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In The News: Spring / Summer 2004

Professional:

(Listed in reverse alphabetical oder.)
  • "Howling at the Moon: The Odyssey of a Monstrous Music Mogul in an Age of Excess," a memoir penned by Walter Yetnikoff '56, was reviewed or featured in numerous news outlets. His law school education was mentioned in The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, The International Herald Tribune, Orlando Sentinel (Florida), Billboard and Sunday Times (London).

  • Manning & Martin announced the arrival of partner Tim T. Xia '97 -- a physicist and lawyer who grew up in China (Fulton County Daily Report, March 25, 2004).

  • Sheena Wright '94 was featured a February 2nd article in The New York Times headlined, "Stress of Harlem's Rebirth Shows in School's Move to a New Building."

  • Paul Williams '77 was the subject of a Newsday profile on May 6, 2004. Williams, a senior lawyer at Cushman & Wakefield announced that Gregory M. Weston '82 has joined the firm as a senior director in its brokerage services group (Real Estate Weekly, February 11, 2004.)

  • New Zealand Exchange chief executive Mark Weldon '97 was mentioned in an article titled ""NZX chief backs alternative listing" in the Waikato Times on February 25, 2004.

  • Andrew Weissmann '84, the lead trial lawyer in the Arthur Andersen obstruction prosecution, replaced Leslie Caldwell at the top of the Enron Task Force (The Houston Chronicle, March 02, 2004.)

  • Perry Wallace '75 was profiled in The February 19th edition of The Tennesean. The article was titled, "Courting Courage."

  • Four Southlanders were among 10 appointees named today by the governor to the University of California Board of Regents and the California State University Board of Trustees. Paul Wachter '81 was one of two appointees named by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger to the unpaid UC board posts, which require Senate confirmation (The San Francisco Chronicle, July 3, 2004; City News Service, July 2, 2004).

  • "The Book of Salt" by Vietnamese refugee Monique Truong '95 received a glowing review in The Record ("Eccentric Exiles in a Parisian Feast; A Gay Indonesian Chef Creates a Rich Banquet at 27 rue des Fleures," June 6, 2004).  The author and book were also featured in The Houston Chronicle ("Novel Approach; Author's Fiction Debut Explores Vietnamese Roots," on July 5, 2004) and The Record ("Race and servitude in the City of Lights," July 11, 2004."

  • Business Wire announced that Mark V.B. Tremallo '83 has joined Skyworks Solutions, Inc. as vice president and general counsel ("Skyworks Appoints Mark V.B. Tremallo Vice President and General Counsel," April 22, 2004).

  • The National Law Journal ran a profile of Paul C. Tang '77, Burlington Coat Factory executive vice president, general counsel and secretary, entitled "Insulating Against Liability" (May 10, 2004). 

  • Articles announcing that Michele L. Stocker '90 has been named managing partner of the Fort Lauderdale office of Katz Barron Squitero Faust Becker Terzo Friedberg & Grady appeared in the Broward, Miami and Palm Beach Daily Business Reivews. Stocker, who joined the firm in 1996, specializes in employment law and commercial litigation ("Lawyers: On the Move," May 27, 2004).

  • Todd Stitzer '78, chief executive officer of Dr Pepper/Seven Up Inc. was profiled The Journal News (Westchester County, NY) on February 16, 2004.

  • Marc Stern '76, currently the Assistant Executive Director of the American Jewish Congress and a 27-year veteran of the organization, is quoted in The National Journal article "Reinterpreting God and Country" (May 22, 2004).

  • Edwin Stern '66 will become the Appellate Division's presiding judge for administration, taking over for Sylvia Pressler, who reaches the mandatory retirement age next month. New Jersey Law Journal, March 15, 2004.

  • Longtime NBA commissioner David Stern '66 was profiled in Investor's Business Daily on June 14 (Stern at a Glance"). Stern was also among the seven recipients this year of honorary degrees from Rutgers University according to The Daily Targum, Rutger's student newspaper ("Actor, alum receive honorary degrees from Rutgers," May 24, 2004).

