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BOSTON COLLEGE LAW SCHOOL MAGAZINESUMMER 2019BC.EDU/BCLAWMAGAZINE

GLOBAL ENGAGEMENT

UnboundA Radical View of Citizenship

EMPLOYMENT LAW

Goodbye 9 to 5

Why Worklife Will Never

Be the Same Again

PROFILE

Miami Nice

A Cuban Girl Who Made It in America

PLUS

What Does It Take to Free the Wrongly Convicted? Intuition Is Part of It. So Are Incisive Legal Minds. But at BC Law There Is Also Something More, A Special Collaboration Among Lawyers, Students, and the Gifted Adjunct Professor Charlotte Whitmore, Who Together Work to Solve Stubborn Cases. Omar Martinez’s Story Shows Us How.

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INNOCENCE WHISPERERS

MIAMI NICE

Teresa Valdes-Fauli Weintraub ’79 likes to quote her mother about her narrow escape from Cuba. My mother always told us: “Don’t look back. Don’t say ‘poor me.’ We have our freedom and we’re moving forward.” 0

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On the Cover Adjunct Professor Charlotte Whitmore and Lauren Rossman ’19, with recently freed Christopher “Omar” Martinez. Photograph by Joshua Dalsimer.

Contents

Foremost2 In Limine From the Editor.

3 For the Record Updates and contributors.

4 Behind the Columns Uzbekistan points the way to saying no to tyranny.

By Dean Vincent Rougeau

Docket6 In Brief Correcting the

false narratives of global migration; 1978 film opens old wounds; George Casey’s war and peace; missing mailbox trial begins; elec-tion experts shine a light on ‘dark money’; Professor Steven Koh.

10 Impact A BC Law-related team threads a legal needle to bring a deportee home.

12 Candid Alex Bou-Rhodes ’19.

14 Faculty Scholarship Professor Shu-Yi Oei detects flaws in tax law’s rulemaking process.

16 In the Field Laura Twomey ’97, Rob Weber ’92 , and four other alumni on the job.

18 Brainstorm Dean Vincent Rougeau and Dimitry Kochenov.

20 Evidence The transforma-tion of employment.

Esquire40 Generations The Hackers—

Michael ’78 and Jamie ’13.

41 Class Notes

46 Alumni News James V. Menno ’86; John T. Montgomery ’75; Marian Ryan ’79; Thomas Carey ’65.

50 Click Law Day and Commencement 2019.

52 Advancing Excellence

55 The 2018-2019 Giving Report

68 In Closing A legal remedy for incarcerated kids. Lauren Koster ’19

Clockwise, from top left, Dimitry Kochenov redefines citizenship; Nicole Horberg Decter ’01 talks about labor law; Professor Stephen Koh joins BC Law faculty; the transformation of employment.

Photographs, clockwise from top left, DIANA LEVINE; MATT KALINOWSKI; courtesy, COLUMBIA LAW; JAMES STEINBERG

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Features

22 The Innocence Whisperers Adjunct Charlotte Whit-more has a gift for freeing the wrongly convicted. But she doesn’t do it alone. Her talent is in knowing how to assist a team of students and colleagues through a labyrinthine criminal justice system where too many innocent people have lost their way. With the team’s help, Omar Marti-nez found his way out. By Chad Konecky

30 From Prosperity to Peril and Back Again The remarkable life journey of the Cuban girl born Teresa Valdes-Fauli. By Katharine Whittemore

34 The Dignity of Work (Is That Even a Thing Anymore?) In a shapeshifting employ-ment environment, experts sort out what to worry about and what to hope for. By Jane Whitehead

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Editor photograph by DIANA LEVINE2 BC LAW MAGAZINE Summer 2019

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BUILD OUR ALUMNI COMMUNITY

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BC Law Magazine The alumni magazine is published twice a year, in January and June. Contact editor Vicki Sanders at [email protected] or 617-552-2873 for printed editions or to share news items, press releases, letters to the editor, or class notes.

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Class Agents Agents nurture alumni connections in between reunion years. They are intermediaries between the school and alumni and keep classmates informed, engaged, and invested in BC Law’s future success.

Reunion Committees Re-unions attract hundreds of alumni each year. The most successful celebrations result when engaged

volunteers serve on their Reunion Committee. Committees begin forming the winter prior to the re-union weekend, and members spend approximately two hours per month on committee work.

Ambassador Program Law firm ambassadors promote engagement with and giving to BC Law among alumni at law firms with a BC Law presence. These volunteers provide the Law School with perspective on the legal industry, mentor and recruit students, and partner with the advancement office to strengthen the alumni community.

CONNECT WITH STUDENTS

Mentoring Program The 1L Mentor Program matches first-year students with alumni volunteers in the city where they want to live and in the practice area they are considering. Mentors serve as informal advisors between students’ first- and second-year summers.

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INVEST IN OUR FUTURE

Advancing Excellence When you give to BC Law, you have a meaning-ful impact on our entire community. Your gifts sustain everything from scholarships that attract and retain talented students to faculty research grants that keep BC Law at the forefront of scholarship.

Named Scholarships Student scholars are selected each academic year based on a number of factors, such as leadership, financial need, academic excellence, and public service achievements.

Law School Fund Gifts to the annual

fund provide immediate financial support for many of BC Law’s most important needs. Key funding priorities have included financial aid, public inter-est summer stipends, post-graduate fellowships, and faculty research grants.

Dean’s Council Giving Societies In appreciation for leadership-level gifts, members receive invitations to special receptions and events and enjoy membership in comparable University-wide societies. To learn more, visit bc.edu/lawgivingsocieties.

Drinan Society This society rec-ognizes loyal donors. Drinan Society members have given to BC Law for two or more consecutive years, and sustaining members have given for five or more consecutive years. The society is named for Robert F. Drinan, SJ, who served as dean of BC Law, 1956 to 1970.

Alumni Association Dues Pro-gram Dues exclusively fund alumni activities and events. Support the program by visiting bc.edu/lawdues.

CONNECT

Why, in the 21st century, is the American justice system still failing so many people? Things certainly

began to look better over the past year as reform efforts resulted in a host of new state laws and in the most important federal legisla-tion on the issue in years. But the measure’s

name, the First Step Act, is a reminder that getting the laws of the land right has, and will continue to be, a long, slow slog to true justice.

For every day, week, month, and year that goes by without full accountability for the consequences of outdated, inadequate, and broken policies and laws, the lives of those trapped in the system are damaged. We’re talking human beings here. For all the hue and cry among some Americans for the sanctity of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, it seems the national will has yet to catch up with that principled call for human dignity.

These sorrowful thoughts are brought to mind by the subject of our cover story, a man named Christopher “Omar” Martinez (“The Innocence Whisperers,” page 22). Imprisoned in his early twenties for murder, he spent nearly two decades behind bars. Thanks to an intensive investigation by the Boston College Innocence Program, together with a collab-orative group of advocacy organizations and individuals, he walked out of a courtroom in April a free man.

Martinez got lucky, in a manner of speak-ing, but imagine saying such a thing to

describe a circumstance that never should have occurred in the first place. According to the National Registry of Exonerations, 1,600 people have been exonerated in the United States since 1989; that includes pardons, dis-missals, acquittals, and the like.

That number is stunning, when even one is too many. How does the most advanced nation in the world justify a justice system that, in this circumstance at least, feels like a throwback to the Dark Ages, when a person could be locked in a dungeon and the key care-lessly tossed away?

It is hard to square Martinez’s warm and optimistic demeanor with the attitudes one would expect from a man who endured the cruelties and debasements of unjustifiable incarceration. Somehow, though, with the help of his faith, his fundamental amiability, and his restored belief in the “good” in others and in the rule of law, he seems to have reconciled his past with the future he now hopes to live and the difference he hopes to make.

That’s how all of humanity should behave.

Still in the Dark Ages of Criminal Justice Reform

VICKI SANDERS, [email protected]

David ReichWRITER Recent literary writing by Reich have appeared in the journals Brilliant Corners and Gargoyle and in the 2018 book Flash: Writing the Very Short Story (W.W. Norton). During thirty years as a feature writer, Reich has published articles on politics, business, science and technology, the arts, and law. Before working in the magazine industry, he taught writing at Northeastern, Framingham State, and the University of Arkansas. Reich’s novel The Antiracism Trainings came out in 2010; he is currently working on a book of short fiction. Of his profile in this issue of Wilmer García (page 10), he writes, “Sadly, I’ve learned that struggles like García’s are all too typical for immigrants to the US. As a grandson of four immigrants, it pained me to hear what he had to go through to get back to the place he rightly called home.”

Sonya RevellPHOTOGRAPHER The Miami-based photographer creates images that emerge from her delightful day-dreams of dazzling candy colors and capricious characters. She now calls Florida home, but originally hails from Kentucky. While she still fantasizes about running off to join the circus, the truth is, nothing tops image-making. She has contributed to magazines such as Forbes, Luxe Interiors + Design, Kiplinger’s, The Hollywood Reporter, and Wine Spectator. “Recently, I’ve had the pleasure of photographing several remarkable women who are leaders in their respective fields, as was the subject for this assignment, Teresa Weintraub [page 30],” Revel says. “When my assistant asked Mrs. Weintraub to what (if anything) she attributed her success in such a male-dominated field, she replied, ‘Well, I grew up with all brothers, so that definitely helped.’”


FOR THE RECORD

SUMMER 2019VOLUME 27 / NUMBER 2

DEANVincent RougeauEDITOR Vicki [email protected] DIRECTORRobert F. ParsonsSEVEN ELMsevenelm.comCONTRIBUTING EDITORDeborah J. WakefieldCONTRIBUTING WRITERSErika Craven ’21Zane Fernandez ’21Gabriel Frumkin ’20Brett Gannon ’21Chad KoneckyJaegun Lee ’20Lauren Koster ’19Brendan McKinnon ’19James V. Menno ’86Margie Palladino ’85David ReichStephanie SchorowMaura King ScullyClea SimonJane WhiteheadKatharine WhittemoreJeri ZederCONTRIBUTING ARTISTSAdam BartlettMaria CarluccioJoe CiardielloCaitlin CunninghamJoshua DalsimerGretchen ErtlMatt KalinowskiDiana LevineMichael J. Lutch Sonia RevellDanielle Rivard Reba SaldanhaChristopher SoldtStephen VossJay Watson

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Lane PressBoston College Law School of Newton, Massachusetts 02459-1163, publishes BC Law Magazine two times a year: in January and June. BC Law Magazine is printed by Lane Press in Burlington, VT. We welcome readers’ comments. Contact us by phone at 617-552-2873; by mail at Boston College Law School Magazine, 885 Centre Street, Newton, MA 02459-1163; or by email at [email protected]. Copyright © 2019, Boston College Law School. All publication rights reserved.

Opinions expressed in BC Law Magazine do not necessarily reflect the views of Boston College Law School or Boston College.

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Katharine WhittemoreWRITER Whittemore is the senior writer at Amherst College. She has written for the New York Times, At-lantic, Smithsonian, Salon.com, and for many years wrote a book review column for the Boston Globe. When assigned to profile Teresa Valdes-Fauli Weintraub (page 30), she was told that Weintraub was from a highly prominent Miami family, part of the Cuban com-munity that fled there after Fidel Castro seized power. “What I didn’t know was how much this early ca-tastrophe—Teresa was seven when her family was exiled—imprinted her with the unpredictability of life, but also the gift of resilience,” says Whittemore. “She reminded me of that great line by a certain writer, also shaped by his time in Cuba and Florida. Meaning Ernest Hemingway: ‘The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong at the broken places.’”

Jay WatsonPHOTOGRAPHER Watson is a lifestyle, automotive, and editorial photographer based out of San Francisco. His clients include Bicy-cling, Hawaiian Airlines Magazine, Land Rover, LinkedIn, and Nikon USA. He was recently interviewed on PhotoFocus. Much of his per-sonal work is inspired by California culture. Originally from Baltimore, Watson talks to himself when work-ing behind the camera and hates mayonnaise. He photographed Brian Wong ’08 for the feature on employment law (page 34). “The best part of this assignment was visiting Brian’s Adobe office,” he says. “It’s in a building that looks like a restored factory from the set of the British drama series Peaky Blinders, and you know it’s filled with talented people. So I wanted the portrait of Brian to look good not just for the magazine, but also out of respect for where he works.”

CONTRIBUTORS

Go LAB!I enjoyed reading the Winter 2019 issue of BC Law Magazine. I especially liked the story about the Legal Assistance Bureau (“Once Upon a Time”) since I worked at LAB and clerked for Profes-sor Arthur Berney during my years at BC law. Keep up the good work.

John Montalbano ’80West Hartford, CT

More on Migration’s Heavy FootstepsIt is no coincidence that this issue con-tains an article about the major global migration conference held at BC Law in April (“On the Move,” page 6).

The event, a collaborative effort of the Law School and BC’s School of Social Work, brought together more than 250 lawyers and social workers from around the world who are on the frontlines of the international migra-tion movement.

No coincidence because the event was, in part, a collaborative response to Professor Daniel Kanstroom’s call to action in his book, Deportation World,

which itself inspired two pieces in the Winter 2019 issue.

One article was a study of Kanst-room’s scholarship and role bringing fo-cus to deportation and the critical need for cooperation across international borders in order to cope with it.

The other piece was an information graphic, produced with his input, that presented some dizzying numbers and sobering facts about migration.

Clearly, Kanstroom’s is an audible voice in the growing chorus of concern about a phenomenon that is as true to the nature of mankind as is the act of breathing.

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Uzbekistan is a double landlocked country in the heart of central Asia. Its capital city, Tashkent, lies along the famed Silk Road. Modern-day Uzbekistan is both the steward of this ancient global crossroads of culture and trade—and the brave harbinger of what the region’s future could look like under the rule of law. ¶ BC Law School is assisting Uzbekistan to become a modern nation inte-grated into the global economy and committed to operating under the rule of law. Over the next generation, major reforms will need to take hold in its educational, political, and legal systems to move the country forward. ¶ Our involvement with the people of Uzbekistan is a reminder of the extraordinary hardships that many around the world have endured in their quest to obtain even a few of the privi-leges we take for granted. It also offers a warning against compla-cency. BC Law recently formed a partnership with Uzbekistan’s premier law school, the Tashkent State University of Law (TSUL),

and in so doing became the first American law school in that country’s history to negotiate and sign an MOU with TSUL.

For over a century, the Uzbek people lived under Russian colonial and Soviet domination, and when the Soviet Union collapsed, a newly independent Uzbekistan continued to be run by its autocratic, Soviet-era president.

In the final decade of that presidency, the Slovenian NGO Regional Dialogue (RD) founded by Mjuša Sever engaged a rising generation of Uzbek leaders to lay the groundwork for reform. RD organized visits for Uzbek judges to the US and Europe to observe the legal systems in constitutional democracies. BC Law’s relationship with TSUL began during one such visit to the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts and has expanded under the new president Shavkat Mirziyoyev, who has imple-mented an ambitious agenda of reforms.

As I write this column, President Trump is hosting the Prime Minister of Hungary, Viktor Orbán, at the White House. Orbán has worked to exert autocratic rule over Hungary by rewriting the constitution, gerryman-dering the electoral map, exerting control over the media, and weakening the courts. Many observers believe that Orbán is skillfully using the law and democratic free-doms to drive Hungary into authoritarianism.

As BC Law works closely with a nation that looks to the United States as a model of how to move away from totalitarianism, it bears considering whether our own democratic house is in order. With every heap of praise Trump offers authoritarian leaders around the world, it becomes increasingly difficult to discern the depth of his commitment to the rule of law here at home.

Hungary reminds us that democratic institutions can be subverted from within by a head of state bent on expanding and consolidating his power. Uzbekistan pro-vides a counter-example of a new leader actually using the authoritarian power of his office to open his nation to democratic and economic reform.

The ability of Americans to withstand attack from within and without depends on our willingness to ap-proach our responsibilities as citizens with the utmost se-riousness, to call out destructive antidemocratic behavior, and to support the efforts of those around the world who seek to liberate themselves from tyranny. I am pleased that BC Law has been able to support the people of Uzbekistan on their journey toward a more democratic future.

How to Say No to TyrannyA brave tiny nation points the way. BY DEAN VINCENT ROUGEAU

“Hungary reminds us that democratic institutions can be

subverted from within by a head of state bent on expanding and

consolidating his power. Uzbekistan provides a counter-example.

DEAN VINCENT ROUGEAU

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Campus News and Events of Note

To view the Brooker Collection catalog, go to www.bc.edu/brookercollection.

THE ROBERT E. BROOKER III COLLECTION OF AMERICAN LEGAL AND LAND USE DOCUMENTS, 1713-1945

This newly digitized and searchable collection provides insight into the lives of ordinary people from New England and the Mid-Atlantic from the colonial period into the 20th century through property deeds, judicial records, financial records, and more. Curated by Laurel Davis, the exhibit is on view into August in the Daniel R. Coquillette Rare Book Room.

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No.7 Best classroom experience

No.8 Best professors—Princeton Review

No.19 Go-to schools for large law firm hiring —National Law Journal

No.22 Best law schools for black students —Lawyers of Color

No.27 Overall rank 2019

No.2 Best value

No.14 Rank of tax program

No.27 Rank of environmental law program

No.29 Rank of legal writing (law practice) program—US News and World Report

A Public interest and international law curricula

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BY THE NUMBERS

When scholar E. Tendayi Achiume opened a two-day global migration conference at BC Law last April, seven choice words in her keynote address summed up the scope of the gathering’s

concerns. “Borders,” she said, “are a source of ethical conundrums.”And conundrums revealed themselves to be plentiful in discussions

among the 250 participants—lawyers and social workers who engage with immigrants, refugees, detainees, and their families—among them eminent scholar Marcelo Suarez-Orozco and noted humanitarians Sean Callahan and Thomas H. Smolich, SJ. The dozen or so conference topics included international approaches to migration control, whether migra-tion helps or hurts the national labor market, new models of interdisci-plinary collaboration, and immigrant rights and public benefits.

Achiume, an assistant law professor at the University of California-Los Angeles and the UN Special Rapporteur on Contemporary Forms of Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia, and Related Intolerance, explored the lasting impact of imperialism and colonialism on modern populations, a topic she called “De-Imperial Migration.” The situa-tion has created an enduring political and economic interdependence between first and third world countries, she explained, leaving the once-subjugated still “bound and subordinate.” Given that relationship, she argued, the first world has no right to exclude the third world persons who are part of that relationship.

She also observed that the immigration situation in America has not always been as it is today. To the contrary, she said, “for much of the 20th century, freedom of movement was encouraged by the West, for econom-ic reasons.” Today, Americans are often encouraged to view non-Europe-ans as “uncivilized,” a means of “stripping migrants of their identity.”

Suárez-Orozco, the UCLA Wasserman Dean of the Graduate School of Education and Information Studies, gave a biological account of mi-gration, calling it “an ancient human adaptation, encoded in our bodies.”

Even in the modern era, he said, migra-tion is “conspicuous of the human condi-tion, a shared condition of our humanity.”

One of Suárez-Orozco’s more strik-ing observations was the impact that migration has on children. Globally, one in eight migrants are children. One in every 200 children is a refugee, twice as many as a decade ago. Though large-scale migration is not random and is focused on the family, he said, for many children migration to a new country is paramount to “migration to a new family.”

During the second day of the confer-ence, which was a joint effort of the Law School and Boston College’s School of Social Work, Callahan, president and CEO of Catholic Relief Services, and Father Smolich, international director of Catholic Relief Services, shared a panel on humanitarian responses to migration.

The latter immediately debunked the prevailing narrative about refugees, saying the problem lies not with them but with the systems and lack of leadership they confront. “I don’t think we have a refugee crisis,” he stressed. “I think we have a management crisis. I think we have a spiritual crisis, but 7 million people should be able to figure out a way of sup-porting and making sense of 68 million.”

Callahan agreed and added that we have a crisis of narrative. “The false narrative that’s going around is the real crisis that many of us face,” he said.

On the MoveCorrecting the false narratives of global migration. BY BRETT GANNON ’21

Boston College Law is among the nation’s finest. Here’s a sampling of how the school ranks among its peers.

For much of the 20th century, freedom of movement was encouraged by the West, for economic reasons. Today, Americans are often encouraged to view non-Europeans as uncivilized, a means of stripping migrants of their identity. E. Tendayi Achiume


Thomas Jorling ’66 The environmental statesman was on campus to receive an award from the Public Interest Law Foundation (PILF). He also gave a talk on the creation of the Clean Air Act of 1970 the Clean Water Act of 1972, both of which he helped make possible as minority counsel for the Senate Committee on Public Works. He once served as vice president of environmental affairs for Interna-tional Paper Corporation.

Clark Neily At the invitation of BC Law’s Fed-eralist Society, the Cato Institute’s vice president for criminal justice spoke to students last semester about prosecutorial immunity. He discussed why it exists and how it can be abused. As he has suggested elsewhere, reform is possible if the Supreme Court reverses itself, Congress amends Section 1983 to hold prosecutors accountable, and states pass laws allowing prosecutors to be sued.

AROUND THE ACADEMY

George Yin The Edwin S. Cohen Distinguished Professor of Law and Taxation Emeritus at the University of Vir-ginia presented “Who Speaks for Tax Equity and Tax Fairness?: Stan-ley Surrey and the Tax Legislative Process” at BC Law’s Tax Policy Workshop in March. Active since 2007 and supported by the Paulus Endowment for Tax Programs, the workshop reviews academic papers and works-in-progress to help scholars focus their ideas.

Hon. Eugene R. Wedoff The retired judge of the US Bankruptcy Court of the Northern District of Illinois was among the august practitioners and judges assembled at BC Law in March for the American College of Bankruptcy’s annual symposium. The theme was “Litigation in Bankruptcy: How to Avoid It If You Can and Win It If You Can’t.” Discussion included how judges view litigation strategies used in Chapter 11 cases.

Irit Tamir ’91 The director of Oxfam America’s Private Sector Department and a BC Law adjunct professor, is intent upon one goal: “Everything we do is focused on reducing poverty and helping people realize their human rights,” she commented at a BC Law event in January. “Poverty is a result of injustice in the system, so we focus on shifting power so more people have access to the food, land, and credit they need.”

1978 Film Opens Old Wounds‘The New Klan’ is eerily relevant today. BY ZANE FERNANDEZ ’21

At the behest of the Black Law Students Association, documentarian Eleanor Bingham Miller screened her 1978 film, The New Klan: Heritage of Hate, at BC Law last February, bringing to campus a haunting reminder of how history repeats itself.

A film of its time—and yet also one that remains eerily relevant in 2019 America—takes viewers inside Klan members’ homes and KKK rallies and meetings, and it includes clips from press interviews

and debates with high-ranking Klan officials. It lays bare an ugly, racist reality fueled by members’ un-abashed belief that they are the chosen race and are fighting a war against Blacks, Jews, and Latinos.

In her film, which she co-directed with Leslie Shatz, Miller portrayed how racism and hate evolve over time. The film explained that the “old Klan” was known for cross-burnings and lynchings. Conversely, the “new Klan,” spearheaded by David Duke, pushed its message through polished, professional organizing with leaders who wore suits and held official seats of power.

Clearly, the theme of evolutionary racism left viewers with unsettled feelings. Several spoke about how their race has affected their right to ex-ist and participate in society freely, as their white counterparts do. The Hon. Leslie Harris ’84, for one, recalled his high school years in Chicago. All of the black students had to run home immediately after school, he said, because white students posed a violent threat to them. Harris recounted that the white students stopped threatening him only after they learned he was a valuable quarterback on their school’s football team.

Younger members of the audience expressed dif-ferent views of race, but they shared common senti-ments and experiences with their older colleagues: racial fear, lack of progress as a country, and the struggles of “living while Black.”

THE CLOUGH CENTER

VISIONS OF DEMOCRACY IN A TROUBLED WORLDBC Law Professor Frank Garcia believes that in order to address the crisis in trade policy and economic globalization, nations need to recapture a vision of trade as a mutually beneficial consen-sual exchange. As he explained to international scholars gathered last March, trade is nothing more or less than the economic bargains we agree to, and the rules we agree on to protect, support, and facilitate these bargains. Garcia’s book, Consent and Trade (CUP 2018), was the catalyst for the event, “Consent, Coercion, and Democracy.”

The BC Clough Center for the Study of Constitutional democracy also hosted these presentations: 3 “Cosmopolitan Constitutionalism:

The Case of the Europe Conven-tion System,” the Clough Distin-guished Lecture in Jurisprudence by University of Vienna Professor Alexander Somek.3 “Constitutional Rights of Corpora-

tions” based on the work of BC Law professor and author Kent Greenfield.3 “Human Rights in Aid of Develop-

ment in Jinxed Africa” by Univer-sity of Ghana Professor Raymond Atuguba.3 “The Free Formation of Political

Will” by Judge Klemen Jaklič of the Constitutional Court of Slovenia.

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Throughout four decades in uniform, four-star Gen-eral George W. Casey Jr. (Ret.) led troops in Bosnia during Operation Joint Endeavor, commanded a

thirty-nation coalition during the most difficult years of the Iraq War, and oversaw more than 1 million soldiers as chief of staff of the US Army. The experience left him uniquely quali-fied to give his lecture, “Civil-Military Relations: From the Constitution to the War on Terror” at BC Law last April.

“The relationship between a democratic society and its military is extremely important for the long-term health of the state but it needs to be cultivated,” he said. “It’s not some-thing we can take for granted.”

Blending constitutional law, military history, experiences with senior admin-istration and military officials, and self-effacing humor, Casey provided a dis-sertation that included two case studies illustrating the competing dynamics that regularly play out between civilian officials and military leaders: World War II and the first year of the Obama Administration as it grappled with troop levels and strategy in Afghanistan.

Casey highlighted successful in-teractions among President Franklin Roosevelt, his military command-ers in Washington and the European theater, and allied leaders like Win-ston Churchill, to demonstrate how high-level civil-military relations is supposed to work. “General Marshall understood that in a democracy, presi-dents need victories,” he said, prais-ing Marshall’s ability to keep military dissent private. “Politics is always a factor, but not the factor in every deci-sion to commit the military.”

Next, Casey shifted the discus-sion to the war in Afghanistan and the difficulties of managing civil-military relations in what he termed the Media Age. Guiding the audience through the issues facing the early Obama Adminis-tration in Afghanistan, Casey described how the outsized media profiles of some military leaders, and several instances of public criticism of strategic and man-ning decisions, made an already difficult combat mission even tougher.

“It’s a lot harder to get things done today and have intelligent private dis-cussions,” he said, adding that military dissent needs to happen but needs to remain private. “I’ve never been rebuked by a civilian leader for telling them what I thought. People only get in trouble when they do it in public before telling the President.”

The event was co-sponsored by BC Law’s Leaders Advancing and Enter-ing Public Service (LEAPS) and the Student Veterans Association.

George Casey’s War and PeaceFour-star general says Media Age opens whole new front on civil-military relations. BY BRENDAN MCKINNON ’19

THE MISSING MAILBOX TRIAL BEGINSA lot’s happened in the year since the story of the curious case of the former Honolulu police chief’s missing mail-box was published in BC Law Magazine.

At press time in late May, the disgraced husband-and-wife team of chief Louis Kealoha and top city prosecutor Katherine Kealoha went on trial with three current and former Honolulu police officers for allegedly framing Katherine’s nephew, Gerard Puana, for theft of their mail-box in 2013.

Almost immediately after a mistrial was declared in the 2014 trial for the alleged theft, Puana’s defense attorney, Alexander Silvert ’84, was able to per-suade the Department of Justice it was all an elaborate ruse, but it took until 2019 to bring the case to court.

