U N I V E R S I T Y O F B A LT I M O R E
SCHOOL OF LAW MAGAZINE
fall 2006
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Team Spirit:
UB’s Moot Court
Program
P. 24
Top-Notch
Adjuncts
P. 30
Larry Katz
Retires
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Buthaina Shukri, M.S. ’00
Managing Editor
Catherine Leidemer
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Graphic Designers
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Cover Illustration
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Inside Illustrations
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Photography
Chris Hartlove
Richard Lippenholtz, B.S. ’74
Rich Riggins
Contributors
Michael Cather
Karen Hammer
Helen Harnett
Chris Hart
Christianna McCausland
Mary Medland
Paula Novash
Elizabeth Schuman, M.A. ’94
Giordana Segneri
School of Law Dean
Gilbert A. Holmes
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enable future alumni to follow in your footsteps and continue UB’s
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FEATURES
A Fond Farewell 3
For the past five years, Dean Gilbert Holmes has worked
diligently to take the UB School of Law to a new level.
In 2007, he will leave behind a modern, competitive law
school that he helped to forge. He is, however, taking his
signature bowtie collection with him.
by Elizabeth Schuman, M.A. ’04
Judgment Day 22
For students in UB’s longstanding Moot Court Program,
it all comes down to one day, one trial. The competition is
fierce and the pressure is high, but for more than 20 years,
UB has continued to shine.
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COLUMNS
2 Dean’s Message
7 Up Front
• Q&A: Associate Professor Cassandra Jones Havard
brings students up to date on dangerous predatory
lending practices.
• Perfect Partners: UB and the ACTL collaborate on the
Litigation Skills Program.
• Immigrant Rights Project: UB’s Civil Advocacy Clinic
reaches out to a growing immigrant population.
11 Faculty Updates
13 Faculty Briefs
by Christianna McCausland
At the Top of Their Game 24
UB’s flourishing adjunct faculty program gives students the
opportunity to learn from the best and brightest current legal
practitioners. Here, we profile four top adjunct professors
who use their years of hands-on experience to help law
students hit the ground running.
by Paula Novash
Reading Between the Lines 28
A UB team led by Jane Murphy, co-director of UB’s Family Mediation
Law Clinic, introduces a new screening program that helps keep
domestic violence out of the mediation process.
19 Faculty Article: “Post-Crawford: Time to
Liberalize the Substantive Admissibility of
a Testifying Witness’s Prior Consistent
Statements” by Lynn McLain
20 Faculty Article: “Client Counseling,
Mediation, and Alternative Narratives of
Dispute Resolution” by Robert Rubinson
34 Student File
35 School of Law Calendar of Events
by Chris Hart
37 Development
The End of an Era 30
After spending nearly 30 years at the University of Baltimore
wearing numerous hats—everything from law dean to professor to
interim provost—Larry Katz officially retired in July 2006. But the
unquestionable impact he had at UB will always be felt on campus
and throughout the community.
40 Alumni Report
by Mary Medland
»ON THE COVER
This month’s cover artist is Geoffrey Moss. His work has
appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Time
and Newsweek and has been nominated for a Pulitzer Prize.
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DEAN’S MESSAGE
AS
and as the adjacent article details,
this is my final year as dean of the University of
Baltimore School of Law. The past five years
have seen tremendous growth and development
in the school and in the law. While many have
congratulated me on these accomplishments, I recognize that
this has been a team effort of students, faculty, staff, alumni and
friends of the law school working together to bring about
meaningful change.
MANY OF YOU KNOW
The School of Law has reached new heights in teaching and enhancing
the lives and successes of our community. Our reach has extended beyond
Baltimore City into not only all parts of the state of Maryland, but also the
nation and the world. Similarly, our impact has been felt everywhere: locally,
from the successes of our students and faculty members and from the students in Baltimore City; regionally, nationally and globally with judges,
law firms, corporations, government entities and nonprofit organizations.
I am leaving this position with a view toward a potentially greater and
more significant challenge than those we have undertaken in the past five
years. That challenge is increasing and ensuring diversity in the legal profession for decades to come. The statistics are stark: No single minority group in
the United States accounts for more than four percent of the lawyers in this
country, and the minority attorneys in total represent approximately seven
percent of the lawyers in the country. These percentages are woefully low
given the fact that approximately one-third of the U.S. population comprises
people of color, and that percentage is growing toward a projected 43 percent
by 2030—the year by which Justice Sandra Day O’Connor predicted in the
Grutter case that we should no longer need affirmative action programs in
higher education.
How we work strategically and effectively to ensure that we have a diverse
legal profession that reflects the diversity of our society is one of the major
challenges in front of us. It is not just about affirmative action programs in
colleges and law schools. Our efforts must include encouraging and retaining
minority students in middle and high schools, as well as shoring up leaks in
the pipeline at the elementary and preschool levels.
My entire professional life has involved opening doors of inclusion.
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During my tenure as dean, we have strengthened the Baltimore Scholars
Program, enhancing the opportunity for students at the Historically Black
Colleges and Universities in Maryland to attend law school and offering
scholarships for them at the UB School of Law. Moreover, during the past
year, I have become increasingly involved in the Pipeline Diversity Initiative
of the American Bar Association and the Law School Admissions Council,
and have begun conversations among individuals within Maryland on the
need for collaborative efforts to strengthen the pipeline for minorities into the
legal profession.
Achieving the goal of a diverse and therefore more credible legal profession
will take time, effort and commitment. I believe that every assignment we
undertake trains us for the next one. I appreciate the years I have devoted to
being the dean at the UB School of Law, as they have been vital in preparing
me for my next assignment.
I wish to thank all of the individuals with whom I have had the pleasure
of working over the past five years for their support, assistance and dedication.
We have accomplished great things and, as I move on to new challenges, I
will take with me the love and the lessons I have received at UB.
Thank you,
Gilbert A. Holmes
Dean
A FOND FAREWELL
B Y ELIZABETH S CHUMAN , M.A. ’94
Stepping down from the helm as dean
of the University of Baltimore School
of Law, Gilbert Holmes has much to
consider. Since his arrival in 2001, he has
shaken things up—
creating a law school fit for the 21st
century. In doing so, he has fashioned
a school that reflects his belief in the
real-world, hands-on practice of law.
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RECEIVED THE
PRESIDENTIAL AWARD
FROM THE NATIONAL BAR
ASSOCIATION for his
many contributions to
legal education.
INAUGURATED AN
ANNUAL HOMECOMING
TRADITION.
Participation has
increased each year
since 2002.
CREATED THE DEAN’S
SCHOLARS PROGRAM,
which has improved
the high-end LSAT
and GPA credentials of
incoming classes.
ESTABLISHED A LAW SCHOOL-FOCUSED
DEVELOPMENT AND ALUMNI RELATIONS
(DAR) OFFICE. Prior to Holmes’ tenure, a
more centralized office provided this
function. The law school’s DAR office is
now headed by an assistant dean.
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INCREASED UB’S STUDY ABROAD
PROGRAMS with the addition of
the Critical Global Classroom
summer program in South
America and the Comparative
Law winter program in Curaçao.
OVERSAW THE RENOVATION OF THE
VENABLE BAETJER HOWARD MOOT
COURT ROOM into a dynamic and
flexible “smart” space capable of
housing court activities, lectures,
meetings and other presentations.
“When I arrived, the School of
Law had established itself in and
around Baltimore as a fine law
school,” he wrote in a recent
report. What needed to be done,
he suggested, was position the
School of Law as “a top-flight
regional law school.” So he did.
He’s the first to emphasize the dual nature of law—insisting that students learn the how-to in addition to the theory, while enhancing diversity and bolstering outreach to internal and external communities. Though
this big picture defines his vision, it’s the details that define his tenure.
Under his leadership, the School of Law has added or enhanced
numerous clinics for students. These accomplishments include the Center
for Families, Children and the Courts; the Stephen L. Snyder Center for
Litigation Skills; and the Center for International and Comparative Law.
Further, he added writing clinics for students, emphasizing the importance
of clear, accurate communication in the profession.
The litigation center, he noted, is affiliated with the American College
of Trial Lawyers. “We are the only law school in the country to have a formal agreement with a local chapter of this organization,” he says.
When Holmes arrived at UB, the School of Law sponsored about three
to five lectures annually. Today, the 10 to 20 community lectures include a
Library Lecture Series that has featured talks on the 50th anniversary of
Brown v. Board of Education and the 40th anniversary of the Voting
Rights Act, a Women in Advocacy lecture series and book signings.
“It’s fair to say that his commitment to clinical education and a writing
program for law students will be important hallmarks of his period as
dean,” says University of Baltimore President Robert L. Bogomolny.
Another of his many achievements was the establishment of two scholarships. The merit-based Dean’s Scholars program awards full tuition and
a book stipend to outstanding students from any undergraduate program.
Thanks to this program, students like Joyce Lombardi, J.D. ’06, who graduated at the top of her law school class in June, realize their dream of
attending law school.
“The program changed my life and financially made it possible to
attend school,” says Lombardi, who earned her bachelor’s degree from
McGill University in Quebec. Also of value to her was the dean’s genuine
interest in her work, such as when he encouraged her to put together a
seminar on human trafficking. “I broached the idea with him and he gave
me the resources at UB to make it happen,” Lombardi says. “I thought
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maybe 20 people would show, but it was more like 100.”
Today, Lombardi is a law clerk in the sex offense unit of the Baltimore
City State’s Attorney’s Office. “I’m honing my craft, and I hope to become
a prosecutor,” she says.
The second scholarship, the Baltimore Scholars Program, is a rigorous
program designed for students from Maryland’s Historically Black
Colleges and Universities of Coppin State University, Morgan State
University, Bowie State University and the University of Maryland Eastern
Shore. It includes extensive writing instruction and LSAT preparation.
Upon completion of the program and admission to the UB School of
Law, students who enroll receive a $5,000 scholarship.
For Matt Minson, 30, who is scheduled to earn his undergraduate
degree in business management from Coppin in June 2007, the Baltimore
Scholars Program has opened many doors. He is convinced that he has
benefited enormously from the writing instruction and access to UB’s network of professors and lawyers.
“Now that I am in the program, I see how someone without the access I
have had would have a hard time getting into law school,” says Minson, who
plans to take the LSAT later this year. “Without the LSAT prep course, it
would be very difficult—plus I couldn’t have paid for the course on my own.”
He also admires the program’s emphasis on education. “What really
interested me was that UB’s goal is to help any student achieve in law
school or grad school, regardless of whether that school is UB. The program prepares students to excel; that’s a real sticking point for me.”
INAUGURATED AN ANNUAL
LITIGATION WEEK PROGRAM
as part of the Snyder Center
for Litigation Skills and created
the Legacy of Excellence, a
litigation hall of fame.
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APPROVED AND
GUIDED THE
CREATION OF THE
LL.M. IN THE LAW
OF THE UNITED
STATES.
INSTITUTED
THE LAW
SCHOOL’S
ATTORNEY-INRESIDENCE
PROGRAM.
FULLY SUPPORTED THE
EXISTING BALTIMORE
SCHOLARS PROGRAM,
transforming it into a
nationally touted
pipeline program.
For now, Minson is focused on completing his senior year, scoring well
on the LSAT and working in admissions at a distance-learning school. “I
never imagined law school before becoming a Baltimore Scholar,” he says.
Now, he adds, he cannot imagine anything but becoming a lawyer by
continuing his education at UB.
Success stories like those of Lombardi and Minson drive Holmes’
work. The dean is passionate about reaching out to the community, with
a particular focus on tapping the energies of young people. He remembers
speaking to eighth-graders at West Baltimore Middle School during the
school’s Law Day program. “I told them that it’s important to stay in the
game,” he says. “If you’re not in the game, you do not have a chance.”
He believes that every child and individual deserves opportunity. “We live in
a society that says if you don’t figure it out by [age] 11, you’re written off. You
can’t write anyone off,” he says with the perspective of a so-called “late bloomer.”
“I wasn’t the best student. I graduated with a 2.3 GPA in college. I graduated law school in the middle of the class,” he says. “After law school, I realized
that lives, property, plans and futures were in my hands. If I didn’t do my
best, my clients would not see success. That became my quest for excellence.”
EARLY AMBITIONS ....................................................
As a child, Holmes dreamed of becoming a Secret Service agent. “I was
fascinated by the idea,” says the would-be sleuth. “I also wanted to work
for the Treasury Department, where I could investigate counterfeiting.”
Later, as an undergraduate at Bucknell, Holmes channeled that investigative streak into a degree in chemistry.
By 1968, though, during the summer
between his junior and senior years, his
views changed irrevocably.
“Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated, then Bobby Kennedy. There was
the national convention and the riots.
Suddenly, I knew where I needed to be,”
he says, reflecting on those turbulent
times. He would change the way things
were done, Holmes thought, by becoming mayor of New York. And since he
believed naively that all politicians were
lawyers, he set his sights on law school.
The political dreams eventually faded,
but he had found his calling.
He earned his J.D. from New York
University School of Law, practiced law
and eventually moved into teaching and
administrative roles. When he arrived at
the University of Baltimore in the summer of 2001, he brought experience as a
faculty member at the Texas Wesleyan
TRANSFORMED THE
LAW LIAISON
COMMITTEE of the UB
Alumni Association
into the existing Law
Alumni Society.
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RECEIVED THE
FIRST LIFETIME
ACHIEVEMENT
AWARD from the
National Black Law
Students Association.
INSTITUTED
THE LAW
SCHOOL’S
JUDGE-INRESIDENCE
PROGRAM.
HIRED A DIRECTOR
OF ACADEMIC
SUPPORT to
implement Bar
Task Force
initiatives.
University School of Law (where he was also associate dean for academic
affairs and budget), Southern Methodist Law School and Seton Hall
University Law School.
DIVERSITY ...........................................................
Along with his professional and administrative skills, Holmes has
remained mindful of his unique role as one of the profession’s first
African-American deans. Diversity is a hallmark of his tenure. “The value
in this effort is that 20 years from now, our population will be more
diverse,” he says. “If the legal system does not reflect that population, there
is the real likelihood that people will not have confidence and the whole
system of government will tumble.”
Within the past five years, the School of Law has become more reflective of society, says Bogomolny. “Gil has created diversity in hiring and
that is a significant contribution. Nationally, we are among the top 10 law
schools in terms of having a diverse faculty.
“That is critically important because our school closely reflects the
student body and nature of the community,” he continues. “This is consistent with American values.”
Enthused about the idea of helping young people do more, Holmes
believes that reaching out to students of all backgrounds cannot wait. “We
need to create a pipeline concept of diversity,” he says. “We must have professionals talk to students, at the pre-kindergarten level through high
school, to shore up that pipeline.”
REACHING OUT TO ALUMNI ..............
As Holmes built programs and established outreach into the community, he
also reached out to alumni with new
events and enhanced communication. He
recognized the value of alumni, for both
financial support and advocacy, and made
it a priority to build new bridges with
former students. “Gil worked very hard to
get more involvement from the alumni,”
says William Roger Truitt, J.D. ’82, senior
partner at DLA Piper Rudnick Gray Cary
US LLP.
Truitt, who is a member of the Dean’s
Law School Advisory Council and previously served as its chair for two years,
cites the new homecoming weekend and
golf tournament, increased alumni giving
and improved Law School Advisory
Council as being among Holmes’
achievements during his tenure as dean.
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EXPANDED THE CLINICAL EDUCATION PROGRAM with the
addition of a Family Law Mediation Clinic and an immigration law project in the Civil Advocacy Clinic. The Tax
Clinic, which was originally funded on a temporary
basis by a grant from the Internal Revenue Service, is
now fully funded by the law school.
CURRENTLY SERVING ON THE FIRST MARYLAND
JUDICIAL CAMPAIGN CONDUCT COMMITTEE.
MJCCC is a “blue ribbon” panel of attorneys and
academics constituted to develop standards for
the conduct of candidates, judges and nonjudges in contested judicial elections.
