The Bridge - Spring 2014

Volume XL Number 2 Spring 2014 NEW ENGLAND LAW | BOSTON Alumni Magazine Taking the Reins Hon. Roberto Ronquillo, Jr. ’84, New Chief Justice of the Boston Municipal Court The Bridge  A

2 A Conversation 4 Events with the Dean Dean’s Reception • Bridge to Success Mentor Program • Minority Alumni Welcome Reception Page 4 8 News 23 New Feature: Honoring 2013 Bar Pass Rate • Successful In the Media Chief Justice Summer Fellowship Program Paula M. Carey ’86 Continues • Professor Barbara Dortch-Okara Appointed Chair of State Ethics Commission 24 Alumni Spotlight 28 Asked | Answered Center for Law and Social Sprechen Sie Deutsch? Making Responsibility’s Second Decade Good on a Resolution • A Marriage of Performance and Politics Page 11 30 Student Newsmakers 33 New York City Reception and Career Hon. Roberto Bright Lights, Big Internship Panel Discussion Ronquillo, Jr. ’84, Takes the Reins at Sony • Podcasts: Expanding Law Review’s Reach 34 Class Action 45 Faculty Notes 52 Findings Page 24 49 In Memoriam CLSR’s Network of Graduates and Students

A Note on Our Name and Logo Our alumni magazine is called The Bridge for a few reasons. Its goal is to serve as a bridge that connects alumni, faculty, students, and administrators. The name is also directly linked with the bridge in the law school’s logo, which celebrates our Boston home and the school’s innovators, and recalls the spirit of graduate Leonard P. Zakim ’78, for whom the Leonard P. Zakim Bunker Hill Memorial Bridge in Boston is named. THE bridge Peter L. Miller Change of address and Photos: XL, Number 2 Associate Director for inquiries about Alumni A.J. Coots, Renee DeKona, Spring 2014 Online Content Relations or the Annual Joel Haskell, Tom Kates, Giving Program: Scott Metzger, Merrill Shea John F. O’Brien ’77, Dean The Bridge is published by 617-368-1416 the Office of Communications [email protected] Cover photo: Scott Metzger Patrick Collins and Marketing. Executive Editor New England Law | Boston Director of Communications Editorial content and 154 Stuart Street and Marketing Class Action: Boston, MA 02116 617-422-7477 Margaret Bucholt 617-368-1369 (fax) facebook.com/newenglandlawboston Managing Editor [email protected] twitter.com/newenglandlaw Assistant Director for Join our group: New England Law | Boston Publications Management Faculty blogs: http://professors.nesl.edu http://Gplus.to/NewEnglandLawBoston C. Susan Williams Features Editor Associate Director for Marketing The Bridge  1

Dean John F. O’Brien ’77 < A Conversation with the Dean The Bridge: Admission trends are continuing to pose challenges for law schools throughout the country. What’s driving the trends, and how are schools, including New England Law, responding? Dean O’Brien: Through the early part of 2014, the number of applicants and applications was down nationally by double-digit percentages, continuing a recent decline. Almost every law school in the country has seen the number of applications decrease, and we have as well. Potential applicants appear to be concerned about two issues: the cost of financing a legal education and the prospects for legal employment after graduation. In combination, the two issues are causing potential applicants to reconsider whether a legal education is worth the investment. Although I strongly and wholeheartedly believe that it is, the net result is that fewer students are applying to law school than at any time in recent memory. We recognized these trends as they developed and began a strategic planning process to guide the school’s future. As part of that plan, New England Law is positioning itself to become a smaller school, a transition that was first considered by the faculty’s Strategic Planning Committee. We believe that smaller classes combined with other measures, such as administrative streamlining, will strengthen the law school’s ability to continue to offer an outstanding legal education. Many law schools throughout the country are taking similar approaches, reevaluating what they do and how they do it. In some cases, that’s leading to difficult choices. However, it’s also prompting a great deal of innovation in classrooms and inspiring other efforts to help students gain experience that will make them more competitive in the job market. 2  The Bridge 

The drop in applications is discouraging, but it also is We’re especially thankful for the enthusiasm of our faculty causing some analysts to predict that the employment who have promoted this program since its inception. picture for graduates could soon brighten, with demand We also appreciate that a number of alumni served as eventually outstripping the smaller supply of new lawyers. hosts for students last summer and will do so again this For example, a recent preLaw magazine article looked year. We think it’s a win-win situation. The students at a range of predictions, with some analysts saying the develop experience and benefit from the know-how of employment market could rebound as early as 2016. An their hosts. And our alumni benefit from the contributions essay in the Georgetown Journal of Legal Ethics recently of eager, well-trained, and hardworking students. These declared that current and future law school students will summer fellows also benefit the school by serving as enjoy the most robust legal market ever. Although we mentors to other students when they return in the fall. don’t know when the rebound will occur or how robust it will be, we do know that we’re currently dealing with a “N ew England Law is positioning confluence of challenges that will continue to require itself to become a smaller school, a creative responses. transition that was first considered by the faculty’s Strategic Planning The Bridge: One of the ways in which New England Law Committee.We believe that smaller is responding is through its innovative Summer Fellowship classes combined with other Program, which was piloted last summer. How does the measures, such as administrative program help equip students in this increasingly streamlining, will strengthen the law competitive environment? school’s ability to continue to offer an outstanding legal education.” Dean O’Brien: The law school’s Summer Fellowship Program, to our knowledge, is unique. (See page 9.) The Bridge: What are some of the other ways in which It provides students in the early stages of their law school the school is helping students afford a legal education? careers—1L day students and 1L and 2L evening students—with opportunities to gain experience and to Dean O’Brien: We continue to offer a comprehensive do so while earning money. I’m extremely proud and financial aid program that assists students through a thankful that the Board of Trustees recognizes the value combination of merit scholarships, federal loan programs, of this program and agreed to fund the Summer and federal work-study funding. The law school’s ability Fellowship Program once again in 2014. to provide financial assistance to deserving students is supported by alumni contributions to our Annual Two facts distinguish this program. First, we provide Giving Program. For example, so far this year, donors participating students with $3,500 stipends. That makes have designated 22 percent of their contributions to the program feasible for many students who otherwise scholarships. I’m thankful to those who donated. would have to forego law-related summer internships in It’s especially meaningful to me because my father, in order to earn money. Second, the program provides whose name I have established a scholarship fund, students with experiences and professional connections passionately believed in the power of education to open early on, helping them build résumés, practical skills, doors to opportunity and choices in life. I encourage and work experiences that can give them an advantage others who have not given yet to contribute what they later in their academic career and, longterm, in the can. The donations can make a significant difference postgraduation, employment marketplace. in the lives of students by putting a high-quality legal education within their financial reach. The Bridge  3

EVENTS Dean’s ReceptionHonoring Chief Justice Paula M. Carey ’86, November 1, 2013 3 5 2 9 1 4 6 7 8 4  The Bridge 

10 11 12 1 9 Susan M. Mooney ’87, Hon. Mark V. Green, Karen Green, Hon. Paula M. Carey ’86 Hon. Robert A. Onofry ’75 2 10 Lewis Eisenberg ’76, Dean John F. O’Brien ’77, Peter Koutoujian ’89 Hon. Paula M. Carey ’86, Chairman Martin C. Foster ’80 3 Linda Halbruner, 11 Hon. Paula M. Carey ’86 Gina DeRossi ’96, Stephen Abraham, 13 4 Jennie L. Caissie ’98, John M. Hayes ’80, Lillian Hayes Burke Desautels 5 12 Hon. Paula M. Carey ’86 John Glynn ’88, Hon. Paula M. Carey ’86, 6 Rita Regan ’88 Matthew P. Coletti ’05, Kris C. Foster ’08, 13 Stephen G. Troiano ’11 Professor Wilton B. Hyman, Frances M. Donovan ’90, 7 Wanda M. Allen ’12, Olaf Aprans ’07, Lily Aprans, Ijeoma N. Nwawka ’12 Casey Rydzewski, Matt S. Rydzewski ’07 8 Carmen M. Ortiz ’12 (honorary), Daniel F. Conley The Bridge  5

EVENTS Bridge to Success Mentor Program October 16, 2013 12 3 1 4 5 6 136 Katherine Heinichen ’15, Tyler Endyke ’15, Rebecca Ullian ’14, Timothy V. Dooling ’01 Frank P. Fiore ’89 Wanda M. Allen ’12 7 247 Albert Moscone ’15, Lianne Henderson ’15, Kemakolam Njoku ’15, Joseph M. Griffin, Jr. ’97 Troy R. Anderson ’06 Amanda L. Bagarella ’08 5 Donald Elliott ’15, Grace C. Roessler ’11, Laticia S. Walker ’14 6  The Bridge 

Minority Alumni Welcome Reception 2 3 September 27, 2013 1 4 5 6 8 7 9 147 Steven E. Brophy ’15, Lisa B. Ramirez ’14, Laticia S. Walker ’14, Blessing A. Anosike ’15, Ryan C. Fong ’14, Professor Colin Smith Crystal G. Kennedy ’14 Felicia L. Flahive ’14, Soo Ji Jung ’14, 8 2 Ying Wang ’15 Trustee Wayne A. Budd ’81 Pamela M. Cates ’16, (honorary), ’89 (honorary); 10 Mark L. Odè ’16, Courtney P. Herndon ’15; 5 Professor Natasha N. Professor Wilton B. Kemakolam M. Njoku ’15; Varyani, Vinieta A. Lawrence Hyman, Linaldo A. Daniel D. Wallace ’15 ’16, Ryan O. Hill ’16 Donovan-Green ’16 9 3 6 Jarrel P. Guerrero ’15, Professor Dina Francesca Professor Allison Dussias, Kerry L. Burke ’15 Haynes, Karan Malhotra ’13 Chairman Martin C. Foster ’80 10 Dean John F. O’Brien ’77, Manmeet Kaur Desai ’14 The Bridge  7

NEWS 2013 Bar Pass Rate Among the Highest in Massachusetts 91.4% The verdict is in, and the results are conclusive: New England Law | Boston offers a highly effective program of legal education. Results from last summer’s Massachusetts bar examination reveal that among New England Law students taking the exam New England Law graduates have averaged for the first time, 91.4 percent passed the test, exceeding the a 90 percent pass rate over the last five years. statewide average and ranking closely with the commonwealth’s most elite law schools. “These results continue the law A core of required courses New England Law was one of school’s stellar performance on and numerous electives provide only four Massachusetts law the Massachusetts bar exam,” New England Law students said Dean John F. O’Brien ’77. opportunities to pursue specific schools whose graduates cleared “They strongly confirm the the 90 percent or better threshold excellence of our academic areas of the law that they on their first try on the July exam; program, the ability and feel most passionate about. the others were Harvard Law commitment of our faculty, and Extensive clinical programs, School, Boston University School the preparation and dedication internships, externships, and of Law, and Boston College Law of our students.” School. The outstanding real-world projects within the achievement is part of an school’s academic centers—the enduring trend of success, as Dean O’Brien saluted faculty Center for Business Law, the New England Law graduates members, who are as deeply Center for International Law and committed to students’ personal Policy, the Center for Law and have averaged a 90 percent pass development and career success Social Responsibility, and the rate over the last five years. as they are to innovative Center for Public Health and scholarship and professional Tobacco Policy—help students leadership. He extended particular bring their knowledge to the front thanks and recognition to lines of practice. Professor Robert A. Coulthard, director of the law school’s Bar Examination Preparation Program. 8  The Bridge 

