoying in-house practice. We
Counterterrorism Division, he was
recently welcomed our first child,
promoted to assistant legal attaché
Katelyn Rose. Things are good in
for the FBI to be stationed in the
sunny So Cal! (Irvine, CA)
U.S. Embassy in The Hague,
Susan (Nolan) Green
Deputy District Attorney, Sutter
County District Attorney. Just had
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Michael L. Lorilla
how laws are created thereafter.
Robie & Matthai. My husband
Netherlands. He began his new
post in October of 2005.
the Democratic-controlled Senate
failed to confirm her.
(Sacramento, CA)
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Class Representatives
Jane Greaves Sargent
631 Massachusetts Avenue, NE
Washington, DC 20002
(202) 546-5709 Home
(202) 393-6222 Business
by Jonathan Kalstrom
ment law. (Reno, CA)
Cynthia K. Tuck
Prison Hearings Commissioner who
Robert K. Roskoph
in the field of labor and employ-
to sudden events such as 9/11 and
Diana Kreinman Rodgers
the people contact. (Fresno, CA)
Program. (Sacramento, CA)
Montana’s
Health in
Good Hands
with Miles’
Experience
Kelli L. Petersen
Officer in charge of 2nd Brigade,
1st Infantry Division, Jag Office in
Schweinfurt, Germany. Promoted to
Major, U.S. Army Jag Corps on
15-May-2005. (Schweinfurt,
Germany)
When Joan Miles, ’,
graduated from Pacific
McGeorge, she wanted
to use her law degree to
affect the development
of public policy. That’s
not surprising, considering she had served as a
state representative in
the Montana Legislature
from  to .
Now, after having served as director of the
Lewis and Clark City-County Health
Department, Miles has been appointed by
Governor Brian Schweitzer to a position that
continues her work in public policy: She is
the director of the Montana Department of
Public Health and Human Services, the
state’s largest agency comprising one-fourth
of Montana state government with more
than , employees and a multibillion
dollar budget.
“Joan Miles is a very talented and experienced professional,” the governor said when
he made the appointment on August . “She
has been working in the field for years and
has the experience necessary for this demanding position.”
“It is very exciting to be part of the governor’s cabinet, to be working closely with the
governor on real solid public policy that’s
going to improve the life of Montanans,”
Miles says. The Public Health and Human
Services agency covers all public health and
human services programs in Montana, as
well as Medicaid, mental health programs,
and state institutions serving Montana residents with mental illness, developmental and
physical disabilities, and individuals in need
of substance abuse treatment.
Her new position uses her wealth of
skills, from legal to medical knowledge. In
addition to her J.D., she holds an M.S. in
Environmental Studies and a B.S. in Medical
Technology. “My background and credentials
fit together perfectly for this position because
of the breadth of activities and programs that
I’m now responsible for,” she says. That background includes work as a lobbyist for an environmental advocacy group, as well as being a
field biologist and a medical technologist.
Her law degree is especially useful in
terms of the substantive knowledge acquired
at Pacific McGeorge. “And,” she says, “the
training—just the way you think and analyze
and prioritize and question—that is so critical for me in this position because of the size
of this agency and the number of issues with
which we deal.”
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my ten year anniversary with
Michael S. White
Joseph H. Low IV
Emily L. Randon
Lisa A. Lance
Partner, GCA Law Partners, LLP. In
He is involved in a right-to-counsel
7565 Sycamore Drive
Yolo County Public Defender's
March of 2005, I joined the part-
case that the Supreme Court of the
Citrus Heights, CA 95610-2210
Office. Hello to all my classmates!
nership of GCA Law Partners LLP
United States has agreed to hear
(916) 276-1014 Home
If you're in Yolo, please stop to say
in Mountain View, CA. I'm still
this spring. The justices will review
(916) 739-7105 Business
hello. (Woodland, CA)
practicing corporate law, doing
an appellate court decision that
financings and mergers & acquisi-
threw out a drug conspiracy con-
tions for venture-backed high tech-
viction of a man who wanted Low
nology companies, and dabbling in
to represent him. A district court
a little IP licensing for fun. But, my
had barred the California attorney
greatest challenge this year has
from representing the drug defen-
been coaching my daughter's soc-
dant in Missouri. Low, a former
cer team. Six-year-old girls can be
Pacific McGeorge mock trial star, is
ruthless and unforgiving.
one of the law school’s leading
(Mountain View, CA)
young trial attorneys. (Newport
Beach, CA)

John P. McGill
General Counsel, Arntz Builders
Inc. (Novato, CA)
Thomas S. Adams
and environmental science
company, as a corporate counsel.
Class Representative
Previously at Jones and Stokes
Kathryn M. Davis
Associates as environmental coun-
950 Harrison Street, No. 113
sel, he is the husband of former
San Francisco, CA 94107
Alumni Board member Aura Kashin
(415) 268-6451 Business
Adams, ’97. (Oakland, CA)
Mary Anne Bosley
Thomas D. Amick
She was elected to a four-year
He has been elected a member of
term on the city council of the city
the board of directors at the Las
of Washougal, Washington, a small
major management, engineering
Vegas law firm of Kummer,
Ms. Molly J. Mrowka
Amy Ruggles
Kaempfer Bonner Renshaw &
Portland, Oregon. (Washougal, WA)
Burham & Brown
She has joined the Sacramento
Ferrario. He practices in the firm's
1901 Harrison Street, 11th Floor
firm of Johnson Fort Meissner and
governmental affairs division and
Oakland, CA 94604
Joseph as an associate.
has specialized in zoning, land use
(510) 444-6800 Business
(Sacramento, CA)
and administrative law matters
Wendy A. Taylor
Katherine J. Hart
since 1998. (Las Vegas, NV)
Attorney, Friedberg & Parker. Eric
Stephanie A. Doria
and I had our second child togeth-
She was the co-counsel for a gay
er, Carson, in April 2005. Brennan
man who received $269,000 in an
is a busy 3-year-old who loves
arbitrator award from a radio sta-
construction equipment and any
tion that he worked for that “outed
Gary S. Winuk
other tough vehicles. Our jobs are
him” in a live, on-air prank. She is
9409 Colwin Way
good and life is moving forward.
a partner at the San Francisco firm
Elk Grove, CA 95624
(Sacramento, CA)
of Rukin, Hyland Doria & Dufrane
Trainor Robertson PC
701 University Avenue, Suite 201
Sacramento, CA 95825
(916) 929-7000 Business
(916) 685-0339 Home
(916) 324-8908 Business
David Verhey
that specializes in employment discrimination. (San Francisco)
He was appointed by Interior
Dana A. Dwiggins
associate has formed her own Las
international law firm, in October
of 2005, when my prior firm,
GT's Sacramento office. I married
my long-time boyfriend Robb Layne
in a religious ceremony at
Congregation B'onai Israel before
I’m responsible for the legal work
Governor Schwarzenegger's Office
on May 9, 2005. I do contract
Central Valley Regional Water

