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UNC Law Alumni Association Board of Directors
Recently a group of students and I were invited to the beautiful Chapel Hill home of former dean Ken Broun and his wife Margie.
Executive Committee Karen A. Popp ’85, president
Brian D. Meacham ’03, second vice president Martin H. Brinkley ’92, secretary-treasurer Scott P. Vaughn ’86, past president (2018) Barbara B. “Bonnie” Weyher ’77, past president (2017) Walter D. Fisher Jr. ’86, past president (2016), Campaign Steering Committee co-chair Angela Liu ’09, Alumni Engagement Committee co-chair Claire H. Duff ’10, Alumni Engagement Committee co-chair Gus Puryear ’93, Cornerstone Club Committee co-chair Jennifer Puryear ’95, Cornerstone Club Committee co-chair Joni Walser ’86, Campaign Committee co-chair Charles Plambeck ’86, Campaign Committee co-chair John L. Jernigan ’67, Honorary Campaign Committee chair M. Ann Cox ’85, Law Foundation chair Marion A. Cowell Jr. ’64, Past Campaign chair Sarah H. McIntyre ’14, Pro Bono Alumni Board chair
UNC Law Foundation Officers M. Ann Cox ’85, president and chair Tracy S. Calder ’84, vice president and chair, audit committee Martin H. Brinkley ’92, secretary-treasurer Jen Clark, assistant treasurer Deirdre Gordon, assistant secretary
UNC School of Law Office of Advancement Deirdre Gordon, associate dean for advancement Iris Holt, director of development Aaron Gard, regional development officer Matt J. Marvin, regional development officer Jordan Whitley, regional development officer Paul Brown, assistant director of annual giving Kelly Mann, assistant director of alumni & donor relations Ben Baker, advancement services coordinator
UNC School of Law Office of Communications Amy Graedon, assistant dean for communications Katherine Kershaw, communications manager
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When I’m in Ken’s company, I can’t help reflecting on the legacy he left at the end of his deanship: the legacy of a great faculty. Where would our law school be without the likes of Tom Hazen, John Conley, Patricia Bryan, Elizabeth Gibson and Lissa Broome? Today, all are legends in their own right, MARTIN H. BRINKLEY extraordinary scholars and even greater human beings who have taught thousands of us and dedicated their whole lives to Carolina. Ken hired every one of them. Reflecting on this underscores my belief that hiring and retaining a great faculty is the most important thing a dean does.
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James M. Deal Jr. ’74, first vice president, Nominations Committee chair, Community Outreach Committee chair
Think about your own law school experience. If you’re anything like me, your first memory is of certain professors who honed your mind’s capacity for grappling with the law’s intricacies and inspired it with soaring truths. Hardly a conversation with a student in my office goes by without warm expressions of admiration for one faculty member or another. Through their teaching and scholarship, our professors are the beating heart of the law school. The rest of us – administrators and staff – are here to set the tables for the intellectual feasts the faculty prepare, for our students and for the world. At its essence, a law school is nothing but a collection of teachers and students talking to one another. In a modern university with elaborate buildings and the manifold accoutrements of science and the arts, the law school is as close to Plato’s Academy as it gets. I often joke that we could have the law school on Polk Place, if we could control for climate. Hiring faculty for Carolina Law is an art. Ideally, we find “triple threats”: professors capable of outstanding performance in the classroom, in scholarship, and in service to the school, the University and the profession. Spotting and keeping them has never been easy. My predecessor Dean J. Dickson Phillips, Jr., when told of a possible faculty uprising over inadequate salaries, once remarked: “As long as the dogwoods and the azaleas bloom in the spring and the leaves turn in the fall, we will be able to attract a faculty to Chapel Hill.” Dean Phillips was right – but only in part. The quality of life in the Southern Part of Heaven is undoubtedly a magnet for good people. But today the strains are showing. Our median faculty salary is $100,000 less than that of several public university law schools we would like to consider peers. This is an unacceptable situation. It must be addressed – and soon – if Carolina Law is to continue to attract and retain the next generation of Hazens, Conleys, Bryans, Gibsons and Broomes. As you read this issue, take a moment to remember the professor who taught you memorably. Reach out to him or her with an appreciative email (addresses are easily findable on the law school website) or note. And please consider a gift to the law school in support of our beating heart. Yours sincerely,
Martin H. Brinkley '92 Dean and Arch T. Allen Distinguished Professor of Law
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School News
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Faculty & Research
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Center News
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Alumni News
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Alumni Giving
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Class Notes
Lolly Gasaway: Leader, Visionary, Donor
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Attracting & Retaining World-Renowned Faculty
Holderness Moot Court Teams Make Nationals
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The Evolution of a Faculty-Student Mentorship
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Kenneth S. Broun Receives GAA Faculty Service Award
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Holderness Moot Court Teams Make Nationals In the weeks surrounding spring break, UNC School of Law’s Holderness Moot Court Appellate Advocacy Teams reached a number of milestones.
Manning was named “Best Oralist” of the tournament. Ethan Blumenthal '18 and Professors Jonas Monast and Maria Savasta-Kennedy coached the Environmental Team.
The Holderness Appellate Advocacy Team of 2Ls Erica Bluford, Grant Figari and Alyssa Leader won the 12th annual Charleston Law National Moot Court Competition. In addition, 2Ls Savian Kai Gray-Sommerville, Andrew Legg and Samantha Taylor advanced to the quarter-final round at the same competition.
In February, the Client Counseling Team, under the coaching of Professor O.J. Salinas, once again demonstrated its excellence. 3Ls Lydia Butts and Dan Summers advanced to the final round the ABA Regional Client Counseling Competition, and 2Ls Blake Leger and Sarah Spiker advanced to the semifinals -- making this the sixth year that Salinas has coached both of his teams to at least the semifinals of this competition.
Two other teams also competed for national championships. The Holderness Black Law Students Association Team, coached by Professor Bill Marshall and comprised of 3Ls Kaleigh Darty and Bethanie Maxwell, placed third in the nation in Little Rock, Ark., at the Thurgood Marshall Moot Court Competition. The Intellectual Property Team, coached by Professor Deborah Gerhardt and comprised of 3Ls Sarah Anderson, Nicole Burleson, P.J. Cline and Graeme Earle, advanced to the national tournament in Washington, D.C., to compete in the Saul Lefkowitz Trademark Moot Court Competition. Abigail Christoph 2L, Hannah Manning 3L and Caroline Martin 2L of the Holderness Environmental Moot Court Team advanced to the Sweet 16 of the National Energy & Sustainability Moot Court Competition in West Virginia, and
The 3L Jessup International Team turned in one of the school’s strongest performances in years at the Jessup South Regional in New Orleans. Sabrina Galli, Will Patrick, Phil Pullen and Lauren Toole reached the quarterfinals as the fourth-ranked team overall. Additionally, the team was awarded a “Top 5 Memorial,” and Galli received a “Top 10 Oralist” award. The team was assisted by Professors Holning Lau, O.J. Salinas, and Elizabeth Sherowski. Rana Odeh and Jasmine Plott of the 3L National Negotiation Team – last semester's co-finalists of their American Bar Association regional competition – competed in Chicago for the ABA's National Negotiation Competition.
2Ls Alyssa Leader, Grant Figari and Erica Bluford won the 12th annual Charleston Law National Moot Court Competition. Fourteen teams from 11 law schools participated in the competition, which focused on whether a court erred in not overruling a jury’s decision in a defamation case and whether a related court order violated a defendant’s First Amendment right of free speech.
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Annual CPILO Auction Funds Summer Jobs, Engages Faculty and Students The annual Carolina Public Interest Law Organization (CPILO) Auction raised more than $28,000 on January 31. Students, faculty and alumni gathered at The Great Room at Top of the Hill for a silent and live auction that raised enough funding to support grants for students working this summer in unpaid public interest jobs. Live auction items gave students a chance to spend time with their favorite professors, ranging from hiking with Professor Don Hornstein to watching the UNC-Duke Men’s Basketball game with Professor Lissa Broome.
outreach coordinator for CPILO. “It was a heart-warming experience to witness so many of my friends and colleagues joining forces to raise funds for the public interest and carrying on that mission with the feminist movie night was a delight. This entire experience, start to finish, was without a doubt one of my absolute favorite memories from law school, and I hope to see more opportunities where the women of Carolina Law, faculty and students alike, get to engage with and support one another.”
One group of students bid on the opportunity to take in feminist cinematography with Professors Kaci Bishop '04, Maxine Eichner, Kate Elengold, Barbara Fedders, Melissa Jacoby, Anne Klinefelter, Beth Posner '97, Deborah Weissman and Maria Savasta-Kennedy over a private screening of “Yours in Sisterhood” at The Varsity, followed by food, beer and discussion at Benny Capella’s in March. “The CPILO board pulled off an incredible auction this year, beating last year's record,” says Chelsea Pieroni 2L, community
Carolina Public Interest Retreat
On February 2, 50 law students and attorney volunteers gathered at the UNC School of Government to connect and discuss the practice of law in the public sector. April Giancola, director of public interest advising at UNC School of Law, organized the retreat with students from the Carolina Public Interest Law Organization. Allison Riggs, senior attorney at the Southern Coalition for Social Justice, delivered the keynote address about her path to the SCSJ and the state of voting rights in North Carolina. Students gathered in breakout sessions with area practitioners to talk about their work and careers in the areas of domestic violence, criminal and juvenile justice, environmental, immigration and clerkships.
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BLSA Organizes Black History Month Events
Among other events, BLSA hosted several film screenings throughout the month on topics like code-switching in the workplace, hip-hop and the First Amendment, and police brutality and gentrification.
Chanda Marlowe '17 speaks to students about privacy law.
N.C. Senator Floyd McKissick Jr. with members of the UNC Black Law Students Association.
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BLSA and the UNC School of Media and Journalism invited Chanda Marlowe '17 (J.D./M.A. Media & Journalism) back to campus for a discussion on the future of privacy law. Marlowe is the Christopher Wolf Diversity Law Fellow at the Future of Privacy Forum in Washington, D.C., where she focuses on consumer and commercial privacy issues including general data management, de-identification, privacy ethics, algorithms, the Internet of things and connected cars.
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“Throughout Black History Month, we desired to focus on educating students of color on the history of black law students at UNC while empowering them to continue the strong legacy set before them,” says Erica Bluford 2L, president of BLSA. “Not only did Senator McKissick share stories of the men and women who’ve made our legal education possible, he imparted encouraging words to guide us into our futures as leaders and agents of change. We could not have asked for a more appropriate kick-off speaker.”
