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‘A good and meaningful life’

Dean’s letter

This is my last letter to theLaw School community asdean of this wonderful school.I urge you to join me in wel-coming and supporting JohnDouglass in his new role asacting dean. John is a lawyer’slawyer and professor’s profes-sor. He is widely respected inthe profession, a superb schol-ar, a gifted teacher, and naturalleader. He and I have workedclosely together this springplanning the leadership transi-tion, and the Law School couldnot be in better hands duringthis coming academic year.

I recently wrote an articlefor our Law School student newspaper with somereflections on the school, the profession, legal educa-tion, and my own career, and wish to share some ofthose reflections again here.

One hears lawyers and judges debate whetherlaw practice is now less of a “profession” than it oncewas, and more of a “business.” There is a much greateremphasis now on advertising and marketing. Thefierceness of competition among firms and lawyersfor clients is escalating. That competition placesstrains on civility, on the willingness to engage in probono service, on adherence to the highest and besttraditions of our noble calling.

We are in an epoch of trans-jurisdictional lawpractice, corresponding to the globalization of busi-ness and communication. Knowledge of comparativeand international law is increasingly important formany practitioners and judges. Connected to this isthe increasing importance of cultural awareness andsensitivity, and the imperative that the profession

welcome and encourage diversity in all its polymathmanifestations.

The very substance of law is increasingly complex.The content of law has for decades been shifting fromthe common-law and constitutional law tradition ofincremental judicial evolution to the regulatory andadministrative state. There is a restless disquiet, athome and abroad, over the threats to the rule of law.We are all coping with the impact of the Internet andits rapidly changing forms.

And finally, lawyers today face great stresses ontheir mental, physical, and spiritual well-being as theystruggle to reconcile the pressures and pace of mod-ern practice with the living of a good and meaningfullife, a life that includes connections to family, friends,community, and the spirit. Students, faculty, lawyers,and judges must all participate in conversations aboutthese changes, and about what they portend for theevolution in American law schools in coming years.

As for me, I find I’ve always been restless to con-stantly seek out new challenges in professional life.I’ve identified with the sentiments of Ishmael, in theopening pages of Moby Dick, where he talks abouthow, periodically, he is taken by an incessant urge tohead out to sea for new adventure, or with Huck, inthe closing pages of The Adventures of HuckleberryFinn, where he declares his intent to light out for theWestern Territories. I and my family will always treas-ure the friendships we have made with the Universityof Richmond Law School community, and carry thosememories in our hearts.

Rodney A. SmollaDean, School of Law

Dean Smolla presents Chief Justice John G. RobertsJr. the Law School’s Green Award.

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research and writing, more engagementwith various constituencies, and towardan awareness of the value of “living great-ly in the law.” (See the dean’s farewell let-ter on the magazine’s inside cover.)

Justice Lemons described Smolla as “aman of vision and energy. This combina-tion served the University of RichmondSchool of Law well.”

New family law centerto host symposiumThe Law School’s new National Center forFamily Law will host in September a symposium “State of the Family—2007”addressing current issues including thestate of marriage and the family, same sexmarriage and civil unions, and foster care.

The program will feature nationallyknown scholars, lawyers and judges suchas Elizabeth S. Scott and Robert E. Emery,Stephanie Coontz, and Virginia’s first ladyAnne Holton, a former Juvenile andDomestic Relations Court judge.

Adrienne E. Volenik, who has beendirector of the disability law clinic at theLaw School’s Children’s Law Center, hasbeen named the acting director of thecenter for family law.

The center will support the educa-tional and training needs of law students,lawyers, judges, and others involved inboth the practice and study of family lawthrough academic and service programsthat focus on public policy and the law asthey relate to families and children.

The symposium, scheduled for Sept.

16-18, will be co-sponsored by VirginiaCLE. For a full schedule, go to www.NCFL-UR.org.

The center enjoys oversight from anindependent board of attorneys, judges,and academics chaired by Edward D.Barnes. It will work closely with theUniversity’s Center for Civic Engagementon the implementation of the “RichmondFamilies Initiative,” which will work todeliver pro bono services to low-incomefamilies in the Richmond community.

Nuremburg’s lessonsremain valid in law and lifeOne of the last surviving prosecutorsfrom the Nuremburg war crime trialsrecently declared, “The rule of law is notsuch a fragile thing.”

“The force of law can stand up to thelaw of force,” Henry T. King said in a some-times-moving April address at the LawSchool. King spoke of how Nuremburg’slessons apply today in a world where bor-ders often seem irrelevant.

With terrorism threatening securityand stability globally, King said the UnitedStates should rejoin the InternationalCriminal Court (ICC) to help shape inter-national law so it can better respond toterrorism. President Clinton signed ontothe ICC, though he recognized significantflaws. President Bush has been “outwardlyhostile” to the court, King said.

“While the ICC is not perfect, theUnited States now has the opportunityto take the lead in this aspect of interna-tional law,” said King, 88, a professor atCase Western Reserve Law School.“Identifying and addressing gaps in cur-rent laws and treaties could be the mostsignificant legal development sinceNuremburg.”

William J. Benos, L’88, whose practiceincludes international law, introducedKing to a near-capacity audience thatincluded three survivors of theHolocaust. Benos said King’s appearance

at the Law School just after the Rule ofLaw Conference served to “bring us allback to an understanding of the rule oflaw” as defined at Nuremburg.

King also spoke on a more personallevel to the many law students in thecrowd. He said he left a lucrative “dreamjob” on Wall Street at age 27 to go toNuremburg. “I was told by a great manypeople that I was giving up my place inline on the road to success.”

But, King said, Nuremburg became“the defining experience of my life that Iwould not trade for anything.Nuremburg gave me that frame of refer-ence, those ideals and values that pro-vide a sense of what is truly important.”

Nuremburg remains relevant, he said.It codified existing international law andaffixed enforceable penalties for viola-tions. It established the principle thateveryone is accountable before the law,be they heads of state or soldiers “follow-ing orders.”

It “denied the concept of sovereignimmunity,” which might have shieldedNazi leaders acting on behalf of thestate, King said. Years later, these prece-dents meant that Slobodan Milosevic,Augusto Pinochet and SaddamHussein could be tried incourts of law.

“The Nuremburgjudgment lays ground-work for the conceptthat some crimes, par-ticularly crimes

against humanity, were so egregious thatthe accused could be tried anywhere,”King said.

King highlighted the role U.S.Supreme Court Justice Robert Jacksonplayed as chief prosecutor at Nuremburg.It was Jackson who led four legal cul-tures—American, Russian, British andFrench—to “the foundation of modernhumanitarian law.”

Jackson insisted that the Nuremburgtribunal “reflect America’s belief in fairtrials, convictions based on evidence, andthe rights of the accused.”

As in the war on terror, King said, therewas “a very legitimate fear” that a publictrial would give Nazis a forum that mightincite violence, inspire recruits, and resultin release of information harmful to thosefighting the threat. A fair, public trial alsomight, and sometimes did, result inacquittal for some defendants.

“But the result for the Allies, forGermany, and for the world, was notdarkness and chaos,” he said. The resultwas “a much higher level of credibility,further discrediting the Nazi ideologyand preventing a resurgence of violence.”

From his perspective as a prosecutor,King said, “I saw how in victory, civ-

ilization had responded notwith like violence, hatred and

persecution but with therule of law, with fairnessand accountability. It wasthe guiding light for mylife’s work. What morecould anyone ask for?”

Professor al-Hibriamong fourawarded FirstFreedom prize

The Council for America’s FirstFreedom awarded professor Azizah Y.al-Hibri a First Freedom Award for2007 for her contributions to theadvancement of religious libertyaround the world.

She was one of four distinguishedadvocates for religious freedom to beso honored. Others include MadeleineK. Albright, former U.S. secretary ofstate, Abdelfattah Amor, president ofthe UNESCO human rights jury, andKevin J. “Seamus” Hasson, founderand chairman of the Becket Fund forReligious Liberty, a nonpartisan, inter-faith, public-interest law firm.

Ambassador Robert A. Seiple, pres-ident of the Council for America’s FirstFreedom, said, “These four extraordi-nary individuals have committedmuch of their professional lives to thedefense of religious liberty.”

“Azizah al-Hibri has been a leadingnational and international voice onissues relating to Islam, the rights ofMuslim women, Islamic jurisprudence,and legal, political and religious issuesrelating to the Middle East and Islam,”said Dean Rodney A. Smolla.“Particularly in the aftermath of theSept. 11 attacks, Azizah has been avoice for moderation and tolerance.”

Al-Hibri is the founder and presi-dent of KARAMAH: Muslim WomenLawyers for Human Rights.

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Tests of valuescome with career

A former senior manager at MCI toldan audience at the Law School inFebruary to anticipate ethical chal-lenges in professional life. “Thechances of you facing an ethicaldilemma in your business career is100 percent,” said Walter Pavlo. “Itwill happen.”

Pavlo spent two years in prison forhis role in an accounting scam intend-ed to cover bad debt incurred by theformer telecommunications company.

The trouble began when the divi-sion Pavlo worked with at MCI beganpiling up debt while Wall Street analysts and company executiveswere putting on pressure to reach performance goals he knew wereunattainable.

He turned to questionable account-ing practices to cover the debt, but thesituation only worsened.

Pavlo found himself wondering ifevery car on the street contained FBIagents. He worried that friends andbusiness associates might be wired.

“What kind of life is that?” heasked.

“You’ll never know the value ofyour values, what your values areworth, until the test,” he said. “Whenyou’re tested, what are you going todo?”

SPEAKER

Walter Pavlo

Adrienne Volenik

Azizah al-Hibri

Henry T. King, formerNuremburg prosecutor.


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Student fellowshipsprovide unique opportunitiesTwo law professors are working as men-tors to undergraduate students this sum-mer through fellowships awarded by theRichmond Quest/Bonner Center for CivicEngagement Student ResearchFellowship Program.

Joel B. Eisen is mentoring CatherineEason, ’08, for her project “An Analysis ofthe Potential Local Effects of GlobalWarming on Richmond AreaCommunities and Possible Implicationsfor the Environmental Justice Movement.”

A. Benjamin Spencer is mentoringstudents Lesley McCall, L’08, and CapriMiller, L’08, in a collaborative researchproject titled “The Impending JudicialCrisis: How Politics and Indifference AreDestroying Our Federal Courts.”

The students receive $4,000 to con-duct their research. They will presenttheir findings at a special program inSeptember sponsored by the Center forCivic Engagement, and at an arts and sci-ences research symposium in the spring.

Amy Howard, the center’s actingdirector, said, “The students’ work has sig-nificant implications for improving ourunderstanding of an important dimen-sion of civic, social and economic life inRichmond.”

Casey is a 1994 graduate of theUniversity of Virginia. She received her JDin 1999 from Washington University inSt. Louis. Since 2002, she has served asassistant U.S. attorney in Richmond, andhas taught in the Lawskills program.

Casey won the Richmond BarAssociation’s Pro Bono Award in 2005.

Professor Berryhill retiresafter 31 yearsWade Berryhill, professor of law whojoined the faculty in 1976, retired this May,but will continue to teach part-time.

The Law School honored Berryhill by

As the nationcommemoratedthe 400thanniversary ofJamestown, theLaw Schoolbecame a hub of

intellectual discourse and civic engage-ment. Hundreds of people from aroundthe world came to Richmond for the Ruleof Law Conference.

The Law School continues to distin-guish itself as an essential communityresource offering public events wherepeople from different worlds can cometogether to learn about current issues. Itis a bridge connecting the campus andthe community.

I invite you to look at our new inter-active Web site to view all of our excitinginitiatives: www.law.richmond.edu

This spring, the Law School hostedmany other outstanding events includingtalks by: Sister Helen Prejean, worldrenowned anti-death penalty advocate;Henry King, one of three surviving U.S.prosecutors who participated in theNuremberg trials following World War II;

Virginia Attorney General Robert F.McDonnell; and Walter Pavlo, a formerMCI WorldCom executive imprisoned forhis role in a finance scam.

The Rule of Law Conference receivedextensive coverage from The AssociatedPress, the Richmond Times-Dispatch,Virginia Lawyers Weekly, the Virginian-Pilot, and The Washington Post, as well aslocal radio and television.

Today many people get their civiceducation from TV sound bites, but thosewho participated in our programs gaineda deeper understanding of controversialissues in a forum where people can agreeto disagree.

We will build upon the success of theRule of Law Conference with programs ofinterest to the community. For example,the new National Center for Family Lawwill host a National Family LawSymposium on the State of the Family on Sept. 16-18.