On May 31, Silvert took the witness stand and argued that Puana was framed by the Kealohas in an attempt to discredit him in a lawsuit he and his elderly mother, Florence Puana, had filed against Katherine saying she stole hundreds of thousands of dollars from them via shady investments and a reverse mortgage scheme. Silvert ex-plained how he uncovered the scandal, one in which Honolulu police officers falsified documents, performed secret surveillance of his client, and lied to federal investigators.

The family drama was just the beginning. Federal prosecutors say they’ve uncovered a wide web of corruption and abuse of power deep within Hawaii government linked to the Kealohas. More indict-ments are expected.

The state’s top elected prosecutor, Honolulu Prosecuting Attorney Keith Kaneshiro, is now a named target of the DOJ’s criminal probe as is the Honolulu mayor’s top municipal lawyer Donna Leong. A separate indict-ment has Katherine Kealoha and her younger brother, Rudolph Puana, an anesthesiologist, running an illicit prescription drug ring in part to fuel their own cocaine habits.

The Kealohas face a second trial in October for a series of alleged finan-cial crimes, including bank fraud. Kath-erine Kealoha’s trial on drug charges is scheduled for January 2020.

“The relationship between a democratic society and its military is extremely important for the long-term health of the state but it needs to be cultivated. It’s

not something we can take for granted.” General George W. Casey Jr. (Ret.)

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A System So Strange Election experts shine a light on the ‘dark money’ of campaigns. BY JAEGUN LEE ’20

Saying there’s a disconnect in our campaign finance system, that the typical donor is older, white, and wealthy, and that super PACs are becoming less influential, four experts addressed the problems surrounding campaign finance last February at an event presented by BC Law’s Rap-paport Center for Law and Public Policy.

“If you think about our system, it’s so strange. Because we all vote in these geographic dis-tricts, and yet we can send money across the border to finance campaigns that are not in the districts that we’re in,” said panelist Eugene Mazo of Rutgers University.

Mazo believes there is a “total disconnect” in our campaign finance system between people who vote and people who donate—leaving politicians asking themselves, “Am I trying to please my constituents or contributors?” Furthermore, he added, donors “tend to be older, tend to be white, tend to be wealthy, tend to

have different policy positions, and tend to be the very extremes of the political spectrum.”

Paul Diego Craney of the Massachusetts Fiscal Alliance, however, does not believe government officials should be the ones restricting speech. “Campaign finance law is used as a weapon to silence opposing views and speech,” he said.

He also argued that political action commit-tees that are able to accept unlimited political donations are having less influence because can-didates simply cannot control the timing or the message these groups are sending to the public.

Guy-Uriel Charles of Duke University and a visitor at Harvard observed that lifting the veil on anonymous donations to such nonprofit political groups is key to identifying the “ruling class” of America. “Disclosure is…how you know who your ruling class is, who gets to sit in the front of the bus, who gets to ride in first class,” he said.

Recognizing that candidates nonetheless need money to communicate with constituents, Pam Wilmot of Common Cause Massachusetts provided a possible solution to the issues her colleagues on the panel raised. In order to “re-ally fix our elections,” she said, we need a more robust system of public financing for elections.

EMINENT YOUNG SCHOLAR JOINS FACULTY Steven Koh, a scholar with expertise in criminal law and procedure with a particular emphasis on the international aspects of US cases, has joined the Boston College Law School faculty as the inaugural recipi-ent of the Short Family Sesquicentennial Assistant Professorship. He will be teach-ing Criminal Procedure in the fall.

“We are thrilled to welcome Steven Koh to BC Law,” said Dean Vincent Rougeau.

“His experiences at the International Crimi-nal Court in The Hague, the UN Inter-national Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, and the US Justice Department will enrich both the teaching expertise and the scholarly profile of our faculty.”

Koh worked in the Office of the Presi-dency of the ICC in The Hague, advising the legal adviser to the presidency on a host of matters, including the enforcement of sentence agreements with states party to the Rome Statute of the ICC. At the tribu-nal for the former Yugoslavia, he served as an associate legal officer working in Trial Chamber III on the Prosecutor v. Radovan Karadžić trial, one of the capstone cases in the tribunal’s history.

Koh comes to BC Law from Columbia Law School, where he was an associate in law. His scholarship has appeared or is forthcoming in journals such as NYU Law Review, Cornell Law Review, Columbia Journal of Transnational Law, and Vander-bilt Journal of Transnational Law.

Koh earned his JD from Cornell Law School, where he served as senior article editor of the Cornell Law Review, won the CALI Excellence for the Future Award, and was named to the Dean’s List. He received his AB degree cum laude from Harvard Col-lege, where he was president of the Harvard Glee Club, and an M.Phil. degree in Social and Developmental Psychology from the University of Cambridge, England.

After graduating from law school, Koh clerked for the Honorable Carolyn Dineen King of the US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. He was senior fel-low and interim-attorney editor at the American Society of International Law in Washington, DC.

“I am sure our students will enjoy meet-ing him when they return to campus in August,” Rougeau said.RA

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3 “A Special Responsibility for the Quality of Justice,” the inaugural lecture in which former Con-necticut Governor and last semester’s Jerome Lyle Rappaport Visiting Professor Dannel Malloy

’80 talked about guiding public policy.

3 “Debt, Degrees, and Democracy: A Critical Look at the Value of College Completion,” which brought together two dozen experts from around the world.

3 “Charging Decisions and Public Safety,” featuring, among others, Suffolk County District Attorney Rachel Rollins.

Duke University Professor Guy-Uriel Charles

The Law School’s Program on Inno-vation and Entrepreneurship (PIE) sponsored provocative discussions last spring on how technology is changing perceptions about Ameri-cans’ right to privacy and the staying power of other cultural norms. IP ex-pert Ilhyung Lee ’88 raised questions like: “Are racial slurs and epithets

now constitutionally protected if the user files a trademark registra-tion?” and “For purposes of the First Amendment, should trademarks be treated the same as copyrighted works?” Heather Egan Sussman ’00 and Aravind Swaminthan, from the Boston law firm Orrick, were living proof that there is no question about the growing need for lawyers with expertise in cybersecurity and privacy law. Meanwhile, a panel of

experts from Citrix, GE, and the privacy professionals group IAPP asked—and partially answered—the query, “Is it time for a national privacy law?”

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pushed me to the floor, yelling, ‘Get down! Get down!’ like in the movies.”

“It’s OK, I’m legal,” García assured them.“Let me correct you,” one agent replied.

“You were legal.” It turned out that, in advising him to plead

out the drug charge, García’s lawyer had failed to mention that the immigration system viewed drug possession as an aggravated felony, and thus a trigger for deportation.

As they drove García off, one agent told him, “You know you’re going to get deported.” García noticed that the car floor was littered with Green Cards, cut in half.

During García’s first months in detention, in Orleans Parish Prison, his parents hired an immigration lawyer who said there was nothing to be done. A second lawyer tried to withdraw García’s old guilty plea, but when


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Today’s roiling debate over immigra-tion has obscured the human toll paid by those caught up in the US

immigration system. For a look at the system’s least attractive face, consider the predicament of Wilmer García, a client of Boston College’s Post Deportation Human Rights Project (PDHRP) and Nixon Peabody.

In 2003, fresh out of high school, García, a legal permanent resident living near New Orleans, pled guilty, on advice of counsel, to simple drug possession after a routine traffic stop turned up one dose of an illegal drug. For two years after his plea, García buckled down, keeping probation appointments, working at a tire store, applying to college. Then one morning uniformed men started banging on his door. “I thought, ‘Whoa, what’s going on?’” he says. “When I opened the door, ICE officers

When Wilmer García’s World Collapsed A BC Law-related team threaded a legal needle to bring the deportee home. BY DAVID REICH

that failed, he advised García to plan for a new life outside the US.

Then Hurricane Katrina struck, herald-ing a week-long nightmare for Orleans Parish inmates. There were no guards, no water, no food, no AC, no links to the outside world. The fifty men in García’s unit survived on ten tiny boxes of dry cereal and a few old cleanser jugs filled with water.

After five days, police arrived and evacu-ated inmates by motorboat. When the men begged for water, an officer sprinkled them from a bottle, “like a priest baptizing babies,” García says. They were bussed three hours to another prison, where they were made to camp on a football field, with no guards, exposed to the elements. Food was thrown to inmates by a prison employee in a cherry picker, spark-ing fights. Other fights broke out at random. Inmates were stabbed; three were raped within earshot of García. For safety, he stuck close to his fellow immigration detainees.

After stops at two more prisons, García was deported to Honduras, where he’d spent his early childhood—an idyllic time of kite-flying, fishing, hide-and- seek, and sharing scary stories, he recalls. But he barely recognized that Hondu-ras when he touched down in 2005. Criminal gangs ran his hometown, La Ceiba. “You try to open a business, and you have to pay a gang fee,” García says. “If you don’t, either they kill you or someone you love.” At best, police were no help; at worst, they were working with the gangs.

Once, his wife—whom he met in La Ceiba six months after he arrived and married sever-al years later—was mugged by a knife-wielding bicyclist. Another time, she fought off a rape attempt. For an hour, the couple dialed police repeatedly—“maybe a hundred times,” he says. No one ever answered.

The Honduran economy wasn’t great, either, with weekly wages in the range of $50 US. Gar-cía lived partly on donations from his family. He started college but dropped out for lack of funds. As sole support of a growing family, he worked as a fill-in ambulance driver and at a box factory. Later, as he recovered his Spanish, he worked as a hotel clerk and a Spanish-English translator.

By 2010, he was plotting his return to US soil. Just before his deportation, a US immigra-

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tion agent had told him, incorrectly, that he could never return, not even for his parents’ funerals. In fact, after ten years outside the US, he could apply for readmission—but with no guarantees. Clearly, he needed a better plan. With a relative’s encouragement, García took to the internet, discovering López v. Gonzales (2006), in which the US Supreme Court ruled 8-1 that simple drug possession didn’t constitute a felony for im-migration purposes.

On the webpage that summarized the López case, García found the number of an immigrant advocacy organization, which referred him to the Post-Deportation Human Rights Project, cofounded by BC Law Profes-sor Daniel Kanstroom. Lawyers there warned García of the case’s difficulties. First, he would face a Catch-22 called the departure bar, a gov-ernment rule preventing judges from reopening the cases of deported immigrants, even those clearly deported in error. During 2011, PDHRP lawyers asked both an immigration court and the Bureau of Immigration Appeals (BIA) to reopen his deportation case, but the departure bar led to unfavorable rulings.

Next, the lawyers took the case to the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals, in New Orleans, with pro bono attorney Ronaldo Rauseo-Ricupero ’07 of Nixon Peabody and PDHRP staff attor-ney Jessica Chicco arguing for García. Voting 2-1, the court overturned the departure bar,

setting a precedent for three US states, includ-ing Texas, a hotbed of immigration cases.

García’s own case had years more to run, though. In 2014, an immigration court denied his motion to reopen, finding that García had taken too long to file it after the 2006 Supreme

Court ruling—a rationale undermined in 2015 by another US Supreme Court opinion. For two more years García’s motions ping-ponged be-tween the BIA and immi-gration courts until, late in 2017, the BIA ordered the immigration courts to reopen his case.

All through the litiga-tion, García proved “an ideal client—really more

a team member than a client,” says Nixon Pea-body’s Brianna Nassif ’17. “He was always very curious about legal details and was willing to brainstorm along with us. He had many sug-gestions about how best to present his case.”

García was “creative about things we could use to establish certain facts in his case,” says Rauseo-Ricupero. “For example, I had spoken to Wilmer on the phone for years and had not recognized he had a hearing disability. This was important to his case because the fact that he had a hearing aid that was generations behind [the state of the art] illustrated difficulties he was having in [Honduras]. He was able to con-firm that and gather information to establish that, which our hearing expert used to write a report.” García also found ways to document

the crimes against his wife and the economic challenges of raising a family in Honduras.

Before his day in immigration court, García faced a final Catch-22, though: For his case to be heard, he would have to appear in court himself. It took Nassif four months of unsuc-cessful motions, unanswered letters, and unre-turned and disconnected phone calls to federal bureaus and agencies to get permission for him to enter the country. He didn’t get it until the day of his flight, after agreeing to be detained until his hearing. (He spent forty-two days in detention after his arrival.)

After eight years of litigation, the hearing, on May 7, 2018, was practically an anticli-max. Representing García were Nassif and Danielle McLaughlin, of Nixon Peabody, and PDHRP staff attorney Heather Friedman. Five minutes in, the immigration judge, without explanation, cancelled García’s deportation. García could resume his life in the US, after a thirteen-year interruption.

Wilmer García now lives in Louisiana, working for a business that installs electric generators, still hoping to find a way for his wife and children to join him. A year after his win in immigration court, emotion still en-ters his voice when he speaks of his struggle to get home to America. Of his lawyers from PDHRP and Nixon Peabody, he says, “God put them in my path.… Most lawyers would

have backed off. They would have said, ‘This isn’t going nowhere.’ I’m grateful they were able to stick with me throughout this long hard journey.”

Then Hurricane Katrina struck, heralding a week-long nightmare for Orleans Parish inmates. There were no guards, no water, no food, no AC, no links to the outside world. The fifty men in García’s unit survived on ten tiny boxes of dry cereal and a few old cleanser jugs filled with water. One of the cruelties WILMER GARCÍA endured after being ordered deported in 2005.

Wilmer García, opposite; center, with his family at BC Law; and below, with lawyer Ronaldo Rauseo-Ricupero ’07.

One ‘Badass Lawyer’ How Alex Bou-Rhodes ’19 plans to change lives. INTERVIEW BY BRENDAN MCKINNON ’19


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As a preschooler, I wanted to be a firefighter. I dressed in a raincoat and plastic helmet, then walked into the local coffee shop with a garden hose and asked if they had any fires I could put out. They didn’t, but they let me check the smoke detectors. I took the exam during my senior year at BC, but when I saw I was 1,200th on the list, I knew it wasn’t meant to be.

When I was a sophomore at BC High, working at the Boys & Girls Club in South Boston, a kid got angry and tore my boss’s office apart. I’d never seen a child so upset and destructive. Other people saw him as a “bad kid,” but I had seen him be incredibly empathetic and kind. It was a pivotal moment because I realized the anger didn’t define him, and we could change how he saw himself if we built off those moments of kindness. That’s a driving social work philosophy now, where you build off what works in someone’s life, because we are all more than the worst things we do.

Law school was not in my plans; I was only going to pursue my MSW. But as I considered the dual degree program, I realized the incredible value a social-work-minded lawyer could have. In social work school, you spend a lot of time learning about how systems like schools and law enforcement impact someone’s devel-opment and opportunity. Learning the law through that lens has definitely pushed me towards legal realism.

I want to reshape our criminal justice system. It needs to be centered on forgiveness, compassion, and understanding.

I think back on my time working with kids, and I remem-ber their stories and the experiences, both good and bad, that we had together, and it reminds me why I started down the path I’m on. I saw the Chris Evans movie, Puncture, in college, where he plays a lawyer helping nurses, and thought, “Wow, I want to be a badass lawyer who goes around in a suit and changes people’s lives.” I bought my LSAT books the next morning.

“ A driving social work philosophy is you build off what works in someone’s life, because we are all more than the worst things we do.”

Bou-Rhodes completed a joint JD/MSW this past spring.

STUDENT SNAPSHOTProvenance South Boston. Rarity A Quadruple Eagle: BC High, BC, and BC Law’s joint-JD/MSW. Latest Bucket List Addition Walk across the English country-side. Most Admired Historic Figure RFK. Favorite Album Coming Home by Leon Bridges; best music to cook to. First Website Read in the Morning The New York Times Daily Briefing. Favorite Book Catch-22. Best Piece of Advice David Foster Wallace’s com-mencement address, “This is Water.” Dream Compan-ion on a Long Flight Wallace or Karl Ove Knausgaard. With One Extra Hour in the Day I’d spend it talking with a friend that I don’t make time for.

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Undo Influence? Shu-Yi Oei detects flaws in thenew tax law’s rulemaking process. BY DAVID REICH

The Idea: Unorthodox lawmaking begets unorthodox agency rulemaking. During the US Treasury’s rulemaking that followed passage of the hastily drafted 2017 income tax bill, corpora-tions and industry groups tried to influence the rulemaking by submitting requests for favorable treatment before the official public comment period. These early comments seem to have had outsized influence on some regulations.

The Impact: Though not slated to be published until 2020 in the Emory Law Journal, an article coauthored by BC Law Professor Shu-Yi Oei and Leigh Osofsky of University of North Caro-lina School of Law on the making of the regulations interpreting the 2017 tax law is already turning heads in tax circles. An online post by Samantha Jacoby of the Center for Budget and Policy Priorities featured a lengthy writeup. That same month, the paper placed high on the Yale Journal on Regulation’s list of most downloaded recent papers, second only to an article by legal superstar Cass Sunstein. On the Procedurally Taxing blog, Profes-sor Keith Fogg of Harvard called the article “eye-opening in its detail.”

Oei and Osofsky’s article looks at a section of the new tax law (§ 199A) that allows up to a 20 percent deduction of income earned by certain sole propri-etorships, S corporations, and limited liability partnerships—so-called “pass-through” businesses. Possibly because of the law’s hasty drafting—scant time was devoted to committee hearings and last-minute provisions were added to the bill—much of the statutory lan-

POCKET RÉSUMÉDegrees BA magna cum laude, Brown, 1999; JD and MTS, Harvard, 2003. Credentials Professor, BC Law, 2017-date. Professor, Tulane Law School, 2009-2017, as inaugural holder of Hoffman F. Fuller Professorship in Tax Law and recipient of 2014 Felix Frankfurter Distin-guished Teaching Award, the school’s highest teaching honor. Tax associate, Bingham McCutchen, 2003-2009. Specialties Teaches and writes in the areas of tax policy and economic regulation. Writing Articles in law reviews at UCLA, University of Pennsylvania, Emory, Iowa, Vanderbilt, McGill, and many others.

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guage was ambiguous, leaving significant questions for Treasury rulemakers to answer.

Federal agency rulemaking starts with the issuance of proposed regulations, followed by a public comment period, and then final regulations. The opportunity for public comment is meant to increase the democratic legitimacy of a process overseen by unelected bureaucrats, but Treasury-proposed regulations have generally drawn few comments, according to Oei. This was not the case with the new pass-through provision. Not only were 337 comments logged by Treasury during the comment period, but fifty-one more comments arrived before the issuance of proposed regulations, a fact that the authors discovered by consulting the TaxNotes subscription service. (Comments submitted during the official period were publicly posted on a government website, regulations.gov, but the early comments were not.)

While fewer than those received during the of-ficial period, the early comments weighed heavily in the rulemaking. Treasury mentioned many in its preamble to the proposed regulations. The authors describe early commenters as “sophisticated ac-tors” like trade organizations that hoped jumping the gun would garner favorable tax treatment. By contrast, timely commenters were mainly smaller and less sophisticated taxpayers and advisors like independent CPAs, to whom it had likely not oc-curred to comment early. As Oei puts it, “If you’re a small CPA in Nevada, that’s not your jam. You’re not constantly on the Hill talking to Treasury.”

Early commenting worked, says the article, or at least it was “highly correlated” with the granting of one’s wishes—even wishes that might seem over-reaching. Thus, banks organized as S corporations

got their income qualified for the full deduction even though the statute limits the deduction for “fi-nancial services” businesses, while real estate and insurance brokers got the full deduction despite statutory language excluding “brokers.” The article also cited cases where groups that commented early got several bites of the apple by having their wishes incorporated, and then asking for more dur-ing and even after the public comment period.

Despite the appearance of powerful interests having secured positive treatment, the article stops short of asking for a ban on early comments. For one thing, Oei says, “people would probably find a different workaround.” It also may not be realistic for Treasury to draft proposed regula-tions in complete isolation. If proposed regulations widely miss the mark (from lack of conversation in the drafting stage) and significant changes to the regulations are needed, then Treasury may need to start the process over rather than making more modest changes and issuing final regula-tions. Relatedly, not all early commenters were self-interested; some were tax experts whose ideas helped Treasury clarify issues.

Instead of a ban, the authors call for changes in the handling of early comments. They want Trea-sury to publicize its openness to comments that arrive between the passage of a new tax law and when proposed regulations are issued “and flag the questions they are considering as early as possible so as to generate as broad a swath of comments [as possible].” They’d also like Treasury to post all comments publicly on regulations.gov.

That may not level the playing field, but it would at least add some transparency to a process sorely in need of it.

FACULTY MILESTONESTestifying in DC David Olson ap-peared before the Senate Judiciary Committee on May 7. “It is thus critically important to find the right amount of patent protection (in terms of breadth and duration) that encourages adequate drug development but does not provide inefficiently long monopolies,” he said. Daniel Lyons spoke at a House Commit-tee on Energy and Commerce hearing on broadband internet access, arguing for universal connectivity. Patricia Mc-Coy testified before the Senate Com-mittee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs and addressed the question of how banking agencies should regulate and supervise institutions.

Ask the Experts Ray Madoff spoke to the Washington Post, Boston Globe, San Francisco Chronicle, Nonprofit Quarterly, Sludge, WGBH, NECN, CNBC, and the Biden Foundation on matters pertaining to charities, nonprofit over-sight, and endowments. The American Constitution Society featured a blog in which Kent Greenfield opined on the anti-discriminatory rights of corpora-tions. Jeffrey Cohen talked to Law 360 about the college admissions scandal. Hiba Hafiz spoke to Bloomberg about a comment she helped to draft on the NLRB’s “joint employer” proposal. An opinion contributor to The Hill, James Repetti ’80 wrote most recently about Trump’s tax losses in the 1980s and 1990s.

Letters to the Editor Mark Brodin penned a response to a Boston Globe ar-ticle regarding the debate over impeach-ing President Trump, and David Wirth wrote in the New York Times that voting in the next election is a way to stop this administration’s dismantling of climate change agreements and policies.

Moore Good News Kent Greenfield has been named principal author of the two volumes of Moore’s Federal Practice dedicated to the Supreme Court. De-scribed as “the backbone of any federal litigator’s library,” it is one of the most frequently cited treatises in federal court practice in the US. Greenfield succeeds Yale Law School’s Drew Days, III, who was Solicitor General under President Clinton. Greenfield’s colleague Daniel Coquillette is one of four editors of the entire multi-volume treatise.

Vlad Perju challenges the assertion that human rights were absent from the EU’s genesis. “On Uses and Misuses of Human Rights in European Constitutionalism,” his chapter in Human Rights, his Legitimacy, and a World in Disorder (Cam-bridge University Press), he writes:“[F]rom the beginning they were part of a comprehen-sive, effective, and normatively viable European legal order.”

Francine Sherman ’80, in “Gender, Justice, and Youth Development” (Oxford Hand-book of Children and the Law), examines the juvenile justice system’s “disparate impact on black girls, girls with child-welfare histories, girls who experience violence in their homes, girls with mental and behavioral health issues, and girls and LGBTQ youth who were victims of sex trafficking.”

Daniel Lyons argues in “Nar-rowing the Digital Divide: A Better Broadband Universal Service Program” (UC Davis Law Review) that as more ac-tivities move to the internet, it’s imperative to help low-income Americans get online and to extend networks in underserved areas. He calls for “revolution-ary, not evolutionary, change” and provides three initiatives that Congress should adopt.

Mary Holper ’03 offers a modest proposal for lawful per-manent residents in “Promptly Providing the Need to Detain for Post-Entry Control Depor-tation” (Valparaiso University Law Review). She suggests that “for post-entry social control acts of deportation, immigra-tion detainees must be brought promptly before a neutral judge to determine whether probable cause exists to hold them.”

During the rulemaking that followed passage of the 2017 tax bill, corporations and industry groups tried to influence the process by submitting requests for favorable treatment before the official comment period.

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Trust Is Its Own Reward

“Sometimes, there really is a will hidden behind a Picasso,” says Laura Twomey ’97, a top adviser to the ultra-wealthy, including many who have been featured on lists such as

the World’s Billionaires, Forbes’s 400 Richest People in America, and Crain’s Highest-paid CEOs.

While family documents are usually stored in more likely places, Twomey’s days are full of all kinds of interesting revelations. “My work is fascinating because my clients are some of the smartest and most interesting people you could meet,” explains Twomey, head of Simpson Thacher’s Personal Planning Practice. “I represent CEOs of publicly traded companies, private equity fund managers, fashion designers, and artists. When they are planning for the next generation, they have complex, and often unusual, legal needs. Our practice is of-ten the firm quarterback for our multi-generational families, working with groups like corporate or litigation, bringing a team together to serve the range of client needs.”

Twomey, based in New York, found her niche in trusts and estates

early on. “I was drawn to tax law because tax is like math with words. I was an English major who was good at math,” says Twomey, who joined Simpson Thacher in 2009. The firm lured her from Fulbright & Jaworski, where she had helped develop trusts and estates into its most profitable group. Over the past decade, she has delivered similar results for Simpson Thacher.

Twomey describes her role as legal and emotional counselor.

“The practice has both hard and soft issues,” she says. “There are very complicated tax law aspects,

Why the very rich turn to Twomey for estate planning advice. BY MAURA KING SCULLY

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POCKET RÉSUMÉLaura Twomey ’97 Partner, department head of Personal Planning Practice, Simpson Thacher. Press Creds Her estate advice has been quoted in the New York Times and

Wall Street Journal, among others. Giving Back Volunteer and leader, New York State and American Bar associations and American College of Trusts and Estates Counsel.


but you also have to have the abil-ity to connect with clients over their underlying needs and under-stand their value systems. Many of our clients have very detailed or nuanced views about how money will impact their children and other family members and want to be very thoughtful to make sure inheritance will be empowering and not stifling.”

Business succession plans and shareholder agreements are just a couple of the areas in which Twomey has become an ex-pert. “In my industry, most firms are about tax and maximizing inheritance for the kids, but in my practice, it’s more complex. With clients who have extraordinary wealth, we’re often helping them think through more elaborate plans, including using their good fortunes to make a real impact on society as they pursue their philanthropic passions,” she explains. “The responsibility felt a little overwhelming the first time a client asked me, ‘What am I sup-posed to do with all this?’ but it’s a privilege to help families think through what they can build and work toward it.”

Family dynamics can be tricky. “There can be very emotional reac-

tions in trust creation,” Twomey says. “Just because there’s a trust doesn’t mean your parents don’t trust you. Parents or grandpar-ents often have multiple motiva-tions, creating trusts for both immediate use and for planning. When I am at a family meeting, my focus is on listening and mak-ing sure family members have a chance to be heard. The gift of inheritance has the power to tie a family together in a positive way when the communication is there and values are shared.”

Rob Weber ’92 When he talks about his twenty-five years working for EY, the multinational professional services firm, he focuses on exceptional client service and the people. “Serving clients is the core of everything I do,” says Weber, who is EY’s Global Business Tax Services Leader. “The other piece is the learning and development of our people, mak-ing sure they have leadership opportunities.”

Given the fact that Weber’s team consists of nearly 10,000 people worldwide, that’s no small task.

“I’ve been traveling to different regions across the globe, meeting with clients and teams in town halls and smaller team settings, working to stay connected and understand what’s really going on in the practices,” says Weber, who was promoted from Northeast Region Tax Managing

Partner/Principal to his current position in July 2018.

Weber’s unit is responsible for private client services, which includes high-net-

worth individuals, families, and their connected businesses; quantitative services; global tax policy and controversy; and digital tax administration.

He spends a good deal of his days thinking about what clients need in a rapidly changing market. “Do we have people with a diverse set of skills and experiences that directly relate to the issues our clients are facing around the globe?” he asks. “What will the future look like in three to five years and are we well-positioned for it?”

Weber majored in accounting and finance at Boston College, worked in banking for a couple of years, and then returned to BC for law school. During his 2L summer, he had an internship with EY (then known as Ernst & Young) and was offered a post-grad job.

