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Gints Berzins (JD, 1979 )
Gints Berzins (JD, 1979) writes, "I work for Beach Point Capital, a Los Angeles-based hedge fund with about $5B under management. My focus is in investments in the media, entertainment and telecom industries. Currently residing in Greenwich, CT, I anticipate moving to London in 2010 to start up an European office for the firm. My wife, Mara, is a Columbia Business School grad. We have three children, Eric, Laura and Peter.
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Submitted on Nov 21 2009

Harvey Kaplan (JD, 1974 )
Harvey Kaplan (JD, 1974) writes, "After graduating from Clark University in 1968, Harvey served in the Peace Corps for two years in Brazil. He has just completed 25 years teaching immigration law at Northeastern School of Law as an adjunct professor. He also taught the course at Harvard Law School. He is a partner in the law firm of Kaplan,O'Sullivan & Friedman LLP. He has been named in Best Lawyers in America for the past twenty years. He has received local and national awards from the National Lawyers Guild, the National Immigration Project , the American Immigration Lawyers Association, the Political Asylum Immigration/Refugee Project, the Brazilian Immigrant Center, the Guatamalan Maya Quiche Association, the American Trial Lawyers Association, and the Pro Bono Award from the Massachusetts Supreme Court. Recently he was one of a team of lawyers who represented 361 workers ,most of whom are Mayan Indians women from Guatemala, after a raid by the Department of Homeland Security on a factory in New Bedford. These workers were transferred from Massachusetts to Texas within three days,separated from their families and lawyers,for expedited deportation hearings. See Aquilar v ICE, Depatment of Homeland Security, 510 F.3rd 1(1st Cir. 2007) His wife,Audrey Zucker,is an attorney with the EPA working on Superfund cases. He has two daughters Lily 19,and Abby 17. "  
Submitted on Sep 3 2009

Stephen Keller (JD, 1982 )
Stephen Keller (JD, 1982) writes, "For any of those who might of wondered, I've been hiding out in the DC area for the past 25+ years. I recently passed the 20-year mark with the National Treasury Employees Union (NTEU), where I am Senior Counsel for Compensation Negotiations, negotiating pay, benefits and other collective bargaining agreements for employees in the SEC, FDIC, OCC and other federal agencies. But most of my attention is focused on my beautiful family - my lovely wife Gail and two darling daughters, Caitlin, 7, and Caroline, 5, who are following in their dad's footsteps, playing softball and rooting for the Red Sox."  
Submitted on Apr 28 2009

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Guest Guest writes, "McLane Attorney Claudia Damon Named Honorary Fellow by
Bar Foundation


March 20, 2009, Manchester, NH: McLane, Graf, Raulerson & Middleton, Professional Association is pleased to announce that Claudia Damon has been selected by the New Hampshire Bar Foundation as a 2009 Honorary Fellow. She was commended for her outstanding commitment during the two five-year terms she served (1998-2008) on the NH Bar Foundation�s IOLTA Grants Committee.
The New Hampshire Bar Foundation, the philanthropic arm of the New Hampshire Bar Association, distributes funds to organizations which provide legal services to the poor, and for programs educating the public about the legal system. During her tenure, Claudia evaluated more than 200 grant proposals from myriad organizations seeking to ensure greater access to the justice system for New Hampshire�s most disadvantaged residents.
At McLane, Claudia practices in all areas of environmental law with a focus on environmental and regulatory litigation and the representation of clients in a wide range of matters before state and federal agencies, including environmental compliance and permit approvals.
She graduated from Wellesley College in 1967, received her M.A. from Boston University in 1968, and received her J.D. from Boston University in 1974. She currently resides in Concord, New Hampshire.