Highly Successful Summer Fellowship Program Renewed Students Earn Stipends, Develop Skills, and Enhance Career Prospects Building on the success of last “I was very impressed with their legal year’s pilot program, New England abilities in arguing the law in chambers Law | Boston is again sponsoring discussions, as well as their ability to the Summer Fellowship Program perform legal research.” in 2014, enabling students to earn money, develop valuable — H on. Joseph M. Sise skills and contacts, and enhance Justice, Supreme Court for the Fourth Judicial District of New York their career prospects in a range of legal specialties and settings. Students gain experience and The 2013 summer program CLSR placements offered law professional connections early received enthusiastic reviews students the opportunity to work in their careers while receiving from both students and their with practitioners with a public $3,500 school-paid stipends, placement hosts. Many students interest focus. CBL placements making fellowships accessible were asked to continue their represented a wide range of legal to many who otherwise would connections with their host fields, including real estate, be unable to participate for organizations. Several of these intellectual property, health law, financial reasons. are earning law school credit to medical malpractice, insurance complement their extracurricular defense, and many other areas. The opportunity is available to experience. Summer fellowships Students also benefited from the first-year students in the Day and and internships sometimes advice and expertise of law school Evening Divisions and second- lead to a student receiving a faculty and personnel. year students in the Evening postgraduation job offer. Division. The fellowships are The majority of 2013 fellowships administered by the law school’s “I was very impressed with their were in New England. Other Center for Business Law (CBL) legal abilities in arguing the law locales included Baltimore, and the Center for Law and in chambers discussions, as Chicago, New York City, Seattle, Social Responsibility (CLSR). well as their ability to perform New Jersey, and the District New England Law alumni also legal research,” said the of Columbia. provide assistance. Honorable Joseph M. Sise, justice, Supreme Court for the Fourth If you are interested in “Last year’s program was a Judicial District of New York, participating as a host in the great achievement, and we are who hosted two students. “To Summer Fellowship Program, pleased to offer it again in have young lawyers providing please contact Associate 2014,” said Dean John F. O’Brien their fresh perspectives to these Dean Victor M. Hansen at ’77. “It is part of our continuing discussions of the case at [email protected]. effort to help students become hand enables the court to be as prepared as possible for the confident in deciding cases.” practice of law. We are committed to programs like this that help our students gain meaningful experience that will assist them in today’s tight job market.” The Bridge  9

NEWS Professor Barbara Dortch-Okara Appointed Chair of State Ethics Commission The Honorable Barbara Dortch- The State Ethics Commission is Professor Barbara Dortch-Okara Okara, a professor at New organized into three separate England Law | Boston and retired divisions: Legal, Public Education During her 39 years as an Massachusetts judge, will lead and Communications, and attorney and judge, she served the Massachusetts State Ethics Enforcement. The commission as associate justice of the Commission for the next five strives to accomplish its mission Massachusetts Superior Court for years. The nonpartisan, by conducting ongoing 23 years before retiring in 2012. independent state agency is educational programs, providing In 1998, she was appointed by devoted to fostering integrity in clear and timely advice, and fairly the Supreme Judicial Court to public service in state, county, and impartially interpreting serve as the chief administrative and local government; promoting and enforcing conflict of interest justice of the Massachusetts Trial the public’s trust and confidence and financial disclosure laws. Court. She was the first African in that service; and preventing American and the first woman to conflicts between private “As a judge, I often saw how hold that position. interests and public duties. individuals can come into conflict with these laws, sometimes Appointed to the bench in 1984, “[Judge Dortch-Okara] has an purely from a lack of knowledge,” she served as justice of the extraordinary background as an she said. “So we’re constantly Boston Municipal Court for five attorney, a trial court judge, looking for opportunities to do years and was instrumental in and a chief justice,” said Governor better in terms of our educational launching an alternative Deval Patrick in announcing outreach.” sentencing program for women. the appointment. “I am confident Her former positions include that she will be a superb chair, Dean John F. O’Brien ’77 associate general counsel of the and I thank her for her lifelong expressed the school’s pride in Massachusetts Port Authority, commitment to public service her appointment. “Professor attorney adviser for the to serve the commonwealth and Dortch-Okara’s students at Massachusetts office of the U.S. her willingness to accept this New England Law benefit from Department of the Interior, and important position.” the extensive experience assistant corporation counsel for the City of Boston. “As a judge, I often saw how individuals can come into conflict with these laws, sometimes purely from a lack of knowledge. So we’re constantly looking for opportunities to do better in terms of our educational outreach.” — P rofessor Barbara Dortch-Okara, Retired Massachusetts Judge She received the Massachusetts Black Lawyers Association’s Dortch-Okara, whose long and and valuable perspective she 2011 Trailblazer Award, the extensive public service has given brings after many years of Massachusetts Academy of her “an overarching interest in practice and on the bench,” he Trial Attorneys’ 2007 Judicial public confidence and trust,” said said. “We are delighted to Excellence Award, and an the appointment was a pleasant have her as a colleague and honorary doctor of laws degree surprise. “I had no idea this was in look forward to her continued in 1996 from New England the offing. I was elated that the contributions in both the Law. She teaches Criminal Law, governor had the confidence to academic and public sectors.” Evidence, and the Law and appoint me to the position.” Ethics of Lawyering. 10    The Bridge 

“I am honored by Chief Justice Carey’s confidence in me to lead the Boston Municipal Court, which has a great history of commitment to the conscientious, expeditious resolution of disputes within the communities we serve, along with a commitment to correction, education, respect, and compassion.” — H on. Roberto Ronquillo, Jr. ’84 Hon. Roberto Ronquillo, Jr. ’84, Takes the Reins at Boston Municipal Court Appointment Made by Chief Justice of the Trial Court Paula M. Carey ’86 The Honorable Roberto “Through his work on a wide Chief Justice Ronquillo was for making her carefully Ronquillo, Jr. ’84, a New England range of judicial and named as a First Justice in 2007 considered selection,” said Dean Law | Boston adjunct professor administrative committees, and served in that role for the John F. O’Brien ’77. “We all will and First Justice for the East Judge Ronquillo has East Boston Division of the be the beneficiaries of Chief Boston Division of the Boston demonstrated the judgment, Boston Municipal Court. He took Justice Ronquillo’s skill and Municipal Court, took office energy, and dedication needed an active role in the East Boston impartiality in his new position.” earlier this year as the Chief to lead that court department community with local schools and Justice of the Boston Municipal to the next level of excellence,” civic organizations. Chief Justice Ronquillo taught Court for a five-year term. Chief Justice of the Trial Court Trial Practice at New England Paula M. Carey ’86 said in He chairs the Trial Court’s Law this year and is an active The Boston Municipal Court announcing the appointment. recently named Language Access member of the alumni community. Department comprises eight Advisory Committee and Recent examples of his divisions with 30 authorized Chief Justice Ronquillo, who represents the Boston Municipal generosity to law students and judicial positions in Suffolk was first appointed to the bench Court on the Specialty Courts the community at large include County. The court’s jurisdiction in 2001, said, “I am honored by Steering Group. He was a mentoring New England Law’s includes but is not limited to most Chief Justice Carey’s confidence practicing attorney at his own Honors Judicial Program criminal offenses that do not in me to lead the Boston firm from 1988 to 2001 after students, participating in a Young require the imposition of a state Municipal Court, which has a serving as an assistant district Achievers Program hosted by the prison sentence. It also handles great history of commitment to attorney in Suffolk County from law school for middle- and a wide variety of civil cases and the conscientious, expeditious 1985 to 1988. high-schoolers, and attending the has jurisdiction to review findings resolution of disputes within the annual Minority Alumni Welcome of the State Police Trial Board, communities we serve, along “The law school congratulates Reception. among other duties. with a commitment to correction, Judge Ronquillo on his education, respect, and well-deserved appointment The Bridge  11 compassion.” and thanks Chief Justice Carey

NEWS Special Counsel Byron J. Knight ’05 Untangling Discovery Process in 40,000+ Cases Tainted by Drug Lab Scandal It is a public safety nightmare and When Knight was appointed in a criminal law scandal involving April, “it was a tangle we were more than 40,000 now-suspect trying to unwind,” he says. drug convictions, more than Requests for discovery were 330 freed prisoners, the potential arriving from the defense bar retrial of tens of thousands of and from district attorney offices, cases, and millions of dollars in but there was no process in place state expenditures. yet to respond to the requests. And tasked with helping make Knight’s first task was to work Byron J. Knight ’05 things right is Byron J. Knight ’05, with a vendor to create a special counsel to Massachusetts work-flow model that could “More likely, we would have a Governor Deval Patrick. handle the large volume of picture of the gun, be allowed electronic data. Meanwhile, David access to the location where the Knight, appointed in April 2013, is Meier, Knight’s former colleague crime occurred, and see the in charge of providing discovery in the Suffolk District Attorney’s results of testing, like breath for the cases linked to the work of Office who had been tapped by tests,” says Knight. “And many Annie Dookhan, a Massachusetts the governor to lead the central times, police officers would drug-lab chemist who falsified office reviewing the thousands of provide these.” test results, tampered with criminal cases in question, issued drug evidence, and forged her a report in August naming 40,323 The process in the cases related co-workers’ signatures in an individuals whose cases may have to Dookhan is completely attempt to advance her career by been tainted by Dookhan’s different, he says. “We have appearing to be highly productive. mishandling. access to the universe of documents; it’s a huge database.” “T his has been a wonderful opportunity Combing through documents to to assist the state in resolving such a unique find information specific to a case issue that has affected so many.” or court order can be tedious but is important, he says. — B yron J. Knight ’05 Special Counsel to Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick In addition to aiding the state’s coordination with parties affected Dookhan pled guilty in November Once Knight had an electronic- by the breach, Knight spends 30 to 27 counts, including evidence discovery computer platform percent to 40 percent of his time tampering and obstruction of operational, the process for in court arguing related discovery justice. She worked at the Hinton discovery gathering began to motions. He also meets with State Drug Laboratory in Boston. come together, but “learning the general counsel from the state intricacies of electronic agencies for public safety, health Dookhan’s misdeeds have discovery, or e-discovery, was and human services, and the undermined more than 40,000 a challenge,” he admits. governor’s legal team to provide drug-related convictions, many assistance with the Inspector of which are being relitigated. With 14 years of experience in General’s broad review of the To cover costs associated with the District Attorney’s Office, Hinton lab’s functions and the affected cases, the state Knight had extensive knowledge procedures. On some days, he’s legislature set aside $30 million. of discovery, including social working on more immediate media investigations, but issues, such as ensuring that little prior experience with chemists who were working at the computerized documentation. Department of Public Health drug lab at the time of Dookhan’s employment are receiving proper notice to appear in court. 12  The Bridge 

Once discovery materials are Chief Justice John G. Roberts, Jr., and gathered for a particular case, the Justice Antonin Scalia Return to Summer package is moved to federal and International Study Programs state prosecutors, defense attorneys, and other vested Chief Justice of the United States John G. Roberts, Jr., is returning to parties via secure electronic teach in New England Law | Boston’s summer international study abroad delivery. Each case is handled programs. His course, The Supreme Court of the United States in individually, says Knight, to ensure Historical Perspective, is being offered in London this summer. He joins that the investigation is thorough Associate Justice Antonin G. Scalia, who is teaching Perspectives on the and that both prosecutor and U.S. Supreme Court in New England Law’s Galway, Ireland, program. defendant get what they need for their cases. “I am once again grateful to Chief Justice Roberts for accepting my invitation to participate in one of the programs that we operate through the As of late March 2014, Knight Consortium for Innovative Legal Education,” said Dean John F. O’Brien ’77. estimated that 53,000 pages of “He has been more than generous with his time, both in the classroom and discovery from various cases had in interacting with students. We are honored that he has chosen to join been turned over. us again. Knight doesn’t have an estimate “Justice Scalia’s presence will similarly provide New England Law students for how long the Dookhan with an extraordinary opportunity to learn from one of our nation’s leading investigation discovery project jurists. I am exceedingly proud that our programs are enabling students to will last. Although the role is hear the perspectives of members of the nation’s highest court.” challenging, Knight says he also finds it to be rewarding. The London program and the Galway program on International and Comparative Human Rights Law are offered through the Consortium for “I like the hybrid nature of the Innovative Legal Education (CILE), Inc., of which New England Law is work, part transactional attorney a founding member. CILE member schools also include California Western and part litigator,” as well as the School of Law, South Texas College of Law/Houston, and William Mitchell challenges he’s been able to take College of Law. on as special counsel, he says. During the past two summers, Chief Justice Roberts has taught in But what he really enjoys most is New England Law’s Malta and Prague programs, after participating in “being an attorney in the public the Galway program in 2009. In 2011, Justice Anthony Kennedy sector, working to ensure that the visited the Galway program as a guest lecturer, and Justice Scalia criminal justice system works taught there previously in 2008. fairly, for all individuals. This has been a wonderful opportunity to assist the state in resolving such a unique issue that has affected so many.” Chief Justice John G. Roberts, Jr. Justice Antonin Scalia The Bridge  13