Our students and faculty are workinghard to create such engaging programs.The Law School is a resource within a fewmiles of a million people, and it is makinga difference in the community.

awarding him emeritus status.Berryhill has taught courses in envi-

ronmental law, environmental law andpolicy, land-use planning, law and religion,ocean and coastal law, property law, realestate transactions and secured credit.

He earned his law degree in 1972 fromthe University of Arkansas-Fayetteville,and practiced as a partner in Moore,Logan & Berryhill. He also holds a masterof laws degree from Columbia University.

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Nun, best-sellingauthor calls onstudents to fightinjustice

Sister Helen Prejean, renowned deathpenalty activist and author of thebestseller Dead Man Walking, toldlaw students to join the fight againstinjustice during their careers.

“In the professional house that youbuild,” she told the audience in thepacked Moot Court Room, “just leaveone room dedicated to helping thepoor.”

Sister Helen has traveled aroundthe world speaking to notables fromLarry King to the Pope about alterna-tives to the death penalty and theimportance of a well-balanced adver-sarial judicial process.

Prejean works at the Death PenaltyDiscourse Center in New Orleans butspends much of her time speaking togroups around the world about injus-tice. In addition to death penaltyissues, she spoke at Richmond aboutthe “unbalanced racial divide in thepractice of justice.”

Her appearance at the Law Schoolon April 23 was sponsored by theRichmond Journal of Law and thePublic Interest.

Afterward, Sister Helen dispensedpraise: “The students were such amaz-ing thinkers,” she told Thomas Strelka,L’07.

SPEAKERLaw School welcomestwo new facultyThe Law School welcomed Jessica MorrellErickson and Tara Casey to the facultythis summer.

Erickson is an assistant professor oflaw. She has been an associate at Hunton& Williams since 2003, focusing on cor-porate governance and securities litiga-tion, appellate litigation, commercial con-tract disputes, and business torts.

Erickson graduated magna cum laudefrom Harvard Law School, where sheserved as editor-in-chief of The HarvardJournal of Law & Technology. She alsotaught legal research and analysis as amember of the Board of Student Advisers.

She received her bachelor’s degreesumma cum laude from Amherst Collegein economics and law, jurisprudence, andsocial thought.

Following law school, Erickson clerkedfor Chief Judge Michael Boudin of theU.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit.Erickson will teach corporations, con-tracts and advanced courses in the corpo-rate and business areas.

Tara Casey is the Law School’s newdirector of pro bono services.

She will promote and coordinate probono activities by law students workingwith area lawyers, legal service agencies,and nonprofit organizations. Casey alsowill work with the University’s Center forCivic Engagement in a program called theRichmond Families Initiative, which willinvolve law students and undergraduates.

A bridge to the communityBy Roberta Oster Sachs

Spencer namedstate faculty‘Rising Star’

A. Benjamin Spencer, an assistant pro-fessor at the law School, has beennamed the “Rising Star” in the 2007Virginia Outstanding Faculty Awards,sponsored by the State Council ofHigher Education for Virginia.

A graduate of Harvard Law School,Spencer began teaching at the LawSchool in 2004. He also holds a mas-ter’s of science with distinction incriminal justice policy from theLondon School of Economics, wherehe studied as a Marshall Scholar. Asan undergraduate, he was valedictori-an of his class at Morehouse College.

“It is no exaggeration to rate himas one of the fastest-rising universityprofessors in the country, a personwho has made an extraordinary namefor himself in an astonishingly shortperiod of time,” said Dean Rodney A.Smolla. “He has written a top-sellingbook, published in the most presti-gious national law reviews, endearedhimself to his students and been agenerous contributor of service to theUniversity and the community.”

Before joining the faculty, Spencerclerked for Judge Judith W. Rodgers ofthe U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C.Circuit.

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One of the student fellowships will focus on the effects of globalwarming on theRichmond area.

A. Benjamin Spencer Sister Helen Prejean

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Left to right: Azizah al-Hibri, MargaretBacigal, Joshua Burstein,

Timothy L. Coggins and Chris Cotropia.

Faculty achievements, publications and appearances

FACULTY BRIEFS

Azizah al-Hibri was invited by theAmerican embassies in Belgium,Holland and Saudi Arabia to lec-ture in May on topics including“Women’s Rights in Islam,” “VirtualCorporations in the Age ofInternet,” and “Women’s Roles inDeveloping Societies.” Al-Hibri, thefounder of KARAMAH, MuslimWomen Lawyers for HumanRights, met with KARAMAH’sInternational Muslim WomenJurists Network for the Gulf regionin Bahrain, and in Egypt for theNorth African region during a tourfinanced by the NationalEndowment for Democracy. As amember of its C-100 Club of reli-gious leaders, al-Hibri attendedthe World Economic Forum heldthis summer in Jordan. The topicsfor discussion included women’sissues, interfaith issues, and worldpeace. In April, al-Hibri lectured atthe Wharton Business School on“Introduction to Corporate Law.”She spoke to a class of Arabwomen lawyers sent to the UnitedStates through the Middle EastPartnership Program. (See relatedstory on page 4).

Margaret Ivey Bacigal was electedto a second term as the LawSchool’s representative to the

Virginia Bar Association’s board ofgovernors.

Joshua Burstein, associate dean forcareer services, was appointed amember of the NationalAssociation for Legal CareerProfessional’s recruitment prac-tices advisory group for 2007-08.This is his third appointment to anNALP committee.

Timothy L. Coggins, associate deanfor Library and InformationServices, served as the co-chair ofa planning group for the NationalSummit on the Authentication ofDigital Legal Information, whichwas held in Chicago, April 20-21.Judges, reporters of decisions,technologists, legislative staffmembers and others participated.The goal of the summit was todevelop a plan for authenticatingdigital legal information releasedby the federal and state govern-ments. Coggins also served as thecoordinator of the 2007 Institutefor the Southeastern Chapter ofthe American Association of LawLibraries in Baton Rouge, La. Theinstitute focused on the workingrelationships between law librari-ans and legal technologists.

Chris A. Cotropia’s article“Nonobviousness and the FederalCircuit: An Empirical Analysis ofRecent Case Law,” was published inthe Notre Dame Law Review, 2007.His article “Patent Law ViewedThrough an Evidentiary Lens: The‘Suggestion Test’ as a Rule ofEvidence,” was published in theBYU Law Review, 2006. Cotropiacontributed a chapter titled“Nonobviousness as an Exercise inGap Measuring” to the bookIntellectual Property andInformation Wealth, PraegerPublishers, 2006. Cotropia moder-ated the panel “Re-Writing PatentLaw: The Supreme Court’sDecisions in MedImmune, KSR andMicrosoft” at the American BarAssociation’s Intellectual PropertyLaw Conference in Washington,D.C., in April. He testified before theU.S. International TradeCommission in “Certain BasebandProcessor Chip and Chipsets,Transmitter and Receiver (Radio)Chips, Power Control Chips, andProducts Containing Same,Including Cellular TelephoneHandsets” in Washington in March.Cotropia presented “IntellectualProperty Injunctions after eBay” tothe Greater Richmond IntellectualProperty Law Association in March.

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He presented “Reforming PatentLaw’s Disclosure Requirements” atthe Benjamin N. Cardozo School ofLaw in February 2007. He also pre-sented “Fraud before theTrademark and Copyright Offices”at the American IntellectualProperty Law Association’s mid-winter institute in New Orleans.Cotropia presented on the topic“Obviousness” at the AdvancedPatent Law Institute in San Jose,Cal., and at the 2006 AdvancedPatent Law Institute at the UnitedStates Patent and TrademarkOffice, Alexandria, Va., in November2006. He was a panelist discussing“What’s Ahead on Highway 101,”sponsored by George WashingtonUniversity Law School and OracleCorporation in Washington inNovember 2006.

John G. Douglass presented apaper in January at a symposiumon “Prosecutorial Ethics and theRight to a Fair Trial” at CaseWestern Reserve University Schoolof Law. The paper, entitled “CanProsecutors Bluff? Brady v.Maryland and Plea Bargaining,”will be published by Case WesternReserve Law Review. Douglass lec-tured on “Hearsay and CriminalJustice Since Crawford v.Washington” at the annual crimi-nal law seminar of the criminallaw section of the Virginia StateBar in Charlottesville andWilliamsburg. In April, he served asa panelist on “Teaching

Professionalism in Law Schools,” aspart of the annual leadership con-ference of the American Inns ofCourts, which met in Richmond inconjunction with the Law School’sRule of Law Conference. Also inApril, Douglass served as a pan-elist in a program for mediatorsentitled “Breaking Impasse.” Theprogram was presented by theJoint Committee on AlternativeDispute Resolution of the VirginiaState Bar and the Virginia BarAssociation.

Joel B. Eisen’s article “BrownfieldsAt 25: A Critical Reevaluation” waspublished in the May issue of theFordham Urban Law Journal. Eisenspoke on “Brownfields and BRAC:Which Is More Compatible?” at aFebruary symposium on environ-mental law and the military spon-sored by the William and MaryEnvironmental Law and PolicyReview. He also contributed an arti-cle to the review’s symposiumissue. His essay on “‘Smart’Brownfields Development” is in theEnvironmental Law Institute’sbook, Stumbling TowardSustainability—Five Years Later,which was published this summer.Eisen also moderated a panel dis-cussion on Virginia’s recent elec-tricity re-regulation law at theNational Regulatory Conference inMay in Williamsburg.

David Frisch’s article, “RationalRetroactivity in a Commercial

Context,” was published thisspring in the Alabama Law Review.His essay, “Chattel Paper,Shakespeare, and the InsolubleQuestion of Stripping,” wasaccepted for publication by theUCC Law Journal. This summerFrisch is teaching a course oninternational sales in Barcelona aspart of the University of SanDiego’s summer abroad program.

James Gibson published the arti-cle “Risk Aversion and RightsAccretion in Intellectual PropertyLaw,” in March in the Yale LawJournal. A shorter version of thearticle is available on the Yale LawJournal’s “Pocket Part” Web site(http://yalelawjournal.org/), alongwith commentary by two otherscholars. Gibson has presented atthree conferences so far this year:“What If We Used IP Rights ToImpede Evil Industries? What Ifs . . .and Alternative Stories inIntellectual Property andCyberspace Law,” Michigan StateUniversity School of Law; “RiskAversion and Rights Accretion inIntellectual Property Law,”Intellectual Property Symposium,University of Texas School of Law;“Privacy, Technology, and Privacy,”Mid-Atlantic People of Color LegalScholarship Conference, Universityof Richmond School of Law.

Ann C. Hodges spoke at the Centerfor Leadership in Education toadministrators and leaders of the

Left to right: John Douglass, Joel Eisen,David Frisch, James Gibsonand Ann Hodges.


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Chesterfield County Public Schoolson “Employment Law and SexualHarassment in the EducationWorkplace.” The center is a part-nership between the JepsonSchool of Leadership Studies andthe School of Continuing Studies.

Phyllis Katz, L’82, and Hodgestaught a course this spring onnonprofit organizations to 28 lawand MBA students. The studentsthen helped two organizationscomplete legal and operationaldocuments to become incorporat-ed as 501(c)(3) organizations. Shewrote an op-ed article titled“Virginians Deserve a Living Wage:Commonwealth Should FollowMaryland’s Lead.” The articleappeared in the Washington Post.Hodges also served on the execu-tive committee of the AmericanAssociation of Law Schools sectionon labor relations and employ-ment law.

Corinna Barrett Lain presented apaper “Deciding Death” to a facultycolloquy at the Law School, and atthe Center for Civil Engagement.The paper has been accepted forpublication by Duke Law Journal.Lain also moderated panels for thelaw review’s symposium on thedeath penalty, which was held in April.

Kristen Osenga’s article “Linguisticsand Claim Construction” was pub-lished in Rutgers Law Journal, fall

2006. Her article “Rembrandts inthe Research Lab: Why UniversitiesShould Take a Lesson from BigBusiness to Increase Innovation”was published in a symposiumissue of Maine Law Review, sum-mer 2007. Osenga presented herarticle “The Componentization ofInformation” at the annualIntellectual Property Scholars con-ference at Michigan StateUniversity in January 2007. Shealso spoke at the AmericanIntellectual Property LawAssociation’s spring meeting inMay on a panel discussing theimplications of MedImmune Inc. v.Genetech Inc. She received a grantfrom the University to provideiPods for use in her trademark classthis spring. The devices were usedfor a multimedia project wherestudents conducted a mock surveyon consumer confusion.

