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BRIEF
THE NEWSLETTER OF UCLA SCHOOL OF LAW SPRING 2012
UCLA Law Celebrates
Law School “Legends”
The law school hosted a special celebration in February to honor our “legends”—
past leaders of UCLA School of Law and influential faculty members. The event was
also in recognition of the 60th anniversary of the law school’s first graduating class.
The honorees included past deans and interim deans Richard Maxwell, William
Warren, Susan Westerberg Prager, Jonathan Varat, Norman Abrams, Michael Schill
and Stephen Yeazell, as well as emeritus professors Kenneth Karst and Herbert
Morris. UCLA Chancellor Emeritus Charles Young and Executive Vice Chancellor Scott Waugh participated in the program, along with alumni moderators David
Epstein ’64 and Ralph Shapiro ’58. Hosted by Dean Rachel F. Moran and held at
the UCLA Faculty Center, the UCLA Law community, including alumni, friends
and faculty members, as well as the honorees, came together to commemorate the law
school’s history and to pay tribute to those who have played crucial roles in shaping
the law school and contributing to its excellence.
From left: Jonathan Varat; Herbert Morris; Kenneth Karst; Richard Maxwell; Rachel F. Moran;
William Warren; Michael Schill; Norman Abrams and Susan Westerberg Prager
Mark Your Calendars for Reunion 2012!
Mark your calendars for UCLA Law’s Reunion 2012,
which will be held on Saturday, May 19. Come join
your classmates, friends and professors as we celebrate UCLA Law’s first graduating class, the class
of ’52, as well as alumni from the classes of ’62, ’67,
’72, ’77, ’82, ’87, ’92, ’97, ’02 and ’07. Attend a special
reunion reception at the law school and an intimate dinner with your class, as well as the Alumni
of the Year Award Luncheon, which will be held on
Friday, May 18.
405 Hilgard Avenue
Box 951475
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1476
“In addition to attending the reunion in May, I
also encourage you to make a gift in honor of your
reunion. Participation by alumni is one of the factors used to boost our national rankings, and will
help make an outstanding law school education
possible for this generation and others to follow,”
Jeffrey Silberman ’82, National Reunion Challenge
Chair, said.
Now in its third year, the Reunion Challenge is an
opportunity for alumni to honor their reunion class
with a financial commitment to the law school.
As national chair, Jeff will work with reunion classes
to increase challenge participation and help to
make the reunions a great success.
For more information on reunions
or to register, please visit us at
www.law.ucla.edu/reunion2012.
BRIEF
Prosecutor of the International Criminal
Court Visits UCLA Law
Luis Moreno-Ocampo, prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC), delivered a keynote
address at UCLA School of Law in November. His
lecture focused on questions concerning the ICC’s
issuance of arrest warrants for Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi and his son Saif al-Islam. To a packed
audience, Prosecutor Moreno-Ocampo showed video
clips of Gaddafi’s four decades of rule. He described
the ICC’s investigation into crimes against humanity committed in Libya, including the timeline of
applying and issuing arrest warrants. Prosecutor
Moreno-Ocampo posed the question of whether the
situation in Libya signals that the world is no longer
accepting crimes against humanity, or whether this
was a unique case. He also talked about the role of
the prosecutor, saying that politics do not affect judicial decisions and that he must follow the criminal
prosecutor mandate.
The visit, co-sponsored by UCLA School of Law’s
Sanela Diana Jenkins Human Rights Project, was
part of the American Society of International Law’s
(ASIL’s) second annual Midyear Meeting, which
was held at the law school. The law school was also
pleased to welcome Judge Joan Donoghue of the
International Court of Justice to UCLA Law as part
of the ASIL event. Elected in 2010 (she is the third
woman elected to the court), Judge Donoghue spoke
to students about her experience as one of 15 judges
on the court in The Hague. She described the function and history of the International Court of Justice,
talked about the ways the court is different from
national courts and gave examples of the kinds of
cases the court decides, including contentious boundary disputes. She also talked about international law
and today’s global challenges.
Top Left: Sanela Diana Jenkins with Luis Moreno-Ocampo; Top Right: Luis
Moreno-Ocampo; Bottom: Luis Morena-Campo greets Judge Joan Donoghue
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Message from Dean Rachel F. Moran
A
s always, there is a great deal of good news to
report, thanks to the wonderful community
of faculty, students, staff, alumni and friends
who make UCLA School of Law a leader in legal education. As a result of an outpouring of support, the
law school recently met an important milestone—we
exceeded the goal of the $100 million Campaign
for UCLA School of Law well ahead of the original
five-year schedule. We were able to reach this goal
through your generosity, dedication and engagement.
The capstone to the campaign was the transformative $10 million gift the law school received in
August—the single largest gift in the school’s history.
The gift from 2009 Public Service Alumnus of the
Year Lowell Milken ’73 established the Lowell Milken
Institute for Business Law and Policy, which will
allow us to provide financial support for students,
enhance training in real-world transactional skills and
initiate a variety of curricular advancements.
In addition to the gift from Lowell Milken, leadership gifts from alumni and friends including Charles
Williams, David Epstein ’64, Ralph Shapiro ’58,
Michael Masin ’69 and Dan Emmett enabled the
law school to surpass our ambitious campaign goal.
Private philanthropy throughout the campaign more
than doubled the number of endowed chairs at the
Professor Ronald
Dworkin Visits
UCLA Law
Ronald Dworkin, professor of
philosophy and Frank Henry
Sommer professor of law at New
York University, as well as the
UCLA distinguished scholar in
residence, spent two weeks at
UCLA Law in February. As part of
his annual visit, which is sponsored by the UCLA Program in
Law and Philosophy, he presented “A Religion for
Physics” during a public lecture at the law school,
and the lecture was followed by a reception.
Professor Dworkin, who is widely regarded as
one of the leading philosophers of law, also discussed his paper “Is There Really a Right to
Religious Freedom?” at a Legal Theory Workshop.
law school, and the campaign funded the A. Barry
Cappello Courtroom, Bruce H. Spector Conference
Room, Stewart and Lynda Resnick Endowed Fund
in support of Public Interest Law and the Bernard
A. and Lenore S. Greenberg Endowed Law Review
Fellow Fund.
We continue to celebrate the law school’s achievements on a daily basis as well. We inaugurated the
NYU-UCLA Tax Policy Conference at the law
school in the fall, hosted Luis Moreno-Ocampo,
the prosecutor of the International Criminal Court,
and welcomed back our distinguished scholar in
residence, Ronald Dworkin. In February, we also
hosted a very special event in honor of our law school
“legends”—our past deans and professors who have
led the law school and made it what it is today. In addition, you will read about the numerous honors our
faculty members have received for their teaching and
research, the awards our students have won and the
impact our alumni are making in their communities
and on the profession.
While we are very proud of what has been accomplished, the hard work cannot stop now. Private
funding is still necessary in order to keep our law
school accessible to outstanding students from all
backgrounds, regardless of their financial situation.
We must continue to provide an excellent legal
education to all and uphold our tradition as a great
public law school. For this, we need your support.
There is still time to make a gift to the Law Annual
Fund before the fiscal year ends on June 30, 2012.
I also encourage you to participate in the Reunion
Challenge and honor your class with a financial commitment to UCLA Law. Please remember to save the
date, May 19, 2012, for Reunion 2012. I hope to see
many of you there!
This newsletter offers you just a glimpse of our
recent achievements. With your continued support,
our future will be even brighter. I urge you to join us
and be a part of our transformative impact for years
to come.
Warmly,
Mayor Villaraigosa
Co-Hosts UCLA
Law Symposium
0n Education
Reform In
California
Los Angeles Mayor Villaraigosa will co-host a
symposium at UCLA Law on April 10, “Learn-
ing Curve: The Trajectory of Education Reform
in California.” Symposium panels will explore
the challenges and progress of educational access and equity and the retooling of education
advocacy. Scheduled speakers include Robin Jo-
hansen, Founding Partner of Remcho, Johansen
& Purcell; Margaret Weston, Policy Associate of
the Public Policy Institute of California; UCLA
Graduate School of Education & Information
Studies Professors John Rogers and Thomas
RACHEL F. MORAN
Dean and Michael J. Connell Distinguished
Professor of Law
Philip; Stanford Law School Professor William
Koski; and Catherine Lhamon, Director of Impact
Litigation at Public Counsel Law Center. UCLA
Law Professors Gary Blasi and Stuart Biegel,
along with Counsel to the Mayor Brian Currey,
will moderate, and Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa
will provide the opening address.
UCLA Law Hosts 36th Annual
Entertainment Symposium
UCLA School of Law hosted the 36th UCLA Entertainment Symposium, “Killer Deals: What Works, What’s New, What’s Coming,” in
March. The two-day symposium, the annual flagship event for the
entertainment industry, featured candid discussions and lively exchanges by leading legal and entertainment industry executives.
A highlight of the event was the keynote presentation by Leslie
Moonves, president and chief executive officer of CBS Corpora-
tion, as well as a member of the company’s board of directors. He
participated in a lively Q&A with Ken Ziffren ’65, founding partner of
entertainment law firm Ziffren Brittenham, LLP.
Conference participants examined the status of the industry and
discussed issues related to talent negotiations, underlying rights,
distribution windows and copyright termination. The conference
also addressed some of the key issues facing the entertainment
KEYNOTE SPEAKER LESLIE MOONVES
industry related to social networking use and reality TV, among
other topics.
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UCLA Law Hosts
Inaugural NYU-UCLA
Tax Policy Conference
From left: Lowell Milken, Deborah Schenk (NYU Law), Daniel Shaviro (NYU Law),
Eric Zolt, Kirk Stark and Rachel F. Moran
Conference participants discuss tax policy implications of health care reform
In October, the law school hosted the inaugural NYU-UCLA Tax Policy Conference,
bringing together experts from two of the nation’s strongest tax law faculties. Sponsored
by the MacArthur Foundation and the Lowell Milken Institute for Business Law and
Policy, the conference focused on the tax policy implications of health care reform.
Dean Moran opened the event by welcoming the participants. After quoting Ben
Franklin, “… nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes,” she noted that
the conference embraced a fresh perspective by linking taxes to health. She praised the
partnership between the two leading law schools as a fruitful collaboration.
Panelists at the day-long conference discussed the history and politics of taxation and
the health care system, summarizing the high points as well as talking about “Obamacare.” They addressed questions of tax alternatives to fund health care reform, presented
quantitative political science data, examined how other countries fund health care, and
talked about health care policy and the long-term fiscal outlook, among other topics.
The joint annual conference provides a forum for leading scholars, policymakers and
practitioners to offer expert perspectives on complex tax policy issues and options for
reform from both a legal and economic perspective. The second conference will be held
in October 2012 in New York and will focus on the 100th anniversary of the modern
U.S. income tax.
