ALUMNI Update
Summer 2001 Vol. 10, No. 1
a publication of the Indiana University School of Law-Bloomington

Judge Wood addresses the Class of 2001 on 'The Legal Profession'
DianeP. Wood, circuit judge for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 7th Circuit, spoke at the Law School commencement in May.

Good afternoon and congratulations to each and every one of you. This is a moment to savor — for you, your families, and your friends — coming as it does, sandwiched between three years of hard work in law school and the promising careers that await you. It is a great privilege for me to be able to share even a little bit of this time with you. I know that no one has come here to listen to a discourse of Brezhnevian proportions, and I have not been a federal judge long enough to think that every word that drops from my lips is a Socratic pearl that will stay with you forever.
I considered a number of approaches I might take to these remarks. Some years ago, for example, with the help of my law clerks, I developed a list of the "top 10 reasons why you're glad law school is over." On the list were such things as "friends get to learn your first name," and "you won't ever again have to endure those turkeys whose hands are always in the air," and "life is open book." You might have your own "top 10" list of the things you'll miss — being surrounded by good friends, constant intellectual stimulation, more spare time than you realize you've had, and maybe even the companionship of a special professor or two. But then I decided that, after the Napster case and all it suggests for the law of copyright, I didn't want to be in the embarrassing position of having David Letterman sue me for infringing his idea. I also thought about telling you my favorite lawyer jokes, until I remembered that most of them aren't really that funny and I don't really have any favorites.
But the rather negative way the legal profession is portrayed in most of these jokes (as in the one about the boat that goes down, and all the passengers except the lawyers are devoured by sharks — when asked why the exception, the sharks reply that they spared the lawyers out of professional courtesy) set me thinking. Before you went to law school, when you thought of the word "lawyer" or the word "attorney," what came to your mind? Maybe a person — real or fictional — who was or is a lawyer: Clarence Darrow, Atticus Finch, Abraham Lincoln, Perry Mason; or Ally McBeal, Horace Rumpole, or (heaven forbid) Judge Judy. Maybe the word made you think about what you thought lawyers did: spearheading the Civil Rights Movement, putting together
glamorous international business deals, prosecuting organized crime syndicates, or perhaps snarling up the system with lawsuits based on questionable science, or drafting reams of tedious and obscure "fine print," or getting criminal defendants "off" because "the glove didn't fit." And if someone had asked you to list the qualities you thought lawyers had, what would you have said? Honesty, moral rectitude, selflessness, commitment, intelligence, imagination, determination, stamina? Or would you have said things like slyness, pugnaciousness, brinksmanship, self-preservation, opportunism, and moral relativism? All those adjectives and many more, on both lists, have been applied to lawyers from time to time, as you know well by now, even if you did not some three years ago.
So which is it? Is this the profession of Clarence Darrow, Abraham Lincoln, Thurgood Marshall, and Myra Bradwell, or is it the profession of Dewey, Cheatem, and Howe? Even more important, which path will you take? I am confident that as we all sit here on this lovely Saturday afternoon, that question is rhetorical only. But it might be worth thinking a little more consciously about the ways in which a lawyer might conduct herself or himself in a way that ennobles the profession, and the pitfalls that lie ahead that slowly, insidiously, lead to some of our more disappointing colleagues. We can do this by asking ourselves several questions — questions every lawyer should reconsider from time to time throughout his or her career.
First, is it true that the need to pursue the almighty dollar in today's competitive profession inevitably leads to discourteous behavior or unethical conduct or diminished work quality? While my answer to this question is of course "no," it is a qualified "no." There is nothing inevitable about the undesirable consequences I just mentioned, but we would be ostriches or Pollyannas if we thought that the environment in which law is practiced is exactly the same today as it was in the first half of the 20th century. It would be at best foolish, and at worst dangerous, if we did not acknowledge the growing stresses on the lawyer who wants to maintain the highest standards of courtesy, ethics, and excellence. It is only by looking in the eye of the enemies of all that is best that we will defeat them.
Let me take these risks one at a time, then, and offer a few thoughts on the way they need to be combated in the admittedly rarified world I see before me at the court of appeals. At the outset, there is simple courtesy — to your client, to your opponent, to the court, and to anyone else you encounter in the course of your legal practice. What is it that makes some lawyers think that they are not vigorously representing their clients unless they are shouting at people over the telephone, or refusing to agree to simple scheduling matters, or pushing someone aside in line for a taxicab? This kind of behavior is reminiscent of the playground bully, and we all learned years ago that bullies behave the way they do because they are weak, not because they are strong. And let me assure you, from personal experience in private practice at the Department of Justice and at the Seventh Circuit, that nice folks do win. When lawyers rant and rave in front of me (which some are foolish enough to do), I am tempted to take it as a concession that their case is weak and that instead of reasoned argument grounded in a record, all they can offer is histrionics.
Another point you should bear in mind, although this one is not particularly high-minded, is that you never know who you are insulting. Maybe some of you have played a game that one of my
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From the Dean
International program expands, welcomes new dean