Noah M. Sachs presented his arti-cle “Strengthening Tort Remediesin International EnvironmentalLaw” at the Yale/Stanford JuniorFaculty Forum on May 19. It waschosen as the best article submit-ted by junior faculty in privateinternational law. Harold HongjuKoh, dean of the Yale Law School,and Alan Sykes, professor atStanford Law School, were thecommentators on the paper.

On March 26, Sachs, professorJoel B. Eisen and 15 students fromthe environmental and energy lawclasses toured Dominion’s

Chesterfield Power Plant. The tourwas arranged through theMerhige Center for EnvironmentalStudies. Sachs is the center’s facul-ty director. The tour included abriefing by the plant’s environ-mental compliance officer on howfederal environmental laws applyat the facility.

Roberta Oster Sachs, associatedean for external affairs, has beenpresented with the Willie L. MooreAward. The Black Law StudentsAssociation presents the awardannually to a faculty or staff mem-ber who has continued in the tra-dition of the late professor Mooreby showing strong support for theBLSA and the student body as awhole. Tracey Evans, BLSA’s past-president, in presenting the award,noted Oster Sachs’ numerous con-tributions to the association andthe student body, including mod-erating events, participating in theMinority Student Open House, andworking with BSLA presidents onprogram planning.

Rodney A. Smolla published thetreatise Law of Lawyer Advertising(two volumes), Thomson West2006. He also published Law ofDefamation, second edition,Thomson West 1999, Smolla andNimmer on Freedom of Speech: ATreatise on the First Amendment,third edition, Thomson West 1996,and Federal Civil Rights Acts, thirdedition, Thomson West 1994.

Smolla’s article “CornerstonePrinciples: Rule of Law HelpsMaximize Freedom, Stability,”appeared in the Richmond Times-Dispatch, April 8, 2007.

His appearances included thekeynote speech at the I’Anson-Hoffman American Inn of CourtXXVII, May 9, on “Are We Failing toProperly Educate and Mentor LawStudents and New Lawyers?”Smolla was keynote speaker April12, before the Virginia Departmentof Historic Resources reception forVirginia Indian tribal leaders. Hisaddress was: “Justice for Virginia’sIndian Tribes.” Smolla delivered thekeynote address to theCommonwealth Education LawConference in Williamsburg, April12. His topic: “Making Sense of theSenseless, the Virginia TechTragedy.”

Smolla was a panelist on a pro-gram “The Magna Carta and theFour Foundations of Freedom,” April10, at the Virginia Museum ofContemporary Art in Virginia Beach.He spoke on “How Has the LegalProfession Changed in the Last 100Years and How Should Law SchoolsRespond to those Changes?” in thekeynote address to the Ted DaltonAmerican Inn of Court in Roanoke,April 9. Smolla spoke on “TheChanging Legal Profession and theChanging American Law School,” atthe Hunton & Williams luncheon inRichmond, Feb. 22. He spoke on“Equality and Race in PublicSchools,” Issues in Leadership series

for Chesterfield County publicschool administrators at theRichmond Center for LeadershipEducation in Richmond, Dec. 15.

Smolla served as moderatorfor the Rule of Law Conference atthe Law School in April.

A. Benjamin Spencer’s casebook,Civil Procedure: A ContemporaryApproach, has been published byThomson West. His article, “Anti-Federalist Procedure,” has beenpublished by the Washington andLee Law Review. (See related storyon page 6).

Peter N. Swisher is co-author of anew treatise, Virginia Tort andPersonal Injury Law, which was pub-lished this summer by ThomsonWest. Other co-authors of this trea-tise are Robert E. Draim, L’79, andDavid D. Hudgins, L’80. Swisher alsowrote “Causation Requirements inTort and Insurance Law Practice:Demystifying Some LegalCausation Riddles,” which appearedin the Summer 2007 issue of theTort & Insurance Law Journal, a pub-lication of the ABA tort trial andinsurance practice section.Thomson West also recently pub-lished the 2007 revised edition ofSwisher’s treatise Virginia FamilyLaw: Theory, Practice and Forms,with co-authors Lawrence D. Diehland James R. Cottrell, L’77.

Carl W. Tobias published an essayon charitable immunity in the

University of Richmond Law Reviewand a book review of a book on ExParte Quirin in the Journal ofCriminal Law and Criminology. Hisarticles on federal judicial selectionappeared in the National LawJournal, the Baltimore Sun andJurist. Tobias published articles oncapital punishment in theRichmond Times-Dispatch, FindLaw,and the National Law Journal.Tobias published articles on U.S.attorneys in FindLaw, the SeattlePost-Intelligencer, and theProvidence Journal. He publishedarticles on the federal courts in theProvidence Journal, FindLaw andJurist. Tobias also published articlesin the Washington Post on theenvironment and in FindLaw onpolitics, punitive damages anddomestic surveillance. His lettersto the editor on the U.S. attorneyscontroversy appeared in theEconomist, the New York Times, theLos Angeles Times, and the ChicagoTribune, and on judicial selection inthe Washington Times. Tobias gavea Donohue Lecture at Suffolk LawSchool in Boston. He was a widelyquoted contributor to the debatesover judicial selection, U.S. attor-neys, as well as the Vonage, Padillaand Hicks litigation, appearing onoutlets including WTVR, GermanPublic Radio, Dutch Public Radio,National Public Radio, BloombergRadio, Wisconsin Public Radio, CBSRadio, ABC Radio, and KCBS.

Left to right: Corinna Lain, Kristen

Osenga, Noah Sachs andRoberta Oster Sachs.

Left to right: Rodney A. Smolla, A. Benjamin Spencer, Peter N. Swisher and Carl W. Tobias.


STUDENT NEWS

communities affected by hurri-canes Katrina and Rita.

Ramsey Bronyah, Devin Popeand Ben Silbert worked with acenter assisting people with men-tal and physical disabilities. Muchof their work involved taking infor-mation from those seeking assis-tance, and matching their needswith volunteer help. Typically,callers needed help with issuesranging from making utility pay-ments, coming up with rentaldeposits, and reconstructing dam-aged homes. Students also servedas witnesses for wills and per-formed research on behalf of dis-abled people who wanted to knowif they had a cause of action.

Charlotte Dauphin workedwith the New Orleans Workers’Center for Racial Justice, which she described as “completely surprising.”

“I expected to be doing legalresearch, but I did not expect to bestanding on a street corner near asuburban Home Depot, acting as abuffer between illegal immigrantworkers and the police,” she said. Ifound myself among people whowere experienced grassrootsorganizers, who called each other‘brother’ and ‘comrade.’ I felt like afish out of water.”

“I came out of the week with achanged perspective,” Dauphinsaid. “I emerged with an open mindand better understanding of thesocial situation in New Orleans.”

Brian Tacey, Kristen Kelly, CaraSims, Molly Geissenhainer,Chelsea Dunn, and Jamie Specter,worked with the Gert Town RevivalInitiative, a grass roots organiza-tion that focuses on the revitaliza-tion of the Gert Town community.Richmond students worked on amapping initiative to photographand otherwise document all the

properties within the communityand to research the ownership ofthe homes. This included deter-mining whether each house wasoccupied and its condition.

The survey provides informa-tion for a database that will beused in saving and rebuilding thehistoric area.

Brody Reid and Chris Hoadleyworked with the Association ofCommunity Organization forReform Now (ACORN). ACORN’smission in New Orleans is toensure that owners of damagedproperty can return to the city torebuild. ACORN contracts withproperty owners to “gut” the dam-aged houses for free if the ownersigns a contract agreeing to rebuildthe property. Private contractorscharge as much as $15,000 for thisservice. ACORN has preserved closeto 2,000 homes and hopes to saveanother 2,000 in the coming year.

Gifts from the Law School fac-ulty, alumni and AirTran made thistrip possible.

Of noteAlysha Fulkerson and RamsayBronyah won the 2007 Moran KikerBrown Trial Advocacy competition.

Matthew Foote’s article, “Not‘Christian,’ U.S. Was Founded onJudeo-Christian Values,” was pub-lished Aug. 13, 2006, in theRichmond Times-Dispatch.

Kimberly A. Brown won theDistrict 4 National Association ofWomen Judges Equal Access toJustice Scholarship competitionfor students at the Law School.She received a $1,000 award.

Winners of the 2006-07 MootCourt competition are:• Barnett competition: Scott Jones• Barnett best brief: Jon Goodrich• Carrico competition: Emily Bishop

and Evan Miller• Carrico best brief: Emily Bishop

in the tasting rooms of California’swine country, the teams fromRichmond faced 20 others fromschools including GeorgeWashington, Gonzaga, Texas and Tulane.

The competition, including sixrounds of oral argument, tookplace in the en banc courtroom ofthe U. S. Court of Appeals for theNinth Circuit before a panel led bythe Hon. David F. Levi, chief judgeof the U.S. District Court for theEastern District of California. (Leviis now dean at Duke Law School.)

The trip is made possible bythe generosity of graduates whopractice maritime law, or who asstudents participated in this competition.

Portugal interns in Vienna, AustriaVinicius Portugal is spending thissummer in Vienna, Austria, work-ing as an intern with the U.S. StateDepartment’s Mission toInternational Organizations.

Portugal, a native of Rio deJaneiro, participated in a highlycompetitive application processthat included interviews in threelanguages to earn the position.Landing the job was particularlyimpressive because Portugal justcompleted his first year at the LawSchool, and the internships usuallygo to students in their second orthird years.

The mission helps guide U.S.participation in international organ-izations and conferences based inVienna, including the Organizationfor Security and Cooperation inEurope, the United Nations inVienna, and the InternationalAtomic Energy Agency.

After graduation, Portugal, whoholds a degree in political scienceand international affairs fromGeorge Washington University,plans to practice international law.

Law students joinhurricane reliefOver the 2006 winter break, 12Richmond law students went toNew Orleans to volunteer with theStudent Hurricane Network, anational association dedicated toproviding long-term assistance to

Students win honorsmooting by the BaySix Richmond law students andprofessor J.P. Jones returned thisspring from a trip to San Franciscowith a boatload of awards in theJudge John R. Brown AdmiraltyMoot Court Competition.

The team made up of AmandaBinns, Christine Owen and JustinPaget was named this year’s over-all champion, the fourth time ateam from the Law School hasachieved such success. They alsowon the Maritime Law Associationof the United States Award for thecompetition’s best brief. The briefwill be published in the TulaneMaritime Law Journal.

Owen also was selected as thebest oral advocate of the champi-onship round.

Paul Catanese, Brandon Santosand Michael Wall were runners upfor the best petitioner’s brief award.

For three days over springbreak, after training on the skislopes of the Sierra Nevadas and

Student news and accomplishments

STUDENT NEWS

Vinicius Portugal

Admiralty competitionparticipants were (fromleft) Paul Catanese, ’07;Christine Owen, ’08; JustinPaget, ’08; Amanda Binns,’07; Professor John PaulJones; Brandon Santos,’07; and Michael Wall, ’07.

Brody Reid (left) and Chris Hoadley survey New Orleans homes.

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our hundred years after the founding of theJamestown colony, lawmakers, jurists and lead-ers from around the world gathered this springto celebrate and examine the colonists’ most

valuable import: the rule of law.In a four-day conference that concluded April 14,

the Law School hosted presentations that paid tributeto lawyers and lawmakers from Thomas Jefferson andJohn Marshall to civil rights icon Oliver W. Hill.

The gathering culminated with a star-studdedevent at Historic Jamestowne, where John G. RobertsJr., Chief Justice of the United States, and his Britishcounterpart, The Rt. Hon. Lord Phillips of WorthMatravers, Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales,along with retired Supreme Court Justice Sandra DayO’Connor unveiled a plaque honoring the rule of lawand those who dedicate their lives to it. Before the coverwas lifted from the plaque, a fife and drum corps in fullcostume played historic tunes and a replica of theGodspeed, one of the three ships that brought the firstEnglish settlers to Jamestown, sailed past.

In presenting the plaque on behalf of the EnglishInns of Court, Lord Phillips said, “We are boundtogether not just by friendship but by a mutual dedica-tion to the rule of law.”

While presenters at the conference spoke elo-quently of the rule of law as a cornerstone of democra-

cy and human rights, others offered strikingly differentperspectives on how the rule of law has been appliedthroughout history. Among the most eloquent voiceswere those of a Native American leader, a veteran of theAmerican civil rights struggle, and a Chinese dissidentworking to bring democratic reforms to China.

Many of the discussions also addressed the role therule of law will play in building new and emergingdemocracies. Speakers outlined the challenges posed bytechnology and globalization in a world of disparatecultures and systems of justice.

