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Alumni Newspaper Fall 1998 Volume LI Number 2

Homecoming ’98: Great Memories, Great Fun

Froomkin to Represent Public Interest on Internet Panel

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Engler Daner, ’36, Outstanding AlumnaAward; Homer L. Marlow, ’53, Alum-nus of Distinction Award; Benedict P.Kuehne, ’77, Thomas Davison III Out-standing Service Award; and RichardC. Milstein, ’74 Past President Award.

In addition to Morning Spirits andthe Breakfast, which were open to allalumni and friends, Homecoming ’98featured special reunion events for theclasses of ’48, ’53, ’58, ’68, ’78, ’88, and’93. In fact, Class of ’88 classmates wereso enthusiastic about getting togetherthat they held three events—a cock-tail reception, a costume party (after all,it was Halloween), and a barbecue andpicnic. Reunion activities began withthe Class of ’48’s luncheon on Thurs-day, October 29, and ended with theClass of ’88’s barbecue and picnic onSunday, November 1.

In the photographs on this page, fromleft: Harvey E. Robins, HarveyReiseman, and Laurence Diskin catchup on events at the Class of ’58 reunion.The crowd forms early on the Bricks forMorning Spirits. And, Law Alumni As-sociation President Harlan Gladsteinchats with Interim Dean Mary Doyle.

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law, electronic commerce, digitalintellectual property, administrativelaw, and jurisprudence at the lawschool.

WIPO, an agency of the UnitedNations, is an intergovernmental or-ganization headquartered in Geneva,Switzerland, that is responsible for pro-moting international cooperation toensure protection of intellectualproperty rights.

The panel is scheduled to publish itsfinal report in March 1999. The reportwill be forwarded to a soon-to-be-createdcorporation that will manage the

Internet’s core coordination functions,which currently are carried out bythe International Assigned NumbersAuthority.

Internet domain names—such as“law.miami.edu”—uniquely identifyeach host computer attached to theInternet. Most domain names, especiallythose ending in .com, .net, or .org, cur-rently are sold on a first-come,first-served basis, which has led to some-thing of a gold-rush mentality forpopular names, such as “realtor.com,”Froomkin explained.

He pointed out that Compaq recently

purchased the popular domain namewww.altavista.com for a reported $3.3million. Some popular names, however,contain trademarked terms, and thereis debate about what uses, if any, can bemade of a domain with a trademarkedterm by persons other than the trade-mark holder, he said. Since trademarksare geographic but the Internet isworld-wide, conflicts between two validtrademark-holders are increasinglycommon.

Froomkin said he begins his partici-pation on the panel with the beliefs that

The World Intellectual Property Or-ganization (WIPO) has selectedUniversity of Miami School of Law pro-fessor A. Michael Froomkin as thepublic interest representative on an in-ternational panel of experts chargedwith recommending measures for pre-venting or resolving disputes involvingcompeting claims to Internet domainnames.

One of four Americans on the 15-member panel composed of leadingtrademark lawyers and Internet expertsfrom around the world, Froomkinteaches classes and seminars in Internet

Morning Spirits, the HomecomingBreakfast, and class reunions combinedto make Homecoming ’98 a nostalgicand fun-filled event.

On Homecoming morning, Saturday,October 31, nearly 400 alumni andguests (including a strong representationfrom South Florida’s judiciary) gatheredon the Bricks for the traditional “Morn-ing Spirits” cocktail party, then got onbuses or strolled along the lake to theWellness Center for a sumptious Home-coming Breakfast.

Neal R. Sonnett, ’67, was master ofceremonies for a Breakfast program thatincluded a welcome by Homecoming ’98chairperson Gary M. Carman, ’74; andan invocation by the Hon. GeraldKogan, ’55, justice, Supreme Court ofFlorida. The program featured a key-note address by the Hon. BuddyMacKay, lieutenant governor of Floridaand remarks by: Edward T. Foote, II,president, University of Miami; theHon. Daryl L. Jones, ’87, Florida statesenator; Evan Sarzin, speaking for thehonored Class of ’78; Harlan H.Gladstein, ’86, president, Law AlumniAssociation; and Mary Doyle, interimdean of the Law School.

Honored at the Breakfast with awardsfor exceptional service were: Reba

Interim Dean Mary Doyle

INTERIM DEAN Mary Doyle

ASSOCIATE DEAN Richard L. Williamson, Jr.

ASSISTANT DEAN, ALUMNI & DEVELOPMENT Stephen K. Halpert

ASSOCIATE DEAN OF STUDENTS William VanderWyden

PRESIDENT, LAW ALUMNI ASSOCIATION Harlan M. Gladstein

DIRECTOR, LAW PUBLICATIONS & COMMUNICATIONS John Burch

DIRECTOR, LAW ALUMNI RELATIONS Cynthia Sikorski

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Message from theInterim Dean

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Report on SearchFor New Dean

Dear Fellow Alumni:Last March, as we learned that we

faced the formidable task of choosing anew dean for U.M. Law, I wrote to youabout plans for pressing on toward ourobjective of solidifying and improvingour alma mater’s standing among thenation’s top law schools.

I am happy to report that—blessedwith a superb faculty, able administra-tors and an exceptional studentbody—our school is making realprogress. Moreover, in one of the mostchallenging assignments imaginable,Interim Dean Mary Doyle has provento be expert at putting together an ef-fective organizational structure, dealingwith difficult financial decisions, andachieving consensus among our manyconstituents.

My March letter also emphasized theimportance of ensuring that U.M. Lawalumni have a voice in the selection pro-cess for the permanent dean. I am happyto report that President Tad Foote hasappointed me to the search committee,which is headed by Bernard Fogel, deanemeritus of the School of Medicine.Other members include Professor LindaNeider of the Department of Manage-ment and U.M. Law professorsTerence Anderson, Carolyn Bradley,Jonathan Simon, Irwin Stotzky, and

Robert Waters. In addition, TorrencePhillips, president of the Student BarAssociation, sits on the committee as anad hoc member.

This is the first time alumni have beenrepresented on the search committee,and we must make the most of this ex-cellent opportunity to be part of the LawSchool’s decision-making process. Torepresent you well, I must have your in-put. For instance, what do you think arethe most important qualities or charac-teristics we should look for in makingour selection? And, whom do you knowwho might be a good candidate for theposition?

The committee already is hard atwork, so please get your ideas to me assoon as possible by telephoning or writ-ing to me at: Akerman, Senterfitt &Eidson, P.A.; One S.E. Third Avenue,28th Floor; Miami, FL 33131-1704. Tel:305-374-5600. Fax: 305-374-5095. Or,e-mail: rmilstein@ akerman.com.

This is a wonderful opportunity forU.M. Law alumni to make their voicesheard.

Richard C. Milstein, ’74Member, Dean’s Search CommitteePast President,Law Alumni Association

WIPO will have an important role in thesettlement of domain name disputes andthat free speech rights must be un-impaired.

Among major issues the panel of ex-perts will need to consider, he said, are:l What rights other than trademarks

are entitled to protection in the con-text of domain names?

l Under what circumstances is the useof a domain name that contains agiven character string infringement ofa trademark that contains an identi-cal or similar character string?

l What should be done for a person ororganization that was not the first toregister a domain but has a legitimateinterest in the same character stringas the domain?

l How can the rights of trademark hold-ers and others in countries that havebeen less-rapid adopters of theInternet be given due protection?

l What right to privacy does the regis-trant of a domain have in his or herpersonal identifying information?

l How can WIPO craft procedures thatare likely to produce fair, quick, andinexpensive arbitration?

l What procedures are appropriate fordomain name registrations? Whatcan be done to ensure that ordinarycitizens and small enterprises remainable to register domain names quicklyand inexpensively?

l Should registrants for domain namesbe required to agree to binding arbi-tration in the event of a trademark-related dispute over their registration?“No one person could possibly repre-

sent the world community adequately,”he emphasized. “I’ll do my best, and mycontributions will be more valuable if Ican get the input of people fromthroughout the world.

To explain the issues in greater detail,Froomkin is preparing a web page, whichwill be at http://www.law.miami. edu/~wipo/faq.htm. n

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Dear Friends:

The great joy of my “interim” re-turn to the deanship has been workingwith our students. They are so ener-getic and smart, full of ambition,making plans, making friends andcontacts, making their way, and mak-ing me happy in the process.

I wish you could have been with mea couple of Saturdays ago at EsperanzaTransitional Family Center in LittleHavana. More than 100 of our lawstudents, led by Mike Daley and BenSolomon, took charge of this shelterfor homeless families. The little kidswho live there were glorying in theattention—playing soccer, readingbooks, and doing chores with our stu-dents. Organized work teams setefficiently about a major refurbish-ment of the facility—weeding thegarden, cleaning the backyard andpainting all the bedrooms. “Corpo-ral works of mercy”, as the Catholicscharacterize such efforts.

At the Esperanza Center, our stu-dents found a sense of accomp-lishment, enjoyed the adoration ofthe kids, and took pride in the sensethat they were putting a shine on theimage of the legal profession. In ob-serving them, their dean found greatsatisfaction, especially knowing theyhave made a long-term commitmentto the families at Esperanza and willbe going back on other workdays inthe months ahead.

This is only one picture in the al-bum of our students’ pro bonoactivities and initiatives this fall. OnFriday, November 13, under the lead-ership of second-year student DougDorsey, the law school’s H.O.P.E.project (Helping Others through ProBono Efforts) welcomed more than 75children from area shelters and pro-grams to a carnival in our courtyard.

More than 15 student organizationsand more than 50 student volunteerstransformed the law school courtyardinto a fun-filled arena, complete withcarnival games, music, food and prizes.The children, from the Baptist Homefor Children, the Gladstone Shelter forGirls, and the Barnyard andAfterSchool House programs for dis-advantaged children reveled in awonderful afternoon of excitementand fun. Through the extraordinarydedication of many students, H.O.P.E.is in the process of planning otheroutreach programs for this spring.

Our student leadership in all areasis outstanding this year. Student BarAssociation President TorrencePhillips is sitting as a member of thedean search committee, which is un-precedented at this university. In thepast, students have been involved indean selection, but only at the end ofthe process, interviewing the final can-didates. We’re doing it differently thistime: Torrence has been an activemember of the committee from its firstdiscussions. His participation—andthat of former Law Alumni Associa-tion President Richard Milstein—willenhance the strength of the new deanby strengthening the process of his orher selection. That selection processis well under way now, with the hopethat the new dean will be named bythe time of graduation in May.

Space does not permit me to con-vey the other productive efforts thatare under way at your Law School thisfall. The faculty—with excellent par-ticipation by students—is busy in athorough-going review of the curricu-lum and academic standards issues,which I will report upon more com-pletely in a letter to you in the spring.Our new assistant dean for externalaffairs, Carol Cope, a 1980 graduate,has produced the “American JusticeSeries,” a series of fascinating seminarson current political and legal topicsthat has drawn acclaim from students,alumni, faculty and the local legalcommunity. The pages of this Barris-ter highlight a number of other happyoccasions we’ve enjoyed this semester,and we look forward to more greatevents in the spring.

Please stay in touch with us. Comevisit the beautiful Law Library. Calland stop by my office. Let us hear fromyou with news of your careers andfamilies. This is a uniquely fascinat-ing community and we welcome, asalways, your participation.

Sin-cerely,

Mary DoyleInterim Dean

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In an expression of gratitude for a$50,000 leadership gift, as well as for thelaw firm’s history of generous support,the University of Miami School of Lawhas named its newly renovated litiga-tion skills center the Kozyak, Tropin andThrockmorton Office Suite.

Matched by $40,000 contributed bythe Litigation Skills Program’s own ad-junct professors, the gift will fund notonly renovation of office facilities butalso the establishment of a practicecourtroom, where students can honetheir skills by videotaping their practiceperformances.

Professor Laurence Rose, director ofthe program, noted that the gifts alsorepresent the beginning of an effort—to be known as Friends of LitigationSkills—to garner more financial supportfrom friends and alumni of the program.The contributions will be used to fundscholarships, awards and prizes, and thesimulated jury trials that bring each se-mester to an exciting climax.

“Already, we have one of the nation’smost extensive and respected litigationskills programs,” stated Rose, who re-cently accepted the prestigious 1998Richard S. Jacobson Award for Excel-lence in Teaching Trial Advocacy,presented by the Roscoe PoundFoundation.

“However, it takes a great deal ofmoney—about half-a-million dollarseach year—to operate such a program,”he noted. “For instance, we employ avery high quality adjunct faculty, and atthe end of each semester, when we haveour big trial weekend, we rent space inthe courthouse.

U.M. Law Honors Firm for Support of Litigation Skills

Opening Celebration�Partners (from left) John W. Kozyak, Charles

W. Throckmorton, and Harley Tropin officially open the University of

Miami School of Law�s new Kozyak, Tropin and Throckmorton Office

Suite. The event�a September 12 gathering of approximately 75

members of the Law School�s Litigation Skills adjunct faculty and

friends of the law firm�honored the firm for its generous financial

support.

“As proud as we are of the success ofour Litigation Skills Program, weknow it still can be improved,” Roseemphasized. “Contributions by Kozyak,Tropin and Throckmorton, our faculty,alumni of the program, and other friendswill enable us to bring it up to its fullpotential.”

Speaking on behalf of Kozyak, Tropinand Throckmorton, Harley Tropin, whois both a partner of the firm and an ad-junct faculty member, said, “We areproud to support the Litigation SkillsProgram. Three of our partners teach inthe program, which we view as one ofthe brightest lights of the Law School.”

Rose came to the University of Mi-ami School of Law from the Universityof Kansas in 1990 to establish the Liti-gation Skills Program. In the beginning,approximately 80 students per year tookthe basic class. Now approximately 350students enroll each year. Among re-cent UM Law graduates, 80 percenthave taken Litigation Skills I and morethan half have gone on to a clinicalplacement.

The first course is a six-credit basicskills course, offered in both fall andspring semesters, that emphasizes simu-lation training in trial advocacy as wellas in pleading, discovery, interviewing,negotiation, and counseling.

Students who have completed Litiga-tion Skills I may enroll in a one-semester clinical placement with one ofapproximately 40 agencies located inDade and Broward counties. In addition,students may opt for Litigation Skills II,which provides simulated instruction inadvanced litigation problems. n

News from the Moot Court BoardBy Michelle Gervais-Kullman, President, Moot Court Board

With strong showings in outsidecompetitions and hotly contested com-petitions within the School itself, theUniversity of Miami School of Law isbuilding on its already strong traditionof moot court excellence.

One big reason our School makes sucha good showing in competitions is thehelp and guidance we get from alumniand other friends who have generouslydonated their time and expertise to helpus develop our courtroom skills. TheMoot Court Board would like to thankall of the judges and attorneys who tookpart in our competitions by judging orgrading briefs. We could not have hadsuch a successful year without them.

