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THE MAGAZINE OF
SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY
COLLEGE OF LAW
FALL 2016
INSIDE
02 Dean’s Message
04 Syracuse Law Interview
Dean Craig M. Boise
12 Creating the Future of Legal Education
16 Law in London Celebrates 40 Years
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18 LLM Students Make an Impact
20 College News
26 Faculty Profile: Thomas R. French
28 Faculty Profile: Shuhba Ghosh
32 Faculty Books
38 Faculty Publications
18
16
46 Honor Roll of Donors
56 Class Notes
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“
I look forward to hearing your ideas and harnessing your energy and
enthusiasm as we chart a sustainable course for the College of Law, elevate
our reputation and increase our influence and prestige.” –Craig M. Boise
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DEAN’S MESSAGE
Dear Members of the College of Law Community:
My first months as Dean can only be described as inspiring as I
have encountered so many people who have a deep attachment
to the College of Law and heard their stories of success and
commitment. Here in Syracuse and at events in other cities, I
have been welcomed by exceptional students and graduates of
our College all of whom express interest in the future of legal
education. I look forward to hearing your ideas and harnessing
your energy and enthusiasm as we chart a sustainable course
for the College of Law, elevate our reputation and increase our
influence and prestige.
The pace of change in the legal field is more rapid than ever,
and legal education has not evolved as quickly as the options
available to our graduates. The College of Law must embrace this
changing dynamic and I am deeply committed to leveraging the
combined knowledge, skill and imagination of our faculty, alumni
and students to expand legal education in innovative ways.
Students are attracted to the law for many reasons—we must
tap into their diverse interests, adapt our curriculum to meet new
demands, and provide innovative and interdisciplinary options.
To be sure, we have a great foundation on which to build. We
can turn challenges into opportunities, and define ourselves as
leaders in legal education:
> We have a contemporary, attractive building in Dineen
Hall with the functional design and latest technology to
support current and future educational needs.
> We have an engaged faculty that is not afraid of breaking
from the past, taking measured risk, seizing opportunities
and being truly entrepreneurial in its approach to programs
and teaching.
> We have an array of successful J.D. and joint degree
programs and initiatives that are delivering outstanding
educational experiences to our students.
> We have Clinics that continue to provide practical training
for students while making an impact on our local community.
Our incoming J.D. Class of 2019 exemplifies the opportunities
ahead. We are proud to report that the class is 14% larger than
last year’s and with even better academic credentials. This is
a striking departure from prevailing trends which reflect a less
than one percent increase in applications nationwide and smaller
class sizes at most schools. Our incoming group of promising
and talented students is more diverse, more accomplished and
more ambitious than ever before. Likewise, our current cohort
of LL.M. and foreign J.D. students representing nearly twenty
countries around the globe has quickly become rooted in our law
school community. Their presence in Dineen Hall strengthens all
of us as our diverse cultures and points of view inform the study
of law, which increasingly crosses international boundaries.
As we chart the future course of the College of Law, we will
capitalize on successes of the past and seize the momentum of
the present to ensure the College of Law is the school of choice
for students seeking a contemporary, forward-thinking and
inclusive legal education. Each of us—faculty, staff, students
and alumni—will play a critical role in designing, implementing
and delivering the cutting edge programs and content necessary
to prepare legal professionals for the future. Achieving this goal
would not be possible without your support, and I ask that you
join me in turning this goal into our reality.
I hope that as you read these pages you are as inspired as I am
by real examples of innovation, accomplishment and dedication.
Your continued generosity, engagement and leadership are
critical to the College of Law’s evolution and ongoing success.
Very truly yours,
Craig M. Boise
Dean and Professor of Law
> We have committed alumni whose passion for the College
of Law is palpable.
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SYRACUSE LAW INTERVIEW
DEAN CRAIG M. BOISE
Craig M. Boise comes to Dineen Hall as the College of Law’s Dean with a successful track record in innovative
legal education programs. He brings with him an understanding of the changes taking place in legal education
and the legal job market coupled with a bold vision of how the College of Law can strengthen its current
position and embark on new initiatives that will set the College apart from other legal learning institutions.
A few weeks after his arrival on campus in July, Margaret
Harding, Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and
Professor of Law, spoke with Dean Boise to learn how
his diverse experiences shape his views on contemporary
legal education and how he plans to ensure the College
of Law is a vibrant institution suited for today’s students
and job market.
PROFESSOR HARDING: Your background is very
interesting and varied. You were a police officer where
you were part of a tactical response team, then you
became a lawyer and went into private practice. Ultimately
you transitioned to academia. How do these different
professional experiences affect how you approach being
a dean?
DEAN BOISE: I have had a very interesting background,
not all of it by choice, but have done a lot of different
things. I think there are advantages to that, particularly in
communicating with alumni and the broader community.
There are very few hobbies or places I’ve lived where
there’s not a degree or two of separation. It makes it easy
to connect with people around shared interests and places.
Another advantage of having that varied background is
that, perhaps for our students, I realize there isn’t one set
path, whether that’s being a lawyer or doing something
else. Life is really a process of discovery, so our students
might come out of college and go work for a while, or go
into the military or a variety of things, all of which help
expand their perspectives and make their experience in law
school richer.
PROFESSOR HARDING: I think that’s absolutely true.
What path of discovery led to you becoming a lawyer?
DEAN BOISE: It was law enforcement. I initially started
college as a piano major, left for financial reasons after a
couple of years and then joined the police force in Kansas
City, Missouri. In the police academy there were two
things we studied very closely. One was a constitutional
law section where we had to learn Fourth, Fifth and Sixth
Amendment cases and the holdings of the cases, which
was entirely new to me and which I found fascinating.
Second, we had a statutory class where we learned
criminal codes and elements of crimes. It was those two
things that really sparked my interest in the law. After I was
in the department for a few years, I decided to go back and
finish my degree. I changed my major to political science
and had a professor who really pushed me to consider law
school.
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PROFESSOR HARDING: The transition from private practice
to academia, what made you decide to do that?
DEAN BOISE: I had been in practice for a number of years
doing corporate and international tax law. I worked for firms
in Kansas City, New York, and Cleveland. The idea of going
into academia came from a friend from law school who called
me and said the school where he was teaching was looking for
a tax professor. Until then I had never considered teaching.
We had a few more conversations, and though I decided
not to interview at that time I gave the idea more thought
and eventually pursued an academic career. That’s another
important lesson for our students. You never know what the
contacts you make in law school will result in down the road.
PROFESSOR HARDING: I’d like to speak with you about your
time as Dean at Cleveland-Marshall. You were Dean there for
about five years. Can you identify some initiatives you were
most proud of?
DEAN BOISE: The things that were of utmost importance to
me, and that I am most proud of, were issues that directly
affected students. One was a strategy to improve our student
bar passage rate. We did a number of things to support our
students and their preparation for the bar, including providing
all of our students with the BARBRI bar exam prep course at
no cost. That and other measures resulted in our achieving
the highest bar passage rate in the history of the law school.
Another was the solo practice incubator. We had about 15% of
our students going into solo practice but we never provided
much in the way of support for that path in terms of the
curriculum. The idea was to incorporate some programming
for students contemplating a solo practice—short courses
on how to handle a basic divorce, how to handle a criminal
case, those kinds of things—coupled with a law practice
management course. At the same time, we had a lot of library
space that was being utilized less and less so we converted
some of this space into a suite of offices where students could
launch their solo practice. This gave them an office where they
could be taken seriously by clients and be in the company of
other solo practitioners. I’m proud of that successful initiative.
PROFESSOR HARDING: What attracted you to take the Dean
position here at the College of Law?
DEAN BOISE: There were many aspects of the College of Law
and Syracuse University that made the position very attractive.
The one thing that really piqued my interest is the fact that the
chancellor here, Kent Syverud, is a former law school dean.
Given the environment in which law schools are operating,
I could think of nothing more important than having your
university chancellor or president be someone who really
understands legal education.
When I got online and began digging a little deeper I saw
beautiful pictures of Dineen Hall, which is a tremendous
asset for this law school. It’s a state-of-the-art building… an
amazing place for our students to learn and for our faculty to
do research and for all of us to interact with one another. As
I went through the interviewing process and had the chance
to meet faculty and students I was very impressed by their
enthusiasm. There was also a great deal of personal warmth
and I felt very welcomed by the people here, making it a very
appealing opportunity.
PROFESSOR HARDING: When you came to the welcome
event we had in April you said that your vision for the College
of Law is “a financially sustainable law school that leverages
the knowledge, skill and imagination of its faculty to expand
legal education in innovative ways.” How do you see the
College of Law accomplishing that expansion and what kind of
innovative ways are you thinking about?
DEAN BOISE: Traditionally, law school is where you went for
one reason—to earn a J.D. As the legal industry evolves, a
J.D. is not always what employers need, and yet there may be
a requirement for legal knowledge and a similar skillset. To
that end, we need to think of ourselves more broadly than as
a place to obtain a J.D. As legal educators, we should think of
ourselves as providing a legal education that is relevant to an
emerging, different type of marketplace and for students who
are seeking a similar career or knowledge, but not necessarily
a traditional J.D. As a school, we need to investigate other
programs and needs that employers are looking to fill. And we
can fill those needs with diverse products such as a Master’s
in Legal Studies or short courses in regulatory and other
matters.
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“We need to think of ourselves more broadly than as
a place to obtain a J.D. As legal educators, we should
think of ourselves as providing a legal education that is
relevant to an emerging, different type of marketplace
and for students who are seeking a similar career or
knowledge, but not necessarily a traditional J.D.”
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PROFESSOR HARDING: You’re talking about many skills that
can be useful in a variety of occupations and professions. That
sounds like what we do well and it’s what we can share with an
audience we haven’t reached yet. It’s exciting.
DEAN BOISE: For some people, three years of law school
and a J.D. is what they need, for others they will desire a legal
background or training for their chosen field of work. The law
touches virtually every career out there so people are going to
want to have a better understanding of how the law affects their
work or the regulatory environment.
PROFESSOR HARDING: The expectation is that the amount of
regulation is going to increase.
DEAN BOISE: Absolutely. I don’t think there’s going to be less
regulation. In terms of our creativity, we’re looking at a hybrid
J.D. program which we hope to launch in January 2018. This is
an opportunity to reach a segment of the population that might
not have an opportunity to come to Dineen Hall. This includes
people who are disabled for whom the residential program
would be difficult, or service men and women and veterans
who may find it impossible to make a three-year commitment
to be a resident in one place because of where they are
deployed or other obligations. It also offers the opportunity
to reduce the cost of legal education, which now means not
being able to work for three years. Traditionally, this has meant
students having to borrow money for living expenses for three
years. This is an opportunity for us to be really creative and
bold and adventurous, and quite frankly, I was impressed that
the faculty so overwhelmingly supported this initiative.
PROFESSOR HARDING: You also mentioned in your talk in
April that you would like to see the College of Law become
a laboratory for new teaching methods and an incubator for
new legal programs. What ideas do you have with regard to
innovating teaching methods?
DEAN BOISE: Going back to the way law school has been for
the last 100 years, typically you require a law school professor
to have a law degree. None of us really got training in how to be
educators. I’ve discovered as a dean and a law professor that
there are a lot of things we can learn from primary or secondary
school teachers because they are much more focused on the
science of learning. The idea here is that we need to be more
cognizant of the way we are conveying our knowledge to our
students and assess whether we are using the most effective
methods. The online J.D. program we are developing with
our partner, 2U, is one of the ways we’re employing learning
science. Using the technology with 2U, we are learning to
develop and deliver courses more effectively from a learning
perspective. As a result, I am confident that we will see new
approaches to educating and learning in our residential classes.
This will have important ramifications. Our students will absorb
the material in a better way. They will experience better test
results, which will have an impact on bar passage which has an
impact on employment. The ripple effects are extensive.
Another possible shift we are exploring is replacing some of
our semester-long courses with a catalog of short courses
on various topics. These would be in modules that are more
experientially oriented than the standard doctrinal courses,
enabling the students to gain experience solving real problems
to aid in learning the doctrinal material.
PROFESSOR HARDING: You had the chance to practice,
be part of the tax bar in various states, and see how we are
delivering an education to our students. How can we as a
faculty make sure that what we’re doing in the classroom
remains relevant and meaningful to what our graduates are
going to be doing in the field?
DEAN BOISE: What I hear from practicing attorneys, managing
and hiring partners at firms, and attorneys in prosecutor’s and
public defender’s offices that are hiring our students, is that it
is increasingly important that students have a new set of skills;
skills we have never taught. Some of these skills include how
to manage projects, how to be collaborative, how to manage
processes. I had a conversation recently with an alumnus who
is a partner in a large firm in D.C. He shared with me that a
law partner wants to be able to give an associate a project
and know that the individual will be able to handle all the
components of the project. Does that person have the skillset
to understand the issues, the timeline of that litigation, the
people that will need to be involved, the experts and opposing
counsel, the communications?
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“[My] vision for the College of Law is a financially
sustainable law school that leverages the
knowledge, skill and imagination of its faculty to
expand legal education in innovative ways.”
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PROFESSOR HARDING: One of our highlights is an increase of
international students coming to the College of Law. We have
seen some real interest and growth there. What ideas do you
have on capitalizing on that and growing it?
DEAN BOISE: I have been very impressed with the LL.M.
program here. The opportunity is to diversify our international
student body. One of the challenges with international students
is that a change in economy of a particular country can
dramatically impact the number of students who are coming
from that country. Diversification will help to navigate those
trends. Further, diversity will make for a richer experience
for our U.S. students who will benefit from interacting with
students from other countries. There are challenges, but I am
confident we can grow the LL.M. program and I think there are
also possibilities for an S.J.D., which is essentially a Ph.D. for
foreign students who want to teach.
PROFESSOR HARDING: You touched a little on the hybrid
program a little while ago. Can you talk a bit more about how
that fits with the vision you have for the College of Law?
DEAN BOISE: There’s a strong possibility that what we’re
aiming to do with the hybrid J.D. is the direction legal education
is going, particularly the reduction in costs for students. It may
be that in the future students who want to get a J.D. will be
able to do that while remaining employed and without going
on campus. I think online is playing an ever greater role in
higher education in general. One of the things I like about this
initiative is it reflects the College of Law’s spirit of exploration
and creativity and willingness to experiment. We either look
at the technology that’s emerging, the student body that’s
emerging, the job market that’s emerging and we adapt to that,
or we slowly become irrelevant. I don’t want this school to be
irrelevant.
PROFESSOR HARDING: Let’s talk about our alumni. By now,
you’ve had the opportunity to meet some of them since coming
to Syracuse. What plans do you have for incorporating the
alumni into the mission of the College of Law?
DEAN BOISE: What I’ve found in meeting with our alumni is
a real willingness to support and become involved. There’s a
passion for the school that’s palpable and I’m excited to be
engaged with them.
We want the financial support of our alumni. Already
approximately 11% of our alumni give to the annual fund and
that’s critical as the need for us to provide financial aid and
support to our students is growing and our alumni are a real
resource to help fill that need.
Before you can ask someone to give, though, you have to
engage them in what you are doing and help them understand
where their money is going to go, what it’s going to do and
how it’s going to help our students and the law school. One
way we make this connection is at convocation where 27 of our
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most accomplished alumni spend a day and a half here, not
just attending convocation, but spending half the next day
mentoring students, and meeting with them individually.
We’re getting advice from our alumni on career paths. For
example, we have a number of alumni who have risen to
positions of prominence in the compliance field as chiefs
of compliance. This is a fairly new field, but we are learning
what the needs are in that field, and planning to adapt our
coursework to meet these emerging needs.
Our alumni provide advice and counsel on matters ranging
from the finances and budget of the law school to insights
about our curriculum, again whether it’s preparing our
students for traditional or emerging workplaces. We ask,
what are the kinds of things our students need to know? All
those things are critical for us and as we engage alumni in
those various ways their desire to support the law school
financially grows.
PROFESSOR HARDING: My last question has to do with
how you spend your time when you’re not working. What
interests do you have and what do you do for fun?
DEAN BOISE: I have a lot of hobbies. Probably the biggest
one is sailing. Usually my wife, kids and I every year take a
sailing trip and we typically go to the Caribbean. I also like
to ride motorcycles. I just recently sold my Harley-Davidson
but may buy another one in the future. Having discussions
with my wife about that now…
PROFESSOR HARDING: You have taken torts, right?
DEAN BOISE: [laughs] I also love music, I never stopped
playing the piano so I enjoy that. It’s a very therapeutic
thing for me so I brought my piano along to Syracuse. I
enjoy salsa dancing. My wife and I have been avid salsa
dancers for several years and we’ve discovered a very active
salsa community here in Syracuse. I love to read, I enjoy
contemporary art, and I work out when I can fit it in.
That’s how I spend my off hours.
PROFESSOR HARDING: Thank you for your time,
Dean Boise, and welcome to the College of Law.
Follow Dean Boise on Twitter @SULAWDean
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CREATING THE FUTURE OF
LEGAL EDUCATION
How the legal profession delivers services has changed dramatically over the past ten years.
Yet law schools deliver legal education in much the same way they did a century ago.
The College of Law’s proposed hybrid J.D. program would change that—fundamentally reshaping
the options for the next generation of lawyers looking to earn a high-quality legal education.
Live session on 2U’s platform.
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Advancing a new modality for legal education.
The proposed hybrid J.D. program would combine online
courses and in-person residential courses, with the aim of
making a legal education available to highly qualified students for
whom attending a residential law school is not practicable.
In many ways the program will look very familiar. It will use
the same admissions standards as our current residential
program. Students will be required to take all courses required of
residential law students and will be held to the same academic
standards. Courses will be taught by College of Law faculty. The
program will also be highly interactive. “Every single course
in the program will be at least 50% real-time—students and
professors interacting spontaneously as they do in our residential
program,” explained Nina Kohn, Associate Dean for Research,
who has been leading the program design process. “That means
I will be able to cold-call my torts students and ask students to
engage with one another, just as I do now in Dineen Hall.”
What is new about the program is how the education will be
delivered. Students will be able to complete most of their
coursework off-campus through online courses. Each online
course will have a self-paced (or “asynchronous”) component
and a real-time (or “synchronous”) component. In both portions,
students will be active learners. As Kathleen O’Connor, the
program’s Executive Director and former Legal Writing Professor,
explained, “The online learning system we are using allows
professors to embed exercises into self-paced courses. Students
won’t be able to complete lessons without interacting with
those exercises.” In this way, professors will be able to see how
each student—not only the ones that might be called on in a
live session—is doing. Professors can then adapt live sessions
to focus on those issues with which students are struggling or
could especially benefit from greater attention and dialogue.
However, not all courses will be online. A series of required
residential classes will ensure that students also have the
opportunity to come together in physical space for in-person
learning. Students will come to campus, or gather at one of
Syracuse University’s satellite locations, six times during the
course of their study to take in-person classes. These classes
will provide an opportunity to meet with professors and other
students, including students in the residential program.
“EVERY SINGLE COURSE IN THE
PROGRAM WILL BE AT LEAST
50% REAL-TIME—STUDENTS
AND PROFESSORS INTERACTING
SPONTANEOUSLY AS THEY DO IN
OUR RESIDENTIAL PROGRAM.”
Nina Kohn
Associate Dean for Research
As with the residential program, students in the hybrid program
will be encouraged to take an active role in extracurricular
activities. “We are working with student organizations to explore
how they might grow by incorporating the new students into
their activities,” explains O’Connor. “Whether it be moot court,
Law Review, or student government, we feel that it is important
for all students to be able to get involved in the life of the law
school and benefit from the critical education that occurs
outside of class.” Additionally, the program will take advantage
of technologies that exist throughout Dineen Hall that will make
it easier for non-residential students to participate and “drop
in” on existing programming such as lectures by jurists and
prominent alumni.
The program’s ten-semester, year-round format will allow
students to complete their degree in three and a third years.
It is an intense schedule, but one that will make it possible
for students with existing careers and family obligations to
simultaneously obtain an outstanding legal education. “This is
not a program for the faint of heart,” explained Kohn. “And in
that way too, it is like our residential program.”
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“AS OUR PARTNER, 2U IS PROVIDING THE MASERATI
OF THE ONLINE LEARNING EXPERIENCE.”
Craig M. Boise
Dean
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Partnering with a leader
To bring the law school’s vision into reality, the College of Law
has partnered with 2U, Inc., a company that works with leading
nonprofit universities to create high-quality online degree
programs. To effectively deliver a high quality legal education in
this manner requires a technological partner that not only has a
cutting-edge educational platform but also deeply understands
the science of learning. 2U fits the bill. “As our partner, 2U is
providing the Maserati of the online learning experience,” says
Dean Craig M. Boise.
2U’s proprietary cloud-based learning platform is specifically
designed for higher education where professors demand
interactivity and the ability to fully adapt their traditional
classroom teaching techniques to an online environment. For
example, the platform allows faculty members to do real-time
“break-out groups” by spontaneously creating small “virtual
classrooms” where a small group of students can meet and
work. The instructor can not only see what the students are
doing while in the break-out rooms, but virtually enter the rooms
to interact in real-time with the students.
The platform also facilitates interaction among professor and
students. “I have participated in a class in another 2U program
here on campus,” explains Boise. “After I logged in I could see
and interact with our instructor, and as more students logged
in, they talked to one another much as you would see in a live
classroom. The instructor was able to see all the students, call on
them, and it was all done in real time.”
Embracing a University-wide initiative
The College of Law isn’t the only school on campus working with
2U. Rather, the proposed program is part of a University-wide
initiative led by Syracuse University Chancellor Kent Syverud.
Five other schools, including the Newhouse School of Public
Communications, the Whitman School of Management, and the
Maxwell School of Citizenship & Public Affairs, are also working
with 2U to create and deliver online degree programs. “The
College of Law is in a fortuitous position to take this pioneering
step in legal education but with the benefit of the University’s
experience of developing other successful online degree
programs,” says O’Connor.
Making law school possible for new groups of students
The program is designed to expand access to legal education to
talented students who, for a variety of reasons, may not be able
to attend a campus-based law program.
“There are three groups of students we had in mind when
developing this program,” says Boise. “One is students with
disabilities who have faced obstacles in the past to study
law in a residential setting. The second group is militaryconnected
students and veterans who, as the result of being
deployed abroad or moving around frequently, cannot make a
commitment to a single place for three years. The third group
is those students who, like the military-connected students,
due to jobs or family are not able to set aside their job or career
for three years and pack up and move to Syracuse and make
that kind of commitment. This gives them the opportunity to
choose Syracuse and attain a legal education here, without those
hurdles.”
Next steps
While the law school has spent nearly two years thinking through
how to create a program that can deliver an outstanding legal
education using the online modality, it is too early to say whether
the program will ultimately launch. That decision depends on
the American Bar Association, the national accreditor for law
schools. ABA accreditation standards require the law school
obtain a “variance” from the organization’s rules in order to offer
a J.D. program in this online space.
Kohn is not deterred. “We have created a unique, comprehensive
hybrid J.D. program that will serve as the model for other
institutions down the road,” she explained. “To be sure, we are
on the cutting edge and we are challenging the legal profession’s
established modes of education. That’s an exciting place to be.
We’re establishing ourselves as innovators who are willing to
embrace change and advance the profession.”
Indeed, although the program is not anticipated to launch until
2018, it is already having a positive effect: informing the College
of Law’s existing residential program. As O’Connor explained,
“Creating the program requires us to think critically about every
aspect of our law school and how we educate future lawyers.
That thinking will help make us a better law school for all
students—whether they be here in Dineen Hall or studying from
a base in Germany.”
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LAW IN
LONDON
TO
CELEBRATE
40 YEARS
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Long before the U.K. took center stage in Europe’s destiny with
its vote to Brexit, Syracuse University’s College of Law recognized
the U.K.’s integral political role in world affairs. For 40 years now,
the College of Law has offered our students a comprehensive
introduction to London’s rich legal world, immersing ourselves
in U.K. law, and living it through a panoply of internships in this
unique summer program.
In a country that deeply values its history, SU interns have been
delving into the roots of our shared common law traditions,
observing and assisting both barristers and solicitors in practice.
With placements ranging from internships with the Crown
Prosecution Service, international human rights organizations,
Legal Aide, in-house counsel’s offices of major multinationals,
to clerking opportunities with major international law firms and
barrister’s chambers, students experience a wide array of diverse
legal experiences.
But a student’s time in London is about more than just the legal
work. It is also an opportunity to recognize our connectivity to
century old traditions of advocacy and the unique role of law
and its youthful beginnings in the U.K. Each year participating
students are welcomed by the Middle Temple, one of the famous
British Inns of Court, a home to excellence in advocacy training
since the 14th century. The Inn’s name derives from the Knights
Templar who had been in possession of the Temple site for over
150 years prior to that and, yes, it shares its ground with the
Temple Church made famous in The Da Vinci Code.
In a recent video about the Law in London program, Caroline
Corcos L’16 and Jessica Grimm L’16 discuss their experience.
“I chose the Law in London program because I thought it was
very important in a globalized community to not only understand
American law but different types of law abroad,” said Corcos. “It
was one of the main reasons I chose Syracuse Law. I had done
research into the program and its long running, long standing
tradition indicated to me it would be an incredible experience
coming out of my first year,” said Grimm, who is capitalizing on
her international experiences in Law in London as an intern at
Tilleke & Gibbins International Ltd. in Bangkok, Thailand.
