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Maine Law
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children
Inside
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Maine Law’s D.C. links run deep
Clinical Practice
One student’s story
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OPENING ARGUMENTS
John Veroneau
Partner, Covington & Burling LLP
John Veroneau, a 1989 graduate of Maine
Law, is co-chair of the International Trade
and Finance group at Covington & Burling in
Washington D.C. He served as Deputy U.S. Trade
Representative (2007-2009) and previously as
USTR’s general counsel, as Assistant Secretary
of Defense in the Clinton Administration, as
Chief of Staff to Senator Susan Collins, and as
Legislative Director, respectively, for Senators
Bill Cohen and Bill Frist.
What lessons do you recall best from your law
school education?
I long ago forgot the Rule against Perpetuities
but will forever remember Mel Zarr’s brilliant
characterization of certain decisions as
“concessions to the shortness of life.”
What was your path to appointment as Deputy
U.S. Trade Representative?
It was a happy confluence of events. I handled
trade issues for Bill Cohen when he was in the
Senate. During my time at the Pentagon, I saw
how governments interact at senior levels. As
USTR General Counsel, I worked the details of
U.S. trade law and policy. Fortunately, these
experiences were seen as useful preparation for
the Deputy USTR position. I can’t say I planned
any of this but am grateful for how it turned
out.
What have you found most satisfying about your
wide-ranging career?
Probably the variety of experiences and the people
I’ve worked with. I shudder when I think back on
how many things I did not understand when I came
to Washington 25 years ago. I’ve benefited greatly
from being around smart and interesting people
and traveling a good amount.
You are a partner at Covington & Burling in D.C.
and work around the world? Do you miss Maine?
I definitely miss Maine. I have lots of family here still so
we come up regularly. My wife and I bought a house
here a few years ago so we can visit more often.
Do people still call you Ambassador Veroneau?
My teenage sons when they want the car.
What is it about your roots in Maine that gives
you an advantage in the world of international
trade and finance?
My Maine roots and upbringing taught me to focus
on listening more than talking. I suppose that has
helped me better understand the person sitting
across the table from me.
You worked in Congress, in the Executive Branch,
and in private practice. What has been your most
memorable work experience?
Probably a trip to Cambodia in 2007 when I was
Deputy USTR. In 1980, I had taken a college “gap
year” to work in refugee camps with Cambodians
who had fled to escape Pol Pot’s genocide.
Being there some 27 years later, representing my
government in trade discussions, was a memorable
book-end to my gap-year experience.
What advice would you give to an aspiring
international lawyer?
Many practice areas now have an international
component. My colleagues handling antitrust
matters spend a good deal of time advising clients
on competition issues in Europe, Brazil, and China.
So the opportunities for practicing “international
law” are expanding to many areas of law. A second
language and experience living abroad are useful
for lawyers interested in a global practice.
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Maine Law Magazine
Fall 2014
CONTENTS
Dean
Peter Pitegoff
Magazine committee
Peter Pitegoff
Trevor Maxwell
Alexandra Moras
Managing editor & design
Peter Weed
Writer
Trevor Maxwell
Photography
Derek Davis, Nadra Edgerly,
Nathan Eldridge, Aaron Flacke,
René Minnis, Brian Wedge
Kerry Wyler
Special thanks
Tina Simonetta Samuels, Julie Welch
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FEATURES
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Justice for Women
Sima Samar on the situation in Afghanistan
Clinical practice
A life-changing event helping a young immigrant
Tackling bankruptcy
Professor Lois R. Lupica’s groundbreaking research
D.C. connection
Maine Law’s deep Washington roots
Parents in Law
Students balance studies and children
Student spotlight
Why Maine Law? Two students tell their stories
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Maine Law student Bill Adams at a Parents in Law event.
Story: Page 19. (Derek Davis photo)
DEPARTMENTS
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From the Dean
6
News
24 Maine Law Bookshelf
25 Faculty Accomplishments
29 Alumni News
31 Philanthropy Report
FROM THE DEAN
Celebrating tradition while looking to the future
Dear Friends,
T
radition and transition. These themes intertwine for the
2014-15 academic year, at a dynamic moment for the University of Maine School of Law. In a time of change, both
here at Maine Law and in the broader world of legal education, we draw strength from a solid foundation of core values.
The Law School’s commitment
to Maine is unwavering. Our excellence in research, in sustaining a collaborative law school
community, and in promoting
justice are valued traditions.
And our longstanding commitment to quality teaching and
practical skills resonates more
than ever with the needs of today’s legal profession.
These core values are a
touchstone for our path ahead,
even as we continue to adapt to
changing legal and economic
environments, and as valued
professors retire and hand the
torch to the next generation of
Maine Law faculty.
In the life of a law school,
some transitions cannot pass
by without marking the occasion and expressing a collective thanks. On April 10, 2015,
the Maine Law community will
come together to honor six senior faculty members in transition. Professors Tom Ward,
Nancy Wanderer, and Jim Friedman retired in the past year,
and Professors Mel Zarr, David
Cluchey, and Marty Rogoff, are
in the process of phased retirement. Together, these professors represent 215 years of teaching at Maine Law. They have
helped shape Maine Law’s identity and standards of excellence
in teaching, research, and public service in Maine. I hope you
will join us in April for this celebration and opportunity to
honor our colleagues.
Strong alumni leadership is in transition as well. Frank
Bishop (’07) is the new president of the Maine Law Alumni
Association, building upon the successful leadership of his
predecessor, Peter DeTroy (’72). Craig Nelson (’69) has taken
the lead as President of the University of Maine School of Law
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Foundation board, following David Evans (’78) and his excellent work during the Foundation’s formative years. Both organizations continue to provide critical support, energizing our
annual fund and building our endowment funds.
On a personal note, I look forward to a new relationship
with the Maine Law community and particularly with our distinctive students. Earlier this year, I announced my retirement
as dean as of July 2015. This
is a transition, not a farewell.
After ten years as dean, I will
remain at Maine Law as professor – to resume my teaching and
research with enthusiasm, and
to widen my public service and
policy efforts. A search committee, chaired by Maine Law
Professor Jeffrey Maine, is
conducting a vigorous national
search for the new dean.
Change in leadership can
be healthy for any institution.
I believe the timing is right for
the University of Maine School
of Law to begin a new chapter
after my decade as dean. Maine
Law is well positioned to thrive
in the coming years. We have
recruited top-notch faculty and
staff; expanded collaboration
with Maine’s judiciary, organized bar, and public and private
institutions; and seen numerous
enhancements to the school’s
program of legal education. We
will continue to train the next
generation of lawyers and leaders, building on the traditions
of academic excellence, civic
engagement, and public service
that have long been at the core of Maine Law. I am grateful to
numerous colleagues – faculty, staff, students, alumni, volunteers, university leaders, and supporters – who share credit for
Maine Law’s recent progress and success.
Peter Pitegoff
Dean, University of Maine School of Law
DEAN’S Q&A
4 questions for the Dean
Q:
You have been Maine Law dean for a decade.
What are some notable developments at the
Law School during this time?
A:
Maine Law has expanded experiential learning
opportunities, including the creation of the
Juvenile Justice Clinic
and the Refugee and
Human Rights Clinic,
a successful sevenyear run with the
Intellectual Property
Clinic, and growth
in externships and
summer fellowships.
We have increased
scholarship aid
and maintained a
vital student body,
despite declining
applications to law
schools nationwide.
New post-professional
LL.M. (Master of Laws)
and J.S.D. (Doctor of
the Science of Law)
degrees complement the core J.D. program. Most
notably, Maine Law has reclaimed its autonomy
of years past. The Law School has realigned its
position within the University of Maine System,
gaining greater responsibility and control over
its public identity and its tuition, budget, and
position management. The next step, we trust, will
be further progress toward a new interdisciplinary
center for graduate and professional education.
Q:
A:
Can you say more about the possible new
graduate and professional center?
Law schools today, including Maine Law, must
develop new models for delivery of legal
education and for sustainability. An intensive study
is underway, led by the University of Maine System
Chancellor, to determine the feasibility of a new
graduate and professional center. The initiative
would consist initially of an interdisciplinary
collaboration between the Law School and the
graduate business programs at the University of
Southern Maine and the University of Maine and
with the wider community of Maine businesses
and nonprofit enterprises. The realignment
potentially will build on the natural synergies
between law and business, contribute to economic
development in Maine, widen the universe of
potential philanthropic support, lead eventually to
a new facility, and return to closer collaboration
with Maine’s land grant
university.
Q:
A:
What subjects will
you teach?
Forty years ago, I
was certified as a
secondary school social
studies teacher after
studying education at
Brown University, and
I later practiced law in
economic development.
For thirty years, I have
been involved with legal
education, as a professor
and (for the last 17 years)
an administrator. I look
forward to returning to my role as teacher. My
core teaching will be in Corporation Law and in the
Legal Profession and Ethics. I hope to teach smaller
courses in nonprofit organizations and in policy
topics such as education, welfare and employment,
and urban and rural revitalization. I am sure to
teach about community development finance,
which will be the initial focus of my research.
Q:
A:
How will you keep busy after stepping down
as dean?
Teaching and related research will demand
much of my attention. Public service has
always been important to me, personally and
professionally. I will continue to serve on the board
of directors of the community development finance
institution Coastal Enterprises Inc. (CEI), and I will
look for other volunteer opportunities as well. At
Maine Law, I will be active in faculty governance
and hope to be a resource for the administration
and the new dean. And, of course, I look forward to
quality time with my wife and our two adult sons.
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MAINE LAW NEWS
In Brief
Judge James Haines
named Godfrey Professor
The University of Maine Law School
is honored to welcome the Hon. James
B. Haines, Jr. as the Edward S. Godfrey
Distinguished Visiting Professor for the
2014-2015 academic year. He retired in
January 2014 as Chief Judge of the U.S.
Bankruptcy Court for the District of
Maine.
Judge Haines graduated from Willamette University College of Law, summa
cum laude. He clerked for the Hon. Eugene A. Wright of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. Haines worked
in private practice in Washington state
and in Maine between 1977 and 1990,
except for 1980-1983, when he served as
a professor at West Virginia University
College of Law. He was appointed to the
bankruptcy bench in August of 1990.
WLA honors Professor
Deirdre Smith (’94)
The Women’s Law Association at
the University of Maine School of Law
selected Maine Law Professor Deirdre
Smith as the recipient of its annual Outstanding Alumna Award. She was honored at a reception in November 2013.
Professor Smith is a 1994 graduate
of Maine Law. She is an accomplished
scholar, an excellent teacher, and, since
2004, Director of the Cumberland Legal Aid Clinic. Through the Clinic, student attorneys are specially licensed to
practice law and provide free representation to low-income individuals and
families.
Under the leadership of Professor
Smith, the Clinic has expanded since
2004 to include clinical courses in the areas of Juvenile Justice and Refugee and
Human Rights, in addition to programs
in general practice for clients in need, for
prisoners, and for victims of domestic
violence.
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2014 Commencement: 96 graduates
The University of Maine School of Law awarded J.D. degrees to 96 students, and
post-professional LL.M. degrees to six students on May 17, 2014.
The Hon. Angus King, Jr., United States Senator and former Governor of Maine, was
the keynote speaker. King offered the Maine Law graduates several pieces of advice.
“Take more risks. It’s OK to fail,” King advised. “We are most constrained not by
other people, not by rules, not by government, but by the little man that sits on our
shoulder and says you can’t do that, you can’t try that.”
Eleanor Baker, co-founder and managing principal at the accounting firm Baker Newman Noyes, received the 2014 L. Kinvin Wroth Award for distinguished service as an alum.
Graduating student Stanley R. Tupper III of Jefferson, Maine, was the student speaker.
Judge John Nivison named
federal magistrate judge
Judge Nancy Gertner
delivers Coffin Lecture
John Nivison (’85) was appointed in
2014 as federal magistrate judge for the
U.S. District Court in Maine.
Nivison started the job in January,
replacing a fellow Maine Law alum,
Magistrate Judge Margaret Kravchuk,
who retired from the bench.
Judge Nivison presides primarily
in U.S. District Court in the Margaret
Chase Smith Federal Building in Bangor. He practiced with the law firm
of Pierce Atwood from 1985 to 1999,
when he was appointed by Gov. Angus
King as a judge on the Maine District
Court.
He was Chief Judge of the Maine
District Court from 2005 to 2007. Judge
Nivison was then appointed to the Maine
Superior Court by Gov. John Baldacci.
Judge Nancy Gertner, a Professor of
Practice at Harvard Law School and a retired federal judge, delivered the 21st Annual Frank M. Coffin Lecture on Law and
Public Service on Oct. 21, 2013. She spoke
at the Abromson Community Education
Center in Portland. The disconnect between the aspirations of the law, and what
it actually delivers in real life, was a central theme of Gertner’s talk. Judge Gertner served as U.S. District Court Judge in
Massachusetts from 1994 to 2011.
The lecture series, sponsored by the
University of Maine School of Law,
honors the late Judge Frank M. Coffin,
longtime federal judge on the U.S. Court
of Appeals for the First Circuit, former
member of Congress, and renowned leader and mentor in public service.
MAINE LAW NEWS
Maine Law students excel in
moot court competition
University of Maine School of Law
students Joseph Mendes and Rob Connelly knocked off several highly renowned
law schools en route to a 2nd place finish in February at the Tulane Mardi Gras
Sports Law Invitational. The duo of Mendes and Connelly
made it all the way to the seventh and final
round of the moot court competition, losing narrowly in the finals to Cardozo Law.
The event was held Feb. 26-28, 2014, in
New Orleans. The annual event is one of
the longest running appellate competitions, and the only sports law competition
in the nation.
Another moot court team, John Moran
and Henry Murphy-Beck, made it to the final
8 out of 24 teams at the Charleston School of
Law National Moot Court Competition.
Tina Schneider receives
Thomas P. Downing Award
Tina Schneider, an adjunct professor
and clinical supervisor at the University
of Maine School of Law, was named the
2013 recipient of the Thomas P. Downing
Award, which honors individuals in the
legal aid field for their dedication to poor
and vulnerable Maine residents.
Since 2006, Schneider has been the
faculty supervisor of the Protection from
Abuse Program in Lewiston District
Court. The program is part of Maine
Law’s Cumberland Legal Aid Clinic.
The award was established by the
family of Tom Downing, a staff attorney
at Pine Tree Legal Assistance who died of
brain cancer in 1985 at the age of 43. At
a ceremony in December 2013, Schneider
received the award from Diana Scully,
Tom’s widow, who is the executive director of the Maine Bar Foundation.
New director of admissions:
Caroline Wilshusen
Caroline Wilshusen ’07 joined Maine
Law this summer as Director of Admissions. An advocate for equal access to jus-
Maine Law publishes Asylum: How to
Apply for Asylum in the United States
In early 2014, the University of Maine School of Law and the nonprofit Immigrant
Legal Advocacy Project (ILAP) published an online guide for immigrants seeking asylum in the U.S. from persecution, torture, rape and other threats in their home countries.
Asylum: How to Apply for Asylum in the United States is the first comprehensive
guide of its kind for asylum seekers in Maine who are not represented by lawyers.
“This manual is not a substitute for the help of an experienced immigration lawyer,”
said Maine Law Professor Anna Welch, who runs the law school’s Refugee and Human Rights Clinic. “Unfortunately, thousands of refugees
cannot afford a lawyer, and
there are not nearly enough
lawyers accepting these cases
for low or no fee. This guide
is intended to help bridge the
gap. For unrepresented asylum seekers, the guide provides the tools they need to
navigate a daunting and complex system.”
Welch said the guide was
a response to a sharp uptick
in the refugee population in
Southern Maine. ILAP has
seen more than a 400 percent
increase in asylum seekers
since 2009. They are from
countries including Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, and African
nations such as Burundi, Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo. ILAP matches
asylum seekers with attorneys willing to take their cases, but the organization is forced
to turn away about half of the people seeking assistance. Students at Maine Law also
represent a limited number of immigrants, free of charge, under Welch’s supervision at
the Refugee and Human Rights Clinic.
Contributors from the Refugee and Human Rights Clinic include Dominika Blok,
Braden Clement, Jennifer Gillies and Katherine Power; and Bowdoin College student
Hannah Wurgaft. Contributors from ILAP include Susan Roche, executive director, and
Noel Young, asylum coordinator. Claude Rwaganje, executive director of Community
Financial Literacy, also provided invaluable input into the creation of the manual. The
manual has been translated into Arabic, French and Spanish.
tice and for children in the legal system,
Wilshusen had served for several years as
Executive Coordinator of the Justice Action Group in Maine.
She has been in private practice
since 2008, focusing on the representation of adolescents in juvenile court;
the provision of services as a guardian
ad litem; and representing parents in
parental rights actions where care of a
child is in dispute. She is also a rostered mediator for the courts in domestic relations matters.
Wilshusen is a former law clerk for
Justices Roland Cole and G. Arthur Brennan of the Maine Superior Court. Prior to
practicing law, she was a performing artist in New York City.
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MAINE LAW NEWS: Justice for Women Lecture
Sima Samar: The world cannot forget us again
E
merging from more than three de“We lost a lot in Afghanistan, in the the public. People in her country do not
cades of war, oppression and isola- past 35 years,” said Dr. Samar, whose want to be ruled by outsiders, she said,
tion, the women of Afghanistan are husband was kidnapped and killed in but they also do not want to be isolated,
speaking up and fighting for their rights 1979 because of his resistance against So- opening the door to another civil war, or
and future, Dr. Sima Samar said during her viet rule. “We lost our educated people. the resurgence of the Taliban.
visit to Maine this year.
When I go anywhere, including BanglaDuring her visit to Maine, Dr. Samar
But they need the support of the inter- desh and the Philippines, I see Afghans.” spoke at Deering High School to an asnational community to prevent them from
The Taliban regime, which rose to sembly of students from all three of the
being forgotten again, said Dr. Samar, a power in the 1990s, “closed everything city’s high schools. Portland Mayor Miprominent champion of women’s rights in down for women,” Dr. Samar said. Wom- chael Brennan presented her with a key
Afghanistan.
en were routinely beaten in public, and lo- to the city. She spoke to other local high
“We have achieved a lot in the past cal leaders ordered families to keep their school students, college students and com13 years, with a lot of sacrifice
munity members at CIEE in
by the people of Afghanistan and
Portland. At the Law School,
the international community,” Dr.
Dr. Samar was the featured
Samar said, referring to the pespeaker at a lunchtime panel
riod since U.S. and allied troops
titled “Afghanistan Futures:
arrived in the country. She said
Local and Global.”
more than 3 million Afghan girls
The University of Maine
are now in school, and women
School of Law is committed
make up 25 percent of the Afto promoting social justice in
ghan Parliament, but the moveMaine and around the world.
ment “still has a long way to go.”