  • Clive Stafford Smith '84, an anti-death penalty campaigner who represents several death-row defendants, was profiled in The Sunday Herald article "‘Surely Everyone in the Scottish Parliament Thinks it's a Bad Idea to Execute an Innocent Scot?'" on June 6, 2004. He was also featured in an article titled ""The lifesaver of death row; Clive Stafford-Smith is a Briton who dedicates his life to defending the condemned in the US," which appeared in The Herald on March 26, 2004.

  • Bradford L. Smith '84, who became Microsoft Corp's general counsel in 2001, was profiled in a Business Week article titled "Teaching Microsoft To Make Nice?" (May 31, 2004).


  • Harry Silver '71 has joined Patton Boggs as a partner in the litigation practice, according to the Legal Times ("On the Move," April 19, 2004). Silver was previously a partner at Ober Kaler Grimes & Shriver.

  • Theodore M. Shaw '79, the new president of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, addressed the 2004 graduating class of the University of Pittsburgh School of Law on May 22, according to the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette ("NAACP Official Tells Law Grads ‘Engage in Battles for Rule of Law," May 23, 2004). Shaw also received mention in a Daily News editorial written by classmate E.R. Shipp '80 ("A Generation Steps Up," May 16, 2004).

  • Judith Schvimmer '03 has joined Harvey Siskind Jacobs as an associate. Her practice focuses on copyright, trademark and commercial litigation and transactional matters for technology and business clients (The Recorder, January 26, 2004).

  • Mikhail Saakashvili '94 and the reform government of Georgia were the subject of several articles. Saakashvili's education at Columbia Law School was mentioned in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Chicago Tribune, The Washington Times, The International Herald Tribune, The Economist, The Wall Street Journal, The Chicago Tribune, NPR and Channel News Asia.

  • Wilmer Cutler Pickering LLP announced that Michael A. Ross '66, formerly a senior legal officer with Citigroup Inc., has joined the Firm's highly regarded Financial Institutions practice as counsel in the New York office (Press release).

  • Suzanna Rosencrans '90 figured it would be best to quit New Line Entertainment while she was ahead. After five years as de facto director of legal affairs for the "The Lord of the Rings" trilogy, Rosencrans, who was senior vice president of business and legal affairs, has returned to private practice as attorney of counsel in entertainment law at Katz Golden & Sullivan LLP's Los Angeles office (Los Angeles Business Journal, March 22, 2004).

  • The Twin Cities law firm of Briggs and Morgan, P.A. announced that securities attorney, David Rosedahl '72, has joined the firm's Minneapolis office as a shareholder (Press release).

  • Former President Franklin Delano Roosevelt '05 is the subject of a new biography by Justice Robert Jackson entitled That Man, which was reviewed in the New York Law Journal (June 1, 2004) and Legal Times (June 7, 2004).

  • Paul Robeson '23 was honored by the U.S. Postal Service with a commemorative postage stamp, which was included in various news outlets including the Charleston Gazette (West Virginia), The Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN), Sun-Sentinel (Fort Lauderdale, FL), The Baltimore Sun, St. Petersburg Times (Florida), Philadelphia Inquirer, The International Herald Tribune, PR Newswire, The Journal News (Westchester County, NY), Home News Tribune (East Brunswick, NJ), Daily Advertiser (Lafayette, LA), Buffalo News (New York), Courier News (Bridgewater, NJ), City News Service, The Journal News (Westchester County, NY), Cox News Service, NPR's "Tavis Smiley," WNYW-TV, and WBAL-TV.

  • Sean Riley '04, a volunteer for the Kerry campaign, was interviewed a January 26th article in The New York Sun titled "Kerry Faults Dean for Negativity as Granite State Vote Draws Near."

  • Goulston & Storrs announced that Sven Riethmueller '94 has joined the firm's Boston office as International Counsel in its Corporate Group (Press release).

  • Attorney Michael P. Richman '79 of New Rochelle was elected president of the American Bankruptcy Institute last week for a one-year term, according to Westchester County's The Journal News ("Business in the Burbs, " April 22, 2004).

