Widener Law Magazine Vol. 19, No. 2, FALL 2012

Widener Law

Widener University School of Law Magazine

C O N T R I B U T I

Mar y Allen, Ben Barros, Ashley Barton, Peter Cast agna, Patricia Fox, Laurie Grant, Todd Lineburger, Mar y Marzolla, Rosemar y Pall, Gilberte Pierre, Nancy Ravert Ward

P H OTO G R A P H Y:

Mar y Allen, Linda Ammons, Cindy Barger, Ashley Barton, Peter Cast agna, Robert Coldwell, Nathan Garrison, Laurie Grant, Todd Lineburger, Rosemar y Pall, Keith Sealing , Nancy Ravert Ward

M A G A Z I N E A D V I S O RY B OA R D :

Mar y Allen, Linda Ammons, Ashley Barton, Paula Garrison, Susan Goldberg , Laurie Grant, Eileen Grena-Piretti, J Patrick Kelly, Todd Lineburger, Robyn Meadows, Keith Sealing , Const ance Sweeney, Nancy Ravert Ward

Widener University School of Law Board of Overseers

Eugene D McGurk, Jr , Esq ’78, Chair

Dean Linda L. Ammons, JD, Ex Officio

Renae B Axelrod, Esq ’91, Ex Officio

Steven P Barsamian, Esq ’75

The Honorable Raymond A Batten ’79

Scott E Blissman, Esq ’97

C Grainger Bowman, Esq , Vice Chair

Theresa V Brown-Edwards, Esq , Ex Officio

John T Carroll, III, Esq ’81

Bonnie E Copeland, Esq ’09

Michael G DeFino, Esq ’75, Honorar y

The Honorable Susan C Del Pesco ’75

Risa Vetri Ferman, Esq ’92

Geoffrey Gamble, Esq

President James T Harris III, DEd, Ex Officio

Richard K Herrmann, Esq

Robert A Honecker, Jr , Esq ’81

Bret D Keisling , Esq ’05

Vice Dean J Patrick Kelly, Ex Officio

Peter M Mattoon, Esq

Kevin P McCann, Esq , ’75, Ex Officio

Kathleen W McNicholas, MD, JD ’06, LLM ’10

Vice Dean Robyn L Meadows, Ex Officio

Edward B Micheletti, Esq ’97

George K Miller, Jr , Esq ’81

Kathr yn J Peifer, Esq ’02

Vivian L Rapposelli, Esq ’93

Scott W Reid, Esq ’02

Thomas L Sager, Esq

The Honorable Thomas G Saylor

John F Schmutz, Esq

Bernard W Smalley, Sr , Esq ’80

The Honorable Lee A Solomon ’78

Craig A St yer, Esq ’90

The Honorable Joseph T Walsh

John A Wetzel, Esq ’75

Douglas M Wolfberg , Esq ’96

Widener University School of Law National Advisory Council

Marc R Abrams, Esq ’78

Michael J Aiello, Esq ’94

Howard K Alperin, Esq ’90

Joseph M Asher, Esq ’93

Miriam Benton Barish, Esq ’92

Carl W Battle, Esq ’82

Kyle D Bowser, Esq ’91

Alexander Bratic

Michael A Brown, Esq ’91

Charlene D Davis, Esq ’84

Claire M DeMatteis, Esq ’92

Car y L Flitter, Esq ’81

Christopher R Fromm, Esq ’99

Dr Robert D Gober, JD, ’79

Mitchell Gur wicz, Esq ’95

Brenda Alderman James, Esq ’92

Jeffrey B Killino, Esq ’0 0

Wayne D Kimmel, Esq ’95

Samuel A Landy, Esq ’85

Robert O Lindefjeld, Esq ’93

Kenneth J Lopez, Esq ’95

Harr y Dillon Madonna, Esq ’97

James J Maron, Esq ’85

Eugene D McGurk, Jr , Esq ’78

Patrick J Murphy, Esq ’99

John L Reed, Esq ’91

Cynthia R Ryan, Esq ’79

Leif R Sigmond, Jr , Esq ’90

Timothy J Snyder, Esq ’81

Douglas J Steinhardt, Esq ’94

Alice W Strine, Esq ’92

Leslee Silverman Tabas, Esq ’79

James J Veneruso, Esq ’75

Richard P Zaretsk y, Esq ’75

Those Who Served

“For decades, we have take n a multifaceted approach to educating tomor row ' s legal professionals...”

A message from the

dean

DEAR ALUMNI AND FRIENDS,

Last spring, I was fortunate enough to hear Tom Brokaw speak at the Kimmel Center in Philadelphia as part of the university’s Philadelphia Speaker Series Mr Brokaw called for a new, nationwide commitment to service and a rededication of our countr y ’ s efforts on behalf of veterans With so many militar y personnel striving to reenter our nation’s workforce and educational system, his call is timely It also corresponds to the emphasis in legal education on inculcating an ethos of service in our students

At Widener Law we are answering Mr Brokaw’s call For decades, we have taken a multifaceted approach to educating tomorrow’s legal professionals, employing a range of curricular innovations that give our students the opportunity to serve others and to master the broad range of skills essential to success in a fast-changing legal landscape The cliché “ahead of the curve ” is a tired one, but in this case it is true; we have led the way in this area for years. Many of our service and skillsdevelopment programs, like our Veterans Law Clinic, serve as models for such programming nationwide

In this issue of Widener Law magazine, we detail the Veterans Law Clinic’s leadership through the stor y of one veteran whose struggle lasted more than a decade We consider the role of skills training and service in legal education, and we share the stor y one of many of a student whose inclination to serve comes not from a mandate or incentive, but from a natural desire to help the men and women in uniform who serve our countr y We also profile an alumnus whose legal training and militar y service have taken his career in unexpected directions, and we discuss the contributions of Professor Alan Garfield who, through his award-winning column, promotes better understanding of the constitution our armed forces are sworn to protect

As we enter the final years of the law school’s comprehensive campaign, Taking the Lead, it is instructive to remember who makes this possible you, our alumni and friends In this issue’s campaign update, we highlight four donors whose leadership has helped transform your law school I am deeply grateful to them and to you for all you do for Widener Law

LINDA L AMMONS, JD ASSOCIATE PROVOST AND DEAN

“Wide ne r Law graduates continue to achie ve professional s uccess a nd t he recognition of t he ir pee rs, who elect more of t he m e ach ye a r to cha r t our profession's course. ”

A message from the alumni board president

DEAR

ALUMNI AND FRIENDS,

It is an exhilarating time of year With fall and its cooler weather here, I am energized and looking forward to this year ’ s slate of Widener Law events: regional alumni gatherings like the Philadelphia alumni reception where in 2012 we honored Philadelphia Bar Association President John Savoth ’85, special programs like last spring’s Widener Law Women’s Leadership Dinner, CLE programs, speakers, and much more

Last year, at our events and in publications like this magazine, we celebrated a number of our alumni who have risen to leadership positions in the legal world, heading bar associations and other professional organizations throughout the mid-Atlantic and the nation This year I anticipate congratulating just as many; our fellow Widener Law graduates continue to achieve professional success and the recognition of their peers, who elect more of them each year to chart our profession’s course.

I am proud to say that we have shown leadership at our law school as well Thanks to the thousands of us who have made financial contributions to the law school’s campaign, Taking the Lead, we are well on our way to fulfilling its $12 million goal on time

We alumni will reap many benefits of the campaign, which is helping the law school continue to build its reputation for producing skillful, effective, and dedicated advocates You and I already know how worthwhile our Widener Law degrees are As we continue to build this great institution, we can let the rest of the legal community know it too

Sincerely,

Renae B Axelrod ’ 91 PRESIDENT, ALUMNI ASSOCIATION

Where has Widener Law taken you?

We’d like to feature your story Write us at law alumni@mail widener edu

Renae B Axelrod ’91

President

Charles W Proctor III ‘76

Vice President

Anne M Madonia ’94

Secret ar y

Steven P Bar samian ’75

Immediate Past President

D I R E C TO R S

Hon Raymond A Batten ’79

Tanya C Blissman ’97

Hon Richard M Cappelli ’81

John Cirrinicione ’07

Damiano P del Pino ’11

Frank C DePasquale, Jr ’86

Christina M Fisher ’08

Catherine N Harrington ’88

W Bruce Hemphill ’84

Emeka Igwe ’05

Damian S Jackson ‘96

John F Kennedy ’01

F Kevin Lynch ’79

Cecilia M McCormick ’91

Hon Maria C McLaughlin ’92

James F Metka ’80

Stephen J Negro ‘94

Arthur S Novello ’86

Noelle Palazzo ’05

Hon Paul P Panepinto ’76

Stephen W Ries ’07

Zachar y M Rubinich ‘99

Joseph J Sant arone ’85

Mitchell J Shore ’81

Servıng those

W idener ’ s Veterans Law Clinic one of the nation’s first has for more than a decade represented l ow-i nc om e, di s a bl ed vetera ns i n the toughes t of Vetera ns Adm i ni s tra ti on a ppea l s . U nder the leadership of Director and former U S Air Force JAG officer Justin G Holbrook, the clinic undert akes a c a s el oa d tha t ra nges broa dl y, enc om pa s s i ng a dm i ni s tra ti ve l aw, m edi c a l m a l pra c ti c e, a nd ever y thi ng i n bet ween, i n a pra c ti c e a rea where few have ex perti s e, a nd a ga i ns t odds tha t a re lengthened by time and bureaucratic inertia. Far from being over whelmed, Holbrook and his st aff are working actively to spread the word about veterans’ legal needs and to enable volunteer attorneys and other law schools to help meet them

Just below the base of your skull, your Atlas vertebra (C1) is working hard like its namesake to support the weight of your head and all it cont ains

Your C1 rests on your Axis vertebra (C2), which has an upward-reaching bony extension that interlocks with the Atlas and acts as a pivot All are critical components in a system that allows your head and the rest of you a remarkable range of motion

Lloyd Waters had a problem with his Atlas and Axis vertebrae Namely, they had acquired a benign ner ve sheath tumor called a Schwannoma As they grow, Schwannoma tumors can interfere with ner ve function and cause a variet y of disabling symptoms When one grows in your spine, the symptoms can alter you completely

Waters ser ved in the Nav y during the 1950s. Honorably discharged in 1959, his next cont act with the Veterans

Administration came in 1995, when he sought treatment for hearing loss at the VA Medical Center (VAMC) in Atlant a, Georgia He had more than hearing loss

He says, “They st arted checking me out for ever ything They found this spot on my ear, on my spine They didn’t do anything about it ” Soon he experienced difficult y moving

Over the next seven years, his symptoms mounted: severe hearing loss and sinus pain, numbness and tingling in his extremities, degenerative changes in his spine, chronic ear pain In 20 02, an MRI detected the presumed cause: the Schwannoma tumor, which was compressing his spinal cord He was referred to VAMC August a for surger y

What followed would change the Waters’ lives Veterans Law Clinic Director Justin Holbrook says, “The VA often delivers excellent medical care. Unfortunately for Mr. Waters, this was not one of those times ”

who served

“Legal education is at a point of transition between the historical emphasis on legal doctrine and current emphasis on legal practice Veterans law offers students a terrific opportunity to gain practical legal skills while still in law school They work with diverse clientele, doing substantive law in an administrative practice setting They learn to manage a law practice billing, routing, and filing corresponding with clients and third parties, building a case file by identifying elements necessar y to succeed They gather evidence required to establish those elements They have opportunities to practice oral advocacy skills by appearing as student interns before Board of Veterans Appeals They hone their writing skills by drafting briefs Finally, they learn an important understanding of professional identity, pro bono service, timely response, research, and lots more ”

Did you know?

At the hospit al, recalls Waters’ wife Beverly, a VA doctor presented the family with a st ark choice “They really did not give us an option to get a second opinion. It was just, ‘ we have to operate now ’ …. I said, ‘How many surgeries have you done of this?’[The doctor] just kind of danced around the issue.…”

On December 4, 20 02, a second-year surgical resident opened Waters’ dura (the protective sheath surrounding the spinal cord), removed the tumor, and closed the wound Waters was apprised of t wo risks: bleeding and infection

Not long after waking , he experienced severe headaches and had difficult y walking Beverly Waters says, “When he came out of surger y, that was when the headaches st arted tremendous headaches He would hold his head and scream ” To relieve his pain, the medical st aff induced a coma

A post-operative MRI revealed a large pseudomeningocele an abnormal collection of cerebrospinal fluid pressing on his fifth cer vical vertebrae The VA discharged him, but he continued experiencing severe headaches, memor y loss, and other indications that all was not well He was confined largely to a wheelchair, and a series of tests indicated impaired judgment

He says, “I couldn’t remember like I use too I could read a book one book forever and it wouldn’t be the same because ever y time I’d read something I would forget it That’s when I noticed something was really, really wrong ”

Waters had been an active, capable man He worked for 30 years as a commercial printer and only months before surger y had completely renovated the basement of their Gainesville, Georgia home By early 20 03, however, he was diagnosed as a quadriplegic. He could not walk, let alone work. Beverly Waters quit her job as a mortgage loan officer to provide round-the-clock care, which consumed their savings In 20 04, Beverly and Lloyd Waters moved to Newark, Delaware, to live with their son

In 20 05, they filed a claim with the Veterans Administration for compensation for damages related to the surger y Although the VA conceded the surger y caused Waters’ quadriplegia, it refused to admit its doctors had made mist akes In 20 06, the claim was denied Throughout, Beverly Waters remained her husband’s tireless advocate, and she continued searching for a way to right the wrong he had endured

In 20 07, she received a tip that would prove instrument al to cont act W idener ’ s Veterans Law Clinic (VLC) She called then-director Taishoff Professor Tom Reed It took Reed a few questions to underst and that the case would be difficult, that it would be one-of-a-kind, and that he could help

“Let’s be honest,” he says ”We represent the most difficult veterans disabilit y cases None of our clients’ cases are t ypical of anything ”

Holbrook agrees “The Waters case was complex procedurally and medically The VA had made enormous errors, which were easy to see and difficult to prove It was not an easy case ”

In 20 07, the VLC launched the appeals process

This year, Widener Law has elected to fund up to five JD students on each campus through the Yellow Ribbon Program, a part of the Post- 9/11 GI Bill This voluntar y program, in which Widener has participated since its inception in 2009, invites universities to fund up to 50% of veterans’ education expenses that exceed the base GI Bill benefit The Department of Veterans Affairs then matches the amount provided by the institution

TheVLC is one of only a handful of law school clinics around the countr y that provides free represent ation to disabled veterans. Since its founding in 1997 by Reed, a Marine Corps Veteran, the clinic has helped hundreds of veterans recover more than $2 million dollars in retroactive disabilit y compensation payments Reed, who retired as VLC director in 2010 and was granted Emeritus st atus by the universit y, says, “This was 1997 I knew enough to be helpful”1