At this time, we are busy preparingfor next year’s events, and we are hop-ing that, not only will these same alumniand friends want to participate again,but that others will also want to join in.Client Counseling and the C. ClydeAtkins Spring Moot Court Competi-tions will be held week nights,beginning in January. Anyone who isinterested in helping make our programseven better can contact the Moot CourtBoard by calling 305-284-3170.

Just what have we accomplished in1998? We are especially proud of ourshowing in the 1998 Robert OrseckMemorial Moot Court Competition andin the 1998 E. Earl Zehmer NationalWorkers’ Compensation Moot CourtCompetition. Moreover, our internal

competitions are truly exciting, and areexcellent tools for developing the liti-gation skills we need for outside mootcourt competitions and, of course, forour careers.

Orseck CompetitionIn the 1998 Robert Orseck Memorial

Moot Court Competition, which in-cluded two teams from each of Florida’seight law schools, the University of Mi-ami School of Law had both the winningteam and the winners of the best briefand best oralist awards.

The winning team included DeniseBrown and Bobbie-Lee Meloro, withBobbie-Lee Meloro winning best oralistin the final round.

Michelle Gervais-Kullman and AlinaAlonso, the other University of Miamiteam, were among the four teams thatadvanced to the semifinal round. Theywon the best brief award.

Both University of Miami teams forthe Orseck competition, which was heldin June, were coached by Harvey J.Sepler, assistant public defender for Mi-ami-Dade County and adjunct facultymember of the Law School.

E. Earle Zehmer CompetitionIn September, third-year students Ri-

chard Celler and Brian Lerner sweptthrough preliminary rounds of the 1998E. Earle Zehmer National WorkersCompensation Competition in Orlando,

beating teams from the University ofFlorida and Stetson.

They then advanced to the finals inthe 14-team competition by beating ateam from Emory University.

Although they finished as runners-up,losing the final oral round of competi-tion to a team from Mercer Law School,Celler and Lerner captured the awardfor best brief.

Internal CompetitionsOn October 14, Amy Rosenbaum and

Kyle Nickel captured first place in the1998 UM Negotiation competition,while the team of Daniel Schneider and

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Marc Watkins put in a stellar perfor-mance in placing second.

Dan Rogers and Jordan Lewin wonthe 1998 C. Clyde Atkins Fall Ad-vanced Moot Court Competition onOctober 27, with Rogers also beingjudged best oralist. Second place wentto Ileana Gomez and Kimberly Leary.The best brief award went to BrianJames and Nelda Lawrence. Rogers,Lewin, Leary, and Lawrence were se-lected to represent the University ofMiami School of Law in the 1999Robert Orseck Memorial Competition,with Amy Budow being named as thealternate. n

Miami�s winning Orseck competitors, from left: Denise Brown, Bobbi-Lee Meloro, Harvey Sepler (adjunct professor and coach), Alina Alonso,and Michelle Gervais-Kullman.

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Alcee Hastings, Congressman from Florida, makes a point in the second in U.M. Law�s AmericanJustice Series of panel discussions. The sponsor of a resolution to impeach Kenneth Starr, he wasparticipating in the October 21 program �Crisis in the Starr Chamber: Should the IndependentCounsel Be Removed?� Other panelists were (seated, from left) U.M. Law Professor TerenceAnderson, who serves as special counsel to Hastings on impeachment matters; Atlee Wampler III,president, Wampler, Buchanan and Breen, and former U.S. attorney for the Southern District ofFlorida; and Jon Sale, partner, Sale and Kuehne, who served as counsel in the Watergateimpeachment inquiry. Tom Fiedler, political editor for the Miami Herald was moderator. Thediscussion series, which attracts an enthusiastic audience of students, alumni, faculty and thecommunity at large, features �conversations with the law�s best and brightest on today�s hottesttopics� and will continue intermittently throughout the coming year.

The American Justice Series

Rosenn Wins Inter-American Law AwardThe Inter-American Bar Associa-

tion has awarded its 1998 Inter-American Jurisprudence Prize to aprofessor at the University of MiamiSchool of Law.

The award honors Dr. Keith Rosenn—an internationally recognized authorityon Latin American law—for his “dis-tinguished contribution to the develop-ment and clarification of law” of theAmericas.

The author of numerous books,monographs, and law review articlesand a prolific lecturer at conferencesthroughout the Americas, he is espe-cially well-known for his books: Law andDevelopment in Latin America, Law andInflation, Foreign Investment in Brazil, APanorama of Brazilian Law, and an an-notated translation of the Brazilianconstitution. In December, he will pub-lish, with co-editor Richard Downs, anew book, Corruption and Political Re-form in Brazil: The Significance of theDownfall of Fernando Collor de Mello.

He frequently is called upon to pro-vide expert testimony and to serve as aconsultant on Latin American law.

Rosenn has studied inflation in Ar-gentina, Brazil and Chile under a grantfrom the Social Science ResearchCouncil, and twice he has been aFulbright lecturer in Argentina. He isthe recipient of Colombia’s Order ofDemocracy Award, the Bogota BarAssociation’s Order of Law Award, andthe University of Miami Inter-AmericanLaw Review’s Lawyer of the AmericasAward.

Alum TellsThem WhatTo ExpectThe first days of Law School

can be pretty intimidating for 1L’s.After years of being entranced byre-runs of The Paper Chase on TVand hearing attorney friends remi-nisce about the rigors of lawschool, they wonder whether theirundergraduate training has pre-pared them for the field of law.

As keynote speaker at U.M.Law’s Dean’s Dinner for enteringstudents in August, U.S. AttorneyThomas E. Scott, JD ’72, did littleto assuage those doubts.

“A bachelor’s degree teachesyou to think like an educated per-son, but it does not teach you tothink like an attorney,” he said.“These philosophies can be differ-ent, and at times even conflicting.The metamorphosis from worldlyintellect to legal scholar can be aneasy process for a few, but for most,it is a challenging and sometimesbaffling experience.”

He described legal thinking as a“process of analysis [that] will re-peat itself over and over again inyour professional and personal lifeuntil it becomes ingrained.”

Part of the process, he said, is“learning to think correctly, ethi-cally . . . learning to be aggressive,but not crossing the line . . . know-ing the difference between rightand wrong.”

Scott pointed out that legal ca-reers are full of options—whetherto go into trial practice or officepractice, practice in the public orprivate sector, work for a corpora-tion or for a law firm, go into civilor criminal law, work in a large orsmall firm, be a lawyer or a judge.

“Options and choices are an in-tegral aspect of a successful career,“ he observed. “If you don’t havethem, you are not much of a law-yer. . . . Make a change when youget bored. It keeps you fresh.Good lawyers get bored easily. . . .Once you have mastered the chal-lenge, it becomes routine.”

Scott listed four things studentsshould expect to learn at a goodlaw school, such as U.M. Law:substantive law, such as contracts,torts, and evidence; the method-ology of analysis of a legalproblem or issue; the process ofresearch of a legal issue; and le-gal ethics.

Then, with preparation, hardwork and mentors, they must learnto apply what they have learned,he emphasized.

“Remember, each day is a learn-ing process. When you believe youknow it all, and you need to learnno more . . . you are in a world oftrouble. In sum, you need to re-evaluate yourself each day of yourcareer.” n

At the University of Miami Schoolof Law, he chairs the Master of Laws inComparative Law Program and theMaster of Laws in Inter-American Law

Program and teaches courses in consti-tutional law, comparative law, federaljurisdiction, Latin American law, andinternational business transactions. n

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The following is adapted from “Estab-lishing Deliberative Democracy: Movingfrom Misery to Poverty With Dignity,” anaddress Prof. Irwin Stotzky delivered as the1998 Ben J. Altheimer Lecturer last springat the University of Arkansas at Little RockSchool of Law:

Possibly the most significant factorimpeding the transition to constitu-tional democracy is the deficiency in thefulfillment of the requirements of therule of law. This deficiency is a centralcharacteristic in almost every nation at-tempting to change authoritarianregimes into democratic ones.

Indeed, the consequences of this fail-ure to recognize the primacy of the ruleof law have made international head-lines in extreme cases. For example, inPeru, President Alberto Fujimori uncon-stitutionally closed down Congress andremoved the Supreme Court justices. Hebased his actions on the pretext thatthese bodies were infested with corrup-tion and thus harmed his policies ofeconomic recovery and combating ter-rorism. In Brazil, President FernandoCollor resigned after having been im-peached by Congress, and only minutesafter the Brazilian Senate had begun animpeachment trial, for serious acts ofcorruption.

Haiti presents an even more extremecase. During the 1991–1994 coupperiod, members of the armed forcessystematically ignored human rights. In-ternationally recognized human rights,which are frequently codified in Haitianlaw, were intentionally and persistentlyviolated. The pattern of abuses included:n Haitians were routinely taken from

their homes and thrown intodetention with no legal basis what-soever and with no access to judicialprotection.

n Judges have been detained andbeaten for ruling against the military.

n Government officials who attemptedto uphold the rule of the law havebeen murdered.

n Prior to the return of the democrati-cally elected government in 1994, nomember of the armed forces had everbeen charged or prosecuted for order-ing or executing any human rightsabuses in violation of the 1987 Con-stitution, despite widely availableevidence implicating the military inthe assassination of political oppo-nents and the massacre of civilians.

n The military ignored judicial ordersto arrest soldiers or officers accusedof human rights abuses.

n The abuses inflicted upon those heldin Haiti’s overcrowded prisons havebeen particularly severe, includingtorture and even murder.

n Violent crimes, some clearly politi-cally motivated, have proliferatedsince the departure of Jean ClaudeDuvalier in 1986. The governmentrefused to even attempt to stop thesenightly rampages.In many other nations undergoing the

transition process, attacks on the ruleof law are perhaps slightly more subtle,but nonetheless pervasive. For example,in Argentina, as in other countries,deeds of corruption by government of-ficials are reported almost daily. Yetjudicial procedures have not been help-ful in investigating them. Indeed,

Professor Analyzes Difficulty of Establishing Democracy

despite persistent rumors of corruptionby the highest officials in the govern-ment of President Carlos Menem, few,if any, serious judicial investigationshave taken place against these officials.

Even more debilitating to democracythan these acts of corruption, however,are the attempts by those in the execu-tive branch who have a monopoly onpower to dominate the other state pow-ers and branches of government.

For example, in 1990, Menem packedArgentina’s Supreme Court with thoseloyal to his government. He took ad-vantage of the majority, which heenjoyed in both houses of Congress, topass a law expanding the number ofSupreme Court justices and requiringthat the confirmation of candidates tofill the new positions be handed downswiftly by the Senate.

In addition, the Menem Administra-tion has enacted decrees of so-called“urgency and need,” thus circum-venting Congress in the adoption ofsignificant reforms, economic and oth-erwise. Congress has also delegatedmany of its responsibilities to theMenem Administration. Moreover,that Admin- istration clearly abusedits power of vetoing Congressionalbills, even resorting to the device ofenacting part of the bill vetoed, whichis a way of creating a new statute moreagreeable to its policies.

The violation of legal norms in na-tions undergoing the transition process,however, is not restricted to formal gov-ernment officials, such as Menem inArgentina or the newly replaced mili-tary leaders in Haiti. Unfortunately,such behavior is a distinguishing markof political and social life at large, andusually has existed throughout the

country’s history. This failure to followthe rule of law is evident in both socialpractices and in the actions of govern-mental bodies. Indeed, this rule-oblivious mentality has often beendepicted and even celebrated in the lit-erature, art, and theatre of these nations.

This unlawfulness mentality corre-lates with a general trend towardanomie in society as a whole. It mani-fests itself in such things as anenormous black market, tax evasions,corruption in private economic activi-ties, non-observance of efficienteconomic norms, and non-compliancewith the most basic rules of society,such as elementary traffic and urbanregulations.

This general tendency toward illegal-ity in public and social life normallyappears in one of two ways. People mayadopt a “finalist attitude,” where theyagree with the goals of a rule but do notfollow the commands of the rule. Con-versely, they may adopt a “formalistattitude,” where they blindly complywith the commands of the rule but ig-nore its goals. Both of these attitudesare incompatible with, and thus contrib-ute to the continuing difficulty of,securing adherence to the rule of law.They adversely affect the attempt tocreate a moral consciousness in thecitizenry.

The problem may be intractable be-cause it is so pervasive and, therefore,difficult to change. Frequently, the com-bination of expectations, interests,possibilities of actions, and their respec-tive pay-offs is such that the rationalcourse of action for each participant inthe process of political or social inter-action advises him or her not to complywith a certain norm, despite the fact

that general compliance with it wouldhave been for the benefit of everybody,or almost everybody. This kind ofanomie may be called “dumb anomie,”since it refers to situations in which thecompliance with a certain norm wouldhave led the social actors to a more effi-cient result—in Pareto’s terms—thanwhat they obtain in the actual situationof not observing norms.

Dumb anomie is intimately connectedwith both the stunting and the reversalof economic and social development.First, there is a direct con- ceptual con-nection between that kind of anomieand failures in economic productivity.Indeed, dumb anomie is identified bythe results of processes of interaction,including economic ones, that do notobserve certain norms. Second, it is clearthat anomie affects the process of capi-tal accumulation. For example, whenthe behavior of people intervening inthe process of production—even that ofjudges and government officials—is notsufficiently predictable, productive in-vestments dec l ine or c la imdisproportionate profits.

Therefore, it is critical for nationsengaged in the transition process to con-solidate the rule of law. This is importantnot only to secure respect for fundamen-tal rights and for the observance of thedemocratic process, but also to achievesatisfactory degrees of economic andsocial development. It is also clear thatthe consolidation of the rule of law, withthe consequent overcoming of dumbanomie requires strengthening the in-dependence, reliability, and efficiency ofthe judicial process. To achieve this goal,a nation must satisfy the guarantees thatderive from the idea of due process oflaw. n

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Recent events have brought na-tional media attention to the LawSchool’s Center for Ethics and PublicService. Professor Anthony Alfieri, di-rector of the center, has givennumerous interviews on national tele-vision news programs, as well as torepresentatives of radio and print me-dia, including the Associated Press andThe Washington Post.

Alfieri observed that when report-ers and camera crews crowd theUniversity of Miami Law School’stropical campus in Coral Gables,Florida, they’re looking for an “ethi-cal” perspective on the day’snews—the allegations in the StarrReport, President Clinton’s videotapedtestimony, the Judiciary Committee’shandling of the political crisis.

He gives them what they need: suc-cinct, quotable sound bites thataddress issues of values, judgment, andprofessionalism.

