Letter From The President

On The Move

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Have news? E-mail jbartlet@post.harvard.edu

ALUMNI State Senate Judiciary Chairman John Adler ’84 has declared his candidacy for Congress in New Jersey’s third Congressional district.

HLSA-NJ secretary Stephen F. Herbes ’01, CPA, J.D., LL.M., and

his alphabet soup of degrees have joined the tax and trusts and estates practice at Riker Danzig in Morristown.

Assemblyman Mike Panter ’95 (D-12th) may have some alumni company next spring, if Republican Jay Webber ’00 wins his race for Assembly in the 26th District. Webber, of Morris Plains, won a contested primary in June.

CORRECTION: The spring issue failed to include photo credits for images from the 50th annual Vanderbilt Lecture. Those images were provided by Keith Krebs/P.O.V. Image Service.

During my first year of law school in 1998, a woman who had been a mentor of mine – Galina V. Starovoitova, a member of the Russian Parliament and a staunch advocate of human rights whom I got to know as my professor at Brown University four years earlier – was assassinated in St. Petersburg. At the time, I wrote in the weekly Harvard Law School Record that future historians would view 1989, the year the Berlin Wall fell and the Baltic States became the first Soviet republics to declare independence, as the end of the 20th century and the beginning of the 21st.

Today, we might instead mark September 11, 2001 as the centenary turning point. That fateful day came three months after I completed law school and five days after I started my first job as a lawyer. There are a host of other places to draw the line, of course, and our human nature compels us to draw these lines. Looking both backward and forward, walking the emotional lines between regret and pride, fear and hope – it’s part of who we are and what we do as a species.

The Association is at a turning point as well. For the first time, a majority of officers were graduated from the law school in the twenty-first century. I am the first of these to be president of the Association, and my successor Jason Orlando ’00 will be the second.

This marks a hopeful moment, of course. We’ll launch our second half-century of Vanderbilt Lectures with one of the brightest starts in the American legal firmament, New Jersey’s own Ted Wells ’76. (See page 1.) And we’re reaching out to current students with a

September panel discussion in Cambridge, where members of classes that make me feel old – like ’09 and ’10 – heard from half a dozen of us about the professional opportunities abloom in the Garden State. (See page 4.)

But, to paraphrase the old saw, with those great opportunities come great responsibility. As recently as two years ago, more than 110 of our state’s 950 or so HLS alumni paid dues to the Association, a response rate that — while in one sense underwhelming — still permitted the Association to provide programming, make a substantial gift to the Law School, and end the year with as much money in the bank as we started with. This year, only 46 alumni have paid their dues so far. That two-thirds drop in response rate is making

a huge difference in what we can do for you and for the Law School.

I can’t put it more plainly: We need your help. And we especially need help from those alumni graduated after 1970, whose dues – if paid at the same rate as the classes of the 1950s and ’60s – would more than make up the gap between our

spending and our income this year. For the first time in three years, we

expect this year’s Vanderbilt Lecture to fully pay for itself, thanks to a necessary increase in what we charge attendees (including our youngest alumni). But the rest of our program requires your help.

This year, we contributed $3,400 toward summer fellowships for two extraordinary young law students. (See page 3.) The value of their experience, and the connection it helped them develop to New Jersey’s legal community, is priceless. We’ll have spent nearly $1,000 to support travel and lodging for our Cambridge panelists in September. Our spending on food for Board meetings, at less than $400 for the year to date, is modest. We made no gift to the Law School this year. Still, they have provided us the printing and distribution of this newsletter and all our other mailings throughout the year – and it is our hope and aim to make generous contributions to the law school in the

future as we have in past years. As you look back, thank the Association’s long-serving leaders like Albert Cohn ’51, David Crabtree ’52, David Landau ’53, Jerry Fitzgerald English, Marvin Fish ’55, Steve Roth ’67, the late Irwin Markowitz ’52, and so many others. As you look forward, ask yourself: What do you want the Association

to look like in the years to come? And how will you be part of it?

If you’ve paid your dues, come out to our events, or been active on the board, I thank you. If you haven’t done those things yet, I invite and implore you to be part of this great endeavor.

John W. Bartlett ’01

John Bartlett ’01, 2007 President of HLSA-NJ

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To become an active member of the Harvard Law School Association of New Jersey, simply fill out the form below and return it with a check payable to “Harvard Law School Association of N.J.” to Jeffrey Kantowitz, Esq., Goldberg Mufson & Spar, 200 Executive Drive, Suite 355, West Orange, NJ 07052. Or include your separate dues check with your RSVP to the Vanderbilt lecture. Dues are $75 for alumni admitted to the bar for over 5 years as of July 1, 2007, and $50 for alumni admitted for less 5 five years and those in the public sector.

I enclose my check for the 2007-2008 dues to the Harvard Law School Association of New Jersey in the amount of $75.00 $ 50.00

Name: Class:

Address:

Telephone: E-Mail:

Date of Admission to the Bar: I am employed in the public sector.

See Summer, page 4

Chief Justice Stuart J. Rabner ’85 is sworn in by his predecessor, James R. Zazzali, in July. Looking on are Governor Jon S. Corzine and Rabner’s wife, Deborah. At 47 years of age, Rabner – a former federal prosecutor, Governor’s Chief Counsel, and state Attorney General – is the youngest Chief Justice in the modern history of the state’s high Court.

We Can’t Do Until You Due If you’ve read about it in the Connector, it was made possible by members who paid their dues. From our summer public interest fellowships and campus programming for students to

the spring symposium and other events HLSA-NJ offers to you and all our members, it wouldn’t exist without the support of our dues-paying members. If you haven’t paid your 2007-2008 dues yet, please contribute today by using the form below.

Congratulations, Mr. Chief Justice!

Lind

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N.J.

Judi

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Our 2007 Public Interest Fellows In Their Own Words Dear Members of HLSA-NJ,

I would like to thank the H a r v a r d L a w S c h o o l Association of New Jersey for providing funding for my first-year summer internship. Thanks to the generosity of the Association’s dues-paying members, I served as a legal intern for the New Jersey Institute for Social Justice in Newark. I took part in a variety of projects, learning about the ways in which NJISJ combines legal advocacy, policy analysis, and direct service programs to assist New Jersey's urban communities.

Through NJISJ’s Second Chance Campaign, a policy effort to improve the reentry prospects of individuals returning to their communities following incarceration, I researched the efforts of cities across the country to reduce discrimination against ex-offenders in municipal hiring and prepared written materials for presentations to New Jersey municipalities on policy reform options. I also helped connect former inmates with pro bono

attorneys through the ReLeSe network, a partnership between NJISJ and Volunteer Lawyers for Justice.

I also worked on projects touching on racial and economic inequality. In the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in Parents Involved in Community Schools v. Seattle School District #1, I prepared a memo discussing the decision’s effect on school assignment programs that consider race and proposing policy options still available to school districts committed to equal educational opportunity. I researched various legal issues affecting New Jersey’s Fair Housing Act and the Mt. Laurel doctrine, particularly with r e s p e c t t o r e g i o n a l contribution agreements, which have been the subject of vigorous policy debates and the target of legal challenges under both state and federal law.

NJISJ provides numerous examples of ways in which attorneys can commit their knowledge and skills to aid u n d e r r e p r e s e n t e d a n d

underserved populations. I am grateful to the members of HLSA-NJ for enabling me to have a summer experience that will fundamentally shape my legal career.

Sincerely, Damon King ’09

Dear HLSA-NJ,

I would like to convey my sincere appreciation for being

honored with a Summer Public Interest Fellowship by the H a r v a r d L a w S c h o o l Association of New Jersey. This award enabled me to work at the Federal Public Defender’s Office in Newark this summer. Over the course of my internship, I was given the chance to witness and partake in the federal criminal law process, both within and

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people do so is a belief that government cannot help. Public attitudes towards government have changed in recent decades, Shure noted. When the Public Advocate was first created, many believed g o v e r n m e n t would be able to help solve some of the more pressing social and economic issues of the day, but now, many people no longer believe in or want government help.

Shure moved on to pose this pair of

questions: Has New Jersey entered an age in which the Department of Public Advocate is less relevant? Or, should the Department should be tasked with restoring people’s

Advocate from page 1

belief that government can help? Shure also asked Chen about the

unusual role of the department: The Public Advocate, he noted, is the only cabinet member who is not appointed to do what the governor tells him to do. In light of this, and in light of the Public Advocate’s

potential role as a plaintiff in suits a ga in s t o t he r departments, he

asked Chen what he hears from and how he relates to other cabinet members.

The Public Advocate acknowledged that some cabinet members have

approached him with suggestions as to where the Advocate’s attention could be focused in order to help their own departments gain more resources. He also denied ignoring the actions of other departments when those actions were not in the public interest. After Chen and Shure completed their dialogue, they opened the discussion up to questions from the floor. For the next

half hour, alumni asked the speakers

questions on issues ranging from the Administrative Procedure Act and the influence of political pressure groups to eminent domain and beach access.