In January, BLSA also hosted a Professional Retreat sponsored by McGuireWoods and Robinson Bradshaw for black law students to network with professionals and learn tips to successfully navigate their legal careers. Students attended from every law school in North Carolina and guest speakers varied across sectors. Guest speakers/panelists included Carl Fox '78, Richard Myers '98, Spencer Merriweather '05, LaToya Blackmon Powell '05, Erika Jones '12, Lawrence Cameron '10, Allen Buansi '15, and Manuel Davis '16.
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The UNC Black Law Students Association (BLSA) kicked off Black History Month in early February with N.C. Senator Floyd McKissick Jr., whose father was one of the first African-American men to integrate Carolina Law, and the entire UNC-Chapel Hill campus. He was joined by his son Floyd McKissick III '07.
Professional retreat participants.
School Welcomes 11 New Employees UNC School of Law welcomes 11 new staff members in the departments of advancement, admissions, career development, continuing legal education, the environmental law center, finance, human resources, and student development. The new employees are: 4
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Ben Baker
Paul Brown
advancement services coordinator, annual giving
assistant director of annual giving
Ethan Blumenthal '18
Christopher Castelloe
fellow at the Center for Climate, Energy, Environment & Economics
human resources director
Johnetta Brown
conference and special events coordinator
law school receptionist
Laura Gough
Hundreds Gather for Festival of Legal Learning Hundreds of attorneys gathered to earn their yearly CLE credit and network with peers at the 29th annual UNC School of Law Festival of Legal Learning, held February 8-9 at the Friday Center in Chapel Hill. The two-day festival boasts 152 instructors, including nearly all of Carolina Law’s full-time faculty, who taught sessions on timely topics like health law and policy, agricultural technology, cybersecurity, cryptocurrencies, the #MeToo movement, partisan gerrymandering, sports corruption, environmental law and the future of the U.S. Supreme Court.
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Clinical Associate Professor Kate Elengold, director of the school’s Consumer Financial Transactions Clinic, moderates a panel of scholars and lawyers who have worked for and with the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. From left, Elengold, Christopher Peterson, Deborah Goldstein and Will Corbett '03.
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Help us celebrate 30 years of continuing legal education! Let us know what keeps you coming back to Festival, and what you’d like to see for next year and beyond: unclawcle@unc.edu
Iris Howorth Holt
Brenda Tabolt
director of development
administrative support specialist
Mary Caroline Parker
Jordan Whitley
accounting technician
regional development officer
Laura Sloan '13
Front row, Johnetta Brown, Laura Sloan '13. Middle row, Jordan Whitley, Paul Brown, Brenda Tabolt. Back row, Ethan Blumenthal '18, Chris Castelloe, Mary Caroline Parker.
director of judicial clerkships
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Hailey Klabo 3L Wins American College of Bankruptcy Award It’s no surprise Hailey Klabo 3L received the American College of Bankruptcy’s Distinguished Bankruptcy Law Student Award – one of only five such recipients nationwide. Consider her strong academic performance, pro bono and law review activities, and the faculty’s high regard for her.
Klabo has provided support for books by Professor Michael Gerhardt. And when he was special counsel to the Senate Judiciary Committee for the Brett Kavanaugh Supreme Court confirmation hearings, Klabo wrote background memos to help Gerhardt and committee members prepare.
What may be surprising is that when Klabo started her first bankruptcy course with Professor Melissa Jacoby, she expected not to like the topic at all.
After commencement, Klabo will clerk for Judge William Osteen Jr. '87 of the Middle District of North Carolina and then join Davis Polk & Wardwell in New York, where she hopes to be part of the restructuring group.
“My initial approach to the class was that it would just be good knowledge to have in my back pocket,” says Klabo, who originally was drawn to UNC School of Law because of its public interest focus. But Jacoby’s teaching transformed Klabo’s view of insolvency into a vibrant area of law with a widespread, lasting impact on people, companies and the overall business sector. She learned about the crucial role of bankruptcy law in turning around lives and saving businesses.
Whether or not bankruptcy remains her career focus, Carolina Law’s public interest ethos will stay with her. “Carolina Law’s dedication to public interest is still of the utmost importance to me for the culture the school cultivates,” she says. “It is a reminder that doing good should be our first priority.” — Jessica Clarke
“For nearly every person or entity going into the bankruptcy system, the basic framing of their problem is the same: their financial situation has been thrown into the air, and the Bankruptcy Code and bankruptcy lawyers are tasked with putting the pieces back together,” Klabo says. Her externship with Judge Benjamin Kahn '93 of the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Middle District of North Carolina deepened her passion for the field. “Seeing bankruptcy in action is exhilarating. It’s every bit as unpredictable as Professor Jacoby told us it would be,” says Klabo, who is from Iowa City, Iowa. Among the most valuable parts of her Carolina Law experience have been her relationships with faculty and other students and the school’s supportive, collaborative environment. That six professors and the dean of the law school supported Klabo’s nomination for the American College of Bankruptcy award underscores those strong connections. Jacoby notes that Klabo “has expressed interests in and aptitude for exploring a full range of financial distress problems from many perspectives – from global corporations and governments to individuals and families.” At the American College of Bankruptcy annual meeting, Klabo had the opportunity to talk one-on-one about such issues with judges, lawyers and academics from across the country.
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Working as a research assistant was one way Klabo developed relationships with faculty.
Klabo at the American College of Bankruptcy’s annual meeting in San Diego.
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The Evolution of a Faculty-Student Mentorship Following law school, Lawrence Cameron '10 started his career as an assistant district attorney in Wake County, North Carolina. He went on to serve as an assistant U.S. attorney at the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of North Carolina where he prosecuted money laundering, narcotics trafficking, and public corruption cases. He is now an associate at McGuireWoods in Raleigh. Professor Richard E. Myers II '98 had similar path. After clerking for the Honorable David Sentelle '68 on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, Myers entered private practice as a litigator for O’Melveny & Myers, LLP prosecuting white collar crimes. He then became an assistant U.S. attorney in the Central District of California and transferred to the Eastern District of North Carolina. Myers then joined the Carolina Law faculty in 2004. Cameron and Myers recently reunited at Carolina Law and discussed how their roles have evolved from the early days as a student and a faculty member. How did Professor Myers influence you as a student and what kind of impact has it had on your career? CAMERON: Professor Myers had a tremendous impact on me
as a student and as a practicing attorney. Coming into law school, I wanted to help minorities struggling with impact of the criminal justice system and assumed becoming a criminal defense attorney was the best way to make an impact. Professor Meyers challenged that view and opened up my mind to the concept of being a prosecutor. He taught me about the tremendous amount of discretion that prosecutors have and the importance of diversity in the exercise of that discretion. My first job out of law school would not have been as a state prosecutor in the Wake County District Attorney's Office but for my relationship with Professor Myers. How important is the dynamic between students and faculty? PROFESSOR MYERS: The students are the reason we exist.
CAMERON: Professor Myers is a big reason why I began my
career as a prosecutor. When I began to consider leaving the DA's office to become an Assistant U.S. Attorney, I sought out Professor Myers’ advice due to his time as a federal prosecutor. Throughout my career, Professor Myers has been someone that I can always go to whether it be with questions on how to handle a particular evidentiary issue at trial, or how to balance my responsibilities as a husband and father with my ambitions as a lawyer. I consider him to be a mentor and a friend. As an alumnus, which professor influenced you and why? PROFESSOR MYERS: Lou Bilionis and Ken Broun were
important mentors for me. Lou taught me Criminal Law and Constitutional Law, and his brilliance at the podium inspired me to learn, and ultimately to teach. He dragged me into his office at the end of my first year of law school to explain why I was going to apply for a judicial clerkship, notwithstanding my reservations. It changed my life forever. I was Ken Broun’s research assistant and worked on his Brandis and Broun treatise on North Carolina evidence. I went on to teach Evidence, and am now a co-author on that same treatise. He has been a wonderful mentor and an inspiration for a life well-lived in the law. My mentors have played an important role at every step, and I strive to pay it forward.
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Teaching the next generation of lawyers is incredibly satisfying. On a personal level, investing energy in people who want to make the world a better place and keep us committed to the rule of law is the source of great challenges and much joy. The students keep us thinking about the future, and they will go on to change the world. Lawrence was always someone that I knew would make a difference. His personal experiences observing people from his life dealing with the criminal justice system forged a commitment to doing justice. When he was here, we had the opportunity to talk about where and how he could make the most impact. I’m very proud to have played a tiny part in Lawrence’s success.
You both have had similar career paths. How did Professor Myers’ experience influence your career path, and what is your relationship like today?
Richard E. Myers II '98, Henry Brandis Distinguished Professor of Law, taught Lawrence Cameron '10, now an associate at McGuireWoods.
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Mosteller Retires After Decades Teaching Crim Pro, Evidence One of Carolina Law professor Bob Mosteller’s pastimes is working on the farm where he grew up in Lincoln County, North Carolina. Recently, he crafted an impressive bridge across a stream behind the property’s 19th-century farmhouse. In his classes, Mosteller has bridged the worlds of academia and trial law for students eager to hear his experiences as an attorney involved with first-degree murder trials and other cases. “Students’ eyes are focused and wide open,” he says, to learn about his background with the Public Defender Service for the District of Columbia, where he became chief of the trial division. “I liked using the skills of a trial lawyer, walking into the courtroom and representing somebody,” he says. “That was part of me, and I enjoy students being interested in that.” He also has enjoyed teaching at Carolina Law, where he has been a faculty member since 2008 after teaching at Duke Law School for twenty-five years. When he retires July 1, Mosteller will spend time on his farm and travel with his wife, retired Carolina Law professor Elizabeth Gibson '76. Mosteller’s passion for teaching has been sustained foremost by his students and the energy and excitement each new class brings. “A high percentage of our students expect to be in the courtroom soon after they graduate,” Mosteller says. “Teaching people who really want to learn about part of the practice of law that I find interesting has been rewarding.” Also rewarding has been guiding students in independent studies. “Someone has an idea, and you help them frame their thoughts and put it together. To watch them turn an idea into a really interesting paper…is very gratifying,” he says. Given his work representing indigent defendants, Mosteller appreciates Carolina Law’s public service mission. “The school offers a world-class legal education at a more affordable price and focuses on public interest.
