Dean Craig M. Boise

THE MAGAZINE OF SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF LAW FALL 2016

WELCOME DEAN CRAIG M. BOISE

ALSO INSIDE:

HYBRID J.D. PROGRAM

LL.M. PROGRAM UPDATE

LAW IN LONDON TO CELEBRATE 40 YEARS Dean and Professor of Law Craig M. Boise

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INSIDE

02 Dean’s Message

04 Syracuse Law Interview Dean Craig M. Boise

12 Creating the Future of Legal Education

16 Law in London Celebrates 40 Years

18 LLM Students Make an Impact

12 20 College News

26 Faculty Profile: Thomas R. French

28 Faculty Profile: Shuhba Ghosh

32 Faculty Books

38 Faculty Publications

46 Honor Roll of Donors

18 16 56 Class Notes

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1 “I look forward to hearing your ideas and harnessing your energy and enthusiasm as we chart a sustainable course for the College of Law, elevate our reputation and increase our influence and prestige.” –Craig M. Boise

2 | SYRACUSE LAW DEAN’S MESSAGE

Dear Members of the College of Law Community:

My first months as Dean can only be described as inspiring as I Our incoming J.D. Class of 2019 exemplifies the opportunities have encountered so many people who have a deep attachment ahead. We are proud to report that the class is 14% larger than to the College of Law and heard their stories of success and last year’s and with even better academic credentials. This is commitment. Here in Syracuse and at events in other cities, I a striking departure from prevailing trends which reflect a less have been welcomed by exceptional students and graduates of than one percent increase in applications nationwide and smaller our College all of whom express interest in the future of legal class sizes at most schools. Our incoming group of promising education. I look forward to hearing your ideas and harnessing and talented students is more diverse, more accomplished and your energy and enthusiasm as we chart a sustainable course more ambitious than ever before. Likewise, our current cohort for the College of Law, elevate our reputation and increase our of LL.M. and foreign J.D. students representing nearly twenty influence and prestige. countries around the globe has quickly become rooted in our law school community. Their presence in Dineen Hall strengthens all The pace of change in the legal field is more rapid than ever, of us as our diverse cultures and points of view inform the study and legal education has not evolved as quickly as the options of law, which increasingly crosses international boundaries. available to our graduates. The College of Law must embrace this changing dynamic and I am deeply committed to leveraging the As we chart the future course of the College of Law, we will combined knowledge, skill and imagination of our faculty, alumni capitalize on successes of the past and seize the momentum of and students to expand legal education in innovative ways. the present to ensure the College of Law is the school of choice Students are attracted to the law for many reasons—we must for students seeking a contemporary, forward-thinking and tap into their diverse interests, adapt our curriculum to meet new inclusive legal education. Each of us—faculty, staff, students demands, and provide innovative and interdisciplinary options. and alumni—will play a critical role in designing, implementing and delivering the cutting edge programs and content necessary To be sure, we have a great foundation on which to build. We to prepare legal professionals for the future. Achieving this goal can turn challenges into opportunities, and define ourselves as would not be possible without your support, and I ask that you leaders in legal education: join me in turning this goal into our reality. > We have a contemporary, attractive building in Dineen I hope that as you read these pages you are as inspired as I am Hall with the functional design and latest technology to by real examples of innovation, accomplishment and dedication. support current and future educational needs. Your continued generosity, engagement and leadership are > We have an engaged faculty that is not afraid of breaking critical to the College of Law’s evolution and ongoing success. from the past, taking measured risk, seizing opportunities and being truly entrepreneurial in its approach to programs Very truly yours, and teaching. > We have an array of successful J.D. and joint degree programs and initiatives that are delivering outstanding educational experiences to our students. Craig M. Boise > We have Clinics that continue to provide practical training Dean and Professor of Law for students while making an impact on our local community. > We have committed alumni whose passion for the College of Law is palpable.

3 4 | SYRACUSE LAW SYRACUSE LAW INTERVIEW DEAN CRAIG M. BOISE

Craig M. Boise comes to Dineen Hall as the College of Law’s Dean with a successful track record in innovative legal education programs. He brings with him an understanding of the changes taking place in legal education and the legal job market coupled with a bold vision of how the College of Law can strengthen its current position and embark on new initiatives that will set the College apart from other legal learning institutions.

A few weeks after his arrival on campus in July, Margaret Harding, Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Professor of Law, spoke with Dean Boise to learn how his diverse experiences shape his views on contemporary legal education and how he plans to ensure the College of Law is a vibrant institution suited for today’s students and job market.

PROFESSOR HARDING: Your background is very PROFESSOR HARDING: I think that’s absolutely true. interesting and varied. You were a police officer where What path of discovery led to you becoming a lawyer? you were part of a tactical response team, then you DEAN BOISE: It was law enforcement. I initially started became a lawyer and went into private practice. Ultimately college as a piano major, left for financial reasons after a you transitioned to academia. How do these different couple of years and then joined the police force in Kansas professional experiences affect how you approach being City, Missouri. In the police academy there were two a dean? things we studied very closely. One was a constitutional DEAN BOISE: I have had a very interesting background, law section where we had to learn Fourth, Fifth and Sixth not all of it by choice, but have done a lot of different Amendment cases and the holdings of the cases, which things. I think there are advantages to that, particularly in was entirely new to me and which I found fascinating. communicating with alumni and the broader community. Second, we had a statutory class where we learned There are very few hobbies or places I’ve lived where criminal codes and elements of crimes. It was those two there’s not a degree or two of separation. It makes it easy things that really sparked my interest in the law. After I was to connect with people around shared interests and places. in the department for a few years, I decided to go back and finish my degree. I changed my major to political science Another advantage of having that varied background is and had a professor who really pushed me to consider law that, perhaps for our students, I realize there isn’t one set school. path, whether that’s being a lawyer or doing something else. Life is really a process of discovery, so our students > might come out of college and go work for a while, or go into the military or a variety of things, all of which help expand their perspectives and make their experience in law school richer.

PROFESSOR HARDING: The transition from private practice PROFESSOR HARDING: What attracted you to take the Dean to academia, what made you decide to do that? position here at the College of Law?

DEAN BOISE: I had been in practice for a number of years DEAN BOISE: There were many aspects of the College of Law doing corporate and international tax law. I worked for firms and Syracuse University that made the position very attractive. in Kansas City, New York, and Cleveland. The idea of going The one thing that really piqued my interest is the fact that the into academia came from a friend from law school who called chancellor here, Kent Syverud, is a former law school dean. me and said the school where he was teaching was looking for Given the environment in which law schools are operating, a tax professor. Until then I had never considered teaching. I could think of nothing more important than having your We had a few more conversations, and though I decided university chancellor or president be someone who really not to interview at that time I gave the idea more thought understands legal education. and eventually pursued an academic career. That’s another important lesson for our students. You never know what the When I got online and began digging a little deeper I saw contacts you make in law school will result in down the road. beautiful pictures of Dineen Hall, which is a tremendous asset for this law school. It’s a state-of-the-art building… an amazing place for our students to learn and for our faculty to PROFESSOR HARDING: I’d like to speak with you about your do research and for all of us to interact with one another. As time as Dean at Cleveland-Marshall. You were Dean there for I went through the interviewing process and had the chance about five years. Can you identify some initiatives you were to meet faculty and students I was very impressed by their most proud of? enthusiasm. There was also a great deal of personal warmth and I felt very welcomed by the people here, making it a very DEAN BOISE: The things that were of utmost importance to appealing opportunity. me, and that I am most proud of, were issues that directly affected students. One was a strategy to improve our student bar passage rate. We did a number of things to support our PROFESSOR HARDING: When you came to the welcome students and their preparation for the bar, including providing event we had in April you said that your vision for the College all of our students with the BARBRI bar exam prep course at of Law is “a financially sustainable law school that leverages no cost. That and other measures resulted in our achieving the knowledge, skill and imagination of its faculty to expand the highest bar passage rate in the history of the law school. legal education in innovative ways.” How do you see the Another was the solo practice incubator. We had about 15% of College of Law accomplishing that expansion and what kind of our students going into solo practice but we never provided innovative ways are you thinking about? much in the way of support for that path in terms of the DEAN BOISE: Traditionally, law school is where you went for curriculum. The idea was to incorporate some programming one reason—to earn a J.D. As the legal industry evolves, a for students contemplating a solo practice—short courses J.D. is not always what employers need, and yet there may be on how to handle a basic divorce, how to handle a criminal a requirement for legal knowledge and a similar skillset. To case, those kinds of things—coupled with a law practice that end, we need to think of ourselves more broadly than as management course. At the same time, we had a lot of library a place to obtain a J.D. As legal educators, we should think of space that was being utilized less and less so we converted ourselves as providing a legal education that is relevant to an some of this space into a suite of offices where students could emerging, different type of marketplace and for students who launch their solo practice. This gave them an office where they are seeking a similar career or knowledge, but not necessarily could be taken seriously by clients and be in the company of a traditional J.D. As a school, we need to investigate other other solo practitioners. I’m proud of that successful initiative. programs and needs that employers are looking to fill. And we can fill those needs with diverse products such as a Master’s in Legal Studies or short courses in regulatory and other matters.

6 | SYRACUSE LAW “We need to think of ourselves more broadly than as a place to obtain a J.D. As legal educators, we should think of ourselves as providing a legal education that is relevant to an emerging, different type of marketplace and for students who are seeking a similar career or knowledge, but not necessarily a traditional J.D.”

7 PROFESSOR HARDING: You’re talking about many skills that there are a lot of things we can learn from primary or secondary can be useful in a variety of occupations and professions. That school teachers because they are much more focused on the sounds like what we do well and it’s what we can share with an science of learning. The idea here is that we need to be more audience we haven’t reached yet. It’s exciting. cognizant of the way we are conveying our knowledge to our students and assess whether we are using the most effective DEAN BOISE: For some people, three years of law school methods. The online J.D. program we are developing with and a J.D. is what they need, for others they will desire a legal our partner, 2U, is one of the ways we’re employing learning background or training for their chosen field of work. The law science. Using the technology with 2U, we are learning to touches virtually every career out there so people are going to develop and deliver courses more effectively from a learning want to have a better understanding of how the law affects their perspective. As a result, I am confident that we will see new work or the regulatory environment. approaches to educating and learning in our residential classes. This will have important ramifications. Our students will absorb the material in a better way. They will experience better test PROFESSOR HARDING: The expectation is that the amount of results, which will have an impact on bar passage which has an regulation is going to increase. impact on employment. The ripple effects are extensive.

