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Dennis O. Lynch IsLaw School’s New Dean

Dennis O. Lynch, professor and deanemeritus at the University of DenverCollege of Law and prominent experton Latin American law, is the new deanof the University of Miami School ofLaw.

He succeeds Mary Doyle, who hadbeen interim dean since the May 1998resignation of Samuel C. Thompson, Jr.Doyle, who also served as dean in 1986–1994, rejoined the faculty as professorof law.

“Dennis L ynch has had a close asso-ciation with this law school since 1974.He loves this institution, and he willbring his considerable talent and expe-rience to bear as dean,” she pointed out.“Our school will be in very good hands.”

Lynch, who joined the Miami facultyin 1974 and served as associate dean in1983–86, moved to Colorado in 1990to become dean of the University ofDenver’s law school.

Fluent in Spanish, he has been aFulbright Scholar in economics in Ven-

ezuela, a program officer with the FordFoundation in Colombia, and a con-sultant for the U.S. Agency forInternational Development on con-stitutional reform in Colombia, legalreform in Nicaragua, and the admin-istration of criminal justice in CentralAmerica. In 1973–1977, he held anInternational Legal Center ResearchGrant to study the Colombian legalprofession.

Lynch’s teaching specialties are civilprocedure, employment law, and laborlaw.

A well-known lecturer on current is-sues in labor arbitration, he also hasbeen a consultant to the Federal TradeCommission on labor antitrust issuesand a member of the boards of directorsof the International Third World LegalStudies Association and the Inter-American Legal Services Association.

A 1965 graduate of the University ofOregon, Lynch holds a JD degree fromHarvard Law School and J.S.D. andLL.M. degrees from Yale Law School.He was admitted to the bar in the Dis-trict of Columbia in 1969.

His selection to head the Universityof Miami School of Law was the culmi-nation of an intensive nationwidesearch. The search committee, headedby Bernard Fogel, dean emeritus of theUniversity of Miami School of Medi-cine, and co-chaired by RobertWaters, professor of law, included fourother law professors, Law Schoolalumni and student representatives,and a professor from the UM Depart-ment of Management.

“I look forward to this opportunityto work with the University ofMiami’s talented faculty, students,and administration,” Lynch said. “Iam especially eager to meet with theLaw School’s alumni, to become re-acquainted with many of my formerstudents and learn first hand abouttheir professional careers.”

Law School Reflects City’s ‘Gateway to Americas’ RoleThe University of Miami School ofLaw—located in Coral Gables, justminutes from downtown Miami—hascapitalized on its “Gateway to theAmericas” location by developing oneof the most extensive arrays of interna-tional expertise and course offerings tobe found in any of the nation’s lawschools.

The international (especially His-panic) focus is evident in the make-upof the student body. Over the last twoyears, UM Law has conferred 133 JDdegrees on Hispanic students—the mostof any U.S. law school outside of Pu-erto Rico. This year, the School has 241

Hispanic-Americans and students from10 foreign countries enrolled in itsthree-year JD program.

At the graduate level, approximately25 Hispanic-Americans and studentsfrom Spanish-speaking countries areenrolled in the Law School’s sevenLL.M. programs, the majority of themin the International Law program.Among them are many lawyers whohave received degrees from foreign lawschools.

In spring 1999, the Law School addeda course based on the Spanish civil codeand taught entirely in Spanish. It wasone of the first courses to be taught in

Law Library’s EvergladesCollection Is Rare,Valuable Resource

By Alberto Montero-ValdesCurator, Everglades Litigation Collection

The Everglades litigation collectionhoused in the School of Law Library’sSpecial Collections and Archives De-partment is the largest collectionassembled anywhere of legal docu-ments and multimedia materialsregarding the Everglades.

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ern District of Florida following a bid-ding process that included FloridaInternational University and FloridaAtlantic University.

Based primarily on documents pro-duced from years of complex litigationover water quality degradation andwater quantity disruption in the Ever-glades, the collection includes a

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DEAN Dennis O. Lynch

ASSO CIATE DEAN Richard L. Williamson, Jr.

ASSISTANT DEAN, ALUMNI & DEVELOPMENT Stephen K. Halpert

ASSO CIATE DEAN OF STUDENTS William VanderWyden

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In early August, soon after he officiallybecame UM Law’s dean, Dennis Lynchtalked with The Barrister about his de-cision to accept the position and abouthis expectations for the Law School.

Barrister: Why did you decide toaccept the University of MiamiSchool of Law’s offer to return asdean?

Lynch: There were a number ofreasons.

On a personal level, the Universityof Miami is the school that gave methe opportunity to be a legal scholarand educator. It was very good to meand gave me plenty of support, bothprofessional and personal. It is an in-stitution for which I have a lot ofprofessional loyalty, so the opportu-nity to come back and lead the schoolis very gratifying.

Moreover, it’s exciting to lead aschool with such potential. We haveone of the most pro ductive andscholarly law faculties in the coun-try, and we’re located in the mostdynamic, international city in theU.S. The faculty, the city, a stronglegal community, a carefully se-lected and culturally diverse studentbo dy, a superb library—they’re allhere. The potential has never beenfully realized, which presents uswith a wonderful opportunity.

Barrister: How do you think thatpotential can be realized?

Lynch: We need to build on thequality of our educational programs—get the message out to the local andnational bars of just how goo d theyare.

We should make more use of a va-riety of ways for presenting ormarketing our message to potentialstudents, as well as to members of thelegal and international communities.These will include not just brochures,media releases, and other written ma-terials, but also more face-to-facemeetings.

Barrister: Do alumni play a majorrole in your plans?

Lynch: Absolutely. Alumni are ourambassadors to the world—to poten-tial students, to the legal community,to other alumni. It’s very importantthat we keep them informed, in-volved with students, and proud oftheir school.

Barrister: It may be too early in yourtenure to be asking this question, buthow healthy do you think the LawSchool’s relationship is with itsalumni at this time?

Lynch: In terms of financial support,it’s obvious that we’re not at the levelwe need to be. Private law schoolsthat are reaching their potential arereceiving greater financial supportfrom their alumni.

However, we do have good supportfrom our alumni in terms of involve-ment in school activities. They areinvolved with our students in a num-ber of ways, such as mentoring,

participating with moot court activi-ties, and helping students find jobs. Weneed to take even more advantage oftheir eagerness to be involved in thoseways.

Also, we need our alumni to haveconfidence in our educational mission.It is important that they understandhow much our faculty cares about edu-cating students. Alumni should takepride in the quality of our faculty andtheir commitment to teaching.

Alumni have strong views. Theycare about the school, and we must lis-ten to them and to the rest of the legalcommunity and take their suggestionsto heart. What our alumni have to sayis very important. The fact that ouralumni population is so large—ap-proximately 14,000 altogether—andsuccessful is a real asset for us.

Barrister: What do you think areother strong assets of UM Law?

Lynch: The most obvious is our fac-ulty. We have one of the top facultiesin the country, as measured by the vol-ume of their publishing and thefrequency with which their articles andbooks are cited by others. The facultyhas an incredible range of interests andexpertise, and they are especiallystrong in the areas of international lawand social justice. Moreover, they arean excellent teaching faculty.

Our distinctiveness is a major asset,particularly in regard to our multicul-tural location, student-body, and fac-ulty. This is the place to come to studytransnational law, and we are one ofthe main educators of bilingual lawgraduates. Moreover, not only are weat the main point of contact betweenthe U.S. and Latin America, our SouthFlorida location also brings us consid-erable legal interaction with Europe.

Barrister: What are the primarychallenges facing the Law School?

Lynch: At this point, the most im-minent challenges are probablyfinancial—taking the School throughthis period of student body downsizing,with its accompanying drop in revenuefrom tuition. It is crucial that we beable to maintain a good student-faculty ratio to ensure that studentscan have the interaction they needwith faculty members.

We need to generate strong finan-cial support from sources other thantuition to maintain and build on thestrength of our programs. This requiresconvincing alumni and other membersof the legal and business communitiesof the importance of our goals.

Other challenges are to take greateradvantage of our faculty’s wide-rang-ing legal expertise and to ensure thatour students and graduates have ex-cellent job opportunities.

The challenges are significant, butthey pale in comparison to our poten-tial. As the world moves rapidlytoward a truly global economy, we arein a far better position than most lawschools in our ability to capitalize onthat evolution.

Former UM Law DeanMary Doyle AcceptsInterior Department Post

WASHINGTON, D.C.–Secretary ofthe Interior Bruce Babbitt has an-nounced the appointment of UM LawProfessor Mary Doyle as Counselor tothe Secretary, a position recently va-cated by David Hayes, who is nowActing Deputy Secretary of the Interior.

Doyle, who is on leave from her posi-tion as tenured professor of law, was deanof the Law School in 1986–94 andserved as interim dean in 1998–99.

“I am delighted that someone with thetalent and legal stature of Mary Doylehas agreed to serve in the importantposition of Counselor to the Secretary,”Secretary Babbitt said.

“It requires a person with a proventrack record and great commitment to

the vital issues and mission of the De-partment of the Interior . Mary hasshown this high level of dedication tothe environment for many decades andhas made a sizeable contributionthroughout her distinguished career.”

Most recently, Doyle has specializedin research on the legal, political andscientific issues surrounding the resto-ration of the Everglades ecosystem inSouth Florida. Following her initialser vice as dean of the School of Law,she took a leave of absence to be dean-in-residence at the Association ofAmerican Law Schools in Washington,D.C. for one year . Her expertise in-volved legal education and thedevelopment of an environmental lawcurriculum in Russia and the Ukraine.

During the 1980s, Doyle served as aprofessor of law at the University ofArizona College of Law, specializing inwater, land use, local government andproperty law and subsequently served asboth a professor of law and the associ-ate dean for academic affairs.

From 1979 until 1981, she served asan attorney at the Department of En-ergy, as associate general counsel, thendeputy general counsel at the U.S. En-vironmental Protection Agency.

Doyle is a graduate of Radcliffe Col-lege and attended Boston Law Schooland Columbia Law School, where shereceived her law degree. While attend-ing Boston College Law School, she waselected to the Boston College LawReview.

1980–99 YearbooksAvailable

The Amicus Curiae office has a limited supply of unclaimed copies of theLaw School’s yearbook, dating back to 1980.

While they last, any alumnus who never received a complimentary copyfor his or her 3L year can get one by contacting editor-in-chief CatherineThan at ct2653@law.miami.edu or executive editor Kira Willig at kw4214@law.miami.edu, or by calling the Amicus Curiae office at (305) 284-1860.

Yearbooks for other years are available at $10 per copy.

Loyalty, Challenge,Potential BringNew Dean to UM Law

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As Florida Bar President,Osman Aims to Improve Lawyers’ ImageAs the new president of the Florida BarAssociation, Edith Osman, Class of1983, is a woman with a mission: to pro-tect the nation’s legal system by helpingrestore what it needs most to survive—the confidence of the people.

“Our legal system survives only be-cause the people let it. If we lose theconfidence of our citizens, we run therisk that lawlessness and self-help willslowly erode the rule of law,” shewarned.

In a speech to UM Law’s first-year stu-dents during orientation in August,Osman pointed out that “our professionhas faced much ridicule in last two de-cades. The Florida Bar is working veryhard on many fronts to re-educate thepublic about who lawyers are and whatwe are committed to, and to restore toour profession the respect it deserves.”

Osman was installed as president ofthe 65,325-member bar in June, afterserving a year as president-elect. She isthe second woman to hold the position.(The first was Patricia Seitz in 1993.)

“As attorneys, we are the guardiansof the laws that define our society,” shesaid at her swearing-in ceremony. “But,conventional wisdom tells us that, in theeyes of the public, we have gone frombeing a source of pride to a source ofpunch lines.”

According to Osman, surveys showthat 80 percent of the public perceivesthe U.S. legal system to be the best inthe world. Furthermore, she said, thepeople who claim to dislike lawyers mosthave had the least contact with the le-gal system. “Put another way,” she said,those who know us best, like us best,and for good reason.”

In 1998, she said, Florida’s lawyerscontributed nearly one million hours inpro bono work and nearly $2 million inlegal aid funding. In addition, nearly15,000 Florida lawyers provided morethan 1.5 million hours to local boards,schools, churches, synagogues, charities,civic groups and other organizations.

“Do you know another profession thathas shown that kind of community com-mitment,” she asked. “I don’t. I alsodon’t know of another profession thatmore effectively speaks for those whocannot speak for themselves. . . .Wemust let the public know it.

“Studies find that the key to turningaround destructive cynicism lies ineducation—encouraging a better un-derstanding of both the system and thepeople who toil in it. We need to bridgethis information gap with the truthabout our profession.”

Osman said implementation of acommunications program developedby the Florida Bar’s board of governorsover the past two years is one of her toppriorities. The program centers on anew theme and logo: “The FloridaBar: Protecting Rights, Pursuing Jus-tice, Promoting Professionalism.” Thewords will appear on all Bar materials,letterhead, and brochures and on radioand television announcements.

A second major educational goal isto expand the Bar’s professionalism ini-tiative. “We must acknowledge andrespect the diversity within our com-munity,” she emphasized. “We mustrecognize that fundamental fairness isat the core of our judicial system, andwe must treat all people with courtesyand respect.”

A third educational tool is the cre-ation of media teams of local lawyers,who will write op-ed pieces for theirhometown newspapers and respond toletters to the editor. Team members alsowill sit down with editors and broadcast-ers to discuss coverage of legal issues.Moreover, the nearly 800 lawyers whohave volunteered for the Bar’s speakersbureau also will help carry the messageto civic groups and into the publicschools.

Another important Bar initiative isthe recently-established Commission onthe Legal Needs of Children, which willstudy how the justice system treats chil-dren. Chaired by Circuit Judge SandyKarlan, the commission has 28 mem-bers, including Bernard Perlmutter,director of UM Law’s Children andYouth Law Clinic.

Asked what issues the Florida Bar willbe dealing with this year, Osman replied,“The multi-disciplinary practice ques-tion is the biggest issue on the horizon.The ABA has proposed a rule changeto allow professionals to share fees withnon-lawyers (such as accounting firms).This raises some ethics questions andcould have a major effect on the waywe practice law. The Florida Bar hasproposed keeping the status quo untilthe issue has been more fully explored.We have a committee in place to studythe issue before deciding whether to sup-port the ABA’s proposal or any otherpotential rule change.”

A shareholder of Carlton, Fields,Ward, Emmanuel, Smith & Cutler, P.A.,Osman practices commercial litigationand family law in the firm’s Miami of-fice. She joined the firm in 1998, afterrunning her own practice for five years.

Asked whether her Bar activities pre-clude carrying a full caseload at her lawfirm, she said, “With speaking engage-ments, writing projects, meetings andgeneral Bar involvement, being presi-dent of the Bar is really a full-time job;however, with a lot of help from mypartners and associates, I’m also able tomaintain my practice.” She added thather workdays typically last 12–14 hours.

However, long hours are nothing newfor her. She has been working double-time for two decades, since the day sheentered UM Law as a full-time studentwith two small children.

“I’ve been able to work like this be-cause I love it,” she said. “I love the legalprofession—with its countless opportu-nities to do good—and I really likelawyers.”

In her August 14 orientation remarks,she told 1Ls they were “blessed to beable to attend the University of MiamiSchool of Law. It’s a great learning in-stitution, with a stellar faculty.”

She urged students to not “let mon-etary considerations sway you. W orkfor justice, serve your clients, and fol-low your conscience, and the rewardswill come.”

Burton YoungA partner in the North Miami

Beach law firm Young, Berman &Karpf, Y oung was president of theFlorida Bar Association in 1970–71and served as president of the FloridaBar Foundation from 1975 to 1977.He also has chaired the 1977 ChiefJustice’s Advisory Committee of theFlorida Supreme Court, the FloridaSupreme Court’s Select Committee toStudy the Florida Board of Bar Exam-iners, and the Florida Bar’s Family LawRules Committee. In June 1985, anarticle in Town & Country magazineincluded him in its article on “TheBest Lawyers in the U.S.” Similarly,The Best Lawyers in America, 1993–94 , an annual reference guide pollinglawyers nationwide on the top prac-titioners in their field, named him oneof the best divorce and family lawyers.In 1998, at the Florida Bar’s annualmeeting, he was honored with theFlorida Bar Foundation Medal ofHonor for his service and dedicationto the public and for his administra-tion of justice.

Edward J. AtkinsPresident of the Florida Bar Associa-

tion in 1976–77, Atkins had served asa member of the association’s board ofgovernors for the 10 preceding years. Hepresided over the Dade County BarAssociation in 1965–66 and was amember of the Federal and Americanbar associations as well as the Inter-national Association of InsuranceCounsel and the Judge Advocates As-sociation. In 1978, he was presidentof the University of Miami’s LawAlumni Association. Atkins was as-sociated with the Miami firm Walton,Lantaff, Schroeder & Carson. Nearlynine years after his death in 1979, hisson, Michael, died in an automobileaccident just before receiving his JDfrom UM Law.

H. Russell TroutmanWhen Troutman was president of the

Florida Bar (1977–78), the AmericanBar Association conferred its Project Ex-cellence Award upon the organizationfor its creation of the first interest ontrust account program for the fundingof legal services to the poor. In 1968–69, when he was president of the OrangeCounty Bar Association, the Florida BarAssociation named it the OutstandingLocal Bar Association. He also has beenon the board of governors of the FloridaBar and chaired the Florida SupremeCourt Nominating Commission. He isa founding partner of Troutman, Will-iams, Irvin, Green & Helms in WinterPark and Oviedo, Florida.