I am pleased to announce that Scott Palmer, a graduate of the Class of 2001, will be joining us as assistant dean for international programs effective Aug. 1.
Our graduate program in law has grown significantly over the last several years. During this time, I am very grateful, indeed, for the enormous effort expended by professors Lisa Farnsworth and Joe Hoffmann and the entire Graduate Committee to deal with the variety of academic issues that arise in the context of our LLM and SJD program. In addition to the academic side of the program, however, there are also an enormous number of purely administrative tasks. These include, for example, arranging for appropriate visas for the students, working closely with the international admissions office at the university level to ensure that files are properly managed and expedited when necessary, as well as a host of student affairs issues. The demands of the program now require a person who can focus on the administrative tasks generated by this program and thereby free up faculty to focus on the academic side of the program.
Scott Palmer, we believe, will perform these administrative tasks admirably. In addition, there are a number of opportunities that we have never had the time or capacity to develop. These include the creation of alumni clubs in various cities throughout the world, including Tokyo, Seoul, Taipei, Beijing, and Bangkok. We now have a number of alumni throughout the world, especially in Asia. We have never really done much with alumni relations in this area, with the exception of a wide-ranging trip that I made a couple of years ago and a number of focused trips by Joe Hoffmann in the last year or two. One of the new tasks we hope Scott can undertake will be to put together an alumni network for us that will help to
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Graduate address
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daughters loves, the Kevin Bacon game, in which you are given two movies and you have to connect an actor in movie 1 with a different actor in movie 2 through intermediate movies in which Kevin Bacon appeared. I'm here to tell you that your entire life will be the Kevin Bacon game. You will encounter your classmates from IU in the most unexpected places; you will discover that new people you meet are only one or two common acquaintances away; and you will come quickly to realize that there may not be any quiet corners of the globe where you can go do something really stupid that no one will ever learn about. Not only that, but some people you don't know will turn out to be people you are fated to meet soon. One of my favorite stories, which goes back to our theme of courtesy, comes from an experience that Judge Phyllis Kravitch of the United States Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit had many years ago. Judge Kravitch is a small woman from Savannah — not the kind of person the uninformed outsider would instantly tag as a V.I.P. One morning, she was in Atlanta at her hotel, getting ready to go over to the llth Circuit's courthouse to hear her cases for the day. It was raining cats and dogs, and there was a rather long line by the door for taxicabs. She waited patiently, but just as she reached the head of the line, a man cut in front of her and said, "I've got important business — I'm going to have to take this cab." The judge was startled, but she acquiesced and took the next cab. Later on that morning, she was on the bench with her two colleagues. They called the next case, and who should stand up in front of the panel but the man from the taxi line. He recognized her; she recognized him; and not a word was said (or needed to be said). I trust he learned his lesson from that experience. The only rule that works, for lawyers as well as for human beings in general, is the one you were taught at your parents' knees: courtesy to everyone, all the time.
Ethical behavior is, if anything, even more important than courtesy. We can tolerate the occasional lapse in courtesy, because we know that everyone has a bad day now and then, but we cannot allow even the slightest relaxation of ethical standards. At some point in law school, you all took a course on the legal profession, and you all studied the Model Rules of Professional Conduct, and maybe also the Code of Professional Responsibility. Those rules are obviously important, but even more important is the spirit behind them. Hard as it may be for you to believe, there really are cases where a lawyer, fearful of losing, will conceal evidence, or dip into his or her client's funds, or deliberately refrain from telling the court something important to the case, or will help someone perpetrate a tax fraud, or a money laundering scheme, or other unlawful behavior. It makes me sad every time I see a case like this, and I've seen more than I would like already. I can only suppose that these lawyers stooped to moral compromise because they thought they "needed" to win, or they "needed" the money, and they thought no one would notice. No one — I repeat no one — needs to win every case. An honorable loss can enhance a lawyer's reputation just as much as an honorable win. No one thinks less of David Boies because he represented the losing side in Bush v. Gore. Winning is nice, but honor is irreplaceable.
One of the hardest things that the best lawyers face is the need to say "no" to people from time to time. They might need to say "no" because a client is proposing something that is inappropriate. "No" might be the right answer if a new or existing client wants you to take on an additional project and you either do not have the time or you do not have the expertise to do the kind of job you would be proud of. Or, in that case, if not "no," then the answer might be a qualified "yes," as long as the client realizes that you will need to take longer to get the work done or to do more background work to get yourself up to speed. In the end, this will pay off handsomely. All you have, finally, is your reputation — for excellence, for high moral standards, and for decency. Momentary pressures to compromise each one of these might come along, but if you keep the long term in mind, you will resist those pressures and come out infinitely ahead in the end.
This leads to my second major point: As you work tirelessly on your principal job, how do you manage to ensure that you can devote a meaningful amount of your time to pro bono work? How especially do you reserve this time during the years when the pressure to prove yourself is especially high, when you are an associate or a young lawyer still working on making a name for yourself in your legal community? Once again, it isn't easy —especially if you also insist, as I certainly think you should (men and women alike!), on preserving space in your life for your family. But once again, you can do it if this is high on your personal list of priorities, as I hope it will be.
Let me begin with a word of definition. What is pro bono work? As some of you may have heard me say when I was visiting your law school earlier this year, my own definition of the term is narrower than "all uncompensated good works." This is not because I think people should not contribute their time to their churches, communities, and neighborhoods, doing things like visiting lonely senior citizens, or picking up garbage from the parks, or any of countless other projects to which every citizen can contribute. To the contrary, it is vitally important to our society that people of all walks of life do this kind of thing. But there is nothing about your legal training that specially equips you to help out. When I think of your professional pro bono obligations, it means to me your duty to give back to society something of the legal skills that your own hard work, IU School of Law, and the other educational institutions you attended gave you. Perhaps you will take an occasional criminal appointment from the courts in your area; perhaps, if your skills are in the corporate law area, you will help budding entrepreneurs in depressed areas of the city form companies; you may want to help immigrants weave their way through the maze of regulations administered by the Immigration and Naturalization Service; there may be a public interest cause such as the environment or reproductive rights or religious rights or Native American rights or any of a long list of others that might be able to benefit from your legal skills. The opportunities are there, and,
in the Internet era, there is no excuse for not finding them.
If you have followed me this far, you could be forgiven for wondering how many hours I think there are in a day. (I've been looking for years for those extra six hours a day myself, but unfortunately I haven't found them yet.) So my third and last point is this: Will the practice of law be "all work and no play" for you, or will it be something that gratifies, amuses, and fulfills you over the years? That is one I cannot answer. But I can predict that, to the extent you are finding balance in your life between home and work, and between the bread-and-butter issues that every lawyer needs and some kind of pro bono work that satisfies a deeper need in you, you will find law an enormously fulfilling profession. You will also find it gratifying, amusing, and eternally interesting, if you remain open to the all-too-human side of the legal profession. Our work is with the foibles, mistakes, hopes, and plans of others. People are endlessly fascinating, and it is a true privilege to be able to share their lives even for a little while, while you serve as their attorney.
You are already three years down the road toward a lifetime in a profession that is truly one of the finest you could have chosen. And don't believe all the mutterings you hear from other countries about American lawyers. The American legal profession is the envy of the world, for the skill, the independence, and the respect that its members have earned over the years. You will be worthy additions to this community. I congratulate you upon your graduation from lU's very fine law school, and I welcome you to the profession.
— Diane P. Wood  
See Bmdwell v. Illinois, 83 U.S. 130 (1872).

Wild thing: Tanford gets the ball rolling, Stake runs with it
Following an exchange via e-mail between professors Alex Tanford and Jeff Stake, Stake elaborated on his initial impromptu musings to come up with the following analysis of the knotty problem of baseball ownership.

One of my Property final exam questions asked about a recent event in baseball. The facts, as in any good law question designed to separate the "A" students from the "C" students with unimpeachable reliability but with absolutely no generalizability to the real world whatsoever, are simpler than this sentence. On April 18,2001, Barry Bonds hit his 500th home run over the fence of Pacific Bell Park and into San Francisco Bay, where it was scooped up by one Joe Figone. Figone has put this baseball in a safe deposit box and is said to be negotiating with the San Francisco Giants and Barry Bonds over the return of the baseball.2 The question is, who wins the fight over ownership, Joe or the Giants?
One of my students answered that Rawlings gained title by creation, citing "the Bible, Genesis, or somewhere around there." Rawlings transferred title to the Giants in a voluntary exchange for money, achieving an outcome Pareto superior to that which preceded the voluntary transfer.
Thus, it was owned by the Giants prior to the home run, and it is doubtful they intended to transfer title of this historic ball to Figone. Nor have the Giants abandoned it, as that requires both the absence of physical control, which we do have in this case, and the intent to relinquish control, which will be hard for Joe to prove. Giants win.
This is a good example of the kind of overly simplistic and misguidedly deterministic legal thinking we law professors rightly try to stamp out of our students along with the idea of fairness, which was probably ebbing anyway when they applied to law school. Clearly the student did not write enough words to get an "A." The problem with this student's answer, a problem that is all too common, is that the legal analysis has failed to take into account the true character of the world, in this case, the essential nature of a baseball.
A baseball, as anyone who has ever tried to hit or field one knows, has a mind of its own. 3 The fact that we can sometimes catch them or hit them, by the way, is no evidence that they have been domesticated. A baseball is surely harder to capture than a finch on the Galapagos, 4 to take just one example. It is easy to be fooled by the color commentators and strategy analysts into thinking that the reason a ball hopped past a shortstop was that it hit a rock or tuft of grass, or that it curved away from the hitter because of the pitcher's twist of wrist, or that it passed the catcher because the catcher did not get enough "body" in front of it. But those are all post-hoc explanations designed to give the impression that we humans are in control. In some past years, fans have even asked whether the balls have been "juiced," presuming that human agency has some causative influence on baseball behavior. But that is all an illusion; the ball is beyond control. A baseball is, not to put too fine a point upon it, wild. Hence, courts should treat the baseball as they would a wild animal. 5
Now this particular wild animal in question has been captured by the Giants, and by that capture the club has gained title by first occupancy.6 But as we all know, the essential nature of a baseball is to fly and evade capture. (That the baseballs do not fly all of the time does not prevent them from being flying creatures.7) Barry Bonds, being sympathetic to the plight of downtrodden and oppressed creatures that have been pressed into involuntary servitude, seems to have a greater natural ability than most of us to set free these poor, captured baseballs. (Whether Bonds is liable to the club for doing so is another issue that might be within the expertise of the Torts, Criminal Law, or Contracts teachers. My labor law colleague Ken Dau-Schmidt, who is apparently unfamiliar with the degree to which law (continued on page 3)

