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FRIDAY, JANUARY 30, 1998	(202) 514-2008

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TWO SENIOR JUSTICE DEPARTMENT OFFICIALS NAMED GEORGETOWN


UNIVERSITY LAW CENTER ADJUNCT PROFESSORS OF THE YEAR








	WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Assistant Attorney General Lois Schiffer
and Deputy Assistant Attorney General Nancy Firestone yesterday
received Georgetown University Law Center's Charles Fahy
Distinguished Adjunct Professor Award for their exceptional service 
teaching environmental law at the school.

	"Lois and Nancy are recognized individually by their students
as excellent teachers," said Judith Areen, Dean of the Georgetown
Law Center.  "The Fahy Award recognizes not only their individual
success as teachers, but also the extraordinary contribution they
have made as a team to several generations of Georgetown Law Center
students."

	Schiffer and Firestone have been teaching environmental law
together at Georgetown since 1986.  Students have noted that the
team approach used by the two keeps them engaged.  Schiffer has
been described by her students as dynamic and stimulating and as a
teacher who prompts them to view situations from a variety of
perspectives.  Students have described Firestone as an excellent
lecturer who is highly knowledgeable. 

	As head the Justice Department's Environment and Natural
Resources Division since 1993, Lois Schiffer is responsible for
enforcing the nation's environmental laws.  She is a former partner
in the law firm of Nussbaum & Wald, and also served as general
counsel to National Public Radio.  Schiffer is a graduate of
Radcliffe College and Harvard Law School.

	Since 1995, Nancy Firestone has been a Deputy Assistant
Attorney General in the Environment and Natural Resources Division
where she oversees environmental appellate cases and matters in
which the federal government has been named as a defendant in an
environmental lawsuit.  In addition to the numerous positions she
has held in the Division, Firestone was an associate deputy
administrator and a judge on the environmental appeals board at the
Environmental Protection Agency.  She is a graduate of Washington
University and the University of Missouri Law School.

	The Charles Fahy Distinguished Adjunct Professor Award is
named for the Georgetown alumnus who served as U.S. Solicitor
General and as a U.S. Court of Appeals Judge.  It is presented
annually to juris doctor and graduate adjunct faculty who have
provided exceptional service to the Law Center.

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