Samuel S. SmithPresident of the Florida Bar Asso-

ciation in 1981–82, Smith also waspresident of the Florida Bar Founda-tion in 1989 and secretary of theAmerican Bar Association from 1993–96. Prior to assuming the presidencyof the Florida Bar, he served on theassociation’s board of governors foreight years. A partner in the Miamilaw firm Ruden, Barnett, McClosky,Smith, Schuster & Russell, Smith wasa nationally known probate litigatorand law office management expert. Hewas instrumental in establishing DadeCounty’s model guardianship programand devoted countless hours of com-munity service, usually benefitingprograms helping children. He alsoserved as an adjunct faculty memberat UM Law. Shortly before his deathfrom cancer early this year, the FloridaBar Foundation recognized his manycontributions when it bestowed uponhim its annual Medal of Honor, theFoundation’s highest award for serviceto the public and profession.

Four Other UM Law Alumni Have Headed Florida BarIn addition to Edith Osman, the current president of the Florida Bar Association, four other UM Law alumni have headed the organization, including:

Burton Young, Class of 1950; Edward J. Atkins, ’51; H. Russell Troutman, ’58; and Samuel S. Smith, ’60.

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million pages of documents and a mil-lion frames of microfilm, along withseveral hundred megabytes of scientificdata, deposition transcripts and databaseinformation. Interspersed among for-mal legal documents such as pleadings,consent decrees, and hearing and depo-sition transcripts are maps, photographs,and reports, providing insight into thenature of the Everglades and its inte-gral place in Florida’s history anddevelopment.

One of nature’s unique and most var-ied ecosystems, the Everglades has beenrecognized worldwide for its hauntingbeauty. The largest federal wildernessarea in the east, Everglades NationalPark is also of international significance,having been designated as a World Bio-sphere Reserve in 1976, a WorldHeritage Site in 1979, and a Wetlandof International Importance. It is theonly wetland in the Western Hemi-sphere to receive these multipledesignations.

Decades of governmental and privateintervention in the form of drainageprojects for flood control and agricul-tural development and increasedurbanization, however, have diminishedthe primeval everglades to half its size.

Today the Everglades is one of thenation’s most fragile and threatened eco-systems. Human intervention in thiscentury has also disrupted the quality,timing, and path of the vital water flow-ing through its remnants.

The collection’s materials come pri-marily from documents filed andproduced in a landmark civil action filedby the United States in 1988 and fromsubsequent litigation spawned by thatlawsuit, some of which continues to thisday. In the original lawsuit, the UnitedStates government sued the SouthFlorida Water Management District andthe State of Florida Department of En-vironmental Regulation, alleging thatthey had violated state water qualitylaws and contributed to the degradationof the Everglades National Park and theArthur R. Marshall Loxahatchee Na-tional Wildlife Refuge.

The Everglades case spawned thou-sands of pleadings, hundreds ofdepositions, and over a million pages ofdocuments.

After four years of bitter litigation, thecase was settled in 1992, when JudgeWilliam Hoeveler entered a settlementagreement between the federal and stateparties, recognizing the severe harm thePark and Refuge had suffered and wouldcontinue to suffer if remedial steps werenot taken. The agreement set out in

detail the steps the State of Floridawould take over the next 10 years torestore and preserve water quality in theEverglades. It was founded on theMarjorie Stoneman Douglas Act, Ch.91-80, Laws of Florida, developed withthe involvement and consent of agri-cultural interests.

The settlement agreement, however,allowed affected non-signatories topur sue state administrative remedies.Agricultural interests filed several suchchallenges, alleging that they were sub-stantially affected by the agreement’sremedial program, i.e., the final SWIM(Surface Water Improvement) Plan bythe district and DER. These SWIMchallenges were later consolidated intoone action, Cooperative vs. SFWMD,DOAH 92-3038. The United Statesintervened on the district’ s side.Thirty-six collateral lawsuits werefiled in different fora by the agriculturalcompanies.

Settlement discussions between thedistrict, the United States, and the ag-ricultural interests eventually led to newstate legislation, the Everglades ForeverAct, Fla. Statute 373.4592, which re-moved the underlying basis for theSWIM challenges, and most of the law-suits were dropped. By 1994, the last ofthese actions was withdrawn.

In August 1994, the United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Eleventh Cir-cuit affirmed the 1992 Consent Decreeand remanded the original federal lawsuit to district court for further consid-eration in light of the EvergladesForever Act (28 F.3rd 1563 (11th Cir.1994).

New litigation, however, arose whenthe Miccosukee Tribe of Indians ofFlorida filed several lawsuits against thefederal and state governments over pro-visions of the Everglades Forever Act.

Generally, the most frequent in-per-son users of the collection have beenUniversity of Miami undergraduate andlaw students. The Law Library is work-ing with law faculty and faculty in otherUniversity departments to integrate thecollection’s contents into environmen-tal and political science courses.

Providing access to the collection’scontents through the internet has be-come a major focus of the Law Library’sgoal of reaching as wide an audience aspossible. The collection’s Web site de-buted in April 1997 after a conferenceon Everglades litigation was held in theLaw Library. Since then the site hasbroadened the scope of its holdings onthe internet making available hundredsof pleadings and deposition and hear -ing transcripts.

Web site visitors tend to be morediverse than in-person visitors. A rep-resentative sample of site visitorswould include: law firms involved incomplex environmental actions, scien-tists seeking documents related toremote sensing and economic impactsof legislation, environmentalists, andgraduate students writing reports onEverglades hydrology. The site has got-ten “hits” from as far away as Taiwan.

While it may not be possible to putall of the collection’s materials online,staff members are identifying pleadings,depositions, hearings, exhibits, andother materials that will provide re-searchers and the general public withan understanding of the issues involvedin the long line of Everglades water qual-ity litigation.

Aside from presenting as much of thecollection’s contents online as possible,the staff intends to gather and makeavailable pleadings and other docu-

Law Library’s Everglades Collection Is Rare,Valuable Resourcements from recent litigation, along withnew legislation and links to news ar-ticles. Researchers can request hardcopies of materials not available onlinebut listed in indices. Indices and biblio-graphic databases cover a largepercentage of the collection’s holdings.

The Law Library’s goal is to preserveand make accessible a balanced repre-sentation of the issues and argumentsunderlying the positions of diverse in-terests in important battles over thestewardship and preservation of one ofnature’ s most unique and endangeredecosytems.

Researchers can visit the collectionat http://www.law.miami.edu/library/everglades /. Anyone who prefers to re-view the collection in person, shouldcall 305-284-4093 at least 24 hours be-fore he or she intends to visit.

To communicate with curator AlbertoMontero-Valdes by e-mail, the addressis: amontero@law .miami.edu

Three assistant U.S. attorneys whograduated from the University ofM iami School of Law were leadersin the Everglades litigation.

Suzan Hill Ponzoli, ’78, was thelead litigation attorney from 1988,when she and a team of attorneys, sci-entists, and resource managersdrafted the first complaint aimed atrestoring the Everglades, until 1994,when the litigation was settled in theFlorida Legislature through the Ev-erglades Forever Act. She led a teamof U.S. Attorney’s Office (USAO)and Department of Justice lawyersthat included as many as eight attor-neys at one point. The large-scaleefforts at restoration that are goingon today are a direct outgrowth ofthat long, difficult litigation.

For her leadership, Ponzoli wasrecognized with numerous awards,including a 1994 Department ofJustice Director’s Award, a 1992 Ev-erglades Coalition Public ServiceAward, a 1991 Florida Audubon So-ciety Conservationist of the YearAward, and a 1989 Florida WildlifeFederation Award of Recognition.

Currently, she is deputy chief of theUSAO’s Appellate Division.

Tom Watts-FitzGerald, ’79, wasa key litigator in the Everglades dis-

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pute when the federal governmenthad already settled with the stateagencies and was facing the sugarand agricultural industries head on.Today, he is chief of USAO’s En-vironmental Crimes Section.

Maureen Donlan, ’80, was one ofthe earliest litigation attorneys whorepresented the federal governmentthrough the USAO, joining Ponzoliin early efforts to get the State ofFlorida to acknowledge the pollutionproblems. Donlan continues to be acivil litigator for the USAO.

According to Ponzoli, the UM LawLibrary’s Everglades Collection is aninvaluable resource for researchersbecause of its wealth of historical andscientific documents. “It contains thescientific, historical and politicaldocuments produced by each party tothe litigation,” she pointed out.

“For the state and federal govern-ments, this meant that agencies thathad studied the flora and fauna of theEverglades for decades had to produceall documents reflecting those stud-ies. For the industry litigants, theirexpert witnesses were compelled toshare years of research. Sometimes,the industry research was only rep-etitious water quality data, butsometimes, it included, for example,a search of all the newspaper articlesever written on the Everglades—afascinating compilation of clippingsavailable just for the taking.”

Also important, from Ponzoli’s per-spective, is evidence of the impact apowerful industry can have on theformation of policy regarding the useand preservation of a publicly heldresource. “The sugar and agriculturalindustries have dominated the pub-lic policy decisions that have beenmade in regard to the Everglades fromthe very beginning,” she observed.“The impact of that influence is un-deniable when examining thedocuments in the collection.”

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Spanish at any U.S. law school outsideof Puerto Rico.

“Our goal is to give students a mean-ingful legal vocabulary in a realhistorical and cultural context. Wewant them to learn the words and learnthe system, from an international com-parative point of view,” said Prof.Enrique Fernández-Barros—a formerprofessor of law at the Catholic Uni-versity St. Thomas V illanova inHavana and professor emeritus of Span-ish at the University of Iowa—whoteaches the course.

“Not only do our students see thisarea of study as an exciting intellectualchallenge, they also know that it is verypractical—especially here in Miami,one of the world’ s most internationalcities and a city with a massive andgrowing need for attorneys who under-stand a foreign system,” he said.

Because of the popularity of thecourse in civil co de, Fernández-Barroswill teach it again next spring. This fall,he is teaching a course on the Spanishcommercial code, also in Spanish.Moreover, in the spring semester, Prof.Edgardo Rotman—a world-renownedfigure in international penology andcrime policy and one of 10 individualsselected to help prepare an upcomingU.N. conference on the subject—willteach a Spanish-language course incomparative criminal law.

According to Associate Dean Rich-ard Williamson, the Law School isconsidering several other courses to betaught in Spanish in the near future.

Much of the School’s growing repu-tation as one of the nation’ s best placesto study international law can be cred-ited to its highly regarded faculty, manyof whom have extensive internationallegal experience. In fact, of the School’s48 faculty members, 26 have publishedarticles or books or taught courses ininternational law, comparative and for-eign law, or maritime law within thepast five years.

The School’s Dean Dennis O.Lynch—who was a Fulbright Scholarin economics in Venezuela and servedas a legal and constitutional reformconsultant for the U.S. Agency for In-ternational Development in Colombiaand Nicaragua—is a recognized author-ity on Latin American law, employ-ment law, and labor arbitration.

Associate Dean Williamson is an ex-pert on disarmament and internationalenvironmental law.

Prof. Keith S. Rosenn, the School’ssenior expert in comparative law andone of America’s leading experts onLatin American law, holds the Inter-American Jurisprudence Prize from theInter-American Bar Association for his“distinguished contribution to the devel-opment and clarification of law” in theAmericas.

Prof. Bernard H. Oxman, the LawSchool’s senior expert on public inter-national law, is the director of the Lawof the Sea Institute and frequently ad-vises the U.S. State Department andforeign governments on internationallaw issues.

Prof. Irwin P. Stotzky has been an ad-visor to elected Haitian PresidentsAristide and Preval and to ArgentinePresident Alfonsin. He is one of theworld’s leading experts on the transitionfrom dictatorship to democracy.

Prof. Alan C. Swan is UM Law’s se-nior expert on private international lawand international trade and the authorof the most widely used text on interna-tional business transactions.

Prof. Elizabeth M. Iglesias and Prof.Francisco Valdes are driving figures inthe “LatCrit” movement and co-direc-tors of UM Law’s Center for LatinAmerican and Caribbean Law and of theSchool’s highly popular Summer inSpain program.

The Law School also attracts visitingfaculty from around the world, as wellas adjunct faculty with experience ininternational transactions, adding evengreater depth to the international andforeign programs.

A frequent visitor is Prof. HugoCaminos, a judge at the InternationalTribunal for the Law of the Sea, in Ham-burg, Germany. He is professor of lawemeritus at the University of BuenosAires, former Argentine ambassador toBrazil, and former general counsel of theOrganization of American States.

With the international expertise andinvolvement of its faculty, its locationat the Gateway to Latin America, andits multi-cultural student body, the Uni-versity of Miami School of Law hasbecome known as one of the nation’sbest places to study international andforeign law.

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School Reflects City’s ‘Gateway Role’

UM Law Students OfferDay of H.O.P.E.University of Miami School of Lawstudents started the new school year byoffering a day of community serviceto six different Miami-Dade Countyagencies.

H.O.P.E. (Helping Others throughPro Bono Efforts) is a UM Law Schoolprogram that offers opportunities for lawstudents, faculty, staff and alumni to par-ticipate in a myriad of communityoutreach and legal advocacy projects.

On Saturday, August 28, approxi-mately 45 H.O.P.E. volunteers spent theday brightening the lives of individualsin the Miami-Dade community. Groupsof volunteers went to the EsperanzaCenter, Jackson Memorial Hospital,Ronald McDonald House, MiamiBridge, Camillus House and SouthBeach to do various service projects,from a beach clean-up to visiting resi-dents and providing cheer with games,food and fun.

Vikky Mendez led a group of enthusi-astic volunteers to the Esperanza Centerwhere they entertained children andpresented them with coloring books,markers and crayons. Project leader AmiDiLorenzo and friends brightened theday for patients at Jackson MemorialHospital by sharing magazines, booksand stories, while Betsy Goldsmith andfriends played sports and ate pizza withresidents of Miami Bridge, a youth ser-vices center that provides safe shelterto runaway and homeless teens. IvetteArango’s crew, including her grand-mother, served lunch to more than 150people at Camillus House, and Rob Rice

and his beach patrol cleaned up thebeach from 1st to 6th streets on SouthBeach. Alicia Hughes led a group of en-thusiastic volunteers to the RonaldMcDonald House, where they treatedfamilies of hospitalized children to a dayof food and fun.

Mendez, DiLorenzo, Goldsmith,Arango, Rice, and Hughes all are sec-ond- and third-year law students. Manyof the volunteers were first-year lawstudents.

In addition to its volunteer activities,H.O.P.E. is raising funds to establish afellows program that will allow stu-dents to continue their efforts in legaladvocacy and community outreachthroughout the school year.

H.O.P.E. invited members of the LawSchool and South Florida communitiesto support the fellows program byparticipating in a September 30fundraising auction at the Universityof Miami Faculty Club. Local busi-nesses and individuals donated a largenumber of attractive items for auction,ranging from BAR/BRI bar reviewcourses to theatre and concert tickets,rounds of golf, meals at various restau-rants, weekends in resorts, museumpasses, health club memberships, carrentals, and software.

Individuals who would like to makemonetary donations to the H.O.P.E.fellowship fund can do so by callingDean Marni Lennon at 305-284-2599.Naming opportunities are available todonors interested in sponsoring specificfellowships.

New Generation of Lawyers

The Law School’s Spring 1999 Hooding Ceremony saw the beginningof a new tradition, as several alumni who had children in the graduatingclass hooded them themselves.In the photo above, Caroline Soret receives her hood from her mother,Assistant Dean for External Affairs Carol Cope, JD ’80. Other hoodingparents and their graduating children included: Nathan P. Diamond, JD’72 and Peter Diamond; Gary Carman, JD ’74, and Jennifer Carman;Sandor F. Genet, JD ’73, and Sol Genet; and Paul T. Dee, JD ’77, and TadDee.

Altogether, UM Law conferred 400 JD and 87 LL.M. degrees at the May16 ceremony at the Knight Center in downtown Miami.

Major B. Harding, chief justice of the Supreme Court of Florida, was thekeynote speaker.

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Following a June 7 luncheon in his honor, former Dean Mary Doylethanks James H. “Booty” Nance, ’56, for his $100,000 gift to theSchool of Law. In gratitude for his generosity, the Law School hasdedicated its courtyard fountain to him.

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UM Law’s Faculty in the NewsAs an expert on cyber law, Prof.

Michael Froomkin continues to bequoted in article after article on thetopic.

For instance, the Washington Post(August 21), Cyber-Times T oday(July 21) and the South FloridaSun-Sentinel (July 11) all sought hisopinion for major features on encryp-tion issues.

On the controversy surroundingthe new regulatory powers assumedby the Internet Corporation forA s signed Names and Numbers(ICANN), the Washington Post (July22), the New York Times (online ver-sion, June 7), and The Industry Standard(July 9) turned to him.

Articles in IntellectualCapital.com(June 10) and InternetNews.com (June22) on “cybersquatting” (buying upvarious versions of domain names thatsomeone else might be willing to paya premium for at a later date) quotedhim.