The Center, founded in 1996, is aunique interdisciplinary project thattackles important issues often over-looked in a law school curriculum:issues of ethical and moral judgment,professional responsibility, and pub-lic service in the practice of law. n

Ethics CenterGrabs MediaAttention

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Moot Court Leads Professor to Mid-East Adventure

When the United Arab EmiratesUniversity officials searched for anAmerican law professor to consult withthem on ways to improve their curricu-lum, you might have expected them tozero in on a well-known authority oninternational law.

Instead, they set their sights on a U.M.Law School professor who is betterknown for his expertise in U.S. laws re-garding trusts and estates, elements,ERISA, and patents.

Why did the officials identify Prof.John Gaubatz as the expert they needed?According to the professor, the reasonhad little to do with trusts and estates;it was his experience with moot courtsthat they were after.

To learn more about his consultingexperience—which occurred over twoweeks in December 1996—the Barris-ter presented him with a set of questions:

Barrister: How did you get the invi-tation to go to the Emirates?

Gaubatz: It was all because of mootcourt. In my second year of law school,I did moot court rather than Law Re-view in order to get over my shyness.That led to my chairing the moot courtboard during my third year, and toteaching second year students how towrite briefs and prepare for oral argu-ment. In 1971, when I began teachinglaw in Cleveland, I asked if the mootcourt board needed help, then foundmyself advising the board and coachingnational and inter-mural teams.

As an academic, however, I was ex-pected to write articles. Moot courtsuggested itself as a topic, and I did apiece for the Journal of Legal Educationentitled “Moot Court in the ModernLaw School.” Later, I wrote a studentguide, The Moot Court Book.

Barrister: Why was this of inter-e s t to the United Arab EmiratesUniversity?

Gaubatz: The United Arab Emir-ates was formed in 1971 from sevenemirates that had been British “protec-torates.” The new country built its stateuniversity in Al Ain, an oasis-based cityin the emirate of Abu Dhabi. As is typi-cal of schools built on the French model,the university had a law departmentwhich, because the Emirates is Arab,included law and Sharia (Islamic law).

Emirates legal education was substan-tially designed and staffed by Egyptiannationals, who modeled it after Egyp-tian legal education, which followed theFrench model. Typical of the model, itis undergraduate legal education. Theprofessor lectures, students sit and lis-ten, and theory rather than practicepredominates as the subject matter.

In recent years, some members of thefaculty have become concerned that theschool’s graduates are unprepared topractice law, but the society expectsthem to be able to do so. These facultynoted that the law school had no train-ing in practice, even though it had a“Moot Court Room” which had beeninstalled by a prior dean after visitingthe United States.

Recognizing that moot court was partof American legal education, theythought that an expert on moot courtcould advise the school on how to useits Moot Court Room to enhance theprofessionalism of its graduates. So theycalled the Association of American Law

Schools in Washington, D.C. TheAALS referred them to the Journal ofLegal Education, where someone foundmy article. That, of course, made me anexpert, and they asked my advice.

Barrister: What was the trip like?Gaubatz: The time in the Emirates

was casual and interesting. They didn’twork me too hard, and I had a chanceto do a little sightseeing in both Al Ainand over one weekend in Dubai. Al Ainis in the desert, which is punctuated byoccasional small mountains. It is an oldoasis, and still has a camel market, a live-stock market, and the like. On the otherhand, most of the buildings are new,because of the growth since the creationof the country. Dubai is a coastal city,quite modern, but with traditional trad-ing vessels.

The dress of the emirates nationals Imet with was traditional—white flow-ing robes and headdress for the men, andblack or brown floor-length dresses forthe women. Few of the women had com-pletely covered faces, but some did.

Barrister: What did you do there?Gaubatz: It turned out that what they

really wanted was for me to look at whatthey were doing and make suggestionsabout how to improve their professionalskills training. They showed me around

their school, introduced me to the uni-versity hierarchy, to seven or eightfaculty who spoke English, and toalumni. They also let me observe classes,gave me a tour of the court system, andprovided me with translations of theircodes of criminal and civil procedure.

I gave one lecture seminar on profes-sional skills training in the UnitedStates, and three sessions on my sugges-tions as to how they could integrateskills training into their existing curricu-lum without severely dislocating it.

Then, of course, I wrote a report afterI got back, saying much of what I hadsaid in the seminars.

Barrister: What did you learn whileyou were there?

Gaubatz: A lot about their legal sys-tem. I had never studied a continentalsystem before, and was interested in theway inquisitorial courts operate. Lawyersdon’t examine witnesses, and cases arelargely tried on affidavits and otherdocuments. Reasoning is from the codeto the facts, although in Sharia the lawis derived from authoritative interpre-tation of the Koran, and sometimesseems almost common law-like in itsreasoning from case to case.

I was intrigued that those areas wethink of as based in chancery—succes-

sion law and domestic relations—are theprovince of Sharia, and no codes existwith respect to them.

I also found interesting the fact thattheir tort law is a branch of thecriminal law, so that victims wereawarded damages incident to a crimi-nal proceeding.

Finally, I was struck by the concept ofblood money in criminal law. That theaccused could obtain his freedom bycompensating the family of the victimseemed strange, at first, but then I real-ized that this was a way of making thevictims whole—and produces resultssomewhat like cases under our systemwhen the victim refuses to prosecute.

On the other hand, their commercialcode could have been adopted from theUCC.

Barrister: Were you surprised by any-thing you experienced on the trip?

Gaubatz: Not by the country itself.I read up a little about the Emirates be-fore I went, so I had a sense that therewould be a lot of new construction andtraditional dress.

On the other hand, the school sur-prised me. I expected legal education onthe continental model. What I didn’texpect was that my presence there wasa reflection of a political battle beingwaged in the legal community.

As I said earlier, the law school wasestablished shortly after the country’screation. Its designers were Egyptianexpatriates, and they designed it on theEgyptian/French model. Similarly, thelegal system was created on the codemodel used on the Continent—with aninterweaving of Islamic law. The coun-try, however, had been a Britishprotectorate, and the emirate of Dubaihad a long history as a trading emirate.

Over the years, several Emirates na-tional graduates of the law school wenton to do graduate work. For reasons notmade express to me, many of them wentto the United States and England forthat work, rather than to Egypt andFrance. Those who came to the UnitedStates developed an appreciation for theAmerican system of legal education, andfor American law, particularly Ameri-can commercial law. Later, they becamemembers of the faculty at the law school.

When I visited the law school, aboutone-fifth of the faculty were Emiratesnationals, and the rest were predomi-nately Egyptian expatriates. Thechancellor and vice chancellor, how-ever, were Emirates nationals, andclearly had close family and social tieswith the member of the faculty who hadinvited me to come visit. Further, myhost was a member of one of Dubai’srichest families, and clearly had powerin the university far beyond his age.

My discussions with my host and theuniversity’s leaders left me with no doubtthat he, with their support, was on acampaign to create a uniquely Emirateslegal education and legal system. Mypresence was merely one step in the pro-cess. Others had already been taken. Forexample, shortly before I arrived a lawwas enacted requiring all attorneys ap-pearing in court to be Emiratesnationals—effectively disbarring a sub-stantial portion of the practicing bar. Ihave no doubts that expatriate facultymembers will suffer the same fate some-time in the intermediate future. n

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Letter to Past HoldersOf U.M. Law Scholarships

Dear Fellow Alumni:You deserve congratulations. In

the years after your graduation fromthe Universityof Miami Schoolof Law, you havemade your markin a professionthat is both high-ly demandingand incrediblyvaluable to soci-ety. It also is a

profession that generally enablesthose who are well trained and edu-cated to enjoy a good measure ofaffluence.

Law school was not easy. Remem-ber the sacrifices it took to reach yourcoveted goal—sacrifices both on yourown part and also on the part of oth-ers who may have helped cover theconsiderable financial costs involved?Do you remember how appreciativeyou were for the scholarship thathelped move that goal within yourreach?

Today’s students face financial chal-lenges every bit as daunting as thoseyou encountered. With tuition near-ing $11,000 per semester, few canafford to bear the heavy burden ontheir own. Part of the answer for help-ing those who cannot lies with thestrengthening of our scholarship pro-grams. We are hoping that alumniwho benefited from scholarshipswhile they were in school will appre-ciate the opportunity to help the nextgeneration of lawyers.

Your scholarship was a selfless giftfrom alumni and friends who caredabout the law as the cornerstone of afair society and cared about the Uni-versity of Miami School of Law and

its students. It carried with it no le-gal requirement for repayment;however, I hope you possess the samespirit of generosity and responsibil-ity that motivated the benefactorswho made your scholarship possible.

At a time when the Law School isdownsizing—reducing the studentpopulation by approximately a thirdover the next three years—the needto replace drastically reduced incomefrom tuition is acute. As an alumna,I am asking you to please considerjoining me in making an annual giftto the Law School’s Annual Fund,from which we draw most of themoney used to fund scholarships. Youmight also consider establishing anamed scholarship at the Law Schoolto honor your family or your law firm.

If you would like to discuss givingoptions, kindly contact Trenesia Y.Green at the Office of Law Develop-ment and Alumni Relations—bytelephone (305-284-3470) or e-mail(tgreen@law.miami.edu) or by writ-ing to her at the Office of LawDevelopment and Alumni Relations,University of Miami School of Law,P.O. Box 248087, Coral Gables, FL33124-8087.

Thank you so much for yourgenerosity.

Jeannette F. HauslerAssociate Dean andDean of Students

Justice Kogan Accepts Tough New AssignmentWhen Gerald Kogan—Florida’s

chief justice from 1996-98 and an ac-tive alumnus of the University of MiamiSchool of Law—retires from the state’sSupreme Court on December 31, he willimmediately step into a challenging newassignment.

As president of the newly-formedAlliance for Ethical Government,which will be housed at the Universityof Miami School of Law, he will head amajor South Florida initiative to pro-mote integrity in local government.

According to the Miami Herald, thecommunity organization already has inplace more than 130 trustees and anexecutive committee of 20. Its 1999agenda calls for developing an ethicalcode of conduct for public officials andgovernment workers and creating anethics education program.

Kogan’s new position comes afterserving 11 years on Florida’s highestcourt.

In October 1996, the Law School

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Center for CLE’sUpcoming Events

January 4–8, 1999The Thirty-Third Annual Philip E. Heckerling Institute on Estate PlanningDirector: Tina H. Portuondo, Esq., University of Miami School of Law

February 18–19, 1999Third Annual Institute on Mergers & AcquisitionsCo-Chairs: Harvey Goldman, Esq., Steel Hector & Davis, Miami, Fla.Dennis Hersch, Esq., Davis Polk & Wardwell, New York, N.Y.

February 25–26, 1999Second Annual Institute on Tax Considerations in Mergers & AcquisitionsCo-Chairs: Michael L. Schler, Esq., Cravath, Swaine & Moore,New York, N.Y.Samuel C. Thompson, Jr., Esq., University of Miami School of Law,Coral Gables, Fla.

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honored him with its first Award of Ex-cellence. It is the highest honor grantedby the School and recognizes an indi-vidual who has made extraordinarycontributions to the law and society.

Kogan, who is a member of the Classof 1955, is the author of Florida’s pio-neering “Access Initiative,” acomprehensive program already world-renowned as a model for improvingcitizen access to the judiciary. The ini-tiative was awarded one of only threeLouis M. Brown awards given nation-ally by the American Bar Association’sCommittee on the Delivery of LegalServices. The award recognizes pro-grams that improve access to legalservices for persons who earn too muchmoney to qualify for free legal assistanceyet too little to afford an attorney.

In March 1998, the Florida Bar’s Me-dia Law Committee, consisting of thestate’s media lawyers and top journal-ists, gave Kogan its “Draw Near” awardfor his public access programs.

While a student at the Law School,Kogan won the Southern Law SchoolMoot Court Championship and becamea National Moot Court Finalist.

After Law School and active duty inthe U.S. Army, he entered private prac-tice in Miami. Other milestones in hiscareer have included being chief pros-ecutor of the Homicide and CapitalCrimes Division of the Dade CountyState Attorney’s Office, a return to pri-vate practice with a specialty in criminaltrial and appellate law, appointment ascircuit judge in Florida’s Eleventh Judi-cial Circuit, and appointment asadministrative judge of the CriminalDivision before joining the Florida Su-preme Court in 1987.

Throughout his career, Kogan hasserved as an adjunct faculty of variouslaw schools, including the U.M. Schoolof Law, teaching criminal evidence,trial advocacy, and professional re-sponsibility. In addition, he has servedas chair of the Florida Supreme Court’s

Gender Bias Study Commission and theJudicial Council and as vice chairof the Bench/Bar Commission andchair of that body’s ImplementationCommission. n

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U.M. Law’s Faculty in the News

Past Law Alumni Association Presidents

Prof. Lonny Rose is quoted in anAugust 14 Wall Street Journal articleabout an appeals court ruling inFlorida saying that the suit that de-livered a landmark $1 million verdictagainst Brown and Williamson To-bacco Corporation should have beentried in a different county from theone in which the dead smoker’s fam-ily lived. The article interviews anumber of legal experts with widelyvarying opinions on the significanceof ruling. According to the article,Rose observed that “there’s a verystrong possibility the verdict is dead.”

The August issue of the ATLA Ad-vocate also carries an article onProfessor Rose winning the RoscoePound Foundation’s 1998 Richard S.Jacobson Award for Excellence inTeaching Trial Advocacy, and theOctober 2 issue of the Miami DailyBusiness Review quotes him in connec-tion with an article on Kozyak, Tropin& Throckmorton’s $50,000 donationfor the newly renovated litigationskills center [reported on elsewhere inthis issue].

* * *The October 26 issue of the Wall

Street Journal quotes Prof. BernardOxman in an article about the effectsof the two-year-old Kinney ruling, inwhich Florida’s Supreme Courtadopted federal standards to stemabuses of the state’s court system byforeign plaintiffs seeking larger juryawards than they would expect to getin other states or countries with muchcloser connection to the claims andevidence. Oxman points out thatFlorida’s economy could be damagedif companies feel at risk doing busi-ness in the state. Allowing thepre-Kinney situation to continue, hesays, would penalize companies forsetting up offices in Florida.

* * *In the September 24 issue of Miami

Today, an article on efforts to reverseMiami’s growing reputation as acapital of corruption reports thatProf. Elizabeth M. Iglesias has beenappointed to a newly formed five-member Miami-Dade County Com-mission on Ethics and Public Trust.

* * *A feature article in the September

8 Miami Herald—entitled “RaisingCourtroom Standards . . . Law Cen-ter Thrives on Ethical Dilemmas”—isaccompanied by a large photographof Prof. Anthony Alfieri and law stu-dents from U.M. Law’s Center forEthics and Public Service.

Alfieri, who directs the center, isquoted as saying, “Public service isn’ttaught as a value, and ethical judg-

ment is really the most significant skilland value we can bring to our clientsand to the community.”

