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Chris May
Retired from LMU law school, but: "We moved out of LA proper to Valencia 8 months ago after our house was one of the six thousand or so that
were consumed by the Palisades fire. We're renting a nice place on State Farm money, close to some old friends of my wife's (and mine)."
9/19/2025
Alan Ziegler
I am nominally of counsel to the Brain Preservation Foundation, but I don’t charge, and
they appropriately tend to ignore my advice. I also continue to create and give courses on an eclectic range of topics to small groups of "senior
citizens” in North Carolina and New Jersey (via Zoom). This coming winter semester the subject will be the impact on society of the interaction
of technological innovation and warfare objectives.
9/3/2025
Gene Moen
Just turned 85 two weeks ago, and still working full-time as a trial lawyer in my firm that only handles medical malpractice cases. They are
probably the most challenging and interesting personal injury cases. Matching wits with smart doctors and their lawyers keeps you on your toes.
I’m happy to say I haven’t had a boring day in the office in the past 30 years.
The other thing about working. It’s what people are meant to do. I started working at age 8 when I picked stawberries and raspberries during
the summer, and I have been working ever since. My family was share-cropping and all of us worked in the fields until around 1950 or so. I can’t
see myself not working; “retirement” is not in my genes.
9/1/2025
Norm Leventhal
...when I left Holland & Knight in May 2016 (they insisted I retire at 73), I left taking all of my clients with me. After 9 years with my own
firm once again - Leventhal Law Group PLLC - I am still actively representing one client (Sky Mexico, a wholly owned subsidiary of Grupo Televisa
SAB, the largest producer of Spanish language video product in the world and a company that I have represented since its formation in 1972).
Sky Mexico provides a direct to home television service to customers in Mexico, the countries of Central America and the Caribbean, through
satellites in geo-stationary orbit, one of which it owns (SM-1 operating at 79WL). My current activities on their behalf include contract
negotiations with a variety of land-based technology companies and satellite operators, as well as domestic (via the FCC) and international
regulatory advice (via the ITU- a body of the United Nations). It keeps me active and in the game, so to speak; and helps supplement my income
in my semi-retirement.
I intend on working with Sky Mexico for as long as they want me and I am physically and mentally able to assist them. Best.
8/28/2025
J. Stanley Sanders, Esq.
Still working, just having returned to L.A. from six weeks of negotiations in London.
8/12/2025
Leonard S Rubinowitz
Sounds good. I am still teaching at Northwestern Pritzker Law School. I am writing a book on Martin Luther King’s lawyers.
8/12/2025
Mike Parish
Highly literate we seem, Fleming James / Alex Bickel Dream. My weekly in Alameda CA went belly up after printer's 40 columns now out of
print-- great editors never paid a cent or critiqued a single line but never messed with my copy either. Heaven is only for a little while
but even a bit of paradise is better than the liar in chief, who has only destroyed everything he touches, as he will our country, which he
learned from Roy Cohn and like his mentor never spoke a single word of truth or made a dollar by knowing how to save one. Enough Doggerel.
Enjoy these* if you like them. Sort and mostly funny or hopefully resonant. Best wishes. Mike
[*16 attachments;email Mike and he'll send to you, including 4 new ones]
8/12/2025
Rich Reichbart
Hi: I am an outlier here, having after practicing law (primarly for Navajos and Hopi on their reservations, and Native Americans in Denver),
I got my psychology doctorate and became a psychoanalyst. I still see adolescents and adults in a full time private practice in New Jersey (I no
longer see young children). I am editing a book that has been accepted for publication called "A Century of Psychoanalytic Mystery: Telepathy in
Clinical Process" which has chapters by ten analysts from France, Hungary, Brazil, Israel and the US, based in a virtual conference I organized
a year ago; and I am still writing psychoanalytic articles. More info than you probably need to know.
I think that focusing on MLK's lawyers is truly fascinating (having worked for SCLC in 1965 as a civil rights worker -- the only now well known
person with whom I worked was Andy Young). But lord it seems that today we have slid a long way backwards! Best, Rich Reichbart
8/12/2025
Fred Lowther
No doubt the only kayak with 200 hp outboard. Hard to believe there are 109 of us left. Must have been the water. Quick bio: 52 years with
the firm I cofounded in 1973 — Dickstein Shapiro cum Blank Rome. Still at it full time. Second marriage. One daughter (MD/PHD) and 4
grandchildren. Live in a 1793 house (22 rooms) with a George Washington/Robert E Lee heritage in Old Town Alexandria. Passion is still cars: own
two James Bond Aston Martin movie cars. Found a good Life/work balance. And so delighted to hear from everyone (especially those who are victims
of Trump derangement syndrome). My daughter classifies him as MNCL— malignant narcissist compulsive liar. Indeed he is.
8/12/2025
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David Schoenbrod
I retired from law teaching seven years ago but continue to write. I wrote the cover article in the summer issue of Regulation,
“Restoring Representative Government.”