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Conferences on public morality, sustainability draw discussion

On an unnaturally warm Friday morning in early April, a small but select group of lawyers, scholars, and students gathered in the Moot Court Room at the IU School of Law-Bloom-ington. The air-conditioning system was broken, and in southern Indiana, no matter how many times it snows on graduation or the fall foliage defies predictions of bust, people come fresh to their weather. A comfortable sense of minor crisis enlivened the room, as people urgently filled Dixie Cups with ice, skinned off their suit jackets, and eyed the physical plant workers huddled around the air vents with equal parts hope and suspicion.
The group was gathered for an interdisciplinary conference on "Moralities of the Public Sphere: Law, Politics, and Popular Culture," organized by Professor and Associate Dean Lauren Robel. Convivial and relaxed in spite of the heat, those in attendance were very ready to be amused by Dean Fred Aman's observation — drawn from his secret life as a jazz drummer — that judging by numbers, the event looked more like a recording session than a club date.
The day's first presenter was Catherine Stimpson, dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences at New York University. Her talk, titled "Polonius: Politician or Pundit?," described a modern-day analog to the windbag from Hamlet. The typical view of Polonius, she suggested, is of a dreary and pompous old man, and she quoted Saul Bellow's opinion that "one of the nice things about Hamlet is that Polonius gets stabbed." But her own view is somewhat different. "Shakespeare," she reminded the audience, "was a brilliant analyst of power, and we tend to be so consumed with Hamlet as an existential hero that we forget the extent to which the play is about power."
Fedwa Malti-Douglas, (who will begin teaching courses on cultural legal studies at the Law School next fall), gave a paper called "Breakfast at Hillary's," analyzing the importance of food in the creation of political and other discourses surrounding Hillary Rodham Clinton. She pointed out the recurring use of food imagery — what she dubbed "Foodgate" — and, in particular, the use of the domestic setting of the breakfast table in reporting on Bill and Hillary Clinton.
Other presentations included the University of Washington's Kathleen Woodward on "Calculating Compassion," Jeff Isaac, from the political science department at IU, on faith-based initiatives, and Dan Conkle on the contentious topic of "Religion, Politics, and the 2000 Presidential Election."
The last panel of the day was on "Alternative Legal Narratives/Putting Narrative on Trial." Judith Roof, of Michigan State University, gave a paper on "Special Investigations," in which she examined the paradoxical status of the special prosecutor and the cultural category of the "special" investigation. Austin Sarat, of Amherst College, gave a presentation titled "When Memory Speaks: Remembrance and Revenge in Unforgiven" contending that Glint Eastwood's film provides a nuanced exploration of storytelling and the consequences of the stories we tell for the lives we lead. Last, Susan Jeffords, of the University of Washington, gave an analysis of the narratives that underlie the far-right patriot and militia movements.
Another major conference held at the Law School this spring was devoted to globalization and sustainable development. During the final weekend in March, scholars assembled in Blooming-ton to consider the issues raised by the fundamental tension between the economic needs of developing countries and the environmental concerns of industrialized countries.
According to conference organizer IU law Professor John Applegate, "The international commitment to the environmental protection element of sustainable development has eroded because, in this era of globalization, 'sustainable development' has not yet advanced beyond being a form of words and a political compromise. If sustainable development is to flourish as a means of providing a healthy environment for future generations, it must have real content and meaning — conceptual, technological, financial, and legal — for a global economy and society."
The conference explored this question primarily in relation to food. The first panel introduced the issues by exploring the relationships among sustainability, modernization, globalization, international environmental and trade law, and the new agriculture. A second panel examined the relation of genetically modified organisms and what David Conway has called the "Doubly Green Revolution" to sustainability, considering both the issues of agricultural ecology and the intellectual property and patent law issues developing in relation to genetically modified foods.The final panel examined, more specifically, the relationship of the concept of sustainability to the governance of local, indigenous economies.

Papers from this conference will be published in the fall 2002 issue of the Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies.

Kathleen Woodward traces the Campaign 2000 buzzword "compassionate conservative" to a question in a 1992 presidential debate about how candidates George Bush Sr. and Bill Clinton had been personally affected by the national debt. Bush stumbled, Clinton wept. Ever since, argues Woodward, he who feels the most pain wins.

Wild thing
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eschews the hobgoblin of a foolish consistency, argues unpersuasively that because Mr. Bonds was employed by the Giants to set baseballs free he ought not to be liable to them for doing exactly that.8 Dau-Schmidt does rightly point out that even his questionable principle of legal consistency would not prevent B.onds from being liable to owners of opposing teams who certainly have no interest in his emancipatory efforts.) You might remember from Property, although I certainly would not remember if I did not teach it every year, that once a wild animal regains its natural liberty, the title obtained by first occupation terminates and the wild thing, here the baseball, is subject to capture once again.9
It goes without saying, that.... Therefore, this rule of escape to natural liberty, this exception to ownership by first possession, does not apply when the wild thing has an animus revertendi, a habit of returning.
But there is next to no evidence that baseballs hit out of the playing field have a habit of returning to the field (or to the owner of the field, for that matter). Note here, however, the danger of generaliza-
tions. It may appear that all "official," "major league" baseballs are essentially alike. But experienced observers know well that a certain breed of baseball, most notably those held captive and trained at Wrigley Field,10 do have a habit of returning to the field of play when set free. This habit is quite refined and seems only to be triggered by their having been set free by players visiting from out of town.
Of course, if Barry Bonds were playing at Wrigley, he would be on the visiting team and the exception to the exception would apply. For that reason, the outcome of the case would likely be different in Chicago, presuming Joe Figone could somehow make it to Chicago and find a way to compete with the other wild game hunters waiting for homers without being cleared out by the Chicago police, who demonstrated at the 1968 Democratic convention their expertise at clearing Chicago of enemy agents like Mr. Figone.
In the case at bar, Joe Figone has more than doctrine on his side. Policy, the supreme touchstone of the law, councils in favor of his unimpeded ownership. Obviously knowing all of these rules, Joe has taken special precautions and has confined the baseball to a cage from which it is much less likely to escape than Pacific Bell Park. He should be rewarded for his careful husbanding of this valuable natural resource so important to our national identity.
— Jeff Stake

1 This idea started with a serious inquiry about home-run-ball ownership from my colleague, Alex Tanford, who got a response typically useful. My thanks go to Dan Conkle, Susan Williams, and Gene Shreve.
2 This is no small event — Eddie Murray's 500th home-run baseball sold at auction for $500,000 in 1996.
3 This is not unique to baseballs, of course. The Quiddich Snitch is equally willful. See, generally, The Rules of Quiddich.
4 See Darwin, Notes from a long trip by Beagle.
5 See Hammonds v. Central Kentucky Natural Gas Co., 255 Ky. 685, 75 S.W.2d 204 (1934) (treating natural gas like a wild animal, unowned because it regained its natural liberty).
6 See Pierson v. Post, 3 Cai. R. 175, 2 Am. Dec. 264 (NY, 1805).
7 See, again, the finches of the Galapagos (some of which rarely fly at all). See also, Regina v. Ojibway, reported in CASNER
and LEACH, PROPERTY 3d ed. 24 (holding as a matter of statutory interpretation that a horse with a feather pillow on its back was a small bird).
8 If you are bored with all of this legal mumbo jumbo, see the Starr report on Clinton, which eschews legal analysis in favor of salacious anecdote.
9 See BROWN, PERSONAL PROPERTY (old edition) (a badly outdated source, I know, but the rules of Property never change anyway, at least not for the better).
10 C.f. Schlensky v. Wrigley (holding nothing relevant, but I've always wanted to cite that case).