NEWS Benjamin Y. Jones ’13 Receives Supreme Judicial Court’s Adams Pro Bono Publico Award Benjamin Y. Jones ’13 received In its presentation to Jones, the Benjamin Jones ’13 the Adams Pro Bono Publico Standing Committee cited “…his Award from the Massachusetts tremendous dedication to pro Jones, now a solo practitioner in Supreme Judicial Court’s Standing bono work while a student in law Portland, Maine, volunteers with Committee on Pro Bono Legal school, including his leadership the Maine Indigent Defense Services; he is only the second and management of the CORI Center. He writes grants to help law student to be so honored. Initiative, which assists indigent Maine service providers with a persons in sealing old criminal public-defender pilot project and “The Adams Award is a great records.” The CORI (Criminal statewide data collection on the opportunity for Massachusetts Offender Record Information) current delivery system’s quality law schools to see the potential of Initiative is a project of New and efficiency. not only public interest–focused England Law | Boston’s Center for students but of any student Law and Social Responsibility Jones’s additional involvement in wishing to get practical (CLSR), whose co-director, the Greater Boston public experience through volunteering Professor David M. Siegel, and interest law community includes their time for those most in need CLSR Fellow Kevin Crane ’13, internships and volunteer of legal aid,” says Jones. “I am attended the awards ceremony. positions with Shelter Legal grateful for New England Law’s (See a related article on page 24.) Services, Greater Boston Legal encouragement in these areas.” Services, and the New England Innocence Project. At New “T he Adams Award is a great opportunity England Law, he worked with the for Massachusetts law schools to see the CLSR; was named to the Public potential of... any student wishing to get Service Honor Roll and the Dean’s practical experience through volunteering.... List multiple times; served as I am grateful for New England Law’s president of the Immigration Law encouragement in these areas.” Association; and was a member of the Public Interest Law — Benjamin Jones ’13 Association. The prestigious award, named “Ben is a remarkable example for attorneys John Adams and of what can be done in public John Quincy Adams, honors interest if a student takes Massachusetts lawyers, law advantage of every opportunity students, small and large law for pro bono and volunteer firms, government attorney work available at New England offices, corporate law Law and in Boston generally,” departments, law schools, or says Siegel. other institutions in the legal profession that demonstrate outstanding and exceptional commitment to providing volunteer legal services for the poor and disadvantaged. 14  The Bridge 

Allison Haar Evermann ’13 Awarded Social Justice Fellowship from Rosie’s Place Dorothea Advocacy Project Aids Incarcerated Women in New Hampshire Allison Haar Evermann ’13 Building on Law School received the 2013 Kip Tiernan Experiences Social Justice Fellowship from Rosie’s Place, a women’s shelter At New England Law, Evermann in Boston’s South End. The was a Sandra Day O’Connor yearlong fellowship, which Merit Scholar and participated in includes a $40,000 stipend, the CORI (Criminal Offender supports a program of legal Record Information) Initiative. advocacy for incarcerated women She clerked and interned in the in New Hampshire with serious areas of criminal law and mental mental health issues and health law. involves current New England Law students as volunteers. “I had a fantastic experience with the Committee for Public Counsel In the Footsteps of Services (CPCS), where I Dorothea Dix received credit through the Evermann’s Dorothea Advocacy Criminal Procedure II Clinic,” she Project is inspired by the work says. “I also worked with the of Dorothea Dix, who pioneered CPCS Mental Health Litigation mental health reform in New unit doing challenging, exciting England and nationally. Because research on the future of mental Evermann’s research pointed to a health law in Massachusetts. particular need for these services I co-authored an article published in New Hampshire, she is offering in Lawyers Weekly, and my name representation to women in the appeared on a reply brief Granite State’s county jails and submitted to the appeals court. state prison and to recently I not only finished law school released women struggling with with a substantial legal résumé re-entry into society issues. Initial but with a long list of references efforts focus on helping the and connections in the public women apply for benefits before interest community.” they are released. Each client is paired with a female attorney or New England Law professors Allison Haar Evermann ’13 New England Law has many ties law student who can provide Dina Francesca Haynes and to Rosie’s Place, with numerous personal advocacy and serve as David M. Siegel assisted Evermann is also an entrepreneur students having served as interns a support system and positive Evermann in developing her grant whose eclectic interests have and volunteers in legal clinics role model. proposal. Siegel, co-director of the included making recordings for there sponsored by Shelter Legal Center for Law and Social software firms and operating a Services. In 2009, Ligia Rodriguez “I seek to change the lives of the Responsibility (CLSR), continues successful local business. A ’11 was one of four students women who face the dual to serve as an adviser, and current profile on her, “Thinking Outside across the nation to receive an challenges of mental illness and law students are contributing to the Box,” appeared in the 2012 American Bar Association Justice criminal history,” says Evermann. the project’s further development. spring edition of The Bridge. Fund scholarship, in part due to “I believe that women in prison (For a related article, see her work at Rosie’s Place. face different challenges and page 24.) Furthering Long-Standing have different needs than male Connections inmates. I also believe they are “The Dorothea Project will fill a Rosie’s Place was founded by uniquely strong. My mission is huge gap in New Hampshire’s Kip Tiernan in 1974 as the to use legal education, zealous legal and correctional system,” first women-only shelter in the advocacy, and personal says Siegel. “There is really country. The Kip Tiernan Social mentorship to end the cycle of nothing comparable that serves Justice Fellowship honors the poverty and recidivism.” the needs of mentally ill female lifelong work of Tiernan. inmates by helping them access social and family services and maintain mental health services.” The Bridge  15

NEWS Gun Control and the Mentally Ill New England Journal on Criminal and Civil Confinement Symposium There are roughly 300 million How Relevant Is Mass shootings account for less guns distributed among Mental Illness? than 1 percent of gun-related America’s 316 million people, deaths annually, according to according to www.gunpolicy.org, According to the Gun Control Act panelist Debra Pinals, M.D., an but it takes only one of each to of 1968, firearms cannot be sold associate professor at University seize headlines. Mass shootings, to a person who “…has been of Massachusetts Medical School. particularly those by mentally adjudicated as a mental defective (Pinals also serves as assistant unbalanced individuals, prompt or has been committed to any commissioner, forensic services, wall-to-wall cable coverage, mental institution….” Jacobs at the Massachusetts Department national self-examination, and suggested, however, that focusing of Mental Health.) With mass anguished appeals to contain on mental deficiency may be shootings making headlines the carnage. misguided: “Mental health in recent years, she has watched professionals will tell you that the the surrounding dialogue The relationship between gun mentally ill as a class are not shift from a focus on firearms rights and the mentally ill was more dangerous than people who to mental health issues. examined by the New England are not so labeled,” he said. Journal on Criminal and Civil Confinement’s fall 2013 “O nly 3 percent to 5 percent of violent symposium, “Staring Down the crime is attributable to mental illness.” Barrel of the Mind: Gun Control and Mental Health,” which — Lauri Martinelli featured a law enforcement National Alliance on Mental Illness leader, distinguished attorneys, and mental health experts. Handouts provided by symposium Definition of a Suitable Person organizers staked out opposing Professor James Jacobs of sides. One quoted National “We have a flawed system for New York University School of Review Online columnist Jonah background checks,” said State Law launched the inquiry by Goldberg. “The one thing that Representative David Linsky, a noting that 40 percent of unites most of the horrific mass legislative leader on gun issues. American households have shooting events of late—Tucson, He advocated for a higher level of firearms and that the number Aurora, Newtown, Virginia Tech, discretion in determining “suitable of guns in circulation increases and now the Washington Navy persons” on the part of the annually, especially when Yard—is that they were all commonwealth’s police chiefs, a national discussion to limit perpetrated by people with who issue permits. “People should them takes place. serious histories of mental illness,” think twice before they bring a he wrote. Alternatively, the firearm into their house, and the National Alliance on Mental licensing authority should think Illness (NAMI), Massachusetts, twice, too,” he said. pointed to “…widespread misperceptions linking mental illness and violence. . . . ” “Only 3 percent to 5 percent of violent crime is attributable to mental illness,” said Lauri Martinelli of NAMI, a symposium panelist, who added that the mentally ill are more likely to be victims of violence than perpetrators. 16  The Bridge 

Natick Police Chief James G. Morning panel on Current and Novel Issues: Professor Tigran Eldred (moderator); Syrie D. Fried, member of Boston Hicks, president of the Bar Association gun control legislation task force; John Rosenthal, philanthropist and founder of Stop Handgun Massachusetts Chiefs of Police Violence; Professor James Jacobs, New York University School of Law; Rep. David P. Linsky, Massachusetts, Association, said chiefs would 5th Middlesex District; Kevin Newman ’14, managing editor; Kelsey Baran ’14, editor in chief; Serge Subach ’14, appreciate access to mental business managing editor health histories in order to have more complete pictures Afternoon panel on the Effects of Mental Health: Police Chief James G. Hicks, Natick, Massachusetts, and of applicants. He acknowledged president of the Massachusetts Chiefs of Police Association; Professor Louis N. Schulze, Jr., (moderator); the importance of privacy Lauri Martinelli, executive director, National Alliance on Mental Illness, Massachusetts; Debra Pinals, M.D., concerns and the difficulty of University of Massachusetts Medical School; Kevin Newman ’14, managing editor; Professor Barbara determining the circumstances Dortch-Okara; Robert Luther III, mental health and firearms law practitioner under which mental health treatment should be a disqualifying factor. Syrie D. Fried served on a Boston Bar Association task force on gun control legislation that grappled with the scenario of local police chiefs contemplating applicants’ long-ago counseling sessions. Her group concluded that defining “suitable person” was really a political rather than a legal question and that proposed standards had to be specific to facilitate challenges that could arise from those denied permits. The day’s presenters also included Stop Handgun Violence founder John Rosenthal, who advised, “Get used to it—we are seeing an increase in mass shootings, and it’s not going to stop.” The Honorable Barbara Dortch-Okara, a New England Law professor, gave the day’s keynote address. Now retired from the bench, she drew upon firsthand experiences from 23 years’ service as a judge. Professor Robert Luther III, William and Mary Law School, shared his expertise as a mental health and firearms law practitioner, and New England Law Professors Tigran Eldred and Louis N. Schulze, Jr., moderated. The Bridge  17

Keith P. Richard ’14 NEWS Keith P. Richard ’14 Wins National Energy Law Competition Keith P. Richard ’14 won the As the IEL’s Hartrick Scholar, Richard is interning at the City of Institute for Energy Law’s Richard received a cash prize of Waltham, Massachusetts, Legal (IEL) annual writing prize for $2,500 and expenses-paid trips Department as part of New J.D. students. His research to both its annual conference as England Law’s Land Use Clinic. project makes the case for a well as its law school symposium. He served as a 2013 Summer regional approach to renewable Fellow with the Environmental energy standards. Richard wrote the paper as part Protection Agency’s Region 1 of an independent legal research headquarters in Boston, working “Renewable Portfolio Standards project under the supervision closely with attorneys from the Among the New England States: of Professor Peter M. Manus, who U.S. Department of Justice to How About Some Good Old- co-directs the Center for Law research and draft administrative Fashioned Yankee Regionalism?” and Social Responsibility. “I took documents for Clean Air Act analyzes renewable portfolio an energy law seminar with and Superfund (hazardous waste standards, through which state Adjunct Professor Laura Bickel remediation) cases. He also governments require electricity [’03] in spring 2013 that opened interned for the Honorable William providers to acquire a specific my eyes to some fascinating G. Young ’01 (honorary), percentage of the electricity that concepts that I wanted to explore U.S. District Court for the they sell from renewable sources, in more depth,” says Richard. District of Massachusetts. such as wind and solar. “The independent legal research project gave me that opportunity. . . . ” 18    The Bridge 