He found himself in a growth industr y

“Veterans as a group are diverse,” he says “There are 23 million from age 18 or 19 to 10 0 and from all wars from World War II for ward More than 3 million receive disabilit y compensation That number is rising as people are coming back from Afghanist an and Iraq with a greater number of disabilities than their predecessors, including PTSD [Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder] and TBI [Traumatic Brain Injur y] Vietnam era veterans are aging They’re an older population with increasing medical needs They’re also filing claims ”

“The clinic currently represents around 20 0 veterans,” says Holbrook, “with more veterans calling the clinic each week Unfortunately, we simply don’t have the capacit y to help ever yone. ” According to Holbrook, more than 1.3 million ser vice members have separated from the milit ar y since 20 01, half of whom have filed claims with the VA “The situation has reached a crisis,” Holbrook explains “The number of annual claims filed at the VA has nearly doubled since 20 05, almost 1 million claims are currently pending , and the average waiting time for appeals is more than t wo years sometimes much, much longer

“Most veterans,” he says, “who are denied benefits by the VA never appeal their VA decisions because the system is complex and frustratingly slow But if they do appeal, they have a real chance of success They simply need an attorney who knows the system ”

The VA has never been nimble Major Bill Collins ’942, Counsel Program Head at the Marine Corps’ Integrated Disabilit y Evaluation System, notes that prior to 20 08, there were t wo disabilit y evaluation systems one run by the Department of Defense and one run by the VA that often conflicted, rendering confusion Even now, “[The integrated system] is not without its own unique problems and challenges…. Poorly or hastily conducted medical exams can result in a ser vice member not having all his or her ser vice-connected medical conditions properly documented”3

Widener and its Alumni Continue to Spearhead Wills for Heroes Events

In memor y of Lt Joseph Szczerba, a New Castle County police officer killed in the line of duty, the law school coordinated a historic Wills for Heroes event at the Delaware City firehouse Students, faculty, staff, and other volunteers prepared 139 wills for emergency responders and their families, making the event by far the largest in the law school’s ongoing series through Wills for Heroes

Christina Fisher ’08 (above right) organized a Wills for Heroes event through the Pennsylvania Bar Association Young Lawyers Division, attracting first responders from throughout Central Pennsylvania Pennsylvania Wills for Heroes honored her in July WFH Pennsylvania Program Director Daniel JT McKenna said, “We’ve blossomed into the largest program in the nation I am a little biased, but I think Christina is a fine example of what an attorney should be and a real testament to the Widener experience ”

1 Access the full text of Taishoff Professor Tom Reed’s comments at law widener edu/AlumniExtraFall2012

2 Profile of W illiam Collins on p 32 Access the full text of his comments at law widener edu/AlumniExtraFall2012

3 The views presented in this inter view are those of Major Collins and do not necessarily represent the views of the Department of Defense, the Department of Nav y, or the U S Marine Corps

Backlogs and delays have serious repercussions for all veterans in the system, not just those recently discharged. It took seven years for Lloyd Waters’ case to reach its resolution.

VLC St aff Attorney and Pro Bono Program Coordinator Susan Saidel says, “The system is supposed to be nonadversarial, friendly But it’s ver y complex Vets get frustrated They give up ”

More often than not, they need attorneys to help them slog through the VA’s labyrinthine bureaucracy But the length and complexit y of the appeals process puts pressure on the small cadre of law yers representing veterans in their appeals

In short, the problem is three-fold: a bureaucracy hobbled by decades- or even centuries-old practices, a quickly growing need for its ser vices, and a limited number of law yers with the credentials to provide appropriate represent ation

There is clearly no single solution, but Holbrook has some ideas Chief among them: expanding and improving the direct legal assistance the clinic has provided for years Students have traditionally provided much of the horsepower for these efforts Recently, their increasing interests in practical skills development and public ser vice have inclined them toward internship opportunities like the VLC Kerr y Porter is a VLC student intern She says, “It’s practical, hands-on doing research, t alking to clients ” It’s also eye-opening “It was disheartening that there are veterans out there who need this ser vice I decided to go to law school for cliché reasons I wanted to help people Doing veterans law was the first time I thought, ‘OK, this is what I went to law school for ’”

Hilar y St yer ’11, now practicing in Oxford, Pennsylvania, concurs “Working at the Veterans Law Clinic was one of the best experiences I had in law school I still use those skills today when advising my own clients in private practice ”

“Whe n people ask me how I’m doing in law school, it’s one of t he first t hings I bring up By fa r, t he vete ra ns law clinic is one of t he most re wa rding e xpe rie nces I’ve had he re ”

Kerry Porter

“ The stude nts have always bee n ve r y inte rested in wor king wit h live clie nts, a nd t he y have gre at e mpat hy for t he vets we represe nt ”

Taishoff Professor Thomas J Reed (Emeritus)

Beverly Waters says students were import ant in their case “They do so much, she says “They bring in new thinking ”

However, space in the clinic is finite In Januar y 2011, Holbrook and Saidel launched a training program for area attorneys willing to t ake veterans appeals pro bono After successfully completing CLE training in the discipline, the newly accredited veterans attorneys would become part of a VLC volunteer attorney net work, providing direct represent ation to VLC clients The clinic provides support, but the volunteer attorneys t ake the lead, dramatically increasing the clinic’s reach

The first CLE attracted a few volunteers By spring of 2012, the number of active volunteers had grown to 60 Saidel says, “We get attorneys from other disciplines who want to help It gives them the human cont act they might not be getting in their own practice.”4

Holbrook and Saidel then did what any entrepreneur worth his salt would do they took to the road Offering CLE programs in veterans represent ation, they trained more than 50 0 attorneys around the countr y in less than t wo years, teaching at conferences, online CLE programs, and in-house seminars The VLC’s website, veteranslawclinic org, provides resources for veterans seeking counsel, attorneys looking for training and volunteer opportunities, and other law schools looking to follow W idener ’ s lead The website includes a “clinic in a box,” which provides materials and training for law schools wishing to launch their own veterans law clinics

Wilmington

attorney Paul Lukoff, who practices with his own firm, W ilks, Lukoff & Bracegirdle, LLC, attended one of Holbrook’s CLE courses. “I’m a veteran myself,” he says, “and I’m at the st age in my career where I thought it would be appropriate to see where I might be able to use my experience in the law to help other veterans ”

Lukoff’s background included decades of experience with Prickett Jones & Elliott and in DuPont’s legal department His experience lay primarily in defense, but he had gotten involved in medical malpractice too When he joined the VLC Pro Bono Program, Holbrook asked him to t ake the Waters’ case

Lukoff says, “I went out to the Christiana Hospit al medical librar y to tr y to underst and Mr Waters’ case After I did that, I was in a position to consider the t ype of expert that I thought would be most appropriate in reviewing his records ”

Schwannoma tumors are ver y rare Neurologists with experience treating them are rarer still Fortunately, the name that came to Lukoff’s mind was that of Delaware neurologist Alan Fink, who had the necessar y experience Lukoff says that Fink “underst ands what we call the forensic connection being able to t ake medical information and apply it in a legal context ”

Dr Fink agreed to t ake the case It was a turning point, but there was significant work to be done “I had to rely a lot on Professor Holbrook whose underst anding , like Professor Reed’s, is significant They’re the ones who have been working on it on a daily basis working with the VA regs, ” says Lukoff

Fink’s review of Waters’ file was both comprehensive and incisive, citing a number of specific errors in treatment that led to Waters’ condition

Instead of the neurosurgeon who had been treating Waters, the surger y had been performed by a secondyear surgical resident, likely without super vision No one had informed Beverly and Lloyd Waters that the surgeon would not be his treating neurosurgeon Moreover, Beverly notes, “[There was] no indication that the surgical resident called for help when she got into trouble

While [Lloyd] was in surger y, we went downst airs to eat lunch in the cafeteria and [the neurosurgeon] was down there… I said, ‘What are you doing down here?’

He said, ‘I’m having lunch ’”

When closing Waters’ wound, the resident had failed to close a suture properly This allowed spinal fluid to leak, forming the pseudomenigocele that caused his disabling symptoms a development that proper closure would have prevented Once VA doctors discovered the pseudomenigocele, they failed to t ake remedial action

Their appeal wound its way through the VA process, a machine greased this time by the presence of an independent, expert opinion. Holbrook says, “Veterans able to afford an independent medical and/or psychiatric evaluation have a much greater chance of proving this link and receiving critical benefits from the VA But our abilit y to provide this ser vice is limited by budget ar y constraints ”5

In the summer of 2012, Lloyd and Beverly Waters received good news The VA, acknowledging error, would compensate them for Lloyd’s disabilit y The award was retroactive to 20 05 All told, it took hundreds of hours by Veterans Law Clinic attorneys and students On the open market, the value of this much time would have made it unavailable to the Waters The VLC did it for free Beverly Waters is unequivocal: “It saved our lives ”

Law School Joins “Welcome Home” and “Support & Resource Showcase” Programs for Veterans

When Media, Pennsylvania, celebrated its veterans with its 2012 Welcome Home Outreach and Awareness Program, Widener ’ s Veterans Law Clinic was there, answering veterans’ questions about the free assistance it provides, and screening potential clients

In September, Widener Law School alumni, students, and faculty served as legal volunteers at the First Annual Service, Support & Resource Showcase Event for Veterans at New Hope Church in Harrisburg They connected with local veterans and their families to explain how to access lawyers, how to navigate legal referral services, and how to select an attorney Professor Starla Williams leads the Legal Advocacy Task Force of the Showcase Event

TEACHINGLAW THE PRACTICAL WAY

Six clinics in two states, innovative instruction in professionalism, intensive trial advocacy training, community engagement, field-specific institutes, and more speak to four decades of producing practice-ready legal professionals

In July 2012, the Legal Intelligencer reported that law schools, as measured by a recent ABA sur vey, have become more skills-oriented The article quotes Hulett “Buck y ” Askew, then the ABA’s consult ant on legal education: “The sur vey responses reveal a renewed commitment by law schools to review and revise their curricula to produce practice-ready professionals.”

This movement is timely, and it ser ves students well It also reflects what W idener Law has done since the beginning The class of 2012 represented clients in a range of civil, administrative, and criminal matters and contributed more than 18,0 0 0 hours of pro bono legal ser vice They participated in hundreds of externships, clerkships, immersive skills trainings, and other professional experiences They attended “Professional Development Day” and were the beneficiaries of classroom instruction designed specifically to inculcate professionalism

Sometimes, as in the case of HELP: MLP , the Health Law Institute’s innovative medical-legal partnership,1 they were breaking new ground Students, facult y, and st aff in this program, which partners with several Chester, Pennsylvania, healthcare and social ser vice providers, provide free legal ser vices to low-income individuals and families in Chester, Pennsylvania The program has benefited hundreds in its first three years, and as one of only three law school–affiliated MLPs in the countr y (and the only one in our region), it ser ves as a model nationwide

“Working with patients whose health outcomes are affected by their complex legal and social challenges, students quickly develop a practical approach to helping some of the poorest people in the area, ” says Health Law Institute Director John Culhane “It’s obvious that they’ve come to underst and the intersection of law, medicine, and public health policy in ways that will ser ve them well throughout their careers ”

Cert ainly Professors Mar y Ann Robinson and Alison Kehner were breaking new ground when they developed their three-part video series Anticipating Consequences: Managing Client Expect ations The videos walk law students through a series of day-to-day law yering decisions involving time management, realistic workloads, and client management They teach a difficult-to-quantify mix: ethics, legal skills, and practical considerations in short, professionalism

Robinson says, “This kind of instruction should go beyond the traditional legal ethics course and beyond the practical research, reading , and writing skills we teach in Legal Methods We think it is import ant to engage our students in a broader dialogue about what the customs and mores of our profession are, to ensure that our students truly are ‘practice-ready’ at graduation ”2

It was the sort of training the Carnegie Foundation advocated in its 20 07 report on legal education, which listed among American law schools’ shortcomings a lack of training in the professional, ethical, and social skills that make for effective, responsible attorneys

In his comment ar y “The Import ance of Professionalism,” Professor John Gedid noted, “Since its founding in the 1970s, W idener Law included professional skills training in its curricular offerings In doing so, W idener was to some extent ‘swimming against the tide,’ because this was many years before those practices became fashionable in the legal academy”

In 1971, the year of the Delaware Law School’s founding , the upst art law school had no est ablished fulltime facult y, no academic traditions, and at first all its students studied part-time The facult y, recruited from Delaware’s bench, bar, and public sector, brought with them their day-to-day experience in court, in practice, and in government They lent it freely to their students, balancing doctrinal instruction with real-world legal problems and the skills needed to address them

The early classes thrived after graduation, their heterodoxical mix of practical and theoretical training combined with an enterprising nature yielding professional success Looking back, Steve Barsamian ’75 said, “Our facult y were either practicing or retired law yers; the t ype of instruction we received was more practical than strictly academic, and it worked ”

1 The “Health, Education, and Legal assist ance Project: a Medical-Legal Partnership (helpmlp org)

2 For more of Profs Robinson and Kehner ’ s comment ar y on professionalism training , visit law widener edu/AlumniExtraFall2012

“Clinics

a nd e xte r nships use t he met hods of clinical legal education to take full adva ntage of t hose oppor tunities for our stude nts It’s a met hod of te aching in which stude nts a re confronted wit h proble m situations of t he sor t t hat lawye rs confront in practice. The stude nts t he mselves de al wit h t he proble ms unde r t he s upe r vision of a n e xpe rie nced attor ne y a nd a re required to inte ract wit h ot he rs in atte mpts to ide ntify a nd solve t he proble ms. And t he most esse ntial ele me nt t he stude nt pe rfor ma nce is s ubjected to critical re vie w a nd reflection.”

