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This Book is brought to you for free and open access by the NYLS Publications at DigitalCommons@NYLS. It has been accepted for inclusion in New York Law School Alumni Magazine by an authorized administrator of DigitalCommons@NYLS. Magazine • 2015 • VOL. 34, NO. 1 185 West New York, NY 10013-2921

CELEBRATING

YEARS

Save the Date CELEBRATING 2016 Alumni Reunion NYLS and the University of Rochester’s New York Law School Simon Business School Join Forces • p5 April 28–May 1, 2016 YEARS Kicks off its NYLS Ties Run Deep in Brooklyn • p6 Mark your calendars, and plan to celebrate New York Law School! The Center for Law In honor of the School’s 125th Anniversary celebration, the 2016 125th Anniversary Celebrates 20 Years • p10 Alumni Reunion will include all class years. It’s shaping up to be an In memoriam: Kathleen Grimm ’80 • P14 extraordinary occasion for all classes—and for the entire NYLS Celebration community. You won’t want to miss it! Cynthia Senko Rosicki ’86 Launches London p2 Fellowship in Law and Dramatic Arts • P33 Reunion Year Class Volunteers Needed Do you want to make sure your class is well represented at the Reunion? E-mail [email protected] to join your class committee. www.nyls.edu WE ARE NEW YORK’S LAW SCHOOL SINCE 1891 London callingWE ARE NEW YORK’S LAW SCHOOL

Recognizing the strong connections between New York City and London, New York Law School has for several years offered a London summer program. This year, through the Cynthia Senko Rosicki ’86 Fellowship in Law and Dramatic Arts, all students in the program had the opportunity to Voted #1 five years in a row. attend a course on “personal impact” at the prestigious Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA). Advance LL.M. in Taxation WE ARE NEW YORK’S LAW SCHOOL Your The Graduate Tax Program enables LL.M. students Career to build a firm foundation in tax and pursue a concentration in depth. The program emphasizes through advanced training in tax research and practice- IN THIS ISSUSpeciaElized oriented writing, as well as practical experience Features through externships.

2 • Ne w York Law School Kicks off Its 6 • NYLS Ties Run Deep in Brooklyn Training 125th Anniversary Celebration For further information, contact 10 • The Center for New York City Professor Ann F. Thomas at 212.431.2305 or 5 • NYLS and the University of Law Celebrates 20 Years e-mail [email protected]. Rochester’s Simon Business School Join Forces 14 • In Memoriam: Kathleen Grimm ’80

www.nyls.edu/TaxLLM New York Law School Celebrating Our First 125 Years Magazine 2015 • VOL. 34, NO. 1 and Looking Ahead London As New York Law School launches its Dean and President 125th Anniversary celebration, I am Anthony W. Crowell looking forward with great anticipation calling to the many remarkable events we Vice President have planned as part of the festivities. For Marketing and Throughout the 2015-16 academic Communications year we will feature different aspects Nancy Guida of NYLS’s rich history, focusing on our Editor in Chief continuing tradition of innovation; our Turn to tremendous influence in law, business, Managing Editor and government, both locally and globally; page 33 Ruth Singleton and our impressive plans for the future. Creative Director This issue of New York Law School Magazine previews our numerous to read Regina Chung anniversary celebration events and engagement opportunities. This is an exciting time here at NYLS, and I hope you will join us in commemorating this Production Manager magnificent milestone. You can get all the details at 125.nyls.edu. about this Melissa Pentangelo As an illustration of how NYLS continues to innovate with the times and break the mold, we report on a unique co-location agreement with the New Contributors exciting York City location of the University of Rochester’s Simon Business School. Ariel Dvorkin, Ryan Last, This will be the only co-located law school and business school in New Ruth Singleton, Danielle Weitzman new York City, creating singular opportunities to harness the synergies that exist Proofreader between the two institutions. fellowship. Ruth Singleton We also explore the special synergies we share with the borough right across the East River—NYLS ties with Brooklyn have run deep from the beginning. Photographers And then there’s our special relationship with that city across “the pond.” Jim Davis, Teresa M. Delcorso, Lance We strengthened our London summer program by adding a personal impact Edwards, Philip Greenberg, Green-Wood course at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts through the generosity of Historic Fund, John Halpern, Rick Cynthia Senko Rosicki ’86. Kopstein, Meghan Lalonde, Laura Landau, Jack McCoy, The New-York Historical While we’re celebrating, there’s another notable milestone in our history: the Society, Rolland Smith, Jason Wyche 20th Anniversary of the Center for New York City Law. That center, under the direction of Professor Ross Sandler, has brought an incredible amount of thought leadership and critical resources to New York City. On a somber note, we honor the memory of Trustee Kathleen Grimm ’80, a beloved colleague and friend who worked tirelessly for NYLS for more than 30 years, and who dedicated her career to public service, most recently as Deputy Chancellor of Operations at the New York City Department of Education. We also honor the creative output of an extraordinary faculty member and a notable alumnus. Professor Lloyd Bonfield is celebrating the 30th anniversary IN THIS ISSUE of a journal he co-founded, Continuity and Change. John Gallagher ’94 co- Departments authored Black Ice, the autobiography of the first American-born black hockey player in the NHL. 18 • Campus Buzz As we celebrate our past accomplishments, we are always focusing on our promising future. Stay tuned for bold new developments as we continue to make great progress in implementing the Strategic Plan we released two 20 • Meet the Authors years ago. P rofessor Lloyd Bonfield Anthony W. Crowell John Gallagher ’94 Dean and President

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fEATURES 1 CELEBRATING

YEARS

In 1891, a group of pioneering faculty the Law School will feature the significant and students broke away from Columbia contributions that faculty and alumni have New York College School of Law to form New York made to the legal community in New York Law School. They were driven by a distinct City and beyond. vision for how legal education should be Law School delivered—an inclusive one that took into 125th Anniversary Celebration Plan account students of all backgrounds, talents, Throughout the academic year, the and life experiences. Since 1891, NYLS has Kicks off Its celebration will feature a different aspect of continued to be innovative and unique in NYLS’s contributions to the law, including tailoring a legal education to meet the needs celebrating NYLS in the courtroom, in the of the legal profession. From being one of 125th boardroom, and across the globe. We will the first law schools in the nation to offer also showcase the impacts NYLS has made in an evening program for part-time, working public interest, government service, the arts, students, to creating unparalleled practical Anniversary sports, and philanthropy. In each case, we will and experiential opportunities for its look back at our history, and look forward students today, NYLS has never lost sight of to our future—and celebrate what NYLS is how to serve its students. Celebration doing today in each of these areas. Now, as NYLS approaches its 125th To keep you informed about celebration Anniversary, we are kicking off a year-long plans and activities, we’ve launched a 125th celebration to recognize past and current Anniversary website—125.nyls.edu—to members of the NYLS family who helped provide up-to-the-minute information. The achieve this major milestone. In August, site includes an events calendar and a link NYLS launched a celebration to highlight to historical archives as well as information and honor its rich past, while looking about NYLS today. The site also serves as forward to the potential of the next 125 a forum for the Law School community to years. During the 2015-16 academic year,

2 New York Law school magazine • 2015 • VOL. 34, NO. 1 offer celebration ideas, communicate with alumni and faculty, and there’s no better way to each other, and share NYLS memories. show our students the unlimited opportunities that await them than by honoring the history of Anniversary Events our Law School community. Celebrate! During the celebration there will be a number NYLS Board Chairman Arthur N. Abbey ’59 Throughout the anniversary of events to showcase the contributions NYLS writes, “I started law school at another year, we will feature a has made to the legal profession globally, law school outside of New York City….I the pivotal role it has played throughout different aspect of NYLS’s made [a] great decision shortly after history—and its future. See New York City’s history, and its continued I began classes…to change schools commitment to educating and training the below for the highlights of and enroll in NYLS…graduated in 1959. next generation of leaders and lawyers who our featured topics. will shape the profession. Events will span a Became a NYLS Board Member and wide range of subjects, some will include CLE Chairman since 2000. Who would have credits, and all are free for NYLS alumni. If ever thought….” Fall 2015 you haven’t visited the campus recently, now Board member Alan W. Clark ’77 is a great time to renew your relationship with NYLS is New York’s Law School recalls “great teachers and mentors NYLS and join this momentous celebration. Celebrating NYLS’s local campus and its such as Donald Shapiro, Alfred Julien, global community, highlighting its evolution and Cyril Means, to name but a few…. from origins to present, and showcasing Share Your Story My exercise ritual walking up and its innovative spirit and commitment to excellence in legal education. One feature of the celebration is an down the stairs at 57 to opportunity for students, faculty, and more attend classes. Too many Sabrett hot NYLS in the Courtroom than 17,000 alumni to share their memories dogs from the local vendor across Celebrating NYLS at the bar: its titans of the and artifacts. You can participate by sharing Worth Street. My fellow students judiciary; prosecutors and defense counsel; a fun or interesting memory of NYLS on the litigators, mediators and arbitrators; and Share Your Story page of the 125th site. We helping each other to become landmark and noteworthy trials across the already have several great memories contributed successful lawyers.” country featuring NYLS alumni. by trustees, faculty, and students—share your Nadine Strossen, the John Harlan NYLS in the Boardroom story now at 125.nyls.edu. Marshall II Professor of Law, writes Celebrating NYLS in the business world: “As we celebrate our 125th anniversary, we that she has “an absolutely vivid, its media moguls; tech innovators and entrepreneurs; financial services and real are on the move in meeting the challenges photographic memory of the first estate leaders; and inventors. and seizing the transformative opportunities Constitutional Law class I ever the new economy presents,” said Dean taught—in August 1988….That’s Anthony W. Crowell. “New ideas and because I was absolutely terrified! Spring 2016 enhancements are reshaping every aspect of …Fortunately, the students were the Law School. Like the great City of New NYLS Around the World: gracious and grateful from the 125 Years of Progress York, we are continually evolving, and we are beginning, but it has been a joy to have Celebrating NYLS practitioners across the focused on ensuring a bright future for the country and the globe; advancements students of New York Law School.” the steady support and encouragement in diversity and for women in the law; of my NYLS faculty and administrative NYLS’s international law programs and There is nothing more important to our law colleagues for constantly growing in practices; and artists and sports notables. school than celebrating the achievements of our the professorial role.” NYLS Public Interest and Government Service Celebrating NYLS’s contributions to public Check out Part of the new 125th Anniversary website (125.nyls.edu) service, promoting access to justice and 125.nyls.edu for features links to an assortment of photos, images, and serving the underserved, its notable more NYLS History documents from NYLS’s extensive archives; a calendar of government and philanthropic leaders, events; a page where users can share stories and photos; a and those who have served in uniform at list of ways to get involved; and an electronic version of the the local, state, and federal levels and in book New York Law School: A Heritage, originally published in the U.S. Armed Forces. 1978 and updated in 1982. The book provides a comprehensive narrative of the origins of NYLS and its contributions to the NYLS Shaping New York City and Beyond legal community since its founding in 1891. Members of the Celebrating all things NYLS, being New York’s Law School, and connecting our NYLS community are invited to contribute photos and other pioneering past to our innovative future. memorabilia to the ongoing digital archiving effort.

fEATURES 3 Anniversary Eight Ways Calendar to Get Involved

Event highlights include: Tell Your Story • Share your NYLS memory using our “Share Your Story” page • The investiture of Nadine Strossen as the John • Submit a photograph or document to our Archives Marshall Harlan II Professor of Law (October 5, 2015), Stephen J. Ellmann as the Martin Professor Visit our Archives page, 125.nyls.edu, to share your story of Law (November 23, 2015), and David Chang as Advance Students the inaugural Theodore Dwight 125th Anniversary • Mentor a current NYLS student Professor of Law (April 28, 2016) • Provide an internship or career opportunity for an NYLS student or a recent • The Innovation Center for Law and Technology’s graduate First Annual Internet Safety Conference, which will • Become part of our Professional Network include the launch of a first-of-its-kind legal clinic Send an e-mail to [email protected] to learn more that will help victims of online hate and harassment obtain justice (October 3–4, 2015) Recruit Students • Refer a prospective NYLS student or share your experiences with those • The Center for Business and Financial Law’s FinTech: who have applied Law and Disruption conference, bringing together Send an e-mail to [email protected] to learn more legal, financial, compliance, and technical experts (October 6, 2015) Share Expertise • Speak on a panel at an NYLS event or teach a CLE course • The Center for Real Estate Studies Breakfast: Send an e-mail to [email protected] to learn more Chinese Investment in New York Real Estate (November 12, 2015) Support NYLS • Make a gift to support academic innovation and scholarships • The Impact Center for Public Interest Law and the Visit www.nyls.edu/giving Center for Real Estate Studies’ Co-sponsored Service Project in Honor of Martin Luther King Jr. (January Volunteer 18, 2016) • Help raise money for your reunion class, for student clubs, or Bar prep • The Center for Business and Financial Law’s New York • Host a regional alumni networking event Startups Conference (March 31, 2016) Send an e-mail to [email protected]

• The Impact Center for Public Interest Law’s Annual Show Your Pride Symposium—Tackling the Access to Justice Crisis • Go to the Virtual Gift Store for cool NYLS merchandise. Visit nyls.logoshop.com. (April 8, 2016) • Hold your event at NYLS’s flagship Tribeca facility. Visit www.nyls.edu/rentals.

• The Innovation Center for Law and Technology’s Stay in Touch Innovation Scholar Presentation Day (April 14, 2016) • Join us on LinkedIn • “Like” us on Facebook (www.facebook.com/goNYLS) Other events are still being planned—one possibility • Follow us on Twitter (@NYLawSchool), and tweet with the hashtag #NYLS125 is a legal-themed film festival—so keep checking the • Update your Alumni Contact Information by e-mailing [email protected] calendar at 125.nyls.edu. • Come to one of our 125th Anniversary Celebration events

NYLS Through the Years

Columbia College Law The original location of New An early site of the Law Post-World War I site The Law School had a five- After World War II, the The Law School’s 57 Worth The Law School’s main School at 49th Street, 1891 York Law School, in the old School at 172-74 Fulton of the Law School: the year stretch in the Pulitzer Law School reopened in Street location, where it entrance at 185 West Equitable Building at 120 Street (1908-1918) McBurney YMCA on 23rd (World) Building at 63 Park the Dwight Building at 244 moved to in 1962 Broadway, since 2009 Broadway (1891-1898) Street (1919-1934) Row (1936-1941) William Street (1947-1962)

4 New York Law school magazine • 2015 • VOL. 34, NO. 1 been located in a commercial office building, will move its New NYLS and the York City administrative offices and academic course offerings to the NYLS facility starting in fall 2015.

University of Rochester’s In addition, NYLS is now working with the Simon Business School to develop and plan opportunities for NYLS students Simon Business School to receive business education as part of their legal studies, as well as to offer corresponding legal coursework to the business Join Forces school students. The relationship between the two schools is an evolving one. Teams of faculty members are meeting to develop programs for students and alumni of both institutions.

Universities across the country are increasingly looking for a New York City presence precisely because of the diverse opportunities and cultural advantages the City affords. NYLS is at the forefront of that trend.

“Lower is the epicenter both for business and law in the global economy,” said Dean Crowell. “New York Law School’s Strategic Plan emphasized a priority of the school to develop strategic alliances that could provide students Left to right: Andrew Ainslie, Dean of the University of Rochester’s unprecedented opportunities in business or financial services. Simon Business School; NYLS Dean Anthony W. Crowell; and Joel The co-location of NYLS and the Simon Business School’s NYC Seligman, President of the University of Rochester, celebrate the Center creates a unique opportunity to harness the synergies unique co-location agreement. that exist between the two institutions, especially given NYLS’s prime location, with direct access to Wall Street, the City’s acing a structurally changed marketplace, law government offices, and its tech corridor. We look forward to schools must meet new challenges head-on and welcoming the business school faculty, staff, and students seize transformative opportunities. Never before F to our campus and building a culture of community between has there been a stronger need for law students to learn our schools, while maintaining each individual institution’s the fundamentals of business and finance. Likewise, in an identity.” increasingly litigious and regulatory environment, business students, now more than ever, need to know the basics of our “We are delighted to be moving our New York City specialized legal system. master’s courses to the New York Law School campus,” said President Seligman. “NYLS has a proud 125-year history of In a bold move, Dean Anthony W. Crowell and Joel Seligman, legal education and offers premier facilities and a central President of the University of Rochester, announced in April a location for our students and alumni in the Tri-state area.” unique co-location agreement under which the New York City location of the University of Rochester’s Simon Business School “This is a tremendous new home for Simon’s New York City will move from midtown Manhattan to New York Law School’s graduate business educational options with exciting potential campus in Tribeca. By uniting institutions dedicated to business to expand our reach,” said Simon Business School Dean and legal education under one roof, NYLS is breaking the mold: Andrew Ainslie. “NYLS and the University of Rochester have this will be the only co-located law school and business school in common a deep heritage with a combined 280 years of in New York City. serving our respective communities. This is the start of a great relationship. It has the potential to grow deeper by exploring Carole Post, Executive Vice President and Chief Strategy joint educational opportunities moving forward.” and Operations Officer at NYLS, spearheaded the effort to develop an innovative partnership to optimize resources and Founded in 1850, the University of Rochester is one of the capitalize on the different schedules and programs of the nation’s leading private universities. The Simon Business two institutions. The Simon Business School offers three School is currently ranked among the leading graduate part-time graduate programs in New York City designed for business schools in the world in rankings published by the working professionals—there is an M.S. program in finance, popular press, including Bloomberg Businessweek, U.S. News management, and health care management. Simon students & World Report, and the Financial Times of London. The Simon attend classes primarily on weekends, while students of NYLS, School offers a full range of part-time and full-time business which offers full- and part-time law degree programs and a degree programs at its main campus in Rochester, New York. two-year J.D. honors program, attend primarily during the week It has been offering graduate-level courses leading to master’s with some weekend options. The business school, which had degrees in its New York City extension center since 2011. •

fEATURES 5 NYLS Ties Run Deep in Brooklyn By Ruth Singleton

More students from Brooklyn t has been more than two and a half years since Dean Anthony W. Crowell re-introduced NYLS as “New York’s law school,” and those words have quickly become the Law School’s motto. New zip codes attend NYLS than York Law School’s downtown Manhattan location puts it in the heart of New York City’s legal, government,I financial, and emerging tech centers. But NYLS isn’t just a Manhattan institution; it’s a any other law school New York City institution. As readers of these pages discovered last year, James S. Oddo ’91 is making his mark as Staten Island , through his Superstorm Sandy recovery efforts and his A total of 1,489 alumni plans for revitalizing the borough’s North Shore. And there is another borough where New York Law School ties run deep—right across the East River. More students come to NYLS from Brooklyn zip live in Brooklyn codes than to any other law school. Half of the clinics that NYLS offers have a strong Brooklyn focus. Brooklyn is also home to many NYLS faculty and staff, as well as to 1,489 alumni, and 377 alumni work there, many in prominent positions. Dean Crowell is a long-time resident of the borough and A total of 377 alumni a prominent civic leader there. He serves on the Board of Trustees of the Brooklyn Public Library work in Brooklyn and was honored last year at the Library’s 17th Annual Gala for his service as Board Chair for the previous five years. In addition, he serves on the Executive Committee of the Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce.