A Family Affair: Rob KIPNEES ’80 with son Josh ’09, one of the Association’s 2007 Summer Public Interest Fellows.

Still “Government Under Glass”?

The activities of HLSA-NJ are made possible by its volunteer trustees. The Association is seeking new volunteers to participate in the governance of the association, to be formally elected as trustees at the Vanderbilt Lecture on October 24. Being a trustee is a great way to stay involved and network with fellow HLS alumni in all walks of life. The current leadership includes law faculty; public-, private- and nonprofit-sector attorneys; and sitting and retired judges. In addition to our annual meeting, the Vanderbilt Lecture, the full board of trustees meets approximately 2-3 other times each year. For more information, e-mail jason.orlando@lps.state.nj.us.

Become a Trustee

outside the courtroom. The attorneys I assisted placed an

extraordinary amount of trust and confidence in me. Throughout the summer, I was asked to compose sentencing memos, as well as motion papers regarding the admissibility of evidence. Our supervisor also made it a priority to regularly assemble panels of attorneys in the office to present different viewpoints and some background on a particular issue, be it the difference between practice on the state and federal level or the function of the Sentencing Guidelines. Moreover, I was encouraged to sit in on trials at the Federal Courthouse next door to our office if I found the topic at issue to be of interest. The varied and intriguing subject matter to which I was exposed afforded me an unparalleled hands-on experience that simply could not be replicated in a classroom.

By far the most rewarding moment of my summer was when a defendant with a borderline I.Q. was given a sentence at the bottom of his guideline range, largely on the strength of the memo I wrote on his behalf. Although this perhaps represented only a minor victory for the defendant, I felt great pride in knowing that during the course of my internship this summer, in addition to learning so much, I was able to help alter a client’s life for the better. I thank HLSA-NJ for providing me with that opportunity.

Josh Kipnees ’09

On September 27, half a dozen HLSA-NJ members traveled to Cambridge to serve on a panel encouraging current students to pursue legal careers in New Jersey.

The panel, scheduled to coincide with the beginning of the fall recruiting season, will include the Honorable Jack M. Sabatino ’82, J.A.D.; Amy Winkel-man ’87, Criminal Chief in the Office of the U.S. Attorney in Newark; Lowenstein Sandler partners Nicole Albano ’97 and Steve Hecht ’92; and Michael Passante ’03, an assistant municipal prosecutor in Newark and coordinator of New Jersey Young Lawyers for Obama.

Perfect Together

one reason people may do By Stephen Herbes ’01 Ronald K. Chen, the New Jersey Public Advocate, was the speaker and honored guest at the Association’s annual Spring Symposium on June 19, 2007.

Also at the event, which took place at the Law Center in N e w B r u n s w i c k , t h e Associat ion’s two 2007 Summer Public Interest Fellows were introduced and presented with certificates recognizing their achievements. Damon King ’09 of Plainsboro spent a ten-week summer at the New Jersey Institute for Social Justice, and Josh Kipnees ’09 served the same period with the Federal Public Defender. (The Fellows’ activities are described in their own words on page 3.) Kipnees’ father, Rob Kipnees ’80 of Lowenstein Sandler, was among the more than 50 alumni in attendance.

New Century, New Advocate Advocate Chen, a former Assistant

Dean of Rutgers-Newark Law School who was appointed to the position of Public Advocate by Governor Jon S. Corzine in 2006, began the symposium with an overview of his Department and a review of his first year in office. The department, originally founded in 1974, was charged by the Legislature with the task of watching the other departments of state government and bringing suit against other members of the executive cabinet when in the public interest. The department was eliminated in 1994 and re-established in 2005. In re-creating it, the Legislature instructed the office to focus on certain constituencies and issues, including asylum and mental health advocacy, civil commitment hearings, rape counseling, and elder advocacy.

During his first year, Chen said, he has focused on building up the department. Some offices have been brought into the department. The Office of the Child

Advocate, for example, is “in but not of” the Public Advocate – it is treated a subsidiary of the department for budgeting purposes, but the department does not have any supervisory power over it. Among the first issues to draw Chen’s attention while still “staffing up”: eminent domain, voting rights, and the de-institutionalization of people confined in mental institutions.

Jon Shure, President of the progressive think tank New Jersey Policy Perspective and a long-time observer of state government, was the evening’s discussant. Shure expanded on Mr. Chen’s historical overview of the department, noting that Governor Brendan Byrne, who created the department, coined the phrase “government under glass” and described the Public Advocate’s role by reference to that phrase. When the department was eliminated in 1994, Shure noted with a sense of irony, the state created the Department of the Business Advocate to replace it.

How Do You Get People To Care? Shure asked the audience to

consider why people vote against their economic interest. He hypothesized that

Chen Maps Public Advocate’s New Course

Volume 3, Issue 1 Fall/Winter 2007

Newsletter of the Harvard Law School Association of New Jersey

INSIDE

Rabner Takes The Bench

Letters from our SPIFs

Alumni Updates and More

THE

HLSA CONNECTOR

TED WELLS WILL BE 51ST VANDERBILT LECTURER Theodore V. “Ted” Wells, Jr. ’76 will kick off HLSA-NJ’s second half-century of Vanderbilt Lectures. Famous most recently for representing former Vice Presidential Chief of Staff I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby, who was charged with perjury and obstruction of justice in the investigation of the leaked identity of an undercover CIA operative,

Wells has represented public figures in a host of other matters over the past three decades.

Wells will deliver a talk titled “Reflections on U.S. v. Libby: Trying a Politically Charged Case in the Shadow of an Unpopular War.” The 51st Vanderbilt Lecture will be held at The Manor in West Orange on Wednesday, October 24, with cocktails at 5:30pm and dinner at 7:00pm. The cost will be $95 for alumni admitted to the bar before 2002, and $70 for alumni admitted in 2002 or later.

If you have not received your Vanderbilt invitation, please e-mail shrothlaw@verizon.net or call (201) 489-3737.

See Advocate, page 4

Ted Wells ’76 (r) with client Lewis “Scooter” Libby, former chief of staff to Vice President Dick Cheney.

Public Advocate Ronald Chen (l), Summer Fellowship Program Coordinator Bob Holmes ’70 and HLSA-NJ President John Bartlett ’01 (r) congratulate Damon King ’09 and Josh Kipnees ’09.

technology and ethics. The program was organized by John Bartlett and was held at the Law Center in New Brunswick on September 27, 2012. I encourage you to read more about this timely and fascinating topic in the ensuing pages. We continue to sponsor public interest fellows during the summer, as you will see in this issue. This past summer we funded three interns who worked in Newark at the Institute for Social Justice and at City Hall. Our 2012 summer fellows provide reflections on their experience that you may read in this issue. The occasion of the Vanderbilt Lecture also serves as our annual meeting. All of your existing slate of officers were re-elected to another one-year term. As always, I want to close by reminding you of the importance of the work of the Association and of the desire to have more of you actively participate in our work as officers or trustees. Anyone who wishes to become actively involved should feel free to reach out to any of our officers and trustees and express your particular interest. But in order to do that, you must first join the Association and pay your dues. So join and pay now! With best wishes for an enjoyable holiday season and a healthy and prosperous New Year.

Hervé Gouraige (’77)

Winter 2013

Despite the threatened disruption from Hurricane Sandy, your Association’s 56th Annual Vanderbilt Lecture and annual meeting were held at The Manor as scheduled on November 8, 2012. With some luck, The Manor regained its power in time to host the event. We are grateful that the turnout was much better than one might have expected under the extremely inconvenient circumstances occasioned by Sandy. Chief Justice Stuart Rabner delivered a thoughtful and well-received talk regarding our Supreme Court’s recent ruling on eyewitness identification. During the evening, Stephen H. Roth, Esq. was honored as the third recipient of the Irwin Markowitz Award for outstanding service to your Association over the course of many years. As your President during this

The HLSA Connector results from a collective effort. As editor, I would like to thank everyone who contributed to this newsletter: Judge Leonard I. Garth and Former Judge John Gibbons and for their reflections on HLS; and Kevin Golembiewski, Scott Hugo, and Jamie Niskean-Singer for sharing thoughts about their summer experience as HLSA-NJ Public Interest Fellows. I would also like to especially thank HLSA-NJ Trustees David Landau, Ken Oettle, John Bartlett, Robert Lack, President Hervé Gouraige, Vice President Nicole Denise Bearce, my wife Geraldine Reed Brown, and HLS Alumni Relations Staff, Director Karen Chance, Associate Directors Ute Lütjens and Pete Mumma.

We continue trying to enhance The Connector’s brand and value by incorporating such features as: (a) the Distinguished HLS Alumni in New Jersey section; (b) the report on our CLE Symposium “Attorneys, Technology, and Ethics” presented by Professor Andrew Rossner; (c) the social media and multimedia section which includes recent programs on Celebration of Latino Alumni Latino leadership, The Little Rock Nine, The Paper Chase at Forty, and current HLS students talking about Clinical Education.

