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Albany The school moved to its current home Development in 1928, adding its Schaffer Law Library Law School in 1986 and a 45,000-square-foot annex in When the New York Law Journal 2000. A year later, Albany Law celebrated printed its first edition in 1888, there its 100th birthday. of law were five law schools in the state. Today, It is the oldest independent law school New York is home to 15 ABA-accredited in the U.S. law schools that span from Buffalo to Long schools Island, with eight in New York City. Last year Dean/President: they graduated 4,697 newly minted J.D.s. Albany Law, , the state’s first institute Penelope Andrews Legal education has changed dra- for legal education, was founded in 1851 matically in the past 125 years. Lengthy by three prominent public affairs law- Prominent Alumni: apprenticeships and clerkships with law yers: Amos Dean, Ira Harris and Amasa L  awrence Cooke, former chief judge offices—not classroom study—were the Parker, who wanted an alternative to of New York most common paths to practice until the admitting attorneys to the state bar Governor Andrew Cuomo mid-19th century. And until 1911, when solely on the basis of clerkships. Judge Victoria Graffeo, Court of the United States the New York Court of Appeals strength- By 1873, the Capital Region’s law Appeals Richard Parsons, former CEO of Time ened its requirements for bar admission, school had partnered with Albany Medi- Robert Jackson, former U.S. Supreme Warner; former chair of Citigroup aspiring lawyers who had graduated from cal College and Union College to form a Court justice and chief prosecutor at Kate Stoneman, first woman admitted college needed to complete only two years loose alliance known as Union Univer- the Nuremberg War Crimes Trials to New York bar (1898) of law school to sit for the bar exam. sity that endures today, though each James Campbell Matthews, first Teaching methods evolved too. The late- school governs itself. The nation’s first black man to graduate from law 1800s “Dwight method” of treatise memori- student-edited law review, the Albany school in New York state (1870) and 617 50 zation and moot court exercises was widely Law School Journal, was published in New York’s first black judge adopted for a time. It eventually gave way 1875. William McKinley, 25th president of $43,248 to the Harvard Law “case law” method. The clinical legal education programs so popular today were verboten for much of the early 1900s. In a 1953 article for the New York State Bulletin, Albany Law dean Andrew Clements wrote, “an over-emphasis Brooklyn Prominent Alumni: upon practical training, or know-how, could David Dinkins, former New York City dull our sense of moral values and make Law School Mayor the law schools little more than vocational Jeffrey Gewirtz, senior vice presi- institutions.” But today’s emphasis on dent/general counsel, Brooklyn Nets practical skills would not be so foreign to Frieda Hennock, first woman com- apprenticeship proponents 125 years ago missioner of the Federal Communica- as “experiential learning” offerings such tions Commission as externships and clinics are now main- Just 18 students enrolled in Brooklyn E. Leo Milonas, partner, Pillsbury stays of law school campuses nationwide. Law’s first class in September 1901, the Winthrop Shaw Pittman; former chief Even with a plethora of learning oppor- year 26-year-old William Payson Rich- administrative judge; former New tunities, however, law school insiders and ardson cofounded it with Norman Hef- York City Bar president Kopstein

outsiders alike have recently called on k fley. Unlike most other law schools at Geraldo Rivera, Fox News corre- ic

schools to explain and enhance the value ; R the time, it educated women and blacks spondent; host of “Geraldo at Large” of a J.D. In New York, long considered a from its earliest days. Judge Nelson Roman, U.S. District

bellwether for the nation’s law schools, schools Classes were held in the basement But faculty and alumni bought it Court, Southern District of New York

Students just six in 10 of last year’s graduates were of a business school owned by Heffley, back—a bargain at $167,000—rendering Larry Silverstein, president/CEO, idual

able to find full-time, permanent employ- v and in 1903 the school affiliated itself the school independent. It opened its Silverstein Properties indi Full-Time Faculty ment requiring bar exam passage within with St. Lawrence University in Canton, current 250 Joralemon St. in downtown Lonn Trost, COO/general counsel, of nine months of graduation. N.Y. Brooklyn in 1969, adding a major addi- New York Yankees Tuition Whatever the legal landscape of tomor- That partnership would last until tion in 1994.