And, both the Wall Street Journal(front page, June 21) and the WallStreet Journal Interactive Edition (Au-gust 31) published articles about apaper (“The Next Economy”) that heco-wrote with economic historian J.Bradford DeLong of the University ofCalifornia at Berkeley. The article inthe Interactive Edition called it “someof the most provocative thinking I’veyet seen about the ways in which theInternet is going to change the world.”[“The Next Economy” can be accessedon Froomkin’s Web site at http://www.law.miami.edu/~froomkin.]

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After a Florida jury ruled against thetobacco industry in the first class-ac tion lawsuit by ailing smokers tocome to trial, the media turned to Prof.Clark Freshman for commentary.

He was featured in articles in USAToday (July 8), Time magazine (July19), The Miami Herald (July 9 and Sep-tember 4), the South Florida Sun-Sentinel(July 7), the International Herald Tri-bune (July 9), and the Washington Post(July 8), and on CNN’s The World To-day (July 7), and The NewsHour with

Jim Lehrer (July 8). On CNN, he said,“This is going to be the largest expo-sure the tobacco companies have everfaced, and that’s going to mean lots ofmoney—lots of money coming out ofthe shareholders of tobacco companies,and it’s also going to mean, probably,lots of claims in other states.”

On September 4 The Miami Herald,following a court ruling that the tobaccocompanies could deal with damageclaims of each member of the landmarkclass-action suit on an individual basis,quoted Freshman as saying, “Big To-bacco will not have to write one bigcheck for billions of dollars, but they willhave to write hundreds of thousand ofsmall checks for several million dollarsover many years.”

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In a July 1 New York Times article onthe outrage expressed by Miami’s Cu-ban-American community after awell-publicized attempt by the U.S.Coast Guard to turn back a boatload ofCubans, Prof. David Abraham said,“The outcry is a function of the powerof Cuban-American politicians inSouth Florida and the spectacle of see-ing the incident live [on television].”

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Another New York Times article (July21) on the ongoing attempts of Cubansto illegally immigrate to the U.S. quotedProf. Stephen Schnably as saying thatanother mass exodus from Cuba couldcome only with Fidel Castro’s blessing,that “If he makes it clear at any timethat people can just leave the island,then you will have an exodus.”

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A September 6 column in the MiamiHerald carried the headline “UM Re-opens JFK Case” and focused on“Evidentiary Inference and Advocacy:the Assassination of President John F.Kennedy,” a course being taught thissemester by Prof. John Hart Ely. Thecolumnist, Joan Fleischman, noted that,35 years ago, Ely served as one of 17 stafflawyers on the Warren Commission.

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Court Commission on Profession-alism had honored Prof. AnthonyAlfieri with its 1999 Professional-ism Award received coverage in theCoral Gables Gazette and TheMi ami Herald. (See article below.)

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The South Florida Sun-Sentinel’sJuly 19 article on Broward County’splan to improve the education offoster children quoted BernardPerlmutter, director of UM Law’sChildren and Youth Law Clinic, assaying that the school district needsto refine its definition of surrogateparents. “My pet peeve is their fail-ure to acknowledge that every childwho is a ward of the state is en-titled to a surrogate parent,” hesaid.

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In its “Professions” column, TheMiami Herald noted that UM Lawnow offers a course based on theSpanish civil code and taught en-tirely in Spanish. It quoted Prof.Enrique Fernández-Barros as say-ing that expertise in a foreign legalsystem is especially important inMiami.

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An article in the August 9 MiamiHerald on Florida’s grand juries overthe past 52 years, quoted Prof.Bruce Winick as saying that, whilegrand juries across the country is-sue indictments on a range ofcriminal cases, in Florida, they gen-erally hear only capital crimes. Inthe Herald’s June 4 Broward edi-tion, columnist Sue Reisinger citedWinick’s “therapeutic jurispru-dence” metho d as a means for lawto play a role in healing society’sdrug- and alcohol-related crimeproblems.

Prof. RoseHeads NITA’sEducationProgram

Prof. Laurence M. (Lonny) Rose has ac-cepted the position of vice president andexecutive director of education for the Na-tional Institute for Trial Advocacy(NITA), effective July 1.

Responsible for the quality of NITA’sfaculty and for all of the organization’seducation initiatives, he will recruit andcoordinate teachers who meet NITA’shigh standards for teaching trial advocacy.NITA has more than 1,000 faculty mem-bers and more than 50 program directors.

Last year, Rose was the winner of the1998 Richard S. Jacobson Award for Ex-cellence in Teaching Trial Advocacy.Presented by the Roscoe Pound Founda-tion, an affiliate of the Association of TrialLawyers of America, it is based upon thecandidate’s contributions to professionalliterature, student evaluations, demon-strated excellence in the trial advocacyprogram, teaching style, and interactionwith students.

His affiliation with NITA is long-stand-ing, dating back to 1975, when he was astudent at the organization’s National Ses-sion. He has been a member of NITA’steaching faculty since 1978. He foundedNITA’s Mid-America Regional programin Lawrence, Kansas, in 1981, and hasbeen program director of both the HanleyAdvanced Advocates program and theNational Session since 1985.

Rose, who was vice dean of the Univer-sity of Miami School of Law from1995–98, will continue his responsibili-ties as professor of law and director of theSchool’s Litigation Skills Program.

Fla. Supreme Court Professionalism Award Goes to Alfieri

The Florida Supreme Court Commis-sion on Professionalism has selectedUniversity of Miami School of Law Pro-fessor Anthony Alfieri as the winner ofits 1999 Professionalism Award.

Presented at the Judicial Luncheon heldduring the Florida Bar Association’s an-nual meeting in Boca Raton June 24,

the award is a tribute to Alfieri’s workin developing the Center for Ethicsand Public Service at UM Law and tothe Center’s work in providing trainingto law students, the business and legalcommunities, and the general public.

“This program is truly one to be proudof and one that we hope can be dupli-cated in or expanded to other parts ofthe State,” Justice Harry Lee Ansteadsaid in a letter informing Alfieri of hisselection.

The commission created the annualaward recently to recognize a facultymember in one of Florida’s law schoolswho, through teaching, scholarship,and service to the profession, best sup-ports and exemplifies the organization’smission.

[The mission is: “To promote the fun-damental ideals and values of the justicesystem and the legal profession, andto instill those ideals in those persons

servicing and seeking to serve in thesystem.”]

Last year, the Center for Ethics andPublic Service received the AmericanBar Association’s prestigious E.Smythe Gambrell ProfessionalismAward.

The Center is an interdisciplinaryproject focused on teaching the val-ues of ethical judgment, professionalresponsibility, and public service inthe practice of law. Staffed by LawSchool student fellows and internsperforming under Alfieri’s supervi-sion, it provides training in ethics andprofessionalism to the Law School andto the University as well as to Florida’sbusiness, civic, educational and legalcommunities. Since its founding in1996, the Center has reached out tohelp educate nearly 2,000 people.

At the Law School, the Centersponsors workshops and symposia,

participates in an ethics orientation pro-gram for first-year students, and presentscontinuing legal education courses.

Workshops sponsored by the Centerhave included: Criminal Defense Ethics;Women in the Legal Profession; Race andthe Legal Profession; Balancing a Fam-i ly and a Lega l Career; EthicalDilemmas in International Lawyering;Media, Law and Politics; ProsecutorialEthics; Hiring and Promotion Ethics;Women Rainmakers; Sports Law Ethics;and In-House Counsel Ethics.

Symposia have included: Hate inAmerica; Town Meeting—Crisis in theLegal Profession; Hate on the Internet;and Lawyer Professionalism.

The Center recently accepted an ap-pointment as legal ethics advisor to TheAlliance for Ethical Government, acountywide consortium of public and pri-vate leaders from selected business, civic,educational, and legal communities.

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The dean, faculty, students, and alumni of the University of Miami Schoolof Law honor the following alumni and friends of the School of Law whohave died during 1999.

We are grateful for their participation in the development of UM Law,and we extend condolences to their family members and friends as theymourn their loss. While these friends will always be a part of the School ofLaw, we will miss their presence among us.

Angelo Anthony Ali, JD ’52Rafael C. Benitez, LL.M. ’66Meyer M. Brilliant, JD ’66S. James Cohen, JD ’52Charles Louis De Carlo, JD ’51Leonard R. Fels, JD ’60, LL.M. ’72Jose A. Fernandez, JD ’91Arthur J. Franza, JD ’54Albert Alton Gordon, JD ’69George Griffith Graham, JD ’54Carl David Grimaldi, JD ’52Moses Joseph Grundwerg, JD ’54Jane R. Hoade, JD ’53Scott Hunter, JD ’86Edward S. Kelly, JD ’53

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Judge Popper Was AdmiredBy Peers

David Popper,Class of ’52, pass-ed away May 19at age 73.

Popper was alawyer for 15years before be-ing appointedby Gov. ClaudeKirk to the DadeCircuit Court

bench, where he served for 11 years be-fore returning to private practice.

As a Dade Circuit Court judge, in1971, he was among the first to rule infavor of a patient’s right to die, deter-mining that Carmen Martinez, a Cubanrefugee with a terminal blood disease,should not have to live in pain.

During his judicial tenure, Popper hadthe distinction of not only sitting as acircuit court judge, but also of sittingon several district courts of appeal as anassociate judge or visiting judge, as wellas sitting on many occasions as a visit-ing judge on the Florida Supreme Court.

Admired by his judicial peers, he washonored by a Resolution Memoriamfrom the Florida Conference of CircuitJudges stating: “. . . his sterling years onthe Circuit Bench, in Dade County,Florida, were evidenced by his steadfastadherence to the rule of law, combinedwith his compassion and understandingfor the need of the people who came tothe Court seeking fairness and justiceat his hand. . . .”

Kozyak,Tropin,ThrockmortonStrong Supporter of UM Law

In Memoriam

It’s good to have friends, and UM Lawhas been fortunate to have the friend-ship of the Miami law firm of Kozyak,Tropin and Throckmorton.

Each year, for the past five years, thefirm has presented a full-tuition schol-arship to a third-year student who isboth an African American and has anoutstanding record in trial advocacy.

The current holder of the Kozyak,Tropin and Throckmorton Scholarshipis Val Shealey, who, as a second-yearstudent, distinguished himself in lastspring’s Litigation Skills I class.

The firm also awards the John KozyakBankruptcy Prize of $5,000 each year tothe student who performed best in theprevious year’s bankruptcy classes.Kozyak has contributed a considerableamount of time and effort to help UMLaw students compete in a national

bankruptcy moot court competition,arranging a local competition, raisingfunds, and accompanying students toNew York City for the national event.

Last fall, the firm gave UM Law$50,000 as the lead gift for the Friendsof the Litigation Skills Program’s en-hancement fund. In recognition of thatgift, the litigation skills center is nowknown as the Kozyak, Tropin andThrockmorton Office Suite. For manyyears, firm members Harley Tropin, PaulHuck, and Ken Hartmann have beenactive instructors in the Litigation SkillsProgram.

In addition, Laurel M. Isicoff (part-ner) and Detra Shaw-Wilder (associate)serve on the board of the Law AlumniAssociation, and members of the firmvolunteer to help in student recruitmentand serve as mentors to minority students.

91% of 1998 UM Law GradsFound Jobs Within 9 Months

Circuit. Another has joined Justice FredLewis, ’72, as a judicial law clerk withthe Supreme Court of Florida. Othergraduates have secured judicial clerk-ships stretching from the U.S. DistrictCourt for the Southern District ofFlorida to the State Court of Appeal inHawaii.

In addition to prestigious judicialclerkship opportunities, many 1999graduates have been offered positionswith some of the best firms in the na-tion, including Baker & McKenzie;Cadwalader, W ickersham & Taft;Dewey Ballantine; Dorsey & Whitney;Greenberg, Traurig, Hoffman, Lipoff,Rosen & Quentel; Holland & Knight;Howrey & Simon; Kirkpatrick &Lockhart; Lord, Bissel & Brook;McKenna & Cuneo; Morgan, Lewis &Bockius; Proskauer Rose; and White &Case.

Along with courts and private lawfirms, government and public interestgroups (such as the Legal AssistanceFoundation of Chicago and the officesof the Dade County Public Defenderand the Miami-Dade State Attorney)have extended employment offers tothis year’s graduates, as have suchcor porate employers as Chase Manhat-tan Mergers & Acquisitions andPricewaterhouse Coopers.

Author, Company Founder–She’s Off to Fast Start

After many years in the workforce,most people would be proud to state thatthey had formed a company and pub-lished articles in three journals. RenaeMeltzer had done that even before shefinished law school.

The co-founder of a company called“Rule 506.com,” she published an articleon “The Expansion of the GeneralSolicitation Rules of the 1933 Act” inthe June 1999 issue of the Florida BarJournal.

Other articles by Meltzer—who re-ceived her JD from UM Law inMay—include “Raising Capital withRegulation D’s Three Exceptions” in the

February 8, 1999, issue of the New YorkLaw Journal and “Raising Capital onthe Internet—A Realistic Examinationof DPOs” in the February 1999 issue ofeSecurities.

The new company and the magazinearticles had their genesis less than twoyears ago, when she was working part-time for a Fort Lauderdale law firm(Atlas, Pearlman, Trop and Borkson),where she was responsible for research-ing how to offer securities over theInternet. Through her research, she metLeo Feldman, president of IPOnet, acompany that does Internet security of-ferings. In 1998, she joined IPOnet asdirector of business relations. She andFeldman formed Rule 506.com as a sub-sidiary of IPOnet to complement theparent company’s security offering pro-gram; they are awaiting final SECapproval to conduct business.

Her work with those two companieswas the basis for the three articles.

“The articles explored a very timelyissue—the offering of securities over theInternet—that is relevant to a cross sec-tion of legal concerns and specialties,”she commented.

Meltzer has accepted an associate po-sition in the Miami office of Gunster,Yoakley, Valdes-Fauli, and Stewart.

From left, Kozyak, Tropin & Throckmorton partners John Kozyak andKenneth Hartmann with scholarship-holder Val Shealey.

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Ninety-one percent of the Law School’sspring 1998 graduates found jobs withinnine months of graduation. This hiringlevel is a sharp increase over that reportedto the National Association for LawPlacement for the previous year’s UMLaw graduates.

The current 91 percent hiring figurereflects improvement in both the na-tional and South Florida legal marketsand the high-quality work of UM Law’sCareer Planning Center, headed byMarcy Cox.

“The Center has developed job-place-ment strategies that are yieldingexcellent results for our graduates,” Coxstated. “In addition, the Career Plan-ning Center now has much better abilityto keep in touch with students aftergraduation and to know when they haveaccepted employment. Our statistics onthe classes of ’98 and ’99 are much moreaccurate than for previous years.”

There also are encouraging reportsfrom students who graduated last spring,many of whom already have secured le-gal positions around the country.

Increasingly, UM Law graduates aremoving on to judicial clerkships. One1999 graduate has joined the Hon. PeterT. Fay as a judicial law clerk with theU.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh

Jesse A. Kimmel, JD ’55Donald Francis March, Sr., JD ’54Richard T. O’Connell, JD ’54Vincent F. O’Reilly, JD ’55David Popper, Sr., JD ’52Theodore Riley, JD ’57Andrew S. Rubin, JD ’80Debra I. Orenstein Rubin, JD ’80Theodore J. Sakowitz, JD ’46Martin S. Saxon, JD ’56Kenneth B. Sherouse, JD ’49Phillip W. Smith, JD ’58Samuel S. Smith, Esq., ’60Sharon Leslie Wolfe, JD ’76

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Message from President,Law Alumni AssociationGreetings to My 14,000 Fellow Alumni:

Yes, believe it or not there are more than 14,000alumni of the University of Miami School Of Law.

I sometimes wonder what all of you are up to inyour careers and in your lives. I recently spoke tothe incoming 1L’s at the Dean’s Welcome Dinner,and it was fun reporting some of the successes ofmembers of my class, the Class of 1972. Of courseevery graduating class has it’s own honor role ofalumni who have had wonderful careers and whohave had special achievements in their lives.

The Law Alumni Association is putting together a plan to recognizeour most distinguished graduates, celebrating the achievements of UMLaw alumni from our School’s founding 71 years ago to the present. Whatwe have in mind is evidence of high achievement, such as landmark legalvictories, election to high public office, appointment or election to thejudiciary, leadership in major corporations, awards recognizing outstand-ing professionalism or public service, etc. However, our plan is still in theformative stage, and we welcome your ideas for what criteria we shoulduse and who should be honored.

For the project to be a success, we will need help from a large numberof people, from every class that has ever graduated from UM Law. Alongwith your ideas, we need to hear from you about your successes and thoseof your classmates and alumni friends. Please send your comments to meby e-mail at alumnipres@law.miami.edu.

A new and excellent communication tool is the 1999 Law Alumni Di-rectory, published this summer by the School of Law. Listing all 14,000alumni by name, class, geographic location and areas of specialty, it is awonderful book (or CD Rom) that can help us locate and reconnect withone another. In case you forgot to order one, a limited number is stillavailable by calling the publishing company at 1-800-982-1590.

Along with the e-mail addresses listed in the directory, we continue tocollect new e-mail addresses and update others. If you would like to beadded to an e-mail list to receive Law Alumni event information or toparticipate in Law Alumni e-mail discussion forums, please let us knowby contacting me at the e-mail address above or the Office of Law Devel-opment and Alumni Relations at any of the addresses listed in themasthead on page 2.

