Deans Emeritus Lecturers

Sally M. Abel is Chair of the Trademark Group at Fenwick & West, LLP, a 200-attorney firm specializing in high technology matters headquartered in Palo Alto, California. She specializes in international trademark and trade name counseling, including the development and management of international trademark portfolios and trademark rights in cyberspace.

Ms. Abel has repeatedly won international, national, state and Silicon Valley accolades as a preeminent trademark lawyer, most recently selected by her peers for inclusion in the 2010 edition of The Best Lawyers in America in the area of intellectual property law. She was named one of the most highly regarded trademark practitioners in the world in Who’s Who Legal 2008, an honor reserved to 20 trademark lawyers, only eight of whom are from the United States.

Ms. Abel was a member of the Board of Directors of the International Trademark Association (INTA) from May 1998 to May 2000. She chaired INTA’s Internet Subcommittee for two years, from 1996 to 1998, developed and chaired INTA’s Enforcement Committee, and currently serves on INTA’s International Amicus Committee and the organization’s Panel of Neutrals. Ms. Abel was a pioneer in the international debate over trademark rights on the Internet, including serving as INTA’s representative on the 11-member International Ad Hoc Committee (IAHC), the international body organized by the Internet Society, to restructure the domain name system. At the invitation of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), Ms. Abel also participated in WIPO’s First Meeting of Consultants on Trademarks and Internet Domain Names held in Geneva in February, 1997. Through WIPO and the National Arbitration Forum, she has served as a neutral panelist on numerous domain name disputes brought under ICANN’s UDRP system. She writes and lectures internationally on trademarks and the Internet and teaches international trademark law and practice at Berkeley Law. She is a member of the Board of Advisors to the Computer History Museum and of the Advisory Council to the J. Thomas McCarthy Institute for Intellectual Property and Technology Law.

Charles Denton has been an attorney with the Alameda County Public Defender for more than 33 years. Nearly all of that time has been spent in the courtroom. Mr. Denton has litigated thousands of motions and hearings and has tried nearly every kind of criminal case — from drunk driving to the death penalty. He is a frequent lecturer on trial practice and one of the state’s leading experts on criminal law and procedure. He is the co-author of Criminal Defense Jury Instructions (Knowles Publishing), a contributing author to the California Continuing Education of the Bar’s [C.E.B.] California Criminal Sentencing Enhancements and one of the original authors of C.E.B.’s Recent Developments in Criminal Law Practice and California Criminal Law: Procedure and Practice. His articles, practice guides and case law reviews have also been highly acclaimed and widely published. He is currently the President of the California Public Defender’s Association. At Berkeley Law, Mr. Denton teaches Criminal Trial Practice.

William H.D. Fernholz, who goes by “Bill,” has taught at Berkeley Law for twenty years. He has devoted his professional career to three missions.

First, Bill has taught Fundamentals of U.S. Law, the introductory substantive law course for LL.M. students, for over a decade. In that time, he has been the first teacher for more than 1,000 LL.M. students, and introduced those talented international lawyers to the successes and failures of the American system of governance and the common-law method of case analysis.

Second, Bill has educated a generation of domestic J.D. students in the skills of legal writing and oral advocacy, primarily through the upper-level course, Appellate Advocacy. Students in that course brief and argue cases currently pending in the California Supreme Court, using materials from the actual record of the case and adhering as closely to rules of that court as the classroom will allow. Bill also supervised the competitions program at Berkeley Law until 2018.

Third, Bill teaches lawyering for social justice. He co-directs the Ninth Circuit Practicum, in which J.D. students represent indigent clients in asylum and civil rights cases before the largest federal appellate circuit in the nation. He has previously taught social justice courses, such as Employment Discrimination and Civil Rights Litigation.

Before teaching at Berkeley Law, Bill practiced civil rights and poverty law at several Bay Area law firms and nonprofits. Bill is a 1993 graduate of Berkeley Law, where he served as Senior Executive Editor of the law review.