row, New York’s law schools can take credit ourtesy 1943, when St. Lawrence shut the law Its 21-story, award-winning student : C for shaping U.S. legal education from its ear- school down due to debt woes and plung- residence, Feil Hall, opened in 2005. 1,260 79 hotos

liest days. Following are snapshots of New P ing enrollment as young men served in York’s 15 schools. —Tania Karas World War II. Dean: Nicholas Allard $53,606

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Bu ffalo States in 1850, and the school finally Judge Paul Friedman, U.S. District City University Justice, another first-of-its-kind program opened its doors in 1887 when 12 promi- Court, District of Columbia supporting alumni as they set up solo Law School nent Buffalo lawyers and judges estab- Judge Julio Fuentes, U.S. Court of of New York or small firms devoted to serving low- lished it to be housed within Niagara Appeals, Third Circuit School of Law income communities. University, a Roman Catholic institution. Samuel Green, retired justice, Appellate In May 2012, CUNY Law moved to a It became part of the University of Buf- Division, Fourth Department new building in Long Island City from falo in 1891, and by 1899 it had gradu- Brigadier General Theodore Flushing, Queens. ated two women, Helen Rogers and Cecil Hess, retired staff judge advocate Weiner. Its student-edited Buffalo Law of U.S. Marine Corps Dean: Michelle Anderson Review was first published in 1950, and Carol McCormick Smith, first woman its first legal clinic, the Indigent Prisoner lawyer to serve on the United Nations Founded in 1983 with the motto “law Prominent Alumni: Defense Organization, soon followed. Buf- legal staff; former director of psycho- in the service of human needs,” CUNY T onya Gonnella Frichner, presi- falo Law and the University of Buffalo logical warfare for the Central Intel- Law has consistently ranked highest dent/founder, American Indian Law can Civil Liberties Union of Michigan joined the public state system in 1962. ligence Agency among U.S. law schools in the share of Alliance Karen Simmons, executive director, The school named its building for class William Niese, former vice president/ graduates it sends into public interest Harlene Katzman, pro bono counsel Children’s Law Center of 1889 alumnus John Lord O’Brian in general counsel, Times Mirror Co. and public service law. and director, Simpson Thacher & Sharon Stapel, executive director, 1974. Last year, Buffalo Law celebrated Denise O’Donnell, director of justice It is also one of the nation’s most di- Bartlett; former dean, Center for Pub- New York City Anti-Violence Project its 125th anniversary. assistance, U.S. Department of Justice; verse law schools. In 2006, it launched lic Interest Law, Columbia Law School Tracy Welsh, executive director, HIV first female Western District U.S. attorney Pipeline to Justice, a first-of-its-kind Administrative Judge Edwina Law Project B uffalo Law’s start was almost a non- Dean: Makau Mutua program offering a second chance at Richardson-Mendelson, New starter: In 1846, Millard Fillmore, then admission to students from communities York City Family Court 636 58 430 48 a Buffalo lawyer, lobbied the private Prominent Alumni: underrepresented in the legal profession Frederick Rooney, director, Touro Law University of Buffalo to establish a law Michael Battle, senior partner, $21,970 in-state by better preparing them for the LSAT Center International Center for Post- $12,090 in-state school but it refused. Fillmore would go Schlam Stone & Dolan; first black and the rigors of law school. A year later, Graduate Development & Justice on to become president of the United Western District U.S. attorney $38,040 out of state the school launched its Incubator for Kary Ross, executive director, Ameri- $20,090 out of state