This year for Law in London’s 40th anniversary, students will take
part in the customary opportunities for immersion alongside a
summer of celebration, including special events with our host
mentors and professors. The anniversary celebration will also
feature special events outside of the classroom and workplace,
including trips to Brighton, a visit to Parliament, tickets to the
theater, and a reception at Middle Temple Hall.
Law in London immerses our students into the global
community of law, expanding their horizons, heightening their
creativity, and diversifying their critical thinking and problem
solving skills, all of which will better prepare them for the myriad
of opportunities that await an SU Law grad. Here’s to another
40 years. Cheers!
Are you an alum of Law in London? We would love to hear from
you. Tell us about your experience in London, and how the
program impacted you after graduation. Email your comments
and photos to LawNews@law.syr.edu for inclusion in our
40th Anniversary celebration materials online and in the next
SYRACUSE LAW magazine. Visit law.syr.edu/law-in-london.
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LL.M. STUDENTS MAKE AN IMPACT IN SYRACUSE AND BEYOND
In May of 2016, the College of Law graduated 33 students in
its Master of Laws (LL.M.) in American Law program. These
graduates, representing the legal education systems of 15
different countries and territories, became an integral part of
the academic life of the College. The foreign-educated lawyers
took every advantage of the College’s extra-curricular, pro
bono and service opportunities, leaving behind meaningful
and lasting contributions.
The uniqueness of this distinguished group of new LL.M.
alumni is underscored by a sample of their achievements.
Tsionwait Melaku Tefera focused her
LL.M. studies on disability rights to
build upon her teaching experience
in Ethiopia. Upon graduating from
the College of Law she began a
summer internship with the Center
for Reproductive Freedom, located in
New York City, in order to pursue her
interest in the reproductive rights of
women with disabilities who are often
denied legal capacity under the law of Ethiopia.
Ahmed M.A. Hmeedat, a Fellow
under the Palestinian Rule of Law
program sponsored by the Open
Society Foundation (OSF), served
as the elected LL.M. Representative
to the Student Bar Association. A
leader among his peers as well as an
artist, he participated in a variety of
community and academic speaking
engagements, including the College’s
International Scholar Lecture Series, an international law panel
discussion at the Maxwell School, and was a featured artist at
this year’s ArtRage event to coincide with Palestinian Land Day.
Upon leaving the College, he entered a six-month internship
with Physicians for Human Rights in Washington, D.C., where he
assists attorneys with research, policy papers, blog posts, press
releases, and legal memoranda regarding the organization’s
research, investigations, and advocacy on U.S. anti-torture and
other initiatives.
Pamela Smith Castro, an OSF Disability
Rights Fellow from Peru, was awarded
a highly-coveted summer fellowship
with the Inter-American Commission
on Human Rights, in Washington,
D.C. Upon her return to Peru, she
plans to work with a disability rights
organization on ensuring legal capacity
and access to health and reproductive
services for women with disabilities.
Samir Mahmudov, an Open Society
Fellow from Azerbaijan, published
a paper he wrote in Professor Dori
Bailey’s Banking Law course in
the spring issue of the Baku State
University Law Review. The paper
provided a comparative analysis and
critique of the United States’ Federal
Reserve System with the financial and
banking systems of Azerbaijan. Upon
graduation, he pursued an internship at a corporate law firm in
Syracuse, New York, and sat for the New York State Bar Exam
in July. He returns to Azerbaijan with plans to open a free legal
clinic that will serve the needs of poor clients in his community.
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Students in the LL.M. program also contributed to the local
dialogue on issues of public and national interest.
LL.M. Students Reflect on their Experiences
at Syracuse Law
International Scholars Lecture Series: During their second year of
the program this past spring, many of our LL.M. student scholars
presented lectures before the College of Law community on
topics of international law, including:
> The Spanish Constitutional Court as a Guarantor of
Democracy in Spain, presented by Pilar Rodriguez (Spain);
> Institutions and Law Reforms: The Bedrock for a Functioning
Government in South Sudan, presented by Mathias Wani
(South Sudan);
> Protecting Persons with Disabilities During Armed Conflicts:
Syria as a Case Study, presented by Dima Hussain (Syria);
> Maritime Security off the Horn of Africa: Failure of
International Law? presented by Edmond Gichuru (Kenya).
Panel Discussion on Syrian Refugee Crisis: Held in November
2015, this event featured LL.M. student Dima Hussain, originally
from Syria, who shared her perspective into the conflict based
on her own personal experiences as a refugee and her work with
the United Nations High Commission on Refugees at camps
in Lebanon. College of Law Professor Isaac Kfir moderated the
event, which drew a standing room only crowd.
LL.M. Student Visit to the White House: In February 2016,
Goran Al-Jaf, a December 2015 graduate from the Kurdistan
Region of Iraq (KRG), met with the Deputy Security Advisor
to the Vice President of the United States, Mr. Joseph Biden
L’68, to discuss the Yazidi genocide and enslavement of Yazidi
women. During his visit, he presented White House staff with
his research on the KRG’s response to ISIS, which included
recommendations for how the International Criminal Court
can bring the ISIS leaders to justice.
Silent Vigil for Syria at the College of Law: In February 2016,
LL.M. students held a silent vigil in the Levy Atrium of Dineen
Hall to raise awareness of the Syrian conflict and the human
rights abuses occurring there. Students in the J.D. and LL.M.
programs, along with College of Law faculty and staff joined
the vigil in solidarity for the cause.
“My experience in the LL.M. Program at Syracuse Law
was eye-opening and full of knowledge. The College of
Law is where my colleagues and I became equipped
to navigate into the field of law. This experience also
gave me the opportunity to develop my leadership
skills while serving as the LL.M. Representative to
the Student Bar Association. For the first time, my
leadership skills crossed into international venues and
I was able to organize events that expressed the
feelings and demands of the LL.M. students.
Highlights of my experiences were the opportunities
to organize several trips for LL.M. students to attend
conferences relevant to their legal fields in New
York City and Washington D.C. My professors and
the LL.M. program administration supported me
step by step, from orientation to choosing the right
classes—which were important to my ambitions—and
through the end to ensure I was successful on my final
examinations. As an international student, Syracuse
Law became my second home because I always felt a
family around me.
The honor of a lifetime, I was invited by the College
of Law to deliver a Commencement address and share
the podium with fellow alum and Vice President of
the United States, Mr. Joe Biden L’68, before hundreds
of J.D. and LL.M.
graduates and
thousands in the
crowd.”
–Ahmed M.A. Hmeedat
“Interning at the Inter-American Commission of
Human Rights this summer has been such a rewarding
experience. As part of the Registry Section, I worked
on preliminary evaluations of real cases, just like
an actual human rights attorney. This experience
contributed to my understanding of the current
human rights situation in the region along with the
processes of legal systems in this region’s countries.
Now I appreciate even more the work undertaken by
the Commission and this experience reaffirmed to me
that this is the type of job I want to do.”
–Pamela Smith Castro
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COLLEGE NEWS
> College of Law Celebrates 2016 Commencement
On Friday, May 13, Syracuse Law celebrated
its 2016 commencement. During the
ceremony, the College conferred 168 juris
doctor and 33 master of law (LL.M.) in
American Law degrees.
Vice President Joe Biden L’68 served as the
commencement speaker. “I learned early
on what I wanted to do, what made me the
happiest: family, faith, being engaged in the
public affairs that gripped my generation,”
he said. “Now it’s your turn, it’s your time ...
to find that sweet spot where success and
happiness intersect.” Biden also commented,
“Don’t forget what doesn’t come with your
J.D. or LL.M.: The heart to know what is
meaningful and what is ephemeral.”
Professor Robert Nassau was selected by the
2016 class as the recipient of the annual Res
Ipsa Loquitur Award. Associate Dean Aviva
Abramovsky was selected by the LL.M. class
as the first recipient of the Lucet Lex Mundum
Award. Class president Dustin W. Osborne and
LL.M. Student Bar Association senator Ahmed
M.A. Hmeedat delivered addresses and
Gabriela E. Wolfe sang the National Anthem
and University alma mater.
The entire commencement ceremony can
be viewed at youtube.com/SyracuseLaw
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Incoming Class Enrollment Tops Previous Year by 14%
The College of Law recently welcomed its incoming J.D. Class of 2019
with 215 students, a 14% increase over the previous year. The class’s
entering credentials were also better than the previous year, with an
increase in 25th and 75th percentile LSAT scores (to 152 and 157,
respectively), and increased 25th, median, and 75th percentile GPAs
(to 3.12, 3.35 and 3.58, respectively.)
Details on this year’s entering class include:
> 57 percent female and 43 percent male students
> 54 students of color
> Students from 31 states and seven foreign countries (Canada,
China, Iran, the Philippines, Saudi Arabia, South Korea and Taiwan)
> Graduates of 131 undergraduate institutions and fourteen foreign
institutions
> Seven percent holding advanced degrees (including four Ph.D.s)
> 15 students who are veterans or dependents of veterans
> Four students who have foreign law degrees (from Kuwait, Saudi
Arabia, Uganda and the United Kingdom), giving them advanced
standing and allowing them to complete the J.D. program in two years
The College of Law’s LL.M. in American Law program, now in its fifth
year, welcomed 25 students representing the legal education systems
of 17 different countries and regions, including Azerbaijan, Brazil,
Cambodia, China, Dominican Republic, Egypt, Ethiopia, Ghana, Jamaica,
Malawi, Peru, Poland, Russia, Saudi Arabia, South Korea, Syria and
Tajikistan. Nine of these countries are new for the College of Law. For the
first time, the LL.M. program is hosting three Fulbright grantees.
“The Class of 2019 represents a significant improvement in both size and
credentials, and I take great pride in knowing these talented students
have selected this dynamic, forward-thinking institution for their legal
education,” said Dean Craig Boise. “Our growth will be accompanied by
innovative courses and programs offered in an environment that College
of Law faculty, staff and returning students seek to make ever more
inclusive and welcoming.”
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COLLEGE NEWS
> College of Law Hosts U.S. Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims Appellate Hearing
The Court has exclusive jurisdiction over decisions of the Board of
Veterans’ Appeals (Board or BVA). The Court reviews Board decisions
appealed by claimants who believe the Board erred in its decision.
The Court’s review of Board decisions is based on the record before
the agency and arguments of the parties, which are presented in a
written brief, with oral argument generally held only in cases presenting
new legal issues.
The United States Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims held an appellate
hearing at Syracuse University College of Law on Wednesday, Sept. 28th.
Faculty, staff, students, alumni and the public heard arguments in Cornell
v. McDonald. Afterwards, the judges participated in a question-andanswer
session in the Gray Courtroom about the operation of the Court.
“Having the Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims hold a hearing at
the College of Law offers a unique opportunity for the local community
and our students to see how this important Court addresses key legal
issues our veterans face,” said Yelena Duterte, director of the Syracuse
University College of Law Veterans Law Clinic. “This also gives our
students the chance to experience appellate proceedings and learn
from experienced attorneys.”
A welcome reception was held the night prior to the hearing, with
dignitaries from the Court of Veterans Appeals, Chancellor Syverud,
Dean Boise, College of Law alumni, Syracuse legal community and
current Veterans Legal Clinic students.
> Sophie Dagenais Joins College of Law as Assistant Dean for Advancement and External Affairs
College of Law Dean Craig M. Boise
has announced the addition of Sophie
Dagenais as Assistant Dean for
Advancement and External Affairs. In
this role, Dagenais will be responsible
for the development of the strategic
plan for the Office of Advancement and
External Affairs and oversee the School’s
fundraising efforts, and stewardship of
gifts and alumni relations, including the
Board of Advisors and Syracuse University
Law Alumni Association.
Dagenais comes to the College of Law from the Annie E. Casey
Foundation where she was the Director of their Baltimore Civic Site,
overseeing the Foundation’s large portfolio of financial investments and
grant-making strategies in Baltimore and Maryland.
“Our alumni are an invaluable constituency that plays a significant
role in the College of Law’s future,” says Boise. “Sophie’s law practice
background, her management experience and track record of leadership
in philanthropic initiatives make her ideally suited to develop and
implement a plan that expands our engagement with our alumni and
legal community.”
Prior to joining the Annie E. Casey Foundation, Dagenais was the chief of
staff for the Mayor of Baltimore, supervising a variety of administrative
functions within the mayor’s office including human resources and
finance. She also has legal practice experience as a partner for thirteen
years with the law firm of Ballard Spahr in Baltimore, and as general
counsel with real estate development and investment banking firms in
New York and Baltimore. Dagenais holds LL.B. and B.C.L. degrees from
McGill University and a D.E.C. from Collège Jean de Brébeuf. She is a
member of the Maryland and New York state bar associations.
“The College of Law has an impressive network of alumni who selflessly support the College in a number of ways,”
says Dagenais. “My goal is to deepen existing relationships and cultivate new ones in a manner that connects our
alumni and their interests with initiatives that will have the most impact on our students and the College.”
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Kelly Curtis Joins College of Law as Assistant Dean of Students
Kelly K. Curtis has joined the College of
Law as Assistant Dean of Students. This
is a newly created senior-level position
responsible for the strategic development
and oversight of programs and initiatives
that directly impact the entire student
experience at the College of Law.
Curtis will partner with internal and
external stakeholders to develop and
implement critical diversity, academic,
and bar support initiatives. She also will
be responsible for handling student code
of conduct violations, grievances and Title IX compliance. Curtis will
work closely with Associate Dean of Academic Affairs Margaret Harding
and the Academic Standards Committee to resolve academic probation
and dismissal matters, and various professional issues for all students
in the College of Law.
Curtis comes to the College of Law from Cleveland-Marshall College
of Law, where she was both Director of Legal Writing and Director
of Academic Support. She also spent eight years on the faculty at
Cleveland-Marshall as a Legal Writing Professor of Law.
“Kelly was selected to provide leadership and direction to the vital
functions that define our students’ experiences at the College of Law,”
says Dean Craig Boise. “As someone who has held roles as both a
law professor and administrator, Kelly brings a unique perspective to
the position that will enable us to create a comprehensive strategy for
enriching our students’ academic experiences as well as their social
and cultural engagement.”
In addition to her teaching and academic support duties at Cleveland-
Marshall, Curtis served on a broad range of law school and university
committees, including curriculum, bar, and admissions. Prior to joining
Cleveland-Marshall, she served as Assistant State Public Defender in
the Office of the Ohio Public Defender and before that was in private
practice as an associate at Schottenstein, Zox & Dunn, LPA (now Ice
Miller LLP). Among other academic and legal organizations, Curtis is a
member of the Ohio State Bar Association, the Legal Writing Institute,
and the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers.
“The College of Law has a strong reputation for innovative student
services and student-focused programs already in place. I plan to build
upon this foundation with new approaches to addressing student needs
that give our students the best opportunity to succeed here and in their
professional lives after law school,” says Curtis. “Our emphasis will
be on ensuring that each student’s individual academic, personal, and
professional needs are met and that each student is able to be active
and engaged outside of the classroom in opportunities for growth and
development.”
Curtis holds a J.D. cum laude from The Ohio State University, Moritz
College of Law where she was Executive Editor of the Ohio State Law
Journal, and a B.A. from Saint Mary’s College.
> College of Law Appoints Michelle Wilcox to Director of Student Life
Michelle Wilcox G’12 was recently
appointed to Director of Student Life.
In this role, Wilcox will direct and manage
the Office of Student Life, including
direct supervision of student life staff
and overseeing all functions of the Office.
She will continue to oversee student
activities and organizations, and will work
closely with Assistant Dean of Students
Kelly Curtis and Associate Dean for
Academic Affairs Margaret Harding to
ensure all students receive the academic,
extracurricular, and socio-cultural support
they require to succeed at the College of Law and in their professional
careers.
“Michelle has provided effective leadership and direction of the College
of Law’s many student-focused programs and activities for a number
of years and fully understands their importance to a well-rounded legal
education,” says Dean Craig Boise. “I am positive that Michelle will
continue our tradition of strong student activities and groups, while
broadening her leadership of our Office of Student Life.”
Wilcox received a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration
from Babson College and a Master of Business Administration degree
from Syracuse University Whitman School of Management.
“At the College of Law, a student’s experience outside of the classroom
is critical to their success both in law school and in the profession,”
says Wilcox. “The Office of Student Life is dedicated to creating the best
opportunities for our students to gain knowledge and skills that
are geared to their special interests.”
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COLLEGE NEWS
> Emily Brown Joins College of Law Faculty as Legal Writing Professor
Emily Brown L’09 has joined the faculty
of the College of Law as Legal Writing
Professor. Professor Brown teaches legal
writing, research and analysis to firstyear
law students.
Most recently, Professor Brown was
a labor relations specialist at the
Cayuga–Onondaga Board of Cooperative
Educational Services. Previously she was
a litigation associate at Bond, Schoeneck
& King. In these roles, she represented
individuals, non-profit organizations,
and corporations during all stages of civil litigation and served as chief
negotiator for collective bargaining agreements. Professor Brown also
served as a judicial intern for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second
Circuit and the U.S. District Court, Northern District of New York.
Before attending law school, Professor Brown worked in politics and
government, managing political campaigns for state and federal offices
and served as a government staffer for state and local elected officials.
Brown holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in political science from the
University of Wisconsin–Madison and a Juris Doctor, summa cum laude,
from the Syracuse University College of Law.
Professor Bybee Named Syracuse University’s
ACC Distinguished Lecturer for 2016-17
Keith J. Bybee, the Paul E. and Hon. Joanne F. Alper ’72 Judiciary Studies Professor, Professor
of Political Science, and Director of the Institute for the Study of the Judiciary, Politics and the
Media, has been designated Syracuse University’s Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) Distinguished
Lecturer for 2016-17.
The ACC Distinguished Lecturer program seeks to provide recognition to outstanding faculty,
increase visibility of the University among ACC institutions, and encourage collaboration across
ACC institutions. The program includes the opportunity to participate as a visiting lecturer at ACC
intuitions and funding for research.
“Keith has an outstanding record of scholarship and University leadership. Moreover, his broad
interdisciplinary expertise—spanning interests in judicial process, the politics of race and
ethnicity, American politics and the media—makes him an ideal fit with this faculty distinction,”
said Michele G. Wheatly, Syracuse University Vice Chancellor and Provost, Academic Affairs.
Each year five ACC universities select an outstanding faculty member as The ACC Academic
Consortium’s Distinguished Lecturer. Criteria include international prominence in their field,
success communicating with diverse audiences, and a strong capacity for catalyzing creative
thinking and collaboration.
“I am honored to be selected as Syracuse University’s ACC Distinguished Lecturer,” said Bybee.
“This is a tremendous initiative to collaborate with some of the country’s top universities and
bring exciting new learning opportunities to our students.”
Bybee’s latest book, How Civility Works, was published in September by Stanford University
Press. “Civility often seems to be under threat in American public life, especially during political
campaigns,” Bybee noted. “In my new book, I argue that the very same factors threating civility’s
existence also account for civility’s power and appeal. I look forward to sharing my ideas about
civility’s promise and pitfalls with students and faculty at ACC member institutions.”
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Moot Court Teams Compete in National and International Competitions
The College of Law competed in several inter-collegiate competitions
in 2015-2016, including mock trial, appellate advocacy and dispute
resolution competitions. A total of forty-nine students represented the
school in these national and international competitions. And, as usual,
all teams represented the College of Law well.
> The St. John’s Securities Triathlon Team (Brooke Koester L’16, Justin
Lee 3L, James McCully 3L) competed in the negotiation, mediation
and arbitration of a securities dispute and was awarded the Advocate’s
Choice Award, which is given to the team voted by the competitors as
having “the highest degree of skill, competence and professionalism.”
> The Jessup International Law Moot Court Team (Eric Carlson L’16,
Andrew Dieselman L’14, Ethan Peterson 3L, Colin Tansits 3L)
competed in the Chicago Regional and advanced to the Quarterfinals
this year. Our most experienced team member, Eric Carlson, finished
fourth in the Best Oralist category.
> The first College of Law Hockey Arbitration Team of Daniel Greene L’16
and Wesley Gerrie 3L advanced to the final round of the Hockey Arbitration
Competition of Canada this year, finishing in second place overall.
> The Thurgood Marshall Mock Trial Team (John Boyd L’16, Amneet
Mand L’16, Marlana Shaw-Brown 3L, Benjamin “Ryan” Williams L’16)
finished first in the National Black Law Student’s Northeast Regional
and advanced to the National Round of the competition. Ryan Williams,
took first place in the Best Closing category of the Northeast Regional.
> One of our National Trial Competition Teams (Carly Halpin L’16,
John “Joe” Gattuso L’16, Corey Schoonmaker L’16) was named cochampion
in the New York Regional this year and advanced to the
National Round in Texas. The Trial Lawyers’ Section of the New
York State Bar Association recognized two team members for their
skills during the New York Regional: Carly Halpin was awarded
second place for Best Direct Examination; and Justin St. Louis 3L,
a member of the second NTC team, was awarded Best Overall
Advocate through Preliminary Rounds, Best Cross Examination and
third-place tie for Best Closing Argument.
> Most notably, the National Moot Court Competition Team (Amy Doan
L’16, David Katz 3L, Kevin Smith L’16) was awarded the Lewis Powell
Medal and Best Brief in the Boston Regional round. Regional judges
also named Kevin Smith the Best Advocate in the regional round.
Amy, David and Kevin advanced to the National Round where they
were Quarterfinalists and awarded third place in the Best Brief
category.
> Syracuse Law Review Presents Richard A. Matasar Symposium Issue on the Future of Legal and Higher Education
The June 2016, Vol. 66, No. 3, Issue of the Syracuse Law Review is a specially organized Symposium book
titled: Richard A. Matasar Symposium, The Future of Legal and Higher Education. Matasar, Tulane University
Senior Vice President for Strategic Initiatives and Institutional Effectiveness, has written extensively on change
in higher education.
The Symposium event was hosted at Dineen Hall and attended by a group of distinguished law school deans
and former deans. The event was inspired by Matasar’s scholarship on legal and higher education, and
was co-chaired by former College of Law Dean Hannah Arterian and former USC Gould School of Law Dean
Robert Rasmussen.
The Issue includes the transcript from Matasar’s question-and-answer session at the Symposium, and
features more than a dozen original scholarly works from noted law school deans and professors. Arterian was
instrumental in ensuring that a wide range of essays and articles was contributed to Syracuse Law Review. Her
essay, “Engaging the Challenge to Legal and Higher Education: How Richard Matasar Calls the Questions,” is
included in the publication, along with an original article from Matasar.
The Issue is available online at lawreview.syr.edu.
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FACULTY PROFILE
THOMAS R. FRENCH
Associate Dean, Law Library; Professor of Law
A fond farewell after a career of teaching, and helping faculty and students
As a history major at State University of New York (SUNY)
Oswego, Thomas French enjoyed not only his classes, but
also his work-study job at the college library. Early on, he knew
that he loved being in a university atmosphere and that he
loved the challenge of academic research. French’s college
advisor suggested law school. “I thought he was crazy,” French
remembers now. It took a while, but French did take the advice,
which led him to an interesting and rewarding career in law
school libraries—researching, teaching and working with faculty
members and students. French came to the College of Law
in 2000 as Director of the Barclay Law Library and Associate
Professor of Law. He was named Associate Dean and Professor
of Law in 2006. He retired this summer.
French received his Bachelor’s Degree in 1971, “with the draft
hanging over my head,” he says. He enlisted in the Navy and,
after fulfilling his obligation, pursued his Master of Library
Science degree at SUNY Geneseo. He went on to pursue his MA
in History at the University of Cincinnati, where he concentrated
on the history of the British Empire and Commonwealth as well
as African-American history. He decided he would next head
to wherever he was offered a job first—in history or in a library.
French worked as a law librarian at the Chase College of Law
of Northern Kentucky University—working full-time while he
pursued his law degree part-time. Although he never planned
on practicing law, he says he knew law school was an essential
pursuit along his career path.
“I learned the literature of the law,” he says. “Law school helped
me understand what the students and faculty are dealing with. I
certainly became more conversant in the language.”
Before his tenure at the College of Law, French worked in
court and academic law libraries in Ohio, Kentucky, Maine and
North Carolina. While serving as the Associate Director of the
Law Library at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill,
French served as a consultant for the United States Agency
for International Development while it helped to establish
and revitalize law library collections in the nation of Eritrea.
He traveled three times to the East African nation in the years
following its 1993 independence from Ethiopia. French saw a
part of the world he had never really expected to see and was
able to witness what it is like to develop a new legal system.
The experience also sparked in him an interest in African,
comparative, civil and Roman law.
French traces another area of interest—Canadian Law—to his
childhood. As a boy growing up in Bath, New York, he would
sometimes accompany his father, a lumber dealer, on his trips
to Canada to collect walnut and deliver it to far-flung places.
“He knew every road between Utica and Saskatchewan,” French
says. French maintained his interest in Canada and Canadian
history throughout his undergraduate and graduate studies. At
the College of Law, French taught Canadian Law, in addition to
International, Foreign and Comparative Legal Research.