6 New York Law school magazine • 2015 • VOL. 34, NO. 1 Robert Carroll ’13 wrote The Believers, a play set in Brooklyn, a staged reading of which was held at the Brooklyn Academy of Music’s Fisher Building in February 2015.

reference to a reporter observing the attacks they live in and practice in as the borough from Worth Street. The play portrays continues to expand and thrive. They are the final hours of the first campaign active participants in our civic life and the protagonist has ever run, and how become truly invested in Brooklyn, serving idealism, practicality, and radicalism can as community board members, co-op board blend together under outside pressure. The members, volunteers in our religious and Believers is set in Brooklyn, and Mr. Carroll cultural institutions, running for elected knows whereof he writes. He is the current office, and becoming members of the President of Central Brooklyn Independent judiciary and serving as political leaders.” Democrats, a founding member of the Brooklyn Reform Coalition, and a member The Brooklyn Academy of Music is located of Community Board 7, which represents in the middle of a Brooklyn building boom. the Brooklyn neighborhoods of Sunset Park, Looking west from its entrance toward Windsor Terrace, East Windsor Terrace, downtown Brooklyn, one sees a flurry South Park Slope, and Greenwood Heights. of construction projects. That’s because He is also an associate at the firm Wolfson Brooklyn is the epitome of hot these days. & Carroll, where he focuses on estate The borough is one of the most desirable administration, real estate and Mitchell- places to live in the country, and the cost Lama Housing Corporations, contracts, and of real estate in some neighborhoods has election law. The Believers had its premiere outpaced Manhattan. The new Barclays in fall 2014 at the Storm Theater. Center is now the home of the Brooklyn Nets basketball team and, as a concert The staged reading at BAM exemplifies the venue, draws top talent. Mayor Bill de strong ties linking Brooklyn and NYLS. The Blasio hails from Brooklyn’s Park Slope This Currier and Ives print highlights the Equitable Building (the large white building just to the right event was hosted by Thomas L. McMahon neighborhood. And Hillary Clinton of the tall steeple of Trinity Church), the first ’83, President of TLM Associates LLC, a has chosen the borough as the site of home of New York Law School. The location was strategic planning and government relations her presidential campaign headquarters. close to the newly built and drew Brooklynites right from the start. firm, in collaboration with Joseph V. Mellilo, “Brooklyn” is now even one of the most Executive Producer at BAM, whose nephew, popular names for babies. And as Brooklyn Max Melillo, is a fourth-year Evening thrives, so does its long-standing relationship Division student at NYLS who works with NYLS. Life Inspiring Art in Brooklyn at O’Melveny & Myers LLP. Attendees included NYLS alumni, friends, faculty In the late afternoon of Sunday, February members, administrators, and staff. After the Early History 8, 2015, a crowd gathered at the Brooklyn reception and staged reading, Mr. Carroll Academy of Music (BAM)’s Fisher Building and the cast participated in a question-and- The Brooklyn connection stems from the on Ashland Place. They were there to attend answer session with the audience. earliest days of New York Law School. a reception and staged reading of The Brooklyn was the childhood home of Alfred Believers, a play written by Robert Carroll Kings County Supreme Court Justice Martin E. Hinrichs a member of the first graduating ’13. Mr. Carroll, a native of Brooklyn, M. Solomon ’75, who was also in attendance, class of 1892, who went on to serve as Dean straddles the worlds of law, politics, and said, “NYLS attorneys and law students of the Law School from 1936 to 1938. Dean theater. His play tells the story of a young continue to be among the most committed Hinrichs was also an organizer of the Citizens campaign manager on primary day 2001 volunteers and leaders in Brooklyn. There is Union in Brooklyn. His classmate, Henry M. in New York City—the day of the 9/11 a strong connection between Brooklyn and Cummings, worked as a lawyer in Brooklyn attacks. Mr. Carroll wrote the play while NYLS, as the school’s lawyers and students for 48 years. In the class five years later was he attended NYLS, and the play makes have a unique understanding of the borough Robert Alexander Inch, who went on to serve

fEATURES 7 as a federal judge in the Eastern District of Issues Workshop” with Carlo Scissura, New York from 1924 to 1961, including a President of the Brooklyn Chamber of Kings County Alumni term as Chief Judge from 1948 to 1958. Commerce, as part of a weekend retreat at Many prominent alumni have chosen to live the Law School. Throughout the year, the or work in Brooklyn. Four members of the Dean’s Leadership Council (DLC) takes Brooklyn Bar Association Board of Trustees B rooklyn Today: A Hub of part in a series of dialogues, along with are NYLS graduates: Elaine N. Avery ’95 of Dean Crowell and top City leaders, about Avery & Avery P.C.; Marianne Bertuna ’01 Student Engagement law, business, and government to tackle of Aidala Bertuna & Kamins; Richard A. That close relationship is even stronger legal and policy issues. During the March Klass ’92 of the Law Office of Richard today. The Law School’s new housing workshop, approximately 50 students worked A. Klass, Esq.; and Glenn Verchick ’89 facility is the St. George Residence Hall in teams to offer President Scissura ideas and of Ginarte O’Dwyer Gonzalez Gallardo & in Brooklyn Heights, a historic building recommendations that will help with his Winograd, LLP. that was formerly a grand hotel. Recent strategic planning for the Chamber. Each Among the many notable NYLS alumni graduate Michelle Skalrud is interning for team worked on one of seven issues: small in Brooklyn is William R. Coleman ’72, the Brooklyn Nets, and third-year student business development/food equity; health who has a private practice in Brooklyn Ariana Fodera will start interning for the and mental health; infrastructure: improving Heights. Mr. Coleman is a former member team this fall. And fully half of the clinics roads, bridges, and sanitation; impacts of of the Brooklyn Bar Association Board of offered by NYLS’s Office of Clinical and gentrification and the need for affordable Directors, and he gives to several causes Experiential Learning have a Brooklyn housing; immigration reform; public safety; in Brooklyn, such as the Prospect Park connection. The Criminal Prosecution and public education. Alliance, the Brooklyn Academy of Music, Clinic (Kings County) engages students Dean Crowell said, “I was impressed with all the Brooklyn Botanical Gardens, and the in the prosecution of criminal cases in of the recommendations the groups offered Brooklyn Public Library. His grandfather, conjunction with the Kings County District President Scissura for plans to address issues also named William R. Coleman, was Attorney’s Office, under the supervision facing Brooklyn. By engaging with such a long-time Brooklyn resident (1891- of adjunct faculty members who are an influential figure in such an important 1937), who worked, among other jobs as a experienced prosecutors. In addition, borough, the DLC students learned to clerk on the Brooklyn piers. His personal typically half the cases handled by the Elder develop and maximize their leadership documents, correspondence, memorabilia, Law Clinic are in Brooklyn. Also, during skills. Remember that if Brooklyn were an and photographs are part of a collection at the 2014-15 academic year, three students independent city, it would be the fourth the Brooklyn Historical Society. in the Child Welfare Clinic worked on largest in the nation. So our students learned approximately 35 cases in the New York to think about social policy issues on a truly Another notable Brooklynite alumnus Supreme Court, Appellate Division, Second large scale.” Dean Crowell compiled the is Richard J. Moylan ’84, who serves as Department in Brooklyn, along with students’ ideas into a document for President President of Green-Wood Cemetery, attorneys from the NYC Administration Scissura to share with his board and staff as a National Historic Landmark and for Children’s Services. Moreover, some they develop a strategic plan for the Brooklyn Revolutionary War historic site, and was students in the Municipal Litigation Chamber of Commerce. featured in a 2013 New York Times article. Defense Clinic are usually placed with the Brooklyn office of the New York City President Scissura said, “As New York’s Law Department, on Jay Street. Finally, law school, NYLS is in a unique position Brooklyn residents are often clients of and doing something with students almost the following clinics: the Civil Rights unheard of at any other law school in the Clinic, the Criminal Defense Clinic, the City: that is giving them the chance to get Immigration Law and Litigation Clinic, out into the communities of all five boroughs the Post-Conviction Innocence Clinic, the to help solve problems and build new Securities Arbitration Clinic, the Social opportunities to empower people through Entrepreneurship Legal Clinic, the Tax legal and policy advocacy. The Chamber is Planning Clinic, the Transactional Law appreciative of the efforts of Dean Crowell Clinic, and the Wills Clinic and the NYLS students.”

And clinics are not the only way NYLS Another collaborative effort with the students are engaging with Brooklyn. On Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce is in the March 21, 2015, the Dean’s Leadership planning stages: an interactive map of food Council—composed of students who deserts in Brooklyn, to be created by students perform in the top 25 percent of their affiliated with the Unshared Bounty Project Richard J. Moylan ’84 (top left) is the President of Green-Wood class—participated in a “NYC Critical of the Impact Center for Public Interest Law. Cemetery, a National Historic Landmark. Top right and bottom: The Green-Wood main gate, the Green-Wood chapel, and an angel statute.

8 New York Law school magazine • 2015 • VOL. 34, NO. 1 Justice Arthur Schack ’80 of Kings Justice Martin M. Solomon ’75 of Kings Justice Loren Baily-Schiffman ’77 of Kings County Supreme Court County Supreme Court County Supreme Court Founded in 1838, it is the resting place of many New York luminaries, including DeWitt Clinton, Rev. Henry Ward Beecher, Horace Greeley, William Magear (“Boss”) Tweed, Leonard Bernstein, and Jean Michel Basquiat.

On the Bench in Brooklyn Court; Hon. Vincent Del Giudice ’80, Justice, founding member of Held, Held & Held, Many NYLS graduates have gone on to serve Kings County Supreme Court; Hon. Carolyn which focuses on personal injury but also on the bench, and Brooklyn boasts several Demarest ’72, Justice, Kings County Supreme works in real estate, commercial misconduct, NYLS judges. The Honorable Joan Azrack Court; Hon. Cenceria Edwards ’94, Judge, and trusts and estates. Mr. Held works with ’79 served for 24 years as a U.S. Magistrate Kings County Civil Court; Hon. Elizabeth his daughters Jennifer and Alyssa ’94. He Judge in the Eastern District of New York Foley ’83, Justice, Kings County Supreme is a former president of the NYLS Alumni Courthouse on Cadman Plaza in Brooklyn Court; Hon. Diana Johnson ’82, Judge, Association. before President Obama nominated her, and Kings County Surrogate’s Court; Hon. Ingrid the Senate confirmed her, as U.S. District Joseph ’82, Judge, Kings County Civil Court; Another NYLS graduate prominent in Court Judge in that district. She now serves Hon. Laurie Lau ’82, Judge, New York City Brooklyn is Helene Blank ’77, President of in Central Islip and Brooklyn. Housing Court; and Justice Solomon, who the Brooklyn Women’s Bar Association and attended the staged reading of . partner at personal injury firm Blank & Star. Another well-known jurist is Justice Arthur The Believers Schack ’80 of Kings County Supreme Court. Two alumnae have made contributions to the Justice Schack served as chair of Community visual arts scene in Brooklyn. Clover Barrett Board 10 and was counsel to the Major Public Sector and ’85 is a partner at Clover Barrett & Associates League Baseball Players Association before his In-House Counsel practicing family law, trusts and estates law, election to the Civil Court in 1998. He was and bankruptcy. She also runs Clover’s Fine elected to the Kings County Supreme Court In addition, several NYLS alumni hold Art Gallery in Downtown Brooklyn. The in 2003. He is widely cited in the local press prominent positions in the public sector. gallery exhibits artwork by both emerging and was featured in an August 2009 New They includeGerianne Abriano ’93, Bureau and established artists and has a particular York Times article for dismissing 46 out of 102 Chief of the Brooklyn District Attorney’s focus on the art and artists of the Caribbean foreclosure motions that came before him over Office; John Sweeney ’88, Division Chief, diaspora and heritage. Deborah Held ’76, who two years because of erroneous paperwork. “If Workers’ Compensation, in the Brooklyn was honored at the NYLS Gala in November you are going to take away someone’s house, office of the New York City Corporation 2014, is a visual artist whose paintings have everything should be legal and correct,” he Counsel; and Martin Coffey ’75, Assistant been exhibited in a gallery in Brooklyn. said in the Times article. “I’m a strange guy—I U.S. Attorney in the Eastern District of New don’t want to put a family on the street unless York. Working in the public interest sector it’s legitimate.” is Gary Stone ’81, Staff Attorney, at South Brooklyn Legal Services. An Ongoing Affiliation Also serving on the bench is Acting Justice As Brooklyn continues to flourish as a Loren Baily-Schiffman ’77 of Kings County Notable alumni who work in-house center for arts, entertainment, and artisanal Supreme Court. Justice Baily-Schiffman had at corporations or not-for-profit businesses, as well as the practice of law, its her own private practice until 1997, when organizations include Shawn Fabian ’06, connections to NYLS promise to grow even she served as an attorney for the Brooklyn Chief Counsel of Labor and Employee more intertwined. The New Innovation Branch of Legal Services of New York. She Relations, New York Methodist Hospital; Center for Law and Technology will have all was elected to the New York City Civil Sheila Namm ’95, Vice President, the tools to help Brooklyn entrepreneurs get Court of Kings County in 1999, re-elected Professional Affairs, Maimonides Medical started and to help Brooklyn artists protect in 2009, and appointed Acting Justice in Center; Stephanie Shepard ’85, Director their intellectual property. Brooklynites 2009. Justice Baily-Schiffman regularly of Integrated Health, National Grid; will continue to cross the East River to hires NYLS students to serve externships and Christy Nixon ’08, Vice President and lower Manhattan to a get an excellent legal in her chambers. She was also NYLS’s 2009 Assistant General Counsel, JPMorgan Chase. education in the heart of the City’s legal, Convocation speaker for first-year students. government, financial, and emerging tech centers. And graduates will continue to cross Several other NYLS alumni serve on the Private Practice the river back to Brooklyn to use their newly bench in Brooklyn. They include: Hon. Susan acquired skills to build careers in the borough Prominent NYLS alumni in private practice Avery ’91, Judge, New York City Housing they love. • in Brooklyn include Edward Held ’66, the

fEATURES 9 20 YEARS CENTER FOR NEW YORK CITY LAW

he Speaker of the New York State Assembly, Sheldon Silver, ascended to the podium to speak about his plans for the The Center upcoming legislative session. It marked yet another high- Tprofile public official outlining his policy thoughts at a CityLaw Breakfast presented by the Center for New York City Law, a semi- for New York regular event where policy movers and shakers come to make news at New York Law School to an audience of government officials, lobbyists, advocates, and civically minded members of the general City Law public. The date of the event: November 22, 2005. Fast-forward nearly ten years to January 23, 2015, when another powerful official has come to speak to an overflowing room of over 300 attendees. Celebrates This time, it’s Preet Bharara, United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, one day removed from his office’s arrest of Speaker Sheldon Silver. These two men, and the shared 20 Years experience of speaking at the same forum nearly ten years apart, in the halls of New York Law School, put on vivid display the impact By Ariel Dvorkin and preeminence of the Center for New York City Law. For 20 years, the Center has brought together the most powerful and influential policymakers in New York City and State. This includes agency heads who oversee policies affecting everything from public health, transportation, and housing, to taxes, education, and policing. And it includes elected officials from every branch of the city and state government, and other powerful officials, such as federal prosecutors and judicial heavyweights. They have all come through the halls of New York Law School. They have come at the invitation of Professor Ross Sandler to speak at a forum they know will draw a wide-ranging audience and receive widespread attention. Speaking at a CityLaw Breakfast has become a measure of credibility, a rite of passage for elected and appointed officials in new positions to establish their policy bona fides.

Professor Sandler is the creator, driving force, and soul of the Center. A former Assistant U.S. Attorney, Special Advisor to Mayor Ed Koch, and Commissioner of the City’s Department of Transportation, he was in private practice when he started discussing

10 New York Law school magazine • 2015 • VOL. 34, NO. 1 the idea of creating the Center with NYLS a concern about local government,…that Housing Preservation and Development, Professor David Schoenbrod. Sandler the importance of the federal government, Lilliam Barrios-Paoli. Yes, it might seem approached then-Dean Harry Wellington, and international business had driven law odd that the NFL Commissioner was the who blessed the program, and Sandler schools to be focused on federal law and inaugural speaker, but Professor Sandler put joined the law faculty. The Center received international law, with the result that there it best: “The NFL and its stadium business remarkable funding support at its outset, were very few law schools that had any kind couldn’t be more local. What he had to do as which was critical to the Center’s ability to of interest in local government law. And so I Commissioner was very much involved with be impactful out of the gate. The Center thought that would present an opportunity state and local government.” would have never happened if Sandler had to New York Law School. Both because of not agreed to Dean Wellington’s requirement its location, and because it was willing to In the second year, other nongovernmental that its operation be self-funded. The funding be interested in local government, [NYLS] speakers were featured, including the artists supported costs associated with events, presented a unique opportunity to provide a Christo and Jeanne-Claude. They spoke publications, and, eventually, the electronic real service to the civic community and legal about the complex process for presenting systems developed by the Center to host world. And that was the fundamental idea a large-scale public art project that in fact decisions rendered by City government that was attractive to foundations and City wasn’t realized until ten years later, when The agencies. officials. From the very beginning, there was Gates famously appeared for two weeks in enormous support.” Central Park in New York City. The format From the beginning, the Center for New York has always allowed for unfiltered audience City Law occupied a unique space in the City, The Center was ahead of its time with regard questions, and many times has resulted in offering a neutral forum where substantive to whom it selected to speak at its events. illuminating answers that otherwise would discussions with city policymakers could Rather than going for the high-profile not have been voiced in public. be held, “an institution within a law school elected officials who grab most of the public’s that didn’t have a policy agenda, other than attention, CityLaw Breakfasts were largely The Center’s publications,CityLaw and transparency and information,” as Professor devoted to the agency heads, advisors, and CityLand, are a core feature of the Center, Sandler described it. This gap, and this need, yes, even nongovernmental officials, who had and are what make the Center stand head and was staring Professor Sandler and New York incredible, yet underappreciated, influence shoulders above other academic centers and Law School in the face. Despite the enormous over City policy. The four breakfasts organizations that examine City policy issues. role local government in New York City the Center presented in its first year of They are read widely by influential lawyers played in every part of a New Yorker’s life, he operation featured Paul Tagliabue, then the and policymakers, and seen on the desks of found it surprising that area law schools did Commissioner of the National Football many throughout City Hall, the Office of the not provide the curriculum, nor the academic League, followed by a private attorney, Corporation Counsel, the Department of space, that matched government’s central role Edward N. Costikyan, Chair of the Mayor’s City Planning, and dozens of other agencies in the City. Commission on School Safety; Edith and lobbying firms. From the beginning, the Spivack, one of the first women to serve in Center charged for its publications. Professor Professor Sandler recounted how “law the City’s Law Department; and finally the Sandler reasoned that “the fact that people are schools generally had moved away from Commissioner of the City’s Department of willing to pay for a publication is a validation

fEATURES 11 20 YEARS CENTER FOR NEW YORK CITY LAW Professor Ross Sandler with former New York Henry Stern, who was Commissioner of Parks and Governor Mario M. Cuomo at a CityLaw Breakfast on Recreation under Mayors Ed Koch and Rudy Giuliani, September 22, 2000 at a CityLaw Breakfast on September 27, 1996

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (far right), Chief Prosecuting Carl Weisbrod (center), then President of the Professor Ross Sandler at a CityLaw Breakfast on Attorney of Hudson Riverkeeper, at a CityLaw Breakfast Downtown Alliance, at a CityLaw Breakfast on September 13, 2002 on February 28, 1997 January 17, 2003