The results of the dean’s efforts demonstrate the value alumni place on
their UB education, as evidenced by the increasing number of alumni who
contribute to UB and the law school. “Gil’s respected presence throughout
the alumni community is reflected not only in the numbers of donors who
have contributed, but also in the level of their commitment,” says Carey
Deeley, J.D. ’79, partner at Venable LLP.
For Holmes, the plan has always been to promote the many UB graduates who have prominent roles in the community. “One-third of the judges,
state’s attorneys and public defenders in Maryland are UB alumni,” he says.
“There is extraordinary energy related to the growth of UB, its innovative
teaching and its students. This is our message to the community.”
REFLECTIONS .........................................................
As Holmes plans his next steps—he’s considering becoming a voice in
creating that growing diversity pipeline—he says that today’s law students
have an important task at hand.
“Law students must understand that they have a professional responsibility to clients and society,” he says. “We are responsible as lawyers to have
justice prevail, be good citizens, be civil and set the tone for behavior.”
He credits his wife, Joy, a corporate sales manager, for her perspective
and insight about leadership and management. He’s also proud of his two
children. His son is completing a doctorate in history at the University of
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CURRENTLY SERVING THE FIRST YEAR OF
A TWO-YEAR TERM (2006-07) AS THE
PRESIDENT OF MICPEL. Holmes is the first
law school dean to serve as president
since Dean Emeritus Larry Katz served as
its initial president in 1975.
GUIDED THE DEVELOPMENT AND
INTEGRATION OF THE
NEW INTRODUCTION
TO LAWYERING/
TORTS CLASS.
ONGOING: Hired
13 new, highly
qualified tenured
or tenure-track
faculty (between
2002 and this fall).
Illinois, while his daughter is an honors student and athlete at the
University of Pittsburgh.
In addition to his work at UB, Holmes has earned national accolades.
These many honors include serving as president of the Maryland
Institute for Continuing Professional Education of Lawyers, an affiliation
among UB, the University of Maryland and the Maryland State Bar
Association; chairing the Association of American Law Schools section
on part-time divisions; receiving the presidential award from the
National Bar Association for contributions to legal education; and receiving the inaugural Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Black
Law Students Association.
Students, professors and alumni who have had the opportunity to learn
from and work with Holmes speak to his dynamic presence in the classroom and beyond. “In my view, Gil’s greatest strengths are his enthusiasm,
integrity and purpose as supplemented by his strong work ethic and availability at all hours of the day,” says Truitt.
In that same vein, Deeley, who is beginning a term as vice chair on the
Law School Advisory Council, adds: “It is critical that the person who is
charged with the responsibility of leading this institution be, in all regards,
a welcoming and respected presence in the community. Gil has furthered
the University and, as past deans have done, has continued to carry the
University forward and upward.
“He will be missed.” NB
UP FRONT
Q&A
Cassandra Jones Havard
associate professor of law |
By Catherine Leidemer
Cassandra Jones Havard joined the faculty of the University of Baltimore
School of Law in 2005, bringing with her a substantial background in
banking law and a particular interest in predatory lending—a growing
trend that targets unsuspecting minorities and disadvantaged families
across the nation at an alarming rate. She has published extensively on the
regulation of financial institutions, the Community Reinvestment Act and
the relationship between race and lending practices.
Before joining the UB law school faculty, Jones Havard was a tenured
member of the faculty at Temple University’s James E. Beasley School of
Law. She has also been a visiting professor at the Catholic University
School of Law.
Before embarking on her teaching career, Jones Havard practiced law
in Washington, D.C., as counsel for the Federal Deposit Insurance
Corporation and as a senior trial attorney for the Federal Home Loan
Bank Board and Federal Savings and Loan Insurance Corporation. She
also served as a trial attorney in the Criminal Section of the U.S.
Department of Justice’s Tax Division.
Jones Havard is an honors graduate of Bennett College and was
editor in chief of the Black Law Review at the University of Pennsylvania
Law School. After law school, she clerked for the late Hon. A. Leon
Higginbotham of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. She is a
recipient of the 2005 Maryland Higher Education System Welcome
Fellowship and currently serves as chair of the CLEO Committee of the
American Bar Association’s Business Law Section and as chair of the
AALS Section on Financial Institutions.
Q: Your first positions after your clerkship were as an attorney adviser for the U.S.
Department of Transportation and then as a trial attorney for the Criminal Section of
the U.S. Department of Justice’s Tax Division. What drew you to these positions in
particular?
A: The positions were in Washington, D.C., and I had decided that I wanted to begin my
career with the federal government. I knew that the work in the headquarters of any
federal agency in Washington would be varied and challenging. Judge Higginbotham
encouraged government service as a way to gain excellent legal skills fast, and the idea
of being a young lawyer in the nation’s capital was too exciting to resist. The position at
Corporation. You next served as counsel for the Federal Deposit Insurance
Corporation in Washington, D.C. How did these positions fit in with your long-term
career goals?
A: These positions gave me a chance to practice civil litigation and provided me
with an opportunity to become a more well-rounded lawyer. I worked at the FSLIC
during the savings and loan crisis. It was scary and exciting at the same time,
because we faced novel legal issues daily—–there had been very few bank failures
since the Great Depression. The FSLIC was a dynamic agency, full of young attorneys committed to doing an excellent job. We were creating new law and policy
every day. We worked tirelessly—many long evenings and weekends—and actually
enjoyed each other’s company enough to party together.
It was an unusual work experience and I learned a lot from it. When the FSLIC
was abolished in 1989, many of us moved over to the Federal Deposit Insurance
Corportion and some went to the Office of Thrift Supervision (the successor to the
FSLIC).
Q: Much of your recent research has focused on the issue of access to credit and
how equal access is often denied to people of color. How and why has predatory
lending become such a predominant issue in today’s society?
A: Around the same time Congress passed legislation making home equity lending
easier, the banking industry was deregulated. Together, those two events spawned
many changes in home financing, including allowing nonregulated entities to engage
in primary home financing and home equity lending.
the Department of Transportation gave me an opportunity to combine my interest in
Q: Who suffers the most from predatory lending, and how pervasive is this problem in
affordable housing, an interest I developed in law school, with transportation policy. The
the Baltimore region?
Department of Justice is unparalleled in the litigation practice that it offers.
A: Studies have shown that African-Americans and other minorities, regardless of
Q: By the late 1980s, you had moved on to work as a senior trial attorney at the
income level, receive high-priced subprime mortgages far more frequently than
Federal Home Loan Bank Board and Federal Savings and Loan Insurance
whites—even when they are equally qualified.
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Q: What can be done to rectify current predatory lending practices?
Q: Which do you most enjoy?
A: Much can be done. Mortgage lending is regulated primarily at the state level, so
A: My students tease me, and rightfully so—they say that I introduce every topic by
rectifying the problem depends on individual states addressing it. There must be
saying, “This is my favorite topic because... .” So I want to say I enjoy them all
more comprehensive legislation adopted by states to curtail the practices of
equally, but I guess if really pressed, I would say that the course I most enjoy is
unscrupulous lenders.
Banking Law because it is my area of expertise.
It’s noteworthy that a regulation issued by the Office of the Comptroller of the
Currency is a barrier against effective monitoring of unfair lending practices. That is,
Q: What makes UB an ideal institution at which you can pursue your teaching interests and share your expertise with students?
the OCC regulates national banks and its regulations preempt the applicability of
state anti-predatory lending restrictions on national banks. That means state banks
A: First, I really like the students; they are compassionate people. When I first
in a state with anti-predatory lending laws are subject to restrictions that do not
arrived at UB as a visiting professor, my husband suffered a serious illness. For the
apply to national banks. I think that national banks should be subject to the states’
next two years, there was not a day when one of the students I taught during my
anti-predatory lending laws or that a federal anti-predatory lending law should be
first year wouldn’t stop to ask about my husband and express concern for him. That
passed and applied to both state and national banks.
was really uplifting for me.
As a teacher, I find UB students to be diligent and hard working. They are
Q: Can reasonable solutions be implemented anytime in the foreseeable future?
earnest learners, and that inspires any teacher. Many of my students are often first-
A: I sure hope so. Several law professors have incorporated the topic into their
generation college students and first-generation professionals, so UB is an “access
scholarly agenda, which I think is an indication of how serious we, in the academic
institution;” it fulfills dreams. These students will be committed to providing fair and
community, consider this issue. When one understands the scope and magnitude of
reasonable access to legal services and I am proud to be a part of their training.
the problem, it is difficult to stay silent. This is such a hot policy area that the related
scholarship often has a direct and immediate impact and provides direction to states
and cities, as well as to the federal government. I am currently working on an article
that proposes greater liability for mortgage brokers and others involved in the homeselling process if they are found to have tricked home buyers.
Q: Since becoming a law professor, you’ve taught classes in banking law, contracts
and community economic development. What ideas in these areas must today’s law
students learn in order to be properly equipped to enter the legal arena?
A: First, all of the topics are of great intellectual interest to me. As substantive
courses, they provide a different analytical lens and perspective from which
students can learn the law. Typically, we teach law school using the case method.
Students read appellate decisions and are focused on analyzing the issues from the
litigation-based outcome of the dispute.
However, banking and community economic development, specifically, and
contracts at its core, are transactional courses. They require the student to analyze
and to anticipate potential problems and to draft documents that address those
potential problems to avoid litigation.
Q: Have there been any significant changes or developments in these areas in
recent years? If so, why?
A: Again, I think what’s most important and what the legal academy is realizing is
that a significant component of teaching legal skills is to teach students to think
“transactionally.” I think we are moving away from appellate case reading as the
primary instrument of teaching law. In that regard, good drafting is a core component of anticipating and avoiding legal disputes.
Q: What classes do you currently teach at UB?
A: I typically teach Contracts, Business Organizations and Banking, although I
haven't taught Banking Law in two years. Next spring, I will pick up a new course, a
Commercial Transactions Workshop.
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UBSPI Produces Another Record Year
Following in the footsteps of
previous years, the 12th
annual UB Students for
Public Interest Law auction,
held on Feb. 10, 2006, was a
rousing success. The event
raised $33,000, which funded
summer grants allowing law
students to work for public
interest organizations.
The following pairings of
students and public interest
organizations constituted the
summer 2006 internship
roster: Keri Ann Griffith, Maryland Disability Law Center; Ryan
McQuighan, Maryland Crime Victims Resource Center; Leigh Fernald,
ACLU of Maryland; Darlyn McLaughlin, Legal Aid Bureau; Jacob Thor
Lampbell, Friends of the Family; Sabrina C. Daly, U.S. Small Business
Administration; Marisa Button, Pennsylvania Immigration Resource Center;
Natasha Robinson, Office of the Public Defender, Prince George’s County;
Nicole Zeichner, United Workers Association; and Anique Drouin, Homeless
Persons Representation Project.
UB and
ACTL
Collaborate
on Litigation
Skills
Program
On March 7, 2006, the
School of Law and fellows
of the Maryland Chapter of
American College of Trial
Lawyers celebrated their
unprecedented collaboration
on UB’s Litigation Skills
José F. Anderson helps make history at UB.
Program.
The agreement ceremony, which also marked the first day of Litigation
Week 2006, formalized a partnership begun years earlier when Albert
Brault—a partner with Brault, Graham, Scott & Brault LLC of Rockville,
Md., the father of three UB law alums and an ardent law school supporter—
saw the need for an educational program to teach students courtroom
strategies and tactics. He encouraged ACTL members—all highly successful, top-rated lawyers elected for fellowship by their peers—to participate
by mentoring students in the area of litigation skills.
Each year, the program became more sophisticated in its organization
and in the training opportunities it provided. Today, participating students, known as “litigation fellows,” can earn up to 4 credits annually for
this nonclassroom, for-credit experience. Candidates for these selective
fellowships must demonstrate an interest in trial litigation, participate in
the annual Litigation Week program and have the time necessary to meet
throughout the year with ACTL members who will provide individual
critiques and instruction.
José F. Anderson, professor of law and director of both the Stephen L.
Snyder Center for Litigation Skills and the Litigation Skills Program,
believes the one-on-one coaching students receive not only enhances their
academic and professional training, but also increases their confidence and
inspires them in their pursuit of a legal education. Not surprisingly, UB’s
moot court teams have been enjoying tremendous success lately: This past
spring, Martin Cohen and Gwen-Marie Davis (both 2006 graduates)
finished in fourth place at the National ABA Client Counseling Moot
Court Competition in Tampa, Fla.
This type of collaboration is unique among the UB School of Law’s
peers, Anderson notes. “We hope it’s a lifelong partnership, as this program
provides exceptional opportunities for students to benefit from the experiences of successful, high-level litigators,” he adds.
Continuing the cycle of reaching out to students, the program’s litigation fellows, backed by the support and participation of ACTL members,
have also established a mentoring program to encourage Towson High
School students to consider legal careers.
Immigrant Rights Project
Inaugurated
Immigration is a front-row issue now, and the School of Law is keeping
pace with it by establishing its Immigrant Rights Project as part of the
Civil Advocacy Clinic. Last fall, clinical faculty decided to incorporate the
initiative into the school’s clinical experience in order to expand UB’s outreach to the growing immigrant population in Baltimore and across
Maryland. The project’s vision is to assist low-income immigrants with
direct services, work with immigrant advocates to develop programs and
projects that would empower immigrants and provide students with the
opportunity to contribute to social justice issues for immigrants in a supportive environment.
The Immigrant Rights Project is run by Helen Harnett, a clinical
fellow in the Civil Advocacy Clinic. Harnett came to UB from Michigan,
where she represented migrant farm workers in litigation under the federal
Fair Labor Standards Act. She also advocated with Michigan’s Department of
Human Services and Unemployment Insurance Agency to end discrimination based on national origin.
Since the program’s inception, students enrolled in the Civil Advocacy
Clinic have represented day laborers with unpaid wage claims against
their employers, assisted a person with asylum status whose children were
denied Maryland Medical Assistance and represented two refugees seeking asylum based on fear of persecution in their home countries. Students
have also had the opportunity to develop legal education materials for
immigrants, conduct outreach to day laborers in Fells Point (jointly with
the nonprofit organization CASA of Maryland) and work with national
advocates on upcoming immigration legislation. The project has also
branched out to support a Family Law Clinic student in representing an
immigrant who was a victim of domestic violence.
“There is an incredibly diverse range of issues for our students to dig
into,” Harnett says. “While immigrants often have a very difficult time in
dealing with a slow-moving, complicated legal system, they can appreciate
how hard the students are working to help them. I see this as a real learning process that can help everybody.”
Throughout the academic year, UB’s Immigrant Rights Project organized several public events to raise awareness of immigrant issues in
Baltimore. Guest lectures and presentations on women’s rights in
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UP FRONT
Guatemala, immigration prisons in the United States, the
HIV/AIDS crisis in Africa and torture victims living in the city
were well attended and became the topic of many discussions on
campus and beyond. Local media picked up on the heightened
awareness of these issues, with public radio station WYPR providing some key coverage. In addition, joint efforts with the American
Friends Service Committee’s Project Voice on the Minuteman border
patrols as well as immigration legislation in Congress attracted a
great deal of attention.
The project is also making inroads by collaborating with six
local immigrant-rights organizations in assisting persons with asylum status in their application for permanent residency. Thus far,
the coalition, along with volunteer attorneys, has assisted 50 of
these people and their families as they seek this status.
“We’ve done a lot in one year,” Harnett says. “And we have even
more to do.”
Applications and Credentials
Continue to Rise With ’05
Entering Class
minority
2005 School of Law
Entering Class
20%
female
47%
80%
non-minority
out-of-state
53%
34%
male
Strong Employment Rate
Holds Steady for Graduates
Members of the University of Baltimore School of Law class of 2005
enjoyed a strong overall employment rate of 91.1 percent, keeping
pace with the prior class and surpassing the national rate of 89.6
percent. Of the UB law graduates for whom employment status was
known, the percentage who obtained jobs that required a passing
score on the bar exam increased to 70.9 percent, up from 64.3
percent for the class of 2004.