While some might find oversight and responsibility for a multi-billion-dollar business unit a bit daunting, Weber is sanguine. “The key is nothing happens at a global level,” he explains. “It ultimately comes down to being close to what our client teams are doing on the ground, and then looking at macro issues going on in the marketplace and at trends in tax across the globe so that we can provide the best service and advice to our clients.” —MKS

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A Global Job That’s Down to Earth

1. Alicia Alvarez ’85 LAB Report As a law stu-dent, she found her path in the BC Law’s Legal Assis-tance Bureau (LAB). “LAB demonstrated to me what it meant to practice law.” Experience in Practice She has devoted her career to public interest law and clinical legal education. Formerly at the University of Michigan, she begins a new job in July as associ-ate dean for experiential education at University of Illinois Chicago John Marshall Law School. Mission Accomplished “If I expose students to even a small part of what LAB meant to me, I feel I am contributing to creating better, more ethical, hap-pier, and more compas-sionate lawyers.”

2. Albert Chin ’91 Inside Out After serving as general counsel for two Silicon Valley start-ups, and as senior counsel at established compa-nies such as Disney and Intuit, he recently became a consultant with Paragon Legal, which provides senior lawyers to leading Bay Area technology and Fortune 500 companies. Roster His clients include everything from start-ups to major corporations such as Facebook, Twitter, and Splunk. “What I find most interesting is working with high-growth tech companies on their newest growth initiatives.” Skills Set “The best way to go in-house directly or via the consulting route is to hone your skills in areas

that companies are often reluctant to outsource, such as licensing, M&A, or IP transactions.”

3. Andrew Collins ’12 Launch Pad To explore his passions for law, business, and policy, he spent five years with a lobbying firm in Washington, DC, called “theGROUP DC,” where he became general counsel and worked with foreign governments and Fortune 500 companies. Uber-Chal-lenging In 2018, he joined Uber as regulatory counsel. Now, he’s at the forefront of legal challenges facing the gig economy. “It’s an exciting time to advise such a fast-paced, disruptive, and innovative company tackling novel legal issues and regulatory challenges.” Advice “Lawyers are needed everywhere, and we take on a wide spectrum of fascinating roles. Stick to what you’re passion-

ate about and you’ll find that the opportunities are endless.”

4. Tahirah Dean ’16 Visa Virtuoso As a staff attorney in the Dallas office of Berry Appleman and Leidan, she specializes in employment-based immi-gration, particularly in the high-tech field. Inspiration As a child, she was fasci-nated by immigrants who brought stories of other cul-tures to her Texas mosque. She chose immigration law as a way to honor her background. Helping Hand She regularly takes pro bono cases and recently traveled to Greece to work in a legal clinic serving refu-gees. “These were mainly individuals from Syria, Afghanistan, and Iran, crowded into poorly run camps. Seeing their smiling faces when I provided them with basic legal assistance brought me much joy.” —MKS

Paths to SuccessAlumni find career satisfaction in unusual places.

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BrainstormDOCKET


What does being a citizen mean in a world with increasingly fluid boundaries? Professor Dimitry Kochenov, University of Gron-ingen (Netherlands), author of Citizenship (MIT Press) and co-creator of the Quality of Nationality Index, sat down with Dean Vincent Rougeau, who has long studied the notion of “just communities,” to discuss the problems inherent in the concept of citizenship and how the world can be more fair and equitable to a global community on the move.

Citizens UnboundRethinking our place in the world. ABRIDGED AND EDITED BY CLEA SIMON

DK: I was born in the Soviet Union. I visited more than 40 countries with that passport, and then when I became Dutch and renounced my Russian citizenship, I realized that there is an unbridgeable discrepancy in how people are perceived based on the documents that they carry. That’s what drives my research. After many years of study, I was attracted to one key principle, which is no discrimi-nation based on nationality.

VR: One of the things that led me to this work is the idea of how vulnerable people are protected. They often come from countries where their citizenship really has no value in the global space. It’s just an identification of where they happen to be born. The political systems under which they live could be very repressive, or the economic sys-tems could be very backward. Of course, many of these people are driven to migrate elsewhere to obtain opportunities that people who have high-status citizen-ship take for granted.

This is exactly why it is very important to rethink citizenship in the context of migration, in the context of economic disloca-tion, in the context of climate change. All of these drive poor people into wealthier countries. We assume that other countries function like our country does, when, in fact, that’s not true. And we assume that those coun-tries can provide things that they won’t or cannot provide.

DK: The Quality of National-ity Index is a transparent and quantifiable way of looking at the discrepancies you’ve just

described. Someone from Mada-gascar potentially has a ceiling on opportunities compared with someone from France or the United States. We discovered that plenty of nationalities grant full access to residents and sometimes this is an enormous boost in terms of rights. France is a good example, with forty-one other states and territories wel-coming the French as their own.

If you’re French in Switzer-land even though Switzerland is not part of the EU, you can sim-ply decide to move there. You will be treated as a Swiss and you can go to court if anyone mentions your nationality as a disqualifier in any context that relates to employment and resi-dency. In this sense we see that the world is moving away from this strict correlation between status and rights, which was assumed since the early days of citizenship.

Of course, the losers of this move are the citizens of the poor-est nations, because this cluster-ing of rights happens among the leaders. While the French get the huge boost through their citizen-ship, people in Madagascar are not welcome and are confined to their own community.

VR: We are at this very interest-ing cultural moment. States are starting to see the limits of what they can do to control people and their movement. In the meantime, we’ve created the no-tions of rights that people have as human beings, and people recognize that those rights exist and that their opportunities may be beyond their borders.

We need to start creating new structures that recognize

that people are mobile, that give them opportunities to engage in various communities. We have to stop resisting the need to create different ways of understanding how people live and move about the world. We’re going to continue to get migrants from Central America and Mexico. So why aren’t we coming up with structures that allow this to happen naturally and allow people to live with some kind of dignity? DK: I fully agree with this but what the Dean didn’t mention is the role of citizenship in all this. Citizenship used to play an over-whelming positive role when the narrative was about creating equality in a particular society: getting rid of the nobles, making sure that everybody had access to the ballot box, that the powers were controlled by the people.

But when we look at the world globally today, citizen-ship can mean you are actually confined to the places where you don’t want to be or where you won’t realize your full potential.

To tell El Salvador that its citizenship is somehow second rate, in the eyes of international laws, is absolutely unacceptable. But this is a necessary move if we want to ensure the human potential of the whole popula-tion of the globe and the basic preservation of rights. Citizen-ship as an abstract status has to be recognized as something that also has a negative side. The 21st century could be the century of partially saying goodbye to citizenship as we assumed it to function in the 19th century fashion and looking at the per-son behind the status.

“ The 21st century could be the century of partially saying goodbye to citizenship as we assumed it to function in the 19th century fashion and looking at the person behind the status.” Groningen Professor DIMITRY KOCHENOV, on campus for a Clough Center lecture on citizenship in April

Photograph by DIANA LEVINE; Illustration by STEVE SANFORD

Q+AWITH

Dimitry Kochenov

and DEAN VINCENT ROUGEAU

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OCCUPATIONS

MINIMUM WAGE

Illustration by JAMES STEINBERG20 BC LAW MAGAZINE Summer 2019

DOCKET

As an international authority on labor and employment law, BC Law Profes-sor Thomas C. Kohler asks fundamental questions about the nature and dignity of work and its impact on the people who perform it.

In a 2008, he wrote of a looming crisis in labor and employment law globally and an urgent need for new thinking about

“the kind of global economic and work re-lationships that will sustain democracies and allow humans to flourish.”

Nowadays, he sees an acceleration in the breakdown of long-established norms governing employment and a growing ten-dency of employers to see workers purely as profit centers, “mostly fungible and fully disposable.” The rise of the gig economy, he says, has challenged legal systems worldwide to reconsider who is and who is not an employee, and what that means in a era of unstable working relationships.

This shift is perhaps more unbridled in the US than in other advanced societies, says Kohler. No other country he knows of has employment “at will,” a system sup-posed to be conducive to the freedom of both employers and employed, but in fact is highly favorable to employers. Benefits that most Europeans take for granted, in-cluding paid vacations and parental leave, are far from universal in the US.

Another key change is erosion of the consensus that workers’ right to organize is a legitimate part of democracy. Kohler recalls that even tough employers’-side lawyers once believed that “collective bargaining as a private ordering system was far more desirable than state ordering of the employment relationship.” He sees recent SCOTUS decisions as evidence of the Court’s willingness to dismantle the very systems of self-organization he regards as the bedrock of democracy.

The stakes are high: “Work is a moral issue, and it goes beyond simply what’s equitable in the workplace to what sort of society we want,” he says.

9 to 5Old ways, new gigs— the transformation of employment. BY JANE WHITEHEAD and GABRIEL FRUMKIN ’20

Evidence

$55,880 Average individual income 2018

13.4% pWorkers made $100,000+

1.6% pWorkers made $250,000+

55% Minimum wage earners over the age of 24

62.6% Minimum wage workers who are women (4.2% of Fortune 500 CEOs are women)

$1.60/hr. 1968

$7.25/hr. 2019

68% Increase of workers in occupations requiring average to above-average education, training, and experience from 1980 to 2015

Earning Tiers Earners

Federal Minimum Wage, then and now

$10.90/hr. Value of 1968 Federal Minimum Wage (Adjusted for Inflation)

Some large employers, including Amazon, Costco, Target, and Walmart, have promised to set internal minimum wages above the federal minimum wage.

2018: Health care surpassed manufacturing and retail, the most significant job engines of 20th century, to become largest source of US jobs.

485,000 Involved in work stoppages in 2018; highest since 1986

In 2016, roughly 10.6 million of the 16.3 million workers with a union contract were women and/or people of color.

20.1% pWorkers who belonged to unions, 1983

10.7% pWorkers who belonged to unions, 2017

UNIONS

GENDER PAY GAP 2017

THE GIG ECONOMY


UNITED STATES EMPLOYMENT

Sources: US Bureau of Labor Statistics, The Atlantic, Economic Policy Institute, FRED© Economic Data, AAUW, Fortune.com, Backgroundchecks.com, Pew Research Center, CNN Business, CNBC, Small Business Labs, Business Insider, EEOC.gov

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Largest employers in US 2018 Male/Female Participation

Recent Cases Janus v. American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees, Council 31, 585 U.S. __ (2018): Reversed 40-year-old precedent; held that union security agreements in the public sector violate 1st Amendment right to free speech and association.

Epic Systems Corp. v. Lewis, 584 U.S. __ (2018): Ruled that arbitration clauses in employment agreements that require individual arbitration as opposed to col-lective or class arbitration are enforceable under Federal Arbitration Act, regard-less of allowances within National Labor Relations Act.

Cases to Watch R.G. & G.R. Harris Funeral Homes Inc. v. Equal Employment Opportunity Commis-sion and the combined Zarda v. Altitude Express, Inc. and Bostock v. Clayton County, GA, cases deal with whetherTitle VII covers employment discrimination based on sexual orientation and identity.

Mandatory Arbitration Driven by Supreme Court decisions dating to 1991, workers whose rights are violated—e.g., through employment discrimination or sexual harassment—must submit to arbitration procedures that research shows overwhelmingly favor employers.

60 Million+ Workers now barred from pursuing their claims in court

According to a 2018 Gallup poll, 36% of American workers are independent con-tractors, or “gig workers.” The poll further estimated that 29% of American workers have an alternative work arrangement as their full-time job. This means that approximately 57 million workers are involved in the gig economy in work ranging from computer programming to driving to construction.

Employer, Public No. of Employees

Government 2,700,000

Employer, Private Global No. of Employees

Walmart 2,300,000

Amazon 541,900

Kroger 443,000

Yum! Brands 420,000

The Home Depot 406,000

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Women

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INNOCENCE WHISPERERS

The

BY CHAD KONECKY

PHOTOGRAPHS BY JOSHUA DALSIMER

Adjunct Professor Charlotte Whitmore has a gift for freeing the wrongly convicted. But she doesn’t do it alone.

Her talent is in knowing how to assist a team of colleagues and students like Lauren Rossman through a labyrinthine criminal justice system where too many people have lost their way.

With the team’s help, Omar Martinez found his way out.

At left, Charlotte Whitmore with the recently freed Christopher “Omar” Martinez.

On April 23, 2019, Christopher “Omar” Mar-tinez walked out of the Hampden County Superior Courthouse as a free man for the first time in almost twenty years. Tears streamed down his face as Omar swept his sister up in a bear hug and then held onto his father, both men sobbing, for what seemed like minutes. A hallway full of Boston College Law students, attorneys, and spectators heard cries of de-light as Omar facetimed his mother in Puerto Rico and told her that his conviction and life-sentence had finally been overturned after years of proclaiming his innocence.

Omar was only nineteen years old when his friend and co-worker Eddy Reynoso was shot and killed in Springfield, Massachusetts, on October 25, 1999. Two days after the shooting, Omar found himself being interrogated by the police for the first time in his life. He was alone, confused, and terrified. Following seven hours of interrogation, Omar, who spoke only Spanish, signed a confession written in English. After a six-day trial in 2002, he was sentenced to life.

“I had given up,” Omar says now. “I lost trust in [the system]. I lay there at night thinking on my mom and crying. I was like, ‘Well, this is it. This nightmare has become a reality and there is nowhere to go from here.’”

THE DREAM TEAM

Boston attorney Chauncey B. Wood, of Wood & Nathanson, was first appointed to represent Omar in 2002. He believed in Omar’s inno-cence but was unable to persuade the state

trial or appellate courts to grant relief or even funds to investigate the holes in the prosecu-tion’s case. Without resources to investigate, the case seemed to be at a dead end.

That changed in 2015 when Wood helped persuade the Committee for Public Counsel Services’ Innocence Program (CPCS IP) that

Omar’s case merited reinvestigation and CPCS reappointed Wood to the case. Because the case required extensive reinvestigation and litigation, the CPCS IP suggested that Wood partner with BC Law Adjunct Profes-sor Whitmore and the BC Innocence Program (BCIP), an interdisciplinary legal educational program founded and directed by Associ-


ate Clinical Professor Sharon Beckman. Her vision was for BC Law students to study the problem of wrongful convictions in the class-room and work in the clinic to help remedy and prevent these injustices.

Wood, Whitmore, and the entire BCIP team partnered for four years, collaborating on briefings, motions, and strategy. “Repre-senting Omar under Whitmore’s supervision has been an extraordinary experience for the students,” Beckman observed.

In the courtroom, advocating for her incar-cerated innocent clients, Whitmore is reserved but tenacious. Whitmore’s parents met while at Harvard Law School. She herself earned her BA, an MEd, and her JD at Ivy League schools. Whitmore captained the Dartmouth squash team and to this day is fiercely competitive in racket sports. Her competitive nature is evi-dent in the courtroom as well. Whitmore has a quiet certitude about her, but her preparation and advocacy are intense. Once she sets herself in motion, she will not stop.

“For as long as I can remember, fighting for underserved populations was something I wanted to do,” says Whitmore, who witnessed an Innocence Project courtroom exoneration at twenty-two as an intern in New York, but still thought she wanted to become a teacher in an inner-city school. “My dad definitely instilled that value. He was the first in his family to go to college. He always stressed how my grandfather, despite having very little money, would give money to almost anyone who needed it.”

After earning her JD with honors at Penn Law, Whitmore clerked for the Honorable Ani-ta B. Brody in the Eastern District of Pennsyl-vania and the Honorable Marjorie O. Rendell in the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. Subsequently, Whitmore was awarded an Equal Justice Works Fellowship to become the first staff attorney for the Penn-sylvania Innocence Project. Upon winning an exoneration and release in a precedent-setting case there, Whitmore joined Beckman in the BC Innocence Program.

“All along the way, I had almost exclusively really smart and strong female mentors and supervisors,” she says. “One after the other, these impressive females who were a little bit older than me, who were simply amazing, allowed me to learn from them. That’s special and unique and played a large part in how I approach my work.”

Omar’s case consumed thousands of hours of factual investigation, briefing, argument

has many adversaries, but few greater than the metallic clink and jangle of human bondage.

HOPE

“The most fraught compo-nent of a legitimate post-conviction innocence claim is navigating the human element. Gaining the confidence of a potential exoneree, build-ing the trust of witnesses, supporting the defendant’s anguished family, and stay-ing vigilantly considerate of victims’ relatives.”SUPERVISING ATTORNEY AND ADJUNCT PROFESSOR CHARLOTTE WHITMORE


After twenty years of failed efforts to prove his innocence, Omar Martinez was resigned to dying in prison.


preparation, and litigation by BCIP staff and students. Whitmore received prolific support from director Beckman, from Assistant Clini-cal Professor Claire Donohue, who handled the social work side of things, and from more than a dozen undergraduate interns and BCIP stu-dents. Most prominent among them were law student Lauren Rossman ’19, who worked side-by-side with Whitmore for almost two years, and BC School of Social Work student Parker Lawrence, who created Omar’s exoneree re-entry plan under the supervision of Donohue.

Inside Associate Justice John. S. Ferrara’s courtroom in the Hampden Superior Court in Springfield this past April—233 months into Omar’s prison term—Whitmore and Wood ar-gued that, based on newly discovered evidence of innocence, justice was not done in Omar’s case. Judge Ferrara agreed and granted the defense motion for a new trial, thereby vacat-ing Omar’s conviction. Omar was released the same day and was able to finally start to re-build his life free of any criminal convictions.

SEEDS OF DOUBT

Massachusetts Rule of Criminal Procedure 30(b) authorizes a judge to grant a new trial any time it appears that justice may not have been done. A judge may grant a new trial if newly discovered evidence “casts real doubt” on the verdict, meaning that (1) the new evidence would have probably been a real fac-tor in the jury’s deliberations, (2) the result of the trial might have been different, or (3) the defendant was deprived of a substantial ground of defense.

In 2002, the Commonwealth’s theory at trial was that Omar killed Eddy because of a dispute over a young woman named Gricela Gonzalez. She testified for the prosecution and told the jury that Eddy had been teasing Omar about a poem that Omar had written for her. In her statement to Springfield police, Gricela also described an altercation two days before the murder between Eddy and Gricela’s sister Jackie. That day, when Eddy started teasing Gricela, Jackie defended her by taking a swing

at Eddy and threatening him with bodily harm. Omar, who was present at the dust-up, stepped in to defuse the situation.

Gricela’s testimony about an alleged mo-tive, together with Omar’s confession, written in English, was enough for the jury to find him guilty. The Commonwealth presented no physical evidence or eyewitness testimony tying the crime to Omar. In the ADA’s closing argument, she encouraged jurors to rely on the confession alone without corroboration. Ultimately, the jury did just that.

The case, however, was riddled with in-trigue, unanswered questions, and evidence that the jury never heard. The BCIP inves-tigation eventually provided the elements that Omar and his defense team had been searching for.

Among them was the statement of the alibi witness, a 15-year-old friend of Omar, who signed a document written in English saying that Omar shot Eddy. Police used it to persuade Omar to sign a confession, but that

Sharon Beckman, left, is the visionary creator and director of the BC Innocence Program, which provides legal support to the wrongly convicted as well as social services under the direc-tion of clincial professor Claire Donohue. Opposite, a consult in the program’s Law School offices.


statement was not used as evidence at trial, and the alibi witness did not testify.

There was the interrogator. He questioned Omar’s alibi witness and translated the ex-change from Spanish to English. It later came to light that the interrogator may have had a significant conflict of interest.

There was the Holyoke shooter. Twenty-six hours after Eddy was murdered, a Latin Kings gang member shot a man in nearby Holyoke with the same .38 caliber revolver used to kill Eddy. A cab driver identified the Holyoke shooter as a man he picked up near Eddy’s apartment the night of Eddy’s death.

There was also the ear-witness to Eddy’s murder.

THE PUZZLE PIECES

In July of 2015, Wood applied for and received funding from the New England Innocence Project’s (NEIP) Running for Innocence Fund to hire a private investigator to locate two key witnesses in Omar’s case who never testi-fied at trial: the alibi witness named Carlos

“Carlito” Rodriguez, and the exculpatory ear-witness named Wilbert Diaz.

BCIP joined Wood in August 2015 and plunged into an exhaustive post-conviction investigation of the case. Within three months, the team shared in a big breakthrough when the private investigator secured a signed affi-davit from Rodriguez stating that he was with Omar the night of the murder and that Omar did not shoot Eddy Reynoso. Rodriguez also

recanted his 1999 police statement, in which he had inculpated Omar, claiming that police physically coerced him and threatened him until he signed the statement.

Wilbert Diaz was Eddy’s neighbor, and he told police immediately after the murder that the killer asked “Are you Eddy?” before firing his gun, indicating that Eddy and his killer were strangers, whereas Eddy and Omar were friends. Diaz knew Omar and was with him just hours before the murder. Diaz was positive the killer’s voice was not Omar’s and he would have testified as much at trial, but neither the prosecution nor the defense asked him to testify.

At the time of trial, Omar’s defense at-torney couldn’t find Diaz because he was searching for him at an outdated Springfield address. The trial assistant district attorney twice served Diaz with subpoenas at his new Worcester address she’d obtained at least eighteen months prior to Omar’s trial. She also met with Diaz personally to review his testimony and, according to Diaz, told him that he wouldn’t have to testify. The Com-monwealth’s pretrial witness list included Diaz’s outdated address. The ADA never in-formed the defense of Diaz’s whereabouts and did not correct the defense’s own use of Diaz’s incorrect address in filings.

In addition, the BCIP team scoured social science research on false and coerced confes-sions, a field which had principally evolved after Omar’s 2002 conviction. Omar was a teenage Spanish-speaker when he signed

the typed, six-page confession written in English. The confession was produced by a detective who translated Omar’s oral Spanish into written English, and then translated the English text orally into Spanish for Omar’s review and approval.

With financial support from Running for Innocence and a federal grant awarded to CPCS, BCIP, and NEIP to investigate inno-cence cases, the defense team hired expert witnesses, procuring an affidavit from a prac-

ticed psychologist, who concluded that Omar’s personality characteristics and intellectual deficits at nineteen made him particularly vulnerable to giving a false confession. They also secured a report from an expert in police investigative procedures and false-confession risk factors, who analyzed BCIP’s comprehen-sive curation of evidence and concluded that Omar’s confession and his companion’s state-ment were unreliable.

Amid the line-by-line dissection of a case, it’s possible to become desensitized to the emotional intensity of the factual record. “In the moment, you can forget what this is all about, but then you burst into tears because a young person was murdered,” says stu-dent Rossman, who, like Whitmore, seems outwardly imperturbable. “What happened to Omar afterwards is tragic, too. This will never stop being tragic.”

Rossman, twenty-eight, flourished under Whitmore’s tutelage and mastered the skills of factual investigation and legal advocacy, a process punctuated by oases of euphoria or setback amidst a sea of drudgery.

Rossman’s own experience of being mar-ginalized growing up fuels her desire to spend her career fighting to exonerate the wrongfully convicted. The child of a single mother raising

“No innocent person should suffer as Omar and his family have these past twenty years. Our criminal system is broken, but our students learn they can be agents of change.”BC INNOCENCE PROGRAM DIRECTOR AND ASSOCIATE CLINICAL PROFESSOR SHARON BECKMAN


a family within an affluent community, Ross-man was socially ostracized by her peers and presumed by school officials to be a trouble-maker. In eighth grade, she was falsely accused of using drugs by the principal. On another occasion, she was the suspect in a school van-dalism incident, prompting an interrogation, a search of her backpack, and an analysis of her penmanship by a handwriting expert.

Rossman’s commitment to seeing justice done to others made her the quintessential Watson to Whitmore’s Holmes in Omar’s case.

Everyone working on a post-conviction relief case shares in the inexorable march of time-served by the defendant as a case is stripped to its bones, then reanimated. “There are so many frustrations and ups and downs,” explains Whitmore. “The most fraught compo-nent of a legitimate post-conviction inno-cence claim is navigating the human element: gaining the confidence of a potential exoneree, building the trust of witnesses, supporting the defendant’s anguished family, and staying vigilantly considerate of victims’ relatives.”

Following a separate investigative thread, Rossman volunteered to go to Florida to inter-view Gricela Gonzalez, one of the sisters who

had gotten into the altercation with Omar and Eddy a few days before Eddy’s murder. Gricela told Rossman that she’d always believed Omar was innocent, but declined to go on the record, or say why she thought so.

Rossman, an intuitive fact-finder, fret-ted about the conversation. What basis did Gricela have for her belief ? The third-year law student, who labored over the case the entirety of her 2L and 3L years, and the sum-mer in between (the first such BCIP student to do so), dug in. Through extensive research, Rosssman discovered that Gricela’s husband

he gave the .38 revolver to his accomplice the following day. Santana stated that Omar was completely uninvolved in Eddy’s murder.

“Sitting in that prison visiting room with Lauren and Mr. Santana as he gave us a full confession with details of the crime, that was a pretty big moment,” says Whitmore. “After all these years, we felt like we had finally solved the mystery of who shot Eddy Reynoso and how [Kelvin] Gutierrez got the gun used in the Holyoke murder.”

THE DECISION

“Because we dig so deep and have the team talents to really pick cases apart, reinvestigate, and put them back together, we are constantly discovering new legal or factual arguments,” says Whitmore. “To actually break apart a case and see how a wrongful conviction happens and, frankly, how easily it can happen, is shock-ing. There’s not just one road to the right result

is step-brothers with one of the Springfield police officers who worked on this case, the interrogator, Officer Francisco Otero.

During the police investigation of Eddy’s murder, Officer Otero, who was neither a detective nor assigned to the homicide unit, but rather an on-duty Springfield Police Department uniformed patrolman, stepped away from his normal duties to grill Rodriguez about an hour after Gricela completed her own statement to police.

Just a few months after Eddy’s death, Officer Otero’s step-brother moved in with Gricela. They conceived their first child three or four months after the murder. Their second child was born three months before Omar’s trial and the couple was married thirty days after Omar’s conviction.

A reasonable jury in possession of these details might question whether Officer Otero’s priority was to protect Gricela instead of identifying the real killer. Jurors might also speculate that Gricela came for-ward preemptively to protect herself and her sister Jackie, who had ties to the Latin King gang. This logic, while strong, was about to get even more sound.

Rossman by then had a profound sense of personal obligation: “The more we inves-tigated, the more we realized this was a huge miscarriage of justice. I kept thinking: Every moment I’m not working on this case, he’s just sitting there, waiting for you to do something.”

On October 18, 2018, exactly 990 weeks to the day Omar woke up behind bars for the first time, Rossman became aware of an inmate at MCI-Norfolk named Ramon Santana. Santana is the half-brother of Kelvin Gutierrez, the man who committed the murder in Holyoke twenty-six hours after Eddy’s murder, using the same .38 caliber weapon that was used to shoot Eddy. Rossman and Whitmore went to meet with Ramon Santana.

According to Rossman’s signed affidavit, when Whitmore asked Santana if he knew anything about Eddy Reynoso’s murder, “Mr. Santana’s eyes immediately filled with tears and he lowered his head as he informed us that [Omar] was completely innocent.” When asked how he knew that, Santana responded,

“I’ll just tell you this: Eddy tried to shut the door in my face.”

Santana, who was affiliated with the Latin Kings gang at the time, confirmed that he shot Eddy along with an unnamed accomplice over “women and relationships.” Santana said

“In the moment, you can forget what this is all about, but then you burst into tears because a young person was murdered. What hap-pened to Omar afterwards is tragic, too. This will never stop being tragic.”STUDENT INVESTIGATOR LAUREN ROSSMAN ’19


or to justice. There are many different pieces along the way that you have to uncover, and to do that, you need a team working on the case.”