At a black tie dinner at the Jefferson Hotel inRichmond, the Law School presented its most presti-gious honor, the William Green Award for ProfessionalExcellence, to Chief Justice Roberts. In his speech thatevening, Roberts cited a Virginian, Chief Justice JohnMarshall of Richmond, who saw the fundamentalimportance of the separation of powers and an inde-pendent judiciary. “That separation and independenceis the United States’ greatest contribution to the rule oflaw,” Roberts said. “It was in America that Englishideals of liberty took root.”

He noted that the ideals of liberty continue tomove back and forth across the Atlantic. The BritishParliament enacted the Constitutional Reform Act of2005, creating an independent judiciary there.

The Law School also honored Hill, the Richmond-

born civil rights attorney and pioneer, with the firstOliver W. Hill Social Justice Award. Elaine R. Jones,former President of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund,presented the award to Hill. Together with Dean Smollaand Justice Lemons, Jones read a Proclamation outlin-ing Hill’s commitment to building a more just andinclusive America and securing equal rights for African-Americans. The proclamation also noted his manyawards, including the 1999 Presidential Medal ofFreedom. (See related story, page 17.)

The conference played to enthusiastic audiences—many of them standing-room-only—at venues on cam-pus, in Richmond and in Jamestown. It received expan-sive coverage in local and national media.

Conference panelists included, among others,Associate Justice Stephen G. Breyer of the U.S. SupremeCourt, Dean Kenneth W. Starr of Pepperdine LawSchool, Erwin Chemerinsky, professor at DukeUniversity School of Law, and Joe Shirley Jr., president ofthe Navajo Nation. Lord Phillips was joined by The Rt.Hon. Lady Justice Arden, Court of Appeal of Englandand Wales, The Rt. Hon. Lord Mance, AppellateCommittee of the House of Lords, and The Rt. Hon.Lord Justice Rix, Court of Appeal of England and Wales.

Conference co-chair Justice Donald W. Lemons ofthe Supreme Court of Virginia, said, “The rule of lawis the bedrock principle of democracy. From shared his-tory, culture, traditions and values, we reach some fun-damental consensus on the rules that govern our socie-ty. It is helpful to have a public dialogue about the ruleof law as we confront new and challenging issues.”

Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. at Jamestown. (Opposite page,from left) Justice Stephen G.Breyer, retired Justice Sandra DayO’Connor, Elaine Jones, Xu Wenli,Joe Shirley Jr., Lord Justice Rix andKenneth W. Starr.

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Rule of law conference brings international recognitionBy Rob Walker

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the forces of reason and of irrationality.” By advancingthe rule of law, the United States and Britain are “tryingto further the force of reason.”

In his keynote address that evening at the JepsonAlumni Center, Lord Phillips stressed that the rule oflaw will help resolve the struggle between free countriesand those that “deny all the basic individual rights wenow take for granted.”

An elusive reality

On the second day of the conference, speakers focusedmore critically on how the rule of law has been appliedthroughout history. From slavery and the separate-but-equal doctrine to the destruction of American Indiannations, rule of law has been for many an elusive reali-ty and a tool for oppression. For them, the 400thanniversary of Jamestown is something to commemo-rate, but not to celebrate.

Professor Kevin Gover of the Sandra DayO’Connor School of Law at Arizona State University,and Joe Shirley Jr., president of the Navajo Nation, thelargest and most influential Indian tribe in NorthAmerica, offered insight into the plight of NativeAmericans, past and present, and how the law has beenused to deny their basic human rights.

Gover cited opinions by Chief Justice Marshall,who had been lauded throughout the conference byother speakers, that gradually stripped away Indianrights. Marshall’s rulings, he said, turned the rule of law“into a tool, a weapon for dispossession of Indians.” Asa result, said Professor Gover, “Indians have very littleconfidence in the rule of law.”

Gover added that, in Chief Justice Marshall’s opin-ions, the Indian tribes were treated as wards of theUnited States, not as sovereign nations. “What it comesdown to is that [in Marshall’s writings] Europeannations represented a superior civilization,” Gover said,

‘A lot of wrong decisions’

The conference opened with a panel discussion beforean audience of over 400 people on “Global Issues andthe Rule of Law.” Lord Phillips and Justice Breyer wereamong the 10 high-ranking British and Americanjurists asked by Dean Rodney A. Smolla, moderatorand the conference’s co-chair, to define “rule of law.”

Justice Breyer described it as a complicated systemthat satisfies citizens’ natural desire for fairness. “Wemake a lot of wrong decisions in our court. I admit it,”Breyer said. “But people will follow them even whenthey’re wrong. That’s the rule of law.”

The rule of law “is an antidote to insidious corrup-tion of power,” said Lord Justice Rix. “By promotingrationality, it promotes the dignity of man.”

Judge J. Harvie Wilkinson III of the 4th U.S.Circuit Court of Appeals described the rule of law as“an exquisite balance” between liberty and order. Itconfers rights but those rights are not absolute. It mustbe applied, he said, with “humility and restraint. Itsabuses usually arise from arrogance and highhanded-ness.” And despite the lofty sound of the term, rule oflaw is applied every day “by DMV clerks renewing yourlicense or by agents of the IRS.”

Those public servants should do their duty withhumility, “putting themselves into the shoes of themotorist or the taxpayer, just as the judge puts himself

in the shoes of the litigant,” Wilkinson said.Judge Carl Stewart of the 5th U.S. Circuit

Court of Appeals, said rule of law “gives citi-zens confidence that there are norms. They

will get a fair shake.” Justice Breyer said that after the ter-

rorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001, he becameaware that “there is a

division in theworld between

while the Indians were made increasingly dependent,and their rights, including access to courts, weredenied. Over time, he said, “there was an outrighteffort to destroy these tribes as entities.”

“The treatment of the Indians, even more thanour treatment of other minorities, marks the rise andfall in our democratic faith,” Gover concluded.

Gover’s hard legal lesson was followed by Shirley’spowerful and emotional description of what has hap-pened to his people “since the foreigners came acrossthe big waters.”

He spoke of how the U.S. government spends bil-lions of dollars on relief overseas while Indians languishin poverty and disease.

“I am seeing what goes on in my world,” he said.“The U.S. agreed to be our trustee. With the rule oflaw, we should be doing well, but our people live in

shacks without running water.”He said the American Indians who were “discov-

ered” by the settlers at Jamestown already had a govern-ment in place that was, effectively, a democracy run byrule of law. The colonists took ideas from them. “Wehelped create the U.S. government.”

Shirley called for a return to sovereignty forIndians, and for aid to help the Indian nations recover.Doing so would fulfill broken promises and the rule oflaw, he said. “Stop trying to assimilate us. We were cre-ated by our Creator. We want to keep our culture, ourway of life. Life is about standing on our own two feet.”

Global rule of law

Speaking through an interpreter, Xu WenLi, a founderof the Chinese Democracy Party and now a senior fel-low at Brown University, told the rapt audience that

BEDROCK OF DEMOCRACY

With the creation of an award bearing his name, the Law School hon-ored Oliver W. Hill during the rule of law conference for a lifetime ofwork that furthered social justice.

Elaine R. Jones, former president of the NAACP LegalDefense Fund, joined Dean Rodney A. Smolla and JusticeDonald W. Lemons of the Supreme Court of Virginia to honorHill with the first Oliver W. Hill Social JusticeAward. They presented the award to Hill, whoturned 100 May 1, at a luncheon during the con-ference. Hill was greeted with a standing ovation.

“One of the last living giants of the early civilrights era,” as the Richmond Times-Dispatch calledhim, Hill was born in 1907, in a city, state and nationthat legally sanctioned segregation. Hill spent hisvigorous professional life working to push rule oflaw back onto the right path. Eventually, the courts concurred.

The resolution accompanying the award spoke of landmark civilrights cases dealing with schools, public facilities, voting rights, fairhousing, and service on juries.

In a passionate address, Jones, who described Hill as “a mentorand friend,” spoke of being the first black woman to graduate fromthe University of Virginia School of Law.

“It was an experience for all of us,” she said with a laugh.She discussed rule of law from the African-American perspective,

beginning in the 17th century. “I have read that history,” Jones said. “Ihave never had more depressing reading.”

She recounted how slaves were legally constrained from owningproperty. Their masters could punish them, sell them, mortgage or

lease them at will. A slave could not go before a tribunal against hismaster for any reason.

Even after the Civil War and constitutional amendments aimed atrighting wrongs, the courts supported laws that disenfran-

chised blacks again. A century passed before the VotingRights Act of 1965 was passed, fully guaranteeing blacks

the right to vote. The task fell to lawyers, with Hill at the fore-

front, to work in courthouses and capitals againstthe inequality in “separate but equal,” and towork within the law to overcome injustices.

“The founding fathers were very smartmen,” Jones said, but “we’re talking about therule of law.”

Jones recounted the threats Hill and his fami-ly faced. He once came home to find his wife sitting on the porch witha gun because she had been threatened. The Hills would not allowtheir children to answer the phone. A mortician once arrived at thehouse to collect Hill’s body.

The lesson from Hill’s life, Jones said, is that “a small group ofthoughtful citizens can change the world. As lawyers, we can make ahuge difference.”

He found in the system of justice that came to Jamestown “a sys-tem he could challenge under,” Jones said. “Oliver Hill saw that thislaw could work for all of us.”

The luncheon ended with the crowd of about 280 singing “HappyBirthday” to Hill, who took the microphone and said, “I want to thankeveryone who has had anything to do with this.”

“We are bound togethernot just by friendship

but by a mutual dedication to the

rule of law.”— Rt. Hon. Lord Phillips

Social justice award honors civil rights icon


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an international information management company,spoke of the rule of law in international business.Prozes’ credentials go deeper than his years as a businessleader and lawyer on the world stage. His parents fledEstonia in 1944, ahead of the Soviet army, only to endup in the German labor camp where he was born.

Prozes recalled his father pounding the table, talk-ing about laws. “There was no rule of law under theSoviets,” he said. “Those experiences shaped me.”

Today, his firm is advancing in world markets, thelargest of which is China, where “just a tenuous senseof rule of law exists.” There, the political process entersinto the judicial system. A strong nationalist sentimentfavors Chinese businesses. Intellectual property, whichis the core of his business, is not protected. “We sendso much information and data there, and we are fearfulof what is happening with it,” Prozes said. “TheChinese say not to worry.”

the rule of law has been non-existent in China for mostof its history. Xu was first arrested in 1982 for his pro-democracy activities and for publishing undergroundnewsletters. He spent 16 years in prison. In solitaryconfinement, he watched the web-spinning and matinghabits of spiders in his cell to keep from going crazy.

Finally released from prison on Christmas Day in2002, Xu and his wife were granted asylum in theUnited States. While grateful for the sanctuary offeredin America, he said he was perplexed by the exploita-tion of immigrants that often takes place and by thecomplexity of the justice system here.

“Righteousness can survive in this society but socan evil,” Xu said.

As the United States and China have become closecommercial partners, leaders of the democracy move-ment there still remain in prison.

Andrew Prozes, global CEO of LexisNexis Group,

Moving into China is an opportunity to makemoney, he said, but it also is an opportunity to movethat emerging giant toward processes and cultures thatsupport the rule of law.

“Corporate economic activity is based on trust,”he said. “People who live in countries with the rule oflaw expect that.” Nations and businesses have obliga-tions beyond their own borders and shareholders to seethat the protections of the rule of law are enjoyedthroughout the world.”

Rory Brady, attorney general of Ireland, describedissues his nation faces in implementing rule of law withthe recent evolution of the European Union. In akeynote address, Brady explained how court systems inmany E.U. member nations are overburdened and,therefore, not as effective as they should be. Said Brady,“Delay can undermine the rule of law.”

Brady, who used arbitration and alternative dis-pute resolution to help bring about Ireland’s transfor-mation into a prosperous democracy, said those sameprocesses should resolve many problems in the E.U.

“That will require a cultural shift among lawyersand litigants,” he said. They must recognize “that jus-tice can be obtained outside the justice system.”

Church and state

Debate over separation of church and state was a high-light of the conference, with panelists agreeing thatsharp disagreement on public issues is an indicator of ahealthy society.

“The freedom to believe or not is woven into oursystem,” said Ambassador Robert Seiple, president ofthe Council for America’s First Freedom. “Ours is acountry where we can debate our differences.”

Dean Starr spoke of the Jamestown colonists“embarking on those ships seeking gold and findingdisease.” He said that with the First Amendment, thefounders “broke through a powerful cultural barrier”and demonstrated that “peace could prevail even withreligious pluralism.”