The chart below illustrates overall employment rates for UB law
graduates from 1992 to 2005:
University of Baltimore School of Law Graduate Employment 1992-2005
Percentage Employed Nine Months Post-Graduation
100
90
Percentage
80
70
60
50
40
30
20
10
0
Year
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66%
Maryland
resident
For the sixth year in a row—and despite an overall decrease in the
number of law school applications across the country—applications to the
UB School of Law rose. Members of the 2005 entering class hold spots
that were coveted by a record 3,388 applicants—a 16-percent increase
from 2004.
The discrepancy between the application trends at UB and those
nationwide might be explained by the School of Law’s enhanced efforts to
recruit students from across the nation. Recognizing the need to increase
awareness of the UB School of Law beyond the mid-Atlantic region, the
Office of Law Admissions staff decided to add the West Coast and Florida
to recruiting trips. It wasn’t long before word spread throughout these
previously untargeted regions about the law school’s innovative programs,
unparalleled faculty and practical approach to teaching.
The admissions staff ’s outreach plan clearly paid off, as out-of-state
applications increased from 20 percent in 2004 to 34 percent in 2005.
Florida and California have now joined Virginia, Pennsylvania and
Washington, D.C., as the top five states or territories from which the
majority of the law school’s out-of-state students come.
In addition, the class of 2005 posted a median LSAT score of 154 and a
median GPA of 3.3, up from 153 and 3.25, respectively. This marked the
fifth year in a row that LSAT scores rose.
FACULTY UPDATES
new faculty
ARTHUR ACEVEDO
Arthur Acevedo joined the faculty in fall 2006 as an
assistant professor, teaching Contracts I.
His corporate experience includes serving as vice
president, general counsel, at Marbo, a licensor and manufacturer of fruit drinks, and as both an international
tax attorney and international business counsel at
McDonald’s Corporation. He also previously worked as
a revenue agent for the IRS and as tax counsel for Price
Waterhouse. He has taught Corporate Tax and
International Tax as an adjunct professor at DePaul
University College of Law, from which he received his J.D.
Acevedo earned his master’s degree from DePaul’s
graduate business school and his bachelor’s degree from
DePaul’s College of Commerce. He is a certified public
accountant in Illinois.
MICHELE ALEXANDRE
Michele Alexandre joined the faculty in fall 2006 as a
visiting assistant professor, teaching Trusts and Estates as
well as the International Women’s Human Rights Seminar.
She is visiting from the University of Memphis Cecil C.
Humphries School of Law, where her teaching interests
include property, decedents estates and feminist legal theory. In 2004, Alexandre received a Fulbright Fellowship to
Trinidad and Tobago and a Watson Traveling Fellowship
for research in France, Canada, the Dominican Republic
and Puerto Rico.
Alexandre earned a J.D. from Harvard Law School and
a B.A. from Colgate University. After graduation, she served
as a law clerk for the Hon. John P. Fullam, U.S. Eastern
District Court of Pennsylvania.
ROBERT B. CHAPMAN
Robert B. Chapman joined the faculty in spring 2006 as a
visiting associate professor, teaching Business Organizations
and Contracts II.
His previous teaching experience includes serving as a
visiting professor at the University of Notre Dame,
Willamette University College of Law, Mercer University
Walter F. George School of Law and University of Arkansas
at Little Rock William H. Bowen School of Law, where he
received the SBA Excellence in Teaching Award for the
2003-04 academic year. He also taught at the University of
Tulsa College of Law.
Chapman earned his J.D. from Cumberland School of
Law of Samford University and LL.M. degrees from the
University of Florida College of Law and the University of
London, University College of London, as well as bachelor’s
degrees from the University of West Florida.
GILDA R. DANIELS
Gilda R. Daniels joined the faculty in fall 2006 as an
assistant professor, teaching Civil Procedure and Election
Law Seminar.
Since 1995, she has served as a voting rights attorney
with the Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights Under
Law and as a deputy chief at the United States
Department of Justice, Civil Rights Division, Voting
Section. Previously, she represented death row inmates
and brought prison condition claims at the Southern
Center for Human Rights.
Daniels earned a J.D. from New York University School
of Law, where she was a Root-Tilden-Snow Scholar. She
received her bachelor’s degree from Grambling State
University and is admitted to the bar in Georgia and the
District of Columbia.
J. AMY DILLARD
J. Amy Dillard joined the faculty in fall 2006 as an assistant professor, teaching Introduction to Lawyering
Skills/Torts and Constitutional Criminal Procedure.
From 2002-06, Dillard served on the faculty of
American University Washington College of Law, where
she taught Legal Rhetoric and Criminal Law. She was
heavily involved in the Legal Rhetoric Program, first as
an academic coordinator and eventually as the acting
director. She worked for many years as a public defender
in the Office of the Public Defender in Alexandria, Va.,
and she currently represents one client charged with capital murder in Virginia.
Dillard earned a J.D. from Washington and Lee
University School of Law and a B.A. from Wellesley
College.
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MARGARET E. JOHNSON
Margaret E. Johnson joined the faculty in fall 2006 as
an assistant professor, teaching primarily in the Family
Law Clinic.
Most recently, Johnson taught at American
University’s Washington College of Law, where she
served as the director of the Domestic Violence Clinic
and as a practitioner in residence. At WCL, she taught
the Domestic Violence Clinic, Property I, Property II
and Sex-Based Discrimination.
Her legal experience includes representing employees
in employment discrimination and employment law
matters as a senior associate at Kalijarvi, Chuzi &
Newman; an associate at Terris, Pravlik & Wagner; and a
staff attorney and fellow at the Washington Lawyers’
Committee for Civil Rights and Urban Affairs.
Johnson earned her J.D. at the University of
Wisconsin Law School and a bachelor’s degree from
Dartmouth College.
DIONNE L. KOLLER
Dionne L. Koller joined the faculty in fall 2006 as an
assistant professor, teaching Introduction to Lawyering
Skills/Torts and Sports Law. Koller previously served as
an assistant professor at the University of Maryland
School of Law, where she taught LARW I and III, Sports
and the Law, Legal Analysis, and Reasoning and
Rhetoric. She was also the director of the school’s
Academic Achievement Program.
Prior to that, Koller served as the assistant dean for
Student Affairs at The George Washington University
Law School. She has published in the areas of health law,
legal writing and academic support. She earned her J.D.
from The George Washington University Law School, her
M.A. from The George Washington University and her
bachelor’s degree from the University of Massachusetts at
Amherst.
WENDY M. SEIDEN
Wendy M. Seiden joined the faculty in fall 2006 as a
clinical fellow in the Family Law and Family Mediation
Clinics.
For the past three years, Seiden served as an adjunct
professor at Golden Gate University School of Law,
teaching Children and the Law. Since 1998, she has
represented children and parents in a legal practice and
public policy office, Advocacy for Children, Youth &
Families. She continues to consult on issues of domestic
violence and child welfare to the California Partnership
to End Domestic Violence, the Muskie School of Public
Service and other projects funded by the Office of
Violence Against Women.
From 1993-94, Seiden served as a Rotary
Ambassadorial Scholar at the Universidad de Sevilla.
She earned a J.D. from Harvard Law School and an A.B.
from the University of Michigan.
JOHN B. SNYDER III
John B. Snyder III joined the faculty in fall 2006 as a
clinical fellow in the Tax Clinic.
From 2000-06, Snyder was a trial attorney with the
U.S. Department of Justice, Tax Division, in
Washington, D.C. He litigated a variety of civil tax
cases, including refund suits, foreclosure actions and
suits against IRS personnel.
Snyder, a member of the Virginia State Bar, earned
a J.D. from Duke University School of Law and a
bachelor’s degree from the University of New Mexico.
ADAM TODD
Adam Todd joined the faculty in fall 2006 as an associate
professor, teaching Torts and Legal Analysis, Research and
Writing III (Appellate Advocacy) and Introduction to
Lawyering/Torts.
For 11 years, Todd was an assistant professor of legal
writing and director of academic support at the Northern
Kentucky University Chase College of Law. While there,
he taught Comparative Law, Introduction to Legal Studies
and Conflict of Laws, among many others. He also
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taught and coordinated workshops on academic and bar
exam success.
Todd served as a Visiting Fulbright Professor at Palacky
University in the Czech Republic, where he taught courses
on the American legal system and comparative legal discourse. He has published articles in the areas of legal
writing, housing and academic support. Todd earned his
J.D. from Rutgers Law School and his bachelor’s degree
from Brown University.
FACULTY BRIEFS
JOSÉ F. ANDERSON
Professor and Director, Stephen L.
Snyder Center for Litigation Skills and
Litigation Skills Program
Recent Publication: “New Secretary
of State Stands on the Shoulders of
Ralph Bunche,” The Daily Record
(February 2006).
Works in Progress: Ghosts of Jim
Crow. “The Criminal Justice
Principles of Charles H. Houston.”
Activities: Member, American
Law Institute. Executive board
member, AALS Section on
Defamation and Privacy.
care and therapeutic jurisprudence
and court reform in family law.
Presentations: “Unified Family
Courts: One Size Does Not Fit All”
and “Court Services Task Force
Workshop,” at the annual meeting of
the Association of Family and
Conciliation Courts in Seattle, Wash.
Activities: Executive committee
member, AALS Section on Family
and Juvenile Law. Member, ABA
Standing Committee on Substance
Abuse. Member, ABA Unified Family
Courts Coordinating Council.
Member, Editorial Advisory Board,
Family Court Review. Chair, AFCC
Court Services Task Force. Bridges to
Excellence Conference, sponsored by
the University of Florida Center on
Children and Families (March 2006).
Barbara A. Babb
BARBARA A. BABB
Associate Professor and Director, Center
for Families, Children and the Courts
Recent Publications: “Real World
Meets University Law Students,” The
Daily Record (April 2005). Exemplary
Family Court Programs and Practices:
Profiles of Innovative and Accountable
Court-Connected Programs, Association
of Family and Conciliation Courts
(May 2005). “CINA Attorney Practice
Manual: A Guide for Representing
Children in Abuse and Neglect
Cases, Center for Families, Children
and the Courts,” CFCC (December
2005). “A Truancy Court Program to
Keep Students in School,” Maryland
Bar Journal (May 2006).
Works in Progress: Unified Family
Courts: Achieving Justice for Families
and Children. Articles on how states
adjudicate family law matters and on
combining preventive law, an ethic of
Keith Blair
KEITH BLAIR
Assistant Professor
Work in Progress: “An Analysis
of the Collection Due Process
Procedures of the Internal
Revenue Code.”
Activities: Board member, AALS
Section on New Law Professors.
Member, ABA Low-Income Tax and
Court Procedure & Practice
Committee, ABA Tax Section.
Recipient, Henry C. Welcome
Fellowship Maryland Higher
Education Commission award.
Coach, Frederick Douglass Moot
Court Team.
RICHARD W. BOURNE
Professor
Recent Publications: Maryland
Rules Commentary, 2005 supplement
(February 2005). Modern Maryland
Civil Procedure, 2005 supplement
(March 2005). Modern Maryland
Civil Procedure, 2006 supplement
(forthcoming).
FRED B. BROWN
Associate Professor and Director,
Graduate Tax Program
Recent Publication: “Reforming the
Branch Profits Tax to Advance
Neutrality” (forthcoming).
Work in Progress: “Developing
Model Source Rules.”
Activities: Chair, Law School Liaison
Subcommittee, MSBA Tax Section
Council. Member, Committee on
Foreign Activities of U.S. Taxpayers,
ABA Tax Section.
STEVEN A. DAVISON
Professor
Recent Publication: “Regulation of
Emission of Greenhouse Gases and
Hazardous Air Pollutants from Motor
Vehicles,” University of Pittsburgh
Journal of Environmental and Public
Health Law (forthcoming).
Work in Progress: “Federal Agency
Compliance with Section 7 of
Endangered Species Act When
Acting Under Another Federal
Environmental Statute.”
ERIC B. EASTON
Professor and Co-Director, Legal Skills
Program
Recent Publications: “Of Secrets
and Spies: Strengthening the Public’s
Right to Know About the CIA,”
Stanford Law & Policy Review
(forthcoming). Sourcebook on Legal
Writing Programs (forthcoming).
Work in Progress: “The Press as
Interest Group: Mainstream Media in
the Supreme Court.”
Activities: Member, Executive
Committee, AALS Section on Mass
Communications Law. Member,
Board of the Association of Legal
Writing Directors. Immediate past
chair, Communication Skills
Committee, ABA Section of Legal
Education and Admissions to the Bar.
WILLIAM T. FRYER III
Professor
Recent Publications: The Geneva
Act (1999) of the Hague Agreement
Concerning the International
Registration of Industrial Designs,
Drafting History and Analysis (2005).
“Growing a Stronger Foreign Product
Design Trademark: Using the Madrid
Protocol and the Geneva Act of the
Hague Agreement Concerning the
International Registration of
International Design,” Proceedings of
the International Trademark Association
(September 2005). “Industrial Design
on the Geneva Act” (forthcoming).
Work in Progress: Chapter on
industrial design law for WIPO book.
Presentations: Spoke on the history
and operation of the Geneva Act of
the Hague Agreement at the AIPLA
spring meeting in Philadelphia, Pa.
(May 2005). Spoke at the 2005
Worldwide Forum on Marks and
Designs, Vancouver, B.C., Canada
(September 2005).
Activities: Liaison, ABA IP Law
Section leadership meeting, Bonita
Springs, Fla. (November 2005).
Adviser, U.S. Senate staff on pending
legislation, S. 1785 (108th Cong., 1st
Sess.), Vessel Hull Design Protection
Act amendment (2005). Liaison, ABA
Section on International Law, ABA
Section of IP Law Summer IPL
conference (June 2005). Annual
International Association for the
Teaching and Research in Intellectual
Property Conference (July 2005).
Member, Association for the
Advancement of Intellectual Property
and Research.
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Partnerships” to the Howard County
(Md.) Trust and Estate Bar
(November 2005). Spoke on “The
Collision Between CRATs and the
Spousal Election,” at the 2006
Critical Tax Theory Conference,
Mercer University School of Law
(April 2006).
Activity: Coordinator, AALS mentor
programs (donative transfers, fiduciaries and estate planning; taxation;
and employee benefits).
Wendy Gerzog
WENDY GERZOG
Professor
Recent Publications: “Estate and
Gift Tax Developments,” Quinnipiac
Probate Law Journal (2005). “How
Do D’Ambrosio and Wheeler Fit
Into the FLP Debate?” Tax Notes
(April 2005). “Saigh It Isn’t So,” Tax
Notes (April 2005). “The Final GRAT
Regulations: Schott Shot Down,” Tax
Notes (May 2005). “Bongard’s Nontax
Motive Test: Not Open and Schutt,”
Tax Notes (June 2005). “It’s
Summertime With Iced Tehan a
TAM,” Tax Notes (August 2005).
“Duty of Consistency and Marital
Deduction: Horse and Carriage,” Tax
Notes (September 2005). “Lurie: A Need
for Better Laid Plans,” Tax Notes
(October 2005). “Kelley: A Green Light
for FLPs,” Tax Notes (December 2005).
“Donovan and Davis: Two More
Lottery Cases,” Tax Notes (January
2006). “Return to Senda: Order
Determinative for FLP Discounts,” Tax
Notes (February 2006). “Buder: The
Extent of Equitable Recoupment,” Tax
Notes (March 2006).
Work in Progress: “The Collision
Between CRATs (Charitable
Remainder Annuity Trusts) and the
Spousal Election.”
Presentations: Spoke on “Issues in
the Valuation Family Limited
Partnership Interests” at the
Continuing Legal Education for
Estate Tax Attorneys program in
Atlanta, Ga. (September 2005).