Omar’s defense team petitioned Judge Ferrara to consider numerous factors in its motion for a new trial based upon newly discovered evidence: (1) Wilbert Diaz’s testi-mony that the shooter was not Omar; (2) that the Commonwealth was aware of ear-witness Diaz’s contact information, but withheld this exculpatory information from the defense; (3) the trial defense attorney’s ineffective assistance of counsel for promising the jury that Diaz would testify that the shooter’s voice was not Omar’s when counsel had not interviewed or located Diaz; (4) expert testi-mony explaining why Omar’s confession was unreliable, (5) Rodriguez’s alibi testimony and recantation of his inculpatory police statement; (6) police testimony regarding Rodriguez’s interrogation and evidence of a police conflict of interest; (7) newly discov-

ered alibi evidence from Rodriguez; and (8) Ramon Santana’s confession.

On April 23, after post-conviction oral arguments and three days of evidentiary hearings, Judge Ferrara calmly delivered his ruling granting the defense motion for a new trial and vacating Omar’s conviction. Shortly afterward, Omar was released.

It was 11:39 a.m. In the span of a few syl-lables, Omar was free, entitled to a new trial and, once again, presumed innocent. (On June 10, the Commonwealth announced it would not appeal the ruling vacating the conviction.)

In the end, the court ruled that the “conflu-ence of factors [the defense] has presented demonstrate ... a substantial risk that [the defendant’s] convictions may not have been just.” Judge Ferrara was particularly persuad-ed by the credibility of the new ear-witness testimony, the circumstances of Omar’s con-fession in the context of scientific evidence about interviewing tactics used by police to

elicit false confessions, defense counsel’s promise to deliver a witness—Diaz—whom he had not found, and the original ADA’s

“unexplained and perhaps inexplicable” failure to alert the defense to witness Diaz’s where-abouts prior to trial.

“Honestly, I had to read the transcript to remember what the judge specifically com-mented on from the bench,” admits Whitmore.

“After he granted the motion my brain … well, I was a total mess. My focus was less on what the exact holding was. I didn’t care at that point. I was thinking, ‘How are we going to get him out today?’”

Wood, too, was elated while contemplating Omar’s next steps. “Omar being released is a huge moment, but it’s just the beginning. It’s tomorrow and the next day and the day after that where BCIP is so critical to his success af-ter this moment. As a private lawyer, I can’t do those things that are necessary to get a heavily institutionalized, wrongfully convicted defen-dant where he needs to go,” he says.

“That’s where,” Wood continues, “the full scope of what the BC Law innocence clinic can do—the intensity of the students helping the reinvestigation of a case, the social workers designing the exoneree re-entry plan, gifted attorneys like Charlotte and Sharon writing a ton of legal memos—and all that the clinic effectuates becomes cutting edge. Law school clinics like the one at BC are at the vanguard of client-centered representation that is crucial to post-conviction relief for the innocent.”

Beckman agrees that this is just the begin-ning. “BCIP will continue collaborating on innocence cases like Omar’s and on law and policy reforms to remedy and prevent wrong-ful convictions,” she says. “No innocent person should suffer as Omar and his family have these past twenty years. Our criminal system is broken, but our students learn they can be agents of change.”

For his part, Omar says publicly that he harbors no ill will or resentment. And there is no denying that his focus is elsewhere.

“I have a second family now—Mrs. Charlotte and her team—that I love and respect and have done everything for me,” he says. “I’ve started to do the work to show them, not with words but with actions, the appreciation I feel. When you haven’t committed the crime, I think you can leave peace within you. To keep the anger or grudges or remorse? I think that’s wrong. I prefer to forgive and to listen and do my best to have the dialogue.”

Student Lauren Ross-man ’19 was all business as she investigated the flaws in the original case against Martinez, but she was also all heart.

The remarkable LIFE JOURNEY of the

CUBAN GIRL born TERESA VALDES-FAULI.

By KATHARINE WHITTEMOREPhotographs by SONYA REVELL

FROM

PROSPER ITY

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PERIL AND

BACK AGAIN

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It has everything to do with Cuba—and nada to do with Cuba—how life has turned out for Teresa Valdes-Fauli Weintraub ’79.

Nothing, in that she was just seven years old when her family fled, and she holds scant memories of the island. Everything, in that this exodus imprinted her with a great truth: If you stay focused and family-centered, all manner of setbacks—even calamities—can be transcended.

Weintraub likes to quote her mother on this front. The Valdes-Faulis barely escaped to Florida in 1960, hoping their exile would be short-lived. The family had been

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prominent in Cuba since the 1500s, after all. But as Fidel Castro’s power metastasized, and the communist revolution surged, they grasped the brutal truth. There would be no going home. “I remember what my mother always told us,” said Weintraub: Don’t look back. Don’t say “poor me.” We have our freedom and we’re moving forward.

Like so many of the families who emigrated from Cuba in those days, the Valdes-Faulis lost most of what they had, plummeting from considerable wealth to a barely middle-class existence. It might be a stretch to call them the Rockefellers or Roosevelts of the Antilles, but not by much. They certainly had a heritage of riches and a rich heritage.

Take Weintraub’s parents’ family. One ancestor on her father’s side founded the city of St. Augustine in 1565 and became the first gov-ernor of Florida. Another ancestor was mayor of Havana. The Pedrosos (her mother’s side) subsequently produced generations of bankers, with ties to Cuba’s lucrative sugar industry. And in 1913, Weintraub’s grandfather, Jacinto Pedroso, founded the bank and real estate business that would become Banco Pedroso. Meanwhile, her father’s side kept churning out lawyers to the elite, and established their own family firms.

Weintraub says hers is the fifth straight generation to study the law.

In Havana’s exclusive Vedado neighbor-hood, with its green palms, white limestone villas, and turquoise sea views, Teresa and her three older brothers grew up in a grand villa. The family had ten live-in servants.

No hay acuerdo bajo presión, runs the old Cuban proverb. There’s no agreement under pressure. When Castro overthrew dictator Ful-gencio Batista in January 1959, he began to ap-ply pressure on the upper classes; few of these families agreed to hand over their holdings to the new government, or agreed to have their sons join the military, but this might be their fate if they stayed. In July 1960, the Valdes-Fau-lis decided it was finally too perilous to remain, booked a flight to Miami, and three generations of them headed to Havana’s airport.

“Basically, we were told just that we were going on vacation,” Weintraub recalls of how her parents framed the trip to the children. “But then when we got to the airport, someone in my mother’s family had told the authorities that we were taking jewelry and money with us.” The family was told they had to be strip-searched. “The only thing I do remember is my mother screaming that they couldn’t take me without

her, couldn’t search me without her being pres-ent. We were at the airport for a long, long time before they allowed us to leave.”

Barely a year later, the family’s china, furniture, paintings, and all that had been left behind, fell victim to Resolution 454, issued by the Castro regime in September 1961. It de-clared that those who departed were foes of the government, and would have their “abandoned” property impounded unless they returned within twenty-nine days to claim it. That twenty-nine was a Catch-22, of course. If you came back to collect what had been seized, likely as not you would be seized.

“My mother did miss some of the fancy things,” admits Wein-traub. “But she would always stop to say, ‘It’s stuff, it’s just stuff.’” The Valdes-Faulis had managed to buy a small, three-bedroom house in Key Biscayne, and the eight fleeing family members squeezed in. Over the next years, there would often be a cousin or two, or some other Cuban emigre who slept on the couch or floor before they found a place to live.

In Cuba, “I was very privileged and very sheltered,” Weintraub says, adding that she was rarely allowed out of the house: kidnappings were a real fear among the upper classes. But in the US, “I could ride bikes everywhere, and was able to go to my friends’ houses! We were in a dramatically different economic situation but I remember having a very, very happy childhood.”

That economic situation was not easy. Raul Ernesto, her father, was not trained to prac-tice law in Florida (in Cuba, they followed the Napoleonic Code). Margarita, her mother and once one of Cuba’s wealthiest women, took a job at a toy store. When Teresa began school, “we couldn’t afford to buy the uniforms so my mother would find somebody who could sew them.” But, to put this in context, the family had it better than many Cuban exiles: They could afford the house, and both parents and two older brothers spoke English. Teresa started second grade knowing no English, but by the end of the year she was nearly fluent.

In the meantime, the local Cuban exile community kept up morale. Weintraub recalls many gatherings in Key Biscayne, all a far cry from the glamorous parties back home. “You know, it’s funny, I remember soon after we got

here my parents having their friends over. And people would come with their bottle of scotch and they would leave with their bottle of scotch. It was really an incredible lesson about how you can be together and not have to go through a lot of preparation to do the ‘right thing.’”

While her mother worked—later she be-came a successful real estate broker—her father went back to law school: A new state provision allowed Cuban lawyers to accelerate getting

an American law degree in one-and-a-half years, rather than the standard three. And Weintraub’s two oldest brothers, Raul J. and Gonsalo, made their way, too. “The joke was that, back in Cuba, my mother wanted one of my brothers to be a lawyer and go into my father’s law business,

the other to be a banker to go into her family’s banking business,” says Weintraub. “They did become a lawyer and a banker—but there was no law firm and there was no bank.”

AND WHAT DID HER PARENTS WANT FOR THEIR only daughter? “Honestly, there was just an ex-pectation that I would get married,” says Wein-traub. “I had to fight to go away to school.” But Raul Ernesto came to realize that, in America, a woman must become educated in order to take care of herself if no man could. Back in Cuba, the girls in his family had been instructed by the nuns of the Sacred Heart. He would support Teresa if she did the same. Thus her pedagogi-cal path: the South Florida college prep school Carrollton School of the Sacred Heart, then Newton College of the Sacred Heart, which merged with Boston College in 1974.

Weintraub majored in American Studies at Sacred Heart, and took notice when one of her roommates, Cathy Coffey ’74, went on to BC Law, which had barely 20 percent female students at that point. Weintraub considered her future: Perhaps the foreign service, perhaps the law, per-haps business. “I always liked business from the time I was a young girl,” she says. “I was industri-ous. I would make jewelry and sell it in different gift shops. I liked math, so I knew that probably business law would be the way I would go.”

At BC Law, she was keen on torts and international law, gravitated toward classes with Professor Mary Ann Glendon, and was especially interested in the tax law courses she

“My whole life has really been a series of

SHORT-TERM GOALS. Because too much can happen.

THINGS CAN CHANGE right out from under you,

as I LEARNED AT THE BEGINNING of my life.”


took from Professor Hugh Ault. “I think I was a diligent student, but I wasn’t a bookworm and I also enjoyed myself,” reflects Weintraub.

After law school, Weintraub went to New York to work in Exxon Corporation’s law department, and then headed home to its Miami office. In 1982, she met and married an attorney named Lee Weintraub. Their son, Rob Weintraub, marvels how fast things went after that. “On the fifth anniversary of their first date, my sister Sarah, the third kid, was born.” The second child’s name, by the way? That would be Margarita, christened for her indomitable maternal grandmother.

As family responsibilities grew, Weintraub decided to leave Exxon for the University of Mi-ami, where she held a series of positions in the development office.

“I clearly did a total career change,” says Weintraub. “I had no flexibility at Exxon and it was at a time when it was very tough for women who wanted to have a career as well as children. So I needed something that allowed me to do both.” She loved that Rob, Margarita, and Sarah could go to an elementary school right on campus and, for a time, Weintraub was president of its PTA—just one of many substantial volunteer commitments she would take on in the decades to come.

What was she like as a mom, Rob is asked. “When she needed to be tough, she was tough,” he said. “When she needed to be nurturing, she was nurturing. When she needed to give us space to go be a knucklehead kid, she gave us space to go be a knucklehead kid, too. She was always just what was right.”

Later, Weintraub left the university and moved into wealth management, working at Northern Trust, and later becoming the President and CEO of the Fiduciary Trust of the South, where she stayed for eighteen years. She’d veered away from a legal career, but says her law training has been invaluable at every turn. “The influence of being a lawyer has taught me how to think through problems,” explains Weintraub.

“How to take a look at the big picture and then figure it out, not shoot from the hip.”

Now she is an international wealth advi-sor—in partnership with her son—as part of the Weintraub Adessi Group at Merrill Lynch in Coral Gables, Florida. Says Rob Weintraub: “She builds these incredible, very meaningful relationships with her clients and just consis-tently delivers amazing advice and friendship and thoughtfulness to those relationships. They’re particularly close for the financial advice business. And I think that’s unique.”

Meanwhile, her brothers have flourished, too. Raul J. Valdes-Fauli is the mayor of Coral Gables, an office he’s held on and off since 1993, while Gonzalo was head of Latin American ser-vices for Barclays bank, and José was president of South Florida’s Colonial Bank.

This prowess has not gone unnoticed. Just as the Valdes-Faulis were renowned in Cuba, so they have remade their mark in Florida. Weintraub likes to quote her husband about this hard-won success: “He says that we are re-silient. We don’t let anything keep us down.” In fact, back in 2005, the Miami New Times named the Valdes-Faulis Florida’s “Best Power Family.”

AND THAT “POWER FAMILY” HAS ALSO BEEN

powerfully generous. Weintraub has borne this out in many ways,

from volunteering at migrant camps when she was a teenager to serving on many boards thereafter, such as Miami Jewish Health Systems and the United Way (where she helped set up an after-school program across Dade County). Along the way, she has spearheaded an organization called Philanthropy Miami (formerly Leave a Legacy). In that role, she has helped lawyers and advisers learn the best ways to counsel their clients about philanthropic giving, and also coached local nonprofits about strategies to bolster their assets. Since her development days at the University of Miami, says Weintraub, “I have really enjoyed finding causes and connecting people to those causes.”

More than anything, Weintraub loves to travel and she estimates she has been to nine-ty—ninety!—countries on pleasure and busi-ness, often tied to her role as global president of the International Women’s Forum (IWF), an invitation-only organization dedicated to mentoring, training, and setting up networks for women in leadership, with 7,500 members around the world. (Before taking on the global role, she was president of the Miami-Dade County chapter.)

Jill Nexon Berman ’78, who co-hosted with Weintraub an event for BC Law alumni in Miami, says of her friend: “Teresa is very classy, dignified. Miami is a lot of flash and she’s not like that. She is a person of substance and her values are in the right place.”

Call up people who know Weintraub, and they fall over themselves in their praise for her and the impact she’s had in her home state and beyond. Take community activist Ruth Shack. Weintraub and Shack have served together on various boards: “Teresa is a sheer delight, introspective, in love with her fam-ily, fun to be with,” says Shack. “She comes from a solid family, has core values that are just impeccable, and has the energy to act on spreading the good message. Those who know her respect her—and adore her.”

WEINTRAUB HAS BEEN BACK TO CUBA THREE times since her family fled for their lives, once in the ’90s, and again in 2013 and 2017—the last time, she met with Cuban human rights activist Yoani Sanchez. On some of these trips, three living generations of Valdes-Faulis have gone to see the old family home in the Vedado. It had been used as a meeting place for political or-ganizations in the early days of the revolution, and then became a children’s school, and now has fallen into disrepair due to lack of upkeep and tropical storm damage.

They also stopped by the Palacio de los Capitanes Generales, the old governor’s palace, which is now a museum devoted to Havana history. On display there, they saw some of their family’s china and the other goods that were confiscated decades ago. Recently, they learned that the Pedroso mausoleum has been desecrated, with the name of Jacinto Pedroso, Weintraub’s illustrious banker grandfather, sanded out.

It seems fair to ask if all this makes her sad. The deprived state of the people who stayed in Cuba makes her sorrowful, she admits, but long ago she let go of resenting what happened to her own family. And by setting up a partner-ship with her son, she has managed to create a family business of sorts, reviving the genera-tional tradition that was so radically disrupted.

At the end of the day, Teresa Valdes-Fauli Weintraub says, she lives for the moment: “I never make long-term goals for myself. My whole life has really been a series of short-term goals. Because too much can happen. Things can change right out from under you, as I learned at the beginning of my life.”

Aisha Jorge Massengill ’95, who works for the performance apparel

company Under Armor, foresees increasing pres-

sure on companies to develop diverse leadership

and to remove workplace barriers to equality.

UNEMPLOYMENT MAY BE LOW, but high-profile strikes by teachers in states from West Virginia to Washington, recent actions in Massachusetts by employees of utility National Grid and gro-cery chain Stop and Shop, and an international protest by Uber and Lyft drivers, suggest that job dissatisfaction is widespread through large sections of the labor force. ¶ On the positive side, pressure to recruit and retain top talent in today’s hypercompetitive job market is driving employers to develop robust policies to increase diversity and counter harassment and discrimina-tion of all kinds, from sexual misconduct to pay inequality. We talk to five alumni whose practice in labor and employment law is collectively help-ing to shape the experience of work for thou-sands of people at a time of radical transition.

By JANE WHITEHEADPhotograph by STEPHEN VOSS

THE DIGNITY OF WORK

IS THAT EVEN A THING ANYMORE?) IN A SHAPESHIFTING EMPLOYMENT ENVIRONMENT, EXPERTS SORT OUT WHAT TO WORRY ABOUT AND WHAT TO HOPE FOR.

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77AISHA JORGE MASSENGILL ’95 MANAGING COUNSEL SAYS CORPORATIONS ARE FEELING THE PRESSURE FOR EQUALITY, EQUITY, AND DIVERSE LEADERSHIP.

“The crux of employment law is ensuring level playing fields,” says Aisha Jorge Massengill, managing counsel, employment, for Under Armor, Inc., the Baltimore-based international performance apparel company. Massengill’s playing field is global; she oversees employment matters for 14,000 employees worldwide.

“Anything that can act as a bar-rier to optimizing talent within the organization requires my attention on a day-to-day basis,” says Mas-sengill. Pay equity, gender equality, ensuring inclusive workspaces, and addressing unconscious bias in decision-making are all high on her strategic agenda.

With more than twenty years’ experience in the field, Massen-gill has seen a positive evolution in employers’ attitudes to groups that have been historically underrepresented or discrimi-nated against in the workplace, including women, minorities, and people from the LGBTQ com-munity. In the wake of the #Me Too movement, she has also seen a “mindset shift” in how employ-ers handle sexual harassment alle-gations, in ways that acknowledge subtly undermining behaviors, as well as overt abuse.

On the horizon, Massengill predicts increasing pressure on publicly traded companies, in particular, to develop diverse lead-ership, in tandem with demands for gender equality and pay equity. In terms of recruitment, this means ensuring diverse interview panels and slates of candidates, and providing leadership training at all levels of the organization. “It’s important to always keep your eye on removing barriers to equality in the workplace,” she says.

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1SARA SMOLIK ’04 LONG-TIME FIGHTER AGAINST DISCRIMINATION SUGGESTS THAT WITHOUT A LEVEL EMPLOYMENT FIELD, DEMOCRACY IS THREATENED.


7BRIAN WONG ’08 GLOBAL EXPERT THINKS THE US HAS A LOT TO LEARN FROM THE EMPLOYMENT RELATIONSHIPS OF OTHER NATIONS.

In January 2019, Brian Wong was appointed senior legal coun-sel, employment, at software giant Adobe, a California-based multinational. Previously, he spent four years in a similar position at clothing retailer Gap Inc., where he supported a workforce of 15,000-20,000 employees in more than twenty countries in the Americas and the Asia Pacific regions.

With comparably broad geographic responsibilities at Adobe, Wong sees how challenges for global companies play out internationally, in different legal and cultural contexts. Current priorities are data protection, trade secret protection, adapting to global changes in contingent labor, investigating whistle-blower allegations, and managing the worldwide ripple effects of the #MeToo movement.

With its presumption of “at will” employment, the US is an outlier, notes Wong. For example, in Korea and Japan, he says, “the employ-ment relationship is much more like a life-long family relationship,” than the customary US “arms-length, at-will transactional relationship driven by contract, where either party can walk away at any time.” Supporting a global workforce, he says, means “respecting these cul-tural and legal differences without losing sight of consistency, equity, and the company's core values.”

In October 2018 Adobe achieved global gender pay parity, a pragmatic as well as ethical goal for a company dependent on harnessing creativity. Equality of opportunity is the next target: “If employers don’t clear a path for all of their talent, they’re not going to get the best out of that talent,” says Wong.

Sara Smolik has battled against discrimination since law school, when she was among the BC Law students and faculty who took a case to the Supreme Court to fight military recruiting on campus while the “don’t ask, don’t

tell” policy was in place. Now a senior trial attorney

in the Boston office of the US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), Smolik has watched the erosion of workers’ rights by the use of class action waivers, the rise of mandatory arbitration agreements, and the expansion of the gig economy.

“We have a rising class of workers in this country who are working outside the traditional protections of Title VII, the Americans with Disabilities Act, and the Fair Labor Standards Act, and that’s a very big problem we’re going to have to grapple with,” she says.

“Without the basic workplace protections that guarantee a level playing field, like the right to a minimum wage, a right to overtime, a right to be free of sexual harassment, a right to be free of race discrimination in hir-ing and job assignment, how can people meaningfully participate in democracy?” asks Smolik.

“These working relation-ships need to be regulated as traditional working relationships have been for decades,” she says, warning that the withdrawal of these protections from an ever-increasing number of workers constitutes “a fundamental threat to our society.”

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3NICOLE HORBERG DECTER ’01 TOP LABOR-SIDE ATTORNEY BELIEVES THAT THE ERO-SION OF WORKERS’ SECU-RITY IS REAWAKENING A SLEEPING GIANT.

A summer internship at United Auto Workers in Detroit, and a La-bor Law class taught by Professor Thomas Kohler launched Nicole Decter into a career dedicated to securing equity and dignity for workers. Now a partner at Boston’s Segal Roitman LLP and a New England Super Lawyer in 2016-18, Decter represents public- and private-sector union clients, as well as individual clients and groups of employees in wage and hour and antidiscrimination litigation.

“American employment relation-ships have become less secure and less beneficial to workers throughout the economy,” says Decter. She sees employers in-creasingly using staffing agencies, outsourcing, and misclassification of workers as independent con-tractors to limit their obligations to employees. Since the 2016 elec-tion, workers’ protections under the National Labor Relations Act have also eroded.

On a more optimistic note, Decter sees a reinvigoration of the labor movement nationally, but particularly in Massachusetts, citing recent successful actions by unionized workers at the utility National Grid and the grocery chain Stop & Shop. “Often, unions act as canaries in the coal mine to ensure that both private and public employers are operating in an effective and accountable manner,” she says.

In an increasingly fragmented and technologically driven work-place, Decter sees isolation and lack of information as the greatest threats to workers’ rights. “Building knowledge and organizing,” she says, will be crucial to protecting those rights.

As a law student, Jaffe Dickerson de-voured oral historian Studs Terkel’s 1974 book Working, a collection of interviews about the daily experience and meaning of work in people’s lives. Over twenty-eight years at Littler Mendelson PC, the world’s largest labor and employment

firm representing management, and more recently as principal of his own Los Angeles consulting company, he has seen radical shifts from the working world captured by Terkel.

The growth of the gig economy, the decline of private sector organized labor, the rising use of arbitration agreements, and an increasing concern with workplace violence have all impacted his practice. Looking forward, he sees Artificial Intel-ligence and the harnessing of big data as driving major changes far into the future.

Big data enables companies to analyze every aspect of their operations, from tracking workers’ compensation claims to identifying facilities with high

levels of sexual harassment allegations. These developments can spur organiza-tions to adopt robust policies on safety and training that benefit employees as well as employers: “They improve the workplace; everybody gets smarter,” says Dickerson.

In the short term, Dickerson will be monitoring moves by state legislatures to require paid parental leave, and watching three SCOTUS cases sched-uled to be heard in Fall 2019. These will determine whether civil rights protec-tions in the workplace extend to sexual orientation and gender identity. “This will be a landmark one way or the other,” he predicts.

1JAFFE DICKERSON ’75 VETERAN LAWYER IDENTIFIES AI AND BIG DATA AS BIGGEST REFORMERS OF WORK LIFE AS WE KNOW IT.

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GENERATIONS 40CLASS NOTES 41

ALUMNI NEWS 46

SPOTLIGHTSGordon Smith 41 Jennifer Millones 42 Joseph Greaves and Jeffrey Siger 43 Matthew Yospin 44 Natalina Depina 45

CLICK 50ADVANCING EXCELLENCE 52

Alumni News and Events of Note

GENERATIONS

Michael Alan Hacker ’78 and his daughter,

Jamie R. Hacker ’13.


Class Notes

58 Lawrence A. Ruttman spoke at the “Fenway Fans” event at the

Massachusetts Historical Society in May. He is the author of a memoir, My Eighty-Two Year Love Affair with Fenway Park: From Teddy Ballgame to Mookie Betts, and a book, American Jews and America’s Game: Voices of a Growing Legacy in Baseball, which was later adapted into a musical play.

68 Hon. John “Jack” P. Connor Jr. and his wife, Judy, were

named Xaverian Medal and Gala 2019 honorees by Xaverian Brothers High School in Westwood, MA, for their decades-long commitment to the school and its mission. Connor retired as a justice of the Massachu-setts Superior Court in 2012. Prior to his judicial appointment, he was a partner at Connor & Hilliard in Wal-pole, MA, focusing on criminal and civil litigation, and had practiced law for thirty years.

70 Fred Hopengarten was elected to the Board of Directors of the

American Radio Relay League, the national organization for amateur radio comprised of more than 160,000 members. His election to the fifteen-member board was the realization of a lifelong dream for Hopengarten, who has been an FCC-licensed radio ham since the age of ten. A telecommunications lawyer in Lincoln, MA, author, and frequent speaker, he maintains a website featuring his articles and recent activities at antennazoning.com.

76 Gordon H. Smith was appointed by Maine Governor Janet Mills

as the state’s first director of Opioid Response. His first action in this position, which is housed within the new Office of Innovation and the Future, was the establishment of the Prevention and Recovery Cabinet, which convened in April. He is the former executive vice president of the Maine Medical Association, on which he has served for forty-four years.

77 Len DeLuca, invited by BC Law Profes-sor Fred Yen to host

his opening class on sports law in January, delivered his “Game of Thrones” lecture, a ninety-minute analysis of the college sports legal, media, and business landscape. He is the founder of Len DeLuca & As-sociates LLC in New York, NY, and an adjunct assistant professor at the New York University (NYU) Stern School of Business Entertainment Media and Technology program, and at the NYU Tisch Institute for Global Sport.

79 Lauren Stiller Rikleen is the author of The Shield of Silence:

How Power Perpetuates a Culture of Harassment and Bullying in the Workplace published by the Ameri-can Bar Association in May. She is an attorney, founder, and president of the Rikleen Institute for Strategic Leadership in Wayland, MA, and a prominent speaker on workplace culture issues.

81 Steven Wright was named senior vice president and general

counsel of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston. As the Boston Fed’s senior legal officer, he provides counsel to the bank’s leadership, is

a member of the Executive Com-mittee, and heads the legal services group. Wright comes to his new position following a twenty-year career with Holland & Knight LLP, where he was the executive partner in charge of the Boston office.

85 Alicia Alvarez was named associate dean of experiential educa-

tion at John Marshall Law School in Chicago, IL. She was previously a clinical professor and director of the Community and Economic Devel-opment Clinic at the University of Michigan Law School. Alvarez has lectured on legal education at numerous conferences, published extensively, and is co-author with BC Law Professor Paul R. Tremblay of Introduction to Transactional Lawyering Practice, published by West in 2013.

87 Joseph H. Baldiga was appointed to a three-year term as a hear-

ing officer by the Massachusetts Board of Bar Overseers. He is a part-ner in the Westborough, MA, office of Mirick O’Connell and co-chair of the firm’s creditors rights and bankruptcy group. He has served as a Chapter 7 bankruptcy trustee for the District of Massachusetts since 1997 and is a board member of the 26.2 Foundation, the Hopkinton (MA) Chamber of Commerce, and the Rotary Club of Westborough.