New York City Police Commissioner William Bratton Former New York City Mayor Ed Koch moderating a From left to right: Alice Sandler, Jeanne-Claude, (center) at a 1995 CityLaw Academic Symposium on the 1998 CityLaw event, “Reflections on the New York City Professor Ross Sandler, and Christo at a CityLaw ’s Report on Police Corruption Corporation Counsel and Law Department” Breakfast on February 23, 1996

of the product.” CityLaw began first—a CityLand followed in 2004, when it agencies began partnering with the Center bi-weekly newsletter combining articles on became clear that the land use issues City to add their administrative decisions and timely and interesting legal and policy issues government dealt with deserved a stand- advisory opinions to the website, making and decisions culled from City agencies. alone publication. The publication began CityAdmin one of the most essential resources Compiling the CityLaw content took a lot of as a monthly newsletter and went online in to the public, attorneys whose work centered legwork initially on the part of Sandler, since October of that year. CityLand has evolved on representing clients in those agencies, agencies did not have this information readily into a must-read, free, online publication for academics, and even government lawyers organized, and weren’t falling over themselves anyone working on real estate development themselves who didn’t have other means to provide it to the public. So Sandler or land use issues. It covers major players of access to all this information. Today, had to reach out to all of them, using his such as the City Planning Commission, CityAdmin covers 28 agencies and includes extensive network and understanding of City Board of Standards and Appeals, Landmarks over 117,000 decisions. government, and the fact the Center was an Preservation Commission, Department of impartial institution, to convince the agencies Buildings, and City Council, reporting on Current NYLS Dean and President Anthony to provide their decisions. rulings and related legal challenges. CityLand W. Crowell is an ardent supporter of the also provides comprehensive charts that track Center. He has been involved with the The initialCityLaw articles had titles like the progress of applications and that report Center since 1999, and in 2003 became an “Term Limits: 7 Ways to Leave Your Lover” decisions from New York City’s land use adjunct professor affiliated with the Center. (examining the different ways the term limits agencies. At the 20th Anniversary CityLaw Breakfast law could be changed), and they provided Celebration held on May 1 (see sidebar), he a one-stop guide on many legal matters In the first decade of its operation, the Center toasted the Center, noting the “incredible facing City agencies that would otherwise go existed in a time when governments had amount of thought leadership and critical unreported. CityLaw accomplished the goals not yet made an investment in their online resources that the Center has brought to the set forth by Sandler when he launched the presence. Thus was bornCityAdmin. The City, the legal community, and beyond….The Center, providing substantive examination City’s Office of Administrative Trials and Center has been so fundamental to why we of laws and policies to the public and to the Hearings (OATH) contacted Sandler when call ourselves New York’s law school.” Dean community of public servants and advocates it wanted to develop a way to get its decisions Crowell referred to the breakfasts as “a rare who could use this information in their out to practitioners. Sandler agreed to host the venue where those with significant influence daily work. It also highlighted the incredibly decisions on the Center’s website, purchased a can interact with an informed audience and valuable, complex, and frequently unheralded server and program, and received foundation engage in thoughtful, probing, and unfiltered work of the multitude of City agencies that support. Making OATH’s voluminous body dialogue.” wouldn’t get attention in the mainstream of administrative decisions available to the media save for a corruption scandal or some public was, as Professor Sandler stated, “a Crucial to the Center’s operations are other sort of sensational misconduct. really important public service.” Soon more Associate Director and Managing Editor

12 New York Law school magazine • 2015 • VOL. 34, NO. 1 Brian Kaszuba ’04; Lillian Valle-Santiago, Marketing, Subscriptions, Events, and Website Coordinator; and Jesse Denno, Staff 20th Anniversary Celebration and Civic Fame Awards Writer and Publication Production Assistant. On May 1, the Center for New York City Law celebrated its 20th anniversary with a CityLaw Kaszuba previously served as Deputy General Breakfast featuring current Corporation Counsel Zachary Carter and three of his predecessors: Counsel to the New York City Public Michael Cardozo, Paul Crotty and Frederick A.O. Schwarz, the latter serving as moderator. They Advocate. Also of invaluable service has been discussed critical decisions that they each had faced and also addressed current policy issues. Professor Sandler’s wife, Alice Sandler. From Professor Ross Sandler, the Center’s Director, noted that the Law School is celebrating its 125th the beginning, she has helped organize the anniversary and that it happened to be the 125th CityLaw Breakfast. Dean Anthony W. Crowell CityLaw Breakfasts, making sure that they praised Professor Sandler as “the beating heart, the creator, and the driving force behind run smoothly. everything the Center’s done,” adding, “he has made the Center for New York City Law one of the most visible Centers of any of the law schools in the New York City area, and we’re incredibly The Center has had 36 students who became proud of it.” Dean Crowell observed, “I don’t think I would be standing here as Dean without Ross. Fellows of the Center for one year after their Ross brought me to the Law School in 2003 to teach a seminar on City law.” Dean Crowell also graduation. The Fellows have been invaluable recognized Professor Sandler’s wife, Alice Sandler, for her work on the CityLaw Breakfasts since to making the Center run. Not only do they their inception: “We have to give enormous credit to Alice Sandler. I call her a dedicated co-anchor help with the events; they are responsible for of this series.” a great deal of the Center’s written output. The panelists discussed important issues they dealt with as corporation counsel that are no They write many of the articles inCityLaw longer issues. Judge Crotty mentioned overseeing the merger of the housing authority and transit and CityLand. The impact that the Fellows authority police into the NYPD, which eliminated “an awful lot of redundancies,…even four have on the Center is matched by the bagpipe bands.” There was general agreement that even when issues are resolved, underlying Center’s impact on them. They are able to policy questions persist, such as: What is the role of corporation counsel? Who is the client? The vastly strengthen their writing skills, and do panelists also discussed the differences between public and private practice. Mr. Carter opined it by writing about relevant and topical legal that in public practice, doing justice and ensuring a fair process must be litigation goals, as and policy issues actively being discussed in opposed to private practice, where litigation seeks to gain an advantage. Finally, they discussed the halls of government. They are exposed to the delicate issue of seeking to improve relations between the police and the black community. the diversity of government agencies and the roles attorneys have within them. They see After the panel discussion, Dean Crowell and Professor Sandler presented the inaugural Civic Fame Awards to Mary McCormick, President of the Fund for the City of New York; Stanley S. Shuman, of how influential and how central government Allen & Co., LLC, and chair of the Center’s Advisory Council; and Jeffrey Friedlander, First Assistant agencies can be, and they learn about the Corporation Counsel. Not present to receive her award was Sheila Aresty ’94 of the Steven and complex and exciting policy and law issues Sheila Aresty Foundation. Dean Crowell then presented Professor Sandler with an inscribed Tiffany that agencies deal with. This year’s CityLaw glass apple paperweight as a token of appreciation from the Law School. Following the awards, fellow is Michael Twomey ’14. the participants and attendees celebrated with cake and champagne. Professor Sandler believes that the Center’s After 20 years, it’s clear that the Center for New York City Law is just warming up. The Center will work will remain timely and influential, but only gain in prominence and influence in the coming years, as it presents the next 125 CityLaw also thinks it’s time to expand the focus to Breakfasts. include more State legal and policy issues. Left to right: Professor Ross Sandler, Alice Sandler, State government has an outsized impact and Dean Anthony W. Crowell Professor Sandler and Dean Crowell on City affairs, and what happens in Albany affects many priorities in City government. With these goals in mind, and with the robust activity it has been engaged in up until now, the Center for New York City Law enters its 20th year in a strong and healthy place, and also with a renewed sense of mission. In a City and State that are in constant transformation, with powerful government agencies, and new laws and policies being consistently generated, we can be confident that the work of the Center will continue to hold an important place in New York Law School and the City’s policymaking community. •

Mary McCormick Jeffrey Friedlander Stanley S. Shuman

fEATURES 13 14 New York Law school magazine • 2015 • VOL. 34, NO. 1 In Memoriam

“Kathleen’s extraordinary service and love for New York Law School and New York City were unparalleled. Kathleen was just as powerful, bold, and wise, as she was tender, caring, and dryly witty. And, she was as fearless Kathleen as they come. She worked tirelessly for NYLS for more than three decades to build this institution in so many ways: from her work as a leader of our Alumni Association, as an Adjunct Professor teaching and mentoring Grimm students, and as a long-time Member of the Board of Trustees, serving on the Executive Committee and as Chair of the Budget Committee. As a result, we have so much about which to be proud, and so much to celebrate about the value and meaning of a New York Law School education.” Anthony W. Crowell Dean and President

The New York Law School community mourns the passing of Trustee Kathleen Grimm ’80. Ms. Grimm had a long record of dedication to public service, most recently as Deputy Chancellor of Operations at the New York City Department of Education. She was a long-time member of the Kathleen Grimm with fellow Trustee Gerald C. New York Law School Board of Trustees and also served on NYLS’s Alumni Association Board of Crotty ’76 at the 2007 Gala Directors for over two decades, including as Past President.

Ms. Grimm graduated from NYLS cum laude in 1980 and then earned an LL.M. (Tax) from School of Law. She worked as an IRS estate tax attorney and in private practice before embarking on her long career in public service. She served five Mayors, one State Comptroller, seven City Commissioners, and four City Schools Chancellors. She was First Deputy Commissioner of the New York City Department of Finance, New York State Deputy Comptroller for the City of New York, and had been Deputy Chancellor at the NYC Department of Education for 12 years before her retirement in January 2015.

Arthur N. Abbey ’59, Chairman of the NYLS At New York Law School’s 122nd Commencement Exercises in May 2014, the Law School Board of Trustees, presenting the President’s awarded her the President’s Medal in recognition of her inspiring leadership, her distinguished Medal to Kathleen Grimm at the 2014 Commencement Exercises and dedicated service to the Law School, and her outstanding accomplishments and influence in the fields of law and education.

On February 11, 2015, the NYLS Board of Trustees established the Kathleen Grimm ’80 Government Service Scholarship Fund and the Kathleen Grimm Medal for Distinguished Public Service in her honor. At the 123rd Commencement Exercises this past May, the Law School awarded the inaugural Kathleen Grimm Medal to Hon. Faviola A. Soto ’78, a Judge on the New York State Court of Claims. The medal was awarded to Judge Soto in recognition of her distinguished career in public service, both as a practitioner and on the bench, and for her professionalism and leadership. Ms. Grimm’s sister Barbara Grimm presented the Grimm Medal to Judge Soto during the ceremony. Barbara Grimm (right), Kathleen Grimm’s sister, presenting the inaugural Kathleen Grimm Medal for Distinguished Public Service to Hon. Faviola A. The Law School community extends condolences to Kathleen Grimm’s two sisters, six brothers, Soto ’78 at the 2015 Commencement Exercises 10 nieces and nephews, and three grandnieces and nephews.

fEATURES 15 Good morning everyone. I’m Anthony Crowell, Dean and President of New York Law School.

On behalf of Kathleen’s New York Law School family, including Board Chair Arthur Abbey, Board Vice Chair Jerry Crotty (who was one of Kathleen’s closest friends), our other Trustees, faculty, staff, students, and alumni, I extend our profound sorrow and heartfelt condolences to the Grimm family.

What can one say on a day when Mayors and Schools Chancellors, past and present—as well as the nation’s largest municipal workforce and a Law School community—all are mourning the loss of one of their very best? Eulogy for Kathleen Grimm, Kathleen was an extraordinary person. She served our incredible City, and Law School community, Deputy Chancellor of Operations with honor and distinction.

at the New York City Department She was a proud New Yorker, a proud New York Law School of Education, Member of the alumna, and she was universally loved. Her influence, and the legacy she leaves, will be felt for New York Law School generations. Board of Trustees, and I knew Kathleen for 14 years, first when we worked together in City government, and then when I joined the Law School, Graduate of the Class of 1980 working with her in her role as one of the most prominent and active members of our Board of Trustees.

She was as powerful, brilliant, bold, and wise, as she was Delivered by tender, caring, and dryly witty. Anthony W. Crowell And she was as elegant, and as fearless, as they come.

Dean and President Kathleen received her Juris Doctor from NYLS and then an New York Law School LL.M. degree in Tax Law from NYU. In an interview with our alumni magazine, and in typical Kathleen fashion, she February 21, 2015 said she pursued tax because it “affected everything.” Classic Kathleen!

In gathering reflections from the NYLS community about Kathleen, former Dean Jim Simon wrote that he taught her constitutional law in the late 1970s and that “she was exceptionally bright, self-assured without being arrogant, and thoroughly engaging on a personal as well as intellectual level.”

Later, as an alumna, Kathleen enjoyed great personal satisfaction from teaching a municipal finance course to our students. As Professors Carol Buckler and Mariana Hogan expressed: “Kathleen was unstinting in sharing her expertise and wisdom. In her class, she taught her students a complicated and important area of law, and inspired them with her joy in its intricacies.”

16 New York Law school magazine • 2015 • VOL. 34, NO. 1 Indeed, like so many of our graduates, and for so many Who knew better than Kathleen that to be powerful, you reasons, Kathleen was a pioneer, entering the legal profession both had to be tenacious and hold yourself accountable? at a time when it was male-dominated. And no matter the challenge, she did what she did best—she used her great Who knew better than Kathleen that any organizational intelligence, skill, and education to rise through the ranks, problem could be solved—not only by understanding operating at an unrivaled scale and technical complexity, to the systems and data at play, but most importantly by become one of the most powerful and respected women in understanding and caring about the people who need to be New York City government. led, trained, and empowered to be agents of change?

To be clear, Kathleen personified the qualities of hard work And who knew better than Kathleen that advancing justice, and creating opportunity—the core values of New York fostering integrity and professionalism, and being a great City—in everything she did. innovator, often requires real courage and taking real risks? That’s what made her so great…and so powerful. That’s why And for us at New York Law School, she personified our she’s completely irreplaceable. And that’s why we are better as spirit and values of advancing justice, fostering integrity and a City, as educators, and as individuals because of her. professionalism, and embracing innovation. Kathleen showed unrelenting courage, determination, and We have been so proud, and have honored many times, unique grace and kindness in every part of her life, right up Kathleen’s countless contributions to society, and personal until her final day. achievements. As Maya Angelou powerfully once said: Just last year, in recognition of her incredible lifetime achievements and her tireless service to the School, we “I am convinced that courage is the most important of all awarded her our highest honor: the President’s Medal. the virtues. Because without courage, you cannot practice any other virtue consistently. You can be kind for a while; As I stand here today, I think of all the lessons we learned you can be generous for a while; you can be just for a while, from the extraordinary life she led: or merciful for a while, even loving for a while. But it is only with courage that you can be persistently and insistently kind No obstacle is too big to overcome. and generous and fair.”

No question is too delicate to be asked. (You’ll recall she asked a I can’t think of a better way to describe Kathleen, and lot of very tough questions.) remember the extraordinary life she led.

Never be unprepared. (Important to remember when dealing The New York Law School community will never forget with someone who asks very tough questions.) Kathleen Grimm.

Admit when you’re wrong, but don’t be too proud when And I will never forget Kathleen Grimm. Her wisdom, her you’re right. kindness, her friendship, and her generous counsel were always just a short walk, phone call, or e-mail away. Always do right by the students. I will miss her, but will continue to be guided by her lessons And don’t take things too personally, even if they are personal. and be comforted in knowing that she is watching over us.

In what would be my final conversation with her last And I know the Law School community, which has seen such Thursday, she stressed to me how much the Law School an outpouring of support, will continue to be guided by her meant to her, and she was unmistakably clear with me about inspiration as we work together to honor her memory and her being fearless. And this is something she also emphasized in service, including through the Kathleen Grimm Medal for her parting words to our Board during a conference call the Distinguished Public Service, which will be awarded at each day before. And if you know her, you know this makes sense. Commencement going forward.

After all: May God bless the memory of Kathleen Grimm and the many lives she touched. • Who knew better than Kathleen that confronting adversity was in the core job description of someone who is a leader?

fEATURES 17 Human Trafficking Election Reform

Human Trafficking

Housing Justice Bitcoin Law: Regulation and Transactions

Twenty Years of South African Constitutionalism AMPUS BU ZZ

C Faculty Emeriti Faculty Emeriti Celebration Twenty Years of South African Constitutionalism Celebration

Housing Justice Bitcoin Law: Regulation and Transactions

Election Reform in the Digital Age

18 New York Law school magazine • 2015 • VOL. 34, NO. 1 O n October 10, 2014, the Impact Center for Public Interest Law and the New York Law School Law Review presented a symposium titled “Innovations in the Fight Against Human Trafficking: Perspectives and Proposals.” The symposium addressed human trafficking in its broadest meaning, as a form of exploitation growing from economic inequalities and both domestic and global migration to seek better work and a better life, which has special risks for women and children. The symposium featured discussion of human trafficking among frontline workers from government, NGOs, philanthropies, the legal profession, and others with specialized training or experience, as well as community-oriented private businesses, all of whom share the burden of seeking solutions and implementing policies related to trafficking. Contributions of the participants were publicized through the Symposium website and will be published as a special issue of the New York Law School Law Review. The symposium chairs were Professors Melynda Barnhart and Frank Munger of New York Law School. Professor Melynda Barnhart

On October 21, 2014, the Center for Business and Financial Law hosted a half-day conference on a new technology with a huge impact on the financial world: bitcoins. That event, “Bitcoin Law: Regulation and Transactions,” drew major press coverage for its innovative look at this new payment system. Professor Houman B. Shadab organized the event and moderated two panels, the first on “The New Landscape for Federal and State Regulation of Cryptocurrencies,” and the second on “Trading and Decentralized Ledger Transactions.” Speakers included: Emily H. Goodman Binick, Vice President and Senior Counsel, Enterprise Growth Group, American Express Company; Miles Cowan ’07, CEO, Tillit Inc.; Adam Krellenstein, Founder, Counterparty; Jaron Lukasiewicz, CEO, Coinsetter; Marco Santori, Nesenoff & Miltenberg LLP; Brian Stoeckert ’04, Managing Director and Chief Strategy Officer, CoinComply; Sam Yilmaz, Managing Partner, Decentralized Applications Fund; and Jonathan Silverman, Director of Strategic Initiatives, BitGo Inc. Jonathan Silverman, Sam Yilmaz, and Professor Houman B. Shadab

O n November 14-16, 2014, New York Law School hosted a groundbreaking three-day symposium titled “Twenty Years of South African Constitutionalism: Constitutional Rights, Judicial Independence, and the Transition to Democracy.” The symposium, which drew a global audience, explored the question of law’s capacity to contribute to building an egalitarian, free society in South Africa—and by implication elsewhere. Speakers included Professor Stephen J. Ellmann, who was the principal organizer of the event; Penelope “Penny” Andrews, then Dean of Albany Law School; the Honorable Patrick Gaspard, U.S. Ambassador to South Africa; and Franklin Thomas, former President of the Ford Foundation. Funding came from the Ford Foundation and National Science Foundation. Co-sponsors were the New York Law School Law Review, the Impact Center for Public Interest Law’s South Africa and the Rule of Law Project, the Center for International Law, and the South Africa Reading Group. The symposium included a total of 46 sessions Franklin Thomas and Professor Stephen J. and roughly 200 participants. Ellmann at the opening reception

On December 3, 2014, the Law School hosted a luncheon reception celebrating the service and contributions of nine distinguished professors as they became emeritus members of the faculty. Eight of the honorees, standing with Dean Anthony W. Crowell (left) in the photo to the right, are (left to right) Lawrence M. Grosberg, Stephen A. Newman, Carlin Meyer, Randolph N. Jonakait, Jethro K. Lieberman, Aleta G. Estreicher, Michael Botein, and Michael L. Perlin. The ninth honoree, James Brook, is not pictured. In attendance were administration, faculty, staff, and family members. Dean Crowell and then Associate Dean for Academic Affairs Deborah Archer offered welcoming remarks, and then each honoree, introduced by another member of the faculty, presented a brief talk.

On December 5, 2014, the Impact Center for Public Interest Law hosted a day-long forum, “Housing Justice: A Public Forum on New Yorkers’ Right to Counsel in Eviction Proceedings.” The forum arose as a result of the fact that the was considering legislation that would make New York City the first place in the United States to establish a right to counsel in eviction proceedings. Dean Anthony W. Crowell and Distinguished Adjunct Professor Andrew Scherer, Policy Director of the Impact Center, made opening remarks, as did the Honorable Jonathan Lippman, Chief Judge of the New York State Court of Appeals. Also presenting opening remarks were Commissioner Vicki Been, Department of Housing Preservation and Development, NYC; Commissioner Steven Banks, Human Resources Association, NYC; and Susanna Blankley, Director of Housing Organizing, Community Action for Safe Apartments. There followed a Bar Leaders Panel; a Community Voices Panel; a Panel of Experts on Housing, Homelessness, and Social Services; a Panel of Experts Chief Judge Jonathan Lippman presents on the Administration of Justice; and a Panel of Experts on National and International Experience. opening remarks.

