BU Law Graduate Tax Program Alumni Newsletter Summer 2007

in this issue:
Director's Message
Adjunct Professor Joseph Darby Creates Student Research-Based Course
Avi Lev's "Golden Parachute"
Curriculum Updates
Commencement 2007 Events
Class Notes
Keep in Touch

Director's Message

Greetings from the Graduate Tax Program at the Boston University School of Law,

I hope everyone is having a wonderful summer. This issue of the Graduate Tax Program Alumni Newsletter focuses on the research of both our students and our alumni. If you have recently published an article or are working on an exciting research project, please let us know. We would love to feature it in upcoming editions of the newsletter.

I wanted to let you know that, over the course of the next several months, I will be transitioning out of my present positions at BU Law in order to undertake new responsibilities here which primarily involve alumni relations and fund raising as well as other special projects. As of September 1, 2007, I will be stepping aside as Associate Dean for Graduate Programs. John R. Riccardi, the Assistant Dean for Graduate and International Programs, will take over responsibility for the oversight and coordination of all of our LL.M. Programs in addition to his other current duties. I will continue to serve as Director of the Graduate Tax Program until a successor is in place. Dean Maureen O'Rourke has appointed a search committee - consisting of Professor Alan Feld, Professor David Walker, Dean John Riccardi, GTP alumnus and faculty member Ameek Ponda, herself, and me as the Chair - to recruit that successor.

This transition, I believe, will serve very well both the School of Law and me personally. The Graduate Tax Program has made great strides forward in the past few years. However, I believe that the Graduate Tax Program needs a full time tax professional to move it to an even higher level of excellence. And, as I approach the age of 69, I am very much looking forward to undertaking a role that will allow me more flexibility in my personal life.

It's been a pleasure getting to know many of you over the past five years. I hope we can continue to remain in touch.

Sincerely,

Ernest M. Haddad
Director, Graduate Tax Program
Associate Dean for Graduate Programs

Adjunct Professor Joseph Darby Creates Student Research-Based Course

Adjunct Professor Joseph B. Darby III of the Graduate Tax Program decided to challenge himself as well as his students when he set out to create a new course for the Spring 2007 semester entitled Structuring Intellectual Property Ownership. "I decided that if I did not want to turn into an old dog, I had to prove I could still learn some new tricks," he says sardonically.

Professor Darby already teaches two other courses in the GTP, Taxation of Intellectual Property and Tax Aspects of Buying and Selling a Business, and he was looking for a different way to teach an advanced-level course. His solution: Have the students do the teaching.

"This is supposed to be an end-of-the-curriculum course where students take everything they have learned so far and show that they can teach themselves moving forward," explains Darby.

The students were expected to write a term paper on a sophisticated topic involving the ownership and exploitation of intellectual property, and then present the subject matter to the class. In addition, Darby agreed to co-author with any interested student an article based on the term paper. He has gotten four of the articles published to date.

"The goal was to make the students demonstrate that they knew how to apply their LL.M. in the practice of law. Each student identified a topic that is important in the real world of 2007, and then wrote a term paper that was intended to be published. I also expected each student to teach most or all of one two-hour class, both to show poise and confidence in front of a live audience, and also to share their knowledge with their classmates."

Professor Richard Ainsworth with tax students in Taiwan

Seungah Lee giving her presentation to the class.

Professor Darby, who spent his five years as a journalist before taking up the practice of law, has published eight books and somewhere between 500 and 1000 articles, on topics ranging from tax law to sports to belly-dancing. Among other publishing ventures, he turned his course materials for Tax Aspects of Buying and Selling a Business into a full fledged book, which was published in 2006 by CCH, a Walter Kluwer business, under the title Practical Guide to Mergers, Acquisitions and Business Sales.

"I like to write, and providing my own written materials works well with the Graduate Tax Program," explains Darby. "The students are busy, many of them have full time jobs, and while a good class presentation is important, most of the students want good written materials so that they can sit at home, think about, and absorb the information at their convenience."

