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VOLUME 32 NUMBER 3
Spring 2010

• Carolyn King to Become ALI Treasurer on May 19
• The President’s Letter
• Election of Council Members Set for Monday, May 17
• New ALI Deputy Director Assumes Duties
• Institute Member Receives Germany’s Highest Civilian Honor
• Restatements Old and New, Sentencing, and Article 9 Headline Annual Meeting Agenda
• Justice Breyer Heads Impressive Roster of Annual Meeting Speakers
• The Institute in the Courts
• In Memoriam
• Notes About Members and Colleagues
• ALI and State Bar of Georgia Join for Luncheon Meeting
• New Principles Volume on Aggregate Litigation Is Published
• New Members Elected
• 50 Years Ago at the Annual Meeting…
• Calendar

Notes About Members and Colleagues

• William T. Barker of Chicago, with his partner, Ronald D. Kent, published New Appleman Insurance Bad Faith Litigation, Second Edition (LexisNexis 2010).
• In February, Brooksley E. Born of Washington, D.C., received the American Bar Foundation’s 2010 Outstanding Service Award, recognizing individuals who have personified the highest principles and traditions of the legal profession and demonstrated a lifetime of service to the public. In addition, Ms. Born, Benjamin R. Civiletti, ALI Council member William T. Coleman, Jr., and Dick Thornburgh were featured in the December issue of Washingtonian magazine listing ten of Washington, D.C.’s pioneers of the bar.
• In April, Judge Michael Boudin of Boston, an emeritus member of the Institute’s Council, who serves on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit and who once clerked for Judge Henry Friendly, delivered the 2010 Owen J. Roberts Lecture, titled “Judge Friendly and the Craft of Deciding Cases,” at the University of Pennsylvania Law School in Philadelphia.
• In March, Fred H. Cate, professor at Indiana University Maurer School of Law in Bloomington and director of the IU Center for Applied Cybersecurity Research, testified as an expert witness at the U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime and Drugs field hearing held in Philadelphia regarding the need to overhaul and modernize American federal privacy laws in the wake of a Pennsylvania school district’s monitoring of students via school-issued laptop webcams.
• In March, Christopher F. Edley, Jr., dean of the University of California at Berkeley School of Law (Boalt Hall) and the Wednesday luncheon speaker at this year’s Annual Meeting, received the Distinguished Alumni Award (New Rochelle High School, 1970) at the New Rochelle Fund for Educational Excellence Foundation Awards Gala.
• Lawrence J. Fox of Philadelphia, a trial lawyer who is teaching ethics at Harvard Law School this spring, and Susan R. Martyn, a professor at the University of Toledo College of Law, have coauthored the second edition of Red Flags: A Lawyer’s Handbook on Legal Ethics (ALI-ABA 2010). The softcover book, which is also available digitally, may be ordered at www.ali-aba.org/bk69 or by calling 800-253-6397. Mr. Fox and Professor Martyn are planning co-chairs and are on the faculty for the Developments in Legal Ethics course to be held at the Mayflower on Sunday, May 16, at 4:30 p.m., prior to the Annual Meeting.
• Meredith Fuchs, formerly General Counsel to the National Security Archive, has become Chief Counsel, Oversight and Investigations, Committee on Energy and Commerce, of the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington, D.C. In March, she was the joint winner of the American Library Association’s 2010 James Madison Award, which honors “individuals or groups who have championed, protected and promoted public access to government information and the public’s ‘right to know’ on the national level.”
• In January, E. Duncan Getchell, Jr., of Richmond was named State Solicitor General by Virginia’s Attorney General-elect Kenneth T. Cuccinelli II.
• Michael G. Goldstein of Newport Beach, California, has been named Senior Vice President and National Director of Strategic Development for Clark Consulting, LLC, a corporation headquartered in Dallas that has helped place thousands of benefit plans and serves as the record keeper for billions in assets for American corporations and banks. In addition, he was recently elected to the Association for Advanced Life Underwriting Board of Directors, a professional trade association representing life-insurance agents and professionals nationwide.
• Linda Greenhouse, a senior research scholar in law, distinguished journalist in residence, and lecturer in law at Yale Law School who writes a biweekly column on law for nytimes.com, has been named the 2010 Hunter B. Andrews Fellow in American Politics at the College of William & Mary.
• Judge Ellen M. Heller of Baltimore, the first female Circuit Administrative Judge appointed in Maryland, has joined, for a six-year term, the board of trustees of the Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation, one of the largest private foundations in the United States. Shale D. Stiller has concluded his term as President of the Foundation to return as a partner to DLA Piper in Baltimore.
• Paul V. Holtzman of Boston, an Adviser for Restatement Third, Employment Law, has been named a Massachusetts Super Lawyer for 2009 by Boston magazine. He has also been included in the 2010 edition of The Best Lawyers in America in the specialty of Labor and Employment.
• Martin J. Katz has been named dean of the University of Denver Sturm College of Law in Colorado. He served as interim dean from July 2009 until February 2010.