  • President Bush intends to designate Mitchell B. Reiss '88, of Virginia, as Special Envoy for Northern Ireland, and nominate him for the Rank of Ambassador during his tenure of service as Special Envoy. Dr. Reiss currently serves as Director of Policy Planning for the State Department. Africa News, March 16, 2004.

  • Judge Gustin L. Reichbach '70 was the subject of a feature article titled "JUSTICE, FAR FROM HOME: B'klyn judge enters Kosovo fray" (Newsday (New York), March 21, 2004).

  • Bruce Ratner '70 was featured in several articles over the past few months. Those which included reference to his education at the Law School include:
    • "New York's Other Real Estate Mogul; Bruce Ratner, unlike high-profile rival Donald Trump, sees beyond Manhattan. Here's how he plans to revitalize Brooklyn," Business Week, July 19, 2004
    • "Pro Basketball: The Buyer; Can Former Indians Fan Be O'Malley's Avenger?" The New York Times, January 22, 2004
    • "Brooklyn bid wins Nets; Obstacles remain to team's proposed move," The Record, January 22, 2004
    • "A Beef Grows in Brooklyn," Newsweek, February 3, 2004

  • The Capital Region's largest law firm has expanded its intellectual property law practice by hiring Dr. Sander Rabin '74, a patent attorney and physician with extensive experience in biomedicine and biotechnology (The Times Union (Albany, NY), July 7, 2004).

  • Schiff Hardin elected Laura Pruitt '87 to partnership in its D.C. office. Pruitt, 41, concentrates on securities and futures market regulation (Legal Times, March 8, 2004).

  • The promotion of Steven Price '89 was mentioned in the PR Newswire release "Spectrum Equity Investors Names Steven Price General Partner" (April 20, 2004).

  • Attorney Tama Potaka '00 was the guest speaker at a ceremony celebrating the 100th graduate from a psychology program at Maori Massey University (The Evening Standard (New Zealand), "Ceremony Honours Maori Graduates," May 14, 2004).

  • PIMCO announced the promotion of Mohan V. Phansalkar '87 to the level of Managing Director (PrimeZone Media Network, February 10, 2004).

  • Devout Mormon Scott R. Peterson '88, vice president, general counsel and secretary for Houston-based ExpressJet Holdings, was the subject of a profile in Texas Lawyer ("ExpressJet Holdings General Counsel Heeds the Call," June 6, 2004).

  • Teresa Pesce '87 was appointed HSBC's first anti-money-laundering director (Corporate Counsel, February 2004).

  • Circuit Judge James E.C. Perry '72 was the keynote speaker at the Citrus County Bar Association's seventh annual Law Day luncheon, where he stressed the need for continuing the battle against racial inequalities. The speech was covered by the St. Petersburg Times on May 8th in an article titled "Judge: Long Civil Rights Fight Had Many Battles."

  • Justice Michael J. Obus '73 of the New York State Supreme Court, who oversaw the case against Tyco's former chief executive, L. Dennis Kozlowski, and its former chief financial officer, Mark H. Swartz, was profiled in a March 30th article in The New York Times headlined, "Tyco Judge Is Known For Skills With People."

  • Connecticut Supreme Court Associate Justice Flemming L. Norcott Jr., '68 was among 20 African-Americans honored in May by the Connecticut Supreme Court. The Supreme Court honored the group's achievements as part of the Court's celebration of Law Day 2004: "To Win Equality By Law: Brown vs. Board at 50" (Press release). 

  • Federal Judge Constance Baker Motley '46, who gained recognition as a young lawyer for the NAACP's Legal Defense and Educational Fund, was featured in the following articles:

    • "Brown v. Board: 50 Years Later," Chattanooga Free Press, May 16, 2004
    • "Honorable Intentions; Voices of Integration," Hartford Courant, May 2, 2004

  • Lawyers Robert Morvillo '63, Michael A. Rebell, and Joseph F. Wayland '83 were included in a review of the top cases of 2003. New York Law Journal, February 23, 2004.