Quality Control Board. She is a
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Brown LLP as an associate.
partner with the Sacramento land
Kara L. La Bella-Parker
Hofsdal had been an associate at
use firm of Trainor Robertson.
4521 South Land Park Drive
LaFollette, Johnson, DeHaas,
(Sacramento)
Sacramento, CA 95822
Fesler and Ames. (Sacramento, CA)
(916) 448-1654 Home
Ronald Hofsdal, '98, has joined the
Sacramento law firm of Cook
estate planning this year.
6080 Bryce Way
(Sante Fe, NM)
Rocklin, CA 95677
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at the rank of associate professor
Resources and Environmental
at California State University, East
Division since 2004. She was an
Bay in Hayward. He teaches
adjunct professor at Pacific
Introduction to Law and Legal
McGeorge from 2003 to 2005 in
Ethics. Back in September, he was
the Appellate Advocacy program.
appointed by the San Leandro City
The board plays a key role in flood
Council to its Human Services
Commission.
Attorney. My husband Chad and I
are expecting our first child in
Class Representatives
control, overseeing all levees.
March. It's a girl! I am still enjoying
Sean P. Gjerde
(Sacramento, CA)
my estate planning practice and
11841 Ringwood Road
Betty W. Little
am entering my fourth year as a
Wilton, CA 95624-3975
She formed the new law firm of
solo practitioner. (Sacramento, CA )
(916) 686-7987 Home
(916) 686-7987 Business
Jenna (Clark) Griffin
just celebrated my first anniversary
in the family law department.
Things are good.
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Mopsick and Little LLP with longtime adjunct professor Steve
Mopsick. The firm will specialize in
He has joined the Orange County
and Chung, Sacramento office. Ran
for Congress in the March 2005
Special Election to replace Robert
Matsui. (Sacramento, CA)
senior attorney for Amador County.
& Girard as an associate in its
workers’ compensation law since
(Jackson, CA)
business and real estate law prac-
use dispute, representing a group
Sacramento. (Sacramento, CA)
Moskovitz Tiedemann & Girard as
Ann Patterson
an associate in their education
She completed a two-year clerk-
Loni Chhen
practice area. He previously was
ship with U.S. District Court Judge
She has joined the Radoslovich
with Girard & Vinson.
Frank C. Damrell and has joined
Law Corp. in Sacramento as an
(Sacramento, CA)
Kronick, Moskovitz, Tiedemann &
that opposes the construction of a
Wal-Mart supercenter in American
They have asked an appeals court
to reconsider a Napa Superior
tice group. He previously worked
for PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP.
associate. She previously practiced
Girard (Sacramento, CA)
with Stockwell, Harris, Widom,
Danesha N. Nichols
Woolverton & Muehl.
University of California, Davis -
Matthew D. Pearson
Human Resources. I am now work-
Associate, Cook Brown, LLP.
Dionne E. Choyce
ing at UC Davis in human
Pearson has joined the Sacramento
Partner, Choyce & Crowell, LLP.
resources. I handle union relations
law firm of Cook Brown LLP as an
Dionne Choyce, who recently part-
for the university in reference to
associate. Pearson was previously
nered with classmate Hendrick S.
clerical & student employees. My
with McMurchie, Weill, Lenahan &
Crowell, II, settled his first million
husband Tyrone & I welcomed a
Pears LLP. (Sacramento, CA)
dollar civil case in Sept. 2005.
baby girl to our family on Nov. 23,
Timothy J. Swickard
Dionne and Hendrick practice
2005. This is our 1st & we're
Chief Counsel, Department of Toxic
criminal and personal injury law.
thrilled! (Sacramento, CA)
Substances Control. Swickard with-
(Sacramento, CA)
Sandeep J. Shah
Shah Sheth, LLP. I recently started
my own law firm with one partner
Beach, CA)
Associate, Kring & Chung, LLP.
nation and personal injury at Kring
of Kronick, Moskovitz, Tiedemann
Missler. Borba, who has practiced
He has moved to Kronick,
on September 1, 2005. (Newport
defect, business disability, discrimi-
changed jobs. I am currently the
Harris Widom & Woolverton in
use department. He comes to the
Enjoying practicing construction
He has joined the Sacramento firm
Associate, Cuneo, Black, Ward &
Jolley is involved in a major land
(Stockton, CA)
S. Shane Singh
Joseph Mandell
Alexandra Asterlin. I have also
Travis Lindsey
Court's decision to allow the store.
sulting firm. (Irvine)
01D, and changed my name to
Andria K. Borba
recently practiced at Stockwell
& Elliot as an associate in its land
Associates, an environmental con-
Genshlea Chediak. (Sacramento)
Associate, Herum Crabtree Brown.
office of Nossaman Guthner Knox
firm from Michael Brandman
formerly practiced with Weintraub
2000, joined a new firm. She most
Canyon, a small city near Vallejo.
James Pugh
state and federal tax matters. Each
Brett S. Jolley
drew his name for consideration as
the governor’s appointee to lead the
Department of Toxic Substances
Control. He remains chief counsel
for the agency. (Sacramento, CA)
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He received a letter of appointment
California Farm Bureau's Natural
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Jonelle C. Beck
Livingston and Mattesich become
had a boy, Jack Andrew Glendon,
Arnold Schwarzenegger to the
James S. Overman
Dennis Chin
served as an attorney for the
sixth year at Downey Brand, but I
Traurig, LLP, a 1,500 attorney
Interior. He previously served in
Associate, Cook Brown, LLP.
and New Mexico. I hope to add
(Playa Del Rey, CA)
Arnold Schwarzenegger. She has
Attorney. I joined Greenberg
and counsel of State Street Bank.
She was appointed by Governor
real estate clients in both California
Reclamation Board by Governor
recently married Paul Asterlin,
of 1998) in October 2002. We
Ronald E. Hofsdal
(916) 874-6596 Business
serve business law, nonprofit and
October 1, 2005.
She was named to the State
(916) 442-3100 Business
Solicitor, U.S. Department of the
Kate Hart
Sacramento, CA 95814
has kept me very busy. Now I
beautiful stepsons. I am now in my
was promoted to vice president
Las Vegas. (Las Vegas, NV)
901 G Street
Marc B. Koenigsberg
married Andrew J. Glendon (class
(Washington, DC)
married to Jordan Capell on
exciting and timely. A solo practice
Senior Attorney, Amador County. I
Wildlife in the Office of the
America. (Providence, RI)
Emma T. Suarez Pawlicki
Sacramento County
Folsom, CA 95630-7314
Street Bank and Trust Company. I
Kearney, Johnson & Thompson in
Associate, Klinedinst, PC. I was
the move to Santa Fe has been
Tory Griffin and inherited two
& Freer. (Las Vegas, NV)
(Sacramento, CA)
Maria Schriver for state business.
(San Francisco, CA)
Asterlin
Law Offices of Sunny M. Kwon. I
offices in Asia, Europe and South
Julie M. Capell
Samantha Tali
1647 Weinreich Court
Associate Solicitor for Parks and
partner at Santoro, Driggs, Walch,
liability, and landlord-tenant law.
Mexico. While I love Mammoth,
LLP. On July 18, 2005, I married
Vegas law firm, Solomon Dwiggins
Vice President and Counsel, State
to the Governor and counsel to
expanded my practice to New
Alexandra (Hawkins)
130 family members and friends.
providing legal support to our
Class Representatives
Lisa V. Ryan
Sunny M. Glendon
work in Las Vegas and Andy is a

Associate Attorney, Downey Brand
Secretary Gale Norton to be
of Legal Affairs as deputy counsel
on personal injury, premises
The former Lionel Sawyer & Collins
Janet B. Alexander
in our Global Services Division,
civil litigation practice with a focus
Mammoth Lakes, I moved and
(916) 624-8311 Home
but growing suburb northeast of
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law firm. Our firm enjoys a general
Attorney. After three years in
District Attorney's Office -

He has joined Kleinfelder, Inc., a

Elizabeth J. Travis
Ian A. Rambarran
He has joined the Sacramento
office of Klinedinst PC. He previ-
Katherine M. Bellotti Porter
ously practiced with McDonough
Daniel A. Flores
Porter Scott Weiberg & Delehant.
Holland & Allen, specializing in
Partner, Flores Stall, LLP. My law
My husband and I welcomed our
work with corporate clients, on
partner Matthew R. Stall, a class-
daughter, Julia, into our lives in
business and intellectual property
mate, and I are pleased to
April 2005. (Sacramento, CA)
issues. (Sacramento, CA)
announce the formation of our new
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John P. Tribuiano III
Steven J. Williamson
Phillip Yorston, ‘88
federal administrative law. As an
Gianelli & Fores. (Modesto, CA)
Associate Attorney, Mastagni,
He has joined the law firm of
The assistant director of public
agency counsel, I also work closely
Holstedt, Amick, Miller, Johnsen &
Kroloff, Belcher, Smart, Perry &
support services at the Palm Beach
with U.S. Attorney’s offices and the
Uhrhammer. (Sacramento, CA)
Christopherson as an associate
County Property Appraiser’s Office
DOJ commercial litigation branch
attorney. (Stockton, CA)
has been elected governor-elect of
on cases filed in U.S. District
the Florida Kiwanis District.
Courts and before the Circuit Court
(Palm Beach, FL)
of Appeals providing litigation sup-

Alaina M. Wichner
Captain, US Army JAG Corps.
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Appointed part-time military mag-
Carolyn J. Kubish
istrate by United States Army Trial
4500 Truxel Road, No. 532
Judiciary on 12 December 2005.
Sacramento, CA 95834
(Fort Bliss, TX)
LL.M.
TAXATION
Ryan Wood
He was one of the organizers and
Ryan E. Fillmore
He has joined Downey Brand as an
participants in a public phone tax
1901 Hackamore Drive
associate. He formerly practiced
forum sponsored by the Financial
Roseville, CA 95661
with Porter Scott Weiberg &
Planning Association of San
(916) 783-4242 Home
Delehant.
Joaquin Valley. He is a Stockton
attorney who practices in the areas
Karen Bettencourt
law clerk to U.S. District Court