Kathryn J. Fritz is a partner in the Litigation and Intellectual Property Groups at Fenwick & West LLP, and recently completed a 12-year term as the firm’s managing partner. Her practice concentrates on business and intellectual property litigation, with an emphasis on trademark, right of publicity and copyright, especially as applied to new technology areas. Ms. Fritz has represented and advised software publishers, computer hardware manufacturers, gaming and digital media companies, traditional media publishers, and consumer products companies on a wide variety of intellectual property issues. She writes and speaks regularly on IP issues, and at Berkeley Law has taught courses in trademark law and practice.

Ms. Fritz has been honored by a number of prominent publications and organizations, including The National Law Journal’s 75 Outstanding Women Lawyers (2015); The Recorder’s list of Top 50 Women Leaders in Tech Law (multiple years) and, in 2015, was additionally designated as one of 10 “Power Players”; Diversity Council, Top 50 Women Lawyers List (2017); Best Lawyers recognized for intellectual property litigation (2020, 2021).

She is actively involved in pro bono, both in direct client representation and with pro bono organizations. She has represented documentary filmmakers on IP issues, including David Weissman in connection with his films We Were Here, which was short-listed for an Academy Award, and The Cockettes. She currently serves as Vice Chair of the board of Equal Justice Works and is a member of the board of directors of Bay Area Legal Aid. She also served on the Legal Service Corporation’s Pro Bono Task Force and was co-chair of the Subcommittee on Technology Best Practices in Pro Bono. She was recently recognized by OneJustice as a “Champion of Justice.”

She received her B.A., magna cum laude, from the University of California, Santa Barbara, where she was a member of Phi Beta Kappa and a University of California Regents’ Scholar. She received her J.D., cum laude from the Georgetown University Law Center. She is admitted to practice in New York and California.

Henry Hecht joined the Berkeley Law faculty in 1983. Before that he served as an Assistant Special Prosecutor on the Watergate Special Prosecution Force from 1973 to 1976, and was Special Counsel to the San Francisco firm of Heller Ehrman LLP from 1977 to 1983.

He is also an independent consultant on skills training for lawyers and co-founder of The Hecht Training Group, which has presented workshops to more than 70 law firms, corporate law offices, government agencies, and bar associations across the country. (See www.HechtTrainingGroup.com.)

Hecht has lectured and written extensively for the American Bar Association (ABA), the American Law Institute (ALI), California Continuing Education of the Bar (CEB), the Practising Law Institute (PLI), and the National Practice Institute (NPI). He serves on the Board of Directors of the Practice Program for the United States District Court for the Northern District of California and the Andrew Levitt Center for Social Emergency Medicine. He also served on the Board of Directors of the East Bay Community Law Center (EBCLC) for 16 years. He is an elected member of the American Law Institute (ALI) and the American Bar Foundation (ABF).

Hecht’s publications include a book, Effective Depositions, 2nd ed. (ABA 2010), and three case files, Sierra Club v. Fola Coal Company, LLC: An Expert Witness Case File (co-authors Morgan and Gallagher) (2015), Scoops v. Business-Aide, Inc.: A Liability and Damages Case File, 6th ed. (2013), and Donna Taylor v. Shape-Up Stores, Inc.: A Damages Case File, 3rd ed. (co-author O’Brien) (2013).

He earned his J.D. cum laude from Harvard Law School in 1973, and his B.A. magna cum laude from Williams College in 1968.

Patricia Plunkett Hurley joined the faculty at Berkeley Law after serving as a staff attorney for the Ninth Circuit for five years. During that time, she wrote memorandum dispositions and presented cases to 3-judge panels in both criminal and civil appeals. As a motions attorney, she handled all kinds of civil and criminal motions including emergency motions for bail pending appeal and stays of preliminary injunctions. While working at the court, she also taught legal research and writing at Hastings College of the Law.

Hurley has been teaching in the First Year Skills program since 1999. She has given presentations at regional and national legal writing conferences and at judicial externship seminars for Berkeley’s Field Placement program. In 2013, she received the Rutter Award for Teaching Distinction.