The Harvard Law School Association remains committed to its mission as stated in its Constitution: “The objects of this Association shall be to advance the cause of legal education, to promote the interests and increase the usefulness of the Harvard Law School, and to promote mutual acquaintance and good fellowship among all members of the Association.” It is hoped that this newsletter assists in fulfilling that purpose.

Your comments, reactions, as well as, any news you may have are very welcome. I would especially welcome your suggestions for other distinguished alumni to recognize in future editions of The Connector. - Ron Brown email: 180ronwb@gmail.com

past year, I can attest that it is no exaggeration to say that without the dedicated and very able support of Steve, your Association would not function as well and as efficiently as it does. I am sure that Steve joins me in pointing out that he has been supported in this work by his talented and dedicated paralegal, Patty Smith. We should all be grateful for all the hard work they have done to promote the work of the Association. I personally extend my thanks and gratitude for their support during this past year. In this issue, we continue our recent practice of selecting for recognition distinguished alumni of the Law School. This year, we have selected Judges Leonard Garth and John Gibbons for such recognition. Both have for many, many years rendered extremely valuable public service as federal district and court of appeals judges. Judge Garth continues to serve as a Senior Judge on the Third Circuit well into his 90’s. Judge Gibbons has for some years now been at his law firm, where he continues his practice and public service through his enormous pro bono work. We should all be honored to be in the company of such outstanding individuals who are among our greatest alumni. Mindful of the technological developments of our age, your Association sponsored a CLE-approved program conducted by Professor Andrew Rossner of the Rutgers Institute for Professional Education on the topics of

Letter From The President

Letter From The President

On The Move

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Have news? E-mail jbartlet@post.harvard.edu

ALUMNI State Senate Judiciary Chairman John Adler ’84 has declared his candidacy for Congress in New Jersey’s third Congressional district.

HLSA-NJ secretary Stephen F. Herbes ’01, CPA, J.D., LL.M., and

his alphabet soup of degrees have joined the tax and trusts and estates practice at Riker Danzig in Morristown.

Assemblyman Mike Panter ’95 (D-12th) may have some alumni company next spring, if Republican Jay Webber ’00 wins his race for Assembly in the 26th District. Webber, of Morris Plains, won a contested primary in June.

CORRECTION: The spring issue failed to include photo credits for images from the 50th annual Vanderbilt Lecture. Those images were provided by Keith Krebs/P.O.V. Image Service.

During my first year of law school in 1998, a woman who had been a mentor of mine – Galina V. Starovoitova, a member of the Russian Parliament and a staunch advocate of human rights whom I got to know as my professor at Brown University four years earlier – was assassinated in St. Petersburg. At the time, I wrote in the weekly Harvard Law School Record that future historians would view 1989, the year the Berlin Wall fell and the Baltic States became the first Soviet republics to declare independence, as the end of the 20th century and the beginning of the 21st.

Today, we might instead mark September 11, 2001 as the centenary turning point. That fateful day came three months after I completed law school and five days after I started my first job as a lawyer. There are a host of other places to draw the line, of course, and our human nature compels us to draw these lines. Looking both backward and forward, walking the emotional lines between regret and pride, fear and hope – it’s part of who we are and what we do as a species.

The Association is at a turning point as well. For the first time, a majority of officers were graduated from the law school in the twenty-first century. I am the first of these to be president of the Association, and my successor Jason Orlando ’00 will be the second.

This marks a hopeful moment, of course. We’ll launch our second half-century of Vanderbilt Lectures with one of the brightest starts in the American legal firmament, New Jersey’s own Ted Wells ’76. (See page 1.) And we’re reaching out to current students with a

September panel discussion in Cambridge, where members of classes that make me feel old – like ’09 and ’10 – heard from half a dozen of us about the professional opportunities abloom in the Garden State. (See page 4.)

But, to paraphrase the old saw, with those great opportunities come great responsibility. As recently as two years ago, more than 110 of our state’s 950 or so HLS alumni paid dues to the Association, a response rate that — while in one sense underwhelming — still permitted the Association to provide programming, make a substantial gift to the Law School, and end the year with as much money in the bank as we started with. This year, only 46 alumni have paid their dues so far. That two-thirds drop in response rate is making

a huge difference in what we can do for you and for the Law School.

I can’t put it more plainly: We need your help. And we especially need help from those alumni graduated after 1970, whose dues – if paid at the same rate as the classes of the 1950s and ’60s – would more than make up the gap between our

spending and our income this year. For the first time in three years, we

expect this year’s Vanderbilt Lecture to fully pay for itself, thanks to a necessary increase in what we charge attendees (including our youngest alumni). But the rest of our program requires your help.

This year, we contributed $3,400 toward summer fellowships for two extraordinary young law students. (See page 3.) The value of their experience, and the connection it helped them develop to New Jersey’s legal community, is priceless. We’ll have spent nearly $1,000 to support travel and lodging for our Cambridge panelists in September. Our spending on food for Board meetings, at less than $400 for the year to date, is modest. We made no gift to the Law School this year. Still, they have provided us the printing and distribution of this newsletter and all our other mailings throughout the year – and it is our hope and aim to make generous contributions to the law school in the

future as we have in past years. As you look back, thank the Association’s long-serving leaders like Albert Cohn ’51, David Crabtree ’52, David Landau ’53, Jerry Fitzgerald English, Marvin Fish ’55, Steve Roth ’67, the late Irwin Markowitz ’52, and so many others. As you look forward, ask yourself: What do you want the Association

to look like in the years to come? And how will you be part of it?

If you’ve paid your dues, come out to our events, or been active on the board, I thank you. If you haven’t done those things yet, I invite and implore you to be part of this great endeavor.

John W. Bartlett ’01

John Bartlett ’01, 2007 President of HLSA-NJ

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To become an active member of the Harvard Law School Association of New Jersey, simply fill out the form below and return it with a check payable to “Harvard Law School Association of N.J.” to Jeffrey Kantowitz, Esq., Goldberg Mufson & Spar, 200 Executive Drive, Suite 355, West Orange, NJ 07052. Or include your separate dues check with your RSVP to the Vanderbilt lecture. Dues are $75 for alumni admitted to the bar for over 5 years as of July 1, 2007, and $50 for alumni admitted for less 5 five years and those in the public sector.

I enclose my check for the 2007-2008 dues to the Harvard Law School Association of New Jersey in the amount of $75.00 $ 50.00

Name: Class:

Address:

Telephone: E-Mail:

Date of Admission to the Bar: I am employed in the public sector.

See Summer, page 4

Chief Justice Stuart J. Rabner ’85 is sworn in by his predecessor, James R. Zazzali, in July. Looking on are Governor Jon S. Corzine and Rabner’s wife, Deborah. At 47 years of age, Rabner – a former federal prosecutor, Governor’s Chief Counsel, and state Attorney General – is the youngest Chief Justice in the modern history of the state’s high Court.

We Can’t Do Until You Due If you’ve read about it in the Connector, it was made possible by members who paid their dues. From our summer public interest fellowships and campus programming for students to

the spring symposium and other events HLSA-NJ offers to you and all our members, it wouldn’t exist without the support of our dues-paying members. If you haven’t paid your 2007-2008 dues yet, please contribute today by using the form below.

Congratulations, Mr. Chief Justice!

Lind

a H

olt/

N.J.

Judi

ciar

y

Our 2007 Public Interest Fellows In Their Own Words Dear Members of HLSA-NJ,

I would like to thank the H a r v a r d L a w S c h o o l Association of New Jersey for providing funding for my first-year summer internship. Thanks to the generosity of the Association’s dues-paying members, I served as a legal intern for the New Jersey Institute for Social Justice in Newark. I took part in a variety of projects, learning about the ways in which NJISJ combines legal advocacy, policy analysis, and direct service programs to assist New Jersey's urban communities.

Through NJISJ’s Second Chance Campaign, a policy effort to improve the reentry prospects of individuals returning to their communities following incarceration, I researched the efforts of cities across the country to reduce discrimination against ex-offenders in municipal hiring and prepared written materials for presentations to New Jersey municipalities on policy reform options. I also helped connect former inmates with pro bono

attorneys through the ReLeSe network, a partnership between NJISJ and Volunteer Lawyers for Justice.

I also worked on projects touching on racial and economic inequality. In the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in Parents Involved in Community Schools v. Seattle School District #1, I prepared a memo discussing the decision’s effect on school assignment programs that consider race and proposing policy options still available to school districts committed to equal educational opportunity. I researched various legal issues affecting New Jersey’s Fair Housing Act and the Mt. Laurel doctrine, particularly with r e s p e c t t o r e g i o n a l contribution agreements, which have been the subject of vigorous policy debates and the target of legal challenges under both state and federal law.