Judge Garland Burrell.
Joshua Baker
(Sacramento, CA)
He has joined the natural resources
She has joined Downey Brand as
an associate. She was formerly a
department of Downey Brand.
Elis Guzman
(Sacramento, CA)
He has joined Abbott and
Margaret Heiser Fulton ’93
She has been named a partner at
the Auburn firm of Robinson, Lyon
& Fulton. She is a certified special-
enjoying the nearby Shenandoah
Valley. (Washington, DC)
IN
MEMORIAM
in addition to business law. I have
friends of the following law school
Oliver Bolthausen ’03
(Sacramento, CA)
She has joined the business
only fourth person to lead the
Dustin Johnson
department of Downey Brand.
nation’s second largest tax agency,
(Sacramento, CA)
she will oversee a department with
tive officer of the state Franchise
more than 6,000 employees.
(Sacramento, CA)
LL.M.
law firm. The fellows were chosen
Roy Shannon
based on their commitment to
He is teaching National Security
serving underrepresented commu-
Law at the University of New
nities in the state. Johnson is an
Haven's California campus at
associate with the Modesto law
Sandia National Laboratory in
firm of Perry & Associates.
Livermore. He has 12 students and
James R. Donahue ’84
(Modesto, CA)
is teaching one night a week, while
Won a defense verdict for the St.
working at the San Joaquin District
Helena Unified School District in
Cori Sarno
Attorney’s office during the day.
an 11-day sex discrimination trial
She won a defense verdict as the
(Stockton, CA)
in Napa County Superior Court in a
TRANSNATIONAL
BUSINESS
PRACTICE
case where a teacher charged that
Police Department in a Yolo County
Christian Smith
she was not rehired because of a
Superior Court case where the
He has joined the Radoslovich
perception that she was a lesbian.
plaintiff charged excessive force
Law Corp. in Sacramento as an
He is a partner in Sacramento law
and warrantless entry into a home
associate.
firm of Caulfield, Davies &
after an escalating dispute between
Brian J. Ullmann
Donahue. (Sacramento)
alumni:
Attorney, Bridgehouse Rueckel &
George Goldsmith ’54
Bolthausen. My firm, Bridgehouse,
December 5, 2005
employs two other McGeorge
alumni, my colleagues Roman M.
Plachy in our Atlanta office and
Michael Harper ’69
November 1, 2005
Eric T. Baker in our Munich office.
Robert Pelner ’77
(Munich, Germany)
December 10, 2005
Melvin E. Raatz ’80
LL.M.
GOVERNMENT
& PUBLIC
POLICY
Justin Mason ’02
Attorney-Advisor, U.S. Office of
Personnel Management. I just completed three years here and it has
been quite a ride so far. Things are
busier than ever. This is such a
hectic city. My work encompasses
a wide range of activities, I advise
OPM client offices as well as federal agencies on federal employment
Associate, Porter, Scott, Weiberg &
and labor law, labor-management
Delehant. (Sacramento, CA)
relations, and on various aspects of
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very nice neighborhood, and am
She was named as the new execuTax Board. The first woman and
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a small condo in Chevy Chase, a
sympathy to the families and
Kimberly Norvell
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Opportunity Commission. I bought
(Dhaka, Bangladesh)
Freeman Guzman & Ditora.
two neighbors. (Sacramento, CA)
and Equal Employment
Selvi Stanislaus ’98
Lake City, UT)
lead counsel for the Woodland
the Merit Systems Protection Board
McGeorge School of Law expresses
Downey Brand and Goldsberry
by Jan Ferris Heenan
all over the country, mostly before
at Dhaka University.
and construction law groups. (Salt
practicing law in Lodi in a small
teaching business communication
I appear in administrative hearings
The University of the Pacific
He previously practiced with
attorney. (Sacramento, CA)
now 10 months old. I am also
load that I either settle or for which
Masters & M. Phil. degree of Law
that Utah law firm’s auto/premises
Leadership Academy. He's also
programs. (Sacramento, CA)
port. I have my own personal case-
been selected as an external of
and environmental law practice.
Todd A. Murray as an associate
he was the director of international
South University. My second son is
probate law. (Auburn, CA)
California's Access & Fairness
faculty at Pacific McGeorge where
Lecturer, School of Business, North
He has joined Strong & Hanni in
He has joined the Law Office of
eight years as a member of the
Sadia Sultana ‘96
the Sacramento firm’s land use
Rafael Ruano
Chediak. He joins the firm after
(Stockton, CA)
ist in estate planning, trust and
fellow in the State Bar of
firm of Weintraub Genshlea
and trust administration.
Jeremy Knight
attorneys statewide selected as a
shareholder at the Sacramento law
of tax litigation, estate planning,
Kinderman LLP as an associate in
He was one of only 12 young
Shareholder, Weintraub Genshlea
Chediak. He has been named a
Jeff Prag ’88
(916) 320-0257 Home
Keith Pershall ’95
York Finds
Success
Going It Alone
September 20, 2005
James Stefflre, ’84
December 12, 2005
James D. Taylor ’85
January 12, 2006
Wendy C. York, ’, was
four years out of law
school when she took a
step some colleagues
twice her age never
would. She hired a small
but top-notch staff and
set up her own shop.
That was in June ,
and the York Law Corp.
has been in place in
Sacramento ever since.
“I wanted the freedom and the autonomy to
practice the kind of law that I wanted to
practice,” York says. “I was young. I thought,
I’ve got to take the risk now and strike out
on my own.’”
York had amassed a range of experience
before going solo, first with a law office specializing in civil defense cases and then with a
plaintiffs’ firm. No question but that she preferred the latter—and, after a brief stint as a
partner in another start-up firm—returned
her focus last year to the York Law Corp.
“I kind of feel like I’m a civil cop. I hold
people responsible for their negligence,” says
York, who has specialized in recent years in
major personal injury cases, employee discrimination and elder abuse, among others.
One of York’s most gratifying cases
involved an -year-old Sacramento County
woman whose legs were amputated after her
nursing home failed to treat her bed sores.
Annie Mae Ollison won a $ million judgment in the  case; jurors threw her a
birthday party the next month.
“There were a lot of lawyers who would
have turned her down, but I fell in love
with her instantly,” says York of Ollison,
who has since passed away. “That’s the
kind of case where you really feel you’re
making a difference.”
York has two associates, including Daniel
P. Jay, ’. She has hired law clerks from
Pacific McGeorge, and plans to continue to
do so. She prides her team on its upbeat
outlook, which sets the tone for the entire
practice, she says
Active in trial and consumer attorney
groups, York may some day expand her love
of advocacy to another venue: television.
While an undergraduate, she considered
becoming a reporter. “There’s still a part of
me that craves that, educating people as to
what their rights are,” she says.
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Photography: Steve Yeater
Kimberly S. Sullivan
D’s C
Created by Dean Gordon Schaber
in , the Dean’s Council has for
nearly  years been the key charitable organization advising and supporting Pacific McGeorge’s leaders.
The Dean’s Council helps enhance the law school’s
reputation and the quality of its educational programs by
supporting scholarships, campus activities and facilities,
and services to students.
Members may designate up to  percent of the amount
of their Dean’s Council gift with  percent reserved for the
dean’s discretion. Thus, members are assured that the
majority of their investment supports the programs and
scholarships that are most meaningful to them personally,
with the remainder contributing to the most pressing needs
as determined by the dean.
Dean’s Council members are invited to exclusive events
with the dean and other speakers, as well as to a wide variety
of on- and off-campus events, lectures, symposia and conferences, and VIP receptions during the holidays and at commencement. Additionally, fees at the annual MCLE events
are waived for members, and special seating is provided.
By alumni request, the Dean’s Council has created new
