Case School of Law Alumni Association
honors law school alumni and faculty
December 6, 2005
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An attorney specializing in labor relations, a Nobel Peace Prize nominee
and the founder of what is now the largest law firm in Israel were honored
at the Case Western Reserve University School of Law’s annual alumni
and faculty luncheon, sponsored by the Case Western Reserve University School
of Law Alumni Association.
The school’s “Distinguished Recent Graduate Award” went
to Stephen S. Zashin, a member of the class of 1995. An attorney with the Cleveland
firm of Zashin & Rich Co., L.P.A., he specializes in labor relations, equal
employment opportunity and employment discrimination. He was among the first
attorneys certified by the Ohio State Bar Association as a specialist in labor
and employment law.
Michael P. Scharf, professor and director of the law school’s Frederick
K. Cox International Law Center, received the “Distinguished Teacher” award.
Scharf was part of the international team of legal experts who trained the
judges trying Saddam Hussein. In January 2005, Scharf and the Public International
Law and Policy Group, a non-governmental organization he co-founded, were nominated
for a Nobel Peace Prize for their work in helping to prosecute Hussein, Slobodan
Milosevic, and other alleged war criminals.
Scharf teaches courses in international law, international criminal law,
human rights law, the law of international organizations, as well as a war
crimes research lab.
William B. Goldfarb, a 1956 graduate of the law school, was awarded the Centennial
Medal, the highest honor the law school bestows on one of its graduates. Goldfarb
practiced law in Cleveland from 1956-1971 with the firm now known as Hahn Loeser
+ Parks LLP. In 1971 he moved to Israel, where he founded the firm Goldfarb,
Levy, Eran & Co., now that country’s largest law firm.
Speaking at the event was Colleen Conway Cooney, a judge on Ohio’s
Eighth District Court of Appeals and a 1981 graduate of the law school. Prior
to her election to the Court of Appeals in 2000 she served as a Cleveland municipal
judge, an assistant prosecuting attorney for Cuyahoga County, and a law clerk
for the late Judge John V. Corrigan. In 1999 the Cleveland Bar Association
named her one of “Ten Outstanding Cleveland Women in the Law,” and
in 2001 she was inducted into the law school’s Society of Benchers.
The luncheon also included the law school’s annual law firm recognition
awards. The law firm giving challenge participation awards for the 2004-05
annual fund went to the firms of Brouse McDowell; Persky, Shapiro & Arnoff
Co., L.P.A.; and Vorys, Sater, Seymour & Pease LLP.
The law firm giving challenge total giving awards for the 2004-05 annual
fund went to Benesch, Friedlander, Coplan & Aronoff LLP; Baker & Hostetler
LLP; and Calfee, Halter & Griswold LLP. The law firm scholarship program
awards went to Baker & Hostetler LLP;
Fay Sharpe Fagan Minnich & McKee, LLP; Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P.;
and Ulmer & Berne LLP. The endowed scholarship fund awards went to Calfee,
Halter & Griswold LLP; Duvin, Cahn & Hutton; Hahn Loeser + Parks LLP;
and Nurenberg, Plevin, Heller & McCarthy Co., L.P.A.
About Case Western Reserve University
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and shaped by the unique merger of the Case Institute of Technology and Western
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