NJISJ provides numerous examples of ways in which attorneys can commit their knowledge and skills to aid u n d e r r e p r e s e n t e d a n d

underserved populations. I am grateful to the members of HLSA-NJ for enabling me to have a summer experience that will fundamentally shape my legal career.

Sincerely, Damon King ’09

Dear HLSA-NJ,

I would like to convey my sincere appreciation for being

honored with a Summer Public Interest Fellowship by the H a r v a r d L a w S c h o o l Association of New Jersey. This award enabled me to work at the Federal Public Defender’s Office in Newark this summer. Over the course of my internship, I was given the chance to witness and partake in the federal criminal law process, both within and

Letter From The President

On The Move

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Have news? E-mail jbartlet@post.harvard.edu

ALUMNI State Senate Judiciary Chairman John Adler ’84 has declared his candidacy for Congress in New Jersey’s third Congressional district.

HLSA-NJ secretary Stephen F. Herbes ’01, CPA, J.D., LL.M., and

his alphabet soup of degrees have joined the tax and trusts and estates practice at Riker Danzig in Morristown.

Assemblyman Mike Panter ’95 (D-12th) may have some alumni company next spring, if Republican Jay Webber ’00 wins his race for Assembly in the 26th District. Webber, of Morris Plains, won a contested primary in June.

CORRECTION: The spring issue failed to include photo credits for images from the 50th annual Vanderbilt Lecture. Those images were provided by Keith Krebs/P.O.V. Image Service.

During my first year of law school in 1998, a woman who had been a mentor of mine – Galina V. Starovoitova, a member of the Russian Parliament and a staunch advocate of human rights whom I got to know as my professor at Brown University four years earlier – was assassinated in St. Petersburg. At the time, I wrote in the weekly Harvard Law School Record that future historians would view 1989, the year the Berlin Wall fell and the Baltic States became the first Soviet republics to declare independence, as the end of the 20th century and the beginning of the 21st.

Today, we might instead mark September 11, 2001 as the centenary turning point. That fateful day came three months after I completed law school and five days after I started my first job as a lawyer. There are a host of other places to draw the line, of course, and our human nature compels us to draw these lines. Looking both backward and forward, walking the emotional lines between regret and pride, fear and hope – it’s part of who we are and what we do as a species.

The Association is at a turning point as well. For the first time, a majority of officers were graduated from the law school in the twenty-first century. I am the first of these to be president of the Association, and my successor Jason Orlando ’00 will be the second.

This marks a hopeful moment, of course. We’ll launch our second half-century of Vanderbilt Lectures with one of the brightest starts in the American legal firmament, New Jersey’s own Ted Wells ’76. (See page 1.) And we’re reaching out to current students with a

September panel discussion in Cambridge, where members of classes that make me feel old – like ’09 and ’10 – heard from half a dozen of us about the professional opportunities abloom in the Garden State. (See page 4.)

But, to paraphrase the old saw, with those great opportunities come great responsibility. As recently as two years ago, more than 110 of our state’s 950 or so HLS alumni paid dues to the Association, a response rate that — while in one sense underwhelming — still permitted the Association to provide programming, make a substantial gift to the Law School, and end the year with as much money in the bank as we started with. This year, only 46 alumni have paid their dues so far. That two-thirds drop in response rate is making

a huge difference in what we can do for you and for the Law School.

I can’t put it more plainly: We need your help. And we especially need help from those alumni graduated after 1970, whose dues – if paid at the same rate as the classes of the 1950s and ’60s – would more than make up the gap between our

spending and our income this year. For the first time in three years, we

expect this year’s Vanderbilt Lecture to fully pay for itself, thanks to a necessary increase in what we charge attendees (including our youngest alumni). But the rest of our program requires your help.

This year, we contributed $3,400 toward summer fellowships for two extraordinary young law students. (See page 3.) The value of their experience, and the connection it helped them develop to New Jersey’s legal community, is priceless. We’ll have spent nearly $1,000 to support travel and lodging for our Cambridge panelists in September. Our spending on food for Board meetings, at less than $400 for the year to date, is modest. We made no gift to the Law School this year. Still, they have provided us the printing and distribution of this newsletter and all our other mailings throughout the year – and it is our hope and aim to make generous contributions to the law school in the

future as we have in past years. As you look back, thank the Association’s long-serving leaders like Albert Cohn ’51, David Crabtree ’52, David Landau ’53, Jerry Fitzgerald English, Marvin Fish ’55, Steve Roth ’67, the late Irwin Markowitz ’52, and so many others. As you look forward, ask yourself: What do you want the Association

to look like in the years to come? And how will you be part of it?

If you’ve paid your dues, come out to our events, or been active on the board, I thank you. If you haven’t done those things yet, I invite and implore you to be part of this great endeavor.

John W. Bartlett ’01

John Bartlett ’01, 2007 President of HLSA-NJ

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To become an active member of the Harvard Law School Association of New Jersey, simply fill out the form below and return it with a check payable to “Harvard Law School Association of N.J.” to Jeffrey Kantowitz, Esq., Goldberg Mufson & Spar, 200 Executive Drive, Suite 355, West Orange, NJ 07052. Or include your separate dues check with your RSVP to the Vanderbilt lecture. Dues are $75 for alumni admitted to the bar for over 5 years as of July 1, 2007, and $50 for alumni admitted for less 5 five years and those in the public sector.

I enclose my check for the 2007-2008 dues to the Harvard Law School Association of New Jersey in the amount of $75.00 $ 50.00

Name: Class:

Address:

Telephone: E-Mail:

Date of Admission to the Bar: I am employed in the public sector.

See Summer, page 4

Chief Justice Stuart J. Rabner ’85 is sworn in by his predecessor, James R. Zazzali, in July. Looking on are Governor Jon S. Corzine and Rabner’s wife, Deborah. At 47 years of age, Rabner – a former federal prosecutor, Governor’s Chief Counsel, and state Attorney General – is the youngest Chief Justice in the modern history of the state’s high Court.

We Can’t Do Until You Due If you’ve read about it in the Connector, it was made possible by members who paid their dues. From our summer public interest fellowships and campus programming for students to

the spring symposium and other events HLSA-NJ offers to you and all our members, it wouldn’t exist without the support of our dues-paying members. If you haven’t paid your 2007-2008 dues yet, please contribute today by using the form below.

Congratulations, Mr. Chief Justice!

Lind

a H

olt/

N.J.

Judi

ciar

y

Our 2007 Public Interest Fellows In Their Own Words Dear Members of HLSA-NJ,

I would like to thank the H a r v a r d L a w S c h o o l Association of New Jersey for providing funding for my first-year summer internship. Thanks to the generosity of the Association’s dues-paying members, I served as a legal intern for the New Jersey Institute for Social Justice in Newark. I took part in a variety of projects, learning about the ways in which NJISJ combines legal advocacy, policy analysis, and direct service programs to assist New Jersey's urban communities.

Through NJISJ’s Second Chance Campaign, a policy effort to improve the reentry prospects of individuals returning to their communities following incarceration, I researched the efforts of cities across the country to reduce discrimination against ex-offenders in municipal hiring and prepared written materials for presentations to New Jersey municipalities on policy reform options. I also helped connect former inmates with pro bono

attorneys through the ReLeSe network, a partnership between NJISJ and Volunteer Lawyers for Justice.

I also worked on projects touching on racial and economic inequality. In the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in Parents Involved in Community Schools v. Seattle School District #1, I prepared a memo discussing the decision’s effect on school assignment programs that consider race and proposing policy options still available to school districts committed to equal educational opportunity. I researched various legal issues affecting New Jersey’s Fair Housing Act and the Mt. Laurel doctrine, particularly with r e s p e c t t o r e g i o n a l contribution agreements, which have been the subject of vigorous policy debates and the target of legal challenges under both state and federal law.

NJISJ provides numerous examples of ways in which attorneys can commit their knowledge and skills to aid u n d e r r e p r e s e n t e d a n d

underserved populations. I am grateful to the members of HLSA-NJ for enabling me to have a summer experience that will fundamentally shape my legal career.