Robert Infelise was an undergraduate research assistant for Bob Kagan. He routinely snuck into the law library, took the LSAT in Room 100, and visited the Admissions Office (now the California Law Review office) frequently during the summer 1977 to “charm my way off the wait list.”

During his 1L year, he lived in what is now 369 Simon Hall and ate many a meal in what is now the Belli Commons. His legal education started with Professor Vetter asking, “Who thinks they understand Pennoyer v. Neff?” Infelise’s study group gradually shrunk to himself and John Dwyer. His seat during graduation was at what is now the north entrance to Café Zeb, and he took the bar exam in Room 100.

Infelise began, and says he will end, his career as a practitioner at Cox Castle & Nicholson, first in Los Angeles and then in San Francisco. But he eventually found his way back to Berkeley Law. Hours before teaching his first class in 1994, he sat in the Main Reading Room wondering “how I would ever pull this off.” One of his most memorable moments is when he noticed in RoloBoalt that he was the acting head of the environmental law program. (Thank you, Dean Berring!) Infelise calls it a privilege to teach Berkeley Law students, and says he is honored to work with Holly, Eric, Dan, and Steve. “Boalt Hall is very special to me,” he says.

Kate Jastram is the Director of Policy & Advocacy at the Center for Gender & Refugee Studies, University of California, Hastings College of the Law. She has worked for the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees and for the Department of Homeland Security, has served as an expert on asylum for the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF), and was part of the American Bar Association’s Commission on Immigration’s Civil Immigration Detention Standards Advisory Task Force. She is active in the leadership of the American Society of International Law and now serves on the Executive Committee of its International Refugee Law Interest Group. She won the Arthur C. Helton Human Rights Award from the American Immigration Lawyers Association in 2005, with the interdisciplinary team that wrote the USCIRF expedited removal study.

Her scholarly work has been published in the International Journal of the Red Cross, the Journal of International Criminal Justice, and the Vermont Journal of Environmental Law, with book chapters in Critical Issues in International Refugee Law, Migration and International Legal Norms, and Refugee Protection in International Law. Her most recent article, with Sayoni Maitra, is Matter of A-B- One Year Later: Winning Back Gender-Based Asylum Through Litigation and Legislation, Santa Clara Journal of International Law (2020). She is a member of the editorial board of the International Journal of Refugee Law.

William Kell has been practicing law since 1987, and teaching clinical programs since 1995. Before coming to Berkeley Law in 2001, he founded two clinics: a child advocacy clinic at Indiana University Law School, and a small business clinic at Cornell Law School. At Berkeley Law, he also started the New Business Counseling Practicum, an interdisciplinary clinical program designed to involve law and business students in assisting start-up businesses. Each term he serves as Supervising Attorney and Instructor for the Practicum course. Each term he also teaches another transactional law course: Drafting Legal Documents for New Businesses, in which students learn how to draft formative documents for businesses. In the past, he has also taught courses on Children and the Law and Mental Health Law. Mr. Kell also regularly presents on transactional law clinical education at national and regional conferences.

Janice Kosel is a professor at Golden Gate Law School. She is a member of the California Bar; specializing in Family Law, Corporate and Commercial. She’s the author of Bankruptcy: Do It Yourself and Chapter 13: The Federal Plan to Repay Your Debts, as well as Property Disposition in Antenuptial, Postnuptial and Property Settlement Agreements. Ms. Kosel formerly practiced with Orrick, Herrington, Rowley & Sutcliffe. She is also a former member of the Uniform Commercial Code Committee, the Family Law Specialization Exam Writing Committee of the California State Bar, and the Board of Directors of Legal Assistance for Seniors. At Berkeley Law, Ms. Kosel teaches Secured Credit and Commercial Transactions.

Nancy K.D. Lemon received a B.A. in Women’s Studies in 1975 from UC Santa Cruz, and a J.D. from Berkeley Law in 1980. She has taught Domestic Violence Law at the law school since 1988. Her textbook, Domestic Violence Law (4th edition,West, 2013) is the first published curriculum on this topic. Lemon directs the Domestic Violence Practicum, and with her students has written many amicus briefs. She co-taught Girls, Women, and the Criminal Justice System in 2011.