A great opportunity for rekindling our relationships with the School ofLaw will be our 51st Annual Homecoming Breakfast, on Saturday,November 20, preceded by the ever-popular “Morning Spirits” party onThe Bricks. It is a wonderful tradition and a tremendous amount of fun.I look forward to seeing you there.

The Law Alumni Association is pleased to welcome Dennis Lynch asour new Dean of the Law School. He is an outstanding choice, selectedfrom well over 100 highly qualified candidates. It is a new beginning, andit looks like a very promising one at that. Dean Lynch has expressed astrong interest in forging a solid relationship with alumni and hopes tomeet many of you in the near future and welcome you back on campusfor a visit. The Law Alumni Association will build a new unity withDean Lynch and the faculty to give the students the best legal educationpossible and to help the University of Miami School of Law reach newheights.

Det H. JoksPresident, Law Alumni Association

51st Annual LAAHomecoming BreakfastThe 51st Annual Law Alumni Asso-ciation Homecoming Breakfast—thelast such breakfast to occur this century—will take place on Saturday, Novem-ber 20, on the Coral Gables campus.

The Hon. R. Fred Lewis, JD ’72, whowas recently appointed to the SupremeCourt of the State of Florida, will bethe keynote speaker. New UM Lawdean, Dennis O. Lynch, will address theaudience during the program. Thisyear’s master of ceremonies will be TedKlein, JD ’64, who will delight andamuse the crowd with his lively senseof humor.

Plan to join fellow alumni, friends,and members of the South Floridajudiciary and School of Law faculty be-

ginning at 8:00 a.m. with everyone’s fa-vorite happy hour, “Morning Spirits,”on the Law School Courtyard (theSlab). The Homecoming “power”breakfast will be served at 9:30 a.m. inthe newly renovated Whitten Univer-sity Center Foo d Court (the old “IbisCafeteria”), a short stroll away.

D o n ’t mis s the Law AlumniAssociation’s preeminent event ofthe year and the opportunity to re-new you r support for the University ofMiami School of Law. Homecoming isa good time to recognize this great in-stitution we are all affiliated with andto acknowledge the valuable contribu-tions UM Law has made to the SouthFlorida community.

Continuing Legal Education1999–2000 ScheduleLitigation Skills Series:

A Day on Trial—Advocacy for the New MillenniumSeptember 17, 1999Sheraton Biscayne Bay, Miami, FL

What Jurors Are Saying Behind Closed DoorsOctober 14, 1999Sheraton Biscayne Bay, Miami, FL

Alumni Luncheon Series*“Ethical Government . . . an Oxymoron? Can Attorneys Help?Speaker: Gerald Kogan, JD ’55President, Alliance for Ethical GovernmentFormer Chief Justice, Florida Supreme CourtSeptember 16, 1999Faculty Club, Coral Gables, FL

“Preparing Tomorrow’s Lawyers—The Challenges of Legal Education”Dennis O. LynchDean, University of Miami School of LawOctober 21, 1999Faculty Club, Coral Gables, FL

Ralph E. Boyer Institutes:Twelfth Institute on Real Property LawTwenty-Fourth Institute on Condominium and Cluster DevelopmentsNovember 3–5, 1999Miami Airport Hilton, Miami, FL

Annual Institute on Law, Psychiatry and PsychologyNovember 12–13, 1999Shelborne Hotel, Miami Beach, FL

Thirty-Fourth Annual Philip E. Heckerling Institute on Estate PlanningJanuary 10–14, 2000Fontainebleau Hilton Resort and Towers, Miami Beach, FL

Fourth Annual Institute on Mergers & AcquisitionsFebruary 10–11, 2000Sonesta Beach Resort, Key Biscayne, FL

Third Annual Institute on Tax Considerations in Mergers & AcquisitionsFebruary 24–25, 2000Sonesta Beach Resort, Key Biscayne, FL

*The Alumni Luncheon Series provides UM Law Alumni with the opportunityto enjoy lunch with classmates and colleagues, hear a fascinating speaker, andearn one free CLE ethics credit hour—all for the cost of lunch ($15.00). Thisongoing series is monthly.

For information contact:The Center for Continuing Legal Education at 305- 284-6276

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NEWLY INSTALLED—Among the executive board members installedat the Law Alumni Association’s Installation Ceremony were, from left,Todd Payne, ’89; Elizabeth Katzen, ’88; Hon. Carroll Kelly, ’89; AlvinLindsay, ’91; David Hope, ’96; Michael Blynn, ’77; and president DetJoks, ’72. The event was held June 3 in Fort Lauderdale during UMLaw’s Third Annual Broward Judicial Reception. For complete list ofofficers, see page 15.

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Dean’s Circle Members Tops Among UM Law BenefactorsMembership in the University of Miami School of Law Dean’s Circle reflects a

high level of commitment to the School and a shared vision for ensuring excel-lence in legal education.

By making annual gifts of $1,000 or more to the Law Annual Fund, membersplace themselves at the head of a partnership of alumni, parents, and friends who,with the dean, students, faculty, and administrations, are dedicated to ensuringthat the School takes its place among the nation’s leading law schools. Each year,the Law School holds several events especially for Dean’ s Circle members.Current members include:

Emerson L. Allsworth, Esq., ’52Terence J. AndersonSusan H. Aprill, Esq., ’82Arthur Andersen FoundationDavid T. Berg, Sr., Esq., ’63William J. Berger, Esq., ’75Richard A. Berkowitz, Esq., ’81Howard J. Berlin, Esq., ’79Mark Bidner, Esq., ’86

*Roy Black, Esq., ’70Donna R. Blaustein, Esq., ’95Ian Barry Blaxberg, Esq., ’77Hon. Beth Bloom, ’88Gary M. Carman, Esq., ’74

*Sue M. Cobb, Esq., ’78*Albert N. Cohen, Esq., ’53

David L. Cohen, Esq., ’81Richard P. Cole, Esq.Marc Cooper, Esq., ’75Carol Soret Cope, Esq., ’80Hon. A. Jay Cristol, ’59Ernesto and Sonia de Cruz, ’87Richard T. Dalton, Esq., ’58Robert E. Dooley, Esq., ’53Mary DoyleIra J. Druckman, Esq., ’57Marc Egort, CPA, CVADavid R. Elder, Esq., ’78Fredrica B. Elder, Esq., ’88

* Ira M. Elegant, Esq., ’66Marsha Barbanel Elser, Esq., ’75Richard J. Essen, Esq., ’63Exxon Education FoundationLynda Wolfson Fadel, Esq., ’86Glenn Phillip Falk, Esq., ’73Martin Fine, Esq., ’49Edwin J. Fitzpatrick, Esq., ’76Joseph Z. Fleming, Esq.Florida Bar Association

**Leo Fornero, Esq., ’54Lewis B. Freeman, Esq., ’74Stuart H. Gitlitz, Esq., ’75Harlan M. Gladstein, Esq., ’86Barton S. Goldberg, Esq., ’57Jonathan Goodman, Esq., ’83Mac A. Greco, Jr., Esq., ’72Stephen K. HalpertDouglas M. Halsey, Esq., ’79Burton Harrison, Esq., ’52Steven E. Hartz, Esq.,Jeannette F. Hausler, ’53Florence Ruth HechtKevin S. Hennessy, Esq., ’86Vincent C. Hennessy, Esq., ’71Deborah Hoffman, Esq., ’83

*Larry Hoffman, Esq., ’54Holland & Knight LLPH. Scott Huizenga, Esq., ’89J. Bruce Irving, Esq. ’65

*Laurel Myerson Isicoff, Esq., ’82Judith A. Kaplan.Seymour D. Keith, Esq., ’47Jennifer Kaufman Kesser, Esq., ’94Theodore Klein, Esq., ’64Benedict P. Kuehne, Esq., ’77James A. Lanier II, Esq., ’62Henry Latimer, Esq., ’73Larry R. Leiby, Esq., ’73Bennett M. Lifter, Esq., ’50Susan Lytle Lipton, ’70John F. Lisk, Esq., ’77Erik P. Littman, Esq., ’79Ramsey G. Ludington, Esq., ’52John D. Mallah, Esq., ’84Elliott Manning, Esq.Ray E. Marchman, Jr., Esq., ’61Jerry M. Markowitz, Esq., ’74

Ivor Massey, Jr., Esq., ’79Patrick McGrotty, Esq., ’57

*Thomas R. McGuigan, Esq., ’74Victor H. Mendelson, Esq, ’92Stuart A. Miller, Esq., ’82

*Richard C. Milstein, Esq. ’74Joshua J. Mintz, Esq. ’81

*Steven Mishan, Esq. ’72*Edward A. Moss, Esq. ’61*Rene V. Murai, Esq.Daniel E. Murray, Esq., ’49Michael Nachwalter, Esq., ’67James H. Nance, ’56

*Andrew Needle, Esq., ’77Northern Trust Bank Charitable FoundationBernard H. OxmanSheldon B. Palley, Esq., ’57Michael J. Parenti III, Esq., ’74

*Robert Paul, Esq.John W. Perloff, Esq., ’86Pamela I. Perry, Esq., ’84Alfredo P. Piccini, Esq., ’56Francis M. Pohlig, Esq., ’64Steven Bart Posner, Esq., ’76Mark Raymond, Esq., ’83Richard J. Razook, Esq., ’75Patricia Redmond, Esq., ’79Luis Reiter, Esq., ’80Dennis A. Richard, Esq., ’72

*Jack S. Ring, Esq., ’57Frank M. Robbins, Esq., ’52Harvey E. Robins, Esq., ’58Raquel Rodriguez, Esq., ’85Neil S. Rollnick, Esq., ’68Charles L. Ruffner., Esq., ’64Donald Spencer Rose, Esq., ’57Elizabeth Koebel Russo, Esq., ’78Charles F. Sansone, Esq., ’65Reuben M. Schneider, Esq., ’61Carl Schuster, Esq., ’63Peter S. Schwedock, Esq., ’68Gail D. Serota, Esq., ’79

*Joseph Serota, Esq., ’78Hon. Robert L. Shevin, , ’57

*Edward R. Shohat, Esq., ’72Marshall E. Sigel, Esq., ’83Hon. Samuel I. Silver, ’37David A. Simon, Esq., ’77

**Samuel S. Smith, Esq., ’60Jay H. Solowsky, Esq., ’79Neal R. Sonnett, Esq., ’67Brian F. Spector, Esq., ’78Thomas R. Spencer, Jr., Esq., ’69

**John W. Spinner, Esq., ’54Robert Stok, Esq., ’90Richard J. Suarez, Esq., ’81Joel L. Tabas, Esq., ’85Stephen D. Taylor, Esq.John W. Thornton, Jr., Esq., ’77Mindy S. Thornton, Esq., ’78Eileen L. Tilghman, Esq., ’86Robert H. Traurig, Esq., ’50William VanderWyden III, Esq., ’84

*Irving Waltman, Esq., ’52Roger G. Welcher, Esq., ’57Thomas J. Whitehouse, Esq., ’77Thomas DeLancey Wood, Esq., ’56Larry J. Wyman, Esq., ’80Burton Young, Esq., ’50Roberto Zarco, Esq., ’85Frank Zemel, Esq., ’89Martin G. Zilber, Esq., ’88

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The Law School’ sAnnual Dean’s Circlereception was June 9 atthe Miami Beach homeof Marjorie Baron, ’92.In the first photo, shechats with RobertPanoff, ’76, and hiswife, Jeanne. In thesecond photo are, fromleft, Rene and LuisaMurai with PamelaPerry, ’84. Elly Cristol,wife of Judge A. JayCristol, ’59, and RobertStok, ’90, converse inthe third photo.

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CLASS OF 1949The Class of 1949 will hold its50th Reunion Celebration thisfall. Members of the class who areinterested in helping plan theevent for their class shouldcontact Julian Benjamin, ’49, on305-670-9994 or CynthiaSikorski, director of alumnirelations, 305-284-4935, withtheir ideas and suggestions.

CLASS OF 1952

BURTON A. LANDY receivedthe Lifetime Membership Awardfrom the Dade County BarAssociation for his many years ofactive practice as a member of theassociation. Landy practices atthe Miami office of AkermanSenterfitt.

CLASS OF 1953

JACK ACERMAN was awardedthe Palm Beach County BarAssociation ProfessionalismAward on May 27, 1999, for“Excellence in PracticingProfessionalism in Palm BeachCounty.” He lives and practicesin West Palm Beach.

AL PALMER and his wife,Connie, spend most of the year attheir new home in Robbinsville,N.C., where they are closer totheir children and families wholive in Knoxville, Atlanta andHighlands. Al and Connie returnoften to Miami, where he is stillassociated with Palmer, Palmer &Mangiero, P.A., on South DixieHighway and continues hisvolunteer work with the Archdio-cese of Miami.

IRA H. WEXLER is a New YorkSupreme Court justice inMineola, N.Y., where he hasserved as supervising judge of thedistrict court and county court ofNassau County since 1995.

CLASS OF 1954

The Class of 1954 will hold its45th Reunion Celebration thisfall. Members of the class who areinterested in helping plan theevent for their class shouldcontact Ainslee Ferdi, ’54, on305-445-3557 or CynthiaSikorski, director of alumnirelations, 305-284-4935, withtheir ideas and suggestions.

DONALD F. MARCH, SR. diedon July 15, 1999. He was a solepractitioner in Miami whoworked with his wife of 55 years,Lillie May, who was his secretary.In 1945 he joined the MiamiPolice Department and eventu-

ally rose to the rank of captain.He was on the board of directorsof Goodwill Industries and alifetime member of Kiwanis. Heis survived by his wife and sons,Don Jr. and William, daughterPatti, eight grandchildren andfive great-grandchildren.

CLASS OF 1957

TALA ENGEL practicedimmigration law in Chicago andnow resides in Washington, D.C.She is written up in Who’s Who inthe World, 2nd edition, and hadher own A/V rating fromMartindale Hubbell. Engel hastraveled in 55 countries and wasmarried to James A. Colias, nowdeceased. She would love to hearfrom her classmates from theSchool of Law: TalaEngel@aol.com.

SONIA PRESSMAN FUENTEShas written her memoirs, EatFirst—You Don’t Know WhatThey’ll Give You: The Adventuresof an Immigrant Family and TheirFeminist Daughter. Written withwarmth and humor, her memoirsreveal how she went from being afive-year-old immigrant fromGermany in 1934 to become thefirst woman attorney in the Officeof the General Counsel at theEqual Opportunity Commission(EEO C) in 1965, one of thefounders of the National Organi-zation for Women (NOW) in1966, the highest paid woman atthe headquarters of two multina-tional corporations, GTE andTRW, and an internationalspeaker on women’s rights for theUnited States InformationAgency. The book will bepublished soon; information isavailable from http://www.erraticimpulse.com/~feminism/html/sonia_pressman_ fuentes.htm andcan be ordered in paperback frombookstores.

CLASS OF 1959The Class of 1959 will hold its40th Reunion Celebration thisfall. Members of the class whoare interested in helping planthe event for their class shouldcontact the Hon. A. Jay Cristol,’59, on 305-536-3058, AlvinMalnik, ’59, on 561-482-1010 orCynthia Sikorski, director ofalumni relations, 305-284-4935,with their ideas and suggestions.

CLASS OF 1961JAMES FLANNERY is chairmanof the board of the White WaySign Company, a pro ducer ofcustom electronic signage andscoreboards, located in Chicago.

Founded in 1916 by ThomasFlannery, Sr., the company is nowunder its third generation offamily ownership and manage-ment. Flannery joined WhiteWay as a corporate attorney andserved as president for 20 yearsbefore assuming his presentposition. He is active in area civicand service organizations and washonored with the WeizmannInstitute’s 1994 Man of the Yearaward and the 1991 MotherCabrini award.

CLASS OF 1962EDWARD P.AHRENS, JR.,retired in 1993from FloridaPower & LightCompany as itssenior andmanaging

attorney and its assistant corpo-rate secretary. He now devotes histime to circuit mediation andfreelance writing. He is especiallyinterested in instructing andhelping attorneys to instruct non-attorneys on avoiding the legaldangers of imprudent writing.Ahrens has just published thesecond edition of his popularbook, The Perils of ImprudentWriting—How to Watch What YouWrite and Stay Out of Court.

CLASS OF 1964DAVID N. NISSENBERGintroduced the second edition ofhis book, The Law of CommercialTrucking: Damages to Persons andProperty, published by LexisPublishing last year . It is widelyused throughout the country byattorneys involved in truckaccident litigation. In the pastthree years, Nissenberg haspresented CLE seminars on thissubject matter in 40 states. He isa partner in Truck Injury Lawyers,LLP, a national firm based in SanDiego that represents victims ofcatastrophic truck crashes. Hecan be reached at 800-292-5855.

CLASS OF 1965

BENNETT H.BRUMMER,public defenderfor Miami-DadeCounty, receivedthe prestigiousCriminal JusticeAward of the

Dade County Bar Association,presented annually to an indi-vidual who has made anoutstanding contribution to thecriminal justice system in Miami-Dade County . During Law Week1999, Brummer also spoke tostudents at Miami Senior HighSchool about the criminal justicesystem and how his officefunctions within it. In June, theNational Association of DrugCourt Professionals presentedBrummer with its FoundersAward in recognition of hissupport of the country’s first drugcourt, established in Miami adecade ago. The Miami DrugCourt became a model for morethan 600 drug courts in operationor in the planning stages. Theaward was presented in MiamiBeach at the association’s annualconference.