The Structuring Intellectual Property Transactions course grew out of a desire to carry his Taxation of Intellectual Property course to the next level. "I originally expected to cover international IP structuring transactions as part of the basic intellectual property course," explains Darby, "but there is only so much you can pack into 13 weeks. I showed my original syllabus to one of the other faculty members, who had a lot more experience teaching then I did at that point, and he said 'if you get a third of this covered you'll be doing well.'"

Darby was also looking for a new approach to teaching. "The other two courses that I teach are very structured, and the purpose is to cover a specific amount of material at a reasonably aggressive pace. But international tax planning, especially with intellectual property, is so dynamic and creative that it is hard to put together a set curriculum. In theory, the course covers income taxation in over 150 countries, includes every bi-lateral tax treaty that exists today, and covers in-bound and out-bound taxation principles in every jurisdiction. Simply put, you can’t cover it all, so you have to come up with a strategy for selectively teaching principles that can be used and extrapolated by students to become self-educating professionals as they apply their skills to practice."

The course began with a vague ambition to start with domestic U.S. tax planning, and then expanding to international tax planning. After one or two weeks of lectures, Darby decided to let creativity reign. "I gave several class members the assignment of creating a domestic intellectual property holding entity, formed under Delaware law, operating from a headquarters in Nevada, and selling products in Massachusetts, and then I assigned to several other class members the role of playing the Massachusetts Department of Revenue and attacking the transaction. Half the class, the tax planners, had carte blanche to design the arrangement as they saw fit, and then the other half of the class, the revenue agents, tore it apart. It was a lot of fun and a really good learning experience for everyone, including me."

From there, the course turned to international tax planning. "I wanted the students to research some of the cutting-edge ideas in international tax planning for intellectual property, and so we went over a variety of interesting topics, and the students picked ideas they liked, or presented their own proposals."

The result was seven papers on the following topics: (1)a paper investigating how Microsoft or other U.S. based software companies might use a two-tiered Irish structure, with the upper-tier Irish company based in Bermuda, to minimize taxation on sales outside the U.S.; (2)an article on how the Rolling Stones, the famous English rock group, structured their activities to achieve an astonishing low 1.5% tax rate on their worldwide song royalties; (3)an article on the latest developments in cost-sharing agreements, including proposed regulations issued by the Treasury that would dramatically change the current landscape; (4)an article on controlled foreign corporations, and how to avoid the trap of SubpartF; (5)an article on dramatic recent changes in the tax regime in the People’s Republic of China; (6)a paper on the pluses and minuses of using hybrid entities in international tax planning; and (7)an article that attempted to analyze how pharmaceutical companies can use Switzerland to minimize tax cost on the international exploitation of patented drugs.

Summarizing his experience, Darby says, "I decided to teach the course because I frankly wanted to learn as much as possible about what was happening in the world of tax planning for intellectual property. In the other two courses I teach, my role is to be the tax expert and provide an organized syllabus of information, and the role of students is basically to be the sponges, to soak up the information and then give it back to me on the exam. In this course, I wanted to put the students to work, not just for me but for themselves, to pick a really interesting topic, research it and develop it into a term paper, and then go beyond the usual limits of the course by first having the students teach for at least one hour on the topic that they had researched, and then secondly, if they were ambitious enough and had the time, to help me turn the paper into a published article. Four of the articles have been published so far and all seven of the papers will be part of my course materials next year. In effect, the students have directly participated in creating and developing this course from scratch. Next year’s class will have the advantage of the first year’s class, and the third year will be better still."

Avi Lev's "Golden Parachute"

Avi Lev ('02) is currently practicing at Davis, Malm & D'Agostine in Boston. Prior to joining Davis, Malm & D'Agostine, Mr. Lev worked on the issue of the "golden parachute" excise, and resolved many cases that involved complex issues under Code Section 280G. Out of those experiences, he published an article entitled "Planning to Avoid Excess Golden Parachute Payments" that was published in the March 2007 issue of the Journal of Taxation. The article summarizes "best practices" for avoiding the excise, both at the time of hiring and at the time that a change in control is contemplated.