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Those things matter to me,” he says. “Teaching law at a really fine institution has been a wonderful opportunity.” Despite his success practicing law, Mosteller was drawn to teaching partly for a more predictable schedule and less stress as he and Gibson started a family. “I sometimes say trials are good to have had. They are incredibly tension-filled,” he says. “There’s a lot at stake for the people you represent.” He likes the structure of teaching and the opportunity for scholarship. “You have a lot of freedom to write about what interests you,” he says. While also interested in criminal procedure issues, including the death penalty, he is best known for his evidence scholarship, which includes becoming the general editor of the forthcoming edition of McCormick on Evidence treatise. While he has thrived on the scholarship, Mosteller, who was associate dean for academic affairs for three years, embraces Carolina Law’s teaching commitment. “People take pride in it and work hard at it,” he says. “That’s my value system, and I enjoy being around other people with that value system.” Mosteller, a 1970 Carolina history major, benefited from attentive faculty. Even though Carolina is a big school, “faculty members respond so well to students who care about learning,” he says. Reflecting on his career, Mosteller, a “Perry Mason” show fan growing up, says, “I got a chance to pretty much live my dream. I got to be Perry Mason. And I got to teach in Chapel Hill. It was fun.” As he transitioned from practicing law, Mosteller now is transitioning to retirement. He’ll return to his roots more often at his farm, where he knows the land as well as he knows the law. “It’s off the beaten path in the rolling hills of the western Piedmont,” he says. “I’ve always enjoyed being active and outdoors as part of who I am.” — Jessica Clarke
Klinefelter Selected for Finland Fulbright-Nokia Distinguished Chair What’s the appropriate balance between access to information and individual privacy? It’s an evolving, controversial issue with no consensus or clear standards in the United States.
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As librarians around the country digitize content for the web, UNC privacy law professor and Kathrine R. Everett Law Library Director Anne Klinefelter will broaden her expertise in the international arena. She has been selected for the Fulbright-Nokia Distinguished Chair in Information and Communications Technologies and plans to spend the fall in Finland researching how Helsinki libraries approach digitizing information while complying with European Union privacy law. “I’m interested in how we develop law and policy in a very changing environment where technology is shifting the way we interact with information. It’s also making the legal boundaries porous, especially in terms of privacy,” says Klinefelter, the commencement speaker this spring for UNC’s School of Information and Library Science.
The U.S. and EU view privacy in this context differently. The EU “has deemed U.S. law officially inadequate in terms of data protection,” Klinefelter says. “Privacy approaches of the United States and countries in the European Union are critically important to harmonize if we want to encourage data flow across boundaries.” Klinefelter will be hosted by the University of Helsinki Faculty of Law, as the law school is called, and will teach a course on U.S. privacy law. By making connections with students and faculty there, she wants to better understand comparative privacy law. “It may change the way I teach and what I teach, too. I hope my scholarship will have an impact on how libraries in the U.S. make choices,” she says. As a city with a strong commitment to libraries in a very technologically advanced country, Helsinki is a fitting location for Klinefelter’s research. She will conduct a field analysis of how the digital content that libraries make available, particularly on the web, is indexed and managed. Klinefelter will study how libraries provide access to digital content while complying with the new EU General Data Protection Regulation, which includes a “right to be forgotten” that gives people legal grounds to request restrictions on access to information about them. “I expect to identify some best practices and use these insights to reflect on how the law and policy of both the EU and the U.S. should balance information access and individual privacy,” she says. With both U.S. and EU law abstract, “I want to be part of the discussion about what the law means when you apply vague principles to actionable tasks and design,” Klinefelter says. “We’re still trying to figure out what is good and what is bad and how to balance these different interests.” That U.S. laws related to the issue are piecemeal and vary by state further complicates the matter as librarians manage digitization projects with an added editorial role. “Privacy is a form of power, control, personal integrity, and dignity, but information is also power for good or for bad,” Klinefelter says. “The first commitment of librarians is to access to information, but librarians are struggling with what to do about the privacy of people who are in the content in their collections.” — Jessica Clarke
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Kenneth S. Broun Receives GAA Faculty Service Award This article was originally published by the UNC General Alumni Association and is reprinted here with permission.
A heart for doing the right thing doesn’t guarantee physical safety. Ken Broun, a national leader in teaching law students the practical skills needed for trial advocacy, tapped into a vein of bravery in taking his expertise to South Africa during apartheid to teach black lawyers what their white counterparts in the courtroom had been trained to do. This was not a safe endeavor to take on, noted one of Ken’s colleagues in the law school. The politics in South Africa were quite harsh, and Ken was in gatherings where it wasn’t clear that as a white man he was all that welcome. Yet he forged ahead to live out his commitment to civil rights in that place and time. What started out in 1986 as a one-time visit with noted civil rights lawyer James Ferguson to establish a trial advocacy training program stretched to annual sessions over 25 years. “Our idea was to train enough teachers to work ourselves out of a job,” Ken said. “We didn’t accomplish that.” The number of lawyers seeking the training continued to grow. Throughout his more than half-century legal career, Ken has worked to make the world a better place, whether that pertains to the law school, where he began teaching in 1968 and was dean from 1979 to 1988, or to the University as a whole by serving on the committees that selected Holden Thorp '86 and Carol Folt as chancellors, or to the town of Chapel Hill, where he was mayor from 1991 to 1995. He has taught generations of law students who have gone on to make significant impacts in their own right, and he has contributed to scholarship and case law through his book Brandis & Broun on North Carolina Evidence, which is the official chronicler of what North Carolina law means and is cited frequently in legal arguments.
Regardless of the challenges life lays in his path, Ken proceeds with strength and grace, and a personality that feels like a warm embrace.
As dean, Ken brought the law school to national prominence. In 1971, he and a law professor from Notre Dame founded the National Institute for Trial Advocacy, which taught law students practical skills through exercises in cross examination, direct examination, jury selection and closing arguments. Through Ken’s leadership, UNC became one of the first law schools to incorporate that training in its curriculum. He also established the clinical law program that enabled students to practice their craft with clients who otherwise would not be able to afford a lawyer. Ken added some female law professors to the predominantly male law faculty, and he hired a development officer to raise money for the school. He put the school on the international map, too, by taking Carolina law students to London to participate in moot court competitions with barristers-in-training in the U.K. He was invited to become an ex officio member of the Honorable Society of the Middle Temple of London, one of the U.K.’s four Inns of Court. He was one of only 10 Americans to be “benched,” keeping company with Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts and former U.S. Attorneys General Eric Holder and Loretta Lynch. He still makes the annual visit with students, writing questions for the arguments, serving as judge and giving talks.
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When the town and the University sat down to figure out a mutually beneficial use for the nearly 1,200 acres of the Horace Williams Airport and the Carolina North Forest parcels, Ken was asked to broker the talks. Ken received accolades for including community input and ensuring that all voices were heard. More recently, Ken chaired a town task force to recognize the role African-American residents had in desegregating Chapel Hill, shifting the narrative that often focused on the role of white residents in fomenting change. A true Renaissance man, Ken plays the piano and double bass and performs in a jazz quartet, prompting one retired law professor to quip: “I want to be Ken Broun when I grow up.” His deep moral commitment extends to sports, too. Ken rose to hero status in the eyes of his two sons, teens at the time, in 1981 for booting out two assistant coaches from a rival school who were using the law library to look down on the football practice field — an incident that made Sports Illustrated. Over the years, Ken has emerged as a warm and generous person, free with his gifts, extending opportunities that move others forward. His career path shows no sign of a striving, ambitious person looking for the next stepping stone. As one of his former colleagues noted: “Not everyone who spends a life in academia comes out of it with such a largely positive view of the world.”
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Regardless of the challenges life lays in his path, Ken proceeds with strength and grace, and a personality that feels like a warm embrace.
The UNC General Alumni Association Board of Directors presented the 2019 Faculty Service Award to former law school dean Kenneth Broun, Henry Brandis Professor of Law emeritus. Established in 1990, the award honors faculty members who have performed outstanding service for the University or the association.
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CE3 Publishes Policy Brief on Competition and Electric Utilities CE3 co-published a policy brief in March with Duke University’s Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions examining the evolving role of electricity sector competition in states with monopoly utilities. A rapidly changing electricity system presents both challenges and opportunities for state regulators, utilities, third-party providers and electricity customers. Low natural gas prices, decreasing renewables costs, aging infrastructure and technological advances are driving a transformation in the sector. The choices state regulators and utilities make will determine whether states capture the benefits of these changes while
avoiding unnecessary costs. The policy brief demonstrates that a growing number of states are increasing opportunities electricity sector competition without abandoning the traditional vertically integrated utility. For example, third-party leasing, competitive procurement, and green tariffs utilize market competition to expand consumer choices, support policy goals that deploy renewable energy and storage technologies, and spur monopoly utilities to engage in more robust risk management strategies to meet the rapid changes underway.
Monast Contributes to North Carolina’s Clean Energy Plan The North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) recently launched a six-month stakeholder process to develop a new Clean Energy Plan to implement Governor Roy Cooper’s October 2018 executive order to transition the state to a clean energy economy. At the request of DEQ staff, CE3 director Jonas Monast has helped educate participants about North Carolina’s electricity providers, the process for setting electricity rates, and the factors that will influence how the state’s electricity sector evolves.
Students Visit Pig Farm Microgrid CE3 and Robert B. Schwentker '73, senior counsel at Nexsen Pruet, organized a fieldtrip for four Carolina Law students to tour an energy microgrid at Butler Farms, a hog farm in Lillington, N.C. Butler Farms installed the microgrid last year in partnership with South River Electric Membership Corporation. The grid combines local energy sources to power 28 nearby homes for up to four hours at peak demand. “This was a great opportunity for students to get a firsthand view of an innovative energy project,” says Monast. “The Butler microgrid utilizes multiple sources of energy generation— blending solar power with hog waste biogas captured and combusted on-site, turning agricultural waste into productive electricity. Butler Farms owns all the generation assets while South River owns the batteries and control technology.” Ethan Blumenthal '18, Jasmine Washington 1L (center) and other students tour the farm’s microgrid, which is comprised of solar panels, a hog waste biogas generator, a diesel generator, lithium ion batteries, control systems, and related meters and wiring.
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Center for Banking and Finance Announces $60,000 in Student Support at 23rd Banking Institute Germany, in a new collaboration in which Broome, Dean Martin Brinkley '92, and Professor John Coyle will also participate. The Banking Institute was preceded by the one-day program, the ABCs of Banking Law. This program was hosted by the law firm of Moore & Van Allen in its Charlotte office. Twenty attorneys spent the day with six instructors, including Broome and John Stoker '97, an in-house counsel with Wells Fargo & Company, getting an introduction to the bank regulatory regime.
Luke Thomas, Patrick Morris, Sabrina Galli, Stephen Spivey, and Peter Cline, 3L editors of the North Carolina Banking Institute journal, distributed the latest edition at the annual Banking Institute.
