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DERON KUSKI, K.C., Regina, Sashkatchewan, has coached football and basketball teams for his boys through the high school level on teams that won many city, provincial and national championships. Deron still plays competitively with his sons in senior men’s leagues. Deron’s father Gordon was inducted as a FACTL in 1994.
RANDOLPH L. LEE, Georgetown, South Carolina, M.D., J.D., BMOC, spent seventeen years as a medical doctor and board- certified anesthesiologist before beginning his career as a lawyer specializing in catastrophic injury and medical malpractice.
KEVIN M. LESPERANCE, Grand Rapids, Michigan, once thought a jury was giving him a standing ovation, but it turned out that they all had jumped up when a mouse ran through the jury box.
JAMES E. LIGUORI, Dover, Delaware, is a past President of The American Board of Criminal Lawyers, the invitation only organization that requires at least fifty felony jury trials. Jim has had over 200. Jim considers himself a grandfather, father, husband, golfer (9 handicap), friend, and lawyer, in that order.
DONALD MALARCIK, Akron, Ohio, has completed marathons in Chicago, San Diego and Akron, plus a number of half marathons. During the Chicago race, Don gulped a spoonful of Vaseline, mistakenly thinking race volunteers were handing out spoonfuls of energy gel! Smooth, Don, smooth . . .
YVES MARTINEAU, Montreal, Quebec, used to do long canoe trips down the wild rivers of Quebec, but now prefers strolling along the not-so-wild vineyards of Burgundy. Yves knows it sounds improbable but he swears he won the leading Canadian case on state immunity, representing Kuwait Airways against the Republic of Iraq before the Supreme Court of Canada in a case concerning Iraq’s invasion of Kuwait in 1990, the ensuing Gulf War and the destruction of Kuwait
Airways’ commercial fleet.
BEVAN MAXEY, Spokane, Washington, was a wide receiver at Washington State University from 1975-1980. After law school, Bevan joined his father in a practice that handled pretty much any type of case, but he now focuses his practice on Family Law and Criminal Defense (because the two fields are so closely overlapping). Two of Bevan’s three sons have joined Bevan and their grandfather in the practice.
MARCO B. MERCALDO, Tucson, Arizona, played Division 1 college tennis before realizing he was never going to be the next John McEnroe. Marco works with his father, Ron, who was inducted as a FACTL in 1999.
WILLIAM MOOMAU, Greenbelt, Maryland, is in the select club of prosecutors who have represented the state in multiple moonshining cases. These cases are always sensitive because you never know how many customers of the defendant are on the jury. Bill is an obsessive small-mouth bass fisherman, and a life-long Baltimore Orioles fan(atic),
even through all the losing seasons. Bill was married for thirty-four years to his best friend, Joanie;
they delayed Bill’s induction twice while Joanie battled pancreatic cancer, because she wanted to be there. Unfortunately, she passed in January. She would have been proud. [Sorry, Bill, for your great loss.]
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