Benjamin N. Dean: Matthew Diller Columbia York Court of Appeals Thomas Dewey, New York governor, Cardozo Prominent Alumni: Law School Republican U.S. president nominee School of Law Jud ge Sandra Feuerstein, U.S. in 1944 and 1948 District Court, Eastern District of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth New York Bader Ginsburg Jeff Marx, Tony Award-winning play- U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder wright of “Avenue Q” Charles Evans Hughes, U.S. Supreme Congresswoman Grace Meng, When it was founded in 1858, Colum- Court chief justice; U.S. secretary of D-N.Y. bia Law was the tenth school for legal state; governor of New York Cardozo Law’s parent institution, Jason Pomeranc, hotelier and education in the nation, though the first rations to feminist and critical race legal Governor George Pataki Yeshiva University, traces its roots to cofounder, Thompson Hotels and Do professor of law at its parent institution, theory. In 1993, responding to a student Presidents Franklin Delano Yeshiva Etz Chaim, founded in 1886 on Not Disturb Restaurant Group Columbia University, had been teaching initiative, Columbia Law became the first Roosevelt and Theodore Roo- Manhattan’s Lower East Side as the Justice Dianne Renwick, Appellate since 1793. Like its contemporaries at U.S. law school to institute a pro bono sevelt nation’s first full-time, independent Jew- Division, First Department the time, Columbia originally offered a requirement for students, which Chief Harlan Fiske Stone, U.S. Supreme ish school. David Samson, president, Miami Mar- two-year curriculum that was extended Judge Jonathan Lippman in 2012 made Court chief justice Nearly a century later, in 1976, Car- fully convicted inmates, many on death lins to three years around the turn of the 20th mandatory for all New York law students. Mary Jo White, commissioner, U.S. dozo opened as a secular school of law row, through DNA analysis. Randi Weingarten, president, Ameri- century. In 1888 it became the first U.S. Columbia Law counts among its alumni Securities and Exchange Commission led by Monrad Paulsen, former dean The school launched a $50 million can Federation of Teachers law school to offer instruction to foreign seven past or present Supreme Court Judge Jack Weinstein, U.S. District of the University of Virginia School renovation to its Fifth Avenue campus attorneys. The Columbia Law Review, justices and two U.S. presidents. Court, Eastern District of New York of Law. in 2006, upgrading its moot courtroom, the world’s most cited law journal, was In 1992, professors Barry Scheck library, classrooms and student center. first published in 1901. In the 1920s, its Dean: D avid Schizer and Peter Neufeld founded the world- Today, Cardozo Law’s intellectual 1,220 60 professors started the American legal 1,560 89 renowned Innocence Project, which to property program is ranked among the realism movement, transforming areas Prominent Alumni: date has won exonerations for 171 wrong- highest in the nation. $49,476 of law from trade regulation and corpo- Judge Sheila Abdus-Salaam, New $53,636

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Cornell Robert DuPuy, former president, COO, Maurice A. Deane lished the Law, Logic & Technology Vietnam Veterans of America Foun- Major League Baseball research lab, which conducts empirical dation Law School Sol Linowitz, former U.S. Ambassa- School of Law research on legal reasoning. Governor David Paterson dor to the Organization of American at Hofstra In 2011, Hofstra Law renamed itself Catherine Leahy Scott, New York States who co-negotiated the Panama for Maurice Deane, an alum who made state inspector general Canal treaties University a $20 million commitment to the school. Larren Nashelsky, chair/chief execu- Princess Bajrakitiyabha Mahidol Earlier this year it launched the Giten- tive partner, Morrison & Foerster of Thailand, ambassador and alter- stein Institute for Health Law and Policy native representative of Thailand to as part of an effort to give its students C ornell Law opened in 1887 within the U.N. Commission on Crime Pre- specialized training in health law as that 850 53 Cornell University, which itself was 1958 for a residential facility named for vention and Criminal Justice area grows. established two decades earlier, partially Charles Evan Hughes, his mentor and an William Rogers, U.S. attorney gen- $49,154 through grants from the Morrill Land- early Cornell Law professor who went eral under President Dwight D. Eisen- When it was founded in 1970, Hof- Dean: Eric Lane Grant College Act signed by President on to become chief justice of the U.S. hower stra Law was the first new law school Abraham Lincoln in 1862. Annual tuition Supreme Court. In 1966, Cornell Law Song Sang-Hyun, president, Interna- in New York in more than 40 years. At Prominent Alumni: for the law school’s first class of 55 stu- became the first U.S. law school to get tional Criminal Court the time, the state’s law schools were Judge Maryanne Trump Barry, U.S. dents was $75, while room and board in permission for court appearances by Judge Shira Scheindlin, U.S. District exploding in enrollments. Court of Appeals, Third Circuit Ithaca cost about $5 a week. In 1928, an third-year students. Court, Southern District of New York The inaugural issue of the Hofstra Law Randy Levine, president, New York alum—industrialist, attorney and diplo- Judge Richard Wesley, U.S. Court Review was published in 1973. Yankees; senior counsel, Akin Gump mat Myron C. Taylor—donated $1.5 mil- Dean: S tewart Schwab of Appeals, Second Circuit From its early days, Hofstra Law’s Strauss Hauer & Feld lion to construct the school’s third and signature programs were in family and Edward Mangano, Nassau County current location with a picturesque focal Prominent Alumni: child advocacy law, and in 2002 the executive point, Peace Tower, meant to represent B arber Conable, former president, 596 57 school launched a child and family advo- Justice Sallie Manzanet-Daniels, world peace through international law. World Bank; former Congressman, cacy fellowship. Appellate Division, First Department Taylor donated another $1 million in R-N.Y. $55,301 Three years ago, a professor estab- Robert Muller, president/founder,