Sincerely, Damon King ’09

Dear HLSA-NJ,

I would like to convey my sincere appreciation for being

honored with a Summer Public Interest Fellowship by the H a r v a r d L a w S c h o o l Association of New Jersey. This award enabled me to work at the Federal Public Defender’s Office in Newark this summer. Over the course of my internship, I was given the chance to witness and partake in the federal criminal law process, both within and

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Judge Leonard I. Garth Mr. Ron Brown has asked me if I have any recollections of Harvard Law School and if I would be good enough to note them. As a preface, let me say that I left Harvard Law School 60 years ago as a member of the class of 1952. I think I was among the oldest of the members, as I left military service some years before and had been

working in the interim to support my wife and daughter. I still thank the Good Lord and the government for having provided the GI Bill of Rights. Let me preface my recollections by saying that John Gibbons (50L) and I were members of the New Jersey Bar and Harvard Law School Association of New Jersey, as well as being friends. (Indeed, we were confirmed by the United States Senate as Federal Judges on the same day.) As attorneys, we had either contested with one another where our clients were adversaries, or had joined one another when the interests of our clients were common. The Association in those days was as vibrant as it is today, and I can recall the Harvard Law School of New Jersey banner which Frank Brennan, the Justice’s brother, donated to the Association and which was displayed at every meeting. (I hope it still is!) In those days, when we were students at the Law School, we had our classes taught by legal giants whose names will always be revered in Harvard Law School’s history, such as Professors Austin Scott, Warren Seavey, Archibald Cox, Benjamin Kaplan, W. Barton Leach, A. J. Casner, Paul Freund, Stanley Surrey, Livingston Hall, Robert Braucher, Kenneth Davis, David Herwitz, Arthur Miller and, of course, Dean Erwin Griswold. Our classes were, for the most part, lecture classes. The seminars were icing on the cake. I have always felt that the schooling I received at Harvard Law School provided essentials needed for the practice of law no matter the particular legal discipline in which one later engaged. The curriculum provided the fundamentals that I believe every lawyer must absorb before he or she attempts to represent a client whether in civil or criminal cases. Indeed, the one course that I cherished the most and which I look for in my applications of prospective law clerks was Civil Procedure where I had the benefit of Professor Kaplan’s instruction. Although I recall that neither our case book nor the instructors dealt heavily with “final orders” as a jurisdictional requisite in the appellate process, I learned how very vital it was when I began to practice. I might note that I would spend a good deal of time stressing appellate jurisdiction when I taught classes at both Rutgers Law School and Seton Hall. Of recent date, there has been criticism of the third year law school requirement. There has also been criticism that the core curricula of law schools must be changed to meet current needs of the members of our profession. I will not venture into a discussion of these matters other than to say that without the benefit of these fundamental courses - a legal education such as the scholarship Harvard provided - a “good” lawyer may not be equipped to meet the demands that trial and appellate work require or to comprehend the nuances of our statutes, civil, criminal and constitutional concepts.

But, back to the Law School. In the days that I was enrolled as a student and thereafter, when I taught a number of trial advocacy seminars at Harvard for a number of September classes, I was reminded all too well of the rigors of studying, making case abstracts and facing annual examinations. Yet despite the difficulties presented in Constitutional Law (Professor Paul Freund), and the other courses of similar difficulty, these days I no longer think of those difficulties, but rather the ones that have faced me as a Court of Appeals Judge in the Third Circuit, for the last forty some odd years. This exercise of recollection that Ron Brown has asked me to write has brought back not only memories of my former classmates, and of the professors who taught me, but of my sessions with the study group of which I was a member. I can remember preparing for the inquisitions that I anticipated at the hands of Professors Kaplan, Freund, Fuller, etc. I am happy to say I survived them and in later years was delighted to join with the many leaders of the bench and bar who provided leadership and luster to the Harvard Law School Association of New Jersey. Judge Leonard I. Garth was appointed by President Nixon to the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey in 1969 and was elevated to the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit in 1973. He has served—and is still serving—as a Senior Judge on that Court since 1986. From 1952 to 1955, Judge Garth was an Associate at Cole, Morrill & Nadell; from 1955 to 1969 he was a Partner at Cole, Berman & Garth. Judge Garth is now 91 years of age and has just completed his 43rd year on the Federal Bench. He is actively engaged as a Senior Judge with the Third Circuit maintaining chambers in North Branford, Connecticut (where he resides), as well as Newark and Philadelphia. Recently the Third Circuit dedicated the Atrium in the Martin Luther King, Jr. Building and United States Courthouse in Newark in Judge Garth’s name.

At his confirmation hearing, Justice Samuel A. Alito, Jr., who was one of Judge Garth’s early law clerks on the Court of Appeals, said Judge Garth “really epitomized open-mindedness and fairness. He read the record in detail in every single case...He insisted on scrupulously following precedents, both the precedents of the Supreme Court and the

decisions of his own court, the Third Circuit. He taught all of his law clerks that every case has to be decided on an individual basis, and he really didn’t have much use for any grand theories.”

Born in Brooklyn in 1921, Judge Garth received his bachelor’s degree from Columbia University in 1942, after which he was selected as a Rockefeller Foundation Scholar for post-graduate study with the National Institute of Public Affairs. After service as a lieutenant in the U.S. Army, he entered

Harvard Law School and graduated in 1952. He practiced law in New Jersey as a member of the law firm of Cole, Berman & Garth (now Cole, Schotz, Meisel, Forman & Leonard, P.A.) until he was appointed to the District Court bench.

DisTinguisheD hLs ALumni in new Jersey

Judge Leonard i. garth continued on page 16

Letter From The President

On The Move

Page 2 THE HLSA CONNECTOR

Have news? E-mail jbartlet@post.harvard.edu

ALUMNI State Senate Judiciary Chairman John Adler ’84 has declared his candidacy for Congress in New Jersey’s third Congressional district.

HLSA-NJ secretary Stephen F. Herbes ’01, CPA, J.D., LL.M., and

his alphabet soup of degrees have joined the tax and trusts and estates practice at Riker Danzig in Morristown.

Assemblyman Mike Panter ’95 (D-12th) may have some alumni company next spring, if Republican Jay Webber ’00 wins his race for Assembly in the 26th District. Webber, of Morris Plains, won a contested primary in June.

CORRECTION: The spring issue failed to include photo credits for images from the 50th annual Vanderbilt Lecture. Those images were provided by Keith Krebs/P.O.V. Image Service.

During my first year of law school in 1998, a woman who had been a mentor of mine – Galina V. Starovoitova, a member of the Russian Parliament and a staunch advocate of human rights whom I got to know as my professor at Brown University four years earlier – was assassinated in St. Petersburg. At the time, I wrote in the weekly Harvard Law School Record that future historians would view 1989, the year the Berlin Wall fell and the Baltic States became the first Soviet republics to declare independence, as the end of the 20th century and the beginning of the 21st.

Today, we might instead mark September 11, 2001 as the centenary turning point. That fateful day came three months after I completed law school and five days after I started my first job as a lawyer. There are a host of other places to draw the line, of course, and our human nature compels us to draw these lines. Looking both backward and forward, walking the emotional lines between regret and pride, fear and hope – it’s part of who we are and what we do as a species.

The Association is at a turning point as well. For the first time, a majority of officers were graduated from the law school in the twenty-first century. I am the first of these to be president of the Association, and my successor Jason Orlando ’00 will be the second.

This marks a hopeful moment, of course. We’ll launch our second half-century of Vanderbilt Lectures with one of the brightest starts in the American legal firmament, New Jersey’s own Ted Wells ’76. (See page 1.) And we’re reaching out to current students with a

September panel discussion in Cambridge, where members of classes that make me feel old – like ’09 and ’10 – heard from half a dozen of us about the professional opportunities abloom in the Garden State. (See page 4.)

But, to paraphrase the old saw, with those great opportunities come great responsibility. As recently as two years ago, more than 110 of our state’s 950 or so HLS alumni paid dues to the Association, a response rate that — while in one sense underwhelming — still permitted the Association to provide programming, make a substantial gift to the Law School, and end the year with as much money in the bank as we started with. This year, only 46 alumni have paid their dues so far. That two-thirds drop in response rate is making

a huge difference in what we can do for you and for the Law School.

I can’t put it more plainly: We need your help. And we especially need help from those alumni graduated after 1970, whose dues – if paid at the same rate as the classes of the 1950s and ’60s – would more than make up the gap between our

spending and our income this year. For the first time in three years, we

expect this year’s Vanderbilt Lecture to fully pay for itself, thanks to a necessary increase in what we charge attendees (including our youngest alumni). But the rest of our program requires your help.

This year, we contributed $3,400 toward summer fellowships for two extraordinary young law students. (See page 3.) The value of their experience, and the connection it helped them develop to New Jersey’s legal community, is priceless. We’ll have spent nearly $1,000 to support travel and lodging for our Cambridge panelists in September. Our spending on food for Board meetings, at less than $400 for the year to date, is modest. We made no gift to the Law School this year. Still, they have provided us the printing and distribution of this newsletter and all our other mailings throughout the year – and it is our hope and aim to make generous contributions to the law school in the

future as we have in past years. As you look back, thank the Association’s long-serving leaders like Albert Cohn ’51, David Crabtree ’52, David Landau ’53, Jerry Fitzgerald English, Marvin Fish ’55, Steve Roth ’67, the late Irwin Markowitz ’52, and so many others. As you look forward, ask yourself: What do you want the Association

to look like in the years to come? And how will you be part of it?

If you’ve paid your dues, come out to our events, or been active on the board, I thank you. If you haven’t done those things yet, I invite and implore you to be part of this great endeavor.