member levels, so more alumni and friends can network with
one another, as well as with other leaders at our law school
and in the legal community: Recent grads may join for just
$/year, with students or grads of the current year’s
graduating class able to ‘test-drive’ membership for just $!
Alums who graduated more than five years ago may join in
their first year for just $—a % savings from the regular
annual membership of $, (with alumni couples able to
join at $,, or $ for their first year). Other membership levels, in which members receive special benefits and
opportunities, include Dean’s Council Patron at $,/year,
Cabinet Member at $,/year, and Dean’s Counselor for
annual investment of $, or more.
Dean Elizabeth Rindskopf Parker has said that she hopes
every alum will become a Dean’s Council member. We hope,
if you have not yet done so, that you will join this year!
Remember, your first year is always at a discount, and your
investment can be broken down into monthly credit card
installments. You can join from the law school web site
(http://www.mcgeorge.edu/alumni_resources/support_
mcgeorge/giving.htm) or by contacting John McIntyre at
-- or [email protected].
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*+ years of membership
D’ C
Thomas R. Bales
Michael D. Belote
Irving H. Biele***
Robert A. Buccola
Francis B. Dillon**
Thomas J. Feeney***
Ken & Bonnie Jean Kwong
Douglas E. Love
Timothy E. Naccarato
Kenneth & Linda Olson
Robert A. Parker*
Daniel D. Richard
Elizabeth Rindskopf
Parker*
Claude D. Rohwer**
Lynn L. Rohwer**
Diana P. Scott
Scott S. Slater*
Francis S.L. Wang
Laura W.Y. Young
C M
Daniel E. Angius**
Gilles S. Attia
Eric L. Barnum*
Frank J. Christy*
Helen H. Crittenden**
Morrison C. England
Joy F. Harn
William D. Harn
Daniel L. Hitzke
Brian K. Landsberg*
Dorothy S. Landsberg*
James R. Lewis***
Catherine C. MacMillan
John R. Masterman*
Hayne R. Moyer****
Gregory D. Ogrod*
Raul A. Ramirez*
Bernard Richter
Glendalee Scully*
T. Jed "Skip" Scully*
**+ years of membership
E
S D
Walter Alexander
Anonymous
Irving H. Biele
Doris C. Gross
Carl & Roberta Kierney
Betty H. Knudson
Ken & Bonnie Jean Kwong
Frank La Bella
Mr. & Mrs. Ramzi Sadek
Dr. Elaine &
Mr. Edward Samans
Mrs. Anthony J. Scalora
Doris Stark
S M
Walter Alexander
Daniel E. Angius
Anonymous
Irving H. Biele
Morton L. Friedman
Doris C. Gross
Anthony M. Kennedy
Carl & Roberta Kierney
Betty H. Knudson
Ken & Bonnie Jean Kwong
Frank La Bella
James R. Lewis
Hayne R. Moyer
Kenneth & Linda Olson
Enlow & Melena Ose
Marc D. Roberts
Claude & Lynn Rohwer
Mrs. Anthony J. Scalora
Hardie G. Setzer
Doris Stark
Donald & Dorothy Steed
Angelo K. Tsakopoulos
Daniel E. Wilcoxen
Alba Witkin
***+ years of membership
****+ years of membership
C P
Steven A. Block*
Teri L. Block*
Rhoda Freigher
J. Neil Gieleghem
Richard A. Harris**
Stephen R. Holden
John M. Hunter*
David J. Kristjanson***
Ronald R. Lamb
Russell E. Leatherby
James L. Lopes
John McIntyre &
Francesca Negri*
David W. Miller*
Brian Putler*
Michael Vitiello*
John H. White*
Daniel J. Yee*
Richard J. Yrulegui
C M
David W. Abbott**
Lenore L. Albert
David Allen***
Lexis M. Allen**
David F. Anderson
Robert G. Anderson
Sherri L. Anderson
Anonymous
Gary M. Appelblatt
Michael B. Arkin
Robert W. Armstrong*
Laura E. Arnold
Ruthe C. Ashley
Nelson E. Bahler
Katharine C. Baragona
Juanita C. Barrena
Adam Barrett*
Mark D. Becker
Byron C. Beebe
Laurel V. Bell-Cahill*
Janet E. Bender
Michael A. Berch
Clifford P. Berg*
Thadd A. Blizzard*
Ronald E. Blubaugh*
Jeffrey C. Bogert
*+ years of membership
Peter E. Bogy
Michael K. Brisbin
John Q. Brown***
Mark E. Buechner*
Jarrod J. Burch
Amelia F. Burroughs
Geoffrey Burroughs*
Timothy F. Cahill**
Connie M. Callahan
Scott N. Cameron
Ruben & Suzanne Cantu*
Julie M. Capell
Gerald Caplan**
Judith A. Carlson
Laura L. Carrell-Stephan
Zelia M. Cebreros
Susana C. Cendejas
Christopher R. Chandler
Alberta C. Chew
Louise L. Chiu**
Jonathan E. Christianson
Kimberley Clarke
James M. Claybar
Jocelyn N. Colbert
Derek P. Cole
Raymond R. Coletta
Joseph Cooper*
Dianna L. Cordova
David Covin
Charles B. Coyne***
Carin N. Crain
J. Richard Creatura
Jerry R. Dagrella
Julie A. Davies
Kathleen M. Davis
Kathryn M. Davis
Hector M. de Avila
James V. DeMera
Richard K. Dickson
Rebecca A. Dietzen
Laurence P. Digesti*
Dominic F. DiMare
Thomas E. Drendel
Mark S. Drobny*
Jana Du Bois
Jack Duran
**+ years of membership
***+ years of membership
Jason P. Ebert
Joseph C. Edmondson
Jennifer C. Ehn
Jerone J. English
Britt Evans*
Mathew D. Evans*
Karen Hobbs
Robert W. Hunt*
Carol J. Hunter
John S. Husser
Gail R. Fadenrecht
Glenn A. Fait**
K.C. Fan**
Margaret C. Felts
Noël M. Ferris*
Kenneth C. Ferry
Michele Finerty
Judy L. Ford
Eden Forsythe
John C. Fowler
Morton L. Friedman
Kathleen T. Friedrich*
Samuel L. Jackson*
H. Vincent Jacobs
Carroll C. Jacobson
Dustin D. Johnson
George Johnson
Kyron Johnson
Venus D. Johnson
Carolee D. Johnstone
James S. Joiner
Warren A. Jones***
Gary M. Gallery
Fred T. Galves
Jennifer M. Garten
Faith Geoghegan**
David Gerber
Kay Gerjarusak
Randolph H. Getz
John L. Gezelius
Richard J. Gibson
Joan L. Gilkison
Judith E. Gilson
L. Stephen Gizzi
Deborah A. Glynn
Thomas J. Godfrey
Kevin J. Gonzalez
Edward J. Goodin*
George A. Gould
Carole J. Gray
Jennifer S. Gregory
Julia M. Hahn
Roger G. Halfhide
Christine R. Hall
Garrett L. Hamilton
Lindsay S. Harrington
Bryan C. Hartnell*
John W. Hawkins**
Vinton J. Hawkins*
Brian J. Heffernan
James M. Hendrickson
****+ years of membership
Phillip L. Isenberg
Francisca E. Kammerer
Debra J. Kazanjian
Christian M. Keiner*
Rosemary Kelley*
Charles & Jane Kelso***
Parker S. Kennedy
Stephen S. Kent
Gilbert Khachadourian
Mr. & Mrs. Abdallah
Khourdaji
Daniel W. Kim
Richard E. King
Kathryn M. Kohlman
Druliner
Carl G. Knopke
Douglas H. Kraft
Mark H. La Rocque
Mary Lou Lackey
Fern M. Laethem
David & Paulette
Lambertson
David R. Lane*
Marsha M. Lang*
Paul & Shawna Lannus
Nick A. LaPlaca
Roberta L. Larson
Gayle J. Lau*
Thomas J. Leach
Michael D. Lee*
R. Marilyn Lee
Anthony L. Leggio
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David F. Levi*
Lawrence C. Levine*
Darrel W. Lewis
Darrin Lim
Robert W. Long
Deidra E. Lowe
Patricia K. Lundvall*
Robert A. Lytle
Thomas Main*
James W. Mallonee
Christine Manolakas
Harold C. Manson
Elizabeth Manwaring
Joseph A. Martin
David P. Mastagni**
Charlene Matteson
Stephen C. McCaffrey*
Elizabeth A.
McEnaney-Fell
Martin J. Miller
Douglas W. McGeorge*
John P. McGill
Jennifer M. McGrath
James R. McGuire
Patricia A. McVerry
Scott S. Mehler
Marshall M. Mercer
James M. Mize***
Kristi A. Morioka
Fred K. Morrison
Rodney R. Moy
John M. Murray
Mary T. Muse
Andrew R. Nelson
Vigo G. Nielsen
Robert F. Nikkel
John A. Norwood
Robert E. Oakes
Lance H. Olson**
David C. O'Mara
Martha Opich*
Randy Paragary
Scott H. Park
Shanti R. Patching
Geralynn Patellaro*
Jeffrey N. Paule
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Andrea C. Perez
Robert F. Perez
Peter W. Perkins
Kenneth P. Petruzzelli
Trang-Anh T. Phan
James B. Pierce
Gregory C. Pingree
Shakira D. Pleasant
Patricia Poilé
Michael G. Polis
Tod M. Pritchett
Donald R. Prinz**
Ross W. Prout
Aaron S. Ralph
David J. Ramirez
Genaro C. Ramirez
Edward F. Randolph
Gary E. Ransom
C. Roman Rector
Donna L. Reynolds
Ronald B. Robie
Matina Romas
Kolokotronis*
Thomas E. Rotticci
Brian J. Sacks
Mr. & Mrs. Ramzi Sadek
Lee W. Salter
Ronald H. Sargis
Bruce A. Scheidt
Jeffrey C. Schneider
Deborah R. Schulte
Arthur G. Scotland
Hardie G. Setzer**
Julie A. Shepard
Michael I. Sidley
John C. Sims*
Anthony & Patricia Skrocki
Dana L. Smith
Morgan C. Smith*
R. Michael Smith
Ronald S. Smith**
Michael A. Sollazzo
Dea Spanos Berberian
Todd M. Spitler
John G. Sprankling*
Edward D. Spurgeon
Howard J. Stagg
Doris Stark
Spring 
*+ years of membership
Margaret C. Stark-Roberts
Donald & Dorothy
Steed***
James L. Stevens*
Tami S. Stoller
Nancy L. Sweet
Thomas M. Swett
Allan S. Zaremberg
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Edward J. Tiedemann***
Kathryn J. Tobias
Charles W. Trainor***
Allan F. Treffry
Robert C. Tronvig*
Darren J. Van Blois
Michael P. Vicencia
Christopher M. Von Maack
Burl W. Waits*
Audra G. Wake
John J. Waters*
Sharon J. Waters
Borden D. Webb*
Kerrie D. Webb
Gregory Weber
Matthew J. Weber
Natalie M. Weber
Thomas J. Welsh
Joe Weninger