When the College of Law started planning the construction of
Dineen Hall, French and other colleagues traveled to leading law
libraries across the country, including Villanova, Marquette and
the University of Colorado, to talk to law librarians and gather
ideas about what would work best at the College of Law. French
had high praise for his staff who worked together to plan, pack
and organize for the move into Dineen Hall. Now, other law
schools are coming to visit the College of Law library, including
a group from Queen Mary College at the University of London,
who visited Syracuse in June.
French says the most rewarding aspect of his job has always
been the interaction with the students and faculty. “The
challenge is to make sure the organization works to produce
what people need. The best part of the job is when a faculty
member or a student asks us, ‘You wouldn’t have this, would
you…’ and we can say, yes we have it, or we can have it for you
within a few hours.”
Retirement for French will mean lots of travel—including a trip
he took to New Zealand shortly after his last day, and perhaps a
move to Maine. And, as fitting for a librarian, there’s something
else on his agenda as well, he says: “I’ve got all the books that
are stacked up that I’ve been meaning to read.”
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“The challenge is to make
sure the organization works to
produce what people need.”
–Thomas R. French
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FACULTY PROFILE
SHUBHA GHOSH
Crandall Melvin Professor of Law; Director of the Technology Commercialization Law Program
Connection to Ted Hagelin Brings Shubha Ghosh to Dineen Hall
Earlier this year, Shubha Ghosh arrived at the College of Law
as the Melvin Crandall Professor of Law and Director of the
Technology Commercialization Law Program (TCLP.) A wellregarded
intellectual property and technology law scholar, Ghosh
had held teaching posts at a number of universities, including
University of Wisconsin Law School and Southern Methodist
University Dedman School of Law.
But it was his time as a Professor at State University of New
York Buffalo School of Law that brought him into contact with
Professor Ted Hagelin and Syracuse University College of Law.
In particular, Ghosh collaborated with Hagelin and conducted
clinics and programs on technology commercialization and
entrepreneurship in the Western New York area while he
established Buffalo’s intellectual property law program.
“Working with Ted, I got to know the program at Syracuse
Law and its faculty and students as we collaborated on the
development of the New York State Science and Technology
Law Center among other initiatives,” said Ghosh. “We kept in
contact after I Ieft Buffalo. When I learned that the school had
an opening on the faculty to help continue Ted’s groundbreaking
work, I didn’t have to be sold on Syracuse since I knew its
reputation in technology law programs.”
Ghosh is teaching the TCLP course Technology Transaction Laws
(focusing on the technical, business and legal aspects of bringing
a new technology to market) while also overseeing the TCLP’s
work with real-life clients and the students who are providing
them with a valuable service in helping commercialize emerging
technologies. “The TCLP is a well-established program. I am
looking to build upon its strengths while expanding its outreach
locally and regionally through new relationships and programs,”
commented Ghosh.
Ghosh’s start at the College of Law coincided with his being
named a Fulbright-Nehru Scholar in India, where he spent 20
weeks in the spring and summer learning about developments
in intellectual property law and policy in major centers of
intellectual property law practice. He lectured on developments
in law and networking with lawyers, judges, and academics
actively involved in legal reform.
Upon his return to the U.S., Ghosh sought to have an influence
in local legal circles. He hosted a number of webcasts with the
New York State Science & Technology Law Center at Syracuse
Law on IP-related cases in front of the Supreme Court. He also
contributed articles to several publications, including chapters
in the Research Handbook on Intellectual Property Exhaustion
and Parallel Imports (Elgar) and Law and Society Perspectives
on Intellectual Property (forthcoming Cambridge University
Press.) Current projects include a book on intellectual property
exhaustion (forthcoming Cambridge University Press 2017) and
one on the effects of precision (or personalized) medicine, such
as DNA testing, on consumers, comparing developments in the
U.S. and India.
In addition to teaching and scholarly pursuits, Ghosh is
developing plans for new TCLP programs while embracing
opportunities to interact across campus and within the local
entrepreneurial community. “One area I am looking to help
grow is the connection between venture capital and emerging
technologies being developed at Syracuse. It’s a big challenge,
not just here, to help make the contacts to take the theoretical
and make it practical.” He sees the TCLP as key in linking
mechanisms that are already in place and becoming a conduit
between University researchers, entrepreneurs and individuals
in the marketplace to make things happen, whether locally,
regionally or nationally.
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“ The College’s alumni
represent the fruits of the
program and demonstrate
how well we perform as
a law school.”
–Shubha Ghosh
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FACULTY PROFILE
SHUBHA GHOSH
College of Law alumni, not just those who participated in the
TCLP, will have a role to play in Ghosh’s plans. “The College’s
alumni represent the fruits of the program and demonstrate how
well we perform as a law school,” he says. “I am looking forward
to meeting and working with our TCLP alumni as they play a
critical role in validating the program’s success and helping
current students and recent graduates learn and network outside
of the classroom,” said Ghosh. “Further, I’d like to see all College
of Law alumni in our classrooms, speaking with students and
sharing their experiences or hosting externships.”
The TCLP recently celebrated its 25th anniversary. While the
emerging technologies and the law have continually evolved,
ensuring that students are well prepared to practice this special
type of law continues to be a top priority. “This program will
always be about exposing students to an interdisciplinary,
experiential education. My role is to ensure that we are
anticipating changes in the legal field so our graduates are
ready to be effective whether it be private practice, in-house
or wherever their skills are in demand,” said Ghosh.
Scholar Spotlight:
> Has written extensively on pharmaceutical patents, parallel
importation, antitrust law, commercialization and other uses
of data, and the role of intellectual property policy in shaping
these diverse areas.
> His book on human genome patenting and personalized
medicine, Identity and Invention, (Cambridge University
Press), discusses precision medicine and the role of patenting
in promoting new drug therapies tied to personal
characteristics and genetic histories.
> In Identity, Invention, and the Culture of Personalized Medicine
Patenting (Cambridge 2012), Ghosh examines the legal and
ethical implications of patents in personalized medicine.
> He recently served as the inaugural American Academy of Arts
& Sciences Science & Technology Fellow at the Federal Judicial
Center (2014-15.)
Follow Professor Ghosh on Twitter @ShubhaGhosh
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Excerpts from Professor Ghosh’s Podcast with Michael Allan L’98
Professor Ghosh recently interviewed Michael
Allan L’98 (left), a partner at Steptoe & Johnson,
on his involvement as the lead counsel in the
copyright case BMG Rights Management v
Cox Enterprises. His team was successful in a
$25 Million verdict for its client, BMG, where
the jury found the defendant failed to prevent its customers
from illegally sharing copyrighted content.
Professor Ghosh: In December of 2015, the jury came back with a
$25 million verdict against Cox in favor of your client, BMG. Can
you give a little background on that case?
Allan: It was a great victory for us. We found out that it was the
largest verdict in Virginia, in either state or federal court in 2015.
I found my way into the online piracy world based on my work
with trademark owners. Working with a number of well-known
brands that are counterfeited or infringed, my practice has been
focused on protecting those brands and figuring out creative
ways to curb the counterfeiting and infringement of trademarks.
Copyrights are also incredibly valuable assets that are subject to
infringement challenges. Thus, it was a natural fit for me to think
about dealing with online piracy in the copyright context because
the use of bit torrent and peer-to-peer networks to illegally share
copyrighted content is a significant problem for the content
industry. I was asked to get involved on behalf of BMG to find
creative ways to address this problem.
As the case progresses, the issues and the case themes become
more focused. One good lesson that was certainly reinforced
here was the need to be prepared, to know all of the facts and to
understand how the facts – which evolve quickly in a fast moving
case – fit into the legal issues and case themes.
Professor Ghosh: Do you have any takeaway message on your SU
education and how it prepared you for this area of practice?
Allan: I had a great time at Syracuse. I loved it. My father went
there and both of my parents were undergraduates there so I
have a deep appreciation for the school. There are two basic
takeaways from my law school experience. The trial practice
classes that I took clearly helped me be able to deal with cases
like this and some of the litigation tactics I have to deal with
on a regular basis. I think the sort of larger takeaway that I got
throughout my SU experience was to be creative. We are problem
solvers as lawyers. Clients call us with problems and need help
solving the problem. It’s not always easy and you have to think
about different ways and come up with creative solutions to
modern problems using law that’s been around for a long time.
Hear the entire Podcast on the College of Law’s website.
Visit law.syr.edu and click the “Podcasts” tab in the Media
section.
Professor Ghosh: What was the biggest lesson you learned?
Allan: I learn something new on every case. That’s the beauty of
law. You are constantly being exposed to new things—no matter
how many times you have taken a deposition or tried a case, you
learn something new. One of the things we did with this case
was file in the Eastern District of Virginia which is known as the
“rocket docket.” It’s incredibly fast moving. We filed the case in
late November 2014 and were in trial on December 2, 2015. The
bulk of the work took place between March and the trial. When
you are on a case of this scale with that short of a timeframe,
preparation is absolutely key.
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FACULTY BOOKS
West’s Mckinney’s Forms, Uniform
Commercial Code (2015)
Professor Aviva Abramovksy
Thomson Reuters, 2016
This integral unit of the forms companion
to McKinney’s Consolidated Laws of New
York Annotated provides comprehensive
coverage of the New York Uniform
Commercial Code. Expert-authored
commentary and notes accompanying
the forms discuss the current applicable
law, highlight its practical significance,
and provide guidance on the best use of
the forms included.
Counterterrorism Law (3rd Edition)
Professor William Banks
(with Stephen Dycus, Peter Raven-
Hansen & Stephen I. Vladeck)
Wolters Kluwer, 2016
The Third Edition of Counterterrorism Law
not only updates the leading casebook
in this field with recent developments,
but also adds new chapters on bulk
collection, the structure of habeas, and
the procedural path to terrorism trials.
This edition also includes new features
that make these challenging materials
easier to read and teach: introductory
questions for principal cases, and a
summary of basic principles at the end of
each chapter. A comprehensive Teacher’s
Manual gives adopters helpful additional
backup.
National Security Law (6th Edition)
Professor William Banks
(with Stephen Dycus, Arthur L. Berney,
Peter Raven-Hansen & Stephen I.
Vladeck) Wolters Kluwer, 2016
The Sixth Edition of National Security
Law provides the broadest exploration
of constitutional, domestic, and
international law issues in National
Security of any book in the field. This
highly respected team of authors uses
expressive and descriptive text to provide
context and informative historical and
background information. The Sixth
Edition features the most recent and
important cases, as well as excerpts from
significant reports and other materials,
and a thorough Teacher’s Manual gives
adopters helpful backup.
This book has been adopted for
classroom use at a majority of American
law schools, as well as military academies
and schools, and non-law graduate
programs.
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LexisNexis Practice Guide: New Jersey
Collateral Consequences (2016 Edition)
Professor Todd A. Berger
(with J.C. Lore) Lexis Nexis, 2016
With its concise writing style, streamlined
chapter format, extensive appendices,
extensive references to leading and
related cases, cross references to relevant
analytical content, and authoritative
guidance, you’ll find more of everything
that makes a practice guide valuable and
easy for you to use.
Written by experienced practitioners,
the Practice Guide offers concise
explanations of collateral consequences
flowing from specific New Jersey criminal
convictions, general classes of offenses
and general types of offenses, as well as
unique practice strategies, checklists, and
appendices to ensure that the practitioner
identifies and addresses all the collateral
consequences related to each crime.
Each Practice Guide chapter
combines authoritative legal analysis
with an expert author’s practical insights,
distilled from years of litigation practice.
New Jersey Collateral Consequences
includes a multitude of Practice Tips that
transition smoothly from legal analysis to
practical application of a point of law.
Chapter parts begin with a detailed
practice checklist defining the essentials
of a major task. Checklists capture the
essential steps (the what, when, and how)
of each task, with cross-references to
relevant authority, forms, and discussion
of the topic within the chapter itself.
How Civility Works
Professor Keith Bybee
Stanford University Press, 2016
Is civility dead? Americans ask this
question every election season, but their
concern is hardly limited to political
campaigns. Doubts about civility
regularly arise in just about every aspect
of American public life. Rudeness runs
rampant. Our news media is saturated
with aggressive bluster and vitriol. Our
digital platforms teem with expressions
of disrespect and trolls. Reflecting
these conditions, surveys show that
a significant majority of Americans
believe we are living in an age of unusual
anger and discord. Everywhere we look,
there seems to be conflict and hostility,
with shared respect and consideration
nowhere to be found. In a country that
encourages thick skins and speaking
one’s mind, is civility even possible, let
alone desirable?
In How Civility Works, Keith J.
Bybee elegantly explores the “crisis”
in civility, looking closely at how civility
intertwines with our long history of
boorish behavior and the ongoing
quest for pleasant company. Bybee
argues that the very features that make
civility ineffective and undesirable also
point to civility’s power and appeal.
Can we all get along? If we live by
the contradictions on which civility
depends, then yes, we can, and yes,
we should.
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FACULTY BOOKS
The Proceedings of the Eighth
International Humanitarian Law Dialogs
Professor David Crane, editor
(with Mark David Agrast) American
Society of International Law, 2015
The Proceedings of the Eighth International
Humanitarian Law Dialogs provides a
print record of the eighth annual meeting
of international prosecutors,​scholars, and
students​ at Chautauqua Institution. The
theme of the​ Eighth IHL Dialogs, held
from from August 2​4​–26, 2014, was
“The New World (Dis)​order: International
Humanitarian Law in an Uncertain
World.” Highlights of the volume include:​
keynote addresses by Ambassador Tiina
Intelmann and Col. Morris Davis
(U.S. Air Force, ret.);​ updates from
current prosecutors of the ECCC, ICC,
ICTR, ICTY, and SCSL​;​ ​a 2013–2014​
international criminal law​“Year in
Review” by Valerie Oosterveld;​​a
roundtable discussion on the relevance
of ​in​ternational ​h​umanitarian ​l​aw in 2014;​
and a conversation with Sir Desmond
de Silva, Fatou Bensouda, and Hassan
Jallow about the first international court
in Africa.
Environmental Law: A Conceptual and
Pragmatic Approach (3rd Edition)
Professor David Driesen
(with Robert W. Adler & Kirsten H. Engel)
Wolters Kluwer, 2016
Environmental Law: A Conceptual
and Pragmatic Approach, organizes
its presentation of environmental
law around key concepts rather than
around statutes. This approach provides
coherence to the study of Environmental
Law. It also orients students in a way
that will allow them to become effective
practitioners, well acquainted with the
central recurring problems in the field.
The book focuses primarily on pollution
control law, but includes a chapter on
environmental restoration and some
treatment of NEPA and the ESA. It also
offers numerous problems involving
global climate disruption to give students
practice in applying the book’s concepts
and particular statutory provisions to
the most important contemporary issue,
while allowing students to understand
how a single scientific problem can
implicate numerous statutes.
Bankruptcy Law and Practice, a
Casebook Designed to Train Lawyers
for the Practice of Bankruptcy Law
Professor Gregory Germain
CALI eLangdell Press, 2016
This is the first edition of Bankruptcy Law
and Practice, a Casebook Designed to Train
Lawyers for the Practice of Bankruptcy
Law. It is designed for a one-semester
course in debtor/creditor law and
bankruptcy. The book deals with both
creditor remedies and debtor protections,
starting with state law collection
remedies, exemptions, and the important
special protections for secured creditors
under both Article 9 of the Uniform
Commercial Code and state real property
recording acts.
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Intellectual Property: Private Rights,
the Public Interest, and the Regulation
of Creative Activity (3rd Edition)
Professor Shubha Ghosh
(with Richard Gruner, & Jay Kesan)
West Academic Publishing, 2016
This book provides an overview of
trademark, patent, and copyright
doctrine and offers a foray into more
advanced topics, such as digital rights
management, international law, and
state doctrinal developments in both civil
and criminal law. Particularly important
is a final chapter that develops the
“new horizons” of intellectual property,
covering topics such as open source
software, intellectual property and
business development, protections for
traditional knowledge, and competition
policy. This casebook is targeted to a
wide range of law students, including
both those who are technologically
inclined and those who are interested in
all forms of creativity and expression. The
new edition expands on the strengths of
the first edition. Chapters on copyright
and trademark are reorganized to make
them more readable and include more
on digital rights management. The
new edition covers recent IP issues
in biotechnology, termination rights
under copyright, search engines, the
Google book project and the YouTube
vs. Viacom case. The role of economic
incentives in copyright and patent law is
more extensively discussed, along with
new treatments of post-grant patent
proceedings, new media for public
performance of copyrighted works, and
digital copyrights. This edition is also
supplemented by an extensive set of
self-assessment questions (and answers)
prepared by the authors, which are
designed to provide feedback to students
on their understanding of overall
intellectual property concepts and of the
specific contents of every chapter.
Transactional Intellectual Property:
From Startups to Public Companies
(3rd Edition)
Professor Shubha Ghosh
(with Richard Gruner & Jay Kesan)
LexisNexis, 2015
Transactional Intellectual Property:
From Startups to Public Companies is
the successor to Intellectual Property
in Business Organizations: Cases and
Materials. This casebook focuses on
the legal problems of businesses that
develop and utilize intellectual property
as the businesses are founded, financed,
expanded, transferred to others, or
terminated. The text also addresses the
distinctive roles played by intellectual
property at three stages of business
development.
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FACULTY BOOKS
Understanding Intellectual Property
Law (3rd Edition)
Professor Shubha Ghosh
(with Donald Chisum, Mary LaFrance
& Tyler Ochoa) LexisNexis, 2015
There have been a number of important
developments in U.S. intellectual
property law since the second edition
of Understanding Intellectual Property
Law was published. Foremost among
them was the adoption, in September
2011, of the America Invents Act, the
most significant change to U.S. patent
law since the 1952 Patent Act. Coverage
of the new Act includes: (1) the first
inventor to file system and its effects on
the definition of prior art; (2) the new
derivation proceedings, replacing the
current system of interferences, which
allows a patent owner to challenge an
earlier filed patent for derivation from
the subsequent patent; (3) the prior
commercial use defense; (4) the new
procedures for inter partes review; (5)
the new procedure for post-grant review;
(6) the new rules for improper patent
marking: (7) changes to the treatment
of tax method patents; (8) the new rules
pertaining to the best mode requirement;
and (9) changes to the rules of
jurisdiction. The Supreme Court has been
unusually active in reviewing intellectual
property cases during the past four years.
During that period, it has reviewed and
decided 15 patent cases (including three
cases on patentable subject matter),
four copyright cases, and four trademark
or false advertising cases. In addition,
the federal Courts of Appeals have
decided more than 750 patent cases, 250
copyright cases, and 400 trademark and
false advertising cases during that time.
Understanding Intellectual Property Law,
3rd Edition covers all of the intellectual
property areas and issues likely to be
addressed in an intellectual property
survey course. Chapter 1 provides a
comprehensive introduction.
Making it Work: Initiative on Gender and
Disability Inclusion: Advancing Equity for
Women and Girls with Disabilities
Professor Arlene Kanter
(with Lisa Adams, Lorraine Wapling,
Michael Szporluk, Silvia Quan, Stephanie
Ortoleva, Ulrike Last & Yetnebersh
Nigussie) Handicap International, 2015
Making it Work identifies and describes
eleven good practices in ten countries
which were developed by women to
eliminate violence against women and
girls with disabilities. As explained more
fully in the report, Handicap International
brought together a Gender and Disability
Global Technical Advisory Committee
(TAC), consisting mostly of women with
disabilities, to identify programs and
activities throughout the world that have
enjoyed some success in not only raising
awareness about violence against girls
and women with disabilities but also
preventing it by challenging local and
State policies and practices that allow
such violence to continue. This report
is translated into English, Spanish and
French.
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Children and the Law in a Nutshell
(5th Edition)
Professor Emeritus Sarah H. Ramsey
(with Douglas E. Abrams and Susan
Vivian Mangold) West Academic
Publishing, 2015
This Nutshell follows the structure
and format of the authors’ casebook
Children and the Law: Doctrine, Policy
and Practice. The authors have devoted
entire chapters to the meaning of
“parent,” abuse and neglect, the foster
care system, adoption, medical decisionmaking,
support and other financial
responsibilities, protective legislation,
and delinquency. Representation of
children is covered throughout the book.
Also treated for comparative purposes
are several relevant international law
issues, including the UN Convention
on the Rights of the Child, international
child labor, and U.S. tobacco exports to
children overseas.drafting process.
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FACULTY PUBLICATIONS
Aviva Abramovsky
Professor of Law
Chapters in Books:
Insurance Online: Regulation and Consumer Protection
in a Cyber World (with Peter Kochenburger), in THE
“DEMATERIALIZED” INSURANCE: DISTANCE SELLING
AND CYBER RISKS FROM AN INTERNATIONAL
PERSPECTIVE (Pierpaolo Marano, Ioannis Rokas & Peter
Kochenburger eds., 2016).
Hannah R. Arterian
Professor of Law
Articles in Law Reviews and Other Scholarly Journals:
Engaging the Challenge to Legal and Higher Education:
How Richard Matasar Calls the Questions,
66 SYRACUSE L. REV. 441 (2016).
Robert H. A. Ashford
Bond, Schoeneck & King Distinguished Professor
Professor of Law
Articles in Law Reviews and Other Scholarly Journals:
Introduction to Socio-Economics: An Ethical Foundation
for Law-Related Economic Analysis,
49 AKRON L. REV. 287 (2016).
The General Theory of Second Best - An Overview,
49 AKRON L. REV. 433 (2016).
Why Working But Poor? The Need for Inclusive Capitalism,
49 AKRON L. REV. 507 (2016).
Enhancing Poor and Middle Class Earning Capacity
with Stock Acquisition Mortgage Loans, (with Demetri
Kantarelis), 11 ECON. MGMT. & FIN. MARKETS,
June 1, 2016, at 11.
William C. Banks
Board of Advisors Distinguished Professor
Professor of Law
Professor of Public Administration and International
Affairs, Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs
Director, Institute for National Security and
Counterterrorism
Chapters in Books:
Predator Strikes in the War on Terrorism, in
SECURITY ISSUES IN THE GREATER MIDDLE EAST
(Karl Yambert ed., 2016).
Articles in Law Reviews and Other Scholarly Journals:
Customary Constraints on the Use of Force: Article 51 with an
American Accent (with Evan J. Criddle),
29 LEIDEN J. OF INT’L L. 67 (2016).
Miscellaneous Works:
Soldiers on the home front: President Trump and the
military (with Stephen Dycus), THE HILL: THE MILITARY
(Aug. 4, 2016), http://thehill.com/blogs/pundits-blog/
the-military/290285-soldiers-on-the-home-front-presidenttrump-and-the-american.
Todd A. Berger
Associate Professor of Law
Director, Criminal Defense Law Clinic
Articles in Law Reviews and Other Scholarly Journals:
The Constitutional Limits of Client-Centered Decision-
Making, 50 U. RICH. L. REV. 1089 (2016).
The Ethical Limits of Discrediting the Truthful Witness:
How Modern Ethics Rules Fail to Prevent Truthful Witnesses
from Being Discredited Through Unethical Means,
99 MARQ. L. REV. 283 (2015).
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Peter D. Blanck
University Professor
Chairman, Burton Blatt Institute
Articles in Law Reviews and Other Scholarly Journals:
Universal Architectural Design and People with Disabilities,
14 NUMBERS 64 (2016).
ABLE Accounts: A Down Payment on Freedom (with
Michael Morris & Christopher Rodriguez), 4 INCLUSION 21
(2016).
The First “A” in the ADA: And 25 More “A”s Toward
Equality for Americans With Disabilities, 4 INCLUSION 46
(2016), reprinted in THE FUTURE OF DISABILITY LAW:
PRESENTATIONS FROM THE 2015 JACOBUS TENBROEK
DISABILITY LAW SYMPOSIUM (2016).
Introduction to the Special Issue: ADA at 25 and People
With Cognitive Disabilities: From Action to Inclusion, 4
INCLUSION 1 (2016).
eQuality: Web Accessibility by People With Cognitive
Disabilities, 3 INCLUSION 75 (2015).
ADA at 25 and People With Cognitive Disabilities:
From Voice to Action, 3 INCLUSION 46 (2015).
Keith J. Bybee
Paul E. and Honorable Joanne F. Alper ’72
Judiciary Studies Professor
Professor of Law
Professor of Political Science
Director, Institute for the Study of the Judiciary,
Politics, and the Media
Senior Research Associate, Campbell Public Affairs
Institute
Chapters in Books:
Courts and Judges: The Legitimacy Imperative and the
Importance of Appearances (with Angela G. Narasimhan),
in THE HANDBOOK OF LAW AND SOCIETY
(Austin Sarat & Patricia Ewick eds., 2015).
Potter Stewart Meets the Press, in JUDGING FREE
SPEECH: FIRST AMENDMENT JURISPRUDENCE OF U.S.
SUPREME COURT JUSTICES (Helen J. Knowles & Steven
B. Lichtman eds., 2015).
Sanjay K. Chhablani
Professor of Law
Professor, Forensic and National Security Sciences
Institute, College of Arts & Sciences
(by courtesy appointment)
Articles in Law Reviews and Other Scholarly Journals:
Legitimate Justice: Using Clemency to Address Mass
Incarceration, 16 U. MD. L.J. RACE, RELIGION,
GENDER & CLASS 48 (2016).
David M. Crane
Professor of Practice
Articles in Law Reviews and Other Scholarly Journals:
An Age of Extremes, 109 AM. SOC’Y INT’L L. PROC.
153 (2015).