The Law School established
Dr. Samar visited Maine on
the Justice for Women LecMarch 17-19, 2014, as the lecture series in 2010 with
turer for the Justice for Women
leadership and support from
Lecture Series, hosted by the
attorney and civic leader
University of Maine School of
Catherine Lee. The Lecture
Law. She participated in a numSeries is supported in part by
ber of community events, as well
the generosity of community
as delivering the lecture on the
partners, including CIEE,
evening of March 18, to a diverse
and other donors.
and enthusiastic crowd of about
Previous lecturers were
500 people at the Abromson
the Hon. Unity Dow (2012),
Community Education Center in
the first woman to serve as
Dr. Sima Samar spoke about the challenges faced
Portland.
a judge on Botswana’s High
Since 2004, Dr. Samar has by women in Afghanistan.
Court; and Leymah Gbowee
served as chair of the Afghanistan
(2013), an activist and womIndependent Human Rights Commission. windows covered, so women would not en’s rights advocate who won a Nobel
She is also founder of the Shuhada Or- be seen. This past decade has witnessed Peace Prize for helping to end civil war
ganization, dedicated to the welfare and a gradual restoration of women’s rights, in Liberia.
progress of Afghan citizens, with a prima- particularly in education. There are shelThe Justice for Women Lecturer in
ry focus on the empowerment of women ters in the cities, to safeguard abused 2015 will be Ruchira Gupta, founder and
and children. The organization operates women and children. A new law passed in president of Apne Aap Women World55 schools and 15 clinics and hospitals. 2009 criminalized acts of violence against wide. Based in India, Gupta’s organiDr. Samar served in the Interim Adminis- women, yet it is rarely implemented.
zation works to end sex trafficking by
tration of Afghanistan and established the
That momentum remains fragile, increasing choices for at-risk girls and
first-ever Ministry of Women’s Affairs. however. As the United States continues women. The Lecture will be held on
She is a recipient of the John F. Kennedy to draw down its military presence, Dr. March 19, 2015, at the Abromson ComLibrary Foundation’s Profile of Courage Samar has urged American and interna- munity Education Center.
Award, and is one of the central subjects tional leaders to remain invested in AfFor information about supporting the
of the 2004 documentary, Daughters of ghanistan, while the nascent government, series, please email the Law School at
Afghanistan.
army and police forces earn the trust of mainelaw@maine.edu.
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MAINE LAW NEWS: Selected conferences & speakers
Maine Law thanks everyone who participated in the following 2013-14 events:
Selected Speakers
Prof. Alex Kreit, Thomas Jefferson
School of Law. Drug Truce? The War
on Drugs and Mandatory Minimum
Sentencing. September 6, 2013.
Prof. Amna Akbar, Ohio State
University, Moritz College of Law.
National Security’s Broken Windows.
September 13, 2013.
Prof. Abbe Smith, Georgetown
University Law Center. Annual
Constitution Day Lecture, How
Can You Not Defend Those People?
September 17, 2013.
Prof. Dennis Hirsch, Capital University
Law School. Going Dutch?
Collaborative Dutch Privacy
Regulation and the Lessons for U.S.
Privacy Law. September 27, 2013.
Prof. John Nagle, University of Notre
Dame School of Law. October 4,
2013. America the Beautiful: The
Role of Law in Protecting Scenic
Landscapes.
Prof. Sophie Sparrow, University of
New Hampshire School of Law. What
the Best Law Teachers Do. October
10, 2013.
Hon. Nancy Gertner, Professor of
Practice at Harvard Law School and
Former U.S. District Judge. 21st
Annual Frank M. Coffin Lecture on
Law and Public Service, When the
Courthouse Doors are Shutting.
October 21, 2013.
Hon. Albie Sachs, former judge on the
Constitutional Court of South Africa.
50 Years with Nelson Mandela:
From Law Breaking to Law Making.
October 24, 2013.
Prof. William Marshall, University of
North Carolina School of Law. The
School Prayer Decisions: or Why
Engel May Have Had it Right All
Along. November 1, 2013.
Prof. Nina Kohn, Syracuse University
College of Law (Visiting Prof. at
Maine Law). The Next Generation
of Elder Law: Using Scholarship
to Shape Pedagogy. November 22,
2013.
Paul Greene (’07), Global Sports
Advocates, LLC. Sports Arbitration
and the Olympics. January 27, 2014.
Tom Marlow, Former Director of
Patents and IP Protection at Fairchild
Semiconductor. IP Portfolio
Management. February 27, 2014.
Dr. Sima Samar, Chair of the
Afghanistan Independent Human
Rights Commission. 3rd Annual
Justice for Women Lecture, Women’s
Rights in Afghanistan. March 18,
2014.
Prof. Malick Ghachem, Massachusetts
Institute of Technology and University
of Maine School of Law. Religious
Liberty and the Financial War on
Terror. March 21, 2014.
Hon. Jon D. Levy, Associate Justice,
Maine Supreme Judicial Court. Access
to Justice in Maine. March 31, 2014.
Prof. Matt Parlow, Marquette University
Law School. Lessons from the NBA
Lockout: Union Democracy, Public
Support, and the Folly of the National
Basketball Players Associations. April
3, 2014.
David Evans (’78), Clifford Chance US
LLP. US Shale Hydrocarbons-A New
Global Framework. April 10, 2014.
Prof. Mel Zarr, University of Maine
School of Law. Reflections on My
Role as Legal Advisor to Dr. Martin
Luther King, Jr. April 23, 2014.
Selected Conferences & Panels
Maine Trial Lawyers Association
Panels: Criminal Law (October 29,
2013) and Civil Law (November 5,
2013).
Human Trafficking and Transgender
Rights. November 5, 2013. Courtney
Beer (’07), Pine Tree Legal
Assistance; Melissa Hewey (’87),
Drummond Woodsum. Hosted by the
Women’s Law Association, Co-chairs
Ali Tozier (’15) and Julie Healy (’15).
Who’s Governing Privacy? – Maine
Law Review Symposium. February
21, 2014. Dennis Hirsch, Capital
University Law School; Christopher
Wolf, Hogan Lovell; Adam Thierer,
George Mason University; J. Trevor
Hughes, International Association
of Privacy Professionals (IAPP);
Omer Tene, IAPP and College of
Management School of Law, Rishon
Le Zion, Israel; Ira Rubenstein, New
York University School of Law; Joris
van Hoboken, New York University
School of Law; Bryce Clayton
Newell, University of Washington.
Afghanistan Futures: Local and
Global. March 19, 2014. Dr. Sima
Samar, 3rd Annual Justice for
Women Lecturer and Chair of the
Afghanistan Independent Human
Rights Commission; Thomas Barfield,
Boston University; Bill Nemitz,
Portland Press Herald; Charles
Norchi, University of Maine School
of Law.
The Challenges of Electronic Evidence
– Symposium of the Federal
Advisory Committee on the Rules of
Evidence. April 4, 2014. Chief U.S.
District Judge Sidney A. Fitzwater
(N.D. Tex.); U.S. District Judge Lee
Rosenthal (S.D. Tex.); U.S. District
Judge Paul Grimm (D. Md.); Chief
U.S. District Judge John A. Woodcock
(’76), (D. Me.); John Haried Esq.,
Department of Justice; Prof. Jeffrey
Bellin, William and Mary Law
School; Paul Shechtman, Zuckerman
Spaeder LLP; Prof. Deirdre Smith,
University of Maine School of
Law; U.S. District Judge Shira A.
Scheindlin (S.D.N.Y.); David Shonka
(’72), Federal Trade Commission;
Daniel Gelb, Gelb and Gelb; Andrew
Goldsmith, Department of Justice;
Justin Murphy, Crowell & Moring;
George Paul, Lewis and Roca; Paul
Lippe, Legal OnRamp.
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CUMBERLAND LEGAL AID CLINIC
Clinical practice: One student’s story
Helping a young immigrant was a life-changing event
By Michael O’Brien ’14
us for help.
After the lunch hour ended, my classmate relayed the story from the young
man she had just met. Moved by his
positive attitude during such tumultuous
times, Professor Northrop agreed to let me
meet with the teenager in order to see what
ily law as an adjunct professor at the Law
School during Spring 2014), to see if she
knew any individuals in the Portland area
efore graduating from the Univerwho would potentially be interested in
sity of Maine School of Law in May
serving as the teenager’s legal guardian.
2014, I spent a full year working as a
Stout provided me with a list of people
student attorney at the Cumberland Legal
who had, in the past, expressed interest in
Aid Clinic. Initially, I served as the Cushopening up their home to chilman D. Anthony Summer Feldren in need. Needless to say,
low and engaged primarily in
these weren’t easy phone calls
juvenile policy work.
to make. The individuals on
After completing the sumthe list did not know me or the
mer fellowship, I enrolled for
child I was calling on behalf
two semesters in the Juvenile
of. Despite this, one family
Justice Clinic, under the suagreed to think it over and get
pervision of Professor Chris
back to me.
Northrop. Throughout this exAfter a few days passed,
perience, I learned valuable
I received a phone call at the
skills that I will carry with me
Clinic from the family that
throughout my career, as well
had agreed to think it over, exas the importance of serving
pressing a willingness to meet
individuals within our commuwith me to learn more about
nity who lack access to affordthe process and the Clinic’s
able representation.
expectations. After meeting
One of the most rewarding
with the family in the Clinic’s
experiences during my tenure
conference room, they agreed
at the Clinic involved a juvenile
to meet the young man. I fawho had recently arrived unaccilitated the first meeting becompanied in America.
tween the Portland family and
Every Tuesday at lunchthe boy. They hit it off immetime, the Clinic sends a student
diately.
and a professor to the Preble
Eventually, I accompanied
Street Teen Center for a prothe young man to the family’s
gram called “Preble Street
home for a Sunday dinner in
Law.” This program provides
the fall. Before dinner, we met
an opportunity for the children
at the Teen Center and stopped
at the Teen Center to seek free
for flowers at the market on
advice related to legal troubles Michael O’Brien, left, and his former client taken
our walk to their home. Dinthey may be having. On one in June 2014 outside of the U.S. Citizenship and
Immigration Services Portland Field Office.
ner was a success, and after a
Tuesday last summer, a young
few more meetings the family
man from southeast Africa appeared at our table and told his story to a I could do to help him obtain a steady bed eventually expressed willingness to petito sleep in at night.
tion for legal guardianship.
classmate of mine.
After meeting with the young man at
Inspired by their generosity and willArriving in the United States only a
few weeks earlier, he spoke of the tragic the Preble Street Teen Center, I wanted ingness to help a child in need, the Clinic
circumstances that led to his arrival in to do everything that I could to help him began formally representing the family in
America – without any family, resources, get settled permanently in Maine. Profes- their Petition for Guardianship of a Minor.
or shelter. Now homeless and fending for sor Northrop connected me with attorney Our goals were twofold – to help connect
himself, this young man reached out to Elizabeth Stout ’90 (who also taught fam- this young man with a family who could
B
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provide him with a loving home and to allowed me to collaborate with Professor Department of Homeland Security. We
give him the opportunity to remain long- Anna Welch at the Refugee and Human received notice that the interview would
term in the United States (and obtain his Rights Clinic to complete the immigration occur in June, after my law school gradugreen card).
portion of the process.
ation. Therefore, I would no longer be
The best path to accomplishing both of
Professor Welch and I worked dili- eligible to serve as his Student Attorney.
these goals was to ultimately petition for gently to complete the various forms and Knowing that this was a possibility, I had
Special Immigrant Juvenile Status (known obtain the documentation necessary to pe- been working with Laura Shaw, a colas SIJS), which is a special pathway to citi- tition for SIJS. The young man was not in league at the Refugee and Human Rights
zenship for unmarried children under the possession of his birth certificate, which Clinic, in the anticipation of her completage of 18 who are present in the United was required to apply for a green card, so ing the process after I graduated.
States, who have been abused, abandoned, we communicated with friends and exAs the interview day approached, I
or neglected by one or both parents, and for tended family from his home country to received an email from my former client
whom it is determined that it is not in the obtain the proper documentation. This was asking if I would join him at his interview
child’s best interest to be returned to his or no easy task – and threatened to sabotage even though I was no longer officially his
her home country. These factual findings our entire effort, because our client had a attorney of record. He said that he was almust be made by a state court judge who fast-approaching birthday. Fortunately, lowed to bring one friend along, and wantpossesses valid jurisdiction over juveniles. we received the document in time to file. ed that friend to be me. I was honored at
Therefore, the guardianship hearing in Meanwhile, another Student Attorney the request, and accepted his invitation.
state Probate Court would be an appropri- volunteered to complete our client’s Fee
On the morning of his big interview, I
ate forum to establish the requisite factual Waiver, to help speed the process along.
took time to reflect upon how far we had
findings needed to accomplish our fucome together. En route to the office of
ture immigration objectives.
the Department of Homeland Security, I
To add an extra level of exciterealized that this young man had given
ment to this incredible process, the
me as much as I had given him. Togethfederal immigration petition needed
er, we had persevered and grown.
to be filed before the young man’s
As I sat alongside the young man
18th birthday or else he would ageduring his interview, it became clear
out of eligibility. We needed to act
to me that he was being approved.
fast, as only a few short months reThe young man has become a longmained before the deadline.
term permanent resident of the United
After drafting and filing the PeStates, with a loving and supportive
tition for Guardianship, we evenfamily. In addition, he has established
tually received a hearing date in
a new program at the Teen Center
Probate Court. I served as counsel
called New Mainers, with the mission
at this proceeding – and although I
of helping other young new arrivals
had appeared before various judges
get settled in Portland. I feel honored
in Maine District Court dozens of
to have had the opportunity to help
times, this was my first appearance
him along the way.
in state Probate Court. The probate During his tenure at the Cumberland Legal
When I enrolled as a first-year stujudge brought us back into his cham- Aid Clinic, Michael O’Brien also worked partdent at Maine Law, I never dreamed
bers and reviewed the Petition, ask- time as a stern man on a commercial lobster
that I would engage in such meaninging questions of the young man and boat out of Portland Harbor.
ful work before graduation. Profesthe family petitioning for guardiansors Northrop and Welch provided me
ship. At the end of our discussion, the
with the practical skills, legal knowljudge agreed to grant legal guardianship
The level of teamwork at the Clinic is edge, and encouragement that I needed to
to the family. Additionally, he signed the inspiring, and I learned something from be successful, and I am forever grateful
factual findings that we had drafted for use my peers everyday. After triple checking for all that they have taught me inside the
in our future immigration petition.
to ensure that our paperwork was in order, classroom and the courtroom.
After the hearing, the homeless young we filed his immigration petition the week
I encourage everyone who attends
man who we met at the Teen Center now prior to his birthday.
Maine Law to participate in the clinical
had a warm bed to sleep in and a loving,
Now, we had to wait for a response. experiences, and those in the community
supportive family. But our mission was far Receiving notice back that the petition to support the Clinic’s incredible mission.
from complete.
was accepted for processing was incredWith very little time until the young ible news for us, as it meant that he could Michael O’Brien graduated from Maine
man’s 18th birthday, we had only one shot no longer age-out of eligibility. The only Law in May 2014. He began work this fall
to successfully complete his petition for steps that remained were a biometrics as a Legislative Analyst in the Maine State
SIJS. Although I was enrolled in the Ju- appointment, which I accompanied our Legislature’s Office of Policy and Legal
venile Justice Clinic, Professor Northrop client to, and the final interview with the Analysis. ML
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Taking Aim at Debt
Professor Lois R. Lupica is leading a ground-breaking study designed to
find the best ways to help people mired in crippling debt
Maine Law Magazine
T
he recent recession has taken a toll on
low-income Americans. Low, stagnant and declining wages, coupled
with a lack of savings has meant that many
consumers have used credit cards to bridge
the gap between income and expenses.
Credit card issuers know this, and, not
surprisingly, target the customers they feel
will be the most profitable – those that are
unable to pay their balance in full every
month. This means that hundreds of thousands of Americans are one life-interrupting event (e.g., job loss, divorce, health
crisis) away from default. Currently, over
30 million consumers have at least one delinquent item on their credit reports listed
as “in collection.”
Such widespread financial distress
has had “a profound affect upon the lowincome population in Maine” says Maine
Law Foundation Professor Lois R. Lupica.
“And where there are financial problems,
other legal problems follow, such as divorce, evictions, and an increased need for
government benefits.”
But what is the best way to assist the millions of people with legal issues stemming
from serious credit and financial-related
problems? Legal Services Organizations
such as Pine Tree Legal Services are underfunded, and thus do not have the resources
to provide help to all who need it. Typically,
lawyers who provide pro bono representation are “putting out fires” – seeking protection from abuse orders, or arguing criminal
appeals. Few pro bono lawyers have devoted much attention to helping clients sort out
their financial obligations, and it is clear that
there will “never be enough lawyers to assist everyone who needs help repairing their
credit, negotiating with debtors, litigating
debt collection, and, when necessary, filing
for bankruptcy,” Lupica notes.
How best to assist people in financial
trouble is the focus of a groundbreaking
new study, the Consumer Financial Distress Project, designed and led by a team
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Professor Lois R. Lupica in the classroom.
Funded, in part, by the National Science
Foundation, the Study, designed to find out
how and when legal aid is most effective, is
a kind of triage framework to determine how
to best deploy limited legal services.
of three academics who include Professor Lupica, Professor Jim Greiner at the
Harvard Law School and Professor Dalié
Jiménez at the University of Connecticut School of Law. The Study is a unique
partnership with the three law schools, the
Maine Judiciary, Pine Tree Legal Services,
the Cumberland County Sheriff’s Office, a
major financial counseling company, and a
national credit-reporting agency.
The Study, designed to find out how
and when legal aid is most effective, is
a kind of triage framework to determine
how to best deploy limited legal services.
The Study will radomize hundreds of lowincome clients with financial problems
into four groups that will receive different
types and levels of legal aid and financial
counseling. Lupica, Greiner, Jiménez and
their students will then analyze the data
and compare outcomes by measuring
their credit scores and credit reports several years later, to learn which approaches
were most effective. As a randomized control trial, or RCT, this approach is the gold
standard for a clinical trial, similar to the
type of highly rigorous trials used to test
new pharmaceuticals or medical devices,
but is still quite rare in the law, Lupica
notes. Says Lupica, “The Study will enable
us to answer definitively, the very basic
question, ‘where should we be spending
our finite legal services dollars?’ We currently do not know what type of assistance
is most effective, and when it should be
provided. For example, do you most need
a lawyer at the stage where you are forced
to negotiate with creditors? Or when it’s
time to speak in open court? Or is professional help most needed at the credit report
repair stage? We want to know the pressure points when people are most likely to
fail – so we know exactly where and when
to deploy scarce resources.”