Spoke on “Family Limited
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MICHELE GILLIGAN
Associate Professor and Director, Study
Abroad Program in Curaçao, The
Netherlands Antilles
Works in Progress: “Comparison of
Training, Certification and Regulation
of Lawyers in Maryland and China.”
“Adverse Possession.” “Statute of
Limitations.” Real property supplement
for the Judicial Institute.
Activities: Member, MSBA Section
on Legal Education and Admissions
to the Bar. AALS Recruitment
Conference. SEALS Conference,
Hilton Head, S.C.
MICHELE GILMAN
Associate Professor
Recent Publication: “If at First You
Don’t Succeed, Sign an Executive
Order: President Bush & the
Expansion of Charitable Choice”
(forthcoming).
Works in Progress: Becoming a Trial
Lawyer. “Expert Witnesses &
Indigent Litigants.” “Too Big to
Delegate?: The Nondelegation
Doctrine Revised.”
Activity: Visiting professor, William
& Mary Law School (2005-06).
LEIGH GOODMARK
Assistant Professor
Recent Publications: “Telling
Stories, Saving Lives: The Battered
Mothers’ Testimony Project, Women’s
Narratives, and Court Reform,”
Arizona State Law Journal (fall 2005).
“A Missed Opportunity for Victims
of Violence,” The Daily Record (June
2005). “Bias Against Battered Women
Continues, With Disastrous Results,”
The (Maryland) Gazette (October
2005). “The Punishment of Dixie
Shanahan: Is There Justice for
Battered Women Who Kill?” Kansas
Law Review (forthcoming).
Works in Progress: Review of
Nancy Dowd, Dorothy Singer and
Robin Wilson’s Handbook of
Children, Culture and Violence, for the
Family Court Review. “When Is a
Battered Woman Not a Battered
Woman? When She Fights Back.”
Presentations: Spoke on issues
involved in creating a domestic
violence unit within child protective
services for Baltimore City
Department of Social Services
workers (May 2005). Spoke on “The
Battered Mothers’ Testimony Project:
Raising the Voices of Battered
Women in the Family Court System”
at the Domestic Violence and Child
Custody Institute (May 2006).
Activities: Board member, Women’s
Law Center of Maryland and Public
Justice Center. Editorial board
member, Journal of Child Custody
and the National Council of Juvenile
and Family Court Judges’ Juvenile
and Family Court Journal. Member,
Clinical Legal Education Association.
Member, AALS Sections on Family
Law, Clinical and Women in Legal
Education.
STEVEN P. GROSSMAN
Dean Julius Isaacson Professor
Recent Publications: “Maryland’s
New ‘Witness Intimidation’ Hearsay
Exception: Is It a Toothless Tiger?”
The Daily Record (May 2005). “An
Honest Approach to Plea Bargaining,”
American Journal of Trial Advocacy
(2005). “Capital Punishment May Be
Just, But Is It Worth the Trouble?” The
(Baltimore) Sun (February 2006).
Works in Progress: Becoming a Trial
Lawyer and accompanying workbook.
Presentation: Spoke on “Trying the
Case,” MICPEL program.
Activities: Member, Judicial Institute
of Maryland Board of Governors.
Member, MICPEL Curriculum
Planning Committee.
DANIEL L. HATCHER
Assistant Professor
Recent Publication: “Foster
Children Paying for Foster Care,”
Cardozo Law Review (2006).
Work in Progress: “Child Support
Harming Children: The
Subordination of the Best Interests
of the Child to the Fiscal Interests of
the State.”
Presentations: Testimony regarding
three bills related to child support
and low-income families before the
Maryland General Assembly
(February 2006). Spoke on
“Healthcare: Adequate Healthcare for
the Uninsured Working Poor:
Potential State Solutions” at the
University of Georgia School of Law’s
Working in the Public Interest Law
Conference (April 2006).
Activities: Drafted federal legislation
proposal addressing children’s Social
Security benefits. Provided pro bono
legal assistance in a Legal Aid Bureau
case before the Maryland Court of
Appeals. Member, Job Opportunities
Task Force Public Policy Committee.
Board member, Legal Aid Bureau’s
Baltimore City Child Support
Project.
CASSANDRA JONES HAVARD
Associate Professor
Recent Publications: “To Lend or
Not to Lend: What The CRA Ought
to Say About Sub-Prime and
Predatory Lending,” Florida Coastal
Law Review (2005). “Democratizing
Credit: Examining the Structural
Inequities of Sub-Prime Lending,”
Syracuse Law Review (2006). “The
Future of the CRA” (forthcoming).
Work in Progress: “Will It Go
Round in Circles?—Mortgage
Brokers and Predatory Lending.”
Presentations: Spoke on economic
rights at the Mid-Atlantic People of
Color Scholarship Conference, held
at the Washington College of Law at
American University (January 2006).
Spoke on “The Future of the CRA,”
Issues in Community Economic
Development Symposium, Law and
Business Center for Advancing
Entrepreneurship Annual Conference
(March 2006).
Activities: Recipient, Henry C.
Welcome Fellowship Maryland
Higher Education Commission
award. Chair, AALS Section on
Financial Institutions. Chair, CLEO
Fellows Subcommittee, ABA Business
Law Section.
a Changing Supreme Court” at the
University of Baltimore (February
2006). Keynote speaker, Georgetown
Law School Black History Month,
MBALSA convention, ABA Law
Student Division Mid-Atlantic
Region Conference. Speaker,
Higginbotham Corporate Dinner
Lawyers Committee event. Panelist,
Civil Rights Litigation National Bar
Association Conference.
Michael Hayes
MICHAEL HAYES
Associate Professor and Director, Study
Abroad Program in Aberdeen, Scotland
Recent Publications: The Campaign
Guide (2005), annual supplements.
“That Pernicious Pop-Up: The Prima
Facie Case,” Suffolk Law Review
(2006).
Work in Progress: A book on the
law of public-sector labor relations in
Maryland.
Presentation: Spoke at the Building
Trades Attorneys Conference in San
Francisco, Calif. (May 2005).
Activity: Adviser, Labor Law
Association of Japan (April 2005).
F. MICHAEL HIGGINBOTHAM
Professor
Recent Publications: Race Law
teacher’s manual (April 2005). “Hardwon Victory Must Be Secured,” The
(Baltimore) Sun (August 2005).
“Judge Higginbotham on Judge
Alito: Setting the Record Straight,”
Washington Afro-American
(January 2006).
Works in Progress: “A Letter from
Heaven.” “Race and Equal
Protection.” “Segregation in America.”
Ghosts of Jim Crow.
Presentations: Spoke on “Preview of
James J. Kelly Jr.
JAMES J. KELLY JR.
Assistant Professor
Recent Publication: “We Shall Not
Be Moved: Urban Communities,
Eminent Domain and the
Socioeconomics of Just
Compensation,” St. John’s Law Review
(forthcoming).
Works in Progress: “Notifying the
Virtual Caretaker: Land Interests and
Due Process in the Digital Age.”
“Tenancy by the Majority: A New
Form of Co-Ownership for Overly
Fractionated Heir Property.”
Presentation: Spoke on “Vacant
Building Receivership: In Rem Code.”
Activities: Member, Planning
Committee, Maryland Partners for
Justice Conference (May 2006).
Board member, Charm City Land
Trusts and Woodberry Land Trust.
REBECCA KORZEC
Professor
Work in Progress: “Products
Liability Project.”
Activities: Member, MSBA Select
Committee on Gender Equality.
Member, MSBA Products Liability
Committee. Member, Bar Association
of Baltimore City Gender Equality.
Member, Bar Association of
Baltimore City Products Liability
Committee. Member, International
Association of Jewish Lawyers and
Jurists. Member, Women’s Law
Center. Member, ABA Commercial
Law Subcommittee.
ROBERT H. LANDE
Venable Professor
Recent Publications: “How High
Do Cartels Raise Prices?:
Implications for Optimal Cartel
Fines,” Tulane Law Review (February
2006). “The Five Myths of Antitrust
Damages,” San Francisco Law Review
(spring 2006).
Works in Progress: “Implementing
the Consumer Choice Approach to
Antitrust.” “Discounts and
Exclusion.” “Private Antitrust
Litigation.” “State Illinois Brick
Repealer Options.”
Presentations: Spoke at the annual
meeting of the American Antitrust
Institute (June 2005). Testimony
before the U.S. Antitrust
Modernization Commission
concerning damages for antitrust
violations (July 2005). Spoke on “The
Three Types of Collusion in the Real
Estate Industry” at the American
Antitrust Institute conference
(November 2005). Spoke on optimal
cartel fines for the Antitrust and
Trade Regulation Section panel at the
annual AALS conference (January
2006), at the ABA Antitrust Section
meeting (March 2006) and at the
U.S. Department of Justice (March
2006). Spoke on exclusionary
discounts at conferences at the
University of San Francisco Law
School (October 2005) and Utah
Law School (February 2006). Spoke
on private antitrust enforcement for
the Committee to Support the
Antitrust Laws (April 2006).
Activities: Listserv moderator and
vice chair, Computer Committee,
ABA Antitrust Section. Director,
American Antitrust Institute. Faculty
adviser, University of Baltimore Law
Review. Recipient, University System
of Maryland Regents Award for
Scholarship (2006).
Kenneth Lasson
KENNETH LASSON
Professor and Director, Haifa Summer
Law Institute
Recent Publications: “Incitement in
the Mosques: Testing the Limits of
Free Speech and Religious Liberty,”
Whittier Law Review (2005).
“Scientific and Scholarly Boycotts of
Israel: Abusing the Academic
Enterprise” (forthcoming). “Civil
Liberties in Uncivil Times: The
Perilous Quest to Preserve American
Freedoms” (forthcoming).
Work in Progress: “Is Torture Ever
Justified? Finding Terrorists and
Ticking Time Bombs.”
Presentations: Spoke on “Scholarly
and Scientific Boycotts of Israel:
Abusing the Academic Enterprise” at
the annual meeting of the Federalist
Society, Washington, D.C. (January
2006). Spoke on “Incitement in the
Mosques” at the JCPA Plenum,
Washington, D.C. (February 2006).
Spoke on “Controversial Speakers on
Campus” for the radio program
“Shalom USA” (March 2006).
Activities: Faculty fellow, “A
Comparative Examination of Hate
Speech Protection,” an international
conference on hate speech sponsored
by the Floersheimer Center for
Constitutional Democracy at the
Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law
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in New York (November 2005).
Representative, MICPEL. Legal panel
member, Maryland American Civil
Liberties Union. Member, Baltimore
Chapter, Committee on Law and
Public Affairs. Member of Bar, Court
of Appeals of Maryland, Fourth
Circuit of Appeals and U.S. Supreme
Court. Member, ABA/AALS Sections
on Alternative Dispute Resolution,
Legal Writing and Jewish Law.
JOHN A. LYNCH JR.
Professor
Recent Publications: Modern
Maryland Civil Procedure, supplement. “Taxation of Below-Market
Loans Under I.R.C. Section 7872,”
Akron Tax Journal (March 2006).
Work in Progress: Article on
Section 7491 of the I.R.C.
James Maxeiner
JAMES MAXEINER
Associate Professor and Associate
Director, Center for International and
Comparative Law
Recent Publications: Multiple
entries, Encyclopedia of GermanAmerican Relations (November 2005).
“When Are Agreements Enforceable?
Giving Consideration to Professor
Barnett’s Consent Theory of
Contract,” Ius Gentium (spring
2006).
Works in Progress: “Legal
Indeterminacy: Made in America.
How U.S. Legal Methods Fail the
Rule of Law.” “Rule Reliability and
the German Rule of Law.”
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Presentations: “When Are
Agreements Enforceable? Giving
Consideration to Professor Barnett’s
Consent Theory of Contract,”
European American Consortium for
Legal Education, Ghent, Belgium
(May 2005). Spoke on “Do
Americans Take Rules Seriously? U.S.
Legal Methods and the International
Rule of Law” and “European
Influences on the Commercial Law
of the United States” in Warsaw,
Poland (May 2006).
Activities: Secretary and treasurer,
AALS Section on International Law.
Member, American Law Institute. UB
representative, American Society for
Comparative Law. Director, American
Foreign Law Association.
AUDREY MCFARLANE
Associate Professor
Recent Publications: “Myths and
Reality of Eminent Domain,” Jurist
(October 2005). “An Open Letter to
the Mayor of New Orleans: Flip the
Local Economic Development
Script,” The Black Commentator
(November 2005). “Redevelopment
and the Four Dimensions of Class in
Land Use” (forthcoming). “Who Fits
the Profile?: Thoughts on Race and
Class in Urban Redevelopment,”
Georgia State Law Review
(forthcoming).
Work in Progress: Review of
Alfredo Mirande’s The Stanford
Law Chronicles: Doin’ Time on
the Farm.
Presentations: Spoke at the Race &
Regionalism Conference, sponsored
by the University of Minnesota Law
School (May 2005). Spoke on the
historical and contemporary context
of race and class in urban development at the Council of Urban Boards
of Education in Boston, Mass. (June
2005). Spoke on “Class, Race and
Subordination” at the LatCrit
Conference in San Juan, Puerto Rico
(October 2005). Spoke on “What
Kinds of Metropolitan Areas Do We
Want?: Challenges, Promises and
Pitfalls in Redevelopment” at Georgia
State University Law School
(February 2006). Spoke on
“Overcoming Racial Discrimination
in Housing, Credit and Urban
Policy” at the University of Buffalo
Law School (April 2006).
Activity: Member, advisory board,
The Daily Record.
LYNN MCLAIN
Professor and Dean Joseph Curtis
Faculty Fellow
Recent Publications: “PostCrawford: Time to Liberalize the
Substantive Admissibility of a
Testifying Witness’ Prior Consistent
Statements,” UMKC Law Review
(2005). Maryland Evidence: State and
Federal, supplements (2005).
Work in Progress: Maryland
Evidence, 2006 supplements.
Presentations: Taught a full-day
Basic Evidence course at the
Maryland Judicial Institute
(September 2005). Spoke on “Using
the Federal Rules of Evidence
Effectively to Present Employment
Discrimination Claims and Defenses
to the Jury,” ALI-ABA and
Georgetown CLE Advanced Course
of Study Program (February 2006).
Activities: Consultant, governor’s
witness intimidation bills. Consultant,
Evidence Subcommittee (action on
witness intimidation rules proposal),
Court of Appeals Standing Committee
on Rules of Practice and Procedure.
Member, ABA Intellectual Property
Law Section, ABA Litigation Trial
Evidence Section Committee, AIPLA,
Women’s Bar Association. Member,
editorial committee, Judge Lynne
Battaglia’s Women in Maryland Law
book project.
MICHAEL I. MEYERSON
Professor and Piper & Marbury Law
Faculty Fellow; Director, Baltimore
Scholars Program
Recent Publications: “The Irrational
Supreme Court,” Nebraska Law
Review (2006). Cable Television and
Other Non-Broadcast Media, supplement (2006).
Work in Progress: Liberty’s
Blueprint: How Madison and
Hamilton Wrote The Federalist,
Defined the Constitution, and
Made Democracy Safe for the World.
Presentations: Spoke on
“Constitution Day: What’s Right and
Wrong With the Constitution?”
University of Baltimore (September
2005). Spoke on “Understanding
Judicial Review,” Young Lawyers
Section of the MSBA (October 2005).
Spoke on “Preview of a Changing
Supreme Court” at the University of
Baltimore (February 2006).
JANE C. MURPHY
Professor
Recent Publications: “Legal Images
of Fatherhood: Welfare Reform, Child
Support and Fatherless Children,”
Notre Dame Law Review (2005).
“Objecting to Mediation,” Maryland
Bar Journal (September 2005).
“Protecting Children by Preserving
Parenthood” (forthcoming).
Works in Progress: Family Law
Mediation: Theory and Practice.