The twenty-third annual Banking Institute was held March 21-22 in Charlotte. Featured speakers included Alfred Pollard '75, general counsel of the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA), the regulator of Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, and the Federal Home Loan Bank System; Jelena McWilliams, chair of the FDIC, who delivered the Beischer Address; and Jo Ann Barefoot of Barefoot Innovation Group, who provided the Clifford Lecture on Consumer Law. At the conclusion of the Beischer address, Professor Lissa Broome, director of the Center for Banking and Finance, invited members of the center’s board of advisors to assist her in presenting several student scholarships. For the fourth year, the center has provided each rising 3L editor on the North Carolina Banking Institute journal with a scholarship, eight in the amount of $3,000, and two of approximately $7,300. This was the 19th year that one of the larger scholarships has been awarded. This scholarship was created when an endowment was formed with funds contributed by banks and firms that sponsored the annual Banking Institute. Over the years, a second scholarship in an amount matching the endowed scholarship was formed, and since 2016, every rising 3L editor has received a scholarship in at least the amount of $3,000. These scholarships are funded by the endowment and current sponsor receipts. This year, a record fifty-two banks or firms signed on as sponsors of the Banking Institute. In addition, to the journal scholarships, Broome announced four Public Interest Summer Fellowships (each for $3,000) funded by the center to support students working in the public interest for the summer without pay. The students funded have internships with the U.S. DOJ Consumer Protection Division, the U.S. Department of Commerce, and the NC DOJ in the Consumer Protection Division and the Department of Justice. Finally, the center is providing $10,000 in support for five law students to spend time this summer studying in Tübingen,
More than twenty-five students participated in the Banking Institute, joining over 170 banking law professionals to learn about fintech, cybersecurity, privacy, Office of Foreign Asset Control sanctions, and other hot topics. The Banking Institute continues to be the signature event for the Center for Banking and Finance. “In addition to cutting edge continuing legal education for those in the bank regulatory world, it provides great opportunities for law students to meet and interact with those in the profession,” says Broome. Volume 23 of the North Carolina Banking Institute Journal was distributed at the Banking Institute. This volume contains important articles from industry professionals, including pieces on the global foreign exchange market and Bitcoin futures. Each of the seventeen student staff members published a note or comment in the journal on a variety of topics. This marks the first time that one hundred percent of staff members’ notes and comments have been published. “This is a tremendous feat and indicates the hard work of the student staff members, but also the 3L editors on the journal, Carolina Law faculty, and industry mentors who worked with our students to help them refine their topics into publishable notes. I couldn’t be prouder,” says Broome, who serves as the journal’s faculty advisor. NC Banking Institute Journal Scholarship Recipients Devon R. Tucker Endowed Scholarship
Morgan O. Schick
Scholarship Matching Endowed Scholarship
Rachel E. Brinson Marion A. Brown Erin A. Catlett Brad Cheek Brianne Marino Glass
Blake Leger E. Kylie Norman T. Nute Thompson
Summer Public Interest Fellowships Jeffrey E. Joseph
Rachel A. Stephens
Morgan O. Schick
James Weldon Whalen
N.C. DOJ Revenue Section
U.S. Department of Commerce
U.S. DOJ Consumer Protection branch N.C. DOJ Consumer Protection Division
Tübingen, Germany Summer Study Anna Huffman M.K. McKinney
Shayshari Potter Andrew Wisniewsky
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Center for Civil Rights Staff Visit Julius Chambers Exhibit in Mt. Gilead On March 3rd, Center for Civil Rights Director Ted Shaw and PepsiCo Civil Rights Fellow Allen Buansi '15 visited the hometown of the center’s late founder, Julius Chambers '62. At the invitation of the Mt. Gilead Museum, Shaw addressed a diverse audience at the Leah Levin Auditorium in downtown Mt. Gilead and spoke about Chambers’ life and legacy as a civil rights lawyer.
“This experience was the catalyst for Mr. Chambers’ journey to become one of the greatest civil rights attorneys of our time,” said Shaw. A mural honoring Chambers and created by Scott Nurkin of The Mural Shop in Chapel Hill is planned for downtown Mt. Gilead.
“He wasn't embraced by everybody,” Shaw said. “Even today I suspect there are some who aren't so interested in honoring his legacy. But in failing to do so we fail to honor ourselves.”
After a tour of the museum’s exhibit about Chambers, Shaw and Buansi visited the auto shop that belonged to Chambers’ father, where Chambers witnessed racial injustice prevent his father from seeking legal redress against a white man who refused to pay for his car repair services.
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Born in 1936, Chambers litigated several landmark Supreme Court cases, including but not limited to: Swann v. CharlotteMecklenburg Board of Education (1971); Griggs v. Duke Power Co. (1971) and Albemarle Paper Co. v. Moody (1975). He also headed the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, as its third director-counsel.
Former N.C. Lt. Gov. Bob Jordan, a Mt. Gilead resident, speaks with Professor Ted Shaw following Shaw’s talk about Mt. Gilead native Julius Chambers '62.
Media Law Center Hosts Interdisciplinary Lunch Series, Dinner with N.C. Supreme Court In February, UNC School of Government Professor Frayda Bluestein and UNC Center for Media Law co-director Tori Ekstrand, a professor in the School of Media and Journalism, spoke to students about government transparency in the age of social media, the First Amendment and good governance issues.
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In March, the enter co-sponsored the North Carolina Press Association’s (NCPA) annual dinner with the North Carolina Supreme Court. Students had the opportunity to mingle and dine with members of the NCPA Board of Directors and the justices on the North Carolina Supreme Court. Dual degree (JD/MA) students Kathryn Johnson, Ashley Fox, and Evan Ringel were each seated at a table with a Supreme Court Justice and members of the NCPA. During dinner, tables were given a list of discussion questions that addressed current issues regarding media access and the courts. Bluestein and Ekstrand.
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A Message from the Law Alumni Association: Investing in Faculty We are lucky at UNC School of Law to have an outstanding faculty to teach and mentor our students. I certainly am one who has richly benefitted from our professors. One in particular went the extra mile to give me career advice while a student and for many years thereafter. I am honored to have had Chancellor Ferebee Taylor as a law professor and mentor. His advice was instrumental in the professional path I have enjoyed. As a 3L, I had received a clerkship with the Honorable Sam J. Ervin III on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit and was planning to join a New York City law firm thereafter. I had been a summer associate at Simpson Thacher & Bartlett after my second year and really enjoyed the Wall Street litigation practice. Although I had received a permanent offer of employment from Simpson, I wanted to explore other law firms in Manhattan to join after my clerkship. During this time in the early to mid1980s, not very many students at Carolina Law went to the Wall Street firms. Chancellor Taylor, who had practiced law in New York prior to becoming the University’s fifth chancellor and a law professor, had a lot of advice and wisdom to share about starting one’s career in the Big Apple. He heard that I was planning to join a New York firm and invited me to his office to discuss my options. He shared his views of the best firms in the city and other insights in selecting the right firm. Because of his advice, I interviewed at the top firms and decided to accept an offer from Sullivan & Cromwell, the oldest firm on Wall Street. It was an excellent choice for me. I continued to stay in touch with Chancellor Taylor and received ongoing advice and mentoring as my career progressed. He never failed to inspire and give me the perspective I needed. When Chancellor Taylor passed away, I was honored and proud to help endow and launch the Ferebee N. Taylor Chancellors Scholars Program Fund. In his honor, I have stayed active in the Chancellors Scholars Program, both financially and in giving my time. He would be so pleased to see the caliber of students we attract to Carolina Law and the role that our faculty play in the Law School’s success. I’m sure there are many fellow alumni with similar stories of how a faculty member motivated them, guided them, championed them or asked them the questions that changed the path of their lives. Carolina Law faculty are consistently ranked in the top 25 by faculty at law schools across the country. Their scholarship is world renowned. Their research influences policy change. And their impact on the lawyer-leaders that graduate from Carolina Law is immeasurable. We can all credit a large part of the versatility of our law degrees to the caliber of the Carolina Law faculty who created unique learning opportunities and experiences in and out of the classroom to make us practice-ready advocates of justice. To compete with other schools, we need to attract and retain these worldrenowned scholars and teachers. We need to value their contributions to the foundation and the future of our profession. We also owe it to the students who are following in our footsteps.
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As part of For All Kind: the Campaign for Carolina, I ask that you please consider making a gift to Carolina Law in honor or memory of a faculty member who nurtured you as a young lawyer, even as Professor Ferebee Taylor did for me. KAREN POPP '85 PRESIDENT, UNC LAW ALUMNI ASSOCIATION PARTNER AND GLOBAL CO-LEADER OF WHITE COLLAR AND COMPLIANCE GROUP, SIDLEY AUSTIN, WASHINGTON, D.C.