DEAN BOISE: Absolutely. I don’t think there’s going to be less Another possible shift we are exploring is replacing some of regulation. In terms of our creativity, we’re looking at a hybrid our semester-long courses with a catalog of short courses J.D. program which we hope to launch in January 2018. This is on various topics. These would be in modules that are more an opportunity to reach a segment of the population that might experientially oriented than the standard doctrinal courses, not have an opportunity to come to Dineen Hall. This includes enabling the students to gain experience solving real problems people who are disabled for whom the residential program to aid in learning the doctrinal material. would be difficult, or service men and women and veterans who may find it impossible to make a three-year commitment to be a resident in one place because of where they are PROFESSOR HARDING: You had the chance to practice, deployed or other obligations. It also offers the opportunity be part of the tax bar in various states, and see how we are to reduce the cost of legal education, which now means not delivering an education to our students. How can we as a being able to work for three years. Traditionally, this has meant faculty make sure that what we’re doing in the classroom students having to borrow money for living expenses for three remains relevant and meaningful to what our graduates are years. This is an opportunity for us to be really creative and going to be doing in the field? bold and adventurous, and quite frankly, I was impressed that the faculty so overwhelmingly supported this initiative. DEAN BOISE: What I hear from practicing attorneys, managing and hiring partners at firms, and attorneys in prosecutor’s and public defender’s offices that are hiring our students, is that it PROFESSOR HARDING: You also mentioned in your talk in is increasingly important that students have a new set of skills; April that you would like to see the College of Law become skills we have never taught. Some of these skills include how a laboratory for new teaching methods and an incubator for to manage projects, how to be collaborative, how to manage new legal programs. What ideas do you have with regard to processes. I had a conversation recently with an alumnus who innovating teaching methods? is a partner in a large firm in D.C. He shared with me that a law partner wants to be able to give an associate a project DEAN BOISE: Going back to the way law school has been for and know that the individual will be able to handle all the the last 100 years, typically you require a law school professor components of the project. Does that person have the skillset to have a law degree. None of us really got training in how to be to understand the issues, the timeline of that litigation, the educators. I’ve discovered as a dean and a law professor that people that will need to be involved, the experts and opposing counsel, the communications?

8 | SYRACUSE LAW “[My] vision for the College of Law is a financially sustainable law school that leverages the knowledge, skill and imagination of its faculty to expand legal education in innovative ways.”

9 PROFESSOR HARDING: One of our highlights is an increase of higher education in general. One of the things I like about this international students coming to the College of Law. We have initiative is it reflects the College of Law’s spirit of exploration seen some real interest and growth there. What ideas do you and creativity and willingness to experiment. We either look have on capitalizing on that and growing it? at the technology that’s emerging, the student body that’s emerging, the job market that’s emerging and we adapt to that, DEAN BOISE: I have been very impressed with the LL.M. or we slowly become irrelevant. I don’t want this school to be program here. The opportunity is to diversify our international irrelevant. student body. One of the challenges with international students is that a change in economy of a particular country can dramatically impact the number of students who are coming PROFESSOR HARDING: Let’s talk about our alumni. By now, from that country. Diversification will help to navigate those you’ve had the opportunity to meet some of them since coming trends. Further, diversity will make for a richer experience to Syracuse. What plans do you have for incorporating the for our U.S. students who will benefit from interacting with alumni into the mission of the College of Law? students from other countries. There are challenges, but I am confident we can grow the LL.M. program and I think there are DEAN BOISE: What I’ve found in meeting with our alumni is also possibilities for an S.J.D., which is essentially a Ph.D. for a real willingness to support and become involved. There’s a foreign students who want to teach. passion for the school that’s palpable and I’m excited to be engaged with them.

We want the financial support of our alumni. Already PROFESSOR HARDING: You touched a little on the hybrid approximately 11% of our alumni give to the annual fund and program a little while ago. Can you talk a bit more about how that’s critical as the need for us to provide financial aid and that fits with the vision you have for the College of Law? support to our students is growing and our alumni are a real DEAN BOISE: There’s a strong possibility that what we’re resource to help fill that need. aiming to do with the hybrid J.D. is the direction legal education Before you can ask someone to give, though, you have to is going, particularly the reduction in costs for students. It may engage them in what you are doing and help them understand be that in the future students who want to get a J.D. will be where their money is going to go, what it’s going to do and able to do that while remaining employed and without going how it’s going to help our students and the law school. One on campus. I think online is playing an ever greater role in way we make this connection is at convocation where 27 of our

10 | SYRACUSE LAW most accomplished alumni spend a day and a half here, not just attending convocation, but spending half the next day mentoring students, and meeting with them individually.

We’re getting advice from our alumni on career paths. For example, we have a number of alumni who have risen to positions of prominence in the compliance field as chiefs of compliance. This is a fairly new field, but we are learning what the needs are in that field, and planning to adapt our coursework to meet these emerging needs.

Our alumni provide advice and counsel on matters ranging from the finances and budget of the law school to insights about our curriculum, again whether it’s preparing our students for traditional or emerging workplaces. We ask, what are the kinds of things our students need to know? All those things are critical for us and as we engage alumni in those various ways their desire to support the law school financially grows.

PROFESSOR HARDING: My last question has to do with how you spend your time when you’re not working. What interests do you have and what do you do for fun?

DEAN BOISE: I have a lot of hobbies. Probably the biggest one is sailing. Usually my wife, kids and I every year take a sailing trip and we typically go to the Caribbean. I also like to ride motorcycles. I just recently sold my Harley-Davidson but may buy another one in the future. Having discussions with my wife about that now…

PROFESSOR HARDING: You have taken torts, right?

DEAN BOISE: [laughs] I also love music, I never stopped playing the piano so I enjoy that. It’s a very therapeutic thing for me so I brought my piano along to Syracuse. I enjoy salsa dancing. My wife and I have been avid salsa dancers for several years and we’ve discovered a very active salsa community here in Syracuse. I love to read, I enjoy contemporary art, and I work out when I can fit it in. That’s how I spend my off hours.

PROFESSOR HARDING: Thank you for your time, Dean Boise, and welcome to the College of Law.

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11 CREATING THE FUTURE OF LEGAL EDUCATION

How the legal profession delivers services has changed dramatically over the past ten years. Yet law schools deliver legal education in much the same way they did a century ago. The College of Law’s proposed hybrid J.D. program would change that—fundamentally reshaping the options for the next generation of lawyers looking to earn a high-quality legal education.

Live session on 2U’s platform.

12 | SYRACUSE LAW Advancing a new modality for legal education.

The proposed hybrid J.D. program would combine online courses and in-person residential courses, with the aim of making a legal education available to highly qualified students for whom attending a residential law school is not practicable.

In many ways the program will look very familiar. It will use “EVERY SINGLE COURSE IN THE the same admissions standards as our current residential PROGRAM WILL BE AT LEAST program. Students will be required to take all courses required of 50% REAL-TIME—STUDENTS residential law students and will be held to the same academic standards. Courses will be taught by College of Law faculty. The AND PROFESSORS INTERACTING program will also be highly interactive. “Every single course SPONTANEOUSLY AS THEY DO IN in the program will be at least 50% real-time—students and professors interacting spontaneously as they do in our residential OUR RESIDENTIAL PROGRAM.” program,” explained Nina Kohn, Associate Dean for Research, who has been leading the program design process. “That means Nina Kohn I will be able to cold-call my torts students and ask students to Associate Dean for Research engage with one another, just as I do now in Dineen Hall.”

What is new about the program is how the education will be delivered. Students will be able to complete most of their coursework off-campus through online courses. Each online course will have a self-paced (or “asynchronous”) component As with the residential program, students in the hybrid program and a real-time (or “synchronous”) component. In both portions, will be encouraged to take an active role in extracurricular students will be active learners. As Kathleen O’Connor, the activities. “We are working with student organizations to explore program’s Executive Director and former Legal Writing Professor, how they might grow by incorporating the new students into explained, “The online learning system we are using allows their activities,” explains O’Connor. “Whether it be moot court, professors to embed exercises into self-paced courses. Students Law Review, or student government, we feel that it is important won’t be able to complete lessons without interacting with for all students to be able to get involved in the life of the law those exercises.” In this way, professors will be able to see how school and benefit from the critical education that occurs each student—not only the ones that might be called on in a outside of class.” Additionally, the program will take advantage live session—is doing. Professors can then adapt live sessions of technologies that exist throughout Dineen Hall that will make to focus on those issues with which students are struggling or it easier for non-residential students to participate and “drop could especially benefit from greater attention and dialogue. in” on existing programming such as lectures by jurists and prominent alumni. However, not all courses will be online. A series of required residential classes will ensure that students also have the The program’s ten-semester, year-round format will allow opportunity to come together in physical space for in-person students to complete their degree in three and a third years. learning. Students will come to campus, or gather at one of It is an intense schedule, but one that will make it possible Syracuse University’s satellite locations, six times during the for students with existing careers and family obligations to course of their study to take in-person classes. These classes simultaneously obtain an outstanding legal education. “This is will provide an opportunity to meet with professors and other not a program for the faint of heart,” explained Kohn. “And in students, including students in the residential program. that way too, it is like our residential program.”

13 “AS OUR PARTNER, 2U IS PROVIDING THE MASERATI OF THE ONLINE LEARNING EXPERIENCE.”

Craig M. Boise Dean

14 | SYRACUSE LAW Partnering with a leader Making law school possible for new groups of students

To bring the law school’s vision into reality, the College of Law The program is designed to expand access to legal education to has partnered with 2U, Inc., a company that works with leading talented students who, for a variety of reasons, may not be able nonprofit universities to create high-quality online degree to attend a campus-based law program. programs. To effectively deliver a high quality legal education in this manner requires a technological partner that not only has a “There are three groups of students we had in mind when cutting-edge educational platform but also deeply understands developing this program,” says Boise. “One is students with the science of learning. 2U fits the bill. “As our partner, 2U is disabilities who have faced obstacles in the past to study providing the Maserati of the online learning experience,” says law in a residential setting. The second group is military- Dean Craig M. Boise. connected students and veterans who, as the result of being deployed abroad or moving around frequently, cannot make a 2U’s proprietary cloud-based learning platform is specifically commitment to a single place for three years. The third group designed for higher education where professors demand is those students who, like the military-connected students, interactivity and the ability to fully adapt their traditional due to jobs or family are not able to set aside their job or career classroom teaching techniques to an online environment. For for three years and pack up and move to Syracuse and make example, the platform allows faculty members to do real-time that kind of commitment. This gives them the opportunity to “break-out groups” by spontaneously creating small “virtual choose Syracuse and attain a legal education here, without those classrooms” where a small group of students can meet and hurdles.” work. The instructor can not only see what the students are doing while in the break-out rooms, but virtually enter the rooms Next steps to interact in real-time with the students. While the law school has spent nearly two years thinking through The platform also facilitates interaction among professor and how to create a program that can deliver an outstanding legal students. “I have participated in a class in another 2U program education using the online modality, it is too early to say whether here on campus,” explains Boise. “After I logged in I could see the program will ultimately launch. That decision depends on and interact with our instructor, and as more students logged the American Bar Association, the national accreditor for law in, they talked to one another much as you would see in a live schools. ABA accreditation standards require the law school classroom. The instructor was able to see all the students, call on obtain a “variance” from the organization’s rules in order to offer them, and it was all done in real time.” a J.D. program in this online space.

