U. attorney transfers to Drexel U.

Frank Roth, associate General Council of the University of Pennsylvania, has announced his resignation. Roth will be assuming the position of General Council of Drexel University this fall. Roth said he told the Office of the General Council of his planned resignation in early May. He said the new position is a "great opportunity." "Drexel has no general council right now, so I'll be coming in and designing the program and the office," he said. Roth said he feels becoming a general council is the goal of most in-house lawyers. "Most people say they want to be able to run their own office," he said. "This way, they get to interact with the president and the trustees. It's a pretty natural thing." Roth has been at the University for eight years. "I've worked on a lot of varying cases while I've been here," he explained. Roth was an instrumental part of the 1991 Psi Upsilon case during which the fraternity was ousted from its home in the Castle, and expelled from campus. Roth also was a primary contact in the Jacobowitz case filed just this year, in which University graduate Eden Jacobowitz filed a lawsuit against the University for damages he incurred during the "Water Buffalo" incident. However, despite his case history at the University, Roth said he is the most proud of his transactional work in the Office of the General Counsel. "I've done a lot of things with technical transfer which I'm proud of," he said. Roth said that his years at the University have been enjoyable. "It's been terrific here," he said. "I'm going to miss it a lot. Penn is a great institution." According to General Counsel Shelley Green, no definite plans have been made as to who will replace Roth as Associate General Council. "We will try to cover his work in the interim and hope to fond someone as talented as [Roth]," she said. She declined to speculate on when a new associate general council will be named. "There are a lot of formalities will have to go through before we can even start the new search process," she explained. Green explained that there are six associate general councils in the office. They are responsible for handling the University's legal work and serve as the University's attorneys when needed. The six attorneys, along with the General Council, are responsible for handling most of the lawsuits brought against the University.