Reports to Government Bodies and Professional
Associations:
The ISIS Genocide Declaration: What Next?, Testimony
Before the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Africa,
Global Health, Global Human Rights, and International
Organizations, 110th Cong. (2016).
Miscellaneous Works:
Jurist Forum: The Rules Have Not Changed Regarding
Armed Conflict (Mar. 30, 2015),
http://jurist.org/forum/2015/03/david-crane-armedconflict.php.
Lisa A. Dolak
Senior Vice President and University Secretary
Angela S. Cooney Professor of Law
Chapters in Books:
Don’t Check Your Ethics at the Door: The Ethical
Implications of Legal Service Outsourcing, (with
Tyler Maulsby), in PATENT LAW INSTITUTE 2016
(10TH ANNUAL) (PLI Intellectual Property Course
Handbook Series No. G-1268, 2016).
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FACULTY PUBLICATIONS
David M. Driesen
University Professor
Chapters in Books:
The Sleeping Giant Awakes?: U.S. Actions to Mitigate
Climate Disruption, in LEGAL REGIMES FOR
ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION: GOVERNANCE
FOR CLIMATE CHANGE AND OCEAN RESOURCES
(Hans-Joachim Koch et al. eds., 2015).
Reports to Governmental Bodies and Professional
Associations:
Assessing the Obama Years: Hearing Before the Subcomm.
on Regulatory Reform, Commercial and Antitrust Law of
the H. Comm. on the Judiciary, 114th Cong. (2016).
Book Reviews:
Does Regulation Kill Jobs?: The Limits of Quantification
(reviewing DOES REGULATION KILL JOBS?
(Cary Coglianese, Adam Finkel & Chris Carrigan eds.
2014), 9 REG. & GOVERNANCE 193 (2015).
Book Review, 9 CARBON & CLIMATE L. REV. 275
(2015) (reviewing JONAS DREGER, THE EUROPEAN
COMMISSION’S ENERGY AND CLIMATE POLICY:
A CLIMATE FOR EXPERTISE (2015).
Book Review, 9 CARBON & CLIMATE L. REV. 91
(2015) (reviewing CORPORATE RESPONSES TO EU
EMISSIONS TRADING: RESISTANCE, INNOVATION,
OR RESPONSIBILITY? (Jon Birger Skjoerseth & Per
Ove Eikeland eds., 2013).
Ian Gallacher
Professor of Law
Director, Legal Communication and Research
Articles in Law Reviews and Other Scholarly Journals:
Not Seeing Our Brains: The Future of Legal Research,
20 LEGAL WRITING: J. LEGAL WRITING INST. 13
(2015).
Gregory L. Germain
Professor of Law
Director, Bankruptcy Clinic
Miscellaneous Works:
Carpenter Says Individuals Cannot Discharge Vicarious
Tax Liabilities in Bankruptcy, ABA TAX TIMES,
Feb. 2016, at 1.
Shubha Ghosh
Crandall Melvin Professor of Law
Director, Technology Commercialization Law Program
Chapters in Books:
Competition, Markets, and Trademark Transactions, in THE
LAW AND PRACTICE OF TRADEMARK TRANSACTIONS
(Irene Calboli & Jacques de Werra eds., 2016).
Incentives, Contracts, and Intellectual Property Exhaustion,
in RESEARCH HANDBOOK ON INTELLECTUAL
PROPERTY EXHAUSTION AND PARALLEL IMPORTS
(Irene Calboli & Edward Lee eds., 2016).
The Colorblind Marketplace?, in INTELLECTUAL
PROPERTY, ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND SOCIAL
JUSTICE: FROM SWORDS TO PLOUGHSHARES
(Lateef Mtima ed., 2015).
Genetic identity and personalized medicine patenting: an
update on Myriad’s patents related to Ashkenazim Jewish
ancestry, in DIVERSITY IN INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY :
IDENTITIES, INTERESTS, AND IINTERSECTIONS
(Irene Calboli & Srividhya Ragavan eds., 2015).
The Idea of International Intellectual Property, in THE SAGE
HANDBOOK OF INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY (Matthew
David & Debora J. Halbert eds., 2015).
Articles in Law Reviews and Other Scholarly Journals:
Are Universities Special?, 49 AKRON L. REV. 671 (2015).
Asking the Nearest Hippie, 22 MICH. TELECOMM. &
TECH. L. REV. 135 (2015).
Beyond Hatch-Waxman, 67 RUTGERS U. L. REV. 779 (2015).
Decentering the Consuming Self: Personalized Medicine,
Science, and the Market for Lemons, 5 WAKE FOREST J. L.
& POL’Y 299 (2015).
Against Contractual Authoritarianism, 44 Sw. L. Rev. 239
(2014-2015).
Book Reviews:
Reviving the Original Scope of Intellectual Property,
Internationally, JOTWELL (Jan. 12, 2016) (reviewing
Rochelle Dreyfuss and Susy Frankel, From Incentive
to Commodity to Asset: How International Law is
Reconceptualizing Intellectual Property, 36 MICH. J. INTL.
L. 4 (2015)), http://intl.jotwell.com/reviving-the-originalscope-of-intellectual-property-internationally/.
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Lauryn P. Gouldin
Associate Professor of Law
Articles in Law Reviews and Other Scholarly Journals:
Redefining Reasonable Seizures, 93 DENV. L. REV. 53 (2015).
Criminal Records and Immigration: Comparing the United
States and the European Union (with Dimitra Blitsa, James
B. Jacobs & Elena Larrauri), 39 FORD. INT’L L.J. 205 (2015).
Hilary K. Josephs
Dean’s Distinguished Research Scholar of
Asian Law Emerita
Articles in Law Reviews and Other Scholarly Journals:
Production Chains and Workplace Law Violations: the Case
of Apple and Foxconn, 3 GLOBAL BUS. L. REV. 211 (2013).
Tara Helfman
Associate Professor of Law
Articles in Law Reviews and Other Scholarly Journals:
The Dread Pirate Who? Challenges in Interpreting Treaties
and Customary International Law in the United States, 90
TUL. L. REV. 805 (2016).
Book Reviews:
Crown and Constitution, 128 HARVARD L. REV. 2234 (2015).
Miscellaneous Works:
Legal Purgatory for Little Sisters, COMMENTARY BLOG
(May 16, 2016), https://www.commentarymagazine.com/
american-society/law/legal-purgatory-little-sisters/.
Was the Fannie/Freddie ’Death Spiral’ All a Mirage?,
REAL CLEAR MARKETS (May 2, 2016), http://www.
realclearmarkets.com/articles/2016/05/02/was_the_
fanniefreddie_death_spiral_all_a_mirage__102147.html.
Scalia’s Warning: We are in Danger of Having a ’Failed
Democracy,’ He said the Summer Before He Died, 141
COMMENTARY 39 (Apr. 2016).
All Three Branches of Government are Up for Grabs,
COMMENTARY BLOG (Feb. 16, 2016), https://www.
commentarymagazine.com/american-society/law/antoninscalia-three-branches-grabs/.
Opinion, My View: Puerto Rico’s Unilateral Debt
Restructuring, DESERET NEWS (Feb. 11, 2016), http://
www.deseretnews.com/article/865647421/My-view-Thedangers-of-unilateral-debt-restructuring-for-Puerto-Rico.
html?pg=all.
Arlene S. Kanter
Laura J. & L. Douglas Meredith Professor for
Teaching Excellence
Professor of Law
Director, College of Law Disability Law and Policy Program
Co-Director, Syracuse University Center on Human Policy,
Law and Disability Studies
Chapters in Books:
Disability Legal Studies, in NORMA E NORMALITÀ NEI
DISABILITY DSTUDIES. RRIFLESSIONI E ANALISI
CRITICA PER RIPENSARE LA DISABILITÀ (in Italian)
(Roberto Medeghini ed. 2015).
Articles in Law Reviews and Other Scholarly Journals:
A Comparative View of Equality Under the UN Convention
on the Rights of People with Disabilities and the Disability
Laws of United States and Canada, 32 WINDSOR Y B
ACCESS JUST no. 2, at 65 (2015).
Guardianship for Young Adults with Disabilities as a Violation
of the Purpose of the Individuals with Disabilities Education
Improvement Act, 8 J. INT’L AGING L. & POL’Y 1 (2015).
The Americans with Disabilities Act at 25 Years: Lessons
to Learn from the Convention on the Rights of People with
Disabilities, 63 DRAKE L. REV. 819 (2015).
Country report: Morocco (with Inviolata Sore & Daniel Van
Sant), 3 AFR. DISABILITY RTS. Y.B. 203 (2015).
Country report: Tunisia (with Inviolata Sore & Daniel Van
Sant), 3 AFR. DISABILITY RTS. Y.B. 265 (2015).
Why Hamilton Matters: The Broadway Triumph is
the Antidote to Our Identity-Obsessed Culture, 141
COMMENTARY 37 (Feb. 2016).
Supreme Court Hijinx May Mark a Low Point,
COMMENTARY BLOG (Feb. 10, 2015),
https://www.commentarymagazine.com/americansociety/supreme-court-hijinx-may-mark-low-point/.
I Am Nisman, COMMENTARY BLOG (Jan. 20, 2015),
https://www.commentarymagazine.com/foreign-policy/
nisman/.
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FACULTY PUBLICATIONS
Nina A. Kohn
Associate Dean for Research
David M. Levy L’48 Professor of Law
Articles in Law Reviews and Other Scholarly Journals:
Lawyers for Legal Ghosts: The Legality and Ethics of
Representing Persons Subject to Guardianship (with
Catheryn Koss), 91 WASH. L. REV. 581 (2016).
Matched Preferences and Values: A New Approach to
Selecting Legal Surrogates, 52 SAN DIEGO L. REV. 399
(2015).
Nathan A. Sales
Associate Professor of Law
Articles in Law Reviews and Other Scholarly Journals:
Can Technology Prevent Leaks?, 8 J. NAT’L SECURITY L.
& POL’Y 73 (2015).
Miscellaneous Works:
Justice Scalia: An Appreciation, NAT’L REV., Feb. 16, 2016.
French Surveillance Law Compared to US Surveillance Law,
JUST SECURITY (July 31, 2015), http://www.justsecurity.
org/25143/snapshot-french-surveillance-law-comparedsurveillance-law/.
Kevin Noble Maillard
Professor of Law
Miscellaneous Works:
A Father’s Struggle to Stop His Daughter’s Adoption,
ATLANTIC, July 7, 2015.
Why We Should Embrace the Racial Chaos,
NEW YORK TIMES, June 16, 2015.
A. Joseph Warburton
Associate Professor of Law and Finance
Working Papers:
The End of Market Discipline? Investor Expectations of
Implicit Government Guarantees, (with Deniz Anginer &
Viral V. Acharya) (March, 2015), SSRN http://ssrn.com/
abstract=1961656.
Mary Helen McNeal
Professor of Law
Director, Elder Law Clinic
Articles in Law Reviews and Other Scholarly Journals:
Say What? The Affordable Care Act, Medicare, and Hearing
Aids, 53 HARV. J. ON LEGIS. 621 (2016).
William M. Wiecek
Chester Adgate Congdon Professor of Public Law
and Legislation Emeritus
Book Reviews:
HERBERT HOVENKAMP, THE OPENING OF
AMERICAN LAW: NEOCLASSICAL LEGAL THOUGHT,
1870-1970, 33 LAW & HIST. REV. 1017 (2015).
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ANNUAL REPORT OF
SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY
COLLEGE OF LAW
FALL 2016
43

BOARD OF ADVISORS CHAIR
Dear Alumni and Friends of the College of Law:
The start of the Fall semester is
always an exciting time for me. A
group of talented individuals who
have selected the College of Law
for their legal education arrive
in Dineen Hall for orientation.
Together with other dedicated
alumni who come back to the
College of Law, we have a chance
to meet and interact with the 1L’s
and the students of returning
classes. As I speak with our new
students, I learn from them why they chose Syracuse. For
many, it’s our committed alumni with whom they’ve spoken
before enrolling. They look forward to continuing to network
with them, as so many of us volunteer to attend orientation
and serve as mentors. I am very proud of alumni involvement
in the lives of our students. Time and time again, new and
returning students, and recent graduates comment about your
engagement with them and the support and guidance you
provide throughout their time at the College of Law and as
they launch their new careers.
This year we are also seeing the benefits of our investment
in the creation of Dineen Hall. While the nationwide volume
of law school applications remains challenging, we have had
great success in converting admissions into acceptances and
deposits when visiting admitted students visit and experience
Dineen Hall and the commitment of our faculty and staff.
Equally exciting is our new Dean’s arrival. I’ve had the good
fortune of working with Dean Craig Boise for a few months
now, and he’s hard at work on fulfilling his promise to
amplify the College of Law’s status as the destination for an
outstanding legal education.
I’m honored to serve as chair of the College of Law’s Board
of Advisors alongside many other dedicated alumni who
continue to contribute their time and resources in support of
the college and our students. They are relentless in the pursuit
of excellence for the College of Law and we’ve accomplished
a great deal together. Since our last issue, three distinguished
members have recently stepped down from the Board. I want
to personally thank Vincent J. Cole L’81, Robert E. Dineen
Jr. L’66, and David A. Gordon L’86 for their service on the
Board. Their contributions to the College of Law are simply
immeasurable, and their legacy will loom large for years to
come. Without their leadership and generosity, our students
and faculty, and we as alumni of the College, would not have
the privilege of enjoying so many opportunities for education
and building relationships at the College of Law.
This year, the Board welcomes its newest member Keisha L.
Audain-Pressley L’00. I look forward to working with Keisha as
we continue to advance the College of Law’s mission.
As Chair of the Board, I personally thank each of you for
your engagement and generosity. Simply said, the success
of our students is dependent upon our collective support
of the College of Law. Many of you support the College with
financial resources. Others devote personal time helping to
orient and mentor our students. And a good number of us
have the ability to hire and place our students. All of these
contributions are absolutely essential to the continued success
of the College of Law. As you read through this magazine, I
hope that you find new reasons to continue to engage with
us or even re-engage with us.
An outstanding education is a collaborative effort. Your
contributions are an investment in the scholars, innovators
and leaders of tomorrow. I hope that you renew or initiate
a gift, today.
With gratitude,
Marc A. Malfitano L’78
Chair, Board of Advisors
Syracuse University College of Law
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BOARD OF ADVISORS 2016-17
Executive Committee
Marc A. Malfitano L’78
Chair
Attorney/Real Estate Developer
Syracuse, New York
Gregory L. Thornton L’71
Vice-Chair
Retired, The Boston Globe
Boston, Massachusetts
Melanie Gray L’81 *
Winston & Strawn LLP
Houston, Texas
Donald T. MacNaughton L’68 *
Retired, White & Case LLP
New York, New York
Mitchell I. Sonkin L’77
MBIA, Inc.
Kiawah Island, SC
Michael David Wohl L’75 *
Pinnacle Housing Group
Miami, Florida
Ex Officio
Craig M. Boise
Dean and Professor of Law
Syracuse University College of Law
Syracuse, New York
Members
Richard M. Alexander L’82*
Arnold & Porter LLP
Washington, D.C.
Hon. Joanne Fogel Alper A&S ’72*
Circuit Court of the 17th Judicial Circuit,
Arlington, Virgina (Ret.)
Keisha L. Audain-Pressley L’00
Pacific Investment Management
Company
New York, New York
Michael A. Bottar L’03
Bottar & Leone PLLC
Syracuse, New York
Kim Marie Boylan L’86
White & Case LLP
Washington, D.C.
Alan M. Epstein L’74
KDC Solar LLC
Bedminister, New Jersey
Christopher C. Fallon Jr. L’73
Cozen O’Connor
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Martin R. Feinman L’83
The Legal Aid Society
New York, New York
Alan K. Halfenger L’93
ACA Compliance Group
Boston, Massachusetts
Robert M. Hallenbeck L’83
Maryland Innovation Initiative
(TEDCO)
Columbia, Maryland
John R. Hartmann L’88
True Value Company
Chicago, Illinois
Richard D. Hole L’75
Bond Schoeneck & King PLLC
Syracuse, New York
Bernard R. Kossar L’55*
New York, New York
Dr. Thomas Murphy L’93
Valuation Risk & Strategy, LLC
Skaneateles, New York
Mark A. Neporent L’82*
Cerberus Capital Management, L.P.
New York, New York
Susan K. Reardon L’76
Retired, Johnson & Johnson
Washington, D.C.
C. James Zeszutek L’75
Dinsmore & Shohl LLP
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Ellen Beth Zimiles L’83
Navigant Consulting
New York, New York
Honorary Members
Hon. Joseph R. Biden Jr. L’68
Vice President of the United States
Washington, D.C.
Hon. Carolyn D. King
U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit
Houston, Texas
Hon. Theodore A. McKee L’75*
U.S. Court of Appeals for the 3rd Circuit
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Hon. Rosemary S. Pooler
U.S. Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit
New York, New York
Hon. Frederick J. Scullin Jr. L’64
U.S. District Court for the Northern District
of New York
Syracuse, New York
Hon. Sandra L. Townes L’76
U.S. District Court for the Eastern District
of New York
Brooklyn, New York
*Member of Syracuse Univeristy Board of Trustees
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ANNUAL HONOR ROLL OF DONORS
The strength of Syracuse University College of Law is reflected in the dedication of our alumni, friends, institutions, and
organizations who have demonstrated their commitment to our future. On the following pages, we gratefully acknowledge
and thank those who have contributed to the success of the College of Law between July 1, 2015 and June 30, 2016.
* Alumni donors to Syracuse University College of Law who have given for 3 or more consecutive years.
Dean’s Trust
Gifts of $100,000 and more
Robert E. Dineen Jr., Esq. ’66*
Jeanne C. Olivier
Melanie Gray ’81*
Mark Lawrence D. Wawro
Mark A. Neporent ’82*
Lisa J. Neporent
Michael David Wohl ’75*
Betty N. Wohl
Benefactors
Gifts of $50,000-$99,999
Richard M. Alexander ’82*
Emily N. Alexander
Joan Harris Cooper
Sustainers
Gifts of $25,000-$49,999
Anonymous
Joshua H. Heintz ’69*
Janice M. Herzog
Mark V. Mastrianni ’83
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Partners
Gifts of $10,000-$24,999
Counselors
Gifts of $5,000-$9,999
Advocates
Gifts of $2,500-$4,999
Anonymous
Anonymous
Anonymous
Edward J. Baba ’03*
Adam Leitman Bailey ’95*
Michael A. Bottar ’03*
Kim Marie Boylan ’86*
Scott P. Boylan ’85*
George T. Bruckman ’59*
Vivienne Bruckman
Jeffrey R. Capwell ’89*
Douglas P. Catalano ’72*
Ann Marie Day
Christian C. Day
A. Patrick Doyle ’75*
Elizabeth Downes
Alan M. Epstein ’74*
Christopher C. Fallon, Jr. ’72*
Robert B. Feinberg ’81*
Robbi Simons Feinberg
Martin R. Feinman ’83*
David A. Gordon ’86*
Kimberly A. Gordon
Alan K. Halfenger ’93*
Robert M. Hallenbeck ’82
Susan Brown Hallenbeck
John R. Hartmann ’88*
Martina E. Hartmann
Richard D. Hole ’75*
Deborah Muldoon Hole
Cheryl M. Kimball ’95
Bernard R. Kossar ’55*
Carol M. Kossar
Ronile Lawrence
Donald T. MacNaughton ’68*
Marc A. Malfitano ’78*
Jeanette Malfitano
Philip V. Martino ’82*
Heather S. Morawski ’07*
Arthur I. Sherman ’59*
Nancy Sherman
Mitchell I. Sonkin ’77
James T. Southwick ’89*
Michael P. Walls ’84*
Mary M. Walls
C. James Zeszutek ’75*
Dave J. Zumpano ’92
Elizabeth A. August ’94
Thomas B. Mafrici ’91
William C. Banks
Pete Benenati ’90*
Peter A. Bieger ’76*
William J. Brodsky ’68*
Joan Brodsky
Kathryn C. Brown ’80
Stephen E. Brown
David M. Crane ’80*
Alfonse M. D’Amato ’61
Louise E. Dembeck ’65
Frank Charles Forelle ’85*
Tod H. Friedman ’88
Charles D. Gabriel ’73
Joanna L. Geraghty ’97
Christopher Gerard Kelly
Alan L. Goldman ’65
Elaine Goldman
Alan M. Gordon ’77
Amy M. Hawkes ’01*
Brigitte E. Herzog ’75*
Peter E. Herzog ’55*
Kenneth W. Irvin ’92*
Marnin J. Michaels ’96*
Melissa Kaplan
Bert E. Kaufman ’07*
Elan P. Keller ’98
Michael L. Kiklis ’93*
Zoe Kiklis
Gary J. Lavine ’73*
Peter A. Lefkin ’80*
Jaye B. Martin ’79*
Jessica Murray
Robert G. Nassau
David J. Noonan ’72*
Joel H. Rabine ’65*
Sally Rabine
Susan K. Reardon ’76*
Michael D. Sirota ’86*
Miriam L. Sirota
Gregory M. Sobo ’99
Kyle G. Storie ’87*
Cheryl R. Storie ’86*
Gregory L. Thornton ’71*
Joseph V. Vumbacco ’70*
William M. Wiecek
Judy L. Hamilton
Ellen Beth Zimiles ’83*
Jonah David Zimiles
Stewart D. Aaron ’83*
Christine S. Aaron
Matthew Julian Agen ’02*
Melissa M. Mitchell ’01*
Keisha L. Audain-Pressley ’00*
F. David Pressley
Theodore R. Bayer ’66*
Ellen S. Bayer
Laurence G. Bousquet ’80*
Ifigenia T. Brown ’54*
Estate of Mr. Edwin T. Cox, Jr. ’68
Jeri K. D’Lugin ’80
Estate of Mrs. May E. Dorn
Nickolas E. Downey
Michael J. Drayo ’01*
Alexandra C. Epsilanty ’92*
Daniel S. Jonas
Walter V.N. Ferris ’55*
Cheryl A. Ficarra
Douglas J. Frye ’74*
John H. Hartman ’73*
Peter H. Heerwagen ’72*
Phyllis B. Heerwagen
Philip L. Kirstein ’73*
Melinda R. Kirstein
Joseph O. Lampe ’55
Shawn Lampe
Sherman F. Levey ’59*
Anette Seltzer Lewis ’73*
Burton G. Lipsky ’62*
Kulwinder Mand
Lee S. Michaels ’67*
Susan K. Michaels
Kamesh Nagarajan ’96
Ami A. Shah
Michael P. O’Toole ’76*
Roseann C. O’Toole
Tricia L. Rolewicz-Letarte ’98
Gregory S. Rubin ’72*
Frank W. Ryan, IV ’94*
Melissa Dunne Ryan ’94*
Elliot D. Samuelson ’60
Beatrice E. Samuelson
Matthew D. Schwarz ’98*
Gregory L. Spallas ’86
Douglas L. Steele ’89
Wilfreda B. Stone ’44*
Eleanor Theodore ’52*
Thomas A. Vitanza ’58*
Marc A. Winston ’75*
Marcia L. Winston
Constance Wolfson
Richard J. Zwirn ’74*
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ANNUAL HONOR ROLL OF DONORS
Dean’s Fellow Gifts of $1,000-$2,499
David F. Abernethy ’82*
Phyllis K. Simon
Aviva Abramovsky
Michael J. Allan ’98*
Rakesh K. Anand
John T. Andrews, Jr. ’66*
Nelson D. Atkin, II ’74*
Patricia J. Austin ’85*
Lynn J. Barden ’66*
Lynne W. Barden
Peter L. Beard ’86*
Peter Blanck
William P. Burrows ’55*
Ann T. Burrows
Anthony M. Calabrese ’93*
Barbara Calabrese
Alicia S. Calagiovanni ’77*
Richard J. Calagiovanni
Darren J. Carroll ’93*
Rene Layton-Carroll
Scott C. Charney ’80*
Theresa A. Coulter
William T. Coulter
Scott F. Cristman ’73*
Deborah Lisker Cuoco ’94*
Frank A. Cuoco ’93*
Mae A. D’Agostino ’80
Stephen Davis ’60*
Paul W. de Lima, Jr. ’70*
Melanie R. de Lima
Charles W. Deaner ’51*
Diana Zwirn DeMarco
Ronald M. Denby
Alice A. Makul
Joseph M. Di Scipio ’95*
Paul E. Dimoh ’08*
Donald C. Doerr ’88*
Maria T. Doerr
Lisa A. Dolak ’88*
Kenneth K. Doolittle ’73*
Matthew R. Dreyfuss ’13*
Karen M. Elliott ’91*
Lydia J. Elliott
Robert N. Endries ’65
Christine N. Fletcher ’94
Joe K. Suyemoto
Catherine A. Foerster ’80*
Mark R. Foerster ’80*
Danielle M. Fogel ’04*
Michael A. Fogel ’04*
Melissa A. Fox ’98*
Thomas P. Franczyk ’82
M. Michele Speach ’81
Martin L. Fried
Suzanne O. Galbato ’98*
Wilfred E. Gallinek ’88*
William G. Gandy ’75*
Joanna W. Gandy
Bruce E. Gardner ’78*
Benita D. Gardner
Daniel W. Gentges ’88*
Penny G. Gentges ’88*
Paul J. Giancola ’80*
Philip N. Glennon ’79*
Catherine Glennon
Irwin Goldbloom ’58*
Sheldon I. Goldfarb ’77*
Tomas Gonzalez ’05*
James E. Graves, Jr. ’80
Murray A. Grossman
M. Kathryn Grossman
Richard D. Grossman ’55
Mame Langan Grossman
Jannet Gurian ’79*
Margaret M. Harding
Joe Whelan
Eric I. Harris ’69*
Paul A. Hedstrom ’73*
Alan I. Herman ’59*
Peter J. Hersha ’81*
Benjamin T. Hickman ’07*
Jessica L. Wechter
Andrew S. Horsfall ’10*
Marc L. Hurvitz ’78*
Jeri J. Hurvitz
Arnold I. Kalman ’73*
Michael A. Kaplan ’11*
Deborah S. Kenn
Patrick M. Kennell ’02*
Dawn J. Krigstin ’03*
Richard A. Kissel ’79*
Michelle S. Simon ’81*
Douglas K. Knight ’92*
Lynn B. Knight
Frank L. Kollman ’77*
Mark A. Kompa ’80*
Richard Levy, Jr. ’77*
Travis H.D. Lewin
Robert L.W. Liu ’75
Fran L. Lubow ’79*
John F. Luman, III ’95*
Gemma M. Lury ’72*
Richard R. Lury ’72*
Arthur S. Lussi ’88*
Gary G. Lyons ’75*
Susanne Lyons
David J. MacNaughton ’77
Gene S. Manheim ’76*
Lynn Manheim
John D. Mara ’85*
Robert D. Mariani ’76*
Thomas J. Maroney ’63
Mary K. Maroney
William K. Mattar ’88*
Mark McCarthy ’69*
Margaret K. McCarthy
Sarah Reimers McIntee ’04*
Patrick J. McIntee
Theodore A. McKee ’75*
Thomas J. McKenna ’84*
Kirk E. Miller ’76*
Eileen D. Millett ’74*
Joseph A. Minniti ’57
Edward J. Moses ’68*
Jennifer J. Nackley ’89*
Gordon W. Netzorg ’76*
Paul I. Newman ’65*
Sarah M. Oliker ’03*
Michael S. Olsan ’89*
Donald P. Parson ’68
Philip A. Perna ’77*
Stephen P. Pollak ’70*
Karen A. Pollak
Frederick J. Price ’03*
Kimberly Wolf Price ’03*
Stanley B. Price ’69
C. Allen Pylman
Robert J. Rabin
Ava S. Raphael ’89
Irving G. Raphael
Mark S. Rattner ’76*
Lenore B. Rattner
Lynn M. Robinson ’89*
Paul E. Roman ’78
William L. Scheffler ’74
Robert T. Schofield, IV ’96*
Donald Schupak ’66*
Cynthia Schupak
Leonard R. Shapiro ’73*
Paul T. Sharlow ’03
Jean Michelle Sharlow
William C. Snyder
Donna Kenney Stein ’92*
Laurence C. Stein ’91*
Frank W. Streng ’82
Charles J. Tallent ’74
Darren B. Tallman ’00*
Francesco P Trapani ’08*
Martha E. Allen
Michael G. VanWaldick
Donna L. Ransier-VanWaldick
David P. Wales, Jr. ’95*
Jaime L. Wales
Kristin L. Walker ’08*
Steven A. Walker ’08*
Ogden H. Webster ’58*
Douglas J. Widman ’73*
Joseph J. Wielebinski, Jr. ’83*
Helen A. Zamboni ’77*
Mark Zeichner ’74*
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ANNUAL HONOR ROLL OF DONORS
Associates Gifts of $500-$999
Anthony P. Adorante ’67
Lucille Ann Adorante
Richard M. Alderman ’72*
William L. Bergan ’64*
Frances M. Bergan
William R. Bergum ’90*
Brad A. Birmingham ’97*
Kristen M. Birmingham ’97*
Bruce G. Blumberg ’88
R. Daniel Bordoni ’79*
Miles M. Bottrill
William B. Braatz ’58*
Jay S. Brown ’95*
Consuela A. Pinto ’95*
Michael A. Brumer ’51*
Dorothy D. Brumer
Richard B. Buckley ’68*
Bruce E. Bushlow ’65*
Gail N. Bushlow
Joseph L. Canino ’70*
Daniel G. Cantone ’81*
Kathleen A. Cantone
William A. Carpenter, Jr. ’69*
Susan S. Cooney ’72
Ritu Kaur Cooper ’03*
Carol E. Coyne ’81*
Mary Lou Crowley ’51*
Raymond R. D’Agostino, Jr. ’68*
Sheila T. D’Agostino
William A. Darrin, Jr. ’73*
Sarah Davila-Ruhaak ’07*
Martin Q. Ruhaak, Jr. ’07*
Frank N. Decker, Jr. ’55*
Deborah H. Diehl ’76
Deborah L. Dilman ’03
Alfred C. Dorn
Carol A. Dorn
David M. Driesen
Jennifer L. Dzwonczyk ’95*
Angela Marie Eavy ’03
Amy D. Eliezer
John C. Filippini ’72*
Barry Frank ’67*
Philip I. Frankel ’78*
Thomas R. French
Alan J. Goldberg ’52*
Barbara Z. Goldberg
Joseph S. Goode ’94
Lauryn Gouldin
Becki D. Graham ’05*
Caterina R. Grasso ’90*
Lauson C. Green ’94
Donald A. Greenwood ’81
Paula C. Garell
Lee A. Gronikowski ’84
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Hailey Render ’15
Paul S. Rhee ’96
Lori-Ann Ricci ’85
Jace A. Richards ’05
Dean M. Richardson ’69*
M. Catherine Richardson ’77*
Brett M. Rieders ’14
Lucille M. Rignanese ’99*
Joseph D. Rinere ’91*
Kevin E. Rittenberry ’77
Dorothy A. Rittenberry
Kenneth S. Ritzenberg ’84*
Susan F. Ritzenberg
Jeffrey A. Rizika ’89*
Margie S. Rizika
James H. Roberts ’75*
Jessie B. Roberts ’10
Pia W. Rogers ’01*
Akima H. Rogers
Paul W. Rogers, Jr.