Since the Study’s inception two and
a half years ago, about 50 Maine Law,
Harvard Law and UConn Law students
have been involved as research assistants. In 2012-2013, Maine Law students
enrolled in the Consumer Credit Seminar
worked with Harvard Law and UConn
Law students to research the civil law
in Maine on debt collection, the small
claims process, evidentiary requirements and inter-disciplinary learning on
how best to present complex instructions
in a way that is accessible and comprehensible. The students were assigned to
one of four teams: Civil Procedure, Debt
Collection Law, Evidence, and Access
to Justice. Sarah Hodges ’14 enrolled in
the Consumer Credit Seminar for two semesters, was a member of the “Access to
Justice” team charged with transforming
legal research memorandum into selfhelp materials.
“Being involved in Professor Lupica’s
Consumer Credit Seminar … allowed me
to work with the group that created innovative pro se materials that unrepresented
defendants can use to defend themselves
against creditors’ claims,” Hodges says.
During the academic year, the students met
weekly with their teams, either in-person
or telephonically, learning as much from
each other, as they did from their three
Professors.
Laura Shortill ’13 notes, “it was a pleasure to be a part of a talented group of sophisticated legal minds working together
to develop the research bank.”
Katie Foster ’16 was the Study’s research assistant this past summer. Joining
the team two years into the project, Foster was quickly oriented, and tasked with
the job of developing and testing, through
cognitive interviews of potential Study
subjects, self-help materials for people
burdened by medical-related debt. As
Foster notes, “It is exciting to see the proj-
Current Maine Law students working on the Study
Together with their Harvard Law counterparts, Maine Law students are
working on various aspects of the Study.
Katie Foster ’16 spent the summer researching and developing the “medical
debt” pro se assistance packet. She has also functioned as the Maine Law
student volunteer team coordinator, familiarizing team members with the
overarching goals of the project and the objectives for the materials that are
being produced.
Betsy Boardman ’15 and Ari Solotoff ’15 have been developing a comprehensive
outline describing the requirements and functions of the bankruptcy system’s
required 341 Meeting with creditors, and preparing pro se assistance materials
that walk a pro se consumer bankruptcy debtor through the process, step by step.
Micah Smart ’16 is currently working on pro se materials focusing on the
use of utilities, tips on reducing heating costs, as well as information on
negotiating utility payment plans and signing up for assistance programs.
Kaitlyn Husar ’15 is a member of the “student loan” team, working to develop
pro se materials outlining how to discharge a student loan in bankruptcy by
bringing an adversary proceeding based on the “undue hardship” standard.
ect progress and to have the opportunity
to work through a concept to the testing
stage. It is especially rewarding to watch
as an unrepresented defendant at small
claims court is shown the materials for
the first time and is able to understand the
concept and feel empowered after reading
the draft. It further proves the validity and
usefulness of the materials and the need for
a project like this in order to better educate
consumers.” Since 2012, dozens of Maine
Law students have worked on the Study,
logging with their Harvard and UConn cohorts, over 2500 hours.
The self-help materials the Study researchers are developing and testing are
innovative and surprisingly simple. They
feature a genderless, raceless and relatable
cartoon figure, designated “Blob,” who is
shown being empowered with information
as he/she navigates the small claims court
debt collection process. One set of cartoons shows the meaning of the statute of
limitations (by using an egg timer running
out of sand). Another explains the evidence needed to sue on a credit card debt,
and how a consumer can assert their rights
with debt collectors and their attorneys,
as well as before a judge. “Research on
conceptual and procedural knowledge has
taught us that a pro se defendant does not
have to understand the business records
exception, for example,” observes Lupica.
“They just have to say the right words at
the right time. If we can direct pro se litigants to ask, ‘has the case been proved?,’
the judge can then assess the evidence
before him or her, and determine whether
or not to dismiss the creditor/plaintiff’s
claim.”
The study will also examine allegations
of widespread abuse in the debt-collection
industry. Many owners of the original
debt, such as credit card companies, sell
the debt; the new debt collectors, however,
often have no supporting data to show how
much is owed, the interest rate, and who
owes the debt. Debtors often are afraid to
go to court, and so the debt buyer may receive default judgments—perhaps for inaccurate amounts—and go on to garnish
the debtor’s wages or seize their assets.
Lupica’s study wants to examine whether
these abuses are happening, and on what
scale. Rachel Deschuytner ’14, a student
volunteer research assistant noted the importance of committing “time and legal
expertise in this area of the law, because
credit is such an important part of everyday life.”
The Harvard Center for the Legal Profession (CLP), where Lupica, Greiner and
Jiménez are affiliated faculty members,
supports this research project. CLP’s central mission is to conduct groundbreaking,
empirical research on the rapidly changing structures, norms and dynamics of the
global legal profession, of which questions
of access to justice and the availability of
legal counsel are central. The Study is
also supported by grants from the American Bankruptcy Institute Anthony H.N.
Schnelling Endowment, the National Conference of Bankruptcy Judges Endowment
for Education and the National Science
Foundation. ML
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Maine Law’s
D.C. Connection
For a small school,
Maine Law packs
quite a punch in
the nation’s
capital.
By Trevor Maxwell
C
oming out of one of the nation’s smallest
law schools, Tim McCormack ’01 didn’t
expect to run across too many of his fellow Maine Law alums when he went to work
in Washington, D.C. in the early 2000s, first as
a policy advisor to Sen. Susan Collins, and then
as a lawyer in private practice.
Yet there they were. John Bean ’03, Amanda
Wood ’01, Matt Walker ’01 and, later, Justin
Weiss ’06, were just some of McCormack’s contemporaries whose careers had also led them to
Washington, D.C. Once there, they became part
of a larger network of Maine Law alumni from
earlier years, a group that includes Martha Casey
’82, David Evans ’78, Frank O’Toole ’70, Charlie
Cragin ’70, Mary Bell ’74 and Ron Battocchi ’74.
McCormack recalls his wife coming home
one day from her job at the U.S. Department
of Labor, and asking whether he knew a guy
named Richard Ewell, who happened to work in
the same office.
“I know Richard,” McCormack said. “He
was in my class at Maine Law.”
For a small school, Maine Law packs quite a
punch in the nation’s capital. Alumni are thriving in a wide variety of fields in Washington,
including private practice, politics, government
agencies, public policy, and business. More than
150 alums live, work, or are retired in the Washington metropolitan area. Only Massachusetts
and, of course, Maine itself boast a higher concentration of Maine Law graduates.
The Law School has hosted an annual
alumni reception in Washington for many
years, and the administration is taking full
advantage of the connections and job opportunities in the city. Beginning in the
spring of 2015, Maine Law will launch
its Semester in D.C. Externship Program,
matching students with positions in federal agencies of their choice. Externs earn
academic credit while working alongside
seasoned attorneys.
As more Maine Law graduates make
their way to Washington, there are more
connections to leverage in networking,
which can be critical for interview opportunities and long-term success.
“I really encourage people to look at
D.C. There is good work down here, and
a great alumni network of Maine Law
folks,” said McCormack, 45, who recently joined the Board of Directors for the
Maine Law Alumni Association.
At the Phillips and Cohen law firm,
McCormack specializes in the representation of whistleblowers who work to recover money from companies that have
defrauded the government.
“Maine is a small place, and a lot of
people want to live in the Portland area.
For that reason alone, the competition is
less intense in Washington. There is also
a lot of appreciation for people who have
the kind of solid, nuts and bolts education
you get at Maine Law.”
The lure of the Hill
In the early 1980s, the Maine Law
alumni network in Washington, D.C. was
small but lively when Martha Casey took
Martha Casey
a job on Capitol Hill.
A Massachusetts native and Democrat, Casey had always been interested
in politics and public policy. She worked
as a Congressional aide before coming to
Maine Law, and she imagined returning
to the city after graduation, possibly to
work in the Justice Department.
“I remember sitting in the law library
the night that Ronald Reagan became
president,” Casey said. “I thought to myself, I guess I won’t be working in that
department.”
Her boyfriend at the time took a clerkship in Washington, and after many phone
calls in the spring of 1982, Casey landed a job in the office of Massachusetts
Congressman Brian Donnelly, who soon
earned a spot on the House Ways and
Means Committee. Casey worked as legislative counsel to Donnelly until 1987.
“I was there for tax reform, Medicare
and Medicaid. I became a healthcare expert without really intending to,” Casey
recalled.
That expertise propelled Casey into
her next career move as a prominent lobbyist for hospitals and other clients in the
healthcare industry. As a consultant with
O’Neill, Athy & Casey, she represents
Brigham & Women’s Hospital, Boston
Medical Center, and Massachusetts General Hospital, among others. From her
firm’s headquarters on the historic Dupont Circle, Casey has been a leading advocate for hospitals in every budget battle
Maine Law’s 2014 Washington Alumni Reception
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since the Reagan era. Casey has also
expanded into education, with clients including Harvard College and Northeastern University. She volunteers her time
on the board of directors of the University
of Maine School of Law Foundation.
While the Maine Law contingent in
Washington was not as large in the 1980s
as it is today, Casey made time to get together with fellow alumni in the city, including David Evans, John Veroneau ’89,
and Jane Earley ’74.
Evans, a member of the Maine Law
class of 1978, also fondly recalls those
gatherings. They met once at a Chinese
restaurant, and other times at apartments
or townhomes.
“It was a lot of fun. We’d share stories about Maine, talk about family and
jobs,” Evans said. “This was long before
it became more organized, with Maine
Law receptions and the Dean coming to
town, bringing people and updates from
the school. Those events are huge now.”
The steady growth of
a lawyers’ town
Evans is a partner at Clifford Chance
US LLP, the American headquarters of the
multinational law firm based in London.
He specializes in project finance, utility
regulation, and commercial contracts.
Evans has been involved in energy and
finance matters his entire career, including positions as Staff Counsel to the U.S.
Nuclear Regulatory Commission investigating the accident at Three Mile Island,
as Chevron’s chief natural gas lawyer, as
Vice President and General Counsel of
an independent power developer, and as
a partner in two major law firms. He has
also remained deeply engaged with Maine
Law. Evans was president of the University of Maine School of Law Foundation
for a number of years, taking a leadership
role in fundraising and advocacy from
2007 to 2013.
His first opportunity in Washington
was as a participant in an honors law graduate program run by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. Evans describes it as a
classic path for an aspiring lawyer. Work
for a federal agency. Get experience. Earn
a reputation for high quality work. Move
on to the next step in your career.
“That is one thing that always struck
me about government agencies. There is
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a lot less bias than people face at big East
Coast firms,” Evans said. “To the people
making hiring decisions in the government, the only question that matters is
– Can you do the job? It doesn’t matter
if you went to Maine Law or Harvard or
Yale.”
Both Casey and Evans have encouraged Maine Law graduates to seek employment in Washington, and they have
been delighted as the numbers of alumni
in the metropolitan area have gone up.
“For years we always asked each other:
Why can’t we get more Maine Law graduates to Washington?” Casey said. “Then,
gradually, more people started coming down. We
started getting
more calls from
people looking
to make connections, which was
great.”
“It has really
taken off in the last
15 years. The government response
after 9/11 created
whole new swaths
of the D.C. econoDavid Evans
my, and those jobs
are going to young professionals. My neighborhood in Arlington has developed entirely in the
last 15 years, and almost all new residents are
under 35.”
The statistics support Casey’s per-
Brian Tomney, center
spective. Washington’s economy, driven
largely by growth in government agencies and contractors, has flourished over
the past decade and a half, while other
cities were stagnant. Since 2001, Washington has enjoyed the lowest unemployment rate among the largest 10 metropolitan areas in the nation. For overall
job growth between 2001 and 2012,
Washington ranked second, adding more
than 150,000 jobs. Only Houston fared
better.
The terrorist attacks of 2001 motivated Brian Tomney, class of 2006, toward
a career change and a move to Washington. A 13-year veteran paramedic for the
City of Portland, Tomney was at work
on 9/11 when the FBI located the car of
Mohammed Atta at the Portland Jetport
shortly after the attacks. He traveled
with other paramedics and firefighters to
two FDNY funerals in New York City,
and visited Ground Zero about a month
after the attacks, when the wreckage was
still burning.
“I woke up on New Year’s Day 2002
and said, I’m going to law school and
then I’m going to work for the Justice
Department,” Tomney recalled.
It was an ambitious path from which
Tomney never wavered. He enrolled at
Maine Law in 2003, interned at the U.S.
Attorney’s Office in Portland as a rising
2L, and then in the U.S. DOJ’s Counterterrorism Section as a rising 3L. Tomney
was selected for the DOJ Honors Program
Staying connected: Outreach builds Washington relationships
W
hy is Washington, D.C. Maine Law’s virtual home
away from home? More Maine Law alumni live
and work in the nation’s capital than anywhere
else outside of Maine and Massachusetts.
“Our talented and generous network of D.C. alumni,
in both the private and public sectors, provides advice,
encouragement, and jobs to our students and recent
graduates,” said Peter Pitegoff, Dean at Maine Law.
“Additionally, many opportunities in D.C. involve public
service, which is a signature attribute of Maine Law
and a powerful draw for our graduates.”
For many years, leaders at Maine Law have paid
close attention to D.C. and have nurtured those
important connections to the city.
Maine Law’s annual alumni reception in Washington
brings together a large and enthusiastic crowd of
alumni and friends. It is one of the most anticipated
events of the year for friends who often don’t have
extra time throughout the year to catch up with their
former classmates. The 2014 reception was held on
following his graduation. He was among
five individuals picked to work in the
Criminal Division, out of several hundred
applicants.
After three years as a prosecutor in the
Criminal Division’s Narcotic and Dangerous Drug Section, in 2009 Tomney
was promoted to a job involving the highest levels of national security. As Counsel
for Rule of Law to the Deputy Attorney
General, Tomney oversees U.S. prosecutors who work hand in hand with prosecutors in Afghanistan and Iraq. The mission is to build
the capacity of
those countries
to successfully
prosecute drug
trafficking, terrorism, and other crimes.
“I’ve enjoyed
living and working in D.C. My
experience is that
people either reTim McCormack
ally love it here
and thrive in
this environment, or they get chewed up,”
he said. “Compared to Maine, the biggest
drawback for me is that the beach is at least
three hours away, and it can be five hours
away, depending on traffic.”
April 30 at the AGC Townhouse on Capitol Hill.
The Law School has a faculty and student exchange
agreement with Howard University Law School, and
faculty members maintain active relationships with the
other law schools in Washington.
Faculty also engage with the federal government
with respect to policy development and funding
opportunities, including support for domestic violence
prevention work done by our Cumberland Legal Aid
Clinic, and for Professor Lois R. Lupica’s wide-ranging
Consumer Financial Distress Project.
Maine Law’s Semester in D.C. Externship Program
launches in the spring semester of 2015. The program
is designed to assist law students in identifying and
securing full-time, semester long externships with
a federal agency of their choice. To complement
their field placement experience, students will enroll
in a seminar on government practice taught by
Washington lawyer Jane Earley ’74, who is working
with Maine Law to launch this pilot program.
“What has helped me most is that I
knew exactly what I wanted to do,” Tomney said. “When I cross Pennsylvania Avenue to work every day, I look around, I
look at the Capitol, and I think about how
fortunate I am, and why I came here.”
‘The Maine connections are real’
McCormack, the qui tam lawyer with
Phillips and Cohen, took his own unique
path to D.C., as part of the youth movement to the city in the early 2000s. He
arrived in Washington in 2003 after
clerking for federal judges in Maine and
Vermont.
Like many Maine Law alumni who
now call D.C. home, McCormack thought
he would work in the city for a few years
and then look for a job back in Maine.
“I was actually planning to go to work
for a firm in Portland, but one of my
co-clerks convinced me to think about
Washington. She had worked on the Hill
for many years, and said, ‘Go down to
D.C. Maine will always be there,’ ” McCormack said.
With help from Maine Law alumni
working in the office of Sen. Susan Collins, McCormack interviewed for a job,
and the timing could not have been better.
McCormack had studied forestry at the
University of Maine, and Collins needed
an advisor on forestry and agriculture.
After his year as an advisor to Collins, McCormack decided he wanted to
be more of a “nuts and bolts” lawyer. His
next career step was away from Capitol
Hill and into private practice. He joined
Goodwin Procter LLP, specializing in
complex commercial litigation. While
there, he met his wife, Lisa Wilson. McCormack then moved on to Phillips and
Cohen, where he has played key roles in
successful whistleblower cases involving hospitals, a medical device company,
government contractors and pharmaceutical companies.
“I’ve been very fortunate. I met my
wife and started a family here, and I have
a job that is challenging and tremendously rewarding,” said McCormack, father to
youngsters Natalie and Ben. “It is a really
cool combination of working with clients
who are at a place in life where they need
help, and at the same time they are trying
to do the right thing.”
McCormack, Casey, and Evans all
agreed that the Maine Law alumni network is an expanding and effective tool
for job-hunting, and for those simply testing the waters in Washington.
“The Maine connections are real,”
Casey said. “We love it when we can
show a job seeker around or answer questions. We are going to go out of our way
to help those people.”
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A livable yet truly
international city
a 2001 Maine Law grad. At the time,
Wood was working for the Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs
Committee and offered Kate advice on
networking and gave her names of other
alumni in the area to contact.
Ultimately, Shorr joined powerhouse
law firm Foley & Lardner’s government
affairs practice group in its Washington
office. She worked at the firm for two
years before making her next Maine connection in the summer of 2012 when she
attended a Washington reception for Angus King, who was running as an independent to replace retiring Senator Olympia Snowe.
Shorr kept in touch with the King
Kate Shorr ’10, who grew up in Portland, has seen the results of the Maine
Law alumni network first-hand. Shorr
was selected as a Congressional intern
in Senator Susan Collin’s office during
her last semester as an undergrad at the
University of Maine in Orono, where she
majored in Political Science. The internship sent her to Washington in the spring
of 2004, and she immediately fell in love
with the city.
During her internship, Shorr worked
closely with Maine Law alumnus Steve
Abbott ’91, the Senator’s Chief of Staff.
Following the internship, Abbott
offered Shorr a permanent position in the office, first as a staff
assistant and then as the Senator’s State Scheduler and Executive Assistant. Shorr says that
Abbott and other lawyers she
worked with urged her to pursue
her law degree, and in 2007 she
decided to return to her native
city of Portland for law school.
“On the Hill, you are just surrounded by lawyers. Everywhere
you turn there are lawyers doing
really cool things with their degrees,” said Shorr, who was part Kate Shorr
of the pre-law program at the
University of Maine.
