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July 28
Women's Celebration with Holly Fujie '78 and
Eleanor Swift
Please join us for a reception celebrating the
women of Boalt Hall at 6 p.m. at Bingham McCutchen in Los Angeles. The evening will be a
wonderful opportunity for alums and students to develop mentorships, build a
professional network and create new friendships. You will also hear from two of Boalt's most accomplished women, California State
Bar President Holly Fujie '78 and Professor Eleanor Swift. Thanks to Debra Fischer '89
and Bingham McCutchen for hosting. RSVP online here,
by emailing rsvp@law.berkeley.edu or
by calling 510.643.6673.
July 30
Eric Talley Discusses the U.S. Banking System
Alumni and students are invited to attend an
evening reception with Professor Eric Talley at 6 p.m. at Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati in Palo Alto. Professor Talley, who also serves as faculty co-director of BCLBE, will discuss law and
risk regulation as part of his work with the Congressional Oversight Panel
assessing the Treasury's bank stress tests. Thanks to host Steven Bochner '81 and
Wilson Sonsini Goodrich and Rosati for its sponsorship. As this event is expected to reach
capacity, kindly RSVP now by emailing rsvp@law.berkeley.edu
or calling 510.643.6673.
July 30
MBA and Law Admissions 101
Boalt Hall and Haas Business
School present a special information
session on graduate admissions offered exclusively to the
family and friends of our alumni from 6-8 p.m. Guests will
learn best practices on the application process from insider experts Boalt Hall
Assistant Dean of Admissions Edward Tom, and Haas Director of Admissions Peter Johnson. Special thanks to Haas alum Joe Breen '82 and his law firm Seyfarth Shaw for hosting this event. This
event has reached capacity. To be added to the waiting list, please contact
Denise Quintana at dquintana@seyfarth.com or
415-732-1111.
July 31
Alumni Reception at the American Bar Association
Annual Meeting
We're delighted to invite you to join fellow
alumni for a reception held on the occasion of the American Bar Association's
annual meeting in Chicago. You'll enjoy a great evening socializing with old and new friends from Boalt,
as well as hear from alumni board member Nan Joesten '97. This special gathering will take place from 6-8 p.m. at the Hyatt Regency,
located at 151 East Wacker Drive in Chicago. RSVP online here,
by emailing rsvp@law.berkeley.edu or
by calling 510.643.6673.
August 11
Exclusive Career Development Workshop for Alumni
The Career Development Office invites alumni to attend a
special workshop designed to provide the latest information on hiring trends
and targeted guidance on job searching and networking in a challenging legal
market. This session will cover:
- Job Search Tips in a
Challenging Economy
- How to Revamp Your
Application Materials- Developing a Networking Plan
- Getting Your Name Out There
and Keeping Your Skills Fresh- Hiring Trends: Government,
Private Sector, Public Interest
This workshop will take place on Tuesday, Aug 11, 2009
from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. at Boalt Hall. Kindly RSVP in advance as space is
limited. Email mrabkin@law.berkeley.edu
to secure your place.
September 12
Alumni Reception at the California
State Bar Annual Meeting in San Diego
Join
your fellow alums at this very special event with State Bar President Holly
Fujie '78. The gathering will be held
from 6-8 p.m. at Fleming's Steakhouse, 380 K Street, San Diego. RSVP now by emailing rsvp@law.berkeley.edu
or calling 510.643.6673.
October 8-11
All Alumni Reunion - Discount hotel rooms still available for 2009
alumni weekend!
A limited number of
discounted rooms are available at The Palace Hotel in San Francisco during the
All-Alumni Reunion, October 8-11. Reserve a discounted Palace Hotel room online
here or by calling
1.888.627.7196 before August 1. Please reference "Boalt Hall.''
Festivities will be held at the hotel on the evenings of October 8 and 10, and
you may find it a convenient spot for your Bay Area stay. We advise you to book
early to take advantage of the discounted rate, particularly as Fleet Week is
scheduled at this same time.
Check out more All-Alumni Reunion details here.
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Boalt Hall Celebrates Second Best Fundraising Year!
 Thanks to the generosity and loyalty of the law school community, Boalt Hall celebrated the close of fiscal year 2009 with its second best fundraising year. The $3.8 million pledge by Campaign Cabinet Chair Elizabeth Cabraser '78 to the Boalt Hall Fund helped the dean's discretionary fund reach its highest earnings yet. Among other notable gifts, the law firm of Coblentz, Patch, Duffy & Bass made a $500,000 gift, the largest law firm gift to Boalt, in honor of one of its partners, to establish the Coblentz Civil Rights Endowment Fund. Also, a $1.7 million gift from the estate of John B. Hall established the John B. Hall Public Interest Endowed Scholarship Fund. Support from more than 40 foundations and corporations and cy-pres awards played a significant role in keeping Campaign fundraising on pace, despite the economic slowdown. Boalt Hall will celebrate the philanthropy of its alumni and donors in its annual report, to be published in the fall.
Coming Soon - 2010 Boalt Hall Alumni Directory
Plans are underway for a printed Boalt Hall Alumni
Directory to be published in January 2010. The directory will
contain listings of Boalt Hall graduates and the business and personal
information they elect to provide. Beginning later this month, alumni
will be contacted for their participation. For questions about the
project, please contact Megan Smith, director of Alumni Relations, at
510.642.0612 or mlsmith@law.berkeley.edu. The book will be a valuable tool for finding lost friends, identifying
graduates in various law specialties or locales to whom you want to refer
clients, and just keeping in touch with Boalt.
