alumni almanac Morawetz spoke of the clinic’s ongoing efforts in navigating what she terms the “horrible process” of alien detainment and deportation hearings in accordance with the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act. Luis Gutierrez, blindsided by an especially draconian application of that 1996 federal statute, was represented by clinic students in his long struggle for habeas corpus relief after being deported to his native Colombia—a struggle that included being “ripped off,” as he put it, by an ineffective private attorney. Gutierrez, one of a few former clients invited to the reunion, offered his thanks to the dozens of students who helped him from 2000 to 2007, when he returned to the United States as a free man. “I had lost all hope of justice,” said Gutierrez, now working as an electrician in Jersey City and reunited with his American-born daughter. “But then I found this clinic.” Morawetz, admitting inability to imagine an eight-year separation from her own two children, said of the Gutierrez case, “He suffered terribly. His marriage was destroyed. You can’t make somebody whole again. All that pain and anguish, yet he’s the happy story.” Thomas Adcock
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Kenneth Feinberg ’70 was appointed compensation overseer by the Obama administration in June 2009. His job: to set pay for executives at companies that received federal bailout money. Matthew Feldman ’88 joined the Obama administration's Auto Industry Task Force in March 2009. Judge Arthur Gonzalez (LL.M. ’90) of the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York was selected to preside over the Chrysler bankruptcy. David Kamin ’09 was appointed special assistant to Peter Orszag, director of the Office of Management and Budget,
defenders of the powerless 1 Peter Markowitz ’01; 2 Alisa Wellek ’10, Maribel Hernandez ’10, Julia Dietz ’10, Andrea Gittleman ’09; 3 Joanne Lin ’97, Melissa Goodman ’03, and Omar Jadwat ’01; 4 Alina Das ’05; 5 Jenn Ching ’00, Maya Nath ’04, and Tony Lu ’02 (looking down); 6 Past and present students of the Immigrant Rights Clinic, 1999 to 2009.
in January 2009, the same month he received his J.D. Richard Ketchum ’75 is CEO of the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority. Until March 2009, he was the CEO of NYSE Regulation. B. Robbins Kiessling ’76, banking practice leader at Cravath, Swaine & Moore, advised the consortium of banks providing Lehman Brothers with liquidity. Timothy Mayopoulos ’84 became executive vice president, general counsel, and corporate secretary of Fannie Mae in April 2009. He had been executive vice president and general counsel of Bank of America.
Lee Meyerson ’81 is head of Simpson Thacher & Bartlett's financial institutions practice, which advised the Treasury Department on structuring the Troubled Asset Relief Program. Judge James Peck ’71 of the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York was selected to preside over the Lehman Brothers bankruptcy. Bradley Smith ’74 led the Davis Polk & Wardwell team representing the Treasury and the Federal Reserve Bank of New York in the AIG bailout negotiations.
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