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School News
Adjunct Appointments
IU professors join Law School faculty

Three IU professors join the Law School this fall as adjunct faculty.
Professor A. James Barnes, who was dean of the School of Public and Environmental Affairs from 1988 to 2000, will teach environmental law, one of his longtime scholarly and professional interests. Barnes was deputy administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency from 1985 to 1988 and from 1981 to 1983 was general counsel for the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
Legal historian Michael Grossberg, a professor in the history department, will teach on children and the law. Grossberg is the editor of the American Historical Review and the author of Governing the Hearth: Law and the Family in Nineteenth-Century America (University of North Carolina Press, 1985) and A Judgment for Solomon: The d'Hauteville Case and Legal Experience in Antebellum America (Cambridge University Press, 1996).

Fedwa Malti-Douglas, the Martha C. Craft Professor of Humanities in the College of Arts and Sciences, will teach cultural legal studies. Malti-Douglas's most recent book, The Starr Report Disrobed, was nominated by Columbia University Press for a
Pulitzer Prize. She is currently working on a book on American fantasies dealing with law, politics, and sexuality in the Clinton era.

New alumni staff
Ringrose joins as annual fund director

The Law School is pleased to announce that Betsy Ringrose has joined its staff as the new director of annual fund and reunion giving. She replaces Amanda Burnham, who is now the director of development and alumni affairs for the IU School of Journalism staff at UC Berkeley's Boalt School of Law.
"I'm really excited to be continuing my development career here at IU," she says, "and I'm looking forward to working with our alumni. I want to help support the school's academic mission through the continued growth of the Fund for Excellence."
Before coming to the Law School, Ringrose had been the coordinator for development and public programs at the Jepson Herbarium at the University of California at Berkeley.
Before that, she had worked for several years on the development
Ringrose has a master's degree in anthropology from California State University, Hayward. She also majored in anthropology as an undergraduate at the University of California at San Diego, where she minored in art history and psychology.

Faculty awards
Dean presents awards, honors efforts

Dean Aman presented two faculty awards in April at an informal ceremony in the Law School lobby.
Upon receiving the Wallace Teaching Award, Professor Hannah Buxbaum reported that one of her children, mishearing her speak of an award, was under the impression Buxbaum was going to be going to war. "But if war has anything to do with what happens in the classroom," she continued, "teachers and students are fighting on the same side."
Professor Seth Lahn received the Leonard D. Fromm Public Interest Award, presented by PILF president Mindy Finnigan, in honor of his tireless efforts to both promote and provide service in the public interest.

Professors Charlie Geyh and Jeffrey Stake were recipients of the 2000-01 Trustees Teaching Award.

The Professor and the Canary:
Medical ethicist visits school as Smith Professor

Margaret Somerville has been known to flap her arms like a bird in front of an audience of hundreds to make her point, which is this: Health care, or the way a society approaches the ethical and financial dilemmas health care raises, is like a canary in the coal mine of the future. If health care doesn't thrive, it may be an advance warning that something is rotten in the state of the nation. This idea is at the heart of Somerville's recent book, The Ethical Canary, in which she discusses the ethical implications of the medical decisions we make about birth, death, and everything in between.
This spring, Somerville was the George P. Smith II Distinguished Visiting Professor at the IU School of Law. During her stint in Bloomington, Somerville led a panel discussion of ethical issues in medicine. Wearing a canary-yellow jacket — the one she was wearing, she said, when she first hit upon the image for her title — she went head to head with several scholars in the Moot Court Room. The participants were David Smith, director of lU's Poynter Center, Yvonne Cripps, Roger Dworkin, and George P. Smith II, ID'64, whose gift supports an annual visit by distinguished scholars and jurists.
As the Gale Professor of Law at McGill University in Montreal, Somerville is the first woman in Canada to hold a named chair in law, and she is the founding director of the McGill Centre for Medicine, Ethics, and Law. She is a public policy consultant to the Global Programme on AIDS of the World Health Organization, UNAIDS, the United Nations Human Rights Secretariat in Geneva, and law reform commissions in Canada and Australia. She has served on many editorial boards, advisory boards, and boards of directors, including the Canadian Centre for Ethics in Sport and the American Society of Law, Medicine, and Ethics, and is an ethics advisor to the auditor general of Canada. She has also been active in the clinical sphere, serving on clinical and research ethics committees and consulting for McGill University Teaching Hospitals.
Custer book
The School of Law has published a book, The Court-Martial of George Armstrong Custer, chronicling its 1998 moot court proceeding presided over by U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
Ever since Custer's immediate superior, General Alfred Terry, first intimated that if Custer had survived his legendary defeat and death at the Battle of Little Bighorn he would have been court-martialed, historians and others have hotly debated the question of Custer's culpability. On Sept. 18,1998, the law weighed in. A board of "generals," comprising Justice Ginsburg, the Hon. Frank Sullivan Jr. of the Indiana Supreme Court, and IU Professor of Law David C. Williams, heard the case for and against Custer.
The new book compiles the Bill of Charges, the lawyers' briefs, a transcript of the arguments, and the court's opinion, together with a discussion of the legal and historical significance of the court-martial. The book and a video tape of the proceedings are both available for sale from the IU School of Law. Call (812) 855-9781 for more information.

Going wireless
Just a month into the new millennium, the Law School shook the dust of the 20th century from its feet when it inaugurated a wireless Internet connection on Feb. 1. The new technology, which requires users to be within range of a transmitter that communicates via radio signals with a card inserted into a laptop computer, allows more flexibility to computer users and makes it possible to connect to the Internet from classrooms at a reasonable cost. Thirty cards are available for checkout at the circulation desk in the library. The Law School has installed four transmitters: Two are in the library; one, in room 122, covers the classrooms on the first floor; and another covers classrooms on the second floor.

Fall break
Beginning next year, the Law School's schedule will include a week-long break in October, designed to give the weary and harried a chance to regroup during the long stretch from Labor Day to Thanksgiving, and also to allow students to schedule interviews off-campus. The rest of the campus will not be observing the fall break.

La Vida Loca
In a transformation worthy of Clark Kent, Professor Craig Bradley wowed the audience with his Ricky Martin impersonation at Singing for Summer Salaries, afund-raiser sponsored by PILF.

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Before 1960
Lewis N. Mullin, LLB'40, and his wife, Hazel E. Mullin, BS'39, have restored an 1874 one-room schoolhouse in Carroll County. He is still practicing law in Delphi, Ind., (where they live), after 51 years. They have two children, both IU graduates.

California Western School of Law has announced an endowed program in select legal studies named in honor of Robert K. Castetter, LLM'54, who was dean of that school from 1960 to 1985, and his wife, Marjorie Castetter. A native of Martins-ville, Ind., Castetter lives with his wife in La Mesa, Calif.

Samuel L. Reed, JD'59, was selected for the 2000-01 Indiana State Bar Association Board of Governors. He is a certified civil mediator and a senior partner in DeFur Voran Hanley Radcliff & Reed. He and his wife, Joan, live in Muncie, Ind.

1960s
Joseph T. Bumbleburg, JD'61, was elected chair of the board of state trustees of Ivy Tech State College in September 2000. He is president and senior partner of Ball Eggleston Bumbleburg McBride Walkey & Stapleton, of Lafayette, Ind., where he and his wife, Constance, live.

Roger L. Pardieck, JD'63, received the Lifetime Achievement Award of the Indiana Trial Lawyers Association on March 8, in honor of his leadership in the protection of individual rights and freedoms over a long career as a lawyer in the Seymour firm of Pardieck & Gill.
The Rochester and Lake Manitou Chamber of Commerce bestowed its Community Service Award on Robert E. Peterson, JD'64, in January. Peterson, who practices law with Ted Waggoner, JD'78, in Rochester, Ind., has served several terms as an Indiana state senator and was the Democratic party's candidate for lieutenant governor in 1980. Since 1996, he has been the Fifth Congressional District chair and a member of the Indiana State Democratic Central Committee.