Fordham its Jesuit tradition into the present. For Prominent Alumni: New York World War I, again during World War II, Prominent Alumni: example, Fordham Law places heavy Kevin Burke, chairman, president, and again during the Sept. 11, 2001, ter- Lawrence Field, chairman, CEO, NSB University emphasis on ethics and requires an CEO, Consolidated Edison Law School rorist attacks, during which its campus Associates Inc. School of Law ethics component to every course. In Judge Denny Chin, U.S. Court of was lined with missing persons posters. John Marshall Harlan II, U.S. its earliest days, the law school moved Appeals, Second Circuit In 2006, the school launched a $160 Supreme Court justice from 1955 to four times before settling into the 28th Chris Cuomo, TV news correspondent million-plus campus expansion that 1971 floor of the Woolworth Building in 1916, Geraldine Ferraro, former congress- included a new moot courtroom. Marc Lasry, CEO, chairman, cofound- then moved again in 1961 to its present woman; first woman vice presidential NYLS’ graduates have founded some of er, Avenue Capital Group location at Lincoln Center. The school’s candidate Manhattan’s most prominent law firms. In Charles Phillips Jr., CEO of Infor; Louis Stein Center for Law and Ethics james Gianopulos, chairman, CEO, The earliest days of NYLS were the past two years, Dean Anthony Crow- former president, Oracle opened in 1995. Two years later its highly Fox Filmed Entertainment framed in rebellion. Unhappy with ell, who spent much of his prior career Alfred Rose, early partner, Proskauer Fordham Law’s first dean led a life selective Joseph R. Crowley Program in John Mara, president, CEO, New York Columbia Law trustees’ attempts to dic- in city government, announced a new Rose that seemed to be ripped from the International Human Rights was founded, Giants tate teaching methods, Theodore Dwight, “We are New York’s law school” slogan Ernst Rosenberger, one-time Appel- pages of Horatio Alger: Paul Francisco allowing 2Ls to participate in overseas Chief Judge Loretta Preska, U.S. a founding Columbia Law professor, led a and doubled clinical offerings. late Division, First Department, jus- Fuller was a homeless, Spanish-speak- human rights investigations. The school District Court, Southern District campus revolt where several faculty and tice ing orphan plucked from the street has six Master of Laws programs, and Bernard Shanley, former deputy students left to form their own school Dean: Anthony Crowell Sybil Shainwald, 1993 recipient of and adopted by an educator before he it is undergoing a significant campus chief of staff, White House counsel in Tribeca. New York Law School was the Susan B. Anthony Award from became a prominent attorney and start- expansion to include a new building. to President Dwight Eisenhower thus born in 1891 with Dwight as its dean the National Organization for Women ed Fordham Law in 1905. The school’s Dean Skelos, New York State Senate and the “Dwight method” as its primary Zygmunt Wilf, owner, Minnesota first home was on the Rose Hill cam- Dean: Michael Martin majority leader vehicle of instruction. Vikings pus of its parent institution, Fordham By 1904, it was the largest law school University, in the Bronx. The university, in the country, and that same year it originally called St. John’s College, had 1,636 85 established one of the nation’s first eve- 1,598 78 been founded by the Catholic Diocese ning divisions. Its history is marked by of New York in 1841 and has continued $50,370 three significant closures: once during $49,240