Resolving Family Conflict.
Presentation: Featured speaker,
Scholarship Roundtable on
“Reforming Parentage Law,” William
and Mary School of Law (September
2005).
Activities: Board member, Maryland
Legal Assistance Network. Member,
Case Review Committee and Legal
Panel, Maryland ACLU. Member,
ABA. Member, ABA Clinical and
Skills Education Committee.
Member, Maryland Judicial
Conference Domestic Violence
Mediation Subcommittee. Advisory
Board, Kaufman Family Law
Center/Women’s Law Center.
Member, Maryland Mediation
and Conflict Resolution Family
Law Initiative.
MAX OPPENHEIMER
Associate Professor
Recent Publication: “Internet
Cookies: When is Permission
Consent?” Nebraska Law Review
(forthcoming, November 2006).
Works in Progress: “Patent Law
Harmonization and the Takings
Clause—Does New London Open
the Door to ‘First to File’?” “Toward a
Grand Unified Theory of Intellectual
Property.”
Activity: Legal affairs editor,
Discovery Medicine Magazine.
CHARLES A. REES
Professor
Work in Progress:
“Non-assessment.”
ARNOLD ROCHVARG
Professor
Recent Publication: “The Lawyer as
Witness Rule in Administrative
Adjudications,” Journal of the
National Association of Administrative
Law Judges (2006).
Work in Progress: Maryland
Administrative Law, supplement/
new edition.
Presentation: Spoke on “Judicial
Review and Maryland Administrative
Law” for the Maryland Judiciary
Institute (April 2005).
ROBERT RUBINSON
Professor and Director, Clinical
Education
Recent Publication: “The New
Rules of Professional Conduct and
Mediation: Perplexing Questions
Answered and Perplexing Questions
That Remain,” Law Forum (2005).
Works in Progress: Family
Mediation: Theory and Practice.
“Hierarchies Emergent: The Separate
and Unequal Worlds of Mediation.”
“Professional Regulation of Lawyers
Who Mediate.”
Presentations: Spoke on “Maryland
Rules of Professional Conduct,”
MICPEL (2005).
Activities: Member, MSBA Section
Council on Legal Education and
Admissions to the Bar. Participant,
Pro Bono Mediation Project,
co-sponsored by the Legal Aid
Bureau and the Pro Bono Resource
Center of Maryland. Reporter,
Maryland Court of Appeals Ethics
2002 Committee.
ELIZABETH J. SAMUELS
Associate Professor
Recent Publications: “Adoption
With Contact Law Awaits Governor’s
Signature,” The Daily Record (April
2005). “Adoption,” Encyclopedia of
Privacy (forthcoming). “Birth
Certificates,” Encyclopedia of Privacy
(forthcoming). “Mothers’ Consents to
Adoptions: ‘Best Practices’ and
State Laws, International Society
of Family Law” (forthcoming).
Presentations: Spoke on history of
adoption and adoption law at the
conference “Adoption: The Spiritual
Journey for the Human Family,” New
York, N.Y. (January 2006). Spoke on
“Preview of a Changing Supreme
Court” at the University of Baltimore
(February 2006).
Activities: Oral and written testimony before the Joint Judiciary
Committee, Maine legislature.
Testified about adoption before the
Senate Health, Human Services and
Senior Citizens Committee, New
Jersey legislature. Member, Case
Review Committee, Maryland ACLU.
Walter D. Schwidetzky
WALTER D. SCHWIDETZKY
Professor
Recent Publications: Limited
Liability Company Handbook
(November 2005). Partnership
Taxation (forthcoming).
Work in Progress: Limited Liability
Company Handbook, new edition.
Activities: Member, ABA Partnership
and LLC Committee. Member, Tax
Advisory Committee, Congressman
Ben Cardin. Board member, Journal
of Taxation of Investments. Biennial
Convention of the German Society
for Comparative Law, Würzburg,
Germany (2005).
MORTIMER SELLERS
Professor and Director, Center for
International and Comparative Law
Recent Publications: Republican
Principles in International Law
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2006). Coeditor (with David Reidy), Universal
Human Rights, Moral Order in a
Divided World (Rowman and
Littlefield, 2005). “As bases da
democracia e autodeterminacao dos
povos no Direito Internacional,” in O
Novo Direito Internacional, edited by
N. de Araujo and C.M. Marques
(Renovar, 2005). “Reach Out
America,” International Herald
Tribune (June 2005). “International
Legal Personality,” Ius Gentium
(2005). Book review of John Phillip
Reid’s Controlling the Law for the
Journal of American History (2005).
Works in Progress: “The Doctrine
of Precedent in the United States,”
Journal of Comparative Law
(2006). “Classical Influences on
the French Revolution.”
Presentations: Spoke on the
“Republican Origins of the United
States Constitution,” American
Society for Legal History, Cincinnati,
Ohio (November 2005). Spoke on
“Philosophical Foundations of the
International Criminal Court,” IVR
World Congress, Granada, Spain
(May 2005).
Activities: The European American
Consortium on Legal Education,
Ghent, Belgium (May 2005). Visiting
fellow, Lauterpacht Research Centre
for International Law at Cambridge
University (spring 2006). Series
editor, AMINTAPHIL: The
Philosophical Foundations of Law
and Justice. Editor, International
Legal Theory. Associate editor,
American Journal of Comparative
Law. Member, editorial board,
Notícia do Direito Brasileiro.
CHARLES SHAFER
Professor
Recent Publication: Maryland
Consumer Law: Leases, Sales and
Financing (April 2006).
Work in Progress: “Chinese
Consumer Law.”
Presentations: Spoke on bankruptcy
issues in support enforcement for the
Maryland Department of Human
Resources, Office of Support
Enforcement (January 2006). Spoke
on debit collection and privacy for
the Women Entrepreneurs of
Baltimore.
Activities: Board member, Maryland
Lawyers for the Arts. Editorial board
member, Maryland Consumers
Rights Coalition. Editorial board
member, MICPEL. Editorial board
member, Center for Computer
Assisted Legal Instruction. Chair,
MICPEL Consumer Law Program
(April 2006).
STEPHEN J. SHAPIRO
Professor
Recent Publication: “Witness
Intimidation Hearsay Exception,” The
Daily Record (May 2005).
Work in Progress: “Federal
Jurisdiction Under the Class Action
Fairness Act of 2005.”
Presentation: Spoke on the Class
Action Fairness Act of 2005 at the
European American Consortium on
Legal Education Conference, Ghent,
Belgium (May 2006).
AMY SLOAN
Associate Professor and Co-Director,
Legal Skills Program
Recent Publications: “Graphical
KeyCite: A Guide for Faculty with
Sample Exercises,” Thomson West
(July 2005). “Two Rules for Better
Writing,” Maryland Bar Journal (fall
2005). “Appellate Fruit Salad &
Other Concepts: A Short Course in
the Appellate Process,” University of
Baltimore Law Review (December
2005). Basic Legal Research: Tools &
Strategies (Aspen Publishers, January
2006).
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Works in Progress: Basic Legal
Research Workbook, professor’s update.
“One Step Forward, Two Steps Back:
No Citation Rules in the Federal
Appellate Courts.”
Presentations: Spoke on “ABA
Accreditation Standards: Past,
Present, Future” and “Scholarship and
Tenure” at the 2005 Association of
Legal Writing Directors Conference.
Activities: Member, Association of
Legal Writing Directors. Member,
ABA Accreditation Standards Task
Force. Liaison, Aspen Publishers.
DONALD H. STONE
Professor and Associate Dean for
Academic Affairs
Recent Publication: “Leveling the
Playing Field for the Disabled
Athlete, Casey Martin, the PGA, and
the Future of Sports,” The Daily
Record (May 2005).
Works in Progress: “The Disabled
& Accessible Parking Under
the Americans With Disabilities Act.”
“The Disabled University Student.”
“The Bar Admission Process and the
Disabled Lawyer: Conditional
Admission.”
Presentations: Spoke on “What
Universities Are Doing to
Accommodate Students With
Disabilities” at the 29th International
Congress on Law and Mental Health
in Paris, France (July 2005). Spoke on
“The Disabled University Student” at
Howard Community College (April
2006).
Activities: Board member, Maryland
Disability Law Center. Pro bono legal
representation, Maryland Office of
the Public Defender, Mental Health
Division. Member, ABA Criminal
Justice Section. Member, AALS
Section on Mental Disability and
the Law.
CHARLES TIEFER
Professor
Recent Publications: Government
Contract Law, 2005 supplement.
Teaching manual, Government
Contract Law (2005). “Appropriation
Riders & Iraq” (forthcoming). “Gold
Train: Suing for Holocaust-Era
Victims” (forthcoming).
Works in Progress: “Government
Contracting & Iraq.” Government
Contracting Casebook, 2006
supplement.
Activities: Chair-elect, AALS Section
on Legislation for 2006-07. Member,
International Center on Iraq War Issues.
W ILL TRESS
Assistant Professor
Work in Progress: “Redefining
‘Felony’ to Reduce the Impact of
Collateral Sanctions.”
Presentation: Spoke on “Researching
Criminal Law” at the Law Library
Association of Maryland Legal
Research Institute (March 2006).
Activity: Member, Law Library
Association of Maryland.
Angela M. Vallario
ANGELA M. VALLARIO
Associate Professor
Work in Progress: “Minor
Makeover: Protections Needed
for Minors.”
Activities: Member, MSBA. Member,
AALS Donative Transfers, Fiduciaries
and Estate Planning Section.
BYRON L. WARNKEN
Associate Professor and Director,
Judicial Internship Program
Recent Publication: “Getting
Criminal Jury Verdicts Right: Supreme
Court Strengthens the Right to
Confrontation,” The (Baltimore) Sun.
Presentations: Spoke on “Preview of
a Changing Supreme Court” at the
University of Baltimore (February
2006). “Developing and Marketing a
Niche Practice,” Bar Association of
Baltimore City’s Milton Talkin
Continuing Lecture Series (February
2006). “Litigating Fourth Amendment
and Fifth Amendment Issues,”
Lorman Education Services (February
2006). Spoke on “Maryland’s Judicial
departures
PROFESSOR
AND
DEAN EMERITUS LARRY KATZ, who joined the University as dean of the School of Law in 1978,
retired as a professor of law in 2006.
promotions
ASSOCIATE PROFESSORS ERIC B. EASTON, ROBERT J. RUBINSON and BARBARA A. WHITE were all promoted to
professors of law in 2006.
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Response to United States v. Whren”
at the MICPEL Criminal Law
Program. Spoke on “The Supreme
Court: Its History and the
Emergence of the Roberts Court.”
Spoke on “Fourth Amendment in the
Vehicle Context” for the Baltimore
County Police Department. Spoke on
Supreme Court cases for the Judicial
Education Program. Spoke on
“Supreme Court Amendment Cases”
for the National Association of Police
Organizations.
Activities: Testimony on proposed
legislation and proposed constitutional amendments in both the
Maryland State Senate and the
Maryland House of Delegates.
Moderated “The Future of the
Supreme Court,” Baltimore Business
Roundtable (January 2006). Member,
Maryland Court of Appeals
Professionalism Commission.
Member, MSBA Pattern Jury
Instruction Committee. Member,
MSBA Criminal Law and Practice
Section. Member, Maryland General
Assembly. Board member, Baltimore
Bar Association. Member, ABA
Criminal Justice Section. Member,
National Association of Criminal
Defense Attorneys. Board member,
Maryland Criminal Defense
Attorneys Association.
BARBARA A. WHITE
Professor
Activities: The European American
Consortium on Legal Education
Conference, Ghent, Belgium (May
2005). Member, MSBA Business Law
Section.
FACULTY ARTICLE
LYNN MCLAIN
Lynn McLain, professor of law at UB, has worked since 1987 in a pro bono effort to reform the law to better protect
children who are victims of abuse. Her involvement began when one of her former evening students asked for her
help with legislation after his 3-year-old son had been sexually abused at preschool.
Beginning with her testimony that summer on a bill under consideration by the Maryland House Judiciary
Committee, McLain has worked to improve the law in numerous ways to make it as fair as possible to both parties:
to a child who has been victimized as well as to a defendant who may have been wrongfully accused. Because child
witnesses are at a distinct disadvantage in the courtroom, her goal in this effort has been to structure the rules of evidence so that
the jury can hear all the relevant evidence it needs in order to best evaluate where the truth lies.
Her latest law review article, excerpted here, makes another proposal in this vein. The footnotes have been omitted, but may be
found, with the complete text, at 74 University of Missouri Kansas City Law Review 1-40 (fall 2005).
of Tome and Crawford has been a “one-two
Imagine that you are a juror in a criminal trial
punch” for child abuse prosecutions.
for sexual child abuse. The alleged victim, a
Yet Crawford reasserts that when the
quivering five-year-old, testifies for the prosewitness testifies at trial and can be crosscution; however, his speech is halting, his
examined by the accused regarding those
manner unsure, and much of his testimony is
statements, there is no Confrontation
given in whispered one-syllable replies to the
Clause obstacle to admitting the witness’s
prosecutor’s leading questions. There are no
prior statements as substantive evidence.
other eyewitnesses to the alleged abuse.
Time to Liberalize the Substantive
Therefore, given Crawford’s emphasis on
Despite compelling medical testimony
Admissibility of a Testifying Witness’s
requiring that the accused have the ability
and photographic evidence of the boy’s torn
Prior Consistent Statements
to cross-examine the declarant about his or
anus, you cannot find beyond a reasonable
her statement, now is the ideal time to
doubt that the defendant is the abuser when
amend the rules of evidence to overrule
you have only the child’s trial testimony on
Tome so as to permit the substantive use of
that point. You would like to hear when, to
any of a witness’s prior statements, consistent
whom, and under what circumstances the
with his or her trial testimony, that would be
child reported the alleged abuse in order to
helpful to the fact-finder. Although the need
help you evaluate the defense’s contention
for such an amendment may be starkest in
that the child’s mother has coached him to
the child abuse prosecutions, the amendfabricate the claim against the defendant.
ment will be of benefit in all types of cases.
What you do not know is that although
…The amendment should permit the
the prosecution is eager to present evidence
substantive use (subject to the court’s exercise
of the child’s prior statements, consistent with
of discretion under Rule 403) of all of a
his trial testimony, the United States Supreme
witness’s prior consistent statements that
Court’s 1995 decision in Tome v. United
would be helpful to the fact-finder in
States, construed Federal Rule of Evidence
assessing the credibility of the witness’s trial
801(d)(1)(B), as currently written, to prevent
testimony given whatever method of
the prosecution’s offering those statements as
impeachment of the witness had occurred.
substantive evidence. As a result of that deciThat test, like the test of helpfulness of lay
sion, the statements will also be inadmissible
or expert opinion evidence under Rules
even for the limited purpose of helping to
701 and 702, ought to be a flexible one;
evaluate the credibility of a child, if there is a
there should be no hard and fast rule like that established in Tome, requiring
serious risk that the out-of-court statements would be used on the issue of
that an admissible prior consistent statement precede an alleged impeaching
guilt or innocence.
fact. Because the current Rule has a particularly devastating effect on the
Moreover, after the Court’s March 2004 decision in Crawford v. Washington,
prosecution of sexual child abuse and other sexual assaults, in the event this
which redesigned the landscape of Confrontation Clause analysis, other avenues
amendment to Rule 801(d)(1)(B) is not adopted, the Federal Rules of
of substantive admissibility for the child’s prior statements—the excited utterance
Evidence should be amended to include, like the evidence laws of numerous
hearsay exception, the residual “catch-all” hearsay exception or the states’ “tender
states, a similar provision specifically admitting an alleged victim of sexual
years” hearsay exception—are all in jeopardy unless the child testifies at trial
assault’s prior consistent statements reporting the assault.
and is subject to cross-examination concerning the statement. The combination
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ROBERT RUBINSON
CLIENT COUNSELING,
MEDIATION, AND ALTERNATIVE NARRATIVES OF
DISPUTE RESOLUTION
obert Rubinson, professor
of law and director of
clinical education at UB,
has devoted a substantial portion
of his teaching and scholarship to
understanding how lawyers can
best serve the needs of clients. For
example, he has written about how
lawyers often misconstrue their
clients’ competence when representing the elderly and about the
mechanisms through which legal
services are drawn away from lowand moderate-income clients.