Lemon has represented many battered women obtaining restraining orders and advocated for them within the civil and criminal justice systems. She has been an expert witness in hundreds of civil, criminal, and asylum cases. Lemon has also worked on numerous pieces of legislation in the California legislature and has published many books and articles. She wrote domestic violence curricula for judges and court employees, and a bench book for California criminal court judges. She has trained hundreds of people on domestic violence dynamics and laws.

In 2012, Lemon co-founded the Family Violence Appellate Project, a non-profit agency whose mission is to appeal California family law cases involving domestic violence and child abuse. She is its legal director.

After graduating from the University of Manchester, Michael Levy spent a year teaching English at Fudan University in Shanghai. He received a master’s degree in politics writing his thesis on the cult of personality of North Korean leader, Kim Il Sung. In 1994 after earning his M.L.I.S., he joined the Berkeley Law library as the electronic services librarian. In 2006, he was appointed associate director of the law library. Levy manages the library’s electronic resources, including the computer labs, as well as the patron services operations.

Levy has co-taught Advanced Legal Research with Professors Robert Berring and Kathleen Vanden Heuvel since 1994. He has written numerous book reviews and an article entitled “The Electronic Monitoring of Workers: Privacy in the Age of the Electronic Sweatshop” in Legal References Services Quarterly. He contributes to the monthly current awareness service, Current Cites, and was also an assistant editor at Legal Reference Services Quarterly from 1994 to 1999.

Arlene B. Mayerson has been the directing attorney of the Disability Rights Education and Defense Fund (DREDF) since 1981. One of the nation’s leading experts in disability rights law, she has been a key advisor to both Congress and the disability community on the major disability rights legislation for the past two decades. That includes the Handicapped Children’s Protection Act as well as other legislation ensuring the special education rights of students with disabilities, and the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA).

At the request of members of Congress, Mayerson supplied expert testimony before several congressional committees when they were debating the ADA. She filed comments on the ADA regulations for more than 500 disability rights organizations. Mayerson has devoted her career exclusively to disability rights practice, representing clients in a wide array of issues. She has provided representation, consultation to counsel, and coordination of amicus briefs on key disability rights cases before the U.S. Supreme Court. Mayerson was appointed by the Secretary of the U.S. Department of Education to the Civil Rights Reviewing Authority, responsible for reviewing the department’s civil rights decisions.

In addition to her position at DREDF, Mayerson is currently a lecturer in disability law at Berkeley Law. She has published many articles on disability rights and is the author of a comprehensive three-volume treatise on the ADA: Americans with Disabilities Act Annotated-Legislative History, Regulations & Commentary (Clark Boardman Callaghan, 1994), which sets forth the legislative history and regulations for each provision of the ADA.

Neil A.F. Popović began teaching at Berkeley Law in 1996. In addition to his teaching responsibilities, Mr. Popović is a partner at Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP in San Francisco, where he leads the firm’s International Litigation and Arbitration Team, as well as the firm’s ESG and Sustainability Team. Mr. Popović also coordinates pro bono work in the Firm’s San Francisco office. Mr. Popović’s disputes practice includes international commercial arbitration, investment arbitration and transnational litigation, as well as complex commercial litigation. His ESG (Environmental, Social and Governance) practice includes counseling clients on ESG and Sustainability issues that address climate change, international environmental law, environmental marketing and business and human rights. Mr. Popović teaches International Environmental Law and International Litigation and Arbitration at Berkeley Law, and Law, Politics and Policymaking (Rule of Law) in the graduate Master of Development Practice program at the Goldman School of Public Policy.

Mr. Popović has published numerous articles and contributed to books on subjects relating to international law and complex litigation, including international environmental law, human rights and the environment, international arbitration and litigation, and consumer class actions. Mr. Popović has also served as Ad Hoc Expert for the Independent Project Accountability Mechanism of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, which assesses the Bank’s compliance with its Environmental and Social Policy. He was previously a shareholder at Heller Ehrman LLP, and before that he worked at the Sierra Club Legal Defense Fund (now Earthjustice). Mr. Popović sits on the Board of Directors of EarthRights International, and the Advisory Board of the Center for Law, Energy and the Environment at Berkeley Law.