Catherine K. Ronis ’90
Neal P. Rose ’76*
Jeffrey N. Rosenthal ’08*
Emily L. Rosmus ’06
Jeremy R. Grethel
Caralyn Miller Ross ’92*
Marc S. Roth ’91*
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Contributors Gifts up to $499
Joel Rothlein ’52
Athena Roussos ’97
William J. Rubenstein ’01
Phillip R. Rumsey ’75*
Franklin T. Russell ’67*
Thomas W. Ryan ’71*
Shannon P. Ryan
Conrad B. Sabin ’50
Anita L. Sabin
Coleman R. Sachs ’75*
John W. Sager ’71
Terry Hurst Sanders ’89*
William John Sanders
Richard H. Sargent ’67*
Jill P. Sargent
Kevin T. Saunders ’97
Kenneth P. Savin ’76
Jeffrey E. Schanback ’74*
Paul H. Scheuerlein ’84*
Michael Schiavone ’81*
Steven G. Schier ’79
Tamara L. Schlinger ’00*
Joseph B. Schmit ’97
Jonathan A. Schnader ’12
Jeffrey Y. Schnader
Eric M. Schneider ’79
Martin Schoenfeld ’71*
Donna L. Schoenfeld
Arnold M. Schotsky ’59*
Richard D. Schuler ’72
Jack Schultz ’54*
Sybil Schultz
Jeremy J. Scileppi ’89*
Michael J. Sciotti ’91
Catherine A. Scott ’82
Frederick J. Scullin, Jr. ’64*
Rania V. Sedhom ’97
John D. Segaul ’91*
Lorraine H. Segaul
Lauren Hornish Seiter ’04*
Graham B. Seiter ’04*
Philip G. Semprevio ’09*
Michele Hoffman Sexton ’82*
Anthony F. Shaheen ’59*
Catherine A. Shamlian ’02
John W. Shamlian
Jenya Shanayeva ’09*
Peter E. Shapiro ’88
Ronald V. Sharpe ’60*
Robert E. Sharpe ’63*
Celeste Y. Sharpe ’92*
Thomas G. Sharpe ’92*
Patricia J. Sheridan ’79
Matthew H. Shusterman ’06*
James Samuel Simmons ’14
Darrin M. Simmons ’15
Patricia McGevna Sisney ’87*
John R. Slattery ’03*
Robert B. Sledz ’08*
Karl J. Sleight ’89*
David W. Slook ’69
James W. Smith ’71*
Mary Ellen Smith
C. Joseph Smith ’77
Robert B. Smith ’78
Elizabeth Page Smith ’86
Joshua Lee Smith ’05
Thomas W. Snook ’74
Patrick M. Snyder ’86
Benjamin D. Snyder ’12*
Barbara J. Sobczak
Joseph A. Sobczak, Sr.
Rudolph W. Sohl ’15
David S. Sorce ’80*
Robert A. Soriano ’77
Heidi Levine Sorkin ’88
Kenneth H. Sorkin
R. Robert Sossen, Jr. ’74
Richard R. Southwick ’83
Karen S. Southwick ’04
David J. Spader ’66
Patricia P. Spader
Jeffrey Sperber ’90*
Arnold Spitz ’68*
Thomas S. Squire ’77*
Michael G. St. Leger ’88*
Rachel A. Stanley ’07
Neal Nguyen
Jonathan S. Starr ’00
Julie R. Starr
Patricia L. Stasco ’03
Vanessa Macias Stillman ’11
Daniel Truitt Stillman ’12
Parker J. Stone ’60*
Carl S. Strass ’64*
Michael B. Sullivan ’85*
Mary C. O’Connor
Mark J. Sweeney ’13*
Frank Y. Tang ’88*
David M. Tang ’05*
Charles J. Taylor ’96*
Justin S. Terry ’09
Jennifer Holsman Tetreault ’03
Edward J. Thater ’14
John R. Theadore ’11*
Gerald A. Thompson, Jr. ’95*
Shelley L. Thompson ’11*
Aaron M. Tidman ’07
Richard F. Timian ’75*
Ellen A. Tomasso ’79*
Ada L. Torres ’93*
Linda A. Townsend ’80*
Edward H. Townsend, IV ’10*
Jennifer H. Townsend ’11*
Jessica G. Trombetta ’11
Michael E. Trosset ’97
Sarah P. Trosset
Cora True-Frost ’01
James True-Frost
Joshua R. Tumen ’15
Kathleen L. Turland ’95
Susan S. Turnbaugh ’07
Jesse Kopf
Jared S. Turner ’06
Terry L. Turnipseed
Peggy Lynne Bailey Tyler ’78
John W. Uhlein, III ’81*
Susan E. Upward ’15
Ana Lucia Urizar ’14
Lynne A. Ustach ’81*
Linda J. Valenti ’79
Gary J. Valerino ’88*
Peter R. Van Allen ’70
Yvette Velasco ’99
Pasquale O. Vella ’07*
Scott M. Vetri ’95*
Derick C. Villanueva ’03*
Deborah Vitanza
John W. Vogel ’75
Richard R. Volack ’98
Peter B. Volmes ’71*
Michael P. Votto ’03*
Petia S. Vretenarova ’00
Peter J. Wacks ’65
Herbert N. Wallace ’62*
Richard B. Wallach ’06
Norman Alan Kutcher
Jennifer A. Walters ’99
Leonard Ware ’53
Julia A. Waysdorf ’78
Richard H. Waysdorf ’78
Paul V. Webb, Jr. ’72
David P. Weber ’98
Richard W. Wedinger ’87
Alfred J. Weiner ’59*
Seymour Weinstein ’52*
David A. Weinstein ’72*
Andrew Glenn Weiss ’87*
Melissa Shumer
Jeffrey H. Weitzman ’72*
Warren Welch ’69
Arthur W. Wentlandt ’79*
Beth E. Westfall ’86*
Gwynne A. Wilcox
Michelle Marie Wilcox
Roberta G. Williams ’83
Karl G. Williams ’95
Tanisa Williams ’95
Mark N. Williams ’11
Barry M. Winnick ’87*
Todd F. Wojtowicz ’06*
Alan E. Wolf ’84*
Beth Anne Wolfson ’82
Andrew M. Wong ’94*
Maria R. Woodarek ’15
Laurence H. Woodward ’68*
Jane S. Woodward
Ramsey L. Woodworth ’67*
James P. Wright, Jr. ’08*
Andrew W. Wright ’10*
Stacy M. Wright ’10*
Theodore J. Wu ’07*
Daniel J. Yablonsky ’86
Francene Yablonsky
Lana A. Yaghi ’14
John C. Young ’60*
Justina M. Young ’04*
George S. Yuda ’64*
Craig J. Zicari ’74*
Kristin Forshee Zimar ’14
Frederick Zimmer ’80*
Donald J. Zorn, Jr. ’96
David Zuckerbraun ’84*
Peter L. Zurkow ’78
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ANNUAL HONOR ROLL OF DONORS
Law Firms, Corporations, Foundations, and Friends of the College of Law
AARP Foundation
Adam Leitman Bailey P.C.
Alfred & Harriet Feinman
Foundation
American Express Company
American International Group Inc.
B.R. & Carol Kossar Foundation
Badger Meter Foundation
Bar Bri Bar Review
Blitman & King LLP
Bond Schoeneck & King PLLC
Bousquet Holstein PLLC
Cantone Law Firm P.C.
Central New York Community
Foundation Inc.
Charlottesville Area Community
Foundation
Crowley Law Offices
Eaton Corporation
Erickson Webb Scolton & Hajdu
Estate Planning Law Center
EY
EY Foundation
Fidelity Charitable Gift Fund
Fund for the City of New York
GE Fund
General Reinsurance Corporation
Goetz Fitzpatrick LLP
W. W. Grainger Inc.
Hancock Estabrook, LLP
Jewish Community Foundation
of Metrowest
Joe Christensen Inc.
Johnson & Johnson Family
of Companies
Kaplan Bar Review
Keegan Werlin LLP
Kornienko Law Firm PLLC
KPMG Foundation
Kysor & Della Posta
Law Office of
Joseph M. DiOrio Inc.
Law Office of
Miguel C. Fernandez II
Law Office of
Michael J. Kerwin, Esq.
Law Office of
Thomas J. DiSalvo, Esq.
Law Offices of Mark A. Kompa
LexisNexis Group
Eli Lilly & Company
Mackenzie Hughes LLP
Martin Law Firm
McCarthy Law PLLC
McGuireWoods LLP
The Merck Company Foundation
National Italian American Bar
Association
Nationwide Foundation
Neporent Family Foundation
New York Life Insurance Company
NYS Academy of Trial Lawyers
Pfizer Foundation
PG&E Corporation
Phillips Spallas & Angstadt LLP
PIMCO Foundation
PJM Interconnection LLC
PricewaterhouseCoopers
The Principal Financial Group
Procter & Gamble Company
Pullini Realty Corporation
Rabine & Nickelsberg
RLI Insurance Company
Rochester Area Community
Foundation
Sabin & Sabin
Scholastica LLC
Schwab Charitable Fund
Shell Oil Company Foundation Inc.
Snell & Wilmer LLP
The Adam Miller Group P.C.
The Ayco Charitable Foundation
The Blanck Family Foundation
The Sheridan Press
The Wonderful Company
Themis Bar Review LLC
Thomson Reuters
Tully Rinckey PLLC
United Technologies Corporation
The Vanguard Group of Investment
Companies
Vogel Law Office P.C.
Voya Financial
Wells Fargo Foundation
William and Joan Brodsky
Foundation Inc.
William Mattar P.C.
Zwirn and Zwirn
Gifts Were Received in Memory of
the Following People:
Gifts Were Received in Honor of
the Following People:
Joseph R. Biden III ’94
Jeremy A. Blumenthal
C. Marvin Bottrill
Alma Castaldo
Marvin Cooper ’57
Samuel J.M. Donnelly
May E. Dorn
Richard J. Elliott ’59
Dustin Friedland ’09
Raymond W. Hackbarth ’51
Grace Heath
Betty B. Lourie
Charles M. Manheim ’48
June G. Manheim
John R. Marshall, Jr. ’61
Walter L. Meagher, Sr.
James A. Mitchell ’58
Joseph P. Pylman ’08
Joseph A. Sobczak, Sr.
C. Roderick Surratt
John H. Terry ’48
Mary Ann Wiesner-Glazier
Hannah R. Arterian
William C. Banks
Erin R Bauwens
Peter A. Bell
Miles M. Bottrill
Cody Joseph Carbone ’16
Vincent H. Cohen, Jr. ’95
Louise E. Dembeck ’65
Susan R. Horn ’74
Paula C. Johnson
Ian Sheldon Ludd
Joanne M. Mahoney ’90
Marris Family Members in
Central New York
Janis L. McDonald
Edward J. Moses ’68
Robert G. Nassau
Sarah M. Oliker ’03
Thomas A. Vitanza ’58
David P. Weber ’98
Michael David Wohl ’75
Richard J. Zwirn ’74
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College of Law Faculty and Staff
Courtney A. Abbott-Hill ’09
Aviva Abramovsky
Rakesh K. Anand
Robert Harold Ashford
Elizabeth A. August ’94
William C. Banks
Peter A. Bell
Peter Blanck
Miles M. Bottrill
Keith J. Bybee
Melissa P. Cassidy
Sanjay Chhablani
Robert T. Conrad
Theresa A. Coulter
David M. Crane ’80
Melanie Cuevas-Rodrigues ’00
Christian C. Day
Ronald M. Denby
Anita C. DiSalvo
Lisa A. Dolak ’88
David M. Driesen
Alexandra C. Epsilanty ’92
Cheryl A. Ficarra
Jan Fleckenstein ’11
Diana Foote
Thomas R. French
Martin L. Fried
Tomas Gonzalez ’05
Lauryn Gouldin
Margaret M. Harding
Christine Harrison
Steven D. Harrison
Peter E. Herzog ’55
Andrew S. Horsfall ’10
Kavitha Janardhan
Elizabeth C. Jeffery
Paula C. Johnson
David Cay Johnston
Arlene S. Kanter
Samantha Z. Kasmarek
J. Zachary Kelley
Deborah S. Kenn
Lori Golden Kiewe
Anikka S. Laubenstein
Lynn Levey ’94
Travis H.D. Lewin
Robin Paul Malloy
Thomas J. Maroney ’63
Janis L. McDonald
Suzette M. Melendez
Jessica Murray
Robert G. Nassau
Lynn Mavis Oatman
Kristin A. Pardee
Keli A. Perrin ’04
Kim Wolf Price ’03
Andrea R. Rabbia
Robert J. Rabin
Rosemary D. Rainbow
LaVonda N. Reed
Lucille M. Rignanese ’99
M. Jack Rudnick ’73
Shannon P. Ryan
William C. Snyder
Barbara J. Sobczak
Cora True-Frost ’01
Terry L. Turnipseed
William M. Wiecek
Michelle Marie Wilcox
Beau Biden L’94 Memorial Scholarship
Anthony P. Adorante ’67
Lucille Ann Adorante
Richard M. Alexander ’82
Emily N. Alexander
Melissa Eisen Azarian ’93
Philip H. Azarian ’93
William C. Banks
Frederick E. Block ’92
Karla V. Block
Miles M. Bottrill
Diana L. Brick ’93
Anne Syrocki Cantwell ’92
Hallie Brooke Chase ’07
Sen. Alfonse M. D’Amato ’61
Christian C. Day
Ann Marie Day
Scott A. de la Vega ’94
Diana Zwirn DeMarco
Darren J. Elkind ’94
Alexandra C. Epsilanty ’92
Daniel S. Jonas
Bradley Fischer
Joseph S. Goode ’94
Rebecca Troendle Hewitt ’94
Christopher C. Fallon, Jr. ’73
Deborah S. Kenn
Patrick M. Kennell ’02
Dawn J. Krigstin ’03
Michael J. Kerwin ’94
Ryan K. Kerwin ’04
Benjamin M. Kopp ’15
Christine Kshyna
Sarah G. Leonard ’07
Lynn Levey ’94
Sherman F. Levey ’59
Elsa C. Lopez-Megerdichian ’95
Thomas J. Maroney ’63
Mary K. Maroney
Courtney K. McCarthy ’95
Andre Martineau
Suzette M. Melendez
Adam M. Miller ’95
Sylvia M. Montan ’94
Katharine J. Neer ’14
David L. Niefer ’94
Nancy A. Noonan ’95
Mark E. O’Brien ’14
Sarah M. Oliker ’03
Michelle T. Parker ’14
Cheryl B. Pinarchick ’95
Scott J. Pinarchick ’95
Robert J. Rabin
Alan J. Rainbow
Rosemary D. Rainbow
Lisa M. Pullini-Rodri ’94
Martin Q. Ruhaak, Jr. ’07
Sarah Davila-Ruhaak ’07
Frank W. Ryan, IV ’94
Melissa Dunne Ryan ’94
Kathleen L. Turland ’95
Scott M. Vetri ’95
David P. Wales, Jr. ’95
Jaime L. Wales
Todd F. Wojtowicz ’06
Richard J. Zwirn ’74
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ANNUAL HONOR ROLL OF DONORS
Syracuse Law Review
Platinum Donors
Gifts over $2,500
Kim Marie Boylan ’86
Robert E. Dineen Jr. ’66
Gold Donors
Gifts between $1,500-$2,499
Joseph O. Lampe ’55
Silver Donors
Gifts between $500-$1,499
William J. Brodsky ’68
Todd K. Hanna ’00
Joseph H. Hobika, Sr. ’56
Kaplan Bar Review
Mark Kessel ’66
Holly Klus McClellan ’96
Orange Donors
Gifts up to $499
Christian Adamiak ’00
Nelson D. Atkin II ’74
Cory P. Balliet ’08
Robert A. Barker ’58
Todd M. Belous ’90
Daniel L. Blanchard ’11
George T. Bruckman ’59
Denise Spellman Butler ’06
Sophia L. Cahill ’14
William A. Carpenter, Jr. ’69
Jessica R. Caterina ’11
Donald E. Clark ’87
Jesse C. Clark ’04
Tabitha M. Croscut ’03
Sarah Davila-Ruhaak ’07
Joseph M. DiOrio ’81
Milan M. Durgala ’63
Gregory D. Eriksen ’10
Joseph G. Falcone ’93
Jeffrey C. Falkin ’68
Christopher C. Fallon, Jr. ’73
John C. Filippini ’72
Robert S. Finley ’76
Nancy A. Fischer ’92
Ernest Ginsberg ’55
Roy S. Gutterman ’00
Ellen M. Halstead ’04
John H. Hartman ’73
Paul A. Hedstrom ’73
Benjamin T. Hickman ’07
Monique E. Holmes ’04
Stephanie A. Jacqueney ’82
Margaret A. Jones ’01
Stephen J. Jones ’01
Michael A. Kaplan ’11
Andrew M. Knoll ’03
Jessica E. Kuester ’09
Adrian J. Leonard, IV ’10
Richard Levy, Jr. ’77
Gene S. Manheim ’76
Donald J. Martin ’68
Katherine Kudriashova Martin ’99
Sean T. Martin ’99
Thomas William Mayo ’77
Thomas J. McKenna ’84
Kevin D. Minsky ’97
Natalie M. Mitchell ’13
Edward J. Moses ’68
Gordon W. Netzorg ’76
John M. Nichols ’07
Francis X. Nolan, III ’74
Mark E. O’Brien ’14
Alex T. Paradiso ’10
Joseph A. Pavone ’71
David E. Peebles ’75
Melissa A. Pennington ’04
David A. Pravda ’65
Joel H. Rabine ’65
Kevin J. Roggow ’05
Jeffrey N. Rosenthal ’08
Martin Q. Ruhaak, Jr. ’07
Phillip R. Rumsey ’75
Frank W. Ryan, IV ’94
Melissa Dunne Ryan ’94
John W. Sager ’71
Tamara L. Schlinger ’00
Joseph B. Schmit ’97
Martin Schoenfeld ’71
Arnold M. Schotsky ’59
Richard D. Schuler ’72
Peter E. Shapiro ’88
Darrin M Simmons ’15
Jeffrey Sperber ’90
Eleanor Theodore ’52
Gregory L. Thornton ’71
Aaron M. Tidman ’07
Edward H. Townsend IV ’10
Jennifer H. Townsend ’11
Jessica G. Trombetta ’11
Cora True-Frost ’01
Petia S. Vretenarova ’00
David P. Wales, Jr. ’95
Paul V. Webb, Jr. ’72
Jeffrey H. Weitzman ’72
Timothy J. Welsh ’04
Beth E. Westfall ’86
Valerie A. Wieczorek-Thors ’85
Craig J. Zicari ’74
Journal for International Law and Commerce
Platinum Donors
Gifts over $2,500
Scott P. Boylan ’85
Silver Donors
Gifts between $500-$1,499
Peter A. Lefkin ’80
Gemma M. Lury ’72
Richard R. Lury ’72
Orange Donors
Gifts up to $499
Dale L. Carlson ’75
Timothy W. Crowley ’97
Jannet Gurian ’79
Deborah H. Karalunas ’82
Katsura K. Kurita ’98
Nancy D. Lapera ’80
Patrick J. Lapera ’80
W. Carson McLean ’06
Lori-Ann Ricci ’85
Richard R. Volack ’98
Andrew Glenn Weiss ’87
Mr. Joseph J. Wielebinski, Jr.