About the McLane Law Firm
Founded in 1919, the McLane Law Firm is the largest full-service law firm in the state of New Hampshire, with offices in Manchester, Concord and Portsmouth, New Hampshire, as well as Woburn, Massachusetts. Driven by the firm's depth of sophisticated legal expertise and an unwavering commitment to client service, McLane has built collaborative and lasting relationships with a broad spectrum of domestic and international clients. www.mclane.com

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Submitted on Mar 23 2009

Theodore Carter (JD, 1963 )
Theodore Carter (JD, 1963) writes, "After a 30-year career with the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) as a Foreign Service officer with the Office of General Counsel, serving overseas posts in Korea, Pakistan, Egypt, and the Caribbean, since my retirement in 1994, I have been working as a foreign aid consultant in many aid programs around the world, including Russia, Egypt, Jordan, and the West Bank. After the 9/11 attacks, USAID asked me to return full-time to serve as legal advisor for the emergency aid program in Afghanistan. I served in that capacity for two years as USAID began to rebuild civil society and vital infrastructure in Afghanistan.
Recently, I have been appointed to the international projects advisory board for the National center for State Courts in Arlington, VA. I consult with them regarding their overseas rule of law and administration of justice activities in developing countries on behalf of various aid donors.
I recently donated a collection of 365 steam-age warships, which I scratch-built over a period of 40 years, to the U.S. Naval War College Museum in my old hometown of Newport, RI. Many of these are on display at the museum in exhibits corresponding to the current curriculum at the War College. The collection includes a model from every class of major warship of the world’s great navies from 1905 to the present. I was delighted when the War College accepted decided they would put the collection on display."  
Submitted on Feb 17 2009

Daniel Kimmel (JD, 1980 )
Daniel Kimmel (JD, 1980) writes, "Having long given up the practice of law for more entertaining pursuits, I recently celebrated 25 years a professional film critic with the publication of my fourth book, 'I'll Have What She's Having: Behind the Scenes of the Great Romantic Comedies.' My reviews for the Worcester Telegram and Gazette can be found online at their website or at rottentomatoes.com. I also write for the Jewish Advocate, Variety, and the Internet Review of Science Fiction. Besides writing I teach film at Suffolk University and lecture to various groups.

When I'm not working I'm active in my synagogue, where my daughter will be a bat mitzvah in May 2009. I also attend and participate in several SF conventions, and will be attending the World SF Convention in Montreal in August."  
Submitted on Jan 22 2009

Joe Jacobson (JD, 1986 )
Joe Jacobson (JD, 1986) writes, "I'm enjoying living in my 100-year old home in the historic St. Louis community of Parkview. My girlfriend will be moving in in a couple of weeks, which makes me very happy. We've been seeing each other exclusively for over a year and a half -- and now we'll be able to see each other more often.

"As 'the lawyer' in the family, I've always done the legal work for my family -- I'm still my ex-wife's business lawyer! -- but I did not expect to be doing legal work for my son so early in his life. But he's 15 years old and needs me to review, negotiate, and ultimately approve a music management and recording contract for his band, Pinkleef.

"I'm enjoying reconnecting with old friends and classmates through Facebook, so if you know me and would like to get back in touch, hit me up there. Peace."  
Submitted on Jan 11 2009

Clark Downs (JD, 1973 )
"Clark Evans Downs, JD'73, has retired from Jones Day, where he practiced energy law for over 20 years. Clark is a middler at Yale Divinity School where he expects to receive his M. Div. degree in May 2010."  
Submitted on Jan 8 2009

Melanie Jacobs (JD, 1994 )
Melanie Jacobs (JD, 1994) writes, "Last spring, I was awarded tenure at MSU College of Law. As part of my fall sabbatical, I presented a paper at the International Family Society World Conference in Vienna regarding how financial support for children can be allocated among multiple parents. I also spent three weeks in Shanghai and Beijing and gave multiple family law lectures at Fudan University in Shanghai. Most exciting, when at the Great Wall, my boyfriend, Shane Broyles, proposed to me and we are getting married March 14, 2009 in New York City."  
Submitted on Dec 8 2008

H. Jefferson Megargel (BANK, 1994 )
H. Jefferson Megargel (BANK, 1994) writes, "Since 1997, H. Jefferson Megargel II has been receiving Supplemental Security Income (SSI) from the Social Security Administration (based on being permanently disabled and unable to work due to extremely, extremely mild multiple sclerosis (MS) and extremely, extremely mild asthma). This is federal law and supercedes state law and is binding throughout the Unites States. His payment was reduced after he entered a nursing home in August of 2006. he is still involved in Occupational Therapy (OT) for an old separated and broken right shoulder and arm problem. He can be reached in person in Room 318 at Dumont Masonic Home, 676 Pelkam Road, New Rochelle, NY. He can be reached by letter at 7 Midland Gardens, #5k, Bronxsvile, NY 10708, and by phone in Room 318 at (914) 738-2131."  
Submitted on Oct 23 2008