  • Brad Meltzer '96 was included in several articles. His education was mentioned in the following:
    • "Brad Meltzer Rides a Wave of Multiple Media," Sun-Sentinel (Fort Lauderdale, FL), July 11, 2004.
    • "Big name, zero game: Renaissance writer Brad Meltzer," Miami Herald, March 25, 2004
    • "Brad Meltzer Scare Monger," The Washington Post, March 14, 2004
    • "Novelist Both Local Hero, National Hit," Palm Beach Post (Florida), March 9, 2004
    • "Capitol Hill's darker side," The News & Observer (Raleigh, North Carolina), January 30, 2004

  • Dr. Ronald Mason Jr. '77, the president of Jackson State University, was the subject of a profile in The Clarion-Ledger on May 30, 2004. Of his time at Columbia, Mason said, "I loved it. I learned as much from the city as I did from the university."

  • Scott Martin '86 LL.M., who graduated top of his Law School class and is now working as a law clerk for Judge Alex Kozinski of the U.S. Court of Appeals' 9th Circuit, was featured in The Greenville News (Greenville, SC) on July 18, 2004.

  • James M. Margolin '81, who used to practice public finance law at Hawkins, Delafield & Wood, but now works at the FBI was featured in an article titled, "Have J.D., Will Travel: FBI Seeks a Few Good Lawyers" (New York Law Journal, February 13, 2004).

  • Michael Lynne '64, co-CEO of New Line Cinema and the executive producer of "The Lord of the Rings" trilogy, was interviewed by Daily Variety for its "N.Y. Minute" column (April 30, 2004).

  • Li Lu '95, once a leader of the student demonstrations in China, was featured in the article "What happened to the heroes of Tiananmen?" (The Times (London), June 3, 2004). Lu was the first student to graduate from Columbia with simultaneous degrees in business, in law and from the undergraduate college and is now a successful financier.

  • Abbe Lowell '77 was featured in an article headlined, "High Profile Attorney Gets a Win for High-Profile Client." (Birmingham News (Alabama), January 25, 2004.

  • Lawyer Jonathan Lovett '71 was profiled in a New York Times article that also mentions fellow CLS graduate George E. Pataki '70 ("Incivilities In a Fight For Rights," May 30, 2004).

  • H.F. Lenfest '58 and his wife, Marguerite, resolved to put their entire fortune into charitable trusts (United Press International, February 23, 2004).

  • Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson LLP announced that Henry Lebowitz '95 will join the firm as a partner in the Intellectual Property Group, resident in the New York office (Business Wire, February 2, 2004).

  • The Hon. Leslie Leach '78 was appointed the State Supreme Court, making him the first African-American administrative judge in the Queens. The appointment was announced on May 6th in the Daily News ("Tap Leach as County's Top Justice") and Newsday ("Move to State Supreme Court: New Post for Popular Judge").

  • Almost four years to the day after his commentary was published in the Express-News, Vincent Lazaro '93 LL.M. one of the best and brightest who returned to San Antonio, was elected District 3 trustee of the Alamo Community College District ( San Antonio Express-News (Texas), January 24, 2004).

  • According to the New York Law Journal, Manhattan Assistant District Attorney Sharon Laveson '02 and Legal Aid lawyer Peggy Cross '01 have won this year's essay contest sponsored by the New York County Lawyers' Association. Their essays were about the admissibility of expert testimony on eyewitness identification ("News in Brief," May 28, 2004).

  • The Impact Fund, based in Berkeley, has appointed Bill Lann Lee '74 to its board of advisors (The Recorder, February 2, 2004).

  • US Airways general counsel Elizabeth K. Lanier '77 was the subject of a profile in The Washington Post ("Elizabeth K. Lanier; Executive Vice President, Corporate Affairs and General Counsel, US Airways," April 26, 2004).

  • Jzaneen A. Lalani '99 was the subject of the PR Newswire release "Memory Pharmaceuticals Announces the Appointment of Jzaneen A. Lalani as Vice President Legal Affairs" (June 10, 2004).

  • Pillsbury Winthrop LLP elected a new four-person management committee at its New York office, led by Susan Kohlmann '82, a litigator with significant experience in intellectual property matters, as managing partner (PR Newswire, March 18, 2004).