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of Donors. We extend our sincere apologies for any typographical
errors or omissions.
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Syracuse University College of Law
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ALUMNI ASSOCIATION PRESIDENT
Syracuse University Law Alumni Association
Dear Alumni and Friends of the College of Law:
I am honored to serve as president
of the Syracuse University Law
Alumni Association (SULAA),
and excited to welcome our
newest members from the Class
of 2016 and our long-standing
members from all prior classes.
As graduates of the College of Law,
you are automatically a member
of SULAA. Our mission is to
strengthen the bonds between
alumni, current students, and
the College of Law. The SULAA Board of Directors and I look
forward seeing you at events in the near future, whether in
Syracuse or elsewhere. We have a series of events listed on
our website, law.syr.edu. You can also join our Facebook
page, facebook.com/syracuselaw to learn about our ongoing
activities.
The College of Law is experiencing an exciting time of
transformation and growth. First, on behalf of all alumni,
I would like to welcome the new Dean of the College of Law,
Craig M. Boise, to Syracuse. We look forward to working with
him to advance the law school and forge even tighter bonds
with its alumni community.
In August, the College of Law welcomed its third class into
the law school’s home, Dineen Hall. It is a tremendous
center for legal education with modern classrooms, advanced
technology in every corner of the building, a great new library,
state-of-the-art courtrooms for trial practice courses and moot
court teams, and new resources for faculty members and staff.
I encourage any College of Law graduate who has not been
back to campus to find an opportunity to come back and take
a look at this fabulous new facility.
Lastly, I want to thank all the alumni who returned to Syracuse
for the College of Law’s Annual Reunion Weekend. We honored
three distinguished College of Law alumni with the Syracuse
Law Honors Award, celebrated with members of graduation
classes ending in “1” and “6,” interacted with faculty and
students, and spent time together reminiscing about the
past and thinking about the future of the College of Law. Law
Alumni Weekend is always a special occasion and I hope you
can attend next year’s event. You will feel welcomed while
here and return home full of pride in the impact College
of Law alumni are making in the legal industry and in the
communities they serve.
I look forward to greeting you soon at a College of Law event.
Sincerely,
Carey Ng
President, SULAA
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BOARD OF DIRECTORS 2016-17
Syracuse University Law Alumni Association
Executive Committee
President
Carey W. Ng L’02
District Attorney’s Office
New York County
New York, NY
First Vice President
Amy Vanderlyke Dygert L’06
Cornell University Library
Ithaca, NY
Second Vice President
Patrick M. Kennell L’02
Kaufman Dolowich & Voluck LLP
New York, NY
Executive Secretary
Richard Levy Jr. L’77
Pryor Cashman LLP
New York, NY
Treasurer
Matthew R. Policastro L’02
Charles Schwab Trust Company
Henderson, NV
Immediate Past President
Sarah M. Oliker L’03
ConMed Corporation
Utica, NY
Ex Officio
Adam J. Katz L’04
U.S. Attorney’s Office
Northern District of New York
Albany, NY
Members
Michael J. Allan L’98
Steptoe & Johnson LLP
Washington, DC
Nelson D. Atkin II ’74
Barran Liebman LLP
Portland, OR
Andrew Peter Bakaj L’06
Compass Rose Legal Group PLLC
Washington, DC
Michael J. Drayo L’01
The Vanguard Group, Inc.
Wayne, PA
Sarah M. Feingold L’05
Vroom Inc.
New York, NY
Michael A. Fogel L’04
Brown Sharlow Duke & Fogel P.C.
Syracuse, NY
Robert E. Futrell Jr. L’94
Wyrick Robbins Yates & Ponton LLP
Raleigh, NC
Suzanne O. Galbato L’98
Bond Schoeneck & King PLLC
Syracuse, NY
Catherine Sinnwell Gerlach L’13
Meardon, Sueppel and Downer
Iowa City, Iowa
Becki D. Graham L’05
Ogletree Deakins Nash Smoak
& Stewart P.C.
San Francisco, CA
Amy M. Hawkes L’01
Outsource
EI Segundo, CA
Bert E. Kaufman L’07
Zook Inc.
Menlo Park, CA
Hon. Kirk E. Miller L’76
State of California
Office of Administrative Hearings
Oakland, CA
Kasper E. Mingo L’99
Morgan Stanley
Charlotte, NC
Kevin D. Minsky L’97
Booz Allen Hamilton Inc.
McLean, VA
Heather Schroder Morawski L’07
Robert Bosch LLC
Farmington Hills, MI
Mark E. O’Brien L’14
U.S. Court of Appeals
Richmond, VA
Thaddeus L. Pitney L’06
C.R. Bard Inc.
New Providence, NJ
Frederic L. Pugliese L’11
Air Force JAG Corps.
Las Cruces, NM
Kevin J. Roggow L’05
Shearman & Sterling LLP
Toronto, ON, Canada
Charles J. Taylor L’96
State of California
Office of the State Controller
Los Angeles, CA
Jennifer Holsman Tetreault L’03
U.S. Foods
Phoenix, AZ
Aaron M. Tidman L’07
Gilead Sciences Inc.
Foster City, CA
Kevin M. Toomey L’12
Arnold & Porter LLP
Washington, DC
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CLASS NOTES
ALUMNI SPOTLIGHT | PETER HERZOG L’55
Peter Herzog L’55 grew up as
the son of an attorney in Vienna,
Austria. He was a teenager when
German troops marched into
Austria in 1938, preceding World
War II. As his father was Jewish,
these were especially frightening
times for his family. “My formal
education as a consequence was
very fractured,” says Herzog
Herzog came to the U.S. and
completed his bachelor’s degree
at Hobart College, before coming
to the College of Law. Over the
course of more than 60 years, his fascination with the law—whether
practicing, teaching or just discussing it—has never waned. “Law
is always very interesting,” he says. “It really is a window on the
working of society.”
After graduating from the College of Law, Herzog pursued
a master’s of law at Columbia University, where he specialized in
Comparative Law and Conflicts of Law. He began his career as a
New York State Deputy Assistant Attorney General in 1957, moving
on to be Assistant Attorney General the following year.
He came to teach at the College of Law in 1958, and maintained
many professional positions along with his teaching and research,
including serving as a consultant to the New York Commission on
Eminent Domain, a staff member at the Columbia University Project
on International Procedure, and Associate Director of the Columbia
University on European Legal Institutions.
Herzog was named Crandall Melvin Professor of Law and
taught and inspired hundreds of students during his decades
of teaching at the College of Law, many of whom, such as Vice
President Joseph Biden, have gone on to very successful careers.
He was also a visiting professor at the Universities of Paris, at
The College of European Law in Bruges and at others universities
in Europe. It was in the Netherlands in 1969 at the academy of
International Law in The Hague that Herzog, who was teaching
a seminar in Private International Law, met his wife Brigitte, a
native of France and a lawyer, who was participating in the summer
program there. The two married a year later, and Brigitte decided
to pursue a second law degree at the College of Law, graduating in
1975 and taking the New York Bar exam. She then worked for United
Technologies Corporation for more than 30 years.
Herzog has written extensively on comparative law, conflicts
of law and torts. He received the Chancellor’s Citation for Academic
Excellence in 1983.
Preparing young students for their careers in law was a
challenge that Herzog says he always enjoyed. “Teaching law is
providing students with an overview of the law as well as the tools
to understand the relationship of legal rules with society. The goal
is that when students begin practicing law, they are equipped to see
the various aspects of the law and how they fit together with the
legal issues they have to deal with,” Herzog says. “As a teacher you
have to do that overview and show how it all comes together.”
“I could say that of all the courses I taught, I enjoyed First Year
Torts the most, as first year students are usually most eager and
excited by how the law deals with factual situation they can relate to.
There you are dealing with concrete problems—problems of people
are alive today,” he says. “I was always interested in the fact that law
relates to actual life in one way or another.”
“Comparative law is more abstract,” Herzog says, adding that
learning about the society of a particular country is an important
component of understanding that country’s legal system.
Brigitte Herzog gave a naming gift to the College of Law to
honor her husband Peter, in recognition of his more than 35 years
as a professor, and to recognize the impact he has had on her
professional life in the U.S. as well as the impact he has had on
many students and fellow faculty.
The gift made it possible to include in Dineen Hall a dedicated,
climate-controlled Law Library Special Collections Room, where
rare and fragile items, and the photos, papers, and objects that
document the history of the College of Law can be housed and
displayed safely. The Special Collections Room, on the second floor
of the Herzog Collections area, is also equipped for online research,
writing, and meetings.
The Herzog Collections area is a visually stunning and iconic
internal structure that is striking in appearance from both inside
and outside Dineen Hall and presents the Law Library as a warm
and inviting space for students, faculty and visitors to conduct their
research. The lower level of the Herzog Collections space holds the
Reference and Reserve Collections, which contain the books most
frequently used by law students and visitors to the Law Library.
“The Herzog’s gift has been a wonderful boon for the library,”
says Jan Fleckenstein, Lecturer and Acting Director of the library.
“It’s a beautiful, beautiful space that lets us show our pride in the
College of Law.”
1959
Bernard T. King has been elected to the board of governors at the American Bar
Association. He is senior partner at Blitman & King, LLP, and has more than 55 years
of legal experience and practices in the area of labor and employment law. King
currently serves as a member of the joint committee on employee benefits, and on the
board of regents for Le Moyne College. He also serves as a member of the Syracuse
advisory board for the Salvation Army, and is the founding co-chairman of the Central
New York chapter of the labor and employment research association.
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ALUMNI SPOTLIGHT | ROSEMARY BUCCI L’64
In 1947, growing up in
Baldwinsville, NY as the daughter
of a machinist, a college
education seemed out of the
question. Rosemary Bucci L’64
was an excellent student and won
a year’s scholarship to Central
City Business Institute, a business
school in downtown Syracuse.
Bucci found work in what she
calls “the big city” (Syracuse) but
after a few years she grew tired of
taking the bus back and forth from
Baldwinsville, and accepted a job
with the Gale and Stone Law Firm in her hometown. After several
years of doing clerical work and typing for lawyers, she decided she
would become a lawyer, herself.
Bucci still practices family law, working out of her office on
Syracuse Street, where she first opened her door in Baldwinsville
and set up shop in January 1965. “I bloomed where I was planted,”
she laughs. “I’m nicely busy. I like working one-on-one with people.
I like to help solve problems and God knows a lot of people have
problems.”
Bucci was one of only two women in her law school class.
She remembers comments from some male students when she
first enrolled. “Some didn’t take me too seriously. They said I was
there to find a husband, or they said, someday you could be my
secretary.” The teasing only lasted until the first grades came out—
when Bucci proved to be a stellar student.
June Lockwood A&S’61, L’63 was a year ahead of Bucci at the
College of Law, and the two became friends. They both graduated
at the top of their class. Lockwood and Bucci decided to practice
together once Bucci graduated and they did so together for 42
years. With Family Court appearances requiring a lot of time away
from the office, the two decided to split the work—Bucci would
handle family law, and Lockwood took on the other cases that
came in, mainly real estate, trusts, and estates.
Business came in early and steadily for Bucci. From the
beginning, she took on divorce cases, many of which she says
were patently unfair to women financially.
Mothers who had stayed home to raise children had no
financial resources to seek legal help in a divorce. “The men could
afford attorneys,” she says. “They got bully attorneys.”
Bucci took on cases, even if she knew she was not going to
be paid. ’I could not stand by and see this happen, and see these
women get stuck.”
Without adequate child support, Bucci says, single mothers
were forced to go on Welfare. Eventually, the Federal Government
intervened with the Family Court Child Enforcement Program and
The Child Support Standards Act, which required reasonable child
support for mothers and children. Bucci was a strong advocate for
her clients and developed a great reputation.
“They used to say I was keeping marriages together in
Baldwinsville, because what would happen is one spouse would
say to the other, ’I’m going down to see Rosemary Bucci.’”
Right now, Bucci has no plans to retire from her family law
practice. Her associate, Linda Cook L’73 ,continues to take care
of the other areas of the law as she has for over 40 years, so the
office is well equipped to carry out a general law practice. Bucci
even worked on her most recent birthday, and her office celebrated
with a cake and a party.
“Yes, I worked on my birthday,” she says. ’It’s okay. My God,
birthdays come around every year.”
1963
James D. Fitzpatrick
was listed in the current edition of
Marquis “Who’s Who in the World,”
(2016), 33rd Edition, founded in 1889.
Fitzpatrick was also named “One of the
Outstanding People of the 20th Century”
by the International Biographical Center,
Cambridge, England.
1965
Walter L. Meagher
Jr. has been selected
for inclusion in
Upstate New York
Super Lawyers for 2015.
Meagher is a partner
at Hancock Estabrook,
LLP and has over 40 years of experience
in the areas of personal injury, premises
liability, automobile liability, construction
accidents and products liability litigation.
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1971
Jules L. Smith, Partner
of the Blitman & King,
LLP law firm with offices
in Rochester, Syracuse,
Albany and New York
City, was elected Chair
of the Board of the
Rochester Symphony Orchestra (RPO).
He has served on the Board for several
years, has been the Secretary of the Board
the last three years.
1973
Hon. John T. Rafferty
marched at the front
of the 2016 West
Hollywood Gay Pride
Parade, the nation’s
largest, with L.A. Mayor
Eric Garcetti and LAPD
Chief Charlie Beck.
1974
Joseph A. Greenman has been selected
by his peers for inclusion in The Best
Lawyers 2016. He is a member at Bond
Schoeneck & King, PLLC in Syracuse
where he concentrates his practice in the
area of Trusts and Estates.
1975
Richard D. Hole has
been selected by his
peers for inclusion
in The Best Lawyers
2016. He is a member
and Chairman of
the Management
Committee at Bond
Schoeneck & King, PLLC in Syracuse
where he concentrates his practice in
the areas of Employment Benefits and
Executive Compensation.
Scott M. Karson of Stony Brook, New
York, a partner at Lamb & Barnosky, LLP of
Melville, New York, became the Treasurer
of the New York State Bar Association on
June 1, 2016. Karson is a former President
of the Suffolk County Bar Association
(2004-05).
David A. Riggs was recently named
a 2016 Florida Super Lawyers by Super
Lawyers Magazine and was also listed
among the 2016 Legal Elite by Florida
Trend Magazine. Riggs, an attorney with
Brinkley Morgan, focuses his practice
in the areas of marital and family law,
probate litigation and guardianships.
1976
Jatrice Martel Gaiter, executive vice
president of external affairs for Volunteers
of America, has assumed a key leadership
role as chair of the National Human
Services Assembly’s board of directors. A
passionate advocate for America’s most
vulnerable, Gaiter has spent her career
working for human service nonprofits
at both the national and local levels.
As national executive vice president for
external affairs, she leads Volunteers of
America’s fundraising, communications,
marketing and public policy activities.
1977
M. Catherine
Richardson was
honored by the New
York Bar Foundation
with its Lifetime
Achievement Award.
Richardson, who also
served as president of The New York
Bar Foundation (2009–2010) received
the honor during the Bar Association’s
2016 Annual Meeting in New York City.
Richardson, now retired, spent her entire
legal career at Bond Schoeneck & King,
PLLC in Syracuse assisting hospitals in
mergers and consolidations and advising
medical centers on corporate and medical
staff bylaws, credentialing of medical
staff and allied health professionals.
Additionally, she worked on the formation
and certification of an HMO and regularly
advised insurance companies and HMOs
regarding New York State Insurance Law
and Public Health Law.
1978
Joseph Zagraniczny
has been recognized as
a Best Lawyers 2016 in
Litigation–Bankruptcy.
He is a Member in the
Albany, Rochester and
Syracuse offices of Bond
Schoeneck & King, PLLC. He is co-chair
of the firm’s business restructuring,
creditors’ rights and bankruptcy practice.
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ALUMNI SPOTLIGHT | KIRK MILLER L’76
In the fall of 1974, Kirk Miller L’76
was surprised to find himself in
Syracuse as a transfer student
from California. After having been
on the waiting list for admission
the year before, an unexpected
letter came that July offering a
seat in the class of 1976. Upon
arrival in Upstate New York, he
discovered two other students
from the Golden State, and thus
started a new, life-changing
adventure.
“Law school was never easy
for me,” Miller says, “but I always found it more collegial than
competitive. My next-door-neighbor tutored me through the tax
course, and those of us in the Prisoners Rights Clinic were highly
supportive of each other.” Miller liked the law’s substantive nature,
especially skill-based courses such as evidence and trial practice.
“It’s hard to believe how fresh the memories of law school
feel 40 years later, and how those years shaped the life that
followed,” says Miller, who is now an Administrative Law Judge
in the general jurisdiction division of the California Office of
Administrative Hearings. While many unforeseen events impact a
career, Miller attributes working as a Legal Research and Writing
Instructor as a third year student as the catalyst for much that
followed. He took the Colorado Bar after law school and was
hired by a Colorado law firm that represented a large hospital in
the area. Since Miller had experience writing and teaching, he
was given the responsibility to write orientation materials for new
employees, such as interns and nurses, and teach some basics
about professional liability.
While he was in Denver for only two years, the experience led
to an in-house position with a publicly traded hospital company,
American Medical International. He worked for the company for
more than a decade in Beverly Hills, California, as well as in Dallas,
Texas, ultimately leading the department as general counsel.
Miller’s health care experience brought him back to
California as Senior Vice President and General Counsel of Kaiser
Permanente, the country’s largest integrated health plan with
8,000,000 members and revenues of $40 billion. “This was
an opportunity to make positive changes in a mission-driven
company, learning to fight for its market position,” he says. Miller
stayed with Kaiser for 10 years.
In 2007, California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger
appointed Miller Deputy Secretary and General Counsel for the
California Natural Resources Agency. The agency is responsible
for everything outdoors in the state—from parks to water
resources to forest fires. Miller oversaw the work of 150 lawyers
and served as the state’s chief negotiator and spokesperson in
the drive to remove four hydroelectric dams in the state’s Klamath
River, with the goal of restoring salmon habitat. The agreement,
which involved more than 30 parties, is the largest dam removal
agreement ever reached in the nation.
He says transitioning from health care to environmental law
and policy was not as difficult as one might expect. “As lawyers we
like to think there is a methodology and basket of skills that readily
transfers across practice areas. Fortunately, I found that is true.
Finding the legal or business issue, and separating the important
from the unimportant, is what lawyers are best at, and why they
are problem solvers,” Miller says.
Miller says he maintains a fondness for the College of Law,
which set him on his path. “I have always been grateful for the
unexpected opportunity Syracuse provided, which led to a diverse
and interesting career, far different than anything I might have
expected.”
1979
R. Daniel Bordoni has been selected by
his peers for inclusion in The Best Lawyers
2016. He is a member at Bond Schoeneck
& King, PLLC in Syracuse where he
concentrates his practice in the area of
Labor & Employment law.
Robert M. Drillings
was hired as Of
Counsel in the Public
Finance Practice
Group of Buchanan
Ingersoll & Rooney in
New York. Drillings
represents issuers of tax-exempt and
taxable municipal bonds as bond counsel,
disclosure counsel and special counsel.
He also works with conduit borrowers,
including developers of affordable and
mixed-income housing, underwriters,
placement agents and indenture trustees
in tax-exempt and taxable municipal bond
issuances.
Steven A. Paquette,
a member at Bousquet
Holstein, PLLC,
in Syracuse was
recognized in the
2015 New York Super
Lawyers–Upstate
Edition. He is an experienced litigator
and matrimonial-family law attorney
who brings over 31 years of practical
experience to seek fair and reasoned
solutions to client problems. His current
practice involves successfully navigating
sophisticated divorce and family law
matters to a successful conclusion and
working with businesses to maximize
their potential for success.
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ALUMNI SPOTLIGHT | AL W. KING III L’83
After completing his
undergraduate degree at Holy
Cross College, Al W. King III L’83
arrived at the College of Law
with the intention of immersing
himself in the new sports law
program. And what better time
to be at the law school, thinking
of sports law, than the year the
Carrier Dome opened.
Alas, after his first year,
King learned that the sports law
program was being postponed.
The school directed those who
intended to participate in the
sports law program to take contract and tax law courses, as they
would be beneficial to the field of sports law.
King heeded this advice and took every tax law course
offered, many with Professor Jon Bischel, who would serve as
a mentor. “When I first heard tax law courses, my thought was
thank God for coffee and Marshall Street!’ remembers King.
Upon graduating, King took the advice of Professor
Bischel and enrolled in the LL.M. in Tax Law program at Boston
University, where Bischel served as an adjunct. After receiving his
LL.M., King joined a firm called Ayco, in Albany, New York. “Ayco
hired and trained law school and LL.M. in tax graduates how
to advise the C-level Fortune 500 executives with their benefits,
income tax, estate, investment and insurance plans, so we could
act as a bridge between the executives and their lawyers, CPAs,
investment and insurance advisors,” says King.
King left Ayco after a few years and worked in the financial/
estate planning fields with Prudential Bache Securities,
Connecticut National/Shawmut Bank and Price Waterhouse
Coopers before taking a position as the National Director of
Estate Planning at Citicorp/Citigroup.
Through his interconnected experiences, King developed a
skillset that has benefited his clients on a daily basis. “I wanted
to try one of the non-traditional routes for law school and LL.M.
tax graduates with the idea that the combination of the legal
background, the financial and estate planning background and
work experiences would allow me to serve clients from a unique
perspective, which was something the market place was lacking
at the time.”
While at Citibank, King co-founded Citicorp Trust South
Dakota within the Citibank South Dakota credit card bank where
he was Vice Chairman. This experience led him to strike out
on his own ten years later and co-found South Dakota Trust
Company LLC, a boutique trust company headquartered in Sioux
Falls, South Dakota with an affiliate office in New York City, where
King is located, with trust assets of over $30 billion and agency
relationships over $80 billion with clients throughout the U.S.
and the world. “I began my career nervous to speak at a staff
meeting when I was at Ayco to having done more than 1,800
speeches in my thirty-year career,” notes King.
After many years in the financial and estate planning field
in several different industries, King realized how complex and
important fiduciary laws had become and were evolving, making
it clear that his legal background was a very valuable asset. “I
think a legal studies background is invaluable whether someone
practices law, is a C-level executive, starts his own business,
enters the insurance, investment management, banking, trust or
company professions,” says King.
King remains connected with the College of Law through
Professor Terry Turnipseed, who he works with to arrange
internships and, at times, hire graduates for the South Dakota
Trust. “I highly recommend that other alumni take advantage of
this opportunity with Terry and other law school professors. The
professors know the students best!” he says.
1980
Laurence G. Bousquet
will be included in the
22nd Edition of The Best
Lawyers in America 2016.
Bousquet is a member of
Bousquet Holstein, PLLC
and serves on its Board of
Managers.
Nicholas J. D’Ambrosio,
has been recognized as a
Best Lawyers 2016 in Labor
Law-Management. He is
a member at the Albany
office of Bond Schoeneck &
King, PLLC.
Marion Hancock Fish
was selected to lead a joint
NYS Bar Association/NY
Bar Foundation Pro Bono
Funding Committee to
raise additional resources
to support statewide
pro bono activities and further support
attorneys who assist the underprivileged.
Fish, a partner at the Central New Yorkbased
law firm of Hancock Estabrook,
LLP, focuses her practice on representing
clients in matters involving estate planning,
family business planning and succession,
charitable giving, not-for-profit law and elder
law and special needs administration.
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1980
1981
Mark E. Saltarelli
was elected Judge of the
Tonawanda City Court
for a ten-year term
which began January 1,
2016.
Hermes Fernandez has been selected
by his peers for inclusion in The Best
Lawyers 2016. He is a member at Bond
Schoeneck & King, PLLC in Albany, NY
where he concentrates his practice in the
area of Government Relations.
Edwin J. Kelley Jr. has been selected by
his peers for inclusion in The Best Lawyers
2016. He is a member Bond Schoeneck
& King, PLLC in Syracuse where he
concentrates his practice in the area of
Public Finance.
Alan D. MacEwan
has been recognized
by Best Lawyers 2016
for his work in Mergers
and Acquisitions Law,
Corporate Law, Closely
Held Companies and
Family Business Law. He is a partner at
Verrill Dana, LLP in Portland, Maine.
1982
Gilbert M. Hoffman has been
appointed Co-Chair of the Committee
on Title and Transfer of the New York
State Bar Association, Real Property Law
Section. He serves as Of Counsel for the
firm in the areas of transactional real
estate, title law, real estate development,
financing, leasing, title and boundary
disputes, easements and oil and gas
leases. Hoffman chairs the Onondaga
County Bar’s Real Property Law Section
and also serves on the Executive
Committee of the State Bar’s Real
Property Law Section.
1983
Marty Feinman, the current Legal Aid
Society Brooklyn Attorney-in-Charge, has
been named the Director of Delinquency
Training. Feinman began his career at
the Legal Aid Society in 1986 working in
the Manhattan office of Juvenile Rights
Division. Feinman and his wife Amy
Cooney were honored Fall 2015 by the
Mount Sinai Adolescent Health Center at
their Breakfast of Legends.
Samuel J. Gardano recently served
as the keynote speaker for the annual
O’Neill Bankruptcy Seminar in Cleveland.