In the debate over “ecclesiastical freedom,” Starr

said, religious organizations enjoy the right to governthemselves “and limits on that require a higher step.”

Professor Chemerinsky, whose parents fled Nazipersecution, described Thomas Jefferson’s wall betweenchurch and state as “high and impregnable.” He saidthere are several justices on the U.S. Supreme Courtwho now seem willing “to abandon the establishmentclause.”

“Why trade something that has worked so well forso long for something that’s worked so poorly else-where?” Chemerinsky asked.

When his turn came, Chief Judge James R.Spencer of the U.S. District Court for the EasternDistrict of Virginia said, “This is getting good.” Robustdebate demonstrates “the pure genius” of the drafters.“The creative tension was intentional.”

Many of the nation’s founders’ ancestors had expe-rienced persecution on religious grounds, Spencer said.They understood that a state-sponsored church couldbecome dictatorial. They wanted to ensure that all reli-gions would be protected, but they also intended tokeep religion in check, “to protect against the tyrannyof the majority,” Spencer said.

“People are going to be debating this long after weare gone,” he said. “As far as I’m concerned, that’s agood thing.” ■

The Rule of Law Conference was part of the InternationalConference Series on the Foundations and Future ofDemocracy, sponsored by the Jamestown 400th FederalCommission.

Representatives from the Law School and otherVirginia colleges and universities that held events in con-junction with the Jamestown 400th anniversary conferenceseries will gather in Jamestown, Colonial Williamsburgand at the College of William and Mary Sept. 16-19 forthe World Forum on the Future of Democracy. They willjoin leaders from mature and emerging democracies for closing programs. For more information see:http://www.jamestown2007.org/se-democracyforum.cfm.

By Susan Godman Rager, L’87

The rain came down steadily as we left Richmond and headed towardJamestown. I thought back to the three small ships with 105 peopleaboard, beginning a journey with none of the comforts we were experi-encing. How daunting rain would have been to them.Bad weather had kept them hovering off the Englishcoast until February 1607. On our journey the rain sub-sided, and by the time our motorcade reachedJamestown, the sun was coming through. The threesmall ships had none of the support we had, andprobably had diminished expectations of arriving, orcertainly of arriving on any sort of schedule.

Sir George Yeardley, governor of the colony andconvener of the first legislative assembly on thissoil, a paternal ancestor of mine, is buried under thechancel area of the Jamestown Memorial Church,which was erected near the time of the colony’s300th anniversary. Robert Beheathland, gentleman,an ancestor of my mother’s, was aboard one of thethree ships that made landfall at Jamestown in May 1607.

Revisiting the island this time was, in a sense, seeing familiar ter-ritory with new eyes. Although I frequently visit, and often thinkabout my personal connections to Jamestown, I had never beforefocused so intently on the embodiment of principles of English law inthe fledgling colony.

Before there was a legislative assembly to address the need for

laws in the colony, rules were promulgated by the ventures that hadfunded and sent the explorers. While the rules necessarily were tai-lored to the primitive settlement, their basis was English law andEnglish experience.

On April 14, we gathered to see the ceremony for the plaque pre-sented by the four English Inns of Court to com-memorate the 400th Anniversary of the first perma-nent English settlement in America. As British andAmerican speakers of distinction addressed thoseassembled, it was suddenly more right than ever toacknowledge the debt of one society to the other.

Dr. William Kelso, director of archaeology forthe Association for the Preservation of VirginiaAntiquities Jamestown Rediscovery project, led uson a tour of the archaeological dig that is underway,and noted that as the first colony of England,Virginia was the beginning of what became theBritish Empire. In the intervening years, America andEngland both have seen expansion and contraction,but the principles that were here at the beginning

have served both America and England well. It was a fitting way toreaffirm the bond between the two nations, and a way to make theocean in between seem smaller.

Susan Godman Rager is governor of the Chesapeake Bay Company(http://JamestowneChesapeakeBayCompany.com) of the JamestowneSociety. She practices law on Virginia’s Northern Neck.

Jamestown events underscore connection

From left:Andrew Prozes,

Rory Brady, RobertSeiple, Erwin

Chemerinsky and James R. Spencer.

ProBono


uy Collier, L’76, is one of many “baby boom”generation lawyers marching toward retirement,but Collier has different plans for the future.

A partner in the firm McDermott Will & Emery,Collier is vice chair of the Washington, D.C., bar’s probono committee, where he has become a leading advo-cate for a project that matches older lawyers with probono opportunities.

The Senior Lawyer Public Interest Project beganin 2005, and its role is expanding, Collier says. Theproject and the American Bar Association’s SecondSeason of Service program are matchmakers for seniorlawyers and those who need their help.

“I live in a city where there are a lot of unmet legalneeds,” Collier says. “We also have a lot of lawyers herewho are winding down their practices, handing off tothe next generation. Why not bring together these sen-ior lawyers, many of whom have been interested inpublic service since their youth, and give them an alter-native to retirement?”

Older lawyers have a reservoir of judgment, “andthis business is all about judgment,” Collier says.Someone who has practiced for decades brings valuable

experience into public service, and through their firms,their law schools and the agencies they serve, they alsocan be mentors to those who will carry on this legacy.

As Collier promotes pro bono work among veter-an attorneys, the Law School proceeds with its own probono initiative, which fits into Dean Rodney A.Smolla’s often-stated message that “to live greatly in thelaw,” lawyers must provide pro bono service to the jus-tice system and the community.

Major firms like McDermott, where Collier works,Hogan and Hartson in Washington, and Hunton &Williams in Richmond, credit their lawyers with billablehours for some pro bono work, and some even expect aminimum hourly contribution from their attorneys.

John M. “Jay” Holloway III, L’95, a partner atHunton & Williams, says his firm gives associates cred-it for 50 billable hours for pro bono work. “It’s a partof the firm’s culture, a core value. We give somethingback,” says Holloway, who leads his firm’s pro bonodomestic violence program.

But the practice of law “for the public good” is stilla secondary consideration at many bottom-line-orient-ed law firms, and among law students.

Emphasis renewed on community serviceBy Rob Walker

which students pledge at least 35 hours of communityservice or pro bono work a year, and faculty and topadministrators pledge 50 hours. The program, champi-oned by former Chief Justice Harry L. Carrico of theSupreme Court of Virginia, has drawn a large numberof participants, Bacigal says.

Among several new programs, the Law School, theLegal Aid Justice Center and Virginia CommonwealthUniversity Hospitals are collaborating on a child healthadvocacy program, Bacigal says. The program will helpmeet legal needs of indigent patients and their families.Students will volunteer to do initial intake screeningand work with the attorneys assigned to the case.

“This holds great potential,” Bacigal says.The list of pro bono and public service activities

at the Law School is long, ranging from work withVirginia Indians and in on- and off-campus clinics, tothe investigation of capital cases through the Institutefor Actual Innocence. (For more information, see:http://law.richmond.edu/probono/index.php.)

When he was in law school there were people whoseemed to be drawn to that kind of work, Seyfarth says,but “there was no big push for students to do” pro bonowork. He has seen more interest since Smolla becamedean and Bacigal joined the bar’s pro bono committee.“It’s impressive what they are doing now,” he says.

For Erin Murphy, a second-year law student, probono activities have provided a significant share of herlaw school education. She has volunteered at theVirginia Poverty Law Center, helped with the JustChildren program at the Legal Aid Justice Center, andhelped start a Street Law Program. Much of her probono work has been on behalf of children.

“This experience has not only made me feel goodabout helping innocent children in unfortunate circum-stances, but also has helped me see how I can be a bet-ter lawyer,” Murphy says. “It has shown me the impor-tance of every decision, argument, and conversation.”

Christie Marra, L’91, has made a career in publicinterest law, working for Central Virginia Legal Aid andthe Virginia Poverty Law Center, her current employer.

Volunteer Richmond law students are a valuableresource, she says. “Students help get to the clients morequickly. They handle paperwork; they do research. Theybring enthusiasm and fresh perspectives into situationsthat can seem so overwhelming. They really do seem toenjoy what they do. They are a great resource.” ■

‘For the public good’

Many firms’ stated commitment to pro bono serv-ice “seems to be more lip service than reality,” saysCharles F. Seyfarth, L’99, who is active in the RichmondBar Association’s pro bono committee. “For most firms,it’s still a business. It’s up to the individual to make timefor community service and pro bono work.”

Greg Overholser, a third-year law student whoworked for the Virginia Poverty Law Center during hisyears at Richmond, says the Law School administration“is doing as good a job as it can promoting pro bonowork.” But making that work part of most students’ rou-tine is a challenge. Apathy, burnout and debt from stu-dent loans contribute to the lack of involvement, he says.

Still, “virtually all students here would say that probono service is a noble service and hold it in highregard,” Overholser says.

Students should come out of law school under-standing that they are privileged, says law professorMargaret Bacigal, a member of the Richmond BarAssociation’s pro bono committee and point person formany of the Law School’s community service initiatives.“We are privileged to be lawyers and with that privilegecomes an obligation to help effectuate changes and shep-herd people through a system that can be daunting.”

Over the past few years, Bacigal has seen anincrease in interest among students in pro bono work.Recent graduates, she says, are even inclined to askprospective employers about pro bono opportunities.

Ashley R. Dobbs, L’05, left law school thinkingshe would go into public interest law. “I was probablythe least likely person in my class to end up at a bigfirm,” she says.

Although there was no formal program promotingpro bono service during her law school years, Dobbssays, “The message came through from the professors.I’m just not sure everyone heard it.”

Dobbs decided to take a job with Hogan andHartson in part because the firm offered strong supportfor lawyers interested in community service. It creditsup to 100 billable hours for pro bono work.

She has worked on animal welfare and deathpenalty cases.

“Law is a very specialized area that puts the layperson, especially if he’s poor, at a tremendous disad-vantage,” Dobbs says. “We need to do what we can tohelp those who don’t have access to legal resources.”

The Law School receives calls regularly from agen-cies and individuals who need help, Bacigal says, andstudents are ready to work.

Recently, the Law School began a program in

G


r. Rami Indudhara’s days are filledwith patient visits and surgeries, sothe urologist and surgeon in

Redlands, Calif., doesn’t have much free time. But on six weekends since late January,

Indudhara flew from Los Angeles toRichmond to take part in the Law School’snew “Medical Malpractice Law andLitigation” class, which was offered this yearfor the second time to law students andhealth care professionals. The course offersan overview of medical malpractice law.

“I am totally ignorant of the legalaspects of the practice of medicine,”Indudhara says. When he read about

the course in the American MedicalAssociation’s newsletter, he decidedto enroll, despite the cross-country

commute. “It has never been taughtformally in my long, 15-year medical train-

ing though it’s the most frequently talked about subjectamong health care providers.”

The benefits of the class outweigh the costs of get-ting there, he says. “It’s the only place in the countrythat provides me an opportunity to interact with lawstudents … within a classroom structure.”

Porcher L. Taylor III, associate professor of parale-gal studies in the University’s School of ContinuingStudies, came up with the idea for the class. Sean Byrne,R’93 and L’97, a partner at Hancock, Daniel, Johnson

& Nagle in Richmond, developed and teaches the class. “My goal was to create an innovative, rigorous

learning laboratory for law students and doctors whocould learn from each other about the sensitive medicalmalpractice field,” Taylor says. “This is an area of con-siderable conflict that we hope we can help resolve.”

The practices of law and medicine, Taylor says,seem to require different mindsets that are often atodds with one another. He hoped to bridge that divideby bringing law students and health care professionalstogether in the classroom. “I’ve sat in on four classes,and I’m an eyewitness to the vigorous and robust dia-logue and interaction between the doctors and law stu-dents,” he says. “I’ve seen the camaraderie and academ-ic friendships that have developed.”

To entice physicians to take the class, Byrne andTaylor negotiated with The Doctors Company, a physi-cian-owned medical malpractice insurance providerthat endorsed the course. “If TDC-insured physicianstake the class and successfully complete it, they canreduce their annual malpractice premium by 5 per-cent,” Byrne says. “We hope other malpractice insur-ance carriers will follow suit.”

The physician students also receive continuingmedical education credits through an arrangementwith Virginia Commonwealth University’s Office ofContinuing Professional Development.

W. Clark Williams Jr., associate dean of the LawSchool, worked with Taylor and Byrne to ensure thatthe course was sufficiently rigorous to earn credit for law

students while being accessible to medical professionals.The resulting course, he says, “Demonstrates the

kind of unique academic experience we can deliver withcollaborations like this between the Law School and con-tinuing studies, and other schools within the University.”