Rubinson’s work on mediation flows
from his goal of understanding and
teaching about effective lawyering. In
appropriate cases, mediation can be a
less contentious and more comprehensive means through which to settle
disputes. As a result, lawyers who counsel clients about mediation in turn
empower these clients to make
informed decisions about the conduct
of their cases.
In addition to his scholarship about
mediation, Rubinson has promoted the
integration of Alternative Dispute
Resolution into law school curricula.
In this regard, he coordinates ADR
programs and co-founded the Family
Mediation Clinic at UB; he is also coauthoring a text on family mediation.
Rubinson has written about the
impact that new legal ethics rules have
on the practice of mediation in The
New Maryland Lawyers’ Rules of
Professional Conduct and “Mediation:
Perplexing Questions Answered and
Perplexing Questions That Remain,”
36 University of Baltimore Law
Forum 1 (2005).
R
The law review article excerpted
here may be found at 10 Clin. L.
Rev. 833 (2004).
he story of litigation has been
so thoroughly internalized by
litigants, judges, and lawyers
alike that it operates below the level of
consciousness. In contrast, for a culture
steeped in litigation, the risk in
approaching mediation is in underestimating its strangeness. In its more
sophisticated forms, mediation proceeds
from fundamentally different premises
as to what resolving disputes is about
and, even more fundamentally, as to
what a dispute is.
Rather than attempt some sort of
systematic point by point procedural
comparison between litigation and
mediation—a futile exercise given that
the two processes do not have parallel
points to compare—I will describe five
conceptual differences between litigation
and mediation.
T
ACTORS AND OWNERS
Once litigation is commenced, parties
are actors compelled by force of law to
act within a system. This is most obvious
in criminal cases, where criminal defendants obviously cannot unilaterally “opt
out” of a case, but it is also true in civil
litigation, where one party can compel
the participation of another party or risk
entry of a default judgment. Moreover,
all litigation operates in the shadow of
a simple fact: a court can impose its
judgments by force on parties.
In contrast, mediation is a voluntary
process. While this picture has been
clouded by the rise of “court-referred”
and “court-ordered” mediation and
enforceable “agreements to mediate,” a
preeminent—if not the greatest—value
in mediation is “the principle of selfdetermination” through which parties
“own” the process. The ultimate way to
“own” a process is to have power to
decide whether to engage in it or not.
PERSPECTIVES
Litigation is consumed with determining
“what happened” in order to determine
liability. Judges and juries decide “what
happened” and sort liability (or penalties) accordingly.
In contrast, mediation rejects the idea
that “what happened” is a unitary or
stable “truth” to be found “out there.”
Instead, a primary—if not the primary—
thrust of mediation is that conflict resolution entails some recognition on the
part of disputants that “what happened”
is informed by perspective. This is, of
course, no easy task for almost by definition, parties to a dispute have different
versions of “what happened.”
RIGHTS AND WRONGS
IN MEDIATION
Given the importance of “perspective”
in mediation, the very notion of
“judgment” is alien to mediation, as
are notions of “fault” and even “responsibility.” Issuing “judgments” (both in its
legal and non-legal sense) and finding
“fault” or “responsibility” impede mediation because mediators want parties to be
the authors of their own mediation. A
morality tale which identifies one party as
“moral” necessarily brands the other party
as not, and the “immoral” party is not
likely to “own” a process that produces
such a result.
TIME IN MEDIATION
Litigation looks backward in time: it
seeks to resolve disputes through historical reconstruction of past events. In
contrast, mediation focuses on what
needs to be done to resolve disputes in
light of present and future interests. This
is not to say that history—or at least
perspectives on history—does not have
its place in mediation: indeed, history in
mediation might offer
clues about how to resolve
controversy in the here
and now, or parties might
require validation of their
perspective on history—
and the catharsis that
describing that history
might bring—as necessary
before meaningful progress can be made
towards resolving controversy.
Nevertheless, the past in mediation is
typically not the foundation for
resolving conflict.
Put another way, the present moment
embodies the lifeblood of mediation
because it contains the different needs
that people have and the ways that these
needs can be satisfied by complementing—or at least not impinging on—the
needs of others.
NARROWING AND
EXPANDING
Litigation seeks to “narrow issues”
through procedural and substantive
mechanisms: responsive pleadings,
motions to dismiss, pretrial orders, the
requirement of relevance. Indeed, a
critical quality of legal rules themselves
is to narrow which “facts” have meaning
in the contest and which do not: the
elements of a tort, a breach of contract, a
crime—all delineate what and when
factual circumstances are meaningful to
the resolution of controversy in litigation.
In contrast, rather than narrowing
issues, the mediation process tends to
embrace openness in dialogue. The idea
is that the more circumstances and
possibilities are shared by the parties to
mediation, the greater the chances that
the parties, with the assistance of the
mediator, can find creative ways to
resolve disputes.
JUDGMENT DAY
By Christianna McCausland
UB Students Continue to Shine in
Thriving Moot Court Program
O
n a Saturday in November 2005, the
hallway of the old post office courthouse building in downtown Baltimore
is crammed with fresh-faced law students wearing
spit-polished shoes and, with few exceptions, black
suits. They look as if they are in uniform, and they
have the same mix of anticipatory excitement and
anxiety gleaming in their eyes that one would
expect of new recruits about to face judgment. In
fact, they are.
This is the region III contest of the 2005
National Moot Court Competition, where three
then-second-year UB law students—Tricia Cecil,
Sean Conway and Joe Johnston—have come to
test their litigation skills and advocacy training
against their peers.
Students from schools such as Georgetown,
the University of Pittsburgh, Rutgers and the
University of Maryland will join the University of
Baltimore contingent in an actual courtroom to
argue their case in front of three imposing judges
whose sole aim is to question, probe and argue, to
test the students’ knowledge and their emotional
22 NOTA BENE fall 2006
strength. It was a long journey to this day, one that
began at the University of Baltimore campus just a
short distance from the old post office building.
Moot courts have a long history at UB. Byron
L. Warnken, J.D. ’77, an associate professor of law
and director of the Judicial Internship Program,
coached moot court teams for 17 years at the
University (he now administers the regional competition) and was a participant himself in 1975,
when he and his partner won the intramural moot
court championship.
In his time at UB, the number of moot courts
has grown from one to 16 currently in action at
the school. But, he says, “The granddaddy of
them all is the national moot court competition.
It’s the oldest, the most prestigious.”
UB began participating in the national competition in 1972, the year the school received
provisional accreditation. In 1973, the school
shocked the academic establishment when it
beat Georgetown to gain a spot in the nationals.
According to Warnken, UB’s success came as
no surprise to those who knew the school.
“Historically, UB has been an advocacy
school,” he says, explaining that prior to accreditation, UB’s lawyers were not as marketable as
those who came from big-name schools. So the
graduates set up general practices and learned to
litigate—skills that were passed down to new
students entering the law school.
“Performance on the LSAT does not necessarily correlate to the ability to handle yourself well
on your feet in the courtroom,” says Warnken.
“What we’ve found over the years is that UB
does well when matched head to head against
schools that are considered higher than us on the
pecking order.” As teams performed better, interest and participation in the teams grew, as did
the law school’s reputation. “Our students and
faculty take appellate advocacy training pretty
seriously,” says Warnken.
“It is, like a lot of our other practice-related
programs, a very good way to learn skills you
won’t learn from a classroom exercise,” says Ernie
Crofoot, J.D. ’82, an adjunct professor and faculty adviser to the team. He also went to the
national competition as a student at UB.
Crofoot explains that the moot court experience is as close as the students can get to actually
appealing a case, short of being in a clinic. The
students must review the legal record, spot issues
and write a precise brief, all while observing the
laws that govern appellate practice—down to the
typesetting of the brief. “Knowing how appellate
practice works is very important, even if a lawyer
doesn’t practice it,” he says. “You need to know
what can happen to your clients when you are
finished with them. It’s all part of really knowing
the law.”
This year’s team received its “problem” in
September: the case of Town of Belle Mer v. Walt
Rides Corporation (WRC). In the case, the owner
of amusement rides argued that safety regulations enacted by the town in the wake of several
accidents were financially impossible to maintain
and that the local law requiring the safety
measures was unconstitutional.
Participants in the moot court were asked
to argue whether the law enacted by the town
constituted a taking under the Fifth Amendment,
and whether the doctrine of Rooker-Feldman
barred the District Court from considering
claims that could have been, but were not,
addressed at the state level. UB team members
MOOT COURT
Cecil, Conway and Johnston were casual
friends when they were selected to the
team. They echo each other’s reasons for
applying to the court: a desire to practice
their research, writing and advocacy skills.
Luckily, that friendship carried them
through the long hours to come, making
the experience more enjoyable.
They began work on their brief for
the respondent, WRC, without the help
of any faculty member—not even
Crofoot, as specified by the rules of the
competition. In October, the brief was
sent to the competition for grading.
Forty percent of the team’s overall score
is based on the brief, the remainder on
performance in the court. The work of
preparing oral arguments began.
The team gathered twice a week in the
UB moot courtroom, practicing arguments before guest “judges” that included
UB professors and representatives from
the local legal community, many of whom
participated in interscholastic moot court
teams during their own time at UB’s law
school. The judges tested the students on
not only their arguments but also their
ability to handle aggressive questioning
under pressure.
“It has been hard work and pretty
humbling at times,” says Johnston, a
Baltimore native who is the first person
in his family to attend law school. The
team requires a tough practice schedule,
with the students balancing their own
lives and the demands of school with
their participation in the moot court.
For his or her efforts, each student receives
two academic credits.
All team members need to be able to argue
for both the respondent and the petitioner. In
the early stages of practice, it was easy for the
students to be tripped up by the questioning
of Crofoot and the other judges. But with
time, the students began to think faster on
their feet. “You have to have excellent research,
organizational and writing skills,” says Crofoot
on the makings of a good moot court competitor. “And you have to be a creative thinker.”
By the weekend of the competition—Nov.
18-20—the three UB students were ready to put
Competition Results
1. Martin Cohen, J.D. ’06, and GwenMarie Davis, J.D. ’06, placed fourth out of 100
teams at the American Bar Association’s National
Client Counseling Moot Court Competition in
Tampa, Fla., in March.
2. The team of Deniece Robinson, 3L;
Jaclyn Bolden, 3L; Tamika Clarke,
3L; and Cerone Anderson, 3L, placed as
the first runner-up in the Black Law Students
Association’s Mid-Atlantic Regional Thurgood
Marshall Mock Trial Competition in Philadelphia,
Pa., held in January.
3. Ashley Bosche, 3L, and Kristen Ross,
3L, finished in second place out of 24 schools in
the region to qualify for the national finals of the
ABA’s Negotiation Competition, held in Chicago,
Ill., in February.
4. The American Intellectual Property Law
Association Moot Court Team of Paul
Wiegel, J.D. ’06, and Hee Smith, 3L, made
it to the semi-finals of the American Intellectual
Property Law Association’s Giles Sutherland
Rich Memorial Northeastern Regional Moot
Court Competition in Boston, Mass., in March.
5. The National Telecommunications Law Moot
Court Team of Robert D. Anderson,
3L; Bryan Davis, 3L; and Mary Beth
Ewen, 3L, qualified for February’s national
competition, held in Washington, D.C.
their well-honed skills to the test. Each team is
required to argue three times in the preliminary
rounds on Saturday, after which five teams are
eliminated. Four teams then advance to the
semifinal round on Sunday. Sunday’s winners
advance to the next level of the competition. In
court, the students are judged on everything
from their demeanor and the knowledge of the
record to their responsiveness to questions and
their persuasiveness.
The UB team first competed against
American University. “It was nerve wracking at
first, waiting for the judges to come into the
room,” Cecil recalls. “But once I started arguing,
I felt comfortable.” After the oral arguments were
completed, the judges dropped their imposing
demeanor and offered comments to each
student in a more casual atmosphere.
The UB students received praise for
their style, their capacity to articulate
their answers to the judges’ questioning
and their ability to blend their knowledge of the facts with their knowledge
of the law.
In a lighthearted moment, the judges
even commiserated with the students
over the confusing issue of the RookerFeldman doctrine, which many admitted
they’d never even heard of before they
were asked to judge the competition. In
the end, UB’s attempt to move from the
regional to the national competition
ended that weekend in November. The
team placed sixth overall, missing the
cut by just 0.5 of a point—one of the
closest competitions in recent history.
Despite the loss, the lessons from the
moot court competition will carry on
for Cecil, Conway and Johnston, who
will leave UB with a leg up on their
litigation skills. Their participation will
also give them an edge in today’s competitive hiring market.
“I look at resumes all the time and,
because it is so competitive, you always
look for someone who goes above and
beyond,” says Tom Lingan, J.D. ’86, a
hiring partner in the Baltimore office of
Venable. “Moot court is pretty well
regarded because it shows a certain
amount of initiative and a command of
oratory skills that are valuable.”
Conway was working as a high school
history teacher in Chicago when he coached
his own mock trial for his students. One of
his pupils asked why he never went to law
school himself, an innocent question he
says was an “ah-ha!” moment that sparked a
career interest and led him to Baltimore and
the moot court competition.
“This is the only time in our legal careers that
we will have the opportunity to learn from so
many of the best in the business in such a short
span of time,” says Conway. “The benefits of this
learning experience have been, and will be, my
most cherished experience at UB.” NB
TOPof their game
at the
BY PAULA NOVASH
What do a trial judge, a former attorney for the European Union, an expert mediator
and a physician and chief medical officer (who also happens to hold a law degree)
have in common? They’re all highly successful in their specialized fields—and
they’re also members of the stellar adjunct faculty at the UB School of Law.
“We’re fortunate to have outstanding professionals as
adjuncts who complement our full-time faculty,” says
Donald Stone, associate dean for academic affairs at the law
school. “Their experience adds richness to our programs,
and they are excellent role models for our students.”
The good feelings are mutual, says the Hon. Brian Kim,
an adjunct at UB since 1994 who has served on the faculty council and was named Adjunct Professor of the Year for
2004-05. “From what I’ve seen, adjunct faculty members
are highly regarded at UB,” he says. “The administration
seeks out a great mix of people and treats them very well.”
Kim, a trial judge for the District Court of Maryland
for Montgomery County, has taught courses that include
Legal Writing, Research and Analysis; Trial Advocacy; and
Interviewing, Negotiating and Counseling. On the bench,
he presides over nonjury civil and criminal cases, domestic
violence cases, landlord-tenant cases and municipal
infractions, and he’s able to incorporate these issues and
others into the bench advocacy course he currently teamteaches with the Hon. Patricia Mitchell of the District
Court of Maryland.
“Many materials I pull from public records provide
direct experience our students wouldn’t have otherwise,”
he says. Teaching in the LL.M. in the Law of the United
States program (for students who have law degrees from
other countries and are preparing to take the bar in the
States) has special significance for Kim, who was born in
Korea and whose family emigrated to Japan and then to
the United States.
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the Hon. Brian Kim
“I’ve had students such as a judge from Nigeria
and a Scottish prosecutor from the Queens Bench
in the United Kingdom, and it’s very rewarding to
help them resume their professional lives here.”
“Having had my own immigrant
experience, I can identify directly with
some of the things they go through,” he
explains. “I’ve had students such as a
judge from Nigeria and a Scottish prosecutor from the Queens Bench in the
United Kingdom, and it’s very rewarding
to help them resume their professional
lives here.”