90 Jared W. Huffman, US Representative for California’s 2nd

Congressional District, was named to the US House Select Committee on the Climate Crisis. An environ-mental leader, he is a member of the

GORDON SMITH ’76What It Takes On the job training for Maine’s first Opi-oid Response director to coor-dinate the state’s effort to slow the epidemic requires “learning the patience necessary to work within the bureaucracy of state government.” Alarming Statistic Maine’s opioid crisis claims an average of more than one life every day. Plan of Attack The purchase of 34,000 units of anti-overdose medication and the training of 250 recovery coaches plus a full-time recovery coach in ten emergency departments across the state. Goal To stem the tide by facilitating the movement of more people into treatment programs.

Written and edited by Deborah J. Wakefield and Margie Palladino ’85

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US House Committee on Natural Resources and an early co-sponsor of the Green New Deal, a stimulus program addressing climate change and economic inequality.

Heidi Martinez was appointed chief IP counsel and associate gen-eral counsel of Xerox Corporation in Rochester, NY, where she was previ-ously associate general IP counsel.

91 Maryann Civitello re-tired from Mintz Levin in 2018 and contin-

ues to do legal work for Elizabeth Stone House, on whose board she has served for many years. She also works for the nonprofit Friends of St. Bernard.

Susan M. Finegan is the recipient of the 2019 Great Friend of Justice Award presented by the Massachu-setts Bar Foundation for her dedica-tion and commitment to equal jus-tice. She is a partner in the Boston office of Mintz Levin and chair of the firm’s Pro Bono Committee, serves as co-chair of the Massachusetts Access to Justice Commission, and is a member of the Supreme Judicial Court’s Standing Committee on Pro Bono Legal Services. A nation-ally recognized pro bono pioneer, Finegan’s pro bono cases include her work to defeat President Trump’s first immigration travel ban in 2017 and the passage of a Massachusetts restraining order law for victims of sexual assault.

Hon. Jonathan J. Kane was confirmed as an associate justice of the Massachusetts Housing Court following nomination by Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker. Prior to his confirmation, he was co-managing partner of Fierst, Kane & Bloomberg LLP in Northampton, MA, and served as a member of the Housing Court Bench Bar Committee.

94 Hon. Kathryn E. Hand was named associate justice of the Mas-

sachusetts Appeals Court. Former presiding justice of the Appellate Division of the District Court, Southern Division and the Barn-stable District Court, she currently serves on the Supreme Judicial Court Standing Advisory Commit-tee on the Rules of Civil Procedure, has led the District Court Debt Col-lection Working Group since 2017, and is a mentor in the Trial Court Judicial Mentoring Program.

Jonathan W. Hugg was named co-chair of the financial services litigation practice group at Schnader Harrison Segal & Lewis LLP. He is resident in the firm’s Philadelphia, PA, office and concentrates his prac-tice on commercial and appellate litigation. He is a frequent speaker on business law issues and the au-thor of numerous articles, most re-cently an online piece about the new Uniform Voidable Transactions Act that became law in Pennsylvania.

Hon. Janet J. Mahon, an adminis-trative law judge for the US Social Security Administration in Orlando, FL, is also an author, poet, and the founder of Autherine Publishing. As J. Autherine, she published her third book,Wild Heart, Peaceful Soul: Poems of Inspiration to Live and Love Harmoniously, in January; and recently launched an online community, “Books, Poetry, Positiv-ity, and Purpose” at www.janetau-therine.com.

95 Gregory P. Varga was elected a Fellow of the American College of

Coverage Counsel, an international association of lawyers who repre-sent the interests of insurers and policyholders. He is a partner in the Hartford, CT, office of Robinson &

Cole LLP, where he is chair of the firm’s Technology Committee and focuses his practice on insurance coverage and corporate litigation.

96 Hon. Joyce Campbell Priveterre has a new position as an appeal

hearing officer at the New York City Department of Housing Preserva-tion and Development. She is the principal of Campbell Priveterre Dispute Resolution PLLC, a media-tion and arbitration practice special-izing in employment discrimination, in New York, NY.

Robert Fletcher was named chief legal officer and vice president of Stryker Corporation, a medical tech-nology company headquartered in Kalamazoo, MI. He was previously vice president of global litigation at Johnson & Johnson in Boston, where he also served as general counsel to the company’s medical devices and pharmaceutical sectors.

Jennifer Millones , chief legal of-ficer and assistant secretary of New-man’s Own Foundation in Westport, CT, spoke at an event sponsored by the BC Law Business Law Society and Boston Alumni Chapter at BC Law in April.

98 Kristen Mathews is a partner in the New York, NY, office of

Morrison & Foerster and a member of the firm’s global privacy and data security group. She was previously a partner and head of the privacy and cybersecurity group at Proskauer Rose LLP.

Geoffrey G. Why was honored as one of the “50 Most Influential At-torneys of Color in Greater Boston” by Get Konnected! A partner in the Boston office of Verrill Dana LLP, he focuses his practice on the tele-communications industry. He was

JENNIFER MILLONES ’96Main Attraction Working for Newman’s Own Founda-tion enables her to be part of a company that gives 100 percent of its profits to charity. As Paul Newman said, “What could be better than to hold your hand out to those less for-tunate?” Favorite Perk All of the pasta sauce I can eat! Best Career Advice Received

“When I graduated from college, the job market was terrible. My first job was working for a car finance company trying to convince people to buy their cars after their lease. When I in-terviewed for the job, my future boss said, ‘I don’t care that you went to an Ivy League college. Can you sell cars?’ That always stuck with me. If you can’t do the job, it doesn’t matter what credentials you have. I never rest on my credentials. I’m always trying to do the best job for the task at hand. I was the leading car salesman, by the way! When not working… “I am driving my three kids around. If I get a break from driving, you can find me on the tennis or paddle courts.”

previously a member of the com-munication practice at Mintz Levin in Boston. Why also serves as vice treasurer on the Board of Directors of the Asian Community Develop-ment Corporation.

99 Gregory F. Corbett, a partner in the Boston office of Wolf

Greenfield, was appointed chair of the firm’s litigation practice. With nearly twenty years of experience in first chair litigation, he counsels

clients in the areas of complex intellectual property and patent litigation, post-grant proceedings, appellate proceedings, and licensing. He was previously a partner in the Washington, DC, office of Kirkland & Ellis LLP.

Jared M. Viders announces the publication of his first book, Seize the Moment! Finding Meaning-fulness in the Here and Now, by Mosaica Press in October. His law practice in Suffern, NY, consists primarily of litigation and drafting


On November 1, 2019, the Alumni Association will hold an Alumni Board meeting followed by the annual Assembly Meet-ing. Elections for 2020 Alumni Board members will be held during these events. Anyone who has volunteered for BC Law in 2019 is eligible to vote. Please visit bc.edu/lawalumni or contact Lauren McCauslin, associate director of alumni relations and volunteer engagement, at [email protected] for more information about the association and this election.

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TRIFECTA: THREE GC’S HONORED AS LEADERS Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly and New England In-House named three BC Law alumnae as 2019 In-House Leaders in the Law. They were honored for playing integral roles at their businesses and devoting substantial time to their communities.

1. Meredith Ainbind-er ’04, deputy general counsel at Emerson College since 2016, provides wide-ranging counsel to the Boston-based educational institution, which also has facilities in Los Angeles and the Neth-erlands. Her areas of responsibility include education law, labor and employment, stu-dent affairs, intellectual property, business law, and more. Ainbinder is the immediate past president of the Women’s Bar Associa-tion of Massachusetts and has held various committee chair posts in the Boston Bar Association. Her focus is on mentoring the next generation of women lawyers, help-ing women succeed as attorneys, bringing attention to sexual misconduct in the pro-fession, and creating meaningful networks for in-house counsel.

2. Thanda Fields Brassard ’97, vice president and trust counsel at Fiduciary Trust Co. and vice president and general counsel at Fiduciary Trust Co. of New England, joined Fi-duciary Trust in 2006. She was instrumental in setting up the 130-year-old private wealth management firm’s New Hampshire affiliate, which now holds over $1.6 billion in assets under her supervision. Brassard is on the boards of the Massachusetts nonprofits Ellie Fund, offering assistance to breast cancer patients, and the Judge Baker Children’s Center in Mission Hill, providing support to children with behavioral and mental health disabili-ties. She is president of Frederick E. Weber Charities, provid-ing grants to human services organizations in Massachusetts.

3. Jane P. Kour-tis ’89, associate general counsel at Bright Horizons, joined the company in 2002. She handles a wide array of business and operational legal matters, supporting the company’s growth from 200 child care locations to more than 1,000, and its addition of three new service lines: backup child and elder care, educational advising, and employee tuition assistance and loan repayment programs. Among her many community endeav-ors, Kourtis helped to establish a faith-based preschool, is the di-rector of her church’s youth music program, and is an officer of her church’s women’s organization whose mission is to help the poor, aged, sick, and imprisoned.

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CAREER CHANGE

Joseph Greaves ’81 and Jeffrey Siger ’69 are delighting readers and critics alike with their crime-fighting novels.

Greaves recently announced the pub-lication of his sixth novel, Church of the Graveyard Saints, published by Torrey House Press. A previous book, Tom and Lucky, was a Wall Street Journal Best Books of 2015 selection and a finalist for the 2016 Harper Lee Prize.

After experiencing a self-described “epic mid-life crisis,” Greaves left his California law practice and moved to Santa Fe to pursue his long-deferred dream of writing. He is a member of the National Book Critics Circle and the book critic for the Four Corners Free

Press in southwestern Colorado, where he currently lives.

Siger is the author of The Myko-nos Mob, the tenth book in his Chief Inspector Andreas Kaldis series, which was published by Poisoned Pen Press in April. An Aegean April, the ninth in the series, was included in Library Journal’s “Best Books of 2018.” Siger was named as Greece’s thriller novelist of record in the August 2018 New York Times Book Review article, “All the World’s a Crime: Thrillers from Around the World,” and selected as one of six authors—and the only American—writ-ing mysteries that serve as a guide to Greece by the Hellenic General Secre-tariat of Media and Communications.

A Pittsburgh native and former Wall Street lawyer, he left his New York City law firm to write mystery novels and now lives on the Greek Island of Mykonos.

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briefs on behalf of other New York firms. Jared also is a member of the faculty at Yeshiva Ohr Somayach in Monsey, NY, where he received his rabbinical ordination.

02 Kate Sandman McKinley is a senior managing director

and general counsel at State Street Global Advisors in Boston. She manages the company’s legal affairs worldwide and oversees attorneys, paralegals, and legal assistants in Boston, Montreal, London, Paris, Tokyo, Hong Kong, and Sydney. She previously served as the chief operating officer of their Americas Institutional Client Group and was responsible for the management and operation of the firm’s institu-tional business in North America and Latin America.

03 Sara P. Bryant was named vice president of the board of direc-

tors of the Boston Chapter of Pro-fessional Women in Construction, a national nonprofit organization that supports women and promotes di-versity in architecture, engineering, construction, and related indus-tries. She is the managing partner in the Boston office of Murtha Cullina and a member of the firm’s Litiga-tion Department and construction practice group.

Peter F. Durning is the managing partner of Mackie Shea PC, an envi-ronmental, land use, and litigation law firm based in Boston. He focuses his practice on environmental litiga-tion, enforcement defense, land use and permitting, and water- and wet-lands-related matters; and represents public companies, high net worth individuals, investors in renewable energy facilities, small businesses, and communities. He was previously an associate at Goulston & Storrs.

04 Jeremy C. McDi-armid was named vice president of

policy and government affairs at Northeast Clean Energy Council, a Boston-based nonprofit organization dedicated to building a clean energy economy in the Northeast. He was previously the manager of commer-cial business development at Sun-Bug Solar, a Massachusetts-based provider of solar energy solutions.

05 Becka Rich is director of the Legal Research Center and assistant

teaching professor at Drexel Univer-sity Thomas R. Kline School of Law in Philadelphia, PA. She was previ-ously senior associate director and adjunct professor at the Panza Maur-er Law Library at Nova Southeastern University Shepard Broad College of Law in Fort Lauderdale, FL.

John C. Lacy ’48John Dzienkowski ’49Margaret E. King ’53Paul C. Haley ’55Harold L. Schwab ’56Philip H. Cahalin ’57Kieran T. Ridge ’58

David E. Tardif ’58Hon. Richard H.

Beddow Jr. ’59Raymond D. Ivaska ’59Quinlan J. Shea ’59Bruce N. Sachar ’60Harold Hestnes ’61

James P. McCarthy ’61John Herbert Sullivan ’62Donald J. O’Meara ’64Charles David

Lamoureux ’72Joseph R. Palumbo ’72Tyrone Mark Powell ’72

Joseph P. Gordon Jr. ’73Lawrence H. Mandell ’74Joan A. M. Gearin ’77Carol R. Cohen ’78David M. Smithson ’84Berton D. Reed ’85Rebecca S. Webber ’89

IN MEMORIAM

07 M. Patrick Moore Jr. is a partner at Boston-based Hemenway

& Barnes LLP and concentrates his practice on complex business, administrative, land use, and appel-late litigation. He was previously an associate counsel and advisor in the White House Office of Presidential Personnel in the Barack Obama ad-ministration. He is an adjunct pro-fessor at BC Law, writes and lectures on appellate, administrative, and campaign finance law, serves as co-chair of the Boston Bar Association Government Lawyers Forum, and is a member of the Advisory Board of the Rappaport Center for Law and Public Policy at BC Law.

08 Alexander Lazar is a partner and mem-ber of the corporate

practice group in the New York, NY, office of Sheppard Mullin. He focuses on counseling emerging and established companies on corpo-rate and commercial matters in the ecommerce, internet, digital media, life sciences, and high technology industry sectors.

09 Matthew M. Yospin is a patent and intel-lectual property at-

torney in private practice in Boston and focuses his practice on helping businesses protect their innova-

MATTHEW YOSPIN ’09Motivation Yospin transi-tioned from computer software consulting to IP law to work more directly with people and help them with a broader range of business and strategy challenges. Four Must-Have Qualities to Start a Practice (1) Be detail-oriented and have a system for tracking lots of different information; (2) be honest as you conduct a SWOT (strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, threats) analysis, revisit it, and act on it; (3) keep learning; and (4) track your time, assess your own perfor-mance, and regularly consider what makes sense to delegate. Most Interesting Innova-tion Worked On “One that I think every law student could appreciate: an alarm clock that is very difficult to deactivate! No more hitting snooze and missing an 8 a.m. class.”

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tions and grow their brands with patent and trademark strategies. He lectures regularly on intellec-tual property issues, as well as on legal technology and law practice management. In March he spoke at the Global IP Exchange Europe in Berlin, Germany, about intangible assets and social media data; and in April spoke on three panels at the IPQuorum 2019 in Svetlogorsk, Russia. He is co-chair of the Solo Practitioner and Small Firm Sub-committee of the American Intel-lectual Property Law Association and serves on the steering commit-tee of the Boston Bar Association Solo and Small Firm Section. (To read his latest blog or subscribe to his monthly email newsletter, visit www.yospinlaw.com.)

10 Stephen A. Smith was named Pro Bono Publico Attorney as

one of six recipients of the 2019 Access to Justice Awards presented by the Massachusetts Bar Associa-tion (MBA) for exemplary legal skills and community service. His solo practice in Boston, the Law Office of Stephen A. Smith, is focused on criminal and civil litigation. In ad-dition, he volunteers for the MBA Dial-A-Lawyer program and the Bar Association of Norfolk County’s Evening Legal Clinic.

Nicholas T. Stack is a partner in the Toledo, OH, office of Shumaker, Loop & Kendrick LLP. A member of the firm’s litigation and employee compensation and benefits groups, he has extensive experience litigat-ing a broad range of commercial, appellate, and Employment Retire-ment Income Security Act issues.

11 Helen Sterling Coburn is a partner in the Portland, ME, office

of Bernstein Shur, where she is a member of the business law practice group and advises busi-nesses and investors on corporate governance, corporate financing, and general business matters. She is a member of the board of directors and is co-chair of the Program Committee of Startup Maine, a nonprofit promoting a statewide culture of entrepreneur-ship and innovation.

12 Christopher J. Cle-ments is an associate in the Boston office of

Goulston & Storrs and a member of its real estate group. He represents owners, institutional investors, and developers in connection with commercial real estate financing, acquisitions, dispositions, and trans-actions. He lectures extensively on economic development incentive topics for organizations.

13 Cassandra M. da Costa is an associate at Hicks Morley Hamilton

Stewart Storie LLP in London, Ontario, Canada, where she advises employers in the private and public sectors on a broad range of labor and employment issues. Her previous position as a labor negotiator for the City of Seattle, WA, and her experi-ence practicing law in both the US and Canada have allowed her to help employers navigate a more global regulatory landscape.

Lavinia M. Weizel is the 2018 recipient of the Richard Mintz Pro Bono Award in recognition of her dedicated efforts to help a preg-nant mother of nine children avoid eviction and find housing. She was also part of a team that advocated for new Massachusetts legislation to provide survivors of human traf-ficking representation in criminal

matters and post-conviction relief proceedings. An associate in the Boston office of Mintz Levin, she focuses her practice on complex commercial litigation.

Barrett P. Wilson-Murphy is an as-sociate in the Boston office of Rob-inson & Cole and a member of the firm’s business transactions group. Barrett is also a volunteer with the Achilles International Freedom Team, an organization that provides running and marathon opportuni-ties to wounded members of the US military and has guided disabled Iraq and Afghanistan veterans in twenty marathons.

16 Natalia DePina joined the Atlanta law firm McGuire Woods as

an associate in February. She did so after serving for just over a year as a legal fellow in the Office of the Gen-eral Counsel at Converse in Boston. She is the founder of the poverty nonprofit Project 5K.

18 Vaishali Goyal is an associate in the Boston office of

Goulston & Storrs and focuses her practice on income and trust and estate planning, family wealth planning, and charitable giving and nonprofit matters.

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NATALINA DEPINA ’16Early Influencers “My mother and aunt who were deprived of a formal educa-tion in Cape Verde, and Mrs. Nancy Maguire, my fifth grade teacher in South Boston, who convinced me that even I—a poor girl from Cape Verde, Africa—can become a lawyer.” Takeaway from US District Court Clerkship Pay close attention to details. Legal Practice Complex commercial litigation at Atlanta’s McGuire Woods. Georgia on My Mind Sworn into the Georgia state bar by mentor, friend, and BC Law alumnus Judge Thomas Cox ’87. Things Happen for a Reason A wrong turn onto LA’s skid row streets inspired her to create Project 5K, making and passing out 5,000 sandwiches to skid row’s home-less in one year.

Four-month-old Caroline Grace Harris, the obviously studious daughter of Kathryn (Smith) Harris ’12 and her husband Dan, gets an early lesson in the law. Appropriately attired in a T-shirt from Professor Robert Bloom ’71, she crams for her first exam by reading Debbie Levy’s book, I Dissent: Ruth Bader Ginsburg Makes Her Mark, a gift of Matthew Mazzotta ’10.

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The Art of Listening WellDespite the number of people sitting on the hard benches in this sunlit courtroom, there is a respectful silence. An ordinary person is sitting in the witness box. She has taken an

oath to tell the truth. Her descriptive answers to her attorney’s ques-tions begin to weave together a story. It is a deeply personal story that provides unique insight into her and the children of her fractured family. She tells this story to another ordinary person, me, who also happens to be the judge. We are separated by a bench, a black robe, and the roles we play. But we are joined together as co-participants in the daily unfolding of the rule of law.

Her role is to tell honestly the difficult story that has led to this mo-ment. Tomorrow, her husband will sit in the same chair and do the same. My role is to listen to them as unique individuals, determine which facts are true, and, utilizing the applicable law, make a decision that will allow them and their children to transition from one family to two, single-parent families. Whew. What a daunting task this is for both of us, the storyteller and the listener.

For over twenty-two years in the Plymouth and Norfolk County probate and family courts of Massachusetts, I was allowed the privi-

Twenty-two years on the bench taught James Menno to listen to his own heart. BY JAMES V. MENNO ’86

lege of listening to many good and decent people tell me their stories. Many of these fellow human beings were reluctantly facing the state-imposed ending of their most significant relation-ship—their marriage.

Some of the stories were dark and bereft of hope. I remember listening to a twenty-two-year-old mother seeking a restrain-ing order against an abusive boyfriend. I had an eerie feeling that I knew her. Shockingly, I realized that she was the same twelve-year-old child who was neglected and abused by her own parents in a case I had heard ten years before.

Many stories were just plain sad. In divorce, that is pretty much par for the course. However, I choose to remember stories that were inspiring and redemptive. I recall the father and his eleven-year-old daughter who weathered three years of supervised parent-ing time and now were reunited and enjoying just normal everyday events, like eating ice cream and taking bike rides all by themselves.

Occasionally, late in the day after the court had emptied, I would take a break from the burdensome writing tasks in my lobby. I would walk into my quiet courtroom and sit down on one of the church-like pews in the back. From there I would look up at my bench. I would try to imagine what it felt like to be sitting here. This exercise always succeeded in delivering a punch to my nose with the reality of my duty.

It has now been more than a year and a half since I retired from this way of life. Honestly, I was tired and knew that it was the right time for me to move on. It was simultaneously the most re-warding and personally draining work I had ever done.

But now that I am not facing the daily stress and pressure of hearing too many cases in not enough time, the reality of what I have spent the last two decades of my life doing has become clear. I know deep within that I found my calling and purpose for choosing the path of the law when I became a family court judge. It made me a better father, husband, teacher, and human being.

I could never have imagined the amazing journey on which I was embarking that sunny day in May 1986 when I graduated from Boston College Law School as a newly married lawyer without

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a definite job. I am profoundly grateful for the legal education I received at BCLS, and the op-portunity to be a member of such a welcoming community of fellow students and professors.

Over the years, the connection has continued. Professor Dan Coquillette’s text on lawyers and moral responsibility has been the foundation of the course I teach on law and morality at the BC’s Woods College. Professors Paul Tremblay and Mark Brodin have both guest-lectured at my past judicial conferences to fifty family court judges on casuistry/decision-making and evidence, respectively. Professor Bob Bloom has always been a lifeline for me when I needed him, and I can still remember Professor Tom Kohler showing up at Emmett Lyne’s house the night before the funeral of the dearest member of the class of 1986, James Farrell, in 2004.

Several times a year since about ten years after gradua-tion, a band of regulars from our class—brothers Warren Tolman, Skip Jenkins, Fred Gilgun, Irwin Schwartz, Tom Melville, Emmett Lyne, and I—have continued to meet at the Stockyard in Brighton for dinner, friendship, support, and laughs.

My mom taught me long ago the importance of saying thank you. To the BC Law community, my friends, and the lawyers and parties who told their important stories in my courtroom, I am eternally grateful. Thanks and blessings to you all.

James V Menno ’86 is a retired associate justice of the Massachu-setts Probate and Family Court. He teaches at the Woods College of Ad-vancing Studies at Boston College. He is presently writing a book.

John T. Montgomery ’75, for-mer First Assistant Attorney General for the Common-wealth of Massachusetts and retired managing partner at Ropes & Gray, was among more than 200 attorneys, includ-ing several others with ties to BC Law, who stepped forward April 25 to defend American democracy and the rule of law.

The attorneys (who now surpass 500) include former federal and state judges, Unit-ed States Attorneys, managing partners of large law firms, law deans, and other distinguished lawyers from around the coun-try who banded together under the name Lawyers Defending American Democracy (LDAD) to author an open letter de-manding that President Don-ald Trump honor the funda-mental principles, norms, and values of our democracy.

“As lawyers, we have the re-sponsibility to defend the un-derlying constitutional values and norms of political behav-ior on which our democracy depends,” the lawyers wrote in the letter. “These core values and principles include: the rule of law; institutional checks and balances; separation of powers; press freedom; truthfulness to the public; and the integrity of our system of justice. Accord-ingly, we, as lawyers, cannot ignore or remain silent about President Donald Trump’s disregard of these core values.

We must speak out.”The attorneys are being led

by Scott Harshbarger, former national president of Common Cause and two-term Attorney General of Massachusetts.

Montgomery is a member of LDAD’s steering commit-tee. Fellow BC Law-connected signers include Professors Robert Bloom ’71 and Mark Brodin, Professor Emeritus Charles Baron, and former Ad-junct Professor Thomas Mela; alumnus Ronald H. Rappaport ’75; and former Massachusetts Supreme Court Associate Justice and BC Law 2018 Dis-tinguished Rappaport Visiting Professor Robert J. Cordy.

“For me, the most perni-cious aspect of the current attacks by the President on the rule of … law is an underlying contempt [for] the truth, and the intentional efforts to sup-press and distort our ability to discover the truth about what our government is doing, or not doing, and why,” Montgomery said. “History teaches us that a successful democracy depends on its citizens having access to, and engaging constantly in a search for, the essential facts and other information neces-sary to inform actions by our government. I joined LDAD to help marshal and amplify the voices of lawyers on a biparti-san basis to speak knowledge-ably and forcefully about the danger that our democracy faces from these attacks.”

He encourages others to learn more and sign on at www.law-yersdefendingdemocray.org.

Montgomery Decries Contempt for Rule of LawUrges attorneys to join coalition defending democracy.

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An ‘Instrument of Fairness’

The Boston College Women’s Law Center (WLC) honors one exceptional BC Law alumna annually for making noteworthy contributions to the legal profes-

sion through practice, community involvement, or scholarship in the field. This year’s award went to Middlesex County District Attorney Marian Ryan ’79. In her introduction of Ryan at the April 4 award ceremony, Professor Sharon Beckman called Ryan coura-geous, creative, collaborative, and extremely generous.

Borrowing a phrase coined to describe 1930s-era Ginger Rog-ers in a man’s world, Beckman metaphorically compared Ryan—who in 2013 became the first woman District Attorney in Massa-chusetts—to the dancer who did everything Fred Astaire did only more skillfully because she did it backwards and in high heels.

The WLC noted that it selected Ryan as the 11th Annual Woman of the Year not only because of her service preventing harm and pursuing justice across the Commonwealth, but also because of her position as a role model and mentor to the next generation of female lawyers.

Meet the unflagging, unflappable Marian Ryan. BY ERIKA CRAVEN ’21

Ryan’s background is well documented. She graduated with honors from both Emmanuel Col-lege in 1976 and Boston College Law School in 1979. Her under-standing of law enforcement, victimization, and the judicial system was reinforced in 1980 when she became the victim of a violent assault and witness to the murder of her then-boyfriend. At the time, Ryan was a young as-sistant district attorney starting her career as a prosecutor.

Instead of discouraging her, Ryan acknowledges that the incident strengthened her re-solve and turned the harrowing experience into something posi-tive. Subsequently, she built her career on supporting exhaustive and unassailable investiga-tions, victim advocacy, fair trials, just verdicts, and crime prevention. “The world is a very unfair place,” she explains, “but people have a deep desire to see fairness and know that they are being heard,” which is why she works so hard to be an “instru-ment for fairness.”

Ryan took a position at the Middlesex District Attorney’s Office—the only place in the area at the time that allowed women to handle homicide cases—and worked her way up briefing and arguing a wide number of cases in the Massachusetts Appeals Court and Supreme Judicial Court.

When the top job, an elected post, opened up mid-term, Ryan saw people lining up for the position but didn’t know how to get into the race herself. “This is where sometimes men have an advantage,” she observes. “Men raise their hand and try it out while women often take more time to think about [an opportu-nity] and the moment passes.”

Middlesex County District Attorney Marian Ryan ’79

“This is where sometimes men have an advantage. Men raise their hand and try it out while women often take more time to think about [an opportunity] and the moment passes.”

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With few expectations, she wrote a letter to Governor Deval Patrick and still expresses astonishment that, in 2013, he appointed her Middlesex County District Attorney. The follow-ing year she ran to secure her seat, beat back a primary chal-lenger, and was unopposed in the general election. She is now serving her second term oversee-ing Middlesex County, which encompasses more than one quarter of the Massachusetts population, fifty-four cities and towns, and over twenty colleges and universities.