The first class was offered in spring 2006. Eighteenphysicians, two hospital risk managers and 13 law stu-dents enrolled. “We drew from Northern Virginia,Tidewater and the western part of Virginia, as well asRichmond,” Byrne says. “We were excited about theturnout.” More than 20 students enrolled this spring.

Seven six-hour classes are held on Saturdays. Thefinal session is a mock trial, Byrne says.

Students study topics including informed consent,analysis of common medical negligence claims againstphysicians and hospitals, claims and defenses, andmedical records issues. The course touches on emergingfields like telemedicine/e-health law, and more familiarmatters, such as depositions and trial preparation.

Because it is unique, the course is generating itsshare of media attention. “We’ve gotten inquiries frominterested professors at other law schools around thecountry such as the universities of Texas, Florida, Miamiand North Carolina at Chapel Hill,” Byrne says.

“The Association of American Law Schools knewof no other law school in the country that had openedup a medical malpractice course to practicing physi-cians when we rolled out the course,” Taylor says.

Second year law student Tim Lingo was attracted tothe class for several reasons. “It was more pragmatic in itsapproach,” he explains. “You could get practice ratherthan straight theory. You could be involved in a mocktrial and also talk to practitioners.”

Lingo and Indudhara say they also learned from theguest speakers, who are usually working professionals.Lingo notes that it is interesting how attitudes of

defense attorneys differ from their counterpartswho work for the plaintiffs in malpractice cases.

For the Feore family, the course proved tobe an unusual educational opportunity.

Dr. Colman Feore is a prac-

ticing obstetrician. His wife, Janet, is a legal nurse con-sultant, and their daughter, Margeaux, is a second-yearlaw student at Richmond. The three of them are takingthe course together.

“Physicians and lawyers talk a different talk,” saysColman Feore, who notes that obstetrics is an area ofhigh risk for malpractice claims. “I wanted to see insidea lawyer’s head.”

Janet Feore, whose work combines medicine andthe law, says, “I can take what I’ve learned in the classand turn it around and use it in my work.” She givescredit to Byrne for making the course work. “He canspeak to both health care professionals and lawyers. Idon’t think there is a physician or medical person whowouldn’t benefit from this class.”

During class sessions, participants learn practicalaspects of medical malpractice law, such as how cases areinvestigated and prepared for trial. They also learn trialstrategy. At the end of the class, students play variousroles in a mock trial based on an actual case. Last semes-ter, Dr. Richard Rosenthal, an allergist from JohnsHopkins University, was so convincing in his role asplaintiff ’s attorney that some people watching the trialthought he was a seasoned lawyer.

Rosenthal enjoyed the course so much that he cameback this semester to audit some of the classes.

Frequent, free-flowing debates help participantsshare perspectives. For example, Byrne brought in asguest speakers an insurance company CEO and a triallawyer who represents patients in malpractice cases todebate the hot topic of tort reform. “I try to get every-one in the class to see their commonalities and debatehow the system should work theoretically and how itcurrently functions practically. Is it just and fair as is, oris the medical liability system broken?”

Several of Indudhara’s peers have been involved inmalpractice litigation. “It appears that every patient wesee and every act of care given to a patient is a poten-tial source of litigation,” he says.

“Malpractice isn’t all about suing doctors to makemoney. I believe it provides a system of checks and

balances for the common good,” Indudhara says. Indudhara believes the class is important

to both health care professionals andlawyers. “Our society is based on ruleof law and is increasingly demandingperfection in every aspect of ourlives.” ■

During mock trial,Wanda Hines has Dr. Richard Rosenthaldemonstrate the visibility of a bandagedwound. Sean Byrnelooks on as judge.

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ack in 1987, as part of his work as a special coun-sel to U.S. Sen. Paul Trible in the Iran/Contrahearings, Richard Cullen interviewed Richard

Nixon at a Washington, D.C., hotel. “I went over during lunchtime to [the former pres-

ident’s] hotel to meet with him,” Cullen recalls, “andhe’s talking to Trible, asking where are you from, andhe said to me, ‘Where are you from, where did you goto law school?’ and I said the University of Richmond,and [Nixon] said, ‘Oh, the Spiders!’ Which I thoughtwas pretty cool, a former president knowing theRichmond Spiders!”

In the years since, Cullen has frequently crossedpaths with the powerful, the famous and the infamous.

A former Virginia attorney general and U.S. attor-ney for Virginia’s Eastern District, Cullen, 59, took overin January as chairman of McGuireWoods, the firm hehas worked for (with brief interruptions) since graduat-ing from the Law School in 1977. The nation’s 45thlargest law firm, Richmond-based McGuireWoodsemploys around 800 lawyers in 16 offices worldwide.The firm’s clients include Dominion Resources, CSX,

Verizon, Smithfield Foods, DuPont and AOL TimeWarner.

Prior to being named chairman, Cullen headedMcGuireWoods’ White Collar and GovernmentInvestigations Team. He’s representing former U.S.Rep. Tom DeLay in a corruption probe tied to federal-ly convicted GOP lobbyist Jack Abramoff. An influen-tial Virginia Republican, Cullen is also state financechair for former New York City Mayor RudolphGiuliani’s presidential bid.

Former Reagan White House Chief of Staff KenDuberstein said in a 2006 interview with the RichmondTimes-Dispatch that Cullen “is one of the best-keptsecrets in Richmond because he is a true legal power-house who also understands the politics of Washington.”

Cullen sees his new job as chairman as part strate-gist, part rainmaker and part motivator. But he’s “still alawyer first and foremost,” he says. “I think if youlooked at most major firms … the chairman continuesto be a lawyer practicing law. It’s important that youdon’t lose touch with your clients’ needs, and how canyou motivate the lawyers if you’re just sitting around?”

McGuireWoods counts many University ofRichmond alumni among its top attorneys. Cullen’spredecessor as chairman, Robert Burrus Jr., R’55, is aUniversity trustee and former rector. The firm’s manag-ing partner is William J. Strickland, B’64 and L’70, andits Richmond office managing partner is John V.Cogbill III, L’79.

McGuireWoods actively recruits Richmond lawgraduates. “The top law students at the University ofRichmond are comparable to the top law students any-where period,” says Cullen. “We want Richmond kids.They’re well-trained and they’re good lawyers.”

Cullen has been an adviser to exiting Dean RodneyA. Smolla, who says, “Our law school has been fortu-nate in that many of our graduates have risen to leader-ship positions in prominent law firms, and Richard is astellar example of that. And there’s no question that thatis good for the Richmond law school on many levels,including career opportunities for students.”

Cullen says he’s sorry to see Smolla leave, but hehopes to get more involved with the Law School dur-ing his time as McGuireWoods’ chairman.

After all, Cullen’s son-in-law, Erik Siebert, a for-mer Washington, D.C., police officer, is a student atthe Law School.

Forming political tiesBorn in New York, Cullen moved as a young child toStaunton, Va., where he played football for Robert E.Lee High School. His father, Walter Cullen, 90, is aretired human resources executive, and his late mother,Helen, worked for the Virginia Lung Association.Cullen graduated from Furman University and workedas a newspaper reporter in Staunton until he was offereda job as campaign press secretary for Republican con-gressional candidate M. Caldwell Butler.

“Then he got elected, we went to Washington andhe gets assigned to the House Judiciary Committee.And lo and behold, there’s the [Nixon] impeachment,”Cullen says. As a swing vote, Butler became an impor-tant figure in the impeachment hearings, and Cullenfound himself fielding calls from The New York Times.“I didn’t know what I was doing, but I was bluffing it,”Cullen says with a laugh.

Working for Butler, the young Cullen became alifelong Republican. “I was into sports as opposed topolitics growing up,” Cullen says. “If Butler had been aDemocrat, who knows what would have happened?”

Instead, Cullen went to law school and kept up hispolitical ties, becoming a close friend, inside adviser

and successful fundraiser for major state Republicansincluding former U.S. Sen. George Allen.

“Richard’s very influential in statewide Republicanpolitics,” says Toby Vick, L’79, former Henrico Countycommonwealth’s attorney and an influential Republicanhimself. “I would go so far as to say he’s a kingmaker.”

Former Virginia gubernatorial candidate JerryKilgore says Cullen was a key policy adviser in his cam-paign. Kilgore describes Cullen as “one of those go-topeople for me who gave me sound advice, and I thinkhe serves that role well for a lot of people. He’s some-body you can bounce ideas off of … and he’ll be hon-est with you, whereas so many people won’t be.”

Despite his strong GOP ties, Cullen has never runfor public office, though he considered running forVirginia attorney general in 1997. After making sever-al speeches statewide in an effort to secure the GOPnomination, he decided against it, finding the cam-paign process too “all consuming” for him and his fam-ily. He and his wife, Aggiem, have four children,

Thomas, a federal prosecutor in Charlotte, Anne GraySiebert, a reading teacher at Collegiate School, Lizzie, aschool development officer in Louisville, Ky., andRichard, a senior at Furman.

Cullen eventually became attorney general for sev-eral months, when then-Gov. George Allen appointedhim to finish the term of Jim Gilmore, who hadstepped down to run for governor.

“He didn’t drop the ball as AG,” Kilgore says. “Hedidn’t just rest on the laurels and keep the trains run-ning on time as most of those interim AGs do.”

Before that, Allen had appointed Cullen to co-chairhis task force on abolishing parole, one of Allen’s signa-ture gubernatorial achievements. As Allen’s state publicsafety secretary, Kilgore was also on the task force, and heand Cullen barnstormed the state to build support forthe initiative. Cullen also was instrumental in buildingbipartisan support in the General Assembly to abolishparole. “He had a lot of Democratic friends and a lot ofRepublican friends, and he was able to help us reach

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across the aisle and get some of the conservativeDemocrats in Virginia to join,” Kilgore says.

Cullen chalks that up to a lesson he learned in lawschool, to see both sides of the argument and not tobecome needlessly hostile to the attorney representingthe other side. After all, when he played high schoolfootball, he became good friends with some opposingteam members.

“Some of the best friends I have are lawyers I[opposed] in a case,” Cullen says. “They’re just repre-senting the client.”

For example, even though he’s been an ardentRepublican, Cullen held a fundraiser for former Gov.L. Douglas Wilder, a Democrat, in Wilder’s successfulcampaign for Richmond mayor.

“He doesn’t wear his party on his sleeve. You don’thave to be of his party for him to form friendships,”Wilder says of Cullen, whom the mayor and formergovernor describes as a good friend.

In a move that Cullen describes as “very controver-sial,” Cullen crossed party lines as a U.S. Attorney dur-ing Wilder’s governorship, helping Wilder author andpass a law limiting handgun purchases in Virginia, anNRA stronghold. “We could never have gotten it

passed without Richard’s supportand help,” Wilder says.

It was part of Cullen’saggressive attack as federalprosecutor on violent crimeduring the crack cocaine

epidemic. He also prosecut-ed gun traffickers, and suc-cessfully sought the death

penalty againstmembers of

Richmond’s feared Newtowne Gang, which was respon-sible for at least 10 murders.

Building a great firmAs chairman of McGuireWoods, Cullen will be “a ter-rific leader,” says Burrus, his predecessor. In addition tohaving a broad network of potential clients, Burrus says,Cullen is a creative problem-solver and “an excellentstrategist.”

Wilder calls the McGuireWoods board’s decisionto make Cullen chairman a “tremendous choice and afine tribute to him. He’s an excellent ambassador forthe firm. Richard is well-respected in legal circles aswell as in political circles.”

Says Vick, “He’s a wonderful guy to work with. Hehas the ability to put clients at ease and to counsel themthrough very, very complicated situations and to lowertheir blood pressure.”

Cullen wants the firm to continue growing toenhance its reputation as a national leader. WhenCullen joined McGuireWoods 30 years ago, it had 80attorneys. Now it has around 800.

“To be a great national firm, you have to be recog-nized by your peers to have a national scope, to workon things that are of utmost importance to [client]companies and to have lawyers that are recognized [assome of ] the best in the country in several differentareas, and that’s what our aspiration is,” Cullen says.

Cullen wants McGuireWoods to be in clients’board rooms “so that the things that are keeping theCEO awake at night are the things we’re being asked towork on.”

Cullen remembers his beginnings and wants hisrising attorneys to realize how fortunate they are towork at a firm like McGuireWoods.

Most importantly, he wants them to do everythingthey can for the client.