The article points out that thecenter recently won the AmericanBar Association’s 1998 E. SmytheGambrell Professionalism Award for itsactive promotion of professionalism andintegrity.

* * *In an August 26 Sun-Sentinel article

on jury tampering, Prof. Bruce Winickis quoted as saying, “There’s a lot morejury misconduct than meets the eye be-cause a lot of it happens behind theclosed door of the jury room.” Accord-ing to Winick, one reason for protectingverdicts from subsequent attack is thatit is relatively easy to contact an ex-ju-ror, who might be persuaded through abribe or other means to raise questionsand perhaps get the case reopened. Thesame article, addressing the issue of se-questration, also quotes Pro f .Anthony Alfieri as saying, “Thereare institutional costs to the judiciaryand therefore to the state and taxpay-ers, and there’s a very high cost to thejurors, professional and personal.”

The September issue of the Univer-sity of Miami’s Veritas faculty and staffnewspaper carries a half-page feature onWinick, focusing on his recent accep-tance of the Thurgood Marshall Awardand on his work in the area of thera-peutic jurisprudence.

The award—conferred by the Asso-ciation of the Bar of the City of NewYork, one of the nation’s most presti-gious bar associations—honors him forhis work in representing indigents ondeath row on a pro bono basis. He alsoargued the case that declared the NewYork death penalty unconstitutional in1973.

However, the bulk of the article re-lates to his being the “forefather of arelatively new field known as ‘therapeu-tic jurisprudence.’” The term was coinedafter he and a fellow law professor fromthe University of Arizona, DavidWexler, had collaborated over the yearsthrough a mutual interest in mentalhealth law.

“Increasingly, we found we were bothcriticizing different aspects of mentalhealth law as being ironically anti-therapeutic for the patient, noticinghow sometimes the rule of law itself wasdysfunctional, and in the late 1980s, wecame to call that insight ‘therapeuticjurisprudence,’” Winick explains in theVeritas article.

According to the article, the approachnow has spread well beyond mentalhealth law and beyond America. Thefirst international conference on thera-

peutic jurisprudence, to which Winickwas a major contributor, was held in Julyin Winchester, England.

* * *“Law Professor Goes on Offense

Against Starr for Hastings,” an articlein the September 25 Broward DailyBusiness Review, credits U.M. Law’sTerence Anderson with drafting U.S.Rep. Alcee Hastings’ resolution callingfor the impeachment of IndependentCounsel Kenneth Starr.

The newspaper quotes Anderson assaying, “Ken Starr has misbehaved, andhe has undermined the ability of theHouse of Representatives to do its job.”

In a separate article in the same issue,on the topic of the possible impeach-ment of President Clinton, the BusinessReview also quoted him as saying, “Animpeachment is and always should be apolitical process. It was intended to bethat. But the Nixon impeachment in-quiry was at least conducted with theappearance of a bi-partisan matter . . .[Starr] has in effect usurped the House’simpeachment power. . . . The House hasabdicated its responsibility.” Andersonrecently appeared on the A&E cabletelevision network’s American Justice se-ries, providing legal commentary for theprogram on “High Crimes and CapitalMisdemeanors.”

* * *In an op-ed piece in the June 12 Mi-

ami Herald, Prof. A. Michael Froomkinattacks “President Clinton’s announce-ment that the FBI and JusticeDepartment will become the federalgovernment’s lead agencies for fash-ioning policies on and ‘policing’cyberspace.”

He points out that—although de-velopments in mathematics andtechnology make encryption inexpen-sive and increasingly practical—” theFBI’s approach has been to propose thatevery encryption product guarantee gov-ernment access.

“. . . The same advances of informa-tion-processing power that make thenew cryptography possible also have in-creased vastly the power of the FBI, andthe private sector, to amass large data-bases profiling people.

“Encrypted communication,” hepoints out, “offers the opportunity tocreate small islands of privacy in a seaof increasingly public data.”

* * *In an article in the September 22 Wall

Street Journal—”The Lewinsky Story Isa Tale Spun Out Across Cyberspace”—Froomkin discusses the difficulty togetting rid of e-mail messages. “Onceyou type it and send it over the Internet,

you can’t ever be confident it’s beendeleted,” he says. “It may come backto haunt you.”

* * *In an article on local police notify-

ing residents about a convicted sexualoffender living near a youth center,the October 21–27 Coral Gables Ga-zette quotes Prof. Donald Jones assaying, “People are looking for newforms of social control . . . and thisfits right in there. It’s very progressive,kind of like an incarceration withoutthe prison.”

* * *The October 7 issue of South

Florida’s Sun-Sentinel carries an articlethat says the Presidential impeach-ment inquiry is making stars of all 35members of the House Judiciary Com-mittee, including rookie represent-atives who otherwise would not havebecome well known until they hadserved more time in office. It quotesU.M. Law’s adjunct professor DonaldPapy as saying, “People will rise andfall as a result of all the attention. . . .It can help or hurt. When you raiseyour profile in that way by standingout from the pack via passion or someother means, you are certainly rais-ing the stakes at election. . . . Theseare the times when reputations canbe made or broken.”

* * *The October 16 issue of the Miami

Daily Business Review carries a three-page interview with Prof. FrankSchnidman, director of the LawSchool’s graduate real estate devel-opment program. In an introductionto Schnidman’s interview, the articlesummarizes his observations: “Gov-ernments [in South Florida] andprivate business are out of sync witheach other, and urban planners oftenare ill-equipped for their jobs. Thedisharmony and politics are hobblingthe region’s efforts at redevelop-ment—and the location of the newNational Car Rental Center Arena inSunrise is a case in point.”

A November 2 Miami Herald articleabout the South Florida RegionalPlanning Council also featuresSchnidman. According to the article,the Council is charged with control-ling the region’s chaotic growth buthas approved all 27 “developments ofregional impact” that have come be-fore it in the past decade. The articlequotes the U.M. Law professor assaying, “What we are seeing is thework of a board that saw as its goalaccommodating development in-terests as much as it could withinthe regional policy rules. Unfortu-nately, the rules could be read to meanalmost anything.” n

* 1942 James E. Abras1943 Samuel I. Silver1944 Dixie H. Chastain1945 Amos Benjamin

* 1948 Victor Levine* 1949 David P. Phillips* 1950 John H. Boyer

1951 Louis M. Jepeway* 1952 Victor Levine

1953 Sam Jennings1954 Richard E. Gerstein

* 1956 Raymond G. Nathan* 1957 Marco Loffredo

1958 Arthur C. Massey, Jr.

1959 James H. Earnest1960 Helen Tanos Hope

*1961 Karl J. Leib, Jr.1962 Herbert P. Benn1963 Armando Maraio1964 Robert L. Koeppel

*1965 William T. Kruglak II1966 Max M. Hagen1967 Lawrence V. Hastings1968 Leland E. Stansell, Jr.1969 Harold P. Barkas1970 Thomas E. Lee, Jr.1971 Arden M. Siegendorf1972 Charles J. Crowder

1973 John Gale*1974 Thomas Davison III

1975 Donald I. Bierman*1976 A. John Goshgarian*1977 Sidney M. Weaver, Jr.*1978 Edward J. Atkins

1979 Neal R. Sonnett1980 Thomas R. Spencer, Jr.1981 Theodore Klein1982 George R. Harper1983 Rhea P. Grossman1984 Charles Kantor1985 Hon. A. Jay Cristol1986 J.B. Spence

1987 Joseph P. Klock, Jr.1988 Emerson Allsworth1989 Samuel S. Smith1990 Tod Aronovitz1991 Benedict P. Kuehne1992 George T. Yoss1993 Alan Atlas1994 Ronald B. Ravikoff1995 Joseph H. Lowe1996 Jay A. Martus1997 Richard C. Milstein

*deceased

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Now that the reunions, the annual Morning Spirits celebration and our 50th AnnualHomecoming Breakfast are behind us, it’s a good time to reflect on what a great traditionwe have.

All of us who take part in the Morning Spirits event each year thoroughly enjoy thisunique opportunity to reminisce and network. An outsider might consider the opportu-nity to get out of bed early on a Saturday to go to a party somewhat less than enticing.However, we definitely are enticed. In fact, we look forward to it year after year, and we arenever disappointed.

This year’s Homecoming Breakfast was special because it was our 50th—an importantmilestone in the history of a school that over the years has educated some of Florida’s andAmerica’s best legal minds. I would like to take this opportunity to thank the Law Devel-opment and Alumni Relations staff and others at the Law School who worked so hard to

make the event a success. Especially, I want to thank our guest speaker, gubernatorial candidate Buddy McKay, for hisinspiring contribution.

While I’m expressing appreciation, I also would like to thank Interim Dean Mary Doyle for sacrificing her profes-sional and private life to lead the Law School through this challenging period of transition as we conduct a search fora permanent dean. As our dean from 1986 until mid-year 1994, she guided us through a highly successful period of ourhistory, which included a $10 million building campaign, and we are extremely fortunate that she was available andwilling to take over the reins again.

Thanks also should go to the many alumni who contribute their time and talents to the Law School, especially theLaw Alumni Association’s Executive Committee, directors, and the people who serve on our four main committees(Activities, Placement, Outreach, and Fundraising).

Lastly, I want to urge alumni who are not involved with the Law School to get involved.Two upcoming opportunities include joining with your LAA colleagues to take part in a Toys for Tots Run in Fort

Lauderdale and a lunch-time Continuing Legal Education program, also in Fort Lauderdale. For the run, meet atCommercial Boulevard and Powerline Road at 8:15 a.m., Sunday, December 6, and bring an unwrapped toy for achild of any age and five dollars in cash, which will be used to support children’s cancer research at Cleveland Clinic.The CLE program—which is one of two or three we produce each year in Miami-Dade, Broward, or Palm Beachcounties to help our alumni fulfill their ethics and responsibility credit requirements—will be in a courtroomin the Broward County Courthouse. Judge Sharon Zeller will conduct the first part, which will be on “Professional-ism from a Judicial Point of View.” For further information, contact Law Development and Alumni Relations at305-284-3470.

If you are able to help with Law Alumni Association activities on an ongoing basis, any of the committees listedabove could use your expertise. To volunteer or just to talk it over, please give me a call at my office (305-865-3343).You can be of real help to your alma mater, and the experience will be valuable to you, as well.

Harlan M. GladsteinPresidentLaw Alumni Association

Message from President,Law Alumni Association

University ofMiami LawAlumniAssociation1998–1999 Directors & Class AgentsEXECUTIVE COMMITTEEPresident Harlan M. Gladstein, JD ’86President-ElectDet H. Joks, JD ’72

Vice PresidentsAlumni RelationsGary M. Carman, JD ’74Class AgentsSherry D. Williams, JD ’95Fund RaisingGuy A. Rasco, JD ’87PlacementCarroll J. Kelly, JD ’89Regional ProgramsPamela I. Perry, JD ’84Secretary ToddS. Payne, JD ’89Treasurer LewisB. Freeman, JD ’74

Immediate Past PresidentRichard C. Milstein, JD ’74Administrative LiaisonDean Jeannette F. Hausler, JD ’53Faculty LiaisonsAssistant Dean Stephen K. HalpertProfessor Wes DanielsProfessor Lili Levi

Judicial DirectorsThe Hon. Stanford Blake, JD ’73The Hon. Beth F. Bloom, JD ’88The Hon. Stephen T. Brown, JD ’72The Hon. A. Jay Cristol, JD ’59The Hon. Martin R. Dishowitz, JD ’75The Hon. Margarita G. Esquiroz, JD ’74The Hon. Alejandro E. Ferrer, JD ’86The Hon. Alan Kornblum, JD ’54The Hon. Eugene J. Fierro, JD ’67The Hon. Ronald M. Friedman, JD ’67The Hon. Norman S. Gerstein, JD ’73The Hon. Richard W. Goldberg, JD ’52The Hon. Lauren L. Miller, JD ’83The Hon. Jeffrey Rosinek, JD ’74

DIRECTORSThree-Year TermMarjorie Baron Garcia-Pedrosa, JD ’92David Stephen Hope, JD ’96Elizabeth S. Katzen, JD ’88Edward R. Shohat, JD ’72Aimee D. Stein, JD ’78Marva L. Wiley, JD ’95

Two-Year TermSpencer M. Aronfeld, JD ’91Richard M. Bezold, JD ’81Lydia A. “Lyan” Fernandez, JD ’79M. Margaret Haley, JD ’93Lewis J. Levey, JD ’86Anthony N. Upshaw, JD ’90

One-Year TermSusan N. Eisenberg, JD ’86Michael J. Higer, JD ’85Alvin F. Lindsay, JD ’91David Luber, LL.M. ’97John D. Mallah, JD ’84Harley S. Tropin, JD ’77

Presidential AppointmentsAngela Alvero-Cartolano, JD ’90Mark R. Antonelli, JD ’82Michael Blynn, JD ’77Albert Anthony Alexander Cartenuto III, JD ’90Gennivieve Henriques, JD ’92Mitchell J. Panter, JD ’86Michael S. Perse, JD ’86Paul A. Sack, JD ’82Detra P. Shaw, JD ’94Gerardo M. Simms, JD ’82Linda E. Singer, JD ’86

New Judge EmphasizesCompassion, FairnessPedro P. Echarte Jr., Class of ’79,

who was invested as a judge of theEleventh Judicial Circuit of Floridalast July, views compassion, toleranceand fairness as essential characteris-tics for performing his job well.

“After Law School, I began my ca-reer at the Dade County PublicDefender’s Office, and for approxi-mately seven years defended indigentcriminal defendants, thus learningfirst-hand of the alienation andanomie of many in our society whobecause of poverty, lack of education,skin-pigmentation, or accent often donot expect and sometimes do not re-ceive from our society much beyondthe attention of police,” he said.

“From that, I learned the actualvalue of the Bill of Rights and the im-portance of impartial judges thosewho can overlook the often highlyunattractive traits of accused crimi-nals and diligently safeguard theirpresumption of innocence notwith-standing appearances. I also learnedthat criminal defendants are com-monly inarticulate and often confused

to careless treatment in the hospital.“My wife and I spent six years wag-

ing a day-to-day war to keep Patriciaalive and our family together, and thatwar became the absolute center of ourlives.

“Indeed, that struggle was trans-mogrified into a major legal strugglebecause her maltreatment while in thehospital became the test case for chal-lenging the constitutionality of theLegislature’s imposition of damage capsin medical malpractice cases,” Echartenoted.

“Suffice it to say that I have directlyexperienced the impact of legal doc-trine and the reform of doctrine onhuman lives. All law, however esotericit may appear, has very real and seri-ous impacts on human lives, and thatmust never be forgotten by those whoadjudicate.”