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New York of the crowning initiatives of former dean St. John’s response to rapid growth as applications John Sexton, now president of the entire skyrocketed. It broke ground on another University university, who is credited with raising University addition, Finley Hall, in 1991, doubling School of Law NYU Law’s profile to that of an interna- School of Law the school’s size. It opened the nation’s tionally recognized law school. In 2000, first and only LL.M. in bankruptcy law NYU Law became the nation’s first to in 1999. place clerks at the International Court of Today, the school is home to 14 clin- Justice. Last fall, the school announced ics, nine centers and four LL.M. pro- the creation of its “professional path- grams, including one in international ways” curricular program for 3Ls, aimed Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom; former and comparative sports law. NYUw La is the oldest law school in at helping students focus on practice chief judge New York City, founded in 1835. Women area specializations or study abroad in Chief Judge Jonathan Lippman Dean: Michael Simons were first admitted in 1890, long before Buenos Aires, Paris or Shanghai. Judge Raymond Lohier, U.S. Court The school held its first classes in they were allowed to enroll at many peer of Appeals for the Second Circuit 1925 at 50 Court St., Brooklyn, with just Prominent Alumni: institutions. Dean Arthur Vanderbilt Dean: Trevor Morrison Paul Tagliabue, former National Foot- 13 students. They were young, mostly Jose ph Bellacosa, former judge, New moved the campus from a two-story ball League commissioner poor Jews barred from admission else- York State Court of Appeals York City Police Department factory building to its current location Prominent Alumni: Herbert Wachtell, Martin Lipton, where and drawn to the inclusive mis- Carmen Beauchamp Ciparick, for- Congressman Charles Rangel, at 40 Washington Square South in Green- Gary Bettman, commissioner, Nation- Leonard Rosen and George Katz, sion of St. John’s University, which was mer state Court of Appeals judge D-N.Y. wich Village in 1951. That same year, al Hockey League founding partners of Wachtell, Lip- founded by Vincentian Roman Catholic Governor Mario Cuomo Roy Reardon, partner, Simpson the school founded its flagship public Rudolph Giuliani, Edward Koch and ton, Rosen & Katz priests 55 years earlier. Within two years, Presiding Justice Randall Eng, Thacher & Bartlett interest initiative, the Root-Tilden-Kern Fiorello La Guardia, former New York classes overflowed, requiring a move. Appellate Division, Second Depart- Scholarship program, which provides City mayors The school appointed its first dean of ment full tuition and helps nurture leaders in Chief Judge Dennis Jacobs, U.S. 2,183 108 women in 1932. It relocated to its pres- Brooklyn District Attorney 870 48 public service. In 1995, it founded the Court of Appeals, Second Circuit ent location in Jamaica, Queens, on the Charles Hynes Hauser Global Law School program, one Judith Kaye, of counsel, Skadden, $53,200 campus of St. John’s University, in 1972 in Raymond Kelly, commissioner, New $49,750

