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JOHN F. HAVILAND, Dayton, Ohio, has a remarkable resume he has declined to share with the world, though we were able to ascertain after extensive internet research that he accepts Visa and Mastercard but not American Express.
ERICK HAYNIE, Hood River, Oregon, left his job in 1995 as a Top 40 and New Country ra- dio DJ (KIHR/KCGB) to go to law school at Northwestern University and has had an active trial practice ever since. Erick coaches a middle school soccer program. Over the years, Erick has served as the house piano player at a large hotel in the Columbia River Gorge, and cur- rently plays piano and organ for several bands, including his church and a Phish and Grateful Dead cover band [We understand his church asked him not to open with Buried Alive at services that honor departed congregants].
LUDMILA HERBST, K.C., Vancouver, British Columbia, writes about legal history as a hob- by. She has written about serious topics such as Canada’s historical potlatch ban and an extraordinary use of habeas corpus (to free a slave attempting his escape to Vancouver Island in 1860). She has written about lighthearted topics as well, such as when British Colum- bians began driving on the right side of the road, the province’s floral emblem (the leaf bracts of the Pacific dogwood), and an almost century-old Chicago lawsuit about whether Shakespeare or Bacon actually wrote the plays. Her articles have also featured trailblazers like the first Black King’s Counsel in the British Empire, the first woman King’s Counsel, and Margaret Brent, who was litigating cases in Maryland in the 1640s.
WESLEY HILL, Longview, Texas, is the first in his family to obtain a college degree; he served as a volunteer firefighter (his father may not have earned a college degree but he was Chief of the fire department) throughout undergraduate school. Wesley once tried a pachy- dermicide case – the murder of an elephant (an alleged Endangered Species Act violation).
And Wesley once (once is quite enough) rolled a fire truck.
ILISA HOFFMAN, Coral Gables, Florida, is married to a trial lawyer; her brother, Mitchell Widom is a Fellow (’18) and the family spends most holidays arguing over who is the best trial lawyer. She probably wins, given that she has managed to become a Fellow while raising two children to adulthood and successful marriages.
JAKE HOLDREITH, Minneapolis, Minnesota, grew up in Berkeley where his father was an English professor; his mother, who immigrated from Germany, was a book editor and later a cheese importer. Jake is a dual citizen of the United States and Germany. Jake has run several half marathons and has summited the Courchevel and the Petit St. Bernard passes on his bike. Jake plays guitar in a rock band with his wife, who is also a lawyer. The band is named, of course, Noisy Withdrawal.
CHIP HOLMES, Charlotte, North Carolina, has been a rock drummer in various bands since high school. For the past twenty-plus years, he has played around the Charlotte region in a band generously compared (by Chip) to older, circa 1980’s bands like REM and Whiskeytown. In the early 2000s they recorded a CD that was popular with literally dozens of fans in Spain and Norway (but apparently nowhere in between), which put the band in the top 300,000 artists on the
relatively new, at that time, Amazon music platform.
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