On January 26, 2015, the Center for New York City Law, the Institute for Information Law and Policy, and the Impact Center for Public Interest Law presented a panel discussion titled “Election Reform in the Digital Age: One Year After the Presidential Commission on Election Administration.” Dean Crowell moderated the discussion, featuring Robert Bauer, Partner at Perkins Coie LLP, former Co-Chair of the Presidential Commission on Election Administration, and former White House Counsel to President Obama; David Becker, Director of Election Initiatives at the Pew Charitable Trusts; and Michael Ryan ’95, Executive Director of the NYC Board of Elections. The event was sponsored by Davidoff Hutcher & Citron, LLP. From left to right: Dean Anthony W. Crowell, Robert Bauer, Michael Ryan ’95, and David Becker

CAMPUS BUZZ 19 Thirty Years of Continuity and Change Lloyd Bonfield Reflects on a Journal’s Milestone By Ruth Singleton

Continuity and Change: A journal of social structure, law and demography in past societies, co-founded by NYLS Professor Lloyd Bonfield, is celebrating its 30th anniversary this year. To commemorate this achievement, Professor Bonfield wrote an article for the anniversary issue of the journal, entitled “Reflections on thirty years ofContinuity and Change.” New York Law School Magazine asked Professor Bonfield to answer a few questions about the journal’s 30-year history.

First, congratulations on this Before then, the Group’s research was its mission, much debated at its inception, milestone. What was the impetus disseminated through collective volumes. which appears on the masthead: “This new My colleague and friend at the Group, journal (now not so new) for starting up Continuity and Continuity and Richard Wall, and I persuaded the Press Change aims to define an area…. Emphasis Change? that a journal, as the masthead relates, will be upon studies whose agenda The creation of academic journals seems “whose agenda or methodology combines or methodology combines elements to be in my blood. The story of my elements from traditional fields such from traditional fields such as history, involvement in Continuity and Change is as history, sociology, law, demography, sociology, law, demography, economics both personal and professional. During the economics or anthropology or ranged or anthropology or ranges freely between period of my fellowship at Trinity College, freely between them” was a necessary them.” We were also fortunate in that a Cambridge, I became associated with component in their array of journals. new generation of scholars in Europe and the Cambridge Group for the History of America flocked to the Cambridge Group Population and Social Structure, through and were committed to interdisciplinary my academic mentor, Peter Laslett. After How did you decide on the title, history. The journal has helped forge moving back to the United States to teach and how do you think it has connections between scholars by providing at Cornell Law School, I founded Law and influenced the articles that have a forum. History Review with a Cornell colleague, run in it over the years? Russell Osgood. When I left Cornell, Little is in a name. What has really three years later, I decided that I wanted to I see that the journal is published influenced the progress of the journal is continue my association with the “Group.” in England by Cambridge

20 New York Law school magazine • 2015 • VOL. 34, NO. 1 University Press. Can you reflect reservations about their judgment. Each interests. This liberty, I believe, has on any differences between article published is unique. It is the result expanded our intellectual horizons and has academic journal publishing in of considerable (and often painstaking had a salutary effect upon the quality of and painful) primary research, frequently our own research. the United Kingdom and in the archival, the assimilation of the existing United States? historiography, and the framing of an How has technology changed To some extent, though some might argument. Each makes a significant disagree, the Cambridge University Press contribution to our knowledge of a given the operations of Continuity can no longer be considered British, at field. and Change? least with respect to journal publication. For editors, it has made the process of It publishes a number of journals that Over the course of the journal’s commenting and rephrasing articles are edited in the United States such as life, has the balance of emphasis much easier. It also speeds the production Law and History Review, the Journal of process after it leaves the hands of the British History, and Social Science History. in the articles shifted among editors and eventually becomes a bound Unlike American law reviews published social structure, law, and volume. by law schools, which are generally under demography? the control of law students, its journals In my reverie in the anniversary issue, are faculty edited and peer reviewed. Where do you see academic “Reflections on thirty years ofContinuity In my reverie in the anniversary issue, publishing going in the next and Change,” I categorize the articles in the “Reflections on thirty years ofContinuity first and last five years, and compare the 30 years? and Change,” I noted that the professionals subject matter that each article addressed With academic budgets under pressure, at the Press imposed “exacting editorial over those years. I am happy to say the one cannot be optimistic. Many of the standards.” interdisciplinary cast that we strove for articles printed in the journal began their at the journal’s inception continues to be life as a conference paper. Participation Do you recall the earliest period realized. Legal history continues to be in conferences has declined as faculty of history reported on in the well-represented. research budgets have been eroded by journal, as well as the most design or inflation. ButContinuity and Change was established in the mid-’80s, a recent? What goes into creating and period of significant decline in the funding Articles have spanned recorded history, growing a successful journal? of higher education. Bound copies of and range widely geographically. The journals may disappear. Most articles are For , it was, journal has published articles on the Continuity and Change now read online or downloaded from the as Churchill borrowed from Teddy demography of the Roman Empire, journal’s website. Roosevelt, “blood, toil, sweat and tears.” largely ascertained from the use of burial Both Richard and myself had significant monuments, to sex crimes in the Ottoman teaching responsibilities and research Empire, to disputes over marriage, Is there anything else you want to agendas. Reading dozens of articles paternity, and divorce in Algeria in the say about reaching this milestone? submitted, sending the ones we felt worthy period after 1960. out for review, collating the responses, and As my own participation in the everyday editing the text took ghastly amounts of running of the journal wanes, it is Can you single out two or three time. Fortunately, we were blessed with gratifying to see that a new generation of colleagues who shared that burden. I editors is committed to the intellectual articles over the journal’s history mission. I am pleased that the journal’s that strike you as groundbreaking always told my colleagues nobody would undertake the burdens if they did not future is in the hands of a prominent in their scholarship or otherwise regard the enterprise in some perverse way group of excellent scholars. My sense extraordinary? as “fun.” All of us privileged to edit the of happiness in this accomplishment, however, is tempered by sadness that my The editors did choose 10 influential journal were provided with a justification co-founding editor, Richard Wall, is not articles over the 30 years, but since one and an obligation to delve into topics here to share the glory. • of mine was included, I must express far removed from our core intellectual

MEET THE AUTHORS 21 John Gallagher ’94 Collaborates on the Autobiography of Valmore James, a Pioneering Hockey Player

BBy Ruth Singleton lack Ice Valmore James became the first American-born black player in the National Hockey League in 1982, playing for the Buffalo Sabres and the Toronto Maple Leafs. He and John Gallagher ’94 are co-authors of Black Ice: The Val James Story, James’ autobiography, published by ECW Press of Toronto. The book recounts Val James’ years in hockey, from learning how to skate at the rink his father managed on Long Island during the 1960s to his time in youth hockey, the minor leagues, and the NHL. During his short stint in the NHL, James regularly encountered racial slurs and threats of violence from both players and fans, and much of the book focuses on how he dealt with these incidents. John Gallagher answered a Q&A about his own career and his experience collaborating with Val James on his autobiography.

Valmore James with John Gallagher ’94

22 New York Law school magazine • 2015 • VOL. 34, NO. 1 It is a good lesson about a young man who overcame You currently work as a federal how an enthusiastic and compelling telling prosecutor in Philadelphia. What kind of the facts can go a long way to supporting tremendous obstacles to of cases do you prosecute? a particular legal argument. achieve a dream he was Over the years, my cases have largely focused on violent gangs and organizations, Inevitably, a main focus of the book told was impossible. Val’s but I have also prosecuted my share of other is the ugly, racist behavior of other crimes including official corruption, civil rights players and fans. Val James says in courage and resilience are violations, and various white-collar frauds. the book, “When I started skating, I set out to be a hockey player, not inspiring. How did you come to write a book a black hockey player. However, about hockey? And specifically, the the two concepts quickly became story of Val James? intertwined. And not by choice. From early on, there were some people who who looked like them. That is changing. The For years, I was a volunteer coach in the Ice were determined to prove that being NHL has established a diversity office that is Hockey in Harlem program. While spending black and being a hockey player were actively growing the sport in the inner city. time teaching hockey to the kids in that mutually exclusive. And I was just Professional teams are supporting youth community, I became curious about the as determined to prove them wrong, teams around the country. An enormous, experience of the relatively few black hockey by any means necessary.” When you privately-funded project is under way, which players who had made it to the pinnacle spoke to him about the book, were you will put the world’s biggest ice hockey of the sport. Val James was a fellow New surprised to hear about how in the late complex in the heart of . It is a Yorker who I had rooted for as a kid, so he ’70s and early ’80s, more than three changing landscape since Val’s time. was someone I wanted to learn more about. decades after Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier in baseball, racism What was your process for working was so rampant? What lessons, if any, have you taken away from working on the book and with Val James on his autobiography? I was surprised both by the regularity and with Val James? I tracked down Val in Canada, where he had the recency of the abuse to which Val settled after retiring from hockey almost 30 was subjected. I suspected that a black It is a good lesson about a young man who years ago. He is a very private person, but we man trying to break into a traditionally overcame tremendous obstacles to achieve became fast friends. Val felt that it was time white sport had a tough time of it, but the a dream he was told was impossible. Val’s to tell his story. We spoke each weekend slurs and the taunting were almost a daily courage and resilience are inspiring. by telephone, and I followed up with other occurrence on the road. Sadly, this isn’t as Val’s capacity to forgive is remarkable. The interviews in the evenings. His memory is far back in the history books as might be abuse he endured stayed with him for many outstanding, and he tells a great story. expected. It took a very strong person to years. He couldn’t watch a hockey game endure and succeed the way Val James did. without reliving these ugly episodes. He loved the sport and he endured so much to Has being an attorney helped you in the play it, and then he consciously avoided it writing process? If so, how? And now it’s more than three decades after Val James joined the NHL, yet for years because of the pain that was part A prosecutor is frequently called upon to racist behavior persists in the sport. of his hockey experience. He forgets nothing investigate and corroborate facts. These The book mentions that someone in but he forgives all. same skills came to good use in the writing the stands threw a banana at Wayne of this book. Witnesses had to be located. Simmonds of the Philadelphia Flyers The book was published in early Recollections had to be recorded. Memories as recently as 2011. Despite incidents had to be tested and double-checked. That’s February. What kind of press attention like that, has the NHL become a more have you received so far? all in a day’s work for a prosecutor. welcoming place for black players in the past 30 years? The press coverage has been terrific. It certainly didn’t hurt that, the day after the Did your education at NYLS help you We still hear about incidents from time to book was released, did become a better writer? If so, were time, but they are far fewer nowadays and a positive feature on Val. That was followed there professors who were particularly they are universally condemned when they by interviews and stories on NPR, BBC, influential? do occur. That is a big change from Val’s time. ESPN, MSNBC, among many others. On the technical side, I am grateful to One reason hockey has been inaccessible to Professor B.J. George, who was my faculty some communities is based on economics; Are you still a hockey fan? If so, what is advisor and who walked me through the ice hockey is an expensive sport. your favorite hockey team? nuts and bolts of my NYLS research thesis. For many kids, the lack of black players also I also learned from Professor Robert Blecker meant a lack of potential hockey heroes Let’s go, Rangers! •

MEET THE AUTHORS 23 n November 2014, Richard K. Sherwin, In December 2014, Nadine Strossen, who Professor Richard K. a pioneer in legal storytelling and visual was the first woman to head the American communication, was appointed as Civil Liberties Union, was appointed as the Sherwin and Professor theI Wallace Stevens Professor of Law. The John Marshall Harlan II Professor of Law. professorship honors the memory of Stevens, The professorship honors the memory of Nadine Strossen Appointed one of NYLS’s most accomplished graduates NYLS alumnus John Marshall Harlan II (Class of 1903), who was both a successful (Class of 1924), who served as an associate to Named Professorships full-time attorney and a Pulitzer Prize- justice on the U.S. Supreme Court for 16 winning poet. years during the mid-twentieth century

Professor Richard K. Sherwin (1955-1971). Sherwin’s commitment to a pedagogy that integrates legal theory and practice has been Professor Strossen has written, lectured, both a touchstone of his career at NYLS, and practiced extensively in the areas which began in 1988, and an example of the of constitutional law, civil liberties, and innovative methods and curriculum that international human rights for four decades. flourish at the Law School. He has gained From 1991 through 2008, she served as international recognition for his path- president of the ACLU, the nation’s largest breaking work exploring the interrelationship and oldest civil liberties organization. She between law and culture. In his pioneering also has held other leadership positions book, When Law Goes Pop: The Vanishing in human rights organizations, including Line between Law and Popular Culture serving on the Board of Directors and (2000), Professor Sherwin describes the Executive Committee of Human Rights various ways in which lawyers and judges use Watch. Currently, she is a member of the familiar narratives, metaphors, and visual ACLU’s National Advisory Council, and was images in everyday legal practice. In 2013, recently unanimously elected to the Board Professor Sherwin received a Fulbright award of EPIC, the Electronic Privacy Information and served as the Fulbright Canada Visiting Center. She joined NYLS as a professor Professor Nadine Strossen Research Chair in Law and Literature at in 1988. More than 300 published works McGill University, where he was in residence of Professor Strossen’s have appeared in during the spring 2014 semester. In 2014, scholarly journals and general interest outlets. he received a Humanities Research Centre Her book, Defending Pornography: Free Fellowship and served as Visiting Research Speech, Sex, and the Fight for Women’s Rights Fellow at Australia National University. (Scribner, 1995), was named by The New York Times as a “Notable Book” of 1995.

n February 2015, Kris Franklin was Franklin is an expert in legal pedagogy and Kris Franklin awarded tenure. The vote of the Board of experiential learning in law school, and Trustees moved her from the position of a national leader in the field of academic Awarded Tenure ProfessorI of Law with a Long-Term Contract preparedness. She is frequently asked to to Professor of Law with Tenure. Professor speak and lead workshops for other law Franklin is Director of the Academic Skills faculty, and has served as a Board Member Program. of the Association of American Law Schools’ Section on Teaching Methods and An academic nonconformist, Professor President of the AALS Section on Academic Franklin brings a talent for creative and Support. She is the founder of the New unconventional thinking to her teaching York Academic Support Workshop, and a and to her leadership of NYLS’s Initiative founding Board member of the Association for Excellence in Law Teaching. Professor of Academic Support Educators. •

24 New York Law school magazine • 2015 • VOL. 34, NO. 1 The following items represent a sampling of the recent activities of our full-time faculty. Full-Time Faculty Activities Compiled by Ryan Last

Susan J. Abraham company: IRS Funding Leadership Summit, in Corporate Law?, Media References Gap Strains Government Washington, D.C. Business Law Prof and Appearances Coffers (March 2015). (October 2014). Blog (June 2014). Received widespread press Video interview by coverage, in connection with the Safe Passage Mimesis Productions: Richard C.E. Beck Lenni B. Benson Corporate Inversions Project, in the Associated Could Mean Big Tax Press, Bloomberg Bills for Shareholders News, the New York (November 2014). Law Journal, The New York Times, Media References The Nation, the New and Appearances Deborah N. Archer York Daily News, I Am Baffled and at a Loss, Lawdragon Campus, City Lab (December JD Supra, and Reuters. 2014). Also appeared on major Media References Awards and Recognition news outlets, including and Appearances Honored with a Lawyers PBS, CBS New York, Alan I. Appel ’76 2014 Tax Fairness Survey, Who Lead by Example Univision, CUNY Wallet Hub (June 2014). Award, presented by Television, NBC News, the New York Law Americans Want Fair and PRI (Fall 2014) Journal—the only law Taxes—Even If It is professor to be honored Awards and Recognition Bad for the Economy, Testimonies and (September 2014). Received the Haywood Deseret News Legal Consultations Burns-Shanara Gilbert National (June 2014). Met with staff of the New Presentations Award at the Northeastern York State Assembly on People of Color Legal Presented a series of the needs of migrant Tamara C. Belinfanti Scholarship Conference speeches, CLE programs, youth (December Presentations (November 2014). and training sessions 2014). Selected by the Participated as a panelist on immigration law, Department of Justice at the Fifth Annual Town Appointments including for the Annual to participate in the Immigration Institute Hall Meeting at the New Appointed to the training of the first class of the Practising Law York City Bar on issues Association of American of Justice Americorps Institute, Suffolk Family concerning the Foreign Law Schools’ Minority fellows in Washington, Court, Broward County Account Tax Compliance Section Executive D.C. (December 2014). Women Lawyers’ Act, New York (January Committee (December Addressed a White House Association, City Council 2015). 2014). briefing in Washington, Presentations staff, Asylum for Children D.C., to discuss how to Appointed by Mayor Bill Publications Presented paper, “Social of Catholic Charities, face the legal needs of de Blasio to the Civilian The Government Intrapraneurs and the justice AmeriCorps, unaccompanied alien Complaint Review Board Strikes Back—New Theory of the Firm,” and at the law firms children (August 2014). (October 2014). IRS Notice Strengthens at the Law and Society BakerHostetler, Kramer Anti-Inversion Rules, 28 Elected to the Executive Association’s Annual Levin Naftalis & Frankel Robert Blecker Journal of Taxation Committee of the Meeting, Minneapolis, LLP, Fragomen, Del and Regulations Board of the New York Minnesota (June 2014). Rey, Bernsen and Loewy of Financial Civil Liberties Union LLP, and Wilson Elser Institutions No. 3 (September 2014). Publications Moskowitz Edelman & Page 19 (Civic Research Corporate Perception Dicker LLP (Fall 2014). Institute) (January/ Presentations or Corporate Reality, Publications February 2015). Participated on a panel, Business Law Prof “Getting the Most Out Blog (September 2014). We Must Honor Media References the Rule of Law for of Law School: Student Preparing for Impact, and Appearances Desperate Children at and Administration Huffington Post (July the U.S. Border, The Presentations Video interview by Integration,” at the 2014). Mimesis Productions, Lee American Bar Association Huffington Post (July Engaged in a one-on-one Pacchia ’06’s production Student Division I Am So Happy…But Is 2014). 90-minute public dialogue There Room for Happiness at Tufts University on the

FACULTY HIGHLIGHTS 25 proper role of retribution Michael Botein Heidi K. Brown The Emotionally of Technology in criminal justice, Intelligent Law and Intellectual Medford, Massachusetts Professor: A Lesson Property (December (November 2014). from the Breakfast 2014). Club, University of Gave a solo three-hour Arkansas at Little presentation to 200 Anthony W. Crowell Rock Law Review Kansas prosecutors at the (November 2014). annual meeting of the Kansas District Attorneys’ Association (October Kirk D. Burkhalter ’04 2014). Presentations Awards and Recognition Gave a briefing to Selected by the U.S. Publications the Senate Judiciary Department of State’s 5 Ways to Improve the U.S. Committee’s Bureau of Educational and Death Penalty, CNN (July Subcommittee on Cultural Affairs and the Antitrust, Competition Institute of International 2014). Presentations Policy and Consumer Education’s Council for Panelist, “New Lawyers in Media References Rights on the regulatory International Exchange of a Changing Profession,” and Appearances and competitive issues Scholars for the Fulbright Conference of the implicated in the proposed Specialist Roster, Quoted about the death Media References Northeast Association of AT&T/DirecTV merger, rendering her eligible for penalty in a wide range of and Appearances Pre-Law Advisors, New Washington, D.C. (June two international teaching media outlets, including CS Keys Show, WS York Law School (June 2014). grants in the next five years Agence France-Presse, Radio (August 2014). 2015). through the J. William The Boston Globe, Gave a lecture for the Fulbright Scholars Panelist, “Experiential The Atlantic, continuing education Program (August 2014). Learning Outside the Harvard Politics, program of the South Lung-chu Chen Curriculum: The Dean’s CNN, NPR, BBC Orange, New Jersey, Presentations Perspective” Institute Mundo, WBUR’s Here Library titled “Economic for Law Teaching and & Now, and Ria Novosti Disruption in the Balkan Gave a presentation titled Learning, Gonzaga (June 2014-January 2015). Energy Industry: Ukraine “Empowering Millennial University School of Law, Moves to Western and Generation Z Video interview by Spokane, Washington European Markets” (June Students to Overcome Mimesis Productions, Lee (June 2015). 2014). Extreme Public Speaking Pacchia ’06’s production Anxiety in the Socratic law company, on the topics Spoke at the American Publications School Classroom” at the Bar Association’s Second “GM Recalls Show Need Fourth Colonial Frontier Network Neutrality: Publications Circuit Spring Meeting: for Harsher Penalties for Legal Writing Conference White House and FCC An Introduction offered introductory ‘Red Collar’ Criminals hosted by the Duquesne in Uncommon Squabble to Contemporary remarks to the audience and “Did Barry Bonds University School of Law, Over Carriage, law.com International Law: and moderated a panel Really Obstruct Justice Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (November 2014) A Policy-Oriented on leadership traits of With An Unresponsive (December 2014). Perspective (Oxford successful law students and Statement?” (July 2014, AT&T DirecTV Proposed Presented at Stanford University Press, Third lawyers, New York Law January 2015). Merger Raises Questions, Law School on the topic Edition, January 2015). School (February 2015). Law.com (June 2014). of “Empowering Law Participated in the Lloyd Bonfield Students to Develop Their Media References Richard Chused Association of American and Appearances Lawyer Persona Through Law Schools’ Dean’s Only a Community-based Will the FCC Vacate State Program entitled “Thriving Transactional Teaching Broadband Restrictions?, as a Dean in Today’s Module,” Stanford, Government World,” Washington, D.C. California (September Technology (January 2015). 2014). (September 2014). Interviewed NYLS Publications Trustee and author Jim Zirin about his new book, Empowering Law Students The Mother Court: Publications to Overcome Extreme Publications Tales of Cases that Reflections on thirty Public Speaking Anxiety: Mattered in America’s years of Continuity and Why ‘Just Be It’ Works The Legal Culture of Greatest Trial Court, Change, Continuity and ‘Just Do It’ Doesn’t, Appropriation Art: The Brooklyn Public Library, and Change 30 (1), 1–5 Duquesne Law Review Future of Copyright Brooklyn, New York (2015). (December 2014). in the Remix Age, Tulane Journal (October 2014).