James E. Bourne, JD'65, is vice president of the Indiana State Bar Association for 2000-01. He is a partner in Wyatt Tarrant & Combs. He and his wife, Linda, BA'98, live in New Albany, Ind.
Clyde D. Compton, LLB'65, was selected as the 2000-01 chair of the Indiana State Bar Association House of Delegates. He is managing partner of the Merrillville/ Portage law firm Hodges & Davis. He and his wife, Karen, live in Portage, Ind.

David A. Butcher, JD'66, was selected by his peers as one of the Best Lawyers in America 2001-02. He is a partner with Indianapolis-based Bose McKinney & Tivans, where he practices in the areas of business organizations, financial institutions, and mergers and acquisitions. He and his wife, Donna, live in Indianapolis.

Stephen C. Moberly, LLB'66, is serving as chair of the Court History Committee for the U.S. District Court, Southern District of Indiana. Moberly and his wife, Sandra Schultz Moberly, BS'63, live in Shelbyville, Ind.

Sandra A. O'Connor, LLB'66, JD'67, is serving her seventh term as Baltimore County states attorney. She and her husband, Harold Rose, live in Baltimore. E-mail her at soconnor@co.ba.md.us.

1970s
Everett E. "Bill" Goshorn, JD'70, a judge in the Wells County (Ind.) Court, is one of 30 judges in the state selected by Indiana Chief Justice Randall Shepherd to participate in a week-long graduate program for judges this summer in Nashville, Ind.

Dean A. Brown, JD'71, practices in Fort Wayne, Ind., where he and his wife, Helen, live.

Stephen D. Thompson, JD'71, retired from the practice of law in Canton, Ohio, and is now working with the National Park Service at the Cape Hatteras National Seashore. He and his wife, Maureen, live in Manteo, N.C.

Wayne Walston, JD'71, retired from Sprint last year after 24 years in the telecommunications industry. He began his career as a partner in a Michigan firm before joining Sprint. He and his wife, Betty, have three children and live in Mansfield, Ohio.

Thomas W. Zoss, JD'72, joined the IU Foundation as development director for the IU Press. He and his wife, Bernadette Zoss, BA'72, relocated to Bloomington from South Bend, Ind. Bernadette is the new production manager at the IU Press. June marked their 30th anniversary — they met and married in Bloomington (in Beck Chapel). Their two daughters are IUB students: Emily is a Wells Scholar majoring in theatre and religious studies; Angela is majoring in cognitive science and computer science.

Thomas A. Clancy, JD'73, was elected vice chair of the Fellows of the American Bar Foundation in February. He is a partner with Clancy & Stevens, Chicago. He and his wife, Dana Green, BA'71, JD'74, live in Evanston, Ill.

Peter M. Kelly II, JD'73, John R. Carr III, JD'74, and Carol Connor Flowe, JD'76, were among 172 prominent employee benefits attorneys who were honored as charter fellows of a new professional organization, the American College of Employee Benefits Counsel. The association was formed in July 2000 and grew out of an initiative of the American Bar Association's joint committee on employee benefits. Kelly practices in Chicago, Carr in Indianapolis, and Flowe in Washington, D.C.

John Eric Smithburn, JD'73, will have his eighth book, Cases and Materials in Juvenile Law, published by Anderson this year. He and his wife, Aladean M. De Rose, JD'78, live in South Bend, Ind.

Jerry D. Bryant, JD'74, is the father of five children and three grandchildren, former Clinton County judge, past president of the Clinton County Bar Association, past assistant professor at Wilmington College, and has had a private practice since 1974 in Wilmington, Ohio, where he lives.

John R. Carr III, JD'74, joined Ayres Carr & Sullivan in November 2000 and will chair their business advisory and mediation services groups. He will also serve as COO of the firm. He lives in Indianapolis and can be reached at jcarriii.74@alumni .indiana.edu.

Guy R. Loftman, JD'74, and his wife, Connie, '79, sing in the United Unitarian Universalist Church choir in Bloomington, Ind. He has his own practice in Blooming-ton, and they can be reached at loftpeople @aol.com.

Richard S. Ryder, JD'74, has been appointed an adjunct professor at Western Michigan University, teaching Criminal Law and Procedure. He and his wife, Ella, live in Kalamazoo, Mich.

Michael J. Schneider, JD'74, has been working for Bose McKinney & Evans in Indianapolis since August 2000. He can be reached at mschneider@boselaw.com.

Deborah R. Gaber, JD'75, was appointed as a mediator for the U.S. Post Office's Redress Program. This program allows employees to mediate EEO workplace conflicts. Gaber is also a divorce and custody mediator. She lives in Stroudsburg, Pa.

Elizabeth A. Frederick, JD'77, was promoted to senior vice president and general counsel of the Lincoln National
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Death comes to Dufftown:
Songer's book recalls the good, not-so-good old days

After a long and varied legal career, Hugo Charles "Chad" Songer, LLB'60, retired in 1996 as judge for the Dubois County Circuit Court. In retirement, he was able to realize a project he'd long had in mind: a history of Duff, the tiny Indiana town where he grew up. It is hard to believe, reading his account of farming with horses, pre-electrified evenings, and community life that centered round the porch of Wayne's general store, that the town he describes is less than a state away, less than a lifetime ago.
The following excerpts come from Dufftown: Rural Life in Southern Indiana During the Great Depression and World War II (Guild Press of Indiana, 2000).
By the time I started school, I thought I had a fairly good understanding of life. You were born, grew up, got married, went to work, had kids who grew up and got married, and soon you were a grandfather. You spent some good years on the store porch telling stories, and then you died. But I learned it did not always work this way.
Wilfred "Fuzz" Kays was my first hero. He was a big, strong, ruggedly handsome guy and one of the star players on the Duff Indians baseball team. He lived with his sister, Nellie, and her husband, Gilbert Sunderman, who used his steam engine to power the saw mill he ran in winter. Fuzz worked for him and was using a cut-off saw to cut slab wood into stove lengths. In one brief moment of inattention, he lost two fingers to the saw.
He was taken to the doctor who bandaged the hand but neglected to administer a tetanus shot. We thought Fuzz was well on his way to recovery, but soon he became deathly sick. The doctor was summoned, and the dread diagnosis, lock-jaw, spread through the community. For a week or more he lay, feverish and delirious, unable to eat through clenched teeth. Then, unbelievably, he died, and the community was cast into mourning at the loss of this young hero. Fuzz was buried at the foot of a giant oak tree in Mayo cemetery. Many times over the years I visted his grave site, pondering the loss and lesson learned. When I wish to relive the experience of his final days, I read Robert Frost's poem "Out, Out —," which seems to chronicle Fuzz's experience. In the poem, Frost tells of a young man who lost a hand to a buzz saw which he was using to cut stove-length sticks of wood:
He saw all spoiled. "Don't let him cut my hand off, The doctor, when he comes. Don't let him, sister!" So. But the hand was gone already. The doctor put him in the dark of ether. He lay and puffed his lips out with his breath. And then — the watcher at his pulse took fright. No one believed. They listened at his heart. Little — less — nothing — and that ended it. No more to build on there. And they, since they Were not the one dead, turned to their affairs.