Risa (Kane) Gold (JD, 1988 )
Risa (Kane) Gold (JD, 1988) writes, "I recently authored New York Civil Appellate Practice, 2d, a step-by-step guide on taking and perfecting an appeal in New York State. I have served as a principal court attorney at the Appellate Division, First Judicial Department since 1990, and I also served as an associate at The Legal Aid Society, Criminal Appeals Bureau."  
Submitted on Oct 6 2008

Pamela Rehlen (JD, 1968 )
Pamela Rehlen (JD, 1968) writes, "To my fellow Class of 1968 Boston University Law School students.
I am not planning on coming to our 40th reunion, but my husband and I will be in Boston that weekend, I see, and I will be thinking of many of you. I’m always interested in how peoples’ lives have turned out. So I wanted to do my part and get a little biography of my own after-law-school life written and put into the alumni notes.
On September 7th 1968, I married a Middlebury classmate, and we’re about to celebrate our 40th wedding anniversary. After we married, we moved to Rhode Island for three years while my husband was in Oceanography graduate school. During that time, I took and passed the Rhode Island bar, but never really practiced law.
We returned to my family home in Castleton, Vermont in 1971, bought the Manse, a house I’d always loved, where we’re still living, and began having our four children, three girls and a boy. We soon realized that my husband was a natural businessman, and I wasn’t very interested in the practice of law.
Instead, I’ve, also, been involved in our businesses: The Castleton Village Store, the Benson Village Store, the Birdseye Diner, the Castleton Pizza Place and Deli and the Blue Cat Bistro. Over the years we’ve bought and restored old houses, and because we were never willing to then give them up, we have many rental properties.
What I’ve most enjoyed doing, however, is writing. Over the years I’ve written short stories, article and features for newspapers, magazines and literary journals. I’ve written extensively for the Rutland Herald Newspaper, particularly ‘People and Places’ features and Sunday Magazine features. I’ve just finished a book, The Blue Cat and the River’s Song, about to be published and available through our businesses website.
Now, I must say the obligatory: “I can’t believe it’s been forty years. Where did those years go?” For me, what an exciting time law school was. I think of it, and of many of my classmates, often. I’ve been a ‘failure’ in that I never really practiced law, but BU enriched my life enormously.
Pamela Hayes Rehlen, Castleton, Vermont 05735, September 2, 2008"  
Submitted on Oct 6 2008

Benjamin Bejar (JD, 1998 )
Benjamin Bejar (JD, 1998) writes, "Benjamin Bejar ('98) and Mary (Osterbauer) Bejar ('98) recently celebrated their 7th wedding anniversary and, along with brothers Jacob and Samuel, rejoiced at the birth of their third son, Maxwell Eliot, in March 2008. Benjamin is currently serving as an Assistant County Attorney with the Rice County Attorney's Office in Faribault, MN, prosecuting drug felonies and criminal appeals, after serving as a judicial law clerk to Judge Kevin G. Ross of the Minnesota Court of Appeals. Mary continues her legal consulting work from home while caring for our 3 boys. Mary and Ben are looking forward to seeing all their colleagues at the 10 year reunion."  
Submitted on Oct 2 2008

Jeffrey Skerry (JD, 1988 )
Jeffrey Skerry (JD, 1988) writes, "As I approach the 20th reunion, I am content with the path that BU Law opened twenty years ago. I am a practicing attorney in a small Boston office. I represent small businesses, lenders, trusts and individuals. The work is varied enough to make it interesting and sophisticated enough to make it challenging. Very similar to the practice I envisioned when I decided to go to BU. I have to admit that the greater legal marketplace/community has not been as rewarding as I had hoped - there may just be too many of us.

My wife Sharon and I just saw our oldest son graduate from college and start a career (born while I was a 1L). We still have a junior at Yale and a high school senior frantically writing college application essays.

