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Scott Gaille has big news this time around - he raised private equity funding in 2007 to start West & East Africa Oil Group, which is building a portfolio of petroleum exploration licenses in Sub-Saharan Africa.

David Carthy writes: "I am a corporate partner at William Fry in Dublin practicing Irish law but travelling frequently to the US and working with very many US and international clients and lawfirms. I am frequently in touch with many of our LLM group including Yuval and Isabelle Tal, Pontus Hallengren, Anna Vilades, Stan Brijs and Pierre de Bandt. We met up recently in Barcelona in November and plan to do so again in Brooklyn in May. With families and kids in tow we may have to look to booking a convention centre for the growing numbers at these reunions."

Tom Brown reports: "All is well in SF.  I am happily ensconced at O'Melveny & Myers in San Francisco.  Although no one else from our class is in SF, we have a growing collecting of '95ers at OMM--Abby Rudzin is in NYC, Mark Davies is in DC, and Dan Shallman is in LA.  At home, Cait and I are on the census bureau track.  We have two kids--Amelia and Beatrice ("Bebe" to all who know her), ages 11 and 8.  We have two cats--Allegra and Charlotte.  And we will soon be getting a dog--name TBD.  I continue to practice antitrust law while moonlighting as an amateur law professor.  A second paper that I co-authored with Richard Epstein will be published by UofC's Law Review in the Winter/Spring.  I will be teaching a class at UC Berkeley's law school this coming term on the law and policy of modern consumer payments." 

John Eastman was named Dean of Chapman University School of Law on June 1, 2007, where he now holds the Donald P. Kennedy Chair in Law.  Among his first hires at Chapman was Nobel Laureate Vernon Smith (2002 Nobel Prize in Economics) and another U of C alumn, Steve Krone, a former law clerk to Justices Blackmun and Souter.  John’s wife, Elizabeth, began teaching 3 courses each semester in the undergraduate History and Political Science departments at Chapman. Benjamin started high school, continues with Boy Scouts (almost an Eagle Scout) and plays jazz trumpet.  Christina is in the 7^th Grade, still playing up a storm on her violin and now on the mandolin as well.  So as you might expect, there is never a dull moment at the Eastman house.  A highlight of the past year was a visit by Justice Clarence Thomas, part of his national book tour.