Epstein Program Hosts
Speaker Series
The David J. Epstein Program in Public Interest Law and Policy hosted the first
program of its 2011-12 speaker series in October, “Invisible Wounds, Broken
Promises and Violated Trust: Litigating for Homeless Veterans in Los Angeles.”
The panelists discussed a federal class action, Valentini et al. vs. Shinseki et al., filed
against the Veterans Administration for violating the rights of homeless veterans.
Three of the lawyers for the plaintiffs, Professor Gary Blasi, Elly Kruger ’10 and
Melissa Tyner of the Inner City Law Center, spoke about the litigation. While
Kugler and Tyner described their clients, including named plaintiff Gregory Valentini, Professor Blasi gave an overview of the issues. He described what led to the
filing, including mentioning that there are approximately 8,200 homeless veterans
in Los Angeles County and about half are chronically mentally disabled. He talked
about veterans who are unable to obtain the benefits and services to which they
are legally entitled and said the case seeks to compel the government to offer these
services to homeless veterans.
A second event in the series, held in November, focused on the landmark
U.S. Supreme Court decision in Brown v. Plata, requiring California to reduce
its prisoner population. The panelists, including Professor Sharon Dolovich and
Kelly Knapp ’07 of the Prison Law Office, explored Plata’s impact. They focused
in particular on prisoners’ rights litigation, prison mental health care and prison
reform more generally. Knapp described the background of the case, and Professor
Dolovich discussed the eighth amendment implications of the decision. The event
was moderated by Acting Professor Allison Hoffman.
Professor Winkler
Publishes New
Book “Gunfight”
Professor Adam Winkler has published a
new book, Gunfight: The Battle over the
Right to Bear Arms in America (W. W. Norton
& Company, 2011). Using the Supreme Court
decision in District of Columbia v. Heller,
which invalidated a law banning handguns
GARY BLASI
in the nation’s capital, as a starting point,
he examines America’s battle over gun
control and the right to bear arms. The book
provides a historical narrative, from the
founding fathers and the Second Amend-
ment to President Reagan’s efforts to curtail
gun ownership, and
weaves together
stories of gun rights
advocates and gun
control lobbyists to
provide insights into
the nation’s current
SHARON DOLOVICH
Dean Moran Appointed by
President Obama to Key
Administrative Post
gun rights debate.
Emmett Center Publishes
Pritzker Policy Briefs
Dean Rachel F. Moran, Michael J. Connell distinguished
Professor Timothy Malloy addressed California’s newly proposed green chemistry
in September to serve as a member of the Permanent
“Toxics in Consumer Products: California’s Green Chemistry Regulations at a
committee, which was established by Congress in 1955 to
tions for correcting the deficiencies. It was published in January by the Emmett
to the government, is charged with preparing a history of
Cara Horowitz, the Andrew Sabin Family Foundation executive director of
professor of law, was appointed by President Obama
regulations in the third Pritzker Environmental Law and Policy Brief. The paper,
Committee for the Oliver Wendell Holmes Devise. The
Crossroad,” describes how the regulations are flawed and makes recommenda-
administer the funds the late Justice Holmes bequeathed
Center on Climate Change and the Environment.
the U.S. Supreme Court and sponsoring the Oliver Wendell
the Emmett Center on Climate Change and the Environment, published the
Holmes Lecture.
Dean Moran, the eighth dean of UCLA School of Law, is highly active in the
second Pritzker Policy Brief in October. Her paper, “Bright Roofs, Big City: Keeping
L.A. Cool Through an Aggressive Cool-Roof Program,” recommends the wide-
legal community. She was appointed as president of the Association of American
spread use of cool roofing material to reduce air pollution and energy costs in Los
served on the executive committee of the Association of American Law Schools.
combat climate change.
Bar Association; serves as a member of the editorial board for the Supreme Court
Anthony Pritzker, the managing partner and co-founder of The Pritzker Group.
Student Engagement. She is currently a senator for the Phi Beta Kappa Society.
and public dialog on urgent issues impacting the environment.
Law Schools (AALS) in 2009. She is a member of the American Law Institute and
She sat on the standing committee of the Division of Public Education, American
Preview; and is a member of the advisory board for the Law School Survey of
Angeles. It proposes law and policy strategies for achieving this goal to
The Pritzker Environmental Law and Policy Briefs are supported by a gift from
They provide expert analysis on legislation, academic research, corporate actions
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UCLA School of Law In the News
UCLA School of Law faculty members are quoted in the press
virtually every day and continuously publish articles and op-eds
on timely topics. These are only some of the many examples.
Please visit www.ucla.edu to read more.
Khaled Abou El Fadl was featured in a Los Angeles Times
article about the unrest in Egypt and discussed the issue
during interviews on KCET-TV’s “SoCal Connected” and
KPCC-FM’s “Air Talk.” He also commented on a popular
Egyptian televangelist’s return from exile in a Los Angeles
Times article.
Norman Abrams commented on a lawsuit alleging that
an FBI investigation violated the First Amendment rights
of hundreds of Muslims in Southern California mosques in
a Los Angeles Times article.
Peter Arenella published an essay on CNN.com about the
ruling that Jared Loughner is incompetent to stand trial.
He also commented on the ongoing trial of Conrad Murray in a Los Angeles Times article.
Stephen Bainbridge discussed corporations disclosing their political spending in an interview on NPR’s “All
Things Considered.” He commented on the insider trading
trial of Galleon Group founder Raj Rajaratnam in an
Economist article, on Berkshire Hathaway’s investigation
of David Sokol in a Bloomberg BusinessWeek article, on the
role of activist investors in an Oregonian article, and on
Carlyle Group’s efforts to require future shareholders to
resolve claims through arbitration in a Bloomberg article.
He was also cited in a Wall Street Journal column on insider
trading and a Philadelphia Inquirer article about the Airgas
“poison pill” issue, a measure allowing Airgas to block an
unwanted takeover attempt by Air Products.
Asli Bâli offered an analysis of the vote by the U.N.
Security Council to authorize a no-fly zone over Libya in
an interview with the radio program “Democracy Now!”
She also discussed the U.S.–led military intervention in
Libya and international law in an interview on KPFK-FM’s
“Background Briefing.”
Steven Bank discussed America’s history with the flat
tax in an interview on CNN Radio. He also commented
on two lawsuits filed against the co-founder of Broadcom
Corp. over alleged tax shelters in a Los Angeles Daily Journal
article and on Mitt Romney’s offshore tax investments in a
Los Angeles Times article.
Stuart Banner participated in a Q&A with the Boston
Globe, where he discussed his new book, American Property:
A History of How, Why, and What We Own. His comments
on the privacy of executions also appeared in a New York
Times article.
Stuart Biegel’s book, The Right to be Out, was cited in
a Salon.com article about anti-gay prejudice and bullying
in schools.
Taimie Bryant was interviewed on KTTV Fox 11’s “Good
Morning LA” show regarding Governor Brown’s proposal
to repeal animal shelter provisions of the Hayden Law.
She also commented on the subject in a San Francisco
Chronicle article.
Ann Carlson commented on the cap-and-trade provision
in California’s global warming law in Los Angeles Times and
Bloomberg articles. She was cited in an Associated Press article on AB32, which seeks to reduce the state’s greenhouse
gas emissions, and was interviewed on KPCC-FM’s “The
Madeleine Brand Show,” where she discussed a Supreme
Court case that will establish whether states and individuals can use the court system to stop energy companies
from releasing carbon emissions. She also published an
op-ed discussing California’s climate change policy in the
Huffington Post.
Kimberlé Crenshaw published an op-ed in The New York
Times on why Herman Cain is unfit to lead.
Sharon Dolovich commented on various prison-related
issues in multiple New York Times articles, as well as in the
Los Angeles Times, The Nation and Los Angeles Daily Journal.
Ingrid Eagly commented on immigration-related issues
in the Los Angeles Times and Los Angeles Daily Journal. Her
remarks on how much time Conrad Murray may spend in
jail also appeared in a CBSNews.com article.
Gary Gates discussed issues related to same-sex marriage
in the Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, San Francisco
Chronicle and on NPR’s “All Things Considered.” His
research has also been cited in The New York Times, Los
Angeles Times, Washington Post, Associated Press, ABC News,
U.S. News & World Report, Baltimore Sun and the Advocate.
David Ginsburg commented on a legal battle over
the broadcast rights to the Golden Globe Awards in
an Associated Press article.
Carole Goldberg was profiled in a UCLA Today article,
and her new book, Defying the Odds: The Tule River Tribe’s
Struggle for Sovereignty in Three Centuries, was featured in
a Porterville Recorder article.
Sean Hecht commented on Chevron’s $8 billion fine for
rain forest contamination and discussed a racketeering
lawsuit filed by Chevron in San Francisco Chronicle articles.
He commented on the scope of cuts to environmental programs in a Los Angeles Times article, on a proposal to drill
for oil in the Whittier Wilderness Preserve and on efforts to
revitalize the Los Angeles River in Associated Press articles,
and discussed a lawsuit over plastic bag use in a Greenwire
article. He also discussed a challenge to L.A.’s medicinal
marijuana ordinance and a lawsuit seeking to hold railway
companies responsible for air pollution health risks in Los
Angeles Daily Journal articles.
Cara Horowitz discussed the consequences of climate
change on California’s coastline in an interview on KCET’s
“SoCal Connected.” Her remarks on the California Air Resources Board voting to reaffirm its cap-and-trade plan also
appeared in a Los Angeles Times article. She also commented
on California’s cap-and-trade regulations in a California
Lawyer article.
Jerry Kang commented on the shut down of cell phone
service by Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) officials in a
Fast Company article. He was cited in an article on implicit
bias and law enforcement that appeared in The Police
Chief magazine.
David Kaye published essays in Foreign Affairs on the
International Criminal Court (ICC) and whether the ICC
could arrest Muammar al-Qaddafi, as well as an op-ed in
The New York Times titled “What to do with Qaddafi.” He
was interviewed on Al Jazeera, KPFK-FM’s “The Insighters” and a “Voices on Genocide Prevention” podcast, and
he discussed a variety of human rights issues in articles in
Voice of America, Reuters, Foreign Policy and the German
newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung.
Kenneth Klee was featured in a Bloomberg article, where
he was called a “walking history of bankruptcy.” His
comments on various bankruptcy issues have appeared in
multiple Birmingham News articles, in the Cleveland Plain
Dealer, on Birmingham, Alabama’s, CBS 42 and WVTM
“Alabama’s 13.” He discussed the Dodgers bankruptcy case
in an interview that aired in Los Angeles on “NBC 4 News
at 5 PM” and “NBC 4 News at 6 PM.” Professor Klee also
published an emerging issues analysis on Stern v. Marshall,
which can be found on LexisNexis and discussed the decision in a LexisNexis Bankruptcy Law Community Podcast.