Currently a judge in the Eleventh Ju-dicial Circuit’s Juvenile Division, hewill be assigned to the Criminal Divi-sion on January 3. n

and that vigilant judges are needed toguard against the miscarriages of justice,which unfortunately sometimes occur.”

Another event that had a profoundeffect on his view of the law, he said,was the death of his six-year-old daugh-ter, Patricia, who died of brain cancerin 1988 after five major brain operationsand the amputation of her right arm due

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Frank Charles Adler, JD ’54S. Melvin Apotheker, LL.M. ’70Alfred N. Baker, JD ’52William Charles BaldwinNeill V. Barbe, JD ’50Charles Thomas Barker, JD ’79Ira Arthur Barnes, JD ’52Natalie Baskin, JD ’65John Lawrence Baxter, JD ’33Stephen F. Bazzano, JD ’51Kenneth Otto Beach, JD ’41Henry Behrens, JD ’30Lloyd J. Bennett, Jr., JD ’52Leonard M. Bernard, Jr., JD ’62Deborah S. Betz, JD ’87Walter Koepler Blackwell, JD ’64Mario F. Bonadies, JD ’56Conway E. Boone, Jr., JD ’53Robert R. Boyer, JD ’37Betty Frye Bradbury, JD ’54Clark Brown, JD ’65George A. Buchmann, JD ’53Robert B. Butler, JD ’52Henry M. Cain, JD ’50Gerald Nelson Capps, JD ’59Christopher Carroll, JD ’83Alvin S. Cawn, JD ’50Morris Cohen, JD ’54Jack T. Coyle, JD ’43Maurice Cromer, JD ’40Norman E. Crouch, JD ’50Lon Worth Crow, JD ’37A. Budd Cutler, LL.M.T. ’72Harry L. Cypen, JD ’56Carl Di Bernardo, JD ’55N. Joseph Durant, Jr., JD ’56Philip Edelman, JD ’50Bernard L. Eichenbaum, JD ’56Kenneth W. Eilermann, JD ’56Quentin T. Eldred, JD ’48Joseph M. Fitzgerald, Sr., JD ’46Philip Louis Font, JD ’70Thomas Leo Ford, JD ’65Leo Fornero, JD ’54Milton Arthur Friedman, JD ’38Richard Stanyer Fuller, JD ’54, LL.M. ’68Wallace Irving Garrick, JD ’55Harry W. Glenn, JD ’62A. John Goshgarian, JD ’58Patricia A. Gough, JD ’88Calvin C. Gould, JD ’53Carl Johnson Hall, JD ’51Steven E. Halpern, JD ’59Richard M. Harris, JD ’51Richard Van Harrison, JD ’52Ralph A. Hauser, JD ’51Joseph G. Heard III, JD ’49William C. Herrell, Jr., JD ’61Marilyn Hess, JD ’56William M. Hicks, JD ’55William D. Hoffman, JD ’92Arthur E. Huttoe, JD ’53Robert A. Jarvis, JD ’67Irving F. Kalback, JD ’35George Kastrenakes, JD ’51Christopher F. Kelly, JD ’89Charles T. Kessler, JD ’61John E. Kirk, JD ’49Irwin Kruger, JD ’88

August F. La Rocco, Jr., JD ’82George V. Lanza, JD ’57Humes Truitt Lasher, JD ’50Bertha Claire Lee, JD ’58Sheldon N. Lelchuk, JD ’49Martin Lemlich, JD ’47Wayne Peter Levine, JD ’80Raymond Lewandowski, JD ’55Leslie Libman, JD ’66Justin J. Lipman, JD ’58Nathan Loewenstein, JD ’51Robert George Lubbers, JD ’59Mitchell Bruce Luber, JD ’76Mary Ann MacKenzie, JD ’57William Morgan Manker, JD ’56Rafael Mariota, JD ’53Michael F. Markensohn, JD ’67Hon. Paul M. Marko III, JD ’57Myron Myke Marks, JD ’52Bernard Martin, JD ’52Robert M. McClaskey, Jr., JD ’75Mildred L. McDaniel, JD ’55William A. Meadows, Jr., JD ’49Garry Thomas Melia, JD ’73Polly Lux de Hirsch MeyerWalter Joseph Migoski, JD ’50Philip Joseph Miller, JD ’56Karl W. Mirmak, JD ’74Sheila W. Moylan, JD ’84Sanford L. Muchnick, JD ’54John M. Murrell, Jr., JD ’50Alfred J. Nadler, M.D., JD ’61William S. Naughton, JD ’54Palmer A. Niles, JD ’52George A. O’Brien, JD ’51Stephen T. Onuska, JD ’57Barnett Peltz, JD ’51Burton Phillips, JD ’54Paul Pollack, JD ’52Josh Rephun, JD ’59Alberto A. Rodriguez, JD ’91Leslie C. Rome, JD ’49Samuel Moses Rosner, JD ’51Philip V. Salmon, JD ’53Edward J. Salnik, JD ’86Raymond Sandstrom, JD ’51Salvador Santiago-Marrero, JD ’51Erwin James Schmick III, JD ’69Zig Schmitt, JD ’78Richard Dean Senty, JD ’62Robert V. Shea, JD ’51Charles B. Sloane, JD ’53Frank Smathers, Jr., JD ’34Charles H. Snowden, JD ’51Claudia B. Spalding, JD ’83Thomas G. Spicer, JD ’51John W. Spinner, JD ’54Julian Roy Spradley, Jr., JD ’72Edward M. Stein, JD ’52Sydney Joseph Steinberg, JD ’53Rufus C. Sundie, JD ’50W. Barry Swope, JD ’52Thomas L. Tatham, JD ’47Charles Franklin Taylor, JD ’56Edwin Drummond Taylor, JD ’52Loyd G. Thompson, Jr., JD ’58Allan George Thorud, JD ’54Joseph Tomberg, JD ’54M.H.P. Van Hemert, JD ’50Frank C. Vernis, Jr., JD ’53Herbert Virgin III, JD ’61Joseph Anthony Von Arx, JD ’49Arthur Lamar Wade, JD ’48Joseph H. Walker, JD ’49Howard F. Walters, JD ’53Sidney M. Weaver, Jr., JD ’54Jeffrey Weithorn, LL.M.T. ’70Richard Malcom Welsh, JD ’53Charles A. Whiteacre, JD ’50Kenneth D. Whitfield, JD ’89Lester Carl Wisotsky, JD ’75John Ward Wright, JD ’50John William Wylie, JD ’75Joe Owen Young, JD ’68

In MemoriamThe dean, faculty, students, and

alumni of the University of MiamiSchool of Law honor the followingalumni and friends of the School ofLaw who have died during the pastthree years. We are grateful for theirparticipation in the development ofU.M. Law, and we extend our condo-lences to their family members andfriends as they mourn their loss. Whilethese friends always will be part of theSchool of Law, we miss their presenceamong us.

REUNION FROLICS�Class reunions held throughout Homecoming�98 week were relaxed, fun-filled events. Top photo, from left, AngeloDemos, with newlyweds Donna and Robert Dooley at the Class of �53party. Second photo, Michael Galanis, Gail Serota, Neal Sandberg,and Howard Finkelstein celebrate with the honored Class of �78. Thirdphoto, a costume party at the home of Elizabeth Katzen (first row,center) was one of three events held by the Class of �88. And, bottomphoto (from left), Jeff Sturmthal, Kelly Hough-Sturmthal, Stuart Cohen,Julie Cohen, Charles M.F. George, and Abram Finkelstein celebrate atthe Class of �93 reunion.

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It Seemed Like Yesterday

When 13 members from the Classof 1948 got together for the reunion lun-cheon October 29, they shared a wealthof anecdotes about the “good old days.”

For instance, they remembered thatmany of the classmates had had theireducations interrupted by military ser-vice in World War II. George Jahn, JoeBoyd, and Bill Phillips all had returnedto campus after stints in the service.

Joe Boyd had been a sergeant in theU.S. Marine Corps. He and anotherformer sergeant lunched regularly with

a buddy who had been a lieutenant. Thesergeants teased the lieutenant, sayingthat he hadn’t been smart enough to bea sergeant. Sure enough, when the threefriends took a law school exam together,the NCOs each scored an A, and theofficer got a B.

Boyd also reminisced about frequentlypicking up a hitchhiker on LeJeuneRoad. The hitchhiker always carried alarge gunnysack, which he tossed intothe car for the ride. Finally, Boyd askedwhat was in the bag. The answer was a

shocker: “Water moccasins. I catch ’emin the Everglades at night and sell themto the Serpentarium.” After that, Boydchecked to be sure none of his extrapassengers had managed to wiggle outof the bag and into the crevices of hiscar.

According to George Jahn, law pro-fessors were tough in those days. Oneday, for instance, Dean Rasco an-nounced a final exam on June 1. Jahnraised his hand and objected: “My wifeis going to have a baby that day.” The

Dean replied, “Well, I didn’t cause it,”and he refused to change the exam date.

Grading was tough, too, the class-mates agreed. Bill Yates and RichardHickey recalled an unnamed classmatewho took constitutional law three timeswith Prof. John G. Stevens. He flunkedthe first two times and seemed headedfor a third failure. However, he withdrewfrom the class—and U.M. Law—andentered Stetson Law School, where hegot an A in constitutional law. n

Calendar of Upcoming EventsDecember 1998 6 Annual LAA Holiday Party20 Law School Hooding Ceremony

2:00 p.m., Miami-Hyatt Hotel

January 1999 6 Alumni Luncheon at the Heckerling Institute

12:30 p.m., Fontainebleau Hotel, Miami Beach13 LAA CLE Ethics Seminar, 11:30 a.m., Broward County Courthouse

March 199927 Barristers Ball

Dean’s Circle BreakfastScholarship Recipient/Donor Recognition Luncheon

April 1999LAA Graduating Student Leadership ReceptionLaw Review Alumni ReceptionDean’s Circle Celebration

May 199916 Hooding Ceremony

2:00 p.m., Hyatt Downtown, UM Knight Center20 LAA Installation Ceremony

5:30 p.m., Law School Courtyard

June 19993 Third Annual Broward Judicial Reception

5:30 p.m., Tower Club, Ft. Lauderdale, Fla.12 LAA Annual Board Retreat

9:00 a.m., Law School Faculty Lounge17 LAA Reception at the Florida Bar Annual Meeting

6:30 p.m., Boca Raton, Fla.

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THE CLASS OF �48�(from left) Joseph Boyd, Bill Yates, Bill Phillips, Philip Medvin, Marshall Feuer, Richard Hickey, George Jahn, Bill Wood,Mervyn Ames, and Albert Borkin.

MAGIC MOMENTS�(clockwise from top left) Ben Kuehne, �77, rises toaccept the Thomas Davison III Outstanding Service Award; RichardHickey (left) and Bill Phillips reminisce at the Class of �48 reunion; and,the crowd at the 50th Homecoming Breakfast is in a festive mood.

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C l a s s N o t e s

CLASS OF 1929

NICHOLASHODSDON,the only livingalumnus fromthe first classesof UM Law,resides inCentral Floridawith his wife,Mildred, of 62

years. He follows the ’Canes’successes on the gridiron, and heis well versed in UM Lawactivities from his Winter Havenhome. While unable to travel forthe 50th Homecoming Breakfastin October, he sends warmgreetings to the alumni andfriends of his beloved alma mater.

CLASS OF 1938

The HonorableDANTE B.FASCELL washonored inOctober 1998 bythe board oftrustees of theUniversity of

Miami when the North-SouthCenter was renamed for him.The former lawmaker representedSouth Florida in the UnitedStates Congress between 1954and 1992, where he was instru-mental in directing LatinAmerican and Caribbean policy.He wrote legislation in 1990 thatestablished the North-SouthCenter as one of two university-based facilities charged withpromoting better relations amongthe United States and othernations. Fascell was chair of theHouse International RelationsCommittee when the North-South Center Act of 1990 waspassed. He and his wife, Jeanne-Marie reside in Clearwater.

CLASS OF 1950

WALTER G. BELL continues hiswork as a sole practitioner inWinter Haven, Fla., where hedoes probate, real estate law, andsome family law. Over the yearshe has served well a long list ofsatisfied clients, and he verymuch enjoys the practice. Henotes that he will quit thepractice of law “when they takeme out feet first”! On the wall ofhis large office in what wasformerly a family home in thecenter of town, he proudlydisplays his LL.B. diploma signedby President Bowman FosterAshe and Dean R. A. Rasco.

CLASS OF 1957

SONIA PRESSMAN FUENTESspent her career as an attorney forfederal agencies (DOJ, NLRB,EEOC, and HUD) and as anexecutive with two multinationalcorporations. She was a founderof the National Organization forWomen (NOW) and other

women’s rights organizations.Since retirement from federalservice in 1993, Sonia began anew career as a writer and publicspeaker and has completed hermemoirs, excerpts of which havebeen published in journals,magazines, and newspapers. Shespeaks on the women’s rightsmovement, her role in it, andlegendary feminists she hasknown and read from hermemoirs, which are written withhumor and a Jewish flavor, atuniversities, bookstores, bookfairs, and organizations. She hasone daughter, who is an executivewith Ameritech. She would bedelighted to hear from herclassmates at either of her twolocations—Sarasota, Fla., andPotomac, Md.

CLASS OF 1959

The Honorable A. JAYCRISTOL, Chief Judge of theUnited States Bankruptcy Courtfor the Southern District ofFlorida, was recently honored byhaving the first new Pan Amairliner named Clipper A. JayCristol. The judge presided overthe speedy reorganization of PanAmerican World Airways, andthe company responded innaming its first repainted Boeing727 after him. An aviator whoserved 38 years in the Navy andNaval Reserve, Cristol took thepilot’s seat for the new airliner’sinaugural flight over SouthFlorida.

CLASS OF 1964

ALAN I. GOULD was presentedwith the New Jersey State BarFoundation’s prestigious Medal ofHonor Award for his outstandingcontribution to improving thejustice system. This honor followsGould’s receipt last year of theNew Jersey Bar’s ProfessionalLawyer of the Year Award. He hasserved the New Jersey State BarAssociation in many capacitiesand is currently a member of boththe Judicial AdministrationCommittee and the Health andHospital Law Section.

CLASS OF 1965

CHARLES F. SANSONE was inthe practice of personal injury lawfor 30 years, many of those inTampa. Currently he does mostlymediation work from his office inhis home in west Tampa.

CLASS OF 1967

The Honorable EUGENE J.FIERRO has beenrequested by theCalifornia Courtsystem to consulton the creation ofCalifornia’sAccess to JusticeCommission.Judge Fierro is

administrator of “Put SomethingBack,” the nationally recognizedpro bono program that hasrecruited thousands of Dadeattorneys to provide free legalservices to those in need. He hasserved in the civil, family,criminal, and appellate divisionsand has authored several articles,including his latest, “The LawyersTrial Book—A Guide to the 1997Amendments to the Rules ofFlorida Civil Procedure,” TheFlorida Bar Journal, 1997.

