SUNY BUFFALO LAW PHILANTHROPY - SUNY Buffalo Law School

WINTER 201121Plaque dedicated forMatt Schnirel ’11Outstanding faculty• Professors Guyora Binder and JamesGardner joined Dean Makau Mutuain being named SUNY DistinguishedProfessors, the highest academic rankin the SUNY system.• Four new faculty hires with practicebackgrounds will teach in the keycurricular areas of civil procedure,civil litigation, criminal law and procedure,Constitutional law and laborlaw.We welcome Professors MatthewSteilen,Anthony O’Rourke, SamanthaBarbas and Matthew Dimick.• Two new LAWR instructors with exceptionalanalysis, research and writingcredentials and experience werehired this year, Monica Wallace andBernadette Klor, expanding the numberof instructors in the departmentto nine.Improved facility creates theright first impression• Renovations on the first floor create asense of professionalism and prestigeupon entering O’Brian Hall.A staffedinformation area will provide detailsto students and visitors about eventsand programs at the Law School.• Technology improvements through anew student information portal willgather all student e-mails and calendarsin one place. Flat-screen televisionsprovide daily updates on theLaw School to students and faculty.• A newly refurbished student loungeoffers hard-working law students anarea that is comfortable and pleasingto regroup, share information withtheir colleagues and prepare for theirupcoming tasks.Melissa Overbeck ’11,right,first recipient of the Matthew J.SchnirelMemorial Scholarship,joins Kevin Schnirel,his father,and LaurenSchilling,Matt’s girlfriend,at the unveiling of a plaque in Matt Schnirel’smemory at O’Brian Hall.Schnirel,who was practicing with the small Buffalo law firm Doran& Murphy,was killed along with Michael Doran ’82 in the crash of theirsmall plane in Ohio during a business trip in 2009.Schnirel’s family andfriends established the scholarship in his honor.The eldest of four children,Schnirel earned his undergraduate degreefrom the University at Albany.He worked his way through SUNYBuffalo Law as a law clerk at Doran & Murphy,graduating in 2008,andwas hired there as an associate after graduation,practicing civil litigation.To make a gift to the Annual Fund,please contact Lucy Dadd ’04 at (716)645-2113 or ladadd@buffalo.edu. Orgo online to www.law.buffalo.edu/givingto make your gift there.