Douglas Lichtman published an op-ed in The New York
Times on how American patent law is litigated. He was the
featured guest in interviews on NPR’s “Marketplace,” where
he discussed a patent dispute between Apple and Samsung.
His comments on intellectual property issues also appeared
in the San Francisco Chronicle and American Lawyer.
Lynn LoPucki’s new book, Professional Fees in Corporate
Bankruptcies: Data, Analysis, and Evaluation, was cited in
a Bloomberg article on rising bankruptcy costs. He was
featured in a Wall Street Journal article on the General Motors bankruptcy, and in a Los Angeles Times article and an
interview on KABC-TV on the Dodgers bankruptcy. His
comments on a lawsuit accusing businessman Alfred Villalobos of bribing officials of the California Public Employees’ Retirement System appeared in the Sacramento Bee.
Timothy Malloy published a paper addressing the
regulation of nanotechnology in ACS Nano.
Jennifer Mnookin discussed forensic science in a
Newsweek article, and she published an op-ed in the
Los Angeles Times on combating cognitive biases.
Dean Rachel F. Moran was quoted in a Huffington Post
article about the rising costs of higher education and
whether education in America should be a civil right. She
also appeared on KRLA, KFWB “News Talk,” KCBQ,
KTIE, and KTKZ in the “Champions of Justice” radio
program with host Thomas Girardi to speak about UCLA
School of Law and the benefits of public law schools.
Hiroshi Motomura’s remarks on a judge blocking key
Arizona immigration law provisions appeared in an ABC
News article.
Jyoti Nanda discussed when children can be tried as adults
and commented on a 10-year-old boy who was charged
with murder in Riverside Press-Enterprise articles.
Jennifer Pizer discussed the Defense of Marriage Act and
a potential lawsuit challenging the polygamy law in New
York Times articles. She was also cited in a Bloomberg article
about the potential economic benefit of legalized same-sex
marriage in New York.
Kal Raustiala published an op-ed about artist Jeff Koons,
whose work has led to multiple copyright lawsuits, in The
New York Times “Freakonomics” blog, and an op-ed in the
Los Angeles Times on diplomatic immunity. He discussed
the jurisdiction issues surrounding the $9.5 billion
environmental lawsuit against Chevron in Ecuador in a
San Francisco Chronicle article, commented on the actions
against Libya in PolitiFact.com articles, and discussed a
Holocaust survivor’s legal battle to recover a painting stolen
during World War II in a Los Angeles Daily Journal article.
He was also cited in an ABA Journal article on whether
fashion designs should be able to be copyrighted, and he
moderated a panel discussion on Wikileaks’ impact, which
aired on C-SPAN. In addition, he published an op-ed article in the Los Angeles Times titled “Another Guantanamo
Taint” on the detrimental effects of a draft order violating
the right to counsel for Guantanamo Bay defendants.
Joanna Schwartz published an op-ed in The New York
Times on ways the city can learn from litigation against the
NYPD and reduce litigation costs.
Brad Sears’s comments on the Obama administration’s
decision to stop defending the 1996 Defense of Marriage
Act against lawsuits appeared in Los Angeles Times, San
Francisco Chronicle and Philadelphia Inquirer articles. He
discussed the lack of financial equality for married gay
couples in an interview on the “CBS Evening News,” and
was interviewed on NPR’s “Weekend Edition” about gays
and lesbians keeping their sexual orientation a secret in
the workplace. His comments on a study that discovered
a much smaller number of gays and lesbians than generally reported by the news media appeared in a USA Today
column, and he commented on cuts to partner benefits in
states with legal same-sex marriage in a Wall Street Journal
article. He also published op-eds in the Los Angeles Daily
Journal on discrimination against patients with HIV and
LGBT rights.
Kirk Stark discussed Proposition 13 in an interview
on KPCC’s “AirTalk.”
Lara Stemple published an op-ed in The New York Times
on the hidden victims of wartime rape, men. She commented on the wartime rape of men in a Guardian article
and in an interview on Al Jazeera’s “Inside Story.” Her
research on the topic was cited in the Guardian article and
in a Time article. She also commented on sexual violence
against journalists in an American Journalism Review article.
Katherine Stone commented on companies that bar
unemployed job candidates in a Chicago Tribune column,
discussed a Boeing Co. labor case in a Fort Worth StarTelegram article and a move by law firms to offer nontraditional vacation policies in an American Lawyer article. She
commented on the legality of a company pressuring its employees to vote for conservative Republican candidates in
an article in The Nation, on a ruling that e-mail sent from
a work account is not privileged and on a case that centers
on an antitrust challenge to grocery stores’ profit-sharing
pact in Los Angeles Daily Journal articles. Professor Stone
also published an article in The American Prospect, which
discussed the increasing use of arbitration by corporations
in order to deprive consumers and workers of their rights.
Lynn Stout published an op-ed in The New York Times on
a case against international regulations and a case for strict
limits, and she published an op-ed on shareholder value in
the Sydney Morning Herald. She discussed insider trading in
Los Angeles Times and Reuters articles, and in an interview
on China Radio International Today. She commented on a
lawsuit filed against News Corp. in a Los Angeles Times article, discussed prosecuting financial titans in an interview
on NPR’s “On Point,” and commented on the focus on
maximizing shareholder returns on the Australian Broadcast
Corporation’s “Lateline Business.” She was cited in a Barron’s article about the enforcement of the Dodd-Frank Wall
Street Reform Consumer Protection Act.
Tony Tolbert was featured in a UCLA Today article on the
UCLA Law Street Law Program.
Jonathan Varat discussed a lawsuit that was filed against
an Alaska-based government contractor for allegedly
violating California wage-and-hour laws in a Los Angeles
Daily Journal article.
Eugene Volokh was featured in a New York Times article
on influential academic bloggers for his blog, The Volokh
Conspiracy, and his blog was cited in a California Lawyer
article on the best legal blogs. He commented on a variety
of First Amendment issues and Supreme Court cases in
publications, including The New York Times, Los Angeles
Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, San Francisco
Chronicle, San Jose Mercury News, Associated Press, FOX
News, CNN.com, Variety, Communications Daily, Reason,
Fast Company, Los Angeles Daily News, Los Angeles Daily
Journal and in interviews on NPR’s “Morning Edition” and
“All Things Considered,” and KPCC-FM’s “AirTalk” and
“Patt Morrison Show.” Professor Volokh participated in a
Q&A on free speech in the Harvard Law and Policy Review,
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Class Notes
1950-1959
The Honorable Joan
Dempsey Klein ’54 was
honored in September
with the prestigious
Bernard E. Witkin
Medal from the State
Bar of California, which
is given to those “whose
outstanding contributions and achievements
HON. JOAN DEMPSEY KLEIN
M.C. Sungaila
have enriched the legal
profession and exalted the science of jurisprudence.” Klein has been presiding justice of the
California Court of Appeal, Second Appellate
District, Division Three in Los Angeles, since
1978. A resolution signed by former State Bar
President William Hebert thanked Klein “for her
extraordinary contributions to the legal profession,
for her exemplary service to the community, for her
courage in upholding the provisions of the United
States Constitution, for her unwavering commitment to the concepts of equal access to justice and
civil rights.”
Arthur Mazirow ’58 was invited to speak at the
U.S. Shopping Center Law Conference in Phoenix,
Arizona. He participated in a seminar titled,
“Binding Arbitration: What Real Estate and Lease
Lawyers Do NOT Know Can Hurt Them.” His
discussion topics included why transactional real
estate lawyers must have an understanding of the
arbitration process; a primer on drafting arbitration
clauses; and the pros and cons of whether the real
estate appraiser should also be the arbitrator.
1960-1969
Colonel (Ret.) John L. Moriarity ’60
(See inset box below).
Stanley W. Levy ’65,
senior counsel at
Manatt, Phelps &
Phillips, LLP, was
awarded The American
Lawyer’s Lifetime
Achievement Award for
2011. Levy was
recognized for his
significant legal practice,
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innovation and
leadership in the provision of pro bono legal
services, including more than 40 years of providing
at-risk citizens with access to justice. He was the
founding executive director of Public Counsel Law
Center, served as executive director of the Western
Center on Law and Poverty and co-founded Bet
Tzedek Legal Services.
Lawrence H. Jacobson ’67 has been installed
as the 80th president of The Beverly Hills Bar
Association. Jacobson serves as legal counsel to
the Newport Beach Association of Realtors and is
a member of the California State Bar Real Estate
Sales and Brokerage Steering Committee. He is a
past chair of the BHBA Real Estate Section, and
former legal counsel to the Beverly Hills Board of
Realtors and the San Fernando Valley Board
of Realtors.
Peter Douglas ’69 recently announced his
retirement as head of the California Coastal
Commission. Douglas led the agency since he was
appointed in 1985, after serving for 10 years as the
agency’s chief deputy. He was a principal author of
Proposition 20, the California Coastal Zone Conservation Act and belonged to a group of lawyers
and legislators that in 1976 drafted the Coastal Act.
Ragna Henrichs ’69, partner and leader of the
environmental practice at Porter Hedges LLP
in Houston, Texas, was awarded the George W.
Perkins Award for Outstanding Environmental
Leadership by Parks & Trails of New York. She was
one of a select group of environmental lawyers who
received this honor at a reception on November
17 at the University Club in New York City.
Henrichs has chaired the Environmental Law
Section of the New York State Bar Association
and continues to serve on its executive committee
and section council.
Robert Kahan ’69 was selected for the Los Angeles
Business Journal’s “Who’s Who in L.A. Law” list.
Kahan, currently a partner at Eisner Kahan &
Gorry, represented California Pizza Kitchen in its
sale to PepsiCo. Other clients include names such
as Tony Hawk and Suzanne Somers.
1970-1979
Barry Axelrod ’71, who has spent his career practicing in the fields of sports and entertainment law,
has completed 11 years as a member of the board
of directors and treasurer of the United States AntiDoping Agency (USADA). Axelrod was among the
nine founding board members when the agency,
which conducts drug testing for Olympic and
Parolympic athletes and manages research and
education, was formed in 2000.
Peter Ezzell ’72 joined the Los Angeles office of
Kaufman Dolowich Voluck & Gonzo LLP, a national law firm focused on business and insurance
matters. Ezzell, who represented television actor
Robert Blake in 2005, currently specializes in jury
trials involving commercial and employment litigation, product liability and municipal and police
agency torts.
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The Honorable Joe
Hilberman (Ret.) ’73
has been selected by the
Los Angeles Daily Journal
as one of the 50 Top
Neutrals in California
for the third straight
year. Hilberman is a
mediator and arbitrator
with ADR Services,
which has offices throughout California.
Antonia Hernandez ’74 (See inset box
facing page).