New England Law | Boston Advocacy Teams Impress at Regional, National Competitions New England Law | Boston advocacy teams finished strong in recent competitions that tested their presentation and analytical skills. The National Trial Competition team reached the regional finals in Boston, and the ABA Regional Client Counseling Competition and the Tax Moot Court teams both advanced to the quarterfinals. • The regional National Trial • T he National Tax Moot Court • Erin Glynn ’15, Caitlin Keiper Top: Cody Costello ’14, Simon Caine ’14, Competition team of Cody team of Tyler Greaves ’14 and ’14, and Shiela Nevells ’15 Krystal Ibarra ’15, Heather Bruha ’15, Costello ’14 and Wendy Hansen Keith P. Richard ’14 advanced competed in the National Wendy Hansen ’15, Daniel Strollo ’14 ’15 was one of four teams to to the quarterfinal round, the Environmental Moot Court. reach the finals out of a total of fourth year in a row that a The team was coached by Bottom: Hon. Gerald J. Alch, adjunct 22. The law school also fielded a New England Law squad has Professor Stanley E. Cox, and professor; Hon. Barbara Dortch-Okara, second team, comprising Daniel reached at least that level. guided by Dortch-Okara; professor; Tyson R. Ence ’07, E. Strollo ’14 and Simon Caine Professor Tigran Eldred; Vitale; adjunct professor ’14, which narrowly missed the “New England Law has become Frasheri; and the Honorable semifinals. Heather Bruha ’15 a perennial powerhouse in this Michael J. Brooks and Julie C. and Krystal Ibarra ’15 served as competition, and this year was Cahill, lecturers on law. team alternates. no exception,” said Professor Kent D. Schenkel, team coach. • Samuel Altiero ’14 and John Team coaches included Professor Professors Wilton B. Hyman and Feloney ’14 took part in the Barbara Dortch-Okara, and the Eric A. Lustig also helped ABA Regional Client Counseling Honorable Gerald J. Alch and prepare the team, and alumni, Competition. Professor Lisa R. Tyson R. Ence ’07, adjunct including Christopher Beck ’06, Freudenheim coached the team. professors. Alumni and former William Driscoll ’04, Justin A. trial team members, including Kesselman ’13, and Ryan Vital Karla Heine Goodale ’13, Leigh ’01, served as judges during Ann Johnson ’13, and Sara practice rounds. Peeling ’13, had active roles in the practice rounds and served as • Katerina Hazimihalis ’15, Megan witnesses in the competition. MacGillivray ’14, Nicole Miller William Lane ’11, another ’14, and Julia Parker ’15 practice-rounds participant, also participated in the regional was a competition judge. competition of the Philip C. Associate Dean Victor M. Hansen, Jessup International Law Moot a former team coach, served as a Court Competition. The team practice-round judge. was coached by Lisa J. Laplante, associate professor “Students prepared for this and director of the Center for competition through a rigorous International Law and Policy. practice schedule, which required Other team coaches and extraordinary effort on their part. contributors included Associate We are enormously proud of Dean Hansen; Professors John their work,” said Dortch-Okara. P. Cerone, Dina Francesca Haynes, Charles W. Sorenson, Jr., and Sarah Salter (retired); Steven R. Morrison, visiting professor; Sidra Vitale ’07, legal research and writing professor; Nancy E. Kaufman, adjunct professor; Brian Flaherty and Ermal Frasheri, lecturers on law; and Kelli Antes ’13, Chris Henderson ’13, and Seena Pidani ’13. The Bridge  19

NEWS “Benchmarks”: Evaluating Courtroom Productivity, Fairness New England Law Review Symposium Generates Debate “That which gets measured, gets Singer explained that bench “There are no easy, obvious, done.” That’s why new tools for presence is intended as a alternatives to existing metrics— assessing courts could be helpful, quantitative approximation of each if there were, we’d have them by according to the Honorable court’s commitment to procedural now,” stated Steven S. Gensler, William G. Young '01 (honorary), fairness. He noted that courts associate dean and professor, U.S. District Court for the District have long measured how University of Oklahoma College of of Massachusetts, and Professor efficiently they resolve cases, and Law. Still, Gensler bemoaned the Jordan M. Singer, New England the goal of his study with Judge culture of “reflexive briefing” and Law | Boston, who both employed Young was to suggest a way the ensuing lack of live interaction this maxim at the New England to measure further the quality of between judges and lawyers. “The Law Review’s annual symposium. those resolutions by assessing entire process becomes remote their accuracy of outcomes and and sterile—lawyers do their work “Benchmarks: Evaluating fairness of procedures. from their offices, and judges Measurements of Judicial do theirs from their chambers.” Productivity” revolved around twin New England Law Legal Studies “T here are no easy, obvious alternatives to Research papers that the pair co-authored in 2013. “Bench existing metrics—if there were, we’d have Presence: Toward a More them by now.” Complete Model of Federal District Court Productivity” —Steven S. Gensler considered what it means for a Associate Dean and Professor federal district court to be University of Oklahoma College of Law productive and how this could be assessed. It also introduced the bench presence concept—a ratio Panelist Robert Farrell, clerk of Professor Chad Oldfather, achieved by dividing the annual court for the District of Marquette University Law School, number of district courtroom Massachusetts, agreed that public saw a role for technology. “We hours logged by the number of perception of procedural fairness might be able to put computers to active district judges. is based in part on meaningful work to assess the relationship participation before a judge. between the briefs that are The second paper, “Measuring “I want my day in court!” is what submitted in a case and the Bench Presence: Federal District citizens ask for, Farrell reminded opinions that get generated,” he Judges in the Courtroom, symposium attendees. “We said. This, he said, could respond 2008–2012,” examined real- call days in court a hearing, not to an essential question: “Just world bench presence data from a telling.” how much was the court speaking the federal courts. “For those to the dispute that was put who believe in the power of the Remote and Sterile Process before it?” open court, the immediate Professor Linda Mullenix, situation is discouraging,” the University of Texas School of Law, Practitioner Perspectives authors wrote. “Courtroom hours praised Young and Singer’s work Sara Jane Shanahan, partner, are in steady decline.” as “really quite provocative” Sherin and Lodgen LLP, in but questioned the underlying Boston, said that using the pure premise of “if you build a metric of “How much is the measurement, it’ll produce some judge on the bench?” could be kind of effect on behavior. I just misleading. For example, someone don’t know if this will happen,” who “waits around for hours to she said. get their 10 minutes before the judge” may not feel that they received effective justice. 20  The Bridge 

Sarah Lowden ’14, New England Law Review business managing editor; Kristen Mullen ’14, symposium editor; Michael Martucci ’14, editor in chief; Professor Chad Oldfather, Marquette University Law School; Professor Carolyn Dubay, Charlotte College of Law; Hon. Rebecca Love Kourlis, director, Institute for the Advancement of the American Legal System; Professor Linda Mullenix, University of Texas School of Law; Professor Jordan M. Singer, New England Law; Steven S. Gensler, associate dean and professor, University of Oklahoma School of Law; Hon. William G. Young ’01 (honorary), U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts; Robert Farrell, clerk of court for the District of Massachusetts Jonathan Albano, managing B.P.: Scarlet Letters? Symposium panelists also partner, Bingham McCutchen’s What might result from included Professor Carolyn Dubay, Boston office, quipped, “I hate establishing bench presence as a Charlotte College of Law; the judicial productivity studies.” new judicial benchmark? Gensler Honorable Rebecca Love Kourlis, Comparing them to baseball’s wondered about the impact of a director, Institute for the Sabermetrics statistics, he said, “I “low B.P.” score on a judge’s Advancement of the American hope people keep in mind how reputation. “Let’s not create the Legal System; and Professor subjective the evaluations can be.” scarlet B.P. regarding this metric,” Mark Spottswood, Florida State he cautioned. University College of Law. Chief Justice Paula M. Carey ’86 of the Massachusetts Trial Court In the “Bench Presence” paper, The event was co-sponsored focused her remarks on the Judge Young and Singer by the Boston and Federal evaluation of individual judges in anticipated that their proposal Bar Associations. Massachusetts and explained might generate debate, stating, that judges take their current “…we should not let the perfect evaluations “very seriously.” New be the proverbial enemy of the jurists are automatically assigned good.” Taking a long view, they mentors, and peer evaluation, struck an encouraging tone: “Even which she maintains is the most incremental steps toward a more effective method, features complete productivity measure “colleagues talking honestly on would add significant value to our different ways to approach understanding of the courts.” situations.” The Bridge  21

NEWS Dana Weber Joins the Office of Development and Alumni Relations Dana Weber, the new associate Before Harvard, Weber was a Dana Weber director of the Office of project associate for Initiatives Development and Alumni Inc., guiding international public “We’re delighted to welcome Relations, brings extensive health organizations to improve Dana as part of the New experience in program their organizational and technical England Law team, and we’re management, communications, capacity. Previously, she was confident that her project and education to the position. manager of projects and management skills and communications for Providence communications expertise will Weber, who joins Director Bradley TrinityCare Hospice and help us to continue to deliver Bauler, will play an important role Foundation. high-quality programming and in managing communications communications to our alumni,” with alumni; supporting the law She received a bachelor of arts said Dean John F. O’Brien ’77. school’s Annual Giving Program; degree in international affairs and enhancing the alumni from James Madison University community’s engagement with and a master of public health New England Law, among other degree in community health responsibilities. sciences from the University of California, Los Angeles. Weber comes to New England Law | Boston from Harvard A former Peace Corps volunteer Medical School’s Department of who served two years in Burkina Health Care Policy, where she Faso, West Africa, Weber has was a project manager overseeing traveled extensively in the United daily operations of five mental States, Africa, Asia, Europe, and health research studies. the Pacific. Faculty, Students Contribute Time and Talent to State Guide The 2014 edition of the Advisory Committee for the Supreme Judicial Court, the Massachusetts Guide to Evidence, Supreme Judicial Court. Two Appeals Court, and the used by the bench, bar, and New England Law students, U.S. Supreme Court, as well the public, was published Megan E. Bramhall ’15 and as new materials. The guide is with the help of New England Andrew R. Silverman ’15, are available free to download at Law | Boston faculty and acknowledged for their work www.mass.gov/courts/case-legal- students in February. on the sixth annual edition. res/mass-guide-to-evidence, or the print edition may be Professor Philip K. Hamilton, and The 2014 edition reflects purchased via www.flaschner.org/ two adjunct professors, Joseph F. developments in Massachusetts publications.htm. Stanton ’94, clerk of the Appeals evidence law that occurred Court, and the Honorable David between January 1, 2013, and A. Lowy, are among those who December 31, 2013, and serve on the guide’s 17-member incorporates dozens of new Executive Committee of the 2013 opinions issued by the 22  The Bridge 

In the Media NewYork Times Wall Street Journal The World, Public (and WSJ Law Blog) Radio International “Punishing Companies Serves a Crucial Purpose” “Professor Examines Lawyers “Groups ‘rescue’ Thai sex workers, “As demonstrated by SAC Capital’s and Greed” whether they want it or not” recent guilty plea to insider trading, corporate criminal liability may “Crunching decades of state bar “‘I think there are a number of potential accomplish important societal goals association data, [Teich] said: ‘The term problems with attempting to rescue even when the company’s owners “greedy” is not a fitting adjective to use someone from their plight, in particular, or executives are not prosecuted to describe the typical practitioner.’ The rescue a sex worker….’ Haynes says or punished. median fees charged by lawyers have many American Evangelical groups only gradually increased over the last working abroad often… [focus] only “Modern corporations are 50 years if you factor in inflation, and on sex workers and sex trafficking— distinguishable from the flesh-and- the amount of pro bono work done by instead of other more common blood humans who roam their halls: attorneys is more than we realize… forms of human trafficking such as not only do they have unique personas, [he estimates] more than $1 billion a those found in the fishing, farming they can act in ways that are legally year in services.” or construction industries. It’s an distinct from the executives who run uncomfortable topic, she says, but them. . . . Corporations accordingly should Professor Paul F. Teich some of these women have chosen be as subject to moral condemnation In an article looking at Teich’s study of legal sex work as the best paid job they as individuals for the actions fees and pro bono work can find.” they condone.. . . ” International Herald Professor Dina Francesca Haynes Professor Lawrence M. Friedman Tribune In a segment describing the dangers In an opinion piece exploring whether faced by women forced into the sex trade prosecutors can win criminal convictions “Sex case prompts call for military in Thailand and prison sentences for executives justice reform” involved in Wall Street crime USA Today “‘The purpose of the Article 32 Boston Globe hearing is twofold. One is to ensure “Legal expert: Hernandez’s fame a there is sufficient evidence to go factor for police” “SJC upholds investigative e-mail to trial, and it provides an opportunity searches” for the defense to discover evidence. “The mechanics of the investigation “The [Massachusetts] Supreme The prosecution also might want of a homicide that might implicate a Judicial Court has proven itself quite the victim to have a dry run’.… prominent person are not going to willing to revisit rulings that prove But Mr. Hansen said the process be different than those that implicate to be inadequate in practice. Given the could be reformed to look more like a person of no prominence. What's changing nature of digital technology, civilian rape trial proceedings, going to be different, or what may be perhaps this ruling will be another where questions about a woman’s different, is the attention to some instance like that.” underwear and sexual technique details, and also the reluctance to would not be allowed.” share public information about the Professor Lawrence M. Friedman case....But the law is the same.” In an article assessing a Supreme Judicial Associate Dean Victor M. Hansen Court ruling with privacy implications In an article about controversies over Professor David M. Siegel sexual assault hearings in the military In an article about former New England Patriots player Aaron Hernandez, who has been indicted for first degree murder The Bridge  23