  • Lon Kight '40 and his wife, Audrey, are the benefactors of the Kight Center for Emerging Technologies, being built at the Fort Pierce campus of Indian River Community College (Sun-Sentinel (Fort Lauderdale, FL), February 8, 2004; The Stuart News/Port St. Lucie News (Stuart, FL), February 8, 2004).

  • The Associated Press has named India-born Srinandan Kasi '96 as its Vice President-Global Business and Deputy General Counsel (The Press Trust of India, February 26, 2004).

  • President George W. Bush has appointed White & Case litigation partner Richard J. Holwell '70 as Judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York (Press release). 

  • Gov. Rod Blagojevich named Eric Holder Jr. '76, a former deputy U.S. attorney general, as special investigator to look into the Illinois Gaming Board's decision to give a casino license to Rosemont and Isle of Capri Casinos, according to a source close to the administration (Chicago Tribune, March 24, 2004).

  • Michael Hertz '88 was featured in The Wall Street Journal column "Digits" for his work as the co-founder of Pro Bono Net Inc., a national nonprofit legal organization launched in 1998 to increase legal access for low-income groups (April 22, 2004).

  • David Hawkins '69, the Director of the Climate Center at the Natural Resources Defense Council, argues that the United States should provide leadership on reducing global warming in a National Journal article entitled "Debate to Heat Up on Global Warming" (May 22, 2004).

  • Peter C. Harvey '82, the first African-American to serve as attorney general of New Jersey, was profiled in The New York Times column "Public Lives." The article, titled "Demanding Respect, and Looking Up to Moses," was published in the January 27, 2004 edition.

  • Frank S. Hagelberg '72 has joined Boylan, Brown, Code, Vigdor & Wilson LLP as counsel in the firm's Commercial Real Estate Group. He will concentrate his practice on land use regulation, commercial real estate leasing and development, telecommunications and litigation. The Daily Record of Rochester (Rochester, NY), March 15, 2004.

  • Miriam Goldman Cedarbaum '53, the judge in the Martha Stewart case, was the subject of numerous articles and broadcast news segments.

  • Larry Glick '80, a solo practitioner in Garden City, was featured in an article titled "Attorneys find challenges, rewards when going solo" (Long Island Business News, March 26, 2004).

  • The retirement of 20-year veteran Superior Court Judge Peter J. Giovine '64 was marked with a profile in the Asbury Park Press ("Some Difficult Judgments: Retired Judge Recalls High, Low Points," June 2, 2004).

  • Vanderbilt University Chancellor Gordon Gee '71 was featured in a March 20th article in The Korea Herald titled, "Vanderbilt head suggests ways to improve Korean higher education."

  • A recent article in The Plain Dealer featured tips from "A Message From Garcia: Yes, You Can Succeed," a how-to book by Charles Garcia '94. Garcia runs Sterling Financial Group, one of the country's fastest-growing Hispanic-owned companies ("Author-businessman offers graduates 7 tips on succeeding in work and life," May 30, 2004).

  • "Saying What the Law Is: The Constitution in the Supreme Court," a new book by Charles Fried '60, was reviewed in The Legal Intelligencer ("Building a Rock-Solid Foundation of Laws," May 21, 2004), The Recorder ("Memo to Supreme Court: Build a Foundation," June 11, 2004) and the Legal Times ("The Legal Library, May 3, 2004). Fried was also quoted on the subject of legal training in the article "Who's Qualified for Bench? It's No Matter of Degree" (The Providence Journal, May 20, 2004).

  • Sir Evelyn de Rothschild '80, the retired head of the dynastic banking business, was profiled in an article titled, "The Pounds 1.8bn Rothschild tipped to be head of the BBC," which appeared in Mail on Sunday (London) on March 28, 2004.

  • Mattia Colonnelli de Gasperis '03 LLM, with merit (Stone Scholar), Fulbright student, qualified attorney in Rome and New York, has joined Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer as associate in the firm's Milan office. Colonnelli de Gasperis will focus on advising clients on finance issues (E-mail notification).

  • Eleonore Dailly '98 was quoted in the Buenos Aires Herald on May 16, 2004. The article was titled "Increasing Access to Justice in Argentina."