Douglas P. Wiita
Philip H. Wile***
R. Todd Wilson
Robert M. Wilson
Michelle C. Winsett Gibbs
***+ years of membership
Barristers Circle +
Ronald D. Alling
Laurie Aloisio & David
Salem
Robert H. Appert
Charles M. Asbury
Jerrold B. Braunstein
Lynn Chao
Roy J. Chastain
Hendrick S. Crowell
Douglas S. Cumming
Andrew M. Cummings
Ellen DeMaio
John A. DeRonde
John D. Feeney
Barbara L. Goldberg
Salvatore C. Gugino
Charlotte M. Hegle
Howard M. Hoffman
David B. Johnson
J. Stephen Jones
J. Clark Kelso
Jack E. Kennedy
Douglas L. Lashley
Brian J. Plant
Margaret C. Preston
Suzanne E. Rogers
Christopher L. Russell
Cynthia SchaberHammond
Jeffrey A. Smyth
Joyce Talmachoff
Louis S. Test
Lee A. Thorson
F.L. Willis
Amicus Lex Circle +
Krishna A. Abrams
Bernadine Adams
Gordon P. Adelman
Anonymous
Robert A. Aronson
Jacqueline E. Bailey
Pamela A. Bair
Steven R. Bair
David J. Beauvais
Peter Benzian
Todd S. Bissell
Anne W. Bloom
Randolph K. Yackzan
Ellen R. Yamshon
Claire M. Yazigi
Herbert K. Yee
William P. Yee*
Diane M. Young
Julie Young
Kristopher S. Young
Alfred E. Yudes*
**+ years of membership
Gifts
****+ years of membership
Daniel J. Boyle
Stephen A. Brandenburger
Bradley A. Bristow
Ronald W. Brown
William W. Bunting
Clay Calvert
John C. Cha
Brian H. Charter
Barry E. Crowell
Walter R. Dahl
Ross E. de Lipkau
Joginder Dhillon
Lauren R. Diefenbach
Thomas M. Dunipace
Stephen J. Egan
Christopher W. Ewing
Anne C. Fadenrecht
Amal Fattah
LeRoy P. Fay
Don Fellows
Randal W. Graves
Fred A. Helms
Wayne Hinsdale
Andrea L. Hoch
John O. Jamison
Mark S. Jennings
Vreeland O. Jones
Christina H. Jones Janssen
Myra M. Kaichi
Jeffrey N. Klink
Mark W. Knobel
Lois Levine
Elisa A. Levy
Anna L. Locke
Carol R. Loewenstein
Rudolph E. Loewenstein
Dale W. Mahon
Joseph E. Maloney
Patricia S. Mar
Steve Y. Masuda
Mark L. Mausert
Thomas W. McGee
Stacy A. McGill
Patrick J. McGrath
Steven G. McGuire
Roberta E. Mendonca
Mike S. Mireles
Mia P. Mosher
Richard C. Mosher
Kathleen M. Mullarkey
Robert Murta
John G. Neville
Peter H. Pickslay
Carolyn L. Pirillo
Steven M. Polisar
Aviva Radbord
Gary E. Ransom
Mark C. Raskoff
Norman C. Robison
Chester A. Rogaski
June Rohwer Pistor
Bilal Sadek
Nidal R. Sadek
William A. Saunders
John Scriven
John L. Shadek
Margaret S. Shedd
Philip H. Shedd
James W. Shewan
Steven P. Simpson
Evan D. Smiley
George A. Smith
Judith A. Smith
Karen L. Snell
Richard R. Sooy
Andrew P. Tauriainen
Chance L. Trimm
Elizabeth S. Trimm
Stanley O. Van Vleck
Peter P. Vlautin
Bryan N. Wagner
Stephen A. Weiner
Rebecca M. Wilkins
Mark M. Williams
Wayne W. Wong
Henry P. Yorston
McGeorge Circle +
Douglas H. Abel
Harry A. Ackley
Adekunle M. Aderonmu
Harold G. Albright
Bruce B. Alexander
Thomas W. Alleeson
Robert M. Allen
Ronald A. Allison
William G. Anderson
Thomas W. Anthony
Mary C. Armstrong
Paul A. Bacigalupo
Joseph Bakalarski
Raymond E. Ball
Ann H. Barber-Zagozda
Nora G. Barlow
Norman P. Barth
Steven M. Basha
Robert T. Beattie
Jonelle C. Beck
Mary E. Bell
James P. Benoit
Jeanne W. Benvenuti
Robert K. Best
Mark T. Boehme
William E. Bonham
Clarence L. Bradford
Michael J. Bragg
Joan E. Branin
Christopher J. Breunig
Leonard L. Broseker
Jonathan D. Brown
Dennis M. Campos
Heather S. Candy
John J. Cardile
Donald L. Carper
Wayne Cecchettini
John B. Cinnamon
Robert F. Cochran
J. Michael Cochrane
Clifford G. Collard
Ronald W. Collett
Timothy K. Colvin
William S. Colwell
Richard K. Corbin
Michael D. Coughlan
Judith A. Cregan
James N. Crowell
Elliott R. Curzon
Susan R. Denious
Mariel E. Dennis
James D. Derich
Jennifer L. Derrick
John P. Doering
David P. Drake
Sonia L. Duffoo
Jennifer Duggan
Leslie A. Dunsworth
Angelo A. DuPlantier
Gregory W. Dwyer
Jeffrey E. Ehlenbach
Spring 
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Bruce T. Eigbrett
Mark L. Eisenberg
Eric Eisenlauer
Howard E. Engle
Robert F. Enzenberger
Aaron B. Epstein
Margaret A. Fainer
Janice M. Fallman
Frank J. Ferris
Marjorie Florestal
David Freudenberger
Paul D. Fuller
Gary H. Gale
Christine V. Galves
Daniel B. Gangwish
Gregory C. Gardner
William E. Gasbarro
Daniel S. Glass
Richard Glasson
Frederick Graebe
Harry K. Grafe
Gregory D. Granger
Gwendolyn Green
Paul L. Grimm
P. Michael Groff
Eugene T. Gualco
Elaine S. Guenaga
Michael A. Guiliana
Linda Gunderson
Mark H. Gunderson
Stuart C. Hall
Lon D. Hamburger
Mitri Hanania
Darrell C. Harriman
George C. Harris
Barbara R. Harsch
Patricia E. Hart
James R. Hastings
J. Chauncey Hayes
Martin Heming
Maureen P. Higgins
Thomas M. Higgins
Larry Hilliard
Shelby L. Hladon
Faye Holliman
John W. Hudkins
Rodney G. Hughes
Craig I. Ihara
William D. Ingersoll
James S. Jacobs
Leslie Jacobs
David C. James
Omar F. James
John W. Jay
Thomas E. Jeffry
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Dan T. Jett
Regina Jett
Ronald D. Johnston
Victoria L. Kalman
James F. Kane
Jennifer B. Kaufman
Michael R. Kelly
Shawn M. Kent
Clark C. Kingery
William D. Kodani
Gretchen M. Lachance
Jane L. Lamborn
Amy L. Landers
Mitchell Landsberg
Robert A. Laurie
Darlene M. Lee
Frederick B. Lee
Thomas C. Lee
Wilmer J. Leon
Pamela C. Loomis
Gregory M. Lucas
Charles Ludington
John S. Lutch
James W. Luther
Brian W. Maas
Hether Macfarlane
Gordon J. Machado
Steven E. Mair
Michael P. Malloy
Lawrence D. Marks
Jeff B. Marschner
Gregory L. Martin
Linda Y. Masuda
Don A. McCullough
Robert P. McElhany
J. Douglas McGilvray
William McGrane
Mary C. McGuire Driscoll
Euell E. McKown
Ryan J. Meckfessel
Richard M. Mehigan
J. Michael Memeo
Michael J. Miller
John A. Minkler
William R. Mitchell
Julie A. Mossler
Michael B. Mount
Mary-Beth Moylan
Betty B. Muegge
Harvey E. Mueller
Virginia S. Mueller
Dorothy Nash Holmes
Gary A. Nelson
Ralph R. Nevis
Julia C. Newcomb
Spring 
Timothy R. Nibler
Walter S. Nomura
Stephen M. North
L. Jeffrey Norwalk
Richard E. Nosky
Bruce M. Notareus
Patrick J. O'Connor
Robert F. O'Neal
Nancy Oprsal
Dennis M. O'Reilly
M. Anthony Oropeza
David M. Parker
William J. Pesce
Svetlana V. Petroff
Tony Plazibat
Carl R. Poirot
Simone C. Polak
Edward G. Poole
Jessica J. Poyner
Kathleen T. Price
Andrew J. Puccinelli
Donald C. Pullen
Scott Rasmussen
James M. Ratzer
Nancy B. Reardan
Phyllis L. Redmond
Paul K. Richardson
Curtis D. Rindlisbacher
Michael J. Ritter
Jay E. Robinson
Diana K. Rodgers
Kevin D. Rodman
Marcia A. Ross
Mollie Runnion
Steven C. Sabbadini
Rachael Salcido
Dwight M. Samuel
Robert A. Saunders
William J. Schmidt
John F. Scoles
Jill H. Scrivner
Daniel J. Scully
Sage Sepahi
Jeffrey C. Sevey
E. Paul Sickert
Myrna B. Silver
Dana B. Simonds
Becky M. Smith
Jennifer R. Smith
Linda D. Smith
Loren V. Smith
Maurice B. Smith
Roger A. Smith
Duane V. Sparks
Todd M. Spitler
James C. Spurling
William J. Staack
Joseph L. Staats
C.M. Starr
Karen T. Stefano
Lucy A. Steinberg
Harriet A. Steiner
Val G. Stephens
Marsha L. Stephenson
Miles A. Stern
Karen Stevens
Melinda C. Stewart
Robin Stewart
Gary S. Suganuma
William R. Sykes
Ward A. Tabor
Andrew A. Talley
Timothy J. Tomashek
Robert E. Towne
Ann L. Trowbridge
Stanley G. Tufts
Donald S. Turner
William J. Turpit
Robert S. Van Der Volgen
Lance R. Van Lydegraf
Michael E. Vergara
Edwin Villmoare
R. Todd Vlaanderen
Sim von Kalinowski
Clarence Walden
David A. Wallis
Elizabeth A. Weeks
Glenn E. Wichinsky
Katherine Williams
Terrence D. Williams
Neal R. Winchell
Jimmie Wing
Joseph R. Winn
Judith K. Winn
David L. Winter
Michael M. Wintringer
Sean A. Wong
Michael D. Worthing
Crystal Wright
Randolph C. Wright
Kamal Yackzan
Linda Yackzan
Leilani Yang
Marlene Q.F. Young
Honorary Alumni
Claude D. Rohwer
Class Gifts
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Paul L. Ross
Charles M. Asbury
Joseph Cooper
James W. Luther
Dale W. Mahon
Patricia S. Mar
Karl F. Munz
Peter H. Pickslay
Gordon P. Adelman
Richard K. Corbin
Ross E. de Lipkau
John A. DeRonde
David B. Johnson
Darrel W. Lewis
Jeff B. Marschner
Robert P. McElhany
M. Anthony Oropeza
Roberta Ranstrom
Dwight M. Samuel
Glendalee Scully
James L. Stevens
Peter P. Vlautin
F.L. Willis
Richard J. Yrulegui
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 - 
Harry A. Ackley
John Q. Brown
Francis B. Dillon
Robert G. Harvey
Patrick R. Murphy
Tom T. Okubo
Elmer B. Pirtle
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Harry K. Grafe
Loren V. Smith
Edward J. Tiedemann
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
Clarence L. Bradford
 