A copy of Mr. Lev's article can be found here. The Graduate Tax Program would love to feature more recently published articles by alums in the newsletter. Have you published a tax-related article that you think would be interesting to your former classmates? Please send it, along with a short summary, to our office, and we will be sure to mention it in the next edition of the newsletter.

Curriculum Updates

In March and April, the GTP held separate curriculum review meetings with faculty members who teach courses in the estate planning, international taxation and business taxation concentrations to identify any overlap between courses and to determine if there were any holes in the curriculum. We are excited to offer the following new courses during the 2007-2008 academic year (some of which replace courses taught in prior years) include:

European VAT with Richard Ainsworth
Inbound International Taxation with Brainard Patton
International Estate Planning with Harry Miller
Partnership Tax I with David Halpert in the fall and Robert Finkel in the spring
Partnership Tax II with Donald Nowill in the fall and Patricia Jabar in the spring
Real Estate Transactions with Donald Nowill
Standards and Responsibilities in Tax Practice with David Casten
Subchapter S Corporations (professor to be determined)
Tax Issues in Business Decisions with Dave Flanagan
Taxation of Financial Products with Ameek Ponda
Taxation of Financial Products (Advanced) with Stephen D. Fisher
US Transfer Pricing with Richard Ainsworth

Commencement 2007 Events

In the weeks leading to commencement, the LL.M. Programs organized several events to mark the end of a great year:

On Friday, May 11th, 70 students from all of the LL.M. programs took in a Boston Red Sox game at Fenway Park. Although the Sox lost to the Baltimore Orioles 6-3, everyone had a wonderful time on the last day of exams.

A lovely evening for a game.

Despite a ferocious spring rainstorm, LL.M. students boarded the Spirit of Boston cruise ship and sailed around the Boston Harbor on May 16th. The ship featured live entertainment and a chance for students from the different LL.M. programs to show off their dancing skills!


Brenda Yamaji, Melissa Sydney and Colleen Carson.		GTP Academic Achievement Award Winner David Skinner and Class Marshall Matt Vaccarelli.

On May 20, 2007, the Boston University School of Law held its commencement ceremonies in Agannis Arena. 11 Graduate Tax Program students participated in the ceremony and were lead by Class Marshall Matt Vaccarelli.

Dhara Sharma, Soojin Kim, Sarah Lashua and Rebecca Miller-Larson line up outside the Arena.

State Attorney General and BU Law alumna Martha Coakley gave the commencement address (click here to watch) and Associate Dean Ernest Haddad handed out the Graduate Tax Program Academic Achievement Award to David Skinner.

Agannis Arena during the ceremony.

After the ceremony, graduates were joined by their families and friends at the BU FitRec center for a champagne reception.


Camila Silva Jimenez, Dean Haddad and Camila's mother, who flew in from Colombia to attend the ceremony.		New graduates Bridgett Wines Elliott, Dhara Sharma, Naaman Weiss, Camila Silva Jimenez, Rebecca Miller-Larson and Sarah Lashua with their diplomas.

The full list of 2006 graduates of the Graduate Tax Program:

Theodore Collins Ahlgren	J.D., University of Michigan B.A., Yale University	Sarah Nichols Lashua	J.D., Indiana University B.S., Indiana University
Ryan Scott Andrews	J.D., Roger Williams University B.A., University of Miami	Seung Ah Lee	J.D., New England School of Law B.A., Korea University (Korea)
Jeffrey F. Aronis	J.D., Western New England College B.S., University of Massachusetts, Lowell	William Verne McGough, Jr.	J.D., University of South Carolina B.M., Appalachian State University
Debbie Yoomee Bae	J.D., Whittier College B.A., University of California, Irvine	Rebecca Elizabeth Miller-Larson	J.D., New England School of Law B.A., Boston College
Janet Barbookles	J.D., Golden Gate University B.S., Northeastern University	Stephen Paul Mooney*	J.D., Fordham University B.A., University of New Hampshire
Christopher Graham Beck	J.D., New England School of Law B.A., University of California, San Diego	Jonathan J. Oliver	J.D., New England School of Law B.A., University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Cory J. Bilodeau	J.D., Roger Williams University B.S., Boston College	Martin B. O’Malley*	J.D., New England School of Law B.A., Boston University
Colleen Ashley Carson	J.D., Thomas Jefferson School of Law B.A., Furman University	Kyschia Inez Patton*	J.D., Washington & Lee University B.A., Scripps College
Maya Chosé	J.D., Suffolk University B.A., University of Wisconsin	Amudha K. Poola	J.D., Boston University B.A., University of Pennsylvania
Kathryn Marie Clymer	J.D., New England School of Law B.A., Westminster College	Gerald F. Rogers IV	J.D., Rogers Williams University B.A., Boston College
Michael Robert Connors*	J.D., Suffolk University B.A., Saint Anslem College	Nicholas Victor Romanos*	J.D., B.A., Boston University
Melissa Susanne Conover	J.D., Suffolk University B.A., Boston College	Shirley Sagol	B.B.A., LL.B., The College of Management (Israel)
Christopher E. Coughlin	J.D., Boston College B.A., University of Massachusetts	David Carl Segraves*	J.D., Boston University B.A., B.B.A., Wichita State University
Brenda Susan Doherty	J.D., Harvard University B.A., Brown University	Andrew Bruce Shact	J.D., Suffolk University B.S., Bentley College
Deborah B. Dong	J.D., University of Connecticut B.A.B.S., Boston University	Lauren Hope Shapiro	J.D., Southern New England School of Law B.S., State University of New York College at Oneonta
Bridgett Wines Elliott**	J.D., Texas Southern University B.A., Syracuse University	Camila Silva Jimenez	Abogada, Especialista en Derecho Tributario, Universidad del Rosario (Colombia)
Sean T. Finn	J.D., Suffolk University B.A., Boston College	David W. Skinner	J.D., Suffolk University B.S., Tufts University
Erica D. Galpern	J.D., Nova Southeastern University B.S.B.A., University of Florida	Colin Tobias Smith	J.D., Thomas Jefferson School of Law B.A., University of Pennsylvania
Kyle McKay Geiselman	J.D., Suffolk University B.S., Boston College	Jessica Mara Sokol*	J.D., George Washington University B.A., Columbia University
Ernst Guerrier	J.D., B.S., Suffolk University	James Peter Stoll*	J.D., New England School of Law B.A., Wheaton College
Jessica Lynn Harris	J.D., New England School of Law B.S., University of California, San Diego	Melissa E. Sydney	J.D., Yeshiva University B.A., Johns Hopkins University
Maryjo A. Hart	J.D., Suffolk University B.A., Providence College	Jennifer Darcy Taddeo	J.D., Georgetown University B.A., American University
Mary Phyllis Heatwole	J.D., Boston College B.A., Washington & Lee University	Matthew Peter Vaccarelli	J.D., B.S., Boston University
Lawrence D. Hunt	J.D., Vermont Law School B.A., University of Rhode Island	Jabari Mosi Vaughn	J.D., University of North Carolina B.A., Morehouse College
Dhara Sharma Khanna	J.D., Suffolk University B.A., Boston University	Na’aman Weiss*	LL.B., Tel Aviv University (Israel)
Donna L. Killmon	J.D., Georgetown University B.A., Dartmouth College	Kathryn Surline Windsor	J.D., Roger Williams University B.A., Washington University, St. Louis
Carolyn Bella Kim*	J.D., Boston College B.A., Johns Hopkins University	Yusuke Yamada*	Bar certificate, The Legal Training and Research Institute (Japan) B.Econ, University of Tokyo (Japan)
Soojin Kim	J.D., Northeastern University B.B.A., Ewha Women’s University (Korea)	Brenda Sue Yamaji	J.D., University of Wyoming B.S., Colorado State University

* indicates January 2007 graduate
**degree conferred upon completion of requirements

Class Notes

2005

Sanaz Dasmah is working at the Radmand Professional Dental Group in Encino, CA. Nina Gomez is a State and Local Tax Associate at PricewaterhouseCoopers, LLC, in Miami, FL. Sean Kanousis is working for Berdon, LLP, an accounting and advisory firm, in New York City. Steve Kralik is the Senior Manager of State and Local Tax at KPMG LLP in Hartford, CT. Corain McGinn is an associate at Goodwin Procter in Boston. Garrett Winslow is an associate in the business and finance section at Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky, and Popeo, PC in Boston.