Fran Catania, Director of Clinical Programs

In 1984, the law school opened its first clinic, and then quickly partnered with Delaware Volunteer Legal Ser vices to bring hands-on opportunities to any student willing to embrace them The law school would open eight more clinics within a decade (some have since been folded into the law school’s current roster) and continues to develop new opportunities within each of them

W ith the formation of the Intensive Trial Advocacy Program (ITAP), this year celebrating its 25th Anniversar y (see sidebar) and the Hugh B Pearce Trial Advocacy Competition in the late 1980s, the law school further committed itself to practical skills W idener Harrisburg , adopting these practices, enjoyed early success in regional and national moot court competitions In 20 0 0, with these programs well-est ablished on both campuses, the law school est ablished the Trial Advocacy Institute (now the Taishoff Advocacy, Technology, and Public Ser vice Institute), lending formal structure to an already burgeoning collection of activities devoted to professional skills The same year, Professor E John Wherr y added to that collection, endowing the E John Wherr y Jr Distinguished Lecture in Trial Advocacy and Professionalism

Today, students develop skills through six clinics on t wo campuses, each boasting several subspecialt y programs, as well as institutes and the Public Interest Resource Center They tr y cases through civil law clinics They teach financial literacy to underser ved children in W ilmington through the Bank of America–funded Financial Literacy Education Program They parse complex environment al law questions through t wo environment al law clinics

The result? Students don’t just go to the classroom for doctrinal instruction or to the clinics for experience In an inter view, George Bibikos ’07 of K&L Gates in Harrisburg said, “At W idener I took a lot of government courses through the Law and Government Institute It trained me to deal with the ver y complex government issues that arise in day-today life ”

Fran Cat ania, the Delaware campus ’ s Director of Clinical Programs, says “Clinical legal education is learning how to learn from experience Clinics and Externships at W idener are transitional programs They are about the transition from being a good law student to being a good law yer We have long had a first-rate clinical facult y who are all committed to helping each of our students to envision an engaged, rewarding legal career and to providing them experiences and tools they’ll need to realize those visions ”

Remembering a Pioneer in Professional Skills Education

In 1988, the late E John Wherr y Jr , a prominent New Jersey trial lawyer and Widener Law faculty member, and then–Associate Dean Tom Reed saw the need for students to practice their courtroom skills in as realistic a manner as possible Anticipating calls for practical skills training by more than two decades, they co-founded the Intensive Trial Advocacy Program (ITAP), a seven-day boot camp–style program that teaches law students courtroom skills under the supervision of eminent jurists and practitioners Wherr y supported the program financially, endowing its E John Wherry Jr Distinguished Lecture in Trial Advocacy and Professionalism in 2000 This year, ITAP ’ s 25th Anniversar y, the lectures featured former U S Congressman Patrick J Murphy ’98 and Hon Douglas S Lavine Wherr y and Reed also organized the Hugh B Pearce Trial Advocacy Competition in 1989

The law school recently celebrated Wherr y ’ s life and legacy, which in addition to his long association with Widener Law included serving as founding Dean at the University of Orlando School of Law His portrait, funded by his ITAP colleagues, now hangs in Polishook Hall

Hon Anne E Thompson of the district of New Jersey, a close friend of Wherr y ’ s, paid homage to his genius in the courtroom and his legendar y status in Mercer County But, she noted, “I think that the life of the law he loved most was teaching here at Widener Law School I think John found his calling here, and his happiest days were spent in the Trial Advocacy Program ”

Professor Fran Catania Appointed Director of Clinical Programs

Dean Linda Ammons recently appointed Professor Francis J Catania Jr Director of Clinical Programs in Delaware He succeeds former Professor Nathaniel C Nichols, now a Delaware County Court of Common Pleas judge Professor Catania is former director of the Pennsylvania Civil Law Clinic and has taught at the law school since 1985

A Small Service

The call to pro bono ser vice is compelling Heeding it provides meaningful experience and does untold good for innumerable people It is also an expect ation within the profession When fulfilled, it elevates reput ations and advances careers The question, therefore, is whether we heed calls from within or without More to the point, what does one do when there is no expect ation of ser vice, much less recognition for it? When no one is looking? When one leads without having been called?

Michael Caruso ’12 answered those questions He has a clear and oft-expressed love for his countr y and those who defend it He says, “My grandfather came here when he was a boy We all have a cert ain amount of pride for our countr y and the opportunities that it’s afforded us We’re ver y much people that believe it’s not what you can get from your countr y but what you can give to your countr y I’m a big supporter of our troops I think they’re some of the most underappreciated people working for our countr y ”

Caruso is also a coffee guy “Ever y t wo hours,” he jokes, “I need my fix ” So, when confronted with the rigors of his first year in law school, the New Jersey native took refuge in his local coffee shop, Saint Thomas Roasters in Linglestown, Pennsylvania “I loved it there,” he says

Located a few miles from the Harrisburg campus, Saint Thomas Roasters occupies Linglestown’s former general store Its architecture and accoutrements are classically American: pressed tin ceiling, wood trim and shelving , big front porch A large green coffee roaster sits near the counter The mood is mellow and inviting Despite its centralit y and popularit y, it is a place where it’s easy to find the quiet (and caffeine) necessar y for ingesting large amounts of legal information and turning it into useful, applicable knowledge

Not surprisingly, spending a significant portion of his first and second years there led to conversations with other regulars

“While I was there,” Caruso says, “I met a guy who had been in the ser vice His name was Todd Smith, and he and I got to talking ” They talked about Mr Smith’s ser vice overseas and, perhaps inevitably, coffee.

“Let It Be Known That This Flag of The United States of America was flown on November 15, 2011 in honor of Widener University School of Law over the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers ’ Area Office, F OB Shank , Afghanistan, bearing witness to the sacrifices made to protect the freedom of the United States of America and the World in the Global War on Terror during Operation Enduring Freedom.”

“One of his biggest complaints was that when you ’ re over there, you have nothing to remind you of home My friend Todd said, ‘They send us this inst ant coffee It’s nothing like we get from home ’ So, I said, ‘Why don’t we st art sending over some coffee?’

“At the time, I was in a class on charit able organizations; it was with Professor Susan Friday She was just so encouraging I guess the idea really came from the fact that I was in that class It was a bunch of things coming together that made me realize ‘Hey why don’t I do something?’”

“We’re re ally kind of t hrilled a nd humbled to be a pa r t of it ”

Geof Smith, owner of Saint Thomas Roasters in Linglestown, Pennsylvania

The opportunit y was right in front of him

“I approached the guy that owns the coffee shop His name is Geof Smith [no relation to Todd Smith] He’s one of the nicest people you’ll ever meet I said, ‘Geof, I have an idea It would help the shop It would help people overseas Why don’t we have patrons come in they’ll buy a pound of coffee, and they’ll leave it here, and at the end of the month we’ll bag this coffee that the person bought, grind it, and send it over to the troops ’”

Geof Smith says, “Mike we got to know him because he was in here studying all the time, and he had this idea for coffee for the troops. I thought it was a great idea. One of my best customers, somebody that has become a really good friend, spent a year over there right after 9/11 Todd Smith When Mike suggested it, I said, ‘Sure, if you set it up ’ All my customers got on board with it We’d tr y to do it in ten-pound blocks Todd sent a couple pounds over there; I had a guy that would come in ever y week and say, ‘Put me down for a pound of coffee ’ It was a really neat thing It’s a ver y small thing we can do for [the troops], but they really appreciate the good stuff from the St ates, whether it’s coffee or anything else ”

Caruso was impressed by the reaction: “Thanks to the communit y, we were prett y successful I think we got to send more than 150 pounds of coffee overseas just because people in this communit y cared about it People in the communit y would drop off an address and say, ‘Hey, my son ser ves in this batt alion, and it would be nice if they got coffee too ’ So it was kind of like we were giving people who were away from home a little something from home just by sending them coffee from the their hometown They could share it with all their buddies ”

The gesture did not go unnoticed

Caruso says, “We sent coffee to a bunch of troops, but this one in particular who was friends with Todd Smith, he was especially grateful, because he was from around here ”

Not long after sending a sizable shipment, Caruso received a package from Smith’s friend in Afghanist an a flag , flown over FOB Shank in honor of the law school and in gratitude for the gesture. “He was just so happy,” says Caruso, “that he did what he did with the flag and the certificate We’re really grateful for that ”

It was not a large or grand gesture just a small ser vice for those who put their lives on the line in defense of a nation of laws And it was done when no one was looking

“I always e njoyed voluntee ring Taking [a class on] cha ritable orga nizations wit h Professor Friday, who gave so much of he rself to be a lawye r for cha ritable orga nizations, doing whate ve r she could, whe ne ve r she could e ve n t hough he r busy schedule was so de ma nding, made me feel like I could do somet hing to give back ”

Caruso ’12,

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D E A N L I N D A L . A M M O N S participated in several events as a result of her 2010 independent review of child sexual abuse policies and practices in the state of Delaware

These included attending Delaware Governor Jack Markell’s signing of the tenth bill protecting abused and neglected children based on her recommendations and presenting “The Delaware Experience: A Pedophile Case Study and Changing State Laws” at the National Council Against Child Abuse in Huntsville, Alabama She also served as keynote speaker at the annual meeting of the Pennsylvania Minority Bar in Pittsburgh and was the featured Black Histor y Month speaker at a meeting of the Pennsylvania Association of Retired State Employees in Harrisburg Other engagements included presenting to the Montgomer y County (Pennsylvania) Bar Association’s Women in the Law Committee in Norristown; presenting to the Pennsylvania Bar Association’s Annual Conference in Lancaster; meeting with undergraduate students at the University of Puerto Rico; and a lecture about leadership at her law school alma mater, Ohio State University-Moritz College of Law in Columbus, Ohio

D I O N N E E A N T H O N presented “This Is Not Your Mother ’ s Rubric: An Enhanced ‘Electronic’ Rubric to Facilitate Faster Feedback, Track Students’ Overall Performance, and Discover Students’ Strengths and Weaknesses” at the 15th Biennial Conference of the Legal Writing Institute

L A R R Y D B A R N E T T presented his paper, “A Macrosociological Study of Law on Divorce in Western Europe,” at the 2012 Nordic Sociological Association conference held at the University of Reykjavik in Iceland He also presented “Mutual Fund Regulation in Europe: An Empirical Test of a Macrosociological Framework for Law” at the International Conference on the Social Economy in Law in Oñati, Spain

E R I N D A L Y presented “Exemplar y or Exceptional: The Iraqi Transition in the Context of the Arab Spring,” at the British Society for Middle Eastern Studies annual conference, “Revolution and Revolt: Understanding the Forms and Causes of Change,” held at the London School of Economics She gave a talk entitled “Constitutional Protection for Environmental Rights: Participation and Consultation” as part of a panel on environmentalism and democracy at the International Studies Association Annual Convention in San Diego Professors Daly and J A M E S R M A Y also organized a Workshop on Constitutional Environmental Law sponsored by the Widener Environmental Law Center Professor Daly is the 2012-2014 H Albert Young Fellow in Constitutional Law

J O H N C D E R N B A C H attended the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil He participated in the Law and Sustainability panel discussion, as well as a panel devoted to his new book, Acting as if Tomorrow Matters: Accelerating the Transition to Sustainability.

J U L E S E P S T E I N co-chaired and presented at the Center for American and International Law’s annual conference on innocence issues Professor Epstein also spoke at the National Judicial College’s Judicial Hearsay Training Webinar; at Widener Law’s symposium “Issues of Race and Innocence in Capital Punishment”; at a Pennsylvania Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers Death Penalty Training; and at the West Virginia University Forensic Science Initiative training for defense counsel, where he lectured on “Forensic Science and the Law of Evidence ” Professor Epstein also served as a course planner and presenter at the Pennsylvania Bar Institute Annual Criminal Law Symposium, Capital Case Track; lectured on the Confrontation Clause and on Eyewitness Evidence to the Louisiana State Bench and Bar; and spoke about current issues in the law at the National Judicial College multi-day training for judges in Boston, Massachusetts Professor Epstein is also serving as an advisor to Twin Cities Public Television’s “Examining the Evidence” program on forensics education

J I L L E . F A M I L Y gave a presentation about immigration adjudication to the United Kingdom Ministry of Justice’s Upper Tribunal (Immigration and Asylum Chamber), which hears immigration appeals

A L A N E G A R F I E L D was recently honored with the 2012 Delaware Press Association’s Communication Contest Award in the category of Personal Opinion Column for “Honest debate at core of the Constitution ” The column was part of the monthly “Bench Press” opinion column that Garfield writes for The News Journal He presented “Achieving Copyright’s Purpose” at the University of Oklahoma in connection with the opening of an exhibit on Disney Animation Art at the Fred Jones, Jr Museum of Art; “Religious Freedom and Women’s Right to Health Care” at the ACLU of Delaware Annual Meeting; and “Separation of Church and State” at the Washington Square Citizens’ League

M I C H A E L J G O L D B E R G spoke about “Recent Developments at the NLRB” at a meeting of the Delaware State Bar Association Labor and Employment Law Section

E I L E E N G R E N A - P I R E T T I , assistant dean and executive director of institutes on the school’s Delaware campus, and law school Overseer

D R K A T H L E E N M C N I C H O L A S ’06, LLM ’ 10, were recently installed to the Delaware Academy of Medicine board Dr McNicholas will serve as the board’s first female president; Assistant Dean Grena-Piretti is its first nurse member Both women are also the first board members to hold law degrees

L A W R E N C E A H A M E R M E S H led the organization of the Institute of Delaware and Corporate and Business Law’s CLE seminar “Fiduciar y Duties at the Intersection of Federal Bankruptcy and State Corporate Law ” He also moderated a panel of state and federal bankruptcy judges whose discussion generated the idea of permitting bankruptcy courts to certify questions of law to the Delaware Supreme Court, an idea that has now been introduced as a proposed amendment (Senate Bill 221) to the Delaware State Constitution Professor Hamermesh served as a panelist on “Enhanced Legal Ethics” at the Delaware State Bar Association CLE Conference, “Recent Developments in Corporate and Alternative Entity Law ” He spoke about “Regulating the Terms of Investment Securities” at the Villanova Corporate Law Society’s first annual Corporate Law CLE and made a similar presentation as keynote speaker at the ABA Business Law Section’s Federal Regulation of Securities Committee 2012 section meeting luncheon He also spoke on the “State Law Delaware Developments” panel at the Practicing Law Institute’s program “Corporate Governance A Master Class 2012 ” and sat on a Common Cause–sponsored panel, “Citizens United: Its Influence in Delaware Past, Present, & Future ” Professor Hamermesh continues to lead the Institute of Delaware Corporate and Business Law, authoring the problem for the 2012 Ruby R Vale Interschool Corporate Moot Court Competition and blogging regularly on the institute’s site

A N N A P H E M I N G W A Y presented “Not Your Average Cup of Joe: Exploring Scholarship Ideas Beyond the Traditional Law Review” at the 15th Biennial Conference of the Legal Writing Institute She was appointed to The Journal of the Legal Writing Institute’s Editorial Board

L E S L I E A . J O H N S O N taught “Preparing for the Bar Exam” at both Brooklyn School of Law and Western New England School of Law for Kaplan/PMBR She also taught “Estates and Trusts” as part of Kaplan’s nationwide bar preparation course Professor Johnson received the Distinguished Jurist Award from the Moot Court Honor Society at the Delaware Inaugural Distinguished Jurist Interscholastic Competition

A L I C I A B R O K A R S K E L L Y presented “Better Equity for Elders: Basing Economic Relations Law on Sharing and Caring” at both the International Society of Family Law Conference at University of Iowa School of Law and the Family Law Scholars Conference at Fordham University School of Law, where she also presented a plenar y: “Teaching Family Law: More Engaged Teaching & Learning ” Professor Kelly also helped organize the Feminist Legal Theor y Scholars Conference hosted by George Washington University School of Law, where she participated as a commentator on Barbara Stark’s article “Transnational Surrogacy and International Human Rights ”

K E N N E T H T . K R I S T L argued the matter Sierra Club et al v DNREC, No 634, 2011, before the Delaware Supreme Court in May It is the final chapter of the Coastal Zone case the clinic has been litigating since August 2010 over the Wandendale Wastewater Treatment Facility in Sussex County