“You don’t want your doctor being lazy, cuttingcorners, saying, ‘Oh, I’ve done enough.’ So try to takeit that seriously because a lot of times when you’re rep-

resenting a client, it’s their whole life,” Cullen says.“Never lose sight that you’re there to serve

people and they’re counting on you. Whenthey wake up in the morning. And they’rewondering, ‘Is he working hard? Is he goingto call me?’ Never forget that if it weren’t for

the clients, we wouldn’t have a job.” ■

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As Virginia AttorneyGeneral in 1998, Cullenanswers reporters questions about theState Board of Electionscase that went beforethe Virginia SupremeCourt, while then Gov.George Allen (left) listens.

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Robins School of Business......................................................B

School of Continuing Studies...............................................C

Graduate School of Arts and Sciences .............................G

Graduate School of Continuing Studies.......................GC

The Richard S. Reynolds Graduate School of the Robins School of Business.....................................GB

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Jepson School of Leadership Studies..................................J

University of Richmond School of Law .............................L

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Class news, alumni profiles and events

CLASS NOTES

1960sS.D. Roberts Moore, L’61, has beennamed to Virginia’s Legal Elite byVirginia Business magazine. He is anattorney at Gentry Locke Rakes &Moore in Roanoke, Va.

Irving Michael Blank, L’67, has been cer-tified as a member of the Million DollarAdvocates Forum. Membership in theforum is limited to attorneys who havewon million- and multimillion-dollarverdicts, awards and settlements. Blankis a Fellow of the American College ofTrial Lawyers, one of the premier legalassociations in America. He is a partnerwith ParisBlank in Richmond.

R. Carter Scott III, L’67, is a member ofthe business section at HirschlerFleisher. His practice focuses on corpo-rate and securities law matters, includ-

ing the formation and capitalization ofcorporations, partnerships and limitedliability companies. He is the formerdirector of the Greater RichmondTechnology Council and the VirginiaBiotechnology Association.

1970sFrank Overton Brown Jr., R’60 and L’76,is the 19th recipient of the Tradition ofExcellence Award, presented annuallyby the Virginia State Bar’s GeneralPractice Section. The award recognizesa Virginia attorney who has dedicatedtime and effort to activities that assistthe community while improving thestanding and image of general practiceattorneys in the eyes of the public.

Ramon E. “Trip” Chalkley III, L’73, was re-elected to a two-year term on the boardof the Greater Richmond BarFoundation. The foundation promotesdelivery of pro bono legal services in theRichmond area, and sponsors law-relat-ed educational and service projects.

Edwin A. Bischoff, R’70 and L’74, is asubstitute judge for Virginia’s 14thJudicial Circuit. As a substitute judge, he

will serve as needed on the bench ofHenrico County’s General District andJuvenile and Domestic Relations courts.Bischoff operates his own firm specializ-ing in general civil practice.

Peter Connors, L’76, was named toEuromoney’s list of the world’s leadingtax advisors. He is a partner at Orrick,Herrington & Sutcliffe in New York City.

Bruce C. Stockburger, L’76, has beennamed to Virginia’s Legal Elite byVirginia Business magazine. He is anattorney at Gentry Locke Rakes &Moore in Roanoke, Va.

Lewis T. Stoneburner, L’76, a trial lawyerwith CantorArkema in Richmond, waslisted in Virginia Lawyers Weekly forhaving three of the top verdicts inVirginia in 2006. He was inducted as aFellow in the American Academy ofTrial Counsel, is a member of theMillion Dollar Advocates Forum and isan advocate in the National College ofAdvocacy.

Richard Cullen, L’77, was elected chair-man of McGuireWoods, which is,according to the National Law Journal,the 45th largest law firm in the UnitedStates. He regularly represents corpora-tions in complex civil commercial litiga-tion and advises corporations and keyexecutives facing investigation by pros-ecutors or other governmental inves-tigative agencies. (See story, page 24).

Help secure the Law School’s long-termfinancial healthThe University of Richmond offers many gift options to those who want to include the Law School in their long-term philanthropic plans. These options provide both financial and tax rewards while making meaningful contributions to the school.

We are pleased to work with you and your financial advisors to design an appropriate plan.

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CLASS NOTES

Raymond A. Gill, L’77, has been namedone of the Top Ten Attorneys in NewJersey for a second time, and has madethe list of New Jersey Super Lawyers forthe third consecutive year. He foundedhis firm, Gill and Chamas, inWoodbridge, N.J., in 1986. He and hiswife and three children live inMonmouth County, N.J.

Grant Grayson, L’77, is an attorney atCantorArkema in Richmond.

Charles J. Zauzig III, L’78, has beenelected president of the Virginia TrialLawyers Association. Managing partnerof the firm Nichols Zauzig Sandler PC,in Woodbridge, Va., Zauzig’s practiceincludes products liability, personalinjury, medical malpractice, and brainand spinal column injuries. The VTLArepresents 2,500 attorneys from acrossthe state.

James V. Meath, L’79, was inducted intothe Virginia Law Foundation’s 2007Class of Fellows. He is a partner andvice chairman of the board of directorsat Williams Mullen in Richmond.

1980sCham Light, L’80, is the 2007 presidentof the Historical Foundation inLynchburg, Va. He is senior claims coun-sel for Nationwide Mutual Insuranceand is an adjunct faculty member atLiberty University Law School, where heteaches insurance law.

Richard L. Sisisky, L’80, has been electedto the board of directors of BaptistHealth, a faith-based healthcare sys-tem in Jacksonville, Fla. Sisisky is presi-dent of The Shircliff & Sisisky Company,a management consulting company.

Mary G. Commander, L’81, is one of 15lawyers throughout Virginia selected asLeaders in Law by Virginia LawyersWeekly. She is listed as one of the LegalElite in the field of family law byVirginia Business magazine.

Douglas A. Barry, L’82, has been namedpresident of the Allen, Allen, Allen &Allen law firm in Richmond. He is the

ALUMNI PROFILE

Developing good citizenseconomically

A basic understanding of both law and economics iscritical to personal and professional success, saysSarah Hopkins Finley, W’74 and L’82.

That helps explain Finley’s non-traditionalcareer path from the Law School to practice withtop Richmond firms, posts in state government, andon to her role as executive director of the VirginiaCouncil on Economic Education.

Her goal today is ensuring that “all studentsgraduate [from Virginia high schools] with an understanding ofbasic economic principles and the decision-making skills needed tobe good citizens, wise consumers, savers and investors, and pro-ductive employers and employees.”

A Roanoke, Va., native, Finley has lived in Richmond since earn-ing her law degree. She worked with Mays & Valentine and WilliamsMullen, concentrating on local government work and lobbying theGeneral Assembly. She joined Gov. Mark R. Warner’s administrationas a senior policy advisor and went on to become deputy secretary ofeducation, with responsibility for K-12 schools and museums.

In that position, Finley met with representatives from the eco-nomic education council from time to time, and she came to real-ize how important a basic understanding of economics is for allhigh school graduates. It’s “critical, not only for our personal suc-cess but also for our global economy,” Finley says. “The more Ilooked at what the council did, the more I appreciated its mission.”

When Finley’s term in the Warner administration ended, thecouncil offered her the post as executive director and she says sheeagerly accepted.

The council is based in the business school at VirginiaCommonwealth University. It has centers at colleges and universi-ties across the state through which it seeks to ensure that all K-12teachers in Virginia have the necessary resources to help their stu-dents become economically and financially literate. Some 4,000state teachers attend the council’s workshops each year.

The council also runs the Stock Market Game, where studentslearn risks and rewards of trading stocks.

Finley says her law school education has helped her make thetransition to economics and education. “A good lawyer looks atthings from many sides,” she says, and since economics permeatesalmost every aspect of daily life, it calls for similar examination.

In her work, she hopes she is “helping to contribute to a muchgreater understanding of what economics is, and how important itis that we all understand its basic principles.”

Finley has remained active at the Law School, serving on itsalumni board and frequently attending programs on campus. Thecontact is “extremely valuable and useful,” she says.

A strong law school education, she says, “can be valuable nomatter what you do.”

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CLASS NOTES

first non-family member to serve aspresident of the firm, which specializesin personal injury cases.

Steven L. Higgs, L’83, has been namedLocal Bar Leader of the Year by theVirginia State Bar’s Conference of LocalBar Associations. Higgs has beeninvolved in numerous service projectsthrough the Roanoke Bar Association.He teaches in Continuing LegalEducation programs, and is chair of theRoanoke Bar Association Foundation.He also is involved in scouting andother community activities. He and hiswife Diane have three children.

Fleet W. Kirk, R’75 and L’84, John L.Lumpkins Jr., L’88, and M. EldridgeBlanton III, L’94, founded the firmBlanton Kirk Lumpkins PLC.

Malcolm P. McConnell III, L’84, is ashareholder at Allen Allen Allen &Allen. He is the editor and co-author ofthe legal text, Medical Malpractice inVirginia, which is updated annually.

Matthew W. Broughton, L’85, has beennamed to Virginia’s Legal Elite byVirginia Business magazine. He is anattorney at Gentry Locke Rakes &Moore in Roanoke, Va.

Mary Costello, L’85, is a judge of theSuperior Court for Hudson County, N.J.She works in several divisions of thecourt, including criminal, civil and family.

James C. Cosby, L’86, is an attorney withCantorArkema in Richmond.

Mary Burkey Owens, L’86, has opened anew practice, Owen & Owens, with W.Joseph Owen, R’72, and Samuel J.Kaufman, R’99, in Midlothian, Va.

Thomas J. Dillon III, L’87, has been elect-ed to the board of directors forHirschler Fleischer.

Stefan M. Calos, L’87, joined SandsAnderson Marks & Miller at counsellevel. He is a member of the firm’s busi-ness, finance and real estate practicegroup and has practiced nearly 20years in the areas of business and cor-porate law, real estate, wills and trustsand civil litigation.

Michael G. Phelan, L’87, is an attorneyat CantorArkema in Richmond.

Kirk T. Schroder, R’84 and L’87, has beennamed to the board of directors forInternDirect.

Stanley P. Wellman, L’87, has beenelected treasurer of the VirginiaAssociation of Defense Attorneys.

Gloria L. Freye, L’88, has been named toVirginia Commonwealth University’sReal Estate Circle of Excellence.

D. Gregory Carr, L’89, is secretary of theGreater Richmond Bar Foundation.

Richard S. Samet, L’89, has joinedFloranceGodonBrown as counsel.

1990sElizabeth Borreson, L’90, was promotedto lieutenant colonel in the NationalGuard last September. After finishing atour of duty in Afghanistan, she begananother active duty tour as an adminis-trative law attorney at the NationalGuard Bureau, Office of Chief Counsel,in Arlington, Va.

Thomas J. Dillon, B’87 and L’90, waselected to the board of directors atHirschler Fleischer. Active in the GreaterRichmond Chamber of Commerce andthe University of Richmond Law SchoolAlumni Association, he is a graduate ofthe Leadership Metro Richmond Classof 2004 and serves on the board of theVirginia Home for Boys and Girls.

Stephanie E. Grana, L’90, is an attorneyat CantorArkema in Richmond.

Courtney Allen Van Winkle, L’90, hasbeen elected to the board of directorsof Comprehensive Health InvestmentProject (CHIP) of Virginia.

Kenneth Rupert Beirne, L’91, has beennamed partner in the litigation practicegroup at Meyer, Goergen & Marrs.

Jason W. Donvicka, L’91, is a shareholderat Allen Allen Allen & Allen. He servesas a governor at large for the VirginiaTrial Lawyers Association.

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Attending the 1870 Galaand farewell for Dean

Smolla were (from left)Archie Yeatts, R’64, L’67;George Tidey, R’55, L’63;Joyce Tidey, W’57, G’77;Courtney Mueller, L’02;

Dave DePippo, L’02; andNeil Talegaonkar, L’99.


CLASS NOTES

Curtis G. Manchester, L’91, is managingpartner in the Richmond office of ReedSmith. His practice focuses on commer-cial litigation.

Keith B. Marcus, L’91, is an attorney atParisBlank.

Peter B. Baruch, L’92, is an associate atParcell & Webb.

Ellen Firsching Brown, L’93, has openedLiberty Hall Books, an antiquarian book-store in Richmond that specializes incollectable and gift-quality vintagebooks. She also writes for Fine Books &Collections Magazine.

Mark F. Leep, L’93, is principal of HumanResearch Law Group PLC, a Richmondfirm that focuses on biomedical andbehavioral research law, regulation andethics. He formerly served as vice presi-dent, laboratory services, for the BonSecours Richmond Health System, andas a business and medical researchattorney with Feil, Pettit & Williams inCharlottesville, Va. He has served on theBon Secours system institutionalreview board for the past eight years.

Alicia Zatcoff, L’94, was a recipient ofStyle Weekly’s Top 40 Under 40 awardthat honors community service andpersonal achievement.