Robert Kirschenbaum ’74 is now a partner in
the Silicon Valley office of Bingham McCutchen
LLP. Formerly at Miller & Chevalier, Kirschenbaum joined the firm’s Tax Group, which began
its expansion in 2009 when Bingham merged with
McKee Nelson, adding that firm’s highly regarded
tax practice.
Richard M. Kreisler ’74, partner at Liebert
Cassidy Whitmore’s Los Angeles office and chair of
the firm’s Public Safety Practice Group, was named
one of California’s Top 75 Labor & Employment
Lawyers in the annual list published by the Daily
Journal. The annual list includes a mix of employment lawyers in litigation, corporate, regulatory
and labor law. Kreisler was among the top defense
attorneys and labor negotiators selected by the
Daily Journal. The publication noted he is one
of the California lawyers to whom employers
turn first.
Stewart Kwoh ’74 was
honored in October
with an American
Courage Award from the
Asian American Justice
Center (AAJC). He
received the honor at the
organization’s 15th
annual award ceremony.
Awards are given to an
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individual, company or
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organization that has shown extraordinary courage
or commitment to the cause of civil rights.
John Beers ’76 has
been selected for
inclusion in The Best
Lawyers in America
2012® (Copyright 2011
by Woodward/White,
Inc., of Aiken, S.C.) and
has been named to the
Northern California
Super Lawyers 2011
JOHN BEERS
Edition. A partner at
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Fisher & Phillips, Beers has successfully litigated
hundreds of employment cases for numerous
clients. He has defended employers in jury trials
against claims of wrongful discharge, whistleblowing, age discrimination, sex discrimination,
disability discrimination, sexual harassment, retaliation and other claims. Beers serves as an evaluator
of employment cases in Early Neutral Evaluations
for the Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR)
Program of the U.S. District Court for the
Northern District of California. He also mediates
employment cases for the Northern District’s
ADR Program.
Michael Rich ’76 was named president and chief
executive of Rand Corp. Rich joined Rand as
a summer associate in 1975 and became a staff
member in 1976. As the institute’s executive vice
president since 1993, Rich helped oversee Rand’s
domestic, national security and international
research units and ventures. At the time, the
organization was continuing efforts to grow and
diversify in the aftermath of the Cold War, during
which government-funded defense and aerospace
research had been its bread and butter. Rich helped
direct the establishment of Rand’s Middle East
practice, including the Rand Qatar Policy Institute,
which he co-chairs. He also guided the spin-off of
the Council for Aid to Education, once a division
of Rand, as a New York-based nonprofit that
researches student outcomes and aid to education.
Nancy Alpert ’78 has been promoted to senior
vice president and deputy general counsel for A&E
Networks. Ms. Alpert joined A&E as vice president
and deputy general counsel in 2007.
James E. Blancarte ’78 was honored in October,
as Alumnus of the Year at the 20th Anniversary
Scholarship & Alumni Awards Gala, hosted by the
UCLA Alumni Latino Alumni Network.
Melanie Cook ’78 was
named to the Hollywood
Reporter’s “Power
Lawyers 2011,” a list of
America’s top 100
entertainment attorneys.
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Lisa Greer Quateman
’78, managing partner at
Polsinelli Shughart’s Los
Angeles office, recently
made the Los Angeles
Business Journal’s list of
“Who’s Who in L.A.
Law.” She founded her
boutique firm,
Quateman LLP, 22 years
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ago on the premise of
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“being a small firm with big-firm clients and
big-firm deals.” Now, Quateman and her team of
attorneys are part of a big firm. Her largest
transaction involved the State of California’s
Economic Recovery Bonds, which totaled up to
$15 billion for refinancing the state’s deficit.
Quateman has been practicing for 33 years,
representing a number of financial institutions,
government entities and private companies.
The Honorable David De Alba ’79 was named
Judge of the Year for 2011 by the Sacramento
County Bar Association. He is widely known
and respected throughout the Sacramento legal
community for his 22 years as an attorney in the
California Department of Justice and for serving
since 2001 as a judge of the Superior Court.
Scott Lansdown ’79, currently with the ExxonMobil Production Company in Houston, Texas,
will be transferring to XTO Energy, an ExxonMobil affiliate in Fort Worth in February 2012. While
with ExxonMobil Production, Scott represented
the company in the acquisition of a major interest
in the Upper Zakum Field in Abu Dhabi, one
of the largest oil fields in the world. This was the
first grant of a major concession by Abu Dhabi in
many decades. Lansdown was also the attorney for
a major renegotiation of ExxonMobil’s oil and gas
lease on the King Ranch in South Texas. The ranch
covers an area approximately the size of Rhode
Island, and the lease is likely the largest oil and gas
lease in the United States. Scott has authored 25
articles/papers on various aspects of oil and gas law,
as well as numerous speeches and shorter pieces
for publications such as the Texas Lawyer. His
work has been cited in the major oil and gas law
treatises, by courts and by many other sources. He
was board certified in oil, gas and mineral law by
the Texas Board of Legal Specialization in 1989. In
2009, he joined the commissions that administer
the examination and certification process for oil,
gas and mineral law. Scott was chair of the Oil and
Gas Exploration and Production Committee of
the American Bar Association’s Section of Natural
Resources, Energy and Environmental Law. He
also served on the Council of the Oil Gas and
Mineral Law Section of the State Bar of Texas.
Scott and his wife, Kris, who has long been active
in the National Charity League, will celebrate their
29th anniversary in July 2012. Their two daughters, Morgan and Laura, currently attend Baylor
University; both have been telling their father,
virtually since they were able to talk, that his jokes
aren’t funny.
Roger Lautzenhiser
’79, a partner in the
Cincinnati office of
Vorys, Sater, Seymour
and Pease, has been
named a 2012 Ohio
Super Lawyer by Super
Lawyers Magazine. His
practice is focused on
the representation of
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public and private
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companies in federal and state securities regulation,
corporate law and corporate governance, corporate
financing and insurance law. He works with public
companies in matters involving corporate reporting
and disclosure, securities offerings, corporate
governance, Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002
compliance and executive compensation.
Lautzenhiser works with both public and private
companies in matters involving mergers and
acquisitions, financing and risk management.
Colonel (Ret.) John L. Moriarity ’60
On June 12, 2011, Colonel (Ret.) John L. Moriarity led a delegation to Berlin, Germany, to
celebrate the Reagan Centennial (February 6, 2011, to February 6, 2012) and commemo-
rate President Reagan’s request of Secretary Gorbachev to “tear down this wall” on June
12, 1987. Each country where President Reagan spoke sent a delegation, and many such
celebrations were held in the United States.
1980-1989
Kathryn Donovan ’80 has joined Pillsbury
Winthrop Shaw Pittman as counsel in its political
law group. Donovan previously served as chief
counsel to the California State Assembly’s Legislative Ethics Committee.
Jonathan Fraser Light ’81 has formed the
Camarillo-based LightGabler LLP. The firm specializes in employment law defense and consulting,
as well as copyright and trademark registration
and litigation.
Timothy T. Coates ’83,
partner at Greines
Martin Stein &
Richland LLP, was
included in the Daily
Journal as one of
California’s top 100
lawyers. Among the
highlights of Tim’s career
are his three arguments
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before the United States
Supreme Court, most recently in Los Angeles
County v. Humphries (2010), U.S. Supreme Court
Case No. 09-350, _U.S._, 2010 U.S. LEXIS 9444.
Gail Cooper ’83 has joined the executive team
at Pasadena City College as General Counsel.
Cooper practiced law in Glendale at Cooper-Folb
Law Offices, where she was the sole practitioner
specializing in all aspects of litigation in federal and
state courts. Her expertise includes jury and bench
trials, appellate briefing and argument, arbitrations,
mediations, pre-trial hearings and proceedings, and
provisional remedies and discovery. She has also
taught at the College of Law at the University of
LaVerne in Woodland Hills.
Edward Zaelke ’83, partner at Akin Gump
Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP and co-chair of Akin
Gump’s global project finance and renewable
energy practice, has been named by the Daily
Journal as one of California’s top 100 lawyers for
the third consecutive year. His practice focuses on
project development and finance, with a particular
emphasis on representing companies engaged in
the development, financing and operation of
wind power, solar power and other alternative
energy projects.
Susan Formaker ’84 was recently appointed
presiding administrative law judge for the Los
Angeles regional office of the Office of Administrative Hearings. In recognition of her appointment,
California Women Lawyers (CWL) named Formaker a Woman of Achievement at its 2011 annual
dinner. She continues to serve on CWL’s Board of
Governors as a District 7 Governor. Meanwhile,
Susan and her husband, Daniel Olivas, J.D. ‘84,
celebrated their 25th wedding anniversary.
Daniel A. Olivas ’84
has been an attorney in
the Public Rights
Division of the
California Department
of Justice since 1990.
In July 2010, he was
promoted to supervising
deputy attorney general
for the Consumer Law
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Section, where he
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supervises attorneys and paralegals in both the
Los Angeles and San Diego offices. Olivas is also
the author of six books of fiction including a new
novel, The Book of Want (University of Arizona
Press, 2011), which received praise from Publishers
Weekly, Los Angeles Magazine, ForeWord Magazine
and many other publications. He and his wife,
Susan L. Formaker ’84, are proud to say that their
son, Benjamin, is a junior at UCLA, majoring
in anthropology.
Les Jacobowitz ’85 of Arent Fox LLP was recognized for his innovative work as lead attorney with
Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac in their $24 billion
programs to stabilize the housing finance market.
Arent Fox was named “Stand Out” Law Firm in
Finance by The Financial Times in its 2011 US
Innovative Lawyers Report.
Stacey Snider ’85
received one of the 2011
Elle Women in
Hollywood awards in
October. The award
honors women who
have made an indelible
mark on the film
industry. She was also
honored in September
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for her philanthropic
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work with the nonprofit organization City Year,
being named as a “2011 Lifetime Impact Honoree”
at Variety’s third annual Power of Women event.
Jonathan Storper ’86 has, over the past four
years, co-chaired a legal working group of California lawyers that drafted and advocated for the
passage of AB361, legislation that creates a new
type of corporation (a “benefit corporation”). The
benefit corporation blends corporate and social
responsibility, allowing California businesses to
balance the pursuit of profits with environmental
goals. “California is now a much more enticing
place to do business from the perspective of corporations, entrepreneurs and investors,” said Storper,
“and this translates into more opportunities for job
seekers.” The law, which went into effect January
1, 2012, is the largest single change to California
corporate law since the limited liability company
legislation was approved decades ago. Storper is a
partner and chair of the Sustainable Business group
at Hanson Bridgett LLP in San Francisco.
Elizabeth Newell ’87 has joined Discovery
Communications in its New York office, and will
lead Discovery’s global corporate and mergers and
acquisitions legal efforts. In addition, Newell works
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with the general counsel on the company’s global
legal strategy, and with the Corporate Development team to support the company’s acquisitions,
joint ventures and other transactional activity.