CLASS OF 1968

The Honorable STANLEY M.GOLDSTEIN was elected judgein 1983 and became the first“Drug Court” judge in 1989.There are now approximately 300such courts in the United States.Judge Goldstein will retire inDecember 1998.

CLASS OF 1969

The Honorable FRED J.BERMAN is a judge in theCounty Court of BrowardCounty, where he has servedsince May 1965.

CLASS OF 1971

SHERRYLL MARTENS DUNAJis pleased to announce that hernew firm, Martens Dunaj MarloweDavis & Marlowe, celebrated itsfirst anniversary in August 1998.The firm has offices in Miami andin the Tampa Bay area. JEREMYFRIEDMAN, JD ’98, joined thefirm as an associate.

The Honorable LESTERLANGER was appointed to thecircuit bench in Miami-DadeCounty in September 1997 andassigned to the juvenile court inNovember. In January 1998,Judge Langer was appointed asassociate administrative judge ofthe juvenile court and is presentlyworking on a juvenile domesticviolence project with a grant fromthe State of Florida.

CLASS OF 1972

DAVID H. KRATHEN has hisown medical malpractice firm inFort Lauderdale. Most recentlyhis attention is diverted to therepresentation of Philip Ozersky,the cousin of Krathen’s wife, whocaught Mark McGwire’s record-setting 70th homerun baseball inBusch Stadium on September 27.

JEFFREY P. WASSERMAN wasinstalled as treasurer of theFamily Law Section of the FloridaBar at the annual convention inJune. His firm, MuchnickWasserman & Dolin, has openeda second office at One Boca Placein Boca Raton, in addition to themain office in Hollywood, Fla.

CLASS OF 1973

PAUL J. LEVINEwrote the coverstory for theOctober 25,1998, issue ofTropic magazineas “Prisoner ofthe Net.” The

article, “Oh What a Tangled WebWe Weave,” is the result of aweekend locked in a hotel roomsurviving by computer alone.His newest novel, 9 Scorpions,is available in bookstoresnationwide.

CLASS OF 1974

RANDOLPH A. NEWMAN wasrecently accepted into member-ship of the Million DollarAdvocates Forum as a result ofsettling a case for $2.3 million.Newman completed four years asa member of the County EthicsCommittee and as secretary ofthe County Fee ArbitrationCommittee. His firm, Newman &Andriuzzi—located in Clifton,N.J.—specializes in personalinjury, criminal, and matrimonialmatters.

CLASS OF 1975

JUDE BAGATTIwas appointed tothe City of SouthMiami HistoricPreservationBoard in October1998. In Septem-ber, she was

named Photographer of the Yearby the Kendall Camera Club andreceived the Julius Sirilo Memo-rial Award. This is the fourthtime she has been namedPhotographer of the Year.

GERHARDT A. SCHREIBERpractices at the Coral Gablesoffice of Rice Fowler, LC, amultinational firm with officesalso in New Orleans, Houston,London, Bogota, Caracas,Guatemala City, Mexico City,Montreal, San Jose, San Juan,San Pedro Sula, San Salvador,and Sao Paulo.

CLASS OF 1976

RODERICK G. DORMAN hasjoined the firm of O’Melveny &Myers LLP as a partner in itslitigation department, where hewill continue to concentrate onintellectual property, antitrust,

and business tort disputes.Dorman was a trial attorney inthe antitrust division of theUnited States Department ofJustice in his early career, and forthe past seven years he hasconcentrated on intellectualproperty issues. O’Melveny &Myers has approximately 660attorneys in 10 offices. Its primarypractice departments includecorporations, litigation, entertain-ment/media/intellectual property,trade and international law, laborand employment, real estate andnatural resources, and tax andbankruptcy.

ALAN S. ROSS recentlycelebrated his 20th year as apartner in the Miami firm ofRobbins, Tunkey, Ross, Amsel,Raben & Waxman, P.A. He andthe firm continue to limit theirpractice to the defense of criminalcases in state and federal criminalcourts and to related civilforfeiture and administrativeproceedings. Alan, his wife of22 years, Susan, and their threechildren live in Weston.

CLASS OF 1977

The Honorable JOHN A.HOUSTON took the oath ofoffice as United States Magistratein a public ceremony at theUnited States Courthouse inSan Diego. Since 1981, JudgeHouston had served as anassistant United States attorneyin San Diego, and as seniorcounsel for financial litigationsince 1994. His responsibilitiesincluded all civil and criminalasset forfeiture litigation andcriminal judgment enforcementlitigation within the criminaldivision. Houston was also a legalinstructor for the United StatesDepartment of Justice, where hetrained hundreds of federalattorneys and special agents. InFebruary 1996, Judge Houstonreceived the prestigious Director’sAward from Attorney GeneralJanet Reno.

JOSEPH M. MATTHEWS wasone of five Florida attorneys to beelected as Fellows of the Ameri-can Bar Foundation, an honoraryorganization of attorneys, judges,and law professors whose profes-sional, public and private careershave demonstrated outstandingdedication to the welfare of theircommunities and to the highestprinciples of the legal profession.Matthews is a civil trial lawyer atthe Miami firm of Colson HicksEidson who specializes in businessand commercial trial work andlarge fraud cases. He was also onthe short list for the seat on theFlorida Supreme Court to bevacated by Chief Justice GeraldKogan.

JOHN THORNTON is a partnerat the Miami law firm ofThornton & Rothman, P.A. andis a recipient of the Florida BarPresident’s Award of Merit.Thornton just completed 10 years

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on the Florida Bar Board ofGovernors (1988–1998) and is amember of the Board of Directorsof the Florida Bar Foundationand the Iron Arrow HonorSociety.

ELIZABETH RUSSO has beenappointed vice chair of theFlorida Bar’s Board of LegalSpecialization and EducationCommittee. Her firm, ElizabethRusso & Associates, P.A., handlesa full spectrum of civil appealsbefore state and federal courts,including appeals involvinginsurance law, negligence,products liability, commerciallitigation, admiralty and securi-ties litigation.

STEVE MADOFF was recentlypromoted to executive vicepresident of business and legalaffairs at Paramount PicturesCorporation, based in Holly-wood, Calif.

CLASS OF 1979

GEORGE R. CARTER has ageneral practice in Las Vegas,where he handles domesticrelations, bankruptcy, and othermatters for his clients. He resideswith his family in Las Vegas.

CLASS OF 1980

JOHN A. SHUGHART, JR. hasrecently joined the law firm ofMatthews, Railey & DeCubellis,P.A. in downtown Orlando.

CLASS OF 1981

BRUCE A.BLITMAN, anattorney andcertified mediatorfrom CooperCity, Fla., ispresident-elect

of the Florida Academy ofProfessionalMediators, the state’s largestprofessional association of disputeresolvers. Blitman also served asthe community producer and hostof the Academy’s 12-parttelevision series titled, “TheABC’s of ADR: An Introductionto Mediation and AlternativeDispute Resolution.” The serieswas produced in collaborationwith the Dade County CableAccess Project (Cable-TAP).Blitman’s law and mediationpractice is located in PembrokePines.

The Honorable GARY R.JONES was recently appointedUnited States Magistrate for theNorthern District of Florida.Judge Jones resides in Gainesville.

MARLYNEMARZIKAPLANpublished anabstract onChronicle of aDeath Foretold byGabriel Garcia

Marquez, which appeared in Lawand Literature: An AnnotatedBibliography of Law-Related Works.Kaplan is an adjunct facultymember of the School of Law,

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where she teaches her popularcourse, Law, Language andLiterature. Formerly an editorialboard chair of the Florida BarJournal, she is actively involvedin community affairs, writes bookreviews and travel essays, and isworking on a collection of essays.

JEFFREY H.MARCUS hasjoined the firm ofSaul, Ewing,Remick & Saul,LLP, as specialcounsel in its

Berwyn, Pa., office. Marcusconcentrates his practice in allareas of business and intellectualproperty matters. Prior to joiningSaul Ewing, he spent most of his17-year career in senior in-housecounsel positions at SiemensCorporation companies. He alsoserved as general counsel in othercorporations. Saul Ewing is amulti- practice regional law firmof 160 attorneys, with offices inBerwyn, Philadelphia, Harrisburg,Princeton, Baltimore, andWilmington.

CARL C. RADOM recentlybecame of counsel to the KansasCity law firm of Polsinelli,White, Vardeman & Shalton,P.C. He was formerly with theAmerican Academy of EstatePlanning Attorneys in La Jolla,Calif., and he is the author ofseveral publications on estateplanning, probate and property,small business taxation, andindividual taxation. With morethan 90 attorneys, Polsinelli,White, Vardeman & Shalton hasoffices in Kansas City, St. Louis,Jefferson City, Overland Park andTopeka.

JAMES E. WETTERLING, JR. ispresident of Edlen ElectricalExhibition Services, Inc., thenation’s largest independenttemporary utility contractor, withoffices in Las Vegas, Los Angeles,San Diego, San Francisco, FortLauderdale, Orlando, Hollywood,Mobile, and Boston. Wetterlingresides in Las Vegas.

CLASS OF 1982

KENNETH A. BURNS handlestax and estate planning and sometax litigation at the Las Vegasoffice of Kolesar & Leatham,Chtd.

FRED E. GOLDRING is apartner in the Beverly Hillsentertainment law firm ofHansen, Jacobson, Teller,Hoberman, Newman & Warren,Hertz & Goldring, L.L.P., and isco-founder of the firm’s musicpractice. His clients includeAlanis Morissette, Seal, Boyz IIMen, Will Smith, No Doubt,Live and Herbie Hancock, amongothers. Goldring and his partnerteach a course on the musicindustry to graduate students atUCLA’s Anderson GraduateSchool of Management, and he isa frequent lecturer at PLI andmusic industry conferences.While at U.M. Law, Goldringfounded the Entertainment &Sports Law Society in 1980. Helives in Pacific Palisades, Calif.,with his wife, Gale, and twodaughters.

CLASS OF 1983

STEVE MINDLIN is a partner inthe Tallahassee law firm of Rose,Sundstrom & Bentley, LLP, wherehe practices administrative law.He and his wife, Valerie, havetwo daughters, Lindsay andShannon. Mindlin has beenlisted in “Best Lawyers inAmerica” since 1993 and servesas president of the University ofMiami Tallahassee Alumni Club,a rather small, but happy group of’Canes who live in North Florida.

CLASS OF 1984

MARK M. ALTSCHUL wasmarried on July 11, 1998, toAudrey J. Schue, formerly ofCoral Gables. The couple residesin Manhattan, where he practicesat Altschul & Altschul. In theSeptember 1998 primary,Altschul was elected to a thirdterm as the Democratic statecommitteeman for the 63rd

Assembly District on the Eastsideof Manhattan. He continues inhis position as the Democraticdistrict leader for the 63rd

Assembly District, Part A.

IAN COMISKYspoke at the 15th

annual CriminalTax FraudConference inWashington,D.C., and chaireda panel on the

federal sentencing guidelines. Heis a partner in the law firm ofBlank Rome Comisky &McCauley, LLP, where heconcentrates his practice in thearea of white collar criminaldefense of corporations andindividuals, including criminaland civil tax litigation. Comiskyis a former assistant U.S. Attor-ney for the Southern District ofFlorida and practices in thePhiladelphia and Boca Ratonoffices of the firm. He is co-author of Tax Fraud & Evasion, atwo-volume treatise, and is amember of the American Collegeof Tax Counsel.

DIANA SANTAMARIA recentlyco-chaired thePremises LiabilitySeminar spon-sored by theAcademy ofFlorida Trial

Lawyers, held in Tampa and FortLauderdale. She also presented alecture with biomechicalengineer, Mariusz Ziejewski,Ph.D.,of Fargo, N.D., on HandlingCausation Issues in the LowImpact Case as part of theAcademy of Florida Trial Lawyers1998 annual convention seminarfor advanced trial lawyers.

JOSE A. “TONY” SANTOS, JR.was recently elected treasurer ofthe International Law Section ofthe Florida Bar, and he wasappointed to co-chair the Inter-American Law Committee of theAmerican Bar Association and tochair the Programs and MissionsCommittee for the GreaterMiami Chamber of Commerce’snewly formed Export ProfessionalServices Group. Santos served as

special advisor to the president ofthe Inter-American Bar Associa-tion (IABA), a hemisphericfederation of regional andnational bar associations in theAmericas that represents over 1.2million lawyers. He is founderand president of the YoungLawyers Section of the IABA.An international lawyer practic-ing in Miami, Santos is head ofBroad and Cassel’s internationalpractice group and a partner withthe firm. He focuses his practiceon international businesstransactions, particularly in LatinAmerica, and lives on MiamiBeach with his wife, Marlene,and their three children.

CLASS OF 1985

MICHAEL J. HIGER has beeninvited to be a Fellow of theAmerican Bar Foundation inrecognition of his outstandingdedication in his professional,public, and private career to thewelfare of the community, thetraditions of the profession, andthe maintenance of the objec-tives of the American BarFoundation. He practices at theNorth Miami firm of Ress, Mintz& Truppman, P.A.

STEVEN C. MARKS has beenelected vice-chair of the AviationLaw Section of the Association ofTrial Lawyers of America(ATLA). Marks specializes inaviation, commercial, personalinjury and wrongful deathlitigation, and product liability atthe Miami law firm of PodhurstOrseck Josefsberg Eaton MeadowOlin & Perwin, P.A. He hasserved on various committees forthe American Bar Associationand was recently a guest lecturerat the Tenth Annual AviationSymposium in 1997.

MARIA E. TRENZADO hasserved for the past nine years asmanaging attorney and lead trialattorney for the Miami staffcounsel office of GEICO Insur-ance Company. She isboard-certified in civil trial lawand limits her practice toinsurance defense trial work.

CLASS OF 1986

KIMBERLY D. KOLBACK wasinstalled as chair of the FloridaBar Entertainment & Sports LawSection for 1998–1999, at theannual meeting of the Florida Barin June. Kolback is a commerciallitigator in the entertainment lawdepartment of the Miami firm ofKluger Peretz Kaplan & Berlin.She also spoke recently at theNova Southeastern UniversityLaw Week on the topic of“Business Affairs in SportsFranchises and Stadiums.”Kolback is a resident of Miami.

CLASS OF 1987

JOHN J. FUMERO is deputygeneral counsel in the SouthFlorida Water ManagementDistrict. He is a member of theexecutive counsel of the FloridaBar Environmental & Land UseLaw Section and of the PalmBeach County Bar’s Environmen-

tal, Land Use & EminentDomain Committee. Fumero alsorecently became a Supreme Courtcertified mediator and wasaccepted into Leadership PalmBeach County, Class of 1999. Heresides in Boca Raton.