John Phil Taylor's brother, Dorus, died on a bitter cold winter evening, and his body was laid on the front porch to await the coming of dawn and a trip to Pikeville by family members to summon the undertaker. When the undertaker arrived in his passenger automobile, he was unable to get Dorus's body inside the car due to the cold temperature and rigor mortis, so he departed with Dorus's legs sticking out the window. Young Ray Stilwell saw him pull away and had nightmares for a while over that scene.
What was it about the Taylors and drinking? It is too simple to say they were all alcoholics. They seemed to raise drinking whiskey to a different level — almost a spiritual one. They never went to church or talked about God or the hereafter, to anyone's recollection. At John Phil's gravesite, as he was being interred next to the graves of his murdered sons, Wesley and Beaver, several bottles of whiskey suddenly appeared in the hands of the brothers who were present. They took a long swig from the bottles they were holding, poured some onto the casket in the open grave, and then threw the still partially filled bottles into the grave to spend eternity with John Phil Taylor.

My dad, who was 15 when his grandpa died, was very close to Floyd and had adopted many of his sayings. Sometimes, when I tried to get an exact answer out of him about something, he'd say, "Three in a hill and sometimes a punkin," referring to the time when corn was planted in hills, instead of rows. Three grains of corn were planted in a hill, and sometimes, but not every time, and not even every other time, a pumpkin seed. In other words, there is no exact rule; it's whatever feels right. If Dad found himself in a place he did not want to be, he'd say: "Oss'll tell ye, sonny, this is no place for an old soldier." Years later, when my dad lay dying on a hospital bed in the corridor of a local hospital, I asked him what Floyd would say if he were in that predicament, and he replied, "Oss'll tell ye, sonny, this is no place for an old soldier." Those were the last words I ever heard him say.

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Life Insurance Co. She and her husband, Vidmantas Vilutis, JD'77, live in Fort Wayne, Ind.

After almost 15 years with the Kellogg Co., Bruce J. Rasch, JD'79, has taken a job as chief counsel for the meat division of Sara Lee. In lune of this year, Bruce and his wife, Jeanne Hoffmann, JD'79, and their two children expect to move from Memphis, Tenn., to Cincinnati.

1980s
Frederick Kopec, JD'80, is group legal counsel for 724 Solutions Inc., a mobile commerce software company, supporting their operations in Europe, Africa, and the Middle East. Kopec lives on Lake Austin, about 20 minutes by boat to downtown Austin, Texas.
After eight years on the bench, Susan L. Macey, JD'80, has stepped down from the Marion Superior Court to join the law firm of Barnes & Thornburg, Indianapolis. Before her appointment to the judiciary, Macey had served as an attorney in the Indiana General Assembly, was a master commissioner in the former Marion Municipal Courts, and was in private practice.

Bradley J. Dougherty, JD'82, joined Barnes & Thornburg, Indianapolis, as of counsel in August 2000. He has had an active practice in estate administration and planning. He and his wife, Vicky, BS'86, live in Carmel, Ind.

Jeannette E. Hinshaw, JD'82, joined the Indianapolis firm Bose McKinney & Evans as an attorney with the creditor's rights and bankruptcy group. Previously, she was a staff attorney for the U.S. Bankruptcy Court, Southern District of Indiana. She lives in Carmel, Ind.

Jay Jaffe, JD'82, of Baker & Daniels, is the 2001 treasurer for the Indianapolis Bar Association.

Yvette Gaff Kleven, JD'83, joined Grant Shipley, JD'75, and Douglas Adelsperger, JD'88, to form a new firm, Shipley Adelsperger & Kleven, in May. The firm is located in Fort Wayne, Ind., and will focus on bankruptcy, creditors' rights, commercial and secured transactions, commercial litigation, and insolvency matters.

Thomas W. Waldrep, JD'83, an attorney and director of the Winston-Salem firm Bell Davis & Pitt, was elected to a three-year term as a member of the board of governors of the North Carolina Bar Association in May. His practice concentrates in bankruptcy creditor representation and creditors' rights law.

Kenneth Yerkes, JD'83, was awarded the first ever Volunteer of the Year Award by the Indiana Chamber of Commerce in October 2000. He is a partner with Barnes & Thornburg, specializing in labor relations, and the author of two publications, the "Indiana Guide to Labor Relations," and "The Indiana Guide to Hiring and Firing." He and his family live in Indianapolis.

Bruce D. Donaldson, JD'84, rejoined Barnes & Thornburg, Indianapolis, as a partner in August 2000. He left in 1997 to serve as a consultant to the City of Indianapolis and the Indianapolis Airport. He resumes his practice in the area of municipal finance.

Jane C. Ruemmele, JD'84, is of counsel at the firm Huffer & Weathers, practicing in the areas of criminal and domestic relations law. Before joining the firm, she practiced in the areas of criminal and civil litigation in both the public and private sectors. She and her husband, Steve, and their sons, Colin and Mitchell, live in Indianapolis.

David Warshauer, JD'84, has returned to Barnes & Thornburg, where he practiced from 1984 to 1997, after a stint as executive vice president of Brenwick Development Co. At Barnes & Thornburg, he is an of counsel member of the business, tax, and real estate department. He lives in Indianapolis.

Richard C. Starkey, JD'85, has joined Barnes & Thornburg, Indianapolis, as a partner. He has practiced in tax-exempt financing and municipal law for 15 years and will join the firm's governmental services and finance department. Starkey is board chair of Open Hand Inc., a program that provides a counseling alternative to the parole system for juvenile offenders.

Monique Stutzmann, MCL'86, writes, "After a law degree in France and one year at IU-Bloomington, I am happy to stay in touch with my American university. It was a great year." She lives and works in Strasbourg, France.

Sheila A. Carlisle, JD'87, is a deputy prosecutor for Marion County.

Sam E. Eversman, JD'87, is the director of planned giving and counsel for the St. Meinrad Archabbey and School of Theology in St. Meinrad, Ind. He and his wife, Marja, live in Jasper and have four children.

George T. Patton Jr., JD'87, chairs the Council of Appellate Lawyers, a new national appellate bench-bar entity of the American Bar Association. He is a partner at Bose McKinney & Evans, Indianapolis, concentrating in appellate litigation, voting rights, and administrative law.

Brian Porto, JD'87, of Windsor, Vt., is a free-lance writer and part-time professor of political science. In 2000, he published his second book, May It Please the Court: Judicial Processes and Politics in America (Addison Wesley Longman), a textbook designed for use by advanced undergraduates and beginning law students. He is currently writing a book about the governance of college sports, and he occasionally writes appellate briefs for area attorneys.

After taking six months off to rest following her three years of service as Bloomington's fire chief, Kathy J. Saunders, JD'87, has returned to emergency services work. She is now the fire marshal of Knox County, Tenn. Her husband, David Reidy, JD'87, teaches Philosophy of Law and Political Philosophy at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.

Susan Vrahoretis, JD'87, writes, "My husband, Kevin O'Neill, and I were blessed with twin sons, Christopher George and Rory James, on May 1,1999. Life has never been more wonderful." The family lives in Gaithersburg, Md.

Jeffrey T. Bennett, JD'88, has been elected to the board of directors of McHale Cook 8c Welch, Indianapolis. He serves as chair of the property tax practice group and vice chair of the property department.

Kirk Grable, JD'88, is of counsel with Barnes & Thornburg, Indianapolis, practicing in the areas of governmental services and finance.

Diana Mercer, JD'88, is the author of Your Divorce Advisor: A Lawyer and a Psychologist Guide You Through the Legal and Emotional Landscape of Divorce, published in February by Simon & Schuster. Mercer is a divorce mediator with her own firm, Peace Talks Mediation Services, in Santa Monica, Calif., and an adjunct professor in alternative dispute resolution at the University of LaVerne. Her e-mail address is dianal 159@aol.com.

Christopher Nichols, JD'88, heads the labor department for the Peoria office of the St. Louis-based firm Husch & Eppenberger.
Becky Pierson-Treacy, JD'88, is the master commissioner for the Marion Superior Court.