He celebrated his 25th year as Executive
Director of the 12,000-member American
Bankruptcy Institute in Alexandria,
Virginia.
David A. Lerner, was
recently selected for
inclusion in The Best
Lawyers in America for
2016. He is a partner
at Plunkett Cooney
in Bloomfield Hills,
MI. Lerner concentrates his practice on
matters related to Bankruptcy & Creditor
Debtor Rights as well as Insolvency and
Reorganization law.
1984
Dennis C. Brown
has been recognized
as a Best Lawyers
2016 in Tax Law. He
is Senior Counsel and
Managing Partner of the
Naples office of Bond
Schoeneck & King, PLLC.
Clifford J. Risman
has been recognized by
Chambers USA 2015 in
two areas. A partner at
Gardere Wynn Sewell
LLP, Mr. Risman chairs
the firms Hospitality
Industry Team which received the honor
for being one of the best in the state of
Texas and the nation. Mr. Risman also
received individual Chambers recognition
for his work in Gardere's Real Estate
practice group. Mr. Risman was named
to the 2015 edition of The Best Lawyers in
America.
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1985
John W. Ryan has
joined Shipman &
Goodman LLP in
Washington, DC. He
has more than 25
years of experience
as a registered patent
attorney handling matters involving
litigation, due diligence, licensing, opinion
work, portfolio management, and patent
preparation and prosecution.
The Hon. Glenn
T. Suddaby was
promoted to Chief U.S.
District Judge for the
U.S. District Court for
the Northern District of
New York in fall 2015.
Suddaby served as Assistant District
Attorney for Onondaga County from
1985 – 1989. He then became a private
legal practitioner with the Menter Law
Firm in Syracuse from 1989 to 1992. He
was appointed Chief of Homicide for
the Onondaga County District Attorney’s
Office in 1992 and subsequently served as
First Chief Assistant District Attorney until
October, 2002 when he was appointed
U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of
New York.
Karen Frink Wolf
has been recognized
by Best Lawyers
2016 for her work in
Commercial Litigation,
Medical Malpractice
Law – Defendants,
Professional Malpractice Law –
Defendants. She was recently named to
the 4th edition of Benchmark Litigation’s
Top 250 Women in Litigation for the
second consecutive year. She is a partner
at Verrill Dana LLP in Portland, Maine.
1986
Douglas M.
Hershman was ranked
as a leading individual
for his work in real
estate by Chambers
and Partners in
Chambers USA 2015.
He is a director at Bayard where he leads
the firm’s diverse real estate practice,
representing clients engaged in all aspects
of the real estate industry throughout
Delaware and surrounding states.
1988
James Pickering Jr. was sworn in as
New Jersey State Superior Court judge
following a nomination from New Jersey
Governor Chris Christie.
1989
Timothy P. Murphy
has been selected for
inclusion in Upstate
New York Super Lawyers
for 2015. Murphy is a
member of the Executive
Committee of Hancock
Estabrook, LLP where he is a partner in the
firm’s litigation practice.
1990
Paul W. Reichel has
been selected by his
peers for inclusion in
The Best Lawyers 2016.
He is a member at Bond
Schoeneck & King, PLLC
in Syracuse where he
concentrates his practice in the area of
Business and Transactions.
Martin A. Schwab has been selected by
his peers for inclusion in The Best Lawyers
2016. He is a member at Bond Schoeneck
& King, PLLC in Syracuse where he
concentrates his practice in the area of
Trusts and Estates.
1991
Gregory J. Champion has been selected
by his peers for inclusion in The Best
Lawyers 2016. He is a member at Bond
Schoeneck & King, PLLC in Albany, NY
where he concentrates his practice in the
area of Business and Transactions law.
David Goldstein’s law firm, Goldstein
Hall, celebrated its 10th anniversary. The
firm specializes in real estate development
and is involved in many community and
affordable housing projects and social
causes throughout New York City.
Roxane E. Maywalt joined Michael
Best & Friedrich LLP as an attorney in the
firm’s Transactional Practice Group and
as a member of the Energy team. Maywalt
advises clients on federal and state energy
law and regulations.
1993
Jonathan M. Dunitz
has been recognized by
Best Lawyers 2016 for
his work in Insurance
Litigation. He is an
attorney at Verrill Dana,
LLP in Portland, Maine.
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JUDGE’S BENCH
MICHAEL JOHNSON L’93
Michael Johnson L’93 had his eye on a career in finance when, as a senior at Morehouse College, he
signed up for a class in Constitutional Law. He found the material fascinating and was moved by the
enthusiasm of the professor. “I had opportunities in finance,” he says, “but this one class and this one
professor really changed the course of my direction.” Johnson began looking into law school and says
he was drawn to the College of Law because of its strong reputation. He also was looking to leave his
native Georgia, at least for a time. He arrived in Syracuse ready to delve into a new course of study. “I
bought a parka, I joined the moot court team and just kept it going,” he says.
Now an attorney in the Litigation and Dispute Resolution Practice Group in the Atlanta firm of Taylor
English, Johnson has led an exciting career that has included work in the public and private sectors.
He was a prosecutor in DeKalb and Fulton Counties in Georgia, and was appointed special federal prosecutor for the Southern District
of Georgia. Johnson also served seven years as a Superior Court Judge in Fulton County.
Johnson says he liked his time at the College of Law—the support of the professors, and the hard work. The summer between
his second and third year he clerked for U.S. District Court Neal McCurn L’52 and sat in the courtroom during a number of trials. “I
watched a number of really good lawyers in his courtroom,” Johnson remembers. Originally planning on tax law, the daily courtroom
experience got him thinking more in the direction of litigation.
After graduation, “I felt the calling to come back home,” Johnson says. He started his career clerking with Court of Appeals Judge
Clarence Cooper, before joining the District Attorney’s office in Fulton County. In 2004 he won a hard-fought election for the position of
Superior Court Judge. He presided over a number of high-profile cases, including The State of Georgia v. Arthur Tesler, which involved
the killing of an elderly woman during a botched drug raid in 2006. The case led to an overhaul of the Atlanta police drug unit.
Another case that stands out in Johnson’s mind is the death penalty case of Emmanuel Hammond. In 1988, Johnson was a
sophomore in college when young pre-school teacher Julie Love went missing after her car ran out of gas in Atlanta. “I recall hearing
about this – it was a big deal,” Johnson said. After an ongoing, massive search, Love’s body was found a year later and Emmanuel
Hammond was convicted of the crime. In 2003, Johnson presided over Hammond’s case when he made a last-minute appeal to avoid
the death penalty. Johnson denied the appeal which eventually went on to the U.S. Supreme Court, where it was also denied.
Johnson stepped down from the bench in 2011 to challenge longtime Congressman John Lewis in the Democratic Primary for the
Fifth Congressional District of Georgia. While unsuccessful in that bid, Johnson remains passionate about politics and does not rule
out seeking office in the future. “I never say never,” he says.
In the meantime, he is thriving in his work in private practice and feels fortunate he pursued the law. “It has been a great career for
me,” Johnson says. “I have enjoyed the practice and all of the challenges it presents.”
1994
Mark M. Sandmann joined the law firm
of Hill, Hill, Carter and will be heading the
Kentucky office, focusing in the areas of
pharmaceutical fraud and antitrust. He
will also represent the interests of local,
regional and national health insurers in
mass tort litigation throughout the country.
1995
Ben Donovan has joined Chadbourne
& Parke, LLC as a partner in the Project
Finance Group in London. Donovan’s
practice focuses on project development
and finance, where he has represented
independent power producers, oil
and gas companies, government and
parastatal entities, investment funds,
lenders and other industry participants in
the development, acquisition, financing,
restructuring and divestiture of projects.
His knowledge and expertise encompasses
project financing and development in the
Americas, Europe, the Middle East, Africa
and Asia, with a particular emphasis on
projects in Africa, Central Asia and the
Middle East.
Joseph M. Di Scipio
is Senior Vice President,
Legal and FCC
Compliance, for Fox
Television Stations, Inc.
He is responsible for all
FCC regulatory matters
relating to the Fox owned-and-operated
television stations, and negotiating
retransmission consent agreements for the
stations.
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1996
Christine Woodcock
Dettor will be included
in the 22nd Edition of
The Best Lawyers in
America 2016.
Cressida A. Dixon has been selected by
her peers for inclusion in The Best Lawyers
2016. She is a member at Bond Schoeneck
& King, PLLC in Rochester, NY where she
concentrates her practice in the area of
Trusts and Estates.
Adam Forman joined
Epstein Becker Green
as a member of the
firm in their Chicago
and Metro Detroit
offices. A frequent
writer and national
lecturer on issues related to technology
in the workplace, such as social media,
Internet, and privacy issues facing
employers, Forman is often interviewed
by newspapers, radio, and legal blogs on
those topics.
Brian Laudadio has been selected by his
peers for inclusion in The Best Lawyers
2016. He is a member Bond Schoeneck
& King, PLLC in Syracuse where he
concentrates his practice in the area of
Litigation.
George R. McGuire has been selected
by his peers for inclusion in The Best
Lawyers 2016. He is a member at Bond
Schoeneck & King, PLLC in Syracuse
where he concentrates his practice in
the area of Intellectual Property and
Technology.
Marnin J. Michaels
was named to the
management team of
the Zurich office at Baker
& McKenzie. He has
been practicing for more
than 15 years in the areas
of tax and international private banking
and also handles insurance matters
relating to tax investigations and wealth
management. Marnin is widely regarded
as one of the world’s leading wealth
management lawyers.
John G. Powers
has been selected for
inclusion in Upstate
New York Super Lawyers
for 2015. Powers is a
partner in the litigation
practice of Hancock
Estabrook, LLP.
Stephen S. Wentsler
was recently named
the Best Lawyers’ 2017
Cleveland Patent Law
“Lawyer of the Year.”
Only a single lawyer in
each practice in each
community is honored as the “Lawyer of
the Year.” A 1996 College of Law graduate,
Wentsler has over 15 years of experience
preparing and prosecuting patents in
the mechanical, electro-mechanical,
glass manufacturing and ceramic arts
industries. Wentsler is the principal at
Wentsler, LLC in Mentor, Ohio.
Susan C. Yu was
recently interviewed for
the online publication of
Litigation Commentary
and Review in an article
titled “20 Questions
with California Fellow
Susan C. Yu.” She recently served on the
California State Bar’s Commission on
Judicial Nominees Evaluation. Yu is a
partner in the firm of Mesereau & Yu, LLP
located in Los Angeles, CA.
1997
C. Athena Roussos
was recently elected
to membership in the
California Academy
of Appellate Lawyers.
The Academy is the
nation’s oldest lawyers’
organization dedicated to appellate
practice with roughly 100 active members.
Members are elected to membership after
rigorous scrutiny of their skill in advocacy
before the appellate courts. Members
must have been a member of the
California Bar for at least 10 years, been
lead counsel in at least 25 appeals or writ
proceedings, and orally argued at least 15
appeals or writs.
Brad Birmingham
has been named to
Business First’s WNY
Legal Elite. He is a
partner in the Buffalo,
NY office of Hodgson
Russ, LLP.
Laura H.
Harshbarger has
been selected by her
peers for inclusion
in The Best Lawyers
2016. She is a member
of the management
committee of Bond, Schoeneck & King,
PLLC and serves as an employment
and higher education attorney who
advises clients on a variety of issues,
including Title VII, Title IX and the ADA,
and represents clients in federal and
state courts and before federal and
state administrative agencies. In 2013,
Governor Cuomo appointed her to serve
as Chair of the Fourth Department Judicial
Screening Committee and as a member
of the Governor’s State Judicial Screening
Committee. She is also chair of the firm’s
Diversity Committee.
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ALUMNI SPOTLIGHT | KATHIA CASION L’98
While Kathia Casion L’98 admires
people who have a dream to pursue
a specific career and go for it – she
is grateful for her own winding path
to become an attorney. The Director
of the Civil Division of the Legal Aid
Society of Rochester, Casion is proud
of the solid work the organization
does for the Rochester community.
Casion grew up in Syosset, NY
and first pursued hotel and restaurant
management in college. At one point,
she wanted to drop out, as she was
uninspired. Her parents insisted
that she continue her schooling
and she switched to the field of education. “I developed a love for it,”
she says. After graduation, Casion taught young children, many with
special needs. She is bilingual and taught English to Spanish-speaking
children. Their parents, who were generally low-income, often needed
help and that is where Casion’s trail to law school began.
She worked with Spanish-speaking families, helping complete
paperwork such as school and medical forms. She realized that truly
helping her students required working with the entire family. Then
Casion asked herself – should her next step be social work or a law
degree?
“I thought I could accomplish more being a lawyer,” she
remembers. “I felt I could have more of an impact on families.”
The College of Law was a challenge for Casion. “It was steep
learning curve,” she says. “I became a more disciplined student. I had
to be more focused.” She loved a course in real estate law taught by
Professor Laura Lape. She remembers wondering if she was excited
about the topic, or just enthused about the class, “because she was an
amazing professor.”
Casion was drawn to the Rochester area by her husband, Joseph
Casion L’99, a native Rochesterian. He is a partner at Harter Secrest
& Emery where he practices corporate and tax law. Upon moving to
Rochester, Casion zeroed in on Legal Aid of Rochester, and was hired
to work in the education area. There, Casion met fellow College of Law
alumna Carla Palumbo L’82, who has worked for Legal Aid for 25 years
and became CEO in December 2014. “In the short time since taking
over, she has changed the whole dynamic here with her vision for
the agency moving forward,” Casion says. Beyond that, she says that
Palumbo has been an important mentor and role model.
After working in the education area, Casion moved on to housing.
Now, as Director of the Civil Division, she manages 42 staff members,
all of whom work with clients in crisis, dealing with family law,
immigration, education, housing and credit issues. The Civil Division
provides education classes for first-time homebuyers, which was
crucial during the housing bubble of the early 2000s, when mortgages
became available for some people who could not afford a home. “Of
all of the real estate closings we have done since 2002, we have only
had two foreclosures,” she says.
It’s a proud statement for Casion, who says she has found the
perfect fit for her education, her training and her passion. She is
confident the work she is doing is important. “The services we provide
create stability in the community,” she says. In terms of her career,
she says law school was the right choice – even if it was not her first
inclination.
“I am not afraid to make a change. That attitude has given me a
lot of opportunities.”
1998
Dominic S. DePersis was appointed by
New York State Bar Association President
Glenn Lau-Kee as a member of the NYSBA
President’s Committee on Access to Justice.
Ayana M. Rivers was promoted to
special counsel at Kasowitz, Benson, Torres
& Friedman, LLP in the firm’s New York
office. Rivers’ practice focuses on complex
commercial litigation, including class actions,
securities and antitrust disputes.
Phyllis Widman is
pleased to announce the
opening of Widman Law
Firm, LLC in Neptune, New
Jersey. Her practice focuses
on vaccine injury cases, as
well as medical malpractice,
auto accidents, slip and fall/trip and fall claims
and dog bites. Widman is also a private and
court-appointed mediator in several counties
in New Jersey.
1999
Christopher Burns
was named one of the
2016 Super Lawyers and
Rising Stars for the state
of Minnesota for his
outstanding work in Estate
Planning, especially in
the areas of Trusts and Probates. Burns is a
Shareholder at Henson & Efron and chairs
the Estate Planning, Trust and Probate Practice
Group. He is also active in the management
of Henson & Efron, as a member of the firm’s
Compensation Committee.
Lucrecia M. Davis has
joined Jackson Lewis P.C.
in their Houston office
as Shareholder. Davis
joins Jackson Lewis from
Fragomen, Del Rey, Bernsen
& Loewy, LLP, where she
spent almost 15 years practicing in the field of
corporate immigration and nationality law.
Katherine K. Martin has been named
Associate Director in the Securities and
Exchange Commission Office of International
Affairs. As Associate Director, Martin oversees
the development of the SEC’s policy on
cross-border regulatory matters, including its
participation in multilateral standard-setting
bodies and its bilateral dialogues with foreign
authorities. Martin has served in various
roles at the SEC for more than a decade,
most recently as an Assistant Director in the
Office of International Affairs and prior to
that as a Senior Special Counsel in the Office
of Clearance and Settlement in the Division
of Trading and Markets. She also has been
an Assistant Chief Counsel in the Division
of Economic and Risk Analysis and a Senior
Counsel in the Office of International Affairs.
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2000
Mark A. Kaiman
has been selected as
a Washington Super
Lawyer for 2015. Kaiman
is a partner at Lustick
Kaiman & Madrone,
PLLC in Bellingham,
Washington. His practice focusses on
federal and state criminal defense, as well
as military defense matters and courtsmartial.
Kaiman also sits as a regular
Judge Pro Tempore in the Whatcom
County District Court.
2001
Amanda Mercier
has been appointed to
the Georgia State Court
of Appeals by Governor
Nathan Deal effective
January 1, 2016. Mercier
is Georgia Superior
Court Judge.
Nichelle A. (Brooks)
Mullins was recently
appointed as the
President and Chief
Executive Officer of
Charter Oak Health
Center, Inc. in Hartford
Connecticut. Charter Oak Health Center
is a federally qualified health center
that provides care to more than 20,000
patients annually. It has an operating
budget of $20 million.
Debra A. Verni joined the Herzog Law
Firm as an attorney in December 2004.
She became a partner in 2008. Her
practice is concentrated in the areas of
Estate Administration, Estate and Tax
planning, Elder Law, Corporate Law and
Real Estate.
2002
Brian Rich was
selected for inclusion
in Super Lawyers’
2015 Rising Stars
List. Rich, a partner
in the Hartford office
of the firm Halloran
& Sage, LLP, regularly represents both
corporate and individual clients in a variety
of business and commercial disputes,
including real estate litigation, mortgage
resolution, fraud and tort related matters.
He also represents financial institutions
in contested foreclosure matters and in
the defense of lender liability and unfair
business claims.
David B. Snyder was selected to the 40
under FORTY class of 2015. This awards
program recognizes young professionals
in the Central New York region for
excelling in the workplace and for giving
back to their community. The Snyder Law
Firm is located in North Syracuse, NY.
Mary Elizabeth
“Beth” Williams
has been appointed
director of Stanford
Law School’s Robert
Crown Law Library.
She was director of
the law library and information services
at Louisiana State University Law Center
from 2011 to 2015. Williams writes about
law librarianship and legal research and
is an active member of the American
Association of Law Libraries. Prior to her
position at Louisiana State University
Law Center, she worked at Columbia Law
School for six years, where she served as
head of public services and taught legal
research.
2003
John B. Dunlap was elected to the Board
of the Directors for the San Diego Deputy
District Attorneys Association. Dunlap has
served a Deputy District Attorney in San
Diego County, CA since 2012.
Brent J. Horton has
been appointed a
tenured member of the
Faculty of Business at
Fordham University.
He teaches courses in
business law, business
associations and corporate and securities
law. Horton also teaches corporate and
securities law at Peking University in
Beijing, China, as part of Fordham’s
Master of Science in investor relations, a
joint degree program.
Jonathan Kelson was recognized as part
of the 2015 Connecticut Super Lawyers list
for his work in business litigation. Each
year, no more than 5 percent of the lawyers
in the state are selected to receive this
honor. Kelson is a partner in the Litigation
Department of Diserio Martin O’Connor
& Castiglioni LLP.
Cisco Palao-Ricketts
has been elected as a
partner at DLA Piper
LLP. He concentrates
his practice in executive
compensation with an
emphasis on mergers
and acquisitions and is located in the East
Palo Alto, California office.
Karyn Riley was the recipient of
the Association of Junior Leagues
International 2015 Rising Star Award,
the Association’s highest award for
individual members. The awards, which
recognize and celebrate emerging leaders
from within the 292 independent Junior
Leagues, were made at AJLI’s 93rd Annual
Conference in Los Angeles.
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MaryTeresa Soltis
has been recognized by
The Legal Intelligencer
as a “Lawyer on the Fast
Track.” Nominees were
judged on four areas:
development of the law,
advocacy & community contribution, peer
& public recognition and service to the bar.
Soltis is a member of the Cozen O’Connor
in the firm’s Commercial Litigation Group,
and concentrates her practice in product
liability and complex tort matters.
John P. Vacalis was
selected as a member
of The Robert W. Calvert
American Inn of Court.
Vacalis is a Partner in
Thompson & Knight’s
Trial Practice Group
in the Firm’s Austin office. His practice
focuses on complex business, mortgage
banking, oil and gas, and commercial
litigation matters. He has been selected
for inclusion in Texas Rising Stars by
Thomson Reuters (2007, 2015). In addition
to his involvement with The Robert W.
Calvert American Inn of Court, Vacalis is
an active member of the Dell Children’s
Trust. The American Inns of Court is an
association of lawyers, judges, and other
legal professionals from all levels and
backgrounds who share a passion for
professional excellence.
Derick C. Villanueva
took time off from
his law practice
and volunteered for
deployment overseas
aboard the USS Mt.
Whitney (LCC-20)
assisting in Ballistic Missile Defense
strategies and contingency operations
for Israel and Eastern Europe. Apart from
his military career, Villanueva is a sole
practicing attorney in Atlanta, Georgia and
was recently recognized by Super Lawyers
as a “Rising Star” in the fields of personal
injury, bankruptcy and real estate matters.
Villanueva was also selected as Top 40
Under 40 by the American Society of Legal
Advocates for 2016.
2004
Michael A. Fogel has
been selected to the
40 under FORTY class
of 2015. This awards
program recognizes
young professionals in
the Central New York
region for excelling in the workplace and
for giving back to their community. Fogel is
a Partner at Brown Sharlow Duke & Fogel,
PC in Syracuse.
Maeghan Hurley, President, MKM
Distribution Services, was renewed for a
three-year term as a Board member for
the Julian Center, whose mission is to
empower survivors of domestic and sexual
violence and end the generational cycle of
violence.
Rick Shearer was elected to the
partnership in the Kansas City, MO office
of Shook, Hardy & Bacon. He represents
clients in complex commercial litigation
in state and federal courts throughout the
country and in arbitrations.
Karen S. Southwick was honored by
the New York State Bar Association and
their Department of Pro Bono Affairs at
their 2015 National Pro Bono Access to
Justice Recognition Ceremony. The award
honors attorneys for outstanding pro bono
services assisting low income individuals
with civil legal services.
Joy Woller, a partner in the Litigation
Practice Group at Lewis Roca Rothgerber
Christie, LLP, was one of the Denver
Business Journal’s 40 Under 40 award
winners for 2016.
2006
Victor Alsobrook has taken his
talents, experience and legal education
to entrepreneurial ventures in food,
spirits, hospitality and marketing. First in
Hospitality Marketing in Los Angeles and
now back on the East Coast in Boston,
taking a controlling interest in a renowned
catering company with a history that spans
over 35 years. With two partners, they are
sharpening, re-shaping and cultivating
La Bonne Maison for a greater and more
expansive future.
James Bandoblu,
Jr. has been elected
to the partnership of
Hodgson Russ. Based
in the Buffalo office as
a member of the Tax
Dispute Resolution,
International Tax, and Business Tax
Practices, Bandoblu focuses his practice
on federal and international tax matters.
He regularly represents clients before the
IRS and state taxing authorities, from audit
to administrative appeal, and before the
U.S. Tax Court, to favorably resolve their tax
controversies.
Nella M. Bloom is
the managing partner
at Bloom & Bloom,
LLC in Philadelphia,
PA. She focuses her
practice on representing
corporate clients.
Prior to starting Bloom & Bloom, LLC,
Bloom was an associate at mid-sized
firms in the Philadelphia area including
Flaster/Greenberg, P.C., where she
worked out of the Philadelphia, Cherry
Hill, and Wilmington offices, focusing
on bankruptcy work and litigation, and
building on her real estate, business law,
and administrative law skills.
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ALUMNI SPOTLIGHT | HEATHER SCHRODER MORAWSKI L’07
As an undergraduate at Sacred
Heart University in Fairfield,
Connecticut, Heather Schroder
Morawski L’07 majored in
business, and was very involved
in politics. During an externship
at a state senator’s office
during her junior year, she had
a revelation: “Anybody who was
making anything happen in state
government was a lawyer,” she
says. Upon completion of the
externship, she switched her
major to political science, and
set her sights on law school. Morawski came to Syracuse and
thrived at the College of Law, serving as Student Bar Association
Vice President and President, as well as a class senator in her
respective three years.
She was dually enrolled in the Maxwell School of Citizenship
and Public Affairs, and received a master in public administration
concurrent with her law degree. “To me it seemed like a great
supplement,” Morawski says. “It allowed me to have government
and political awareness, together with my newfound capabilities
of legal writing and reasoning.”
Morawski is now senior legal counsel, North America, for
Robert Bosch LLC, a leading global supplier of technology and
services. She works in the mergers and acquisitions group of the
global legal department in Bosch’s North American headquarters
in Farmington Hills, Michigan. “I really love my job,” she says.
“There is always a different project, a new challenge. You get to
know a new business, a new company and new people.”
Upon graduating from the College of Law, Morawski worked
in a New York City firm for a year before joining ATMI, Inc., a
semiconductor company headquartered in Danbury, Connecticut.
She says she is grateful that her manager at ATMI allowed her
to grow professionally, with increasing responsibilities. After six
years, she was deeply involved in the legal work that needed to
be completed to sell the company to Entegris. While she says
it was difficult, because the company had become like family to
her, the timing seemed to be right since her husband wanted to
move to Michigan for his family’s business.