J A M E S R . M A Y spoke about the “Implications of the Health Care Decision on Environmental Law,” for a national teleconference sponsored by the Environmental Law Institute and presented “Constitutionally Recognized Procedural Rights in Environmental Matters” at the 10th Annual Meeting of the International Union for the Conservation of Nature He also presented “Developments in Federal Courts and NEPA,” at the Pennsylvania Bar Institute’s 2012 Environmental Law Forum and was interviewed and quoted in various news accounts of NIHB v Sebelius, the Supreme Court decision regarding the constitutionality of the Patient Protection Act With Professor Erin Daly, he co-chaired “Constitutional Environmental Rights Worldwide” at Widener, presenting on judicial developments

J U L I E T M . M O R I N G I E L L O spoke on a panel about series LLCs in bankruptcy at the Institute of Delaware Corporate and Business Law’s CLE seminar, “Fiduciar y Duties at the Intersection of Federal Bankruptcy and State Corporate Law ” In summer 2012, she served as program director for the 2012 Lausanne Summer Law Institute

P A U L L . R E G A N presented his paper, “Human Rights Compliance and Accountability for U S Multinational Enterprises,” at the 2012 Nordic Sociological Association Conference, “Trust and Social Change,” held at the University of Reykjavik in Iceland He also taught a three-week class on the Delaware campus entitled “Advanced Concepts in Corporate Law” to a group of students and attorneys from Russia and the United Kingdom At the Widener Law CLE seminar, “Fiduciary Duties at the Intersection of Federal Bankruptcy and State Corporate Law,” Professor Regan moderated a panel on good faith and the business judgment rule

M A R Y A

I N S O N ,

Y R I D D L E , and R E B E C C A L . S C A L I O presented iCivics at special assemblies in public junior and middle schools throughout the state of Delaware as part of a project conducted by the Delaware Supreme Court and the Delaware State Bar Association Women and the Law Section

M I C H A E L S L I N G E R led a series of Civil War Book discussions at the Rachel Kohl Public Librar y in Glen Mills, Pennsylvania The topics included the life of Daniel Sickles (a Tammany Hall Politician, Civil War General, and the first person to be acquitted of a murder charge due to a plea of temporary insanity); Lincoln and slaver y; and the assassination of Lincoln and the attempts to bring CSA President Jefferson Davis to trial for treason following the Civil War He also presented a lecture at Rachel Kohl on the treatment of POWs during the Civil War and attended the Civil War Institute at Gettysburg College

A M A N D A S M I T H presented “Preparing for Practice from Behind the Bench: Replacing the Traditional Office Memorandum with a Judicial Opinion” at the 15th Biennial Conference of the Legal Writing Institute

A N D R E S M I T H presented “The Redistribution of Black Wealth Via Taxation” at the Critical Tax Scholarship Conference at Emory University He was a guest lecturer at Drexel University, where he presented “If Hip-Hop is Dead, Did the Law Kill It? How Overzealous Enforcement of Copyright and Property Laws Promotes Sex and Violence in Hip-Hop ” His presentation was video-simulcast to West Virginia University as part of the Hip Hop and the American Constitution lecture series

A N D R E W L . S T R A U S S spoke at the Lund Conference on Earth System Governance in Lund, Sweden, where he participated in a debate: “Should the United Nations System Have a Parliamentar y Dimension?” He presented a panel discussion on “Transitional Justice, Reconciliation and Victim Centered Remedies” at the Africa and International Law: Taking Stock and Moving Forward conference held at Albany Law School He also presented a panel discussion on “The International Court of Justice: Can its Founders’ 20th Centur y Ambitions be Realized in the 21st Centur y?” at the ILSA Annual Conference in Chicago, Illinois

M I C A H J . Y A R B R O U G H served as a panelist on “Developing an Institutional Outcome and Assessment Plan” at the Law School Admissions Council’s Academic Assistance Training Workshop in Denver, Colorado The panel provided strategies and suggestions for those seeking to develop a plan for assessing their academic assistance programs

New Faculty Profiles

Assistant Professor CHRISTINE D. ALLIE joins the Delaware faculty She is a Florida Graduate Tax Scholar at the University of Florida’s Levin College of Law, where she is completing her SJD in Taxation She holds a JD from the University of Washington School of Law; an LL M from Trinity College in Dublin, Ireland; and a BA from George Mason University Ms Allie has consulted for Corrotherm International USA, Inc ; served as Senior Law Clerk for the Honorable Thomas J Aquilino, Jr , of the U S Court of International Trade; and practiced law with Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP She will teach Federal Income Tax and related topics.

DONALD A BROWN is the Environmental Law Center ’ s Scholar in Residence for Sustainability and Ethics in Harrisburg He has served on Penn State University’s faculty; as Program Director of the Collaborative Program on the Ethical Dimensions of Climate Change; as an environmental lawyer for Pennsylvania and New Jersey; and as Program Manager for UN Organizations at the EPA Office of International Environmental Policy Professor Brown is also director of the Pennsylvania Environmental Research Consortium He has written and lectured extensively, including on his blog ethicsandclimate org

Visiting Professor LANCE COLE will teach Business Organizations and a Seminar Congressional Investigations in Harrisburg Professor Cole is Director of the Center for Government Law and Public Policy Studies and Professor of Law at Penn State Dickinson School of Law He also served as a member of the 9/11 Commission staff team responsible for investigating counterterrorism intelligence collection and law enforcement in the U S ; as Deputy Democratic Special Counsel on the Senate Whitewater Committee; and in the Corporate Securities Practice Group of Debovoise & Plimpton LLP

Visting Professor CHRISTOPHER R

SMITH will teach Health Law He has served as Director of Policy and Regulatory Affairs at the National Community Pharmacists Association; as a Legal Fellow to the Senate Judiciar y Committee, Majority Subcommittee on Crime and Drugs, and as Special Assistant Attorney General in the Office of the Attorney General of Maryland He has also practiced law with McMahon & Associates in Washington, D C and Gleason, Flynn, Emig & Fogelman in Rockville, Maryland

Chris Fromm ’99 Joins National Advisory Council

As the Widener Law National Advisor y Council’s newest member, CHRIS FROMM ’ 99 will lend the law school his substantial experience and expertise in a range of matters He is Executive Director of Institutional and Supplemental Programs at Kaplan Bar Review, where he consults, lectures, and develops curriculum for early start and bar preparation courses He has passed the Pennsylvania, New York, New Jersey, Michigan, Colorado, and Arizona bar exams and serves as an adjunct professor at several schools including Brooklyn Law School, Ave Maria School of Law, Western New England School of Law, UMASS School of Law, Cardozo, TSU’s Thurgood Marshall School of Law, and Tulsa University School of Law Mr Fromm’s experience also includes six years in the Philadelphia District Attorney’s Office, where he served from his graduation in 1999 until 2005, specializing in 4th amendment search and seizure issues in the Special Narcotics Prosecution Unit Mr Fromm and his wife Christina reside in Los Angeles, California and are expecting their first child in Januar y 2013

FACULTY IN THE MEDIA

“A head-on attack gets you nowhere But there can be a tipping point when the quantity of the inconsistencies, or sometimes the nature of them, raises doubts ”

Jules Epstein, on testimony in the Jerry Sandusky case

T h e N e w s J o u r n a l

“Personally, I think it’s crazy that the fate of the most important health care reform in decades depended upon the vote of one justice After all, this is a democracy Policy should usually be made by the people’s elected representatives, not nine unelected judges ”

Alan Garfield, writing about the Supreme Court’s decision concerning the Affordable Care Act

T h e G u a r d i a n

“If you ask people what they think, it’s ver y predictable Democrats support it; Republicans oppose But when you parse out the individual parts of it, there are a lot of pieces that people like Once it comes into place it will become background and people will just live with it In two years from now there won’t be anything for people to yell about ”

– John Culhane, discussing the Affordable Care Act’s consequences

c b s n e w s c o m

“Part of that sentence was the judge saying I want ever yone on Wall Street quaking in their boots ”

Jules Epstein, commenting on sentencing in high-profile cases

p h i l l y. c o m

“If Congress tries to force us to eat broccoli, we have the power to stop it The slippery-slope argument undervalues the people’s ability to control the national agenda, and it ignores the way our Constitution protects us from congressional overreach ”

Erin Daly, prior to the Supreme Court’s decision on the Affordable Care Act

“It solidifies what we already knew or understood Immigration law is the realm of the federal government The federal power over immigration law is big It really left a ver y narrow opening for the states ”

Jill Family, commenting on the Supreme Court’s June ruling on Arizona’s Senate Bill 1070 P

“Independence has a downside An independent judge exercises policy- making discretion without accountability to the people ”

Michael Dimino, commenting on Pennsylvania judicial appointments

“When we talk about sustainability and we use journey and destination language, it’s easy to think that any progress towards the destination gets you closer to the destination But because we live in a dynamic world, you can actually be farther away after you get started. And that is exactly what has happened with the United States ”

John Dernbach, on greenhouse gas emissions

“The Montana case would not be an appropriate occasion for summar y reversal simply because it’s an extremely important issue ”

Laura K Ray, prior to the Supreme Court’s ruling on Citizens United

“Saying ‘You screwed up ’ is not going to get you a seat at the litigation table Dimon’s characterization is not something you want to make a securities lawsuit about ”

Larry Hamermesh, on reaction to JPMorgan Chase & Co’s $2 billion trading loss

F o x N e w s

“An underrepresentation of a particular group is a red flag but underrepresentation by itself is not proof of a violation ”

Michael Goldberg, on the possibility that President Obama’s Chicago Campaign Office’s lack of diversity violates employment law

W H P T V. c o m

“You don’t have a constitutional right to make threats, but you do have a constitutional right to express political hyperbole even in violent terms The question is whether a reasonable person would be in fear of someone who makes these kinds of statements ”

Michael Dimino, commenting on freedom of speech, hate speech, and threats

P a t r i o t - N e w s

“[Catholics] are simply asserting the same right that the Pilgrims brought to America: the right to live and work in Catholic institutions in a way that gives life to their faith It would be ironic if it turned out that today, religious liberty does not guarantee Catholics the right to live and work as Catholics in the institutions of the Catholic Church ”

G Randy Lee, on the HHS mandate that employers include birth control in their health insurance coverage for employees

N e w a r k P o s t

“But for Louis Redding and others, like Thurgood Marshall, I would not be standing here before you today as the dean of the Widener School of Law ”

Dean Linda Ammons, on Louis Redding, the first African American in Delaware to be admitted to the state bar

In the first half of 2012, Widener Law faculty were quoted in the following:

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WIDENER LAW

Distinguished Professor

Alan Garfield

In his teaching and scholarship, Alan Garfield likes to explore the legal fabric that’s stretched often thinly over our Constitution’s framework With 225 years passed since the Constitution’s ratification, there’s a lot of fabric to explore

In celebration of this longevity, Congress created Constitution Day in 2005 Widener celebrated with a program on its main campus; Alan Garfield was the keynote speaker The opportunity made him think not just about specific constitutional issues, but about the document as a whole, how we understand it, and how we use (and misuse) it

“It made me focus on why we were celebrating and what should be done,” he says “I thought it was a very welcome opportunity for Americans to think about what our core values are and to what extent we are achieving them ”

Having marshaled his thoughts, he put them in an op-ed column for the Philadelphia Inquirer

“That launched my op-ed career The next year, working with [Widener Law Public Relations Officer] Mary Allen, I made a contact with The News Journal My sense was that if no effort was taken to do something for Constitution Day, it would be like a lot of national holidays that are never heard of So I pitched this idea of having an essay collection ” He went about soliciting Delaware leaders for their contributions, and they responded

“So don’t be fooled. No political pa r ty has a monopoly on t he ‘ cor rect’ inte r pretation of t he Constitution. And politicia ns who claim t hat t he Constitution’s te xt is all you need to know a re simply re ve aling t he ir ignora nce.

“The first year we had the governor, state senators, judges, Delaware Supreme court judges quite a good turnout ” Since then the contest has grown to include corporate and community leaders, U S Senators, high school students from every district in the state, scholars, and many others

This is no small undertaking, and Garfield has immersed himself in the project He plans the contest and surrounding programs, solicits essays, and develops themes It has also given him a public platform to discuss critical constitutional issues as they arise

“I started to get a little bit more courageous about writing op-eds and wrote quite a few for The News Journal and the Inquirer,” he says “Then in 2009, I approached The News Journal about writing a monthly column called ‘Bench Press ’ Mostly what I do is write about current Supreme Court cases, but I also write about other constitutional issues that are in the news ”

“Bench Press” appears monthly from October, when the Supreme Court opens, to June, when it issues its final decisions Now in its third year,

“Let’s commit to an honest debate about how to stay true to our values. Sure, we’ll often disagree sometimes fie rcely. But t he cacophony we cre ate from a n honest debate is t he music t he Fra me rs me a nt us to play.”

Distinguished Professor Alan Garfield in his award-winning column, “Honest Debate at core of Constitution ”

it brings complex, sometimes touchy legal issues to the attention of the public in a manner far removed from the stridency of so much recent political debate

Its informal tone and deft treatment of polarizing issues has not gone unnoticed One “Bench Press” column was runner-up for the 2011 Delaware Press Association Communication Contest Award in the personal opinion column category In 2012, another piece, “Honest debate at core of Constitution,” won outright It advanced to a National Federation of Press Women competition and took first place in that competition’s personal opinion column category as well

The piece explains patiently but authoritatively the ambiguities inherent in the Constitution It is perhaps the ultimate in service journalism: how to understand the laws that underlie all others in this country

“The constitution starts with ‘We the People,’ Garfield says “It’s about popular sovereignty that we are the governors and we are the sovereigns A system like that only works well when the people are engaged and informed and can evaluate things in a somewhat

sophisticated way I see the Constitution Day program and my column as my efforts to help better educate people A lot of these issues are complicated There are good arguments on both sides, and policy choices have to be made I want them to see the complexity of the issues, not just get the sound bites that they too often get from politicians and talking heads ”

Was it his lifelong ambition to teach the public how to understand the Constitution? “This wasn’t what I was planning,” he says “I thought I’d do something in the public interest, but the truth is I didn’t have a clear picture Students shouldn’t feel bad if they don’t know either I wanted to make the world a better place, and law is a vehicle to do that ”

“I’m incredibly lucky to have this job Educating people in and of itself is a very important thing to do Watching light bulbs go off is incredibly gratifying ”

For Alan Garfield’s work including past “Bench Press” columns visit http://works bepress com/alan garfield/

Ca mpaign Update

As of June 30, 2012

At the end of Fiscal Year 2011-2012, the Taking the Lead comprehensive campaign total stood at $9,604,358 80% of the campaign’s $12 million goal

We are deeply grateful The support of our alumni and friends has had a real and substantial impact on Widener Law, enabling it to enhance its signature programs, scholarship resources, faculty efforts, infrastructure, and much more

Please know that your ongoing support will provide the resources necessar y for Widener Law not only to move ahead in key areas, but to continue producing the sort of leaders that have made so much of our progress possible

$1,879,114

$3,181,375

Carl Battle ’82 and Leon Williams ’82 Establish Scholarship

Through their generous gift establishing the Carl Battle and Leon Williams African-American Scholarship Fund, classmates Carl Battle ’82 and Leon Williams ’82 gave the law school’s diversity efforts a boost

Mr Battle, a member of the law school’s National Advisor y Council, said, “We started the Carl Battle and Leon Williams African-American Scholarship Fund because we wanted to give something meaningful back to Widener Law in view of the solid legal education we received We also wanted to support the great work that Dean Ammons is doing and make a positive impact on Widener Law School’s diversity efforts This is just one of several avenues in which we are contributing to Widener Law to help build a better institution and a better legal profession We encourage all of our alumni to help foster excellence at Widener Law ”

The Quiet, Confident Leadership of Walter and Alice ’92 Strine

In t he late 1990s, whe n t he law school needed to upgrade a nd e xpa nd its Delawa re Ca mpus facilities, it took broad support to do the job Anyone strolling through t he law building’s Strine Atrium will know that law school overseer Alice Washco Strine ’ 92 a nd he r husba nd, Walte r Strine, led t he way.