  • Chief Judge U.W. Clemon '68 spoke about the legacy of Brown v. Board of Education at a conference held in Chicago, receiving mention in the Chicago Daily Law Bulletin ("Reflecting on Past, and Future, of Desegregation," May 17, 2004).

  • Dean Budnick '90 was the subject of the article, "Promoter gets no rest during Jammy Awards" (The Providence Journal (Rhode Island), March 15, 2004).

  • According to the March 28th edition of Buffalo News, Craig R. Bucki '06 is the author of one of three lead articles in the current edition of Polish American Studies, a journal published by the Polish American Historical Association. His article, "Ethnic Appeals: The 1960 and 1968 Presidential Elections in Buffalo's Polish American Community," is based on research he did as an undergraduate student at Yale.

  • Allen Breslow '64 was one of the lawyers profiled in "Going Solo: Seasoned Lawyers Decide to Practice Alone for First Time," a New York Law Journal article about attorneys who are opening individual practices (May 11, 2004).

  • Adrienne Randle Bond '80 wrote an article for Texas Lawyer entitled "New Venture Capital Landscape Will Change GC Practice" (May 3, 2004).

  • Lee C. Bollinger '71, the current president of Columbia University and former University of Michigan president, was honored for his role in defending affirmative action policies at Michigan by The Detroit News ("Mary Sue Coleman and Lee C. Bollinger: They championed the importance of diversity by defending the need for affirmative action," May 9, 2004).

  • Southern Company has named Francis S. Blake '76, the executive vice president of business development and corporate operations for The Home Depot, as a nominee to stand for election as a director in May (PR Newswire, "Southern Company Nominates Blake as Director," April 21, 2004).

  • Karan Bhatia, Assistant Secretary for Aviation and International Affairs, US Department of Transportation, spent three days in India hustling civil aviation minister Praful Patel, key industry leaders and other government officials to strike aviation deals. Even though he was in India after 11 years, it was 'home' coming for him. Mr Bhatia is the only Indian American to have made it to such a high position and he was specifically in the country to explore areas such as development, planning and financing of road and highway infrastructure, modernisation of maritime systems and most importantly, to make a compelling case for Indo-US open skies ("Planeman Comes to India," Financial Express, July 11, 2004).


  • Caroline Bettinger-Lopez '03 and Dale Margolin '04 were among the recipients of the prestigious fellowships awarded by Skadden.  Bettinger-Lopez will be conducting litigation on behalf of battered women for the Women's Rights Project of the American Civil Liberties Union, while Margolin will be responsible for the representation and community outreach to pregnant and parenting teenagers in foster care through the Legal Aid Society (New York Law Journal, January 30, 2004).

  • Denver Water Manager Chips Barry '69 was profiled in an article headlined "Always Ready to Jump in; Roosevelt Memorabilia, Photographs Reflect Water Manager's Varied Career" (Rocky Mountain News, July 8, 2004).

  • Northland Investment Corporation ("Northland"), a leading privately held real estate investment and development company, today announced that Steven R. Astrove '85, formerly a senior real estate director at Goulston & Storrs, has joined the firm as Vice President, effective April 1, 2004. In his capacity at Northland, Astrove will be responsible for capital formation, acquisition and real estate legal work. (Business Wire, March 1, 2004.)

  • Chicago Daily Law Bulletin announced that Nina S. Appel '59, one of the longest serving law school deans in the U.S., has assumed the role of deam emerita at Loyola University Chicago School of Law ("Appel Takes New Admin Role at Loyola," May 10, 2004).

  • Carmen Twillie Ambar '94, who became the youngest dean of Douglass College at Rutgers in 2002, was profiled in the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette article "High Profile: Carmen Twillie Ambar Far from the halls of Hall High" (April 18, 2004).

  • Trial attorney Ralph Alldredge '68, formerly with Legal Strategies Group, joined Preston Gates & Ellis as a partner (The Recorder, March 8, 2004).