Kim also coaches the moot court
team that competes in the National
Asian Pacific American Bar Association
competition. “I’ve had great students on
my teams and in class,” he says. “It’s fun
to see the changes from the time you
have them the first year till you see them
walk across the stage at graduation. And
now I love seeing them in court.”
Theresa Furnari, an adjunct professor
at UB and a Domestic Relations Master
in the Baltimore City Circuit Court,
recalls a talk she gave 10 years ago to a
group of women going through divorces.
“I was suggesting that they might
consider mediation, and one woman
stood up and said she didn’t think she
needed the information, although she was divorcing for
the third time,” Furnari recalls. “She started to explain, ‘I’m
a spiritual person, but…’; turned out that she thought I
was discussing meditation.”
Since then, mediation is much better known and
accepted in the legal community as an alternative to litigation. Furnari, whose position involves recommending
for disposition child custody, visitation and contempt
proceedings, among other areas, became convinced of
mediation’s value when she observed in her private
practice that more people seemed unsatisfied than happy
as a result of a litigated verdict.
“It seemed to me there were many situations, such as
custody disputes, that could be better resolved by the
parties involved rather than by the court,” she explains.
Furnari began teaching a mediation skills class at
UB this year. “Besides reviewing skills, we do a lot of role-
Theresa Furnari
“After reviewing skills in class, I’ll find myself
reflecting on how I do things from the bench. I’m
looking at what I do with a fresh perspective.”
playing, so the students get practical, hands-on experience
to simulate what the mediation process is like,” she says.
What’s particularly enjoyable about teaching, says
Furnari, is working with students as they are developing
their skills and ideas.
“It’s exciting to see students open up their minds
to alternatives like mediation,” she says. “From my
experiences I’m able to share cases that have gone to
mediation or haven’t, and the students bring excellent
points to consider.”
Her teaching has been beneficial in another way, says
Furnari. “After reviewing skills in class, I’ll find myself
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“You can’t understand
health-care law unless you
understand the operations
behind it.”
Rodney Williams, M.D.
reflecting on how I do things from the bench. I’m looking
at what I do with a fresh perspective."
Rodney Williams, M.D., is the executive vice president
and chief medical officer at the Greater Baltimore
Medical Center. His work spans the areas of care management, quality improvement, information technology,
human resources and physician practices, and he also
represents GBMC in relationships with government,
universities, social services agencies and other stakeholders
in the inner city.
In addition, Williams holds a J.D. from the Stanford
Law School and is an active member of the Maryland bar.
(He also holds inactive bar memberships in Hawaii and
California.) His diverse training and work experience are
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assets he draws on when teaching his
UB course on medicine and the law.
“The course addresses two major
components in the intersection of law
and medicine—the ethical and the
financial,” he explains. “You can’t
understand health-care law unless you
understand the operations behind it.”
While many students expect to discuss issues such as the right to die,
abortion and privacy, they may not think
about the influence that business has on
health care, Williams says.
“I like to tell students there are
five players in health care—patients,
physicians, hospitals, payers and the
government,” he says. “Most people
focus on the individual’s interaction
with physicians and hospitals, versus
the hospital/insurer, hospital/government and hospital/payer relationships
and how they support the infrastructure.”
Williams looks for issues and situations that he can apply
in his teaching. “During this year, we’ve had the John
Roberts [Supreme Court] hearings, the medical malpractice
crisis and public health in the wake of terrorism and
Katrina,” he explains. “Or we discuss something that’s come
up in my work day, like the rights of minors in the emergency room. What’s fun is to introduce and talk about
what’s real.”
The boundaries in health-care law are evolving, says
Williams. “Behind the doctor-patient issues, there’s a
superstructure that has more effect than you can imagine.
Until you understand the financial and economics, you
can’t understand their ramifications.”
Francine Forster, LL.M. ’04
“European law is both challenging and interesting because
the European Union is so diverse.”
Francine Forster, LL.M. ’04, another adjunct professor of
law at UB, received her M.A. and LL.B. degrees
in Ireland and an M.B.A. in Scotland before earning her
LL.M. at UB. She is a member of the bars of England and
Wales, Northern Ireland, New York and the District of
Columbia, has practiced law in the U.K. for more than 20
years and was a lawyer in the Competition Directorate of
the European Commission in Brussels.
Her course covers European Union Law from its
origins to the present, and she notes that students quickly
come to appreciate how these laws have evolved and
continue to evolve. “European law is both challenging
and interesting because the European Union is so diverse,”
she explains. “That it has developed a uniform code integrating commerce among 25 countries as different as
Germany and Spain, Finland and Slovenia in less than
50 years is a remarkable achievement.”
While the EU and the United States share common
goals on issues such as security, the fight against terrorism,
drug trafficking and human rights, there remain significant differences in areas such as competition law.
“For example, the EU has rejected proposed mergers
between large U.S. companies which had been approved
under U.S. law,” Forster explains. “It’s important to understand the reasons behind these decisions and to avoid
these types of problems in the future.”
Forster is also a 2004 graduate of UB’s LL.M. in the
Law of the United States program, and Kim was one of
her professors. “The UB School of Law provides a strong
mix of the theoretical and the practical,” she says.
“The professors showed a genuine commitment
to excellence.
“Having that experience is one of the reasons I wanted to
remain a part of the UB community.” NB
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BY CHRIS HART
READING BETWEEN THE LINES:
New Program Helps Spot Domestic Violence
T
he couple sits face to face in a quiet office, eyes focused on
anything but each other. A young woman talks to them
about the child-care arrangement they made before they
separated—an agreement that is now in dispute. The woman is
working through their seething argument, trying to remind
both sides that the care of their daughter is what’s important. She
seems to be making progress—but what she doesn’t know is what
happened the night before. She doesn’t know that the husband
confronted his wife at her apartment and that, in a rage, he hit her.
And it wasn’t the f irst time, either.
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A good lawyer needs all the facts to do a
good job—that’s Law School 101. Perhaps in
no other setting than a family law mediation
is that need more important and more
understandable. And without knowing for
sure that domestic violence is not part of
the picture, a court-officiated mediation
simply isn’t possible.
So says Jane Murphy, professor of law, codirector of the UB School of Law’s Family
Mediation Law Clinic and founder of its Family
Law Clinic. While Murphy is a strong advocate
for taking certain family matters into mediation—custody problems, child support, property
claims in divorce cases and the like—she is
equally intent on keeping issues involving
domestic violence out of the hands of mediators.
It’s not that these court-appointed professionals
aren’t capable in their jobs, but rather that the
stakes are too high for a mistake to be made.
Family law mediation has been on the books
in Maryland since 1995, and cases have been
referred to court-sponsored mediation programs
in ever greater numbers over the past five years
or so. But in 2004, Murphy and a handful of
her colleagues in family law noticed a troubling
trend—men who were capable of domestic
violence were ending up with their spouses in
mediation sessions. On occasion, more violence
was the result.
“Sometimes, he might retaliate back at home
because she’s exposed him during a mediation
session,” Murphy says. “She’s talked about something, like his excessive drinking or some other
weakness, or maybe she’s hinted that he can be
violent. For whatever reason, their time in mediation has made matters much, much worse.”
Knowing that the intent of mediation is
exactly the opposite—it’s designed to bring
about clear and equitable resolutions to fairly
standard family disputes, and do so in a timely
fashion without the formality of court proceedings—Murphy and her peers at the House of
Ruth, the Administrative Office of the Courts,
the private Maryland Network Against
Domestic Violence and elsewhere began to
work on a solution. They sought to preserve the
integrity of mediation while at the same time
mitigating the risks posed by violent offenders.
After interviewing professionals inside the
system, court officials and experts in domestic
violence, Murphy and her colleagues—including
some of UB’s family law students—decided that
a screening process, featuring a training manual
as well as a video, was the best way to prevent
offenders from entering a mediation setting.
Murphy even co-wrote the script for the video,
in which Robert Rubinson, professor of law and
director of clinical education, and Leigh
Goodmark, assistant professor of law, lent a
hand by role-playing.
The finished product was completed and
distributed to every courthouse in the state
by the Domestic Violence and Mediation
Workgroup, part of the state Department of
Family Administration in the Administrative
Office of the Courts. Chief Judge Robert Bell
has endorsed the effort, reminding all of
Maryland’s court officials that domestic violence
crosses a threshold that requires more formal
intervention by the courts.
Murphy is proud of the effort, and recently
the Maryland Network Against Domestic
Violence praised her and others involved in the
screening project.
“I’ve worked on a number of these kinds of
things over the years, and it was satisfying to
see the problem identified and debated, and a
solution created relatively quickly,” she says.
Now, she adds, she plans to have students in
the Family Mediation Law Clinic conduct
screening sessions with mediators—an indicator
that the School of Law will continue to play a
key role in this issue.
“This is all about legal education,” Murphy says. NB
Robert Rubinson, professor of law and director of clinical education at UB, and Jane Murphy,
professor of law and co-director of the School of Law’s Family Mediation Law Clinic
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THE END
OF AN ERA
Thirty years, one new law center, two accreditations
and several new programs later, Larry Katz retires
from the University of Baltimore.
Although the University had provisional accreditation, the UB
There is at least one thing that virtually everyone affiliated with the law
program was mainly seen as a night school. It was up to Katz to oversee
school can agree upon: Laurence M. Katz, who retired in July, is the sinthe construction of the John and Frances Angelos Law Center, complete
gle individual most responsible for turning the University of Baltimore
the transition from an evening school to a predominantly day school,
School of Law into a recognized force in the legal community.
develop the curriculum, expand the faculty and improve the facilities. It
“Larry Katz is well loved and deservingly so,” says Gilbert Holmes, dean
also took the support of the faculty, as well as the backing of those in
of the law school. “He oversaw the transition of a primarily night school
state government and the General Assembly, to get everything aligned
into a well-respected college of law.”
for full accreditation in 1981.
Indeed. Katz was brought on board as dean in 1978 by then-President
From there, Katz oversaw the school being accredited by the Association
H. Mebane Turner to oversee huge changes, and it was a position he
of American Law Schools, a designation that is more stringent than ABA
would hold until 1993. “We knew that if someone of Larry’s character
accreditation. Not content to rest there, he developed a master’s degree in
accepted the position of dean, it meant that we would become a real law
taxation—a program that sees accountants and law students studying
school,” says Byron L. Warnken, J.D. ’77, associate professor of law.
together—and oversaw the development of a summer-abroad comparative
But Katz did not begin his career at the University of Baltimore; he had
law program with Scotland’s University of Aberdeen. “Our summer proalready established an impressive track record elsewhere. “After graduating
gram has courses taught by both U.S. and Scottish attorneys,” he notes.
from the University of Maryland School of Law, I clerked for Judge Simon
“Aberdeen has been a wonderful partner; we really get the royal treatment
E. Sobeloff, chief judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth
when we visit.”
Circuit, and then I was an associate with Frank, Bernstein, Conaway &
In 1993, Katz stepped down as dean of the UB School of Law and
Goldman for two years before leaving to teach at the University of
returned to teaching (although during his tenure as dean, he taught one
Maryland School of Law,” says Katz. “I began teaching in 1966 and worked
course each semester to stay in contact with students and continue his
my way from assistant professor to professor and associate dean.”
love for the profession).
During this time, Katz also served as the first executive director of the
The current dean, Gilbert Holmes, was particularly appreciative of
Maryland Institute for Continuing Professional Educational of Lawyers,
or MICPEL.
Katz’s hands-off approach. “He made it very clear that he would not get in
“When I became dean, UB was provisionally accredited by the American
my way,” says Holmes. “Whenever I called upon him for help, he always
Bar Association, which permitted its graduates to take the Maryland bar
made it a point to come to my office, rather than the other way around.
exam,” says Katz. “The Maryland Court of Appeals imposed a rule that
Of course, there were times when I went to his office. … Sometimes you
would allow only graduates of accredited law schools to sit for
have to get up and go to the mountaintop to get the best advice.”
the Maryland Bar Exam.”
By MARY
MEDLAND
30 NOTA BENE fall 2006
Illustration by
ALLAN BURCH
“...People always
say what a man of
amazing integrity
and competence
he is.”
–UB PRESIDENT
ROBERT L. BOGOMOLNY
Clockwise from top left: The Office of Technology Services’ Julie Persell wishes Katz well at his retirement ceremony on May 17, 2006. Former UB
President H. Mebane Turner congratulates Katz on his retirement. Katz celebrates his Honorary Alumnus Award at the 2005 Alumni of the Year
Luncheon with his youngest grandchild, Blimi Goldberg.
Contributions are being accepted to establish the Dean Laurence M. Katz Chair. For more information, contact Michael Cather, 410.837.6797 or mcather@ubalt.edu.
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But Katz’s reputation goes far beyond the UB
campus. “He led the search committee for the
presidency of the University of Baltimore,” says
UB President Robert L. Bogomolny, “and one of
the reasons I seriously considered this university
was because of Larry and what he represented.
“Wherever I go in this city, when his name
comes up, people always say what a man of
amazing integrity and competence he is. He’s a
great ambassador for the University.”
Bogomolny points out that Katz also served
as interim provost from 2003 to 2004. “This
was not a position that was important to [his]
career development and he didn’t have to take
this on, but Larry did, and he really did the
University a great service.”
Bogomolny adds that while Katz is not a
political individual, he was always conscious of
the inevitable politics involved at a university.
“He is aware of politics,” says Bogomolny, “but
he makes his decisions based on principle.”
Warnken adds, “There is an element of adversity in our legal system and a certain Type A
personality that goes to law school. Consequently,
there are very few people in the legal community that everyone has praise for, and Larry is
certainly on that short list.
“He’s sort of like those E.F. Hutton
commercials—‘When Larry Katz speaks,
everyone listens.’”
In spite of his achievements as dean, Katz
hit an equally powerful chord with his
students—he was voted Outstanding Teacher
in 1997 and 2005. “I had Professor Katz for
always get help. Professor Katz never rushed out
of class, but stayed to answer questions.”
Similarly, says Donna Glover, J.D. ’06, who is
scheduled to join the labor and employment
practice group at Venable LLP, “He’s such a
good person and so caring with his students.
He’s very accessible, and with him, there are no
stupid questions.
“His course in Commercial Transactions was
extremely useful and very problem-based and
solution-oriented,” she adds. “The workload was
heavy, but in the end you absolutely understood the code.”
While contracts and commercial transactions
are important but not necessarily sexy areas of
law, students would get in line to take his classes.
“Everyone wanted to take a class with Larry
because he is so respected and because he is
such a good teacher,” Warnken explains.
A deeply religious individual, Katz studied at
Ner Israel Rabbinical College from 1959 to 1961.
“He carries his religion on his sleeve, but in a
very positive way because he doesn’t throw it at
you,” Holmes says. “He is very devout and that
comes through in how he treats people.”
“He’s remarkably kind and caring
and is a brilliant legal mind.”
–BYRON L.WARNKEN
Contracts I, Contracts II and Commercial
Law,” says Victoria Sulerzyski, J.D. ’05. “These
are dry, complicated classes, yet he was really
good at making the process less tedious.
“He taught in a way that you could use the
code to relate to the practice of law rather than
just reading the code. Professor Katz is such a
gentleman, and I have such respect for him. …
His door was always open, and you could
As the adviser to the UB Jewish Law
Students Association, Katz is always available to
help students—especially the more religious
students—with their needs. “He has great
respect for his students,” says Joshua Caplan, a
third-year law student. “He is probably the
most accomplished, yet humble, person I’ve
ever met in my life,” he says. “What you don’t
recognize as a first-year law student is that
you really are in the presence of a great person.
UB has been so lucky to have him as a professor.”
In addition to his work at UB, Katz spent
eight years as chair of the Maryland Court of
Appeals Chief Judge’s Committee to Review
Bar Admissions Processes for the State of
Maryland; 17 years as the reporter for the
Judicial Ethics Committee of the Maryland
Judicial Conference and seven years as the executive secretary for the Maryland Commission
on Judicial Disabilities. Other community
activities include being a trustee of the Charles
Crane Family Foundation, a member of the
board of directors of Hillel of Greater Baltimore
and a member of the Baltimore City Civilian
Review Board.