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The Socially Responsible Network Now in its second decade, the Center for Law and Social Responsibility continues to build a network of students and alumni who make an impact. When Gerardo Schiano ’12 was a 3L, he savored a court victory in a felony murder appeal case that altered the life of the defendant and stoked his own interest in public service. Today he has a clerkship with the Department of Legal Research, Superior Court of Connecticut. When Adonia R. Simpson ’09 was a New England Law | Boston student, she interned with immigration attorney Halim Moris, which led to paid work on defensive asylum cases. Today she is the manager of legal services at Catholic Charities of Baltimore Esperanza Center and was invited to a special White House event celebrating nationwide immigration support services. And when Inna Rogoff-Klein ’02 came to New England Law focused on a career in health law, it was an internship with the Rhode Island Public Defender’s Office that ignited her passion for public service. Today she is a municipal court judge in Corpus Christi, Texas. All three New England Law alumni, and countless others, were inspired by their introduction to public service legal work through the law school’s Center for Law and Social Responsibility (CLSR), now in its second decade. Real-life experience that has an impact in underserved communities is the hallmark of the center, where students undertake pro bono projects and other activities that address social problems. Their work benefits both the CLSR and its community service partners. continued on next page The Bridge  25

“The public sector insists that young lawyers come in Now the CLSR can offer students paid public service and hit the ground running—it takes some guts,” opportunities even earlier in their law school careers. says Professor Peter Manus, who co-founded and The law school’s Summer Fellowship Program, co-directs the center with Professor David M. Siegel. offered by the CLSR and Center for Business Law, “Students maneuver through a judicial system, a provides 1L Day Division students and 1L and 2L regulatory system, work with oversight agencies and Evening Division students with $3,500 stipends to get things done, and they get up to speed pretty spend the summer interning in related interest areas. quickly.” The paid program is a win-win for everyone, says CLSR students, mentored by faculty, have a wide Manus: students, who often have to forgo internships range of opportunities for hands-on experience. For in order to earn money, gain competitive real-world example, they have: experience and begin building professional connections. • assisted low-income victims of domestic violence secure protection and win custody of their children; “We have a lot of students who come to law school with a dream of serving the public interest,” says • worked with low-income families who were targets Manus. “To offer them a leg up after the first year is of predatory lending practices and casualties of terrific because it allows them to maintain that foreclosures; direction.” • interned with international nongovernmental Schiano knows the difference real cases can make organizations that provide criminal defense to in a legal education. Once he signed on to help the indigent people in post-conflict countries; and public defender prepare a felony murder appeal for the Tennessee Supreme Court, he was hooked. The • w orked with immigration services organizations case hinged on the abuse and death of a baby girl and contributed to cases involving the Violence and the mother’s conviction of facilitation of felony Against Women Act and efforts to gain temporary murder—a decision reached in part because the legal status and work eligibility for victims of mother, under cross-examination, admitted that the certain crimes. child’s father had abused her, as well. The appeal focused on the argument that the testimony about They can assist past offenders with sealing their prior assaults should not have been admitted and criminal records, write amicus briefs in immigration could not be used against the mother. cases, or research legal arguments. In short, students have the opportunity to do “all the things practicing public service lawyers do,” says Manus. The students’ work has gained recognition for the Schiano spent that spring researching and writing law school and garnered individual awards. U.S. memos to develop the argument and speaking with Attorney Carmen M. Ortiz ’12 (honorary) has praised the woman’s lawyer via conference calls. The brief, students involved in two CLSR projects: 1) the based on Schiano’s research, led the state to Human Rights and Immigration Law Project, which abandon a key argument on appeal for admission of partners with Greater Boston Legal Services (GBLS) her testimony. A year later, in spring of 2012, to assist undocumented minors, and 2) the Criminal Schiano was on his way to school when he received Offender Record Information (CORI) Initiative, which a phone call from Siegel: the Tennessee Supreme assists GBLS to seal criminal records that can trap Court had found in favor of the mother and past offenders in unemployment. More recently, the remanded the case for a new trial. Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court’s Standing Committee on Pro Bono Legal Services recognized Benjamin Jones ’13 with the Adams Pro Bono Publico Award for his work with the CORI Initiative. (See the article on page 14.) And the Massachusetts Black Lawyers Association awarded Anna Rupani ’13 the Reginald Lindsay Public Service Law Book Award, partly as a result of her involvement with the CLSR. 26  The Bridge 

“K nowing that I had some small part in changing the fortunes of one individual really confirmed why I chose to pursue a law career in the first place.” —Gerardo Schiano ’12 “Knowing that I had some small part in changing the “When you’re dealing with kids who have been fortunes of one individual really confirmed why I victims of trauma, you don’t want to re-traumatize chose to pursue a law career in the first place,” says them, but you do need the details of their case to Schiano. “It’s one thing to talk about hypothetical provide the necessary representation,” Simpson says. cases, but it’s totally different when you’re working “Being able to empathize but still getting the facts on one that has an impact on real people, in real and the details that you need is not something you situations.” learn in the classroom; you learn that through practical experiences.” After the internship with the Rhode Island District Attorney’s office, where she worked under an APR 9 Strengthening the burgeoning mentorship network is license, Judge Rogoff-Klein chose public service for a priority, and New England Law graduates are doing her career path. After graduation, she spent six years their part: former CORI Initiative volunteer Allison as an assistant district attorney with the Nueces Haar Evermann ’13 employed current New England County District Attorney’s Office in Corpus Christi, Law students after she was awarded the Kip Tiernan trying a multitude of cases, from misdemeanors to Social Justice Fellowship from Rosie’s Place to felonies. support a legal advocacy program for incarcerated women. (See the article on page 15.) “I really got to step outside of the books and see how it would be when I passed the bar,” she says And graduates are also stepping up to offer public about the internship. “I had no interest in criminal service opportunities to current students in the law at all. Now I can’t imagine ever not being growing Summer Fellowship Program. involved in it.” Sarah Roxburgh ’08, director, Shelter Legal Services With approval and funding from the Board of in Newton, Massachusetts, hosted Sara Afshar ’15 Trustees, the CLSR has also addressed other and invited her back for the fall and spring obstacles of pro bono work. Since 2006, the semesters as a law student advocate and student Transcript Notation Program allows students’ pro attorney, respectively, to continue her work with the bono hours to appear on their transcripts as a Boston-area homeless. formally recognized part of their law school education. And since 2004, a one-year fellowship Simpson, too, was instrumental in securing a summer program for a recent graduate offers a salary and fellowship placement for a student; Joyell Johnson the freedom to pursue a foundation for a career in ’15 interned at the Esperanza Center. public interest law. “Working with clients was one of the biggest things I Simpson, the CLSR postgraduate fellow in 2010, got from my practical experience in law school, and spent the year continuing her work at GBLS, it’s taken me a long way,” Simpson says. “Without specializing in counseling unaccompanied minors internships and externships and fellowships, you seeking refuge as U.S. permanent residents. She miss out on the people.” says her interactions with these teenagers, some as young as 13, were the best preparation she could   Jessica Ullian have had for her legal career. The Bridge  27

Asked­ Sprechen Sie Deutsch? Making Good on a Resolution 28  The Bridge  James Thurman ’03, who became fluent in German, is an attorney and counselor at law at Gründler & Partner, in St. Gallen, Switzerland. How did you end up living and working I then worked at the University of Zurich on a in Switzerland? project dealing with data mining and counter- terrorism, where I contributed more of the IT It all started with a resolution I made in high law background. A consortium of European school; I didn’t want to stop learning German universities was involved, as was a special until I could actually use the language. After rapporteur in human rights and counter- college, I taught English in Frankfurt, Germany, terrorism for the UN. I’m now practicing in a and I began thinking about law school. My small business law firm with three Swiss idea was to see if I could facilitate business attorneys. We’re close to Zurich, which is the between German and English speakers. I biggest business center in the German- interned with a law firm in Bonn, and one of speaking region. the partners suggested I contact a Swiss lawyer studying at Harvard for an LL.M. That As the sole American attorney, what is introduction turned out to be pivotal. He your niche? started giving me work, and that continued We do mostly transactional work, corporate after law school, when I edited a book for him. formations, and contracts—primarily with IT He invited me to join a research project in companies, manufacturers, and services—and Switzerland on the interaction between law some construction law. A lot of contracts in and the digital environment. I jumped at Europe are in English, even between Swiss the chance. It also involved guest lecturing businesses, and I review all contracts drafted at the University of St. Gallen, but most in English. I have also stumbled into tax law, as importantly, that job helped me establish a result of the Foreign Account Tax an area of expertise. Compliance Act. FATCA is big—it’s worldwide. Criminal prosecutions against Swiss banks have raised awareness that U.S. citizens living overseas are obligated to file tax returns. Many Americans have lived here for 20 years without filing, so I research extraterritorial applications of U.S. tax for my clients, and I’ve been learning some pretty obscure areas of the tax code. Has it been challenging to adapt to a foreign country? Not for me, but I think the Swiss are more American-like than Germans. What has been challenging is drumming up business for our cross-cultural expertise. That’s what I like most, the unique issues that we encounter: you get into a lot of gray areas where U.S. law collides with Swiss law. We can interpret local laws and how they interrelate with American laws. The challenge has been how to market this aspect of our firm.