26 New York Law school magazine • 2015 • VOL. 34, NO. 1 Media References met three times in fall Stacy-Ann Elvy the Public Representative Taught a two-day law and Appearances 2014, co-chairing the (September, October, school preparation seminar Ronald Cohen, 47, South Africa Reading November 2014). for Council on Legal Group, which also met Education Opportunity Dies of Brain Cancer; Was the keynote speaker at three times that semester, (CLEO) law schools, New Helped Lead Post-9/11 two programs sponsored and also serving as a co- York Law School (August Rescue and Recovery by the Asia Pacific organizer of the NYLS 2014). Efforts, Staten Island Economic Commission Pedagogy Discussion Advance (November (APEC) (August, Group (Fall 2014). Publications 2014). November 2014). Strategies and De Blasio Appoints 16 Panelist, plenary session Presentations Was the keynote speaker Techniques for to Mayor’s Advisory titled “Nelson Mandela, at a program sponsored Teaching Academic Committee on the Law and the Quest for Presented her article, “A by FX World in Istanbul, Success Classes, Judiciary, Brooklyn Equality” at the Law and Post-Colonial Theory Turkey (September 2014). part of the Wolters Daily Eagle (July 2014). Society Association’s of Spousal Rape: The Annual Meeting in Caribbean and Beyond,” Led a discussion at a Kluwer “Strategies and Courts, Law Schools Gear Minneapolis, Minnesota at CUNY School of Law, “Careers in Financial Techniques” law teaching Up for Pro Bono Scholar (June 2014). Long Island City, New Services Compliance” series (Aspen Publishing, Program, New York York (November 2014). panel as part of the December 2014). Participated in the Law Journal (July New York City Bar National Symposium on Presented her article, “A Empathy Imperiled: 2014). Association’s summer Experimental Education Post-Colonial Theory Capitalism, Culture and Featured in the Summer series on hot practice areas, in Law at Elon University. of Spousal Rape: The the Brain by Gary Olson, 2014 issue of Mandarin New York (July 2014). Served on the Alliance Caribbean and Beyond,” Radical Teacher Quarterly (June 2014). at Tulane Law School, (Spring 2014). for Experimental Media References New Orleans, Louisiana Learning in Law Steering and Appearances Stephen J. Ellmann Committee and as the (November 2014). Featured in Penny for Doni Gewirtzman moderator of two plenary Presented paper, Your Thoughts with sessions: one discussing “Post-Colonial State Brian Barnhart, discussing cost and sustainability, Compliance with the stock market and and the other discussing International Law: financial services law (June approaches from other A Case Study of the 2014). disciplines, such as Sexual Offences Statutes medicine, business, of Commonwealth technology, and design, Caribbean States,” at Kris Franklin Elon, North Carolina the Law and Society (June 2014). Presentations Association’s Annual Presentations Served as the principal Meeting, Minneapolis, Service Presented a lecture at the organizer of the workshop Minnesota (June 2014). Igniting Law Teaching Participated, along with on “Twenty Years of South Conference at American Dean Crowell and others, African Constitutionalism: University Washington in the work of the New Ronald H. Filler Constitutional Rights, College of Law entitled, York State Law School Judicial Independence, “Teaching and Theater: Veterans’ Consortium, and the Transition to The Craft of Law prepared a “Toolkit for Democracy,” at New York Appointments Teaching,” Washington, Veterans Programs” as part Law School. The three-day Elected to a second term D.C. (October 2014). workshop brought together of that effort, and helped as a board member for Participated in NYLS’s close to 200 presenters organize the Veterans the National Association Second Annual Supreme and commentators from Justice Clinic, in which of Academic Support Court Review Luncheon, South Africa, the United NYLS students will work Educators (June 2014). New York Law School States, and elsewhere for on veterans’ issues at Legal Presentations (October 2014). wide-ranging discussions in Services NYC under Presentations the supervision of Legal approximately 45 separate Spoke at a series of Gave the inaugural talk, Services attorneys who are sessions, and will result in Member Training focusing on experiential now members of NYLS’s two issues of next year’s Programs sponsored by learning and inverter adjunct faculty (Fall 2014). New York Law School Law the National Futures teaching in the Socratic Review (November 2014). Association, the self- classroom, at Seton regulatory organization for Continued to lead Hall Law School’s new the futures and derivatives pedagogy presentation scholarly workshops, industry, the Executive chairing the Clinical series , Newark, New Jersey Committee of which he (September 2014). Theory Workshop, which was elected to serve as

FACULTY HIGHLIGHTS 27 Anne Goldstein Publications attorneys at Hogan Lovells Wind Turbines, and Solar Media References Corporate Finance and Covington & Burling Collection, 3 Louisiana and Appearances (West Academic and led a workshop on State University Estates’ Law Aims to Publishing, August 2014). effective motion argument Journal of Energy Protect Rights of ‘Genetic at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Law and Resources Child,’ New York Law Wharton & Garrison LLP. 101 (2014). Journal (December Kim Hawkins Also taught a workshop French & Korngold, 2014). on Fact Investigation at Cases and Text Mentioned in several Hogan Lovells, New York on Property, Aspen Wills, Trusts & (October, December 2014, Casebook Series (Wolters Estates Prof Blog Appointments January 2015). Kluwer, 6th edition, posts including “Valid Selected to serve on the Delivered a presentation December 2014). Will May Revoke Inter organizing committee for on Trial Advocacy Skills Korngold & Goldstein, Vivos Trust” (June, August the Empire State Legal for attorneys at Allstate Real Estate 2014). Writing Conference Insurance’s headquarters Transactions: Cases (December 2014). in Northbrook, Illinois Presentations and Materials on (October 2014). Arthur S. Leonard Land Transfer, Presentations Co-presented Taught Trial Skills to Development and Presented as part of a “Incorporating Social attorneys at Mental Finance (Foundation panel on “Integrating Justice Themes into the 1L Hygiene Legal Services Press, 6th edition, October Experiential Learning Writing Curriculum” at in New York City and 2014). throughout the the Society of American participated as faculty Curriculum” at Indiana Law Teachers Teaching at the New York City Tech Law School’s Conference, “Legal William P. LaPiana Corporation Counsel “Symposium on the Future Education in a Time of Intensive Trial Advocacy of the Legal Profession Change: Challenges and Program (July 2014). and Legal Education.” Opportunities,” held at the Presentations University of Nevada at The title of her talk Presented on the Participated in a panel Las Vegas, Boyd School of was “Experiencing the Differences between and prepared the course Law (October 2014). Client in the First Year,” Opening Statement and materials for LGBT Law Fort Wayne, Indiana Presented at Stanford Closing Argument and 2014 Year in Review, (November 2014). Law School on the topic demonstrated Effective a CLE program co- of “Empowering Law Jury Speeches at the sponsored by the LGBT Students to Develop Their National Institute for Presentations Bar Association of Greater Jeffrey J. Haas Trial Advocacy Western Lawyer Persona Through Made a CLE presentation New York and the David Regional Trial Program a Community-based for the legal staff of Polk LGBT Affinity in San Francisco (June Transactional Teaching the New York County Group, and held at Davis 2014). Module,” Stanford, Surrogate’s Court on Polk’s midtown offices, California (September “Tax-Driven Trusts” and New York (January 2015). Media References 2014). discussed the use of trusts and Appearances Participated in a CLE Conducted an afternoon as a part of many different program at the Cornell Hogan: Summer Associate training workshop for the tax-saving strategies, New Industrial and Labor Programs are “Extended lawyering faculty at New York (November 2014). Relations School Interviews,” JD Supra York University School of Extension Division that Presentations (June 2014). Spoke to the Surrogate’s Law, New York (June 2014). examined the Supreme Spoke on a panel Court Committee of the Court’s Burwell v. Hobby addressing fund director New York County Lawyers’ Gerald Korngold Lobby decision, Ithaca, compensation held at the Mariana Hogan Association on the current New York (October 21 Club and sponsored state of undue influence 2014). by BoardIQ, New York litigation in New York and (October 2014). on the efforts to amend the revocation-on-divorce Publications Spoke at the Conference of statute to deal with the As contributing writer, Fund Leaders Roundtable Fourth Department’s published many articles held at Columbia opinion in Matter of Lewis, in Gay City News (Fall University and sponsored New York (October 2014). 2014). by the Mutual Fund Directors Forum, New Publications Publications Media References and York (October 2014). Presentations Conservation Easements New Fiduciary Decisions, Appearances Taught an intensive Trial and the Development of Estate Planning Law Professor: National Advocacy Program for New Energies: Fracking, (November 2014). Same-Sex Marriage

28 New York Law school magazine • 2015 • VOL. 34, NO. 1 ‘Overwhelmingly Howard S. Meyers was among the top 10 Change: Challenges and Michael L. Perlin Probable’ Next Year, downloads in international Opportunities,” held at the Huffington Post law for most of 2014. University of Nevada at (December 2014). Las Vegas, Boyd School of Presented a new Law (October 2014). Participated in monthly manuscript, “The Cause Lesbian/Gay Law Notes Lawyer’s Cause After Presented the work-in- Podcast, Podbean (Fall Military Coups in 21st progress paper, “It’s Not 2014). Century Thailand,” Lawyering Unless You Are to workshops at the Litigating: Social Justice Mid-Atlantic Law and and the Transactional Law Jethro K. Lieberman Media References Society Association Clinic,” at the Clinical Presentations and Appearances at Drexel University Writer’s Workshop Presented a paper, The Accidental Debt Thomas R. Kline School sponsored by the “Sexuality, Shame, That Wouldn’t Die, of Law, Philadelphia, Clinical Law Review Disability and Therapeutic Wall Street Journal Pennsylvania, and at at New York University Jurisprudence,” at the (January 2015). the Center for Socio- School of Law, New York yearly conference of the Legal Studies, National (September 2014). Human Dignity and University of Singapore. It Humiliation Studies Frank W. Munger Presented at Stanford is currently under review Network, at Columbia Law School on the topic by Cambridge University University’s Morton of “Empowering Law Publications Press (October, December Deutsch International Students to Develop Their Second Series, A 2014). Center for Cooperation Lawyer Persona Through Practical Companion and Conflict Resolution, Was co-organizer a Community-Based to the Constitution: Ne w York (December of a NYLS Law Transactional Teaching The Cumulative 2014). Review Symposium Module,” Stanford, Supplement 2008-2014, on Innovations in the California (September Presented a paper, “’I (Dialogue Press, January Fight Against Human 2014). Expected It to Happen/I 2015). Publications Trafficking, which will Knew He’d Lost Entries on Publications Control’: The Impact Trafficking in Law: Cause lead to a symposium issue “Constitutionalism” and of PTSD on Criminal Lawyer, Bureaucratic State of the New York Law Deals or No Deals: “Constitutional Law, Sentencing after the and the Rights of Human School Law Review Integrating Transactional United States,” for The Promulgation of DSM-5,” Trafficking Victims in later this year (October Skills in the First Year, Encyclopedia of at the 2014 Utah Law Thailand, 39 Asian 2014). Ohio Northern Political Thought Review Symposium, Studies Review 69 University Law (John Wiley & Sons, “Legal Borders and (2015). Review (October 2014). December 2014). Lynnise E. Pantin Mental Disorders: The Revolution Imagined: Challenge of Defining Cause Advocacy, Rudolph J.R. Peritz Mental Illness,” held at Richard D. Marsico Consumer Rights, and the University of Utah the Evolving Role of S.J. Quinney College of NGOs in Thailand, 9 Law, Salt Lake City, Utah Asian Journal of (November 2014). Comparative Law 29 Presented the lunch (2014). keynote address, “Power and Greed and the Presentations Presentations Corruptible Seed’: Mental Lead organizer of a Presenter, “Nuts and Bolts Disability, Prosecutorial symposium on the Teaching Plenary,” 14th Publications Misconduct, and the Appointments role of lawyers using Annual Transactional Letter to the Editor, Death Penalty,” to the Appointed as an Impartial law for social change Clinical Conference at the “Book Fight: Amazon vs. American Academy Hearing Officer by the in developing Asian Ewing Marion Kauffman Publishers,” The New of Psychiatry and Law New York State Education societies. His co-authored Foundation, Kansas City, York Times (June 2014). at its annual meeting Department and will hear article, “Mobilizing Missouri (April 2015). in Chicago, Illinois. special education cases in Law for Justice in Asia” Co-presented (October 2014). New York City (January appeared in a special “Incorporating Social 2015). issue of the Wisconsin Justice Themes into the 1L Publications International Writing Curriculum” at “Toiling in the Danger and Law Review, which the Society of American in the Morals of Despair: published papers from the Law Teachers Teaching Risk, Security, Danger, symposium. The article Conference, “Legal the Constitution, and was posted on SSRN and Education in a Time of the Clinician’s Dilemma,”

FACULTY HIGHLIGHTS 29 Stanford law & Presentation, “Capitalism Presented a paper, “Dream David S. Schoenbrod Emerging Bitcoin Policy Review (with and Risk,” at “Symposium Team or Nightmare?: Derivatives Offer Choice Alison Lynch’13, M.A. on Opportunities for The History and Ethics to Merchants and ’15) (September 2014). Law’s Intellectual History,” of Celebrity Criminal Institutional Investors, the Baldy Center for Defense Attorneys,” at the Lawbitrage (November Media References and Law and Social Policy, Criminal Justice Ethics 2014). Appearances Law School of the State Shmooze, co-sponsored by Why Cryptoequity University of New York, the Center for Professional Some Prosecutors Said May Not Be Securities, Buffalo, New York Values and Practice, to Unfairly Target Those Lawbitrage (November (October 2014). and held at Fordham With Mental Illness, 2014). PsychiatryOnline University School of Law, Presentations Regulating Bitcoin and (December 2014). New York (June 2014). Joined in a roundtable Sadiq Reza Block Chain Derivatives, discussion advising Manuel Written Statement to the Publications Pulgar-Vidal, Peru’s Edward A. Purcell Jr. U.S. Commodity Futures Her review of The Trial Minister of Environment, Trading Commission of Li Zhuang: Chinese on his role in overseeing (October 2014). Lawyers’ Collective the next round of climate Action Against negotiations (December Presentations Populism was published 2014). in Jotwell (June 2014). Presented at the Publications Cryptoledgers workshop sponsored by the Berkman Media References and American Voters Deserve Presentations Center for Internet Appearances Credit for Civil-Rights Presented a paper at a & Society at Harvard Fixing Law Schools: Are Victories, Too?, National Publications Boston University School University, Cambridge, More Types of Degrees the Journal (July 2014). Paradoxes of Court- of Law faculty workshop: Answer?, JD Supra (June Massachusetts (November One Small Step (Cough) Centered Legal History: “Apostasy or Not? One 2014). 2014). Some Values of Historical Iraqi Court Judgment,” for Clean Air, The Hill Understanding for a Boston, Massachusetts (June 2014). Jacob S. Sherkow Practical Legal Education, (March 2015). Ross Sandler 64 Journal of Legal Media References and Education 229 (2014). Appearances Rebecca Roiphe Appointed Tyrants: From the Particular A Review of Is to the General: Three Administrative Law Federal Rules and the Unlawful? The Jurisprudence of the Claremont Institute Rehnquist and Roberts (November 2014). Courts, 162 University of Pennsylvania Law Interview on Media References and Publications Review 1731 (2014). Environmental Issues, Appearances Administrating Sound Cloud (June Democracy, the Mayor’s Counsel Opens Patent Litigation, 90 Presentations 2014). Constitution, and Legal the Wallet, Crain’s New Washington Law Positivism in America: Joined a committee to plan York Business (October Review (forthcoming Lessons From a Winding the 2016 International 2014). Houman B. Shadab 2015). and Troubled History, 66 Legal Ethics Conference. The History of Patenting Florida Law Review She will represent New In Shift, New York City Genetic Material, 49 1457 (2014). York Law School, which Is Quickly Settling Big Annual Review of will be a co-sponsor of the Civil-Rights Lawsuits, Genetics (forthcoming Presentations event (October 2014). The New York Times (July 2014). 2015) (with Henry T. Panel Moderator, Presented a paper, Greely). “The First Twenty “Stratification: Two New York City Soda Fight, Law, History and Lessons Years of South African Tiers of Law Schools in Court, Tests Agency’s in the CRISPR Patent Constitutionalism,” at in Historical Context,” Power, The New York Conflict, 33 Nature “Conference: Twenty at both the Society of Times (June 2014). Publications Biotechnology 256 Years of South African American Law Teachers’ What are Smart Contracts, (2015). Constitutionalism,” conference in Las Vegas, and What Can We do with New York Law School Nevada, and at a faculty Them?, Coin Center Letter, Contrasting (November 2014). workshop at Pace Law (December 2014). Perspectives on the Price School, White Plains, New of Medicines, N.Y. Times, York (October 2014). at A20 (January 2015).

30 New York Law school magazine • 2015 • VOL. 34, NO. 1 Media References: Michael B.W. Sinclair Media References Turkey (November 2014) Should Nations Pay the and Appearances Price for Their Leaders’ A CRISPR Solution to Spoke on “Exploring Misdeeds?, CNN (July “Bubble Boy” Disease?, Defending Free Speech, Social Justice Issues in 2014). KQED Science (March “Counterpoint,” Criminal Prosecution 2015) (quoted on Australian Broadcasting Clinic Seminars and Media References CRISPR technologies). Corporation (interviewed) Evidence Courses” at and Appearances (November 2014). the Society of American Ruti Teitel on Why Power Richard K. Sherwin Law Teachers Teaching is Shifting in International Lynn Boepple Su Conference, “Legal Education in a Time of Law, Cicero Magazine Publications Change: Challenges and (August 2014). Karl Llewllyn’s Dueling Opportunities,” held at the Canons in Perspective, University of Nevada at Ari Ezra Waldman Vandeplas Publishing Las Vegas, Boyd School of (June 2014). Law (October 2014).