She oversees the Corporate Legal team in Silver
Spring and regional counsels in Miami, London
and Singapore.
Gary B. Rosenbaum ’87 received recent acclaim
in the Los Angeles Business Journal’s list of “Who’s
Who in L.A. Law.” His clients include big-name
corporations such as GE Capital, US Bank, and
TriplePoint Capital. Rosenbaum, who has been
practicing law for 24 years, is currently a partner
at McDermott Will & Emery LLP.
John J. Tormey III, Esq. ’87 has moved his
New York practice to a new location at:
1324 Lexington Avenue, PMB 188
New York, NY 10128 USA
www.tormey.org | [email protected]
The focus of his work continues to be entertainment, arts and media. He would appreciate
hearing from all classmates.
Jeffrey Cohen ’88 was
recently featured in the
Los Angeles Business
Journal’s list of “Who’s
Who in L.A. Law.” A
partner at Skadden Arps
Slate Meagher & Florn
LLP, Cohen represented
News Corp. and Fox
Entertainment Group
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in the sale of the Los
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Angeles Dodgers to Frank and Jamie McCourt.
His clients include OPI Products, Inc., American
Apparel and Oaktree Capital Management.
Eric C. Jensen ’88, a business partner in the Palo
Alto office of Cooley LLP, and chair of the firm’s
national business department, has been included
as one of The Best Lawyers in America from 2006
– 2012. He also was named as one of the Top
100 Lawyers of 2011 by the Daily Journal. Jensen
practices securities and general corporate law, with
an emphasis on the representation of emerging and
public software, semiconductor, internet and other
information technology companies.
Alan Matheson Jr. ’89 has been appointed
by Utah Governor Gary Herbert as the new
environmental advisor. Matheson has an extensive
knowledge of water law and resource development.
He served as executive director of Envision Utah,
a planning group which supports smart-growth
plans, walkable communities, transit and open
space preservation. Before this new appointment,
he worked as the founding member of Trout
Unlimited Utah Water Project. Matheson also
was a partner at a Phoenix-based law company
and served as a senior attorney for Arizona
Public Services.
Amy Wells ’88 was named by the Daily Journal
as one of California’s Top 100 Lawyers. Wells is a
partner in the Los Angeles office of Cox, Castle
& Nicholson, LLP. Her practice involves complex
real estate transactions, including opportunity
funds, joint ventures, acquisitions, dispositions,
leasing, financing, workouts and restructures and
development, as well as private equity transactions.
Wells is a frequent author on legal topics relating
to real estate investment and a contributing editor
and author of a quarterly legal column for The
Institutional Real Estate Letter.
1990-1999
Neil P. Casey ’90 has joined the New York office
of White and Williams as a partner in the Business
and Corporate, Finance and Private Equity and
Venture Capital practice groups. Casey has more
than 20 years of experience as a transactional lawyer and counselor focused on investment funds, securitization, derivatives and finance. Before joining
White and Williams, he served as general counsel
and chief compliance officer for a registered investment adviser specializing in commercial real estate
and asset-backed securities.
Suzanne Roten
(formerly Metzger)
’90 recently returned
to her hometown of
San Diego and joined
the Brown Law Group.
Roten resumes her
California employment
law practice after
spending the previous
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10 years practicing
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law and enjoying Southern living in Knoxville,
Tennessee.
Raquel A. Marquez ’91 was appointed by
California Governor Jerry Brown to a judgeship in
the Riverside County Superior Court. She has been
a senior deputy district attorney in the Riverside
County District Attorney’s Office since 2011 and
has served as a deputy district attorney in the office
since 1991.
Stephanie Chapwick Smith ’93 was selected
by Super Lawyers magazine as one of the “Top
25 Women Lawyers in Virginia,” and as a Super
Lawyer in the category of business/corporate law.
Smith is a shareholder with the law firm of Poole
Mahoney PC in Virginia Beach, Virginia.
Brian W. Jones ’93, former general counsel of the
U.S. Department of Education, has joined Strayer
University as general counsel. Jones will also serve
as deputy general counsel for Strayer Education,
Inc., the university’s holding company. Jones comes
to Strayer following a long and distinguished career
in education. He currently serves as chair of the
District of Columbia Public Charter School Board
(PCSB), which oversees 53 charter schools that
Antonia Hernandez ’74
Antonia Hernandez was honored by the Mexican American Legal Defense and
Educational Fund at their 2011 Los Angeles Awards Gala. President and CEO of the
California Community Foundation and former president and general counsel of
MALDEF, Hernandez received the Valerie Kantor award for extraordinary achievement.
educate approximately 40 percent of Washington,
D.C.’s public school students. Prior to joining
Strayer, Jones was co-founder and president of
Latimer Education, Inc., a venture-backed company that partners with historically black colleges
to provide African-American students with online
educational opportunities.
Jay H. Bhatt ’94 was named president and chief
executive officer of Progress Software Corporation.
Bhatt was also appointed to the company’s board
of directors. From February 2004 until November
2011, he served as senior vice president of the
global Architecture, Engineering and Construction
(AEC) division at Autodesk, Inc., a leader in 3D,
design, engineering and entertainment software.
Prior to that time, Bhatt served as vice president,
Corporate Development and Strategic Planning
at Autodesk.
Eric Goldman ’94,
director of Santa Clara
University School of
Law’s High Tech Law
Institute, has been
awarded the IP
Vanguard Award by the
State Bar of California’s
Intellectual Property
Law Section. In the past
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year, Goldman’s
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contributions to IP law include publication of an
article on different legal regimes governing
information about reputation; speaking at the
Russian government’s invitation on digital
copyright issues at a conference in St. Petersburg,
Russia; helping to gain public access to key filings
in Rosetta Stone v. Google (a trademark lawsuit
over keyword advertising) and working to highlight
how some doctors misuse copyright law to control
patients’ reviews of their doctors. This summer, he
launched a co-authored casebook on advertising
and marketing law, the first of its kind for the
law-school market. In the past 12 months,
Goldman gave more than 30 public talks and made
more than 250 media appearances on issues related
to high-tech law. His Technology & Marketing
Law Blog is read by thousands each day, and for
the last two years has been listed as one of the top
100 legal “blawgs” by the ABA Journal.
Vicki Norton, Ph.D.,
’94 has been named
co-head of the newly
formed Life Sciences
and Biotechnology
division of Duane
Morris’ Intellectual
Property Practice Group.
Norton, a partner in the
San Diego office, focuses
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on biotechnology and
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chemical-patent counseling and litigation. She also
advises clients on worldwide patent strategy,
including identifying patent coverage issues;
auditing technology portfolios to assist clients in
transactions and venture opportunities; and
formulating strategic objectives for prosecution.
S. Elizabeth Foster ’95 was featured in the Los
Angeles Business Journal’s list of “Who’s Who in
L.A. Law” last October. Foster has represented
clients such as Chase Investment Bank, and her accomplishments include closing a $100 million IPO
on the Swiss stock exchange for Leica Geosystems,
the largest ever at the time. She is a partner at SNR
Denton US LLP.
Alex Hoehn-Saric ’95 was named deputy
general counsel for Strategic Initiatives in the
Office of General Counsel for the U.S. Department of Commerce.
Alex Tamin ’95 was hired by the Dodgers as director of baseball contracts, research and operations.
Tamin will work on contract negotiations and be
the point person on arbitration cases.
David Warner ’95 has
rejoined Meyers Nave as
Of Counsel, expanding
the firm’s well-known
municipal and special
district law and land use
practice groups. Mr.
Warner specializes in
land use, labor and
employment, solid waste
DAVID WARNER
and public finance
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matters. He is actively involved in the general
representation of North Bay municipalities and
special districts and is fully conversant in the daily
operations and legal needs of local governments.
Mr. Warner handles a wide range of matters
governing local government operations, including
revenue and taxation, pension systems, elections,
ethics and public contracts.
Ruben Garcia ’96 has
joined the faculty of the
William S. Boyd School
of Law at the University
of Nevada, Las Vegas,
(UNLV) as a professor
of law. Prior to joining
the Boyd faculty this
year, Ruben taught for
eight years at California
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Western School of Law
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in San Diego, where he was a professor of law and
director of the Concentration in Labor and
Employment Law. He will continue teaching labor
law, employment law and professional responsibility at UNLV. His first book, titled Marginal
Workers: How Legal Fault Lines Divide Workers and
Leave Them Without Protection, will be published
by New York University Press this year.
Andrei Iancu ’96 has been named managing
partner of Irell & Manella. Also named one of
California’s Top 100 Lawyers by the Daily Journal,
Iancu will continue to practice full-time as a member of the firm’s litigation and intellectual property
practice groups. He has long been involved with
firm management, having previously served on the
firm’s executive committee and currently chairing
the hiring committee, and has been selected for
inclusion in The Best Lawyers in America every year
since 2007 in the areas of commercial litigation
and intellectual property law.
Jeremy Pendrey ’96
hiked the entire
211-mile John Muir
Trail in the Sierra
Nevada in August 2011.
The trail, which starts in
Yosemite Valley and
ends at the top of Mt.
Whitney in Sequoia
National Park, traverses
JEREMY PENDREY
some of America’s most
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beautiful mountain scenery. When he is not
backpacking, Jeremy works as an enforcement
lawyer for the U.S. Securities and Exchange
Commission in San Francisco.
Jennifer Barbarita
Nagel ’97 is a private
practice attorney in Flagstaff, Arizona, primarily
practicing family law,
estate planning and
immigration law. She is
a part-time judge with
the Flagstaff Municipal
Courts and teaches a
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business law course at
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Northern Arizona University. Jennifer and her
husband, Robert Nagel, have two children,
Nicholas, 10, and Ann Marie, 8.
S. Christopher (“Kit”)
Winter ’97, a member
of the Los Angeles office
of Dykema Law Offices,
has been appointed to
the firm’s diversity
committee. The
committee comprises 12
individuals who reflect
the firm’s diversity. They
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are responsible for
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coordinating the firm’s diversity efforts, including
the development, implementation and monitoring
of programs and activities to enhance and eliminate
barriers to diversity.
Samantha Grant ’98 was installed as president
of the Black Women Lawyers Association of L.A.
In keeping with her theme of “Opening a Door
to Opportunity—Building a Bridge to Success,”
she has chosen to honor the UCLA Law Fellows
Program for its role in diversifying legal education
and the profession. Grant is a partner at Mitchell,
Silberberg & Knupp, specializing in labor and
employment law. She is an active member of the
UCLA Law community, and has been instrumental
in facilitating her firm’s longstanding support of the
UCLA Law Fellows Program. The Honorable Audrey Collins ’77, Chief Judge of the U.S. District
Court for the Central District of California, was
the installing officer.