A Marriage of Performance and Politics Answered Kirsten Hughes ’08 is the elected chair of the Massachusetts Republican Party, a second-term Quincy city councilor, and a former performer at Disney World. Why politics? for state campaigns. We’ve filed complaints I was encouraged by my aunts who had me with the Federal Election Commission and the stuffing envelopes for Governor William Weld’s Office of Campaign and Political Finance. campaign at the age of 12. As I got older, I found the Republican Party represented my What is the most difficult aspect of values and beliefs, and I learned that politics is your work? truly local. If folks know and trust you, it Managing the personalities. There are a lot of doesn’t matter whether you have a Republican opinions within the party, so I’ve put a lot of R or a Democrat D after your name, they want energy into getting everyone to row in the your leadership. One of the most transferable same direction. Being open and listening skills I learned was in Professor Elizabeth works best—and negotiating, sometimes. Spahn’s First Amendment course, the mechanics of structuring a strong argument: You also have a degree in theater arts; use the best of the facts, and back it up with do you still do some singing and acting? the law. Sometimes in politics there is no easy I do. For a while, I thought it would be my answer, so then it’s about being creative. You career. I played Ariel in Voyage of the Little still have to come up with an argument and Mermaid at Disney World, did voice-overs and present it. I worked at the GOP during law jingles, and did some shows. I love performing school, continued after graduation, and then and the artistry of it. You get a chance to became deputy finance director for U.S. be someone else and to express yourself in Senator Scott Brown’s re-election campaign. a different way. Performance and politics are not unrelated. What is the role of the Republican Party chair? I work for our 80-member state committee, recruit candidates to run, and spend 80 percent of my time raising money—I am responsible for raising the money we spend. We have a full-time staff of six. We are smaller in number (11 percent registration) than Democrats (34 percent)—so I’m focused on our get-out-and-vote strategies and growing our bench through municipal selectmen and city council elections, which are typically nonpartisan but raise the winner’s profile for office beyond. Do legal issues come up? They do. In November we were engaged in a recount. I was counsel of record for the mayor- elect of Amesbury, who won by three votes over the incumbent. My office also takes action when campaign funds are being used inappropriately by opponents, for instance, using funds designated for federal elections The Bridge  29

STUDENT NEWSMAKER Alexandria L. Hock ’14 Bright Lights, Big Internship at Sony Music Entertainment Business Practice Credit Program Offers Invaluable Opportunity For Alexandria L. Hock ’14, a career in entertainment is Hock’s foray into the music business began as a less “Lights! Camera! Action!” than it is intellectual property, Rutgers University undergraduate when she coordinated contracts, and employment. on-campus concerts with big-name musicians. “I have experience with all aspects of concerts, from booking Hock, raised in a rock ’n’ roll family, is focused on a career artists and hiring security to renting stages and production in entertainment law and being part of the behind-the- crews,” she said. “It will make me a better entertainment scenes “star-making machinery,” to quote songwriter Joni attorney in the long run because I know what goes on Mitchell in “Free Man in Paris.” Hock’s résumé shines with behind the scenes.” her accomplishments to date, most notably a summer internship at Sony Music Entertainment in Manhattan “I think everyone in the music through the Center for Business Law’s Business Practice business, especially on the business Credit Program at New England Law | Boston. side, tells their children to stay away; but, of course, it just sucks “Sony provided me with an experience that goes above and you in.” beyond invaluable,” she said about her dream internship. —Alexandria L. Hock ’14 Family Matters Sony’s fast-paced Business and Legal Affairs Division had Supervision and Support Hock drafting agreements and observing ongoing litigation Professor Gary L. Monserud, her supervisor at New as she networked and furthered her industry connections, England Law, complemented the firsthand knowledge some of them stemming from family connections. Hock’s she gained in Sony’s Legal Affairs Division. “He showed father was a rock-music promoter. She grew up hearing such a strong interest in really listening and learning about his work with star-studded acts such as Elton John, about what I was doing at Sony and was always there, Fine Young Cannibals, Genesis, and Led Zeppelin, among if needed,” she said. others. She also credits her mother, a former Wilhelmina agency model, for her interest in the bright lights. According to Monserud, the lawyers at Sony appreciated Hock’s legal training, diligence, and enthusiasm for the “My father was a huge influence on my life—he always work. “Her personal attributes made her placement a told me to stay clear of the music business, however,” she success story,” he said. “Students with particular interests said. “I think everyone in the music business, especially on could follow her example and gain valuable contacts the business side, tells their children to stay away; but, of and experience.” course, it just sucks you in.” The Business Practice Credit Program in which Hock participated is just one of the law school’s many experiential programs and opportunities. Typical placements have included the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA), Liberty Mutual Insurance, and NASDAQ OMX Group, Inc. 30  The Bridge 

Alexandria L. Hock ’14 Mentored by a Pro “Her personal attributes made Hock’s practical knowledge, skills, and contacts in the her placement a success story.” music business are all expanding through New England Law courses. She strongly endorses the practical focus of —P rofessor Gary L. Monserud the curriculum and appreciates the value of Negotiation Supervisor, Business Practice Credit Program and of Contract Drafting, which “introduces you to the various types of contracts you will see in the real world.” The Intellectual Property course has also been valuable, “since trademark and copyright are so prominent in the music business.” After taking Entertainment Law last semester, Hock is thrilled at being mentored by Professor Patti A. Jones, a prominent entertainment lawyer in Boston who teaches the course. “Turns out we have a few overlapping friends in the music business, so we really hit it off,” said Hock. “In the music business, it is all about networking and making sure you really establish connections with people on both a business and personal level. I am ecstatic that she has taken me under her wing.” The Bridge   31

STUDENT NEWSMAKER Louisa E. Gibbs ’14 Podcasts: Expanding Law Review’s Reach Listen up! Now you can hear a wide variety of relevant programming with interviews and commentaries on criminal law and procedure cases whether you’re jogging or weeding the garden. Louisa E. Gibbs ’14, executive online editor, produces and hosts a newly launched podcast series for New England Law Review’s online supplement, On Remand. The series is one of the few law review–dedicated podcasts in the country. “I listen to all sorts of podcasts as part of my commute,” she says. “I find that the ease of getting information on the go is very attractive, and I didn’t see why the New England Law Review couldn’t do the same thing with the vast amount of legal content we have to offer.” Her skillful interviews and carefully crafted summaries, Louisa E. Gibbs ’14 delivered in a professional on-the-air voice, typically run from 10 minutes to 15 minutes and can be According to Gibbs, a core aspect of the podcasts is the downloaded via iTunes, www.nesl.edu/podcast, and Massachusetts Criminal Digest, the Law Review’s case saved to iPods, smartphones, and other devices. summaries of important Massachusetts Supreme Judicial On Remand (http://newenglrev.com) debuted three Court opinions on criminal law and procedure. years ago to expand access and includes original works, legal commentaries, and responses to printed Law “Our current editors write the summaries, and some have Review articles. joined me on the podcast to discuss those cases,” she says. “Also, we have been fortunate to have the interest of “D iscussing complex criminal the faculty and to be joined by Professors Jordan Singer cases or legal theories is more and Peter Karol who discussed their scholarship.” challenging than being called on to explain them in class.” A native of Pool, Dorset, in England, Gibbs graduated from Rollins College in Orlando, Florida, majoring in English and —Louisa E. Gibbs ’14 in Critical Media and Culture. At New England Law, she is a research assistant for the Center for International Law and “Much has changed from the age of solely print a member of the International Law Society. publications, and there has been criticism about the survival of law reviews in such a digital age,” says “Discussing complex criminal cases or legal theories is Gibbs. “As a result, engaging in new media is critical more challenging than being called on to explain them to maintaining and expanding our audience and to in class,” she says. “But the podcasts have improved my continuing to make our mark on the legal community.” impromptu analytic and communication skills. I’ve learned that forms of disseminating legal scholarship can open doors for new ideas and forms of scholarship.” 32  The Bridge 

New York City Reception and Career Panel Discussion October 10, 2013 1 5 1 Trustee Diana L. Wheeler ’90, Bradley S. Rothschild ’07, 2 Eric J. Savoy ’96 James Pollack ’07, 3 Elizabeth C. Berretta ’11, 2 Emily Bordens ’06 Michael F. Baum ’78, Katherine Sloss ’78, 6 Maxine Paul ’77, Lindsey S. Weller ’12, Dean John F. O’Brien ’77, Stephanie Brooks ’12 Kathy Rocklen ’77 7 3 Adrian I. Dlaboha ’03, Mandie LeBeau, director, Career Jonathan S. Adelson ’97 Services Office; panelists Michael F. Baum ’78, 8 Solange B. Captan-Mansdorf ’01, Elizabeth E. Apostola ’06, Tamika E. Edwards ’99, Solange B. Captan-Mansdorf ’01 Eric J. Savoy ’96 4 Jeffrey R. Escobar ’04, Elizabeth E. Erickson ’06, Joel MacMull ’04 35 4 6 8 5 7 The Bridge  33

CLASS ACTION 1963 1976 Thomas F. Breen, a partner at D’Amato & Lynch, LLP, in New York City, is the author of The Honorable John Fusco, a retired New York The Complaint, his first novel. State Supreme Court justice, was appointed Borough Hall counsel by Staten Island Borough Robert S. Chase graduated in June 2013 from President James Oddo, in New York. Bristol Community College in Massachusetts with an associate degree in computer forensics. 1970 Michael L. Resnick received AV Preeminent rating, the highest level of peer-review excellence Stephen N. Krevalin was recognized as one by Martindale-Hubbell, for his work in family law. of New England’s Super Lawyers by Boston He is a partner at Syprett, Meshad, Resnick, Lieb, magazine and was elected a Best Western Dumbaugh, Jones, Krotec & Westheimer, P.A., in Massachusetts Family Lawyer by the Western Sarasota, Florida. Massachusetts Law Tribune. He serves as the managing partner at Bacon Wilson, PC. James Lampke was awarded the Charles S. Rhyne Lifetime Achievement Award by the International Municipal Lawyer Association. Judith A. Wayne, a New England Law | Boston trustee, launched Oceanview Mediation in Lynn, Massachusetts, adding mediation to her existing practice. 1975 1977 Ellen L. Janos was named 2014 Boston Health Care Law Lawyer of the Year by Best Lawyers. Barry Apfelbaum retired from New York County 1978 Defender Services after 10 years as a public defender, following a successful career at Mobil Oil Corporation. He plans to relocate to Florida. Robert A. Onofry was inducted into the Port Jervis, New York, School District Alumni Hall of Fame. Mitchell Birzon is the author of a new book, Our Best Guide to Handling Your New York Personal Injury or Medical Malpractice Claims. 34  The Bridge 

1981 1984 Dr. Robert N. Diotalevi, associate professor at Florida Gulf Coast University in Fort Myers, co-wrote Diane Moyer (center) with Vice President Joe Biden and an article, “Revenge Porn: What You Don’t Know Dr. Jill Biden Can Hurt You,” with his student Rebekah L. Wells on the legalities of revenge porn. Wells was featured Diane Moyer, legal director of the Pennsylvania nationally as a victim of revenge porn, the Coalition Against Rape, attended the Violence unauthorized online publication of intimate photos. Against Women Act Anniversary Reception held at the Naval Observatory Residence of Cheryl Fiandaca, the former chief information the Vice President of the United States officer for the Boston Police Department, helped in Washington, D.C., in September 2013. to ring the opening bell of the New York Stock The reception celebrated the 19th anniversary Exchange to launch Twitter’s IPO. Her department of the act’s passage. used Twitter to communicate information about the Boston Marathon bombings and the pursuit of the alleged suspects. She is now a news reporter for WHDH-TV, Channel 7, in Boston. The Honorable Roberto Ronquillo, Jr., an adjunct professor at New England Law | Boston, was appointed chief justice of the Boston Municipal Court for a five-year term. (See the article on page 11.) 1982 Deborah A. Macdonald was appointed to the Ted R. Rosen, administrative chair of Fox 1983 Napa Valley Hospice and Adult Day Services Rothschild’s New York corporate and public Board of Directors in Napa, California. companies practice, was named to LIM 1985 College’s Fashion Industry Advisory Board. Michael P. Iannotti, an assistant U.S. attorney and chief of the Civil Division, retired after 31 John P. Stapleton was appointed associate years with the Rhode Island District of the U.S. justice at Fall River District Court in Bristol County, Department of Justice. He played a key role in Massachusetts, by Governor Deval Patrick. Judge Google’s forfeiture of $500 million for accepting Stapleton had served as an assistant district ads from rogue foreign pharmacies; $230 million attorney in Bristol and Norfolk counties for more went to Rhode Island state and local law than 25 years; he was a criminal defense attorney enforcement agencies. He also played roles in with the Committee for Public Counsel Services the seizure of $6 million in assets and 83 bars of from 1988–1991. gold buried in a Cranston yard, part of a money- laundering case, and in the seizure of $2.7 million Frank Cimler of Corso & Cimler, PLLC, was a from GeneScience for trafficking human growth producer of the Boston Strong Concert telecast that hormone in the United States. aired in June 2013. The Bridge  35