RICHARD N. FRIEDMANspearheaded the successful fightagainst a proposed 1 percentincrease in the sales tax forMiami-Dade County, to be usedto expand the Metrorail system.The special referendum vote onJuly 29, 1999, turned out 28percent of the registered voters,who rejected the mayor’s PennyTax Plan by a 68 percent to 32percent margin.

In 1976, in 1990 and in 1991,Friedman also successfully ledoverwhelming voter oppositionto proposed 1 percent sales taxincreases in Miami-Dade Countyfor Metrorail. Also, in 1987, heled the successful statewide fightto repeal the services sales taxstatute, which became effectiveJuly 1, 1987. After a ferociouspolitical battle, the governor andthe legislature repealed the tax onDecember 11, 1987.

Friedman co-chairs the FloridaBar Sports Committee for asecond year, while continuing toserve his professional athleteclients as CEO of All-Star SportsAgents, Inc. Friedman is alsoknown as “The Singing Attor-ney” and is a songwriter andrecord producer. On July 4, 1996,All-Star Music Corporationreleased a music album in CD andcassette formats, For Love ofCountry, consisting of 15 ofAmerica’s greatest patriotic songsperformed by Friedman, and a28-page booklet written by himcontaining the history and lyricsof each song. A portion of theproceeds from the sale of thealbum is donated to the Ameri-can Legion, the Veterans ofForeign Wars, the American RedCross, Boy Scouts of America,and Girl Scouts of America. Twonew music albums performedby Friedman are currently inproduction.

CLASS OF 1967

The HonorableEUGENE J.FIERRO receivedthe American BarAssociationSection of FamilyLaw Pro BonoAward for his

efforts in providing pro bono legalassistance to the poor and tovictims of abuse. Judge Fierro isadministrator of “Put SomethingBack” and has authored severallegal publications, including “TheLawyer’s Trial Book—A Guide tothe 1977 Amendments to theRules of Florida Civil Procedure.”

BRUCE E. RAPEE is married toLeAnne Moore of San Francisco.They live in Miami with theirdaughter, Brieanne. Following avery brief career in law, Bruce hasbeen an investor in commercialreal estate for the past 30 yearsand administers the investmentsof several employee retirementtrusts, when he and the family arenot traveling.

CLASS OF 1968The Honorable STANLEY M.GOLDSTEIN was elected judgein 1983 and became the nation’sfirst “drug court” judge in 1989.There are now approximately 600such courts in the United States.Judge Goldstein retired inDecember 1998.

IMPROMPTU REUNION—At Wolf Laurel Country Clubin North Carolina last July, several members of the Classof 1951 took advantage of an opportunity to becomereacquainted. From left are: Marie Rose; Carl Rose, ’51;Lloyd Stover, ’51; Prof. M. Minnette Massey, ’51; ShirleyKaiser; and Julius H. Kaiser, ’51.

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J. MICHAEL KELLY has asuccessful family practice, Kelly& Hammers, the Divorce Firm,in Santa Monica, Calif., wherehe preaches the gospel of “posi-tive divorce.” He also teachescourses in the business of law atthe University of SouthernCalifornia.

CLASS OF 1969

The Class of 1969 will hold its30th Reunion Celebration thisfall. Members of the class who areinterested in helping planthe event for their class shouldcontact Thomas Roy Spencer Jr.,’69, on 305-374-7700 or CynthiaSikorski, director of alumnirelations, 305-284-4935, withtheir ideas and suggestions.

CLASS OF 1970PHYLLIS DOUGLAS retiredafter 28 years as leader of the legalteam for Dade County PublicSchools with plans to relocatewith her husband, Grail Douglas,a sculptor, to Ashland, Ore., aplace they discovered whileattending the city’s year-roundShakespearean festival. Douglashad worked for seven superinten-dents; she advised school officialson how to handle the largenumber of immigrant childrenand navigated the first laboragreement that gave public-school teachers collectivebargaining powers in the early1970s.

CLASS OF 1972

ROBERT A. DULBERG is adiplomate with the FloridaAcademy of Professional Media-tors and is celebrating his 10thyear as a certified mediator. Hemaintains mediation suitesthroughout Miami-Dade andBroward counties, and he has awebsite at www.mediate.com/rdulberg.

CLASS OF 1973

SAMUEL B. HORNSTEINserves as secretary of the BucksCounty (Pa.) Bar Association andtreasurer of the Big Brothers/BigSisters of Bucks County. Heformerly served on the nationalboard of directors for Big Brothers/Big Sisters. Hornstein is widowedand has a daughter attending theUniversity of Miami in hersophomore year.

CLASS OF 1974The Class of 1974 will hold its25th Reunion Celebration thisfall. Members of the class who areinterested in helping plan theevent for their class shouldcontact Lewis B. Freeman, ’74,on 305-443-6622 or CynthiaSikorski, director of alumnirelations, 305-284-4935, withtheir ideas and suggestions.

GARY CARMAN, a seniorlitigation partner and head of thelitigation group of the Miamioffice of Broad and Cassel, ispresident-elect of the Universityof Miami School of Law AlumniAssociation for the currentacademic year, and will bepresident in 2000–2001. Carmanpractices in the areas of civil

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trials, arbitrations and lobbyingand negotiation of corporatetransactions. He lobbies beforeMiami-Dade County and the Cityof Miami Commission for variouscorporations regarding zoning,retail space issues at MiamiInternational Airport, and othermatters.

RICHARD C. MILSTEIN wasrecently honored by the DadeCounty Bar Association and “PutSomething Back” pro bonoprogram for his continueddedication to public service. Hisname is attached to one of theservice awards, the Richard C.Milstein Excellence Award,presented at the 11th annualawards luncheon. Milstein is aformer recipient of the TobiasSimon Award presented by theFlorida Supreme Court, and hepractices at the Miami office ofAkerman Senterfitt.

DON RUSSO isa principal in thefirm of Russo &Heffernan, P.A.,in Miami, whichhas a statewidereputation in thefield of medical

negligence and catastrophic tortclaims. Russo recently presentedseveral CLE-approved seminarson a variety of timely trial-relatedissues. He presented his tech-niques for skilled jury selectionand dynamic opening statementsand closing arguments at theFlorida Bar Trial Lawyers Sectionseminar in Miami, then followedwith a Dade County Trial LawyersAssociation seminar on commer-cial trial skills in a “David versusGoliath” commercial trial. Russoalso addressed lawyers andstudents at the Florida Bar’s TrialLawyers Section in its week-longAdvanced Trial AdvocacySeminar in Gainesville. Herecently presented an update andsummary of legislative and caselaw changes in the area ofmedical malpractice litigation ata seminar sponsored annually bythe Academy of Florida TrialLawyers.

CLASS OF 1975THOMASNEWCOMBHYDE wasrecently namednational directorof training for thelegal departmentof Liberty Mutual

Insurance Company. Thedepartment now has over 700attorneys in more than 70 officesthroughout the United States andin Canada and offers four trainingprograms in trial advocacy,advanced trial advocacy, attorneymanagement training, anddeposition and discovery training.He resides in Tampa.

CLASS OF 1976

SHARON WOLFE, an appellatespecialist in the Miami firm ofCooper & Wolfe, died July 15after a long battle with lungcancer. In her career of 22 years,she handled more than 300 stateand federal appeals. Her brief forpartner MARC COOPER, JD ’75,in Stahl v. Metropolitan DadeCounty led to a much cited 1983ruling by the Third District Courtof Appeal concerning causation,a basic element of negligence.

Wolfe and plaintiff’s lawyerCharles Lipcon were successfulbefore the United States Courtof Appeal for the 11th Circuit inexpanding the seamen’s entitle-ment to sick wages to includetips. She is survived by herhusband, STEPHEN T. MAHER,JD ’75, and two daughters,Meaghan Wolfe Maher andCaitlin Wolfe Maher.

CLASS OF 1977WILLIAM RICHARD BLOOMhas the same first name, middleinitial and last name as WILLIAMROBERT BLOOM, JD ’77, whopractices in Miami. WilliamRichard Bloom moved toPortland Ore., immediatelyfollowing his graduation fromUM Law, where he practicedfamily law until earlier this year,when he hung up his briefcase.He is now back in school full-time in pursuit of a master’sdegree in computer science andan MBA. He expects to learn theskills necessary to engage in aninteresting and challengingsecond career in the high-techindustry. His studies should becompleted prior to the classreunion in 2002, at which timehe expects to renew friendshipswith his law school classmates.

The Honorable JOHN A.HOUSTON serves as a federalmagistrate in the U.S. DistrictCourt for the Southern Districtof California, where the court’sbusy docket is largely driven byimmigration cases. Before hisappointment last year, JudgeHouston served for 17 years inthe U.S. Attorney’s office in SanDiego.

BENEDICT P.KUEHNE has justcompleted anoutstanding yearas president of theDade County BarAssociation, thefourth largest

local bar association in theUnited States. He is now focusinghis voluntary contributions onthe Metro Miami Action PlanTrust, a Miami-Dade Countydepartment organized to helpstimulate economic developmentin disadvantaged areas of thecounty. He was appointed to theMMAP Trust by the Board ofCounty Commissioners.

The Honorable ERNEST G.MAYO was appointed judge ofthe municipal court of Warren,R.I., on April 12, 1999. He is alsoassistant professor of legal studiesat Johnson & Wales University inProvidence.

GEO RGE D. PERLMAN joinedthe Miami office of Holland &Knight LLP as of counsel, wherehe will practice tax law with afocus on complex internationaltransactions and foreign trusts.He was formerly a sole practi-tioner, with offices in both Miamiand London. He is a member ofthe tax section of the Florida Bar,as well as the American BarAssociation, International FiscalAssociation, and the New YorkBar.

MICHAEL SALES is vicepresident, associate generalcounsel and general patentcounsel at Hughes Electronicsin El Segundo, Calif.

CLASS OF 1978The Honorable MICHAEL E.JONES authored the book, SportsLaw, published in 1999 under thePrentice-Hall imprint of Simon& Schuster . Judge Jones is also atenured full professor of legalstudies and economics at theUniversity of Massachusetts—Lowell, where he teaches sportslaw. He sits on the Salem DistrictCourt in Salem, N.H.

ELIZABETH K.RUSSO has beenappointed chairof the Board ofLegal Specializa-tion and Educa-tion of the FloridaBar. The board

oversees board certification ofattorneys and the bar’s continuinglegal education program. Shepractices at the Russo AppellateFirm, which handles a fullspectrum of civil appeals beforestate and federal courts and workswith trial firms on cases involvingclass actions and other complexcommercial cases. Russo is aboard-certified appellate lawyerin Florida and is admitted topractice before the United StatesSupreme Court, a number offederal circuit and district courts,the Florida Supreme Court andall Florida district courts ofappeal.

CLASS OF 1979The Class of 1979 will be thehonored class at Homecoming1999, holding its 20th ReunionCelebration. Members of the classwho are interested in helpingplan the event for their classshould contact Alan Atlas, ’79,on 305-374-6762, Joseph Lowe,’79, on 305-670-3700, Gail Serotaon 305-854-0800 or CynthiaSikorski, director of alumnirelations, 305-284-4935, withtheir ideas and suggestions.

RUDY M. BRO WN practices ina small office in Brooklyn, N.Y.,with one other attorney, wherehe is mainly involved with civilrights litigation. His current caseof greatest significance is a federallawsuit against the New YorkState Psychiatric Institute,Columbia University and doctors,for using minority children ages6–10 as human guinea pigs to testthe drug fenfluramine.

CHARLES W. EDGAR III,Currently serves as president ofthe Gulf Stream Council of theBoy Scouts of America and is ashareholder at the West PalmBeach firm of Nason, Yaeger,Gerson, White & Liose, P.A.,where he practices real estate law.

HOWARD A. KUSNICK, LL.M.’79, has been selected to serve aschair of the Consumer ProtectionCommittee of the Florida Bar for1999–2000.

The Honorable CINDY S.LEDERMAN has been chosen asone of only 30 fellows for Zero toThree’s prestigious Leaders for the21st Century program, a newleadership development initiativethat provides each participantwith an opportunity to collabo-rate with top leaders from manydisciplines as well as receiveassistance for an innovativeproject aimed at improving thelives of very young children.Judge Lederman, a circuit courtjudge for Florida’s 11th Circuit

and an administrative judge forthe juvenile division, will focusher work during the two-yearfellowship on developingassessments and interventions independency court settings thatare sensitive to child develop-ment and parent-childattachment issues. Zero to Threeis a national nonprofit organiza-tion founded by leadingpediatricians and child develop-ment specialists to share newknowledge on how childrendevelop in the early years. JudgeLederman is a member of theNational Council of Juvenile andFamily Court Judges, the U.S.Advisory Council on ViolenceAgainst Women, and the FloridaSupreme Court DependencyCourt Improvement Committee.

In June, Judge Lederman wasinvited to speak at the plenarysession of “Safe from the Start:the National Summit on Chil-dren Exposed to Violence.” Shespoke about the effects ofviolence on maltreated children,discussed recommendations forchanges in public policy andpractice, released preliminarydata on the co-occurrence ofchild maltreatment and violencefrom the Dependency CourtIntervention Program for FamilyViolence and discussed how thatprogram has improved childwelfare outcomes in Miami-DadeCounty.

In August, Judge Ledermanreceived the 1999 William E.Gladstone Award at a gatheringin Orlando of nearly 1000 judicialleaders and those involved inchildren’s cases statewide. FloridaSupreme Court Justice Major B.Harding and Governor Jeb Bush,in presenting the award, notedJudge Lederman’s vast experienceand her reputation in leading theefforts to address and solve thegrowing needs and impact ofchildren in the courts.

ANNETTE STARLUSTGARTEN and her husbandrelocated five years ago tobeautiful Sedona, Ariz., fromMount Dora, Fla. She commutesdaily to Flagstaff, where shepractices family law and govern-ment law at Mangum, Wall,Stoops & Warden. The couplehave their first grandchild, JoshuaAlexander Book.

ABIGAIL WATTS-FITZGERALD left the law firmof Steel Hector & Davis, LLP, tostart a corporate practice for thenew Miami office of Hunton &Williams, a Richmond, Va., firm.The Miami office of the firm has12 lawyers. Watts-Fitzgerald hasdone much work for the NationalFootball League on their stadiumagreements and represented theNFL in local negotiations forSuper Bowl XXXIII in Miami lastJanuary.

BRIANZIEGLER wasrecently electedjustice for thevillage ofWoodsburgh,N.Y., for a two-year term. He is

a corporate partner at the EastMeadow law firm of CertilmanBalin Adler & Hyman, LLP,where he provides counsel tocorporations, partnerships andlimited liability companies in allareas of law. A lifelong residentof the five towns area, Zieglerresides in Woodsburgh with his

wife, Andrea, and their daughters,Jeri, Carly and Ali. CertilmanBalin Adler & Hyman, knownalso as “The Personal Lawyerswith the Firm Commitment,” hasgrown into one of Long Island’slargest full-service law firms, withmore than 60 attorneys.

CLASS OF 1981

BRUCE A.BLITMAN,president of theFlorida Academyof ProfessionalMediators,represented theacademy in

Boston at the ABA Section ofDispute Resolution’s first annualconference, “Breaking Down theBarriers: ADR in the NewMillennium.” Blitman partici-pated in a panel discussionentitled “State Regulation ofEthics and Professional Responsi-bility in Court-Connected ADRPrograms.” He recently publishedthe first issue of his mediationnewsletter, “Bruce’s MediationNews.” He is a certified county,family circuit civil and federalmediator with offices in Miami,Pembroke Pines, Fort Lauderdale,Boca Raton, and Palm BeachCounty.

BRIAN L. DAVIDOFF (LL.M.)specializes in bankruptcy atRutter Hobbs & Davidoff, ageneral practice firm in theCentury Park area of Los Angeles,where he is a partner. The firmoffers a full range of legal services,with special emphasis on aircraftfinance, banking and financialtransactions, bankruptcy andinsolvency, business litigation,commercial transactions, corpo-rate transactions, businessentities, employment, entertain-ment, environmental matters,estate planning and probate,family matters, intellectualproperty and technology transfer,and real estate.

THOMAS S. MAHR practicescommercial litigation andentertainment litigation at thefirm of Katten Muchin & Zavisin the Century Park area of LosAngeles. The firm also has officesin Chicago, New York, Washing-ton and Irvine.

CARL C. RADOM recentlybecame of counsel to the KansasCity law firm of Polsinelli, White,Vardeman & Shalton, P.C. Formore than 20 years, he hasconcentrated his practice in thearea of estate planning, and he isadmitted to practice in New York,Indiana, Florida, Kansas, andVirginia. He is director ofeducation for the AmericanAcademy of Estate PlanningAttorneys in La Jolla, Calif.,and he is the author of severalpublications on estate planning,probate and property, smallbusiness taxation, and individualtaxation. With more than 90attorneys, Polsinelli, White,Vardeman & Shalton has officesin Kansas City, St. Louis,Jefferson City, Overland Parkand Topeka.