Nadine Strossen Ruti G. Teitel Presentations Invited lecture, “What is Appointments Visual Jurisprudence?” Selected to serve on the Osgoode Hall Law organizing committee for School, Law.Art.Culture the Empire State Legal seminar series, North Writing Conference Appointments York, Ontario, Canada (December 2014). Began his work as the (September 2014). Privacy Issues Expert for Presentations About.com, working with Plenary Presentation: Presentations NYLS students to inform “What Authorizes the Sat on the panel that Presentations the public of their privacy Image?: Visualizing Law as Participated in the Seventh conducted the Teachers’ Spoke at Hebrew rights (July 2014). Imitation and Event,” for Annual Rosenkranz Orientation Session University Law School the conference on “Law and Debate against former for the New York City on “Transitional Justice Presentations the Visual—Transitions U.S. Attorney General High School Mock Trial and Judicial Activism: & Transformations,” Michael Mukasey during Tournament. Was invited Is there a Right to Spoke at an annual Humanities Research the Federalist Society’s to participate as a member Accountability” as part of meeting of nationwide Centre, Australian National 2014 National Lawyers of the New York State a colloquium she convened TIAA-CREF employees, University, Canberra, Convention, Washington, Bar Association’s Law, titled “Transitional including the General Australia (July 2014). D.C. (November 2014). Youth, and Citizenship Justice: International Counsel and Associate Committee and its Mock General Counsels, on Delivered the Lorwin and Comparative Trial Subcommittee, New “Cyberharassment and the Publications Lecture on Civil Rights Perspectives,” Jerusalem, York (December 2014). Dark Side of Technology,” The Visual Politics and Civil Liberties at the Israel. Presented a talk on (November 2014). of Terror, Project University of Oregon, Gave a presentation, her book Globalizing Syndicate (translated titled “Surveillance, “Introducing Transactional Transitional Justice Presented a paper, “Online into nine languages) Suppression, and Secrecy,” Counseling in First-Year at the International Studies Identification and Re- (September 2014). Eugene, Oregon (October Legal Writing Courses,” Association “Human Identification,” at Cardozo 2014). at the Legal Writing Rights and Change” Law School as part of Media References and Institute’s One-Day Conference convened at the LGBT Law Scholars Spoke at Princeton Appearances Conference, “The Modern Kadir Has Universitesi, Working Group, New University, Woodrow Legal Writing Classroom,” Istanbul, Turkey (June, York (October 2014). Storytelling and Wilson School, Conference hosted by the University December 2014). Visual Literacy in the on “Civil Liberties in of Miami School of Law, Publications Courtroom, Slaw Times of War,” discussing Miami, Florida (December Publications (November 2014). “Surveillance versus The Case for Uber Data 2014). Tranziciona Pravda Privacy,” Princeton, New Sharing, Gotham Radio interview, with (Serbian translation of Jersey (September 2014). Selected by the Gazette (November Jeremiah Zagar, director her book Transitional International Congress 2014). of “Captivated: The Justice) (Edicija REČ, Publications on Legal Education to co- Trials of Pamela Smart” Beograd, 2014) What Are the Laws that (HBO television “Textualism and the Bill present at the Hacettepe Protect Our Privacy: documentary, 2014) (chief of Rights,” 37 Harvard University Faculty of Law Dialogues of Transitional Tort Law, About.com commentator), “The Dan Journal of Law & on the topic of “Mindful Justice, 32 Quinnipiac (October 2014). Mitchell Show,” WKBK Public Policy 721 Re-Thinking of Global Law Review 579 Radio (August 2014). (2014). Legal Education,” Ankara, (December 2014).

FACULTY HIGHLIGHTS 31 Erika L. Wood the Society of American of Books as part of the Publications Michelle Zierler Law Teachers Teaching Brooklyn Book Festival Implementing Reform: Conference, “Legal (September 2014). How Maryland and Education in a Time of Presented research, New York Ended Prison Change: Challenges and “Implementing Reform: Gerrymandering, Demos Opportunities,” held at the How Maryland and (August 2014). University of Nevada at New York Ended Prison Las Vegas, Boyd School of Gerrymandering,” Media References Law (October 2014). National Conference and Appearances Moderated a panel of State Legislatures, Video interview with Lee Presentations of authors discussing National Legislative Pacchia ’06 of Mimesis Media References Co-presented Voting Rights from Summit (August 2014). Productions: Busy Days For and Appearances “Incorporating Social Reconstruction to Voting Rights Advocates, Rolling Stone UVA Story Justice Themes into the 1L Obama, presented by Thanks to SCOTUS Raises Questions, Fox Writing Curriculum” at The New York Review (November 2014). News (December 2014). •

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Brigitte Amiri Joanne Doroshow D. Siegel, who passed away Andrew Scherer Appointment in October 2014. This Publications Media References and Publications Asked to join the Social news was reported in the Appearances Science Curriculum A Loss for Women Today in New York Law Journal Co-wrote the report Working Group by the the High Court, Common Tort Reform Advocates See (March 2015). mentioned in “Pro Bono Open Society Foundation’s Dreams (June 2014). Hope in Republican Gains Summit,” New York Law Higher Education Support at State Level, Business James Hagy Journal (June 2014). Program (August 2014). Lee Augsberger Insurance (December Presentations 2014). Presentations Media References Peter Strauss Served as Conference and Appearances Lawsuits Against Dallas Presented “Recent Moderator and Co-Host for Media References Hospital That First Sent Developments in NY Rent Prudential SVP Ranked The Rooftops Conference and Appearances Home Ebola Patient Would Regulation and Other Hot as Top Influencer in Biz Chicago 2015, held at Face High Hurdles In Texas, Topics in Landlord Tenant Drinker Biddle Lures 2 Ethics, NorthJersey.com Loyola Law Chicago The Huffington Post Law,” to a group of attorneys Tax and Estates Pros from (September 2014). (February 2015). (October 2014). from the New York State Epstein, Law 360 (July Division of Housing and 2014). Adele Bernhard Ebola Lawsuits Would Face Dennis Parker Community Renewal High Hurdles in Texas, Views: Poor Media References Media References during a CLE program. Reuters (October 2014). Communication Spurs and Appearances and Appearances (November 2014). Elderly Medical Woes, GM’s Compensation Fund René Bailey to Be Released ACLU National Racial Participated in a panel Poughkeepsie Journal is First Step in Repairing Without Bail, Democrat Justice Director to Keynote titled, “Gimme Shelter: (July 2014). Damaged Reputation, & Chronicle (December Bill of Rights Dinner, Law Advocating for a Right to Business Insurance 2014). Week Colorado (July Counsel in Housing Cases” Presentations (July 2014). 2014). New Medical Knowledge at the annual conference Presented “Ethical GM Sets No Cap on Recall Debunks Shaken Baby of the National Legal Aid Representation of Older Victim Compensation Steve Plotnick Conviction, New York and Defender Association. or Disabled Clients: What Fund, The Detroit Law Journal (December Media References (November 2014). Every Attorney Needs News (June 2014). 2014). and Appearances Participated in a three- to Know,” to a group of attorneys from the New Judge Reverses Shaken-Baby David L. Ferstendig Interviewed by CNBC on day meeting at Yangon York State Division of Conviction, Democrat “Taxes, multinational firms University in Myanmar Appointments Housing and Community & Chronicle (December & Luxembourg—revealed” as one of several foreign Renewal during a CLE 2014). Was named editor of the (November 2014). experts who discussed New York State Law revising Myanmar’s science program (November Digest, succeeding David and law curriculum (August 2014). • 2014).

32 New York Law school magazine • 2015 • VOL. 34, NO. 1 Cynthia Senko Rosicki ’86 Launches London Fellowship in Law and Dramatic Arts Students in the NYLS London summer program receive training from prestigious academy in the drama of law

Cynthia Senko Rosicki ’86 RADA tutor Charlie Walker-Wise teaching the “personal Left to right: Klodiana Malellari 2L Evening, David Ventoso impact” course 3L, and Emily Holt 3L at the RADA course

ew York and London are often Through theater-based exercises, the participant received feedback from Mr. referred to as sister cities. RADA tutor, Charlie Walker-Wise, Walker-Wise, who identified areas for Recognizing the relationship taught highly practical physical and vocal further development. The group size was betweenN these two major global hubs, presence skills to help the NYLS students small enough that each student could New York Law School has, for a number of become effective in their legal advocacy benefit from enough time to present and years, offered a London summer program, work. For example, he demonstrated receive personal feedback. with courses in International Business Law, how physical power, presence, posture, International Corporate and Financial and gestures in the courtroom can add “The RADA/NYLS combination is a Services, and International Intellectual extra impact and authenticity. The course natural,” said Ms. Rosicki. “Basic acting skills Property. included physical and vocal warm-up such as voice projection, word emphasis, work—exactly the same skills that a lawyer and body language translate naturally into This year, the program was diversified might want to practice before walking into lawyering. The Fellowship occurred to me on through the generosity of alumna and a courtroom or client situation. my last trip to RADA. How beneficial—and Trustee Cynthia Senko Rosicki ’86. Ms. fun—to marry them!” Rosicki is a co-founder of Sparkling Pointe Klodiana Malellari 2L Evening, one of the Vineyards and Winery on Long Island’s students who attended, said, “I am glad I Ms. Rosicki observed, “The students who North Fork and the founding partner participated in the session held at RADA. bravely attended this inaugural session of Rosicki, Rosicki & Associates, P.C., It taught me how to achieve a strong vocal experienced a transformation that was a law firm that employs approximately and physical presence, while at the same clearly apparent to all. My husband Tom 400 people. She was honored with a time I learned how to improve my personal and I participated—as did Professor Groundbreaker Award at New York impact. These are very useful tools for new Lloyd Bonfield—and freely shared in that Law School’s 2012 Gala (rescheduled attorneys, no matter where they are—in a process. It reminded me of the time I spent to February 2013 in the aftermath courtroom, in the office, or even in daily at RADA before college.” of Superstorm Sandy) for embracing life. I would recommend it to everybody. A Ms. Rosicki added, “I can’t wait for the innovation. special thank you to the Rosickis for their next RADA/NYLS course!” contribution, which made possible such a Through the Cynthia Senko Rosicki ’86 great experience.” RADA boasts alumni that include Fellowship in Law and Dramatic Arts, Richard Attenborough, Sir Kenneth students in the London program had the This “personal impact” course is intended Branagh, Ralph Fiennes, Albert Finney, opportunity to attend a half-day course on to increase participants’ personal impact Sir John Gielgud, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Tom “personal impact” at the prestigious Royal by giving a deeper understanding of the Hiddleston, Sir Anthony Hopkins, John Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA.) Ms. importance and qualities of clear and Hurt, Andrew Lincoln, Sir Roger Moore, Rosicki, who herself attended RADA, focused communication skills. Peter O’Toole, Clive Owen, Jonathan was present for the course along with her Pryce, Alan Rickman, Liev Schreiber, husband, Tom, and Professor Lloyd Bonfield. Participants were asked to make a short speech to the group at the beginning and Susannah York, among many other and at the end of the workshop. Each distinguished stage and screen actors. •

33 T o view the full photo gallery for this event, please visit www.nyls.edu/gala2014 A Resounding Success New York Law School honored a group of distinguished alumni with the Groundbreaker Awards at its annual Gala on November 12 at Three Sixty in TriBeCa. The recipients of the awards were Steven R. Harber ’92, honored for his legal entrepreneurship and innovation; the Held/ Fleischner/Koncelik/Quigley/Whelan Family, honored as a true NYLS family legacy; and Meryl Fiedler Lieberman ’81, honored for her integrity and professionalism. The event exceeded its fundraising goal and also raised money earmarked for a special supplemental MBE bar program scholarship for every member of the Class of 2015.

Steven R. Harber ’92 is a pioneer in the legal services industry, having co-founded two of the industry’s leading companies: DiscoverReady LLC, a trailblazer in electronic discovery, and Palisades Advisors, an innovative advisor to litigation support companies. Mr. Harber is now Managing Director of Lean Law Ventures, which invests in companies that offer efficient and cost-saving legal services to corporate legal departments. Throughout his career, he has used his knowledge of law, technology, and project management to take complex tasks and turn them into predictable fixed-cost services.

New York Law School has been a huge part of the Held/ Fleischner/Koncelik/ Quigley/Whelan family’s history, almost since the School’s founding. Joseph Whelan started what might be described as a family dynasty of NYLS-trained lawyers when he graduated in 1906. He and each of his progeny who got NYLS degrees were stimulated by the School’s diversity, urban energy, and worldliness. He and his wife, Margaret Burke Whelan, also a lawyer, raised four children, one of whom, Doris, married Lawrence J. Koncelik. The Konceliks had 10 children, four of whom earned law degrees from NYLS. Ten family members are part of this legacy: Joseph, those four grandchildren, two of their spouses, and three of their children.

A founding and co-managing partner of Traub Lieberman Straus & Shrewsberry LLP, Meryl Lieberman helped grow the firm from four lawyers at its inception in 1996 to nearly 100 lawyers today, with offices in five states, and a liaison office in London. Her practice concentrates in environmental and toxic tort coverage litigation; complex insurance coverage disputes; and counseling involving products liability, premises liability, intellectual property and advertising injury, employment liability and discrimination, directors and officers liability, property damage and first-party coverage, general liability, and insurance policy drafting. She has litigated through appeal many major declaratory judgment and rescission actions nationwide. •

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the role as Associate Justice of the at Venable LLP ‘s Washington, Hon. Faviola A. Class NotesCourt. He is a partner at Somer, D.C., office on February 18, Soto was honored   1965 Heller & Corwin, in Commack, 2015, also featured a networking as the inaugural Michael Weisser was quoted in New York, specializing in landlord- reception . Mr. Knowles is a recipient of the “Marijuana Edibles Smothered tenant, condominium, and co-op partner at Venable and Vice Kathleen Grimm by Red Tape” in the Philadelphia matters. Chair of the New York Law Medal at the Inquirer in June 2014. He is School Board of Trustees. Commencement the Chief Executive Officer Exercises in May of Garden State Dispensary, a   at Carnegie Hall. medical marijuana dispensary 1971   She was also featured in that opened in December 2013 in “Dominican Blue Book: Faviola Philip Schnelwar writes that he 1977 Woodbridge, New Jersey. He was Soto” in Dominican Today in has been the Village Justice for Frank Kruppenbacher writes that also interviewed in “N.J. medical November 2014. She has served the Village of Wesley Hills, in he is currently serving as Chairman marijuana program stagnating on the New York State Court of Rockland County, New York, since of the Greater Orlando Aviation because state limits illnesses, bars Claims since 2006, was the first 1990. He is a criminal defense Authority, having been appointed edibles, critics say,” on NJ.com in Dominican judge in New York, attorney in the Law Offices of by Governor Charlie Crist and March 2015. and the first Hispanic to sit in the Philip Schnelwar, in Wesley Hills. reappointed by Governor Rick Court of Claims. Scott. He previously served on the Sales Tax Revision Commission     and the Florida Commission on   1969 1973 Ethics. He was recently presented 1979 Paul Bennett Marrow wrote with the Mahatma Gandhi Award Hon. Joseph Maltese was the “Judicial Supervision of an for his contributions to diversity Hon. Joan M. Azrack was Guest of Honor at the Columbian Ongoing Arbitration” for the New in Central Florida. He was the first confirmed by the U.S. Senate as Lawyers Association 65th Annual York Law Journal in August 2014. attorney in Florida to obtain a state U.S. District Judge for the U.S. Christmas Luncheon in December He has served as a commercial court ruling permitting a Florida District Court for the Eastern 2014 in Astoria, New York. He is arbitration attorney regarding cases Clerk to perform a same-sex District of New York in December Justice of the Appellate Division, involving business dissolution, marriage. He is a partner in the law 2014. Since 1990, she served as Supreme Court of the State of New consumer contracts, construction firm of Morgan and Morgan, P.A. a U.S. Magistrate Judge in the York, Second Judicial Department. contracts, computer technology, in Orlando, Florida. Eastern District of New York, and insurance contracts, credit and loan she served as Chief Magistrate agreements, and securities for over Judge from 2000 to 2005. 40 years. He is also an Adjunct     John J. Reddy co-hosted the Professor at New York Law School, 1975 1978 New York Law School New Jersey where he teaches Domestic Jeffrey D. Knowleshosted “A Roger C. Campbell was named Connections Kick-Off Reception Arbitration. Special Evening with New York the secretary of the Board of for over 75 New Jersey students, Law School for Alumni and Stanley J. Somer was appointed Directors of the Wounded Warrior alumni, faculty, and friends at The Friends” featuring Professor Robert as Village Justice for the Village of Project , which serves injured Club in Florham, Blecker speaking about his new Ashoken, Long Island, New York service members and their families, New Jersey, on January 7, 2015. He book, The Death of Punishment: and began serving in July 2014. Mr. in November 2014. He previously is a partner at Reddy, Levy & Ziffer, Searching for Justice Among the Somer has been a resident of the served as Deputy Executive P.C. of New York and a New York Worst of the Worst. The event , held village for 30 years and assumed Director of the Life Raft Group. Law School Trustee.

CLASS NOTES 37 ClassGideon Rothschild writes that he Deputy Mayor for Education Notes and 2014. The news appeared in   was elected Chair of the American Human Services. Naples News. He is a stockholder 1980 Bar Association’s Real Property, at Henderson, Franklin, Starnes Patrick Curran Trust & Estate Law section for &Holt, P.A. in Fort Myers, Florida, became a partner the 2014-2015 bar year. He is the   concentrating in estate planning in the Buffalo, Chair of Moses & Singer’s Trusts 1983 and administration, elder law, New York, office & Estates and Asset Protection probate litigation, title insurance Pamela Kaplan was elected of Harris Beach practices in New York. claims related to probate issues, partner at Kelley Drye in PLLC in June business law, and taxation. Manhattan, effective July 1, 2015, joining 2014. She focuses her practice Marc Lasry was featured in the Health Care   on employee benefits, executive Business Insider’s list of the “Most Industry Team. He 1981 compensation and the Employee Powerful People in Finance at was previously a senior Mark Conrad was quoted in Retirement Income Security Every Age” in July 2014. He was trial partner at Damon Morey “Landmark Trial Begins in NCAA Act (ERISA). She regularly also mentioned in “Report: Jason LLP. He defends matters involving Case” on Marketplace Morning advises Fortune 100 companies Kidd Explores Leaving Nets for medical malpractice, trucking Report on American Public Media on benefits and compensation Job with Bucks” in the Metro in and motor vehicle accidents, in June 2014. He is director of issues, including benefits issues June 2014. He founded Avenue product liability, municipal sports business specialization at related to corporate acquisitions Capital Group in 1995, which liability, construction accidents, the Gabelli School of Business and divestitures. She also provides manages over $12 billion in assets. nursing home claims, class actions, at Fordham University in ongoing benefits counsel to He also purchased the Milwaukee dental malpractice and general Manhattan. several of the largest not-for-profit Bucks basketball team in April negligence litigation. He was health providers in the New York 2014. also elected as National Secretary metropolitan area. of the American Board of Trial Ross F. Moskowitz was named a Advocates (ABOTA) in October   2014 Law360 Real Estate MVP 2014. A well-respected trial 1982 in November 2014. He earned the advocate, he received Martindale- Margaret Enloe writes that she   spot by guiding Sterling Equities Hubbell’s AV Peer Review Rating retired as partner and associate 1984 in the $3 billion redevelopment and was included in the Best general counsel of Price Waterhouse E. Drew Britcher of Willets Point in Queens and Lawyers in America 2015 in the Coopers LLP after 27 years. She co-hosted the New KNIC Partners LLP on the $320 field of Personal Injury Litigation: now works with professionals and York Law School million Kingsbridge Armory Defendants. other individuals as a certified New Jersey project in the Bronx. He is a career and transition coach, Connections partner at the Real Estate Practice Jeanne Lieberman was quoted in helping people cope with stress Kick-Off Group of Stroock & Stroock & “Low Pay, No Benefits: Adjunct and increasing job satisfaction and Reception for Lavan LLP in the New York office Professors Might Unionize” resilience. over 75 New and a member of the New York in Seven Days of Burlington, Jersey, students, Law School Board of Trustees. Vermont, in October 2014. She is Ninfa Segarra was presented alumni, faculty, and an Adjunct Professor at Champlain with the 2015 Martin Luther friends at The Park Avenue Club Andrew S. Penson was featured College in Burlington. King Jr. Servant Leader Award in Florham, New Jersey, on in “Owner of Grand Central Vies for outstanding public service With Developer Over Skyscraper Hon. Robert C. Mulvey was January 7, 2015. He also wrote in January 2015 as part of the on an Adjacent Block” in The New elected to a second 14-year term “Toy Danger: ‘Tis the Season Celebration of the Dreamers York Times in September 2014. as New York State Supreme Court to be ... Careful!” for New Jersey ceremony sponsored by the He is the President and Founder Justice. He continues to serve as the Newsroom in December 2014. He Harlem-based New Horizon of Argent Ventures LLC and a Administrative Judge for the Sixth is a founding partner at Britcher, Church of New York. She is Vice member of New York Law School’s Judicial District and as a member Leone & Roth in Glen Rock, New President, Education, Health & Board of Trustees. of the Advisory Committee on Jersey. Human Services, at Tonio Burgos Judicial Ethics. and Associates Inc., a strategic Eric Gurgold was recognized planning and lobbying firm. She in Florida Super Lawyers and previously served as New York Rising Stars Magazine in June