CLASS ACTION 1986 Anthony M. Salerno of Salerno Law Offices in 1991 Eric J. Vasquez joined Bond Schoeneck & King, 1987 Worcester, Massachusetts, was appointed an 1992 PLLC, in Naples, Florida, as a partner in the alternate member of the Commission on Judicial 1994 litigation department. Conduct by Chief Justice of the Trial Court Paula M. Carey ’86. A former state trooper and detective, Joseph M. Petty was re-elected mayor of he holds master’s degrees in criminal justice and in Worcester, Massachusetts. education. Nickolas W. Moudios was confirmed as clerk magistrate of the Worcester Division Housing Dino J. Domina was named a Super Lawyer for Court in Worcester, Massachusetts. A solo New York Metro 2013. practitioner in Worcester since 1988, he focused on landlord-tenant cases and real estate law as well as criminal, personal injury, and business law. Fluent in Greek, he was also a member of the Worcester Conservation Commission. 1988 James F. Coffey has joined McCarter & English, Todd E. Garabedian was named partner at LLP, in Boston, as a partner in the corporate, Cantor Colbourn LLP in Hartford, Connecticut. securities, and financial institutions practice. 1989 Colleen M. Capossela was appointed president 1995 Brad J. Koplinski is a city councilman in 1990 of CATIC Exchange Solutions, Inc., which provides 1996 Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, and has worked for escrow management, bonding, and insurance Hillary Clinton, Arlen Specter, and other services to law firms. Democratic campaigns. Robert W. Harnais was elected treasurer of the Paul R. Gormley received his doctorate in law Massachusetts Bar Association for 2013–2014. and policy from Northeastern University. His thesis focused on the ability of defense attorneys to Martha Rush O’Mara was elected vice president identify and represent defendants with mental of the Massachusetts Bar Association for illness and options for improving those abilities. 2013–2014. Karen Von Winbush retired from her position as deputy city solicitor in Philadelphia, in 2008 due to health reasons. 36  The Bridge 

1997 Joseph M. Griffin was appointed to the Boston Bar 1997 William G. Speciale received the accredited Association Council. estate planner designation from the National (continued) Association of Estate Planners & Councils. Amber L. Pearce joined the Seattle firm of Floyd, He is partner at Daintree Advisory in Boston. Pflueger & Ringer, P.S., as a partner in July 2013. She practices primarily appellate law in state and 1998 Christine Burke Worthen joined the Fort federal court. She married Christina A. Smith, her Lauderdale, Florida, office of Broad and Cassel partner of 15 years; the ceremony was followed by a as of counsel in the health law practice group. small garden reception at their home in Seattle. They traveled to Geneva and London and will embark on a honeymoon safari in Africa in 2014. Often Migleila’s older sister Elizabeth will accompany them. The girls are of Puerto Rican descent, as is Román, who comes from a family supportive of education. “I’m close to Migleila and to her family,” Román says. “I have a good relationship with the mother. I always touch base with mom.” Román Named Massachusetts Big Sister Román, who has a master’s degree in organizational of the Year psychology, talks to Migleila about the importance of education and was thrilled to accompany Migleila to an Eneida Román ’03 received the Top Lawyer Under Forty open house at Wentworth Institute of Technology. Award from the Hispanic National Bar Association, was named to the Top 100 Most Influential People in the Hispanic “It is important for girls to have a cheerleader telling them Community in Massachusetts list by El Planeta newspaper, that they are worthy of a college education,” she says. and was selected for the TIPS Leadership Academy by the American Bar Association. Fluent both in Spanish and English, Román is principal at Román Law Offices in Boston. She is a certified mediator But it is her volunteer work at Big Sister Association of and a guardian ad litem at the Suffolk County Probate and Greater Boston that she finds especially rewarding. She was Family Court and employs her psychology training to named the 2014 Massachusetts Big Sister of the Year and is evaluate disputes in high-conflict cases. A regular attendee a candidate for the National Big Sister of the Year award. at alumni functions, she has mentored New England Law students in internships. “I’ve had a lot of blessings in my life, so I wanted to pay it forward,” she says. Román sits on the Big Sister Association of Greater Boston Board of Directors and on its Diversity Council, whose For the past nine years, Román has mentored Migleila, now mission is to increase the number of mentors of color. Seventy 16, of South Boston, introducing her to the Museum of percent of the girls who participate in the program are of Fine Arts, Boston Ballet, and other cultural and civic venues. color, but only 30 percent of the mentors are women of color. “We’re trying to close the gap and recruit more women of color,” she says, and urges anyone interested to log on to www.bigsister.org. The Bridge  37

CLASS ACTION 2000 Christopher R. Philbin was named vice president 2004 Seth A. Mailhot joined Michael Best and Friedrich of government relations at UMass Memorial Health LLP as a partner in the transactional practice Care, effective September 2013. (continued) group and leader of the FDA regulatory practice in the firm’s Washington, D.C., office. Richard J. Sweeney was named to the list of Top 100 Trial Lawyers. He is the president of the Carol E. Thorstad-Forsyth was named partner Norfolk County Bar Association and the secretary at Fox Rothschild LLP, in its West Palm Beach, of the Norfolk County Prosecutors Association. Florida, office. Shari Veisblatt was selected as a 2013 New Jersey Rising Star in the area of family law. 2001 2005 Matthew P. Coletti, a New England Law | Boston 2002 Alumni Association board member, was appointed Timothy E. Zerillo, managing attorney at Zerillo Law compliance manager for the New England region by LLC, in Portland and Windham, Maine, was named a FIS Global. 2013 New England Super Lawyer. Lieutenant Commander Janine Donovan, U.S. Captain Charles Femino was named acting police Coast Guard, was assigned as the staff judge chief in Somerville, Massachusetts, effective advocate for Joint Inter-agency Task Force (JIATF) December 2013. South in Key West, Florida. JIATF South conducts interagency and international detection and James C. Hall is a partner at Nutter, McClennen & monitoring operations, and facilitates the interdiction Fish LLP in Boston, focusing on intellectual property of illicit trafficking and other narco-terrorist threats in litigation. support of national and partner-nation security. Stephen M. Dunne appeared in an international documentary funded by the U.S. Department of State analyzing Serbian and U.S. bankruptcy laws. 2003 Dorinda Parkola Burton was promoted to shareholder with Poole Mahoney PC in Virginia Beach, Virginia. 2004 Marc J. Cusano was named a partner at Cody, Cody, Robert E. Griffin returned from a deployment with Cusano and McCarthy in Quincy, Massachusetts. the Special Operations Joint Task Force in Afghanistan and was selected for commissioning as Keith E. Glidden was recognized as a Rising Star an intelligence officer in the Navy Reserve. He is in the 2013 edition of Super Lawyers and Rising currently assigned to the Office of Naval Intelligence Stars (New England). He was named partner at at the Navy War College in Newport, Rhode Island. Verrill Dana, LLP. John E. King was promoted to deputy chief of the Milton, Massachusetts, police department, effective July 2013. 38  The Bridge 

2006 Mark D. Szal, a New England Law | Boston adjunct 2008 Jennifer A. Sunderland, a New England professor, opened Szal Law Group LLC in Boston. Law | Boston adjunct faculty member, was selected A Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly article highlighted (continued) for the Women’s Bar Association Women’s a ruling in one of his cases that focused on “one of Leadership Initiative by the Boston Bar Association. the biggest unresolved questions in employment law: whether a social media post can constitute a Damian J. Turco opened Mass Injury Firm, P.C., violation of a former employee’s non-competition in Boston. agreement.” 2007 Randall I. Cherkas has joined Reed Smith LLP as Jessica Babine (third from right) and David Merritt ’08 (far left), 2008 and Jeremy Bombard ’07 (far right), pose with Massachusetts 2009an associate in the tax, benefits, and wealth planning Governor Deval Patrick (fourth from left). group in Philadelphia. Jessica Babine is an attorney with Houser & Bradley S. Rothschild opened his solo practice Allison, APC, a national law firm based in California. in music and entertainment law in Woodcliff Lake, New Jersey. Amanda J. Capps was admitted into the LL.M. Matthew S. Rydzewski is an attorney at McCarthy, program in taxation at Boston University. She is Bouley & Barry, PC, in Cambridge, Massachusetts. currently an advanced planning associate at the Smith Companies, LTD, a Capitas Partner. Lars H. Anderson, of Hourigan, Kluger & Quinn PC, was named chair-elect of the Pennsylvania Bar Lieutenant Rebecca L. Castaneda of the U.S. Association Young Lawyers Division. Coast Guard was appointed as the aide-de-camp to Susan J. Barrett was named executive director of Rear Admiral Fred J. Kenney, the Judge Advocate Green Mountain Care Board in Vermont. General of the U.S. Coast Guard. She was also awarded the Commandant’s Letter of Commendation Kris C. Foster was sworn in as an assistant attorney for her volunteer work with veterans suffering from general in the Appeals Division of the Massachusetts post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and traumatic Attorney General’s Office. She married Stephen G. brain injuries. Troiano ’11 on September 21, 2013. Joshua C. Harrell has joined Nutter, McClennen & Erin E. Chamberlain was awarded Certified Trust & Fish LLP. Financial Advisor designation from the Institute of Certified Bankers. She is a trust administrator at Wells Fargo in Austin, Texas. The Bridge  39

CLASS ACTION “We are thrilled we were able to negotiate this with [actor and Sundance Film Festival founder] Robert Redford,” says White, an executive producer of the Ebert documentary, along with world-renowned film director Martin Scorsese and several others. “I’m excited about it.” White’s company, KatLei Productions LLC, in Chicago, provides extras, casting, product placement, trademark/ copyright clearances, and music rights for feature films, videos, and commercials. Photograph by A.J. Coots White, who has a master’s degree in reproductive endocrinology, transitioned from the sciences to film based on her philanthropic Show-Business Savvy: Stage and Screen Winners interests—she became involved in anti-smoking public service videos. She later enrolled at New England Law | Boston because It’s a long way from Stuart Street to the Great White Way and of her interest in intellectual property and trademarks. After the Sundance Film Festival, but for Kathleen M. White ’11, graduating, White has continued to generously support New the roads have led to success. England Law’s intellectual property program. White, a show-business-savvy executive producer of award- “We are thrilled that we were able winning Broadway shows and films, has had a banner year. to negotiate this with [actor and The Broadway production of Kinky Boots won six Tony Sundance Film Festival Founder] Awards. The Trials of Muhammad Ali received an International Robert Redford.” Documentary Association award. And a unique, one-man version of Macbeth was named a top 10 Broadway show by —Kathleen M. White ’11 Time magazine. Despite her hectic schedule, White is completing an LL.M. at the “Macbeth was fantastic,” says White, who sat in the rear Donald E. Biedermann Entertainment and Media Law Institute mezzanine with New York City high school students who were at Southwestern Law School in Los Angeles. She completed a studying the play to gauge their reaction during a postgraduate program in international copyright that focused on performance. “It was fun for the kids. They came away with a European film policies at King’s College in London. Although better understanding of Macbeth.” White cannot ethically wear two hats as a producer and her own lawyer for contracts, she is making the most of the J.D. she In January, another project, Life Itself, a feature documentary earned at New England Law. about the late film critic Roger Ebert, had its world premiere at the prestigious Sundance Film Festival in Utah. The “I work with contracts every day, and I redline everything,” she documentary had the first-ever live streaming at the event and says. “I’m being fiscally responsible because I am able to a question-and-answer segment afterwards available to the dramatically decrease my legal bills. It doesn’t take my attorneys general public. The iconic Ebert, who waged a valiant battle 15 minutes to explain things. My law degree really helps.” against cancer, was the first film critic to win a Pulitzer Prize. 40  The Bridge 

2009 Adonia R. Simpson, manager of legal services at 2010 Sarah V. Castleberry was appointed associate Catholic Charities of Baltimore’s Esperanza Center, at Hadley Law PLC in Virginia Beach, Virginia, in (continued) was invited to a special White House event (continued) August 2013. celebrating nationwide immigration support services. (See related article on page 24.) Elizabeth L. Unger was appointed associate general counsel/curriculum coordinator of the Massachusetts Certified Public Purchasing Official Program in the Office of the Inspector General. 2011 Sanjeev K. Mahanta joined McLane, Graff, Raulerson & Middleton in Woburn, Massachusetts, Michelle L. Spaleta married Matthew S. Marino as an associate and registered patent attorney. in Newport, Rhode Island. She works as in-house counsel for Mercury Media. Ryan Mason, Boston Police Department officer and former recipient of the Mark S. Charbonnier Peter J. Towne opened Towne Law in Somerville, Scholarship, is a cast member in the reality show Massachusetts, specializing in consumer protection, Boston’s Finest. criminal defense, and disability law. John J. Pregmon is the member relations manager Eric Zine, his wife, Christina, and son Thomas at the Massachusetts Bar Association. proudly welcomed Joseph Paul Zine to the family on May 23, 2013. Clarence D. Richardson was elected to the Massachusetts Black Lawyers Association Board of Directors. Stephen G. Troiano has accepted a position as an associate at Morrison Mahoney LLP in Boston. He married Kris C. Foster ’08 in September 2013. 2010 2012 Robert M. Buchholz joined Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky and Popeo, P.C., in Boston as an Alison L. Beach was promoted to the rank of associate practicing public finance law. major in the U.S. Air Force. She currently serves as an honors law clerk for the Air Force Court of Michael L. Celentano is an associate at McElroy, Criminal Appeals. Deutsch, Mulvaney and Carpenter in Morristown, A. Barclay Byrnes joined Archer Norris in northern New Jersey. California as an associate. The Bridge  41