2004

Ivan Bui is now an associate at the Paris office of Allen & Overy, a U.K. law firm. He is working in the tax department which specializes in corporate transactions and financial instruments taxation. June Deptulski is no longer with Pratt & Whitney in East Hartford, CT, having accepted a position at a law firm in Stonington, CT. Her practice areas are litigation, export compliance, and tax and estate planning. Diane E. Dorr is the Tax Manager for the Multistate Tax Services Group at Deloitte & Touche, LLP in Boston. Marshall S. Grant is an associate at Burns & Levinson, LLP in Boston where his practice is focused on estate planning. Jeremy Johnson was promoted to partner at the law firm of Ferris & Associates, PC in Williamsburg, VA in March. Jinghua Liu, an associate at Baker & McKenzie, has recently been reassigned from the firm’s Hong Kong office to its Palo Alto, CA office where she expects to spend approximately one year. Diana Melnyk practices at KPMG LLP in San Diego, CA. Jason Pollak has joined the Chicago Office of Deloitte & Touche LLP. Jason is a member of the multi-state tax group and concentrates his practice on corporate and partnership tax.

2003

David Fohrer is the Senior Assistant to the State Attorney at the Ministry of Justice in Jerusalem, Israel. Virginia Greiman is the chief legal counsel for the Executive Office of Economic Development, Department of Business and Technology in Boston. She also serves as a member of the adjunct faculty in the J.D. program. Deborah King is a Vice President and Charitable Fiduciary Risk Consultant at Wachovia in Charlotte, NC. Jennifer LeBlanc is an International Tax Manager at PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP in Boston. Bradley Migdal is a tax consultant at Deloitte Tax LLP in Chicago, IL.

2002

Karla Valas (D’Alleva) is the Vice President and Chief Compliance Officer at the Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift FundSM in Boston. Jessica L. Lavely is a partner at Johnson, Browning & Clayton in Sarasota, FL. Todd A. McGee was elected to be a city councilor for the city of Holyoke, MA. He is the Director of the Estate and Business Planning Department at Mass Mutual in Enfield, CT.

2001

Pamela Fleming is an associate at Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky, and Popeo, PC in Boston. Kimberley A. Howland has her own practice in Madison, CT. Kevin Kuczinski is a senior tax attorney at Exxon Mobil Corporation in Houston, TX.

2000

John A. Donsbach is practicing at the Donsbach Law Firm, LLC, a tax firm in Martinez, GA. Karen B. Johnson has her own practice in Groton, MA. N. Peter Laskey has his own practice in Stonington, CT. Tina Leung is practicing at Weston Patrick, P.A. in Boston. Patrick McAvoy practices at McAvoy & McAvoy, LLP in Melrose, MA and Trudeau & McAvoy, LLP in Lexington, MA.

1999

Peter Campia recently opened his own practice in Osterville, MA. His areas of concentration are Estate Planning, Probate, Elder Law and Tax Planning. He is also an Adjunct Faculty Member at Fisher College teaching Business Law. Anthony Di Maria is practicing at Edward I. Sumber, P.C. in Carmel, NY. Todd Hedgpeth is the International Tax Manager at L-3 Communications Corporation in New York City. Julia Jacobson is an associate at Bingham McCutchen, LLP in Boston, MA. Jonathan Korb is the general counsel of Loring, Wolcott & Coolidge, a fiduciary services firm in Boston. After several years as a Senior Attorney with the IRS Office of Chief Counsel, D. Sean McMahon has opened his own practice in Boston specializing in tax litigation and controversy. He has already won several large refund claims and has helped his clients recover millions of dollars.