The HonorableDARRYL JONESwas re-elected tothe Senate of theState of Floridaand recentlyelected chairmanof the Black

Legislative Caucus.

RICHARD SHEEHY practicedcommercial litigation in Miami,most recently at Steel Hector &Davis LLP, before returning toschool to pursue a master’s degreein counseling at the University ofFlorida in 1994. He is currentlyin the last year of his Ph.D.program in counseling psychologyat Arizona State University inTempe, Ariz. Sheehy is presentlycompleting his dissertation inwhich he looked at the efficacy ofa stress/anxiety managementintervention on stress levels offirst-year law students. In hisspare time, he is also the assistantdirector of the Career Planningand Placement Office at theArizona State University Collegeof Law. He hopes to continue hiswork counseling law students andattorneys, as well as pursue hisinterest in forensic psychology.He lives in Phoenix.

CLASS OF 1988

MICHAEL D. ALLWEISS wasappointed chief counsel of theAmerican PowerboatAssociation’s offshore racingdivision. He is also the executivedirector of the St. PetersburgHurricane Classic powerboat raceand recently won appointment tothe APBA Hall of Champions forhis undefeated racing season in1998. Michael is a partner in theSt. Petersburg law firm ofAllweiss, Allweiss & Tetreault.

CARIDAD AMORES owns atitle company in Miami Springs,and she and her husband, JohnWalters, and three children livein Miramar.

The Honorable KENNETHGOTTLIEB serves in the FloridaHouse of Representatives,District 101, for Broward Countyand part of Miami-Dade County.One of his proudest moments wasthe passing of the HolocaustVictims Insurance Act. Represen-tative Gottlieb also wasinstrumental in the passage of theFlorida Taxpayers Relief Act,which he co-sponsored, andwhich established the week ofAugust 15–21 as a tax holiday forthe purchase of clothing andshoes costing less than $50. Hecontinues to fight for those whocannot speak for themselves, andhe recently filed a bill on behalfof individuals with developmen-tal disabilities. When he is notserving in the State Legislature,Gottlieb is a partner at Gottlieb& Gottlieb, P.A. and president ofBest Title Company, Inc., in

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LISA LANDY, a founder of the Miamichapter of Women in International Trade,was elected president of the Organizationof Women in International Trade, whichhas chapters in the United States, Europe,Latin America, the Caribbean and Asia.Landy practices international law at theMiami office of Akerman Senterfitt &Eidson.

GARY S. SALZMAN became a share-holder in Brown, Ward, Van Leuven &Salzman, P.A., located in downtownOrlando, Fla., where he continues hispractice in the areas of business litigation,mediation, and arbitration. Salzman isboard-certified in business litigation and isserving a term on the Business LitigationCertification Committee of the FloridaBar. He is also a certified mediator andarbitrator. He and his wife, Suzanne, havea son, Joshua, born in January 1997, and adaughter, Brieanne, born in September1993.

CLASS OF 1990

ADAM BARON recently opened his ownfirm in North Miami Beach. He is aformer partner at Piken, Schiffrin &Baron. He resides in Pembroke Pines withhis wife, Sharon, and his newborn son,Max, and continues to practice in the fieldof workers compensation and personalinjury. He is now a certified circuitmediator.

ALBERT A. A. CARTENUTO has hisown firm in Kendall, where he practicescivil, criminal, and family law. He doescivil and family mediation as well.

CLASS OF 1991

SPENCER ARONFELDwas selected in 1997,along with 39 other triallawyers, to attend GerrySpence’s Trial LawyersCollege, a month-long

program designed to teach lawyers how tobetter try cases for their clients. Aronfeldwas invited back as faculty to help Spenceteach the 1998 class. In July, he alsolectured for Judge Philip Bloom’s CourtObserver Program on the topic of “Cre-ative Lawyering.” Aronfeld is a trialattorney in his own practice, Aronfeld &Associates, in Coral Gables.

DAVID R. HEFFERNAN has beennamed partner in the firm that will nowbe known as Russo & Heffernan, P.A. Thefirm is located in South Miami andspecializes in the litigation of complexmedical negligence and other tort cases.

ORRIS C. KNEPP III and his wife, Nikki,announce the birth of their daughter,Abigael Lilith. Knepp is a partner in theLewistown, Pa., firm of Brugler and Levin,where he specializes in civil litigation.

LINDA MARIE KNOERR recentlyformed a partnership with an experiencedMassachusetts attorney, Gioia De Carlo.DeCarlo & Knoerr is building a civilpractice in both Dade and Browardcounties. Knoerr resides in Miami Beach.

JOSEPH T. MEZGER has been named apartner in the Tampa office of Hinshaw &Culbertson, where he concentrates hispractice in the areas of defense andlitigation of insurance coverage-relatedmatters, personal injury, product liability,and commercial litigation. Hinshaw &Culbertson is a national law firm with

more than 400 attorneys in 24 officeslocated in Illinois, Arizona, California,Florida, Indiana, Minnesota, Missouri andWisconsin. The firm is headquartered inChicago.

KEVIN O’TOOLE joined Stein Mart,Inc., as director of associate relations andin-house labor counsel, in June 1998.Stein Mart is a retailer with 170 stores in27 states and approximately 14,000employees. He resides in Jacksonville, Fla.

MICHAEL C. TODD has joined thecorporate department as an associate inthe Fort Lauderdale office of Akerman,Senterfitt & Eidson, where his practicefocuses on corporate securities law, publicand private offerings, mergers and acquisi-tions, and general business law. From1994 to 1996, Todd served as specialcounsel for the U.S. Securities andExchange Commission. He is a resident ofHollywood.

EDWARD H. ZEBERSKY was recentlyelected chairman of the insurancecommittee task force of the AFTL. Hisfirm, Zebersky & Payne, LLP, concentratesits practice in commercial matters and inthe representation of corporate clientsregarding various issues.

CLASS OF 1992

ALAN D. DANZ recently opened hisown practice in Weston, Fla. He focuseshis practice in the area of labor andemployment-related litigation andcounseling of corporate clients. Danzformerly practiced with Eckert SeamansCherin & Mellott in Fort Lauderdale. Hewas recently elected as chairperson of theboard of governors of the BaudheimSchool of Nova Southeastern University,where he is responsible for fundraising forthe school. The school educates andhabilitates children with autism andcommunication disorders.

JOE BOGHOSSIAN is now associatedwith McGuire, Woods, Battle & Boothe, afull-service international firm with over500 attorneys, where he serves as vicepresident for public affairs in the newfederal public affairs practice in the firm’sWashington office. Boghossian is alsoinstrumental in organizing the Washing-ton, D.C., U.M. alumni group, whichintends to provide a mentoring andorientation service for new alumni in the

area.

KIMBERLY L. BOLDT isan associate in the Miamifirm of Elizabeth Russo &Associates, P.A., and hasbecome a board-certifiedappellate practice lawyer.

Boldt is a member of the AppellatePractice and Advocacy Section of theFlorida Bar.

JOSH LEADER and his wife, Celeste,announce the birth of their first child,Madeleine Jane, on August 11, 1998.Leader practices criminal defense in Dadeand Broward.

STEVEN J. LEITER has become a partnerin the Fort Lauderdale office of Hinshaw& Culbertson, where he concentrates hispractice on the defense and litigation ofinsurance coverage-related matters,automobile claims, premises liability, legalmalpractice and product liability.Hinshaw & Culbertson is a national lawfirm with more than 400 attorneys in 24offices located in Illinois, Arizona,California, Florida, Indiana, Minnesota,Missouri and Wisconsin. The firm is

headquartered in Chicago.

NEIL McGUINNESS has joined theMiami office of Broad and Cassel where hepractices labor and employment law.McGuinness was formerly a seniorassociate in the Miami labor and employ-ment law firm of Muller, Mintz,Kornreich, Caldwell, Casey, Crosland &Bramnick. He is a resident of MiamiShores.

YVETTE OSTOLAZA is a commerciallitigation associate in the firm of Weil,Gotshal & Manges in Dallas, Tex. Peterand Yvette have a son, Aidan Samuel,born March 2, 1996.

CLASS OF 1993

GREGG GOLDFARB has his ownpractice in downtown Miami.

MARK HEINISH is an associate at theLaw Office of Steven J. Jacobson, P.A.,where he is a general civil litigator. Hemarried LAURA BERLOWE (JD ’97) onFebruary 15, 1998. The couple plans torelocate to Cooper City, Fla.

JAMES M. KUNICK is an associate withthe information technology practice at theChicago office of Mayer, Brown & Platt.His practice focuses on software licensing,information technology outsourcing, andnegotiating complex consulting servicesagreements. He and his wife, AnnSteevens, live in Chicago with their fourcats that they adopted off the streets ofMiami.

JOAN LEVIT has joined the bankruptcydepartment in the Fort Lauderdale officeof Akerman, Senterfitt & Eidson, P.A.,where her practice will focus on debtors,creditors and trustees in bankruptcyproceedings. Prior to joining the firm,Levit was an attorney in the office of theBroward County Attorney. She lives inPlantation.

JOHN R. PAPE has been very busy sincegraduating from UM Law. He has climbedMt. Everest, joined a theatre company,sailed in the 1997–98 Whitbread Round-the-World Race on E F Language,compiled a 47-0 record in full contactsubmission fighting, engaged in motorsports, and built a very successful lawpractice at Carballo, Pape & Chandler,P.A., in North Miami. Next up: he willrun with the bulls in Pamplona, Spain,and participate in street lux at the X-games. Pape resides in Aventura.

JACK PARIS represents plaintiffs inautomobile, aviation, and maritimeaccident cases at Leeds & Colby, P.A. Heis a member of the Million Dollar Advo-cate Forum and was involved in theValuejet litigation.

BRIAN YABLONSKI, policy coordinatorfor the campaign to elect Jeb Bush, co-author with Bush of Profiles in Character,and former communications director forBush’s Foundation for Florida’s Future, wasrecently named policy director on theBush Transition Team.

CLASS OF 1994

KAREN BERG BRIGHAM has tempo-rarily put the practice of labor andemployment law on hold in order to moveto Paris, where her husband, Geoff, is theUnited States Department of Justiceliaison to the French Ministry of Justice.She is currently working on a screenplay.Before moving to Paris, Brigham practiced

in the Miami office of Morgan, Lewis &Bockius, LLP, and more recently, withWhelan & DeMaio, P.A. Her five-year-olddaughter, Cassandra, who was bornbetween Brigham’s second and third yearsof law school, attends a French publicschool in Paris.

MARIANA V. LLANSO has her ownfirm in Lakeland, Fla., where she practicesimmigration law and does pro bono workinvolving domestic issues for the localpolice department.

JUDITH M. MERCIER, an attorney inthe Miami office of Holland & KnightLLP, has been installed as the president ofthe Florida Federation of Business andProfessional Women’s Clubs, an organiza-tion comprised of 70 groups statewide withapproximately 2,000 members. At Holland& Knight, Mercier practices in the area ofgeneral commercial litigation, with anemphasis on media law, class actiondefense, intellectual property disputes, andemployment discrimination. Holland &Knight is among the 20 largest firms in theworld, with more than 700 lawyers andfull-service offices in Atlanta, MexicoCity, New York, Northern Virginia, SanFrancisco, Washington, and in 10 citiesthroughout Florida.

JASON OLETSKY and his wife announcethe birth of their son, Justin Robert, onSeptember 13, 1998. Justin was 6 pounds,14 ounces, and was 19 inches long at birth.Oletsky practices at the Miami firm ofKluger Peretz Kaplan & Berlin and lives inAventura.

LEON PATRICIOS and alumna-spouseMICHELLE RAMIREZ (JD ’95) had theirfirst child, Ana Sofia, in September. Leonpractices at the Miami office of Holland &Knight, LLP, and the couple lives in CoralGables.

ROSEMARIE RICHARD and LANCE P.RICHARD opened their own practice in1997, located in Stuart, Fla. They special-ize in the fields of disability law,employment discrimination, commerciallitigation, personal injury, and medicalmalpractice. Both were formerly with theMiami office of Steel Hector & Davis LLP.

IAN MARK SIROTA is an associate atMargolis Edelstein in Westmont, N.J.,which also has offices in Philadelphia,Pittsburgh, and Media, Pa. Ian and hiswife, Stacy, live in Mount Laurel, N.J.

JEFFREY SULLIVAN joined the Bartow,Fla., firm of Stidham & Stidham, P.A.,which specializes in civil litigation,medical malpractice, contract disputes,and construction law. Prior to joining thefirm, Sullivan was an assistant publicdefender for the 10th Judicial Circuit inBartow, located between Tampa andOrlando, in Polk County.

CLASS OF 1995

JEFFREY D. DeCARLO recently becameassociated with the Miami office ofAkerman, Senterfitt & Eidson, P.A., in thelitigation department, where he practicesin the areas of labor, employment andcommercial litigation. The firm also hasoffices in Fort Lauderdale, Orlando,Tallahassee, Tampa, and West Palm Beach.

KRISTINA L. GENTNER attended thePublic International Law Session at TheHague Academy of International Lawduring the summer of 1997. The HagueAcademy adjoins the Peace Palace, wherethe International Court of Justice islocated. Students in her classes came from83 different countries, and she had the

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opportunity to observe the war crimestribunal for the former Yugoslavia.Gentner practices in the Law Offices ofMark M. Carroll in Miami.SCOTT GOORLAND works for theState of Florida in the Department ofEnvironmental Protection in Tallahassee.He is also pursuing a master’s degree inenvironmental planning at Florida StateUniversity.

SETH R. LEECH and his wife, SANDRA(JD ’97), have moved to Albany, N.Y.,where he is practicing in the law firm ofWhiteman Osterman & Hanna.

MARNI CHAPLIN LENNON iscurrently the assistant dean of studentsand director of disability services at UMLaw. She also enjoys working withstudents through the H.O.P.E. project, acommunity outreach and legal advocacyproject geared toward getting students intothe community to make a difference.Lennon welcomes any alumni who areinterested in becoming involved inH.O.P.E. In December Lennon willcomplete her M.S.Ed. at the University ofMiami.

MAUREEN SCULLY McFADDEN is anassociate at the San Francisco law firm ofJackson & Wallace where she practicesinsurance defense. She moved to SanFrancisco from Miami after meeting herhusband, Jim, at Superbowl XXIX in JoeRobbie Stadium.

DAVID MORET and TRACY GAFFIN-MORET, both of the Class of 1995, weremarried in September 1996, and theyrecently had a baby, Hannah Zoe, who wasborn on April 7, 1998, and weighed 8pounds. Tracy has been working as anassistant state attorney in the juvenilecourt system of the Dade County StateAttorney’s Office. David is involved withreal estate investments as the vicepresident of Continental Real EstateCompanies. They reside in Miami Beach.