By numerous accounts, Ryan redefined the role of District At-torney not only because she was the first female in the position and paved the way for others, but because she has stood up for progressive justice reform. She has helped implement signifi-cant changes in the handling of non-violent offenses and taken a collaborative approach to the opioid crisis, aiding in the reduc-tion of fatal opioid overdoses by 11.5 percent countywide in 2017. Ryan has also worked extensively with immigrant and senior com-munities and is closely connect-ed to many education programs throughout the county. For this, she says, groups not known for praising district attorneys have rallied behind her.

Ryan attributes much of her success to her love of her work, support from her family (her son, Michael Foley, graduated from BC Law in May), and the purposeful choices she has made. As she reflects on her career, she shares this advice with aspiring lawyers: “Nothing gets you through without hard work, but no one is diminished by showing compassion.”

When Thomas J. Carey was a law student in the 1960s, students took two years of required courses and then electives, all of them book-intensive, podium-based, and focused on the fundamental legal knowledge required for bar passage. Clinical education, popular today, did not exist.

Yet, for the entirety of his career, Carey, has influenced clinics, compe-titions, and hands-on coursework. Judith McMorrow, BC Law’s dean of experiential learning, calls him “the utility infielder for all things advo-cacy.” He is a former full-time faculty member of BC Law, currently juggles his adjunct teaching duties with a career in private practice, remains involved in the Law School’s Moot Court Teams, and is the impetus behind the two-year-old Am-icus Brief Clinic.

The clinic is a “pop-up” that responds to calls for amici from the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts. In one recent instance, the process involved a professor interested in the subject (Mark Brodin), a student (Nickolas Merrill ’20), and Carey, who acted as signing attorney.

Merrill recalls one memorable moment when Carey directed him to a specific hornbook in the

law library. Not only did Carey remember the title and author, he also described the cover design of the book, the year of publication, and the publisher. “Sure enough, I go into the library, and there’s the book, exactly as he describes it,” Merrill says. “He has one of the sharpest memories I know of.”

Carey’s own legal training began early. His mother was a law student in the 1930s. Though she left before graduation, she worked as a legal secretary, and her interest in the field inspired her son. He attended Boston College and BC Law. “Like a bad penny, I arrived on campus in 1958 and never left,” Carey laughs. “I fell in love with the law very quickly.”

In those days, the Law School steered stu-dents to specific practice areas, guiding them into prospective careers while carefully managing the interview process. As a result, Carey and a class-mate were sent into Boston, each to meet with two judges for open clerkship positions. Carey left the meeting adoring Judge Andrew Caffrey while his peer favored the other judge. “Luckily,” Carey chuckles, “the judges went out to lunch to discuss their selections and felt the exact same way.”

That clerkship led Carey to an LLM at Har-vard Law and then to a brief second clerkship. By 1968 Carey was teaching at Suffolk Law School and in 1971 became a full-time faculty member

at BC Law.Carey eventually left his teach-

ing post for private practice and for a stint as an appellate attorney at the Suffolk County District Attorney’s Office. Even so, he remained active in advocacy programs at BC Law. He returned to the faculty in an adjunct role in 1990, and started the Appel-

late Advocacy Seminar.Reflecting on his career, Carey remembers his

law professors as superb, recounts stories of his students graduating with impressive experiential credentials, and even tells of how he paid for his own education: He used the proceeds from the farm stand he ran as a teenager outside his home in Hingham, MA, where he has long been active in the town’s civic affairs.

In these moments, with his immediate recall of names, dates, and cases on full display, it isn’t dif-ficult to see why Professor Brodin considers Carey a “master teacher, master lawyer, and the most knowledgeable lawyer I’ve ever known.”

In His Own Good TimeFive decades in, Thomas Carey ’65 still makes his mark on clinical education. BY BRETT GANNON ’21

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The Ritz-Carlton Boston came to life May 1 as more than 200 guests paid tribute to five distinguished alumni being honored with BC Law’s top awards. Dean Vincent Rougeau’s welcome preceded the presentations by Law Day Committee co-chairs Michael K. Fee ’84 and James E. McDermott ’80. The St. Thomas More Award was bestowed upon Hon. Ellen Huvelle ’75, senior US district judge of the US District Court for the District of Columbia. Former US Representative Michael Capuano ’77 was given the Wil-liam J. Kenealy, SJ, Alumnus of the Year Award. Hon. Denis P. Cohen ’76, judge of the Court of Common Pleas in Philadel-phia, won the Daniel G. Holland Lifetime Achievement Award. The Hon. David S. Nelson Public Interest Law Award went to Jennifer Smith ’98, executive director of the International Legal Foundation. Esther Adetunji ’11, supervising attorney at Bread for the City in Washington, DC, received the Recent Graduate Award.

1. Esther Adetunji ’11 with her family. 2. Jen-nifer Smith ’98. 3. Hon. Ellen Huvelle ’75 and Vincent Rougeau. 4. Former US Rep. Michael Capuano ’77. 5. Robert Bloom ’71, left, with Robert P. Joy ’75, and Hon. William P. Robinson III ’75. 6. James E. McDermott ’80, Hon. Denis P. Cohen ’76, Jennifer Smith ’98, Hon. Ellen Huvelle ’75, Dean Rougeau, Esther Adetunji ’11, Michael Capuano ’77, Michael K. Fee ’84. 7. Hon. Denis Cohen ’76. 8. David Weinstein ’75 and Hon. Ellen Huvelle ’75.

To view photos and video of Law Day, go to www.bc.edu/lawday.


In a commencement address filled with hope, US Congressman Robert

“Bobby” Scott ’73 (bottom left) said this to BC Law’s Class of 2019: “I can’t wait to see the best that is in all of you. Our future is brighter because you took the harder path forward. In life and work you will be tempted to choose the easier path. But when faced with the temptation to take the easier route, I hope you remember the Jesuit prin-ciples that Boston College Law School seeks to instill in each of its students: public service, social justice, and a com-mitment to excellence.” Two hundred and forty-five graduates received JD degrees at the 86th Commence-ment exercises May 24, including one December 2018 graduate. Sixteen LLM students also received degrees.

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Each year, the past, present, and future of BC Law coalesce for an elegant evening at the Scholarship

Dinner. Alumni, faculty, and friends of the school join with students whose law school educations are made possible through endowed scholarships and generous current-use gifts for financial aid. Yesteryears at BC Law are re-membered, today’s students are celebrated, and the impact these men and women will make in the future is imagined.

As he welcomed guests, Dean Vincent Rougeau spoke of the “sense of purpose and dedication” expressed by those who support financial aid. Many BC Law donors find that creating an endowed scholarship fund celebrates their own memories and experi-ences as a student, while extending the op-portunity of a high qual-ity legal education to a new generation. Every scholarship donor has a unique perspective.

Speaker Jeffrey Sabin ’77 fondly remem-bered his own formative experience at BC Law, which inspires him to extend that opportunity to today’s students. As he shared his memories, he stressed that the BC Law community—sup-portive, collaborative,

Behind Every Gift Lies a Story Purpose and dedication are hallmarks of endowed scholarships at BC Law.

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challenging, and fun—enhanced his law school years and remains a powerful influence today.

Ropes & Gray partner Mark Nuccio ’83, par-ent of three Eagles and relative of many more, established the Mary and Vincent Nuccio BC Law Scholarship Fund in his parents’ names. Vincent Nuccio helped to build BC’s Lynch School of Education and Human Development, where he is professor emeritus. Mark Nuccio sees his scholarship as a legacy that reflects his own commitment to BC Law as well as his fam-ily’s deep involvement with Boston College.

The Scholarship Dinner is a special point of connection for Carmen Ortiz, former US Attorney for Massachusetts, to her late hus-band, Michael Morisi, BC class of ’79. Morisi’s law partner, Andrew Oatway ’92 created the Michael V. Morisi Endowed Scholarship Fund in partnership with Morisi’s family to support a student who, like Morisi, is driven to fight for others and has “great tenacity, loyalty, and zeal.” The scholarship honors Michael Morisi’s memory and keeps his passion for justice alive.

Marcia Leander and Harry Hadiaris, par-ents of Lauren Hadiaris ’18, saw their daugh-ter had a stellar experience at BC Law, and

celebrated her graduation by making a gift to support financial aid. They took advantage of Leander’s employer match program to further amplify the impact of their own generosity. Father and daughter attended the Scholarship Dinner for their first time, weaving their own tighter bond with the school.

As guests mingled, they shared personal stories of what draws them to BC Law. They spoke of memories, recent and past, that shape them. And many students, like the Eugene and Mary Carey Scholar John Marley ’21, who shared remarks during the event, expressed hope of paying it forward.

Thanks to the dedication of the BC Law community—the alumni, parents, faculty, and friends whose generous support educates lawyers with a commitment to social justice and service—generations now and to come will make their own compelling memories of BC Law. And they’ll carry its mission forward in ways we can only imagine.

What are your powerful memories of BC Law? Share them with us; contact Jessica Cashdan at 617-552-3536 or [email protected].

Michael Fee, Robert Bloom, and Jeffrey Sabin share a moment of camara-derie commonplace at BC Law gatherings, especially those intended to make ac-cess to education possible for coming generations.


The myriad effects of the Watergate scandal include numerous election reform

laws, the ubiquitous “-gate” suffix, and the legal career of Michael K. Fee ’81, JD ’84.

“I was riveted by the Watergate hearings,” recalls the Latham & Wat-kins partner, who was in high school at the time. “There were lawyers on all sides—the bad guys, the good guys, everybody was a lawyer. I was fascinated by public corruption.” He earned his bachelor’s degree from Boston College in political science, and after graduating from the Law School in 1984, joined the Public Integrity Section of the US Depart-ment of Justice, created in the wake of the scandal to investigate crimes committed by public officials.

Fee has continued to focus on white collar crime, government en-forcement, and public corruption in private practice. BC Law, he says, was the launching pad that positioned him for a successful legal career.

He remembers law school fondly, particularly his third year as editor-in-chief of the Boston College Law Review. “I always felt that was an important responsibility because that publication helps convey to the

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legal community, scholars, and others the level of scholarship that goes on at BC Law School,” he says. The school’s distinctive emphasis on public service also made a lasting impression, inspir-ing Fee to serve the town of Needham as town meeting moderator since 1997, among other volunteer activities.

A long-time supporter of the Law School, Fee makes a special commit-ment to help deserving students attend. “When I arrived at BC Law, I had loans and a part-time job, like so many other students. It’s always a challenge to make ends meet and I think it’s only become more challenging as costs have risen.” Fee and his wife established the Michael Kelley Fee and Elizabeth Clancy Fee BC Law School Scholarship Fund to support those who—like Fee did—need help to afford law school and choose to work on the Law Review.

The Fees take every opportunity, in-cluding the Scholarship Dinner, to get to know their scholarship recipients. They are talented, serious students, says Fee, whom he enjoys mentoring during their law school days and beyond.

As he considers the BC Law that shaped him and the school it is today, Fee says it has stayed loyal to its mis-sion: “to prepare students not only for life as a lawyer, but for life.”

On March 12, the BC Law community came together to make the inaugural BC Law Giving Day a resounding success. Donors were able to direct their gifts to areas of greatest importance to them, supporting everything from financial aid and strengthen-ing specific programs across the school to enhancing the work of the Public Interest Law Foundation (PILF) and the Law School Center for Experiential Learning.

Donations from alumni, parents, and friends of the school made throughout the day were amplified by $60,000 in challenge gifts from Mary and Bob Decelles ’72 and James A. Champy ’68. Each and every gift will have an enduring impact on BC Law.

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John-Henry Marley ’21 has just finished his first year at BC Law, but the powerful memo-ries he’s made here have already shaped his ideals and aspirations. At the recent Scholarship Dinner, he reflected on his experience.

Memorable highlights of Marley’s 1L year included joining the Black Law Students Association, serving pro bono legal clients, and winning the Ne-gotiation Competition. He calls the school’s fundamental value system a transformative influence that has made him eager “to carry Boston College Law School values into the ‘big law’ space.”

He’s passionate about the op-portunities that the Eugene and Mary Carey Endowed Scholarship to BC Law has opened up for him, and about the importance of access to education for those who, like him, could not afford it without financial aid. “When the cost of entry to education is prohibitive, the result is systemic, generational economic shackling of entire communities,” he says.

Marley has been support-ing his family since he was seventeen. “When I was young, my family looked to me and said, ‘It’s your job to use the talents God gave you and uplift us all,’” he recalls. The Carey Scholar-ship has given him the access to advance his professional life, his family, and his community.

“This is the first step toward a career that will give me the opportunity to pay forward ev-erything I have been so fortunate to receive,” he says.

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Celebrating the classes ending in 4 and 9. Relive your days as a law student and join hundreds of BC Law alumni for a weekend full of social, networking, and educational events.

To get involved as a volunteer, visit www.bc.edu/ lawreunion or contact the BC Law Alumni Association at 617-552-2696 or [email protected].

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Honor outstanding individuals for their courage and commitment to the ideals of BC Law School. Proceeds go to the Law School Fund for student scholarships.

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Alumni and FriendsKathryn Jean Barton ’87Stephen J. Brogan and Mary

Finnegan BroganJohn D. Cooney and

Barbara CooneyDavid A. T. Donohue ’71 and

Pamela DonohueBarbara R. Evans and

William L. Evans

Michael K. Fee ’84 and Elizabeth Clancy Fee

Edward T. Hanley, Jr. ’86Albert A. Notini ’78Jeffrey S. Sabin ’77 and

Evelyn L. SabinRichard A. Spillane Jr. and

Joanne M. SpillanePaul E. Sullivan ’69 and

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Laura M. Twomey ’97 and Christopher Twomey

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Patrick T. QuinnRobert L. Raskopf ’76 and

Kristen Sorensen RaskopfTimothy M. Smith ’87 and

Eileen Morris SmithCarla A. Salvucci ’03Kathleen E. Shannon ’75 and

George M. Kunath ’73

Kathleen Street ’89John A. Tarantino ’81 and

Patrice TarantinoJohn R. Walkey ’63 and

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Pasha P’21Robert L. Peabody ’83 and

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Richard J. Schulman ’70 and Nancy A. Schulman

Peter W. Fink ’70 and Joan FinkMitchell J. Sikora ’69William C. Sullivan ’68 and

Michele Doyle SullivanJovi Tenev ’’78 and

Nancy B. HingstonDavid J. Tracy ’77Courtney D. Trombly ’01Victoria Turbini and

Dean M. HashimotoDr. Carol Vasconcellos ’09Susan Ferren Warner and

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Alumni and FriendsAnonymousBrian A. Berube ’88 and

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Michael K. Fee ’84Richard B. Shane ’96 and Blair ShaneLawrence R. Sidman ’73 and

Jana Beth SingerKevin John Simard ’89 and

Linda Sandstrom SimardLawrence O. Spaulding ’72 and

Anne SpauldingCarolyn P. Stennett ’91Kathleen M. Vanderziel ’92John F. Ventola ’94 and

Elaine Shimkin Ventola ’94Deedra Smith Walkey ’91James M. Wilton ’90 and

Erika Z. Wilton

Corporations and FoundationsAnonymousCVR Associates Inc.Goldberg Family FoundationThe Eleanor F. Langan

Foundation of 1997Marino, Tortorella & Boyle PCNational Philanthropic TrustProskauer Rose LLPQuinn Emanuel Urquhart &

Sullivan LLPRenaissance Charitable

Foundation Inc.Rhode Island FoundationSeyfarth Shaw LLPUnited Way of Rhode IslandVerdolino & Lowey PC


ALUMNI

1949

Estate of William G. Shea †••

1950

Kenneth F. McLaughlin

1952

William J. Dooley•• James C. Farrington••

1953

Robert C. Campion ••

1954

Robert T. Abrams•• Robert H. Breslin• • Theodore S. SametJohn P. White•• Margaret O’Brien

Whittier•

1956

Wilfred J. Baranick•• Lawrence J. FaganFrancis D. Privitera••

1957

Conrad J. Bletzer Sr.•• Anna M. DiGenio• Richard P. Kelleher•• John R. Malloy•• Charles M. Rose•• James F. Stapleton•• Robert B. Welts•• Edward E. Williams••

1958

Martin L. Aronson•• William W. CorcoranRobert S. Flynn• Richard D. Fountain• • Raymond J.

Kenney Jr.••• Douglas J.

MacMaster Jr.• Lawrence A. Ruttman•••

Frances Clohessy Spillane••

Lawrence W. Sullivan•

1959

Richard L. Abedon•Louis M. BernsteinGeorge G. Burke•••• Cornelius S.

Donoghue•• Charles J. Gulino•••• Owen B. Lynch•• Michael Nacey•Melvin Norris••

1960

Marcel Charles Durot•• Robert A. Gorfinkle•• John F. Keenan•• Joseph Lian Jr.•• Elwynn J. Miller••• Philip W. Riley•• Bruce N. Sachar• Allan B. Solomon•J. Owen Todd••

1961

Richard P. Delaney•• Stephen A. HopkinsAnne P. Jones•••• Hugo Liepmann•• Raymond F.

Murphy•••R. Robert Popeo••• Robert J. Robertory•• Ernest B. Sheldon•• Sarkis Teshoian•• Peter Van•

1962

Bruce R. Balter•Robert W. Clifford•• Richard T. ColmanDonald J. FlemingStephen L. Green•Jay S. Hamelburg•• Kent S. Hathaway•John R. Kenney•• Robert J. MartinDaniel W. Shea•• Ernest T. Smith•• John F. Sullivan•Kenneth H. Zimble•

1963

Norman Baker•• Forrest W. Barnes•Donald Brown•• Michael J. Dorney •• Jerry Fitzgerald

English• Richard M.

Gaberman••• Richard W. Hanusz•• Herbert H. Hodos•Daniel J. Johnedis•• Joseph Maney•• Anthony A. McManus• Joseph H. Pellegrino•• Donald P. Quinn•• Lewis Rosenberg•• John M. RussellCharles C. Tretter•• John R. Walkey•••

1964

Charles B. Abbott•• Michael F. Bergan•• Kevin T. Byrne• Philip J. Callan•• Robert J. Donahue•William L. HaasThomas P. Kennedy•• Charles A. Lane•• T. Kenwood Mullare• Martin J. O’Donnell Arnold W. Proskin Joseph J. Reardon•• Herbert J.

Schneider•••• James R. Skahan•• Albert N. Stieglitz• Robert L. Surprenant• Jerome M. Tuck••

1965

Howard Jay AlperinEdward M. Bloom•• Thomas J. Carey•• Francis J. Frasier• Paul R. Lawless•• Robert G. LianWilliam J.

McDonald•• John F. McDonough•• Robert E. McGinnessPeter J. Norton•• Stuart L. PotterNick Soloway•

Thomas B. Benjamin• James A. Champy•••• John P. Connor Jr.•• John A. Dooley•• Leonard M. FrisoliCornelius J. GuineyDavid F. HannonE.J. Holland Jr.•• Elizabeth C. LaStaiti•• John S. Leonard•Joseph W. MacDougall Lawrence E. McCor-

mick•• John R. McFeely•• Martin Michaelson••Charles K. MonePeter J. Morrissette•• Robert M. O’Brien•• Michael A. ParisLynn Komroff Pearle• Michael E. Povich•• Grier Raggio•• John J. Reid•• Paul J. RichmondWilliam R. RollinsWilliam A. Ryan•Jon D. Schneider••• John R. Shaughnessy•• Robert L. Shea•• Dennis J. SmithJeffrey P. Somers••• Samuel B. Spencer• Dennis M. SullivanWilliam C. Sullivan•••• Robert F. Teaff•• Peter W. Thoms•Robert D. Tobin•• Joseph J. Triarsi•• David Patrick Twomey•

1969

Richard A. Aborn•• Roger C. Adams•• Carl E. Axelrod•• Thomas V. Bennett• Merrill A. BooksteinEdward S. Brewer• Thomas H. Brown•• Thomas E. Connolly•• James Michael

Cronin•• Richard S. Daniels Jr.James O. Druker•• John J. Egan• Gary S. Fentin•• Paul C. Fournier••

1966

Robert F. ArenaMichael D. Brockelman•• John F. Burke• Eugene T. CliffordRobert J. Desiderio•George M. Doherty• Robert C. Engstrom•• Brian J. Farrell•• Gerald E. Farrell •• Raymond Greco• Hugo A. Hilgendorff•• John A. Janas•• Lawrence A. MaxhamRobert G. Parks•Joseph Francis Ryan• James N. Schmit•• Andrew F. SheaThomas F. Sullivan••

1967

Charles A. Abdella•• Leland J. Adams Jr.•• Stephen P. Beale•• Peter S. Casey•• Leonard F. ConwayRobert Stanton

Creedon Jr.• Anthony J. De Marco•• Suzanne Vitagliano

Del Vecchio•• Edward D. Feldstein•Stephen B.

Goldenberg•• Joseph M. Hall• Lawrence A. Katz•• James H. Klein•• James J. LawlorEdward A. Lenz•••• Frederick S. Lenz•• William J. Lundregan•Robert E. McCarthy•• William A. McCormack•• David L. Murphy•• John E. PeltonenGerald F. Petruccelli•• Charles P. ReidyCol. Peter N. Rogers•Arnold R. Rosenfeld•• Daniel C. Sacco•

1968

Robert G. Agnoli•• Peter A. Ambrosini•• Walter Angoff

Dana H. Gaebe•• Robert J. Glennon Jr.••• John E. Glovsky• John R. Hicinbothem•• Stephen L. Johnson•• Benjamin Jones• Thomas L. KennedyDaniel E. Kleinman• Alan G. MacDonald•• Lawrence E. Miller•• Thomas R. Murtagh• William J. O’Neil• R. Joseph Parker•• Lawrence W. SchonbrunPaul M. ShanleyRichard M. Shaw•• Jeffrey M. SigerMitchell J. Sikora••• Paul E. Sullivan••• Leo W. Tracy•• Margaret S. Travers••• Peter J. Tyrrell•• Barry L. Weisman•Ruby Roy WhartonJames P. Whitters•• John V. Woodard•• Richard R. Zaragoza••

1970

Louis B. Blumenfeld•• Andrew J. Chwalibog•• Robert C. Ciricillo••• Mary M. Connolly•• Christopher E. Doyle••• John M. Farrington•• Peter W. Fink•• Eugene P. Flynn•• Nicholas FoundasDavid Thomas Gay•• Charles B. Gibbons•• Gerald A. Hamelburg• Edward P. HenneberryDonald C. Hillman•• Fred Hopengarten•• Paul M. Kane••• Peter J. Kilmartin•• Joseph M. Kozak•• Willard Krasnow•• Peter G. Marino•• Andrew J. McElaney Jr.• Richard T. Moses• Alan K. Posner•• Thomas F. Reilly•• Michael D. Saunders•• Richard J. Schulman••• Kurt M. Swenson••

• DEAN’S COUNCIL MEMBER • SHAW SOCIETY MEMBER • DRINAN SOCIETY • DRINAN SOCIETY SUSTAINING MEMBER † DECEASED


The Law School’s Annual Giving Report recognizes the generosity of the alumni, students, and friends who contribute to the school.

the annual giving report


Michael Carlin Towers•• Mark W. Vaughn•• Stephen W. Webster••

1971

Robert M. Bloom••• Leo V. Boyle Raymond J. Brassard•• George H. Butler•Christopher F. Connolly•• Ellen R. DelanyDavid A. T. Donohue••• Seth H. Emmer•• Walter J. Fisher•• Berel R. GamermanJohn J. Gillies•• William H. IseStuart A. Kaufman•• Raymond J. Kelly•• David L. Kent•Edward R. Leahy•••• Mark Leddy•• William M. Leonard• Aaron A. Lipsky•• Gerald F. Lucey•• Thomas F. Maffei•••• Robert F. McLaughlin• Robert A. O’Neil• Jon S. Oxman•• Robert C. Prensner•• Susan J. Sandler•• William T. Sherry•• Richard E. Simms• Mark Stone•• Maurice Henry

Sullivan Jr.• Joseph R. Tafelski•• Marcia McCabe Wilbur•• Judith Koch Wyman•• Thomas M. Zarr••

1972

William G. Berkson• Raymond G. Bolton• John Boyajia• Daniel E. Callahan•• Paul K. Cascio•• Bruce Chasan•• Terrance P. Christenson•• John E. Coyne•• Robert L. Dambrov•• Robert K. Decelles•••• Vicki W. Dunaway• Joseph W. Gannon••• Steven C. Goodwin• Michael S. Greco•• Timothy D. Jaroch• Paul D. Jarvis•• Jane Lisman Katz••• Robert D. Keefe••• Alice Connolly Kelleher•• Timothy E. Kish• Stephen L. Kunken•• Robert J. Lepri Edward J. Markey•• James T. McKinlay III••

Daniel J. Meehan•• • Stephen V. Miller• Frank R. Newett•• Anthony Roberti• Robert P. Rodophele• Earlon L. Seeley Jr.• James W. SegelAlfred L. Singer•• Mark L. Snyde•• Lawrence O.

Spaulding•••• Stanley J. SperoJames C. Sturdevant•Jeffrey M. Weiner• Bonnie G. Wittner• Florence A. Wood••

1973

Ivar R. Azeris• Donald L. Becker•• Dennis J. Berry•• James S. BolanWilliam G. BrodyBruce H. Cohen•• William A. Conti• Walter A. Costello• Patrick E. DalyEdith N. Dinneen•• James C. Donnelly Jr.• William F. Dowling• Sandra S. Elligers• David T. Flanagan•• Robert D. Fleischner•• Patrick A. Fox•• Richard M. GelbJohn W. Giorgio•• Richard G. HamannTerrance J. Hamilton•• Charles J. Hansen• Henry R. Hopper• Leonard C. Jekanowski•• Thomas J. Kelley Jr.•• Brian M. Kingston•• Andrew R. Kosloff• David E. Krischer•• Stephen M. LimonThalia Lingos-HuserWilliam H. Lyons•• Edward J. McCormack•Alexander M. McNeil• Michael B. Meyer•• Dennis M. Meyers••• James M. Micali••• Elaine M. Moriarty• John A. Murphy• • William J. Newman• John G. Neylon Sr.•• James E. O’ConnorSteven L. Paul•• Joseph J. Recupero•• Paul G. Roberts•• Peter T. Robertson•• Rosalyn K. Robinson•• Alan I. Saltman ••• Robert C. Scott• Lawrence R. Sidman•• William Frederick Uehlein

Steven WeismanRichard M. Whiting••

1974

Jan Armon• Gary H. BarnesThomas J. Berry•• John F. Boc••• Mark B. Brenner• • Janice G. CampbellRichard P. Campbell••• Susan E. Condon•• Lynda Murphy Connolly•• Loring A. Cook•• J. Elizabeth Cremens•• Kenneth J. Davis• Barbara A. Dortch-

Okara•• Joseph W. Downs III•• Diane Durgin••• Ann L. EkstrumEdward A. FitzgeraldJames E. Flynn•• Erika Schwenn FoxPaul A. Francis•• Richard S. GoldsteinRobert M. GrahamPatricia C. Gunn•• John Dillon Hanify••• Ronald M. Hershkowitz• Ruth-Arlene W. Howe••• Michael B. Isaacs•• Alan J. Kaplan•• Diane M. Kottmyer•• Gary H. Lefkowitz•• David Leslie••• Daniel J. McInerney Jr.• Philip T. McLaughlinPeter A. Mullin•• Douglas M. Myers•• Robert B. Remar•David G. Ries•• Sarah B. Singer•• Jeremy A. Stahlin•• Christopher J. Sterritt•• Joan Lukey Stevenson•••• John W. Townsend•• Thomas M. Walsh• Edward R. Wirtanen•• Louis C. Zicht••

1975

Berndt W. Anderson•• David M. Banash•• Kevin B. BelfordMichael J. Betcher• • Howard W. BurnsElizabeth ButlerRobert B. Carpenter•• Ann ClarkeDaniel C. Crane••• Elizabeth A. Deakin••• Paul A. Delory•Jaffe D. Dickerson••• Howard L. Drescher•• Ellen Mattingly Driscoll

Leon P. DrysdaleSteven B. FarbmanKevin P. Glasheen•• Bruce A. Haverberg•• Ellen S. Huvelle•••• Robert P. Joy•• Anne Maxwell

Livingston•• Paul F. Lorincz•• Christopher C. Mans-

field•• Ronald C. Markoff•• Kathleen F. McCarthy•• Larry J. McElwainTerence A. McGinnis•• John J. McHale••• Richard B. McNamaraKathryn Cochrane Mur-

phy•• Marshall F. Newman•• Kathleen King Parker••• Marcia Allara PerazaKevin P. Phillips••• William P. Robinson III•• Stephen R. Rubenstein•• James L. Rudolph•• Kathleen E. Shannon•• • Eugene A. SkowronskiWilliam S. Stowe•• James A. ToomeyThomas R. Ventre• David C. Weinstein•••

1976

Mark N. Berman• Patricia E. BernsteinKenneth S. Boger••• Helen P. Brown• Laurie Burt• Phyllis Cela•• Eugene Chow• Denis P. Cohen•••• Katherine Litman Co-

hen••• Thomas A. Connors• • Frederick J. Coolbroth• John S. Donahue•• Daniel Engelstein•• David A. HowardThomas P. Jalkut••• Michael D. Jones••• Beth A. Kaswan•• Ellen C. KearnsWilliam D. Kirchick• James J. Klopper•• Roberta S. KuriloffJill W. LandsbergSteven Lenkowsky••• Marion K. Littman•• Deborah M. Lodge•• Robert P. Lombardi•• Peter S. Maher• Lenny B. Mandell• Daniel P. Matthews• Charles M. McCuen• Michael J. McEneaneyJudith Mizner••

Thomas Hugh Mug •• Gilbert J. Nadeau Jr.•• Robert W. Nolting• Deborah A. Posin•• Robert L. Raskopf•• Dennis M. ReznickSander A. Rikleen•••• Janet RobertsGerald J.