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Class Noteson MSNBC in June 2014 and ingredients, advanced institutions, real estate developers,   mentioned and pictured in intermediates, and finished dosage and mortgage servicers in matters 1985 “Generations of Lawyers Gather for form products to the branded and involving mortgage and tax lien In March 2014, Sherri Donovan a Reunion Like No Other” in The generic pharmaceutical markets. foreclosure litigation. appeared on the VH1 reality show New York Times in October 2014. Michael Pecklers, an arbitrator Mark Epstein was quoted in Mob Wives, where she dispensed He is a former U.S. Attorney for and mediator, writes that he “MTA Print, Radio Ads Tell LIRR legal counsel to Renee Graziano. the Southern District of New York was a member of an American Riders About Tentative Strike She is the principal at Sherri and a partner at Cahill Gordon & Bar Association ADR Section Plans” in Newsday in July 2014 Donovan and Associates, PC, and Reindel LLP in Manhattan, where delegation to Cuba in November and in “MetroCard Coding Error the divorce clinic specialist for he focuses on white-collar defense 2014. As part of this inaugural Stalls Nearly 10,000 Riders” in the Service Fund of the National work. cultural exchange, he met with the The New York Times in December Organization for Women (NOW) Cynthia Senko Rosicki and Cuban National Bar Association, 2014. He is a partner with Pazer, in New York. her husband, Tom Rosicki, were law professors, mediators, and Epstein & Jaffe, P.C., which is Andrew C. McCarthy was winners at the 2014 New York Cuban trial attorneys. dedicated to representing victims featured in the “Trashing the Food & Wine Classic competition of personal injury and wrongful Errol Taylor was named one of Constitution” panel for Frontpage in August 2014 and were honored death throughout the state of New the Most Influential Black Lawyers Mag in November 2014 and by Governor . York. He is also the chairman of the of 2015 by Savoy magazine in its quoted in “Some Conservatives The winery they own and operate, Long Island Rail Road Commuter March 2015 issue. He is a partner Say Deadly Force Used to Subdue Sparkling Pointe, won the award Council. at the New York office of Milbank, Garner Didn’t Fit the Crime” in for Best Sparkling Wine of New Tweed, Hadley & McCloy and The New York Times in December York. She is a founding partner at leads the firm’s biopharma patent 2014. He is a contributing editor to Rosicki, Rosicki & Associates P.C. litigation practice. He also chairs   The National Review and a senior and a member of the New York Milbank’s Diversity Committee. 1990 fellow at the National Review Law School Board of Trustees. Mr. Taylor participated in New Hugh McDonald joined Troutman Institute and the Foundation for Vivien Lesnik Weisman was York Law School’s Think BIG Sanders LLP as a partner in its Defense of Democracies. featured in “Think You’re Allowed event in March and spoke at a New York office in August 2014 Hon. Bernice Siegal was elected Free Speech or Privacy? ‘The Patent Law Lunch in April. from Dentons in New York. He President of the Network of Bar Hacker Wars’ Proves You Wrong” focuses his practice on all aspects of Leaders in December 2014. She is in Blot Magazine in October restructuring including workouts, a Justice of the New York Supreme 2014. Her latest documentary,   bankruptcy and related issues, Court, Queens County. The Hacker Wars, was released in 1988 and bankruptcy-related litigation, fall 2014. It tells the tales of the and has represented secured Lee Zimet joined the Tax anarchic troll provocateur Andrew Maureen Salter was honored by and unsecured creditors, banks, Department of Berdon LLP in “weev” Aurenheimer, prodigy City and State with an Above and bondholders, debtors, and creditor December 2014 as a principal. hacker Jeremy Hammond, and Beyond Award: Honoring Women committees. He is also experienced He was formerly a director at incendiary watchdog journalist of Public and Civic Mind. She is with asset sales in bankruptcy cases, Deloitte Tax LLP. He is an Adjunct Barrett Brown. assistant to the President of the debtor-in-possession financing, the Professor at New York Law School. United Federation of Teachers. liquidation of estates, and cross- In addition, he published an article border cases. in Tax Notes titled “New Guidance   Requires Banks to Review Tax 1987   Sharing Agreements,” in the 1989 January 12, 2015, issue. Steven M. Klosk was appointed to   the Board of Directors of NeoStem Don Abraham joined Windels 1991 Inc. in July 2014. The news was Marx Lane & Mittendorf LLP Michael Bowe was interviewed reported in MarketWatch Inc. He is as special counsel, resident in by Tucker Carlson on Fox   President, Chief Executive Officer, the New York office, in January News in October 2014. He is 1986 and Director of Cambrex Corp. 2015. His practice focuses on tax representing the family of Marine David N. Kelley was featured in in East Rutherford, New Jersey, a lien and mortgage foreclosure Lance Cpl. Gregory T. Buckley “GOP Hits Benghazi Capture” provider of active pharmaceutical litigation. He represents financial Jr., who, along with two other

CLASS NOTES 39 ClassMarines, was murdered in 2012 in Marylee Jenkins Ethics and a “Master” at the Notestechnology and offers practical Afghanistan’s Helmand province was appointed to Brennan/Vanderbilt Inn of Court. advice on how to address them. He on an American military base. serve a two-year is a frequent financial technology The Buckley family is suing term as Vice Ben A. Indek was appointed one panelist at Computerworld the Marine Corps for allegedly Chair of the of two co-managing partners of conferences and a speaker and illegally covering up details of the U.S. Patent Morgan Lewis’s New York office media contributor for Bloomberg incident. He was also featured in and Trademark in January 2015. He focuses his Television, The Wall Street Journal, The Divide: American Injustice in Office’s Patent practice on representing broker- and CIO.com. the Age of the Wealth Gap by Matt Public Advisory dealers and their employees in Taibbi, which was published in Committee by the U.S. Secretary governmental, self-regulatory Peter J. Zuckerman won a special 2014. He is a partner at Kasowitz of Commerce in December 2014. organization, and state securities election for the North Hempstead, Benson Torres & Friedman in She is a partner at Arent Fox LLP commission investigations as New York’s 2nd District Council New York, where he handles a and heads the Intellectual Property well as conducting internal seat in November 2014. He was diverse array of large commercial practice in the firm’s New York investigations for financial initially appointed to the Town litigations, criminal and regulatory office. services firms. He also counsels Board in January 2014 and matters, and crisis-management broker-dealers on regulatory and previously served 11 years as a for business entities and high net compliance issues, including the trustee for the Village of East worth individuals. development and implementation Hills, New York. He is a partner at   of written compliance and Peter Zuckerman, Attorney, P.C. Henry Dlugacz was featured 1992 supervisory procedures and new in Uniondale, N,Y., and practices in “The Offender with Mental Thomas L. Breslinwas hired as the rules and regulations. in the fields of real estate and Disabilities: Critical Issues in town manager of Dillon, Colorado litigation. Correctional Mental Health and in June 2014. As reported in the Richard A. Klass was appointed Planning for Successful Reentry,” a Summit Daily, Mr. Breslin spent chair of the General Practice lecture presented by the Oklahoma more than 15 years in management Section of the New York State Bar   Department of Human Services and senior management positions Association in June 2014. The news 1994 in August 2014. He is a clinical in the public and private sectors. was reported in ReadMedia and assistant professor of psychiatry Most recently, Breslin served as Insurance News Net. Mr. Klass is Oliver Agha was mentioned in The and behavioral sciences at New county administrator for Clear the principal of the Law Office of American Lawyer article, “Holland York Medical College and partner Creek County, Colorado, which Richard Klass in Brooklyn, New & Knight Sets Sights on Americas at the New York law firm of included overseeing an annual York. His areas of practice include with Abu Dhabi Closure” in June Beldock Levine and Hoffman. budget of more than $30 million. bankruptcy law, family law, real 2014. He is an authority on Islamic estate, and trusts and estates. banking and the Group Chief Jeffrey Fesslerwas named 2014 William S. Greenberg writes Counsel, International, for Abdul New York Attorney of the Year that his law firm, Greenberg Brenna Mahoney writes that Latif Jameel. Previously, he was a by SmartCEO Magazine in June Minasian of West Orange, New she is the new Chief Deputy for senior partner and the global head 2014. The ESQ awards program Jersey, was one of the honorees Operations at the U.S. District of Islamic Finance as well as the was established to recognize the in the New Jersey Law Journal’s Court for the Eastern District of head of the Saudi Arabian and top attorneys who have made an 2015 Personal Injury Hall of New York in Brooklyn. Finance Practices at DLA Piper . outstanding impact on privately Fame in January 2015, as well as held companies. Mr. Fessler was the recipient of a 2014 Litigator Sylvia Lee joined chosen out of more than 20 Award presented by the Trial   Rawle & finalists nominated regionally Lawyer’s Board of Regents. He has 1993 Henderson LLP for the prestigious award. He also been inducted to the National as an associate Kevin Taylor writes that he is a partner at Sichenzia Ross Trial Lawyers Association’s “Top in the New York authored FinTech Law: A Guide Friedman Ference LLP in New 100 Lawyers” and the New Jersey City office in to Technology Law in the Financial York . Association for Justice’s “Multi- July 2014. She Services Industry, published by Million Dollar Verdicts Forum.” concentrates her Bloomberg BNA in 2014. The In addition, he is a “Special practice in the areas Guide explains the issues raised Master” for the New Jersey of medical malpractice, by cutting-edge financial services Supreme Court Office of Attorney products liability, insurance

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Class Notescoverage issues, general liability, is based in the firm’s Garden City, private mergers and acquisitions, Litigation and Investigations and motor vehicle cases. New York, office, and his areas of and secured and unsecured loan Practice Group, resident in the practice include the litigation and transactions New York office. He represents trial of matters involving labor clients in white-collar criminal   law, premises liability, lead paint Stafanie A. Martinez writes that she matters, corporate investigations, 1995 poisoning, medical malpractice, was appointed as a trial court judge and complex commercial litigation. negligent security, products in Sarpy County Court in Papillon, Mr. Bloor’s practice is primarily Kevin Ward was named the liability, smoke detector/fire Nebraska, in December 2013. focused on criminal and regulatory Chief of Staff for New York Police liability, dram shop, and general investigations of individuals and Jeffrey W. Pittsjoined Blank Rome Department Commissioner Bill liability matters. corporations, internal corporate LLP as of counsel in the Labor Bratton in February 2014. The investigations, particularly in and Employment Group in New news was reported in the New York connection with potential violations York in November 2014. He was Daily News. of the Foreign Corrupt Practices previously of counsel at Tooma &   Act (FCPA), antitrust matters, and 1998 Ozisik LLP’s New York office. Mr. securities and derivative litigation.   Michael R. Dal Pitts concentrates his practice on all 1996 Lago was selected aspects of corporate immigration, Gabriel Infante was featured in to participate in including nonimmigrant visas, “Prep Coach Still Honors Those Nancy Perlman the Leadership permanent residence, labor Who Raised Him” on Philly. was named a Collier Class certification, EB-5 investor issues, com in November 2014. He is of Massachusetts of 2015. The and Form I-9 compliance, for a wide counsel at Marino & Montecallo in Rising Star Leadership range of domestic and international Hackensack, New Jersey. in the legal Collier Foundation, companies in diverse sectors, profession in part of the Greater including pharmaceutical, academia, October 2014, Naples Chamber of technology and consulting,   as she has been Commerce, accepts just 40 area telecommunications, financial 2000 each year since professionals each year to its services, and manufacturing. 2005. She is a partner Leadership Collier program. The Danielle Butler writes that she at Beacon Law Group in Boston news appeared in Naples News co-founded a law firm, Luxury Law and concentrates her practice in in June 2014. Mr. Dal Lago is a   Group, in September 2014, and the areas of commercial litigation, partner at Dal Lago Law of Naples, 1999 serves as managing partner. The employment law, and general Florida. firm, based in Fort Lauderdale, business law. Justin Escher Alpert and Jamie Florida, specializes in luxury David Levine was elected partner (Feitlin) Alpert write that they purchases and disputes. Her practice Michael Rego was quoted in “This at Loeb & Loeb LLP in New York and their daughter Skyler have focuses on transaction and litigation Broadway season will see women in November 2014. He focuses his been leading the public education matters for yachts, aircraft, real directors pick up the gender pace in practice on corporate and securities revolution by fighting the Christie estate, and fine antiquities. a male-dominated field” inCrain’s matters, representing clients in the Administration in the Garden New York Business in September life sciences and other industries. State. Skyler was featured in an Dr. Vincent A. 2014. He is co-founder and partner He has substantial experience article in January 2015, “PARCC Carbonell was of The Araca Group, a theatrical representing issuers, placement exam blasted by parents, teachers, honored with the production and brand management agents, and underwriters in students at open forum,” President’s Medal company in New York. connection with initial and on NJ.com. Justin Alpert is at the 123rd secondary public offerings, private principal at Escher Alpert P.C. in Commencement placements of debt and equity Livingston, N.J., and Jamie Alpert Exercises in May   securities, PIPE transactions, is assistant vice president claims 2015 at Carnegie 1997 registered direct offerings, and counsel at Generali in New York. Hall. He is a member alternative public offerings. He of the New York Law Stuart Glass was named partner at Martin S. Bloor was elected partner also has experience with venture School Board of Trustees and the law firm of White, Fleischner at Pepper Hamilton LLP. He is capital investments, private Founder and President of United & Fino, LLP in January 2015. He a member of the White Collar equity transactions, public and Reprographic Services in New York.

CLASS NOTES 41 Classoutstanding achievement as an Officials Association and ChapterNotes Leader of the Bar, one of the top 40   Assistant Corporation Counsel, Chair of the former Tri-County lawyers under 40 years of age by the 2001 in June 2014. She is Executive Red Cross. He was featured in New Jersey Law Journal. Michael C. Bartolotti was elected Agency Counsel for Special “North Plainfield Candidate as the county clerk for Putnam Projects & Government Affairs at Survey: Council President Douglas County in November 2014. He the New York City Department of Singleterry” in the Alternative Press   previously served as First Deputy Correction. in October 2014. 2004 to County Clerk Dennis Sant since Gregory Gomez was quoted in Erik M. Bashian 2002 and also specialized in real “Manhattan District Attorney’s was selected to estate and general legal matters as Office Showing No Leniency   the 2014 New an attorney for 12 years. in Daredevil Cases” in The New 2003 York Rising Stars Jacqueline Esposito was featured York Times in June 2014 and Heather Cucolo was quoted List of Super in “Families Can Crumble Under mentioned in “Driver Who in “Serial Oswego County Lawyers. He is Deportation Threat” inThe Sped Around Manhattan in 24 Sex Offender Attacks Infinite principal and New York Times in November Minutes Is Convicted of Reckless Confinement Law” on Syracuse. founder of Bashian 2014. She was also a guest on Endangerment” in the New York com in November 2014. She is & Papantoniou. He MSNBC’s The Last Word with Times in November 2014. He is a partner at Mental Disability handles a wide variety of Lawrence O’Donnell, speaking as the Founding Partner of Gomez & Law and Policy Associates and an personal injury matters, including an immigration policy expert on Vournas LLC and a trial attorney, Adjunct Professor at New York general negligence, motor vehicle President Obama’s immigration specializing in criminal defense Law School, where she has served accidents, and products liability. initiative. She is the Founder and litigation. as Acting Director of the Mental Harlan Hollander was named Principal of Inspire Group LLC of Disability Law Program. Ninowtzka Mier was inducted as executive director at Cushman New York and was previously the Present of the Broward County Mark A. Desire was elected for & Wakefield in East Rutherford, Director of Immigration Advocacy Women Lawyers Association in a second term as Mayor of High New Jersey, making him one of for the New York Immigration September 2014. She is a partner Bridge, New Jersey. He works as an the youngest executive directors Coalition. at Robinson Pecaro & Mier, P.A. Assistant Director with the New in New Jersey. The appointment in Davie, Florida, and specializes in York City Office of Chief Medical marks his fourth advancement insurance defense, personal injury, Examiner, where he is responsible with the commercial real estate   and immigration. for investigating Missing Persons services firm, which he joined in 2002 cases. He has over 18 years of 2005 as a corporate advisory and Gerald Simpkins was named Susan Cohig ran the New York experience as a forensic scientist. tenant representation specialist. Certification Program Manager, Marathon in November 2014 in He is also an Instructor in the Mr. Hollander consistently Office of Business Diversity and honor of a young stroke victim. She Program in Criminal Justice with has been one of the office’s top Civil Rights, at the Port Authority was part of a team sent by Burke Rutgers University. producing brokerage professionals, of New York and New Jersey in Rehabilitation Center of White with involvement in some of December 2014. He previously Justin M. Klein, a founding Plains, New York, to raise money New Jersey’s most significant held the position of Principal partner of Marks & Klein LLP in for medical research at Burke. The transactions. For example, he was Security Analyst for nearly 30 Red Bank, New Jersey, has been team is made up of family members one of the leading team members years. named a Super Lawyer. He focuses and friends of Brad Berman, a in Valeant Pharmaceuticals’ on franchise and business law and Larchmont, New York, resident 310,000-square-foot headquarters Douglas Singleterry was elected is one of only 138 lawyers from and former Burke patient who had lease in Bridgewater, New Jersey. to his second term as North throughout the United States a stroke in 2013. She is Senior Vice Plainfield, New Jersey’s Borough and 323 attorneys worldwide Brian Kaszuba, who serves as President for Integrated Marketing Council President. He is also named to the International Who’s Associate Director of the Center at the National Hockey League. counsel at Vasios, Kelly & Strollo, Who of Franchise Lawyers. He is for NYC Law at New York Law P.A. of Union, N.J., and specializes Brenda Cooke received the recognized as a ‘Legal Eagle’, one School, writes that he became in civil litigation. Mr. Singleterry Municipal Affairs Award, of the nation’s leading franchise engaged to Molly Shortall in previously served as President of presented by the New York City attorneys, by the Franchise Times, December 2014. She is Senior the Somerset County Governing Bar Association to recognize and has been designated a New Annual Giving Officer at Memorial