But while the atrium is a visible reminder of their commitment, less obvious is the longevity of their support they have contributed every year since Mrs Strine’s graduation and their willingness to put their resources in the service of Widener Law’s students through the unheralded but indispensable Widener Law Fund In 2009, as the law school prepared to go public with its comprehensive campaign, they construed its title Taking the Lead literally, becoming critical leadership donors And they did it in elegant fashion, substantially increasing their support for the Widener Law Fund and asking for no special recognition or consideration Why? We recently spoke with Mrs Strine to find out

Why do you give back?

My husband Walter and I contribute to make a better world and we have a good time doing it!

Widener University has awarded six graduate degrees to members of our family more than any other individual university It seems appropriate to express our appreciation and loyalty

I am proud to be a graduate of Widener Law; I am proud of its accomplishments and its growth We give back to help that group continue to grow and expand (And, by the way, with our current system of taxation, it pays to give back!)

Why did you increase your giving so generously in response to Taking the Lead?

We took the opportunity of the campaign to expand our commitments to the law school All graduates need to do is to revisit the campus to witness the facility and program enhancement made possible by the campaign

What has a Widener Law degree done for you?

It has enhanced my conversations with my husband and armed me with impeccable credentials and knowledge It has beautifully expanded the organizations and individuals I have been able to serve, and has definitely led to greater personal as well as career success

What is your proudest achievement when it comes to Widener?

It is the ability to expand my contact with the leadership of the university and to participate in the planning of the law school’s future growth and development

Where would you like to see the law school in the future?

I would like to see a continuation of the development of a positive image through the accomplishments of our graduates and staff, both national and international A greater acknowledgement and sense of pride would encourage an increased level of participation and financial support

20-Year Lead

More than 40 years ago, Delaware’s law school began its march from upstart to leader Our continued progress could not have happened without the support of our alumni and friends, many of whom have supported the law school not just over years, but over decades Below we list individuals whose giving has spanned 20 years or more. We are deeply grateful for their commitment to Widener Law, for their willingness to show leadership again and again

Robert Adochio ’78

Christopher Almy ’75 & Susan Almy

Ronald Amarant ’85 & June Amarant

Rad Maric & Mary Androski-Maric ’79

Norman & Ann Ashworth

Alexis L Barbieri ’82

Peter Barnes III ’85

Steven Barsamian ’75

Alan Belfus ’76

Michelle Coopersmith Berk ’81

Gerald Berkowitz & Alene Berkowitz ’78

Richard Eugene Berl ’79 & Sheree Berl

Hon Robert Blasi ’75 & Alice Blasi

Veronica B. Boettger ’75

John Branigan ’77

Ann Britton

Hon Jeffrey Brown ’78

Alan Budman ’77

Kyle Burch ’83

Louis Cambria ’87

Hon John P Capuzzi ’88

Wayne Carey ’81 & Jane Carey

Ned & Kate Carp

John Carroll III ’81 & Barbara Carroll

Joel Chernock ’76

Vincent Ciecka ’75

Stephen Cirillo ’81 & Linda Cirillo

Dennis Citron ’75

Leslie Noftsinger Coates ’78

Thomas Collins ’78

Martin Convery ’89

Bob Cooper & Eileen Cooper ’76

Henry ’76 & Margaret Costa

Samuel Costa ’75

Michael Cunningham Jr ’84

C Salvatore D’Alessio ’87 & Anita D’Alessio

Charlene Davis ’84

Perry de Marco Sr. ’75

Michael DeFino ’75 & Valerie DeFino

Joseph DelSordo ’75 & Sandra DelSordo

Frank DePasquale Jr ’86 & Lisa DePasquale

Stephen Dicht ’78

James & Cathleen Diehm

Linda Blanchfield Dillow ’83

Eugene ’81 & Marie Janton DiPrinzio

J William Ditter III ’76 & Deanna Ditter

Robert Dluge Jr. ’75 & Debra Dluge

Hon Michael A Donio

Thomas Donnelly & Lucille Bova Donnelly ’87

Bradford Dorrance ’80

Roseanne Raimondo Duffy ’89

David Twaddell & Karen Durkin ’79

Don Erlandson ’75

Thomas Etter Jr ’75 & Susan Etter

Richard Farwell ’78

Brian Fischer ’79 & Katie Fischer

Karen Fleming ’80

James Fox ’76

Michael Fromhold ’77 & Susan Fromhold

Carl Funk ’83

Paula Garrison

John & Carol Gedid

Claudia Genuardi ’81

Lawrence Gibson ’84

Lawrence Gilman ’79

Jay Ginsburg ’88 & Sherry Ginsburg

Joel Glass MD & Ellen Glass ’83

Michael Goldberg & Anne Goldberg

Howard R Golde ’77

Ronald Goldfaden ’76

Ronald Gordon ’78 & Susan Gordon

Eric Grayson ’79 & Ilean Grayson

Ann Green ’78

Carol Haight ’85

James Haley Jr ’91

Patricia Hall ’81

Charles Halpin III ’76 & Judith Halpin

Raymond Hancock ’79

Richard Handler ’77 & Susan Handler

Ronnie Ellen Gidseg Harrison

Selma Hayman ’86

William Heimbuch ’80

Jeffry Herman ’86

Harry Hill & Louise Hill

William Himmelreich ’80

David Hodas

Roger Holcomb ’84 & Catherine Holcomb

Robert Honecker Jr ’81 & Kim Roberts

Joanne Horn ’80

Sherry L Horowitz

Barbara Silver Hutcheon ’80

Richard James ’75

Guy V Johnson ’81 & Diane Lawson

Mary Ann Jordano ’89

Michael Joseph ’75

Joseph Kalkbrenner ’82

Lawrence Keener-Farley ’83

2

20 Years

J Patrick & Victoria Kelly

Rosemary Killian ’82

Jean Kissane ’86

Jay ’77 & Bebe Kivitz

Gerald Klein ’86 & Sandra Klein

Thomas Klingensmith ’76 & Carmen Klingensmith

Bruce Kmosko ’80

Charles Knothe ’80 & Mary Knothe

Jonathan Krinick & Susan Goldberg

Samuel Landy ’85 & Laurie Landy

David Lank ’80

Randy & Brenda Lee

John Leekley Jr. ’75

Steven Levinson & Pamela Babett Levinson ’85

Gary Linarducci ’75 & Kathleen Linarducci

Michael Lione ’79 & Madeline Lione

F Kevin Lynch ’79 & Isabel Warren-Lynch

John Lynch ’89 & Christina Lynch

Daniel Maisano ’78

Richard S Marx

William Massa ’86

Mark Mattia ’81

Peter Mattoon & Joan Mattoon

Michael Maucher ’83 & Marguerite Maucher

John McAllister Jr ’86

Jeffrey McCullough ’83 & Monica McCullough

Bernard McFadden ’84 & Kathleen McFadden

Hon James McGann ’78

Edward McGlinchey Jr ’77 & Margaret McGlinchey

Eugene McGurk Jr ’78

Janis Melfi ’81

Louis Mellinger ’76 & Rebecca Mellinger

Judith Melman

George Miller Jr. ’81 & Debra Miller

Teresa Miller ’78

Hon. Charles P. Mirarchi Jr. & Josephine Mirarchi

020 Years

Hon Marianne O Mizel

Frederick R Mogel

Richard Morrissey ’76

Katharine Nelson

Michael & Marion Rothbart Newbold ’85

Hon. Nathaniel & Cheryl Nichols

Joseph Norris Jr ’76 & Janet Norris

Arthur Novello ’86

Daniel C Nowell ’81

Cornelius O’Brien III ’85 & Margaret O’Brien

Hon. John O’Grady, Jr. ’77

Jeffrey Orenstein ’85 & Marla Orenstein

John Pachkowski ’88 & Mary Alice Peeling ’91

Hon Paul Panepinto ’76 & Nancy Panepinto

Stephen Permut MD ’85 & Marylene Permut

G Carter Pierce ’75 & Frances Pierce

Jesse Lawn Pleet ’81

Alan ’75 & Rita ’75 Polonsky

Natalie Pouch-Kavetsky ’84

William Prickett ’89 & Elizabeth Prickett

John Pund Jr. ’86 & Kristen Truitt-Pund

Hon William Quillen & Marcia Quillen

Barry Rabin ’83

Larry Raiken ’75 & Michele Raiken

Laura & Philip Ray

Walter Joseph Ray Jr ’75 & Linda Ray

Thomas & Emily Reed

Joseph Risi ’82

Thomas Roman ’75

Joseph & Joan Rosenthal

Philip Ross ’75

Jeffrey Roth ’80 & Patti Roth

Arlene Rubin ’88

Michael Rubin ’75 & Bonnie Rubin

Gregory Rubis ’86

Allan Rusten

Mary Sabulsky ’83

Hon Paul R Sacks ’75

Alexander & Nancy Sarcione

Janice Sawicki ’75

Andrew Schaeffer ’87

John Schmutz & Eileen Schmutz

Anthony Sciolla Jr ’75

Irving Seltzer ’85

Martin Sendek ’85 & Laury Sendek

Michael Sherlock & Mary Schnappauf Sherlock ’83

Mitchell Shore ’81 & Penny Shore

Gail O’Neal Shuey ’86

Barbara Siegell ’80

Patricia Sinclair ’77

Louis Slawe ’75 & Susanne Slawe

Marcia Sless ’87

Buck Smith

Steven Smith & Lynn Smith ’83

Hon Lee Solomon ’78 & Dianne Solomon

Ronald Steen & Tempe Steen ’83

Jerry Steiner ’78

Walter M & Alice W Strine ’92

David Taylor ’81

Vernon Taylor ’80

Roger Ullman ’80 & Minnie Ullman

Michael Valoris ’79

Phillip Van Embden ’78 & Florence Van Embden

David T Videon ’80 & Lynn Videon

Donald Walsh & Joyce Walsh

J Scott Watson ’84 & Laura Watson

Judge John K. Welch

John Wetzel ’75 & Donna Wetzel

Daniel Wilton ’76 & Margaret Wilton

Herbert & Harriet Wolfson

Charles Woolson Jr. ’77 & Mary Woolson

Donald Young ’77 & Debra Young

Alumnus Profile

Major William J. Collins Jr. ’94

Marıne Double Major

U S Marines who are wounded, injured, or who fall ill while serving their country can be placed on the Temporary Disabled Retired List Only about 1% of those transferred to the TDRL return to active duty; Bill Collins is among the 1%

Major Bill Collins ’94 was and is a Marine For years, he was prepared prepared to go where the Marines sent him Prepared to assume any number of responsibilities Prep to undergo hardship and discomfort Prepared to lay down his life in ser vice of his countr y, its people, and their freedoms

But in 20 08, he was unprepared “ ver y unprepared,” he says, for what the Marine Corps told him to do: leave

The Marines had taken him and his family throughout the United States, the Pacific Rim, and the Middle East Deployed t wice to Iraq, he had used his milit ar y and legal training in ser vice of the Iraqi people as they faced unparalleled difficult y

But he had become sick In 20 08, after his second medical evacuation from Iraq and a subsequent transfer to the Temporar y Disabled Retired List (TDRL), he was back in the st ates and facing the end of his milit ar y career He had processed through the Integrated Disabilit y Evaluation System (IDES) As its name implies, IDES is critical in determining a Marine’s fitness for dut y In Collins’ case, the decision was unfavorable “It felt premature and disappointing , ” he says, “and came when I was least prepared to make a major life transition.” He was unprepared to no longer be a Marine.*

A career in the armed forces had always been his expect ation “I just assumed milit ar y ser vice was yet another example of the many expected responsibilities of citizenship in a young man ’ s life ” The Oreland, Pennsylvania, native and La Salle Universit y graduate was commissioned as a Marine Corps officer before his second year of law school (though not before t aking t wo years to train for the U S Men’s Rowing Team while working as a paralegal for Berger and Montague PC in Philadelphia) He brought his penchant for ser vice and leadership to the still-new Harrisburg campus, ser ving as the founding president of the campus ’ St Thomas More Law Societ y in 1992, founded with the help of his friends Ed Cherr y ’94 and Tom Capper ’94

After graduating , he entered the Marine Corps Judge Advocate Division He spent the next 14 years holding a wide variet y of positions: Chief of Legal Assist ance, Defense Counsel, St aff Judge Advocate, Government Appellate Counsel, Professor of Law, and Deput y Director of Character Education at the U S Naval Academy He was a detention release authority conducting 72-hour detainee reviews in Iraq and ser ved as the G-3 Police and Border Transition Team Coordinator for Multi-National Forces West (MNF-W) in Iraq He says, “One of the most rewarding t asks was being part of the Rule of Law Working Group for MNF-W and helping the Iraqis in Al Anbar Province hold their first civilian criminal trials since the st art of the war ”

He had gone where his orders took him Now, in 2008, he had no orders Moreover, he had come home to a countr y on the brink of economic collapse.

