USD Names Lawyer Stephen Ferruolo as Law School Dean

The University of San Diego today named San Diego lawyer (and Xconomist) Stephen Ferruolo as dean of its law school. Ferrulo has served as chairman of the San Diego office of the Goodwin Procter law firm since 2007, when the international firm set up shop here, and was a partner in the firm’s business law group and a member of its technology and life sciences practice as well as its corporate governance and mergers & acquisitions practice. Before graduating with honors from Stanford Law School in 1990, Ferruolo was an assistant professor of history at Stanford. He also was a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford University, earned his Ph.D. in History at Princeton University, and served on the faculty at Bennington College. He assumes his new duties at the private Catholic university’s law school on Aug. 1.

Author: Bruce V. Bigelow

In Memoriam: Our dear friend Bruce V. Bigelow passed away on June 29, 2018. He was the editor of Xconomy San Diego from 2008 to 2018. Read more about his life and work here. Bruce Bigelow joined Xconomy from the business desk of the San Diego Union-Tribune. He was a member of the team of reporters who were awarded the 2006 Pulitzer Prize in National Reporting for uncovering bribes paid to San Diego Republican Rep. Randy “Duke” Cunningham in exchange for special legislation earmarks. He also shared a 2006 award for enterprise reporting from the Society of Business Editors and Writers for “In Harm’s Way,” an article about the extraordinary casualty rate among employees working in Iraq for San Diego’s Titan Corp. He has written extensively about the 2002 corporate accounting scandal at software goliath Peregrine Systems. He also was a Gerald Loeb Award finalist and National Headline Award winner for “The Toymaker,” a 14-part chronicle of a San Diego start-up company. He takes special satisfaction, though, that the series was included in the library for nonfiction narrative journalism at the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University. Bigelow graduated from U.C. Berkeley in 1977 with a degree in English Literature and from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism in 1979. Before joining the Union-Tribune in 1990, he worked for the Associated Press in Los Angeles and The Kansas City Times.