Mr. Popović served as a law clerk to Judge Alicemarie H. Stotler of the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California, and as an extern for Justice Joseph R. Grodin of the Supreme Court of California.

Steve Rosenbaum, JD, MPP, has taught professional skills courses (social justice, mental health policy, civil rights and Spanish language and cultural competency) at Berkeley Law since 1988. He has also taught law and policy at the Goldman School of Public Policy, disability rights and justice at Stanford Law and a comparative disability human rights course at University of Washington (UW). He is Visiting Researcher Scholar in the Disabilities Cluster at Berkeley’s Othering & Belonging Institute (former Haas Institute for a Fair & Inclusive Society), Research Affiliate at the Berkeley Interdisciplinary Migration Initiative and Affiliate of the UW Disability Studies Program. In Fall 2021, Rosenbaum has an appointment as Visiting Professor at Hasanuddin University Law Faculty, Sulawesi, Indonesia, teaching virtual courses in human rights and introduction to law and is Director of the San Joaquin Delta College Paralegal/Legal Assistant Studies Program.

During a Visiting Senior Lecturer appointment at UW, Rosenbaum co-founded a business and human rights clinic and taught human rights advocacy and a clinical tutorial for Afghan and Indonesian LLM candidates. As Senior Legal Support Officer, he led a team on furthering clinical legal education in Myanmar on an EU-British Council initiative. He has taught introduction to legal systems and ADR at American University of Phnom Penh and helped develop its law curriculum. Rosenbaum also spent a semester as Associate Professor at Golden Gate University, supervising students in the Women’s Employment Rights Clinic.

As a practitioner, Rosenbaum is La Raza Centro Legal’s pro bono counsel and part of the Flores unaccompanied minors settlement litigation team. He was previously a long-time litigator with California Rural Legal Assistance (CRLA), serving as a managing attorney and Regional Director of Central Valley and Central Coast offices. He also served as Senior Litigation Attorney with Disability Rights Education & Defense Fund, Associate Managing Attorney with Disability Rights California and Of Counsel to the Law Offices of Michael Sorgen. His scholarship is on disability, special education, lay advocacy, international human rights and legal education.

Rosenbaum has lectured legal professionals, journalists and activists in francophone Africa as a State Department grantee. He received a Harvard Law Wasserstein Public Interest Fellowship and Eleanor Swift Award for Public Service. He has been a Visiting Scholar at University of Auckland Faculty of Education and Legal Education Advisor to the ABA Rule of Law Initiative in Egypt and Qatar.

See Rosenbaum’s publications and CV.

Antonio Rossmann is a founding partner of Rossman and Moore, LLP. He has taught previously at Stanford, the University of California, Los Angeles, and the University of Tokyo as a Fulbright Lecturer. In 2012 and 2013, Mr. Rossmann consulted on water resources law to the U.N. Food and Agricultural Organization in Rome, Italy. From 1963 to 1968, he served as a Deck and Intelligence Officer in the U.S. Navy.

As an attorney, Mr. Rossmann has litigated some of the west coast’s leading water and land-use proceedings, including: the Owens Valley groundwater war, the Mono Lake public trust litigation, South Pasadena’s resistance to the 710 freeway, Nevada’s opposition to the Yucca Mountain nuclear repository, and implementation of California groundwater regulation. In 2010, the Los Angeles Daily Journal named Mr. Rossmann as one of the Top 100 California Attorneys. At Berkeley Law, Mr. Rossman taught Water Law and Land Use.

Lindsay Sturges Saffouri spent ten years as Director of the First-Year Skills Program and now teaches Advanced Legal Writing courses full-time. Lindsay earned her J.D. at Hastings College of the Law, where she was an articles editor for the West-Northwest Journal of Environmental Law. She earned her undergraduate degree in political science from UCLA. While a law student, Lindsay clerked for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and Walkup, Melodia, Kelly & Echeverria, a plaintiffs’-side litigation firm. During her third year, she externed full-time for Judge Claudia Wilken of the U.S. District Court, Northern District of California.