It was in these difficult times that his record of ser vice worked in his favor The outgoing director of the Department of Labor ’ s “Hire Vets First” program, Bill Offutt, saw Collins’ LinkedIn profile and recommended he cont act Patricia Orsini, Program Director of the nonpartisan House of Represent atives Wounded Warrior Program His extensive experience landed him an inter view in then-Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s office, where he was hired to ser ve as an Advisor on Armed Ser vices and Veterans Affairs Policy and Outreach The program promotes reemployment of wounded veterans He could relate Moreover, after years on the ground, this was a new perspective: “The opportunit y to obser ve and be part of government at this level was incredible ”

At the conclusion of his fellowship in Februar y 2011, he accepted a senior st aff position, offered by incoming Chairman of the House Veterans Affairs Committee Jeff Miller (R-FL), ser ving as St aff Director and Counsel for the Subcommittee on Disabilit y Assist ance and Memorial Affairs The subcommittee, chaired by former Philadelphia Eagle Rep. Jon Runyan (NJ-3), had oversight over the Veterans Benefits Administration’s compensation, pension, and insurance programs as well as the National Cemeter y Administration It shared joint oversight over Arlington National Cemeter y

It was another opportunit y to help those who shared his experience “Helping draft and move legislation through the committee that would have meaningful benefit for fellow veterans, and then being on the House floor for its debate and passage, is an experience that will be difficult to equal ”

Yet, a new experience in an old form would come his way The Physical Evaluation Board, which periodically examines and reviews those on the TDRL, found him “fit to return to dut y ”

Former Speaker Nancy Pelosi officiated at Collins’ recommissioning ceremony It was only appropriate “It was the House of Representatives’ Wounded Warrior Fellowship Program she created as Speaker that brought me to Washington,” he says

“It also seemed the best way to mark the closing of the circle I guess you could say my recommissioning ceremony marking the end of one life and the beginning or renewing of another allows me now, I guess, to call myself a ‘born-again Marine ’”

“The role of the IDES Counsel is to guide the service members through the legal aspects of the process, ensure they understand the legal effects of the various decisions they have to make, both short- and long-term, and when needed zealously advocate on their client’s behalf ”

Major William Collins Jr , pictured here with Rep Nancy Pelosi at his recommissioning ceremony

In uniform again, he is responsible for the policy development and ser vices coordination of the Marine Corps’ program to provide legal counsel to Marines and sailors going through the medical board and disabilit y evaluation process Of ser ving Marines and sailors in IDES, the program through which he processed only a few years ago, he says, “The fact that I have been assigned to a billet that will allow me to t ap into both my personal experience with the IDES process and my time on Capitol Hill to benefit Marines and sailors going through the IDES is incredibly exciting ”

This, he says, “is an incredible opportunit y that gives new meaning and purpose to the last four years of my life I am involved in policy, I am involved in advocacy and hopefully what I bring to this position will translate into helping ensure those who are wounded, are injured, or fall ill while ser ving their countr y have adequate counsel and advocacy when they are least able to look after their own legal rights ”

The views presented in this interview are those of Major Collins and do not necessarily represent the views of the Department of Defense, the Department of Navy, or the U S Marine Corps * For the full text of Major Collins’ remarks, please visit law widener edu/AlumniExtraFall2012

The 435 new graduates receiving law degrees in May 2012 collectively contributed more than 18,000 hours of pro bono ser vice during their time at Widener Law They were exhorted to allow their instinct for ser vice to continue guiding them

“Never forget that we pledge, as a nation, liberty and justice for all,” U.S. Sen. Christopher Coons told Delaware campus graduates. “You have an opportunity You have the skills to add to justice around the world”

William N Nettles ’92, U S attorney for the district of South Carolina, told Harrisburg campus graduates, “If your clients know you care about them, you will be a successful lawyer, and if you get a reputation that you do it with civility and dignity, then you will also earn the respect of the bar”

Ha r risburg

Wilmington

Scholarship, Service Drive Ambitious Campus Events Schedule

Both law campuses present numerous scholarly and professional development opportunities throughout the year Topics range broadly: food and drug law, the death penalty, and takings among many others Many are open to the public

We encourage you to join us

Corporate Law Symposium Tackles Fiduciary Duties in Bankruptcy

Delaware Supreme Court Justice Jack B Jacobs (third from right) speaks during a panel discussion at the April program, “Fiduciary Duties at the Intersection of Federal Bankruptcy and State Corporate Law ” Jacobs was joined on the Delaware campus by seven judges representing the Delaware Supreme and Superior Courts, the Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware, and the state’s renowned Delaware Court of Chancery all moderated by Widener Ruby R Vale Professor of Corporate and Business Law Lawrence A Hamermesh

Justice Saylor Gives Annual Jurist in Residence Lecture

Pennsylvania Supreme Court Justice Thomas G Saylor, Widener ’ s Law & Government Institute Distinguished Jurist in Residence, gave the annual Jurist in Residence Lecture, “Fourth Amendment Departures and Sustainability in State Constitutionalism” on the Harrisburg campus Saylor teaches a seminar on constitutional law through the institute and serves as a Widener Law Overseer

The “Introduction to Intellectual Property Law” symposium on the Delaware campus brought together legal professionals, small business owners, entrepreneurs, artists, and inventors for an overview of how Intellectual Property Law can help protect, commercialize, and fund ideas

Dean’s Diversity Forum Features Pennsylvania’s First Asian-American Woman Judge

Common Pleas Court Judge Ida Chen, the first Asian-American woman to serve as a judge in Pennsylvania, spoke at the 2012 Dean’s Leadership Forum on Diversity in Harrisburg The forum addressed access to justice and the demography of central Pennsylvania She was joined by a range of experts, including Janis Leftridge, the Pennsylvania Bar Association’s diversity officer, who moderated the day’s first panel

Congratulating Scott Cooper ’93

The Harrisburg campus celebrated the success of Scott Cooper ’ 93, president of the Pennsylvania Association for Justice Cooper, his wife, and their children joined students, faculty, and staff at a reception in his honor and screening of the documentar y Hot Coffee Cooper expressed gratitude for his Widener Law education: “The thing I like about what we do: We really believe in it It’s not just a job,” he said The event was sponsored by Cooper ’ s firm Schmidt Kramer and the Student Bar Association

Susan Herman of ACLU National Speaks on Campus

Susan Herman, president of the ACLU national board of directors, visited the Harrisburg campus, speaking to students and the public and lunching with faculty, during a two-day stop in central Pennsylvania sponsored by the World Affairs Council of Harrisburg Herman teaches at Brooklyn Law School Her most recent book is The War on Terror and the Erosion of American Democracy

Susan Herman and Harrisburg Dean of Students Keith Sealing

African-American Alumni Honored at BLSA Trailblazers Event

The Delaware campus Black Law Students Association honored nine distinguished African-American alumni at its second annual “Trailblazers and Pioneers” banquet The association honorees recognized for their achievements in the private sector or public interest sector, or for their community service contributions, represented each decade since the law school’s founding

Hon. Nathaniel C. Nichols Receives Martin Luther King Semester of Service Award

Former associate professor and now Common Pleas Court Judge Nathaniel C “Nick” Nichols received the law school’s 2012 Martin Luther King Service Award The law school presents the award annually to a member of the community who has lived Dr King’s dream and who has manifested in their life’s work those commitments to community service and social justice that the law school seeks in its Semester of Service project The program also featured remarks by Peter Harvey, Esq , former New Jersey attorney general

Hon Nathaniel C Nichols delivers his acceptance speech

Federalist Society Debates Affordable Care Act

The Harrisburg campus Federalist Society hosted the Cato Institute’s Ilya Shapiro for a debate about the Affordable Care Act with Associate Professor Michael R Dimino, Sr

Members of the Federalist Society with Associate Professor Michael R Dimino, Sr (right)

Ruby R. Vale Interschool Corporate Moot Court Competition

The Moot Court Honor Society hosted the 24th annual Ruby R Vale Interschool Corporate Moot Court Competition, the only one of its kind in the United States Prominent merger and acquisition attorney Richard E Climan gave the competition’s Distinguished Scholar Lecture

From left: Vice Dean J Patrick Kelly, Richard E Climan, and Ruby R Vale Professor of Business and Corporate Law Lawrence Hamermesh

Selected 2012 Campus Events

2012 Regulator y Compliance Program

ACLU Symposium: “Issues of Race and Innocence in Capital Punishment”

Annual John Gedid Lecture

Annual Jurist in Residence Lecture: Pennsylvania Supreme Court Justice Thomas Saylor

BLSA “Trailblazers and Pioneers”

BLSA Trayvon Martin Panel Discussion on Prosecutorial Discretion

Dean’s Leadership Forum on Diversity

Delaware Supreme Court Oral Arguments

Delaware Wills for Heroes

DuPont-Widener Law Symposium: Introduction to Intellectual Property Law

E John Wherr y Jr Portrait Unveiling

E John Wherr y, Jr Distinguished Lecture in Trial Advocacy and Professionalism

Environmental Law Distinguished Speaker Series

FDA Matters Symposium

Federalist Society Debate: Affordable Care Act

Guest Speaker: Susan Herman, President of the ACLU National Board

Harrisburg Wills for Heroes

Hot Coffee Documentar y Screening

Institute of Delaware Corporate and Business Law Symposium: “Fiduciar y Duties at the Intersection of Federal Bankruptcy and State Corporate Law ”

Intellectual Property Society: “A View from the Bench”

Martin Luther King Semester of Service Program

Preservation Law Workshop

Public Interest Resource Center Annual Reception

Ruby R Vale Interschool Corporate Moot Court Competition

Sports and Entertainment Law Association Symposium

Student Animal League Defense Fund speaker on Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act

Widener Journal of Law, Economics & Race Symposium: “The School-to-Prison Pipeline”

Widener Law Women’s Leadership Dinner

Featuring Lynne Abraham

Women's Law Caucus Panel Discussion: Alternative Careers

Women's Law Caucus Symposium: “Roe v Wade at 39 ”

Delaware students win BLSA regional competition

Members of the Delaware campus Black Law Students Association won the midAtlantic regional round of the Thurgood Marshall Mock Trial Competition in Philadelphia They prevailed in all five rounds of the competition, defeating teams from Drexel University Earle Mack School of Law, West Virginia University College of Law, the University of Richmond School of Law, University of Virginia School of Law, and Washington and Lee University School of Law

Both campuses of the law school hosted summer JURIST Academy programs for undergraduates considering law school Students in both programs traveled to courts and law firms, where they met and spoke at length with attorneys, judges, and other legal professionals Destinations included the Dauphin County Courthouse and Rhoads & Sinon in Harrisburg as well as the Delaware County, Pennsylvania, courthouse and Richards Layton & Finger in Wilmington Students participated in LSAT prep courses and mini-classes on criminal law and torts, and had conversations with successful minority attorneys, law students, and alumni on academic success strategies, the law school admissions process, and more

Delaware Student Kevin Krauss Receives Eisendrath Award

Kevin Krauss was named the inaugural recipient of the Eisendrath Award, honoring Project for Nuclear Awareness Chairman and Cofounder Craig Eisendrath, a former U S Foreign Service Officer who dedicated his work to a nuclear weapons–free world Krauss received the honor at a dinner program at the WHYY Hamilton Public Commons on Independence Mall in Philadelphia The award was presented by the Project for Nuclear Awareness with co-sponsorship from WHYY Studios It honored Krauss for exhibiting a commitment to achieving a peaceful world, free from the threat of nuclear weapons through international peace and human rights initiatives

The 2012 JURIST Academy class from the Harrisburg campus poses with Widener Law alumnus Vincent L Champion ’ 01, at far right, and Annie Etter, marketing coordinator at Rhoads & Sinon, which hosted the students on a firm field trip

Student Awards

In awards ceremonies on each campus, President James T Harris III presented the President’s Award to Delaware campus student Brian S Eng of Wilmington, Delaware, and to Harrisburg campus student Rachel Hadrick of Elizabethtown, Pennsylvania The award recognizes second-year students who have demonstrated scholastic achievement and who possess strong potential for meaningful contributions to the law school, the community, and the profession

Dean Linda L Ammons presented the Dean’s Award to Delaware campus student Eric J Juray of Maple Shade, New Jersey, and to Marisa Zizzi of Carlisle, Pennsylvania The Dean’s Award recognizes graduating students who, in the dean’s opinion, have demonstrated outstanding legal aptitude, exemplar y service, significant leadership skills, and the potential to become an outstanding member of the legal community

Harrisburg Students Win Best Brief at Rendigs National Products Liability Competition

Harrisburg campus students Tricia Lontz and Ryan Molitoris won the award for the best petitioner ’ s brief and advanced to the semifinal round One of the “final four ” among 22 teams from around the country at the 25th annual August A Rendigs National Products Liability Moot Court Competition, they lost only to the competition’s ultimate winner

Regional Alumni Gatherings

Every year, Widener Law alumni gather for regional chapter events throughout the mid-Atlantic and sometimes beyond We hope to see you at the next one in your area.

Delaware County Alumni Chapter Luncheon and CLE Program

Delaware County Alumni gathered for “When the Media Comes Knocking on Your Client’s Door,” a CLE program presented by a panel of speakers including Legal Intelligencer Editor-in- Chief Hank Grezlak, Legal Intelligencer reporter Zack Needles, Deputy Chief Counsel to the Pennsylvania State Treasur y Department Jack Stollsteimer, and Delaware County Alumni Chapter Chairman Jonathan Peri ’ 99, who served as moderator Pictured from left are Jack Stollsteimer, Esq , Jon Peri, Esq ’ 99, Hank Grezlak, and Zack Needles

New Jersey Alumni in Atlantic City and Mt. Laurel

Alumni gathered at the Borgata in Atlantic City in conjunction with the annual meeting of the New Jersey State Bar Association They joined Dean Linda Ammons in congratulating Kevin McCann ’75 the first Widener Law graduate elected president of the New Jersey State Bar Association New Jersey alumni also gathered in Mt Laurel to congratulate newly admitted members of the New Jersey Bar and to meet accepted applicants and first-year law students

New York City Alumni Reception

Harrisburg campus graduates Daniel Fix ’ 09, Olga Kondrashova ’ 07 Jonathan Kipnis ’ 07 and Vanessa McEvoy ’ 07 at the New York City alumni reception

Wilmington Happy Hour

Brandon Accardi (2L), Hon Calvin Scott ’89, Shauna Hagan ’04, and Robert O’Donnell ’ 92 at FireStone in Wilmington, where area alumni gathered to network and relax

Reading Alumni Reception

Reading, Pennsylvania–area alumni gathered to meet with Dean Linda Ammons and hear news about progress at their law school Fred Mogel ’80 hosted the event at the Berks County Bar Association

2012 an Active Year for Widener Women

Nearly 100 alumnae, staff, faculty, student leaders, and friends welcomed former Philadelphia District Attorney Lynne Abraham to the Delaware campus as the speaker for the inaugural Widener Law Women’s Leadership Dinner It was one of several Widener Women’s gatherings throughout the mid-Atlantic this year On the Harrisburg campus, the Widener Women’s Network “Tea & CLE” event brought alumnae together for Professor Jennifer Lear’s CLE program, “Made ya Look: Using detail to persuade ” The event benefited the Pamela K Karpouzis Memorial Scholarship In an event sponsored by Miriam Barish ’92 at the offices of her law firm Anapol Schwartz, the Philadelphia Chapter of the Widener Women’s Network welcomed Montgomery County Court of Common Pleas Judge Carolyn T Carluccio ’85 as its guest speaker Judge Carluccio’s topic: “Judicial Insight into Effective Trial Advocacy for Women ”

Northeastern Pennsylvania Alumni Reception

York Alumni Gathering

Widener Law hosted a happy hour with the help of alumni Timothy Norton II ’ 09 and Amanda Snoke Dubbs ’05 on June 14 at Maewyn’s Irish Pub in York, Pennsylvania

Pictured, from left, are Class Agent Nekeshia Maloney-Jones ’10, Prof James Diehm, Lishani Sunday, and David Sunday 07

Vice Dean Robyn Meadows and Professor Michael Cozzillio joined northeastern Pennsylvania–area alumni for a reception in Scranton, Pennsylvania Alumni gathered at Trax Bar & Grille to network and enjoy the company of Vice Dean Meadows and Professor Cozzillio

Pennsylvania Bar Association Annual Meeting

Alumni converged on Lancaster for the Pennsylvania Bar Association’s annual meeting and the law school’s concurrent networking reception Pictured: Melissa Leininger ’05 and Class Agent Paul Edger ’ 11

Harrisburg Alumni and Students Celebrate Successes

Cor y Iannacone ’05 of Rhoads & Sinon LLP and Widener Law Overseer Douglas Wolfberg ’96 of Page, Wolfberg & Wirth, LLC, joined faculty and administrators on the Harrisburg campus to celebrate 1L student achievements at the Scholars Reception The two alumni congratulated students and shared their own stories of success at Widener Law and beyond

Students Say Thank You

Students on both campuses expressed their gratitude for the many opportunities provided by Widener Law supporters during “Thanksgiving Day for Donors ” To all our contributors: thank you for your generosity!