JOSE ROJAS is a partner in theMiami office of Broad and Cassel,where he chairs the firm’sintellectual property and technol-ogy practice groups. At anengagement sponsored in Miamilast spring by Worldtalk Corpora-tion, a Silicon Valley-based

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internet security solution provider,Rojas spoke about employee use ofe-mail and access to the internet.He is past chairperson of theComputer Law Committee of theFlorida Bar.

CLASS OF 1982

LANGBAUMGARTENwas recentlyelected to theboard of trusteesof the Miami ArtMuseum. He ismanaging director

for Miami-based Aztec Group,Inc., where he focuses onarranging commercial mortgagefinancing.

ANA LANDA-GOLDBERG isin-house counsel for AeroleaseInternational, Inc., an aircraftleasing and sales corporation inAspen, Colo.

JEREMY A.SPECTOR, ofBlank RomeComisky &McCauley, LLP,was appointedchair of theSubcommittee on

Important Developments of theTax-Exempt Financing Commit-tee of the Section on Taxation ofthe American Bar Association fora two-year term. Spector headsBlank Rome’s public finance taxpractice and counsels clients inall areas of tax law relating tomunicipal bonds, includinggovernmental, utility, transporta-tion, housing, health care,industrial and infrastructuredevelopment obligations. Thefirm is a full-service law firm ofmore than 280 attorneys head-quartered in Philadelphia, withoffices in Media, Allentown,Cherry Hill, Trenton, Wilming-ton, Baltimore, Washington, andBoca Raton.

CLASS OF 1983

LISA C. BERRY is general counselat Juniper Networks, Inc., aMountainview, Calif., firmengaged in internet infrastructuresolutions. She resides in Saratoga.

TAMMY FOX-ISICOFF hasbeen re-elected to the board ofgovernors of the AmericanImmigration Lawyer’s Associa-tion. She practices with Bander,Fox-Isicoff & Associates, inMiami.

MOHAMED A.TUMI (LL.M. inComparativeLaw) is anattorney and legalconsultant withthe firm of Moh’dTumi & Partners

in Tripoli, Libya. After leavingUM Law, Tumi received an LL.M.with highest honors from GeorgeWashington University.

CLASS OF 1984

DANIEL F.BEASLEYrecently movedfrom Miami, after14 years withFowler, White,Burnett, Hurley,Banick &Strictroot, P.A., to

join the firm of Lanier FordShaver & Payne, P.C., in Hunts-ville, Ala. This move places him,

his wife, Tammy, and their twoboys, Adam and Luke, closer totheir extended family and afamily farm. Beasley continues topractice civil litigation.

IAN COMISKY isscheduled toparticipate in the12th annualProfessionalLiability Under -writing SocietyInternational

Conference on November 10–12in New York City. He is a panelistfor the session on “Director’s andOfficer’s Liability Beyond theYear 2000: Reporting andEnforcement Issues AffectingFinancial Institutions.” Comiskyis a partner in the law firm ofBlank Rome Comisky &McCauley, LLP, where heconcentrates his practice in thearea of white collar criminaldefense of corporations andindividuals, including criminaland civil tax litigation. Comiskyis a former assistant U.S. Attorneyfor the Southern District ofFlorida and practices in thePhiladelphia and Boca Ratonoffices of the firm. He is co-authorof Tax Fraud & Evasion,a two-volume treatise, and is amember of the American Collegeof Tax Counsel.

PERRY CONE is general counseland vice president for regulatoryand public affairs, AIB InsuranceGroup, Inc., Miami, and itsproperty and casualty insurancesubsidiaries. For the 1998–99term, he served as chair of theAutomobile Committee of theFlorida Insurance Council,Florida’s largest insurancecompany trade association,whose member companies holdmore than 90 percent of Florida’smarket in residential and privatepassenger automobile coverage.During 1998, Cone served as analternate to the board of directorsof the Florida WindstormUnderwriting Association,a state-mandated associationproviding wind coverage toFlorida uninsureds who areunable to obtain it in themarketplace. For 1999, Conewas a director, vice president,and treasurer of Florida Propertyand Casualty Association, whosemembers are Florida domesticauto carriers.

ADALBERTO JORDAN becamea federal judge September 8,when the U.S. Senate confirmedhim by a vote of 93 to 1. He hasbeen a clerk for Supreme CourtJustice Sandra Day O’Connor andheaded the appellate division ofthe U.S. attorney’s office inMiami. In recommending Jordanto President Clinton, U.S. Sen.Bob Graham (D-Fla.) said,“Florida will benefit from hisoutstanding legal skills, broadexperience, and commitment topublic service.”

LAURIN D. QUAIT was electedpartner in the Denver office ofBaker & Hostetler, LLP, where heconcentrates his practice in theareas of construction litigation,including suretyship matters andcommercial and domesticlitigation. Baker & Hostetler isamong the nation’s largest lawfirms, with more than 500attorneys in offices in BeverlyHills, Cincinnati, Cleveland,Columbus, Denver, Houston,Long Beach, Los Angeles,Orlando, and Washington.

MARK REEVES left his practicein the Miami office of SteelHector & Davis to begin hisstudies for the Roman Catholicpriesthood at the North Ameri-can College in Vatican City; itis a vocation he has wanted topursue since graduating fromUM Law.

DIANA SANTAMARIA was re-elected to theboard of directorsof the Academyof Florida TrialLawyers at itsannual conven-

tion in Aventura. At that time,she also received the Academy’s“Above and Beyond the Call ofDuty” award for her service as adirector of the Coalition forFamily Safety. She is a triallawyer who specializes in all areasof personal injury and wrongfuldeath. She is founder andmanaging partner of the LawOffices of Diana Santa Maria,P.A., in Davie.

JOSE (TONY) SANTOS hasjoined Greenberg Traurig as ashareholder in the Miami office.Santos is the former chairman ofBroad & Cassel’s internationalpractice group.

HARVEY SEPLER, JD ’84, hasserved as the advisor to UM Lawteams for many years.

CLASS OF 1985

MICHAEL J.HIGER chairedthe Business LawSection of theFlorida Bar’sseminar entitled,“Hot Topics inCommercial

Litigation,” where he was thefeatured speaker on copyrightlaw. He has also been appointedsecretary for the South FloridaPatent Law Association and is apartner at the North Miami firmof Ress, Mintz & Truppman, P.A.,where his practice is devoted tolitigation in all aspects ofintellectual property law,including patents, copyrights andtrademarks.

STEVEN C. MARKS has beenelected chair of the Aviation LawSection of the Association ofTrial Lawyers of America(ATLA). Marks practices at theMiami office of Podhurst OrseckJosefsberg Eaton Meadow Olin &Perwin, P.A., and specializes inaviation, commercial, personalinjury and wrongful deathlitigation as well as productliability.

JAVIER PEREZ-ABREU andANA MARTIN-LAVIELLEhave achieved board certificationin marital and family law from theFlorida Bar. They practicein the Coral Gables firm of Perez-Abreu & Martin-Lavielle, P.A.,which deals exclusively in thearea of marital and family lawand alternative dispute resolu-tion, including mediation andarbitration.

AMY D.RONNER, lawprofessor at St.Thomas Univer-sity School ofLaw, has a newarticle, “Punish-ment Meted

Out For Acquittals: An Anti-

experienced litigator represent-ing airlines, manufacturers,maintenance facilities, fixed baseoperations, general commercialbusinesses and individuals inpersonal injury, wrongful deathand commercial claims.

RICHARD SHEEHY is currentlyin the last year of his Ph.D.program in counseling psychol-ogy at Arizona State Universityin Tempe, Ariz. Sheehy ispresently completing his disserta-tion, in which he looked at theefficacy of a stress/anxietymanagement intervention onstress levels of first-year lawstudents. In his spare time, he isalso the assistant director of theCareer Planning and PlacementOffice at the Arizona StateUniversity College of Law. Hehopes to continue his workcounseling law students andattorneys, as well as pursue hisinterest in forensic psychology.He lives in Phoenix.

CLASS OF 1988MICHAEL CHESAL, a partnerin the intellectual propertygroup of the Miami law firm ofKluger, Peretz, Kaplan & Berlin,has been appointed to serveas chair of the IntellectualProperty Law Committee of theBusiness Law Section of theFlorida Bar. He had served asvice-chair of the same commit-tee for the past two terms. Hehas extensive experience intrademark, copyright and tradesecret matters, as well as generalcommercial litigation at boththe trial and appellate levels.Chesal also serves as president ofthe Bais Medrash of SouthFlorida and as a member of theboard of directors of AishHaTorah of South Florida andYoung Israel of Hollywood.

KENNETHALLANGOTTLIEB waselected to theFlorida House ofRepresentativesin 1998. He hasbeen instrumen-

tal in the passage of the FosterCare Bill of Rights (1999) andthe Holocaust Insurance Act(1998). Gottlieb is a partner inthe Hollywood law firm ofGottlieb & Gottlieb.

CLASS OF 1989

The Class of 1989 will hold its10th Reunion Celebration thisfall. Members of the class whoare interested in helping plan theevent for their class shouldcontact Todd S. Payne, ’89, on954-989-6333 or CynthiaSikorski, director of alumnirelations, 305-284-4935, withtheir ideas and suggestions.

The HonorableCARROLL J.KELLY serves ascounty courtjudge in Miami-Dade County,presiding overdomestic vio-

lence, criminal and traffic cases.Before her election, Judge Kellypracticed business and generalcivil litigation, antitrust cases andemployment discriminationlitigation at the Miami firm ofRichman Greer Weil BrumbaughMirabito & Christensen. Kellysaid that it was her ambition to

therapeutic JurisprudenceAtrocity” in 41 Arizona LawReview (1999).

CLASS OF 1986

BRIAN SCOTT HUNTER,formerly a partner in the Miamilaw firm of Angones, Hunter,McClure, Lynch & Williams,died April 7, 1999. He was 38.Hunter was board-certified intrial practice, and he taughttennis at Coral Oaks in Pinecrestand tennis summer camp at UM.He is survived by his wife, SheridaChin-A-Kiem, and a daughter,Kelly.

CRANE A. JOHNSTONE, apartner in the Fort Lauderdaleoffice of George, Hartz, Lundeen,Flagg & Fulmer, has been electedto membership in the FortLauderdale chapter of theAmerican Board of Trial Advo-cates. This honorary organizationencourages respect for the law,the courts and the jury system.

MICHAEL PERSE, a litigationassociate with Kluger, Peretz,Kaplan & Berlin’s Miami office,was elected to the board ofdirectors of the University ofMiami Law Alumni Association.His three-year term beginsimmediately. Perse practicesprimarily in the area of generalcommercial litigation at both thetrial and appellate levels, withparticular emphasis on insurancedisputes, insurance coverageissues, and aviation-relatedmatters. He resides in Kendall.

BARBARA STEINER WALTONhas a book being published thisfall, “101 Little Instructions forSurviving Your Divorce,” by ImpactPublishers of San Luis Obispo,Calif. She reports that it is sure tobe a best seller! Walton practicesfamily law in Meadville, Pa.

CLASS OF 1987

KAREN H. BROMBERGpracticed commercial litigationwith an emphasis on intellectualproperty disputes for 10 yearswith the firm of Parker, Duryee,Rosoff & Haft, in New York City.She recently joined AdvantEdgeTelevision Advertising as generalcounsel and senior vice president.AdvantEdge is a privately heldcompany that syndicates televi-sion commercials around theworld. Bromberg resides inScarsdale.

KEVIN A. DORSE practicesbusiness litigation at the LosAngeles office of Jones Day, amultinational law firm with morethan 1,200 lawyers in 20 loca-tions. Offices in the United Statesare in Atlanta, Chicago, Cleve-land, Columbus, Dallas, Irvine,Los Angeles, New York, Pitts-burgh and Washington. There are10 other offices around the world.The Los Angles office is organizedinto four major practice groups—business practice, governmentregulation, litigation, and tax.

DONALD B. MITCHELL joinedthe firm of Schnader HarrisonSegal & Lewis, LLP, as counselresident in the Atlanta office.Mitchell was formerly at DeltaAir Lines where he was thegeneral manager for aircraftacquisition and sales and a seniorattorney. He has experience infleet management, procurement,operations and general commer-cial matters, and he is an

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perform public service that led herfirst to become a lawyer and thenseek election as a judge.

LORING N.SPOLTER has hisown firm in FortLauderdale andpractices in theareas of criminaldefense andplaintiffs’

employment litigation issuesincluding sexual harassment,whistle blower claims, defamationand discrimination based uponrace, gender, age and disability.Three of his articles on employ-ment law themes have appearedin the Wall Street Journal’s“National Business EmploymentWeekly.” The Chicago Tribunepublished a feature story onSpolter’s litigation work on behalfof employees, which was reprintedin the Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel and more than onehundred other newspapers. Aftergaining courtroom experience asa prosecutor in the BrooklynDistrict Attorney’s Office, Spolterreturned to Florida in 1991.

LYNN M. STOPPY recentlyjoined the Cass Countyprosecutor’s office inHarrisonville, Mo. She and herhusband, David Brackin, SSGTUSAF, have a daughter, Kayla,born in July 1995, and a son, Kyle,born in May 1998. Lynnis admitted to the Bar in Florida,Arkansas and Missouri. Thecouple resides at WhitemanAFB, Mo.

RUSSELL WHITTLE is a partnerin the Ft. Myers office of Conroy,Simberg & Ganon, P.A., where hespecializes in worker’s compensa-tion defense. He and his wife,Laura, have lived in Ft. Myers fortwo years with their sons, Jamieand Douglas. Conroy, Simberg &Ganon is a full service insurancedefense firm with more than 75attorneys and offices in Holly-wood, West Palm Beach, Orlando,Coral Gables, and Pensacola, inaddition to Ft. Myers.

CLASS OF 1990

ALBERT A. A. CARTENUTOhas his own firm in Kendall, wherehe practices civil, criminal, familylaw, and civil and family media-tion. He resides in Kendall withhis wife, Beverly, and sons AlbertAnthony IV and Quentin Xavier.

THOMAS H. LOFFREDO, apartner with Holland & Knight,has moved his practice fromMiami to the Fort Lauderdaleoffice.

MICHAEL J. SIPOS is generalcounsel to the Supreme Courtof the Federated States ofMicronesia, a developing islandnation of about 210,000 personsin the western Pacific. FSM’s1,600 islands (most of which areuninhabited) are spread across1,800 miles of ocean, midwaybetween Hawaii and the Philip-pines. The FSM is funded by theU.S. under a Compact of FreeAssociation. For about $100million annually, the U.S. retainsexclusive military rights to thearea but currently has no activemilitary presence there.

As general counsel, Siposdrafts appellate and trial courtopinions for official publication,creates and revises court rules,consults with the justices on

Atlantic Coast Title, Inc., whichhandles residential and commer-cial closings. The primary practicein the law firm consists ofresidential and commercial realestate, including development,construction and closings. Thefirm also handles wills, collections,construction lien notices andentertainment law.

ADAM M. NEJINA and his wife,Tiffany, announce the birth oftheir first child, Zoe Marlena, bornApril 20, 1999. Nejina practicescommercial litigationat Camner, Litsitz and Poller, P.A.He and his family reside inAventura.

SPENCER ROSE is associatedwith the Coral Gables firm ofNicklaus & Wicks, where hespecializes in insurance defense.Rose also announces his engage-ment to Elaine Walker, a writer forthe Miami Herald. A springwedding is anticipated.

KENNETH SCHWARTZ hasbeen elected a partner in the NewYork-based international law firmGrant, Herrmann, Schwartz &Klinger LLP. He will continue toconcentrate on private equityinvestments, mergers andacquisitions, and securitiestransactions involving emergingand established Latin Americancompanies.

Prior to joining Grant,Herrmann, he was a foreignassociate at the Mexican lawfirm Bryan, González Vargas yGonzález Baz, in Mexico Cityand Ciudad Juárez, where heconcentrated on strategicinvestments by U.S. multinationalcorporations in Mexican telecom-munications and cable televisioncompanies. He met his wife,Maryela, while working inMexico. Last year, the coupleback-packed to Macchu-Pichu onthe Inca Trail in the Andes andthen traveled by canoe to aremote ecological station in thePeruvian Amazon jungle.

Schwartz recently addressed theAssociação Brasileira de Analistasdo Mercado de Capitais(Abamec) in São Paulo, Brazil, onprivate equity investments inBrazil. He is fluent in Spanish andPortuguese and has publishedseveral articles and spoken atconferences on private equity,Latin American law and NAFTA.

KIMBERLY NOWORYTASUNNER has been named share-holder of Gray, Harris & Robinson,P.A., in Orlando. She concentratesin the areas of real estate transac-tions and financial institutionsand lender representation.

EDWARD H. ZEBERSKY wasrecently elected to the board ofdirectors of the Academy ofFlorida Trial Lawyers. He has beenreappointed chairman of theAFTL Insurance Task Force andhas received the LegislativeLeadership “Shoe Leather Award”for his efforts throughout the pastyear. His firm, Zebersky & Payne,LLP, concentrates its practice incommercial matters and in therepresentation of corporateclients regarding various issues.

CLASS OF 1992

SCOTT BROOK became partnerin the Fort Lauderdale office ofthe insurance defense firm ofPeters, Robertson et al. in January1999. In December 1997, hemarried Brenda Post and her three

children, Patrick, Tina andMathew. On January 29, 1999,Brenda gave birth to AlexanderJoshua Brook. In 2002, Brookplans to run for the Florida statehouse. He welcomes e-mailfrom his classmates:SBrook@PetersRobertson.com.

