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1960s Class Notes

1960

Rust E. Reid is listed in Texas Super Lawyers 2015 in estate planning and probate and in Best Lawyers 2016 in trusts and estates. He is of counsel with Thompson & Knight in Dallas.

1961

Robert L. Montague III serves on the board of Frontier Nursing University, located in Lexington and Wendover, Ky.

1962

James B. Alley, Jr. died on September 2. Alley joined Debevoise & Plimpton in New York City after graduation, but found his true calling as a lawyer in Santa Fe, N.M., where he served the interests of every constituency that sought his help. An avid outdoorsman, he was on the board of the New Mexico Environmental Law Center. In the late 1960s, as an attorney for the Upper Pecos Association, he fought an initiative to pave a 26-mile highway across Elk Mountain in the Pecos Wilderness, a case that went all the way to the Supreme Court before the highway proposal was defeated.

John Early McDonald, Jr. died December 31. He graduated from the Law School following two years of active service with the U.S. Army. He was a tax attorney with the IRS regional counsel in Dallas, Tex., before going into private practice with Christian & Barton, Hunton & Williams, and McDonald & Crump. His practice focused on civil litigation, construction law, and complex real estate development transactions. For two decades he was an officer in what became LandAmerica Financial Group, acting as general claims counsel and senior litigation counsel, participating in lawsuits in U.S. District and state courts throughout the U.S. He served as a committee co-chair in the ABA litigation section that developed the first guidelines for litigation management.

McDonald served as company commander in the 80th Division Army Reserve and the 49th Armored Division of the Texas National Guard, later transferring to the Judge Advocate General’s Corps. He graduated from the U.S. Army War College at age 42 and was promoted to colonel. His 30-year military career culminated in his assignment as commander of the 75-attorney 10th Military Law Center primarily assigned to Ft. Bragg, N.C. In 1987 he was awarded the Legion of Merit.

1965

Richard Clemens has been awarded the Isaiah Vansant Williamson Award by Williamson College of the Trades “for exemplifying in life and work the ideals of the founder” of Williamson College. Clemens has been a trustee of the college, which provides a full scholarship to all its students, since 2006.

The Florida Bar honored Joseph Z. Fleming for 50 years of practice. He is a shareholder with Greenberg Traurig in Miami, where he concentrates his practice on litigation and employment law. He is recognized as Best Lawyers 2015 Miami Lawyer of the Year for environmental law, as a top lawyer in the South Florida Legal Guide 2015, and in the Legal 500 United States in labor and employment and labor-management relations. Fleming is also listed in Florida Super Lawyers 2015 among the top 100 lawyers in Miami.

1966

Guy FarmerGuy O. Farmer II was named in Chambers USA 2015 in labor & employment, Florida Super Lawyers 2015 in employment & labor, and Best Lawyers 2016 in employment law-management, labor law-management, and litigation-labor and employment. He is of counsel with GrayRobinson in Jacksonville, where he is a member of the labor and employment group.

Edgar F. “Hike” Heiskell III has founded Drone Law Strategies, a consulting firm for lawyers wanting to attain proficiency in the emerging legal field involving unmanned aerial systems. Heiskell is a lawyer, aviator, and drone operator who has helped major law firms form and market their drone law practice groups. He is based in Charleston, W.Va.

1967

Gene DahmenGene Dahmen has been honored with a Massachusetts Continuing Legal Education Scholar-Mentor Award, presented annually to members of the bar who have shown leadership through long-term service to MCLE, excellence in teaching or writing, and creativity in the suggestion of program and publication ideas. Dahmen is senior counsel with Verrill Dana in Boston, Mass., where she focuses her practice on family law.

1968

Bill Broaddus writes that he’s retired and enjoying the good life on the Northern Neck of Virginia; golfing occasionally with classmate Dirk Metzger; and sailing, gardening, reading, and generally “having more fun than I deserve.”

John MertingJohn W. Merting is listed in Florida Super Lawyers 2015 in transportation. He was the first in North Florida to be board certified in admiralty and maritime law in 1996, and has been recertified every five years since. He is in private practice in Gulf Breeze, focusing on maritime and personal injury law. Merting recently presented a paper, “Representing Brain-injured Clients,” at a maritime law seminar.

He has served as a trustee of the nonprofit Community Maritime Park since 2006 and also serves as chairman of its operations and audit committee. The 30-plus acre park is located on Pensacola Bay and its stadium is the home of an AA baseball team. In 2012 the facility was honored as Ball Park of the Year, beating out several major league stadiums in the process.

Gerald Parsky has been elected to the RAND Corporation board of trustees, where he will serve a five-year term. He is founder and chairman of Aurora Capital Group, an investment firm based in Los Angeles, Calif.

The Hon. Kenneth F. Ripple has been appointed as an advisor to the American Law Institute’s Third Restatement of the Conflict of Laws. He is professor of law at the University of Notre Dame Law School and has served as a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit since his appointment by President Reagan in 1985.

 

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