Robinson•• Douglas R. Ross• Marianne D. Short• •Gordon SmithPatrick A. Tanigawa • Willie C. Thompson•• Dolph J. Vanderpol•• Mark Dennis Wincek•• Jerold Lorin Zaro•• Gerald T. Zerkin• Eliot Zuckerman

1977

Peter A. AllenRoger O. Babin•• Ronald A. Ball•• Esther R. Barnhart•• Andrew N. Bernstein•• Philip M. Cedar•• Robert Ledson Collings• Russell F. Conn••• Kevin P. CraneLeonard F. DeLuca•••• Debra D. Devaughn• Carl F. Dierker•• Thomas J. Douglas Jr.•• Elizabeth M. Fahey• Richard A. Feinstein••• Joel H. FishmanEdward L. Fitzmaurice•• Mark S. Furman•• Charles E. Gilbert• William W. Graham• Thomas L. Guidi•• James E. Harvey• Francis R. Herrmann•• Margaret R. Hinkle•• Norma J. Iacovo• James F. Kavanaugh Jr.••• Douglas Keegan•• Mark C. Kelly••• Dennis J. Krumholz•• Dennis R. La Fiura••• Dennis A. Lalli•••• Thomas E. Lynch III••• John J. MacDonald•• Gary M. Markoff• Patrick J. McAuley•• Christopher G. Mehne•• Carmen Messano• Jack J. Mikels• Eugene B. NathansonMortimer C. Newton• Edward J. Notis-McCon-

arty• Brian G. Osganian• • George A. Perry•• Michael J. Puzo•••• Diane L. Renfroe••

Anne Rogers• Gary A. Rosenberg•• Michael D. Roth• Mary K. Ryan•• Jeffrey S. Sabin••• • Barry J. Sheingold• Leonard E. Sienko Jr.• Michael L. Tichnor• David J. Tracy••• Raymundo Velarde•• Ronald E. Weiss• Jeremy A. Wise

1978

Joshua M. AlperJaime J. Aponte-ParsiGilbert BadilloJill Nexon Berman••• Angela M. Bohmann•• Willie R. Brown• J. W. Carney Jr.•• Diane M. Cecero•• Anthony Michael Devito••• Eileen Bertsch DonahueTimothy William Donahue• Thomas Drechsler• Frederick M. Enman Jr.Mercedes S. Evans•• Peter Gerard Flynn• Maureen L. Fox•• Steven Alan GabovitchSamuel Joseph Galbo•• Mary Sandler Haskell• Lawrence P. HeffernanMary Jo Hollender•• Patrick Thomas Jones••• Gordon Philip KatzStephen Wells Kidder••• David Curtis Lucal• Mary Frances McCabeMarilyn Shannon

McConaghy• Kathleen M. McKenna••• William John Midon•• Edwin Ramon MilanThomas H. MurphyRobert Tirrell NaumesMary A. OrfanelloRichard Wright Paul•• Richard Elliott Powers•• Therese Devito Pritchard•• Gary Stewart Rattet••• Alan Michael Reisch• Mitchell Elliot RudinRobert J. SchillerSylvia Brandel

Schoenbaum• R. Brian SnowRobert M. Steeg• Trudy Burns Stone• Jovi Tenev• Scott Jay Tucker•• William Robert Underhill•• Charles E. Walker Jr.Anthony L. WashingtonPamela Lilly Washington• Susan M. Webman


Laurel G. YanceyJames J. Yukevich•

1979

Roger P. Asch• Theodore F. Berry IIIJeffrey I. Bleiweis•• Jerry Boone• William J. Brown• Kathleen Colleary•• Marguerite A. Conan• Susan Giroux Dee••• Kevin W. Donnelly• Mark R. Draymore• Benjamin H. GersonChristine Smith Gray• Kathleen V. Gunning•• Katherine M. Hanna•• Anne Leary Hemelt•• Michael M. Hogan• Charles P. Hopkins II• John J. Hughes • Dennis D. Leybold•• Harry James Magnuson• Matthew L. McGrath•• David D. Merrill• Thomas D. Miller•• George Joseph Murphy••• John Robert O’Brien•• Jo Ellen Ojeda•••• Michael J. PelgroMichael E. Pfau• Thomas P. Ricciardelli•• Howard S. Rosenblum•• Cynthia Shupe Roy• Marian T. RyanBernadette L. Sabra•• Marilyn D. Stempler•• Denis J. Sullivan•• Maureen A. Varley•• Susan A. Weil• •• Teresa Valdes-Fauli

WeintraubLynn G. Weissberg•• Judy Willis•• Rebecca J. WilsonBenjamin S. Wolf•• Norah M. Wylie••

1980

Mark J. Albano•Thomas A. Barnico• • Carol BoothKathleen C. Caldwell•• Eva H. Clark• Foster Jay Cooperstein• Mary E. Corbett•• Louise Richter Corman•• John R. Curran•• Edward F. Donnelly•• Lawrence E. Fleder• Carol A. Gross•• Ann Kendall•• James H. Lerner•• • Dannel P. Malloy•• James E. McDermott••••

Richard G. McLaughry•• Robert C. Mendelson•••• John N. Montalbano•• Christopher B. Myhrum• F. Thomas O’Halloran••• Jane Serene Raskin• James R. Repetti••• Fradique A. Rocha• Joanne E. RomanowRita Wiles RossRobert N. Scola Jr.• Larry G. J. Shapiro•• Winthrop A. Short•• Dana J. St. JamesAlan R. Tousignant•• Steven A. Wilcox• Nancy R. Wilsker•• Dion C. Wilson••

1981

Nelson G. Apjohn•• Ann Marie Augustyn• Kenneth M. Bello• Charles S. Belsky•• Stephen F. Bisbee• Peter R. Brown• Janet E. Butler•• Robert C. Chamberlain•• John Gilmore Childers•• Mary Ann Chirba• Lawrence J. Cohen• Richard G. Convicer•• Donald D. Cooper•• Patricia J. Curtis•• James L. Dahlberg••• Peter A. Del Vecchio•• David Taylor DonnellyChristopher J. Donovan•• John D. Donovan••• Mark W. Dost•• Clover M.

Drinkwater••• Thomas J. Driscoll•• David W. Ellis••• Richard J. Gianino• Deborah J. Goddard•• Bernard W. Greene•• Dale R. Harger•• Frank Joseph Harris• Kathryn D. HaslangerGeorge B. Henderson•• Philip H. Hilder•• Linda J. Hoard••• Daniel C. Hoefle• Warren J. Hurwitz•• John G. Igoe• Sandra L. Jesse•• David E. Jose•• Jeffery L. KefferPeter Y. LeeJames Michael Liston•• James P. Maxwell•• Lisa A. MelnickJoseph E. Mitchell•• Elizabeth R. Moynihan•• George W. Mykulak• • Harry O’Mealia•••

Ann L. Palmieri•• Mark J. PandiscioJohn M. Pereira•• Mark C. PerlbergDebra S. Reiser• Harriet T. Reynolds• • Thomas M. Rickart•• Richard D. Rochford• Peter J. Silberstein• Eric L. SternJohn A. Tarantino•••• Anne B. Terhune• Claire-Frances Umanzio•• Paul Joseph Ward• Eric L. Wilson•• Joan Zorza

1982

Yolanda Yasmin AcevedoMarco E. Adelfio• • Bradford Carlton AuerbachThomas Leon BarretteMark T. Beaudouin• Jeffrey Mark Bernstein• Michael John

Bevilacqua••• Kevin Michael

Carome•••• Thomas Paul Dale•• Kenneth Fredric Ehrlich• Edward F. Fay•• Camille Kamee Fong• Barbara Butler Foster••• Ellen Frank•• Margaret R. Gallogly•• Edward A. Giedgowd•• Deborah Ellen Godwin• Robert L. GoodaleAndrew Clark

Griesinger•• Jill A. Heine• Norma Jeanne Herbers ••• Janet Lynn Hoffman•• Donald M. Keller Jr.• Sharon Ann Kroupa•• Cindy A. Laquidara•• Elaine Rappaport Lev•• David P. Linsky• Lien-Chun LiuMichael W. Lyons•• Alice Marie

MacDermott•• Susan Astolfi Mack•• Peter R. MartinPaul Joseph Murphy• Jeffrey Alan Newman• George Steven Pultz• Carol Frances Relihan•• Richard Joseph RileyPatricia Rocha•••Col. Mark Romaneski•• William Edward

Simon Jr.• Robert Paul Snell•• Brenda Susan Steinberg• Andrea S. Umlas•• John William Wertz

1983

William R. Baldiga•• Paul M. BangserEllen Gershon Banov•• Arthur Bernard• Laurence J. Bird•• Stephen J. Brake•• Thomas Buonocore•• Patricia Byrd• Michael Collins•• Michael F. Coyne•• Karen G. Del Ponte••• Stephen R. Dinsmore•• Holly EnglishWarren M. S. ErnstDavid J. FeldmanSteven K. Forjohn•• Stephen V. Gimigliano••• Barry E. GoldDeb Goldberg•• • Frederic Delano Grant• Helene W. Haddad••• Randall G. Hesser•• Joan HoSharon Sorokin James•• Mary R. Jeka••• Corinne P. KevorkianSusan K. T. KilkellyGregory T. Limoncelli• Charles W. LlewellynCeleste V. Lopes•• Cay C. Massouda• Kathleen A. McGuire•• Janice Carney Moore• Jonathan E. Moskin• Robert B. Muh• Albert A. Notini•• Mark V. Nuccio•• Christopher R. L. OsborneRobert L. Peabody •• Sunjlee D. Pegram ••• Mitchell P. Portnoy•• Michael G. ProctorDavid A. Rozenson•• Beatriz M. Schinness• Stephen J. Seleman•• Mark D. Seltzer•• Leslie A. Shimer•• Barbara Anne Sousa•• Douglas G. Verge•• Gary E. WalkerKenju WatanabeNancy L. WatsonJody Pullen Williams••• Daniel B. Winslow

1984

Marcia E. AdamsElizabeth BarrettBenjamin BerryTimothy B. Borchers• Stephen W. BriceSharon A. BrownCatherine K. Byrne•• Joseph H. Caffrey•• Alan D. CanderRichard L. Carr••


Individuals whose lifetime gifts to BC Law exceed $1 million.

John F. Boc ’74James A. Champy ’68David A. T. Donohue ’71Darald R. Libby ’55†Jerry and Phyllis Rappaport, The Phyllis & Jerome Lyle

Rappaport FoundationDavid C. Weinstein ’75

Law School alumni whose lifetime gifts to BC and BC Law exceed $1 million.

Julian J. D’Agostine ’53†Charles Gulino ’59Michael E. Mone ’67George J. Yost III ’75

IGNATION CIRCLE

Cornerstone ScholarshipsGifts of $1 million or more

Molly and Phil Weinstein Scholarship

Endowed Scholarship FundsGifts of $250,000 or more

The Lawrence A. Adelman ’78 Endowed Scholarship FundAnonymous Boston College Law School ScholarshipRoger M. Bougie Boston College Law School ScholarshipJames A. ’68 and Lois Champy ScholarshipDacier Family Boston College Law School ScholarshipDecelles Family Veterans Law ScholarshipGulino Family Scholarship FundBill & Lynn Kargman Family ScholarshipFrancis, Josephine B., and Robert D. Keefe ScholarshipThe Philip E. and Ada J. Lukey Endowment FundAnn and Raymond T. Mancini ScholarshipAntonio and Anthony Mancini ScholarshipMansfield Family Boston College Law School ScholarshipMichael E. Mone, Esq., Endowed ScholarshipHonorable Francis P. O’Connor ’53 ScholarshipJeanne and Ronald Picerne Family Boston College Law

School ScholarshipLawrence and Lillian Solomon FellowshipThe Spillane Scholarship Fund Vanek Family Boston College Law School Scholarship

ENDOWED SCHOLARSHIP FUNDS

David and Pamela Donohue Assistant ProfessorshipRobert F. Drinan, SJ, ProfessorshipRichard G. Huber Visiting ProfessorshipWilliam J. Kenealy, SJ, ProfessorshipDarald and Juliet Libby ProfessorshipLiberty Mutual Insurance ProfessorshipJ. Donald Monan, SJ, University ProfessorshipThe Jerome Lyle Rappaport Visiting Professorshipin Law and Public PolicyMarianne D. Short and Ray Skowyra Sesquicentennial

Assistant Professorship

ENDOWED CHAIRS


Paula M. Devereaux•• Celeste P. DuffyWilliam R. Eddows•• Wilbur P. Edwards Jr.••• John F. Evers•• Mark D. Fernald•• Faye A. Florence• William P. Hadley•• Leslie E. Harris•• David F. HassettBrian T. Hatch• Susan A. Hays•• Stephen J. HinesRalph F. Holmes•• Christopher M. Jantzen• James M. Kennedy• Kevin Patrick Kerr••• Donna J. LawStanley A. Martin• Rosemary McCready••• Patrick McNamara• Debra Chervinsky Moll••• Jonathan Moll•••M.J. Moltenbrey•• Betts Howes Murray•• Alan S. MusgraveLinda E. Neary•• Eedy Nicholson•• Barbara A. O’DonnellJames Brian Peloquin•• Michael J. PiseDeWayne A. Powell•• Barbara Zicht Richmond• Paula M. Sarro• David Schoen• Charla Bizios StevensEvelynne Swagerty•••Alexander C. Tang• Sheila M. Tierney• Anne Van Graafeiland• Patric M. Verrone•• Barbara von Euler•• Victoria P. Wood•• Karin J. Yen•• Thomas Zaccaro•••

1985

Alicia Alvarez•• Christopher A.

Bandazian•• Laurel E. Bretta• Michael J. Catalfimo• Kimberly M. Collins•• Carol M. Connelly•• Mark C. Cowan•• David P. Curtin••• Judith A. Davidow•• Melissa M. Der• Scott A. Faust•• David P. Fialkow•• Paulette A. Furness•• David A. Grossbaum•• Joseph M. Hamilton•• Maria Bernadette Hickey•• Geoffrey E. Hobart••• Robert D. Hoffman• Nina Vitale Huber•

William P. Lee• Wendy B. Levine• Susan A. Maze-

Rothstein•• James G. McGiffin•• Lisa M. McGrath•• Mark C. Michalowski•••• David T. Miele• Tracy A. Miner • Fritz Neil•• Nancy G. O’Donnell• Jonathan W. PainterMargaret J. Palladino•• David C. ParkMichael J. Richman••• Michael L. RoySharon R. Ryan• Ettore A. Santucci• Richard A. Sawin Ramona Gail See••• Sherri Federbush

Stepakoff• Jane E. Sullivan•• David E. Surprenant•• Karen Barrios Vazquez•• Daria A. VeneziaTerry Barchenko Weigel• Debra Wong Yang•• Joanne Caruso Zaccaro•••

1986

Guy V. AmoresanoDavid F. Bauman• Alexander T. BokThomas W. BridgeAntonio D. Castro• Scott P. Consoli• Maria Lynn Coyle•• Nancy Mammel Davids•• Donna Raye DavisMartha Ann Driscoll• Thomas H. Durkin•• Michaela A. Fanning• Michael T. Fatale• Reginald J. Ghiden• Frederick V. Gilgun• Edward T. Hanley Jr.• • Christopher P. Harvey ••• An-Ping Hsieh• Cid H. Inouye• Michael Frederick

Klein••• James Arthur Kobe•• James D. Laur•• Robert D. Leikind•• Susan Linehan

Beaumont••• Emmett Eugene Lyne•• William F. Martin Jr.•• Hugh G. McCrory Jr.••• Thomas Robert Melville• Paul MichienzieAnn L. Milner• Mariclare O’Neal• Mary A. Rathmann•• Richard Rathman••Hank R. Rouda••

Jose A. Santos• Kurt N. Schwartz• Brian D. Shonk• Diane L. Silver•• Lisa A. Sinclair• Michael P. SorensonJohn E. Twohig• Kenneth A. Viscarello• Patricia A. Welch•• Mark D. Wiseman•• Marcia Belmonte Young••

1987

Edward Gomes Avila•• Kathryn Jean Barton••• Richard J. Bedell•• Jane Bell•Janet Jean Bobit•• Charles Dunstan

Boddy Jr.•• Kevin Martin Brown••• Estelle Susan Burg•• Kathleen M. Caminiti ••• Patricia J. Campanella•• John G. Casagrande• Frank David Chaiken• Colin A. Coleman••• Mark W. Corner•• Xiomara Corral••• Margaret B. Crockett•• Rosemary Daly• James Craig DudaEileen Mary Fields•• Mary E. Garrity•• Larry Goanos• Donna Stoehr Hanlon•• Thomas Albert Hippler•• Arthur Scott Jackson•• Scott J. Jordan•• John Michael Kelly• Michelle S. LaBrecquePatricia Jansak Lewis• Joanne Callahan Locke• Walter K. McDonough•• Anne Craige McNay•• Josephine McNeil•• Paula Marie NoonanBrian A. O’Connell• Dean Papademetriou•• Joseph Matthew Pari•• Jane B. ParkerRoger H. Read• David Mitchell

Rievman••• Pamela Drugge Rusk• Pamela H. Sager• Carol E. Schultze•• Rita Arlene Sheffey•• Jay Evan Sicklick•• Timothy M. Smith•• Richard W. Stacey•• Kathryn Ashbaugh

Swenson•• Marie McKenney

Tavernini•• Graham Leslie Teall• Joseph M. Vanek••••

1988

David AcevedoClaire Gallagan AndrewsDavid Yorke Bannard•• Stephen William BernsteinBrian A. Berube••• Christopher G. Betke• Thomas L. Brayton• Daniel R. BurkePeter Hugh CarneyDavid Kerr ChiversKevin J. Curtin••• Christopher David DillonSusan Frances Donahue•• Michael Barry Dworman• Elizabeth Russell

Freeman•• Royal C. Gardner•• Anthony H. Gemma• Zeb GleasonDeborah E. GrayLori Ellen Grifa• James Hawkins•••Mary Patricia Hawkins••• Quinn Joseph Hebert• Susan Shaw HulbertMary Jo JohnsonJeffrey Lewis Jonas•• John Edward Jones• • Theresa A. Kelly• Robyn Kaufman Laukien• Mark B. Lavoie• Grant Allan Levy• Mark A. Longietti•• Kathleen E. McGrathJoanne McIntyre

Mengel•• Pete Stuart MichaelsReese Rikio Nakamura•• Donald Willard ParkerBernard A. PellegrinoMichael A. Perino•• Miriam Rita Popp•• Mark Thomas Power••• Lois Blum ReitzasLoretta Rhodes RichardLesley Woodberry RobinsonDeirdre R. RosenbergMark Constantine

Rouvalis•• Kimberly A. Rozak• Norma I. Sanchez-FigueroaEdwin J. Seda Fernandez• Christine M. SmithAntonia Torres-RamosRobert M. UnterbergerSally A. Walker• Michael John Wall•• Kathleen E. Woodward•

1989

Warren E. Agin• Mark Richard Allen•• Peter A. Alpert•• Harold Gregory Barksdale• Robert Jon Blackwell•• Mitchell Scott Bloom••

Andrea Jane Brantner•• Kevin P. Bruen• Thomas M. Camp• David Anthony Cifrino•• Joseph P. Cistulli•• Magda DeMoya CoyleCharlotte A. Crutchfield•• Deirdre A. Cunnane•• Kenneth G. Curran•• Jeffrey A. DeMaso• Humberto R. Dominguez•• Lynda Beth Furash• Alan Scott GaleIrene Raphael Good• Suko Gotoh•• Carolyn V. Grady• Glenn Anthony Gulino•• Judith Buckley HaymanEdmund Patrick Hurley•• Anjali Jesseramsing• Mitchell Seth Kessler•• Darcy Kirk•• Jane P. Kourtis•• James Michael Leahy• Joseph LucciHoward Wilbur Martin•• Robert John Masonis•• Robert Emmett McLaughlinDenise Marie Parent•• Frederick Howard ReinNina Collazo RiveraAdam C. Robitaille•• Kimberly L. Sachse• Paul E. Salamanca•• Julia Anne Sheridan•• Kevin John Simard••• Linda Sandstrom Simard•••Mark Andrew Spitz• Charles William Stavros•• Kathleen Street••• Rebekah TosadoRoseann White• Kenneth F. Whitted•

1990

Ellen M. BegleyIvelisse J. Berio LeBeau•• Steven L. Brown• Paul BuchananTimothy J. Byrne•• Kenneth Victor DesmondJessica D. Gray• Adolfo E. Jimenez••• John Paul Kacavas• Erik P. Kimball• Kevin J. McCaughey•• Maura K. McKeever•• Colleen M. MurphyPatricia E. Muse •• Aaron Martin Nisenson• Martin J. Pasqualini••• Michelle R. PeirceMaribeth Petrizzi•• Deirdre O’Connor

Quinn••• Joshua D. RievmanDeborah C. Segal••

Brenda R. Sharton•• Marci Jill SilvermanVera Sung• James M. Wilton•

1991

Denise Ann Ackerman•• David L. Batty•• Marlissa Shea Briggett• Amy BrothersKrista D’Aloia BusnachMichael Kevin Callan• James Dawson Carey••• Socheat CheaAlbert ChinMaryann CivitelloMary Clements Pajak•• Kathleen C. Corkins•• Rosemary Crowley

Hallahan•• Maureen E. Curran••• Daniel J. Driscoll•• Robert D. Emerson•• Charles Fayerweather•• Joel Alden FickettSusan Marie Finegan•• Liam C. FloydFrank W. Getman• Ronald A. Gonzalez•• Allan M. GreenSusan Henry• Douglas H. Inouye•• Mark A. Kablack• Jonathan J. Kane• Arlene L. Kasarjian• Andrew J. Kelly••• B. J. Krintzman• Pam Maloney MacKenzieSally Malave• Karen G. Malm•• Mark P. McAuliffe•• Matthew L. McGinnis••• Greg S. McLaughlin•• Margaret A. McleanMary Cecelia Mitchell• Pegeen Mulhern•• Robert M. O’Connell• Douglas B. Rosner•• Margaret M. Ross• John Anthony SalernoCarolyn P. Stennett• Kayser Oskar Sume•• Irit Nikole Tamir•• Stephanie Dadaian

Thompson•• Katherine TopulosGina Witalec Verdi•• Aaron Charles Von Staats• Deedra Smith Walkey••• Kevin F. WarrenTerri Leigh Yahia•

1992

Nancy Darlene Adams• Dennis P. Ahern• Isabel Barney••



David Baron• Joseph T. Bartulis• Mark L. BelangerGeorge G. Burke•• Thomas J. Cataldo••• Andrew Ward Cohenttt> Deborah Sue Cohen• Glenn Deegan•• Maureen Anne Dodig• John Dolan•• B. Dane Dudley• Maureen C. Dwyer• Stephen V. Falanga•• Elise Sarah FeldmanHarold Parker FiskeJennifer Z. Flanagan• Kristine E. George• Jeffrey Alden Healy•• Patricia A. Johansen• Rodney D. Johnson•• Tamsin Kaplan•• Hisao T. Kushi•• John F. Malitzis•• Patricia A. Markus••• James M. McGovernThomas Owen Moriarty•• Antonia R. Nedder• Valerie J. Nevel•• Jodi M. PetrucelliJeanne Marie Picerne••• Dennis Charles Quinn••• Richard Paul Rhodes Jr.•• Mary Ellen Ringo•• Daniel G. Russo• Mark Anthony Schemmel•• Diana Schur•• Susan L. Scott• Eric H. Sills• Mark F. Tatelbaum•• Elizabeth S. TorkelsenKathleen M. Vanderziel• Jim P. Warner• Robert J. Weber•••

1993

John Nicholas AffusoBradford Babbitt• Laura Scanlan Beliveau•• Mark Thomas Benedict••• Brigida Benitez•• Darren Todd BinderClare F. Carroll• Kristin Lynn Cihak•• Diane Kristina DanielsonJennifer Dowd DeakinChristine A. DeGrappo••• Scott M. DeTraglia• John A. Dolan•• Michael G. DonovanNadine Nasser DonovanStacey Jill Drubner• Deborah Ahern EvansJason Arlin Farber• Robert Howard Finney•• Timothy Alan Gagnon• Peter J. Gannon•• Laurie I. Gelb-Glicklich

James Nathan Greenberg Gerald L. Harmon• Shannon Shay Hayden•• William V. Hoch• Joanne D. Karchmer• Craig A. KelleyEdward Kelly• David William KrumsiekRichard D. LaraEmily J. LawrenceBrian P. Lenihan•• Rita Lu• Thomas F. Maloney•• Peter MancusiRodolfo MataSara E. McgrathMargaret Ellen MiddletonAndres L. Navarrete• Mark M. OwenChristine Conley Palla-

dino•• David Rive-PowerKenneth J. Samuel• Donald James Savery•• Mark Christopher SchueppertJeffrey Scott Simon• Sean E. Spillane•• Elizabeth A. Talia•• Joshua ThayerChristopher Wesley ThomeFrederick TucherDana Lynn TullyDebra Susan Wekstein• Kathleen M. White••

1994

Kathleen F. Burke• Sarah Shoaf Cabot•• Laura Caltenco• James Michael CantwellEdward J. Carbone•• Eugenia M. Carris••• John D. CasaisKaren ClarkBrian J. Connor•• Carolyn D’Agincourt• Ann R. DalgleishBuckmaster De Wolf•• Wendy W. FalveySusan Hanmer Farina••• Ann M. Farrell•• William John Fidurko• Lorne M. Fienberg•• Maria Carroll Furlong• Megan N. GatesChristine Farrell