“Steve Abbott and the other lawyers in campaign that fall and after King was
Sen. Collins’ office were great mentors. elected, he hired her to join his new ofTim McCormack was there at the time, fice as a member of his senior staff. Shorr
and he sort of took me under his wing currently serves as Senator King’s Direcwhen I was an intern. Being surround- tor of Scheduling, and also assumes the
ed by so many lawyers, the idea of law title of Legislative Counsel when necessary to handle various legal issues and
school never left my thought process.”
After graduating from Maine Law in analysis as they arise.
“It has been quite a ride, and I’ve
2010 – with the nation mired in a historic
recession following the financial crisis of enjoyed all of it. I see myself staying in
2008 – Shorr was anxious to move back Washington for a very long time,” Shorr
to Washington, despite not having a job said. “I do love it here. There is so much
lined up. She moved to D.C. and slept going on, but it’s not overwhelming. I go
on a friend’s couch, waited tables and up to New York and I get overwhelmed.
joined a temp agency. All the while, she Washington is a very livable city with a
worked the phones and email, reaching ton to do.”
Evans agreed. He especially likes
out to Maine Law alumni in the area to
seek advice, grab a cup of coffee, or ask the variety of opportunities, such as the
to help make a connection for a potential chance to mingle with and learn from
job. That is how she met Amanda Wood, people who come from around the world.
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“You can have a virtual U.N. sitting
together for dinner. It is truly an international city,” Evans said. He loves to run
and bike along the Canal. Evans also enjoys the weather in Washington, although
he loves returning to Maine, where he
now spends much of his summer. His
mother lives in Maine, and he has a sister
nearby in Massachusetts.
McCormack lives in D.C. proper. The
neighborhood has a cohesive and friendly
vibe, with the Metro only three blocks
away, he said.
“I definitely miss Maine, the size, the
collegiality. But D.C. has so many opportunities. My wife and I both have jobs
that are not available in other places. If
you are going to live in the
city, this is a pretty good
one,” he said.
Attending Washington
National baseball games at
Nationals Park is a favorite activity for Shorr, her
boyfriend, who also works
on Capitol Hill, and their
friends, including Wood,
who now works as the Director of Employment Policy at the National Association of Manufacturers. Shorr
has also stayed close friends
with fellow 2010 Maine
Law graduates, Mike Anderson and Nick Lund, who
also both live in Washington. Anderson
most recently worked for BAE Systems,
and is now pursuing his LL.M. this year at
George Washington University. Lund is a
nature writer and lawyer with the National
Parks Conservation Association.
“It’s pretty amazing to have so many
Maine friends in D.C. Nick was the first
classmate that I met at Maine Law. Mike
was the Vice President of the Student Bar
Association, and I was President. Amanda
has become one of my really good friends
here. It is fun to live in a city like Washington but have friends here that you have
that history with, you know?” Shorr said.
“There are so many Mainers here that
it gets to the point where my D.C. friends
joke about it. They’ll say, ‘jeez, Kate, you
Mainers are everywhere.’ It’s true, we
are.” ML
PARENTS in LAW
Maine Law students balance studies with children
L
aw school is rigorous. The demands are mentally and physically draining, and you must be able to think on your
feet at all times. Some Maine Law students share a background that makes them uniquely suited for the challenge:
They’re parents.
They have to find the balance between legal research and lunch packing, oral arguments and doctor’s appointments,
networking events and Little League games.
They could all use extra support. That was the idea behind Parents in Law. Created in 2013 by Betsy Wakefield ’16 and
other members of her first-year class, the organization connects students who also happen to be parents. Participants
lean on each other for social and academic support, and they also sponsor events for the entire Maine Law community,
including a toy drive, a spring scavenger hunt, a regular coffee series, and a cookout this September at Fort Williams in
Cape Elizabeth. The group has been an instant success at Maine Law, which has a national reputation for being welcoming
to older students and students from diverse backgrounds.
We asked Parents in Law members to share some of the joys and challenges of their dual roles.
Jamie Bryant
“B
alancing parenting and law
school has been an interesting
challenge, but my kids are learning
the value of hard work and the
possibility of dream fulfillment at any
age. The biggest challenge, by far, is
spending so much time away from
them while working to ensure they
don’t resent my choice to seek a new
career. The Parents in Law group put
on a scavenger hunt last spring that
provided my kids the opportunity to
explore the law school where I was
spending all of my free time, while
meeting other kids whose parents
were doing the same thing. It was
a fantastic opportunity that really
put the school in a positive light for
them.”
Jamie Bryant is a second year law
student who moved to Maine with her
family in 2008. She is married with
a son, 10, and a daughter, 6. Before
enrolling at Maine Law in 2013, Jamie
had been an Arabic Linguist in the
Army and then a stay-at-home mom.
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PARENTS in LAW
Ryan Woodward
“I
was prepared to begin Law School with two
children as much as I could be. I was not expecting
to have my third child born in the middle of my 1L
year. After my child was born, I was grateful to receive
food, clothing and support from people I met thanks
to Parents in Law. This is what makes Parents in Law
great. Being a parent and student can be stressful,
but it’s a testament of good time management
and a great support team, if you don’t want to feel
overwhelmed. I’m blessed to have a great wife and
kids to support me at home. I’m also very thankful to
know that I’m not alone at the Law School. In a very
competitive environment, there is a group of people
who understand when a child is sick, and I have to
go to the doctor, or when my wife is working and I
have to watch the children. They don’t judge me or
question me. They understand and are there to help,
because tomorrow it may be one of them with the
sick kid and Parents in Law will be there.”
Ryan Woodward is a 2L student at the University of Maine
School of Law. He is married with three children, ages 4,
2, and 8 months. He is a graduate of Asbury College in
Wilmore, Kentucky. Before moving his family to Maine
to attend school in 2013, Ryan was a police detective in
Georgia.
Betsy Wakefield
“O
nce I decided that I was going to be heading
to law school with a toddler, I began shoring
up as much support as I could. I started Parents in
Law with the idea of creating a group that would, at
the very least, let students with children know they
are not alone. Having to study at home has been
challenging and I’ve worked hard to try to include
my daughter with whatever I’m learning. My Property
book became her companion for stroller rides around
the neighborhood. Negotiations in my household have
also taken on an entirely new tone. But the balance is
never perfect. The most challenging times have been
when my daughter clings to me, saying she doesn’t
want me to go to school or the library. It has also been
difficult watching classmates attend social and alumni
gatherings where they are building their networks. But
it just makes me work harder to network when I get
the chance. When I am exhausted to my core, I think
about the example I’m setting for my daughter – that
at any age you can pursue your dream. When she
looks back at this time in her life, I hope it is with pride
and understanding.”
Born and raised in Maine, Betsy Wakefield graduated
from Brandeis University and spent over 10 years
in the insurance industry as an underwriter. She is
married with a vivacious 3-year-old daughter. Betsy
enjoys poker, plays a weak game of golf, and in the
summer she prefers to sleep in a tent and hike.
Maine Law students balance studies with children
Star Bergh
“M
y experience as a parent in Law School has
been multi-faceted. I’m a single mother who is
constantly juggling two lives: mine and my 8-yearold daughter’s. She has school, dance, gymnastics,
homework, playdates and doctor’s appointments that
must be fit in with my classes, work, homework and
housework. The stress and exhaustion has had me
placing the milk in the cupboard and the cereal in the
fridge, sending my daughter to school with my laptop
cord in her lunchbox and looking for my phone all
over the house while talking on it. There is no doubt
the law school journey is made crazier because I am
a single mother, but I couldn’t imagine going through
it without my kiddo. Her presence is a daily reminder
of the big picture, and she is the first one to make fun
of me when I put the ice cube tray in the microwave
instead of the freezer. The creation of Parents in Law
has brought a sense of solidarity to my experience.
The group is a source of academic and emotional
support that I have come to rely on. How do I
approach the precarious balance between parenting
and law school? One day at a time.”
Star M. Bergh is a second year law student with a focus
on Criminal Law. Star and her 8-year-old daughter have
fallen in love with Portland and intend on staying after
graduation. She is a graduate of Husson University
where she majored in Criminal Justice.
Bill Adams
“I
have gone from the grueling shift work of an
industrial setting to taking on the tough work of
learning the law, most of the time from behind a desk.
I have learned a new kind of tired, and I find myself
mentally exhausted at times. But this is the biggest
joy, as well as the biggest challenge of this adventure.
Other noteworthy joys are building a foundation of
knowledge that I will use for the rest of my life and
watching my 10-year old son learn and practice the
law (of our house) alongside me. His reasoning and
arguing skills have improved dramatically in the last
year. Balancing everything is a challenge, but my
wife, a third-year medical student, keeps us incredibly
organized with calendars and charts. We are not
missing a beat. Quality time is the key; we have to
schedule it in, and we make sure to do it. Whether it is
coaching my son’s soccer team, a trip to the beach, or
a family game.”
Bill Adams, a 2L at Maine Law, describes himself as an
old and graying father in a blended family made up
of his lovely wife, seven-month-old son, 10-year-old
son, and 17-year-old daughter. After graduating from
Maine Maritime Academy, Bill spent five years sailing
as an engineer before taking a shore-side position.
Eight years later he decided, with the support and
encouragement of his wife, to change careers.
STUDENT SPOTLIGHT
Kasey Boucher:
“I really liked the idea of having a small school where I could form personal relationships
with the professors and a large percentage of the student body, rather than just being
another number in a larger school.”
2L (Class of 2016)
Hometown: Lewiston, Maine
Undergrad: Boston University
Major: B.S. in Business Administration; dual concentration
in finance and law
What did you do prior to
coming to the University of
Maine School of Law?
I worked for State Street as a
portfolio accountant and played
women’s professional hockey for
the Boston Blades.
You have been a standout ice
hockey player. Can you tell us a
little bit about your journey as
an athlete, beginning with high
school? Do you still play?
I certainly had a different
high school experience than
most people. I went to North
American Hockey Academy
(NAHA) in Stowe, Vermont,
which was only during the
hockey season. The classes consisted of one-on-one tutoring and
were based on the classes that I was enrolled in back at Lewiston
High School. Going to NAHA opened up the opportunity for me
to reach personal dreams, including playing hockey in college for
Boston University.
I also received the opportunity to play for the U-18 Team USA
national team in 2008, with whom I won a gold medal at the IIHF
world championships. I also was fortunate enough to represent
the country at both the U-22 and senior team levels for various
international tournaments. I played for the Boston Blades, which is
the only American team in the Canadian women’s hockey league. I
am extremely grateful for the experience I had with hockey, and it
has had a huge impact on the person I am today. Unfortunately, I
have not been playing recently, but I would like to start again soon
at a much less competitive level and play just for fun.
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Why did you choose to attend Maine Law?
It definitely helped that Maine Law was close to home, but that
was not the only factor in my decision. All the feedback I received
about the school was great. The small size also definitely helped.
Although I loved how big Boston University is, law school is a
greater step toward my career. I really liked the idea of having a
small school where I could form
personal relationships with the
professors and a large percentage
of the student body, rather than
just being another number in a
larger school.
What has been most helpful to you
in making the adjustment to the life
of a Maine Law Student?
It was actually a lot easier of an
adjustment than I was expecting. I
knew it was going to be a lot of work,
but it is certainly manageable. I think
the availability and approachability
of staff and other students has been
an enormous help for me.
When you are not at school, how
do you like to spend your time?
I am certainly a coffee addict, so I often do my school work either at
a coffee shop or next to my coffee pot at home. When I’m not doing
work, even though Portland is not huge in size, there are so many
options for anyone. The entire city has a warm and friendly vibe. I
also have started to enjoy running now that I am done playing hockey
competitively. The drive from my hometown is less than an hour, and
I still am constantly learning about new restaurants or places to go.
If you could tell a prospective student one thing about Maine Law,
what would it be?
When I was a prospective student, I knew Maine Law had a reputation
of being a great school, but I didn’t realize how great it was until classes
began. The faculty and students are always willing to help one another.
All of my professors are approachable and truly want their students to
succeed. Lastly, the camaraderie among the small group of students
really makes a great learning environment for everyone.
STUDENT SPOTLIGHT
Chris Monroe:
“I chose Maine Law based upon the caliber of the faculty, the collegiality of the student
population, and the school’s emphasis on clinical exposure and the practical application of
the law.”
2L (Class of 2016)
Hometown: Whitefield, Maine
Undergrad: Illinois Institute of Technology
Major: Political Science
Grad School: MBA, Kellogg Graduate School of
Management
Grad School: MA, United States Naval War College
What did you do prior to coming to
Maine Law?
I served as a senior officer in the
United States Navy.
What were some of your
assignments during your 20 years
of service for the Navy? How many
countries and continents did you
visit?
I was the Commanding Officer
of a guided missile destroyer
based in Japan. With a crew of
nearly 300, the ship conducted
operations throughout the AsiaPacific region. Ashore, I served as
a Special Assistant to the Chief of
Naval Operations in the Pentagon
and as the Maritime Branch Chief in
the current operations directorate of United States Central Command
in Tampa, Fla. In this capacity, I planned and monitored maritime
operations throughout the Middle East. During my 20+ years on active
duty, I visited 37 countries on five continents.
What are some of your best memories as the Commanding Officer aboard
the USS Curtis Wilbur, and what were the biggest challenges in that job?
The most poignant time in command was in March 2011 when the
Tohoku earthquake and tsunami hit Japan. The ship was at sea, and
we immediately proceeded to the epicenter to search for survivors. As
the first U.S. Navy ship to arrive, we patrolled the massive debris fields
and catalogued photos of vessels adrift. Shortly after one of our photos
appeared on a Navy website, a 14-year-old Japanese girl recognized
her family’s fishing vessel, and she contacted U.S. Navy officials. The
Japanese Coast Guard located the vessel based upon our coordinates, and
our combined efforts helped safeguard at least one Japanese family.
Why did you choose to attend Maine Law?
I chose Maine Law based upon the caliber of the faculty, the collegiality
of the student population, and the school’s emphasis on clinical
exposure and the practical application of the law. Despite national
trends in post-law school employment, the demographics of the Maine
bench and bar signal potential opportunities in the legal profession.
Having traveled extensively throughout the world and relocated over a
dozen times during my military career, I cannot think of anywhere else
that I would rather practice law than
in my home state of Maine.
What has been most helpful to you
in making the adjustment to the
life of a Maine Law Student?
A supportive group of student
colleagues is immensely important
for acclimating to any law school,
no matter how extensive your
background or prior life experience.
When you are not at school, how
do you like to spend your time?
I enjoy skiing, sailing, hiking,
kayaking, and various other outdoor
adventure activities.
Do you have specific career goals
at this point?
As a 2L, all facets of the legal profession excite me. I am currently
considering a career in corporate litigation, with a particular focus in
business or maritime law.
If you could tell a prospective student one thing about Maine Law,
what would it be?
I would tell prospective students to look beyond the four walls of the
institution and consider the judicial temperament of the bench and
collegiality of the bar where the school is located. As the only law
school in the state, Maine Law is uniquely positioned to maintain close
relationships with the attorneys, the state and federal judiciary, and
all levels of government. For aspiring law students, this presents an
opportunity to build a professional support network not only after
graduation, but immediately upon matriculation.
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MAINE LAW BOOKSHELF
The Law of Energy Underground: Understanding
New Developments in Subsurface Production,
Transmission and Storage
Edited by: Prof. Donald N. Zillman, Aileen McHarg,
Adrian Bradbrook, and Lila Barrera-Hernandez
Publisher: Oxford University Press (2014)
The laws and environmental impacts related to “fracking” for
oil and gas, storage of nuclear waste, and other pressing energy
questions of our time are the subject of a new book that was edited
by a University of Maine School of Law professor.
Professor Don Zillman was the lead editor and a contributing
author to The Law of Energy Underground: Understanding New
Developments in Subsurface Production, Transmission and Storage. The book was published in spring 2014 by Oxford University
Press, the world’s leading academic publisher.
The Law of Energy Underground explores the rapid development of new technologies for extracting energy from beneath the
earth’s surface, and for the underground storage or disposal of
hazardous byproducts such as
spent nuclear fuel. The book
examines different regulatory
responses to these developments, both here in the U.S.,
and around the world. Zillman and his fellow authors
also assess the environmental
impact of energy extraction
technologies such as “fracking.”
“The book considers a
wide range of issues from the
new technologies for oil and
gas production to reduction of
climate change through carbon capture and storage to permanent storage of nuclear waste and
spent nuclear fuel,” Zillman said.
“Who owns extraction or storage rights? Who is responsible
for protection against environmental harms, or the settlement of
international disputes? These are some of the complex legal issues
that we tackle in the book.”
Professor Zillman wrote the chapter on nuclear waste disposal
in the United States and other nuclear nations. As lead editor, he
was also responsible for the gathering of 23 chapters by 35 authors
from 22 nations, as well as preparing the Introduction and Conclusion for the book.
Professor Zillman is Associate Dean for Academic Affairs at
Maine Law. He previously served as Dean of the Law School, from
1991 to 1998, and more recently as President of the University of
Maine at Presque Isle. He specializes in energy law and military
law and has written over 50 law review articles and been author or
editor on 12 books in those areas. At Maine Law, he also has also
taught Property, Constitutional Law, Torts, and Legal Writing.
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Off and Running: A Practical Guide to Legal
Research, Analysis, and Writing
Authors: Professors Angela C. Arey & Nancy
Wanderer
Publisher: Wolders Kluwer (2014)
Professor Angela Arey, director of the Legal Research and
Writing Program at Maine Law, and Professor Emerita Nancy
Wanderer, the founder of the program, have published a new
legal writing textbook for law students in Maine and around the
nation.
Off and Running: A Practical Guide to Legal Research, Analysis, and Writing, was released in early 2014 by Wolters Kluwer
Law and Business (Aspen Coursebook Series). It is available for
adoption in legal writing and practice skills courses.
Here is the summary of the book:
“Off and Running is a unique text for the first semester of
the 1L legal writing and research course, designed to guide students through their development of the essential skills needed
to practice law. Using a
single, classroom-tested
fact pattern, the authors
demonstrate in concrete
steps how a first-year associate might approach a
legal problem. Students
practice these steps and
skills on other fact patterns, as they read about
this fictional associate.
“Using this fresh approach and a plain-English writing style, the authors introduce essential
concepts and skills related to objective legal writing and legal research, with a particular emphasis on the professional and ethical representation of
clients. Students learn how to think like a lawyer.”
Prof. Wanderer, the founder and longtime former director
of the Legal Research and Writing Program at Maine Law, describes the book as the culmination of her 19 years of teaching
and program development. Because of the book’s practical and
straightforward approach, she and Prof. Arey hope it will help
both new and experienced legal writing professors get their students “off and running” as skilled legal researchers and writers
as quickly as possible.