Nadine Marsh-Carter, W’86 and L’95,was featured in the “People and Places”column of the Richmond Times-Dispatch. She is president and chiefexecutive officer of the Children’sHome Society of Virginia.

Adriaen M. Morse Jr., L’95, was promot-ed to partner at Mayer, Brown, Rowe &

Maw in the firm’s Washington, D.C.,office. His practice focuses on securitiesenforcement defense, securities litiga-tion and regulatory counseling. He hasrepresented clients in joint investiga-tions and actions by U.S. and EuropeanUnion securities regulators and crimi-nal authorities, investigating potentialcivil and criminal violations of securi-ties laws in several jurisdictions.

David J. Walton, L’95, was named a2006 Pennsylvania Rising Star by Law& Politics. He was listed in theDecember 2006 issues of Philadelphiamagazine and Pennsylvania SuperLawyers. He is an attorney at CozenO’Connor in Philadelphia.

Richard D. and Audrey Swank Brindisi,L’96, live in Grosse Pointe Park, Mich.,with their children Chase, 9, Cogan, 6,and Declan, born Oct. 4, 2006. Richjoined Plante & Moran of Southfield,Mich., as an insurance consultant andAudrey retired from the U.S. DistrictCourt.

Carlos L. Hopkins, L’96, is director oftraining and attorney certification at theIndigent Defense Commission. He also isa captain in the Army National Guard.

Carrie Hallberg O’Malley, B’91, M’96 andL’96, is a member of the real estate sec-tion at Hirschler Fleisher. She works inthe firm’s Fredericksburg, Va., office. Sheis co-author of a chapter and severalsubchapters of the Virginia CLE hand-book titled Contract Law in Virginia.

Nicholas “Nick” Pace, L’96, is senior vicepresident and deputy general counselat AMERIGROUP Corp. in VirginiaBeach. AMERIGROUP works to improvehealthcare access and quality for low-income Americans by developing inno-vative managed health services for thepublic sector.

Judy Lin Bristow, L’97, was named apartner at Williams Mullen. She is amember of the firm’s business sectionand practices in Richmond. Her practicefocuses on mergers and acquisitions,private securities offerings, privateequity and venture capital transactions.

Michael Horvath, L’97, is associatecounsel with Starr InternationalAdvisors Inc. in New York City. His prac-tice focuses on mergers and acquisi-tions, foreign investments and privateequity.

Stephen McCullough, L’97, deputy statesolicitor general in the office of VirginiaAttorney General Bob McDonnell, hasbeen named a U.S. Supreme CourtFellow by the National Association ofAttorneys General.

Russell Elton Nance, L’97, was promot-ed to income partner at Mayer, Brown,Rowe & Maw LLP.

Robert J. Wheaton Jr., L’97, is a seniorassociate in the estate planning andadministration group at CantorArkemain Richmond.

Turner A. Broughton, L’98, was named apartner at Williams Mullen. He is amember of the firm’s litigation sectionand works out of the Richmond office.His practice focuses on consumer class-action and products-liability litigationwith a particular emphasis on masstorts, business torts and nursing homelitigation, as well as general commer-cial litigation.

Stephen Faraci, L’98, and his wife,Katherine, gave birth to a son, StephenMatthew Faraci Jr., on Feb. 25, 2007.

Joshua H. Rahman, L’98, is an associateat Hancock, Daniel, Johnson & Nagle inthe firm’s Richmond office. He practicesin the areas of commercial law specificto matters facing proprietorships, part-nerships, limited liability companiesand other business organizations, andcommercial real estate.

Maria de Guzman Aguila, L’99, hasformed her own solo practice inJacksonville, Fla. She focuses on immi-gration law, adoptions, housing andreal estate. She also teaches legal writ-ing at Florida Coastal School of Law,and has a 5-year-old daughter and adaughter born Aug. 11, 2006.

Carl Hill Bivens III, L’99, has beennamed partner with Troutman Sanders.

Save the date!Make plans to join friends andclassmates October 19 and 20 forFall Gathering and reunion events.This year, reunions will honorclasses that graduated in yearsending in ‘2’s and ‘7’s.

CLASS NOTES

Robert H. Burger, L’99, was named apartner at Williams Mullen. He is amember of the firm’s litigation sectionand practices out of its Virginia Beachoffice. He concentrates on commerciallitigation with an emphasis on con-struction, banking and real estate.

Elizabeth Everett Cherkis, L’99, is a prin-cipal at Wright, Robinson, Osthimer &Tatum in Richmond. She and her hus-band, Dan, have an 18-month-olddaughter, Bailey.

Robert Michael Doherty, L’99, is an asso-ciate with WootenHart in Roanoke, Va.

Mary Beth Long, L’99, is an associate atMichael Blanks Jr. & Associates, whereshe practices family law.

Joan M. Mielke, L’99, has joinedHancock, Daniel, Johnson & Nagle,where her practice focuses on all typesof healthcare regulatory and compli-ance issues, medical staff issues, andemployment law.

Richard D. Scott, L’99, an associate atLeClair Ryan, received the Young Lawyerof the Year award from the RoanokeBar Association Foundation.

Charles Kalman Seyfarth, L’99, hasbeen named partner with O’HaganSpencer.

2000sLeslie A.T. Haley, L’00, was reelected fora two-year term to the GreaterRichmond Bar Foundation.

Molly D. McEvoy, W’93 and L’00, hasjoined Armstrong Bristow & Farley asan associate in real estate planning.

Ramona L. Taylor, L’00, is assistant cityattorney in Richmond. She representsthe Department of Social Services inmatters in Richmond area courts.

Jason Cecil, L’01, has been elected to atwo-year term as president of theYoung Democrats at Jekyll Island, Ga.

Brock Cole, L’01, is an associate at SandsAnderson Marks & Miller.

ALUMNI PROFILE

Richmond’s honorary consul practices across borders

As Canada’s honorary consul to the city ofRichmond, William J. Benos, L ’88, promotes every-thing from music and culture to trade and develop-ment. This past year, more than 700 school childrenin the Richmond area and thousands of NationalFolk Festival participants got the chance to hear themusic of Le Vent du Nord from Quebec thanks tothe consul.

“I put people in touch with appropriate con-tacts to bring a bit of Canadian culture to Richmond,” Benos says.

A Canadian citizen, Benos graduated from the University ofWestern Ontario School of Law and passed the bar in Canada.When he moved to Virginia in 1987, he discovered that he couldn’tpractice until he attended an American Bar Association accreditedschool and passed the bar again. Now a partner at WilliamsMullen, he focuses on international business law and immigration.

Richmond is one of 20 U.S. locations earmarked by Canada forhonorary consulate. Benos was appointed to that post 2004.

“I work with cross-border business development,” he explains.“I serve as the interface between [local] companies that want toexpand to Canada and Canadian companies that want to expandto Richmond.”

At Williams Mullen, Benos deals with much broader interna-tional and immigration issues. “There’s no time zone that we don’tcover,” he says. “Most of our clients are from around the world,helping companies like Brinks bring workers into the country.”

Benos says immigration is a busy area of practice today, as thenumber of prospective immigrants and of companies seeking tohire them continues to grow. At the same time, the U.S. govern-ment wrestles with how to maintain secure borders. “There is nosimple solution,” Benos says.

Benos addresses these issues in his classes at the Law School.He teaches in the International Business Practice Program, whichhe describes as “one of the most innovative and unique classes inthe country.” The program connects law students with studentsfrom the Robins School of Business and the business school atVirginia Commonwealth University with Virginia companies.

“We pick companies that are looking to expand their businessoverseas, whether it’s exporting or creating more jobs here or look-ing for the opportunity to diversify their operations,” Benosexplains. Students identify the company’s goals as well as issuesthat need to be addressed. “They present their findings to theschool and senior management of the company.”

The teaching is as challenging as it is rewarding, Benos says. “Itrequires you to stay current. It’s also a constant reminder that youhave to stay young and flexible in your thinking. It is one of the bestthings that has happened to me personally and professionally.”

By Joan Tupponce

32 RICHMOND LAW

CLASS NOTES

Leas K. Anderson, L’06, has joinedSpotts Fain as an associate in the credi-tors-rights group.

Brock Cole, R’01 and L’06, is an associ-ate at Sands Anderson Marks & Miller,where he works with the firm’s busi-ness and professional litigation prac-tice group in Richmond.

Bary W. Hausrath, L’06, is an associateat Richard J. Knapp & Associates.

Kathryn E. Kransdorf, L’06, is an associ-ate at Hancock, Daniel, Johnson &Nagle, where she practices with thefirm’s corporate health law and com-mercial litigation teams.

Neal H. Lewis, L’06, is an associate atHancock, Daniel, Johnson & Nagle,where he concentrates on representingphysicians and other healthcareproviders with the firm’s medical mal-practice defense team.

Andrew J. Petesch, L’06, practices in thelitigation group at Poyner & Spruill inRaleigh, N.C.

Manesh Shah, L’06, is a clerk with theHon. Robert G. Mayer of the U.S.Bankruptcy Court for the EasternDistrict of Virginia in Alexandria. InSeptember he will begin working as anassociate in the business finance andrestructuring department of Weil,Gotshal & Manges in Houston.

Kimberly A. Skiba, L’06, is an associateat Hall & Hall.

Jayne A. Pemberton, L’01, is a memberof the risk management practice groupat Sands Anderson Marks & Miller,where she concentrates on the defenseof companies and individuals in insur-ance litigation and on insurance cover-age issues. She also focuses on defenseof toxic torts including defense of leadpaint litigation.

Ashton Jennette Harris, L’02, has joinedthe Richmond office of Woods Rogers.She practices in the areas of civil andcorporate litigation with a concentra-tion in general civil litigation, commer-cial litigation, toxic torts, and personalinjury defense.

Joel C. Hoppe, L’02, has joined SpottsFain as an associate in the commerciallitigation group.

Robert R. Musick, L’02, is an associate atThompsonMcMullan.

Christopher Peace, L’02, represents the97th District in the Virginia House ofDelegates. He is the director of theHistoric Polegreen Church Foundation,which works to preserve the birthplaceof religious and civic liberty.

Paul W. Emigholz, L’03, is a member ofthe local government practice group atSands Anderson Marks & Miller, wherehis practice is centered on land use, zon-

ing, condemnation, other local govern-ment issues and general civil litigation.

Kevin J. Funk, L’03, is an associate atCantorArkema in the firm’s commerciallitigation and bankruptcy practicegroups.

Tara Manson, L’03, has joined Setliffand Holland as an associate.

Gregory L. Pimentel, L’03, has joinedthe business and intellectual propertylaw firm of Clark & Associates. Hispractice concentrates on real estateand planning matters.

Michael C. Cooper, L’04, is an associatein the business section at Spotts Fain.

Nancy Kaplan, L’04, has joined Hancock,Daniel, Johnson & Nagle as an associ-ate in the corporate practice group.

Cassandra Peters, L’04, has joined theboard of directors of Prevent ChildAbuse Virginia.

R. Brent Rawlings, L’04, is an associateat McGuireWoods.

Rebecca Adams, L’05, published the arti-cle “Violence Against Women andInternational Law: The FundamentalRight to State Protection from DomesticViolence” in the N.Y. Law Review.

Ryan D. Frei, L’05, has joinedMcGuireWoods as an associate in thecommercial litigation department.

Jeffrey C. Meyer, L’05, is an associate inthe real estate section at HirschlerFleisher.

Gauhar Naseem, L’05, has published“The Application of Federal CommonLaw to Overcome Conflicting StateLaws in the SupplementalDisgorgement Proceedings of an SECAppointed Receivor” in the fall 2006issue of the Seton Hall Circuit Review.

Brandy S. Singleton, W’96 and L’05, hasjoined Spotts Fain as an associate inthe creditors-rights group.

Brent Timberlake, L’05, is an associateat Setliff and Holland.

IN MEMORIAMRobert Cantor, L’49April 18, 2007

J. Peter Holland III, L’50February 19, 2007

John M. Carter, R’49 and L’52December 13, 2006

Richard Earl Smith, L’53January 4, 2001

James W. Renney, L’55April 26, 2007

John F. Kelly, R’51 and L’56February 27, 2007

William W. Coppedge, L’57April 30, 2005

Henry Franklin Minor, R’56 and L’59December 22, 2006

Henry Alexander Thomas, L’59February 20, 2007

Oliver D. Rudy, L’60March 13, 2007

Susan M. Hagerty, L’63January 29, 2007

Albert W. Schlim, L’93March 2, 2007

Richard Wigley Perrott Johnson, L’94January 19, 2007

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