  • Family and friends of Sept. 11 victim Paul Acquaviva '97, formerly the vice president of corporate development for Cantor Fitzgerald's eSpeed division, have started an annual scholarship in Paul's name for an outstanding scholar-athlete, according to Bergen County's The Record ("$3,000 Scholarship Given in Memory of 9/11 Victim," June 2, 2004).
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Personal:

(Listed in reverse alphabetical order.)
  • Jane Yang '03 and David Geeyoung Chang '03, who met while at Columbia Law School, were recently wed (The New York Times, June 27, 2004).

  • Joan Michele Wasser '99, a senior policy adviser to Senator John Kerry, and Jason Charles Gish, a lawyer, were married in Newport, R.I. Rabbi Richard J. Plavin officiated at the Hotel Viking (The New York Times, March 28, 2004).

  • Julie Heekyung Uhm '99 was married in New York to Christopher Kao (The New York Times, March 28, 2004).

  • Natasha Snitkovsky '00 and Kamyar Shabani '00, who met while at the Law School, were wed on February 28, 2004 (The New York Times, February 29, 2004).

  • Lena Vera Shulga '01 was recently married to Dennis Daniel Kiely '96 (The New York Times, June 20, 2004).

  • Eileen Jia Shin '02 was married to Roger Ro-Gi Chen (The New York Times, April 4, 2004).

  • Melissa Mary Barrett Egbert was recently married to William Butler Sheehan '96 (The New York Times, June 6, 2004).

  • Erika Lynn Kleiman '97 was married to James Dewey Youngblood III (The New York Times, March 28, 2004).

  • Jennifer Lynn Keiser '01 was married to David Erik Gordon (The New York Times, June 6, 2004).

  • Nancy Eva Sabarra and Jason Scott Karlinsky '00 were married April 3 at Temple Torah of Boynton Beach (Palm Beach Post (Florida) June 13, 2004).

  • Sarah Cornelia Haan '00, a lawyer, and Anthony Wilcox Warn, an assistant school principal, were recently wed (The New York Times, July 4, 2004).

  • Catherine Saar Holst was married to Sebastian Grimm '04 LL.M (The New York Times, March 14, 2004).

  • Heather McCormick Flett and Benjamin Mordechai Greenblum '06 were married on June 6, 2004 by Rabbi David Rabhan at the Roosevelt Hotel in New York (The New York Times, June 6, 2004).

  • Linda Robin Greenblatt was married to Michael Lawrence Gordon '90. Rabbi David-Seth M. Kirshner officiated at Cipriani 42nd Street in New York (The New York Times, April 4, 2004).

  • Dr. Diane Marie Ashton and Michael William Geffrard '78 were married at Wave Hill, the public garden in Riverdale, the Bronx (The New York Times, May 16, 2004).

  • Amy Gillenson and James Daniel Fornari '69 were recently married at Central Synagogue in New York (The New York Times, June 27, 2004).

  • Elizabeth Ann Isaac and Jeremy Russell Feinberg '95 were married at the Manhattan Penthouse in New York. Judith S. Kaye, the chief judge of New York State, officiated (The New York Times, June 6, 2004).

  • Andrea Gail Cohen '95 and Rodger Daniel Citron, government lawyers in Washington, were married (The New York Times, April 18, 2004).

  • Lana Lee Choi '99 and Kurt John Decko '99, both 29, are associates at law firms in New York: she at Kornstein Veisz Wexler & Pollard and he at Sullivan & Cromwell. They met at Columbia Law School and were married on June 12, 2004 (The New York Times, June 13, 2004).

  • Molly Elizabeth Bishop '97 was married to Matthew David Benjamin Shadel (The New York Times, April 25, 2004).

  • Rita Marie Glavin and Matthew Steven Amatruda '97, both prosecutors, were married at St. Mary of the Assumption Roman Catholic Church in Waterford, N.Y. (The New York Times, June 20, 2004).

  • The Law School's Barrister's Ball was featured in a February 23rd New York Sun article titled, "Law School Prom Is Really a Ball." Students quoted include Sylvia Wu '04, Qian Gao '06, Megan MacDonald '06, Sarah Crowley '06, Dan Krockmalnic '06, Andrew Kreisberg '06, Matt Norwood ‘06 and Jani Leino '04.

 


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