[KS] The Hon JEROME J SHESTACK wins ICAS Liberty Award

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ICAS Bulletin

     April 19,  2000
     FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
     Contact: Sang Joo Kim

The Hon JEROME J SHESTACK
Attorney at Law

wins

ICAS Liberty Award

Dear Friend:

We are pleased to announce that The Honourable Jerome J Shestack,
Esquire, is the winner of ICAS Liberty Award.

ICAS recognizes  attorney Shestack's exemplary commitment and 
sustaining contribution to promote and advocate civil rights, 
human rights and humanity.

Jerome J. Shestack is a partner and head of the Litigation 
Department of the Philadelphia law firm of Wolf, Block, Schorr 
and Solis-Cohen. He served as President of the American Bar 
Association during 1997-1998.

A nationally recognized trial and appellate lawyer, he is a 
Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers, and a Fellow 
of the American Academy of Appellate Lawyers.  He has been 
regularly listed by the National Law Journal as one of America's 
100 Most Influential Lawyers. He has represented clients such as 
Westinghouse, NBC, CBS, ABC, Advanta, Hertz, Comcast and GAF in 
major complex trial and appellate litigation.

Mr. Shestack graduated from the University of Pennsylvania and received
his L.L.B. from Harvard Law School where he was editor-in-chief of the
Harvard Law Record and an Ames Moot Court Finalist.  He served on the
faculties of Northwestern University Law School, L.S.U. Law School and
the University of Pennsylvania Law School before entering private
practice.

He has held numerous leadership positions in the ABA.  He was a member
of the ABA's Standing Committee on the Federal Judiciary, served on the
ABA's Board of Governors, and chaired the Board's Program and Planning
Committee.

Mr Shestack was also a founding member and Chair of the Section of
Individual Rights and Responsibilities, Chair of the Commission on 
Mental and Physical Disability Law, and Chair of the Standing Committee 
on Legal Aid and Indigent Defendants.  In the last-named post, he was a 
founder of the ABA's Pro Bono Center.  He also initiated the first
Women's Rights Committee in the ABA, the first ABA committee to support
the Federal Legal Services program, and was an organizing member of the 
National Legal Services program and helped start the Legal Services 
Corporation.  He was a founding member of the Lawyers Committee for 
Civil Rights Under Law in 1963 and continues as a Director.  In
1977 he founded the Lawyers Committee for Human Rights and served as its
first Chairman.

In addition to serving as President of the ABA, he is President of
ALI-ABA and a director and life fellow of the American Bar Foundation 
and a director of the American Bar Endowment.

Under President Carter, Mr. Shestack was the U.S. Ambassador for Human
Rights to the United Nations Human Rights Commission, and launched the
U.N. Working Group to investigate disappearances under repressive
regimes.  He was the U.S. Alternative Representative to the U.N. General 
Assembly and to ECOSOC.  During President Bush's Administration, he
served on the U.S. delegation to the Moscow Conference on Security and
Cooperation in Europe and as a Commissioner of the Presidential-
Congressional Commission to Improve the Effectiveness of the United 
Nations.

Mr. Shestack also chaired the International Bar Association Standing
Committee on Human Rights and founded its Human Rights Action program. 
He served on the Executive Council of the American Society of
International Law and is currently Counselor to the Society.  He 
chaired the International League for Human Rights since 1981 and is 
currently its Honorary President.

He was recently elected to the prestigious Executive Committee of the
International Commission of Jurists.  He led the ABA delegation to the 
Rome Conference on the International Criminal Court and also established 
the first agreement with the All-China Lawyers Association to promote
rule of law understanding.

Mr. Shestack has served as Chairman of the University of Pennsylvania
Press, President of the Jewish Publication Society, Chairman of the
American Poetry Society, trustee  of the Free Library of Philadelphia, 
and member of the Board of Governors of Tel Aviv University.  He is a 
board member of the Cure Autism Now Foundation, dedicated to medical 
research on autism.  He has an autistic grandchild.

Mr. Shestack has written more than 50 articles for law reviews and
journals, numerous historical and literary monographs, and more than 
150 op-ed articles. He is a member of the Order of the Coif, and a life 
member of The American Law Institute.  He is an honorary Fellow of the 
University of Pennsylvania Law School and Columbia University Law School
and has honorary degrees as doctor of laws, from Stetson University 
School of Law, Whittier Law School, and Dickinson School of Law.

Mr. Shestack is married to Marciarose Shestack, a TV journalist.  She
was the first woman anchor person in prime time in a major media market. 
The Shestacks have two children, Jennifer is a cosmetics executive at 
Bergdorf Goodman in New York, Jonathan is a movie producer in Los
Angeles and President of Artisans, Inc.

He has been listed in the Who's Who in the World, Who's Who in America,
and Who's Who in American Law.

The previous recipients of the ICAS Liberty Award  are Tony P Hall,
Charles Kartman, Jeong H Kim, Lawrence R Klein, and Richard L Walker.

Mr Shestack will be honoured at the ICAS Liberty Award Dinner  which is
to be held at the Faculty Club of the University of Pennsylvania on May
1, 2000.

Thank you.

Sincerely,

Sang Joo Kim / signed
Sr. Fellow & Executive Vice President
ICAS
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