Law Degree

CBS, or, as it likes to call itself, "America's Most-Watched Network," is already holding a strong hand as the 2012-13 TV season draws to a close. On Wednesday, the network revealed some subtle but significant moves to improve its advantage at its Upfront Presentation to advertisers at Carnegie Hall in New York — an annual ceremony that this year saw LL Cool J rapping with opera singer Danielle de Niese and New York Giants QB Eli Manning brandishing the Lombardi Trophy. (CBS carries the Super Bowl next season.)

Tullio G. Leomporra, 82, of Lafayette Hill, former chief magistrate judge for the U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Pennsylvania, died Monday of cancer at home. Judge Leomporra had served for 38 years in the federal judiciary and was chief magistrate judge from 1985 to 1993. After retiring that year, he continued to serve as a senior magistrate until 2004. In the late 1960s, he worked as a U.S. commissioner and in 1970 was appointed to the newly created position of U.S. magistrate judge.

Joseph Alessandroni Jr., 89, of Overbrook Farms, who had thousands of clients as a Philadelphia lawyer, died Tuesday of pneumonia at home. Born in West Philadelphia, Mr. Alessandroni graduated in 1934 from Friends Central High School, where he was remembered for pitching a no-hitter. He earned a bachelor's degree in education from Villanova University in 1938 and a law degree in 1942 from Temple University. He was the fifth member of the Alessandroni family to become a lawyer. Before joining the Marines in 1942, he married Helen McSorley.

Finish college and get your law degree - in just six years! That is the promise held out to students at Pennsylvania's 14 state-run universities, under a new partnership between the public State System of Higher Education and Widener University, a private institution. The 3+3 Early Admission Program, announced yesterday, gives qualified students the option to leave undergraduate studies after three years to enter the Widener School of Law in Harrisburg. The first year of law school would also satisfy credit requirements for a bachelor's degree.

Every evening for 12 years, Emily Ryan neatly arranged her children around the dining-room table and served dinner precisely at 5, just as her husband arrived from the office. She shepherded her five sons and daughters to and from school and afternoon sports. She volunteered as a home-room mother, participated in scouting, and sewed doll clothes. Then one Saturday, she woke up and found a lump in her breast. "I just assumed I was going to die," recalled Ryan, whose sister had succumbed to breast cancer just months earlier.

Hello there Dana grew up in Cherry Hill, and in November 2007 she was back home on Thanksgiving break from the University of Baltimore, where she was earning a law degree. One day as break was winding down, Dana's friend Tiffany invited her to meet up with her, her then-boyfriend Patrick, and some other friends at PJ Whelihan's. Patrick's good friend Andrew was among the group, and before long, Andrew approached Dana. "What are you drinking?" he asked. A Jack and ginger.

THE LATE Justice Juanita Kidd Stout was the first African-American woman elected to a court of record in the U.S., the first to sit on the Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas and the first appointed to the state Supreme Court. Now City Council is on track to rename the Criminal Justice Center on Filbert Street near 13th as the "Justice Juanita Kidd Stout Center for Criminal Justice," making it the first major building in Philadelphia to be named for a black woman. Stout received her law degree from Indiana University and arrived here in the early 1950s.

Brett Miller, 47, general counsel for the Barnes Foundation who defended the foundation's move from suburban Merion to the Benjamin Franklin Parkway in recent court hearings, was found dead at his Old City home Saturday, April 14. A spokesman for the Philadelphia Medical Examiner's Office attributed the cause of death to a self-inflicted gunshot wound. "The board of trustees and the staff of the Barnes Foundation are deeply saddened by the tragic loss of our colleague and friend Brett Miller," Derek Gillman, the director of the foundation, said in a statement to the Art Newspaper, which on Monday reported Mr. Miller's death.

Brett Miller, general counsel for the Barnes Foundation who defended the foundation's move from suburban Merion to the Benjamin Franklin Parkway in recent court hearings, was found dead at his Old City home Saturday. He was 47. A spokesman for the Philadelphia Medical Examiner's office attributed the cause of death to a self-inflicted gunshot wound. "The board of trustees and the staff of the Barnes Foundation are deeply saddened by the tragic loss of our colleague and friend Brett Miller," Derek Gillman, the director of the foundation, said in a statement to the Art Newspaper, which reported Miller's death on Monday.

Matthew D. Baxter, 53, of Huntingdon Valley, an immigration lawyer, died of liver failure caused by side effects of cancer treatment Thursday, Sept. 15, at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania. Mr. Baxter, who was a past president of the Philadelphia chapter of the American Immigration Lawyers Association and who served on the board of the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society for more than 15 years, represented a significant number of clients on a pro bono basis, his wife, Bonnie Allyn Barnett, said.