Embracing a University-wide initiative Kohn is not deterred. “We have created a unique, comprehensive The College of Law isn’t the only school on campus working with hybrid J.D. program that will serve as the model for other 2U. Rather, the proposed program is part of a University-wide institutions down the road,” she explained. “To be sure, we are initiative led by Syracuse University Chancellor Kent Syverud. on the cutting edge and we are challenging the legal profession’s Five other schools, including the Newhouse School of Public established modes of education. That’s an exciting place to be. Communications, the Whitman School of Management, and the We’re establishing ourselves as innovators who are willing to Maxwell School of Citizenship & Public Affairs, are also working embrace change and advance the profession.” with 2U to create and deliver online degree programs. “The College of Law is in a fortuitous position to take this pioneering Indeed, although the program is not anticipated to launch until step in legal education but with the benefit of the University’s 2018, it is already having a positive effect: informing the College experience of developing other successful online degree of Law’s existing residential program. As O’Connor explained, programs,” says O’Connor. “Creating the program requires us to think critically about every aspect of our law school and how we educate future lawyers. That thinking will help make us a better law school for all students—whether they be here in Dineen Hall or studying from a base in Germany.”

15 LAW IN LONDON TO CELEBRATE 40 YEARS

16 | SYRACUSE LAW Long before the U.K. took center stage in Europe’s destiny with “I chose the Law in London program because I thought it was its vote to Brexit, Syracuse University’s College of Law recognized very important in a globalized community to not only understand the U.K.’s integral political role in world affairs. For 40 years now, American law but different types of law abroad,” said Corcos. “It the College of Law has offered our students a comprehensive was one of the main reasons I chose Syracuse Law. I had done LAW IN introduction to London’s rich legal world, immersing ourselves research into the program and its long running, long standing in U.K. law, and living it through a panoply of internships in this tradition indicated to me it would be an incredible experience unique summer program. coming out of my first year,” said Grimm, who is capitalizing on her international experiences in Law in London as an intern at In a country that deeply values its history, SU interns have been LONDON Tilleke & Gibbins International Ltd. in Bangkok, Thailand. delving into the roots of our shared common law traditions, observing and assisting both barristers and solicitors in practice. This year for Law in London’s 40th anniversary, students will take TO With placements ranging from internships with the Crown part in the customary opportunities for immersion alongside a Prosecution Service, international human rights organizations, summer of celebration, including special events with our host Legal Aide, in-house counsel’s offices of major multinationals, mentors and professors. The anniversary celebration will also CELEBRATE to clerking opportunities with major international law firms and feature special events outside of the classroom and workplace, barrister’s chambers, students experience a wide array of diverse including trips to Brighton, a visit to Parliament, tickets to the legal experiences. theater, and a reception at Middle Temple Hall.

40 YEARS But a student’s time in London is about more than just the legal Law in London immerses our students into the global work. It is also an opportunity to recognize our connectivity to community of law, expanding their horizons, heightening their century old traditions of advocacy and the unique role of law creativity, and diversifying their critical thinking and problem and its youthful beginnings in the U.K. Each year participating solving skills, all of which will better prepare them for the myriad students are welcomed by the Middle Temple, one of the famous of opportunities that await an SU Law grad. Here’s to another British Inns of Court, a home to excellence in advocacy training 40 years. Cheers! since the 14th century. The Inn’s name derives from the Knights Templar who had been in possession of the Temple site for over Are you an alum of Law in London? We would love to hear from 150 years prior to that and, yes, it shares its ground with the you. Tell us about your experience in London, and how the Temple Church made famous in The Da Vinci Code. program impacted you after graduation. Email your comments and photos to [email protected] for inclusion in our In a recent video about the Law in London program, Caroline 40th Anniversary celebration materials online and in the next Corcos L’16 and Jessica Grimm L’16 discuss their experience. SYRACUSE LAW magazine. Visit law.syr.edu/law-in-london.

17 LL.M. STUDENTS MAKE AN IMPACT IN SYRACUSE AND BEYOND

In May of 2016, the College of Law graduated 33 students in Tsionwait Melaku Tefera focused her its Master of Laws (LL.M.) in American Law program. These LL.M. studies on disability rights to graduates, representing the legal education systems of 15 build upon her teaching experience different countries and territories, became an integral part of in Ethiopia. Upon graduating from the academic life of the College. The foreign-educated lawyers the College of Law she began a took every advantage of the College’s extra-curricular, pro summer internship with the Center bono and service opportunities, leaving behind meaningful for Reproductive Freedom, located in and lasting contributions. New York City, in order to pursue her interest in the reproductive rights of The uniqueness of this distinguished group of new LL.M. women with disabilities who are often alumni is underscored by a sample of their achievements. denied legal capacity under the law of Ethiopia.

Ahmed M.A. Hmeedat, a Fellow Pamela Smith Castro, an OSF Disability under the Palestinian Rule of Law Rights Fellow from Peru, was awarded program sponsored by the Open a highly-coveted summer fellowship Society Foundation (OSF), served with the Inter-American Commission as the elected LL.M. Representative on Human Rights, in Washington, to the Student Bar Association. A D.C. Upon her return to Peru, she leader among his peers as well as an plans to work with a disability rights artist, he participated in a variety of organization on ensuring legal capacity community and academic speaking and access to health and reproductive engagements, including the College’s services for women with disabilities. International Scholar Lecture Series, an international law panel discussion at the Maxwell School, and was a featured artist at this year’s ArtRage event to coincide with Palestinian Land Day. Samir Mahmudov, an Open Society Upon leaving the College, he entered a six-month internship Fellow from Azerbaijan, published with Physicians for Human Rights in Washington, D.C., where he a paper he wrote in Professor Dori assists attorneys with research, policy papers, blog posts, press Bailey’s Banking Law course in releases, and legal memoranda regarding the organization’s the spring issue of the Baku State research, investigations, and advocacy on U.S. anti-torture and University Law Review. The paper other initiatives. provided a comparative analysis and critique of the United States’ Federal Reserve System with the financial and banking systems of Azerbaijan. Upon graduation, he pursued an internship at a corporate law firm in Syracuse, New York, and sat for the New York State Bar Exam in July. He returns to Azerbaijan with plans to open a free legal clinic that will serve the needs of poor clients in his community.

18 | SYRACUSE LAW Students in the LL.M. program also contributed to the local LL.M. Students Reflect on their Experiences dialogue on issues of public and national interest. at Syracuse Law

International Scholars Lecture Series: During their second year of “My experience in the LL.M. Program at Syracuse Law the program this past spring, many of our LL.M. student scholars was eye-opening and full of knowledge. The College of presented lectures before the College of Law community on Law is where my colleagues and I became equipped topics of international law, including: to navigate into the field of law. This experience also gave me the opportunity to develop my leadership > The Spanish Constitutional Court as a Guarantor of skills while serving as the LL.M. Representative to Democracy in Spain, presented by Pilar Rodriguez (Spain); the Student Bar Association. For the first time, my leadership skills crossed into international venues and > Institutions and Law Reforms: The Bedrock for a Functioning I was able to organize events that expressed the Government in South Sudan, presented by Mathias Wani feelings and demands of the LL.M. students. (South Sudan); Highlights of my experiences were the opportunities to organize several trips for LL.M. students to attend > Protecting Persons with Disabilities During Armed Conflicts: conferences relevant to their legal fields in New Syria as a Case Study, presented by Dima Hussain (Syria); York City and Washington D.C. My professors and the LL.M. program administration supported me > Maritime Security off the Horn of Africa: Failure of step by step, from orientation to choosing the right International Law? presented by Edmond Gichuru (Kenya). classes—which were important to my ambitions—and through the end to ensure I was successful on my final Panel Discussion on Syrian Refugee Crisis: Held in November examinations. As an international student, Syracuse 2015, this event featured LL.M. student Dima Hussain, originally Law became my second home because I always felt a from Syria, who shared her perspective into the conflict based family around me. The honor of a lifetime, I was invited by the College on her own personal experiences as a refugee and her work with of Law to deliver a Commencement address and share the United Nations High Commission on Refugees at camps the podium with fellow alum and Vice President of in Lebanon. College of Law Professor Isaac Kfir moderated the the United States, Mr. Joe Biden L’68, before hundreds event, which drew a standing room only crowd. of J.D. and LL.M. graduates and thousands in the LL.M. Student Visit to the White House: In February 2016, crowd.” Goran Al-Jaf, a December 2015 graduate from the Kurdistan

Region of Iraq (KRG), met with the Deputy Security Advisor –Ahmed M.A. Hmeedat to the Vice President of the United States, Mr. Joseph Biden L’68, to discuss the Yazidi genocide and enslavement of Yazidi women. During his visit, he presented White House staff with his research on the KRG’s response to ISIS, which included “Interning at the Inter-American Commission of Human Rights this summer has been such a rewarding recommendations for how the International Criminal Court experience. As part of the Registry Section, I worked can bring the ISIS leaders to justice. on preliminary evaluations of real cases, just like an actual human rights attorney. This experience Silent Vigil for Syria at the College of Law: In February 2016, contributed to my understanding of the current LL.M. students held a silent vigil in the Levy Atrium of Dineen human rights situation in the region along with the Hall to raise awareness of the Syrian conflict and the human processes of legal systems in this region’s countries. Now I appreciate even more the work undertaken by rights abuses occurring there. Students in the J.D. and LL.M. the Commission and this experience reaffirmed to me programs, along with College of Law faculty and staff joined that this is the type of job I want to do.” the vigil in solidarity for the cause. –Pamela Smith Castro

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> College of Law Celebrates 2016 Commencement

On Friday, May 13, Syracuse Law celebrated he said. “Now it’s your turn, it’s your time ... as the first recipient of the Lucet Lex Mundum its 2016 commencement. During the to find that sweet spot where success and Award. Class president Dustin W. Osborne and ceremony, the College conferred 168 juris happiness intersect.” Biden also commented, LL.M. Student Bar Association senator Ahmed doctor and 33 master of law (LL.M.) in “Don’t forget what doesn’t come with your M.A. Hmeedat delivered addresses and American Law degrees. J.D. or LL.M.: The heart to know what is Gabriela E. Wolfe sang the National Anthem meaningful and what is ephemeral.” and University alma mater. Vice President Joe Biden L’68 served as the commencement speaker. “I learned early Professor Robert Nassau was selected by the The entire commencement ceremony can on what I wanted to do, what made me the 2016 class as the recipient of the annual Res be viewed at youtube.com/SyracuseLaw happiest: family, faith, being engaged in the Ipsa Loquitur Award. Associate Dean Aviva public affairs that gripped my generation,” Abramovsky was selected by the LL.M. class

20 | SYRACUSE LAW > Incoming Class Enrollment Tops Previous Year by 14%

The College of Law recently welcomed its incoming J.D. Class of 2019 The College of Law’s LL.M. in American Law program, now in its fifth with 215 students, a 14% increase over the previous year. The class’s year, welcomed 25 students representing the legal education systems entering credentials were also better than the previous year, with an of 17 different countries and regions, including Azerbaijan, Brazil, increase in 25th and 75th percentile LSAT scores (to 152 and 157, Cambodia, China, Dominican Republic, Egypt, Ethiopia, Ghana, Jamaica, respectively), and increased 25th, median, and 75th percentile GPAs Malawi, Peru, Poland, Russia, Saudi Arabia, South Korea, Syria and (to 3.12, 3.35 and 3.58, respectively.) Tajikistan. Nine of these countries are new for the College of Law. For the first time, the LL.M. program is hosting three Fulbright grantees. Details on this year’s entering class include: > 57 percent female and 43 percent male students > 54 students of color > Students from 31 states and seven foreign countries (Canada, China, Iran, the Philippines, Saudi Arabia, South Korea and Taiwan) > Graduates of 131 undergraduate institutions and fourteen foreign institutions > Seven percent holding advanced degrees (including four Ph.D.s) > 15 students who are veterans or dependents of veterans > Four students who have foreign law degrees (from Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Uganda and the United Kingdom), giving them advanced standing and allowing them to complete the J.D. program in two years

“The Class of 2019 represents a significant improvement in both size and credentials, and I take great pride in knowing these talented students have selected this dynamic, forward-thinking institution for their legal education,” said Dean Craig Boise. “Our growth will be accompanied by innovative courses and programs offered in an environment that College of Law faculty, staff and returning students seek to make ever more inclusive and welcoming.”

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> College of Law Hosts U.S. Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims Appellate Hearing

The Court has exclusive jurisdiction over decisions of the Board of Veterans’ Appeals (Board or BVA). The Court reviews Board decisions appealed by claimants who believe the Board erred in its decision. The Court’s review of Board decisions is based on the record before the agency and arguments of the parties, which are presented in a written brief, with oral argument generally held only in cases presenting new legal issues. “Having the Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims hold a hearing at the College of Law offers a unique opportunity for the local community and our students to see how this important Court addresses key legal issues our veterans face,” said Yelena Duterte, director of the Syracuse University College of Law Veterans Law Clinic. “This also gives our students the chance to experience appellate proceedings and learn The United States Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims held an appellate from experienced attorneys.” hearing at Syracuse University College of Law on Wednesday, Sept. 28th. A welcome reception was held the night prior to the hearing, with Faculty, staff, students, alumni and the public heard arguments in Cornell dignitaries from the Court of Veterans Appeals, Chancellor Syverud, v. McDonald. Afterwards, the judges participated in a question-and- Dean Boise, College of Law alumni, Syracuse legal community and answer session in the Gray Courtroom about the operation of the Court. current Veterans Legal Clinic students.

> Sophie Dagenais Joins College of Law as Assistant Dean for Advancement and External Affairs

College of Law Dean Craig M. Boise “Our alumni are an invaluable constituency that plays a significant has announced the addition of Sophie role in the College of Law’s future,” says Boise. “Sophie’s law practice Dagenais as Assistant Dean for background, her management experience and track record of leadership Advancement and External Affairs. In in philanthropic initiatives make her ideally suited to develop and this role, Dagenais will be responsible implement a plan that expands our engagement with our alumni and for the development of the strategic legal community.” plan for the Office of Advancement and External Affairs and oversee the School’s Prior to joining the Annie E. Casey Foundation, Dagenais was the chief of fundraising efforts, and stewardship of staff for the Mayor of Baltimore, supervising a variety of administrative gifts and alumni relations, including the functions within the mayor’s office including human resources and Board of Advisors and Syracuse University finance. She also has legal practice experience as a partner for thirteen Law Alumni Association. years with the law firm of Ballard Spahr in Baltimore, and as general counsel with real estate development and investment banking firms in Dagenais comes to the College of Law from the Annie E. Casey New York and Baltimore. Dagenais holds LL.B. and B.C.L. degrees from Foundation where she was the Director of their Baltimore Civic Site, McGill University and a D.E.C. from Collège Jean de Brébeuf. She is a overseeing the Foundation’s large portfolio of financial investments and member of the Maryland and New York state bar associations. grant-making strategies in Baltimore and Maryland.

“The College of Law has an impressive network of alumni who selflessly support the College in a number of ways,” says Dagenais. “My goal is to deepen existing relationships and cultivate new ones in a manner that connects our alumni and their interests with initiatives that will have the most impact on our students and the College.”

22 | SYRACUSE LAW > Kelly Curtis Joins College of Law as Assistant Dean of Students

Kelly K. Curtis has joined the College of the position that will enable us to create a comprehensive strategy for Law as Assistant Dean of Students. This enriching our students’ academic experiences as well as their social is a newly created senior-level position and cultural engagement.” responsible for the strategic development and oversight of programs and initiatives In addition to her teaching and academic support duties at Cleveland- that directly impact the entire student Marshall, Curtis served on a broad range of law school and university experience at the College of Law. committees, including curriculum, bar, and admissions. Prior to joining Cleveland-Marshall, she served as Assistant State Public Defender in Curtis will partner with internal and the Office of the Ohio Public Defender and before that was in private external stakeholders to develop and practice as an associate at Schottenstein, Zox & Dunn, LPA (now Ice implement critical diversity, academic, Miller LLP). Among other academic and legal organizations, Curtis is a and bar support initiatives. She also will member of the Ohio State Bar Association, the Legal Writing Institute, be responsible for handling student code and the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers. of conduct violations, grievances and Title IX compliance. Curtis will work closely with Associate Dean of Academic Affairs Margaret Harding “The College of Law has a strong reputation for innovative student and the Academic Standards Committee to resolve academic probation services and student-focused programs already in place. I plan to build and dismissal matters, and various professional issues for all students upon this foundation with new approaches to addressing student needs in the College of Law. that give our students the best opportunity to succeed here and in their professional lives after law school,” says Curtis. “Our emphasis will Curtis comes to the College of Law from Cleveland-Marshall College be on ensuring that each student’s individual academic, personal, and of Law, where she was both Director of Legal Writing and Director professional needs are met and that each student is able to be active of Academic Support. She also spent eight years on the faculty at and engaged outside of the classroom in opportunities for growth and Cleveland-Marshall as a Legal Writing Professor of Law. development.” “Kelly was selected to provide leadership and direction to the vital Curtis holds a J.D. cum laude from The Ohio State University, Moritz functions that define our students’ experiences at the College of Law,” College of Law where she was Executive Editor of the Ohio State Law says Dean Craig Boise. “As someone who has held roles as both a Journal, and a B.A. from Saint Mary’s College. law professor and administrator, Kelly brings a unique perspective to

> College of Law Appoints Michelle Wilcox to Director of Student Life

Michelle Wilcox G’12 was recently “Michelle has provided effective leadership and direction of the College appointed to Director of Student Life. of Law’s many student-focused programs and activities for a number In this role, Wilcox will direct and manage of years and fully understands their importance to a well-rounded legal the Office of Student Life, including education,” says Dean Craig Boise. “I am positive that Michelle will direct supervision of student life staff continue our tradition of strong student activities and groups, while and overseeing all functions of the Office. broadening her leadership of our Office of Student Life.” She will continue to oversee student activities and organizations, and will work Wilcox received a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration closely with Assistant Dean of Students from Babson College and a Master of Business Administration degree Kelly Curtis and Associate Dean for from Syracuse University Whitman School of Management. Academic Affairs Margaret Harding to “At the College of Law, a student’s experience outside of the classroom ensure all students receive the academic, is critical to their success both in law school and in the profession,” extracurricular, and socio-cultural support says Wilcox. “The Office of Student Life is dedicated to creating the best they require to succeed at the College of Law and in their professional opportunities for our students to gain knowledge and skills that careers. are geared to their special interests.”

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> Emily Brown Joins College of Law Faculty as Legal Writing Professor

Emily Brown L’09 has joined the faculty served as a judicial intern for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second of the College of Law as Legal Writing Circuit and the U.S. District Court, Northern District of New York. Professor. Professor Brown teaches legal writing, research and analysis to first- Before attending law school, Professor Brown worked in politics and year law students. government, managing political campaigns for state and federal offices and served as a government staffer for state and local elected officials. Most recently, Professor Brown was a labor relations specialist at the Brown holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in political science from the Cayuga–Onondaga Board of Cooperative University of Wisconsin–Madison and a Juris Doctor, summa cum laude, Educational Services. Previously she was from the Syracuse University College of Law. a litigation associate at Bond, Schoeneck & King. In these roles, she represented individuals, non-profit organizations, and corporations during all stages of civil litigation and served as chief negotiator for collective bargaining agreements. Professor Brown also

Professor Bybee Named Syracuse University’s ACC Distinguished Lecturer for 2016-17

Keith J. Bybee, the Paul E. and Hon. Joanne F. Alper ’72 Judiciary Studies Professor, Professor of Political Science, and Director of the Institute for the Study of the Judiciary, Politics and the Media, has been designated Syracuse University’s Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) Distinguished Lecturer for 2016-17. The ACC Distinguished Lecturer program seeks to provide recognition to outstanding faculty, increase visibility of the University among ACC institutions, and encourage collaboration across ACC institutions. The program includes the opportunity to participate as a visiting lecturer at ACC intuitions and funding for research. “Keith has an outstanding record of scholarship and University leadership. Moreover, his broad interdisciplinary expertise—spanning interests in judicial process, the politics of race and ethnicity, American politics and the media—makes him an ideal fit with this faculty distinction,” said Michele G. Wheatly, Syracuse University Vice Chancellor and Provost, Academic Affairs. Each year five ACC universities select an outstanding faculty member as The ACC Academic Consortium’s Distinguished Lecturer. Criteria include international prominence in their field, success communicating with diverse audiences, and a strong capacity for catalyzing creative thinking and collaboration. “I am honored to be selected as Syracuse University’s ACC Distinguished Lecturer,” said Bybee. “This is a tremendous initiative to collaborate with some of the country’s top universities and bring exciting new learning opportunities to our students.” Bybee’s latest book, How Civility Works, was published in September by Stanford University Press. “Civility often seems to be under threat in American public life, especially during political campaigns,” Bybee noted. “In my new book, I argue that the very same factors threating civility’s existence also account for civility’s power and appeal. I look forward to sharing my ideas about civility’s promise and pitfalls with students and faculty at ACC member institutions.”

24 | SYRACUSE LAW > Moot Court Teams Compete in National and International Competitions

> The Thurgood Marshall Mock Trial Team (John Boyd L’16, Amneet Mand L’16, Marlana Shaw-Brown 3L, Benjamin “Ryan” Williams L’16) finished first in the National Black Law Student’s Northeast Regional and advanced to the National Round of the competition. Ryan Williams, took first place in the Best Closing category of the Northeast Regional. > One of our National Trial Competition Teams (Carly Halpin L’16, The College of Law competed in several inter-collegiate competitions John “Joe” Gattuso L’16, Corey Schoonmaker L’16) was named co- in 2015-2016, including mock trial, appellate advocacy and dispute champion in the New York Regional this year and advanced to the resolution competitions. A total of forty-nine students represented the National Round in Texas. The Trial Lawyers’ Section of the New school in these national and international competitions. And, as usual, York State Bar Association recognized two team members for their all teams represented the College of Law well. skills during the New York Regional: Carly Halpin was awarded > The St. John’s Securities Triathlon Team (Brooke Koester L’16, Justin second place for Best Direct Examination; and Justin St. Louis 3L, Lee 3L, James McCully 3L) competed in the negotiation, mediation a member of the second NTC team, was awarded Best Overall and arbitration of a securities dispute and was awarded the Advocate’s Advocate through Preliminary Rounds, Best Cross Examination and Choice Award, which is given to the team voted by the competitors as third-place tie for Best Closing Argument. having “the highest degree of skill, competence and professionalism.” > Most notably, the National Moot Court Competition Team (Amy Doan > The Jessup International Law Moot Court Team (Eric Carlson L’16, L’16, David Katz 3L, Kevin Smith L’16) was awarded the Lewis Powell Andrew Dieselman L’14, Ethan Peterson 3L, Colin Tansits 3L) Medal and Best Brief in the Boston Regional round. Regional judges competed in the Chicago Regional and advanced to the Quarterfinals also named Kevin Smith the Best Advocate in the regional round. this year. Our most experienced team member, Eric Carlson, finished Amy, David and Kevin advanced to the National Round where they fourth in the Best Oralist category. were Quarterfinalists and awarded third place in the Best Brief > The first College of Law Hockey Arbitration Team of Daniel Greene L’16 category. and Wesley Gerrie 3L advanced to the final round of the Hockey Arbitration Competition of Canada this year, finishing in second place overall.

> Syracuse Law Review Presents Richard A. Matasar Symposium Issue on the Future of Legal and Higher Education

The June 2016, Vol. 66, No. 3, Issue of the Syracuse Law Review is a specially organized Symposium book titled: Richard A. Matasar Symposium, The Future of Legal and Higher Education. Matasar, Tulane University Senior Vice President for Strategic Initiatives and Institutional Effectiveness, has written extensively on change in higher education.

The Symposium event was hosted at Dineen Hall and attended by a group of distinguished law school deans and former deans. The event was inspired by Matasar’s scholarship on legal and higher education, and was co-chaired by former College of Law Dean Hannah Arterian and former USC Gould School of Law Dean Robert Rasmussen.

The Issue includes the transcript from Matasar’s question-and-answer session at the Symposium, and features more than a dozen original scholarly works from noted law school deans and professors. Arterian was instrumental in ensuring that a wide range of essays and articles was contributed to Syracuse Law Review. Her essay, “Engaging the Challenge to Legal and Higher Education: How Richard Matasar Calls the Questions,” is included in the publication, along with an original article from Matasar.

The Issue is available online at lawreview.syr.edu.

25 FACULTY PROFILE THOMAS R. FRENCH Associate Dean, Law Library; Professor of Law

A fond farewell after a career of teaching, and helping faculty and students

As a history major at State University of New York (SUNY) following its 1993 independence from Ethiopia. French saw a Oswego, Thomas French enjoyed not only his classes, but part of the world he had never really expected to see and was also his work-study job at the college library. Early on, he knew able to witness what it is like to develop a new legal system. that he loved being in a university atmosphere and that he The experience also sparked in him an interest in African, loved the challenge of academic research. French’s college comparative, civil and Roman law. advisor suggested law school. “I thought he was crazy,” French French traces another area of interest—Canadian Law—to his remembers now. It took a while, but French did take the advice, childhood. As a boy growing up in Bath, New York, he would which led him to an interesting and rewarding career in law sometimes accompany his father, a lumber dealer, on his trips school libraries—researching, teaching and working with faculty to Canada to collect walnut and deliver it to far-flung places. members and students. French came to the College of Law “He knew every road between Utica and Saskatchewan,” French in 2000 as Director of the Barclay Law Library and Associate says. French maintained his interest in Canada and Canadian Professor of Law. He was named Associate Dean and Professor history throughout his undergraduate and graduate studies. At of Law in 2006. He retired this summer. the College of Law, French taught Canadian Law, in addition to French received his Bachelor’s Degree in 1971, “with the draft International, Foreign and Comparative Legal Research. hanging over my head,” he says. He enlisted in the Navy and, When the College of Law started planning the construction of after fulfilling his obligation, pursued his Master of Library Dineen Hall, French and other colleagues traveled to leading law Science degree at SUNY Geneseo. He went on to pursue his MA libraries across the country, including Villanova, Marquette and in History at the University of Cincinnati, where he concentrated the University of Colorado, to talk to law librarians and gather on the history of the British Empire and Commonwealth as well ideas about what would work best at the College of Law. French as African-American history. He decided he would next head had high praise for his staff who worked together to plan, pack to wherever he was offered a job first—in history or in a library. and organize for the move into Dineen Hall. Now, other law French worked as a law librarian at the Chase College of Law schools are coming to visit the College of Law library, including of Northern Kentucky University—working full-time while he a group from Queen Mary College at the University of London, pursued his law degree part-time. Although he never planned who visited Syracuse in June. on practicing law, he says he knew law school was an essential pursuit along his career path. French says the most rewarding aspect of his job has always been the interaction with the students and faculty. “The “I learned the literature of the law,” he says. “Law school helped challenge is to make sure the organization works to produce me understand what the students and faculty are dealing with. I what people need. The best part of the job is when a faculty certainly became more conversant in the language.” member or a student asks us, ‘You wouldn’t have this, would Before his tenure at the College of Law, French worked in you…’ and we can say, yes we have it, or we can have it for you court and academic law libraries in Ohio, Kentucky, Maine and within a few hours.” North Carolina. While serving as the Associate Director of the Retirement for French will mean lots of travel—including a trip Law Library at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, he took to New Zealand shortly after his last day, and perhaps a French served as a consultant for the United States Agency move to Maine. And, as fitting for a librarian, there’s something for International Development while it helped to establish else on his agenda as well, he says: “I’ve got all the books that and revitalize law library collections in the nation of Eritrea. are stacked up that I’ve been meaning to read.” He traveled three times to the East African nation in the years

26 | SYRACUSE LAW “The challenge is to make sure the organization works to produce what people need.”

–Thomas R. French

27 FACULTY PROFILE SHUBHA GHOSH Crandall Melvin Professor of Law; Director of the Technology Commercialization Law Program

Connection to Ted Hagelin Brings Shubha Ghosh to Dineen Hall

Earlier this year, Shubha Ghosh arrived at the College of Law Ghosh’s start at the College of Law coincided with his being as the Melvin Crandall Professor of Law and Director of the named a Fulbright-Nehru Scholar in India, where he spent 20 Technology Commercialization Law Program (TCLP.) A well- weeks in the spring and summer learning about developments regarded intellectual property and technology law scholar, Ghosh in intellectual property law and policy in major centers of had held teaching posts at a number of universities, including intellectual property law practice. He lectured on developments University of Wisconsin Law School and Southern Methodist in law and networking with lawyers, judges, and academics University Dedman School of Law. actively involved in legal reform.

But it was his time as a Professor at State University of New Upon his return to the U.S., Ghosh sought to have an influence York Buffalo School of Law that brought him into contact with in local legal circles. He hosted a number of webcasts with the Professor Ted Hagelin and Syracuse University College of Law. New York State Science & Technology Law Center at Syracuse In particular, Ghosh collaborated with Hagelin and conducted Law on IP-related cases in front of the Supreme Court. He also clinics and programs on technology commercialization and contributed articles to several publications, including chapters entrepreneurship in the Western New York area while he in the Research Handbook on Intellectual Property Exhaustion established Buffalo’s intellectual property law program. and Parallel Imports (Elgar) and Law and Society Perspectives on Intellectual Property (forthcoming Cambridge University “Working with Ted, I got to know the program at Syracuse Press.) Current projects include a book on intellectual property Law and its faculty and students as we collaborated on the exhaustion (forthcoming Cambridge University Press 2017) and development of the New York State Science and Technology one on the effects of precision (or personalized) medicine, such Law Center among other initiatives,” said Ghosh. “We kept in as DNA testing, on consumers, comparing developments in the contact after I Ieft Buffalo. When I learned that the school had U.S. and India. an opening on the faculty to help continue Ted’s groundbreaking work, I didn’t have to be sold on Syracuse since I knew its In addition to teaching and scholarly pursuits, Ghosh is reputation in technology law programs.” developing plans for new TCLP programs while embracing opportunities to interact across campus and within the local Ghosh is teaching the TCLP course Technology Transaction Laws entrepreneurial community. “One area I am looking to help (focusing on the technical, business and legal aspects of bringing grow is the connection between venture capital and emerging a new technology to market) while also overseeing the TCLP’s technologies being developed at Syracuse. It’s a big challenge, work with real-life clients and the students who are providing not just here, to help make the contacts to take the theoretical them with a valuable service in helping commercialize emerging and make it practical.” He sees the TCLP as key in linking technologies. “The TCLP is a well-established program. I am mechanisms that are already in place and becoming a conduit looking to build upon its strengths while expanding its outreach between University researchers, entrepreneurs and individuals locally and regionally through new relationships and programs,” in the marketplace to make things happen, whether locally, commented Ghosh. regionally or nationally.

28 | SYRACUSE LAW “ The College’s alumni represent the fruits of the program and demonstrate how well we perform as a law school.”

–Shubha Ghosh

29 FACULTY PROFILE SHUBHA GHOSH

College of Law alumni, not just those who participated in the Scholar Spotlight: TCLP, will have a role to play in Ghosh’s plans. “The College’s > Has written extensively on pharmaceutical patents, parallel alumni represent the fruits of the program and demonstrate how importation, antitrust law, commercialization and other uses well we perform as a law school,” he says. “I am looking forward of data, and the role of intellectual property policy in shaping to meeting and working with our TCLP alumni as they play a these diverse areas. critical role in validating the program’s success and helping current students and recent graduates learn and network outside > His book on human genome patenting and personalized of the classroom,” said Ghosh. “Further, I’d like to see all College medicine, Identity and Invention, (Cambridge University of Law alumni in our classrooms, speaking with students and Press), discusses precision medicine and the role of patenting sharing their experiences or hosting externships.” in promoting new drug therapies tied to personal characteristics and genetic histories. The TCLP recently celebrated its 25th anniversary. While the emerging technologies and the law have continually evolved, > In Identity, Invention, and the Culture of Personalized Medicine ensuring that students are well prepared to practice this special Patenting (Cambridge 2012), Ghosh examines the legal and type of law continues to be a top priority. “This program will ethical implications of patents in personalized medicine. always be about exposing students to an interdisciplinary, experiential education. My role is to ensure that we are > He recently served as the inaugural American Academy of Arts anticipating changes in the legal field so our graduates are & Sciences Science & Technology Fellow at the Federal Judicial ready to be effective whether it be private practice, in-house Center (2014-15.) or wherever their skills are in demand,” said Ghosh.

Follow Professor Ghosh on Twitter @ShubhaGhosh

30 | SYRACUSE LAW Excerpts from Professor Ghosh’s Podcast with Michael Allan L’98

Professor Ghosh recently interviewed Michael As the case progresses, the issues and the case themes become Allan L’98 (left), a partner at Steptoe & Johnson, more focused. One good lesson that was certainly reinforced on his involvement as the lead counsel in the here was the need to be prepared, to know all of the facts and to copyright case BMG Rights Management v understand how the facts – which evolve quickly in a fast moving Cox Enterprises. His team was successful in a case – fit into the legal issues and case themes. $25 Million verdict for its client, BMG, where the jury found the defendant failed to prevent its customers Professor Ghosh: Do you have any takeaway message on your SU from illegally sharing copyrighted content. education and how it prepared you for this area of practice?

Allan: I had a great time at Syracuse. I loved it. My father went Professor Ghosh: In December of 2015, the jury came back with a there and both of my parents were undergraduates there so I $25 million verdict against Cox in favor of your client, BMG. Can have a deep appreciation for the school. There are two basic you give a little background on that case? takeaways from my law school experience. The trial practice Allan: It was a great victory for us. We found out that it was the classes that I took clearly helped me be able to deal with cases largest verdict in Virginia, in either state or federal court in 2015. like this and some of the litigation tactics I have to deal with I found my way into the online piracy world based on my work on a regular basis. I think the sort of larger takeaway that I got with trademark owners. Working with a number of well-known throughout my SU experience was to be creative. We are problem brands that are counterfeited or infringed, my practice has been solvers as lawyers. Clients call us with problems and need help focused on protecting those brands and figuring out creative solving the problem. It’s not always easy and you have to think ways to curb the counterfeiting and infringement of trademarks. about different ways and come up with creative solutions to Copyrights are also incredibly valuable assets that are subject to modern problems using law that’s been around for a long time. infringement challenges. Thus, it was a natural fit for me to think about dealing with online piracy in the copyright context because Hear the entire Podcast on the College of Law’s website. the use of bit torrent and peer-to-peer networks to illegally share Visit law.syr.edu and click the “Podcasts” tab in the Media copyrighted content is a significant problem for the content section. industry. I was asked to get involved on behalf of BMG to find creative ways to address this problem.

Professor Ghosh: What was the biggest lesson you learned?

Allan: I learn something new on every case. That’s the beauty of law. You are constantly being exposed to new things—no matter how many times you have taken a deposition or tried a case, you learn something new. One of the things we did with this case was file in the Eastern District of Virginia which is known as the “rocket docket.” It’s incredibly fast moving. We filed the case in late November 2014 and were in trial on December 2, 2015. The bulk of the work took place between March and the trial. When you are on a case of this scale with that short of a timeframe, preparation is absolutely key.

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West’s Mckinney’s Forms, Uniform Counterterrorism Law (3rd Edition) National Security Law (6th Edition) Commercial Code (2015) Professor William Banks Professor William Banks Professor Aviva Abramovksy (with Stephen Dycus, Peter Raven- (with Stephen Dycus, Arthur L. Berney, Thomson Reuters, 2016 Hansen & Stephen I. Vladeck) Peter Raven-Hansen & Stephen I. Wolters Kluwer, 2016 Vladeck) Wolters Kluwer, 2016 This integral unit of the forms companion to McKinney’s Consolidated Laws of New The Third Edition of Counterterrorism Law The Sixth Edition of National Security York Annotated provides comprehensive not only updates the leading casebook Law provides the broadest exploration coverage of the New York Uniform in this field with recent developments, of constitutional, domestic, and Commercial Code. Expert-authored but also adds new chapters on bulk international law issues in National commentary and notes accompanying collection, the structure of habeas, and Security of any book in the field. This the forms discuss the current applicable the procedural path to terrorism trials. highly respected team of authors uses law, highlight its practical significance, This edition also includes new features expressive and descriptive text to provide and provide guidance on the best use of that make these challenging materials context and informative historical and the forms included. easier to read and teach: introductory background information. The Sixth questions for principal cases, and a Edition features the most recent and summary of basic principles at the end of important cases, as well as excerpts from each chapter. A comprehensive Teacher’s significant reports and other materials, Manual gives adopters helpful additional and a thorough Teacher’s Manual gives backup. adopters helpful backup. This book has been adopted for classroom use at a majority of American law schools, as well as military academies and schools, and non-law graduate programs.

32 | SYRACUSE LAW LexisNexis Practice Guide: New Jersey How Civility Works Collateral Consequences (2016 Edition) Professor Keith Bybee Professor Todd A. Berger Stanford University Press, 2016 (with J.C. Lore) Lexis Nexis, 2016 Is civility dead? Americans ask this In How Civility Works, Keith J. With its concise writing style, streamlined question every election season, but their Bybee elegantly explores the “crisis” chapter format, extensive appendices, concern is hardly limited to political in civility, looking closely at how civility extensive references to leading and campaigns. Doubts about civility intertwines with our long history of related cases, cross references to relevant regularly arise in just about every aspect boorish behavior and the ongoing analytical content, and authoritative of American public life. Rudeness runs quest for pleasant company. Bybee guidance, you’ll find more of everything rampant. Our news media is saturated argues that the very features that make that makes a practice guide valuable and with aggressive bluster and vitriol. Our civility ineffective and undesirable also easy for you to use. digital platforms teem with expressions point to civility’s power and appeal. Written by experienced practitioners, of disrespect and trolls. Reflecting Can we all get along? If we live by the Practice Guide offers concise these conditions, surveys show that the contradictions on which civility explanations of collateral consequences a significant majority of Americans depends, then yes, we can, and yes, flowing from specific New Jersey criminal believe we are living in an age of unusual we should. convictions, general classes of offenses anger and discord. Everywhere we look, and general types of offenses, as well as there seems to be conflict and hostility, unique practice strategies, checklists, and with shared respect and consideration appendices to ensure that the practitioner nowhere to be found. In a country that identifies and addresses all the collateral encourages thick skins and speaking consequences related to each crime. one’s mind, is civility even possible, let Each Practice Guide chapter alone desirable? combines authoritative legal analysis with an expert author’s practical insights, distilled from years of litigation practice. New Jersey Collateral Consequences includes a multitude of Practice Tips that transition smoothly from legal analysis to practical application of a point of law. Chapter parts begin with a detailed practice checklist defining the essentials of a major task. Checklists capture the essential steps (the what, when, and how) of each task, with cross-references to relevant authority, forms, and discussion of the topic within the chapter itself.

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The Proceedings of the Eighth Environmental Law: A Conceptual and Bankruptcy Law and Practice, a International Humanitarian Law Dialogs Pragmatic Approach (3rd Edition) Casebook Designed to Train Lawyers Professor David Crane, editor Professor David Driesen for the Practice of Bankruptcy Law (with Mark David Agrast) American (with Robert W. Adler & Kirsten H. Engel) Professor Gregory Germain Society of International Law, 2015 Wolters Kluwer, 2016 CALI eLangdell Press, 2016

The Proceedings of the Eighth International Environmental Law: A Conceptual This is the first edition of Bankruptcy Law Humanitarian Law Dialogs provides a and Pragmatic Approach, organizes and Practice, a Casebook Designed to Train print record of the eighth annual meeting its presentation of environmental Lawyers for the Practice of Bankruptcy of international prosecutors,scholars, and law around key concepts rather than Law. It is designed for a one-semester students at Chautauqua Institution. The around statutes. This approach provides course in debtor/creditor law and theme of the Eighth IHL Dialogs, held coherence to the study of Environmental bankruptcy. The book deals with both from from August 24–26, 2014, was Law. It also orients students in a way creditor remedies and debtor protections, “The New World (Dis)order: International that will allow them to become effective starting with state law collection Humanitarian Law in an Uncertain practitioners, well acquainted with the remedies, exemptions, and the important World.” Highlights of the volume include: central recurring problems in the field. special protections for secured creditors keynote addresses by Ambassador Tiina The book focuses primarily on pollution under both Article 9 of the Uniform Intelmann and Col. Morris Davis control law, but includes a chapter on Commercial Code and state real property (U.S. Air Force, ret.); updates from environmental restoration and some recording acts. current prosecutors of the ECCC, ICC, treatment of NEPA and the ESA. It also ICTR, ICTY, and SCSL; a 2013–2014 offers numerous problems involving international criminal law “Year in global climate disruption to give students Review” by Valerie Oosterveld; a practice in applying the book’s concepts roundtable discussion on the relevance and particular statutory provisions to of international humanitarian law in 2014; the most important contemporary issue, and a conversation with Sir Desmond while allowing students to understand de Silva, Fatou Bensouda, and Hassan how a single scientific problem can Jallow about the first international court implicate numerous statutes. in Africa.