FACULTY ACCOMPLISHMENTS
Legal Writing
Professor Angela
Arey’s book Off and
Running: A Practical
Guide to Legal
Research, Writing, and
Analysis for Aspiring
Lawyers, co-authored
with Professor Emerita
Nancy Wanderer, was published by
Wolters/Kluwer in 2014. Professor Arey
directs the legal writing program and
continues to provide faculty support to
Maine Law’s moot court program.
Professor Dmitry
Bam’s forthcoming
article “The
Constitutionality of
American Recusal
Procedure” will
be published in
Mississippi Law
Journal. The article
argues that recusal procedures used
by many American courts, including
the United States Supreme Court, are
unconstitutional. Professor Bam has
presented the article at Marquette Law
School, to the International Legal Ethics
Conference in London, and to the Maine
Judicial Council. A previous article,
“Voter Ignorance and Judicial Elections,”
was published in the Kentucky Law
Journal. He is currently researching
the relationship between Alexander
Hamilton’s ideas about the judiciary
and the modern practice of judicial
elections. He also continues to work
with the Maine Board of Bar Overseers
on revisions to Maine’s ethical rules for
lawyers.
Clinical Professor
James Burke continues
to work with students
at the Cumberland
Legal Aid Clinic,
and helped organize
Maine’s 2014 Access
to Justice Symposium.
He also chaired a
presentation on ethics and malpractice
and on stress management at the Maine
State Bar Association’s Bridging the
Gap Program. In May, Professor Burke
presented at the closing session at the
MSBA Family Law CLE on the topic
of representing clients from different
cultures in family court. A key focus of
that presentation was on ways to make
other cultural norms comprehensible to
our courts, and to make our court culture
understandable to other cultures. In June,
he was part of a panel presentation at
a Pine Tree Legal Assistance retreat,
discussing the questions and problems
of the “difficult client,” including clients
with serious mental illness.
Professor David
Cluchey has entered
phased retirement but
has remained active
in the life of the law
school. This fall, he
is teaching Business
Associations and
International Finance,
chairs the Curriculum
Committee, serves on the Dean Search
Committee, and is the law school’s faculty
representative on the Working Group of
the University of Maine System Business/
Law Initiative. He also serves on the
Board of the Russian-United States Legal
Education Foundation (RUSLEF), and
through RUSLEF, Maine Law has hosted
Russian exchange students each of the last
four years.
Professor Christine
Davik’s article, “We
Know Who You
Are and What You
Are Made of: The
Illusion of Internet
Anonymity and its
Impact on Protection
from Genetic
Discrimination,” was published by
the Case Western Law Review. That
article reflects her broader research
interests involving the intersection
between technological innovation
and the control of information. Her
current research project addresses
attempts by website owners to limit
the use of non-copyrightable data
on publicly accessible websites.
Recently, Professor Davik was
invited to present the Constitution
Day Lecture at the University of New
England. Her talk, entitled “A Bad
Connection: Deficiencies in Protection
From Genetic Discrimination and its
Negative Impact on Public Health,”
identified and evaluated current
gaps in protection under the Genetic
Information Nondiscrimination Act
of 2008 wrought by advances in data
gathering technology.
Former Judge, and now
Edward S. Godfrey
Visiting Professor, the
Honorable James B.
Haines, Jr. retired from
the bench after twentyfive years as a federal
bankruptcy judge.
He will be teaching
Bankruptcy, Federal Courts, Pre-Trial
Practice, and Secured Transactions. Since
retirement, he has continued to appear
as a faculty member for programs of the
Federal Judicial Center and the National
Conference of Bankruptcy Judges. In
addition, he is currently helping write bench
books on criminal and civil procedure for
the Republic of Kosovo.
Former Interim Law
Library Director
Christine Iaconeta has
shed the “interim” from
her title and is now the
director of the Donald L.
Garbrecht Law Library.
In that capacity, she
will continue steering
the library through its transition from the
hardcover past into the digital future. She
also is working on a forthcoming book,
Maine Legal Research, which will be
published by Carolina Academic Press.
Professor Lois R.
Lupica had another
busy year. Along
with two law school
professor colleagues
(one from Harvard
Law and the other
from UConn Law),
many student research
assistants, and in collaboration with
Pine Tree Legal Services, she has been
working on the Consumer Financial
Distress Research Study, a large
empirical study of the effectiveness of
different ways of solving the problem
of financial distress. The project draws
upon Professor Lupica’s longstanding
interests in consumer credit, bankruptcy
and poverty law. The project has already
produced one published article, “Access
to Justice: A Randomized Control Trial of
Credit Counseling, Legal Representation,
and Debt Collection Processes,” in
the Georgetown Journal on Poverty
Law and Policy, and one article about
to be published, “Lay Deployment
of Professional Legal Knowledge.”
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Professor Lupica has presented her work
at the National Legal Aid and Defender
Association’s Annual Conference,
the American Bankruptcy Institute’s
Winter Leadership Conference, the
National Conference of Bankruptcy
Judges’ Annual Meeting, and the
Edward Thaxter Gignoux Inns of Court
in Portland, Maine, as well as several
other venues. Professor Lupica and her
fellow researchers recently secured a
major additional grant from the National
Science Foundation, and the project
will continue to unfold for several more
years. Professor Lupica’s other major
research project addresses unsecured
creditor distributions in consumer
cases filed under the Bankruptcy Abuse
Prevention and Consumer Protection
Act of 2005. Like the access to justice
project, this study has produced a
series of publications. The most recent,
“Unsecured Creditor Distributions under
BAPCPA” (with economist Michael
Donihue of Colby College) is undergoing
an economics journal peer review
process. Professor Lupica is on sabbatical
during the 2014-15 academic year. She is
spending the Fall as Scholar-in-Residence
at the American Bankruptcy Institute.
2013-14 Professor
of the Year (by
student vote) Jeffrey
Maine spent part of
his year updating
his two casebooks:
The Fundamentals
of Federal Taxation:
Problems and Materials
(with John A. Miller) and Intellectual
Property Taxation: Problems and
Materials (with Xuan-Thao Nguyen).
He and Professor Miller also wrote
“Wealth Transfer Tax Planning for 2013
and Beyond,” which was published in
the BYU Law Review, and he continues
to work on multiple publications in the
field of intellectual property taxation.
Meanwhile, he also continues to convince
scores of students, despite their initial
expectations, that what they really want to
do in life is become a tax lawyer.
Clinical Professor Chris Northrop
continues to teach in the Juvenile Justice
Clinic and to serve as a leader in the
national community of juvenile defenders.
He is an annual speaker at the Juvenile
Defender Leadership Summit, which
he also helps organize, and he also gave
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presentations at the
New England Region’s
Juvenile Justice Reform
Conference, the Maine
Association of Criminal
Defense Lawyers,
and the New England
Juvenile Defense Center.
This fall, he’ll give talks
in New Hampshire and Louisville. He
also serves as the President of the Maine
Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers,
the co-president of the New England
Juvenile Defense Center, an advisory board
member of the National Juvenile Defender
Center, and a member of the Maine Justice
for Children Task Force. In May, Professor
Northrop received the Maine Youth
Transition Coalition Collaborative Annual
Award for work with children aging out of
state custody.
Professor and
Director of the
Center for Oceans &
Coastal Law Charles
Norchi continues
to lead the faculty
in the variety of his
writings and the extent
of his travels. This
past year, he has published book
chapters on ocean law (“The Extended
Continental Shelf of the United States
and International Law,” in Technical
and Legal Aspects of the Regimes of the
Continental Shelf and the Area [Zhiguo
Gao, ed.]), human rights (“Human
Rights in Afghanistan: A Continuing
Struggle for Dignity,” in Afghanistan:
Essential Guide [Edward Girardet &
William Dowell, eds.]), and articles on
international law (“Penser sous l’Etat,”
in Review de Droit Public), pirates
(“Maritime Piracy and the Public
Order of the Oceans,” in HUFS Global
Law Review), and, of course, eels
(“Sustaining American Eels: A Slippery
Species for Science and Governance”
(with Cecilia Engler-Palma et al.), in
the Journal of International Wildlife
Law and Policy). He is currently
working on several research projects
relating to maritime boundary
delimitation. Those projects, and his
work promoting Maine Law’s new
LL.M. and J.S.D. programs, have taken
him to presentations and conferences
in China, South Korea, Qatar, Geneva,
New York City, and, on multiple
occasions, downtown Portland.
Professor and
Associate Dean for
Research Dave Owen
is currently completing
an article addressing
potential lessons from
Maine’s Penobscot
River Restoration
Project for dam policy
and law. That article, “Trading Dams” (coauthored with The Nature Conservancy
scientist Colin Apse), will be published in
the UC Davis Law Review, and was one
of two environmental law articles selected
for presentation at the 2014 HarvardStanford-Yale Junior Faculty Forum. The
other article selected for presentation
at that forum was “Interdisciplinary
Research and Environmental Law,”
which Professor Owen co-authored
with University of Maine economist
Caroline Noblet. Professor Owen also
published “Taking Groundwater” in the
Washington University Law Review, and
he is currently researching the roles of
regional offices within the United States
federal government. Professor Owen
gave research presentations at Berkeley,
Denver, and San Diego law schools, Bates
College, to the National Association of
Attorneys General, and at the Maine
Stormwater Conference. In the classroom,
he is currently piloting (with Legal Writing
Professor Angela Arey) a new upper level
writing workshop course, serving on
the board of directors of the Maine Bar
Foundation, and trying, with very little
success, to improve his performance at the
MAPIL Auction karaoke night.
Dean Peter Pitegoff
served as moderator for
two panel discussions
at the American
Bar Association’s
annual mid-year
Deans Workshop in
Atlanta, Georgia,
in February 2014.
One session addressed the issue of law
schools navigating wider institutional
realities, and the other addressed
particular challenges for small public law
schools. Also that month, he presented
a talk to the Maine Investors Group
in Portland, discussing the trajectory
of legal education and Maine Law’s
role in economic development. He and
Professor Deirdre Smith presented a
talk on “The Changing Legal Academy”
FACULTY ACCOMPLISHMENTS
at the Edward Thaxter Gignoux Inns
of Court in Portland in November
2013. Dean Pitegoff served on a panel
on “The Future of Legal Education”
at the New England Bar Association
Annual Meeting in Portsmouth, New
Hampshire, and also participated in a
panel presentation on the “Landscape
of the Profession” at the Maine Federal/
State Judicial Conference in Bangor,
both in October 2013. He joined the
Executive and Finance Committee of
Coastal Enterprises Inc. (CEI), a Mainebased national leader in community
development finance, where he has been
a director and chair of the Governance
Committee for a number of years. Dean
Pitegoff continues to serve on the Justice
Action Group board, a coalition in
support of access to justice for Mainers
in need.
While Professor
Martin Rogoff
has entered phased
retirement, he continues
to write, teach, and,
with Professor Norchi,
maintain Maine’s
connections to the
world beyond the
United States’ borders. His current
research focuses on direct democracy in
France, and an article (“La democrazia
diretta in Francia,” in Diritto Pubblico
Comparato ed Europeo) and book
chapter (“La Democrazia Diretto”
(with Elisabetta Palici di Suni Prat &
Eloy Garcia Lopez), in Le Frontiere del
Diritto [G. Giappichelli, ed.]) are both
forthcoming. Professor Rogoff continues
to teach comparative law, and he also both
teaches and serves as an informal mentor
for Maine’s LL.M. and foreign exchange
students.
Associate Professor
Sarah Schindler
continues to work on
a series of research
projects at the
intersection of land
use, environmental,
and local government
law. Her most recent
article, “Architectural Exclusion,” was
just accepted for publication in the Yale
Law Journal. The article considers legal
responses to the use of architecture and
urban design for exclusionary purposes.
Her previous article, “Banning Lawns,”
examines the dark side of turfgrass, and
argues that lawn bans (already a reality
in Las Vegas) are worthy of serious
consideration. That article appears in
the George Washington Law Review.
Another recent article, “Of Backyard
Chickens and Front Yard Gardens: The
Conflict Between Local Governments
and Locavores,” 87 Tulane L. Rev. 231
(2012) was selected for publication in
the Land Use and Environmental Law
Review as one of the five best land use
law articles of its year, and a followup
essay was recently published in the
Wisconsin Law Review. She currently
is pursuing two research projects,
one concerning pop-up restaurants
and the sharing economy for the
University of Chicago Law Review’s
online symposium, and the other on
legal management of private urban
spaces dedicated to public use. Her
recent presentations have included
talks at Columbia Law School, the
University of British Columbia, the
University of Washington, and the
University of Wisconsin, in addition to
a fall presentation at TEDxDirigo on
laws, norms, and guerrilla gardening.
Professor Schindler was also selected
as Pace Environmental Law Center’s
Distinguished Young Scholar for 2013.
Her interest in local land use law extends
to her teaching and her community
advocacy, and she has helped organize
several events designed to promote
pedestrian and bicycle use within
Portland.
Professor and
Cumberland Legal
Aid Clinic Director
Deirdre Smith is one
of Maine’s leaders
in bringing new
technologies into
the classroom, and
she has given her
colleagues multiple presentations on
technologically-enhanced teaching.
She continues her work as Chair of the
Maine Supreme Judicial Court’s Rules
of Evidence Advisory Committee, and
she participated in a panel discussion,
“Judicial Notice and Other Under-Used
Evidentiary Measures” at the Maine
State Bar Association Summer Meeting.
She presented on “Electronic Evidence
and the Right to Confrontation,” at the
Federal Rules of Evidence Advisory
Committee’s Annual Symposium, which
Maine Law hosted in April. In addition
to managing the Clinic and teaching,
Professor Smith continues to research
the intersection of mental health and
evidence law. Her article, “Dangerous
Diagnoses, Risky Assumptions, and
the Failed Experiment of ‘Sexually
Violent Predator’ Commitment” will be
published in the Oklahoma Law Review.
She presented the article at the AALS
Annual Conference on Clinical Legal
Education in Chicago. Another article,
co-authored with psychologist Bruce
Borkosky, Ph.D, “The Risks and Benefits
of Disclosing Psychotherapy Records to
the Legal System: What Psychologists
and Patients Need to Know for Informed
Consent” will be published in The
International Journal of Law and
Psychiatry early this winter.
Visiting Professor
Jeff Thaler continues
to write articles and
teach courses that draw
upon his experience
as a renewable energy
lawyer, as well as
serving as legal counsel
for the University
of Maine’s energy and environmental
projects. He is currently piloting a new
“Administrative Law Practicum” course,
which is designed to simulate experiences
associated with practice before Maine and
federal regulatory agencies. He also has
written “The Seas Are Changing: It’s Time
to Use Ocean-Based Renewable Energy,
The Public Trust Doctrine, and a Green
Thumb to Protect the Seas from Climate
Change” (with 3L Patrick Lyons), in the
Spring 2014 Ocean and Coastal Law
Journal; “In the Public Trust: Climate
Changed Sea Levels and Ocean Wind
Power,” published in 31 Delaware Lawyer
20 (2014); a book review entitled “Hubris
Games: Analyzing Success and Failure of
Large-Scale Energy Projects,” in Energy
Research and Social Science, and two
white papers: “Roadmap for Permitting
and Leasing for Maine Offshore Wind
Energy Projects” and “Roadmap for
Permitting and Leasing for Maine Marine
Hydrokinetic (MHK) Power Projects.”
He recently has given presentations at
Cornell Law School, Williams College
and, on several occasions, in Maine. He
also has continued to direct the program
“Resettling Refugees and Immigrants in
Maine” in Portland for Williams College
students.
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Longtime Legal
Writing Professor
Nancy Wanderer has
retired, and is now
Professor Emerita
Nancy Wanderer. Her
book (with co-author
Angela Arey) Off and
Running: A Guide to
Legal Research, Writing, and Analysis
for Aspiring Lawyers, has now been
published and is in classroom use. The
legal writing program she built is a
strong and increasingly important part
of the Maine Law Curriculum, and she
leaves it in good hands.
Associate Clinical
Professor Anna Welch
continues to build
Maine Law’s new
Refugee and Human
Rights Clinic, where
students represent
clients seeking asylum
or other humanitarianbased immigration status and also
engage in broader immigrants’ rights
advocacy projects. Under her guidance,
student attorneys (assisted by a Bowdoin
College fellow) produced and circulated
a comprehensive brochure summarizing
immigration relief available to
unaccompanied minor children who
have fled abuse or persecution in their
home countries and are seeking refuge
in Maine. The clinic also published a
series of “Know Your Rights” fact sheets
for Maine’s immigrant workers; and
a pamphlet, “A Guide for Immigrant
Victims of Domestic Violence,” which
aims to provide Maine’s domestic
violence victims with information
about their rights. She presented at
the National Immigration Professors’
biennial conference at UC Irvine, the
AALS Clinical Conference in Chicago
and at numerous CLE events across
Maine, including the Maine State Bar
Association’s Family Law CLE event,
the Maine State Bar Association’s
Legal Year in Review, and CLE events
coordinated by the Portland-based
Immigrant Legal Advocacy Project.
She also teaches immigration law, and
she and coauthor Jennifer Lee Koh
have written an article, “Teaching
Immigration Law: Integrating Skills
and Collaborating across Law Schools,”
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about some of their innovative classroom
initiatives. Aside from her clinical
practice, teaching, and community
outreach, her research focuses on
problematic evidentiary rules governing
immigration hearings.
Associate Professor
of Legal Writing
Sara Wolff is the
newest addition to the
Maine Law faculty.
Professor Wolff joins
the Law School from
the Maine Supreme
Judicial Court, where
she served as a long-term clerk. Before
clerking, Professor Wolff worked for
many years in Washington, D.C. as a
law firm associate and then in the Chief
Counsel’s Office to the IRS. She also
taught legal writing, to rave reviews, as
an adjunct at Maine Law.
Professor Jennifer
Wriggins used her
2013-14 sabbatical
to pursue a series of
research and service
projects. Her primary
research focus has
been flood insurance,
and her article
“Flood Money: The Challenges of U.S.
Flood Policy Reform in a Warming
World,” is forthcoming in the Penn
State Law Review. Another article,
“In Deep: Dilemmas of Federal Flood
Insurance Governance and Reform,”
will be published in a symposium issue
of the UC Irvine Law Review. She
has presented her work at New York
University Law School, American
University Law School, U.C. Irvine Law
School, and at the Annual Mid-Atlantic
People of Color Conference. Her current
research projects focus on flood insurance
policy, inclusion of race and racism into
law schools’ first year torts curriculum,
and the intersection of tort law and
racism following President Lyndon
B. Johnson’s Great Society reforms.
She also authored an op-ed on flood
insurance reform which was published
in Talking Points Memo. During her
sabbatical, she served on a working
group for the Family Law Section of
the Maine State Bar Association, which
reviewed the Uniform Parentage Act, a
project which is ongoing. Also, she gave
a presentation to the Maine Attorney
General’s summer 2014 CLE program
on recent developments in same-sex
marriage law. She chaired the AALS
Torts and Compensation Systems section
and organized a joint panel with the
AALS Insurance Law Section on the
intersection of tort and insurance law.