When Katz officially retired on July 1, 2006,
the School of Law began a slow adjustment to
his absence—a task that has not proven to be
easy. “He’s going to be sorely missed. …We
both had the same official starting date at UB,
and when I was a young academic, he was the
best role model one could hope for,” says
Warnken. “He’s remarkably kind and caring
and is a brilliant legal mind.”
Holmes agrees, noting that Katz set an
unparalleled example for others to follow for
the duration of his nearly three decades at UB.
“I seek to emulate him every day,” says Holmes.
When looking back at his career, Katz
points to his tenure as dean as his most important contribution. “I think what I’m most
proud of is my 15 years as dean,” he says. “It was
a challenge to get the cooperation of a large
group of people to work together to produce a
meaningful and effective program. It didn’t
happen overnight, but it was very satisfying to
see the changes that happened over time.
“I’ve been teaching for 40 years and this
seemed to be about the right time to stop. …
I’ve seen faculty members stay longer than they
should, and while I think I’m still doing fine, it
was time for a change.”
Katz is not entirely sure how his future
will pan out. “I don’t want to work at a law
firm, and I’ve floated my resume to the government, so we’ll see what happens,” he notes.
“Or maybe I’ll play baseball for the Orioles or,
if that doesn’t work out, I’ll play pingpong
with my 17 grandchildren.” NB
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STUDENT FILE
Mentoring
Program Proves
the Sky’s the
Limit
Since 1989, the University of Baltimore School of
Law Mentor Program, coordinated by the Law
Alumni Society, has matched first-year students
with local alumni attorneys. Students enhance
their educational experiences and establish a connection in the legal community by developing
professional relationships with alumni who have
volunteered their time as mentors.
served as a helicopter pilot with the U.S. Marines
for nine years. “This narrow area of law involves
litigation, interpretation of federal guidelines,
contract drafting for the buying/selling/leasing
of aircraft and other subspecialties. Steve was an
ideal mentor.”
Hall, who has forged a successful career in the
private-jet brokerage business since 1985, formed
“Thanks to Steve, I’ve learned that a person’s professional
aspirations are limited only by his or her IMAGINATION.”
In fall 2005, Thomas Leahy, then a first-year
law student, was pleasantly surprised to learn that
the mentor to whom he had been assigned—
Steve Hall, J.D. ’79—had legal experience in the
aviation industry. “My background in the military
motivated my interest to attend law school and to
pursue the area of aviation law,” says Leahy, who
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his own brokerage company, Hallmark Aviation,
in 1995. In addition to buying and selling private
jets, Hallmark specializes in the acquisition of
airliners for conversion to private use by heads
of state and billionaire VIPs.
Hall’s experience and ready accessibility helped
to open Leahy’s eyes to the variety of nontraditional
left: Thomas Leahy
legal opportunities that await upon graduation.
According to Leahy, Hall’s achievements are living
proof of this fact. “Thanks to Steve, I’ve learned
that a person’s professional aspirations are limited
only by his or her imagination,” he says.
From his perspective as a successful
businessman, Hall assesses Leahy’s military
background as a factor that contributes to his
marketability in the legal arena. “I view this as
a big plus for him in his ability to bring a world
view to the legal profession,” Hall says.
“Although the business of law is generally
highly localized and very specific in its application, I believe that a serious and experienced
person like Thomas will bring new insight and
greater empathy to the legal profession.
“As a mentor, I view it as my job to reinforce
and nurture the importance of talents gained
from life experiences and not let them wane
under the pressures endured by first-year law
students,” he continues.
Like Leahy, approximately 80 first-year
students participate annually in the mentor
program and are paired with alumni who match
each student’s areas of interest. The Law Alumni
Society’s mentor program committee meets in the
early fall to review student applications and select
mentors; all parties involved also attend a breakfast orientation in October.
For more information or to learn how to
become a mentor, contact Tammi Scott-Lynch at
410.837.4479 or tscott-lynch@ubalt.edu.
STUDENT FILE
UB Law Graduates Continue Success in Judicial Clerkship Arena
Like many of their predecessors, members of the class of 2006 have secured judicial clerkships throughout the state of Maryland and beyond.
The following is a partial listing of the members of the class of 2006 who are beginning their legal careers as judicial clerks:
MARK BEAUMONT
Circuit Court for Carroll
County
GWEN-MARIE DAVIS
Circuit Court for
Baltimore City
K AREN GOSTOMSKI
Circuit Court for Anne
Arundel County
MELISSA MELCHIOR
Circuit Court for
Baltimore County
V ICTORIA Z. SULERZYSKI
Court of Appeals,
Maryland
JONATHAN BRADBARD
Circuit Court for Anne
Arundel County
LEON M. DEBES JR.
Circuit Court for
Washington County
CRAIG HAUGHTON
Court of Appeals,
Maryland
JASON PENN
Court of Appeals,
Maryland
WAYNE L. THORNHILL
Court of Special Appeals,
Maryland
TODD BROOKS
Court of Special Appeals,
Maryland
DERRICK DYE
Circuit Court for
Wicomico County
GREG HISLOP
Circuit Court for Kent
County
TRACEY PERRICK
Circuit Court for
Montgomery County
STANLEY TODMAN
Circuit Court for
Baltimore City
JOSEPH CLEAVER
Circuit Court for
Washington County
DANIE ENGLES
Circuit Court for
Frederick County
JOSEPH HOWARD
Circuit Court for
Baltimore City
K ELLY POWERS
Circuit Court for
Baltimore City
APRIL URBAN
Circuit Court for Howard
County
ANGELA COSTELLO
Circuit Court for Prince
George’s County
SLOANE FISH
Circuit Court for
Baltimore City
MATTHEW HURFF
Circuit Court for Harford
County
APRIL RENEE RANDALL
Circuit Court for Prince
George’s County
CRAIG ZISSEL
Circuit Court for Howard
County
SIMONE KIERSKY COYLE
Circuit Court for
Baltimore City
K ERRY FOX
Circuit Court for
Frederick County
MARK JOHNSON
Court of Appeals,
Maryland
CHRIS ROBERTS
Circuit Court for
Montgomery County
ERNEST CORNBROOKS
Court of Appeals,
Maryland
MAURICE FRAZIER
Circuit Court for
Baltimore City
PATRICIA LEY
Circuit Court for
Montgomery County
TIFFANY RODENBERGER
Circuit Court for Prince
George’s County
ANDREW DALE
Circuit Court for
Baltimore City
RICHARD FRIEDLER
Circuit Court for
Baltimore City
ALBERT MCCARRAHER
Circuit Court for
Baltimore County
MICHAEL RYND
Circuit Court for
Baltimore City
School of Law Calendar of Events 2006-07
Nov. 14
a.m. LAW: THE WAR ON TERROR AND THE FOURTH AMENDMENT:
CAN THEY COEXIST?
March 13
a.m. LAW PRESENTATION
registration: 7:30 a.m.; lecture: 8-9 a.m., Venable Baetjer Howard Moot Court
Room, Angelos Law Center, University of Baltimore
April 10
a.m. LAW PRESENTATION
Feb. 9
UB STUDENTS FOR PUBLIC INTEREST LAW AUCTION
April 24
a.m. LAW PRESENTATION
The Belvedere, Baltimore, Md.
Feb. 20
ANNUAL LIBRARY LECTURE
March 6-10
THE UB SCHOOL OF LAW’S LITIGATION WEEK
AND LEGACY OF EXCELLENCE IN LITIGATION
CEREMONY
May 2007
ALUMNI/STUDENT GOLF TOURNAMENT
June 2007
MARYLAND STATE BAR ASSOCIATION ALUMNI
AND FRIENDS RECEPTION
For more information on
these events, contact the
Office of External and
Alumni Relations at
410.837.6797 or ear@ubalt.edu.
Stay informed of the latest
events and School of Law
news. Subscribe to the
monthly online newsletter,
E-Docket, at
http://law.ubalt.edu/edocket/
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2006
Congratulations
to the Class of
Lauri Jacobson and Kia Johnson
Law Dean Gilbert Holmes and Joyce Lombardi
On May 21, 2006, 296 law students crossed the stage of the Lyric Opera House to receive their
degrees; these graduates included 16 from the LL.M. in Taxation program and six from the LL.M. in
the Law of the United States program. Maryland’s first female state’s attorney, the Hon. Irma S.
Raker, delivered the commencement address.
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President Robert L. Bogomolny, the Hon. Irma S. Raker and Holmes
Mareco Edwards and Namha Corbin
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2005
ecoming
Clockwise from top left; l. to r.:
Although rain cancelled the
eagerly anticipated alumni/
student softball game, the
School of Law’s 3rd Annual
Homecoming and Reunion,
held Oct. 8-9, 2005, was
anything but a washout.
Alumni from as far away
as Florida returned to UB to
reconnect with their former
classmates and attend the
annual festivities. Before the
weekend was over, the law
school honored several distinguished guests, including
members of the classes of
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1955, 1965, 1975, 1980, 1985
and 2000 as well as the top
students in the Graduate Tax
program.
The Engineers Club provided an ideal setting for a
gala on Saturday, where dinner,
dancing and discussion were
on order for this special
evening. Sunday’s Jazz Brunch
was held in the lobby of UB’s
John and Frances Angelos
Law Center, giving guests a
perfect view of the newly
renovated Venable Baetjer
Howard Moot Court Room.
1. Law students Lauren Dunnock and Julie McCann
2. Joy Clarke-Holmes, Dean Gilbert Holmes and Neil
Meyerhoff
3. On Saturday, alumni and guests dined at the
Engineers Club at the Garrett-Jacobs Mansion.
4. Members of the law class of 1975: Neal R. Haber,
Joseph Persico, Michael D. Steinhardt, Anthony Katz
and Charles Shubow
5. Alumnae enjoying the Sunday Jazz Brunch
6. Linda Blatt and Anthony Katz, J.D. ’75
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Annual Litigation Week Cel
A historic agreement
ceremony between the UB School
of Law and the Maryland Chapter
of the American College of Trial
Lawyers kicked off the 3rd
Annual Litigation Week, held
March 7-11. Representatives from
the ACTL and the law school
celebrated their collaboration in
providing students with a litigation skills program.
Other activities during the
week included a special session of
the Court of Special Appeals in
the newly renovated Venable
Baetjer Howard Moot Court
Room as well as free seminars
on topics such as the seeming
disappearance of jury trials, the
ethical representation of clients
before the court and commercial
litigation of the 21st century.
At a gala dinner on Saturday,
March 11, four alumni were
honored with Legacy of
Excellence in Litigation awards for
their exceptional achievement in
and impact on the profession.
In addition, the Charles Hamilton
Houston Lifetime Achievement
Award was presented to a friend of
the University who is not a graduate and who has established a
legacy of excellence in the state
of Maryland.
l to r: Albert P. Halluin, J.D. ’69; the Hon. Roger W. Brown Sr., J.D. ’73 (ret.); the Hon. Lynne A. Battaglia; Jana Howard Carey, J.D. ’76 (ret.);
and the Hon. Joseph F. Vallario Jr., J.D. ’63
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ALUMNI
ebrates Landmark Collaboration
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IN LITIGATION
“HALL OF FAME” INDUCTEES:
The Hon. Joseph F. Vallario Jr., J.D. ’63
Delegate, State of Maryland
Albert P. Halluin, J.D. ’69
Senior Counsel, Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati
The Hon. Roger W. Brown Sr., J.D. ’73 (ret.)
Judge, Circuit Court of Maryland
Jana Howard Carey, J.D. ’76 (ret.)
Partner, Venable, Baetjer & Howard LLP
1. Clockwise from top left: Roger Brown Jr., Bobbi Dickens, the Hon. Roger W. Brown Sr.,
Patricia Brown, Stephen Gee, Russell Neverdon, Tiffany Neverdo, Andrea Brown Gee,
Kimberly Thomas and Courtney Brown
2. Law Professor Morad Eghbal and law students Adrienne Dixon and Antonio Moore
The Hon. Lynne A. Battaglia
Judge, Maryland Court of Appeals
3. Crystal and Charles Hamilton Houston III
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HOUSTON LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT
AWARD IN LITIGATION RECIPIENT:
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ALUMNI
UB Golf Tournament Sets New Giving Record
A record 80 golfers played in the
UB School of Law’s 7th Annual
Alumni and Student Golf
Tournament, held on May 18,
2006, at the Waverly Woods golf
course in Marriottsville, Md. Neil
Bixler, J.D. ’92, and Dylan
Megarity, J.D. ’92, co-chairs of the
Law Alumni Society’s golf
committee, coordinated the event
that brought together alumni,
students and friends for a enjoyable day of play and networking.
The day’s event brought yet
another milestone: Participants
raised a record $10,000 to benefit
the School of Law’s Emergency
Student Loan Fund. Top sponsors
included the Law Offices of Peter
G. Angelos and Gordon, Feinblatt,
Rothman, Hoffberger &
Hollander LLC.
l. to r.:
Michael Lynch; Gregory Rapisarda, J.D. ’05;
Melanie Pereira, J.D. ’87; and Shannon
O’Connor, J.D. ’04
Update: Law Alumni Society
The 2005-06 academic year proved to be particularly
productive for the UB Law Alumni Society. In addition to
establishing bylaws and adding at least six new members,
the organization worked hard to provide an impressive
roster of educational programs and professional networking
opportunities for alumni, faculty and students.
October brought a stellar turnout for the UB School of
Law’s 3rd Annual Homecoming and Reunion—an event
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organized by the society—and members also recruited
several current practitioners to speak on timely and important areas of the law as part of the fall 2005 and spring
2006 Ginsberg a.m. LAW presentations.
The Law Alumni Society’s mentor committee continued its successful mentoring program, producing a
brochure to recruit participants. Finally, as noted above,
this year’s golf tournament raised a record $10,000.
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PARTING SHOT
Front row (l to r): Isabel M. Cumming, Jill P. Carter,
Joan B. Gordon, Melanie C. Pereira, Anita M. Sheckells
Back row (l to r): Kendel S. Ehrlich, Kimberly L. Wagner,
Robin Silver, Ellen L.S. Koplow Not pictured: Anne T. Brennan
Ten ub Grads honored among
“Maryland’s Top 100 women”
On May 8, The Daily Record honored the 2006 winners of its annual
“Maryland’s Top 100 Women” contest, including nine UB law alumnae
and one Merrick School of Business alumna, at an awards ceremony
held at the Meyerhoff Symphony Hall. According to The Daily
Record, the contest “is designed to recognize women who not only
have achieved professional success but also have contributed to bettering the communities in which they work and live. Additionally,
[these women] play an active roll in mentoring the younger generation of businesspeople.”
Two UB graduates—Isabel M. Cumming, M.B.A. ’89, J.D. ’93,
of the Prince George’s County State’s Attorney’s Office; and Joan B.
Gordon, J.D. ’78, of the Bar Association of Baltimore City—became
members of the Circle of Excellence, The Daily Record’s “hall of
fame” that recognizes three-time awardees.
Other UB alumnae honored in May include:
• Anne T. Brennan, J.D. ’84, of Whiteford, Taylor & Preston LLP
• Jill P. Carter, J.D. ’92, of the Maryland General Assembly
• Kendel S. Ehrlich, J.D. ’87, First Lady of Maryland
• Ellen L.S. Koplow, J.D. ’83, of TD Ameritrade Holding
Corporation
• Melanie C. Pereira, B.S. ’77, J.D. ’87, of the Howard County
Department of Corrections
• Anita M. Sheckells, B.S. ’84, of KAWG&F, P.A.
• Robin Silver, J.D. ’84, of Miles & Stockbridge P.C.
• Kimberly L. Wagner, J.D. ’88, of Tritronics.
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