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Jessica Holmes '09
A Public Servant for Education Equality and Labor Law
Carolina Law started preparing Jessica Holmes '09 for her legal career before she was even a law student. As a junior studying political science at Chapel Hill, she had a work-study placement at the UNC Center for Civil Rights. There she worked with faculty prominent in the field who became mentors. They included center founding director the late Julius Chambers '62; Anita Earls, now a North Carolina Supreme Court justice; and former Carolina Law Dean Jack Boger '74. Before the work-study experience, most of what Holmes knew about lawyers’ work came from “Law & Order” and other TV shows. Focusing on education inequities while at the center, she became familiar with the NAACP and the work of prominent civil rights attorneys. “It was a turning point in my understanding of what lawyers do and how they serve people,” Holmes says. “It changed the course of my life and gave me a direction. I’ve been on that course ever since,” advocating on issues related to education, voting rights, workers’ rights and poverty. Working at the center not only affirmed her decision to be a lawyer but defined her focus on education policy making and labor and employment law. Describing her experience with mentors at the center says, “we were people with similar goals and visions for our state, coming together determined to change the world in spite of the limited resources available to us.” Later, when she practiced law at the North Carolina Association of Educators, Holmes used her drive to change the world to achieve her biggest career accomplishment so far. She was on a litigation team that got career status — comparable to tenure — reinstated for certain educators by the state Supreme Court. The ruling overturned a state law that would have forced veteran educators to forfeit job protections they had earned. 16
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“That passion for education equity, supporting educators and advocating for workers was very much homegrown in small offices at Carolina Law,” says Holmes, a board member of the North Carolina Foundation for Public School Children. She will receive the Outstanding Recent Graduate Award from the UNC Law Alumni Association this spring. Re-elected in 2018 to the Wake County Board of Commissioners and to a second term as chairwoman, Holmes, of Cary, continues to work on issues of education and other challenges. “I’m able to implement policies that will hopefully address those issues for children,” she says. Holmes hopes to implement policies at a statewide level. She is a candidate for state Commissioner of Labor in 2020. “My end goal is to help people regardless of what my title is,” she says. UNC has influenced Holmes’ work in government as she represents more than a million constituents. “Carolina Law is very much ingrained in the fabric of who I am and how I present myself. I see it as a public-service institution, and I truly try to live by that,” she says. In teaching a course on the legal aspects of social work at North Carolina State University, Holmes has her experiences with Carolina Law faculty and her real-world opportunities as a law student to draw on. “My professors were patient and attentive with me whether I was dealing with personal challenges or having difficulty with a particular subject. I got the attention I needed,” she says. “They wanted you to thrive. I feel like I’ve done just that, and I want them to know their investment mattered.” — Jessica Clarke
A Career in Public Health Law: Virginia Niehaus '12 Virginia Radford Niehaus, '12 JD/'13 MPH, knows the powerful ways that public health and law can work together to improve people’s lives. During a Public Health Law Fellowship sponsored by the Network for Public Health Law and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, she had the privilege of working with the City of New Orleans to draft and implement a comprehensive smoke-free ordinance. As a student in the MPH program at the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health, Niehaus completed a practicum with the National Health Law Program and Network for Public Health Law that led to the fellowship opportunity. “It was great that we went from concept to development to implementation over the time I was in New Orleans,” Niehaus says. “The ordinance had a huge public health impact, but it was also professionally rewarding to have the opportunity to work on a policy at every phase. I was fortunate to be an integral part of the entire process and be able to effect real change.” Niehaus’s involvement with the smoke-free ordinance — which impacted more than 500 bars and a casino in New Orleans — is among her biggest career achievements. But it’s only one of a growing list of accomplishments. Last year, she was named Director of Regulatory and Legal Affairs for the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services, Division of Public Health. In her new role, Niehaus works on public health policy development through legislation and rulemaking and is Chief of Staff to the NC Commission for Public Health, the public health rulemaking body for North Carolina. She also consults with Division staff and local health departments on implementation and enforcement of public health statutes and rules, and advocates for the state’s public health policies and programs at local, state, and national meetings. In her position, Niehaus sits on the North Carolina Local Health Department Accreditation Board. As Director of Regulatory and Legal Affairs for the Division of Public Health, Niehaus is making an impact on issues as varied as communicable disease reporting and surveillance, environmental health permitting and inspections, and the prevention of chronic disease and injury. “The diversity of issues that come across my desk are challenging and fascinating,” she says. “I’m excited to support the excellent work that the Division is doing.”
At Carolina Law, Niehaus had diverse real-world experiences that helped prepare her for her career. “UNC does a good job setting students up for careers,” she says, with attentive career guidance, networking and internship opportunities, and student organizations, such as the Carolina Health Law Organization. Through her classes, she worked with a variety of health laws that helped shape her career decisions, such as the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, and Medicaid and Medicare laws. She has always been interested in how the health law framework impacts underserved populations. Niehaus’s pro bono experiences included volunteering with Disability Rights North Carolina to investigate compliance with Olmstead v. L.C. in adult care homes across the state, completing research assignments for Legal Aid of NC’s Medical-Legal Partnership, and drafting estate planning documents for low-income individuals in eastern NC. “Those opportunities were valuable because I had an opportunity to engage directly with real legal issues, meet the individuals impacted by the work I was doing, and connect with attorneys in the community,” she says. These hands-on experiences exposed Niehaus to various aspects of the health and law intersection. “Every perspective you can get helps…in trying to understand the health care system and look at the gaps and how we can do this better,” she says. In addition to the applied-learning opportunities, Carolina Law faculty members have had a lasting impact on Niehaus. Professors Joan Krause and Richard Saver developed health law classes in bioethics and health regulation as well as a public health law seminar that were valuable for Niehaus. “They are excellent resources and mentors for students interested in health law,” she says. Saver was a mentor for her public health master’s thesis. A career connecting law and health reflects the ability of Carolina Law graduates to work across disciplines. “I want to serve as a bridge,” Niehaus says, “to help public health have a seat at the table to put evidenced-based practice into policy. In this role, it is helpful to have someone who can speak both the language of public health and the language of law.” And for Niehaus, making a difference in two fields is exciting. “Being able to see the impact and effecting real change,” she says, “makes public interest work rewarding.” — Jessica Clarke
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Scholarship Golf Classic SEPTEMBER 13
UNC Finley Golf Course Play to pay it forward for the next generation of Tar Heel lawyer-leaders.
The ninth annual UNC Law Alumni Association Scholarship Golf Classic will take place September 13 at UNC Finley Golf Course. The Classic was canceled last year because of rain, but hopefully Mother Nature will be a little more kind and cooperative this year. Since its inception, the Classic has generated over $250,000 in scholarship assistance. Huseby Global Litigation Services is the title sponsor this year, but there are other opportunities for hole sponsorships at $2,500. This includes a foursome of golf, signage at the tournament and in our magazine and as well as a commemorative framed pin flag signed by all the varsity coaches. Sponsorship of a beverage cart is $1,500. A $2,500 sponsorship is available for lunch and for the 19th hole reception. Each of these sponsorships will be included in the signage as well as print pieces. Individual teams are $750 for a team of four. If someone wishes to be a hole sponsor but can’t field a team or is unable to make it, Carolina Law is happy to field a team of students to play on their behalf. Our student volunteers always look forward to assisting with the Classic and interacting with our alumni. If you are interested in sponsoring, bringing a team or volunteering for the tournament please contact Kelly Mann, Assistant Director of Alumni and Donor Relations, at mann@unc.edu or 919-445-1070. The Classic typically draws around 100 golfers so sign up early.
Nothing Could Be Finer Than to be
in Carolina in September
September 28
For those who prefer barbecue, bluegrass music and football, there’s Fall For All Weekend on September 28. Join fellow alumni, friends and family for North Carolina-style BBQ from Hursey’s as well as live bluegrass music. Grab a cold beer, a shady spot to tailgate with your classmates, and enjoy a variety of entertainment for the kids. Children six and under eat for free! Cheer on the Tar Heels as they take on the Clemson Tigers. Tickets will be available on a first-come, first-served basis in our reserved block of seats. Already have tickets? Join us for Bluegrass & BBQ and walk over to Kenan Stadium with our group before kickoff.
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Celebrating another 5 years since law school graduation!
Why I Come Back
“I come back for the comradery with my classmates. In addition, reunion offers the chance to reconnect with old friends, meet fellow alumni from other class years, and hear the latest news from Carolina Law. Of course, springtime in Chapel Hill is also hard to beat!” —J.M. Durnovich '14 Associate, Poyner Spruil
“I come back to UNC School of Law because of the critical importance that we stay engaged to provide feedback and program involvement for the impact not only upon Carolina Law but also the community. I also appreciate being able to see classmates, law professors and all the stakeholders especially as I embark upon my 35th anniversary!”
“I come back to catch up with classmates both personally and professionally. I also like reconnecting with the school and the faculty to see how the school has changed since I graduated. It’s always interesting to see what law school is like for students now.” —Laura Dean '09
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—Judge Rickye McKoy-Mitchell '84 Mecklenburg County District Court Judge
“I come back for the opportunity to spend time with my law school friends at the special place we all met.”
“I come back because, as interesting as Carolina Law students were in their 20s, they’re far more interesting now— remarkably diverse legal careers, unexpected life changes, and great generosity toward each other.”
—Jami Farris '99
Former Dean and Wade Edwards Distinguished Professor of Law, Emeritus
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—Jack Boger '74
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Carolina Law faculty are world-renowned scholars and teachers. When not in the classroom or office, they can be found on the lecture circuit, in the halls of local and federal government, working for the betterment of our community and helping students develop plans for successful careers. The law school is raising $75 million in the Campaign for Carolina, the University's campus-wide fundraising initiative. In part, your gifts will help recruit and retain the caliber of faculty who attract outstanding students and create meaningful learning experiences for our future lawyer-leaders. Investments in our faculty and staff are investments in the success of our students. Your gift makes more than a difference, it continues our legacy of service to the people of the state and beyond — For All Kind.
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Lolly Gasaway: Leader, Visionary, Donor Laura “Lolly” Gasaway’s career, which spans more than five decades, overflows with accolades and achievements. Yet instead of focusing on the past, she continues to keep her eyes focused on the present and the future. Gasaway, Paul B. Eaton Distinguished Professor at Law, emerita, served 21 years as director of Carolina Law’s Kathrine R. Everett Law Library and four years as associate dean for academic affairs before becoming a full-time law teacher. Looking to the future of the law library and wishing to support its continued excellence, Gasaway recently made a generous unrestricted testamentary gift to the law library. To recognize that gift and the countless ways Gasaway’s energy, enthusiastic leadership, and scholarship have inspired generations of students, in 2018 the Laura N. Gasaway Graduate Assistantship was named for her. “When I was the law library director, I had the idea for this graduate assistantship program because we had a great law school and the number one ranked library school in the country,” says Gasaway. “I thought we should take advantage of that and provide skills and experience for those who wanted to be law librarians.” The graduate assistantship, created in the mid 1990’s, gives on-the-ground experience and a stipend to students who are completing their graduate study in law or librarianship, preparing them for careers in law librarianship. Sara Farnsworth '19, who began the graduate assistantship in July 2018, says the assistantship was an important factor in her decision to attend Carolina Law. “I’m grateful for the opportunity to take the master’s in library science degree that I had already earned, apply the legal learning I am obtaining at Carolina Law and integrate those skills and talents in legal research,” she says. “The assistantship also put me on track to graduate law school debt-free.”
research,” says Anne Klinefelter, who succeeded Gasaway as law library director. “Graduate assistants (who ultimately earn both a J.D. degree and a master’s degree in library or information science) are able to develop skills and professional level work experience that makes them likely to find and succeed in their first job after school.” At the luncheon to honor this naming, former students and other colleagues returned to Chapel Hill to recognize Gasaway’s influence on their careers. “Many of them talked about how Lolly encouraged them to go beyond the traditional roles of librarians to take on management, technology and scholarly roles in the law school and teaching,” says Klinefelter. “They often talked about how they may not have ventured into these adjacent areas without Lolly. She certainly encouraged me to do things that were beyond my imagination.” Gasaway has been a creative force throughout her years at Carolina Law. She says that she loves how her career combines creativity, the ability to work with faculty and to teach, while instituting new technologies at Carolina Law. She exponentially expanded the digital footprint of the library’s resources. Klinefelter emphasizes the ongoing importance of Gasaway’s vision. “As a law professor, scholar, law library director, and someone who has visited many law schools for ABA inspections, Lolly recognizes how important the law library is to the success of the law school,” says Klinefelter. Gasaway agrees. “It’s critical to me that the UNC law library has continuing funding,” she says. “I wanted to give the money unrestricted, to give flexibility to whomever is the director of the library. Those of us who are fortunate enough to be able to give back need to. Higher education is a place that is in great need and we need to help continue the excellence of Carolina Law.” — Michele Lynn
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“Our graduate assistants learn how to provide reference service: advice to researchers who have reached a difficult point in the
Lolly Gasaway with recipients of the Laura N. Gasaway Graduate Assistantship. From left, Emily Roscoe, a Ph.D. student in the UNC School of Information and Library Science, Sara Farnsworth 3L, Gasaway, and Jasmine Plott 3L.