ERIC BRUCE and LISBETHPERUCKI BRUCE, JD ’92, havebeen married since 1991 and havetwo wonderful children: StevenJoseph, born Nov. 29, 1996, andValerie Ann, born April 3, 1999.Lisbeth has been employed as areal estate attorney for theBradenton firm of Blalock,Landers, Waters & Vogler, P.A., forsix years. Bruce is a child supportenforcement attorney with LegalServices of Manatee County.Prior to taking this position, hemaintained his own practice forfive years.

ALAN D. DANZ recentlyfounded the firm of Kronengold &Danz in Weston, Fla. Danz focuseshis practice in the areasof employment-related litigationand probate litigation.

WILLIAM S. GALVANO ispartner at Grimes Goebel GrimesHawkins & Gladfelter, P.A., inBradenton, Fla. He resides inBradenton with his wife, Julie, andsons, Michael Saint and WilliamSterling.

KEITH SINGER is a registeredrepresentative with NorthwesternMutual Investment Services onBrickell Avenue in Miami, wherehe specializes in pension, realestate and insurance planning. Heand his wife, Lauren, reside inHollywood with their son, Jacob,who was born Dec. 28, 1998.

JEFF SPIGEL was married toChrissy Havens on June 26, 1999,in Nashville, Tenn., and theytraveled through France for theirhoneymoon. Spigel practices atthe Washington, D.C., office ofAtlanta’s King & Spalding andspecializes in the area of antitrustlaw. He recently won, along withseveral other plaintiffs’ attorneys,a $28 million antitrust verdictagainst a national heatingcompany.

ANDRE J. ZAMORANO joinedthe Miami office of the Washing-ton, D.C., firm of Verner LiipfertBernhard McPherson and Hand asan associate in the firm’s litigationdepartment. He was formerly anassociate at Shutts & Bowen, LLP.

CLASS OF 1993ANNETTE G. CIL serves as clerkto Judge Gerald B. Cope in theThird District Court of Appeal,Miami.

PAUL LIMMIATIS joined theSyracuse, N.Y., law firm of Bond,Schoeneck & King, LLP, as anassociate in the firm’s labor andemployment law department.Limmiatis was previously em-ployed as an ERISA litigationassociate with the Washington lawfirm of Feder & Associates.Founded in 1897, Bond,Schoeneck & King comprises145 attorneys in Albany, Buffalo,Oswego, Saratoga Springs, andSyracuse, N.Y., and in OverlandPark, Kan., and has an affiliatewith offices in Boca Raton, BonitaSprings, and Naples.The firm serves small and largebusinesses, educational andhealth care institutions, media,municipalities, not-for-profit

administrative matters, andsupervises four staff attorneys.

He also volunteers as anadjunct professor with theCollege of Micronesia’s TrialCounselor Certificate Program,which he helped found as thefirst formal legal educationavailable in the nation’s 20-yearexistence. He taught torts lastsemester, teaches civil proce-dure this fall, and will teachevidence next spring.

Sipos came to the court in1998 on leave of absence fromthe Santa Monica, Calif., lawoffice of Haight, Brown andBonesteel LLP, where hepracticed as a trial attorneyspecializing in products liability.

ROBIN R. WEINER wasappointed standing Chapter 13trustee for the Southern Districtof Florida by the Department ofJustice in 1993. Since herappointment, Robin hasadministered approximately15,000 cases and is presentlydeveloping and conducting apilot debtor education programfor the southeast region of theUnited States. She lecturesextensively for bankruptcy andnon-bankruptcy associationsand has just recently coordi-nated and moderated a paneldiscussion regarding attorneysfees and ethics for the NationalAssociation of Chapter 13trustees in New York City.Robin is one of 21 Chapter 13trustees trained to mediatebudget disputes betweenChapter 13 trustees and UnitedStates trustees across thecountry. One of her majorconcerns is the elimination ofthe unauthorized practice of lawin bankruptcy. She has investi-gated and successfully movedthe court to prohibit andsanction numerous non-attorney petition preparers.

CLASS OF 1991JOE GARCIAwas electedchairman of theFlorida PublicService Commis-sion in January1999. He and hiswife, AILEEN

UGALDE, JD ’91, have adaughter, Gabriela Maria, andreside on Miami Beach.

DAVID L. GLAZER was recentlynominated to the board ofdirectors of the Alzheimer’sAssociation of Greater Miami.Glazer is also managing partnerof Behar, Gutt & Glazer, P.A., withoffices in Aventura and BocaRaton, which he founded in 1991with classmate, IRA GUTT,JD ’91. Glazer heads the elder law,trusts and estates and real estatedepartments in this six-attorneyfirm and manages the firm’sbusiness affairs. Ira Gutt isnational counsel to Dent WizardInternational and heads thefirm’s commercial litigationdepartment.

WILLIAM J. GROSS has beennamed a director with Tripp Scott,in Fort Lauderdale. He has beenwith the firm since 1993, concen-trating his practice in finance andgeneral corporate law.

LINDA KNOERR HOBALES,partner in the law office ofDeCarlo & Knoerr, P.A., is nowthe president and owner of

organizations, and individualclients.

JON PALADINI left full-timemunicipal government practiceearlier this year for privatepractice as a partner with the firmof Spector/Shumway, PLLC. Thefirm has offices in Scottsdale andSedona, Ariz. Paladini managesthe Sedona office and continuesto practice in the areas of landuse/zoning, municipal law,administrative law, civil litigationand appellate practice. He hasargued two cases before theArizona Court of Appeals onbehalf of the City of Sedona, bothinvolving issues arising from thestate constitution. He was alsonamed by the bishop of theCatholic Diocese of Phoenix tothe school board, which overseespolicies and operations of allCatholic schools in the northernhalf of Arizona.

In November he was profiled inthe Arizona Business Gazette, andhe returned to South Florida forthe first time since graduation toattend the International Munici-pal Lawyers AssociationConference in Miami Beach.While there, he had the opportu-nity to meet with Interim DeanMary Doyle and take a tour of theremodeled Law School. “Impres-sive is the first word that comes tomind!” Paladini was named tothe Arizona ConservationAcquisition Board, which makesrecommendations to the gover-nor and the State Parks Boardregarding the acquisitionof land and property rights forconservation purposes.

Finally, he and his wife, Jo, keepbusy finishing the building oftheir house and out-buildings andmanaging a growing cattle andhorse ranch on about 17 acres ofland in Sedona. All this is inaddition to raising their beautifulidentical twin girls, Tyler Rae andNicole, who turned three yearsold last August.

CLASS OF 1994The Class of 1994 will hold its5th Reunion Celebration thisfall. Members of the class whoare interested in helping planthe event for their class shouldcontact Steven Levine on 954-922-9100, Andrew Rier on305-899-1212 or CynthiaSikorski, director of alumnirelations, 305-284-4935, withtheir ideas and suggestions.

PETER J. BEDARD has joinedthe Chicago office of Vedder,Price, Kaufman & Kamholz inthe firm’s general litigationpractice. Bedard handles allaspects of complex construc-tion and commercial litigationincluding mechanic’s lien andsurety claim enforcement.Prior to joining Vedder Price,he was an associate withLevinson, Murray & Jensen,P.C., in Chicago. Vedder Priceis a full-service law firm withapproximately 180 attorneysin Chicago and New York City.

BRIAN H.BIEBER hasbeen an associ-ate of JoelHirschhorn,P.A., in Miami,for the past fiveyears, concen-

trating on federal and statecriminal defense as well asfraud and regulatory litigation.

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On August 22, 1998, Biebermarried his sweetheart of sixyears, Wendi, senior accountmanager at Avanti, Case & Hoytin Miami.

KAREN BERG BRIGHAM isreturning to the practice of laborand employment law withWhelan, DeMaio & Kiszkiel, P.A.,in Miami. She has livedin Paris, France, for the past fiveyears and has many happymemories from her sejour . Herdaughter, Cassandra, is nowperfectly bilingual.

DARREN J. DEVLIN is associ-ated with the firm of Mulvaney,Kahan & Barry in San Diego.

ANDREW FROMAN, formerlywith Kunkel Miller & Hamentin Sarasota, Fla., is proud toannounce the opening of the LawOffice of Andrew Froman, P.A., 27Fletcher Avenue, Sarasota 34237.Telephone: 941-363-0132. Fax:941-364-9393. Froman practiceslabor and employment law andcommercial litigation.

STEVEN R. LEVINE continuesteaching his ever-popular course atUM Law—Violent Crime andLawyering Workshop, and hepractices at the Hollywood, Fla.,law firm of Lekach Kutzner &Ansel.

BEN NEWMAN and his wife,Christina, announce the birth oftheir first child, Zachary Lewis, bornApril 15, 1999.

ERIC ZIMMELMAN continues topublish his guides to collegiatecities (Boston, Miami, andOrlando), and he has begun a newproject: the dissemination ofdiscount card mailers in residentialmarkets. He and Nicole weremarried in January and reside inCoconut Grove.

CLASS OF 1995ROBERT S. M. GORMAN hasjoined the New York office of theinternational law firm of Fulbright &Jaworski, LLP, where he practices inall areas of intellectual propertylaw, with a primary emphasis onhigh technology patents, particu-larly regarding electrical andcomputer-related inventions. Priorto joining the firm, Gorman wasassociated with the law firm ofHedman, Gibson & Costigan, P.C.,in New York. Fulbright & Jaworskiwas established in Houston in 1919and has more than 670 attorneys inits Austin, Dallas, Houston, LosAngeles, New York, San Antonio,Washington, Hong Kong andLondon offices.

CARY B. HALL isdoing plaintiff ’swork, criminaldefense andgeneral businesslitigation withMargolis, Pritzker& Epstein, PA, in

Towson, Md. following stints as ajudicial law clerk in BaltimoreCounty, Md. and as a solo practitio-ner. He and his wife, JenniferGirone (whom he metin the 1993 London SummerProgram), have two children:Luke, 2, and Tess, who was born lastApril. He would love to hear fromclassmates in his area and beyond. E-Mail: mpelaw@erols.com.

MAITRI “MIKE ” KLINKOSUM isan associate with the law firm ofVannoy, Colvard, Triplett &

Vannoy, PLLC, in NorthWilkesboro, N.C., practicing in theareas of plaintiff’s litigation anddomestic relations. Klinksoumreturned to North Carolina afterpracticing for two yearsas an assistant public defender inCook County (Chicago), Ill. Beforeassuming his current position,Klinkosum practiced with theNorth Carolina firm of Willardson,Lipscomb & Beal, LLP, in the areasof insurance defense, subrogation,and criminal defense.

PAUL MARTIN is practicinginsurance defense and aviation lawin Memphis, Tenn. He recentlypublished an article on legalliability in the August 1999 issue ofPlane and Pilot magazine.

BRIAN H. NELSON joined theMiami office of AkermanSenterfitt as an associate in thecorporate practice group, focusingon the dynamic field of informa-tion technology, internet and newmedia law. Nelson representsclients on technology transfer,electronic commerce, jointventures, licensing and distribu-tion, Y2K liability and relatedcorporate, corporate finance andcommercial matters. He is amember of the executive councilof the Florida Bar InternationalLaw Section and serves as co-chair of the Section’s Technologyand TelecommunicationsCommittee. He is general counselto the Miami Internet Alliance,a group dedicated to makingFlorida the internet gateway tothe Amercias and Caribbean.Founded in 1920, AkermanSenterfitt is one of Florida’s oldestand largest law firms with morethan 230 lawyers offering a fullrange of legal services in corpo-rate, banking, elder law,employment/labor, environmen-tal, health care, insurance,litigation, maritime and realestate law.

SCOTT F. ROSENBERG is anattorney in private practice anda bank consultant in Miami. Hewas previously a national bankexaminer with the O.C.C. anda bank executive officer.Rosenberg is currently awaitingthe approval of Beach Bank, anew bank he is forming on MiamiBeach, where he will be a directorat the South Beach location.

BENJAMIN P. SHENKMAN(LL.M. in Estate Planning) ispleased to announce the openingof his new law office in BocaRaton, Fla. His practice isconcentrated in the areas ofwills, trusts, estate planning andprobate.

SHERRY D. WILLIAMS,associated with the Miami officeof Kirkpatrick & Lockhart, hasbeen elected by the Law AlumniAssociation as the vice presidentfor placement.

CLASS OF 1996WILLIAM J. DENIUS is anassociate with Gray, Harris &Robinson, P.A., in the firm’sMelbourne, Fla., office. The firmalso has offices in Orlando andTallahassee. He previously servedas a public defender for the 18thjudicial circuit of Florida.

CHRISTOPHER R. ECK wasrecently hired as director of theDivision of Historic Preservationfor Miami-Dade County. Bothprior to attending UM Law andafterwards, he worked as anarcheologist and historian, andhe now oversees the managementand designation of countrywidehistorical and archeological sites,including the renowned “MiamiCircle.” He recently donateddozens of rare law and otherbooks from his personal collec-tion to the UM Law and OttoRichter libraries. He resideswith his wife, Tracy, in FortLauderdale.

JUSTIN B.ELEGANT hasbecome associatedwith the law firmof William L.Petros, P.A.,located at 2937S.W. 27 Avenue,

Miami 33133. Telephone: 305-446-3699. Elegant, formerly of Shook,Hardy & Bacon, LLP, will continueto practice in the areas of commer-cial, personal injury, and wrongfuldeath litigation. He lives on MiamiBeach with his wife, Jennifer.

INGRID EULIN has just taken aposition with the United StatesPatent and Trademark office inWashington, D.C.

ANDREW GUSSERT serves thesenate majority leader in W iscon-sin as director of the SenateDemocratic Caucus. Gussert says,“It’s the job I always dreamed ofhaving”; he coordinates all policyand political activity for WisconsinSenate Democrats. He reports, “It’scold up here.”

CHRISTOPHER J. KONICEK hasmoved to the Tampa firm of Butler,Burnette & Pappas, where hepractices insurance law. Konicekformerly practiced at the Orlandooffice of Cameron Marriott WalshHo dges & Coleman, P.A.

GARY LEIBOWITZ is an associatein the Baltimore office of Saul,Ewing, Weinberg & Green, wherehe practices in the litigationdepartment, focusingon commercial litigation. Thelongtime Baltimore firm ofWeinberg & Green recentlymerged with Saul, Ewing, Remick& Saul in order to form the newmid-Atlantic regional firm,consisting of more than 225attorneys, with offices in Balti-more, Philadelphia, New York,Princeton, Wilmington, Harris-burg and Berwyn. Leibowitz livesin Baltimore.

ELIZABETH NEVINS practicescriminal defense at Bridgeman,Morkin & Shapiro in FountainValley (Orange County), Calif.

ANDREW L. PATTEN practicesinsurance law at the Tampa firmof Butler, Burnette & Pappas.Patten formerly practiced at KassHo dges, P.A., in Sarasota.

JEFFREY T. ROBERTS practicesboth criminal defense and civillitigation in the Jeff Roberts LawFirm in Newport Beach, Calif.He maintains contact with manyUM Law alumni in southernCalifornia.

DAVE K. ROY recently expandedthe Law Office of Dave K. Roy,P.A., with the addition of DAVIDM. SCOTT, JD ’97, formerlyassociated with Hayden & Milliken,a maritime insurance defense firmin Miami. The West Palm Beachfirm is now known as Roy &Associates, P.A., handling generalcivil litigation, including real estate,commercial transactions, admiraltyand maritime, as well as criminaldefense and appellate work in allareas.

ANNA SELDEN works for aprivate firm in Washington,where she does automatedlitigation support for the Depart-ment of Justice. She resides inArlington.

WILLIAM C. SMAIL has taken upresidence in the bustling LosAngeles megalopolis and iscurrently a successful worker’scompensation defense attorneyfor the midsize office of Sanford& Cognata in Los Angeles.

CARLOS TARRAGO is incharge of contract complianceand negotiation liaison for theoutsourcing agreement forinformation technology at RyderSystem, Inc., in Miami.

CLASS OF 1997HENRIK ADAMSEN (LL.M. inComparative Law) has begun asan associate with the law firm ofBertel Rasmussen & Fialin, amember of the Advodan Societyof law firms which is a looseassociation of about 50 law firmsthroughout Denmark. Adamsen’smain area of work is generalpractice, including litigation,corporate and private law, andalso sports and international law.He resides in Svendborg, Denmark.

CHRISTINE L. AGNEWrecently joined the Houstonoffice of Weil, Gotshal &Manges, LLP, where she practicesin the tax department, focusingon corporate and partnership taxissues.

DIAMELA DEL CASTILLO hasjoined the Miami office ofHolland & Knight, LLP, as anassociate in the commerciallitigation section. Prior to joiningHolland & Knight, she was anassociate with Herzfeld & Rubinin Miami. Holland & Knight is afull-service commercial law firmwith more than 850 attorneyspracticing throughout 19 officesin the United States, Mexico andIsrael. The firm is among the 20largest law firms in the world,providing global representationin more than 85 areas of law.

ROBERT S.DONALDSONleft the businessworld in January1999 after 25years to pursue along-term goal ofbecoming an

attorney. He practices corporatelaw, municipal law, and civil andcriminal defense in theHollidaysburg, Pa., law firm ofEvey, Routch, Black, Dorezas,Magee & Levine, LLP.