Tirzah Lowe ’98 has
been named partner in
Knobbe Martens Olson
& Bear LLP, one of the
largest intellectual
property law firms in the
United States. Lowe
specializes in domestic
and international
trademark, copyright
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and Internet law. She has
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over 600 federal
trademark filings to her name and has prosecuted
over 75 cases before the Trademark Trial and
Appeal Board. In addition, she has a robust
foreign-trademark practice, both representing
foreign companies in the U.S. and extending her
U.S. clients’ trademarks globally.
Marie Mendoza ’98 joined Kratos Defense and
Security Solutions, Inc., as a senior corporate attorney. She was previously a partner with GCR, LLP.
Steven J. Pearlman ’98, partner in Seyfarth
Shaw’s Labor and Employment Department, was
named one of “4 Illinois Attorneys Under Forty
to Watch.” He is the co-chair of Seyfarth Shaw’s
national Sarbanes-Oxley Act whistleblower team,
and his clients and peers consider him the national
go-to attorney in defending against whistleblower
claims. Pearlman’s practice focuses on defending
employers against nationwide class actions and
single-plaintiff claims of discrimination, harassment and violations of wage-and-hour laws.
Chris Safarian ’99 has left Allen Matkins to cofound Safarian & Choi LLP, a firm specializing in
general real-estate transactions for developers and
commercial real-estate lenders. The new firm
is located in downtown Los Angeles.
2000-2009
Alex Bruno ’00, along with Anthony Perez ’02,
recently founded Bruno & Perez. The law firm,
located in downtown Los Angeles, focuses on
business law, estate planning and litigation.
Amy Gallegos ’00 is now a partner at the Los
Angeles office of Jenner & Block. Gallegos is a
skilled litigator who has represented clients at the
trial court and appellate levels in a wide variety of
complex commercial disputes. She has substantial
experience in class-action defense, antitrust, unfair
competition and intellectual-property litigation.
Gallegos has also represented clients in the media
and entertainment industries in disputes relating
to copyright infringement, network programming
and licensing and Internet law.
Erin Haggerty ’00 has
published a book titled
Recommendation
Intoxication: How We
Became Beguiled by an
Unreliable Workplace
Habit and What We Can
Do About It. The book
includes a description of
the legal ramifications of
ERIN HAGGERTY
recommendation use in
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the workplace. http://www.recommendationintoxication.com/
Danielle Naftulin Reed ’00 has been elected
partner at Cooley LLP’s Palo Alto, California,
office. Reed’s practice focuses on the representation
of high-growth technology and life-sciences companies and their investors, from formation through
financing and exit. As part of her practice, she also
counsels emerging companies and their investors
on recapitalizations, mergers and acquisitions,
spin-outs and initial public offerings.
Star Bobatoon ’01 has
published a book, I Hate
Muscular Dystrophy:
Loving a Child with a
Life-Altering Disease. The
book, which has received
positive press, has been
seen by many not just as
a story about loving a
child with a life-altering
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disease, but also as a
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universal story about overcoming adversity.
Jeffrey Goldberg ’01 was elected to the partnership at Palmer, Lombardi & Donohue. Goldberg
focuses on securities litigation.
Michelle K. Sugihara ’01 was named presidentelect of The Asian Pacific American Bar Association
of Greater Los Angeles. Sugihara is an associate
at Luce, Forward, Hamilton & Scripps LLP.
She specializes in business, real estate, and
probate litigation.
Laura Godfrey ’02 has
been elected partner at
Latham & Watkins.
Godfrey is an
environmental attorney
in the San Diego office
whose practice focuses
on the development and
defense of major energy
and infrastructure
LAURA GODFREY
projects. She represents
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utilities, project developers and other clients before
federal, state and local agencies, including public
utility commissions.
Raymond Hua ’02 joined the partnership at
Yukevich Calfo & Cavanaugh, a products liability
and general negligence trial firm.
Anthony Perez ’02 along with Alex Bruno ’00
recently founded Bruno & Perez. The law firm,
located in downtown Los Angeles, focuses on
business law, estate planning and litigation.
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Faculty Announcements
Our faculty members are consistently recognized for their
accomplishments. The examples below are only a few of the
many honors they have received. Please visit www.law.ucla.edu
for additional faculty news.
Professor Stephen Bainbridge,
the William D. Warren distinguised professor of law, was
selected for the 2011 National
Association of Corporate Directors (NACD) “Directorship
100,” the prestigious list of
the most influential people in
corporate governance and the
STEPHEN BAINBRIDGE
boardroom. Chosen from more
than 1,000 candidates, he was recognized in the September 2011 issue of NACD Directorship magazine.
DEVON CARBADO
Professor Devon Carbado was
selected to On Being A Black
Lawyer’s inaugural Power 100
list, a catalog of the nation’s
most influential black attorneys working in government,
academics and both the public
and private sectors. He was
selected in the category of
“Public Intellectuals” by
the news and media company.
Professor Kimberlé Crenshaw
was chosen as one of Southern
California’s Freedom’s Sisters as
part of a Museum of Tolerance
exhibition, which celebrated
historic and contemporary
women who have worked for
freedom and equality for all
Americans. She was nominated
KIMBERLÉ CRENSHAW
for her work continuing the
legacy and representing the character of 20 women
leaders, including Harriet Tubman, Coretta Scott
King and Rosa Parks, whose stories and contributions are showcased in the exhibit. Professor Crenshaw was honored with the Community Champion
Award by A New Way of Life Reentry Project for her
groundbreaking scholarship integrating theory and
practice to address issues facing women of color. She
received the award at the organization’s 2011 fundraising gala “Catching Falling Stars,” which was held in
November. She was also selected to On Being A Black
Lawyer’s inaugural Power 100 list, in the category of
“Public Intellectuals.”
LAURA E. GÓMEZ
Professor Laura E. Gómez was
named one of the “Top 100
Influentials” by Hispanic Business
magazine for her work and
leadership in promoting the
advancement of Hispanics in
the United States. She was
named as one of eight Academic Influentials.
David Kaye, the executive
director of UCLA
Law’s International Human
Rights Law Program, published a special report for the
Council on Foreign Relations,
“Justice Beyond The Hague:
Supporting the Prosecution
of International Crimes in
DAVID KAYE
National Courts.” The report
addresses international justice in national courts and
provides insights into the strengths and limitations
of current international justice mechanisms.
TIMOTHY MALLOY
Professor Timothy Malloy
testified before the California
State Assembly’s Environmental Safety and Toxic Materials
Committee in December at
a hearing to review the state’s
Green Chemistry regulations,
which are designed to reduce
the use of harmful chemicals in
consumer products.
Cathy Mayorkas, director of
Public Interest Programs at
UCLA School of Law, was
honored by the Los Angeles
Chapter of the National Lawyers Guild for her tireless work
on behalf of the law school’s
David J. Epstein Program in
Public Interest Law and Policy
CATHY MAYORKAS
and her commitment to inspiring the next generation of public interest lawyers.
She was presented with the National Lawyers Guild
award by UCLA Law Professor Gary Blasi at a
reception in June.
Law School Event Examines
Civil Liberties Ten Years After 9/11
In September, the Critical Race Studies Program and David J. Epstein Program in Public Interest Law
and Policy sponsored “The War On Terror from Bush to Obama: Civil Liberties Ten Years after 9/11.”
The panel discussion highlighted the changes in U.S. government policies in the areas of civil liberties,
immigrants’ rights and human rights during the last decade. Panelists included Professors Asli Bâli and
Hiroshi Motomura and Aziz Ahmad ’10, of the ACLU Racial Justice Project. They examined the continuities in the use of policies and practices, such as immigration detention and deportation and expanded FBI
powers and prevention detention, between the Bush and Obama administrations, as well as the role of
the courts since 9/11. Professor Cheryl Harris moderated the event.
Left: Cheryl Harris; Right: Panelists discuss changes in U.S. government policies after 9/11
Dean Rachel F. Moran, Michael
J. Connell distinguished professor of law, was named by PODER
Hispanic Magazine as one of the
Top 100 Influential Hispanics.
She was featured in the magazine’s December/January 2012
DEAN RACHEL F. MORAN
issue for her leadership as the first
Latina dean of a top-ranked U.S. law school and her
earlier work as a scholar of education and civil rights
law. She also was a guest panelist at WNYC Public
Radio’s 6th Annual Martin Luther King Day celebration, which was held at the Brooklyn Museum and
focused on civil rights and education.
Leo Trujillo-Cox, executive
director of academic outreach
and development and associate
director of admissions and recruitment, was appointed to the
Law School Admission Council’s
(LSAC) Diversity Committee,
LEO TRUJILLO-COX
which is involved in programs
to expand the representation of minority law school
applicants and enhance their opportunities for law
school admission.
Three UCLA Law
Affiliated Blogs
Selected as Top
100 Legal Blogs
of 2011
Three UCLA Law affiliated blogs were se-
lected as top 100 legal blogs for 2011—the
most blogs selected from any law school this
year. The blogs chosen are Professor Stephen
Bainbridge’s blog, ProfessorBainbridge.com;
Professor Eugene Volokh’s blog, The Volokh
Conspiracy; and the joint UCLA Law/Berkeley
Law blog, Legal Planet. They were chosen by
the editors of the ABA Journal for inclusion in
the publication’s fifth annual “Blawg 100.”
Critical Race Studies Program
Appoints New Program
Director: Jasleen Kohli
Jasleen Kohli has been appointed
program director for the Critical
Race Studies Program, joining the
law school community from the
Los Angeles Alliance for a New
Economy (LAANE). Kohli was
a policy and research analyst at
LAANE, a leading advocacy organization dedicated to promoting
JASLEEN KOHLI
sustainable economic development. Earlier, she was the first staff attorney at UNITE
HERE Local 11, a union that represents hotel and food
service workers.
Kohli holds a J.D. degree from Harvard Law School
and a B.A. degree in English literature, with an emphasis in postcolonial theory, from UC Berkeley. While a
student at Harvard Law, she co-directed and produced
a highly regarded documentary on issues of race and
legal pedagogy titled Legally Black and Brown and
Yellow and Red.
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Endowed Lectures Focus on
Civil Rights Litigation and
Intellectual Property Issues Anna Y. Park ’92, regional attorney for the Los Angeles District Office of the
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), delivered the Irving H.
Green Memorial Lecture in November. During her talk, “The EEOC: Advancing
the Promise of Opportunity in the Public Interest,” she described what it takes
to be a civil rights litigator and shared her experience litigating civil rights cases.
Calling her work a “dream job” and saying that in this job “you are giving a voice
to the voiceless,” she talked about some of the cases she has worked on at the
EEOC, including those involving human trafficking, sexual harassment and
age discrimination.