James Reed, JD'89, of Chicago, is assistant regional counsel for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (Midwest Region). He represents clients such as the Indian Health Service, the Administration for Children and Families, and HCFA (Medicare). He writes, "Assisting Native Americans, impoverished children, and the elderly to access adequate health care has been extremely rewarding."

Geoffrey G. Slaughter, JD'89, joined Sommer & Barnard as a partner/director in January. He is a member of the litigation group and will focus his practice on business and commericial litigation. He lives in Indianapolis and can be reached at geoffrey slaughter @alumni. Indiana, edu.

1990s
John Buchanan, JD'90, is a prosecuting attorney for Boone County, Ind. He lives in Zions-ville.

Andrea Herrner, JD'90, was elected as a partner to the Indianapolis law firm Stewart & Irwin in January. She has had a cross-disciplinary practice in telecommunications and real estate. She lives in Indianapolis and can be reached at alhermer @home.com.

Michael Gottschlich, JD'91, joined Barnes & Thornburg, Indianapolis, as of counsel on May 8. He works in the litigation practice group. He was formerly a partner at Haight Brown & Bonestell in Los Angeles. He and his wife, Suzanne, live in Indianapolis.

Jeanne M. Hamilton, JD'91, writes to say that when Gov. Frank O'Bannon appointed her to the superior court on Jan. 10,
she became the first woman judge in Hancock County, Ind. She lives in Greenfield, Ind.

MaryAnn Schlegel Ruegger, JD'91, has been admitted to partnership with Baker & Daniels, Indianapolis. She concentrates her practice in the areas of corporate finance and general corporate law.
Salvador Vasquez, JD'91, has his own practice in Merrillville, Ind. He and his wife, Ann, BGS'95, live in Crown Point, Ind., and he can be e-mailed at salvasquez@ lawyers.com.

James Joven, JD'92, has been named deputy attorney general by Indiana Attorney General Steve Carter, JD'83.

Roger B. Finderson, JD'93, writes, "Terra, BA'95, and I gave birth to our first child on Feb. 15, 2001. Delaney Marie Finderson was 7lbs., 3oz., 20 in." The family lives in Fort Wayne, Ind., and can be reached at rntfindy@aol.com.

Phillip Hatfield, JD'93, is associate independent counsel for the Office of Independent Counsel, Washington, D.C., and was admitted to the U.S. Supreme Court Bar in March.

Jeffrey A. Michael, JD'93, joined Barnes & Thornburg, Indianapolis, as a partner in March. He will work in their intellectual property department.

Matthew Price, JD'93, has been elected a professional member of McHale Cook & Welch, Indianapolis.

David R. Schanker, JD'93, is an Indianapolis attorney and novelist whose first novel, a legal thriller titled A Criminal Appeal, had its sequel, Natural Law, published in March. He teaches screenwriting, fiction, and poetry at IUPUI and is waiting to see where the screenplay rights for his first book will go. He can be reached at ZazuToo@aol.com.

Sarah DiLorenzo, JD'94, has made the switch from a law firm in Chicago to in-house counsel at Allstate in South Barrington, Ill.

He's not an actor, but one plays him on TV

On Sunday,March 18, the FX network premiered its made-for-TV movie A Glimpse of Hell, starring Robert Sean Leonard as IU law alumnus Dan Meyer, JD'94.
A naval officer aboard the USS Iowa in 1989, when an explosion in one of the ship's gun turrets killed 47 sailors, Meyer refused to accept the Navy's official — and lurid — explanation for the catastrophe, according to which a sailor embittered by a love affair gone sour was to blame. Meyer's own experience of weaknesses in the gunnery system and supply shortages led him to believe that the tragedy was accidental. As a result of his efforts to uncover the truth, Congressional hearings eventually reached the same conclusion.
Meyer is now general counsel for Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, a nonprofit organization that defends government employees who act as whistle blowers.

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Clare K. Smith, JD'94, has become a partner in Marshall & Melhorn, Toledo, Ohio. Her areas of practice include general business and employment litigation, protection of trade secrets, dispute resolution, and medical malpractice defense. In her spare time, she has served as president of the Toledo Women's Bar Association, is on the board of the Toledo Hearing and Speech Center, and is chair-elect of the Child Abuse Prevention Project of the Junior League of Toledo.

David O. Barrett, JD'95, is corporate counsel for Emmis Communications Corp. in Indianapolis. His wife, Jacqueline (Grande), BS'96, is an elementary teacher in the Carmel-Clay school system. They have a son, Joel, and live in Carmel, Ind. They can be reached at barrett2000@earthlink .net.

Melina Maniatis Kennedy, JD'95, is assistant deputy mayor for policy development for Indianapolis Mayor Bart Peterson.

Tina L. Sciabica, JD'95, opened the Chicago legal recruiting firm, Nichols & Sciabica Attorney Search. Her company will focus on placing practicing attorneys in new positions with law firms and corporations. Before starting this business, she was a litigator at the Chicago firms Chapman & Cutler and Grippo & Elden before becoming the senior associate director of the Center for Career Strategy and Advancement at Northwestern University School of Law. She can be reached at sciabica@nsattor.neysearcli.com.

Todd S. Schenk, JD'95, has become a partner with Tressler Soderstrom Maloney & Priess, Chicago.

James A. Shepherd, JD'95, has joined the business transactions group at Wilmer Cutler & Pickering, Washington, D.C.

Erica L. De Santis, JD'96, was selected as the Monroe County Humane Association's first executive director in August 2000. She has worked with several nonprofit groups and volunteer-driven organizations since graduation from law school. She lives in Bloomington, Ind.

Melinda J. Gentry, JD'96, joined Riley Bennett & Egloff in September 2000. She lives in Indianapolis and can be reached at gentry@iquest.net.

Kyle E. Hanrahan, JD'96, writes, "I have achieved my dream job, working as a special agent for the FBI. I am assigned to New Orleans, where I live with my hound dog, Jesse. I can be reached at kyle_hanrahan@hotmail.com."

N. Scott Murphy, JD'96, has joined Baker & Daniels, Indianapolis, as a member of the environmental law team.

Dawn A. Noble, JD'96, has joined the firm of Littler Mendelson, a national labor and employment law firm, as an associate in the Phoenix, Ariz., office. She can be e-mailed at uscdawn@aol.com.
As a federal investigator and attorney for the U.S. Postal Inspection Service, Matthew Villicana, JD'96, investigates computer fraud and the transport of child pornography through the U.S. mail.

Meredith L. Wilson, JD'96, joined the Wisconsin firm of Von Briesen Purtell & Roper as an associate at the Madison office in the health law practice group in April. Before joining the firm she was a consulting attorney for Newell Rubbermaid.

Veronica W. Brame, JD'97, is an assistant attorney general in Phoenix, Ariz. She can be e-mailed at veronica.brame@ag.state.az.us.

Kelly Collier Cleland, JD'97, joined the municipal law firm Rosenthal Murphey Coblentz & Janega in Chicago, where she and her husband, James Cleland, JD'97, have lived since graduation from law school.

David E. Corbitt, JD'97, joined Barnes & Thornburg, Indianapolis, as an associate in the business, tax, and real estate department. His primary areas of practice are mergers and acquisitions and securities.

D. Scott Craig, JD'97, an attorney with Cox Zwerner Gambill & Sullivan, Terre Haute, has been elected to serve as a fellow of the Indiana Bar Foundation.

Peter Dykstra, JD'97, joined the Mentor Law Group, Seattle, which focuses on natural resources (especially water rights and endangered species issues), land use, environmental, and Indian law. He adds, "The drought, recent salmon listings, and the looming energy issues are making for exciting times out West."

Marie (Bacik) Freeman, JD'97, is an assistant prosecutor for Geuga County, Ohio. Her husband, Mark T. Freeman, JD'97, is a member of the litigation group for Key Corp., Cleveland.