John W. Bartlett ’01

John Bartlett ’01, 2007 President of HLSA-NJ

Page 3

To become an active member of the Harvard Law School Association of New Jersey, simply fill out the form below and return it with a check payable to “Harvard Law School Association of N.J.” to Jeffrey Kantowitz, Esq., Goldberg Mufson & Spar, 200 Executive Drive, Suite 355, West Orange, NJ 07052. Or include your separate dues check with your RSVP to the Vanderbilt lecture. Dues are $75 for alumni admitted to the bar for over 5 years as of July 1, 2007, and $50 for alumni admitted for less 5 five years and those in the public sector.

I enclose my check for the 2007-2008 dues to the Harvard Law School Association of New Jersey in the amount of $75.00 $ 50.00

Name: Class:

Address:

Telephone: E-Mail:

Date of Admission to the Bar: I am employed in the public sector.

See Summer, page 4

Chief Justice Stuart J. Rabner ’85 is sworn in by his predecessor, James R. Zazzali, in July. Looking on are Governor Jon S. Corzine and Rabner’s wife, Deborah. At 47 years of age, Rabner – a former federal prosecutor, Governor’s Chief Counsel, and state Attorney General – is the youngest Chief Justice in the modern history of the state’s high Court.

We Can’t Do Until You Due If you’ve read about it in the Connector, it was made possible by members who paid their dues. From our summer public interest fellowships and campus programming for students to

the spring symposium and other events HLSA-NJ offers to you and all our members, it wouldn’t exist without the support of our dues-paying members. If you haven’t paid your 2007-2008 dues yet, please contribute today by using the form below.

Congratulations, Mr. Chief Justice!

Lind

a H

olt/

N.J.

Judi

ciar

y

Our 2007 Public Interest Fellows In Their Own Words Dear Members of HLSA-NJ,

I would like to thank the H a r v a r d L a w S c h o o l Association of New Jersey for providing funding for my first-year summer internship. Thanks to the generosity of the Association’s dues-paying members, I served as a legal intern for the New Jersey Institute for Social Justice in Newark. I took part in a variety of projects, learning about the ways in which NJISJ combines legal advocacy, policy analysis, and direct service programs to assist New Jersey's urban communities.

Through NJISJ’s Second Chance Campaign, a policy effort to improve the reentry prospects of individuals returning to their communities following incarceration, I researched the efforts of cities across the country to reduce discrimination against ex-offenders in municipal hiring and prepared written materials for presentations to New Jersey municipalities on policy reform options. I also helped connect former inmates with pro bono

attorneys through the ReLeSe network, a partnership between NJISJ and Volunteer Lawyers for Justice.

I also worked on projects touching on racial and economic inequality. In the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in Parents Involved in Community Schools v. Seattle School District #1, I prepared a memo discussing the decision’s effect on school assignment programs that consider race and proposing policy options still available to school districts committed to equal educational opportunity. I researched various legal issues affecting New Jersey’s Fair Housing Act and the Mt. Laurel doctrine, particularly with r e s p e c t t o r e g i o n a l contribution agreements, which have been the subject of vigorous policy debates and the target of legal challenges under both state and federal law.

NJISJ provides numerous examples of ways in which attorneys can commit their knowledge and skills to aid u n d e r r e p r e s e n t e d a n d

underserved populations. I am grateful to the members of HLSA-NJ for enabling me to have a summer experience that will fundamentally shape my legal career.

Sincerely, Damon King ’09

Dear HLSA-NJ,

I would like to convey my sincere appreciation for being

honored with a Summer Public Interest Fellowship by the H a r v a r d L a w S c h o o l Association of New Jersey. This award enabled me to work at the Federal Public Defender’s Office in Newark this summer. Over the course of my internship, I was given the chance to witness and partake in the federal criminal law process, both within and

John J. Gibbons, Esq.1

John J. Gibbons shared with the editor of The Connector, the following reflections about Harvard Law School.“When I was a Senior at Holy Cross College I had never met a lawyer. My economics professor heard that I was thinking of applying to a graduate program in economics at a University in Great Britain, and he urged me to apply to law school instead. My father arranged for me to meet the General Counsel of the company he worked for and that attorney insisted that my clear choice

among the four that accepted me must be Harvard Law School. Since he was then the first lawyer I had met I followed his advice, enrolling at Harvard in the fall of 1944. Harvard was quite a change from my undergraduate experiences. Class performance by a student did not count for anything, since one’s grade depended entirely on the one final exam at term end. You got no feedback about your class performance. Harvard Law School was thus a perfect preparation for courtroom solo performances. At that time, and so far as I know still today, the Law Review offered a position on its editorial board to the five students in each of the four sections that had the highest grade point averages, and much to my surprise I was one of the five selected from my section. Since I was still a Reserve Navy Officer I was not surprised to be assigned the task of writing an anonymous comment on the recently enacted but still not operative Uniform Code of Military Justice. That

gave me the opportunity to work with Professor Edmund Morgan, who as a consultant to the U.S. Military had worked on that reform legislation. I was also lucky enough to be enrolled in Morgan’s Evidence Class. His class performance and his critique of my skepticism about reform of military

justice convinced me I had made a sound choice in selecting the law as my life work, a choice I have never since regretted. Exposure to Edmund Morgan was the best thing I experienced at Harvard Law School. How fortunate I was!”

Letter From The President

On The Move

Page 2 THE HLSA CONNECTOR

Have news? E-mail jbartlet@post.harvard.edu

ALUMNI State Senate Judiciary Chairman John Adler ’84 has declared his candidacy for Congress in New Jersey’s third Congressional district.

HLSA-NJ secretary Stephen F. Herbes ’01, CPA, J.D., LL.M., and

his alphabet soup of degrees have joined the tax and trusts and estates practice at Riker Danzig in Morristown.

Assemblyman Mike Panter ’95 (D-12th) may have some alumni company next spring, if Republican Jay Webber ’00 wins his race for Assembly in the 26th District. Webber, of Morris Plains, won a contested primary in June.

CORRECTION: The spring issue failed to include photo credits for images from the 50th annual Vanderbilt Lecture. Those images were provided by Keith Krebs/P.O.V. Image Service.

During my first year of law school in 1998, a woman who had been a mentor of mine – Galina V. Starovoitova, a member of the Russian Parliament and a staunch advocate of human rights whom I got to know as my professor at Brown University four years earlier – was assassinated in St. Petersburg. At the time, I wrote in the weekly Harvard Law School Record that future historians would view 1989, the year the Berlin Wall fell and the Baltic States became the first Soviet republics to declare independence, as the end of the 20th century and the beginning of the 21st.

Today, we might instead mark September 11, 2001 as the centenary turning point. That fateful day came three months after I completed law school and five days after I started my first job as a lawyer. There are a host of other places to draw the line, of course, and our human nature compels us to draw these lines. Looking both backward and forward, walking the emotional lines between regret and pride, fear and hope – it’s part of who we are and what we do as a species.

The Association is at a turning point as well. For the first time, a majority of officers were graduated from the law school in the twenty-first century. I am the first of these to be president of the Association, and my successor Jason Orlando ’00 will be the second.

This marks a hopeful moment, of course. We’ll launch our second half-century of Vanderbilt Lectures with one of the brightest starts in the American legal firmament, New Jersey’s own Ted Wells ’76. (See page 1.) And we’re reaching out to current students with a

September panel discussion in Cambridge, where members of classes that make me feel old – like ’09 and ’10 – heard from half a dozen of us about the professional opportunities abloom in the Garden State. (See page 4.)

But, to paraphrase the old saw, with those great opportunities come great responsibility. As recently as two years ago, more than 110 of our state’s 950 or so HLS alumni paid dues to the Association, a response rate that — while in one sense underwhelming — still permitted the Association to provide programming, make a substantial gift to the Law School, and end the year with as much money in the bank as we started with. This year, only 46 alumni have paid their dues so far. That two-thirds drop in response rate is making

a huge difference in what we can do for you and for the Law School.

I can’t put it more plainly: We need your help. And we especially need help from those alumni graduated after 1970, whose dues – if paid at the same rate as the classes of the 1950s and ’60s – would more than make up the gap between our

spending and our income this year. For the first time in three years, we

expect this year’s Vanderbilt Lecture to fully pay for itself, thanks to a necessary increase in what we charge attendees (including our youngest alumni). But the rest of our program requires your help.

This year, we contributed $3,400 toward summer fellowships for two extraordinary young law students. (See page 3.) The value of their experience, and the connection it helped them develop to New Jersey’s legal community, is priceless. We’ll have spent nearly $1,000 to support travel and lodging for our Cambridge panelists in September. Our spending on food for Board meetings, at less than $400 for the year to date, is modest. We made no gift to the Law School this year. Still, they have provided us the printing and distribution of this newsletter and all our other mailings throughout the year – and it is our hope and aim to make generous contributions to the law school in the

future as we have in past years. As you look back, thank the Association’s long-serving leaders like Albert Cohn ’51, David Crabtree ’52, David Landau ’53, Jerry Fitzgerald English, Marvin Fish ’55, Steve Roth ’67, the late Irwin Markowitz ’52, and so many others. As you look forward, ask yourself: What do you want the Association

to look like in the years to come? And how will you be part of it?