In November, the law school also hosted the Melville B. Nimmer Memorial
Lecture, which commemorates the career of copyright authority and UCLA Law
Professor Mel Nimmer with a discussion by a scholar who is advancing the field of
copyright. This year’s lecturer, James Boyle, William Neal Reynolds professor of law
at Duke University School of Law and a specialist in online intellectual property
law, delivered the talk “Back to the Future: Piracy, Technological Revolution and a
‘Scheme of Greed.’” The event also paid tribute to Gloria Nimmer, the wife of Mel
Nimmer and the driving force behind the establishment of the Nimmer Lecture,
who passed away last spring.
International Human Rights Law
Program Receives Grant to Study
UN Security Council Support for ICC
The International Human Rights Law Program was awarded a $140,000
grant by Humanity United, a foundation committed to building peace
and advancing human freedom, to conduct an 18-month project studying
UN Security Council support for the International Criminal Court (ICC). The
goal of the research-driven project is to produce policy-relevant analysis
and recommendations for initiatives that will improve the long-term UN
Security Council support of the ICC.
Students in the law school’s International Justice Clinic, with support
From left, UCLA math professor and Irving H. Green’s son, Mark Green; Rachel F. Moran;
Anna Y. Park; and Gary Blasi
Melville B. Nimmer Memorial Lecturer
James Boyle
Irving H. Green Memorial Lecturer Anna Y. Park
La Raza Law Student Association
Honors Two Alumni
The UCLA La Raza Law Student Association honored two notable
UCLA Law alumni at the annual La Raza Alumni Dinner: Hernán
Vera ’94, president and chief executive officer of Public Counsel; and
Gladis Molina ’06, managing attorney at the Florence Immigrant
and Refugee Rights Project. The event, which was held in February,
also featured a special keynote presentation by Berkeley Law Professor Ian Haney Lopez. The annual reception brings La Raza alumni
together with students, who have the opportunity to learn about
their experiences in various areas of the law.
from regional and UN specialists at UCLA, will conduct the foundational
research for the project. They will evaluate Security Council policymaking in
the area of international justice and conduct a survey of policymaker and
diplomatic attitudes toward the ICC in New York and key capitals, especially
Moscow and Beijing, including an analysis of how ICC decisions are made
by these governments and in the Council. Briefing memoranda for NGOs,
governments and the ICC will be produced, and diplomats, advocates and
others will be invited to a workshop in the fall of 2012 to explore and design
effective strategies for the building of support for the ICC.
UCLA Black Law Students
Association Stand-Outs at
Western Regional
BLSA Convention
At this year’s Western Regional Black Law Students Association Conven-
tion, held in Seattle, Washington, Tara Kearns ’12 and Mickheila Jasmin ’13
received First Place in the Frederick Douglass Moot Court Competition, and
Duwayne Carr ’14, John Reynolds ’14, Donte Blue ’12 and Jasmine Hernan-
dez ’12 were Second Runner Up in the Thurgood Marshall Mock Trial Competition. Donte Blue also received the award for Best Oral Advocate. To
top it all off, UCLA’s Black Law Students Association was named the 2011-12
Western Region BLSA Chapter of the Year.
HERNÁN VERA ’94
GLADIS MOLINA ’06
UCLA Law Hosts Regional Round of
National Negotiation Competition
In February, the law school hosted the Western Regional Round of the Third
Annual Transactional LawMeetSM, the premier “moot court” experience for
students interested in transactional practice. The competition requires stu-
dents to work in teams to draft a transactional agreement and to negotiate its
provisions with other student teams. Teams are judged by a panel of experts
from practice, and this year’s challenge involved the negotiation of an executive
employment agreement for a new chief executive officer. UCLA Law students
Brandt Hollander ’13, Timothy Najera ’13 and Allison Schall ’12 represented the
law school in the meet.
While the competition is in its third year, this was the first year that regional
meets were held. The UCLA Law meet, one of five regionals, hosted teams from
law schools including UC Davis, UC Hastings, University of Colorado, University
of Washington, Brigham Young and Loyola. The final four teams of each regional
meet, including the UCLA Law team, and an additional four “wild card” teams,
were invited to compete at the national meet, held at Earle Mack School of Law
at Drexel University in Philadelphia in late March.
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Amy Quartarolo ’02
has been elected as
counsel at Latham &
Watkins. Quartarolo is a
litigator based in the Los
Angeles office who
represents debtors,
creditors and financial
institutions in a wide
range of bankruptcyAMY QUARTAROLO
related and complex
M.C. Sungaila
commercial litigation matters. She regularly
practices in both state and federal courts, and
has argued before the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court
of Appeals.
Lisa Stimmell ’02 is now a corporate and
securities partner at Wilson Sonsini Goodrich &
Rosati. Based in Palo Alto, Stimmell primarily
advises public companies and larger enterprise
clients on complex corporate-governance and
transactional issues.
Vivian Lee Thoreen ’02 was named to the
“Minority 40 Under 40” by the National Law
Journal. She practices trust and estates litigation
in one of the places where that area of the law gets
significant attention—Los Angeles. Described as
the “right hand” to Holland & Knight partner
Bruce Ross, Thoreen has worked with Howard K.
Stern, the executor of Anna Nicole Smith’s estate,
in a case that twice went to the U.S. Supreme
Court; Jamie Spears, the conservator for his daughter Britney Spears; and one of the daughters of the
late Richard Pryor in a case involving issues of first
impression in California.
Tim Fitzpatrick ’03 has been appointed by
GuardTime as its new chief financial officer.
GuardTime is the creator of the Keyless Signature
technology used to provide proof of time, origin
and integrity for electronic data. Before joining
GuardTime, Fitzpatrick served as general counsel
for five years at a $3 billion NYSE-listed medical
devices company. Prior to that, he practiced law in
the corporate finance division of international law
firms in the United States and Hong Kong.
Liat Franco ’03 was appointed by Forex International Trading Corp. to serve as the chief executive
officer, chief financial officer, secretary, treasurer
and director of the company. Prior to joining Forex
International Trading Corp., Franco served as a
security officer for a foreign consulate in Beverly
Hills, California, and held positions in several
academic institutions from 2003 until 2009.
NANCY INESTA
M.C. Sungaila
Nancy Inesta ’03 is
now a partner with the
firm Baker & Hostetler
LLP. She is a member of
the Employment Group
and concentrates her
practice on employment
law, traditional labor law
and commercial
litigation.
Jesus Barraza ’04 has
been appointed
academic support and
bar-related programs
fellow and adjunct
associate professor of law
at Southwestern Law
School. He brings
valuable curriculum
development and
JESUS BARRAZA
teaching experience to
M.C. Sungaila
the new post and will work closely with Professor
Gabriela Ryan, Director of Academic Support
and Bar-Related Programs, in the creation,
administration and implementation of new
workshops, the supervision of student tutors and
the development of the academic support and
bar-related course curriculum.
Kimberly J. Koide ’04
has been named partner
at Goodsill Anderson
Quinn & Stifel. Koide’s
practice concentrates on
the areas of trusts and
estates and civil
litigation. She serves as
the Oahu director of
the Hawaii State Bar
KIMBERLY J. KOIDE
Association (HSBA)
M.C. Sungaila
Young Lawyers Division, an officer in the Probate
& Estate Planning Section of the HSBA, chair of
the Hawaii Rotary Youth Scholarship Committee
for the Rotary Club of East Honolulu and a
board member of the Kaimuki-Waialae YMCA.
Koide was recognized as a 2010 Pacific Business
News “Forty Under 40” honoree, and was a
participant in the 2011-2012 Pacific Century
Fellows program.
Pete Dungan ’05 joined the firm of Hogan
Lovells US LLP as an associate in the Washington, D.C., office and will focus his practice on
government contract litigation and counseling.
He previously served 14 years on active duty as a
commissioned officer in the U.S. Army, including
six years as a judge advocate, and will continue to
serve in the Army Reserves. He welcomes all classmates to contact him at his new e-mail address:
[email protected]
Donna Mo ’05 is now
an associate at Polsinelli
Shughart’s recently
opened Los Angeles
office. Mo practices
in the areas of corporate, real estate and
finance law.
DONNA MO
M.C. Sungaila
Joshua Schneiderman ’05 has joined Snell &
Wilmer in the firm’s Los Angeles office. Schneiderman’s practice focuses on the area of business and
finance. He represents private and public companies, issuers, underwriters and private investors in
sophisticated corporate transactions. These include
mergers and acquisitions, corporate finance,
capital markets, franchising and general corporate
governance matters. Schneiderman served as the
Transactional Pro Bono Legal Services coordinator at the Los Angeles office of his previous firm,
Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP and
has represented various nonprofits.
Jared Bunker ’06 has
been named partner at
Knobbe Martens Olson
& Bear LLP, one of the
largest intellectual
property law firms in the
United States. Bunker
represents and counsels
clients in intellectual
property disputes
JARED BUNKER
relating to patents,
M.C. Sungaila
trademarks, copyrights and trade secrets. His
primary focus is patent litigation in the chemical,
pharmaceutical and medical device fields.
Eric D. Ledbetter ’06,
an immigration lawyer
in the Chicago office
of Quarles & Brady,
was named to the
2012 Illinois “Rising
Stars” list.
ERIC D. LEDBETTER
M.C. Sungaila
Karen Hernandez ’07
was named to San Diego
Metro magazine’s 2011
class of the top “40
Under 40,” honoring
high achievers in
business and civic affairs.
An associate in the
Business Department in
the San Diego office of
KAREN HERNANDEZ
Cooley LLP, Hernandez
M.C. Sungaila
provides legal counsel to companies at all stages,
from emerging-growth companies to public
companies. She advises on public and private
financings, securities regulations, mergers and
acquisitions, complex transactions and corporate
governance. Hernandez serves as outside counsel
on a pro bono basis for nonprofit organizations,
including the Monarch School Project, Athena San
Diego Foundation, Outside the Lens and many
others. She is a founding board member and the
chief financial officer of Ms. JD, a nonprofit
organization dedicated to improving the success of
women in the legal profession.
Na’Shaun Neal ’08 has moved to Norfolk,
Virginia, to serve as a law clerk to the Honorable
Arenda Allen, U.S. District Court Judge for the
Eastern District of Virginia.
Katya Mezek ’09 joined the CSEE Legal
Department in Kranj, Slovenia. Before moving to
Slovenia, Mezek worked for the law firm of Shaub
& Williams LLP in Los Angeles, concentrating on
the areas of international corporate transactions
and international intellectual property litigation.
Maria Antonieta Nestor ’09 has started a new
initiative in Ireland called The Irish Review of CED
Law and Policy. The journal is the first of its kind
in Ireland—and perhaps Europe—and may be
visited at http://www.nclc.ie/ (click on Issue 1 to
download a copy).
2010-
Daniel Antalics ’10 is now an associate with
Weil, Gotshal and Manges. He began work for
the international law firm in January.
Joshua Marx ’10 is now working with the firm of
Palmieri Tyler in Irvine, doing business litigation.