Grochowski• Lise Hamilton Hall• Michael Heningburg Jr.•• David Hobum Hwang•• Paul M. Joy•• Brian J. King•• Kathryn L. Leach• Audrey C. LouisonChristopher Mace Lucas• Kelly Mulvoy Mangan•• Stephanie H. Masiello•

Laura Jean McCollum• • Caitlin Mullin•• Terrence J. Murray•• Helen O’Rourke•• Melissa Polaner•• Rosemary Ratcliff••Kathryn Hand RodolakisJohn SheridanKenneth Douglas SmallAnne Stuart•• Elaine Ventola•••John F. Ventola••• Kathleen Alyce Waters••

1995

Stacey A. L. Best•• Heather M. Bradley• David William Brown• Catherine Sheehan Bruno• John W. Dinneen•• Susan Christine Ellison• Rebecca H. Ethier• Edward Farley• Scott Carter Ford•• Scot Edward Gabriel•• Glenn Gates•• Brett M. GoldbergVictoria Lyn Grady•• David Hammer•• George H. Harris•• Joseph Laurence HarroldHeather Lynn HayesDenise Hilger• John Legus Hunt•• Lani Anne Kimura• Monique H. KornfeldStephen Allan Kremer•• Malinda Robbin LawrenceSandra Lespinasse•• Pamela B. Lyons•• Amy Cashore MarianiKerry Ellen MccarronLisa Nalchajian Mingolla•• Kimberly Short Morgner•• Vicente Matias Murrell• Dana Ng• Lisa M. Ortiz• Denise Ann Pelletier•• Philip Privitera••• Ana M. Rivera•• Ingrid Chiemi Schroffner•• Mathieu ShapiroShaun B. Spencer•• Kathryn Allaire Thomas• Andrew F. Upton

1996

David S. Bakst• Raejean M. Battin•• Danielle Salvucci Black•• Christopher Lee BlakeAndrew Borggaard••• Jennifer M. Borggaard••• Melynda Gayle BroomfieldBridget Burke KevorkianThomas R. Burton III•••

Anna C. Caspersen•• Edward Shieh Cheng•• Deacon Timothy G. CrossAlbert Andrew Dahlberg•• Yaron Dori•• Debora Duarte FerreiraRobin M. Fields• Daniel Keith Hampton• James M. HanleyJames P. Hoban• John David Kelley•• Emma Renee LeFevre•• William Joseph LundreganThomas Patrick Lynch• Michael F. Mahoney• William R. MendelsohnOji K. NwankwoJill Emily O’Connor

Shugrue•• R. Daniel O’Connor•• Maryann Joan RabkinKerry Doherty ReddingtonKristen Schuler Scammon• Richard B. Shane•

1997

John T. Battaglia• David Matthew Belcher•• Peter G. Brassard•• Thanda A. Fields Brassard• Tracy A. Catapano-Fox• F. Bruce Cohen••• Diana M. Collazo•• Jennifer Ann Creedon•• John DeSimone•• Jason E. Dunn• Amy Reinhart GaffneyNicole R. Hadas• Stuart J. Hamilton••• Laurie Hauber• Mark Stephen Kaduboski•• John Kavanagh• Christine A. Kelly•••• Matthew Kelly•••• Vincent W. Lau••• David Harold LondonRobert J. Malionek• Kelly Corbett McIntosh• Joyce Beth Moscarelli•• Thomas James Murphy• Laurence Patrick

Naughton•• Abigail Sterling Olsen•• Cecely A. Reardon• Elizabeth A. Rover Bailey• Pete Russell• William Thomas Russell• Laura M. Twomey••• Daniel H. Weintraub•• Cynthia M. Zarate••

1998

Connie Y. Barton• Michael Paul BenedekElizabeth A. BroderickVonzell Shaine Brown••

Steven Matthew ChernoffDavid B. Colleran•• Gary Jay Creem• Michael Joseph DegulisJennifer Mina DeTeso• Peter Armstrong Egan••• Nora E. Field• Aimee C. Gallego-CochranLisa Denise Gladke•• Valerie Hope Goldstein•• Shannon Leigh GottesmanGary J. Guzzi•• Kari K. Harris• Kelly Lane Hiller• Pamela Smith HollemanChristopher Jaap•• Barbara T. KabanRafael Klotz•• Pablo M. Koziner• Sean Patrick MahoneyKristen J. Mathews•• Alex F. MatteraJennifer Anne Mencken•• Kathleen Anne MurphyJustin Maclean Nesbit• Jennifer L. Nye• Thomas Joseph O’LearyKathleen Welch Orejuela•• Kevin E. Pearson• Christopher Drake PerryChristopher Michael ReadKevin L. ReinerMeredith Anne RosenthalLawrence J. ShehAndrew Jonas Simons•• Leslie Faye Wen SuLara Corey ThyagarajanVasiliki L. Tripodis• • John David VarellaDouglas A. WolfsonAram Jason Zadow•

1999

Brian Lawrence BerlandiJonathan Bryan Brooks••• Francis V. CastellucciGregory Francis Corbett•• Nicole J. DesharnaisPeter Andrew Dufour• Matthew James Feeley•• Philip H. GraeterYoung Soo Jo•• Michael A. Krasnow• Amy J. Krusius•• Kristin Laura Lentz•• Judith Marie Lyons•• Christopher M. McManus• Elizabeth Grace Moulds••David Osborne•• Gregory M. O’ShaughnessyPeter John Petrarca• Stephen D. Riden••• Scott W. Rostock• Karen A. Shahinian• James Michael TierneyJessica WolffKaren Elizabeth Wozniak••

2000

Cleora S. Anderson• Ashley E. Arroyo-Ferrell• John Thomas Bennett• Mary Liz Brenninkmeyer•• Charmaine Clyde•• Julia K. M. Conlin•• Gregory Paul ConnorMichelle Dawn

Kalavoda Davis•• James P. Dowden• Sarah Weyland Ellis• Sean M. Fontes•• Lynda T. GalliganDavid Moses Jellinek•• Hannah K. Kiernan• Holly S. Lambert W. Jay LeeLouis Philippe

Alexandre Lehott• Scott S. Mazur•• Kevin M. Meagher•• Kamyar Mehdiyoun• Joseph Justin Mueller••• Nicole Ciszak Murphy• Jason Northcutt• Jennifer Clark Pearson•• Rebecca O’Brien RadfordRichard C. Rossi•• Joseph Edward Ruccio•• Stacey Nicole SchmidtPeter M. SkinnerTamara Lynn Wilson•

2001

Tara N. AucielloSina Bahadoran• Elaine K. Benfield• Amee B. BerginBrandon L. Bigelow•• Bradley G. Bjelke•• Elijah E. CocksMatthew A. Corcoran•• Daniel G. Cromack•• Colin Christopher

Durham•• Frances L. Felice• Paul F. FitzpatrickSamantha Gerlovin•• Michael Casey GlebaKevin M. Granahan•• Timothy W. Gray•• Carol E. Head• Joseph C. Holden• Linnea Ovans Holmes•• Frances M. Impellizzeri• Sareena JerathErin M. Kelly•• Alisha Marie Lee•• Michael T. Marcucci•• Brennan McDonough• Louis S. Mercedes• Marguerite Marie

Mitchell•• Brian W. Monnich• Christopher Michael

Morrison••




Bryan A. Nickels•• Mahvesh A. QureshiDiane N. Rallis•• Matthew M. RobbinsJames S. SanziAmy B. Snyder• Briana E. ThibeauCourtney D. Trombly•••

2002

Reuben B. Ackerman••• Amy B. Auth•• Raquel Millman BodnerLoren A. CochranMatthew P. Cormier•• Andy DeMayo• Matthew S. DenteAlisa R. Drayton• Ryan Erik Driscoll•• Michael A. Fralin• Lurleen Gannon• Jeffrey D. Gaulin• Michael J. Hickey• Katherine Sandman

McKinley•• Schuyler B. MincklerRobert J. O’Keefe•• Joon Park• Jeffrey W. Roberts•• William A. Ryan• Ranen S. Schechner• Rebecca A. Ulz• Lance A. Wade•• Cristina M. Woods

2003

Melissa C. AllisonLaura B. AngeliniGreta LaMountain BiagiSara P. BryantJennifer A. CardelloErin CloughDavid E. Cole•• Bryan C. Connolly• Lisa S. CoreKaren L. Crocker• Patrick J. Cronin• Kimberly E. Dean• Kara M. DeltufoJoseph M. DonohuePeter F. DurningLauren E. DwyerDaniel K. Gelb• Joseph Gentile• Michael A. GoldbergNancy E. HartMatthew M. HugheyNicole S. Kadomiya• Jaime T. Kim•• Benjamin A. Krass•• Kyle A. Loring•• Jaime N. MorrisJustin P. O’BrienJessica R. O’Mary• Sherry Ortiz• Keri E. Riemer•

Carla A. Salvucci••• Emily M. Samansky•• Kenneth Sanchez• Renee Martinez

Sophocles•• Anaysa Gallardo StutzmanRory D. Zamansky

2004

Meredith L. AinbinderThomas R. Ayres•• Elizabeth Costello Bae•• Nathalia A. Bernardo•• Adam D. Bovilsky•• Tavares M. BrewingtonNathaniel T. BrowandRachel S. BrownScott T. Buckley• Jessica H. Costanzo• Jessica R. Graham•• James T. JonesJeremy T. Marr•• Jeremy C. McDiarmid• Melissa Kerchner

McDonagh• Katherine G. McKenney•• Brian C. McPeake••• Dana M. McSherry•• Jeffrey Robert Moran•• Kirsten A. NoethenDavid E. O’Leary•• Rita-Anne O’Neill••• Lynette PaczkowskiTracy Piatkowski•• Mary Catherine Pieroni•• Helle Sachse• Christine M. Siscaretti• Elizabeth Buckey

Vandesteeg•• Ashley H. Wisneski•• Emily K. Yu•

2005

Rebecca T. Craven•• Laura C. DilorenzoRoss E. Firsenbaum• Andrew S. GallinaroDavid A. GiordanoDominic A. Gomez•• Kevin C. Heffel• John V. Hobgood• Bradley T. King•• John S. LoganCatharine Adrienne

MallinsonThomas J. MaloneyJohn A. McBrine• Stacie M. Moeser•• Kristin A. Pacio•• Joseph C. Perry•• Samuel Roy Weldon PriceChristopher B. PrimianoRebecca A. RichSusan Ellen SchorrBinh-Minh Ha Sobol• Shana M. Solomon

Rosaline Valcimond•• Carrie N. Vance•

2006

Asna AfzalTeresa K. AndersonEmily M. ArmstrongTodd R. ChampeauDavid J. Cohen•• Jaime Koff Cohen•• Andrew R. DenningtonEmily N. Duquette• Sharon S. Fry•• Thomas E. Hand•• Catherine A. Henry•• Matthew A. Kane• Seth J. Kerschner• Jonathan D.H. LambRenee A. Latour• Amy K. Lyster• Jason G. MahoneyAnne M. McLaughlin•• Stephen T. Melnick•• Anthony F. MontaruliLaura Ann Montgomery• Greg Pakhladzhyan• Anne E. Palmer•• Jeffrey M. Perlman• Martha RockwoodKatherine Seib-Keenan• Matthew Stein• Shoshana E. Stern•• Jessica N. Stokes•• Nisha C. TalwarKristie A. Tappan•• Matthew J. Tilghman-

HavensAndrew J. Vasicek •• Joseph A. Villani Jr.•• Benjamin J. Voce-

Gardner• Eleanor P. Williams• • Jared M. Wood•

2007

William F. Appleyard• Bree Fane Archambault• Rex Brown•• Gerald H. Cahill•• Esther Chang•• William G. CosmasMichael J. Douglas• Michael C. Egan•• Jeremy D. Eggleton• Jonathan E. EnglishCapt. Michael A. Fazio• Thomas A. Franklin•• Robert Frederickson• Nathaniel T. GaedeStephen F. GreeneHanif Gulamhussein• Kathleen M. HalloranJane C. Harper• Catherine E. Heitzenrater• Justin C. HsiangAnna Elizabeth Kalluri•

Frank C. Kanther• Eleftheria S. Keans•• Jermaine L. Kidd• Stuart T. Leslie•• Michelle B. Limaj•• Sandra V. Lora •• Julia Monack McLetchie• David E. Mollo-

Christensen• Jill Tenley MuellerClaire E. Newton• Joseph Palazzo•• Andrew R. Remming• Jeffrey S. Rogan•• Katherine M. Romano• Joe Michael Sasanuma•• David M. SchefflerJoseph SchottChristopher T. StevensonJohanna L. Wise Sullivan• Anne Austin Zeckser••

2008

Adam Michael Baker•• Gregory S. BurnettKuang Hua ChiangMary E. Cloues•• John P. Condon• Julie A. Dahlstrom•• Jill A. DiGiovanni• Bhavini A. Doshi• Courtney P. Fain• Ellen E. FarwellChristine M. FootBianca M. FordeJoshua E. FrenchWilliam W. GerberCatalina M. GutierrezEvan C. Holden•• Michelle E. Kanter•• Katherine Bartlett

KimballRyan C. KnutsonSarah A. Kogel-Smucker• Toni Ann KruseEdward B. Lefebvre•• Jessica H. LiouRosa M. LoyaJoseph P. LuciaKatherine S. Monge •• Michael Thomas Mullaly•• Diana O. Olanipekun•• Christopher D. O’LearySean T. PhelanMatthew P. RasmussenKyle R. Robertson• Arivee Rozier-ByrdJoseph B. RussellColm P. Ryan••• Meaghan L. SandersDebbie Satyal• Leslie Schmidt•••Scott K. Semple•• Michael V. Silvestro• Allison C. TrunkChandler H. Udo• Steven B. Van Dyke

Kevin M. WalkerEleanor L. WilkinsonXin Yang•

2009

Alex A. Andalis• Guillaume BuellRobert Benjamin

Chapman• Patrick J. Connolly• Jill R. Damon•• Marissa Dungey•• Arianna Evers•••Austin R. Evers••• Tara M. Fisher Oh• Stas V. Gayshan• Jianming Hao GuoJennifer C. Itzkoff• Michael N. Javid•• Garrett T. Johnston•• John A. Kupiec• Jane Hill Lovins• Kyle A. McClainAdam J. McGovern•• Matthew Thomas

Murphy•• Jesse NevarezJohn E. Oh•Matthew H. Parker•• Kelly E. Reardon•• Jed S. Rosenkrantz• Jonathan B. Roses•• Daniel C. Silverman• Carol Vasconcellos••• Caitlin VaughnMichael Philip Visconti III• Kristen McKeon Whittle• Daniel J. Wright• Matthew M. Yospin

2010

Jessica M. Ball• Alexander X. Berrio

Matamoros• Alexandra C. BoudreauKeith E. Clayton IIElizabeth A. Clerkin•• Tobias W. Crawford• Angela M. Guarino• Igor HelmanHarriet A. HoderJulia W. HollidayEthan A. Hougah• Ryan F. Kelley•• Sakib A. Khan• Arthur E. Kimball-Stanley• Peter Alexander Laserna•• Sangkee Lee• Jorge Ernesto Munio•• Peter C. ObersheimerJessica L. Palumbo• Ricardo Brandon RiosShannon M. RobertsJenny Shum•• Nicholas T. Stack•• Richard Alan Subrizio••

2011

Esther A. AdetunjiPatricia BallardGregory R. Bradford•• Eileen Lee BregerNathanael T. BurrisBritton D. DavisMichael L. Day•• Grant W. Godfrey• Anne R. Gordon••• Robert S. Hatfield III•• Brian D. Hern•• Kathryn Kargman HoldenElizabeth L. Kinsman• Andrew H. Lynch•• David A. Mawhinney• Matthew B. Meltzer• Ryan R. Montgomery•• Tanya F. OtsukaKathleen Dyer Parker•• Debra Eichenbaum

Perlin•• Kelli J. Powell•• Christopher E. Queenin • Alexandra W. Reimelt•• Ryan M. Rourke ReedBernardo Rubio-CernaElizabeth Kaloyanides

RudermanLily L. Wang• Lauren E. Willhoite

2012

Sam Ahmed• Christopher J. BeckerNicholas C. Buttino•• Lauren E. Campbell• Alex J. Chase• Maya Cheriyan•• Andrew M. Collins•• Michael H. Ding•• Timothy E. Donahue• Leila S. George-Wheeler• Sophia L. HallKathryn R. HarrisErin Ruth Macgowan• Henry William MakJon P. Piron• Kevin C. Quigley•• Julia Bramley Rosequis• Joshua H. Rubin• Robert P. Rudolph•• Megan B. Schaubhut•• Christopher R. Schimpf• Priya F. Selvam• Paul L. Sousa• Daniel E. Wilcox

2013

Arielle Sepulveda AdlerNathan E. BressEmily Hannigan BryanShawn N. Butte• Claire N. CarrabbaJulia L. ChenTimothy P. Connell•

Anonymous ’75Anonymous ’91Hugh J. AultEdward C. Bassett ’77Jill Nexon Berman ’78Roger M. Bougie ’62John F. Bronzo’74 P’10Susan Vogt ’83 and

Peter R. ’81 BrownJohn M. Brunner ’74George G. ’59 and

Sandra Backofen Burke P’92Joseph H. Burke ’72Kevin Michael Carome ’82Megan Elizabeth Carroll ’92Phyllis Cela ’76 and

Gary M. Sidell ’77James A. ’68 and

Lois J. ChampyRobert C. Ciricillo ’70Denis P. Cohen ’76Juan Alexander Concepcion ’03David A. Cooper ’76Don Joseph Julio Cordell ’94Robert V. Costello ’69Julian J. D’Agostine ’53Martina David-Ault and

Hugh J. AultRobert K. Decelles ’72 and

Mary L. DupontKaren G. Del Ponte ’83Paul A. Delory ’75Leonard F. ’77 and

Geraldine Healy DeLucaErnest Michael Dichele ’78Edith N. Dinneen ’73Anthony R. ’60 and

Emily M. DiPietro P’86Edmund ’78 and

Colleen Whitty DiSanto

Jack A. Donenfeld ’76William G. Donnelly ’68Christopher E. Doyle ’70Diane Durgin ’74William F. Farley ’69Robert S. ’76 and

Mary Ellen FarringtonCharles D. Ferris ’61Richard M. Gaberman ’63Ellen B. ’86 and

William F. ’81 GriecoCharles J. ’59 and

Barbara Vazza GulinoStuart J. Hamilton ’97B. L. Hassenfeld-

Rutberg ’65 P’92Norma Jeanne ’82 and

John A. ’82 HerbersJohn B. Hogan ’52Ruth-Arlene W. Howe ’74Ellen S. ’75 and

Jeffrey G. HuvelleAnne Rickard Jackowitz ’89John A. Johnson ’60Anne P. Jones ’61Raymond J. Kenney Jr. ’58Gene S. KupferschmidJohn C. Lacy ’48Dennis A. Lalli ’77James P. Laughlin ’77Stephen J. Laurent ’74Edward R. ’71 and

Patricia M. LeahyEdward A. ’67 and Anna M. LenzGary P. ’70 and

Janet L. LilienthalThomas T. Lonardo ’73Edward J. Loughman ’93Joan Lukey ’74 and

Philip D. Stevenson

William J. Lundregan ’67 P’93’96

Antonina R. Manfreda ’81James E. McDermott ’80 and

Sharon A. BazarianCharles S. McLaughlin ’74Mary Hallisey McNamaraChristopher G. Mehne ’77Robert C. Mendelson ’80James M. ’73 and

Lisa K. MicaliMark C. Michalowski ’85Elwynn J. Miller ’60John N. Montalbano ’80John T. Montgomery

’75 P’06’11Raymond F. ’61 and

Pamelee MurphyDonald W. Northrup ’66Jo Ellen ’79 and

Enrique OjedaPeter A. Pavarini ’77Michael J. ’77 and

Christine Marie PuzoJames F. ’58 and

Helen Wood Queenan Jr.Sander A. Rikleen ’76 and

Lauren Stiller Rikleen ’79Christine P. Ritch ’87Anne Rogers ’77 and

John SimpsonS. Jane Rose ’77Lawrence A. ’58 and

Lois RuttmanJeffrey S. Sabin ’77Kitt ’77 and Heather B. SawitskyHerbert J. Schneider ’64Marianne D. Short ’76 and

Raymond L. Skowyra Jr.Leonard E. Sienko Jr. ’77

Jeffrey P. Somers ’68Lawrence O. Spaulding ’72Robert E. Sullivan ’66William C. Sullivan ’68John A. Tarantino ’81 P’12Peter W. Thoms ’68 and

Abby ColihanMargaret A. Travers ’69Joseph M. Vanek ’87Barry Jay Ward ’78Mark Joseph Warner ’89 P’19Jody Pullen Williams ’83David WirthDouglas L. Wisner ’78

DECEASEDFrancis X. Ahearn ’43Salvatore E. Aloisi ’34Adolph N. Anderson ’53Ruth Frances AndersonGeorge Ankeles ’35Joseph C. Barry ’47Theophile J. Bernhardt ’49Robert W. Blakeney ’52Barbara BougieEdward G. Boyle ’49Russell E. Brennan ’34Philip H. R. Cahill ’48Marie C. ChisholmWilliam F. Chisholm ’35Walter E. Clark ’49Mary F. Costello ’79Jerry A. DiNardo ’52John H. Doermann ’56James E. Dowd ’49Lawrence J. Fitzgerald ’47Lawrence S. Flaherty ’47Christopher J. Flynn ’52Daniel A. Healy ’48John J. C. Herlihy ’49 P’81’90

Daniel G. Holland ’44Rosemary HowardJustin P. Hughes ’70George P. Khouri ’51John KieranJane Tobin Lundregan

’67 P’93’96James J. Marcellino ’68John F. McCarty ’54Therese H. McCartyPaul J. McNamara ’65Helen M. MurphyNeale D. Murphy ’55 P’73Enid NelsonJohn D. Nelson Jr.Denise O’Brien ’78Richard Daniel Packenham ’78Francis W. Phelan ’33Estate of Albert R. PitcoffRita L. PitcoffKathryn Conway PreyerMary B. RadwickJoseph Rogers ’41Ruth C. RyanV. Frederi SanoJohn H. Schaaf ’51Alfred SchwartzThomas H. Seaver ’49Patricia R. SheaWilliam G. Shea ’48George Shrigley ’38Ella M. StevensHarold A. Stevens ’36Helen Jane SullivanWalter F. Sullivan ’47 P’66Tedd J. Syak ’35F. J. Thompson ’35James F. Travers ’49David R. White ’49William T. White ’50



Legacy gifts are part of a deeply rooted tradition at Boston College Law School. We proudly honor those alumni and friends who have made a legacy commitment to BC Law and have joined our Shaw Society, named for Joseph Coolidge Shaw, SJ, who helped found Boston College with the University’s first legacy gift.

shaw society

Catherine G. CurleyJames S. D’Ambra Jr.•• Elizabeth B. Drake• Edward W. DunnMichelle P. EganRobert D.

Giannattasio•• Caitlin GlynnJamie R. Hacker••

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In Closing

Youth involved with the juvenile justice system present with a higher rate of mental illness and learning disabili-ties than do non-system-involved youth. These young people are often eligible for special education services as provided by the federal Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) and yet they often

fail to receive these services. Instead, they are placed in debilitating environ-ments like solitary confinement due to behaviors stemming from their mental health concerns.

Education advocates typically bring suits against correctional institutions under the IDEA’s mandate to provide a

free appropriate public education to students with dis-abilities. Unfortunately, this approach is failing because the IDEA is not able to tackle other barriers to educa-tional access within facilities. The IDEA, however, is not the sole remedy available. The Americans with Disabili-ties Act (ADA) offers a more robust litigation avenue for enforcing the education rights of incarcerated youth with disabilities than bringing suit solely under the IDEA.

When juvenile justice facilities were created in the mid-nineteenth century, they served as the rehabilitative counterpart to the adult penal system and were common-ly referred to as “reform schools,” a scholastic euphemism for prison for kids. On behalf of incarcerated students, le-gal advocates seeking educational access for their clients must first exhaust the administrative remedies that apply to prison conditions under the Prison Litigation Reform Act of 1995, or the PLRA, and those that apply to special education under the IDEA. Requiring exhaustion can delay proceedings while students continue to miss out on educational services and suffer in solitary.

Litigation under the ADA could prove more effective because of the breadth of its application and its lack of exhaustion requirements. The definition of disability under the ADA is broader than that under the IDEA and does not require the same stringent testing mandated by the latter. Any discrimination on the basis of disabil-ity—regardless of a formal diagnosis—is grounds for a challenge under the ADA.

By bringing suit under the ADA, advocates can chal-lenge a wide variety of conditions of confinement that prevent incarcerated students with disabilities from accessing education. The few attempts at this strategy have resulted in settlements, and so the precedential value of this approach is not yet known. Regardless, we must bring attention to discriminatory practices in these facilities that prevent students from accessing a host of services—including education—that were meant to reha-bilitate kids so that they can live productive and fruitful lives outside of the prison—or reform school—bars..

Lauren Koster is President of the Public Interest Law Foundation and an articles editor for the Boston College Law Review. Her note, “Who Will Educate Me? Using the Americans with Disabilities Act to Improve Educa-tional Access for Incarcerated Juveniles with Disabili-ties,” 60 B.C. L. Rev. 673 (2019), lawdigitalcommons.bc.edu/bclr/vol60/iss2/7, was recently published in the Boston College Law Review.

Playing by the RulesA legal remedy for incarcerated kids. BY LAUREN KOSTER ’19

A fifteen-year-old with bipolar effective disorder spent one hundred days out of the year in solitary confinement and failed to receive the daily forty-five minutes of education she was allotted by the juvenile justice facility at which she “resides.” A seventeen-year-old at the same facility, who presented with mental health needs, spent ninety days in solitary confinement, during which time he received no educational or treatment services. Thereafter, he suffered a psychotic break and now has a formal diagnosis of schizophrenia. These stories are just two that stemmed from a 2013 class action complaint against Contra Costa County Juvenile Hall in California.

As a child, what did you want to be when you grew up? Sander A. Rikleen: A lawyer.Lauren Stiller Rikleen: Ditto.

What’s your favorite television or movie crime drama?SAR: NCIS. Also, we both love My Cousin Vinny.

What advice would you give your 1L self?SAR: Get to know your professors better. They can help you in ways you do not appreciate until later.LSR: I would urge 1Ls to stay in touch with their classmates. It is hard to appreciate amid the first-year pressures the personal and professional value of staying

Lauren Stiller Rikleen, attorney, author, and founder and president of the Rikleen Institute for Strategic Leadership, and Sander A. Rikleen, a partner in Sherin and Lodgen LLP’s Litigation Department, share some lessons learned and wisdom gained from their days at Boston College Law School.

in touch with the amazing people who attend this law school.

What’s the best advice you’ve ever been given? LSR: One day, Hon. Hiller Zobel cancelled class without notice. He explained that his son was sick, and his wife, a law firm partner, had a client flying in from the West Coast. He stayed home as the parent with greater flexibility that day. By sharing, Professor Zobel modeled how busy professionals can parent and share responsibilities for addressing work-family challenges.

If you could add one hour to every day, how would you spend it? LSR: Writing.

What led you to make a bequest to BC Law?SAR: I had difficulty affording law school. I am grateful for the opportunities my BC Law degree has provided and hope to make the cost of law school less of a challenge for future students.LSR: We also appreciated the supportive environment that BC Law provided, and continues to provide, to its student body. It is a special place that needs full alumni support.

Lauren Stiller and Sandy Rikleen have chosen to mark the milestone of their reunion by adding BC Law to their estate plans. They have shared their decision to include a provision for BC Law in their will, which allows us to celebrate their generosity today and recognize their marvelous gift during their lifetime through membership in the Shaw Society.

To learn more, please visit bc.edu/LawShawSociety or contact Jessica Cashdan at 617-552-3536 or [email protected].

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