THE LATE Justice Juanita Kidd Stout was the first African-American woman elected to a court of record in the U.S., the first to sit on the Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas and the first appointed to the state Supreme Court. Now City Council is on track to rename the Criminal Justice Center on Filbert Street near 13th as the "Justice Juanita Kidd Stout Center for Criminal Justice," making it the first major building in Philadelphia to be named for a black woman. Stout received her law degree from Indiana University and arrived here in the early 1950s.

Hello there Dana grew up in Cherry Hill, and in November 2007 she was back home on Thanksgiving break from the University of Baltimore, where she was earning a law degree. One day as break was winding down, Dana's friend Tiffany invited her to meet up with her, her then-boyfriend Patrick, and some other friends at PJ Whelihan's. Patrick's good friend Andrew was among the group, and before long, Andrew approached Dana. "What are you drinking?" he asked. A Jack and ginger.

CBS, or, as it likes to call itself, "America's Most-Watched Network," is already holding a strong hand as the 2012-13 TV season draws to a close. On Wednesday, the network revealed some subtle but significant moves to improve its advantage at its Upfront Presentation to advertisers at Carnegie Hall in New York — an annual ceremony that this year saw LL Cool J rapping with opera singer Danielle de Niese and New York Giants QB Eli Manning brandishing the Lombardi Trophy. (CBS carries the Super Bowl next season.)

During more than 40 years as a professor and practitioner of international law, Roger S. Clark has occasionally asked himself this question. What's a little boy from Wanganui doing here? Wanganui (wong-a-noo-ee) is the New Zealand city where Clark, 71, grew up. And "here" could be his office at the Rutgers School of Law in Camden, the United Nations headquarters in New York, or the International Court of Justice in the Hague, where he once got 30 minutes to make a case against nuclear warfare.

Stanley R. Resor, 94, who served two presidents as secretary of the Army for six years during the height of the Vietnam War and represented the United States during force-reduction negotiations in the mid-1970s, died Tuesday at his home in Washington. Mr. Resor, who was born in New York, was the son of Stanley B. Resor, president of the J. Walter Thompson advertising agency. Mr. Resor was 11 when he and family friends visited Jackson Hole, Wyo. He persuaded his father to buy a cattle ranch there, beginning a lifelong tie to the area.

Second in a series of Daily News profiles of runners entered in the 33rd annual 10-mile Blue Cross Broad Street Run May 6. Who: John Domzalski Residence: Germantown Age: 70 Occupation: Drexel University professor; he teaches biomedical ethics and law, plus health policy. Education: Bloomsburg University; master's degree in public health, University of Pittsburgh; law degree, Temple. Previous career stop: Philadelphia Health Commissioner. Broad Street Run history: This will be his seventh BSR. "It's such a breathtakingly positive experience.

Brett Miller, 47, general counsel for the Barnes Foundation who defended the foundation's move from suburban Merion to the Benjamin Franklin Parkway in recent court hearings, was found dead at his Old City home Saturday, April 14. A spokesman for the Philadelphia Medical Examiner's Office attributed the cause of death to a self-inflicted gunshot wound. "The board of trustees and the staff of the Barnes Foundation are deeply saddened by the tragic loss of our colleague and friend Brett Miller," Derek Gillman, the director of the foundation, said in a statement to the Art Newspaper, which on Monday reported Mr. Miller's death.

Brett Miller, general counsel for the Barnes Foundation who defended the foundation's move from suburban Merion to the Benjamin Franklin Parkway in recent court hearings, was found dead at his Old City home Saturday. He was 47. A spokesman for the Philadelphia Medical Examiner's office attributed the cause of death to a self-inflicted gunshot wound. "The board of trustees and the staff of the Barnes Foundation are deeply saddened by the tragic loss of our colleague and friend Brett Miller," Derek Gillman, the director of the foundation, said in a statement to the Art Newspaper, which reported Miller's death on Monday.

Donald J. Goldberg, 81 of Rittenhouse Square, a trial lawyer in Philadelphia for 58 years, died of complications from cancer Saturday, April 7, at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania. Since 1991, Mr. Goldberg had been special counsel in the litigation department of Ballard Spahr and was a member of the firm's white-collar investigations group. He previously had a solo practice in Center City for 30 years. "Partners and associates in the firm treasured any opportunity to learn from Don," Ballard Spahr chairman Mark Stewart said.

When John D. Stewart caught a 50-pound bass a mile north of Barnegat Inlet on Nov. 7, 1961, it was celebrated as a world record. It was not Mr. Stewart's first remarkable achievement. During World War II, Second Lt. Stewart earned a Silver Star for saving much of his battalion on Nov. 23, 1944, during the battle of the Huertgen Forest. Mr. Stewart, 90, of Cinnaminson, a former Northeast Philadelphia lawyer and real estate broker, died Thursday, March 29, of heart failure at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital.