Alumni/ae Weekend

More than 350 graduates and friends flocked to the Alumni/ae Weekend festivities in May. The many highlights included a private tour of the new home of the Institute of Contemporary Art, a panel discussion on gay rights as well as a panel on US law developments over the past 30 years, a Duck Tour and the always popular reunion dinner, including a keynote speech by Professor Dan Givelber.

To view Alumni/ae Weekend photos, visit the online album.

PHOTOS: JUSTIN ALLARDYCE KNIGHT

IN MEMORIAM

1930s
David Feldman ’32
James B. Goding ’33
Russell P. Pearl ’33
Edward L. Binder ’37
Herman C. Miller ’37
Peter Nicholas Stamas ’37
Arthur S. Hoffman ’38
Louis H. Cohen ’39
Arthur T. King ’39
Herbert E. Tucker ’39

1940s
William Sherman Lackey ’41
Norma E. Thompson ’42
Abner Kravitz ’43
Truman A. Barstow ’46

1970s
Bernard M. Kelly ’76
Robert C. Funkhouser ’77
Jeffrey S. Lambert ’77
Richard H. Pettingell ’77
Mary S. Winters ’79

1980s
Diane A. Shrank ’80

Healey Tapped to Head AG Civil Rights Efforts

In February, Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley announced the appointment of Maura Healey ’98 to lead the Civil Rights Division. Healey most recently served as a junior partner at the Boston law firm WilmerHale, where her practice focused on commercial litigation, government investigations and also included extensive civil rights experience. Specifically, Healey was involved in challenges to the military’s “Don’t Ask Don’t Tell” policy and the application of state statutes in restricting non-resident couples to marry. She also assisted the Governor’s Special Commission on the Suffolk County Sheriff’s Department in investigating the operation of the Nashua Street Jail and South Bay House of Correction in response to alleged criminal and civil rights violations.

PHOTO: MARK GABRENYA

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Summer 2007 | Class Notes

1971

In June, Harry T. Daniels, a partner with WilmerHale in Boston, participated in a panel, “How to Obtain Better Results for Your Clients Through Mediation,” at the ABA Section of Business Law’s “National Conference for the Minority Lawyer: A Unique Program for Litigators, Business Lawyers, In-House Counsel, Solo Practitioners and Government Lawyers.”

1973

Robert Kenny just completed the Certified Fraud Examiners exam and has served as a consultant and attorney in Ponzi scheme litigation. This summer he is teaching business law at Sanda University in Shanghai, China, under a faculty/student exchange program with Rider University.

1974

The Honorable Lynn Pickard credited her love of biking to her time as a student at the law school in a May Santa Fe New Mexican article, “Judge Hits the Road on Her Bike to Get to Work.”

1976

Susan V. Duprey, a shareholder with the law firm of Devine Millimet in Manchester, N.H., has been elected chair of the board of Heritage United Way, the largest United Way in New Hampshire. Susan heads her firm’s strategies group, which focuses on real estate, business and economic development projects.

1978

President Bush nominated Carol Waller Pope to be a Federal Labor Relations Authority (FLRA) member for the remainder of a five-year term expiring in July 2009. She previously served as an FLRA member from 2000 through 2006.

1982

Daniel D. Bradlow has been appointed to a five-year term on the first three-member Roster of Experts of the African Development Bank Group’s Independent Review Mechanism, which ensures that the organization complies with its rules and procedures in the implementation of projects and programs. Leocadia I. Zak assumed the duties of acting director of the US Trade and Development Agency in April; she previously served as the agency’s deputy director and general counsel.

1984

Mona Smith was elected vice president of the Greater Seattle Business Association, the largest LGBT business chamber of commerce in the United States and second largest chamber in the state of Washington. Mona is also serving her third year as treasurer of the King County Washington Women Lawyers Bar Association.

1986

Nicholas S. Fish has been appointed to the board of the Oregon Cultural Trust, a statewide cultural plan to raise significant new funds to invest in the state’s arts, humanities and heritage. Nick, a partner with Meyer & Wyse in Portland, also hosts “Outlook Portland,” a public affairs program on local station KRCW-TV. He is a member of the dean’s council of Portland State University’s College of Urban and Public Affairs and has served as a director of Volunteers of America Oregon, secretary of the US District Court of the Oregon Historical Society and on the advisory committee for the Campaign for Equal Justice.

1987

Susan J. Feathers has been appointed executive director of Stanford Law School’s Center for Public Service and Public Interest Law. She previously served as assistant dean for public service at the University of Pennsylvania Law School, and directed public service-oriented initiatives at Brooklyn Law School, Yale Law School and the Legal Aid Society in New York. She also supervised students in criminal defense and constitutional litigation clinics at Hofstra Law School.

1988

Maria E. DeLuzio, who specializes in litigation, business, employment and real estate law, joined the law firm of Hiatt & Hoke (both NUSL grads) in Quincy, Mass., as chair of the firm’s employment practice group.

1990

Federal prosecutor Richard W. Rose has been reassigned from Providence to New Orleans to combat gang violence plaguing the city since Hurricane Katrina. He joins the second wave of federal reinforcements in a program that is part of a federal task force of prosecutors and agents from throughout the country who are spending six months in the Crescent City. Previously, he served as the anti-gang coordinator for the Rhode Island US attorney’s office, where he made a program called “Street Smarts” his mission. He spoke to more than 3,400 schoolchildren about the dangers of the streets, relating his own experiences as a fatherless African-American growing up in South Providence. Elizabeth M. Sullivan was recently promoted to vice president for human resources at Starbucks China, located in Shanghai. After many years of private practice, Liz joined Starbucks six years ago, starting in law and corporate affairs and then shifting to human resources. Liz, her husband, Scott, and kids, Kyle, 13, and Rachel, 12, are very excited about their new adventure in China!

1992

Saswati Paul recently joined Trucker Huss APC in San Francisco in the area of employee benefits and ERISA litigation. After a four-year hiatus at home with her children, she is now focusing on fiduciary responsibility matters, Department of Labor audits and consultations, and representing plan service providers, particularly financial institutions.

1993

Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley appointed Rosalyn E. Garbose as deputy bureau chief of the public protection and advocacy bureau. Rosalyn has served in the AG’s office for nearly 10 years. Amanda M. Willis accepted a teaching position at Tufts University this spring The subject? She says it’s progressive, cutting-edge and public interest: animal law. She’s looking forward to returning to Boston after eight years away.

1994

William “Mo” Cowan, a member in the litigation section of the Boston office of Mintz, Levin, has been appointed to Middlesex District Attorney Gerry Leone’s Diversity Committee. The 17-member committee advises the DA on topics ranging from staffing issues to developing a talented and diverse administration. The Diversity Committee is comprised of representatives from both the public and private sectors, including former US Attorney Wayne Budd and State Senator Jarrett Barrios. Mo chairs his firm’s anti-money laundering compliance and counseling practice group, and has extensive experience representing corporations and individuals in a wide range of complex matters, including securities fraud, director and officer liability and corporate governance. Mo has been honored many times, including being named a “super lawyer” by Boston and Law and Politics magazines.

1996

Michelle C. Laubin is a partner in the law firm of Berchem, Moses & Devlin in Milford, Conn., primarily practicing in the area of education law and representing school districts throughout the state. Kenneth C. Pickering was elected partner in the business litigation group of the Massachusetts-based law firm Mirick O’Connell. Kenneth focuses on representing individuals in business and securities litigation and white-collar criminal defense. He has been counsel to individuals in matters involving mutual fund trading practices, accounting fraud, health care fraud and the operation of privately held investment management companies. He has also represented clients in shareholder derivative actions, securities litigation and disputes involving closely held companies. In 2006, Boston and Law and Politics magazines named Kenneth one of Massachusetts’ “rising stars.” David W. Stewart will always be a proud supporter of organized labor, but after six years as a union general counsel, he could no longer reconcile the demands of that job with other important areas of his life. He accepted a consultant position at Dartmouth College in December 2006 and says he hasn’t looked back.

1998

Serge O. Bechade has been named partner in the estate planning and probate and tax practice groups of the Boston-based law firm Prince, Lobel, Glovsky & Tye. Serge assists clients in planning for international and domestic corporate and partnership transactions, and works with clients to address tax and tax-related aspects of commercial transactions. Deirdre Fitzpatrick is now assistant general counsel at the Service Employees International Union in Washington, DC. She was previously an associate at the law firm Woodley & McGillivary. Thaddeus A. Hoffmeister is leaving Capitol Hill to start teaching full time at the University of Dayton School of Law this fall. Danielle Mason Anderson was recognized among top “Business Leaders Under 40” by Business Review Western Michigan magazine. She is an associate specializing in bankruptcy and commercial litigation in the Kalamazoo, Mich., office of Miller Canfield.

1999

Dovie Yoana King is legal director of California Rural Legal Assistance (CRLA) in Stockton. Since 1965, CRLA has raised its voice in the courtrooms, classrooms, agricultural fields and legislative halls of California on behalf of the rural poor. Dovie oversees a staff of attorneys, community workers and support staff, and is responsible for the daily operation of the Stockton office. David E. Plotkin, who focuses on media, licensing, contracts, trademark, copyright, Internet and technology law, was named partner in the Boston-based law firm Prince, Lobel, Glovsky & Tye. David has significant business counseling experience as well as litigation experience in state and federal courts at both the trial and appellate levels. Tiffany M. Williams, an associate with Riker Danzig, was named one of New Jersey’s “Top 50 Women in Business” by NJBiz magazine and received one of the “40 Under Forty” achievement awards from The Network Journal magazine, which considers her among the “best and the brightest.”

2000

In June, April C. English, an assistant attorney general in the Mass. AG’s consumer protection division, was a speaker at the ABA Section of Business Law’s “National Conference for the Minority Lawyer: A Unique Program for Litigators, Business Lawyers, In-House counsel, Solo Practitioners and Government Lawyers.” April participated on a panel of expert lawyers, “2007 Consumer Protection and Privacy Law Update: What Every In-House Lawyer and Outside Counsel Needs to Know.”

2001

Yohannes Assefa moved from New York to Washington, DC, and is now working at Hawkins Delafield & Wood as a public finance associate.

2002

Livia and Alexander Aber are proud to announce the birth of their daughter, Natalie Quan Aber, in May. Mom, dad and big brother Jude are thrilled to welcome their new baby girl into the world. They’re sorry they missed the class of 2002’s fifth reunion — they had their hands full! Jennifer K. DeFronzo has been named partner at the law firm of Milton, Laurence and Dixon in Worcester. Jennifer’s practice concentrates in medical malpractice and civil litigation. Courtney Feeley Karp currently works in the Massachusetts state legislature, where she is associate counsel to the Senate Ways and Means Committee.

2003

Ryan B. Polk is an associate in the appellate practice group at Gordon & Rees in San Francisco. Jason A. Rifkin joined Delcath Systems, Inc., in Stamford, Conn., in the newly created position of vice president of business development. Delcath Systems is a developer of percutaneous perfusion technology for organ or region-specific delivery of therapeutic and chemotherapeutic agents. Previously, Jason was an associate in the corporate department, pharmaceuticals and biotechnology group, with Fox Rothschild.

2004

In April, Adam J. Kessel left Wolf, Greenfield & Sacks to join the Boston office of Fish & Richardson as an associate in the litigation group. He focuses on Internet and software issues as well as chemistry and biotechnology. He is the author of numerous articles on intellectual property litigation and electronic discovery issues.

2005

Sara Pic-Harrison accepted a position at The Pro Bono Project in New Orleans, La., as an AmeriCorps attorney. Sara is thrilled to be back in New Orleans, where she was born and bred. It was a difficult decision to leave Boston and a job she really loved at Health Law Advocates, but says it was important to return home and use her legal skills to help rebuild the area.