Sixth Annual Central Pennsylvania Alumni & Friends Golf Outing

Eric Delp ’05 lines up a shot while teammates Greg Mills ’ 03 and Jeff Watson ’ 03 look on during putting contest The outing, held at Manada Golf Club in Grantville, benefited the Widener Law Scholarship Fund

Pictured below: Christian Davis 92 awards the trophy; James Jeff Watson 03, Matthew Monaghan ’05 Gregory Mills ’03 and Nathan Giunta ’03

Widener Law Alumni Sworn in to U S Supreme Court Bar

Twenty-nine Widener Law Alumni traveled to Washington, D C , to take an oath before the United States Supreme Court, joining its bar At the reception following the swearing-in, Chief Justice John G Roberts Jr and Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg made personal visits to congratulate the bar ’ s newest members The group lunched at The Madison Hotel, where National Advisor y Council member Kenneth Lopez ’95, CEO of A2L Consulting, was the featured speaker Chief Justice John G Roberts Jr poses with the Supreme Court Bar s newest members from Widener Law

Class of 2012 Record-Breaking Class Gift

Please join us in thanking the Harrisburg class of 2012 and congratulating the members of the 3L Class Gift committee

The group of volunteers raised a record-breaking amount for their class gift and used their funds to buy an engraved stone, now installed on the Harrisburg Campus Legacy Pathway garden Delaware graduates generously purchased a new Widener Law sign in the Ruby R Vale Moot Courtroom and made a donation to the Scholarship Fund

Dean Ammons Visits Alumni at Pennsylvania Judicial Center

On a recent trip to the Pennsylvania Judicial Center, Dean Ammons lunched with student externs and alumni serving the Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania, Prothonotar y ’ s Office and the Judicial Conduct Board of Pennsylvania The group was treated to a behind-the-scenes tour of the facility, where a significant number of Widener Law graduates are employed

Pictured: Alex Rosenbaum ’12 and Elizabeth Flaherty ’07 at the Pennsylvania Judicial Center

ATTENTION ALUMNI

We invite you to write to the Office of Development & Alumni Relations with news of interest Please feel free to include a photograph as well (digital 300 dpi or hard copy) We look forward to hearing from you

S C O T T C

B O R O W S K Y is celebrating the 35th anniversary of his company Kane Communications, as well as the 50th, 40th, and 30th anniversaries of a number of its trade and professional publications Since its founding, Kane Communications has focused on acquiring and resuscitating troubled publications for a variety of industries

K E V I N P. M C C A N N has assumed the presidency of the New Jersey State Bar Association for a one-year term

W I L L I A M M S L O A N E has been ennobled as the Count of Shoa by The Crown Council of Ethiopia, chaired by HIH Prince Ermias Sahle-Selassie HaileSelassie, grandson of HIM Emperor Haile Selassie I

J O H N M F A R E N I S H joined Venable LLP’s Washington, D C , office as a partner in the firm’s government contracts group

H O W A R D B R O W N , attorney at Howard H Brown & Associates in Kennett Square, Pennsylvania, was honored by the Delaware campus Black Law Students Association at its annual “Trailblazers and Pioneers” banquet

K A R E N L S E M M E L M A N of Hoffmeyer & Semmelman LLP has been named a 2012 top attorney by Pennsylvania Super Lawyers magazine

T O D D M B E R K was elected to the Philadelphia Trial Lawyers Association’s Board of Directors

B E R N A R D W S M A L L E Y spoke at the Dispute Resolution Institute’s Personal Injury Potpourri annual seminar at the Pennsylvania Convention Center in Philadelphia

Send your Class Note to: Office of Development & Alumni Relations Attn: Class Notes Widener University School of Law P O Box 7474 Wilmington, DE 19803-0474

Or email us at law alumni@mail widener edu

H O N J A M E S D E L E O N of the Philadelphia Municipal Court was honored by the Delaware campus Black Law Students Association at its annual “Trailblazers and Pioneers” banquet 1 9 7 5 1 9 67 1 9 87 1 9 7 9 1 89 2 1 89 0 1 89 1

T I M O T H Y J . D O N O V A N argued a case before the Delaware Supreme Court during its spring oral arguments held on the Delaware campus Mr Donovan represented the state in Leonard M Taylor v State of Delaware

K E N N E T H M . R O T H W E I L E R of Eisenberg, Rothweiler, Winkler, Eisenberg, & Jeck, P C , has been named a 2012 top attorney by Pennsylvania Super Lawyers magazine

K E V I N F B R A D Y joined Eckert Seamans Cherin & Mellott in its Wilmington, Delaware, office as a member In his new position, Mr Brady practices in corporate litigation, e-discovery issues, environmental insurance coverage litigation, and director and officer insurance coverage litigation

R O B E R T T . S Z O S T A K has been named a Pennsylvania Rising Star by Philadelphia magazine and Pennsylvania Super Lawyers magazine

R O B E R T R . L O N G has been promoted to vice president and house counsel at Donegal Insurance Group in Marietta, Pennsylvania

J O S E P H J M C G R O R Y spoke at the Montgomery County Township (Pennsylvania) Manager ’ s Consortium on “Billboards and Electronic Signage ”

H O N J O S E P H W O X L E Y has been nominated by Governor Chris Christie to the New Jersey Superior Court bench

C H R I S T O P H E R B W O L F E of the University of Delaware faculty was listed in Princeton Review’s 2012 book Best 300 Professors, which profiles teachers in 60 fields based on surveys by Princeton Review and ratings on ratemyprofessors com

J A M E S R B U R D E T T , a partner in Barnes & Thornburg LLP’s Washington, D C , office and a member of the firm’s Intellectual Property Department, was named a Washington, D C , Super Lawyer

R O M O N A F U L L M A N , director of the Office of the Delaware Commission for Women and of Delaware’s Division of Human Relations, was honored by the Delaware campus Black Law Students Association at its annual “Trailblazers and Pioneers” banquet

H O N . J O H N D . K E S S L E R was elected Magisterial District Judge for Abington, Pennsylvania

J O H N D . B A L A G U E R argued a case before the Delaware Supreme Court during its spring oral arguments held on the Delaware campus Mr Balaguer represented the defendants in Christian v Counseling Resource Associates

K I M H O L L A E N D E R has joined Langsam Stevens and Silver The firm has been renamed Langsam Stevens Silver & Hollaender LLP

H O N G E O R G E O V E R T O N of the Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas was honored by the Delaware campus Black Law Students Association at its annual “Trailblazers and Pioneers” banquet

W I L L I A M C . R E I L E Y has been named first assistant district attorney in the Schuylkill County (Pennsylvania) District Attorney’s Office

G A R Y B E I D E L M A N , partner and vice chair of the business and finance practice of Saul Ewing, was elected to the firm’s executive committee

R O B E R T E . M A T T A has been named assistant district attorney in the Schuylkill County (Pennsylvania) District Attorney’s Office

S A M U E L G U Y, attorney, civic activist, and former Wilmington, Delaware, City Council member, was honored by the Delaware campus Black Law Students Association at its annual “Trailblazers and Pioneers” banquet

D E R E K R L A Y S E R was a guest speaker at the National Business Institute’s CLE seminar “Personal Injury Boot Camp: Medicare Set-Asides and Settlement Tactics ” A N N M B A D M U S recently received the Dallas Business Journal ’ s 2012 Women in Business Award The award recognizes the top 25 Women Business Owners and Executives in the North Texas area

T I M O T H Y R L A W N was elected an officer of the Philadelphia Trial Lawyers Association

R O N A L D A . B R O W N , of Prickett, Jones & Elliot in Wilmington, Delaware, represented Southern Copper in a shareholder dispute with Grupo Mexico, resulting in a Chancery Court judgment of $2 billion and generating the largest attorneys’ fees in a case of this kind

D O M E N I C K C D I C I C C O was appointed Head of North American Insurance at Xchanging In this new role, Mr DiCicco will be responsible for ensuring relationships with existing customers and expanding Xchanging’s U S insurance business

K E V I N W G O L D S T E I N was elected to the board of directors of the Main Line Chamber Foundation for a three-year term 1 89 4 1 89 3 1 89 5 1 89 6 1 89 7 1 89 8 1 89 9 1 9 9 0

M A R Y A N N P. P L A N K I N T O N , a partner of MacElree Harvey in the firm’s Kennett Square, Pennsylvania, and Centreville, Delaware, offices, has been elected to the Board of the Centreville Delaware Civic Association She will serve as Secretary

W A L T E R H S W A Y Z E I I I has been named a 2012 Pennsylvania Super Lawyer

R I C H A R D R . W H I T E was appointed by New York State Governor Andrew M Cuomo to lead the new Tenant Protection Unit at New York State Homes and Community Renewal (HCR), the state’s housing agency

M A R T I N G . B E L I S A R I O has been reelected to the Justinian Society’s board of governors

T H O M A S A B O U L D E N has been named a partner at Timoney Knox LLP in Fort Washington, Pennsylvania

M I C H A E L B R O W N , Washington, D C , councilman and partner with The Madison Group in Washington, was honored by the Delaware campus Black Law Students Association at its annual “Trailblazers and Pioneers” banquet

S T E V E N E H O F F M A N served as faculty for a Lorman Education Services seminar, “Employment Law Update,” in Bethlehem and Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania

F E L I C I A Z . S M I T H , Chief Human Resources Officer of Fox Rothschild LLP, served as a speaker on the “Self-Funded Plans: Optimize Your Company’s Strategy” panel held at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia

M I R I A M B A R I S H was elected to the Philadelphia Trial Lawyers Association’s Board of Directors

J O S E P H C A G N O L I was promoted to equity shareholder at Segal McCambridge Singer & Mahoney

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I F E R M A N , Montgomery County (Pennsylvania) District Attorney, hosted an Emerging Leadership Summit for select high school students at Montgomery County Community College

S H A R O N L . F R E E M A N has become a partner at Nusbaum, Stein, Goldstein, Bronstein & Kron, P A She practices workers’ compensation law

R E G I N A F O L E Y T A T L O N G H A

I was elected to the Philadelphia Trial Lawyers Association’s Board of Directors for a three-year term She also recently served as a panelist on “Declining Part-Time Work Arrangements and the Impact on the Retention and Success of Women Attorneys” for the Philadelphia Bar Association’s Women in the Profession Committee

G L E N D . G I L M O R E was recently ranked seventh in Forbes’ “Who Are The Top 50 Social Media Power Influencers?”

J O S E P H J . M C H A L E spoke on “Update on Pharmacy Law” at the Penn State Milton S Hershey Medical Center's eighth annual Pharmacy Focus Forum in Harrisburg

L I S A A S H E A R M A N has joined the Lansdale, Pennsylvania–based law firm Hamburg, Rubin, Mullin, Maxwell & Lupin PC Ms Shearman will be a member of the firm’s Estates & Trusts Department

S C O T T B . C O O P E R spoke at the Dispute Resolution Institute’s Personal Injury Potpourri annual seminar at the Pennsylvania Convention Center in Philadelphia He is President of the Pennsylvania Association for Justice

K E L L Y A E R H A R D T - W O J I E has become a partner at Wilentz, Goldman & Spitzer in its Woodbridge, New Jersey, office Ms Erhardt-Wojie practices in the areas of real estate and banking

T H E R E S E M . F I N A N has joined Venable LLP’s Washington, D C , office She will practice patent and trademark law

J A Y M L E V I N has joined Eckell Sparks in Pennsylvania Mr Levin will focus his practice in the areas of businesses and commercial representation and general litigation, real estate, general counsel services, and family law

C A P T R I C H A R D L M O R R I S J R recently began running catamaran sailing trips to the U S Virgin Islands and the British Virgin Islands aboard Cricket VI 1 9 9 2 1 9 9 1 1 9 9 3

J O H N C P I S A - R E L L I has joined Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson LLP’s International Trade and Investment and Aerospace & Defense practices in Washington, D C

E I L E E N A G R E N A - P I R E T T I has been named to the board of the Delaware Academy of Medicine, which honored her at its 2012 annual meeting

F R A N C E S R R O G G E N B A U M has become a partner at Saul Ewing LLP in the firm’s Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, office Ms Roggenbaum practices in the areas of business, finance, and insurance

T H O M A S M S C U D E R I has become a partner at Connell Foley LLP Mr Scuderi practices in the areas of secured transactions, corporate law, and real estate law

T O D D J S H I L L is a producer of cinematographer Daniel Sariano’s feature-length film project Kings Bench

S A R A H C . Y E R G E R has been selected to receive the YWCA Tribute to Women of Excellence 2012 Award

M A J O R W I L L I A M J

C O L L I N S was recognized by House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi as he was recommissioned to the United States Marine Corps Major Collins, who served in the office of then-Speaker Pelosi from 2009 to 2011, has been assigned to the Judge Advocate Division at Headquarters Marine Corps, where he will be the Marine Corps IDES (Integrated Disability Evaluation System) Counsel Program Director

J O E L M E A D S has become a partner at Trenk, DiPasquale, Webster, Della Fera & Sodono, P C , in its Ardmore, Pennsylvania, office Mr Eads practices in the areas of commercial litigation and insurance coverage/bad faith litigation

J A M E S L A N N A S has been named the Broken Arrow (Oklahoma) Fire Department’s Assistant Fire Chief

D E N A B . C A L O has become a partner at Genova, Burns & Giantomasi She is Director of the firm’s Human Resources Practice Group and is based in the firm’s Newark and Camden, New Jersey, offices

R E X A D O N N E L L Y, Managing Shareholder of RatnerPrestia’s Wilmington, Delaware, office, presented “Intellectual Property: What it is and How to Protect It!” at the Philly Ad Club Workshop