Professor Mel Zarr is
teaching Criminal Law
and Civil Procedure
concurrently this fall,
and is enjoying the
opportunity to integrate
the curricula of the two
courses. He also has
spoken several times
about his experiences representing the
NAACP Legal Defense Fund during the
1960s, including a lecture at Maine Law
to commemorate the 50th anniversary
of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, an
interview on Senator Angus King’s
radio show, and a talk at the Federal Bar
Association’s September meeting.
Edward S. Godfrey
Professor and
Associate Dean
Donald Zillman’s book,
The Law of Energy
Underground, was
published by Oxford
University Press.
Professor Zillman
co-edited the book, was the lead author
for the introduction and conclusion,
and wrote a chapter on siting nuclear
waste repositories. Another publication,
“Breaking (NotSo) Bad: A Look at the
World’s Energy Prospects as of July
2014” (with Alistair Lucas) appeared
in the July 2014 proceedings of the
Rocky Mountain Mineral Law Institute.
Another forthcoming publication, “Never
a Dull Moment: Stability and Change in
United States Energy Law and Policy”
(with Mary Walta) will appear in the
forthcoming National Metropolitan
Autonomous University of Mexico energy
law symposium. On a different front,
Professor Zillman is also writing a book
on the United States’ entry into the First
World War. He has presented his work
at the Rocky Mountain Mineral Law
Foundation conference in Denver and in
Mexico City.
CLASS NOTES
1970
Robert A. Laskoff authored a section in the
book, Representing Plaintiffs in Workplace
Injury Cases. The section authored by
Laskoff is titled, “Special Considerations
and Challenges Associated with Practicing
Workers’ Compensation Law in the State of
Maine.”
1974
The Hon. George N. Bowden was honored
as the drug court Judge of the Year for the
State of Washington for 2013.
1976
The Hon. Margaret J. “Peggy” Kravchuk
retired in January after serving for nearly
30 years on the state and federal bench in
Maine. Judge Kravchuk served as a state
prosecutor, as District Attorney for Penobscot
and Piscataquis counties, as judge of the
Maine District Court, and as a justice of the
Maine Superior Court before her appointment
as U.S. Magistrate Judge in 2000. She was
the first woman to be named to the federal
judiciary in Maine.
Ira Waldman was named among the top 10
most highly regarded lawyers in the world
for real estate law in 2013, by Who’s Who
Legal. Waldman is a partner at Cox Castle
Nicholson in Los Angeles.
1977
James M. Bowie received the Distinguished
Service Award from the Maine Law Alumni
Association. The award recognizes Bowie’s
contributions to the legal profession and his
support of the University of Maine School of
Law. A founding partner in the Portland law
firm of Thompson & Bowie, LLP, Bowie is a
member of the University of Maine School of
Law Foundation Board, and formerly served
on the Board of the Alumni Association.
1978
Eleanor Baker received the 2014 L.
Kinvin Wroth Award at the Maine Law
commencement ceremony on May 17. Baker
is co-founder and managing principal at the
accounting firm Baker Newman Noyes, and
is a respected civic leader in Maine. The
award honors a Maine Law graduate who has
achieved distinction in his or her career by
contributing as a leader, locally, nationally or
globally, and who has helped advance his or
her alma mater.
1983
Elisabeth Belmont, MaineHealth Corporate
Counsel, received the 2014 David J.
Greenburg Service Award, awarded annually
by the American Health Lawyers Association
(AHLA). The award honors an individual
who has made significant contributions to the
growth and life of AHLA through his or her
leadership, vision and service.
1984
Pat Scully was named CEO at Bernstein
Shur in Portland. Scully has represented
energy clients and has been involved with
IN MEMORIAM
Wakine G. Tanous (Class of 1955) passed away on November 7, 2013 at the age of 82. He
was born in 1931 in Van Buren and was a graduate of the Van Buren Boys High School and
Boston College. Upon graduation from what was then the Portland University School of Law,
he was the youngest lawyer in the state of Maine in 1955. He and his wife Anna moved to
East Millinocket where he established his law firm. He served in the Maine Senate from 1968
to 1974 where he chaired the Judiciary and Labor committees.
Richard E. Valentino (Class of 1960) passed away on January 22, 2013 at the age of 83. He is
survived by his wife Lucette. He was born in Portland in 1929 and was a graduate of Portland
High School and Portland University. He was an avid businessman, owning and operating
several motor vehicle dealerships and a construction company.
William B. Troubh (Class of 1962) passed away on November 8, 2013 at the age of 78. He is
survived by his wife, Nancy. He was born in 1935 in Portland and was a graduate of Portland
High School and the University of Maine. He was a founding partner of the law firm Troubh
Heisler, and served multiple terms as Portland City Councilor and two terms as the city’s
mayor.
Alexander A. MacNichol (Class of 1964) passed away on May 15, 2013 at the age of 78.
He is survived by his wife, Loreen. He was born in Eastport in 1935, and was a graduate
of St. Francis College in Biddeford. After graduating from law school, he was one of the
first attorneys to volunteer for Pine Tree Legal Assistance. He also formed two law firms,
and served as assistant prosecutor with the Cumberland County District Attorney’s Office.
Governor Joseph Brennan appointed him to the District Court bench in 1985.
Jonathan W. Reitman (Class of 1978) passed away June 7, 2014 at the age of 65. He is survived
by his wife Lilliana. He was born in New York City in 1948 and was a graduate of West
Orange High School, N.J. and Lafayette College. Following graduation from Maine Law, he
worked at McTeague Higbee. He served on the board of Pine Tree Legal Assistance for over
thirty years and was a founding partner of Gosline & Reitman.
Paul F. Macri (Class of 1976) passed away on April 9, 2014 at the age of 65. He is survived by
his wife, Joan. He was born in 1948 in Montour Falls, N.Y. and was a graduate of Wesleyan
University. In 2005, he was the third Maine lawyer to be inducted into the American Academy
of Appellate Attorneys.
Theresa S. Ketchum (Class of 1983) passed away on January 25, 2013 at the age of 77. She was
born in Bath in 1935. Prior to law school, Ketchum went to nursing school in Portland. After
graduating from Maine Law, she was appointed as an assistant attorney general.
the management of the firm for more than
20 years.
1987
Andrew Landry was recently named partner
at Preti Flaherty. Working from the firm’s
Augusta office, Landry practices with the
firm’s Energy and Telecommunications
Group and Climate Strategy Group. He has
a broad background in energy and utility law
and corporate law.
1991
Judith Berry announced that her son,
Christopher Berry, has become a full partner
at her firm, which is now known as Berry
Law P.A. The firm is located in Gorham.
Judith Berry is a fellow in the American
Academy of Adoption Attorneys and the
American Academy of Assisted Reproductive
Technology Attorneys.
1992
Elizabeth Connellan Smith, an attorney
with Verrill Dana, was inducted into the
American Bar Association College of
Workers’ Compensation Lawyers. Smith is
the first and only Fellow inducted into the
College from Maine. Her practice focuses
primarily on defending claims brought
against Maine employers.
1994
Professor Deirdre Smith, Director of
the Cumberland Legal Aid Clinic at the
University of Maine School of Law, was
named Outstanding Alumna for 2013 by the
law school’s Women’s Law Association. An
accomplished scholar and teacher, Professor
Smith has been Director of the Cumberland
Legal Aid Clinic since 2004.
1996
Dan Mitchell was recently selected as cochair of the Litigation Practice Group at
Bernstein Shur. Mitchell also serves as cochair of the firm’s Data Security Team and
is a member of the Business Law Practice
Group.
Ronald W. Schneider, Jr. was named cochair of the Labor and Employment Practice
Group at Bernstein Shur.
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CLASS NOTES
1997
Alison Beyea joined the ACLU of Maine
as Executive Director. Beyea has been
admissions director for Maine Law; Senior
Attorney for the Justice Policy Group at the
Muskie School of Public Service; and staff
attorney at Pine Tree Legal Assistance. In
2003 she co-founded KIDS Legal, a legal
assistance program that helps low-income
children in Maine.
Mark Fischler, chairman of Plymouth
State University’s Criminal Justice program,
received the university’s 2014 Distinguished
Teacher Award.
2000
Katherine “Kate” Murray accepted a
position with the U.S. Army, Civilian Human
Resources Agency, in Germany, where she
expects to live for the next three to five years.
2002
Mikell Reed Carroll works for the
Department of State at the U.S. Consulate
General in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. She
was awarded a Meritorious Honor Award
from the Department of State for her work
during the 2013 visit of Secretary of State
John Kerry to Vietnam.
Sandra “Sandy” L. Guay is a partner
at Woodman Edmands Danylik Austin
Smith & Jacques, and serves as an adjunct
faculty member at the Muskie School
of Public Service. Guay co-authored an
article, “Changing Times: Shifting Rural
Landscapes,” published by the Vermont
Journal of Environmental Law. Her coauthor was Professor Mark. B. Lapping,
Distinguished University Professor, USM
and Muskie School of Public Service.
Sarah C. Mitchell rejoined Skelton,
Taintor & Abbott as a shareholder. Mitchell
represents family law clients throughout
southern, central and mid-coast Maine, and
is a Fellow in the American Academy of
Matrimonial Attorneys.
2003
Anna Astvatsaturian Turcotte, the author
of Nowhere: A Story of Exile and survivor of
the 1990 Baku pogroms against Armenians,
continues to address issues of conflict
resolution and peace for the Armenian
people. She recently presented her book at
the European Parliament in Brussels and
spoke to parliamentarians on the NagornoKarabakh humanitarian situation as well.
Turcotte went back to Armenia in September
for the first time in 23 years for official visits,
book presentations, and to visit where she
lived as a refugee.
Natasha Baker, a partner at Hirschfeld
Kraemer LLP in San Francisco, was
elected as member of the board of
directors of the National Association of
College and University Attorneys, for a
three-year term.
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Received an honor or award? What
about moves, marriages, kids and
other personal milestones? Let
your classmates and the Maine Law
community hear about your latest
news. Send an email to
lawalum@maine.edu.
2004
Kate Knox was elected to the board of
directors at Bernstein Shur. She is a member
of the Legislative and Political Law Practice
Group, where she focuses on lobbying,
campaign compliance and election law.
Letha Sgritta McDowell was named a
Rising Star in Elder Care Law by North
Carolina Super Lawyers magazine. She is a
partner with Walker Lambe Rhudy Costley &
Gill, PLLC in Raleigh, N.C.
Philip R. Saucier has been elected
shareholder at Bernstein Shur. Saucier
is a member of the firm’s Municipal
and Regulatory Practice Group and the
Legislative and Political Law Practice
Group. He is chair of the Maine State Bar
Association, Municipal Section.
2007
Paul Greene launched his sports law firm,
Global Sports Advocates, in Portland in
February 2014. A former sportscaster, Greene
has represented athletes in more than 20
sports worldwide. He handles a wide range
of matters including Olympic eligibility,
contract disputes and Title IX violations.
Amy T. Robidas opened her own firm,
Robidas Law, LLC, in Portland in March
2014. The focus is on family law and
criminal defense.
Megan Sanders was appointed Chief of
Staff in the Office of the President at the
University of Maine. She also maintains her
previous role, serving as Vice President for
Human Resources at the University of Maine.
2009
Travis Brennan joined Berman & Simmons,
a statewide law firm based in Lewiston. He
will handle a wide range of personal injury
cases.
Nicolas T. Carter has joined Jones, Kuriloff
& Sargent, LLC, in Ellsworth. Carter most
recently served as the statewide bankruptcy
expert for the Massachusetts Office of the
Attorney General’s HomeCorps initiative.
He was also the owner of Carter Legal
Services in Portland, a business that provided
consumer protection and bankruptcy counsel.
David Kallin, along with his wife Emily,
and their children, 9-year-old Nathan and
7-year-old Madeline, hiked the 2,185-mile
Appalachian Trail, from Georgia to Maine.
Kallin, who graduated first in his class at
Maine Law, is an attorney with Drummond
Woodsum in Portland. His practice focuses
on land conservation, land use and natural
resource law.
Nicholas R. Loukes has joined Monaghan
Leahy LLP in Portland as an associate.
Loukes focuses on commercial lending, real
estate, and corporate law.
Molly Watson Shukie has been elected
partner at Linnell, Choate & Webber, LLP,
in Auburn. Shukie concentrates her practice
in the areas of family law and workers’
compensation, and she also serves as a
guardian ad litem.
Alyssa Tibbetts recently joined the
municipal practice at Jensen Baird Gardner
& Henry in Portland. Tibbetts previously
was assistant town manager for the town of
Cumberland.
2010
Stephanie Green recently joined the
commercial practice group of Curtis Thaxter
LLC. Green practices in the areas of
commercial loan transactions, real estate and
asset purchases, landlord and tenant disputes
and corporate law.
David Morse recently launched a solo
practice, Morse Law, in Westbrook. Morse
focuses on family law, bankruptcy, debtor
rights, and landlord tenant law.
Adam Shub, an attorney with Preti Flaherty,
was recently elected Vice Chairman of the
Real Estate Commission for the State of
Maine. The Commission is responsible for
licensing real estate agencies and brokers,
adjudicating alleged broker misconduct
and imposing sanctions, and for setting
curriculum for continuing real estate
education requirements.
2012
Justin Costa, accountant and former
McKusick Fellow at Maine Law, was elected
to the Portland City Council in November. He
served for the past six years on the Portland
School Board, including the past two years as
chair of that board’s finance committee.
Alison Meyers is working for Kristine Hanly
’09, at Hanly Law in Portland. Meyers’ focus
is on criminal defense and family law.
2013
Danielle Anne B. Cardona is employed as a
Compliance Officer and Legal Consultant at
JPMorgan Chase in New York.
2014
Elisa Paylor started her own practice, E.
Paylor Law, LLC, in May 2014. Her office
is located in Augusta. Paylor, who holds a
Master of Business Administration degree
and has 10 years experience in business
insurance, is focusing on business law.
Annual Philanthropy Report
University of Maine School of Law
2013-2014
Supporting
the Maine Law
Annual Fund
To make a gift to the
Annual Fund, go to
www.mainelawalum.org,
send your gift to the
Maine Law Annual
Fund, 246 Deering Ave.,
Portland, ME 04102, or
contact Deborah Lorenzen,
Administrative Specialist,
Advancement and
External Affairs by email
at deborah.lorenzen@
maine.edu, or by phone at
(207) 228-8411.
University of Maine School of Law Foundation
Board of Directors
Officers
Bernard M. Devine, Jr. ’87
Ex Officio
Craig H. Nelson ’69
President
Dr. Sandra Featherman
Peter Pitegoff
Dean
Jean M. Deighan ’76
Vice-President
James A. Houle ’81
Eleanor M. Baker ’78
Treasurer
Martha L. Casey ’82
Secretary
Steven A. Hammond ’77
Samuel A. Ladd III
Robert A. Laskoff ’70
Peter C. McKenney ’77
Paula D. Silsby ’76
George R. Spann
Directors
Kenneth S. Spirer
Rosalyne Bernstein ’86
Ira J. Waldman ’76
James M. Bowie ’77
Michael R. Currie ’80
Frank H. Bishop, Jr. ’07
President, Maine Law Alumni
Association
Hon. Vendean V. Vafiades ’85
Director of Advancement &
External Affairs
(through September 30, 2014)
Tina L. Simonetta Samuels
Interim Director of
Advancement and External
Affairs
Deborah N. Lorensen
Aministrative Specialist
Peter J. DeTroy III ’72
Maine Law Alumni Association
Board of Directors
Officers
Madeline Kenney Malisa ’09
Ex Officio
Frank H. Bishop, Jr. ’07
President
Jordan McColman ’08
Peter Pitegoff
Dean
Sarah E. Ashby ’02
Vice-President
Russell B. Pierce ’91
Donna M. Ryan ’88
Treasurer
Victoria J. Silver ’12
Secretary
Directors
Michael T. Bigos ’03
Joseph W. Corrigan ’00
Peter J. DeTroy III ’72
Paul J. Greene ’07
Beth Harris Hoffman ’08
Kelly M. Hoffman ’08
Malcolm L. Lyons ’70
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Timothy P. McCormack ’01
Mackenzie P. Simpson ’12
Wil Smith ’06
Ilse Teeters-Trumpy ’06
Hon. Vendean V. Vafiades ’85
Director of Advancement &
External Affairs
(through September 30, 2014)
Tina L. Simonetta Samuels
Interim Director of
Advancement and External
Affairs
Sarah Schindler, Associate
Professor
Faculty Representative
Elizabeth Boardman ’15
President, Student Bar
Association
Deborah N. Lorenzen
Administrative Specialist
University of Maine School of Law
and Maine Law Foundation Funds
Endowed Funds
American College of Trial Lawyers (ACTL)
Trial Advocacy Fund
Kenneth and Marjorie C. Baird Memorial
Scholarship
Dudley Baldwin Book Fund
Laurie L. Balmuth Scholarship Fund
Israel and Sumner Bernstein Memorial
Scholarship Fund
Sumner T. Bernstein Professorship of Law
Bernstein District Court Fellowship Fund
William Bingham Scholarship Fund
Bride Family Fund for Business, Entrepreneurship
and the Law
Class of 1971 Memorial Scholarship Fund
Class of 1973 Glassman Faculty Research
Scholar Fund
Class of 1976 David D. Gregory Library
Acquisition Fund
Class of 1979 David D. Gregory Scholarship Fund
Frank M. and Ruth Coffin Fund for Law and
Public Service
Philip M. Dusini Scholarship Fund
Elliott Family Scholarship Fund
Richard H. Fay Memorial Scholarship Fund
Donald L. Garbrecht Law Library Endowment
Fund
Justice Harry P. Glassman Memorial Scholarship
Fund
Edward S. Godfrey Fund
Morris and Sylvia Greenberg
Scholarship Fund
Charles A. Harvey Jr. Fellowship
Arlana K. and Pierce B. Hasler
Memorial Fund
Justice for Women Lecture Fund
Horace S. Libby Memorial Fund
Libra Professorship Fund
Gov. James B. Longley Memorial Scholarship
Fund
Merle W. Loper Fund for International Programs
Macdonald Family Scholarship Fund
Maine Law Foundation Professorship Fund
Maine Law Foundation Scholarship Fund
Maine State Bar Legal Education &
Trust Fund
Vincent L. McKusick Diversity Fellowship
David Santee Miller Memorial
Scholarship Fund
New Hampshire Scholarship Fund
Osher Scholarship Fund
Pierce Atwood Scholarship Fund
Roger A. Putnam Fellowship Fund
Justice Harold J. Rubin Scholarship Fund
Justice Abraham M. Rudman
Scholarship Fund
Shur Frinsko Award for Municipal Law and
Local Governance
Charles W. Smith Memorial Fund
Levi M. Stewart Fund
TD Banknorth Scholarship Fund
Thompson Fund
Vafiades Northern Lights Scholarship Fund
Verrill Dana Public Service Fellowship
Justice Elmer H. Violette Fund for International
Programs
Violette/Lombard Scholarship Fund
Daniel E. Wathen Writing Prize
Wernick Legal Writing Prize
Betsy and Peter Wiley Scholarship Fund
Woodcock Family Scholarship Fund
Supporting
the Maine Law
Foundation
To make a gift to
the Maine Law
Foundation, go to
www.mainelawalum.org,
or send your gift to the
Maine Law Foundation,
246 Deering Avenue,
Portland, ME 04102.