Geoffrey Burroughs
Robert F. O'Neal
 
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Jack C. Crose
Philip H. Shedd
Clarence Walden
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Gary M. Gallery
Burl W. Waits
Jimmie Wing
 

Timothy R. Nibler
Ronald B. Robie
 

Stephen A. Brandenburger
Aaron B. Epstein
Eugene T. Gualco
J. Douglas McGilvray
Anthony M. Skrocki
Roger A. Smith

 

Ronald D. Alling
Rae L. Anderson
Raymond E. Ball
Robert K. Best
Harold L. Ford
Robert C. Hight
Chester A. Rogaski
Ronald S. Smith
Howard J. Stagg
Neal R. Winchell
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
Charles C. Asbill
Glenn A. Fait
H. Vincent Jacobs
Arjuna T. Saraydarian
John F. Scoles
Borden D. Webb
Stephen A. Weiner
Bertram C. White
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
Donald L. Carper
Eric Eisenlauer
Glenn A. Fait
Frederick Graebe
Robert K. Hanna
Wayne Hinsdale
Euell E. McKown
Vigo G. Nielsen
Nancy B. Reardan
Norman C. Robison
John F. Scoles
Antonio Torlai
Borden D. Webb
Stephen A. Weiner
Bertram C. White
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
Robert M. Allen
Jerrold B. Braunstein
Lon D. Davenport
Stephen J. Egan
Britt Evans
Roger G. Gilbert
Rodney G. Hughes
David J. Kristjanson
Frederick B. Lee
David P. Mastagni
Michael J. Ritter
Karen Stevens
Joe Weninger
 

Ronald W. Collett
Robert C. De Voe
Richard S. Gerdes
P. Michael Groff
John M. Hunter
John O. Jamison
Marshall Johnson
Gayle J. Lau
James L. Lopes
Steven P. Martini
James B. Pierce
Steven M. Polisar
Gary E. Ransom
John E. Riddle
Lee W. Salter
Arthur G. Scotland
James W. Shewan
Nancy L. Sweet
Louis S. Test
Lance R. Van Lydegraf
 

Ronald E. Blubaugh
Michael J. Bragg
Connie M. Callahan
Robert F. Cochran
James N. Crowell
Michael T. Fogarty
Bryan C. Hartnell
John W. Hawkins
Omar F. James
Warren A. Jones
Jack E. Kennedy
Robert A. Laurie
Deidra E. Lowe
Michael B. McDonald
Terence K. McGee
Hayne R. Moyer
Betty B. Muegge
Walter S. Nomura
R. Mark Rose
Margaret S. Shedd
Thomas A. Smith
Jeffrey A. Smyth
Joseph L. Staats
Robin Stewart
Edward H. Telfeyan
Elleene K. Tessier
Lee A. Thorson
Robert C. Tronvig
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
Gregory F. Andrews
Mary C. Armstrong
Laura E. Arnold
William E. Bonham
Pamela A. Bair
David E. Boyd
George D. Cato
Christopher R. Chandler
J. Michael Cochrane
Charles B. Coyne
Richard K. Dickson
Laurence P. Digesti
Stephen T. Emery
Mathew D. Evans
Reed M. Flocks
Randolph H. Getz
F. Charles Gieseler
Richard H. Halladay
John W. Hudkins
James S. Joiner
Vreeland O. Jones
Fern M. Laethem
Douglas L. Lashley
James R. Lewis
Robert C. MacKichan
Don A. McCullough
Roberta E. Mendonca
Terry R. Menefee
Michael B. Mount
Julia C. Newcomb
Gary W. Norris
Mark C. Raskoff
Jill H. Scrivner
R. Michael Smith
Richard G. Sorenson
Val G. Stephens
Roger Teeslink
Arthur R. Titus
David S. Walsh
Katherine Williams
 

David F. Anderson
Daniel E. Angius
Louise L. Chiu
Clifford G. Collard
William E. Gasbarro
Scott J. Hallabrin
James R. Hastings
Howard M. Hoffman
Sharlene Honnaka
Craig I. Ihara
Samuel L. Jackson
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Sarah B. Johnson
R. Marilyn Lee
Anthony L. Leggio
Herbert I. Levy
Stacy A. McGill
Steven G. McGuire
Richard M. Mehigan
Jennifer Miller Moss
Kathleen M. Mullarkey
Timothy E. Naccarato
Dorothy Nash Holmes
John G. Neville
Susan L. Oldham
Lance H. Olson
John L. Shadek
Charles W. Trainor
Douglas P. Wiita
Terrence D. Williams
 

Daniel R. Allemeier
David Allen
Thomas W. Anthony
Robert W. Armstrong
Gilles S. Attia
Ann H. Barber-Zagozda
David J. Beauvais
Thadd A. Blizzard
Steven A. Block
Suzan E. Boatman
Bruce W. Busch
Philip Clarkson
J. Richard Creatura
Deborah M. DeBow
David P. Drake
Gregory W. Dwyer
Robert H. Faust
John D. Feeney
Mark W. Gilbert
Richard Glasson
Linda Gunderson
Mark H. Gunderson
Maureen P. Higgins
Clark C. Kingery
Jane L. Lamborn
David R. Lane
Richard B. Lewkowitz
Rudolph E. Loewenstein
Michael J. Margosian
John R. Masterman
Mary T. Muse
Andrew J. Puccinelli
Steven C. Sabbadini
William J. Schmidt
Diana P. Scott
Spring 
Richard R. Sooy
William J. Turpit
Mark C. Wood
Randolph C. Wright
Thomas R. Yanger
William P. Yee
Alfred E. Yudes
Allan S. Zaremberg
 

Louis J. Anapolsky
Robert T. Beattie
Clifford P. Berg
Bradley A. Bristow
Douglas S. Cumming
James L. Davis
Noël M. Ferris
Gary H. Gale
Paul L. Grimm
Candace L.
Hage-Xanttopoulos
Darrell C. Harriman
J. Chauncey Hayes
Paul S. Hokokian
John W. Jay
Mark S. Jennings
Debra J. Kazanjian
Jeffrey L. Kuhn
Russell E. Leatherby
Carol R. Loewenstein
J. Michael Memeo
Arther R. Montandon
Patrick J. O'Connor
Dennis M. O'Reilly
Judith A. Smith
C.M. Starr
Shawn G. Stinson
Mark M. Williams
Joseph R. Winn
David L. Winter
Gerrit W. Wood
 

Bruce B. Alexander
Barry E. Crowell
Faith Geoghegan
Dan T. Jett
Regina Jett
Christina H. Jones Janssen
Christian M. Keiner
Michael R. Kelly
Stephen S. Kent
Joseph E. Maloney
Steve Y. Masuda
Joseph A. Mc Intosh
Michael J. Miller
Karen Mitchell
John A. Norwood
Gregory D. Ogrod
Martha Opich
Richard Opich
R. Parker White
Scott Rasmussen
Daniel D. Richard
Paul K. Richardson
Daniel J. Scully
Maurice B. Smith
Lucy A. Steinberg
Sim von Kalinowski
David A. Wallis
Michael D. Worthing
 

Mark E. Buechner
Thomas M. Dunipace
Bruce T. Eigbrett
Jerone J. English
Janice M. Fallman
Kathleen T. Friedrich
Salvatore C. Gugino
Patricia E. Hart
William D. Ingersoll
Laszlo Komjathy
Ronald R. Lamb
Mark L. Mausert
Patrick J. McGrath
Marshall M. Mercer
William R. Mitchell
Donald C. Pullen
Lael Stabler
Miles A. Stern
William R. Sykes
Andrew A. Talley
Patricia S. Tweedy
Phillip R. Urie
Sharon J. Waters
Judith K. Winn
 

William G. Anderson
Anonymous
Gary R. Bricker
Jonathan D. Brown
Ronald W. Brown
John J. Cardile
Pamela Cogan
William S. Colwell
Jeffrey E. Ehlenbach
J. Neil Gieleghem
Carroll C. Jacobson
James F. Kane
Mark W. Knobel
Thomas C. Lee
Linda Y. Masuda
Kevin D. Rodman
Wesley H. Schermann
Lawrence W. Stevens
Marc W. Trost
Donald S. Turner
William J. Ward
Glenn E. Wichinsky
 