After graduating, Lindsay practiced at Taylor & Co. Law Offices, a boutique civil litigation firm. Her work there focused on all aspects of pre-trial and post-trial practice. Simultaneously, she taught part-time as an Adjunct Professor at Hastings College of the Law. She is a member of the Bar of California, and a member of the Legal Writing Institute, the Association of Legal Writing Directors, and the Legal Writing and Reasoning section of the American Bar Association. She is also on the Academic Board for the Burton Legal Writing Awards.

John Steele is a solo practitioner, representing clients on matters of legal ethics, professional liability, risk management, fee disputes, and the law of lawyering. He is a certified specialist in the field of legal malpractice law (State Bar of California, Bd. Legal Spec.). For over fifteen years, he served as the top internal ethics lawyer at an AmLaw 100 firm (Fish & Richardson), where he was Special Counsel for Ethics, and at an AmLaw 200 firm (Fenwick & West), where he was a trial lawyer and litigation partner. He has taught professional responsibility for over forty semesters at UC-Berkeley School of Law, Stanford Law School, UC-Hastings School of Law (Adjunct Professor of Law), Indiana University – Maurer School of Law (Visiting Professor), Santa Clara University, and Golden Gate University. The Second Circuit cited and relied upon a law review article authored by Mr. Steele in a case of first impression on an important conflict of interest issue. (GSI Commerce Solutions v. BabyCenter, LLC, 618 F.3d 204 (2nd Cir. 2010)) He has served on a variety of professional committees, including the State Bar of California’s standing Committee on Professional Responsibility and Conduct (COPRAC), was the Co-Chair of the Professional Responsibility committee of the ABA Section on Intellectual Property Law, and has served as an arbitrator in dozens of fee disputes. In 2013, he was named “Lawyer of the Year” for Northern California in the field of Ethics and Professional Responsibility Law (Best Lawyers). He speaks widely to professional audiences, including providing CLE credits, on issues of legal ethics and risk management, elimination of bias in the legal profession, substance abuse, and law practice management.

Judge Jeffrey S. White is a United States District Court Judge for the Northern District of California, San Francisco Division. Before his appointment to the bench in 2003, Judge White was a partner and chair of the litigation department of Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe, in San Francisco.

Before joining Orrick, Judge White was a senior trial attorney at the United States Department of Justice (DOJ) Public Integrity Section. Previous to his stint at the DOJ, he was an assistant United States attorney in Baltimore. Judge White has been a lecturer in civil trial advocacy at Berkeley Law for the past 30 years. He has taught at the National Institute of Trial Advocacy in its basic, advanced, and teacher training program.

Judge White received the Roscoe Pound Foundation Award for Excellence in Teaching Trial Advocacy. As a trial attorney, he tried well over 100 jury cases to verdict. Judge White received his J.D. at the State University of New York at Buffalo School of Law in 1970, magna cum laude. He was the articles editor of the Buffalo Law Review. Judge White received his law school’s Distinguished Alumnus Award in 2009. He received his undergraduate degree at Queens College of the City University of New York.

Barry Winograd is a lecturer at Berkeley Law teaching Labor and Employment Arbitration. Winograd has maintained a full-time dispute resolution practice since 1988 as an arbitrator and mediator of labor and employment cases, as well as business and other civil disputes. He is a member and president-elect of the National Academy of Arbitrators.

Previously, Winograd served as an administrative law judge for the California Public Employment Relations Board and as an attorney for the United Farm Workers of America. He has been a lecturer at Berkeley Law since 1985, teaching courses on labor law, arbitration, and mediation. He also has taught on the adjunct law school faculty at the University of Michigan, and has written a number of articles in professional journals in the labor and employment field.

Winograd is listed on dispute resolution rosters of neutral provider organizations and federal and state courts, and also serves as a permanent arbitrator on panels established by labor-management collective bargaining agreements. He received his B.A. at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and his J.D. and LL.M. from Berkeley Law.