Morawski has been a strong supporter of the College of
Law, naming the Student Bar Association room in Dineen Hall.
She is an active member of the Syracuse University Law Alumni
Association, and enjoys talking with both young alumni and
prospective students.
A favorite story she often shares took place even before
Morawski herself enrolled. When looking at law schools, she read
about and was intrigued by the work being done by Professor
William Banks, Director of the Institute for National Security and
Counterterrorism. She had just submitted her application when
she called Banks and he agreed to meet with her.
“I didn’t know what kind of lawyer I wanted to be,”
Morawski remembers. “Even though I was not even admitted
yet, he talked to me—about the school, about the classes, about
what I could do,” she says. “It was such a great reflection of what
kind of place the College of Law is.” She left the meeting with
one thought: “I want to be at this school.”
Morawski says she had similar experiences of faculty
support and interest throughout her time at the College of Law,
as well as an alumna, and that is why she can recommend The
College of Law so strongly. “I can tell prospective students they
will receive a personalized legal education. The professors and
administration are committed to the future and welfare of the
students,” she says. “It is such a great atmosphere to learn the
law.”
2006
Christine N. Epres is an in-house
attorney with Robert Half International
Inc. in Menlo Park, CA. She handles a
variety of commercial transactions, as well
as corporate and compliance matters for
the company. She and her husband Phil
Yeager reside in Santa Clara, CA.
Zachary M. Mattison
was promoted to
partner at Hancock
Estabrook, LLP in
Syracuse in the firm’s
Litigation Practice.
Mattison’s practice
focuses on commercial, construction,
banking and personal injury litigation
matters for healthcare facilities, hospitals,
municipalities, accounting firms,
manufacturers and individuals.
Brian A. Pulito had a law review article
published in the Texas A &M Law Review
titled: A State of Mind: Determining Bad
Faith in Trespasses to Oil and Gas: A
Call to Courts to Apply A True Subjective
Analysis to Determine Whether A
Trespasser to an Oil and Gas Estate
Trespasses in Good or Bad Faith, 2 Tex.
A&M L. Rev. 53 (2014). He is member
at Steptoe & Johnson PLLC in their
Meadville, PA office.
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2006
Carrie Sarhangi
was named a partner
at Montgomery
McCracken where
she focuses her
practice on white
collar and government
investigations and complex commercial
litigation. She serves as an editor of
the firm’s White Collar Alert blog and is
committed to pro bono work through her
involvement with the Homeless Advocacy
Project and the Eastern District Prisoner
Reentry Program. Sarhangi has been
recognized by Super Lawyers as a “Rising
Star” in the area of White Collar Defense
in Pennsylvania.
Evan D. Schein
was named partner
at Berkman Bottger
Newman & Rodd, LLP
where he practices
matrimonial and family
law. The firm is one
of the largest family law firms in New
York City and the only firm in NYC that
specializes in litigation, collaborative law
and mediation.
Jared Turner was appointed as Chief
Operating Officer of Young Living
Essential Oils, LC, where he has worked
as an executive leader since 2012,
establishing international expansion and
infrastructure.
2007
Antonio L. Diaz-Albertini was hired
by law firm Schulte Roth & Zabel. SRZ
is expanding its Finance Group by hiring
Diaz-Albertini as a special counsel in the
firm’s New York office. Diaz-Albertini
comes to SRZ from Cahill Gordon &
Reindel LLP. He joins SRZ with extensive
experience advising private equity
funds, global investment banking firms,
commercial banks and public and private
corporations in finance transactions,
including syndicated credit facilities, the
issuance of secured and unsecured highyield
debt securities and the issuance of
equity securities.
2008
Jeffrey N. Rosenthal
has been appointed
to the Audit and
Finance Committee
of Philadelphia Legal
Assistance (“PLA”)
and Community Legal
Services (“CLS”). Rosenthal has been an
active volunteer with both organizations,
and previously served as the 2015 Board
Observer through The Philadelphia Bar
Association’s Board Observer Program.
M. Salman Ravala, a
member of Criscione,
Ravala & Tabatchouk,
LLP in New York, NY
has been named as
a 2015 Super Lawyer
Rising Stars. Ravala
concentrates his practice representing
business owners and foreign investors
with their contracts and commercial
litigation needs in New York State and
Federal Courts, and in front of the Internal
Revenue Service. In October 2015, he was
quoted during a United States Senate
Judiciary Committee testimony discussing
regulations and their impact on minority
owned businesses.
2011
Daryl S. Baginski
was featured in an
article entitled “A Spy’s
Guide to Protecting
Whistleblowers” in
the July 2015 edition
of In These Times
Magazine. Baginski is managing member
of Clandestine Reporters Working
Group, LLC (CRWG), a private company
that teaches intelligence tradecraft
to journalists through seminars and
workshops in criminal procedure and
intelligence, designed for journalists
and human rights workers running
confidential sources.
Jaime J. Hunsicker
has been selected as
an Upstate New York
Super Lawyer – Rising
Star for 2015. Hunsicker
is an associate in the
Elder Law & Special
Needs, Tax and Trusts & Estates Practices
of Hancock Estabrook, LLP.
2012
Jennifer L. Aronson has joined the
Rochester office of Tully Rinckey, PLLC
where she concentrates her practice on
federal labor and employment law and
family and matrimonial law. Aronson
regularly represents clients who have been
subjected to discrimination or who have
been denied overtime pay or minimum
wages. She also regularly represents
spouses in divorce cases, parents in
custody cases and children as an Attorney
for the Child.
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ALUMNI SPOTLIGHT | UPNIT BHATTI L’15
The parents of Upnit Bhatti
L’15 seemed to have spotted
something in their daughter early
on. Bhatti laughs at the memory.
“They’d say to me, you talk a lot,
you argue a lot. You should be a
lawyer.” As a child Bhatti loved
any movie with a lawyer in it.
From the age of five, she says she
knew it was the career for her. “It
wasn’t an informed decision,”
she says, “but it was a good
decision.”
Bhatti is currently serving a
one-year clerkship with Judge Theodore McKee L’75 of the Third
Circuit Court of Appeals in Philadelphia. At the conclusion of
her clerkship, she plans to return to Bond, Schoeneck & King in
Syracuse, where she began her career in 2015.
A native of Liverpool, NY Bhatti received her bachelor’s
degree from the University of Toronto. She was anxious to finish
her undergraduate degree, she says, because she could not wait
to study law. “Law school was more than I hoped for. The first
year I cried every other day because it was so hard. But I loved
it. I got incredible support from SU Law and I made friends for a
lifetime.”
Originally, Bhatti thought she would pursue business
law. But her Contracts professor, Gregory Germain, thought
differently. “He told me, ’Trust me, you are going to be a
litigator.’” Bhatti went on to be Germain’s research assistant. She
thrived in a Torts class, taught by Professor Peter Bell. “Professor
Bell taught me how to think,” she says. “He pushed me. He
would keep asking, ’But why, Upnit?’”
At the College of Law, Bhatti was the Managing Editor of
Syracuse Law Review, a member of the Moot Court Honor Society,
a volunteer for the Onondaga County Bar Association Talk-to-a-
Lawyer clinic, as well as a Diversity Ambassador, encouraging
and working with minority students. Diversity is a cause near and
dear to her heart. She was a young girl on 9/11, and her family
felt the devastating effects first-hand.
Her family, who immigrated to the U.S. from India, is
Sikh and belonged to the Sikh Temple in Central Square,
Gobind Sadan Interfaith Center, where her grandfather was the
chairperson. It was a second home for her, Bhatti recalls. Within
two months of 9/11, three teenagers set the temple on fire, under
the mistaken belief that people who belonged to the temple,
who wear turbans, were terrorists and followers of Osama bin
Ladin. While the community was devastated, Bhatti said that her
grandfather saw a sliver of hope in the fire. “People will get to
know us now,” he said.
Bhatti keeps the lessons from her family close to her heart.
“My mother says to me, ’You need to show the world you can
do something – not as Indians, not as Americans, but as Sikhs.’
That is my mindset now. To show that I am capable and I am
here to help the community.”
An early court experience for Bhatti was a Pro Bono case. “It
was a huge responsibility,” she said. She enjoyed the challenge of
explaining the case to her client, and communicating to the court
for him, which she says he probably could not have done on
his own. “I love making a case, making a good, valid argument,
proving a point,” Bhatti says. “That is my thing.”
2014
Gracie Wright joined the White Plains
office of Wilson Elser and represents
corporations, institutions and private
individuals in business disputes involving
claims of breach of contract, tortious
interference, trade secrets and other
matters in pre-litigation negotiations and
motion practice through discovery, trial,
and subsequent appeals.
2015
Cameron T. Bernard has joined the
Bousquet Holstein, PLLC as an Associate
Attorney and will focus
his practice in Employee
Benefits, Qualified
Domestic Relations
Orders (QDROs), Tax
Law, and Business
Transactions. Cameron
served as a Law Student Associate at
Bousquet Holstein in 2014.
Katherine E. De Maria has joined the
Bronx District Attorney’s Office.
Brian Laudadio has been selected by his
peers for inclusion in The Best Lawyers
2016. He is a member Bond Schoeneck
& King, PLLC in Syracuse where he
concentrates his practice in the area of
Litigation.
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CLASS NOTES
ALUMNI SPOTLIGHT | ROULA JNEID LL.M.’15
Following in her father’s
footsteps to be a lawyer always
seemed to be in the cards for
Roula Jneid as she was always
fascinated and interested in her
father’s long and successful
legal career. Jneid did just as she
always envisioned, graduating
from the University of Aleppo
with her Bachelor of Laws
degree which led her to being an
independent lawyer in the Syrian
Arab Republic, handing criminal,
civil, administrative, personal
statutory, commercial and international law, along with writing
frequently on the law and volunteering to help orphans with
disabilities.
Her career was placed in upheaval in March of 2011, as
the Syrian war erupted. She left Syria and came to the United
States and Syracuse where her brother was a student at Syracuse
University. While in America, she was selected for an Open
Society Foundation Civil Society Leadership Award in 2014. “This
was not only an honor, but it also enabled me to successfully
complete my Masters of Law at Syracuse University College of
Law.”
The LL.M. program at the College of Law helped Jneid
satisfy her desire to better understand and appreciate different
legal perspectives. Aside from the College of Law being a partner
of the Open Society Foundation, one reason Jneid selected
Syracuse for her degree was the fact that the program allowed
her to specialize in what she desired to do. She chose to focus
on human rights and disability law.
“It provided me with an exceptional learning experience. I
gained exposure to different areas of law and to different areas
of expertise, especially with my focus on human rights, refugees
and disability laws, which was the first step in achieving my
ultimate goal of helping Syria,” reflects Jneid.
Jneid notes that her time as a student at the College
of Law was highlighted by many professional and personal
interactions with faculty, staff and fellow students. This included
an opportunity to attend the Conference of States Parties to the
Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities at the
United Nations.
After graduating in May of 2015, Jneid decided to remain in
the Syracuse area and put her legal training and desire to help
refugees into practice. She is currently a Refugee Employment
Specialist with Catholic Charities of Onondaga County’s Refugee
Resettlement Program. A key part of her job is to help refugees
find jobs, through skills assessments, education on employment
within the U.S., preparing for job interviews and maintaining
relationships with a variety of employers in the area.
The year Jneid spent in the LL.M. program at the College
of Law profoundly influenced her and helped direct her career.
“The program put me on the right direction, not just because of
the classes I chose, but also the knowledge that I gained from
meeting with intelligent, educated and experienced people, and
getting the opportunity to discuss my thoughts with them and
listen to their views and great ideas.”
As she provides valuable help to refugees resettling to the
Syracuse area, Jneid continues to think of ways to help refugees,
particularly those with disabilities, around the world, through
raising awareness and strategies to improve their situations.
“There is much I want to do to help the world’s refugees,” she
explains. “Today, I am proud to be making an impact here in
Syracuse but I dream of bigger things.”
What’s New With You?
Alumni are encouraged to submit information on personal
and professional accomplishments for the Class Notes section
of Syracuse Law.
Please send your information via e-mail to:
su-law@law.syr.edu
or via U.S. mail to:
Syracuse University College of Law, Office of Advancement,
Suite 402, 950 Irving Avenue, Syracuse, NY 13244.
We look forward to hearing from you.
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Greetings College of Law Alumni,
As the College of Law’s new Assistant
Dean for Advancement and External
Affairs, I am delighted to introduce
myself to you. In the few months I’ve
been on board, I’ve met a number of
you and I appreciate the warm welcome
and encouragement you’ve extended to
me. Your generosity and commitment
to our mission are truly astounding. I
am looking forward to meeting more
of you, our distinguished alumni, either at an upcoming regional
event or at Dineen Hall. I also want to thank Alex Epsilanty, who has
helped to make my transition a smooth one. I’ve enjoyed getting
to know the whole team and together, we are excited to continue to
advance the mission.
As we look ahead, Dean Boise and I are imagining new ways of
communicating with our alumni and conveying all that the College
of Law, our staff, students, faculty and alumni are accomplishing.
A number of options are being discussed, including a suite of
publications that focus on the successes of our alumni and
their stories, our academic programs and advancements, and
our students, and a dedicated annual report of giving. Our new
approach will reflect your feedback on how best to keep you
informed about current events at the College of Law.
Please contact or stop by the Office of Advancement and External
Affairs at any time with your thoughts and ideas. We welcome your
feedback. Thank you for your continued support and engagement.
I look forward to meeting and working with each and every one of
you!
Sincerely,
Sophie Dagenais
Syracuse Law 2016 Honorees
Susan C. Yu L’96
In recognition of her distinguished career,
outstanding commitment to clients, and
community-building achievements
Hon. William J. Fitzpatrick Jr. ’74, L’76
In recognition of his distinguished
public service to the People of the State of
New York, and his distinguished community
service to Syracuse and Onondaga County
> Call for Nominations for the 2017 Syracuse Law Honors Medal
The Law Honors Committee of the Syracuse University Law Alumni
Association seeks nominations for the 2017 Syracuse Law Honors
Medals to be awarded during Law Alumni Reunion Weekend next
Fall. The awards celebrate “distinguished achievements in any field
of endeavor” by members of the Syracuse Law family—alumni,
current and former faculty and staff, students, parents and friends—
for service to the College of Law, the legal profession, Syracuse
University, or the world at large. The award may honor achievements
of any kind by any members of the College of Law community; they
are not limited just to a recipient’s professional life or particular legal
accomplishments. Nominations may be submitted through
the Syracuse Law Honors page on the College of Law website:
law.syr.edu/alumni-friends/syracuse-law-annual-alumni-awards.
The deadline for nominations is June 30, 2017.
Hon. Frederick J. Scullin Jr. L’64
In recognition of his distinguished
lifelong career in public service and his
commitment to the community
Dean Craig Boise; 2016 Law Honorees Hon. William J. Fitzpatrick Jr. 74, L’76
and Hon. Frederick J. Scullin Jr. L’64; SULAA President Carey Ng L’02
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College of Law Thanks Alex Epsilanty L’92 as She Takes New Role
at Syracuse University
The College of Law
bid goodbye in April
to Alexandra Epsilanty
L’92, who has dedicated
the last 20 years of her
career to the college
and its students. But
she won’t be far away.
Epsilanty has been
appointed Associate
Vice President
for International
Engagement for
Syracuse University.
In her new role,
Epsilanty will create
and implement a strategy for the engagement, cultivation,
solicitation and stewardship of alumni, friends, parents and
donors, primarily outside of the United States.
Epsilanty served the College of Law in a number of key positions,
including Assistant Dean of Career Services, Senior Director of
Annual Programs and Assistant Dean of Advancement. She was
instrumental in raising $40 million for the building of Dineen
Hall, the state-of-the-art facility now considered one of the
premier law school facilities in the country.
Many co-workers, alumni and students have all been impacted
by Epsilanty’s dedication and commitment to the school,
her work ethic, and her sincere interest in others’ education,
experiences and careers.
“Alex touched, impacted, guided, prodded, counseled, mentored
and listened to more students and alumni than any other person
at the College of Law over the last 20 years,” said Joseph Di
Scipio L’95 Vice President Legal and FCC Compliance for Fox
Television Station. “More important, Alex is a lifelong friend. She
helped me immensely beginning more than 20 years ago and
has kept me tied to and involved with the law school.”
“SHE LED BY EXAMPLE,
ENSURING EACH AND EVERY
ALUMNI FELT CONNECTED TO
OUR NETWORK. EACH PROJECT
SHE EMBRACED WAS EXECUTED
WITH GREAT SKILL AND
ATTENTION TO DETAIL.”
Marc A. Malfitano L’78
Chair, Board of Advisors
Syracuse University College of Law
Epsilanty earned a bachelor of science degree from Boston
University’s Questrom School of Business, cum laude, and
began her career at Xerox Corp., where she held various sales
and sales management leadership positions and was recognized
for her sales performance. She later earned a juris doctor degree
from Syracuse University’s College of Law and practiced law in
Philadelphia.
Marc A. Malfitano L’78, Chair of the Board of Advisors, reflects:
“I can’t say it any other way; Alex is a living legend. For years,
Alex committed herself to the College of Law in many important
roles. She led by example, ensuring each and every alumni felt
connected to our network. Each project she embraced was
executed with great skill and attention to detail. This was never
more evident than during the planning, fundraising and opening
of Dineen Hall. Alex’s contact list is endless. A phone call from
Alex opened the door to summer jobs and placement of many
of our graduates. A recommendation from Alex always means
something. Alex is persistent in attitude, strategic in thinking,
and sincere in manner. A part of Alex will always be connected to
the College of Law, but we know that the University will benefit
from her skills in her new role. Thank you, Alex.”
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The Grossman Family Continues its Support of the College of Law
For the Grossman
family of Syracuse,
pride in Syracuse
and loyalty to the
College of Law
runs deep. While
Lionel Grossman
L’1916 received
his law degree
over a century ago, his philanthropic legacy endures, and the
Grossman family continues to make impactful gifts to help the
city and residents of Syracuse as well as the College of Law and
its students.
In the 1970s, Dr. Murray Grossman A&S’43 MED’45 and his
brother Richard Grossman A&S’51 L’55 were trying to figure out
an 80th birthday gift for their father. “He was a man who didn’t
want or need gifts,” Murray Grossman says. Wanting to honor
their father and his dedication to his profession, the two decided
to contact the College of Law. They chose to fund a moot court
competition, which has been known for decades as the Lionel
O. Grossman Trial Competition. It occurs every October, offering
second and third-year law students the opportunity to practice
their trial skills. Each team of two students represents a fictional
client involved in a lawsuit. Students deliver opening arguments,
lead direct-examinations and cross-examinations and provide
closing arguments.
Since its inception, a Grossman family member has always
attended the annual competition. “It’s always very interesting,”
Murray Grossman says. “The students are impressive. And the
new law school is magnificent.”
Richard Grossman passed away last summer, having worked
in private practice for 60 years, focusing on litigation, white-collar
criminal cases and corporate law. He was a columnist for the
Syracuse Post Standard for more than a decade with a column
“As a Matter of Law.”
Murray Grossman, who lives in Fayetteville, NY, says that
even though his father and his uncle Sidney Grossman L’28 were
both accomplished attorneys, law did not appeal to him. “I didn’t
consider it not even for one minute,” he laughs. “My mind couldn’t
wrap around the legal world.” He chose a career in medicine,
instead, working as a cardiologist and retiring as a professor
from the Department of Medicine at SUNY Upstate in 1999.
Lionel Grossman’s first wife and the mother of Murray
and Richard Grossman, Clara Fitzer Grossman, died young
and Lionel Grossman remarried several years later. He and his
second wife Anita had two daughters, Faith and Susan. At birth,
Faith was diagnosed with cerebral palsy. She would need aroundthe-clock
care for her entire life. The year was 1943, and there
was little therapy or treatment for children with cerebral palsy
or support for families. Lionel and Anita founded the Syracuse
Cerebral Palsy Clinic, which is now ENABLE and serves 3,000
children and adults with disabilities in the Syracuse area each year.
Faith Grossman died in 2007. Shortly afterwards, Murray
Grossman and his family reached out to the College of Law,
looking for a way to memorialize Faith. Murray’s son Brian
Grossman, a fund manager in the San Francisco area, and
daughter Sarah Leonard L’07 a strategy consultant in Deloitte
Consulting’s Federal Practice, remember their aunt as a strong
and determined person. Brian said it took patience sometimes to
understand her, but the effort was always worth it. “She was really
sharp and smart. She had a high emotional intelligence,” Brian
Grossman says.
The Grossmans connected with Associate Professor Michael
Schwartz, who teaches clinical skills and disability law at the
College of Law and also directs the Disability Rights Clinic,
which provides free legal assistance to anyone in the community
needing legal help in the area of disability law. The family decided
to fund a summer internship for the program, open to students
interested in pursuing disability law. The summer intern staffs the
Disability Law Clinic, enabling it to stay open year round.
Sarah Leonard recognizes the progress that has been made
in the field of disability over the years, but noted there is still
much more work to be done. Her aunt, she says, was born in
an era when many assumed, because her aunt was physically
disabled, she was mentally disabled, as well. “Had she been born
today she would have been able to do so much more. She was
incredibly intelligent.”
Brian Grossman says he is proud the family continues to
support the College of Law. “My perspective is that the University
was such a big part of our family. And more and more it plays a
bigger role with the community. If we can find ways to support
the university, and the community, and a cause we care about…
it’s a win, win, win.”
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IN MEMORIAM
1940’s
Col. John Arthur McLaughlin 1941
James K. Gustafson 1945
A. William Larson 1948
Robert M. Quigley 1949
1950’s
William H. Burns Jr. 1950
Kenneth V. Kouwe 1950
James Edward Wilber 1950
Raymond W. Hackbarth 1951
William Shankland Andrews 1952
Hon. Richard J. Cardamone 1952
Beverly A. Michaels 1953
John J. Costello 1954
Leslie Hildreth Deming 1955
Dean J. Fero 1956
Burton Lowitz 1956
James Haver O’Connor 1957
1970’s
Christopher D. Armstrong 1971
James Patrick McDonald 1971
Stephen J. Vollmer 1971
Thomas M. Dailey 1972
George W. Clarke 1976
Gary C. Callaway 1979
Joseph W. LaFay Jr. 1979
1980’s
Daniel B. Hall 1982
Steven W. Snyder 1982
Helen M. Ferris 1985
Eileen T. Savanyu 1988
1990’s
Peter J. Vlassis 1993
Susan Anne Sovie 1994
1960’s
Thomas Francis O’Connor 1960
Carl A. Marino 1962
Patrick J. Pietropaoli 1963
Milo Ivan Tomanovich 1963
Edwin T. Cox Jr. 1968
Gerald Edward DeFilippo 1968
Daniel T. Smith 1968
Alvie E. Kinch 1969

Dineen Hall
950 Irving Avenue
Syracuse, NY 13244-6070
SYRACUSE LAW SCHOLARSHIP INITIATIVE
Making
An Impact
It’s a familiar story. We’ve heard time and time again how scholarship support
changed your life; made another semester possible; made a dream a reality.
The message is clear; alumni want to “pay it forward.” In response, we’ve
created the Syracuse Law Scholars Fund allowing alumni to support student
scholarships through a community-wide scholarship initiative.
Join fellow law alumni in support of this initiative —the most significant and
direct way to help our students. Each gift to the Fund immediately impacts
students and the scholarship assistance they receive.
Make Your Impact. Contact Sophie Dagenais,
Assistant Dean for Advancement and External Affairs, at 315.443.1964.
Recently established annually supported scholarships:
Philip A. Alcott Family Scholarship
Rhoda S. and Albert M. Alexander Memorial Scholarship
Joy D. Ambrose Memorial Scholarship
Anonymous
Benenati Law Firm, P.C. Scholarship
Peter A. Bieger L’76 Scholarship
Kathryn C. Brown L’80 Scholarship
Professor Christian C. Day and Ann Marie Day ’78, G’82, G’99 Scholarship
A. Patrick Doyle L’75 and Elizabeth Downes EDU ’76 Scholarship
Estate Planning Law Center/David J. Zumpano CPA/Esq. Scholarship
Katherine and Frank C. Forelle L’85 Scholarship
Charles D. Gabriel L’73 Scholarship
Penny Grey Gentges L’88 and Daniel W. Gentges L’88 Scholarship
Alan L. Goldman L’65 Scholarship
Alan M. Gordon L’77 Scholarship
Melanie Gray L’81 Scholarship
Alan K. Halfenger L’93 Scholarship
Hartmann Family Scholarship
Joshua H. Heintz L’69 Scholarship
Jennifer and Ken Irvin L’92 Scholarship
Lillian Nassau Scholarship
The Neporent Family Foundation Scholarship
Joseph. P. Nolan Jr. Power Forward Scholarship
David J. Noonan L’73 Scholarship
Arthur I. Sherman L’59 Scholarship
Michael D. Sirota L’86 and Miriam L. Sirota VPA ’85 Scholarship
Gregory M. Sobo L’99 Scholarship
James T. Southwick L’89 Scholarship
Congressman John H. Terry Scholarship
Mary and Michael P. Walls L’84 Scholarship
Marion Wimmer Scholarship