SABIHA GHOGHAWALA isprimarily involved in drafting andnegotiating licensing agreementsand other corporate contractualmatters as an in-house contractsattorney at Portal Software, Inc.,

in Cupertino, Calif. She workedmost recently on preparing forPortal’s initial public offering,which took place in May. Sheresides in Santa Clara.

KERI LYNDAHORVAT wasawarded the firstYoung LawyerProfessionalismAward by theDade County BarAssociation

Young Lawyers Section forpersonal and professionaldevotion to integrity and civilityin the practice of law.

MICHAEL P. INDERBITZIN(LL.M. in Comparative Law) hasjoined the corporate financedepartment of Shearman &Sterling in New York.

ROBERT F. LEWIS is anassociate in the Miami officeof Ruden, McClosky, Smith,Schuster & Russell, P.A., wherehe concentrates his practice inthe representation of alcoholicbeverage and tobacco licenses,alcoholic beverage licensing,administrative litigation andzoning. Lewis was formerlyassociated with Chadroff,Terminello & Terminello, P.A.,in Miami.

PEDRO MENOCAL left hisposition at Steel Hector & Davis,LLP, and is now associated withthe Miami office of Kirkpatrick &Lockhart, LLP.

MARNIN MICHAELS (LL.M. inEstate Planning) has joined theinternational tax trust practicegroup of Baker & McKenzie in itsZurich, Switzerland, office. Hecontinues his practice in cross-border estate planning and residesin Zurich.

LARRY A. SCHWARTZ recentlymoved to Los Anglesand began working at Lewis,D’Amato, Brisbois & Bisgaard,LLP, a full-service law firm withmore than 200 attorneys in sixoffices throughout California,where he practices in the areasof construction defense andprofessional liability defense.Prior to joining the firm, Schwartzwas an associate at Allison &Roberts, P.A., in Miami. He islicensed to practice in bothFlorida and California.

DAVID M.SCOTT is nowassociated withDAVE ROY, JD’96, in the WestPalm Beach firm,Roy & Associ-ates, handling

general civil litigation, includingreal estate, commercial transac-tions, admiralty and maritime, aswell as criminal defense andappellate work in all areas. Scottwas formerly with Hayden &Milliken, P.A., a maritimeinsurance defense firm in Miami.

CLASS OF 1998STEPHEN R. ASTLEY is a JAGCattorney with the United StatesNavy. He currently lives inHonolulu, where he specializes incriminal defense.

J. ANTHONY BRADLEY (LL.M.in Taxation) is an associate withGlankler Brown, PLLC, in Mem-phis, Tenn., where he practices inthe areas of corporate and estatetax.

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UM LawAlumniAssociation1999–2000 Board of DirectorsEXECUTIVE COMMITTEEPresidentDet H. Joks, ’72President-ElectGary M. Carman, ’74

Vice PresidentsAlumni RelationsLewis B. Freeman, ’74Class AgentsDavid S. Hope, ’96Elizabeth Katzen, ’88

Fund RaisingMichael J. Higer, ’85To dd S. Payne, ’89

PlacementCarroll J. Kelly, ’89Sherry D. Williams, ’95

Regional ProgramsGuy A. Rasco, ’87

SecretaryAlvin F. Lindsay, ’91

TreasurerMichael Blynn, ’77

Administrative LiaisonAssociate Dean William P.

VanderWyden, JD ’84

Faculty LiaisonAssistant Dean and Professor Stephen K. Halpert

Immediate Past PresidentHarlan M. Gladstein, ’86

Judicial DirectorsThe Hon. Stanford Blake, JD ’73The Hon. Beth F. Bloom, JD ’88The Hon. Stephen T. Brown, JD ’72The Hon. Philip Cook, JD ’52The Hon. A. Jay Cristol, JD ’59The Hon. Martin R. Dishowitz, JD ’75The Hon. Pedro Echarte, JD ’79The Hon. Margarita G. Esquiroz, JD ’74The Hon. Alejandro E. Ferrer, JD ’86The Hon. Eugene J. Fierro, JD ’67The Hon. Ronald M. Friedman, JD ’67The Hon. Norman S. Gerstein, JD ’73The Hon. Carroll J. Kelly, JD ’89The Hon. Alan Kornblum, JD ’54The Hon. Jeffrey Rosinek, JD ’74The Hon. Michael Jay Samuels, JD ’72

DirectorsThree-year termRobin J. King, JD ’84David A. Kobrin, JD ’75Bruce M. Lyons, JD ’67Carlos J. Martinez, JD ’88Michael S. Perse, JD ’86Detra P. Shaw, JD ’94

Two-Year TermAngela Alvero-Cartolano, JD ’90Marjorie Baron, JD ’92Fred Harrison, JD ’67Edward R. Shohat, JD ’72Aimee D. Stein, JD ’78Marva L. Wiley, JD ’95

One-Year TermSpencer M. Aronfeld, JD ’91Richard M. Bezold, JD ’81Albert A. Cartenuto III, ’90Lewis J. Levey, JD ’86Gerardo M. Simms, JD ’82Anthony N. Upshaw, JD ’90

Presidential AppointmentsDavid I. Gilbert, JD ’72Gennivieve O. Henriques, JD ’92Rick H. Strul, JD ’98Erica N. Wright, JD’97

CARLOS I. CARDELLE is anassociate with the Miami lawfirm of Hardeman & Suarez, P.A.,which specializes in general civillitigation with major emphasison products liability defense,insurance defense, medicalmalpractice and legal malpracticedefense.

NATALIE J. CARLOS is anassociate with Adorno & Zeder,P.A., in Miami, where shepractices in the areas of commer-cial litigation and appellate law.She and her husband, EfrainCarlos, who is currently clerkingfor magistrate judge Stephen T.Brown in the Southern District ofFlorida, reside in Coral Gables.

AMANDA JASON has joined theMiami office of Hinshaw &Culbertson. Prior to joining thefirm, she served as a clerk for theCoral Gables firm of High, Stack,Lazenby & Palahach. Hinshaw &Culbertson is a national law firmfounded in 1934 and headquar-tered in Chicago. The firm hasmore than 400 attorneys in officeslocated in Illinois, Arizona,California, Indiana, Minnesota,Missouri and Wisconsin. The firmpractices in the corporate,litigation and transactional areasand provides service to a range ofclients in banking, health care,insurance, manufacturing, realestate and other industries.

AMY A. KLEIN completed herLL.M. in Real Property Develop-ment at the University of MiamiSchool of Law in 1999.

ELIZABETH A. LEFFERT wasengaged to Mark J. Heise onChristmas Eve 1998. The couplewill wed amongst family andfriends this fall in Venice, Italy, atthe Hotel Cipriani. The bride isan associate with the litigationdepartment of Gunster YoakleyValdes-Fauli & Stewart, P.A.,Miami, and the bridegroom is apartner with the firm ofHanzman, Criden, Chaykin,Ponce & Heise, P.A., concentrat-ing in securities class actions.The couple resides in CoralGables.

ANAMARIE MARLOWMALTZMAN is a federal judicialclerk for the Honorable UrsulaUngaro-Benages in the SouthernDistrict of Florida. She resides inCoral Gables.

REINCE R. PRIEBUS is anassociate at Michael Best &Friedrich in Milwaukee, where heworks in the business/corporatelitigation practice area. The firmhas more than 230 attorneys inoffices in Milwaukee, Chicago,and Madison, practicing as a full-service business/corporate lawfirm. He and his wife, Sally, livein Racine, Wisc.

GINA ROMANIK has joined theKeyes Company Realtors, inMiami, as an associate attorney,where she handles commercialand real estate litigation.

JOEL ROSE serves as an assistantgeneral counsel to the EdisonProject, the nation’s largestprivate manager of public schools,located in New York City.

BRIAN L. SMITH has joinedthe Orlando office of Adams, Hill,Reis, Adams, Hall & Shieffelin asan associate. The firm is a generallitigation law firm involved invirtually all areas of civil litigation,

with concentrations in medicalmalpractice defense, medical stafflitigation, antitrust, health care law,product liability and generalliability.

ELLEN V ON GEYSO (JD ’98,LL.M. ’96 in Comparative Law)married Max Andres Widmer, aportfolio manager at ABN/AMROBank in Miami. Ellen is a transac-tional attorney practicing business,real estate and immigration law atFriedman & Heydasch, P.A. inMiami. The couple resides on KeyBiscayne.

CLASS OF 1999

BARBARA DIAMOND hasjoined the Miami office ofHinshaw & Culbertson as anassociate. Hinshaw & Culbertson isa national law firm founded in 1934and headquartered in Chicago. Thefirm has more than 400 attorneys in32 offices in Illinois, Arizona,California, Florida, Indiana,Minnesota, Missouri and Wisconsin.The firm practices in the corporate,litigation, and transactional areasand provides service to a range ofclients in the banking, healthcare, insurance, manufacturing,real estate and other industries.

PAT DRAY is working with theoffice of the state attorney forMiami-Dade County.

SUSAN ESCALERA-GREENis published in the August 1999issue of Glamour magazine withher touching story, “Siblings,Separated for Life,” that refers tothe 35,000 siblings nationwidewho are split up by foster-care andadoption authorities. Green isworking in the office of the publicdefender for the 17th judicialcircuit in Broward County.

JOHN TRAVIS GODWIN isassociated with the firm of Shear,Newman, Rosenkrantz, Burton &Lamb, in downtown Tampa.

WALT MATHEWS is associatedwith the Miami admiralty firm ofKeller & Houck.

TORRENCE R. PHILLIPSreceived the American Board ofTrial Advocates award throughthe Litigation Skills program forbeing the top third-year minoritylaw student who is interested inbecoming a civil trial lawyer.Phillips also served the UM Lawcommunity as its Student BarAssociation president during histhird year.

ANDREA Y. WANG will join anon-profit human rights and civilrights organization in Patterson,N.Y. She can be reached at 914-306-0700.

CLASS OF 2000THIRD-YEAR STUDENTS

CHRISTIE CEBALLOS spentthe summer after her first year asan intern for Judge Alan Gold, aU.S. district judge for theSouthern District of Florida, andcontinued to work for him duringthe fall semester of her secondyear. Following graduation, sheplans to return to work for him asa judicial law clerk. Through theOn-Campus Interview Program,she has been employed by theMiami-based law firm of Kenny,Nachwalter, Seymour, Arnold,Critchlow & Spector, with whomshe is working during the fallsemester of her third year.

ANDREA EWART, who isinterested in public and interna-tional law, spent the summerworking for Holland & Knight inWashington, D.C. She said hermost interesting projects included:research on a public land use issueinvolving right of way for the D.C.government to build a bridge;interpretation of D.C. environmen-tal regulations to determinepossible penalties for failure todisclose underground storage tankson property that has been put upfor sale; involvement in variouslobbying efforts; and research oninternational arbitration law underNAFTA.

STEVE HELFAND and JASONWEISS each received the FloridaAssociation of Criminal DefenseLawyers award through theLitigation Skills program as thetop two second-year law studentswho show great promise in thepractice of criminal litigation.

BROOKS HOLCOMB was a1999 summer associate in the taxand estate planning departmentof O’Connor, Cavanagh, Ander -son, Killingsworth & Beshears,P.A., a full service firm ofapproximately 150 attorneys inPhoenix, Ariz. He researched anddrafted memoranda of law on thefollowing projects: Estate taxvaluation discounts for LLCoperating agreement restrictionsin lieu of I.R.C. Chapter 14,double step-up in basis forArizona community propertywith right of survivorship, and taxaspects of using CRUTs asbeneficiaries of IRAs and otherqualified plans. “I had a fantasticexperience,” he said. “Myinterviewers were cognizant ofMiami’s strong reputation in taxand estate planning, and thathelped me get the job.”

ADAM HO ROWITZ was ajudicial intern with the Bank-ruptcy Court of the SouthernDistrict of New York during thesummer of 1998. He said the jobwas exciting because the districtis the venue for some of thelargest bankruptcy proceedings inthe country. He was responsiblefor researching diverse bank-ruptcy law issues and draftingmemoranda. He also preparedreports detailing facts and legalissues of particular cases.

NELDA LAWRENCE, KIMLEARY, JORDAN LEWIN ANDDAN ROGERS represented UMLaw at the state moot courtcompetition held at the annualmeeting marking the 50thanniversary of the Florida Bar inBoca Raton in June 1999. AMYBUDOW was the alternate whoprepared with the team memberseach step of the way.

GUILLERMO LEVY worked asa judicial intern in the chambersof Judge Gerald Cope, a judge forFlorida’s Third District Court ofAppeals, during the summerfollowing his first year of lawschool. Following his second year,he worked as a summer associatein the Miami office of Steel,Hector, and Davis, where hecompleted assignments from severalof the firm’s practice areas,including real estate, corporate, andbankruptcy. He also had theopportunity to work in the firm’sVenezuela office for two weeks.

VICTORIA MENDEZ found hersummer 1999 employment in theDade State Attorney’s officethrough the Litigation SkillsClinical Placement Program. “Theexperience I gained was terrific,”she said. “I represented the State onthe circuit and county level. In thecircuit level, I participated in BakerActs and Marchman Acts. I alsoperformed research, attendeddepositions, and attended court ona daily basis. I strongly encouragestudents to participate in theclinical program.”

KATHLEEN PHANG was pre-sented the Thomas Ewald awardduring the Spring 1999 semester.The award is given every semesterto the law student in the LitigationSkills program who best exemplifiesthe devotion to high standards andethical conduct followed by TomEwald.

VALDOSTON SHEALEYreceived the Kozyak Tropin &Throckmorton scholarship fromthe Litigation Skills program.Established in 1995 by one ofMiami’s leading law firms, thethird-year full scholarship isawarded to a second-year minoritylaw student with an interest intrial advocacy.

DON WEST spent the summer asan intern for sports agent LeighSteinberg in Newport Beach,Calif. West performed a widerange of duties, including devisingand managing an agent registra-tion program to comply withregulations in 20 states, and heoften attended dinners withSteinberg’s clients and learnedmuch of what industry insidersalready knew. West serves as thepresident of the Student BarAssociation, as vice-presidentof Iron Arrow Society and as anactive member of the Society ofBar and Gavel.

KELLY L. WRIGHT spent thesummer of 1998 as an intern for astate criminal court judge throughthe law school’s Eleventh JudicialCircuit program for 1Ls. “I madevaluable contacts, which led tome being recommended to newlyappointed U.S. Magistrate JudgeAndrea M. Simonton for asummer internship this year,”she said. Her responsibilities forJudge Simonton included draftingproposed judicial orders, andpreparing the judge for hearingsby researching the law andreviewing the submitted motions,as well as the entire file. Wrighthopes her experience will lead toa federal clerkship followinggraduation.

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Law Alumni AssociationCalendar of Events

OCTOBER ’99

Tues., 10/5 Alumni breakfast at the 54th Annual Florida Bar Worker’sCompensation Conference; Dean Dennis Lynch, Guest speaker8:30 – 9:30 a.m., Clarion Plaza Hotel, Salon 11, Orlando, FL

Thurs., 10/21 Alumni CLE Luncheon Series IIDean Dennis Lynch, Guest Speaker12:00 noon, Faculty Club, UM Campus

Thurs., 10/28 Friends of the Law School Luncheon12:00 noon, Miami-Dade County Courthouse

NOVEMBER ’99Tues., 11/9 Law Alumni Association Full Board Meeting

5:30 p.m., Downtown Miami location TBAThurs., 11/18 Homecoming/Reunion 1999 Weekend

Class of 1949 50th Reunion Luncheon12:00 noon, School of Law, Faculty Meeting Room, Coral Gables

Fri., 11/19 Class of 1954 45th Reunion Event — TBAClass of 1959 40th Reunion DinnerThe Forge, Miami BeachClass of 1969 30th Reunion Event — TBAClass of 1974 25th Reunion PartyHome of Jeff and Elaine BerkowitzClass of 1979 20th Reunion Party7:30 p.m. to 11:00 p.m. at the home of Gail & Joe SerotaClass of 1989 10th Reunion Event7:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m., Faculty Lounge, 4th Floor Law LibraryClass of 1994 5th Reunion Party7:00 to 11:00 p.m., location TBA

Sat., 11/20 51st Annual Homecoming Breakfast8:00 a.m., Morning Spirits, Law School Courtyard9:30 a.m., Breakfast, Whitten University Center/Food Court

DECEMBER ’99

Sun., 12/5 Law Alumni Association Annual Holiday Party,6:00 p.m., (location TBA)

Sun., 12/19 Hooding Ceremony2:00 p.m., location TBA

J ANUARY ’00Thurs., 1/6 Alumni/Faculty Reception

6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m., Washington, DCWed., 1/12 Annual Alumni Luncheon at the 34th Annual Philip E. Heckerling

Institute on Estate Planning12:30 p.m., Fontainebleau Hotel, Miami Beach, Florida

MARCH ’00

Thurs., 3/16 Law Alumni Association Full Board Meeting5:30 p.m. 4th Floor Law Library Faculty Conference Room

MAY ’00Sun., 5/21 Hooding Ceremony

2:00 p.m., James L. Knight Center, Hyatt Regency, Miami

JUNE ’00Thurs., 6/1 Fourth Annual Broward Judicial Reception/

LAA Installation Ceremony

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