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WHY I GIVE We give to Carolina Law because we believe in its mission and want to do what we can to keep it strong.
Bob Mosteller, J. Dickson Phillips Distinguished Professor of Law, and S. Elizabeth Gibson '76, Burton Craige Professor of Law, Emerita, met while clerking for Judge J. Braxton Craven Jr. of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit.
S. ELIZABETH GIBSON '76: As an alumna and a now-retired professor, I give to Carolina Law because it has given so much to me. I received a stellar legal education that prepared me for opportunities that I couldn’t have imagined as a student, and I was privileged to have a wonderful career at the Law School for thirty-three years. When I attended in the 1970’s, the tuition was $121 a semester, so how could I not give back to an institution that gave me so much for so little?
ROBERT P. “BOB” MOSTELLER: As a graduate of UNC’s College of Arts and Sciences, I developed a deep love for Carolina because of the worldclass education it gave me and the way it introduced me to the world of ideas and a lifetime of learning. Carolina Law does the same for those who study law, and I was delighted to be able to finish my career as a law professor at Carolina Law and join in its effort be a truly great public law school.
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Professor Joe Kennedy and Kasi Wahlers '17 worked together on a research article about the overrepresentation of people of color in felony arrests for small amounts of drugs.
In researching a book about mass incarceration, Joe Kennedy, the Martha Brandis Professor of Law, tapped Kasi Wahlers '17, then a second-year law student at Carolina Law, to do a literature review for the drug chapter. A data set from the National IncidentBased Reporting System harbored some stats about arrests by local law enforcement agencies, but neither Kennedy nor Wahlers had worked with big data before. Wahlers took the CD-ROM to the Odum Institute at Davis Library for help downloading and converting the data to a usable form. Then she contacted Isaac Unah, a political science professor whose class she had taken as an undergraduate at UNC-Chapel Hill and who routinely works with quantitative data. She put him in touch with Kennedy, and the three began playing with the data and asking questions. They discovered information about the race of those arrested for drug offenses and the quantity of drugs involved that no one else had written about. All three are listed as co-authors on the resulting research article that re-thinks felony liability for low-level drug offenders and documents the overrepresentation of people of color in felony arrests for small amounts of drugs. Writing the research article, published in UC Davis Law Review in January, “was a chance to do something that would have more impact than just a grade,” Wahlers said. Many days, the paper is among the top 10 downloads, which suggests it will be cited in other research yet to come. “To see that my work was valuable had a big impact on me,” Wahlers said. “I’m fortunate to have had professors who believed in me and took the time to mentor me.”
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ATTRACTING & RETAINING WORLD-RENOWNED FACULTY
Connections and collaborations among faculty and students, across disciplines, around the world and even back in time, enrich the Carolina Law experience. Faculty create opportunities for hands-on learning through pro bono clinics, presenting Continuing Legal Education programs, international exchanges and reading the original law tracts used by lawyers practicing centuries ago. Professors at Carolina Law are valued for their teaching, and they produce excellent legal scholarship.
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“Those two reputations don’t always go hand-in-hand,” Kennedy said, “but they do here.”
Professors Joan Krause and Rich Saver, co-faculty advisers for the Carolina Health Law Organization (CHLO), worked with members Alec Mercolino 2L, Nur Kara 2L and Nicole Angelica 1L on a grant to increase low-income access to medical resources.
Physical proximity proved a boon in the expanding curriculum of the health law program at UNC. The medical school, law school and school of public health make their home on South Campus. Research Triangle Park has many biotechnology stakeholders; some of the major health employers in the country are headquartered in the Triangle; and North Carolina is transforming its Medicaid system. Richard Saver, Arch T. Allen Distinguished Professor of Law, considers this “an exciting time in health law, because things are constantly changing in the highly regulated and politicized health care sector.” He and Joan Krause, the Dan K. Moore Distinguished Professor in Ethics and Jurisprudence, teach a course at the medical school in which law students and medical students work on
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projects in interdisciplinary groups. Law students also work pro bono at UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, preparing advanced directives for patients. Saver serves as co-faculty adviser to the student-run Carolina Health Law Organization. He knew that the N.C. Bar Association’s Health Law Section (he’s on its executive council) had taken on a project to provide information to state residents looking for free or discounted medical care. Saver connected CHLO’s president, Nur Kara, a second-year law student, with the N.C. Society of Health Care Attorneys, which had grant funding available. Kara successfully applied for a $1,500 grant and developed important pragmatic skills in project administration, including how to handle “the less-than-thrilling aspects of fundraising and the bureaucratic minefields you have to navigate to get a grant through the university system,” Saver said. The project has helped CHLO students move beyond the classroom by connecting them with health lawyers in practice. With funding in hand, the CHLO students have been compiling and will distribute a resource for finding clinics and providers that offer free or discounted medical care. Kara, who has a master’s in health policy, chose Carolina Law in part because of the benefit of collaborating with faculty partners at the medical and public health schools and because UNC’s health system is the largest nonprofit provider of health care in the state. “Carolina Law is small enough to have very invested faculty,” she said. “Professors here come with diverse experience across private practice, public interest and international
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law. They are more than willing to mentor students inside the classroom and outside.”
Semester exchange students from Germany, Spain, Argentina and the Netherlands visited the N.C. Supreme Court in Raleigh in October to observe oral arguments as part of their Introduction to U.S. Law class with Professor Donna Nixon, center.
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Those inside and outside experiences have an international mix. Donna Nixon, a clinical assistant professor of law and the electronic resources librarian, was until recently the faculty coordinator of the International Exchange Programs. Carolina Law has partnerships with 10 institutions, many in Europe, as well as Argentina and Mexico. Tar Heel JD students may study abroad for six months to a year, and students from the partner institutions may come to Carolina, often to earn an LLM. The school frequently welcomes scholars from Asia as well. Faculty, too, participate in international exchanges and scholarship and have been known to go as far afield as Australia. “We get the opportunity for intellectual and cultural exchanges and to learn the differences in legal systems around the world,” Nixon said. Carolina Law’s participation in international moot court competitions adds another global layer. Nixon also takes students, foreign and domestic, to hear cases argued before the N.C. Supreme Court. “Students get to see how lawyers handle themselves in court in high-stakes cases,”
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John Brooker '03 guest lectures in Professor Tom Kelley's public international law class.
Tom Kelley, Paul B. Eaton Distinguished Professor of Law, invited alumni with international public law experience as guest lecturers to the public international law course he began teaching this spring. He Skyped in Dan MacGuire '07, who works in Geneva for the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees, and Rachel Braden '13, who works on women’s health issues with an NGO in Central and West Africa and now in India. He walked down the hall to the office of John Brooker '03, who spent much of
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his Army career living in interesting, difficult and dangerous places as he practiced humanitarian law and the law of armed conflict and now supervises Carolina Law’s Military and Veterans Law Clinic. The three alumni talk about the interpretation and application of international law, as well as their career paths. “If you want to be a corporate litigator, the path is clear,” Kelley said. “Finding the path to a career in public international law is much more challenging. You don’t just bump into people practicing international law, particularly public international law.” Kelley has taken students to Rwanda for study abroad excursions, and he points to pivotal efforts by his colleagues on the faculty: Holning Lau’s work on human rights in Africa and Asia, and Deborah Weissman’s work on torture in the international realm. “We have excellent scholarly and research faculty,” Kelley said, “and we care, maybe more than our peer schools, about classroom teaching and guiding and mentoring the next generation of leaders in law. We want to spark students’ imaginations, because we
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want them to have high-impact and enjoyable careers.”
Elizabeth Fisher 3L co-authors an article with law professor and Associate Dean for Strategy Andy Hessick to be published in the Alabama Law Review.
Third-year law student Elizabeth Fisher got a jump on her career by co-authoring an article with law professor and Associate Dean for Strategy Andy Hessick that will be published in Alabama Law Review. She had been published last year in North Carolina Law Review, but, she said, “it’s different to get published in a journal with a professor.”
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When Hessick asked her to work with him on writing up a theory that provides justification for not incorporating the 5th, 6th and 7th Amendment jury rights, she hesitated before saying yes. “I wanted to make sure I could do a good job and still manage school and other responsibilities,” she said. “It was very time-consuming and challenging working on something so unfamiliar.” Fisher credits her good writing skills to Melissa Jacoby, the Graham Kenan Professor of Law, whose feedback was instrumental in shaping how Fisher thought, researched and wrote. “The faculty here are very approachable,” Fisher said, “always willing to listen and help.”
Resident Superior Court Judge Allen Baddour '97, Clinical Assistant Professor and Assistant Director for Collection and Technology Services Stacey Rowland and Jonathan Zator 3L present a CLE session on technology at the Susie Sharp Inn of Court.
Being part of the Susie Sharp Inn of Court helped third-year law student Jonathan Zator learn that judges can be approachable, too. Carolina Law pays the membership fee for a handful of students annually. The Inn meets a half-dozen times a year for dinner and a CLE presentation, enabling students to connect with lawyers and judges informally and learn about topical issues in the law field, while longtime practitioners are reinvigorated by the students’ energy and passion for law. This year, the Carolina Law student contingent planned and presented a CLE session on technology. Resident Superior Court Judge Allen Baddour '97 advised the students on making the session relevant to practitioners from a wide range of career experience.
