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2017 Orientation Distinguished Guest Biographies Upnit Kaur Bhatti, L’15 Law Clerk, United States Court of Appeals for the Third District Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Upnit Kaur Bhatti is a law clerk for Judge Theodore A. McKee of the Third Circuit Court of Appeals. Prior to her clerkship, she was a litigation attorney at Bond, Schoeneck & King, PLLC, in its Syracuse offce. After her clerkship, she will join Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer’s litigation department in Washington, DC, Ms. Bhatti completed her undergraduate studies in Political Science and History at the University of Toronto with honors and distinction. In law school, Ms. Bhatti was the Managing Editor of the Syracuse Law Review and served as an extern for United States Magistrate Judge Thérèse Wiley Dancks. She was also an associate member of the Moot Court Honor Society, a Peer Leader, a Diversity Ambassador, and a member of the American Bar Association National Appellate Team. Ms. Bhatti was a Pro Bono scholar and is a member of the Order of the Coif and Order of the Barristers. Michael A. Bottar, L’03 Partner, Bottar Leone PLLC Syracuse, New York Michael A. Bottar’s practice is limited to the prosecution and trial of medical malpractice, wrongful death, workplace accident, and complex personal injury actions, with a focus on claims for birth injuries, misdiagnosis, surgical errors, governmental negligence, and biomedical product liability. Mr. Bottar is a graduate of Colgate University and a summa cum laude graduate of Syracuse University College of Law, where he is an adjunct professor and teaches a course on law practice management. He is also the author of the civil practice chapter of the Syracuse Law Review’s Survey of New York Law, and is a member of the College of Law’s Board of Advisors. While a student at the College of Law, Mr. Bottar was executive editor of the Syracuse Law Review and a member of the Moot Court Honor Society. He was inducted into the Order of the Coif, the Order of Barristers, and the Justinian Honorary Law Society, and he received the College of Law’s Robert W. Miller Award, Robert M. Anderson Award, and the Moot Court Team Award. In 2003, the Syracuse Law Review also published his note titled “Robbing Peter to Pay Paul: Medicaid Liens, Supplemental Needs Trusts, and Personal Injury Recoveries on Behalf of Infants in New York State Following the Gold Decision.” Mr. Bottar sits on the Board of Directors of the New York State Academy of Trial Lawyers, and lectures regularly throughout the state on medical malpractice, complex personal injury, and trial-related topics. He is listed in The Best Lawyers in America and Upstate New York Super Lawyers, and he is AV-rated by Martindale-Hubbell. Mr. Bottar has been recognized as one of New York’s “Top 10 under 40” by the National Academy of Personal Injury Attorneys, and as one of New York’s “Top 40 under 40” by The National Trial Lawyers and the American Society of Legal Advocates. Before joining Bottar Leone, PLLC, Michael was a litigation associate with the New York City offce of White & Case LLP, and the Syracuse offce of Bond, Schoeneck & King, PLLC. 1 Laurence G. Bousquet, L’80 Kathia R. Casion, L’98 Member, Bousquet Holstein PLLC Director, Civil Division Legal Aid Society of Rochester Syracuse, New York Rochester, New York Larry Bousquet is a founding member of Bousquet Holstein PLLC and serves on its Board of Kathia M. Casion is the Civil Division Director of the Legal Aid Society of Rochester, NY. Her Managers. His practice focuses on acquisitions, sales and mergers, capital formation, enterprise primary area of practice is in real estate representing frst-time home buyers. She currently serves and transaction structuring, partnership and limited liability company law, business and not-for- as the Civil Division Director supervising the 45 staff members who provide legal services in the proft corporation law, commercial transactions, New York and federal tax law, and the law of tax areas of family law, housing, consumer, immigration, and education law in a six county area. exempt organizations. For many years, Mr. Bousquet served as an adjunct faculty member at the Syracuse University College of Law co-teaching partnership taxation. Ms. Casion earned her J.D. in 1998 from Syracuse University College of Law and her B.S. from SUNY Old Westbury. She is admitted to practice in the bars of New York, Federal Court, and the Mr. Bousquet has been deeply involved in civic and volunteer activities in the Syracuse area. He Western District of NY Bankruptcy Court. She was the 2014 recipient of the Greater Rochester is currently the President of the Volunteer Lawyers Project of Onondaga County; Chair of the Award for Career Achievement. She was an educator and advocate for children’s rights before Board of Trustees of the Crouse Health Foundation; and