For more information
contact Tina Simonetta
Samuels, Interim Director
of Advancement and
External Affairs by email
at tina.samuels@maine.
edu or by phone at
(207) 780-4342.
Non-Endowed Funds
Alumni Association Scholarship Fund
Edward T. Gignoux Memorial Fund
Richard H. Armstrong Scholarship
Edward S. Godfrey Loan Fund
Henry N. Berry III Law Student Loan Fund
Merle W. Loper Loan Fund
Cumberland Bar Association Fellowship
Norwood Loan Fund
George P. Davenport Loan Fund
Maine Public Interest Fellowship Fund
Mary Smith Dyer Fellowship Fund
Simmons Emergency Loan Fund
Gignoux Special Collection Library Fund
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2013-14 Annual Fund Support for the University of Maine School of Law
This Annual Philanthropy Report is a testament to the enthusiasm and loyalty of the University of Maine
School of Law’s alumni and friends. Every gift matters, and this report demonstrates how our collective
philanthropic synergy impacts the people and programs that define the Maine Law experience. Thank you
for your generous support this past year!
Gifts/Pledges
Donations
Unrestricted
Unrestricted gifts primarily provide scholarship aid and fellowships for students.
$177,909.21
Program Grants
Grants provide support for clinical experiences for students.
$224,719.64
Restricted Gifts
Restricted gifts support the many named endowed scholarship, fellowship and
professorship funds of the Law School, and support programs that keep student life vital
and vibrant.
Total Annual Fund Giving:
$589,747.48
Annual Fund Allocation
of Resources
Breakdown by
Purpose
Scholarships/
Fellowships/Student Support
Legal Aid Clinic and other Law
School Programs
Donations
$216,124.21
$298,434.52
Library
$9,050.00
Alumni Relations/
Administration
$66,138.75
Total
$589,747.48
Purpose of
Allocations by
percentage
■ Scholarships/
Fellowships/
Student Support
■ Legal Aid Clinic
and other Law
School Programs
■ Library
■ Alumni
Relations/
Administration
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$187,118.63
Loyal Supporters of the University
of Maine School of Law include
Donors
No.
Donations
%
Alumni
629
$160,875.98
27
Friends
157
$140,240.00
24
Foundations
12
$157,975.00
27
Law Firms
24
$18,550.00
3
Other Organizations
23
$112,106.50
19
Totals
845
$589,747.48
100
2013-2014 Annual Fund Donors
Dean’s Circle
$10,000 and above
Estate of Herbert T. Silsby II
Catherine A. Lee
Maine Bar Foundation
Maine Civil Legal Svcs Fund
Maine Community Foundation
Sam L. Cohen Foundation
Ira J. Waldman ’76
Leadership Circle
$5,000 – $9,999
Madeleine G. Corson
William P. Creighton
Emanuel and Pauline A. Lerner
Foundation
Mr. and Mrs. James H. Gambrill
Steven A. Hammond ’77
JSL Foundation, Inc.
Adam Lee
Sara E. Lewis and Jennifer
Goldman
Maine Women’s Policy Center
Prof. Christopher M. Northrop
Pierce Atwood LLP
Dean Peter R. Pitegoff
Bonnie Porta
Hon. John K. Veroneau ’89
Justice Society
$1,000 – $4,999
Aroostook County Bar Association
Dollie E. Ash in memory of
Dr. Homer L. Ash
Sarah E. Ashby ’02
Eleanor M. Baker ’78
BARBRI Inc.
Rosalyne S. Bernstein ’86
Bidu Sayao Memorial
Children’s Trust
Hon. Daniel Billings ’03
James M. Bowie ’77 and
Sarah Downs ’77
John W. Bride ’64
Stearns J. Bryant Jr. ’68
Martha L. Casey ’82 in honor
of James M. Bowie
CIEE
Daniel Crewe
Cumberland County Bar Association
Peter J. DeTroy III ’72 and Mary R.
Roy in honor of James M. Bowie
Bernard M. Devine Jr. ’87
Douglas, Denham, Buccina & Ernst
Drummond Woodsum
Theresa R. Ford ’02
Robert S. Frank
Barbara E. Gauditz ’87
Mr. and Mrs. Edward T. Gignoux Jr.
Peggy Greenhut Golden
Mr. and Mrs. Richard J. Gruber
in honor of Ira Waldman’s
recognition as outstanding real
estate lawyer of 2014
Jonathan S. Handelman ’05
Erik J. Heels ’95
Tory Dietel Hopps
Sherry F. Huber in honor of the
50th anniversary
Francis M. Jackson ’77
Jensen, Baird, Gardner & Henry
Julia G. Kahrl Ph.D.
Prof. Colleen A. Khoury and
David Karraker
Robert A. Laskoff ’70
Margaret Cushing Lavoie ’87
Law Office of Joe Bornstein
Beth M. Lee
Annmarie Levins ’83
Mary Allen Lindemann
Leslie E. Lowry III ’83
Malcolm L. Lyons ’70 in honor
of James M. Bowie
Machias Savings Bank
Timothy P. McCormack ’01
in honor of Prof. Mel Zarr
Peter C. McKenney ’77
Hon. John R. McKernan Jr. ’74
Margot Milliken
Robert A. Nagy ’72
Craig H. Nelson ’69
Robert V. O’Brien Jr. ’79
Dennis J. O’Donovan ’91 and
Anne E. O’Donovan ’91
Francis J. O’Toole ’70
Baker, Newman & Noyes
Laurie L. Balmuth ’80
Ronald S. Battocchi ’74 and
Mary T. Bell ’74
Ritchie E. Berger ’81
Monica M. Bigley ’91 and Andrew
L. Black ’94
Benjamin M. Birney ’13
Melvin L. Bloomenthal ’69
Andre D. Bouffard ’86
Rutherford B. Campbell, Jr.
Janis Cohen ’80 and
Hon. David M. Cohen
Anne H. Cressey ’88
Richard L. Currier ’80
Edward F. Day, Jr. ’73
Jean M. Deighan ’76 and
Glen L. Porter ’78
Josephine H. Detmer
Hon. Beth Dobson ’80 and
Paul F. Driscoll ’81
Diane Dusini ’87
Robert G. Frazier ’78
Hon. Paul A. Fritzsche ’75
Leonard Giambalvo
Gerald F. Petruccelli in honor of
the 50th Anniversary
Gregory W. Powell ’80
Hon. Paul L. Rudman
Donna M. Ryan ’88
Kaighn Smith Jr. ’86
Kenneth S. Spirer and
Joan Leitzer, M.D.
Ryan K. Stafford ’94
William T. Stewart ’74
James S. Stolley Jr. ’93
Joseph P. Sudbay ’92
Jay F. Theise ’70
Hon. Jill E. Tompkins ’89
Unum Matching Gifts Program
Kurt E. Vragel Jr. ’73
Peter and Cora Weiss
Hon. John A. Woodcock Jr. ’76
Thomas R. Gibbon ’74 in memory
of Dean Edward S. Godfrey
Mr. and Mrs. John C. Gundersdorf
John A. Hobson ’83
Geoffrey H. Hole ’72
J. Trevor Hughes ’95
IDEXX Laboratories, Inc.
Carly S. Joyce ’04
Hon. William J. Kayatta Jr.
Norman S. Kominsky ’94
Michelle Jodoin LaFond ’86
Robert A. Levine ’88 and
Vilean Taggersell ’87
Gene R. Libby ’78
Faye E. Luppi ’85
Macy’s Foundation
Prof. Jeffrey A. Maine
Pasquale F. Maiorino ’73
Kristen Majeska
Michael K. Martin ’89
John A. McCauley ’87
Marcia Metcalf ’92
Microsoft Matching Gifts Program
Jason B. Onacki ’00 and
Melissa Condon Onacki ’00 in
memory of David Gregory
Anne Bowen Poulin ’73
Maine Law Partners
$500 – $999
Karin Anderson
Jennifer A. Archer ’00 and Miles F.
Archer ’00
Arthur J. Gallagher Foundation
Hope Hall Augustini ’94 and
Michael C. Augustini ’95
Hon. John H. Pursel ’70
Robert B. Ravenelle ’87
Kathryn A. Reid ’92
William E. Saufley ’80 and
Hon. Leigh Ingalls Saufley ’80
Erica Schair-Cardona and
Ivan Cardona
Wilbur Smith, Jr. ’06
Joanne B. Steneck ’87
The Unum Group
Gary F. Thorne ’73
James E. Tierney ’74
Marsha Weeks Traill ’80
Hon. Vendean V. Vafiades ’85
Verrill Dana LLP
Christine C. Vito Ph.D. ’93
David Wainberg ’08
Bing Wang ’94 in memory of
Merle Loper and David Gregory
Arlyn H. Weeks ’81
Justin B. Weiss ’06
Judith A. Fletcher Woodbury ’80
Prof. Melvyn Zarr
Barry Zimmerman ’70
Maine Law Advocates
Up to $499
Sherry L. Abbott ’04
Steven W. Abbott ’91
Amanda Q. Adams ’10
Leonard Agneta
Beth N. Ahearn ’88
Kathryn Monahan Ainsworth ’76
and Thomas G. Ainsworth ’74
Mr. and Mrs. Jonathan Aldrich
Barbara Reid Alexander ’76
Jill P. Allen ’89 in honor of
Diane Dusini
Daniel Amory
Anthony R. Anaman ’93
Charles S. Andrews ’69
John B. Andrews ’71
Andrucki & Associates
Judith Winter Andrucki ’79
Anonymous
Anonymous in memory of
Stuart Wilson
Anonymous
Cushman D. Anthony
Elyse Apantaku ’12
Louise Arkel ’94
James P. Aucoin ’91
Robert H. Avaunt ’73
Babette Bryan Bach ’80
Madge Baker ’75
Col. John E. Baker ’79 in memory
of David Gregory
John R. Bass II ’78 in honor of
James M. Bowie
Hannah L. Bass ’06
Capt. James W. Bass ’06
Heidi A. Bean’89
John G. Bean ’03
Edmond J. Bearor ’88 and
Jane E. Skelton ’88
Dean A. Beaupain ’76
Vickie Caron Bell ’91
Eric Bendetson ’94 and
Lisa Fitzgibbon Bendetson ’94
David R. Beneman ’85
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Henri A. Benoit II ’85
Timothy P. Benoit ’85
Margaret A. Bensinger ’84
Louise A. Berlin ’95
Michael G. Bernier’87
Andrew J. Bernstein ’80 in memory
of Sumner Bernstein
Bernstein Shur
Richard N. Berry
Ellen S. Best ’81
Alison Beyea ’97
Michael T. Bigos ’03
Frank H. Bishop, Jr. ’07
Ronald L. Bissonnette ’81
Roger F. Blake ’59
Robert J. Bocko ’85
Emma E. Bond ’12
L. Clinton Boothby ’99
Sarah McCready Boston ’03
Rachel L. Bouchard ’96
Daniel W. Boutin ’80
George N. Bowden ’74
Robert W. Bower Jr. ’85
Peter B. Bowman in honor of
Peter Mills, Esq.
Elizabeth L. Boynton ’74
Carl O. Bradford ’62
Thomas C. Bradley ’92
Christina Valar Breen ’91
David A. Brenningmeyer ’93 and
Caryn Graham ’93
Robert S. Briggs ’73
Laura L. Briggs ’77
Andrew L. Broaddus ’80
Hon. William S. Brodrick ’72
Lynn Bromley
David A. Bronson ’74
William R. Brooks ’74
Hon. William S. Brownell ’71
Christine A. Bruenn ’87
Virgilia W. Bryant ’00
Deborah A. Buccina ’81 in honor of
James M. Bowie
Brenda M. Buchanan ’90
Paul S. Bulger ’85
Prof. E. James Burke
Christine F. Burke ’93
Parke A. Burmeister ’10
Natalie L. Burns ’87
Paul W. Cadigan ’90
Rita N. Calamari ’80
Hon. Susan W. Calkins ’70
James M. Callahan ’85
Matthew E. Campbell ’91
Hon. Michael P. Cantara ’81
Nicolle Graham Carbone ’05 and
Bradley James Graham ’04
Bruce A. Carrier ’82
Everett B. Carson ’77
E. Anne Carton ’82
David J. Casavant ’93
Edgar S. Catlin III ’81
Alexandra E. Caulfield ’91
Joceline D. Champagne ’99
Janet Chan ’12
Christian T. Chandler ’89
Peter L. Chandler ’76
Robert Checkoway ’76
E. Michael Chiaparas ’79
Cynthia T. Churchill ’84
Jeffery J. Clark ’80
Roger A. Clement, Jr. ’91 and
Amy K. Tchao ’93
Hon. Robert W. Clifford
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Stephanie Perkins Clifford ’92 and
Peter Clifford ’91
James F. Cloutier ’79
Mark A. Cloutier ’81
J. Bradford Coffey ’92 and
Elizabeth R. McKee Coffey ’94
Hon. Roland A. Cole ’68
Joanne F. Cole ’81
Stephen H. Collier ’78 and
Sandra Hylander Collier ’77
Amber R. Collins ’11
Joanne Dugan Colvin ’89
Bodie Colwell ’11
Gerard P. Conley, Jr. ’79
J. Michael Conley III ’70
William H. Coogan Ph.D. ’88 and
Kim Matthews ’75
Carol A. Copeland ’07
Garrett H. Corbin ’08
Susan Corrente ’89
Joseph W. Corrigan ’00
Morse W. Doane ’97
Gregory J. Domareki Jr. ’02
Donnelly S. Douglas ’78
Hon. Wayne R. Douglas ’79
Thomas R. Downing ’78 and
Margaret R. Downing ’78
Robert G. Driscoll ’76
Hon. Daniel F. Driscoll ’91
Stephen F. Dubord ’73
R. Terrance Duddy ’80
Neale A. Duffett ’80
James M. Dunleavy ’96
Patricia McDonough Dunn ’76
William R. Dunn ’79
Lori Londis Dwyer ’05
Mary Lou Dyer ’80
Matthew C. Dyer ’93
Thomas A. Dyhrberg ’83
Jane Campana Earley ’74
Hon. E. Paul Eggert ’78
David J. Ekelund, Jr. ’00
Neal C. Corson ’79
Carmen L. Coulombe ’77 in honor
of James M. Bowie
Theodore S. Coxe Jr. ’92
Dan Coyne ’05 and
Stephanie Williams ’05
Kevin T. Crilly ’88
Rachel Criscitiello ’09
Philip D. Cross ’86
Peter W. Culley
Geoffrey K. Cummings ’82
Michael R. Currie ’80
Alicia F. Curtis ’06
Cheryl J. Cutliffe ’12
Lynne Davies ’08
Stephanie F. Davis ’04
Armanda Beal Day ’96
Thaddeus V. Day ’97
Dead River Company
Dorcas H. Deans ’82
John P. DeGrinney ’95
Hon. Thomas E. Delahanty II ’70
Prof. Orlando E. Delogu
Deloitte & Touche
Lori A. Desjardins ’93
David A. DiMuzio ’73
Arthur R. Dingley D.O. ’77
Michael P. Dixon ’11
Richard W. Elliott ’65
Robert L. Ellis, Jr. ’86
Lauren H. Epstein ’04
Eileen M. L. Epstein ’78 and
Ronald A. Epstein ’77
Elliott L. Epstein ’78
John C. Everett Jr. ’76
Rose M. Everitt ’98
Richard T. Ewell ’01
Genevieve Watson Faherty ’04
Katherine J. Faragher
Houghton ’97
Katharine M. Faust ’05
Edward F. Feibel ’82
Peter C. Felmly ’03
Debra Ferguson ’85
Hon. Joseph H. Field ’76
Julia A. Finn ’90 and
A. Robert Ruesch ’90
Geoffrey M. FitzGerald ’85
Louis D. Flori ’98
Martin J. Foley ’78
Lauren C. Folsom ’84 and
Edmund R. Folsom ’84
Fore Street Gallery
Fortin, Howgate & Harmon in
memory of Caroline Duby
Glassman
Mark S. Foss ’92
Gregory L. Foster ’73
Jeanne A. Foy ’90 and
William B. Scarpelli ’91
Tamlyn Margaret Frederick ’13
Martha E. Freeman ’80
Cornelia Fuchs ’90
Sara B. Gagne-Holmes ’01 in honor
of Prof. Deirdre Smith
M. Elizabeth Gallie ’87
Terrence D. Garmey
Terry Garmey & Associates
N. Paul Gauvreau ’75
Tracey L. Geary ’92
Sidney H. Geller ’63
Genworth Foundation
Germani, Martemucci, Riggle & Hill
Prof. Malick Ghachem
Domna Giatas ’88
Ralph J. Gillis ’72
Rosalind P. Gilman ’90
Claire Adami Ginder ’91 and
Kenneth F. Ginder ’91
Donna M. Gingerella ’84
Phyllis G. Givertz ’74
Jenna M. Glenn ’13
Jonathan L. Goldberg ’97
David A. Goldman ’06
Mary Jane Good ’99
Glen S. Goodnough ’86
Hon. Peter J. Goranites ’73 in
memory of Hon. Caroline Duby
Glassman
Martha A. Grant ’81
Jennifer Burns Gray ’96
Katherine Greason ’79
Paul J. Greene ’07
Katherine Griffin ’08
Michael H. Griffin ’73
Henry W. Griffin ’91 and
Elizabeth Eddy Griffin ’92
Margaret Reid Guerrette ’10
John W. Gulliver
James W. Gunson ’95
David J. Halperin in memory of
Dean Edward S. Godfrey
Clarke C. Hambley Jr. ’74
Harold C. Hamilton II ’76 and
Hon. Margaret J. Kravchuk ’76
John L. Hammond ’75
Evan M. Hansen ’84
William H. Hanson ’82
Lorna J. Harmuth ’91
Heidi J. Hart ’07
David B. Hawkes ’69
Matthew C. Hayden ’01
S. Warren Heaton, Jr. ’10
Charles C. Hedrick ’98
Prof. Rita Heimes
Bruce W. Hepler ’94
Peter C. Herbst ’73
Eric R. Herlan ’87
David L. Herzer Jr. ’92 and
Dana Gillespie Herzer ’00
Stephen Hessert ’77
Timothy H. Hiebert ’84
High Tower Holding, LLC
Michael H. Hill ’88
Paul J. Hirsch ’68
Michael S. Hirshberg ’69
Heidi Hoefler ’97
Elizabeth Harris Hoffman ’08 and
Kelly M. Hoffman ’08
Kenneth T. Hoffman ’78
Paul D. Hoffman ’93
Mary L. Holm ’84
Pamela S. Holmes ’99
Hon. and Mrs. D. Brock Hornby
James A. Houle ’81
Martha W. Howell ’74
William H. Howison ’75
Andre J. Hungerford ’02
Susan E. Hunter ’76