CLASS ACTION 2012 2013 Jeffrey D. Knight established a solo practice, Knight Time Legal, in Boston, specializing in employment, (continued) (continued) criminal defense, contract, and family law. He serves as a co-liaison to the New Lawyers’ Section of the 2013 Andrew P. Garza is an owner at the Law Offices Boston Bar Association (BBA) and as a member of of Andrew P. Garza in Hartford, Connecticut. the BBA Family Law Section Steering Committee. Lisa K. Labresh was named assistant district William H. Wynne was named an associate at attorney in the Cambridge (Massachusetts) Morrison Mahoney LLP in Boston. District Court. Please submit your news (such as births, Genevieve Burguieres is a project coordinator for marriages, awards, promotions, and publications) Red House Staging, a real-estate firm in the through the Online Alumni Community at Washington, D.C., area. She coordinates schedules, http://alumni.nesl.edu or via e-mail at sales contracts, and logistics for properties in [email protected], where it will be posted and Washington, Maryland, and Virginia. transmitted to us for the next issue of The Bridge. We reserve the right to edit for content. The Class Patrick R. Burke was named director of player Action section is also compiled from published safety for the National Hockey League. announcements. If you do not want us to include items other than those you submit personally, Veronica Carlino was named assistant please notify us at [email protected]. district attorney in the Malden (Massachusetts) District Court. William E. Doogan was appointed assistant district attorney in the Suffolk County (Massachusetts) District Attorney’s Office. Allison Haar Evermann was awarded the 2013 Kip Tiernan Social Justice Fellowship from Rosie’s Place, a shelter and support organization in Boston, for her work on the Dorothea Advocacy Project for Mental Health Care. (See the article on page 15.) Benjamin Y. Jones has been awarded an Adams Pro Bono Publico Award from the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court’s Standing Committee on Pro Bono Legal Services, becoming only the second law student to be so honored. (See the article on page 14.) Elbridge Z. Smith is a law clerk at Smith Himmelmann in Hawaii. 42  The Bridge 

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FACULTY NOTES Gary M. Bishop Lecturer, “The Politics of International Justice,” Lund Appointed, Board of Editorial Advisers, The Redbook: University Faculty of Law, Lund, Sweden (July 2013) A Manual on Legal Style, third edition (2013) Legal adviser, coalition of international human rights John P. Cerone NGOs, in relation to an inquiry by the UN Committee “An Introduction to International Humanitarian Law,” on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Edward Elgar Publishing (forthcoming spring 2014) Against Women into the murder and disappearance of women from indigenous communities in Canada “The Legality of the Killing of Osama bin Laden,” Tigran W. Eldred Proceedings of the 107th Annual Meeting of the “Exploring Tunnel Vision: Reflections on A American Society of International Law (2013) Wilderness of Error by Errol Morris,” Legal Ethics, Oxford, England (forthcoming) “UN General Assembly Should Allow US to Deny Al Bashir Access,” Opinio Juris (September 25, 2013) “Motivation Matters: Guideline 10.13 and Other Mechanisms for Preventing Lawyers from Leader, closed-door meeting on state responsibility Surrendering to Self-Interest in Responding to concerning security cooperation, for international Allegations of Ineffective Assistance in Death military legal advisers, International Committee of the Penalty Cases,” Hofstra Law Review (forthcoming, Red Cross Geneva representatives, and U.S. and summer 2014) European academics, International Committee of the Red Cross, University of California Berkeley Law Presenter, “Motivation Matters: Guideline 10.13 and School (October 2013) Other Mechanisms for Preventing Lawyers from Surrendering to Self-Interest in Responding to Panelist, “Rights and Religion,” International Law Allegations of Ineffective Assistance in Death Weekend, American Branch of the International Law Penalty Cases” Conference, 10th Anniversary of the Association Annual Meeting, New York City (October American Bar Association Guidelines for the 26, 2013) Appointment and Performance of Defense Counsel in Death Penalty Cases, Maurice A. Deane School of Lecturer, international organizations in Berlin, Law, Hofstra University, Hempstead, New York Germany, Tufts University’s Global Master of Arts (October 21, 2013) program, Tufts University (August 2013) Master class, teaching international humanitarian Discussant, issues of professional responsibility, law for law faculty and international relations South Eastern Association of Law Schools faculty from area universities, George Washington Annual Conference, West Palm Beach, Florida University, and the International Committee of (August 2013) the Red Cross, Washington, D.C. (August 2013) The Bridge  45

FACULTY NOTES Russell Engler Victor M. Hansen Speaker, concluding plenary, “Until Civil Gideon: “The Impact of Military Justice Reforms on the Law Expanding Access to Justice” Conference, of Armed Conflict: How to Avoid Unintended Fordham University School of Law, Bronx, New York Consequences,” Michigan State International Law (November 1, 2013) Review, vol. 21, no. 2 (2013) Speaker, “Examining the Civil Right to Counsel” Appeared, U.S. Congress Response Systems Panel Conference, 50th Anniversary of Gideon v. on Sexual Assault in the Military and the Role of the Wainwright, Boston Bar Association Commander in Military Justice, Washington, D.C. (October 24, 2013) (August and September 2013) Lawrence M. Friedman Quoted, “Navy Hearing in Rape Case Raises Alarm,” “Common Law Decision-Making, Constitutional New York Times (September 20, 2013) Shadows, and the Value of Consistency: The Jurisprudence of William F. Batchelder,” University Quoted, “Jury sentences Hasan to death for ’09 Fort of New Hampshire Law Review, vol. 12 (2013) Hood massacre,” USA Today (August 28, 2013) Panelist, “Having an Impact: The Constitution, the Quoted, “Prosecution rests in Fort Hood mass Daily Mechanics of Government, and You,” Boston murder trial,” USA Today (August 21, 2013) Bar Association Leadership Retreat, Chatham, Massachusetts (October 19, 2013) Quoted, “Judge deciding if accused Fort Hood gunman wants a death sentence as he acts as his Presenter, “The Endurance of State Constitutions,” own lawyer,” Washington Post (August 8, 2013) Wayne Law Review Symposium: “A Wave of Change: Celebrating the 50th Anniversary of Quoted, “The complexity of the Major Nidal Michigan’s Constitution and the Evolution of Hasan trial,” John Gibson Show, Fox News Radio State Constitutionalism,” Wayne State University (August 5, 2013) School of Law (October 11, 2013) Quoted, “Trial of accused Ft. Hood shooter Quoted, “Punishing Companies Serves a Crucial more complex than it seems,” Detroit Free Press Purpose,” New York Times (November 10, 2013) (August 3, 2013) Quoted, “SAC: A Textbook Case of Corporate Prosecution,” New York Times (November 5, 2013) Quoted, “Even critics see justice in SAC case,” International New York Times (November 6, 2013) Quoted, “SJC upholds investigative e-mail searches,” Boston Globe (July 16, 2013) Quoted, “The Opportunity to Make a Case,” Massachusetts Lawyers Journal (July 2013) 46  The Bridge 

Dina Francesca Haynes Gary L. Monserud The Law of Liquidated Damages in Massachusetts, Co-author, “Women’s Harms: Hidden by Men’s and first edition, Massachusetts Continuing Legal ‘Revealed’ by Imperial Projects,” 30th anniversary of Education, Inc. (October 2013) the Feminism and Legal Theory Project, Emory University Law School, Atlanta (forthcoming, 2014) Guest lecturer, “Human Rights, the Mind and Kent D. Schenkel Narrative,” Wellesley College, Wellesley, Massachusetts (November 7, 2013) Presenter, “Does the Fee Tail Wag the Trust Dog?” Past and Present panel, “Wills, Trusts & Panelist and co-convener, “Women in Conflict Estates Meets Gender, Race and Class” and Post Conflict,” Transitional Justice Institute, Conference, Oklahoma City University School Belfast, Ireland (November 8–10, 2013) of Law (September 28, 2013) Interviewed, human trafficking, Vietweek David M. Siegel and reprinted by the Associated Press (October 28, 2013) “What Hath Miller Wrought: Effective Representation of Juveniles in Capital-Equivalent Proceedings,” New Interviewed, human trafficking in Asia and the England Journal on Criminal and Civil Confinement, rescue industry problems, British Broadcasting vol. 39 (spring 2013) Corporation (July 23, 2013) Peter J. Karol Presenter, “Defending Children Facing LWOP: Elected, Academic Committee of the International What Does Miller Require?” 2013 National Trademark Association, 2014–2015 Convening of the Campaign for the Fair Sentencing of Youth, McDermott, Will & Emery, Washington, D.C. (November 15, 2013) Lisa J. Laplante Presenter, “Realizing the Ethical Obligations of “The Plural Justice Aims of Reparations,” Transitional Defense Lawyers and Prosecutors Throughout a Justice Theories, S. Buckley-Zistel, T. Koloma Beck, Capital Case,” Conference, 10th Anniversary of C. Braun, and F. Mieth, editors, Routledge (2014) the American Bar Association Guidelines for the Appointment and Performance of Defense Counsel Presenter, “Business and Human Rights: Moving in Death Penalty Cases, Maurice A. Deane School Forward, Looking Back” Symposium, University of of Law, Hofstra University, Hempstead, New York West Virginia Law School (September 23–24, 2013) (October 21, 2013) Presenter, “Guatemala Memory Battles: Public Presenter, “The Dawn of a Neurologically and Debates and the Genocide Trial of Jose Efrian Psychologically Informed Juvenile Justice System or Rios Montt,” at the “Dialogues of Transitional a Sentencing Correction?” Law Librarians of New Justice” Symposium, Quinnipiac Law Review, England Spring Meeting, Neuroscience and the Law, Albert Schweitzer Institute, and the Quinnipiac New England Law | Boston (March 8, 2013) School of Law Center on Dispute Resolution (November 2, 2013) Member, Boston Bar Association Gun Working Group (March 2013) continued on next page The Bridge  47

FACULTY NOTES David M. Siegel Paul F. Teich Quoted, “What Happens to 14-Year-Old Philip “Are Lawyers Truly Greedy? An Analysis of Relevant Chism If He’s Found Guilty of Murder?” Boston Empirical Evidence,” Texas Wesleyan Law Review, magazine (October 25, 2013) vol. 19 (2013) Quoted, “Prosecutors want judge off Aaron Quoted, “Lawyers Aren’t as Greedy as People Think, Hernandez murder case,” NBC News.com Says Professor,” Wall Street Journal Law Blog (October 9, 2013) (October 18, 2013) Quoted, “Immigrants can fight old verdicts, SJC rules,” Boston Globe (September 14, 2013) Quoted, “Legal expert: Hernandez’s fame a factor for police,” USA Today (June 24, 2013) Jordan M. Singer Co-author, “Bigger Isn’t Always Better: An Analysis of Court Efficiency Using Hierarchical Linear Modeling,” Pace Law Review, vol. 34 (forthcoming, 2014) Presenter, “Gossiping About Judges,” Southeastern Law Scholars Conference, Charleston, South Carolina (October 5, 2013) Charles W. Sorenson, Jr. “Adopting the Judicial Deliberations Privilege: Making Explicit What Has Been Implicit,” Massachusetts Law Review (forthcoming) Speaker, “Code of Judicial Ethics and the Committee on Judicial Ethics,” International Visitor Leadership Program Judicial Exchange Between the United States and Uzbekistan, Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court and the U.S. District Court, District of Massachusetts (November 1, 2013) Speaker, Career Paths: “The Federal Government,” New England Law | Boston (October 15, 2013) 48  The Bridge