If you’ve paid your dues, come out to our events, or been active on the board, I thank you. If you haven’t done those things yet, I invite and implore you to be part of this great endeavor.

John W. Bartlett ’01

John Bartlett ’01, 2007 President of HLSA-NJ

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To become an active member of the Harvard Law School Association of New Jersey, simply fill out the form below and return it with a check payable to “Harvard Law School Association of N.J.” to Jeffrey Kantowitz, Esq., Goldberg Mufson & Spar, 200 Executive Drive, Suite 355, West Orange, NJ 07052. Or include your separate dues check with your RSVP to the Vanderbilt lecture. Dues are $75 for alumni admitted to the bar for over 5 years as of July 1, 2007, and $50 for alumni admitted for less 5 five years and those in the public sector.

I enclose my check for the 2007-2008 dues to the Harvard Law School Association of New Jersey in the amount of $75.00 $ 50.00

Name: Class:

Address:

Telephone: E-Mail:

Date of Admission to the Bar: I am employed in the public sector.

See Summer, page 4

Chief Justice Stuart J. Rabner ’85 is sworn in by his predecessor, James R. Zazzali, in July. Looking on are Governor Jon S. Corzine and Rabner’s wife, Deborah. At 47 years of age, Rabner – a former federal prosecutor, Governor’s Chief Counsel, and state Attorney General – is the youngest Chief Justice in the modern history of the state’s high Court.

We Can’t Do Until You Due If you’ve read about it in the Connector, it was made possible by members who paid their dues. From our summer public interest fellowships and campus programming for students to

the spring symposium and other events HLSA-NJ offers to you and all our members, it wouldn’t exist without the support of our dues-paying members. If you haven’t paid your 2007-2008 dues yet, please contribute today by using the form below.

Congratulations, Mr. Chief Justice!

Lind

a H

olt/

N.J.

Judi

ciar

y

Our 2007 Public Interest Fellows In Their Own Words Dear Members of HLSA-NJ,

I would like to thank the H a r v a r d L a w S c h o o l Association of New Jersey for providing funding for my first-year summer internship. Thanks to the generosity of the Association’s dues-paying members, I served as a legal intern for the New Jersey Institute for Social Justice in Newark. I took part in a variety of projects, learning about the ways in which NJISJ combines legal advocacy, policy analysis, and direct service programs to assist New Jersey's urban communities.

Through NJISJ’s Second Chance Campaign, a policy effort to improve the reentry prospects of individuals returning to their communities following incarceration, I researched the efforts of cities across the country to reduce discrimination against ex-offenders in municipal hiring and prepared written materials for presentations to New Jersey municipalities on policy reform options. I also helped connect former inmates with pro bono

attorneys through the ReLeSe network, a partnership between NJISJ and Volunteer Lawyers for Justice.

I also worked on projects touching on racial and economic inequality. In the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in Parents Involved in Community Schools v. Seattle School District #1, I prepared a memo discussing the decision’s effect on school assignment programs that consider race and proposing policy options still available to school districts committed to equal educational opportunity. I researched various legal issues affecting New Jersey’s Fair Housing Act and the Mt. Laurel doctrine, particularly with r e s p e c t t o r e g i o n a l contribution agreements, which have been the subject of vigorous policy debates and the target of legal challenges under both state and federal law.

NJISJ provides numerous examples of ways in which attorneys can commit their knowledge and skills to aid u n d e r r e p r e s e n t e d a n d

underserved populations. I am grateful to the members of HLSA-NJ for enabling me to have a summer experience that will fundamentally shape my legal career.

Sincerely, Damon King ’09

Dear HLSA-NJ,

I would like to convey my sincere appreciation for being

honored with a Summer Public Interest Fellowship by the H a r v a r d L a w S c h o o l Association of New Jersey. This award enabled me to work at the Federal Public Defender’s Office in Newark this summer. Over the course of my internship, I was given the chance to witness and partake in the federal criminal law process, both within and

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John J. Gibbons, former Chief Judge of the Third U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals and a director at Gibbons P.C. has committed his five-decade career to protecting the rule of law in this country, a commitment that had him defending the 660 men incarcerated at the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base.

National Recognition, Local Talent A nationally recognized attorney, Judge Gibbons is listed among the nation’s leading business lawyers in the Chambers USA Guide to America’s Leading Business Lawyers where he is ranked number one among the state’s commercial litigators, and in The Best Lawyers in

America, where he is ranked in the category of First Amendment Law. In 2005, he received the Lifetime

Achievement award from The American Lawyer for his outstanding private practice and his dedication and contribution to the public good. He serves on the Editorial Board of The National Law Journal,

and was named the 2004 Lawyer of the Year by the New Jersey Law Journal for his dedication to pro bono causes. Judge Gibbons was born in Newark, and raised in Belleville. After serving in the Navy, he considered studying history in Europe, but instead a professor suggested he attend law school. Upon graduation from Harvard Law School, he returned to Newark to practice law for his current firm (then known as Crummy, Gibbons & O’Neill). In 1970, he was appointed to the Court of Appeals in Philadelphia, where he served for 20 years. He then returned to the firm and now provides valuable trial assistance

on cases. He is a member of the National Panel of Distinguished Neutrals of the CPR Institute for Dispute Resolution2 and has served as an

arbitrator and a mediator in a number of large commercial disputes among major corporations. He has also engaged in litigation involving antitrust, intellectual property law and securities regulation, while also running the firm’s unique pro bono program - the John J. Gibbons Fellowship in Public Interest & Constitutional Law.

DisTinguisheD hLs ALumni in new Jersey

1 All the graphics in this section, and the single footnote about the CPR Institute for Dispute Resolution, were added by the editor of The Connector and were not part of Judge Gibbons’ published biography. The biographical text information about Judge Gibbons was taken verbatim from http://www.gibbonslaw.com/biographies/attorney_biography.php?attorney_id=78.

2 http://www.cpradr.org/Portals/0/About_CPR/2011%20CPR%20AnnualReportLoRes.pdf (“The CPR Institute (CPR) serves as an independent, objective resource for the avoidance, management, and resolution of complex business-related disputes. No other organization has equal

influence, range of intellectual property, or breadth of programs focused exclusively on commercial conflict management. By harnessing the collective expertise of leading legal minds and benchmarking best practices, it is the leading ADR resource for multinational corporations with billions of dollars at risk. CPR is also a top online destination for lawyers seeking superior arbitrators and mediators, as well as cutting-edge ADR tools, resources and training. CPR’s membership comprises an elite group of ADR trailblazers, including executives and legal counsel from the most successful companies in the world, partners from global law firms, government officials, retired judges, highly-experienced neutrals, and leading academics. CPR has defined the field of ADR for more than 30 years. It was the first to bring together Corporate Counsel and their law firms to find ways of mitigating the risks, costs and delays associated with litigation. CPR was also the first to develop an ADR Pledge©, which obliges subscribing companies and law firms to explore alternative dispute resolution options before pursuing full-scale litigation. But, that was only the beginning. Since that time, CPR has staked its claim as the only independent think tank in the field and has become the go-to resource for leading practitioners seeking objective analysis, insight and innovation in commercial dispute resolution. The organization harnesses the expertise of leading minds to benchmark best practices and combines theory with practical application to produce the gold standard for ADR methodology, tools and services. Never content to rest on its laurels, CPR also advances innovation in the field as the initiator of the most cutting-edge thinking in commercial conflict resolution today. Learn more at www.cpradr.org.”)

John J. gibbons, esq. continued on next page

Letter From The President

On The Move

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Have news? E-mail jbartlet@post.harvard.edu

ALUMNI State Senate Judiciary Chairman John Adler ’84 has declared his candidacy for Congress in New Jersey’s third Congressional district.

HLSA-NJ secretary Stephen F. Herbes ’01, CPA, J.D., LL.M., and

his alphabet soup of degrees have joined the tax and trusts and estates practice at Riker Danzig in Morristown.

Assemblyman Mike Panter ’95 (D-12th) may have some alumni company next spring, if Republican Jay Webber ’00 wins his race for Assembly in the 26th District. Webber, of Morris Plains, won a contested primary in June.

CORRECTION: The spring issue failed to include photo credits for images from the 50th annual Vanderbilt Lecture. Those images were provided by Keith Krebs/P.O.V. Image Service.

During my first year of law school in 1998, a woman who had been a mentor of mine – Galina V. Starovoitova, a member of the Russian Parliament and a staunch advocate of human rights whom I got to know as my professor at Brown University four years earlier – was assassinated in St. Petersburg. At the time, I wrote in the weekly Harvard Law School Record that future historians would view 1989, the year the Berlin Wall fell and the Baltic States became the first Soviet republics to declare independence, as the end of the 20th century and the beginning of the 21st.