• In February, during the American Bar Association’s 2010 Midyear Meeting in Orlando, Florida, Linda A. Klein of Atlanta, Georgia, was nominated as the 2010 chair of the ABA’s House of Delegates. If elected at the 2010 ABA Annual Meeting in San Francisco in August, Ms. Klein will assume her post for a two-year term at the conclusion of the meeting. Ms. Klein is the recipient of the American Bar Foundation’s 2010 Fellows Outstanding State Chair Award, and she was honored with the Randolph Thrower Lifetime Achievement Award 2009 from the State Bar of Georgia.
• Richard H. Kreindler, a partner at Shearman & Sterling in Frankfurt, Germany, has been named an Honorary Professor of Law at the University of Münster, Germany, in recognition of his years of teaching at Münster and his publications in the areas of private international law and international arbitration.
• On April 11, Harvard University announced that William F. Lee of Boston has been elected to the Harvard Corporation; he will assume his role as a Fellow of Harvard College on July 1. Co-managing partner of Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr and recently the Eli Goldston Lecturer on Law at Harvard Law School, Mr. Lee, a 1972 graduate of Harvard College, in 2009 was named U.S. Intellectual Property Practitioner of the Year by Managing IP magazine.
• Edward F. Mannino of Plymouth Meeting, Pennsylvania, is the author of Shaping America:The Supreme Court and American Society (University of South Carolina Press 2009).
• Charles W. Matthews of Dallas, who recently retired from his position as General Counsel and Vice President of Exxon Mobil Corporation, has been elected to the Board of Directors of Trinity Industries, Inc., a multi-industry company, headquartered in Dallas, that owns a variety of businesses providing products and services to the industrial, energy, transportation, and construction sectors.
• In March, Colleen McHugh of Corpus Christi was chosen to succeed University of Texas System Board of Regents Chairman James R. Huffines. She is the first woman to fill the post.
• Vincent L. McKusick of Portland, Maine, former Chief Justice of the Maine Supreme Judicial Court and an emeritus member of the Institute’s Council, has been honored through the creation and successful funding of the Vincent L. McKusick Fellowship Fund to promote diversity in the University of Maine School of Law and the Maine bar by providing tuition and other support to incoming law students from disadvantaged backgrounds. The law school awarded the first McKusick Fellowship in the fall of 2009.
• David D. Meyer, currently associate dean for academic affairs and a law professor at the University of Illinois College of Law in Champaign, has been named dean of Tulane University Law School and Mitchell Franklin Professor of Law, effective July 1. He will replace Professor Stephen M. Griffin, who has served as interim dean at the law school since July 2009.
• In February, Arthur Raphael Miller, a professor at the New York University School of Law, gave the commencement speech in Los Angeles for the 2010 graduating class and received an honorary Doctor of Law degree from Concord Law School of Kaplan University. In March, his collection of prints formed the basis for the opening of the Japan Society’s New York City exhibition of Utagawa Kuniyoshi, one of the greatest Japanese woodblock print artists. In April, the NYU Annual Survey of American Law dedicated to Professor Miller its 2010 volume, which features tributes to and scholarship on his achievements and contributions to American law. Speakers included U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, David L. Shapiro, a professor emeritus at Harvard Law School, and Linda J. Silberman, a professor at NYU School of Law.
• Maury B. Poscover of St. Louis, president of the Board of Directors of ALI-ABA Continuing Professional Education, has coauthored a chapter on corporate finance for the treatise Successful Partnering Between Inside and Outside Counsel, jointly published by West and the Association of Corporate Counsel.
• On May 7, at the University of Wisconsin Law School in Madison, John S. Skilton of Madison, a former law clerk to the late Judge Thomas E. Fairchild, is to deliver the Thomas E. Fairchild Lecture, entitled “Abraham Lincoln, A Lawyer for the Ages.” Judge Fairchild was a former Chief Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit and an ALI Council member for nearly 40 years.
• In January, Lawrence R. Uhlick of New York City, Chief Executive Officer of the Institute of International Bankers, was appointed by BBVA Compass—a Sunbelt-based U.S. banking franchise—to the Board of Directors of Compass Bank. He also will serve as a director of the U.S. Holding companies of BBVA.
• In March, Paul R. Verkuil was unanimously confirmed by the U.S. Senate as chairman of the Administrative Conference of the United States (ACUS). As chairman, he is tasked with rebuilding the ACUS, which was reconstituted in 2009 after being dormant for 14 years. ACUS makes recommendations to federal agencies concerning the efficiency, soundness, and fairness of their procedures.
• The Illinois Institute of Technology Board of Trustees has approved the appointment of Richard W. Wright of Evanston, Illinois, as a Distinguished Professor of Law at Chicago-Kent College of Law. Distinguished professor is the highest faculty rank at the university, and is reserved for a small number of senior faculty members.
• Mark G. Yudof, President of the University of California, has been appointed to the Lumina Foundation for Education’s Board of Directors. The Lumina Foundation is committed to enrolling and graduating more students from college, especially low-income students, students of color, first-generation students, and adult learners.

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