Roy J. Chastain
John B. Cinnamon
Elliott R. Curzon
Mariel E. Dennis
Thomas E. Drendel
Morrison C. England
Amanda Lowe
Gregory P. Matzen
Mary C. McGuire Driscoll
David M. Parker
Ward D. Skinner
James C. Spurling
Harriet A. Steiner
Marsha L. Stephenson
Paula G. Tripp
R. Hillary Willett
 

Adekunle M. Aderonmu
Alison E. Aleman
Robert A. Aronson
Norman P. Barth
Raneene P. Belisle
Mark L. Eisenberg
Margaret A. Fainer
Andrea L. Hoch
David L. Hunt
David C. James
Jennifer B. Kaufman
Carl R. Poirot
Jay E. Robinson
Scott S. Slater
Margaret C. Stark-Roberts
Victoria A. Villegas
Bryan N. Wagner
John J. Waters
 

Charlotte M. Bible
Todd S. Bissell
Mark T. Boehme
Frank J. Christy
Anne C. Fadenrecht
Gail R. Fadenrecht
Daniel B. Gangwish
Thomas O. Jacob
Myra M. Kaichi
Marsha M. Lang
Steven E. Mair
Edward G. Poole
Brian Putler
Dana B. Simonds
Steven P. Simpson
Eric H. Sonnenberg
Mark A. Steed
Ward A. Tabor
Robert E. Towne
 

Timothy Blaine
Brian H. Charter
Alberta C. Chew
Ralph S. Coppola
Mary L. Cote
Michael D. Coughlan
Andrew M. Cummings
John A. Don
Robert F. Enzenberger
Kenneth H. Flood
Lon D. Hamburger
Thomas E. Jeffry
Brian J. Plant
Genaro C. Ramirez
Steven D. Rick
Brian J. Sacks
E. Paul Sickert
Faye A. Taylor
Wayne W. Wong
 

Paul A. Bacigalupo
Michael D. Belote
Everett D. Emerson
Carole J. Gray
Brian J. Heffernan
Charlotte M. Hegle
Esther Jackson
Mark R. Jensen
Victoria L. Kalman
Shane D. Kramer
Dorothy S. Landsberg
Richard E. Nosky
Harold M. Thomas
Kathryn J. Tobias
Gregory D. Granger
Kathryn M. Kohlman
Druliner
Lawrence D. Marks
Thomas A. Neil
Robert E. Oakes
James M. Ratzer
Michael M. Wintringer
 

Lexis Allen
Ruthe C. Ashley
Leonard L. Broseker
Daniel S. Glass
Randal W. Graves
Vinton J. Hawkins
Thomas M. Higgins
George C. Hollister
Rosemary Kelley
Thomas F. Klumper
Brian W. Maas
Gregory L. Martin
Bruce M. Notareus
Suzanne E. Rogers
Christopher L. Russell
Michael I. Sidley
James G. Stanley
John R. Thacker
Chance L. Trimm
Elizabeth S. Trimm
Michael E. Vergara
Henry P. Yorston
 

Anonymous
Nora G. Barlow
Mark E. Berry
Clay Calvert
Susan R. Denious
John A. Lambeth
Anna L. Locke
Svetlana V. Petroff
Bruce A. Scheidt
Jeffrey C. Sevey
Robert S. Van Der Volgen
Stanley O. Van Vleck
Frederick G. Wiesner
 

 

William W. Bunting
Annette DeAndreis
John L. Gezelius
Todd F. Haines
James S. Jacobs
Patricia K. Lundvall
Stephen M. North
L. Jeffrey Norwalk
Carolyn L. Pirillo
Simone C. Polak
Phyllis L. Redmond
Joan E. Reid
Curtis D. Rindlisbacher
Matina Romas
Kolokotronis
Peter C. Schreiber
Thomas J. Welsh
Marlene Q. Young
 

Carolyn B. Altman
Katharine C. Baragona
John P. Doering
Angelo A. DuPlantier
Eric A. Elberg
Deborah A. Glynn
Joy Harn
Marcia A. Ross
Evan D. Smiley
Melinda C. Stewart
Jennifer Wilke-Berry
 

Krishna A. Abrams
Jacqueline E. Bailey
Michael K. Brisbin
Christopher W. Ewing
Elaine S. Guenaga
William D. Harn
Michael B. Harper
Shelby L. Hladon
Stephen R. Holden
Betty J. Jones
Mark S. Klitgaard
Geralynn Patellaro
Myrna B. Silver
Ann L. Trowbridge
Steve R. Tuszynski
Sean A. Wong
Spring 
P A C I F I C L A W 67
 

Eric L. Barnum
James P. Benoit
Nicole M. De Santis
Leslie A. Dunsworth
Darcy K. Houghton
Peter N. Lindquist
Catherine C. MacMillan
Valli K. Mendlin
Mia P. Mosher
Teri A. Ostling
Michael G. Polis
Diana K. Rodgers
Julie A. Shepard
William J. Staack
Teresa A. Stanley
 

Robert L. Angres
Mark H. La Rocque
Michael D. Lee
Douglas E. Love
Jennifer M. McGrath
Andrew S. Mendlin
Richard C. Mosher
Donna L. Reynolds
Steven M. Rotblatt
Linda D. Smith
 

Adrienne Brungess
Jeffrey B. Carra
Christina L. Coyne
William Davis
Jennifer L. Derrick
Lauren R. Diefenbach
Gregory C. Gardner
Gustavo E. Matheus
James R. McGuire
Amy Ruggles
Vanessa W. Whang
 

John C. Cha
Christine V. Galves
Michael A. Guiliana
Mitri Hanania
Jessica J. Katz
Roberta L. Larson
Thomas W. McGee
John P. McGill
Deborah B. McKinley
Scott S. Mehler
Julie A. Mossler
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Kathleen T. Price
Matthew J. Rexroad
Colette M. Skaggs
Erik K. Spiess
Tami S. Stoller
Gary S. Suganuma
R. Todd Vlaanderen
Jeanne Wexler
Linda Yackzan
Leilani Yang
 

Teri L. Block
Timothy K. Colvin
Jeffrey N. Klink
Mike S. Mireles
Jessica J. Poyner
 

Janet E. Bender
Heather S. Candy
Derek P. Cole
Dora A. Corby
Kathryn M. Davis
Jana Du Bois
Sarah K. Holt
Shawn M. Kent
Rodney R. Moy
Ralph R. Nevis
Sage Sepahi
 

Jonelle C. Beck
Judith A. Cregan
Margaret C. Felts
Daniel L. Hitzke
Becky M. Smith
Michael A. Sollazzo
Todd M. Spitler
Kerrie D. Webb
 

Juanita C. Barrena
Hendrick S. Crowell
Jerry R. Dagrella
Mary C. Garcia
Carolee D. Johnstone
Gretchen M. Lachance
Ryan J. Meckfessel
Andrew R. Nelson
Shanti R. Patching
Andrew P. Tauriainen
Ellen R. Yamshon
Diane M. Young
Spring 
Kristopher S. Young
 

Amelia F. Burroughs
Judy L. Ford
L. Stephen Gizzi
Shawn M. Thompson
 

Scott N. Cameron
James M. Claybar
Serineh Karapetian
Pamela C. Loomis
James W. Mallonee
Anthony K. McClaren
Peter W. Perkins
Kenneth P. Petruzzelli
Edward F. Randolph
Beverly J. Shane
 

Rebecca A. Dietzen
Jason P. Ebert
Eden Forsythe
Julia M. Hahn
Dustin D. Johnson
Ross W. Prout
David J. Ramirez
Thomas M. Swett
Darren J. Van Blois
Christopher M.
Von Maack
R. Todd Wilson
 