Today, we might instead mark September 11, 2001 as the centenary turning point. That fateful day came three months after I completed law school and five days after I started my first job as a lawyer. There are a host of other places to draw the line, of course, and our human nature compels us to draw these lines. Looking both backward and forward, walking the emotional lines between regret and pride, fear and hope – it’s part of who we are and what we do as a species.

The Association is at a turning point as well. For the first time, a majority of officers were graduated from the law school in the twenty-first century. I am the first of these to be president of the Association, and my successor Jason Orlando ’00 will be the second.

This marks a hopeful moment, of course. We’ll launch our second half-century of Vanderbilt Lectures with one of the brightest starts in the American legal firmament, New Jersey’s own Ted Wells ’76. (See page 1.) And we’re reaching out to current students with a

September panel discussion in Cambridge, where members of classes that make me feel old – like ’09 and ’10 – heard from half a dozen of us about the professional opportunities abloom in the Garden State. (See page 4.)

But, to paraphrase the old saw, with those great opportunities come great responsibility. As recently as two years ago, more than 110 of our state’s 950 or so HLS alumni paid dues to the Association, a response rate that — while in one sense underwhelming — still permitted the Association to provide programming, make a substantial gift to the Law School, and end the year with as much money in the bank as we started with. This year, only 46 alumni have paid their dues so far. That two-thirds drop in response rate is making

a huge difference in what we can do for you and for the Law School.

I can’t put it more plainly: We need your help. And we especially need help from those alumni graduated after 1970, whose dues – if paid at the same rate as the classes of the 1950s and ’60s – would more than make up the gap between our

spending and our income this year. For the first time in three years, we

expect this year’s Vanderbilt Lecture to fully pay for itself, thanks to a necessary increase in what we charge attendees (including our youngest alumni). But the rest of our program requires your help.

This year, we contributed $3,400 toward summer fellowships for two extraordinary young law students. (See page 3.) The value of their experience, and the connection it helped them develop to New Jersey’s legal community, is priceless. We’ll have spent nearly $1,000 to support travel and lodging for our Cambridge panelists in September. Our spending on food for Board meetings, at less than $400 for the year to date, is modest. We made no gift to the Law School this year. Still, they have provided us the printing and distribution of this newsletter and all our other mailings throughout the year – and it is our hope and aim to make generous contributions to the law school in the

future as we have in past years. As you look back, thank the Association’s long-serving leaders like Albert Cohn ’51, David Crabtree ’52, David Landau ’53, Jerry Fitzgerald English, Marvin Fish ’55, Steve Roth ’67, the late Irwin Markowitz ’52, and so many others. As you look forward, ask yourself: What do you want the Association

to look like in the years to come? And how will you be part of it?

If you’ve paid your dues, come out to our events, or been active on the board, I thank you. If you haven’t done those things yet, I invite and implore you to be part of this great endeavor.

John W. Bartlett ’01

John Bartlett ’01, 2007 President of HLSA-NJ

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To become an active member of the Harvard Law School Association of New Jersey, simply fill out the form below and return it with a check payable to “Harvard Law School Association of N.J.” to Jeffrey Kantowitz, Esq., Goldberg Mufson & Spar, 200 Executive Drive, Suite 355, West Orange, NJ 07052. Or include your separate dues check with your RSVP to the Vanderbilt lecture. Dues are $75 for alumni admitted to the bar for over 5 years as of July 1, 2007, and $50 for alumni admitted for less 5 five years and those in the public sector.

I enclose my check for the 2007-2008 dues to the Harvard Law School Association of New Jersey in the amount of $75.00 $ 50.00

Name: Class:

Address:

Telephone: E-Mail:

Date of Admission to the Bar: I am employed in the public sector.

See Summer, page 4

Chief Justice Stuart J. Rabner ’85 is sworn in by his predecessor, James R. Zazzali, in July. Looking on are Governor Jon S. Corzine and Rabner’s wife, Deborah. At 47 years of age, Rabner – a former federal prosecutor, Governor’s Chief Counsel, and state Attorney General – is the youngest Chief Justice in the modern history of the state’s high Court.

We Can’t Do Until You Due If you’ve read about it in the Connector, it was made possible by members who paid their dues. From our summer public interest fellowships and campus programming for students to

the spring symposium and other events HLSA-NJ offers to you and all our members, it wouldn’t exist without the support of our dues-paying members. If you haven’t paid your 2007-2008 dues yet, please contribute today by using the form below.

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Our 2007 Public Interest Fellows In Their Own Words Dear Members of HLSA-NJ,

I would like to thank the H a r v a r d L a w S c h o o l Association of New Jersey for providing funding for my first-year summer internship. Thanks to the generosity of the Association’s dues-paying members, I served as a legal intern for the New Jersey Institute for Social Justice in Newark. I took part in a variety of projects, learning about the ways in which NJISJ combines legal advocacy, policy analysis, and direct service programs to assist New Jersey's urban communities.

Through NJISJ’s Second Chance Campaign, a policy effort to improve the reentry prospects of individuals returning to their communities following incarceration, I researched the efforts of cities across the country to reduce discrimination against ex-offenders in municipal hiring and prepared written materials for presentations to New Jersey municipalities on policy reform options. I also helped connect former inmates with pro bono

attorneys through the ReLeSe network, a partnership between NJISJ and Volunteer Lawyers for Justice.

I also worked on projects touching on racial and economic inequality. In the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in Parents Involved in Community Schools v. Seattle School District #1, I prepared a memo discussing the decision’s effect on school assignment programs that consider race and proposing policy options still available to school districts committed to equal educational opportunity. I researched various legal issues affecting New Jersey’s Fair Housing Act and the Mt. Laurel doctrine, particularly with r e s p e c t t o r e g i o n a l contribution agreements, which have been the subject of vigorous policy debates and the target of legal challenges under both state and federal law.

NJISJ provides numerous examples of ways in which attorneys can commit their knowledge and skills to aid u n d e r r e p r e s e n t e d a n d

underserved populations. I am grateful to the members of HLSA-NJ for enabling me to have a summer experience that will fundamentally shape my legal career.

Sincerely, Damon King ’09

Dear HLSA-NJ,

I would like to convey my sincere appreciation for being

honored with a Summer Public Interest Fellowship by the H a r v a r d L a w S c h o o l Association of New Jersey. This award enabled me to work at the Federal Public Defender’s Office in Newark this summer. Over the course of my internship, I was given the chance to witness and partake in the federal criminal law process, both within and

Letter From The President

On The Move

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Have news? E-mail jbartlet@post.harvard.edu

ALUMNI State Senate Judiciary Chairman John Adler ’84 has declared his candidacy for Congress in New Jersey’s third Congressional district.

HLSA-NJ secretary Stephen F. Herbes ’01, CPA, J.D., LL.M., and

his alphabet soup of degrees have joined the tax and trusts and estates practice at Riker Danzig in Morristown.

Assemblyman Mike Panter ’95 (D-12th) may have some alumni company next spring, if Republican Jay Webber ’00 wins his race for Assembly in the 26th District. Webber, of Morris Plains, won a contested primary in June.

CORRECTION: The spring issue failed to include photo credits for images from the 50th annual Vanderbilt Lecture. Those images were provided by Keith Krebs/P.O.V. Image Service.

During my first year of law school in 1998, a woman who had been a mentor of mine – Galina V. Starovoitova, a member of the Russian Parliament and a staunch advocate of human rights whom I got to know as my professor at Brown University four years earlier – was assassinated in St. Petersburg. At the time, I wrote in the weekly Harvard Law School Record that future historians would view 1989, the year the Berlin Wall fell and the Baltic States became the first Soviet republics to declare independence, as the end of the 20th century and the beginning of the 21st.

Today, we might instead mark September 11, 2001 as the centenary turning point. That fateful day came three months after I completed law school and five days after I started my first job as a lawyer. There are a host of other places to draw the line, of course, and our human nature compels us to draw these lines. Looking both backward and forward, walking the emotional lines between regret and pride, fear and hope – it’s part of who we are and what we do as a species.

The Association is at a turning point as well. For the first time, a majority of officers were graduated from the law school in the twenty-first century. I am the first of these to be president of the Association, and my successor Jason Orlando ’00 will be the second.

This marks a hopeful moment, of course. We’ll launch our second half-century of Vanderbilt Lectures with one of the brightest starts in the American legal firmament, New Jersey’s own Ted Wells ’76. (See page 1.) And we’re reaching out to current students with a

September panel discussion in Cambridge, where members of classes that make me feel old – like ’09 and ’10 – heard from half a dozen of us about the professional opportunities abloom in the Garden State. (See page 4.)

But, to paraphrase the old saw, with those great opportunities come great responsibility. As recently as two years ago, more than 110 of our state’s 950 or so HLS alumni paid dues to the Association, a response rate that