C H R I S T O P H E R P G E R B E R was a featured presenter at the Chester County Association of Township Officials seminar, “Hot Topics in Municipal Employment Law ”

J U L I A S W A I N of Fox Rothschild LLP’s Family Law Practice presented to attorneys interested in handling custody cases with Philadelphia VIP, a nonprofit that provides pro bono legal services to low-income Philadelphians, at the firm’s Philadelphia office

G R E G O R Y S . C H E L A P, a partner in the Harrisburg law firm Skar-

K I M B E R L Y A G A N D Y J I N K S announced the opening of her own firm, The Jinks Law Firm, LLC, in Princeton, New Jersey She concentrates her practice on Family Law Litigation, Mediation, and Collaborative Divorces

H O N J C H R I S T O P H E R G I B S O N has been appointed a New Jersey State Superior Court judge by Governor Christie and the New Jersey State Senate Judiciary Committee

D A M I A N J A C K S O N of Reilly, Janiczek & McDevitt, P C , in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, was honored by the Delaware campus Black Law Students Association at its annual “Trailblazers and Pioneers” banquet

M A L I N D A A M I L L E R has become a partner at LeClairRyan in its Newark, New Jersey, office She will practice Medical Malpractice Law

J E F F R E Y C V E N Z I E was elected to the board of directors of the Construction Financial Management Association, Philadelphia chapter

J O H N P Z E I G L E R was elected partner at Swartz Campbell, LLC 1 9 9 4 1 9 9 5 1 9 69

W I L L I A M W K E F F E R has been named a partner in the Business Department of Montgomery McCracken Walker & Rhoads in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

M I C H A E L W . W I N F I E L D joined the Widener Law Harrisburg campus faculty as an adjunct He teaches Mediation

latosZonarich LLC, has been awarded a Certificate in Private Capital Markets by the Graziadio School of Business and Management at Pepperdine University in Los Angeles

G R E G O R Y W W E R K H E I S E R , a member of Morris Nichols’ business reorganization and restructuring group in Wilmington, has been named to the advisory board of Widener Law's Institute of Delaware Corporate and Business law

P A T R I C I A J

B A X T E R , an associate at Segal McCambridge Singer & Mahoney recently received the Philadelphia VIP’s 2011 Justice William J Brennan, Jr Award on behalf of the firm, which received the award in recognition of its pro bono services

A L B E R T M G R E T O argued a case before the Delaware Supreme Court during its spring oral arguments on the Delaware campus Mr Greto represented the plaintiffs in Christian v Counseling Resource Associates

D A V I D L R E B U C K was sworn in as the Director of the Division of Gaming Enforcement, the casino regulatory agency within the Department of Law and Public Safety of the State of New Jersey

R O B E R T S . S T I C K L E Y joined Langsam Stevens Silver & Hollaender LLP as a partner Mr Stickley practices in product liability, construction defect litigation, and auto and trucking industry matters

J U S T I N B W I N E B U R G H , head of Cozen O’Connor ’ s Media, Entertainment and Sports Law Practice, was a featured speaker at the Pennsylvania Bar Institute’s CLE, “Keeping it Real: The Legalities of Reality Television ” He also addressed the Philly Ad Club as part of a panel on the “Power of Celebrity in Advertising” and spoke at a Pennsylvania Bar Institute CLE seminar, “Entertainment Law in the 21st Century: Effective representation in an ever-changing industry ”

M A T T H E W F F O X of Rubin, Glickman, Steinberg and Gifford, PC presented a seminar to the Lansdale Limb Loss Support Group He also served as a speaker to the Independent Adults with Neuromuscular Disease Group in Lansdale, Pennsylvania

V I C K I M A R K O V I T Z of the Philadelphia District Attorney’s Office Insurance Fraud Unit received the office’s 2012 Fraud Fighter Award

J A S O N M E T T L E Y has joined Meyer, Unkovic & Scott LLP in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, as an associate Mr Mettley represents employee benefit plans in all matters

J O A N N G I A N G I U L I O has been appointed to the board of directors of the Lehigh University Alumni Association

M A R K R . O W E N S is included in this year ’ s Indiana Super Lawyers listing

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. P E R I , Neumann University’s Vice President and General Counsel, was recently elected chairman of The Walden School’s Board of Trustees

W I L L I A M P D O Y L E , chief of staff at the Marine Engineers’ Beneficial Association (MEBA), has been nominated by President Obama to be a commissioner of the Federal Maritime Commission

N I C H O L A S T M E N A S has become a partner with Fox Rothschild in its Atlantic City, New Jersey, office He practices in the areas of real estate, zoning, and land use

J W E S L E Y K O C S I S of the Kocsis Law Office in Athens, Pennsylvania, was recently selected by the National Trial Lawyers Association as one of its Top 40 Under 40 for 2012

P A T R I C K G R O C K has been elected director at the Wilmington, Delaware–based insurance defense law firm Heckler & Frabizzio, PA

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T K L E I N has been named in the rankings of the 2012 Chambers USA Guide, “Leaders in Law ”

P A T R I C K M M C K E N N A was elected to the board of directors of the Chamber of Commerce of Greater West Chester, Pennsylvania

M I C H A E L J . N E E D L E M A N recently presented an online continuing legal education class for Lawline com entitled “Duty to Defend in New Jersey and Pennsylvania ” The course was for insurance professionals and attorneys who represent insurance companies It analyzed the states’ differing standards and their interplay and examined how to handle procedural hurdles in each state 1 9 9 9 1 9 89 2 0 0 1 2 0 0 0 1 9 9 7

H E A T H E R A . T E R E S H K O has joined Christie, Pabarue, Mortensen & Young as a shareholder Her practice focuses on the defense of health systems, hospitals, physicians, and other healthcare providers who have been sued for medical negligence

S E N . R I C H A R D L . A L L O W A Y is running for reelection in Pennsylvania’s 33rd Senatorial District

K R I S T A E B U T L E R has joined Reger Rizzo & Darnall LLP’s Wilmington, Delaware, office as an associate in the Employment Practices and Litigation groups

B R I A N L C O L B O R N has been named of counsel at the international law firm Greenberg Traurig, LLP He practices in the firm’s Wilmington, Delaware, office

K R I S T E N M D A N I E L S has been elected 2012 treasurer of the Delaware County Bar Association

S C O T T W . R E I D was honored by the Delaware campus Black Law Students Association at its annual “Trailblazers and Pioneers” banquet The honor recognizes Widener Law graduates for their successes in the private and public services sectors, as well as their dedication to community service

B R A N D O N D R I C H A R D S recently was elected a member at Eckert Seamans Cherin and Mellott, LLC Mr Richards practices in the firm’s Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, office

A N D R E A C . R O D G E R S argued a case before the Delaware Supreme Court during its spring oral arguments held on the Delaware campus Ms Rodgers represented the defendants in Christian v Counseling Resource Associates

K A R A C . W H I T E has joined Burns White’s Health Care and Long-Term Care Practice Group She practices in the firm’s Philadelphia office

J O S E P H B C I C E R O has been named a shareholder at the international law firm Greenberg Traurig, LLP He practices in the firm’s Wilmington, Delaware, office

J A R E D B S H A F E R has been named a Pennsylvania Rising Star by Philadelphia magazine and Pennsylvania Super Lawyers Magazine

C H R I S T Y L W I L L I A M S O N joined Rawle & Henderson LLP’s Philadelphia office as an associate She will practice in the area of casualty and premises liability

C H R I S T O P H E R J C A B O T T assembled and moderated a panel featuring Howie Roseman, GM of the Philadelphia Eagles, and Andrew Brandt of ESPN at the recent Widener Entertainment and Sports Symposium CLE

M O N T E S Q U I R E , attorney in the intellectual property and commercial litigation practice section at Young Conaway Stargatt & Taylor, LLP, in Wilmington, Delaware, was honored by the Delaware campus Black Law Students Association at its annual “Trailblazers and Pioneers” banquet J A S O N A L

R I N O has joined the Pennsylvania Board of Probation and Parole’s Office of General Counsel E R I C S . L A M P R E Y has been named a Pennsylvania Rising Star by Philadelphia magazine and Pennsylvania Super Lawyers Magazine

E V A N Y L I U has been named a Pennsylvania Rising Star by Philadelphia magazine and Pennsylvania Super Lawyers Magazine

K A T H L E E N W . M C N I C H O L A S has been elected president of Delaware Academy of Medicine, which honored her at its 2012 annual meeting She is the organization’s first woman president

M A R C U S E M O N T E J O of Prickett, Jones & Elliot in Wilmington, Delaware, represented Southern Copper in a shareholder dispute with Grupo Mexico, resulting in a Chancery Court judgment of $2 billion and generating the largest attorneys’ fees in a case of this kind

J U S T I N S M O R I C O N I has been named a Pennsylvania Rising Star by Philadelphia magazine and Pennsylvania Super Lawyers Magazine 2 0 0 2 2 0 0 3 2 0 0 6 2 0 0 5

A M A N D A L S N O K E

D U B B S has started her own law firm, where she practices labor/ employment law and estate planning and administration She and her husband Matthew have a son, Samuel Robert, who will celebrate his second birthday in November

K E L I M N E A R Y has accepted a position as Deputy Attorney General at the Pennsylvania Office of Attorney General in the Litigation Section of the Civil Law Division, Harrisburg office

G U S T I N E J P E L A G A T T I joined Blank Rome LLP as an associate in the firm’s Philadelphia office Mr Pelagatti will practice in commercial litigation matters

C I R O C . P O P P I T I , the New Castle County Register of Wills, spoke at the 33rd Annual Law Day Breakfast at Salesianum School

A R V I D E V O N T A U B E joined the Boston, Massachusetts–based law firm Masterman Culbert & Tully LLP as an associate Mr Taube will practice in the areas of corporate and business matters, with a specialty in issues facing startups and emerging companies in the Boston area

C A R R O L L B

C O R R E L L of Winchester, Virginia, was elected chairman of the Winchester Republican Committee and appointed to the Planning Commission for the City of Winchester

E L I Z A B E T H A F L A H E R T Y became Associate Counsel to the Judicial Conduct Board of Pennsylvania in Harrisburg

M A R I A E H A R R I S , an associate at Martin Banks, has been appointed to the Board of Directors of the Friends of Farmworkers, a nonprofit organization dedicated to improving the living and working conditions of indigent farmworkers, mushroom workers, food processing workers, and workers from immigrant and migrant communities

C H R I S T O P H E R F S C H E L L H O R N served as second chair for the prosecution in the State of New Jersey v Dharun Ravi (a k a the “Rutgers Webcam Spying Trial”)

A D A M D W O L P E R has joined the law firm Herrick, Feinstein LLP’s Newark, New Jersey, office as an associate in the firm’s Restructuring and Bankruptcy Group

K E V I N G C O L L I N S has joined Barnes & Thornburg LLP’s Wilmington, Delaware, office as an associate in the firm’s Finance, Insolvency, and Restructuring Department

C H R I S T I N A M F I S H E R was interviewed recently for The Pennsylvania Bar News Ms Fisher is the Central Pennsylvania regional manager and Dauphin County coordinator for the PBA Young Lawyers Division–supported “Wills for Heroes” programs Last year she coordinated events in Dauphin, Cumberland, Adams, Berks, and Lebanon counties and was honored by Pennsylvania Wills for Heroes in July Ms Fisher was also named a 2012 Pennsylvania Rising Star

M A T T H E W R K R U P P started a community service project called “Lighten Up Harrisburg ” The project started as an effort to relight the Walnut Street Bridge and since has grown into bringing light into communities through replacing burnt-out bulbs, repairing and replacing damaged and missing light posts, and assisting the City of Harrisburg with identifying future lighting needs

K R I S T I N A M O L A V O Q U E of the Chester County, Pennsylvania, law firm MacElree Harvey, has been named to the Pennsylvania Rising Stars list as one of the top up-and-coming attorneys in the state for 2012 by Super Lawyers

A R O N F. G O L D has been appointed to the 167th A-100 Foreign Service Officer class with the Department of State His first diplomatic duties will be as a consular officer serving Americans abroad 2 0 0 8 2 0 0 7 2 0 0 9

K E V I N E H A R C H A R received the 2011 Exemplary Service Award from the Lackawanna Bar Association Mr Harchar was honored for his involvement with “Wills for Heroes,” a nonprofit organization that provides first responders with important legal documents at no charge

J O S H U A B . S C H W A R T Z of Eisenberg, Rothweiler, Winkler, Eisenberg, & Jeck, P C , has been named a Pennsylvania Rising Star by Philadelphia magazine and Pennsylvania Super Lawyers Magazine

D A N I E L J D E V L I N has joined Margle Law Offices, P C , in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, as an associate

E R I N K G R A D Y has become the newest member of the Central Dauphin School Board in Pennsylvania

J A S O N G G O T T E S M A N of Pennsylvania Legislative Services appeared on PCN’s The Pennsylvania Legislative Service Rundown

J A R R E T T V I N E has joined Polsinelli Shughart as an associate in the firm’s Wilmington office He will practice in the firm’s Bankruptcy and Financial Restructuring group

I N M E M O R I A M

E L I Z A B E T H A S T E F A N S K I joined Burns White LLC as an associate in the firm’s Health Care and Long-Term Care Group, Philadelphia office

M A T T H E W T E Y E T of Hass & Hecht, LLP, spoke at a two-hour webcast entitled “Reporting of Foreign Assets: Navigating the Latest Information Reporting LIVE Webcast ”

E R I N A P A D O V A N I joined Burns White LLC’s Philadelphia office as an associate in the firm’s Workers’ Compensation Group

A N D R E W R S I L V E R M A N married Carolyn Bridget Enyart at St Monica’s Church in Berwyn, Pennsylvania

M I C H A E L A C I P R I A N O has joined Eckell Sparks as an associate Mr Cipriano’s practice focuses on personal injury, employment law, family law, and commercial litigation

E L I Z A B E T H A M E R C O G L I A N O was elected School Board Director for the Tredyffrin/Easttown School District in Chester County, Pennsylvania

L A U R A E N O W I C K I has joined Laffey, Bucci & Kent, LLP, as an associate 2 0 1 1 2 0 1 0

Santino Ceccotti ’06 received the Delaware Bar Association s Profile in Courage Award at the association s Law Day lunch

SCOT T R JAY ’80

JOHN R CHRISTIE ’84

MARION K RECHSTEINER ’88

STEPHEN B CHASKO ’ 90

WILLIAM V PETERS ’ 91

DAVID M MCCANNEY ’ 93

WAYNE A SOUSA ’95

Valerie A Davis 11, a lecturer in law at Martin Luther University in Halle (Saale) Germany met up with Professor Jill Family in London for a brief reunion

Diana C (Esposito) Kelleher ’09 recently married Sean Kelleher the Head Men’s & Women’s Tennis Coach at Franklin and Marshall College Ms Kelleher is currently clerking for the Honorable Dennis E Reinaker in the Lancaster County Court of Common Pleas

Doug Wolfberg ’96 met up with Pat

’94 on a recent trip to Hawaii