Venus D. Johnson
Robert A. Lytle
Amber D. Pearce
Heather L. Rae
Roy G. Shannon
Hong Tang
Teri L. Townsend
.. 
Ward D. Skinner
John B. Cinnamon
Faye A. Taylor
Henry P. Yorston
Thomas F. Klumper
Svetlana V. Petroff
Mark S. Klitgaard
Peter N. Lindquist
Hong Tang
Businesses, Corporate
Foundations,
Law Firms &
Organizations
Advanced Attorney
Services, Inc.
Aioli Bodega Espanola
Barbri Bar Review
Boeing
Borton, Petrini & Conron,
LLP
Bullivant, Houser &
Bailey, PC
California Advocates, Inc.
Caltronics
Carpenters Local Union
586
Cassano & Associates
City of Sacramento
Clark Hill, PLC
DLA Piper Rudnick
Gray Cary
Downey Brand, LLP
Dreyer, Babich, Buccola &
Callaham, LLP
Gold River Katrina Fund
Hansen, Culhane, Kohls,
Jones, & Sommer, LLP
Intel Corporation
Kronick, Moskovitz,
Tiedemann & Girard
McGeorge Southern
California Alumni
Chapter
McGuireWoods, LLP
Microsoft Corporation
Moyer, Parshall & Tweedy,
LLP
Murphy, Austin, Adams &
Schoenfeld, LLP
Nageley, Meredith &
Miller
Neumiller & Beardslee
Orrick, Herrington &
Sutcliffe, LLP
Palmer, Kazanjian &
Holden LLP
Paul, Hastings, Janofsky &
Walker, LLP
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Inc.
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Delehant
Post, Kirby, Noonan &
Sweat, LLP
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RGL Forensic Accountants
& Consultants
Richard R. Sooy &
Associates
Sacramento Estate
Planning Council
San Diego Court
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Lawyer Program
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Haile, Ballard, &
Cauley, LLP
Segal & Kirby
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& Vitek
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Sacramento County
Union Pacific Corporation
United Way of Sacramento
US Bank
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Company
WD-40 Company
Weintraub, Genshlea,
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Wilke, Fleury, Hoffelt,
Gould & Birney
Foundations
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Fund
Arata Bros. Trust
Mr. & Mrs. William D.
James Foundation
Morrison & Foerster, LLP
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Region Community
Foundation
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Foundation
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Fund, Inc.
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Company
Wang Family Foundation
Parents
The Honorable and Mrs.
Harold G. Albright
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas W.
Alleeson
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Alpers
Mr. and Mrs. Dennis
Altnow
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Dr. and Mrs. Thomas R.
Bales
Ms. Mary E. Bell
Professor Michael A. Berch
Mr. Stephen A.
Brandenburger
Mr. Richard K. Corbin
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Ms. Sandra M. Ferrio
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Ms. Kay Gerjarusak
Mr. Mark H. Gunderson
Ms. Shelley Hall
Ms. Jacqueline Harmon
Mr. John W. Hawkins
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Heming
Mr. and Mrs. James M.
Hendrickson
Mr. Arthur S. Hicks, III
Mr. and Mrs. Larry
Hilliard, Jr.
Ms. Karen Hobbs
Mr. and Mrs. George
Johnson
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Kennedy
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King, Jr.
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Louie
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Ludington
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McGrane
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Sadek
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Smith
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Tochterman
Mr. and Mrs. Carl
Williams
Mr. and Mrs. Howard L.
Wolfe
Dr. Kamal Yackzan
Friends
Douglas H. Abel
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Salem
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William J. Pesce
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Aviva Radbord
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Spring 
P A C I F I C L A W 69
June Rohwer Pistor
Anne Rudin
Bilal Sadek
Nidal R. Sadek
Robert A. Saunders
William A. Saunders
Cynthia SchaberHammond
John Scriven
Willard Shank
Rebecca S. Singleton
Geraldine Skarakis
Karen L. Snell
Duane V. Sparks
Karen T. Stefano
George S. Stewart
J. Kelly Strader
Mark W. Swanson
Jacqueline Taber
Marian D. Taylor
Timothy J. Tomashek
Stanley G. Tufts
Edwin Villmoare
Tom Wagner
Jean Watkins
Doris A. White
Rosella L. Wilhelmi
Joseph C. Wilkerson
William A. Wilson
Clellan N. Young
C.F. Youngren
Robert N. Zarick
Matching Gifts
Clark Hill, PLC
(Daniel J. Scully '80)
Intel Corporation
(Gail R. Fadenrecht '85;
Jeffrey C. Schneider '97)
McGuireWoods, LLP
(Eric L. Barnum '94)
Microsoft Corporation
(Christopher J. Breunig
'92)
Morrison & Foerster, LLP
(Kathryn M. Davis '99;
Christopher L. Russell
'88; Patricia S. Mar '69)
The Walt Disney
Company (Jeffrey N.
Paule '75)
Union Pacific Corporation
(John D. Feeney '78)
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Vulcan Materials
Company
(Todd M. Spitler '00)
Memorial Gifts
James & Dorothy Adams
Raymond H. Biele
Raymond Burr
Chris Connell
Jerome J. Curtis, Jr.
Loren S. Dahl
Gary D. Damon
Agatha Davies
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Clay Foss
James L. Gilkison
B. Abbott Goldberg
Tracy G. Helms
Travis Helsel
William R. Knudson
Alphonso Love, Sr.
Tom McNally
Carol J. Miller
William K. Morgan
Thelma Morasch
Amy Olson
Jeffrey Poilé
Robert Puglia
Mike Robinson
Hilary Runnion
Kamal Ramsey Sadek
Gary V. Schaber
Sue C. Welsh
Albert F. Zangerle
Schaber Society
James Adams*
Rosalie S. Asher*
Katharine O. Biele*
Irving H. Biele
John Brownston*
Dona Buckingham
Peggy Chater-Turner
Joseph Cooper
Helen H. Crittenden
Loren S. Dahl*
Margaret K. Distler
Mark S. Drobny
Robert O. Fort*
Louis F. Gianelli
Gregory Graves
Phil Hiroshima
Ben E. Johnson
Frank La Bella
Spring 
Daniel R. Lang
James R. Lewis
Patricia K. Lundvall
Sharon L. McDonald*
Hayne R. Moyer
Ramon E. Nunez
Laraine C. Patching
Ronald G. Peck
Marc D. Roberts
Georgia A. Rose*
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Donald Steed
Sandra E. Stockman
Bradley S. Towne
*Deceased
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Lexis M. Allen
Louis J. Anapolsky
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Ruthe C. Ashley
Adam Barrett
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Cindy Bogue
Stephanie Braunstein
Adrienne Brungess
Mark Brylski
Denai M. Burbank
Geoffrey Burroughs
Clay Calvert
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Armando Coro
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Paul M. Demersseman
Joginder Dhillon
Jennifer Duggan
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Glenn A. Fait
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Max Francis
Kathleen T. Friedrich
Laura L. Friudenberg
Paul D. Fuller
Fred T. Galves
Franklin A. Gevurtz
Kevin J. Gonzalez
George C. Harris
Lovelle R. Harris
Robert A. Hawley
Mark A. Hoime
Carol J. Hunter
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Sharleen B. Jackson
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Julise M. Johanson
Warren A. Jones
Charles D. Kelso
J. Clark Kelso
Donna C. Kodama
Mary Lou Lackey
Amy L. Landers
Brian K. Landsberg
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Thomas J. Leach
Guy Lee
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Elisa A. Levy
Savka Ljuboje-Glisic
Hether Macfarlane
Sandra M. Maguire
Thomas Main
Michael P. Malloy
Christine Manolakas
Rosalee L. May
Stephen C. McCaffrey
Mary C. McGuire Driscoll
John McIntyre
Suzanne L. McNealy
David W. Miller
Mary-Beth Moylan
Robert Murta
John E. Myers
Timothy E. Naccarato
Kaiyee Ng
Stella Obillo
Rose M. Odom
Martha Opich
Ruben Pastrana
Michael A. Pina
Gregory C. Pingree
Joe Pinkas
Donald R. Prinz
Cathleen Reis
Donna L. Reynolds
Elizabeth Rindskopf
Parker & Robert Parker
Beth Rivera
Ronald B. Robie
Christopher Robinson
Pauline R. Rodriguez
Todd Rohloff
Matina RomasKolokotronis
Anthony Sabala
Rachael Salcido
Richard Schickele
Glendalee Scully
T. Jed "Skip" Scully
John C. Sims
Sally Snyder
John G. Sprankling
Edward D. Spurgeon
Max Stamm
Joseph E. Taylor
Paul Taylor
Edward H. Telfeyan
Barbara Thomas
Jane Thomson
Joe Tira
Mary L. Toles
Gordon Tomsic
Teri L. Townsend
R.K. Van Every
Angelo Viramontes
Michael Vitiello
Francis S.L. Wang
Jane E. Watkins
Gregory Weber
Elizabeth A. Weeks
Nancy K. Whalen
Philip H. Wile
Crystal Wright
Kam Yee
Kojo Yelpaala
Julie Young
Laura W.Y. Young
Lorna Zink
Harriet E. Zook
Students
Jason L. Eliaser
Gail Maiorana
Alyssa B. Sherman
Jennifer R. Smith
Rebecca M. Wilkins
The hand extended …
Today’s Pacific McGeorge students look
forward to taking the dean’s hand at
graduation, just as you did. But right now
they need another hand—from you.
Your gift can help keep them on a path to
success. Please offer them your hand
through your tax-deductible charitable
gift to Pacific McGeorge. And please
do it today, so they can extend their
hands tomorrow.
Contact John McIntyre at 916-739-7152
or [email protected], or use the law
school’s secure online giving page at
http://www.mcgeorge.edu/alumni_
resources/support_mcgeorge/index.htm
Spring 
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Admissions on an upswing
Law schools across the nation have seen an increase
in applications in recent years, but few as dramatic as
Pacific McGeorge. Applications here have increased more
than  percent since the year . The number of
applicants with LSAT scores in the th percentile or
higher range has more than doubled since . The
accompanying charts reflect some of the important
statistical measures that show a law school on the move.
2001
2002
2003
2004
2005
Annual
Enrollment
2001
2002
Enrollment
Day
2003
762
2004
2005
2001
2002
2003
2004
737
700
3.24
649
1,139
2005
Median Fall Day
Entering Class GPA
610
3.19
1,066
394
Evening
359
319
1,036
316
278
1,037
LL.M
24
953
Median Fall Day
Entering Class LSAT
158
20
18
Applications
for Entering
Fall Day Class
22
3.15
3.14
3.09
23
Percentage of Entering Class
of Minority Designation
3,077
Evening
3,026
157
31.4%
156
29.1%
2,671
27.8%
27.3%
153
Day
152
25%
24.6%
24.1%
1,834
1,601
19%
72
P A C I F I C L AW
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17.3%
17.7%