34 | SYRACUSE LAW Intellectual Property: Private Rights, Transactional Intellectual Property: the Public Interest, and the Regulation From Startups to Public Companies of Creative Activity (3rd Edition) (3rd Edition) Professor Shubha Ghosh Professor Shubha Ghosh (with Richard Gruner, & Jay Kesan) (with Richard Gruner & Jay Kesan) West Academic Publishing, 2016 LexisNexis, 2015

This book provides an overview of under copyright, search engines, the Transactional Intellectual Property: trademark, patent, and copyright Google book project and the YouTube From Startups to Public Companies is doctrine and offers a foray into more vs. Viacom case. The role of economic the successor to Intellectual Property advanced topics, such as digital rights incentives in copyright and patent law is in Business Organizations: Cases and management, international law, and more extensively discussed, along with Materials. This casebook focuses on state doctrinal developments in both civil new treatments of post-grant patent the legal problems of businesses that and criminal law. Particularly important proceedings, new media for public develop and utilize intellectual property is a final chapter that develops the performance of copyrighted works, and as the businesses are founded, financed, “new horizons” of intellectual property, digital copyrights. This edition is also expanded, transferred to others, or covering topics such as open source supplemented by an extensive set of terminated. The text also addresses the software, intellectual property and self-assessment questions (and answers) distinctive roles played by intellectual business development, protections for prepared by the authors, which are property at three stages of business traditional knowledge, and competition designed to provide feedback to students development. policy. This casebook is targeted to a on their understanding of overall wide range of law students, including intellectual property concepts and of the both those who are technologically specific contents of every chapter. inclined and those who are interested in all forms of creativity and expression. The new edition expands on the strengths of the first edition. Chapters on copyright and trademark are reorganized to make them more readable and include more on digital rights management. The new edition covers recent IP issues in biotechnology, termination rights

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Understanding Intellectual Property Making it Work: Initiative on Gender and Law (3rd Edition) Disability Inclusion: Advancing Equity for Professor Shubha Ghosh Women and Girls with Disabilities (with Donald Chisum, Mary LaFrance Professor Arlene Kanter & Tyler Ochoa) LexisNexis, 2015 (with Lisa Adams, Lorraine Wapling, Michael Szporluk, Silvia Quan, Stephanie There have been a number of important pertaining to the best mode requirement; Ortoleva, Ulrike Last & Yetnebersh developments in U.S. intellectual and (9) changes to the rules of Nigussie) Handicap International, 2015 property law since the second edition jurisdiction. The Supreme Court has been of Understanding Intellectual Property unusually active in reviewing intellectual Making it Work identifies and describes Law was published. Foremost among property cases during the past four years. eleven good practices in ten countries them was the adoption, in September During that period, it has reviewed and which were developed by women to 2011, of the America Invents Act, the decided 15 patent cases (including three eliminate violence against women and most significant change to U.S. patent cases on patentable subject matter), girls with disabilities. As explained more law since the 1952 Patent Act. Coverage four copyright cases, and four trademark fully in the report, Handicap International of the new Act includes: (1) the first or false advertising cases. In addition, brought together a Gender and Disability inventor to file system and its effects on the federal Courts of Appeals have Global Technical Advisory Committee the definition of prior art; (2) the new decided more than 750 patent cases, 250 (TAC), consisting mostly of women with derivation proceedings, replacing the copyright cases, and 400 trademark and disabilities, to identify programs and current system of interferences, which false advertising cases during that time. activities throughout the world that have allows a patent owner to challenge an Understanding Intellectual Property Law, enjoyed some success in not only raising earlier filed patent for derivation from 3rd Edition covers all of the intellectual awareness about violence against girls the subsequent patent; (3) the prior property areas and issues likely to be and women with disabilities but also commercial use defense; (4) the new addressed in an intellectual property preventing it by challenging local and procedures for inter partes review; (5) survey course. Chapter 1 provides a State policies and practices that allow the new procedure for post-grant review; comprehensive introduction. such violence to continue. This report (6) the new rules for improper patent is translated into English, Spanish and marking: (7) changes to the treatment French. of tax method patents; (8) the new rules

36 | SYRACUSE LAW Children and the Law in a Nutshell (5th Edition) Professor Emeritus Sarah H. Ramsey (with Douglas E. Abrams and Susan Vivian Mangold) West Academic Publishing, 2015

This Nutshell follows the structure and format of the authors’ casebook Children and the Law: Doctrine, Policy and Practice. The authors have devoted entire chapters to the meaning of “parent,” abuse and neglect, the foster care system, adoption, medical decision- making, support and other financial responsibilities, protective legislation, and delinquency. Representation of children is covered throughout the book. Also treated for comparative purposes are several relevant international law issues, including the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, international child labor, and U.S. tobacco exports to children overseas.drafting process.

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Aviva Abramovsky William C. Banks Professor of Law Board of Advisors Distinguished Professor Professor of Law Chapters in Books: Professor of Public Administration and International Insurance Online: Regulation and Consumer Protection Affairs, Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs in a Cyber World (with Peter Kochenburger), in THE Director, Institute for National Security and “DEMATERIALIZED” INSURANCE: DISTANCE SELLING Counterterrorism AND CYBER RISKS FROM AN INTERNATIONAL PERSPECTIVE (Pierpaolo Marano, Ioannis Rokas & Peter Chapters in Books: Kochenburger eds., 2016). Predator Strikes in the War on Terrorism, in SECURITY ISSUES IN THE GREATER MIDDLE EAST (Karl Yambert ed., 2016).

Articles in Law Reviews and Other Scholarly Journals: Hannah R. Arterian Customary Constraints on the Use of Force: Article 51 with an Professor of Law American Accent (with Evan J. Criddle), Articles in Law Reviews and Other Scholarly Journals: 29 LEIDEN J. OF INT’L L. 67 (2016). Engaging the Challenge to Legal and Higher Education: Miscellaneous Works: How Richard Matasar Calls the Questions, Soldiers on the home front: President Trump and the 66 SYRACUSE L. REV. 441 (2016). military (with Stephen Dycus), THE HILL: THE MILITARY (Aug. 4, 2016), http://thehill.com/blogs/pundits-blog/ the-military/290285-soldiers-on-the-home-front-president- trump-and-the-american. Robert H. A. Ashford Bond, Schoeneck & King Distinguished Professor Professor of Law Articles in Law Reviews and Other Scholarly Journals: Todd A. Berger Introduction to Socio-Economics: An Ethical Foundation Associate Professor of Law for Law-Related Economic Analysis, Director, Criminal Defense Law Clinic 49 AKRON L. REV. 287 (2016). Articles in Law Reviews and Other Scholarly Journals: The General Theory of Second Best - An Overview, The Constitutional Limits of Client-Centered Decision- 49 AKRON L. REV. 433 (2016). Making, 50 U. RICH. L. REV. 1089 (2016). Why Working But Poor? The Need for Inclusive Capitalism, The Ethical Limits of Discrediting the Truthful Witness: 49 AKRON L. REV. 507 (2016). How Modern Ethics Rules Fail to Prevent Truthful Witnesses from Being Discredited Through Unethical Means, Enhancing Poor and Middle Class Earning Capacity 99 MARQ. L. REV. 283 (2015). with Stock Acquisition Mortgage Loans, (with Demetri Kantarelis), 11 ECON. MGMT. & FIN. MARKETS, June 1, 2016, at 11.

38 | SYRACUSE LAW Peter D. Blanck Sanjay K. Chhablani University Professor Professor of Law Chairman, Burton Blatt Institute Professor, Forensic and National Security Sciences Institute, College of Arts & Sciences Articles in Law Reviews and Other Scholarly Journals: (by courtesy appointment) Universal Architectural Design and People with Disabilities, 14 NUMBERS 64 (2016). Articles in Law Reviews and Other Scholarly Journals: Legitimate Justice: Using Clemency to Address Mass ABLE Accounts: A Down Payment on Freedom (with Incarceration, 16 U. MD. L.J. RACE, RELIGION, Michael Morris & Christopher Rodriguez), 4 INCLUSION 21 GENDER & CLASS 48 (2016). (2016). The First “A” in the ADA: And 25 More “A”s Toward Equality for Americans With Disabilities, 4 INCLUSION 46 (2016), reprinted in THE FUTURE OF DISABILITY LAW: David M. Crane PRESENTATIONS FROM THE 2015 JACOBUS TENBROEK Professor of Practice DISABILITY LAW SYMPOSIUM (2016). Articles in Law Reviews and Other Scholarly Journals: Introduction to the Special Issue: ADA at 25 and People An Age of Extremes, 109 AM. SOC’Y INT’L L. PROC. With Cognitive Disabilities: From Action to Inclusion, 4 153 (2015). INCLUSION 1 (2016). Reports to Government Bodies and Professional eQuality: Web Accessibility by People With Cognitive Associations: Disabilities, 3 INCLUSION 75 (2015). The ISIS Genocide Declaration: What Next?, Testimony Before the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Africa, ADA at 25 and People With Cognitive Disabilities: Global Health, Global Human Rights, and International From Voice to Action, 3 INCLUSION 46 (2015). Organizations, 110th Cong. (2016).

Miscellaneous Works: Jurist Forum: The Rules Have Not Changed Regarding Armed Conflict Mar.( 30, 2015), Keith J. Bybee http://jurist.org/forum/2015/03/david-crane-armed- Paul E. and Honorable Joanne F. Alper ’72 conflict.php. Judiciary Studies Professor Professor of Law Professor of Political Science Director, Institute for the Study of the Judiciary, Lisa A. Dolak Politics, and the Media Senior Vice President and University Secretary Senior Research Associate, Campbell Public Affairs Angela S. Cooney Professor of Law Institute Chapters in Books: Chapters in Books: Courts and Judges: The Legitimacy Imperative and the Don’t Check Your Ethics at the Door: The Ethical Importance of Appearances (with Angela G. Narasimhan), Implications of Legal Service Outsourcing, (with in THE HANDBOOK OF LAW AND SOCIETY Tyler Maulsby), in PATENT LAW INSTITUTE 2016 (Austin Sarat & Patricia Ewick eds., 2015). (10TH ANNUAL) (PLI Intellectual Property Course Handbook Series No. G-1268, 2016). Potter Stewart Meets the Press, in JUDGING FREE SPEECH: FIRST AMENDMENT JURISPRUDENCE OF U.S. SUPREME COURT JUSTICES (Helen J. Knowles & Steven B. Lichtman eds., 2015).

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David M. Driesen Gregory L. Germain University Professor Professor of Law Director, Bankruptcy Clinic Chapters in Books: The Sleeping Giant Awakes?: U.S. Actions to Mitigate Miscellaneous Works: Climate Disruption, in LEGAL REGIMES FOR Carpenter Says Individuals Cannot Discharge Vicarious ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION: GOVERNANCE Tax Liabilities in Bankruptcy, ABA TAX TIMES, FOR CLIMATE CHANGE AND OCEAN RESOURCES Feb. 2016, at 1. (Hans-Joachim Koch et al. eds., 2015).