a member of the Libraries Advisory attending law school. Board of Syracuse University. Ms. Casion currently lives in Brighton, NY, with her husband Joe (L’99), her two children Alex and Mr. Bousquet is a Director and Member of the Executive Committee of CenterState CEO, serves Sofa, and their three dogs. on the Board of Directors of Syracuse 20/20, and is a participant in the Book Buddies program at Seymour Dual Language Academy. He is a member of Consensus and the commission on local government modernization, and he is a past President of the Onondaga Citizens League, where Danielle McCann Cima, L’01 he was the Chair of the 2005 study on Strategic Governmental Consolidation. Associate General Counsel and Corporate Secretary, Community Bank N.A. Mr. Bousquet is the immediate past President of the Gifford Foundation Board of Trustees and Syracuse, New York continues to serve as a Trustee. He is a past President of the Everson Museum, where he was Danielle McCann Cima, Esq. is the Associate General Counsel and Corporate Secretary of Com- Chair of the Turner to Cezanne Exhibition Committee. Mr. Bousquet is also a past Director of the munity Bank System, Inc. Headquartered in DeWitt, NY, Community Bank System, Inc. has more Syracuse City School District Foundation, where he served as Chair of the Grants Committee, than 230 customer facilities across Upstate New York, Northeastern Pennsylvania, Vermont, and past President of the Hiscock Legal Aid Society, and past President of the International Center Western Massachusetts through its banking subsidiary, Community Bank, N.A. With assets of of Syracuse. He is an honors graduate of Kenyon College and the Syracuse University College of approximately $11.0 billion, Community Bank System, Inc. is among the country’s 150 largest Law. Mr. Bousquet was recently chosen to receive the Onondaga County Bar Association’s 2017 fnancial institutions. Distinguished Lawyer Award. Before Mrs. Cima joined Community Bank, she was a member (partner) at Bond, Schoeneck & John F. Boyd II, L’16 King PLLC where she specialized in mergers and acquisitions, securities, and general business law. Litigation Associate, Bond, Schoeneck & King PLLC Mrs. Cima is a past President of the Central New York Women’s Bar Association and the recipient Syracuse, New York of the Women’s Bar Association of the State of New York’s Doris S. Hoffman Outstanding New Lawyer Award. Mrs. Cima has received a 40 Under Forty Award and the Women in Business John Boyd is a litigation attorney with experience representing businesses, insurance companies, Award from the Central New York Business Journal. and individuals in a wide variety of litigated matters in both federal and state courts. His practice focuses on civil defense litigation, estates litigation, real property litigation, and insurance litigation. John also has experience in litigating employment law disputes. Sally Curran, Esq. Executive Director, Volunteer Lawyers Project of Onondaga County, Inc. While a student at the College of Law, Mr. Boyd participated in Moot Court competitions and Syracuse, New York mock trial teams. He was a fnalist of the 38th Annual Lionel O. Grossman Trial Competition and competed in the Thurgood Marshall Mock Trial Competition. In 2016, Mr. Boyd and teammates Sally Curran is the Executive Director of the Volunteer Lawyers Project of Onondaga County, won the Thurgood Marshall Mock Trial Competition. Inc. (OnVLP), a pro bono legal services organization serving low-income people throughout Central New York. She has guided OnVLP through a spin off into an independent nonproft, major In addition to his practice, Mr. Boyd donates a signifcant amount of time to pro bono initiatives, technology upgrades, and expansion, including new programming to address immigration, family including the Syracuse City Court Eviction Defense Clinic and the McKinley Brighton School Pro matters, LGBT rights, homeless needs, and re-entry work. Ms. Curran is also an Adjunct Professor Bono Clinic. He has judged several Moot Court competitions as an alumnus and served as coach of Law at Cornell Law where she teaches an LGBT Communities Practicum in the clinical program. and attorney advisor for the Thurgood Marshall Trial Team. 2 3 Before joining OnVLP, Ms. Curran had a child-centered family law practice in Portland, Maine, In May of 2016, Ms. Dennis-Taylor joined the Onondaga County District Attorney’s Offce as an where she provided more than 200 hours of pro bono service every year. She graduated summa Assistant District Attorney. Drawing on her experience as a family law mediator, her primary areas cum laude from the University of Maine with degrees in Spanish Language and Women’s Stud- of practice include domestic violence cases, special victims cases, and other criminal law matters. ies and obtained her Juris Doctorate at the City University of New York College of Law.

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