Hope the past twenty have been good to you."  
Submitted on Oct 2 2008

Sarah (Clark) Baskin (JD, 1993 )
Sarah (Clark) Baskin (JD, 1993) writes, "I currently practice employment and employee benefits litigation with the law firm Jackson Lewis LLP. My husband, Bill, and I have two boys, Buck (13) and Alex (11)"  
Submitted on Oct 2 2008

James Gutierrez (JD, 2003 )
James Gutierrez (JD, 2003) writes, "I remain associated with Stroock & Stroock & Lavan LLP's Financial Restructuring Group in its New York office, where I was a summer associate in 2002 and started as a full time associate after graduating in 2003. I currently live in New York City."  
Submitted on Sep 30 2008

John Gillmor (JD, 1968 )
John Gillmor (JD, 1968) writes, "Immediately after Law School I was drafted into the Army for two years with tours in El Paso Texas and South Korea.

We then moved to Hawaii so that I could clerk for the Chief Justice of the Hawaii Supreme Court.

I have practiced with two large law firms and eventually had my own practice in which Helen joined me.
For the last 11 years I have been at the State Attorney Generals Office. My primary area of concentration has been
in land matters. Currently I deal with land issues concerning the Airport and Harbors.

Over the last 40 years we have missed going for a visit to New England, primarily Maine, only one year.
Thinking about how nice it would be to spend the whole summer in Maine when retirement allows."  
Submitted on Sep 30 2008

Helen Gillmor (JD, 1968 )
Helen Gillmor (JD, 1968) writes, "We have lived in Hawaii since 1971. I did civil law for a firm and then followed John as a clerked for the Chief Justice of the Hawaii Supreme Court.
I was a Deputy Public Defender for 2 years and then a part-time state judge for 8 years while our children were small.

I then joined John in private practice for 10 years before my appointment to the Federal Bench in 1994. Currently I am Chief Judge of the District Court of the District of Hawaii and thinking about working less and traveling more!"  
Submitted on Sep 30 2008

Bernard Fielding (JD, 1958 )
Bernard Fielding (JD, 1958) writes, "My wife, Conchita, and I left Boston immediately after my last class with permission of the president because I had two weeks to study for the bar examination in South Carolina. I was fortunate enough to pass on my first try. I began the practice of law in approximately August of 1958.

My Father started our family business, Fielding Home For Funerals, in 1912 and this is our 96th year. This is my 51st year in the practice of law and I have promised my family that it will be my last.

During my fifty years of practice, I have been fortunate to serve as General Counsel for the South Carolina Morticians’ Association, The National Funeral Directors and Morticians Association, Inc. and the National Hampton Alumni Association, Inc. The excellent legal education I received at Boston University enabled me to help a lot of people. I am proud of the fact that I returned to my hometown and it has been my great pleasure to see the State of South Carolina come approximately two thirds of the way around the clock in racial progress and I am equally proud of the fact that I have served as Cooperating Counsel for the NAACP and the Legal Defense Fund.

In 1976, I was elected by Charleston County Council and thereafter perfunctorily appointed by the Charleston County Probate Judge, Gus H. Pearlman, as the first African American Probate Judge in South Carolina. I served as the Associate for 14 years and when Judge Pearlman retired, I ran and was elected as the Probate Judge of Charleston County. Like Al Gore, with three lawyers, I had to go all the way to the South Carolina Supreme Court which ruled in my favor approximately nine months later.

My wife, Conchita, retired as a Field National Import Specialist, Grade 13, with the United States Customs Service here in Charleston after 40 years of service. We have two children, our son Bernard R. Fielding, Jr. and our daughter, Constance Fielding Person.

I thank my two alma maters, Hampton University in Hampton, Virginia and Boston University School of Law for giving me the skills to assist my fellow man legally."  
Submitted on Sep 30 2008

Steven Fischbach (JD, 1983 )
Steven Fischbach (JD, 1983) writes, "Hard to believe that 25 years have flown by since graduating. In that time I've always held a public interest law job, primarily at Rhode Island Legal Services. I've worked on a variety of racial justice issues including environmental justice, community reinvestment, preservation of public and subsidized housing and siting of low income housing and facilities for the homeless. Using a style of practice that has become known as "community lawyering," my work involves not only impact litigation but other advocacy tools designed to increase the capacity of low income communities to solve their own problems. Since 2006 I have been involved with efforts to enhance the capacity of legal services providers in Louisiana to provide legal services to persons impacted by Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. Last spring I accompanied a group of law students from BU to New Orleans and have supervised other BU law students working on appeals of rental assistance benefits from FEMA. My oldest daughter just enrolled as a freshman at the School of Communications. "  
Submitted on Sep 20 2008


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