It shows how the Supreme Court could reinvigorate the Constitution’s restriction on Congress delegating legislative
power. I came to call for this because, heading the environmental movement’s litigation campaign in the 1970s to get government to cut lead in
gasoline, I saw that Congress passing the buck on lead to the agency resulted in the death of tens of thousands of my clients. The justices’
opinions in Gundy v. US (2018) and its aftermath suggest a majority are now favorable to doing so, but they have yet to act. Trump’s wild use of
delegated legislative power has widened the appreciation of the need for limits. Unfortunately, my article was published after anti-delegation
side in the recent case of FCC v. Consumers’ Reports handled the case poorly.
8/13/2025
Zygmunt Plater
This is a very nice idea, maybe setting up a possibility for a different kind of reunion?
I'm living in Provincetown, at the tip of Cape Cod, after 40 years teaching at Boston College Law School. I have taught on eight law
faculties, fired only once. It's hard to give up teaching, so I'm continuing as a part-time professor at the University of Maine Law School in
Portland, 110 miles from here by kayak. My main focus is a program training pairs of law students from various law schools in the Fall to teach
a Spring undergraduate course that they each design in environmental law. Given the current horrors coming from the putsch in Washington, my
therapist reminds me that there will be no silver bullet. "We're fucked, so it's a good idea just to find something meaningful and helpful to do
every day," So I'm continuing to work on efforts to protect environmental protection laws, plus the teaching program, plus working to restore
a population of sea-run brook trout on a stream here on the Outer Cape. Two great children. Life goes on, though the 40-year marriage doesn't.
Best to all, Zyg
8/12/2025
Junius Williams
Not as articulate as Zygmunt on the subject at the moment, but I'm still writing. Let's do something. Junius
8/12/2025
Chuck Stark
I haven't written, worked or counseled since I retired twenty years ago. Loved it while I was doing it, it's been heaven not doing it!
Speaking of Roy Cohn and he-whose-name-shall-not-be-spoken (quite a day yesterday here in DC) -- I highly recommend the movie The Apprentice
to anyone who hasn't seen it. It's a safe bet it was lawyered up one side and down the other before release, so it's probably a pretty accurate
portrayal. But does anyone remember when Roy Cohn came to the law school to preside over a Barristers Union trial while we were there? I mainly
remember his tan - not quite as orange as his protege's. No idea whose idea it was to invite him.
8/12/2025
Hardy Wieting, Jr
Still working trying to establish a natural heritage program/data system in Yunnan, linked to those we established in the governments of each
of the 50 states, creating a nationwide network key to land use decisions. My hope is still to extend this network to China, starting in Yunnan.
Locked out during covid years, but made first trip back late last fall. New plans to incorporate internet into this, following path of the program in state
of Washington. See WNHP.
Will add ArcGIS to our effort. Anyone know that? Still seeking funds for our 501(c)(3) for all this. Fundraising advice/expertise appreciated.
See BDI/BDC for more.
8/12/2025
Richard Ober
Legal Analyst for Princeton Gerrymandering Project. Coauthored four law review articles on
gerrymandering. See me on LinkedIn. Rick Ober
8/12/2025
Thomas L. Boeder
I like the idea. OF COUNSEL Perkins Coie, Seattle, WA.
8/12/2025
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Mike Reiss
In response to whether he still does mediations now that he's left his firm, he writes: "Still do. I did one in January and have two
more coming up in February and April. Just enough to keep my mind in the game, active, and out of Shelly’s way."
1/21/2026
Peter d'Errico
My email signature line says what needs to be said:
Professor of Legal Studies Emeritus
University of Massachusetts / Amherst derrico@umass.edu
Federal Anti-Indian Law: The Legal Entrapment of Indigenous Peoples • Praeger - ABC-CLIO (2022)
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https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/federal-antiindian-law-9781440879210/
SUBSTACK: https://peterderrico.substack.com
Meaning: retired from teaching (2002); author of an active book; writer of essays.
I’m also still involved with Western Shoshone, Yakama, Wampanoag people / issues.
On another planet, see my new addition to our Memoirs page: Woke.
8/30/2025
Jack Carley
I have written a "memoir" for my two daughters covering my life from birth (1941) to right up to when we went to Washington from NYC in 1981.
I have started to write about what happened after 1981, again for my family. I have roughly 85 pages thusfar. It covers the zig zag path I took,
a mixture of practicing law and detours into public service. I spar regularly via email as I have for years with Peter Bradford, my friend from
Fred Rodell's course about turning legalese into understandable English, over the state of affairs in the nation. I do recall Roy Cohn
presiding over a Barrister's argument because I think it was of mine.
8/13/2025
Eric Schnapper
I am still teaching full time at the University of Washington School of Law, and doing a fair amount of litigation. Some of it against the Trump
administration, which I can only discuss on a Signal chat that includes the editor of the Atlantic. I live across from Lake Washington, looking
out at the usually snow covered mountains, and watching the occasional eagle fly by. Always reassured to know that we are only 2 hours from the
Canadian border, which remains lightly guarded.
8/13/2025