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Zator, as the chief planner among the presenters, learned how to build a CLE from the ground up, recruit talent and interact with others in the field. He and his team chose Clinical Assistant Professor Stacey Rowland, who is also the assistant director for Collection and Technology Services for the Kathrine R. Everett Law Library, to present on the hidden powers of Word that save lawyers time and boost their efficiency. Automating page suppression in a digital filing or autogenerating a table of authorities are useful skills for lawyers. “Since the economic downturn, professional services have been cut at law firms,” Rowland said. “Clients are not willing to pay for some of those services. Automating will help if you can’t charge for those services.” North Carolina adopted a duty of technology competence in 2014, becoming the second state to require an hour of CLE training in technology, such as using reasonable security methods on- and offline. Rowland cites Paul Manafort, whose legal problems were compounded because he didn’t redact his court filings properly. Failing to correctly redact sensitive information is a common technical oversight and a breach of the required duty of technology competence. “Saying, ‘My secretary did it,’ is not a valid excuse,” Rowland said.
Practitioners become better lawyers through the research conducted by professors and their students. John Coyle, the Reef C. Ivey II Term Professor of Law, has presented his research on choice-of-law and forumselection clauses to law firms around the state, helping transactional lawyers write better contracts. “I have read hundreds upon STEVE EXUM
hundreds of cases in an attempt to
John Coyle, the Reef C. Ivey II Term Professor of Law, presents his research on choice-of-law clauses at law firms around North Carolina.
show how courts have interpreted specific words and phrases in these clauses,” he said. “Having done so, I
wanted to pass these insights along to the lawyers tasked with contract drafting.” In reviewing cases that may date back 130 years, Coyle finds the inflection point of when words or phrases changed or went out of fashion. He understands not only how contract language changes over time, but what forces drive that evolution. His
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work reveals common misperceptions and offers a roadmap to help lawyers avoid unintended consequences. Coyle’s goal is to continue presenting his choice-of-law
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clause work to new audiences in North Carolina and beyond.
Clinical Assistant Professor Melissa Hyland '13, the reference and faculty research services librarian, with items from the rare books collection (1) Cane – from the UNC Law Class of 1890, engraved with names of students and faculty; (2) Chitty on Pleading – an 1809 edition containing the signature of Thomas Ruffian, former Chief Justice of the NC Supreme Court; (3) a first edition (1759) of Blackstone’s The Great Charter and Charter of the Forest; (4) a 1965 miniature edition of Magna Carta.
Law students learn from history through the Kathrine R. Everett Law Library’s Rare Book Collection. Clinical Assistant Professor Melissa Hyland '13, the reference and faculty research services librarian, brings rare books to the legal history class taught by John Orth, the William Rand Kenan Jr. Professor of Law. History comes alive for students as they interact with law texts dating back to the mid-1500s or titles originally owned by prominent North Carolina attorneys such as William Hooper, the state’s representative to the Continental Congress and a signer of the Declaration of Independence. “That gets students excited,” Hyland said. “They see physical evidence of how the law was used by attorneys practicing at the time, and discuss how lawyers influenced the development of American jurisprudence.” With more than 500,000 print volumes in the law library and her own experience as a practicing attorney, Hyland helps teach the next generation of lawyers how to conduct legal research in practice. “I watch students grow in their confidence as legal researchers,” she said. “A solid foundation of legal research skills will help students succeed in any practice area.”
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One final example of how student/ faculty collaborations impact the legal profession and society’s understanding of how it works: Carissa Hessick’s Prosecutors and Politics Project. Hessick, the Anne Shea Ransdell & William Garland Ransdell Jr. Distinguished Professor of Law and associate dean for faculty development, leads students KATHERINE KERSHAW
in a new initiative to discover how
Jenny Cofer 2L and Professor Carissa Hessick published an op-ed about their research on prosecutor campaign contributions in The Kansas City Star in February.
prosecutors are affected by and participate in the political process. Courts typically decline to oversee or limit the discretion and
power prosecutors have, because elected or appointed prosecutors are politically accountable. Prosecutors decide who is charged and with what. Over the past few decades, the criminal justice system has grown increasingly punitive. Hessick and her students conducted a study of every prosecutor election held in the country. The results showed that incumbency is one reason those elections are so rarely contested. Her research team also identified a supply problem of not enough lawyers willing and able to serve as prosecutors. Her article based on this study will come out soon. Carolina Law also received a major donation for Hessick’s students to research prosecutors accepting political campaign contributions. They found that some district attorneys, sheriffs and judges contributed to one another’s campaigns. “Those donations can get in the way of the separation of powers and functions,” Hessick said. Hessick has co-authored with students a series of op-eds that have appeared in major newspapers across the country. Her students learn how to make public records requests in different places with different laws; how to distill data down to laymen’s terms; and how to write op-eds that argue for policy changes. “These are things that lawyers do, but it’s not easy to teach,” she said. Hessick finds students at Carolina Law to mirror faculty — “really thoughtful, nice people who ask hard questions and spend a lot of time trying to be well-informed. “People at Carolina Law work really hard, and they do it without glory.” And the world is a better place because of it. 32
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We love keeping up with our alumni! Class Notes and Published Recognitions are compiled from information submitted by alumni and press releases received from law firms. Please submit your class notes online at www.law.unc.edu/alumni/news/classnotes or contact us at law_alumni@unc.edu.
1969 The Honorable Sarah E. Parker received the Chief Justice’s Professionalism Award at the 20-year anniversary celebration of the North Carolina Chief Justice’s Commission on Professionalism.
Gary S. Parsons, partner at Brooks Pierce in Raleigh, N.C., was recognized in the 2019 North Carolina Super Lawyers as a “Super Lawyer” for business litigation. Parsons was also recognized in the Top 100 North Carolina Lawyers and Top 10 North Carolina Lawyers lists.
1978
Holmes P. Harden, partner at Williams
Ronald L. Gibson, partner at Ruff, Bond,
Mullen in Raleigh, N.C., was recognized in the 2019 Business North Carolina as a “Legal Elite” for bankruptcy.
Cobb, Wade & Bethune, L.L.P. in Charlotte, N.C., received the Chief Justice’s Professionalism Award at the 20-year anniversary celebration of the North Carolina Chief Justice’s Commission on Professionalism.
Mark A. Sternlicht, managing partner at 1975 Amos C. Dawson III, partner at Williams Mullen in Raleigh, N.C., was recognized in the 2019 Business North Carolina as a “Legal Elite” for environmental law. Justice Robert H. Edmunds, counsel at Fox Rothschild LLP in Greensboro, N.C., received the Chief Justice’s Professionalism Award at the 20-year anniversary celebration of the North Carolina Chief Justice’s Commission on Professionalism. The Honorable Robert F. Orr received the Chief Justice’s Professionalism Award at the 20-year anniversary celebration of the North Carolina Chief Justice’s Commission on Professionalism.
Beaver Courie Sternlicht Hearp & Broadfoot, P.A. in Fayetteville, N.C., was recognized in the 2019 Best Lawyers for personal injury litigation—plaintiffs.
1982 William Johnson was named chief executive officer and president of California's largest power company PG&E. Johnson was previously president and CEO of the Tennessee Valley Authority for six years.
Samuel H. “Lee” Poole Jr., partner at 1979 Katherine McArthur Floyd, founder and
Cranfill Sumner & Hartzog in Raleigh, N.C., was recognized in the February 2019 North Carolina Super Lawyers as a “Super Lawyer” for personal injury medical malpractice, defense.
owner of McArthur Law Firm in Macon, Ga., was recognized as a 2019 Georgia “Super Lawyer”.
M. Keith Kapp, partner at Williams Mullen
1983
in Raleigh, N.C., was recognized as a “Legal Elite” in Business North Carolina, and as the top vote-getter in the business category, Kapp was inducted into the Legal Elite Hall of Fame.
Robert C. Port, partner at Gaslowitz Frankel LLC in Atlanta, Ga., was recognized as a Georgia “Super Lawyer” in securities litigation and trusts & estates litigation. This is Port’s 11th consecutive year being named a Georgia “Super Lawyer”.
1980
Mack Sperling, partner at Brooks Pierce in Greensboro, N.C., was recognized in the 2019 North Carolina Super Lawyers as a “Super Lawyer” for business litigation.
1977
David N. Allen, partner at Nelson Mullins
Richard T. Boyette, partner at Cranfill
Riley & Scarborough LLP in Charlotte, N.C., was recognized in Business North Carolina as a “Legal Elite”.
Sumner & Hartzog in Raleigh, N.C., was recognized in the February 2019 North Carolina Super Lawyers magazine as a “Super Lawyer” for professional liability, defense.
at Brooks Pierce in Greensboro, N.C., was recognized in the 2019 North Carolina Super Lawyers for business litigation.
1981
1973 Dan M. Hartzog, of counsel at Cranfill Sumner & Hartzog in Raleigh, N.C., was recognized in the February 2019 North Carolina Super Lawyers as a “Super Lawyer” for civil litigation, defense.
S. Leigh “Bo” Rodenbough IV, partner
James F. Ammons Jr. was re-elected a Superior Court Judge for Cumberland County, N.C., and has been a judge since 1988.
Alan M. Wolper, partner at Ulmer & Berne LLP in Chicago, was recognized as a 2019 Illinois “Super Lawyer” for securities litigation.
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1989
1994
Ramona C. O’Bryant joined Williams Mullen as a partner in Raleigh, N.C.
A. Bradley “Brad” Ives, UNC Associate
H. Arthur “Arty” Bolick II, partner at
Vice Chancellor for Campus Enterprises and Chief Sustainability Officer, received the 2018 Individual Energy Leader Award from the North Carolina Sustainable Energy Association for his leadership on both the NC Energy Storage Study through the NC Policy Collaboratory and the proposed Green Source Advantage program.
Brooks, Pierce, McLendon, Humphrey & Leonard, LLP in Raleigh, N.C., was recognized in the 2019 Business North Carolina as “Legal Elite” for construction law and in the 2019 North Carolina Super Lawyers for construction litigation.
1986 Craig T. Lynch, partner at Parker Poe in Charlotte, N.C., was inducted into the National Multiple Sclerosis (MS) Society’s Volunteer Hall of Fame for his 25 years of work on behalf of people affected by MS. Lynch serves on the organization’s national advisory council and has previously served on its board of directors and executive committee, including positions as vice chair and secretary. Scott P. Vaughn, partner at McGuire Woods in Charlotte, N.C., was recognized in the 2019 Business North Carolina as a “Legal Elite”.
1987 Stephanie H. Autry, partner at Cranfill Sumner & Hartzog in Raleigh, N.C., was recognized in the February 2019 North Carolina Super Lawyers as a “Super Lawyer” for civil litigation, defense.
John W. Ormand III, partner at Brooks Pierce in Raleigh, N.C., was recognized in the 2019 North Carolina Super Lawyers as a “Super Lawyer” for business litigation. Robert E. Thackston joined Lathrop Gage LLP as a partner and leader in Dallas.