Anne LaCombe Huntington ’86 and
Jonathan B. Huntington ’87
Christine Iaconetta ’96
Jason M. Jabar ’00
John James ’84
Neil D. Jamieson, Jr. ’88
Dina A. Jellison ’92 and
John J. Wall III ’92
Rupert J. Jennings III ’80
Michelle Bushey Jensen ’93
Bruce M. Jervis ’77 in honor of
James M. Bowie
Norine C. Jewell ’87
Rendle A. Jones ’67
Robert E.P. Jones ’91
Robert A. Jutras ’88
Janet K. Kantz ’91
Stanley W. Karod ’72
Donna M. Katsiaficas ’84 and
James N. Katsiaficas ’84
Deborah A. Keefe ’77 and
John E. Sedgewick ’77 in honor
of James M. Bowie
Mary N. Kellett ’92
John N. Kelly
Thomas R. Kelly ’92
Kelly Family
Kelly, Remmel & Zimmerman
Hon. Mary Gay Kennedy ’80
Katherine A. Kerkam ’06 in honor
of Nancy Wanderer, upon her
retirement
Phillip M. Kilmister ’63
Karen G. Kingsley ’79
Edward W. Klein ’79
Ronald A. Kreisman and
Ms. Roberta L. de Araujo
William O. LaCasse ’83
David J. Lakari ’84
Leonard W. Langer ’78
Wendell G. Large
Laskoff & Associates
Law Office of George D. Hepner III
Mark W. Lawrence ’90
Thomas G. Leahy ’74
Sarah Hooke Lee ’82
Lisa Morang Leighton ’98
John G. Lemoine ’88
Michel J. LePage
Patricia A. Lerwick M.D. ’90
Alan J. Levenson ’59
David J. Levesque ’97
Joseph Lewis ’10
Kenneth A. Lexier ’91
Bruce A. Libby ’64 in memory of
Hon. Alexander A. MacNichol
Kevin G. Libby ’79
Catherine N. Lindgren ’96
Susan H. Livingston ’88
Carrie M. Logan ’07
William W. Logan ’83
Deborah N. Lorenzen
Karen B. Lovell ’79
F. Todd Lowell ’94
William N. Lund ’80
Constance O’Neil Lundquist ’79
Lisa C. Lunn ’88
Prof. Lois Lupica
Mary Ann Lynch ’84
Kyle T. MacDonald ’09
Andrew B. MacLean ’91
Ignatius MacLellan ’85
Mr. and Mrs. Hugh G.E. MacMahon
John P. Maley ’68
Madeline K. Malisa ’09
Thomas F. Malone, Jr. ’74
Karin F. Marchetti-Ponte ’78 in
honor of the class of 1978
Benjamin E. Marcus
Nancy V. Savage Marcus ’91
Thomas P. Marczak ’08
Thomas S. Marjerison ’93
Daniel W. Marra ’02
Carol A. Martel ’92
Simone D. Masse ’84
Sally L. Mitchell
Mittel Asen LLC
Ann H. Mohnkern ’79
Peter J. Monahan ’92
John H. Montgomery III ’77
Richard G. Moon
Clifford J. Moore, Jr. ’84
Robert A. Moore ’74
Alexandra M. Moras
Stephen W. Moriarty ’78
Stephen G. Morrell ’78
Allison C. Morrill Ph.D. ’74
Aaron Wilcox Mosher ’13
Lawrence J. Mullen ’81
Marcy A. Muller ’06
Sarah S. Murdough ’94
Daniel J. Murphy ’02
Michael W. Murphy ’88
Hon. Ann M. Murray ’82
Carolyn B. Murray
Patrick C. Maxcy ’99
Nancy W. McBrady ’07
Christopher McCabe ’12 in honor
and memory of Nelson Mandela
Louise Marie McCarthy ’92
M. Jean McDevitt ’01
Duncan A. McEachern ’68
Peggy L. McGehee-Horton ’80
Justina A. McGettigan ’91
Bruce A. McGlauflin ’96
Elizabeth McLaughlin ’93
Kimberly A. McLaughlin
Kimball R. McMullin ’74 and
Lisa M. McMullin ’75
Patricia B. McNamara ’92
Paul S. McNamara ’69
Matthew T. Mehalic ’07
Patrick J. Mellor ’98 and
Rebekah J. Smith ’98
Samuel H. Merrill ’75
Peter A. Meyer ’84
Charles E. Miller ’79
Connie Fern Miller ’75
William J. Milliken ’92
Mills & Mills LLP
Paul H. Mills ’77
S. Peter Mills III ’73
Pamela W. Mitchell
Katherine M. Murray ’00
Hon. Robert E. Murray Jr. ’88
Garison K. Murrell in memory of
Caroline Duby Glassman
Steven D. Najarian ’90
Jeffrey A. Nathanson ’87
Mr. and Mrs. Leonard M. Nelson
Hon. Mary P. Nelson and Mr.
Kenneth Nelson
Patricia A. Nelson-Reade ’88
Nelson-Reade Law Office, P.C.
Julie Nepveu ’91
David B. Neumeyer ’79
Hon. John C. Nivison II ’85
Mr. and Mrs. Douglas A. Northrop
Timothy H. Norton ’88
Mary Frances O’Brien ’03
Murrough H. O’Brien ’75
Orla C. O’Callaghan ’96
Gail Ogilvie ’77
M. Katherine Lynch O’Grady ’02
Laura M. O’Hanlon ’92
Charles W. Olcott ’03
Amanda Pitkin O’Reilly ’98
Brendan Robert O’Rourke ’13
Heidi S. Osborn ’83 in memory of
John C. Osborn
Michael J. O’Toole ’85
Allison M. Ouellet ’13
James H. Ouimette ’77
Uma Outka ’05
Prof. David Owen
Marc C. Owen ’73
Oxford Hills Law
Kimberly Pacelli ’11
Harold C. Pachios
Alexander A. Padis, Jr. ’78
Wendy J. Paradis
Jeffrey B. Parsons ’02
Brice C. Paul ’98
Roger O. Pederson ’98
Richard M. Peirce ’71
John D. Pelletier ’85
Leila Jane Percy
Susan A. Pereira ’97
Petruccelli, Martin & Haddow LLP
Pfizer Foundation
Russell B. Pierce, Jr. ’91
Hon. Paul T. Pierson ’72
Agnieszka Anna Pinette ’13
Jonathan S. Piper ’76
Ruth E. Plagenhoef ’80
Bronson Platner ’76
James D. Poliquin ’81 and
Beth Anne Poliquin ’82
Thomas J. Poulin ’88
Hon. Keith A. Powers ’73
Victoria Powers ’89
Harvey Prager ’94
Roger P. Prince ’85
Pamela Prodan ’92
Nathaniel S. Putnam ’95 and
Virginia Kozak Putnam ’91
Jane Surran Pyne ’85
Maureen P. Quinlan
Katherine M. Ralston ’89
Kayla Ramsay
Frederic C. Rand ’01 and
Katharine I. Rand ’03
Alistair Y. Raymond ’06
Rachel L. Reeves ’01
Ann R. Robinson ’88
Roderick R. Rovzar ’73
Hon. G. Steven Rowe ’87
Mary R. Roy
Ellsworth T. Rundlett III ’73
Geoffrey A. Rushlau ’79
Hon. Ronald D. Russell ’72
Thomas A. Russell ’79
James Saffian ’91
Cushing Pagon Samp ’77 and
Frederick S. Samp ’75
Andrew R. Sarapas ’98
Joanne S. Sataloff ’77
Philip Saucier ’04
Mary M. Sauer ’94
Steven G. Saunders ’92
Michael V. Saxl ’98
George C. Schelling ’79
Mary L. Schendel ’76
Beth Bernstein Schneider in honor
of Rosalyn Bernstein
Ronald W. Schneider, Jr. ’96
Susan M. Schultz ’89
Hon. Louis Scolnik
Rebecca Warren Seel ’78
Henry I. Shanoski ’98
Justin G. Sharaf ’65
Barbara G. Shaw ’94
Janee Shaw ’80
Heidi E. Shealy ’92
Lei Shi ’98
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Bruce N. Shibles ’87
Richard A. Shinay ’80
Thomas L. Shupp ’82 and
Nancy L. Thomas ’81
Kirk G. Siegel ’97
David P. Silk ’85
David S. Silsby ’58
Hon. Paula D. Silsby ’76
Joshua T. Silver ’05
Victoria J. Silver ’12
MacKenzie P. Simpson ’12
Hon. George Z. Singal
Paula N. Singer ’78
John W. Sitarz ’72
Chadbourn H. Smith ’70
Charles Walter Smith, Jr. ’73
Prof. Deirdre M. Smith ’94
Douglas M. Smith ’74
Gregory H. Smith ’73
Irene Sidor Smith ’83
Steven R. Smith ’81
Timothy D. Smith ’95
Terry N. Snow ’73
Solman & Hunter, P.A.
Hon. Susan A. Sparaco ’87
Kristin St. Peter ’00
Mark Standen ’87
Hon. Valerie Stanfill ’85
Wendy Moulton Starkey ’03
Hon. Marilyn E. Stavros ’80
Emily Stein ’05
Daniel J. Stevens ’88
Graydon G. Stevens ’77
Stewart R. Mott Foundation
Elizabeth F. Stout ’90
Andrew Strongin ’92
Joan Sturmthal ’86
Laongdao Suppasettawat
Nathan S. Szanton ’90
Annee H. Tara ’73
Paul R. Tardif ’93
Carol Taylor
Ilse Teeters-Trumpy ’06
F. Mark Terison ’78 in honor of
James M. Bowie
The Maine Real Estate Network
Alan Thorndike ’76
Sarah Allison Thornton ’76
TIAA-CREF Matching Gifts
Program
Kevin J. Tierney ’76
Laura E. Tobin ’92
Robert C. Tommasino ’77
Hon. Frederick Torrisi ’74
Michael B. Trainor ’79
Michael D. Traister ’95
Hon. Ralph L. Tucker, Jr. ’74
Colleen P. Tucker ’84
Jill Kaplan Tupper ’94
Thomas G. Van Houten
Anne W. Van Lonkhuyzen ’73
Derek Van Volkenburgh
Edwinna C. Vanderzanden ’84
Vincent P. Veroneau ’06
AlexandraVerrigni ’92 in memory
of Alfred E. and Mary J. Verrigni
Nicole Vinal Harvie
Heather Seasonwein Walker ’01
Helen D. Walker ’93
Prof. Nancy A. Wanderer ’90 and
Susan A. Sanders
Joseph A. Wannemacher ’77
Prof. Thomas M. Ward
Daniel R. Warren ’83
Warren, Currier & Buchanan,
LLC, P.A.
Helen Wasserman
Hon. Daniel E. Wathen ’65
Molly Watson Shukie ’09
Peter B. Webster in honor of
Roger A. Putnam
Johanna Julie Welch
John D. Welch ’90
John G. Wheatley ’07
Sharon M. Wheeler ’98
Rachel Anne White ’14
David R. Whittier ’76
Lisa W. D. Whittier ’05
Lynn M. Wilcox
Martin C. Womer ’97
Gary C. Wood ’75
Elizabeth C. Woodcock ’88
John A. Woodcock III ’06
Prof. Jennifer Wriggins and
Mary L. Bonauto
Wright & Mills, P.A.
Karen L. Wright ’00
Prof. L. Kinvin Wroth
Jean D. Wulff ’93
Christopher A. Wyskiel ’80
Yiping Yang ’92 in memory of
Merle Loper
John H. Zane ’93
Nancy C. Ziegler ’80 and
Hon. Kermit V. Lipez
Anne B. Zill
Prof. Donald N. Zillman
Thad B. Zmistowski ’89
This report delineates gifts and pledges received
between July 1, 2013 and June 30, 2014. All Annual
Fund gifts or pledges received after June 30, 2014
will be included in the Philanthropy Report for
2014-15. Every effort has been made to ensure the
accuracy of this report. Please contact Deborah
Lorenzen if you notice any errors or omissions at
207-228-8411 or deborah.lorenzen@maine.edu.
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Justice Abraham M. Rudman Scholarship Fund
E
stablished in 1971, the Justice
Abraham M. Rudman Scholarship Fund honors a great Maine citizen,
lawyer, graduate of the University of
Maine Law School, Maine Supreme
Court Justice, and gentle, dedicated
family man who made a lasting impression on the lives of all whom he
encountered. As one of the largest and
most important scholarship funds at the
University of Maine School of Law,
the Rudman Scholarship Fund honors
the Justice’s keen legal mind, his dedication to honesty, integrity and helping others, and his devotion to the
State of Maine.
Over the years, the Fund has grown to its present market value of
$418,228, and has provided many, many scholarships to students from
the State of Maine who demonstrated academic promise as well as
financial need.
In 2013, the Rudmans mourned the loss of two of their beloved
family members: Gerald E. Rudman, Abraham’s son, on July 18, 2013,
and Inez Rudman on August 1, 2013, wife of the Hon. Paul Rudman,
one of Abraham’s three sons. Like his father, Gerald was a lawyer, and
joined his father’s practice, forming what today is the 30 plus person
Bangor firm of Rudman Winchell. Inez (Kolonel) Rudman was Paul’s
wife of 44 years. Abraham and Paul are the only father and son to have
served on the Maine Supreme Judicial Court. The following individuals
and entities honored the lives of Gerald and/or Inez Rudman in 2013-14
with a gift to the Justice Abraham M. Rudman Scholarship Fund.
Contributors
Thatcher M. Adams
Hiram Adelman
William Battles
Katherine E. Blackwell
Dr. and Mrs. Daniel N. Brooks
Mr. and Mrs. Philip D. Buckley
Hon. Gene Carter
Paul W. Chaiken ’74
Mr. and Mrs. Galen Cole
Cynthia and Harvey Creem
Mr. and Mrs. Richard E. Curran
David L. Cutler
Mr. and Mrs. Joel A. Dearborn
Peter J. DeTroy III ’72 and
Mary R. Roy
Duffy Anderson Investment
Management LLC
Jeffrey S. Fister D.M.D.
Galen Cole Family
Foundation, Inc.
Gilbert & Greif, P.A.
Ronald A. Glantz
Mr. and Mrs. Marvin Glazier
Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin E. Grant
Mr. and Mrs. Charles W. Hart
Merton G. Henry
Lambert Coffin
Mr. and Mrs. Steven L. Langer
William P. Lucy
Mr. and Mrs. James G. Lynch ’58
Mr. and Mrs. J. Herbert
Mackintosh
Robyn and Charles March ’96
Mr. and Mrs. John J. McDonough
Mr. and Mrs. John C. McGinn
Marilyn B. Melton
Mr. and Mrs. Leonard E. Minsky
Norman Minsky
Mr. and Mrs. James L. Moody, Jr.
Lois Nealley
Norman, Hanson & DeTroy, LLC
Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence E. Parker, Jr.
Penobscot County Bar
Association
Joseph J. Philippon
Mary Carangi Porreca
Roger A. Putnam
Mr. and Mrs. Dan Rosenberg
Abby Rudman
Andrew I. Rudman
Cecelia Rudman
James Rudman
Lisa L. Rudman
Hon. Paul L. Rudman
Samuel K. Rudman
Sara Rudman
Rudman Winchell, LLC
Mr. and Mrs. David Schiro
Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence R. Schiro
Mr. and Mrs. James F. Schlucter
Thomas M. Stathakes
Mr. and Mrs. Robert E. Sutcliffe III
Torrey A. Sylvester ’70
Mr. and Mrs. Miles U. Theeman
Webber Group
William C. Bullock, Jr. Family
Foundation
Mr. and Mrs. Edwin L. Woolley III
Ellen and Robert Grant Young
LEGACIES
Planned Giving – Leaving a Legacy
A message from Bob Laskoff ’70
A
s an Alum of Maine Law, albeit a little older than most
of you, I urge you to consider the unique opportunity of
including the University of Maine School of Law in your
estate plan. Many times during the year Jackie, my wife of 47
years, and I discuss where we are in life and
what made that possible. The answer won’t
surprise you.
Please join us by giving something back
and leaving a legacy for future generations.
Although there are many ways to express
your appreciation for what Maine Law has
and continues to do for its alums and the
State of Maine, the opportunity to provide
Bob Laskoff
for Maine Law into its future and beyond my
own lifetime is special.
Jackie and I have both made provisions for Maine Law in our
estate plans, and I hope you will do the same!
There are many different ways to make a planned gift. Some
of them include:
• Outright Bequests
• Gifts of Appreciated Stock
• Charitable Gift Annuities
• Charitable Remainder Trusts
• Charitable Lead Trusts
• Other Planned Giving Vehicles, including gifts of life insurance, retirement plan assets, and commercial or residential
real estate
For more information, please contact Tina Simonetta Samuels
in the Maine Law Advancement Office at (207) 780-4342 or
tina.samuels@maine.edu.
Thank you for considering a legacy gift that will forge a way
for future generations.
Bob Laskoff ’70
University of Maine School of Law Foundation Board Member
Join us in honoring six Maine Law professors
who have made a difference
Please save the date:
Friday, April 10, 2015
6:00-8:00 p.m.
Marriott at Sable Oaks,
South Portland, Maine
Professor
David Cluchey
Professor
Nancy Wanderer
Professor
Jim Friedman
Professor
Tom Ward
Professor
Marty Rogoff
Professor
Mel Zarr
Do you have favorite memories or
photos of these six professors? We’re
collecting them for the event. Please
send submissions to Frances Smith
at frances.smith@maine.edu
To learn more, visit
www.mainelawalum.org/faculty
or call (207) 228-8411
Please save the da
Friday, April 10, 2015
6-8
Sable Oaks Mariott, S
Portland, M
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