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Class NotesSloan-Kettering Cancer Center as Law School were mentioned Contracts at the U.S. Department planning and in Surrogate’s Court well as a Cantor in the Catholic in “City, State and Federal of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division litigation, and residential real estate Diocese of Brooklyn and Queens. Governments Are Fighting Over in April 2014. He oversees in and around New York City. She has a bachelor’s and master’s Chattanooga’s Effort to Bring production of prevailing wages on degree in Music from Augsburg Broadband to Rural Consumers” federal contracts and enforcement Katherine Blostein was elected College and the Manhattan School in The Washington Post and of the various federal prevailing partner in Outten & Golden of Music. Bloomberg Law in August 2014 wage laws. He was previously LLP’s New York office. She is and “The Net’s Fallow Lands” in Director, Division of Enforcement co-chair of the firm’s Executive The New York Times in November Policy and Procedures, at the and Professionals Practice Group   2014. He is a Director of the Department of Labor. and the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, 2005 Advanced Communications Law and Transgender Workplace and Policy Institute (ACLP) at Camille Mackler was featured in Rights Practice Group. She Zachary A. Aria was elected New York Law School. In that “New York Immigration Groups mainly represents individuals in partner in the Philadelphia office of capacity, he oversees all aspects of Prepare to Meet Demands of New negotiation of matters related Blank Rome LLP effective January the ACLP’s research and scholarly Policy” in The New York Times to severance, employment, 1, 2015. He focuses on all aspects of writing, as well as developing and in November 2014 and quoted noncompetition, expatriate, intellectual property law, including maintaining the ACLP’s core in “Preparing for Immigration and international assignment trademarks, copyrights, domain program. Prior to joining the Reform, and Warning of Potential agreements, as well as partnership names, fair use, unfair competition, ACLP, he was the Policy Director Fraud” in The New York Times and equity ownership matters. right of privacy, right of publicity, for the New York City Council’s in December 2014. She is the She is also a member of the false advertising, and counterfeiting. Committee on Technology in director of legal initiatives for the firm’s Financial Services, Family His emphasis is on counseling, Government. New York Immigration Coalition Responsibilities and Disabilities negotiation and litigation, global and the co-chair of the Media and Discrimination, and Lesbian, Gay, portfolio management, trademark Cheryl Foster Smith joined Advocacy committee for the New Bisexual & Transgender (LGBT) clearance, prosecution of trademark Robinson Waters & O’Dorsio York Chapter of the American Workplace Rights Practice Groups. applications, oppositions, as an associate attorney in July Immigration Lawyers Association cancellations, Ex Parte Appeals at 2014. She will be expanding the William Vidal received the the Trademark Trial and Appeal firm’s family law and domestic Debbie Yee was elected to Municipal Affairs Award, Board, and copyright protection relations practice areas in its partnership at Latham & Watkins presented by the New York City and domain name acquisition and Denver, Colorado, office. Her work LLP in Houston, Texas in October Bar Association in June 2014 to litigation. includes drafting and negotiating 2014 and featured as a “Dealmaker recognize outstanding achievement prenuptial agreements and post- of the Week” in American Lawyer as an Assistant Corporation Frank Chaney joined Rosenberg nuptial agreements; dissolution in January 2015. She is a member of Counsel. He is an attorney in the & Estis, P.C. in New York as of of marriage; high net-worth the Corporate Department, whose New York City Law Department’s counsel in the firm’s transactional matters; custody battles including practice focuses on representing Commercial and Real Estate department in June 2014. Mr. parental alienation, maintenance, companies and investment banks Litigation Division. Chaney is an expert in zoning, and child support; modifications in equity and debt capital markets land use, and environmental law. to orders and agreements; transactions, as well as companies He has served in New York City’s enforcement; and contempt. Prior in M&A transactions and other   Department of City Planning and to joining Robinson Waters, Ms. general corporate matters. 2008 the Mayor’s Office of Construction. Smith worked in two boutique Michelle Benedetto received He advises and represents clients matrimonial law firms in New York the Municipal Affairs Award, on a wide range of land use City.   matters such as rezonings, special 2007 presented by the New York City permits, variances, air rights Bar Association in June 2014 to transfers, zoning lot mergers, and Matthew B. Abrams writes that recognize outstanding achievement development agreements.   he and David M. Deemer ’09 as an Assistant Corporation 2006 formed Abrams Deemer PLLC at Counsel. She has since August Michael Santorelli and the Michael Lazzeri writes that the beginning of 2015. Their firm 2014 been an associate at Kaufman Advanced Communications Law he was appointed as Assistant focuses primarily on the fields of Borgeest & Ryan LLP in New and Policy Institute at New York Administrator for Government trusts and estates, both in estate York .

CLASS NOTES 43 ClassKen Biberaj was elected Chairman New York in October 2014. most colorful criminal defenseNotes Postgraduate Fellow at the Institute of the Board of Directors of the He concentrates his practice in attorneys, Mario Gallucci” and Mr. for Information Law and Policy Manhattan Chamber of Commerce complex commercial and corporate Gelormino. He is an associate at at New York Law School. While and mentioned in Crain’s New York litigation matters, with a particular Helbock, Nappa & Gallucci LLP at New York Law School, Wong Business and Capital New York in focus on disputes involving on Staten Island. served as the founding project December 2014. He continues to complex financial products and manager of Peer to Patent—a promote The Russian Tea Room derivatives, substantial contractual Cary London reports that, after historic initiative allowing the with a more active role on the real disputes, securities litigation, and spending two years defending the public to participate in the patent estate side of the business. He was bankruptcy-related litigation. New York Policy Department at examination process—and interviewed on “Citywide with 1 Police Plaza, and three years lead researcher of the National Ken Fisher” on CUNY TV in Matthew Taub authored his as a public defender at Brooklyn Science Foundation-funded January 2015. first novel,Death of the Dying Defender Services, he opened his Open Patent project exploring City, published by Sunbury Press own firm in late 2014. The new the use of user-generated tags to Erin Bond was recognized by the in September 2014. He is an firm, London Indusi LLP, was improve understanding of patent Women Builders Council as one associate at the Taub Law Firm, featured in articles in the New York information. of its Outstanding Women in the PC in New York, a plaintiffs’ Daily News in November 2014 Building Industry for 2015 at the personal injury firm. His work and The Huffington Post in January Council’s 11th Annual Champion has appeared in publications 2015. Awards Dinner. The event was including Absinthe Revival, The   hosted in March 2015, at Gotham Weekenders, The Brooklyn Daily Kristin Marchesiello writes 2010 Hall in Manhattan. She is Assistant Eagle, Greenpointers, and Only the that she received her LL.M. Michael T. Dean for Academic Programs Blog Knows Brooklyn. in Intellectual Property from Leigh joined Development at New York Law Fordham University School of the Louisville, School. Law in May 2014, graduating cum Kentucky, office   laude. She also joined Luxottica of Stites & Jean Fischer was quoted in 2009 Group in its global intellectual Harbison, PLLC “Foundation Sends Kin of 9/11 property department. in January 2015. Victims to College” in The New Pierre Ciric wrote “Why Ronald He joined the firm Carmen Presinal-Roberts, an York Times in September 2014. The Lauder is Right About Nazi- as an attorney in alumna of the Graduate Tax article describes how scholarship Looted Art in Museums” and the Business Litigation Program and an attorney at money she received from the “Opinion: Hopi and Navajo Masks Service Group. His practice focuses the Internal Revenue Service’s Families of Freedom Scholarship Auction Precedent in France is on complex civil litigation and Office of Chief Counsel, was Fund after her fire captain husband, Dangerous” in Artnet News in white collar criminal defense. recently honored with the IRS John Fischer, was killed on 9/11 July 2014. He is the founder of He represents publicly traded Commissioner’s Award for her allowed her to attend New the Ciric Law Firm, PLLC in and privately held companies in outstanding service and advocacy. York Law School. She is a sole New York, and a board member corporate governance, securities, practitioner in Staten Island, New of both the French-American Bar Christopher K. Wong was and commercial litigation, and York . Association and the New York Law named a Presidential Innovation advises clients in internal corporate School Alumni Association. The Fellow last year. He is working and regulatory investigations. Desirée Hernandez, a staff Ciric Law Firm, PLLC represents on Crowdsourcing Initiatives at attorney at the Safe Passage Project, the Holocaust Art Restitution Jeffrey Linehanwas quoted in the U.S. Patent and Trademark gave a presentation at a CLE Project (HARP) and its director “Prescription Fraud Charges Office in Alexandria, Va. He program organized by the law firm and co-founder, Ori Z. Soltes. for Prominent Manhattan is a technologist and expert in of Baker Hostetler in October Dermatologist” in The New York intellectual property law with a 2014. She was quoted in “In NY, Louis Gelormino was featured Times in July 2014. He is an passion for improving the patent Volunteer Attorneys Lend Voice, on Partners in Crime, a television Assistant District Attorney for system. Wong was previously Legal Help, To Border Kids,” on series that premiered on the New York County with the Office the Executive Director of the nbcnews.com in March 2015. USA Network in October 2014. of the Special Narcotics Prosecutor Engelberg Center on Innovation The series is described by the for the City of New York. Martin Krezalek joined Blank USA Network as “a docu-soap” Law & Policy at NYU School Rome LLP as an associate in featuring “one of America’s of Law and, before that, a

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Class NotesJason S. Kreps Danielle Sennett was quoted in Lawrence Winegrad   joined the “In a Queens Court, Women in joined Archer 2011 law firm of Prostitution Cases Are Seen Norris in Walnut Anjelica Cappellino co-authored Pietragallo as Victims” in The New York Creek, California, “The Federal Sentencing Guidelines Gordon Alfano Times in November 2014. in October 2014. and the Pursuit of Fair and Just Bosick & She is a public defender with He represents Sentences” with fellow alumnus Raspanti, LLP Queens Law Associates and is corporate clients and professor, John Meringolo in January 2015 assigned to the Human Trafficking on various complex ’99. The article was published in as an associate in Intervention Court in Queens. business transactions, Albany Law Review’s “Miscarriages the Government Enforcement, including M&A transactions, The Women Builders Council of Justice” issue in 2014. The piece Compliance, White Collar corporate finance, and real estate recognized Alana Sliwinski as one examines the history of sentencing in Litigation, and Health Care finance. His real estate background of its Outstanding Women in the the federal system and the creation practice groups in the firm’s allows him to handle a variety Building Industry for 2015 at the and evolution of the United States Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, of deals from inception through Council’s 11th Annual Champion Sentencing Guidelines. The article office. Prior to joining the firm, closing and supervising all aspects Awards Dinner. The event was also discusses mandatory minimum Mr. Kreps was in private practice of the real estate process for a hosted in March 2015 at Gotham penalties for drug offenses, and how in New York City, where he wide array of properties such as Hall in Manhattan. She is an these statutes effectively conflict represented emerging companies multi-family, mixed-use, office, associate at Zetlin & De’Chiara with the Guidelines’ purposes, in a broad range of corporate and cooperatives, condominiums, LLP in New York. as well as the future of federal intellectual property matters, hospitals, and commercial including corporate organization buildings. sentencing in light of recent policy Claire R. Thomaswas honored and governance, early-stage capital shifts, such as Attorney General with the Otto L. Walter generation, software development Eric Holder’s expressed support of Distinguished Writing Award contracts, and business and finance changing mandatory minimums. for her article “Bridging the ventures.   Ms. Cappellino is an associate with Gap for Immigrant Children: 2012 Meringolo & Associates, PC in New Joan V. O’Hara writes, “The Understanding Immigration Relief David Brown writes that he was York . summer after my 2L year (2010), for Child Migrants,” co-written selected to participate in the with Professor Lenni Benson, as Michele Gallo I landed an internship with Philadelphia Bar Foundation’s part of the PLI Course Handbook joined Klasko the House of Representatives Board Observer Program for Series (2014). She was featured Immigration Committee on Homeland 2014-2015 with the SeniorLAW in “Attorneys Jump In to Help Law Partners Security. As Class Speaker at our center, a Pennsylvania nonprofit Children in Immigration Court” as an associate graduation in 2011, I was delighted organization that improves the lives in the New York Law Journal and attorney in to announce that I had accepted a of older citizens and protects their in “The Border Kid Crisis Hits November full-time permanent position with rights through legal representation, the Courts” in the Daily Beast 2014. Her the Committee as Counsel. In education, and advocacy. He in September 2014. She is a staff practice is focused 2013, I was named Deputy General is an associate at Montgomery attorney with the Safe Passage on employment-based Counsel. And in November 2014, McCracken Walker & Rhoads LLP Project at New York Law School non-immigrant and immigrant I was named General Counsel. in Philadelphia. and an Adjunct Professor at New matters for large corporations with I am now the lead attorney for York Law School. Aaron Lund writes that his article a high volume of immigration the Committee, responsible for titled “Increased Enforcement matters. She has extensive experience developing and implementing Trevor Timm was quoted in Action Likely on the Horizon advising clients throughout the the Committee’s legislative “Snowden Tells Hackers of the for Ambulance Providers” was labor certification process, including agenda, advising Committee World to Unite” in The Daily published in the January-February assisting companies in planning Chairman Michael McCaul on Beast in July 2014. He is Executive 2015 issue of Air Medical for the labor certification process, all legal considerations informing Director at the Freedom of the Journal. In addition, he was performing the labor market test in national and homeland security, Press Foundation and an activist recently appointed as the co-chair the United States, filing the Form and managing a full-time staff of and writer for the Electronic of the Administrative Law and ETA 9089, and responding to audit talented lawyers.” Frontier Foundation in San Regulatory Affairs Committee at requests by the Department of Labor. Francisco, California. the New York County Lawyers

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Association (NYCLA). He is an Independent Democrats. Before Competence to Have Sex” in The traveled with Professor Lenni associate compliance officer for law school, Mr. Carroll split Washington Review with NYLS Benson to make a presentation the New York City Health and his time between working/ Professor Michael Perlin in June at a training session for Justice Hospitals Corporation. consulting on political campaigns 2014. She also co-authored “‘Toiling Americorps, at the request of the and acting. He is also a founding in the Danger and in the Morals of Executive Office for Immigration Joseph N. Schneiderman member of The Brooklyn Reform Despair’: Risk, Security, Danger, the Review of the United States published an article, “Smokers, Coalition and a member of Constitution, and the Clinician’s Department of Justice, on remedies Dealers and Growers: The Community Board 7. Dilemma,” in the Stanford Law & for immigrant youth in removal Supreme Judicial Court Hashes Policy Review in September 2014. Out the Marijuana-Reform Ballot Steve Cohen published She is a staff attorney for Disability Emily Barile, Carlee Cooper, Initiative,” in the Boston Bar “Malpractice Lawsuits Aren’t Just Rights New York. Michelle Ippolito and Patricia Journal in July 2014. He has an About Money” in Forbes in June Sotirakis were awarded appellate practice and serves on the 2014. He is an associate at Kramer, Jennifer Williams-Alvarez wrote Scholarships by WX New York CPCS Criminal Appeals and Post- Dillof, Livingston & Moore, a “Why Celebrities Like Lindsay Women Executives in Real Estate. Conviction Panel, representing plaintiffs’ medical malpractice Lohan Are Suing Video Game The news was reported inReal indigent clients in cases arising in law firm. He spent 35 years as a Studios” in Engadget in November Estate Weekly in June 2014 and also Western Massachusetts. publisher and media entrepreneur 2014. She is a regular contributor appeared in Capital New York. —principally for Time, Scholastic, to the site. and as CEO of five digital startups Suzanne Bettis was featured in   —before attending law school. He Jodi Ziesemer participated in a “Star of Queens” in the Queens 2013 is also the author of seven books— free training event on Asylum for Courier in November 2014. She including three best-sellers—and Children of Catholic Charities is an Assistant District Attorney Robert Carroll’s stage play, The numerous articles. He regularly in September 2014. She is an in New York and a veteran of the Believers, produced by The Storm writes for The New York Times, The attorney who leads the Catholic United States Marine Corps. Theatre, ran through November Wall Street Journal, City Journal, Charities Community Services Asher Hawkins won the American 2014 at the Morningside Heights’ The Daily Beast, and Forbes. team responsible for representing Theater of the Church of Notre newly arrived unaccompanied Bankruptcy Institute writing contest, Dame. New York Law School Vanessa Craveiro was sworn in immigrant minors on the New and his article, “Piloting Through hosted a staged reading of the as the assistant prosecutor for York Immigration Court’s so-called 546’s Safe Harbors in the Wake of play in February 2015. Mr. Gloucester County in October “surge dockets.” Lyondell, Tribune and Barclays,” was Carroll is an associate at Wolfson 2014. She will be tasked with published in the ABI Journal in June & Carroll, where he focuses on handling municipal court domestic 2014. He is an associate at Frank LLP estate administration, real estate violence cases. The news was   in New York. • and Mitchell-Lama Housing reported on NJ.com. 2014 Corporations, contracts, and election law. He is also the current Alison J. Lynch published “’All Astrid Avedissian, Juan Chiquillo, President of Central Brooklyn His Sexless Patients’: Persons and Luisa Lebron (Public Interest with Mental Disabilities and the Fellows for the Safe Passage Project)

CELEBRATING Be a Part of the 125th Anniversary Celebration! Share Your Stories, Photographs, and Memorabilia. All members of the New York Law School community are invited to contribute law school memories using our “Share Your Story” page. We YEARS also welcome photographs and documents to add to our Archives. Visit 125.nyls.edu for more information.

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Two-Year J.D. Honors We are Program New New York Law School’s two-year J.D. Honors Program began in January 2015.

York’s Honors Program: Candidates for admission are expected to have completed at least two Law to three years of meaningful professional work experience or possess unique academic School credentials. Since 1891 Merit Scholarships: New York Law School offers students admitted to the program at least a $50,000 merit scholarship covering the 24-month program. The cost of the program is no more than two-thirds of the full price of a traditional three-year J.D. at the Law School.

Full Participation: Students are able to participate fully in important co-curricular activities such as law review and moot court, as well as clinics and other experiential learning opportunities.

Postgraduate Fellowship: An optional postgraduate paid fellowship opportunity is guaranteed to all two-year honor students who want them. Fellowships will be set up through partnerships with firms, companies, nonprofit organizations, and/or government agencies.

If you know of prospective students who you think would be a good match for the program, please call the Office ofA dmissions at 212.431.2888 for more information.

IN MEMORIAM 47 In Memoriam

Class of 1949 Class of 1960 Class of 2005 Stanley Doyle Ronald Gould Noah P. Melnick December 15, 2014 March 18, 2015 July 26, 2015

Class of 1950 Class of 1961 Alfred Gust Ford Harvey M. Greene NYLS Faculty January 16, 2015 November 8, 2014 Park McGinty Class of 1951 Class of 1963 Associate Professor of Law (1989) Bernard Weinflash Mario Biaggi April 10, 2015 November 12, 2014 June 24, 2015 Rudolph J.R. Peritz Class of 1953 Class of 1974 Professor of Law (1986-2015) Michael Greco Ruth Tone Kawashima August 5, 2015 January 11, 2015 April 26, 2015

Class of 1953 Class of 1978 Irwin Leimas Harry Joseph Katrichis March 5, 2015 October 13, 2013.

Class of 1953 Class of 1978 Joseph Mazur Richard Lipkin August 22, 2014 September 28, 2014

Class of 1954 Class of 1978 Arthur G. Cohen Ronald R. Santucci August 9, 2014 July 3, 2015

Class of 1955 Class of 1980 Frank Joseph Citrano Ron Green The New York Law School community April 13, 2015 August 7, 2013 mourns the passing of Professor Class of 1957 Class of 1980 Rudolph J.R. Peritz. A member Seymour Karas Kathleen Grimm of the NYLS community for nearly December 11, 2014 February 17, 2015 30 years, Professor Peritz was a cherished faculty member whose Class of 1958 Class of 1987 scholarship in antitrust, computer law, Ernest Milchman Jason Leventhal and intellectual property contributed December 14, 2014 January 6, 2015 significantly to the prestige of the Law School. News of his passing came just Class of 1959 Class of 1990 as New York Law School Magazine Joseph Esquirol Steven C. Davidson was going to press. The Law school April 13, 2015 January 6, 2015 invites alumni and friends to share their remembrances of him by writing Class of 1959 Class of 2005 to [email protected]. Plans for a Frank E. Visco Sr. Joseph Alan Ascoli memorial service are underway. • April 21, 2015 July 12, 2015

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Recognizing the strong connections between New York City and London, New York Law School has for several years offered a London summer program. This year, through the Cynthia Senko Rosicki ’86 Fellowship in Law and Dramatic Arts, all students in the program had the opportunity to Voted #1 five years in a row. attend a course on “personal impact” at the prestigious Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA). Advance LL.M. in Taxation WE ARE NEW YORK’S LAW SCHOOL Your The Graduate Tax Program enables LL.M. students Career to build a firm foundation in tax and pursue a concentration in depth. The program emphasizes through advanced training in tax research and practice- IN THIS ISSUSpeciaElized oriented writing, as well as practical experience Features through externships.

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