1998

Richard M. Jones serves as Senior Vice President and General Tax Counsel for CBS Corporation. In this role, he oversees the worldwide tax planning and operations for the Company.

1996

Bryan S. MacCormack has his own practice in Boston.

1995

L. Stephen McCready is the founder of Puritan Faust, LLC, a business law firm in Northborough, MA.

1994

Susan Dawson is a Managing Director in the Boston office of Highmount Capital, LLC, an investment and wealth management firm.

1993

Al Kingan is the Assistant Vice President of the Estate and Business Planning Department at MassMutual Financial Group in Springfield, MA. Jim Klopper is the Associate Vice President and Tax Counsel at Sun Life Assurance Co. of Canada in Wellesley Hills, MA. Fred F. Mashian has his own practice in Los Angeles, CA.

1992

Lawrence Lebowsky has his own practice specializing in estate planning and trust and probate law in Los Angeles.

1991

John H. Driscoll is the Senior Vice President and Senior Financial Planner for the United States Trust Company, N.A. in West Hartford, CT. Arthur Leonard is a partner at Salter McGowan Sylvia and Leonard in Providence, RI. Gregory McKenzie is a tax partner at Kelley Dry & Warren LLP in New York City. Anu R. Mullikin is practicing at Devine, Millimet, Stahl & Branch in Manchester, NH.

1990

Anthony Delyani is practicing at McLane, Graf, Raulerson & Middleton, P.A. in Portsmouth, NH. William Chadwick LaMar is the Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Mississippi in Oxford, MS. Kenneth Light is a partner at Vacovec, Mayotte, & Singer in Newton, MA. Roger Lipson is practicing at Goldenberg, Walters & Lipson in Brookline, MA. He has served on the Town of Brookline Advisory (Finance) Committee since 1999 and will be the new president of the Brookline Chamber of Commerce for 2007-2008. Dante Lucas is the Tax Managing Director at KPMG in New York City. Richard Marone is a partner at Murth Cullina LLP in Hartford, CT

1989

Mark M. Christopher, a partner at Edwards, Angell, Palmer & Dodge in Boston, has been named Massachusetts state chair for the American College of Trusts and Estates Council.

1987

Richard Desharnais is the tax counsel for General Electric in Albany, NY. John L. Hackett, Jr. is a member at Bartlett Hackett Feinberg PC in Boston. Lawrence G. Hoyle has his own practice in Canton, MA.

1986

Joan B. Di Cola has her own practice in Boston. James P. Lane is a partner at the Denver, CO law firm of Sherman & Howard, LLC. Tony Luppino is an Associate Professor at the University of Missouri School of Law in Kansas City. Erin Prouty is practicing with Hoffman, Sabban & Watenmaker in Los Angeles, CA. Peter W. Shrair is an attorney at Cooley Shrair, P.C. in Springfield, MA, specializing in corporate law, banking law, creditors’ rights law, commercial real estate law including zoning and land use and education law.

1985

Leo J. Cushing is the managing partner and an attorney at law at Cushing Dolan, P.C. in Boston. Robert B. Labe is an equity shareholder at Williams, Williams, Rattner & Plunkett in Birmingham, MI. David Maslen is retired in Newburyport, MA.

1984

Scott M. Grant is self-employed in Naples, FL. Lynn Thomas Johnson has her own practice in Medford, MA. James Kinney is the President and Chief Executive Officer at the USI Consulting Group in Glastonbury, CT. Scott Mexic is the Director of External Affairs at the US Department of Agriculture.

1983

Kevin Driskill is a partner at Driskill & Jones in Oklahoma City, OK. Peter F. Granoff is a partner at Riemer & Braunstein, LLP in Boston. Stanley Douglas Levitt is the president of CalWind Resources, Inc. in Westlake Village, CA. Forrest Milder is a partner at Nixon Peabody LLP in Boston.