William Wong ’10 is an associate with Snell &
Wilmer in downtown Los Angeles. Wong’s practice
focuses on patent infringement litigation. He is a
registered patent agent before the U.S. Patent and
Trademark Office. Wong served as an intern for
the UCLA Office of Intellectual Property, where he
conducted prior art searches and patentability analyses for university biopharmaceutical technologies.
Konstantin Parkhomenko ’11 was honored
by the School of
Behavioral and Brain
Sciences at The
University of Texas at
Dallas with the
Buhrmester Rising Star
Award. Now working
as an attorney,
KONSTANTIN
PARKHOMENKO
Parkhomenko holds a
M.C.
Sungaila
doctor of jurisprudence
degree from Texas Tech University School of Law
and a master of the laws degree in environmental
law from the UCLA School of Law. He works as
an attorney in the civil litigation division of
the Brockett McNeel law firm, based in
Midland, Texas.
Aiza Siddiqi ’11 recently became an associate at
Plews Shadley Racher & Braun LLC, an Indiana
law firm with expertise in environmental law,
insurance coverage, complex litigation and business
transactions. She assists clients in a variety of areas,
including environmental litigation, insurance
coverage and appeals.
In Memorium
Brad H. Becker ’71
John S. Byrnes ’55
Charles E. Decker ’71
Jerry Edelman ’56
Richard K. Ehrlich ’57
Andrew G. Gindes ’72
Michael R. Harris ’81
Christen B. Henrichsen ’59
Alfredo Horta ’61
Leland Benton ’11 is spending a year in China
as a lecturer for an innovative new U.S.-style law
school, Peking University School of Transnational
Law (STL). Located in Shenzhen, China, STL is
the first law school in mainland China to offer a
traditional western-style juris doctor curriculum
alongside a Chinese-style juris master (J.M.)
curriculum. The school was started in 2008 by
special authorization of the Chinese government,
and is located on the graduate campus of Peking
University. The chancellor and founding dean of
the school is Jeffrey Lehman, former president
of Cornell University and former dean of the
University of Michigan Law School.
Florence V. Jackson ’66
Brendan Kotler ’11 has joined the firm of Jeffer
Mangels Butler & Mitchell as a litigation associate.
He is based in Los Angeles.
Sherman A. Silverman ’61
Dan Terzian ’11 also is spending a year in China
as a lecturer for Peking University School of
Transnational Law (STL).
Newton Oldfather ’11 recently developed an
iPhone app for lawyers that has been covered by
Law Firm Challenge Kicks off Tenth Year
The success of the Law Firm Challenge, now in its tenth year, continues to grow.
The Law Firm Challenge, led by James D.C. Barrall ’75, Founding Chair, broke new
records on all fronts in 2011, with 79% of alumni at 95 participating firms making
a gift to the school, and 50 of these firms reaching 100% in their support. The
Challenge helped drive UCLA Law’s overall annual alumni giving percentage to
30%, placing the law school fourth among fellow top-tier law schools. This year,
the challenge will continue to add more firms, increase alumni participation
percentages and set new records in the Reunion Challenge. The commitment
of our Law Firm Challenge firms is vital to the future of UCLA Law.
JAMES D. C. BARRALL, LAW FIRM
CHALLENGE FOUNDING CHAIR
iPhoneJD.com, the Wall Street Journal, The ABA
Journal and Abovethelaw.com. He plans on continuing to develop apps while balancing his work at
Latham & Watkins LLP in San Francisco. According to iPhone J.D., the app is “very functional” and
it takes “the very middling Pacer desktop experience and replicates it on the iPhone, with no major
loss in translation.” With the app, the law blog says
users can access lawyer contact information from
the “attorney” or “parties” screens and save it to
their contacts, e-mail documents after viewing, and
save cases of interest in a virtual briefcase.
To learn more about the Law Firm Challenge please visit www.law.ucla.edu/LFC.
The race kicks off on Monday, April 30, 2012! To enroll your organization—and no firm is too small—please
contact Michaelle deBaroncelli at 310.206.1170 or [email protected].
Bernard L. Lewis ’56
Michael D. Rank ’00
Joseph A. Martinez ’74
Louis M. Niven ’60
Megumi D. Osumi ’76
Marvin L. Part ’58
Felicie E. Porche ’78
Graham A. Ritchie ’55
Joan W. Spencer ’60
Paul E. Stevenson ’56
Earl L. Streeter ’67
William O. Van Doren ’74
Saul Grayson ’52
Ten Students
Receive California
Bar Foundation
Scholarships
Ten UCLA School of Law students
received 2011 California Bar Foundation Scholarships—the most scholarship recipients from any California law
school this year. The scholarships assist
students with tuition and related education expenses, and are awarded to
exceptional law students who demonstrate a commitment to public service
and academic excellence.
Five students received awards from
the foundation’s flagship Public Interest Scholarship Program, and five
were awarded scholarships under the
foundation’s Diversity Scholarship
Program. The students were honored
at the organization’s scholarship reception, which was held in San Francisco
in September.
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UCLA School of Law “In the News” continued from page 4
and published an op-ed titled “Multiculturalism: For or
Against” in the National Review Online. He discussed the
influence Justice Clarence Thomas has had during his 20
years on the Supreme Court during an interview on NPR’s
“All Things Considered,” and was quoted in a New Yorker
article on Clarence Thomas and his challenge to President
Obama’s health care plan. He also commented on various
social issues, such as health care law and social media and
crime, in articles in publications including The New York
Times, Boston Globe, San Francisco Chronicle, Arizona
Republic and ABA Journal. He was cited in a Wall Street
Journal “Law Blog” article on the Second Circuit ruling
that a financial news service could publish ratings changes
by Wall Street banks’ analysts, and was also quoted in a
Reuters article on the topic. He discussed the role of the
federal government, states and local school boards in antibullying programs at a U.S. Commission on Civil Rights
hearing, which was featured on C-SPAN. In addition, he
commented on the crackdown on airlines that publish
misleading prices in a New York Times article and in an
Economist blog article.
Adam Winkler published an op-ed in The New York Times
about guns on college and university campuses and an
op-ed in the Los Angeles Times on AB 144, a bill that would
prohibit the carrying of visible firearms in California cities.
He also published multiple op-eds in the Huffington Post
and Daily Beast on a variety of constitutional issues. His
new book, Gunfight: The Battle over the Right to Bear Arms
in America, was reviewed in the Wall Street Journal, Los An-
geles Times and The Atlantic, and featured in a San Francisco
Chronicle column. He commented on a bankruptcy court
ruling that declared unconstitutional a law barring federal
recognition of same-sex marriages in a New York Times article, discussed a measure to ban Californians from openly
carrying weapons in a Los Angeles Times article, discussed
gun control in the U.S. on WPR’s “The Joy Cardin Show,”
and commented on the Supreme Court decision to stay the
execution of a Texas inmate in a Mother Jones column. He
was also cited in a Seattle Times column on the health care
debate, and commented on efforts to repeal the health care
reform law in a Washington Times article.
Stephen Yeazell commented on a controversial legal
settlement by San Bernardino County supervisors in a
Riverside Press-Enterprise article.
Jonathan Zasloff discussed using the Fourteenth Amendment to raise the debt ceiling in interviews on NPR’s “All
Things Considered” and MSBNC’s “The Last Word with
Lawrence O’Donnell,” and he was cited in a Forbes article
on the topic. He commented on the challenge to L.A.’s
medicinal marijuana ordinance in a Los Angeles Daily
Journal article.
Eric Zolt published a commentary in Tax Notes titled
“Tax Reform: Reduce the Corporate Income Tax Rate and
More.” He also commented on President Obama’s push
to raise income taxes on U.S. families making more than
$250,000 a year in a Wall Street Journal article.
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Writing Competition
MICHAEL BEHRENS
Michael Behrens ’11 won first prize in the 2011 Tannenwald Writing Competition for
his corporate tax paper titled “Citizens United, Tax Policy, and Corporate Governance.”
Behrens, whose submission was written while he attended UCLA Law and was sponsored by Professor Steven Bank, received a cash prize of $5,000.
The writing competition is sponsored by the Theodore Tannenwald, Jr., Foundation
for Excellence in Tax Scholarship and The American College of Tax Counsel and is
named after the late Tax Court Judge Theodore Tannenwald, Jr.
Bar Admission
Ceremony
Student Receives Skadden Fellowship
Almas Sayeed ’12, a student in the David J. Epstein Program in Public Interest Law and
Policy and Empirical Legal Scholars Program, is a recipient of a prestigious 2012 Skadden
Fellowship to work with Inner City Law Center in Los Angeles to protect and enforce the
rights of low-income tenants at risk of losing their homes.
A graduate of the University of Kansas and the London School of Economics & Political
Science, and a Fulbright Scholar to the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, Sayeed subsequently worked for the Center for American Progress, the Congressional Joint Economic
ALMAS SAYEED
Committee and the Federal Office for the New York Governor before beginning her legal
studies at UCLA. While at UCLA Law, she externed for the Honorable Howard Matz and served as a summer law
clerk, through the Regional Honors Program, with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Region 5.
UCLA School of Law’s Record-Breaking
$100 Million Campaign
Through the vision, dedication and generosity of
ulty and expand the school’s centers, institutes and
The campaign doubled the number of law school
paign has exceeded its ambitious $100 million goal.
the Lowell Milken Institute for Business Law and
longtime supporters Ralph ’58 and Shirley Shapiro.
alumni and friends, the UCLA School of Law Cam-
Launched in 2008 as the largest fundraising effort in
the law school’s history, the campaign met its goal
well ahead of the original five-year schedule through
a transformative $10 million gift—the largest single
gift in the school’s history—from alumnus Lowell
Milken ’73.
The successful campaign will enable the law
school to increase privately funded resources for
student scholarships, maintain its outstanding track
record in attracting and retaining a world-class fac-
programs. In particular, the campaign made possible
Policy, the David J. Epstein Program in Public Inter-
endowed chairs, including four chairs endowed by
UCLA School of Law had the highest rate of
est Law and Policy, the Emmett Center on Climate
growth in alumni giving of any top 20 law school, as
on Sexual Orientation Law and Public Policy (previ-
Key to this success was the Law Firm Challenge,
Change and the Environment, the Williams Institute
ously a program), the Michael T. Masin Scholars Fund
and the Stewart and Lynda Resnick Endowed Fund
in support of Public Interest Law. The campaign also
participation rates soared to more than 30 percent.
which broke new records every year, as well as the
recently created Reunion Challenge.
Private philanthropy remains critical in the face
funded the A. Barry Cappello Courtroom, the Bruce H.
of continued state budget cuts. With your continued
nore S. Greenberg Endowed Law Review Fellow Fund.
are in our future.
Spector Conference Room and the Bernard A. and Le-
support and involvement, even greater achievements
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