Expanding Career Services for Alumni and Students
In response to these challenging economic times, the Career Development Office will hire two additional experienced attorney-professionals. One will focus on assisting alumni with career transitions, and the other will help students interested in public interest careers. If you or a colleague are interested in applying, the alumni counselor position can be found here, and the student counselor position is here. Please note that in order to be considered, candidates must apply online via the above links to the UC Berkeley jobs site. However, in addition to submitting a resume and cover online, please also email your application materials directly to Terrence J. Galligan, assistant dean for career development, at tgalligan@law.berkeley.edu.
Earn CLE! Web
coverage of SCOTUS Environmental Law Decisions
This has been a blockbuster year in the U.S.
Supreme Court for environmental law and policy.
In the term that concluded June 2009, the justices decided five
major environmental cases involving many of the nation's most important
environmental laws. The Center for Law,
Energy & the Environment (CLEE) invites you to watch its webcast assessing the
impact of these recent rulings and the dissonance between the high court and
the Ninth Circuit on environmental law and policy. The webcast and CLE
information can be found online here.
Remembering Paul Mishkin, Emanuel S. Heller Professor
of Law, Emeritus
 Beloved professor Paul Mishkin passed away June 24 of kidney failure. Paul joined Boalt Hall in
1973 and was an expert on the role of the federal courts. In 1996,
Professor Mishkin received Boalt's Rutter Award for Teaching Distinction and
continued to teach a federal courts course at Boalt long after his
retirement. In 2006 dozens of the country's leading scholars and
practitioners of constitutional and federal courts law gathered to honor
Professor Mishkin at a conference devoted to examining his ideas and life's
work. The California Law Review published a symposium issue dedicated to
Professor Mishkin's scholarship. 95 CLR 1193 (2007)
Nancy Lemon leads Domestic Violence Practicum
The Domestic Violence Practicum (DVP) is a class
at Berkeley Law School in which students work on real cases, either at
faculty-supervised field placements or under the direct supervision of Nancy
Lemon, DVP director, while enrolled in a classroom component.
Alumni are encouraged to join the Domestic Violence Practicum Facebook group to keep up-to-date on new developments at the practicum and in domestic violence law. The group also provides an
opportunity to participate in advocacy efforts, including on-line petitions
regarding battered women, and information on events the practicum sponsors such
as lectures, film showings, and speakers.
Boalt Connections
Join the Boalt
community online:
 Facebook
 Flickr
 LinkedIn
 Twitter
Check out these Boalt blogs:
CDO BCLBE
CLEE
Construction
See live construction progress on the new south addition from Boalt's webcam
here.
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Have you
moved to a new city or job? Do you have a baby on the way? Did you get
a promotion? Keep your fellow alums up-to-date with your important life
changes by submitting a Class Note. We'll publish your news on the web and/or the alumni magazine, Transcript. And if you don't have anything new to report, just browse our Class Notes page.
John Burris '73 is the subject of California Lawyer magazine's July cover story. Burris has worked for
over 30 years on police misconduct and civil rights cases, including the 1994 jury award for Los Angeles
police-beating victim Rodney King. He is currently representing the family of Oscar
Grant, who was fatally shot by a BART police officer on New Year's Eve. See the
magazine's full story on Burris here.
John Derrick '02 has been certified as a Specialist in Appellate
Law by The State Bar of California Board of Legal Specialization. He is one
of about 240 lawyers in the state with that certification. For the past four
years, he has had a statewide solo practice specializing in appeals. He mostly
handles civil cases, but does some criminal ones, too. His Web site is www.californiaappeals.com. His
wife, Lisa, now flies Citation jets for an aircraft management company. Emily,
14, is starting in high cchool. Michael, 5, is starting in kindergarten.
Michael Posner '75 has been
nominated for Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights, and
Labor, Department of State. Posner
currently serves as the president of Human Rights First (formerly the Lawyers
Committee for Human Rights) and has been at the forefront of the international
human rights movement for more than 30 years. He has worked to support
human rights defenders in countries as diverse as Russia,
Zimbabwe, Iran, Cuba,
China, Uganda, Haiti,
the Philippines, El Salvador and Egypt. He also has been actively
involved in promoting the rights of refugees and displaced people, and has
taken a leading role in promoting stronger industry standards to ensure fair
labor conditions in global manufacturing supply chains. Before joining Human
Rights First, Posner was a lawyer with Sonnenschein, Nath & Rosenthal in Chicago.
Kim Sayers-Fay '99 writes: In Dec. 2007, my family and I left
California and joined the U.S. Attorney's
Office in Anchorage, Alaska, where my husband and I have long
wanted to live. Happily, it has turned out to be both personally and
professionally rewarding. In October 2008, I won the John Marshall Award for
Trial of Litigation, which is the Department of Justice's highest honor for
trial attorneys. The award was recognition for the successful prostitution of a
violent sex trafficker who had victimized over a dozen women and girls in Anchorage over a several
year period. Since then, my colleague and I obtained the largest restitution
award ever entered against a sex trafficker: over $3 million. Needless to say,
I'm having a ball trying criminal cases in the last frontier.
Check out what many more of your classmates are up to and submit your own announcement here.
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