For Immediate Release
October 21, 2008

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WASHINGTON, D.C. - Georgetown University Law Center has honored five distinguished alumni with its annual Paul R. Dean Award. The award, which is named for former Law Center Dean Paul R. Dean, who died earlier this year, is given to outstanding alumni who have exhibited leadership to Georgetown Law and the legal profession.

The Law Center has also recognized Thomas A. Reynolds III with the second annual Dean’s Award for Distinguished Service. Georgetown Law Dean T. Alexander Aleinikoff created this award to celebrate those individuals, who, although not law alumni, have distinguished themselves as strong leaders and advocates for the Law Center while demonstrating exceptional service to the legal profession and a deep commitment to community spirit.

This year’s recipients of the Paul R. Dean Award:

 

John K. Delaney (Class of 1988)

Delaney has been co-founder, chairman and chief executive officer of CapitalSource, Inc., a leading commercial lending, banking, and asset management business focused on the middle market, since its inception in 2000. From 1993 until its sale to Heller Financial in 1999, he was founder, chairman and chief executive officer of HealthCare Financial Partners, Inc., a provider of commercial financing to health care service companies.

Delaney is the immediate past chairman of the board of trustees of St. Patrick’s Episcopal Day School in Washington, D.C. He is a member of the board of directors of Georgetown University, OneCalifornia Bank and the National Symphony Orchestra at the Kennedy Center, where he also serves as chair of the Nominating Committee. He and his wife, April, Georgetown Law class of 1989, are active in a variety of philanthropic causes that focus on education and at-risk families.

 

Philip T. Inglima (Class of 1988)

Inglima is a partner in the Washington, D.C, office of Crowell & Moring LLP, where he is co-chair of the firm’s white collar and securities litigation group. His expertise includes matters involving allegations of business fraud, securities violations and public corruption. In recent years, he has represented corporate officers and senior executives in investigations relating to Enron, Reliant Energy, Halliburton, KPMG, Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae, as well as political figures involved in several recent corruption probes.

Inglima began his career as a law clerk to Judge June L. Green at the U.S. District Court in Washington. He is currently an adjunct professor at Georgetown Law, where he teaches federal white collar crime. Inglima received his undergraduate degree at Georgetown University. He is a member of the University’s board of directors and has served as president of the Georgetown University Alumni Association for the past two years. His wife, Elizabeth Wieser, also received her undergraduate and law degrees from Georgetown.

 

Handel Lee (Class of 1988)

Lee served as chairman of King & Wood, China’s largest law firm, from 2004 to 2006. He is currently a member of the firm’s Management Committee and head of the firm’s Policy Committee. Prior to joining King & Wood, he was managing partner of Vinson & Elkins’ China practice and chief representative of Skadden Arps’ Beijing office. He represents U.S., European and PRC clients on mergers and acquisitions and bank financing transactions.

In 2006, Lee was selected by Asian Legal Business magazine as one of the China’s top 30 lawyers. He has been widely published in legal, trade and news publications. As a Georgetown Law student, he was the founding editor-in-chief of the Georgetown International Environmental Law Review. He is a founding board member of the Georgetown Asian Law Alumni Advisory Board. Lee serves as counsel to the Historical Preservation Council of Beijing and is active in urban revitalization projects.

 

Marc Morial (Class of 1983)

Morial was selected in 2003 as the eighth president and CEO of the National Urban League, the nation’s largest civil rights organization. From 1994-2002, he served as Mayor of New Orleans, during which time he was elected as president of the bi-partisan U.S. Conference of Mayors. Before becoming mayor, he served as a Louisiana State Senator for two years. He has been an adjunct faculty member at Xavier University in Louisiana, where he taught constitutional law and business law.

Considered one of the nation’s foremost experts on a wide range of issues related to cities, Morial has been recognized by the NonProfit Times as one of America’s top 50 nonprofit executives and has been named by Ebony magazine as one of the 100 "most influential blacks in America." He serves as an Executive Committee member of the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights, the Black Leadership Forum and Leadership 18, and is a board member of the Muhammad Ali Center and the New Jersey Performing Arts Center.

 

Carol O’Neil (Class of 1988)

O’Neil is associate dean for academic administration at Georgetown Law, a position she has held for four years. From 1990 to 2003, she served as assistant dean for the J.D. program. Her responsibilities include overall supervision of the J.D. academic program, faculty teaching and curriculum development, course scheduling, the Registrar’s office, the J.D. adjunct faculty program and student academic counseling. She also co-teaches a seminar on ethics and professional identity. In 2001, she was honored with the Georgetown Law David J. McCarthy, Jr., Award for excellence in administration and service.

O’Neil is deeply committed to the Jesuit and Catholic tradition of Georgetown. She represents the Law Center on the University’s mission and ministry advisory board and is a member of the University retreat team for the Nineteenth Annotation Retreat and the Jesuit Collaborative for Maryland, New England and New York. A member of the ABA Committee on Law School Administration for many years, she practiced tax and benefits law at the D.C. firm of Groom and Nordberg before joining the Law Center administration.

 

The recipient of the Dean’s Award for Distinguished Service:

Thomas A. Reynolds III

A graduate of the Georgetown University McDonough School of Business and Emory University School of Law, Reynolds began his legal career in 1977 as an assistant public defender in Chicago. Later, he joined the Illinois Attorney General’s Office as a prosecutor. In 1983, he moved to Winston & Strawn’s litigation group where he practices today. He has been a member of the firm’s Executive Committee since 2000.

Reynolds’ grandfather graduated from the Law Center in 1924, and his father, who served several terms on the University’s board of directors, graduated from Georgetown College in 1948. Reynolds has been a member of the board since 1997 and currently serves on the Executive Committee and as chair of the Committee on Law Affairs. He is actively involved with Big Shoulders and LINK Unlimited, both dedicated to providing financial support and mentoring to Chicago inner-city students. He is also a trustee of the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago and the University of Chicago Medical Center.

 

 

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