1982

Patricia M. Annino, the chair of Prince, Lobel, Glovsky & Tye’s Estate Planning and Tax Group, was named the Estate Planner of the Year by the Boston Estate Planning Council. Jeffrey W. Curcio is practicing at Murphy Austin Adams Schoenfeld LLP in Sacramento, CA. Sally Dowling is a partner at Adler, Pollock & Sheehan P.C. in Providence, RI. Donald Kaiser practices at Reed, Adami and Kaiser, PC in Brockton, MA. Henry J. Lane is an attorney at Lane and Hamer in Whitinsville, MA. Jeff Lessoff has his own practice in New York City.

1981

Peter Hall was recently admitted to the Florida bar and maintains his own practice in Miami. Elizabeth Higgins is a revenue agent with the IRS in Norwalk, CT. Phillilp Kerle is the CEO of Demica, Ltd. in London. Y.A. Korff is the Grand Rabbi at the Zvhil – Mezbuz Beis Medrash in Boston. Edward D. Kutchin is practicing at Kutchin & Rufo, PC in Boston. Steven B. Kutscheid practices at Gray Plant Mooty PA in St. Cloud, MN. Mark A. Lester is a partner at Jones & Lester, LLP in Oxnard, CA. He is a California Certified Specialist in estate planning and probate and trust law, and is a frequent lecturer for the National Business Institute continuing bar education courses. Recently, he was trial and appellate counsel in the recently published California Appellate Court decision Estate of Odian (2006) 145 Cal.App.4th 152, 51 Cal.Rptr.3d 390.

1980

John Keegan is a partner at The Wagner Law Group in Boston. Gary Lee is the National Director of Insurance for the Private Client Advisor group of Deloitte & Touche in Boston.

1979

Mike Dennis is the Vice President for Conservation Real Estate and Private Lands at the Nature Conservancy in Arlington, VA. Karl Grunewald is the CEO of the von Clausewitz Group in Milwaukee, WI. Charles Kamen is the Vice President of Human Resources at MediaNews Group in Denver, CO. Robert Marshall is a managing attorney at Marshal, Crane & McAloon, PC in Burlington, MA. Judd Marten practices at LeSourd & Patten, PS in Seattle, WA. Peter C. McKenney is the Principal and Vice President of Stroudwater Associates in Portland, ME.

1978

Carl A. Draucker is a partner at Squire, Sanders & Dempsey LLP in Cleveland, OH. Alan Goldberg has his own practice in McLean, VA. Joe Hegel is a district judge in Miles City, MT.

1977

Robert D. Horner is retired in Midlothian, VA. Frederick Kuhn is practicing at Winkokur, Serkey & Rosenberg, PC in Plymouth, MA.

1976

Christopher Curtis is a partner at Sullivan & Worcester in Boston. Terry Jones is an attorney with Maselan & Jones, PC in Boston. Richard Licht is a managing partner at Tillinghast Licht & Semonoff in Providence, RI. Richard Lipsman has his own practice in New York City.

1975

John D’Agostino is a partner at Edwards, Angell Palmer & Dodge in Hartford, CT. Bob Harb is a partner at Cirome & Harb, LLP in Haverhill, MA. John Joyce is the in-house counsel at The Hanover Insurance Group in Worcester, MA.

1974

Edward L. Colby is retired in Savannah, GA. Edward McIntyre is retired in Foxboro, MA.

1973

John R. Hicinbothem is self-employed in Framingham, MA.

1970

Michael M. Davis is a partner at Sullivan and Worcester in Boston.

1969

Graham McSwiney practices at McSwiney, Semple, Hankin-Birke & Wood, PC in New London, NH.

1966

Howard W. Dragutsky is self-employed in Encino, CA. Alan J. Grace is a partner at Bernkopf Goodman LLP in Boston.

1963

Frederick A. Griffen is an attorney at Hinman, Howard & Kattell in Binghamton, NY.

1958

Allan Landau is a partner at Holland & Knight, LLP, in Boston.

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