Joanna Carey Cleveland is vice president and university counsel for the University of Puget Sound in Tacoma, Wash.
1990 William T. Barto is chair and chief judge of the Administrative Review Board of the U.S. Department of Labor in Washington, D.C. Steven B. Epstein, partner at Poyner Spruill LLP in Raleigh, N.C., published "Murder on Birchleaf Drive" (Black Lyon Publishing, 2019), about the Jason Young murder case tried in Wake County in 2011 and 2012.
R. Andrew Patty II, member of McGlinchy Stafford in Baton Rouge, La., is vice-chair of the American Intellectual Property Law Association’s Chemical Practice Committee for a two-year term.
1992 Elizabeth S. "Libby" Brewington, partner at Brooks, Pierce, McLendon, Humphrey & Leonard in Greensboro, N.C., was named in the Triad Business Journal’s “Outstanding Women in Business.”
1995 John M. Cross Jr., partner at Brooks, Pierce, McLendon, Humphrey & Leonard, LLP in Greensboro, N.C., was recognized in the 2019 Business North Carolina as “Legal Elite” for business law. Kearns Davis, partner at Brooks, Pierce, McLendon, Humphrey & Leonard, LLP in Greensboro, N.C., was recognized in the 2019 North Carolina Super Lawyers as “Legal Elite” for white collar. He was also recognized in the Top 100 North Carolina Lawyers and Top 10 North Carolina Lawyers lists.
Randolph B. Houston, senior counsel for business and legal affairs for Complex Networks, a contemporary pop culture media company in New York, will become the 81st president of the Penn State Alumni Association in July. Houston will hold the position for two years, after which he will represent the Alumni Association on Penn State’s Board of Trustees for another two years.
in Greensboro, N.C., was recognized in the 2019 North Carolina Super Lawyers for business/ corporate law.
Walt L. Tippett Jr., partner at Brooks Pierce in Raleigh, N.C., was recognized in the 2019 North Carolina Super Lawyers as a “Super Lawyer” for business litigation.
Seymour and Pease LLP in Columbus, Ohio, was recognized as a 2019 Ohio “Super Lawyer” for employment and labor law.
1993
1996
Chief Justice Mark D. Martin resigned
Perry S. “Rip” Warren was re-elected to
Isaiah D. Delemar, of the U.S. Department of the Interior, led a team of lawyers and National Park Service professionals that acquired Camp Nelson in Jessamine County, Ky. After the National Park Service acquired the land, President Donald Trump designated Camp Nelson as a National Monument because of its use by the Union Army as an emancipation site and refugee camp during the U.S. Civil War.
John M. Cross Jr., partner at Brooks Pierce 1988 Allen S. Kinzer, partner at Vorys, Sater,
February 28, 2019, to become dean of Regent University School of Law in Virginia Beach, Va.
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a second two-year term in the Pennsylvania House of Representatives.
Charles F. Marshall, partner at Brooks Pierce in Raleigh, N.C., was recognized in the 2019 North Carolina Super Lawyers as a “Super Lawyer” for business litigation.
2005
2008
Jenny M. McKellar joined the Office of
Colin S. Baker was elevated to shareholder at
University Counsel at East Carolina University as an associate university attorney.
Greenberg Traurig, P.A. in Orlando, Fla.
1997 Jaya Saxena joined White & Case LLP as an W. Carleton Metcalf was appointed United States Magistrate for the Western District of North Carolina and commenced his duties on November 1, 2018.
1998 Kristin G. Caid joined Norton Rose Fulbright as a partner in Denver.
Americas diversity manager in Washington, D.C.
Elizabeth E. Spainhour, partner at Brooks, Pierce, McLendon, Humphrey & Leonard, LLP in Raleigh, N.C., is certified as a specialist in privacy and information security law by the North Carolina State Bar Board of Legal Specialization (NCBLS). Kara P. Wheatley joined Groom Law Group in Washington, D.C., as of counsel.
1999 Carlos E. Mahoney, of Glenn, Mills, Fisher & Mahoney, P.A. in Durham, N.C., was inducted into the International Society of Barristers in April 2018. Mahoney also completed serving a 3-year term on the ACLU Executive Committee and Board of Directors and a 1-year term as president of the Eastern NC Chapter of the American Board of Trial Advocates.
Kristi K. Walters is a program officer at The Duke Endowment in Charlotte.
2002 Robert C. Van Arnam, partner at Williams Mullen in Raleigh, N.C., was recognized in the 2019 Business North Carolina “Legal Elite” for intellectual property.
Jaime L. Chapman, of Young Conaway Stargett & Taylor, LLP in Wilmington, Del., was elected counsel.
Dan Hartzog Jr., partner at Cranfill Sumner & Hartzog in Raleigh, N.C., was recognized in the February 2019 North Carolina Super Lawyers as a “Rising Star” for state/local/municipalities. Melody J. Jolly, partner at Cranfill Sumner & Hartzog in Wilmington, N.C., was recognized in the February 2019 North Carolina Super Lawyers as a “Rising Star” for professional liability, defense. Anne C. Warren joined Williams Mullen in
2003
Rosenzweig, PLLC, a law firm specializing in the defense of construction accident and premises liability claims in New York.
2004 Angela M. Liu was promoted to partner at Dechert LLP in Chicago.
Rose Cordero Prey joined Greenberg Traurig, LLP
Meredith W. Hubbard joined Dysart Willis as a partner in Raleigh, N.C.
Andrew L. Magaziner, of Young Conaway Stargett & Taylor, LLP in Wilmington, Del., was elected as partner. Ruby L. Powers, managing attorney of Powers
2006
Raleigh, N.C., as of counsel.
Douglas R. Rosenzweig founded Fuchs
Eric M. David, partner at Brooks, Pierce, McLendon, Humphrey & Leonard, LLP in Raleigh, N.C., was named as a 2018 “Leader in the Law” by North Carolina Lawyers Weekly and was recognized in the 2019 Business North Carolina as “Legal Elite” for litigation.
2007 Kimberly D. Bishop, of The Bishop Law Firm in Raleigh, N.C., was recognized as a “Rising Star” by Super Lawyers in 2016 through 2018.
Adam P. Tarleton, of Brooks, Pierce, McLendon, Humphrey & Leonard, LLP in Greensboro, N.C., was recognized in the 2019 Business North Carolina as “Legal Elite” for tax and estate planning and as a “Rising Star” for schools & education.
Law Group in Houston, opened a second office in Hackensack, N.J., was recognized as a “Rising Star” by Super Lawyers, and was named “Top Lawyer” by Houstonia Magazine. Powers was featured on PBS News Hour, the “Our Voices Matter” podcast and in the American Bar Association Journal discussing immigration issues.
Martin M. “Marty” Rosenbluth, of Polanco Law PC in Lumpkin, Ga., published an article in The Washington Post about his experience with a client in immigration law and was featured on TBS speaking with Samantha Bee about his work on behalf of clients at Stewart Detention Center in Lumpkin, Ga.
2009 Sarah H. Brennan of Lippes Mathias Wexler Friedman LLP in Buffalo, N.Y., was promoted to partner.
2010 Claire H. Duff, senior assistant county attorney at the Wake County Attorneys’ Office in Raleigh, N.C., was selected to join the North Carolina Bar Association’s Leadership Academy Class of 2019.
Taylor T. Haywood was promoted to partner at Akerman LLP in Denver.
as a shareholder in New York.
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Daniel F. Smith, partner at Brooks, Pierce, McLendon, Humphrey & Leonard, LLP in Greensboro, N.C., was selected in the 2019 Business North Carolina as a “Rising Star” for civil litigation: defense.
2011
2013
2015
Christina D. Cress joined Nichols, Choi & Lee,
Timothy L. McKeever joined Smith Anderson as an associate in Raleigh, N.C.
PLLC, in Raleigh, N.C., as a senior associate. She also was selected to join the North Carolina Bar Association’s Leadership Academy Class of 2019.
Elizabeth D. Scott, partner at Williams Mullen
Stuart L. Pratt, of Robinson Bradshaw & Hinson PA in Charlotte, N.C., was elected as a shareholder.
Angela R. Spong joined Tillman, Whichard & Cagle, PLLC as an associate in Chapel Hill, N.C.
2012
in Raleigh, N.C., was recognized in the 2019 Business North Carolina as “Legal Elite” and as the top vote-getter in the litigation category. Scott was also inducted into the Legal Elite Hall of Fame.
Michael B. Cohen, associate at Cranfill Sumner & Hartzog in Raleigh, N.C., was selected in the February 2019 North Carolina Super Lawyers as a “Rising Star” for civil litigation, defense.
Jessica B. Thaller-Moran, of Brooks, Pierce, McLendon, Humphrey & Leonard, LLP in Raleigh, N.C., was named to the Diabetes Family Connection board of directors. Thaller-Moran serves on the board with five other members of the community.
Patrick Cross joined Brooks, Pierce, McLendon, Humphrey & Leonard, LLP as an associate in Raleigh, N.C.
Lisa W. Arthur, associate at Fox Rothschild LLP in Greensboro, N.C, was recognized in the 2019 Triad Business Journal “40 Under 40” list.
2014
Kara M. Brunk, associate at Smith Anderson
Anderson A. Chang joined Indigo Agriculture
in Raleigh, N.C., was selected to join the North Carolina Bar Association’s Leadership Academy Class of 2019.
James R. Lawrence III was promoted to partner at Michael Best & Friedrich LLP in Raleigh, N.C.
as senior legal counsel in Charlestown, Mass.
Rachel P. Nicholas, of Schwartz & Shaw PLLC in Raleigh, N.C., was selected to join the North Carolina Bar Association’s Leadership Academy Class of 2019.
Virginia M. Wooten, associate at Cranfill
Timothy G. Nelson, partner at Brooks Pierce in Raleigh, N.C., was recognized in the 2019 Business North Carolina as a “Rising Star” for communications.
2016
Sumner & Hartzog in Charlotte, N.C., was recognized in the February 2019 North Carolina Super Lawyers as a “Rising Star” for civil litigation, plaintiff.
Philip Johnson joined the litigation practice at Maynard, Cooper & Gale, P.C. in Huntsville, Ala., as an associate.
2017 David A. Pasley joined Smith Anderson as an associate in Raleigh, N.C.
2018 Kerry E. Dutra joined Hall, Render, Killian, Heath & Lyman, LLP as an associate in Raleigh, N.C. Lauren P. Russell joined Morris, Nichols, Arsht, & Tunnell LLP as an associate in Wilmington, Del.
Patrick D. Wilson joined Smith Anderson as an associate in Raleigh, N.C.
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