Pace University Pace Law opened in White Plains in Prominent Alumni: Syracuse Law’s female enrollment reached 40 per- 1976 with 250 students and quickly made John Cahill, counsel, Chadbourne & cent, unusually high for a law school at School of Law a name in environmental law. It launched Parke; former senior policy advisor, University the time. a program dedicated to the field in 1982, chief of staff to Governor George Pataki School of Law The school broke ground last year on the same year it started the Pace Environ- Robert F. Kennedy Jr., board chair- its new home, a $46 million building to mental Law Review, one of the first-ever man, Waterkeeper Alliance; codirec- be called Dineen Hall after alumni Robert legal journals devoted to the topic. In tor, Pace Law environmental litigation and Carolyn Dineen. the years to follow, Pace Law opened an clinic; chief prosecuting attorney, Last year their three children, all environmental litigation clinic, an energy Riverkeeper lawyers themselves, donated $15 mil- and climate center, an environmental law Jody Lipton, general counsel, New lion toward the building, which is set moot court and a land-use law center. York City Office of the Chief Medical to open next year. The school added a 27,000-square-foot Examiner T wenty-three students began their classroom building in 2000, which was Judge Terry Jane Ruderman, New two-year course of study at Syracuse Dean: H annah Arterian renamed Richard Ottinger Hall last year York State Court of Claims Law when it opened in 1895. By 1903, Judge Theodore Alexander McK- after the former Democratic Congress- Basil Seggos, Governor Andrew Cuo- the school had graduated its first black Prominent Alumni: ee, U.S. Court of Appeals, Third Dis- man, also the school’s former dean and mo’s deputy secretary for environ- and female students. Enrollment grew R ichard Alexander, managing part- trict the founder of its energy and climate ment to 229 by 1915, though its senior class ner, Arnold & Porter Mark Neporent, COO/general coun- center. Last year, Pace Law opened its David Varoli, general counsel, New dipped to around 30 during both World Vice President Joseph Biden Jr. sel, Ceberus Capital Management Pace Community Law Practice, a legal York City Department of Design and Wars I and II. William Brodsky, executive chair- Elizabeth Strout, Pulitzer Prize- residency and incubator program for Construction In 1952, the school moved to its cur- man, Chicago Board Options winning author of “Olive Kitteridge” recent graduates looking to build solo rent home at Ernest I. White Hall, named Exchange Holdings or small practices around helping local for a prominent Syracuse attorney. The David Gordon, partner and vice chair, residents who cannot afford a lawyer. 547 44 school later added its Arnold M. Grant Latham & Watkins 661 45 auditorium in 1967 and its Barclay Law Judge James Graves Jr., U.S. Court Dean: Michelle Simon $43,630 Library in 1985. By the 1980s, Syracuse of Appeals, Fifth Circuit $44,000

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Touro College Central Islip adjacent to state and fed- Jacob D. eral courts. Fuchsberg Dean: Patricia Salkin Law Center Prominent Alumni: Matthew Daus, former chair, New York City Taxi and Limousine Com- mission Seymour Liebman, executive vice president/general counsel, Canon U.S.A. The second-youngest law school Justice Lewis Lubell, Supreme Court, in the state, Touro Law was established Westchester County in 1980 as part of Touro College, itself In 1991, the school established the Christine Malafi, former county founded as a private institution for Bruce K. Gould Book Award, one of the attorney, Suffolk County Jewish students just a decade earlier. highest literary book awards in law, District Attorney Kathleen Rice In its first few years, the law school named after an alum and book publish- of Nassau County was crammed into an office building on er. Past recipients include Sandra Day Donna Wanser, vice president, legal, West 44th Street in Manhattan. In 1982 O’Connor and Sonia Sotomayor. Panda Restaurant Group it relocated to Huntington, Long Island, The school initiated a pro bono gradu- which would be its home for 24 years. ation requirement in 1991, more than two The school changed its name in 1986 to decades before it became a requirement 763 45 Network with Develop new business Get to know General Access vital business honor the late Jacob Fuchsberg, a state for all law students statewide. Court of Appeals judge from 1975 to 1983. In 2007 it moved to a new campus in $42,810 influencers efficiently, using active records of Counsel before you development utilizing contact each corporation’s top- even meet them information from a information for choice, go-to law firms with biographical single, searchable, General Counsel, as for outside counsel information such as easy-to-use tool well as department- industry expertise, head contacts education, law firm experience and more

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