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PAUL DEMURO, Tulsa OK, played varsity football at Princ- eton University and graduated second in his class from the University of New Mexico School of Law, but he is defi- nitely not a second-class lawyer. JOHN DESMARAIS, New York NY, went to college to become a chemical engineer, but at the last minute decided he didn’t really want to be an engineer. So he applied to law school to become a patent lawyer, but at the last minute decided he wanted to be a trial lawyer. So he became an AUSA in the SDNY trying drug cases, but at the last minute he decided he did want to be a patent lawyer. So he joined a prominent firm and became head of their IP practice, but at the last minute (well, no, not last minute, more like thirteen years, but we’re going for literary symmetry here) he decided he didn’t want to work so hard. So he formed his own small boutique patent litigation firm – which now has three offices and seventy-five lawyers and John is working harder than ever. DONALD A. DONATI, Memphis TN, was selling cheap sandals in an outdoor Florentine market when he learned he had been accepted at the only law school to which he had tepidly applied and had to return in a few weeks to enroll. He settled into trial practice in Memphis but reg- ularly (nearly every year) returns to Lucca to decompress and renew with family. RICHARD A. EDLIN, New York NY, was on the track team at Tufts and was the New England Division III triple jump champion, as well as the winner of the New Jersey Rhodes Scholarship competition. In law school at Stanford his flag football team won the university championship three years in a row. But he is most proud of being a Big Brother for twin boys and the summers he spent as a counselor at Fresh Air Fund camps. MARK A FRIESE, Fargo ND, was a patrol officer, tacti- cal team member, medic and bomb squad member with the Bismarck Police Department for five years prior to law school. Before, during, and after law school, he served in the Army National Guard as an engineer officer before transferring to the Judge Advocate General’s Corps, even- tually retiring as the ND State Judge Advocate after twen- ty-four years of service. VITO A. GAGLIARDI, JR., Morristown NJ, worked as a radio newscaster and sportscaster while a student at the University of Notre Dame. Vito now volunteers to sup- port the sports journalism program at Union Catholic High School, where he does the color commentary for the live-streaming of the boys’ basketball games. DEBORAH GANDER, Coral Gables FL, tried her first trial, as first chair, in her first year of practice. Through the years, she has continued to try personal injury cases while engaging in personal interests ranging from her motorcy- cle, to martial arts, to running marathons to motherhood. RICH GILLOON, Omaha NE, was co-captain of the 1974 Notre Dame University Wrestling Team. His other sports and adventures include rugby, football, boxing, jumping out of perfect- ly good airplanes and riding elephants. The second of eight children, Rich’s grandfather was a lawyer and a judge, but he wasn’t inspired to be- come a lawyer until he read The Defense Never Rests by F. Lee Bailey in college. DAVID GROSS, Silicon Valley CA, grew up in a family of seven children, two parents, and two bathrooms (no showers!); his father was a state court judge in St. Paul, Minnesota. David has worked for all three branches of the federal government (Congressional intern, State De- partment intern and DOJ lawyer, and Judicial law clerk). BRADLEY HANSMANN, St. Louis MO, has a practice that is literally sinking. He represents boat manufacturers in maritime catastrophic injury cases. ANTHONY J. IACULLO, Nutley NJ, enjoys spending time outdoors and with his wife and three daughters. Tony fishes and hunts throughout the United States and Can- ada and elsewhere – he recently traveled to Patagonia to explore the region and hunt red stag. 67 JOURNAL