Heidi Goebel, JD'97, of Leagre Chandler & Millard, was named Indiana's Young Defense Lawyer of the Year.

Susannah M. Hall-Justice, JD'97, writes, "I am a partner in my law firm, Justice Law Offices, and recently opened an office in Lafayette, Ind."

Todd J. Maurer, JD'97, who founded Halakar Properties Inc. in May 2000, serves as the company's president. Halakar Properties provides commercial development, consulting, and brokerage services to its clients. In March 2000, he was married to Linda Goldberg Maurer, BA'95, and the couple lives in Carmel, Ind.

Andrew U. Straw, JD'97, returned to Bloomington, Ind., in August 2000 and began work as the Indiana Supreme Court's statistical analyst. He is helping coordinate the rollout of court automation in Indiana by assisting the director of trial court technology and the Judicial Technology and Automation Committee, chaired by Justice Sullivan. He has worked as an attorney/consultant to Virginia philanthropist Alan M. Voorhees on ways technology and nonprofit philanthropy can encourage "excellence in government."

David Suess, JD'97, an attorney with Bose McKinney & Evans, Indianapolis, has been elected to the board of directors of the Athenaeum Foundation.

Jeffrey L. VanWay, JD'97, works with the labor and employee
relations counsel at Copeland Corp., in Sidney, Ohio, and has a new daughter, Kaitlyn Annette VanWay, born on Sept. 17,2000.

Shelese M. Emmons, JD'98, and Julie C. Sipe, JD'98, both joined Barnes & Thornburg, Indianapolis, as associates in the litigation department in November 2000.

Heather Ann Leary, JD'98, is executive director of Bartholomew County Legal Aid in Columbus. She lives in Indianapolis.
Staci (Brooks) Terry, JD'98, and Jeff Terry, JD'97, of Hagerstown, Ind., announce the birth of their daughter, Anastacia Catherine, on Oct. 27, 2000.

Christopher J. Worden, JD'98, was appointed to the Indiana Water Pollution Control Board by Gov. Frank O'Bannon in November 2000. He was one of eight members appointed by the governor to serve on the 11-member board. He practices in civil litigation at Tabbert Hahn Earnest & Weddle in Indianapolis.

Bryan H. Babb, JD'99, joined Bose McKinney & Evans as an attorney in the litigation group in February, after completing a clerkship with Justice Frank Sullivan Jr. of the Indiana Supreme Court. He and his wife, Martha, BS'97, live in Fishers, Ind.

In order to practice telecommunications law in Washington, D.C., Brian C. Drumm, JD'99, is leaving Milwaukee, Wis., after practicing professional liability defense litigation for a year and a half. He can be reached at briandrumm 1 @yahoo.com.

Kristofor Hammond, JD'99, began a clerkship with federal district court Judge Federico A. Moreno in Miami in January. He had previously been an associate counsel at the Center for Individual Rights, a public interest law firm in Washington,
D.C. He can be reached by e-mail at kjh@alumni.indiana.edu.

Kathy L. Osborn, JD'99, joined the Indianapolis office of Baker & Daniels as an associate in litigation.

Kostas Poulakidas, JD'99, has advanced to regional finalist in the White House Fellowship selection process. He is currently working as deputy attorney general in the Indiana attorney general's office in Indianapolis.

Lori A. Robbins, JD'99, is a tax associate in the Washington, D.C., office of LeBoeuf Lamb Greene & MacRae. She passed the Uniform CPA examination and is pursuing an LLM in taxation at Georgetown University.

David L. Theyssen, JD'99, is an associate in the tax department of Winston & Strawn in Chicago. His wife, Liz, BA'98, is a law student at Loyola University of Chicago.

Brian D. Yeley, JD'99, is a sports attorney for a sports agency representing both Major League Baseball players and National Basketball Association players. He lives in Chicago and can be e-mailed at byeley@alumni.indiana.edu.

2000s
Christopher B. Carpentier, JD'OO, has joined the Indianapolis firm Huffer & Weathers as an associate. He was previously assistant vice president and counsel at Conseco. He lives in Carmel, Ind.

Tenley L. Drescher, JD'OO, has joined the employee benefits group at Baker & Daniels, Indianapolis.

Meggan L. Frye, JD'OO, is an associate at Bingham Summers Welsh & Spilman in Indianapolis.

Angela R. Karras, JD'OO, is an associate at the Chicago trial firm
Swanson Martin & Bell. Her e-mail is akarras2000@alumni.indiana.edu.

Steve Kluting, JD'OO, has joined the corporate practice group at Varnum Riddering Schmidt & Howlett in Grand Rapids, Mich.

Robert S. Meitus, JD'OO, joined Baker & Daniels, Indianapolis, as an associate in intellectual property.

Jeffrey D. Mills, JD'OO, is a corporate attorney with Foley & Lardner in the Milwaukee, Wis., office. He can be e-mailed at jemills@foley.com.

David Neboyskey, JD'OO, is a corporate associate at Winston & Strawn in Chicago.

Soo-Hun Park, SJD'OO, has been appointed a professor at the College of Law at Kangwon National University, South Korea. He is currently teaching courses in administrative law and local government.

Randall Brian Stiles, JD'OO, is an associate at Rothberg Logan & Warsco in Fort Wayne, Ind. He appeared on the game show "Greed," hosted by Chuck Wolery.

Andrea D. Unzicker, JD'OO, joined the Indianapolis firm Barnes & Thornburg in November 2000 as an associate in the business, tax, and real estate department.

Megan E. Wessinger, JD'OO, joined the Grand Rapids, Mich., firm Miller Johnson Snell & Cummiskey as an attorney handling labor and employment law matters. Her e-mail is megan2000@alumni.indiana.edu.

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Photo Album: West Coast Alumni Tour
Law School administrators toured the West Coast recently and enjoyed meeting with alumni at a series of receptions.

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From the dean
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provide us with top students in the future and connect these various alumni with our school on a regular basis.
In addition, we now have several relationships with law schools around the world. Those relationships require administrative support. Beyond the initial process of working with faculty to receive the proper authorizations (both university and accreditation authorities) for these programs, the ongoing relationships require support, including assuring that the student and faculty exchange aspects of the program go smoothly, developing resources to support present relationships and future relationships that faculty members are interested in pursuing (the large grant that Hoffmann wrote a few years ago to initiate an academic exchange in Kazakhstan comes to mind), and facilitating conferences that have international participants.
Those who know Scott know of his energy, intelligence, and interest in international law, as well as his experience in Asia. He speaks Chinese, and, in his capacity as president of the International Law Association, he has already established excellent relationships with our graduate students. He also has been instrumental in helping us over the last year or two to develop increasingly strong intellectual ties with the School of Law and Political Science in Beijing.
I know I speak for the entire Law School community when I say how pleased we are that Scott will be joining our administrative team. We look forward to the creative efforts that we know he will undertake in the months and years ahead and we welcome him to our administrative staff.
— Alfred C. Aman Jr.

25TH ANNIVERSARY OF LAW ALUMNI WEEKEND
• Academy of Law Alumni Fellows inductions and dinner
• Class reunions for classes ending with a "1" or "6"
Inaugural lecture of the Fuchs Professorship, presented by Professor Patrick L. Baude • Portrait unveiling of Professor Bill Popkin
• Tailgate party and ID/Northwestern football game
Make your hotel reservations early. Be sure to tell the reservation desk that you are with the IU Law School.
Courtyard by Marriot (812) 335-8000
Fairfield Inn (812) 331-1122
Hampton Inn (812) 334-2100
Holiday Inn (812) 334-3252
Indiana Memorial Union (812) 855-2536
For more information, call the Reunion Hotline, (812) 855-9700 or visit our Web site at www.law.indiana.edu. Detailed information will be mailed in
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