ILENE PABIAN has joined the Miamioffice of Holland & Knight as an associ-ate, where she will practice in the area ofappellate law. Formerly a judicial lawclerk for the Honorable Martha C. Warnerat the Fourth District Court of Appeal inWest Palm Beach, Pabian’s experiencealso includes a position as a senior taxconsultant for Arthur Andersen LLP.

MICHELE McCAUL RICCA practicesinsurance defense in the Fort Lauderdalefirm of Cooney, Mattson. She resides inWeston.

MARC SCWARTZ is doing publicrelations work in the Greenwich, Conn.,firm of Earle Palmer Brown.

CHARLES J. SEAMAN has his own firm,the Law Office of Charles J. Seaman, inSunrise, Fla., where he specializes in civillitigation and family law. He also lives inSunrise with his wife, Marsha, and threesons, Nicholas, Kyle, and Matthew.

BENJAMIN P. SHENKMAN (LL.M. inEstate Planning) recently joined the firmof Karol Hausman & Sosnik, P.A., as thefirm’s resident attorney in its new BocaRaton office. The firm’s main office is inGarden City, N.Y. The firm concentratesits practice in trusts and estates law.

ROSS B. TOYNE hasopened his own firm indowntown Miami wherehe has a general practice.He and his wife, IrinaSilvia Behrens, live inCoral Gables.

ROY L.WEINFELD has joined the firm of

Cohen Berke Bernstein Brodie & Klondellin Miami, where he practices in commer-cial and employment litigation. Weinfeldis a board member for the Greater MiamiState of Israel Bonds.SHERRY D. WILLIAMS is now associ-ated with the Miami office of Kirkpatrick& Lockhart. She is also serving the LawAlumni Association as the vice presidentfor class agents.

CLASS OF 1996

BRIAN S. FREEMAN practices at theMiami firm of Silver & Garvett, P.A., inthe area of complex commercial litigation.

DAVID R. HAZOURI has joined theMiami office of the Kansas City-based lawfirm of Shook, Hardy & Bacon, LLP, as anassociate in the national products liabilitylitigation division. The firm opened theMiami office following a merger withAnderson, Moss, Sherouse & Petros, P.A.Before joining the firm, Hazouri was anassociate with Davis & Davis, P.C., from1996 to 1998.

DONNA K. KNAPTON is an attorneyfor the United States Securities andExchange Commission’s enforcementdivision at its headquarters in Washing-ton. She is also a graduate student at theGeorgetown University Law Center,earning an LL.M. in securities andfinance. She resides in Arlington.

JENNIFER LYNCH GIOL has beenassociated with Powers, McNalis, Moody& Groelle in Lake Worth, Fla., for over ayear, specializing in subrogation andinsurance defense. She is involved withJunior Achievement and several commit-tees of the Palm Beach County BarAssociation. Additionally, Jennifer andher husband, Victor Giol, recentlypurchased their first home in Jupiter.

TOMMY MEYER has celebrated the firstyear anniversary of the opening of his lawfirm in Sarasota, where he specializes insexual harassment law and employmentdiscrimination. Meyer has also beeninvited into the Judge M. Scheb Ameri-can Inn of Court.

ANNELIE NYSTRAND BALDWINrecently joined the Florida BankersAssociation in Tallahassee, as vicepresident of government affairs for thetrust and asset management division.Founded in 1888, the Florida BankersAssociation is the legislative representa-tive of nearly 400 FDIC-insured financialinstitutions in the State of Florida.

HAL PALMER practiced in Jacksonvillefor Robert L. Corse, P.A., prior to joiningthe Office of the Public Defender in theFirst Circuit. Palmer and his wife, Deirdre,reside in the historic town of DeFuniakSprings, Fla.

DIERDRE PARKER married MichaelBuckner, an attorney in the Jacksonvilleoffice of Holland & Knight, LLP, onNovember 20, 1998, in a Fort Lauderdaleceremony. The couple lives in Jackson-ville, Fla.

ANDRE PIERRE gave up a position in alarge Miami law firm to open his ownpractice in northeast Miami, where hededicates his time to helping Miami’sHaitian community. Pierre also has takento the airwaves, giving immigrationinformation in Creole on two programs onWLQY (1320 AM), and he is an adjunctprofessor at Barry University’s Kendallcampus.

MARIO RUBIO practices at the Miamioffice of Ruden McClosky Smith Schuster& Russell, P.A. He was elected citycommissioner for the City of West Miamiin April 1998.T.J. SABO is president of SignatureEntertainment Group, a multi-mediacompany located in Miami.

T. NICOLE SAUNDERS gave birth toAlisun Winslow on Tuesday, August 11,1998. Alisun weighed in at 9 pounds,1 ounce.

LAURA R. WEINFELD is associated withthe Miami law firm of Tew CardenasRebak et al., where she practices bank-ruptcy and commercial litigation.Weinfeld and her husband, Dr. PaulDamski, were married on May 25, 1997.

JEFFREY D. WEINSTOCK is associatedwith Schottenstein, Zox & Dunn inColumbus, Ohio, where he practices inthe health care law department, focusingon health care transactional and regula-tory compliance issues. Schottenstein, Zox& Dunn is a 93-attorney firm based inColumbus, with offices in Cleveland andCincinnati.

DEBORAH WILLIAMS PINO wasmarried to Jorge F. Pino on December 31,1997. The couple had their first child,Deja Dominique Pino, on May 7, 1998.Deborah works as an assistant attorneygeneral in the Fort Lauderdale office, andthey live in Lauderhill.

CLASS OF 1997

LAURA BERLOWE married MARKHEINISH (JD ’93) on February 15, 1998.Laura is an associate with the Law Officeof Guillermo F. Mascaro, where shepractices primarily in the areas of familylaw and personal injury. Mark is anassociate at the Law Office of Steven J.Jacobson, P.A., where he is a general civillitigator. Mark and Laura plan to relocateto Cooper City, Fla.

TANYA L. BOWER, LL.M. in Taxation,is associated with the law firm of Sacher,Martini & Sacher, P.A., where shespecializes in general tax, corporate law,and employee benefits and pensions. Thefirm is located in Coral Gables and wasformerly the Coral Gables office ofWalton, Lantaff, Schroeder & Carson.

NOAH BENDER works for the firm ofLash & Goldberg in Miami. The firmconcentrates on health care and hospitallitigation, commercial litigation, andwhite-collar criminal defense.RACHEL COHL and RON PONZOLI,JR. (JD ’97) were married in Michigan onAugust 9, 1998, after meeting during theirfirst year in law school. The couple residesin West Palm Beach. Rachel works for theHon. Robert M. Gross of the FourthDistrict Court of Appeal, and Ron worksfor Powers, McNalis, Moody & Groelle inLake Worth. He practices mainly in thearea of insurance defense. Rachel and Ronare pictured with Rachel’s former em-ployer, Justice Barbara Pariente of theFlorida Supreme Court. Justice Parienteswore the couple into the Florida Bar inSeptember 1997.

SEAN CLARKE is staff counsel for theFidelity National Insurance Company inits Kendall office, where he practicesinsurance defense. He resides in CoralSprings.VICTORIA A. DAMAS (LL.M. in EstatePlanning) has joined the law firm ofBond, Schoeneck & King, LLP, in thefirm’s Syracuse, N.Y., office. The firmincludes 140 attorneys in Albany, Buffalo,Oswego, Saratoga Springs, and Syracuse,N.Y., and in Overland Park, Kan. Shepractices in the estate and financialplanning department and was previouslyemployed by the law firm of Goodkind,Labaton, Rudoff & Sucharow in NewYork.

JUSTIN B. ELEGANT has joined theMiami office of the Kansas City-based lawfirm of Shook, Hardy & Bacon, LLP,where he concentrates on litigation. Priorto joining the firm Elegant was associatedwith the Miami firm of Anderson, Moss,Sherouse and Petros, P.A., which mergedwith Shook, Hardy & Bacon to establishthe Miami office.

MICHAEL FREEDLAND is associatedwith the Law Offices of David Krathen,P.A., in Fort Lauderdale, which representsPhilip Ozersky, the fan who caught MarkMcGwire’s record-setting 70th homerunbaseball on September 27. Normallyinvolved almost exclusively in medicalmalpractice issues, Freedland’s attentionhas been diverted in recent weeks fromthe routine practice of law.

SEAN A. MOUGHAN has become anassociate in the Miami law firm of Alayon& Associates, P.A. Moughan specializes inprobate litigation, trust and estateplanning, and guardianship matters, aftera long association with Judge Maria M.Korvick of the 11th Circuit probatedivision, where he served as her bailiff andlaw clerk for nearly three years. He lives inFort Lauderdale.

WENDY L. ROBBINS is staff attorney atthe Family Court Self Help Project inMiami. This is a joint project of the 11th

Judicial Circuit and the Legal Aid Societyof the Dade County Bar Association.

JOSE SAUD is an international tradespecialist with the Department of Com-merce in Miami and resides in MiamiBeach.

DAVID B. SCHWARTZ has completedhis first full-length motion picture firm,Fighting Gravity, which is all aboutoptions—three friends whose adultrealities haven’t matched their youthfuldreams must make the tough choicebetween playing it safe in their apatheticdownwardly spiraling lives, or taking arisk. The film consisted of South Floridatalent and made its debut at the FortLauderdale Film Festival on November 5.

DAVID M. SCOTT is associated withHayden & Milliken, P.A., with offices inMiami, Tampa, and Cape Canaveral. Thefirm practices in the areas of admiralty andmaritime insurance defense. Scott marriedJosephine Rivera on November 14, 1998.The couple lives in Miami.

JAYNE ANN SKRZYSOWSKI is acaptain in the United States Army, havingcompleted military justice school at theUniversity of Virginia. She serves as judgeadvocate general at the XVIII AirborneCorps Legal Assistance Office in FortBragg, N.C. She practices estate planning,family law and consumer law, whilekeeping soldiers on a high deployabilitystatus. She resides in Fayetteville, N.C.

PATRICIA VOSS (LL.M. in EstatePlanning ’98) was named director of gift

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and estate planning at the Mount SinaiMedical Center Foundation, where sheconducts estate planning seminars,develops information regarding plannedgiving, and assembles a professionaladvisory committee to educate thefoundation’s potential donors aboutcharitable bequests.

BETH WOLT has been working sincegraduation at the Fort Myers firm ofHenderson, Franklin, Starnes & Holt,P.A., in the workers compensationsettlement unit. She was recently pro-moted to workers compensation litigationdoing insurance defense. She resides inFort Myers.

CLASS OF 1998

MARVE ANN ALAIMO (LL.M. inEstate Planning) practices at the Naplesoffice of Cummings & Lockwood andpublishes an update for her classmates inthe graduate program in estate planning.The firm also has offices in BonitaSprings, Palm Beach, Greenwich,Hartford, New Haven, and Stamford.

LOUIS P. ARCHAMBAULT has becomean associate in the civil litigation divisionof Zebersky & Payne, LLP. The firm’spartners, EDWARD ZEBERSKY (JD ’91)and TODD PAYNE (JD ’89), haveestablished offices in Hollywood andCoconut Grove. The practice involvescommercial matters and the representa-tion of corporate clients regarding variousissues.

LORI ARVANITIDIS works in the laborand employment law department of Snell& Wilmer, a midsize office in Irvine,Calif., with its main office in Phoenix.She lives in Dana Point, Calif.

LORI BARKUS is associated with theMiami firm of Jerome H.Shevin, P.A.

H. TONY BERGER is anassociate in the real estatedepartment of the Miamioffice of GreenbergTraurig.

THIERRY OLIVIER DESMET is anassociate in the Miami office of theWashington-based law firm of ZuckermanSpaeder Taylor & Evans, LLP, where hepractices in the areas of complex businesslitigation, securities regulation, and whitecollar criminal defense. The firm also hasoffices in Washington, Baltimore, Tampa,Fort Lauderdale, New York, and Vienna,Va. While he was in law school, Desmetclerked at the SEC, the federal publicdefenders office, and at ZuckermanSpaeder.

BERNIE EGOZI has been associated withthe Boca Raton firm of Lawrence L.Klayman, P.A., since August 1998. Thefirm’s practice consists of securitieslitigation and arbitration and class actionlitigation (i.e., shareholder derivativesuits). Egozi specializes in securities fraudand stockholder misconduct. Any 1998graduates in the Boca Raton area shouldcall Bernie to schedule a lunch together.

JEREMY O. FRIEDMAN

is a new associate with the firm of MartensDunaj Marlowe Davis & Marlowe inMiami, where he practices commerciallitigation, employment law, and intellec-tual property.SCOTT KETCHUM is associated withthe Naples firm of Goodlette, Coleman &Johnson, where the concentration is inreal estate law and property-relatedmatters.

ELIZABETH A. LEFFERT is an associatewith the Miami firm of Gunster, Yoakley,Valdes-Fauli & Stewart, P.A., where shepractices in the litigation department inthe areas of international commercial lawand labor and employment law. Sheresides in Coral Gables.

JORGE LOPEZ is a clerk at the SupremeCourt of the State of Florida. He resides inTallahassee among the ’Noles.

DOUGLAS B. MELAMED became anassociate attorney with Milton, Leach &D’Andrea, P.A., a Jacksonville firmspecializing in admiralty, maritime law,and railroad litigation of FELA claims.Melamed had relocated to Gainesvillewhen his wife, Lisa, started law school atthe University of Florida.

STEVEN PINKERT is practicing in thejuvenile division of the Miami-DadeCounty public defender’s office, where hehas been busy with more than a dozentrials in the first three months.

REINCE R. PRIEBUS is an associate atMichael Best & Friedrich in Milwaukee,where he works in the business/corporatelitigation practice area. The firm has over230 attorneys in offices in Milwaukee,Chicago, and Madison practicing as a full-service business/corporate law firm.

VIRGINIA QUIJADA is corporatecounsel at the Oracle Corporation on BlueLagoon Drive in Miami.

ELLEN von GEYSO joined the law officeof Friedman & Heydasch, P.A., in Miami.The firm practices in the areas of interna-tional law, real estate, commercial,corporate, probate, and immigration law.She will focus on international law andthe laws of the Federal Republic ofGermany. After being admitted to theGerman Bar and having received herLL.M. in Comparative Law (1996), shecompleted her Juris Doctor and is now alsoadmitted in Florida.

ANDREW J. von GUSTEDT practices inthe Palm Beach law firm of Leslie RobertEvans & Associates, P.A., where he worksin the area of real estate, includingcommercial leasing, development,financing, sales and acquisitions. Heresides in West Palm Beach.

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