Reports to Governmental Bodies and Professional Associations: Assessing the Obama Years: Hearing Before the Subcomm. Shubha Ghosh on Regulatory Reform, Commercial and Antitrust Law of Crandall Melvin Professor of Law the H. Comm. on the Judiciary, 114th Cong. (2016). Director, Technology Commercialization Law Program

Book Reviews: Chapters in Books: Does Regulation Kill Jobs?: The Limits of Quantification Competition, Markets, and Trademark Transactions, in THE (reviewing DOES REGULATION KILL JOBS? LAW AND PRACTICE OF TRADEMARK TRANSACTIONS (Cary Coglianese, Adam Finkel & Chris Carrigan eds. (Irene Calboli & Jacques de Werra eds., 2016). 2014), 9 REG. & GOVERNANCE 193 (2015). Incentives, Contracts, and Intellectual Property Exhaustion, Book Review, 9 CARBON & CLIMATE L. REV. 275 in RESEARCH HANDBOOK ON INTELLECTUAL (2015) (reviewing JONAS DREGER, THE EUROPEAN PROPERTY EXHAUSTION AND PARALLEL IMPORTS COMMISSION’S ENERGY AND CLIMATE POLICY: (Irene Calboli & Edward Lee eds., 2016). A CLIMATE FOR EXPERTISE (2015). The Colorblind Marketplace?, in INTELLECTUAL Book Review, 9 CARBON & CLIMATE L. REV. 91 PROPERTY, ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND SOCIAL (2015) (reviewing CORPORATE RESPONSES TO EU JUSTICE: FROM SWORDS TO PLOUGHSHARES EMISSIONS TRADING: RESISTANCE, INNOVATION, (Lateef Mtima ed., 2015). OR RESPONSIBILITY? (Jon Birger Skjoerseth & Per Genetic identity and personalized medicine patenting: an Ove Eikeland eds., 2013). update on Myriad’s patents related to Ashkenazim Jewish ancestry, in DIVERSITY IN INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY : IDENTITIES, INTERESTS, AND IINTERSECTIONS (Irene Calboli & Srividhya Ragavan eds., 2015). Ian Gallacher Professor of Law The Idea of International Intellectual Property, in THE SAGE Director, Legal Communication and Research HANDBOOK OF INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY (Matthew David & Debora J. Halbert eds., 2015). Articles in Law Reviews and Other Scholarly Journals: Not Seeing Our Brains: The Future of Legal Research, Articles in Law Reviews and Other Scholarly Journals: 20 LEGAL WRITING: J. LEGAL WRITING INST. 13 Are Universities Special?, 49 AKRON L. REV. 671 (2015). (2015). Asking the Nearest Hippie, 22 MICH. TELECOMM. & TECH. L. REV. 135 (2015). Beyond Hatch-Waxman, 67 RUTGERS U. L. REV. 779 (2015). Decentering the Consuming Self: Personalized Medicine, Science, and the Market for Lemons, 5 WAKE FOREST J. L. & POL’Y 299 (2015). Against Contractual Authoritarianism, 44 Sw. L. Rev. 239 (2014-2015).

Book Reviews: Reviving the Original Scope of Intellectual Property, Internationally, JOTWELL (Jan. 12, 2016) (reviewing Rochelle Dreyfuss and Susy Frankel, From Incentive to Commodity to Asset: How International Law is Reconceptualizing Intellectual Property, 36 MICH. J. INTL. L. 4 (2015)), http://intl.jotwell.com/reviving-the-original- scope-of-intellectual-property-internationally/.

40 | SYRACUSE LAW Lauryn P. Gouldin Hilary K. Josephs Associate Professor of Law Dean’s Distinguished Research Scholar of Asian Law Emerita Articles in Law Reviews and Other Scholarly Journals: Redefining Reasonable Seizures,93 DENV. L. REV. 53 (2015). Articles in Law Reviews and Other Scholarly Journals: Production Chains and Workplace Law Violations: the Case Criminal Records and Immigration: Comparing the United of Apple and Foxconn, 3 GLOBAL BUS. L. REV. 211 (2013). States and the European Union (with Dimitra Blitsa, James B. Jacobs & Elena Larrauri), 39 FORD. INT’L L.J. 205 (2015).

Arlene S. Kanter Laura J. & L. Douglas Meredith Professor for Tara Helfman Teaching Excellence Associate Professor of Law Professor of Law Articles in Law Reviews and Other Scholarly Journals: Director, College of Law Disability Law and Policy Program The Dread Pirate Who? Challenges in Interpreting Treaties Co-Director, Syracuse University Center on Human Policy, and Customary International Law in the United States, 90 Law and Disability Studies TUL. L. REV. 805 (2016). Chapters in Books: Book Reviews: Disability Legal Studies, in NORMA E NORMALITÀ NEI Crown and Constitution, 128 HARVARD L. REV. 2234 (2015). DISABILITY DSTUDIES. RRIFLESSIONI E ANALISI CRITICA PER RIPENSARE LA DISABILITÀ (in Italian) Miscellaneous Works: (Roberto Medeghini ed. 2015). Legal Purgatory for Little Sisters, COMMENTARY BLOG Articles in Law Reviews and Other Scholarly Journals: (May 16, 2016), https://www.commentarymagazine.com/ A Comparative View of Equality Under the UN Convention american-society/law/legal-purgatory-little-sisters/. on the Rights of People with Disabilities and the Disability Was the Fannie/Freddie ’Death Spiral’ All a Mirage?, Laws of United States and Canada, 32 WINDSOR Y B REAL CLEAR MARKETS (May 2, 2016), http://www. ACCESS JUST no. 2, at 65 (2015). realclearmarkets.com/articles/2016/05/02/was_the_ Guardianship for Young Adults with Disabilities as a Violation fanniefreddie_death_spiral_all_a_mirage__102147.html. of the Purpose of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Scalia’s Warning: We are in Danger of Having a ’Failed Improvement Act, 8 J. INT’L AGING L. & POL’Y 1 (2015). Democracy,’ He said the Summer Before He Died, 141 The Americans with Disabilities Act at 25 Years: Lessons COMMENTARY 39 (Apr. 2016). to Learn from the Convention on the Rights of People with All Three Branches of Government are Up for Grabs, Disabilities, 63 DRAKE L. REV. 819 (2015). COMMENTARY BLOG (Feb. 16, 2016), https://www. Country report: Morocco (with Inviolata Sore & Daniel Van commentarymagazine.com/american-society/law/antonin- Sant), 3 AFR. DISABILITY RTS. Y.B. 203 (2015). scalia-three-branches-grabs/. Country report: Tunisia (with Inviolata Sore & Daniel Van My View: Puerto Rico’s Unilateral Debt Opinion, Sant), 3 AFR. DISABILITY RTS. Y.B. 265 (2015). Restructuring, DESERET NEWS (Feb. 11, 2016), http:// www.deseretnews.com/article/865647421/My-view-The- dangers-of-unilateral-debt-restructuring-for-Puerto-Rico. html?pg=all. Why Hamilton Matters: The Broadway Triumph is the Antidote to Our Identity-Obsessed Culture, 141 COMMENTARY 37 (Feb. 2016). Supreme Court Hijinx May Mark a Low Point, COMMENTARY BLOG (Feb. 10, 2015), https://www.commentarymagazine.com/american- society/supreme-court-hijinx-may-mark-low-point/. I Am Nisman, COMMENTARY BLOG (Jan. 20, 2015), https://www.commentarymagazine.com/foreign-policy/ nisman/.

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Nina A. Kohn Nathan A. Sales Associate Dean for Research Associate Professor of Law David M. Levy L’48 Professor of Law Articles in Law Reviews and Other Scholarly Journals: Articles in Law Reviews and Other Scholarly Journals: Can Technology Prevent Leaks?, 8 J. NAT’L SECURITY L. Lawyers for Legal Ghosts: The Legality and Ethics of & POL’Y 73 (2015). Representing Persons Subject to Guardianship (with Catheryn Koss), 91 WASH. L. REV. 581 (2016). Miscellaneous Works: Justice Scalia: An Appreciation, NAT’L REV., Feb. 16, 2016. Matched Preferences and Values: A New Approach to Selecting Legal Surrogates, 52 SAN DIEGO L. REV. 399 French Surveillance Law Compared to US Surveillance Law, (2015). JUST SECURITY (July 31, 2015), http://www.justsecurity. org/25143/snapshot-french-surveillance-law-compared- surveillance-law/. Kevin Noble Maillard Professor of Law Miscellaneous Works: A. Joseph Warburton A Father’s Struggle to Stop His Daughter’s Adoption, Associate Professor of Law and Finance ATLANTIC, July 7, 2015. Working Papers: Why We Should Embrace the Racial Chaos, The End of Market Discipline? Investor Expectations of NEW YORK TIMES, June 16, 2015. Implicit Government Guarantees, (with Deniz Anginer & Viral V. Acharya) (March, 2015), SSRN http://ssrn.com/ abstract=1961656.

Mary Helen McNeal Professor of Law Director, Elder Law Clinic William M. Wiecek Chester Adgate Congdon Professor of Public Law Articles in Law Reviews and Other Scholarly Journals: and Legislation Emeritus Say What? The Affordable Care Act, Medicare, and Hearing Book Reviews: Aids, 53 HARV. J. ON LEGIS. 621 (2016). HERBERT HOVENKAMP, THE OPENING OF AMERICAN LAW: NEOCLASSICAL LEGAL THOUGHT, 1870-1970, 33 LAW & HIST. REV. 1017 (2015).

42 | SYRACUSE LAW ANNUAL REPORT OF SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF LAW FALL 2016

43 BOARD OF ADVISORS CHAIR

Dear Alumni and Friends of the College of Law:

The start of the Fall semester is a great deal together. Since our last issue, three distinguished always an exciting time for me. A members have recently stepped down from the Board. I want group of talented individuals who to personally thank Vincent J. Cole L’81, Robert E. Dineen have selected the College of Law Jr. L’66, and David A. Gordon L’86 for their service on the for their legal education arrive Board. Their contributions to the College of Law are simply in Dineen Hall for orientation. immeasurable, and their legacy will loom large for years to Together with other dedicated come. Without their leadership and generosity, our students alumni who come back to the and faculty, and we as alumni of the College, would not have College of Law, we have a chance the privilege of enjoying so many opportunities for education to meet and interact with the 1L’s and building relationships at the College of Law.

and the students of returning This year, the Board welcomes its newest member Keisha L. classes. As I speak with our new Audain-Pressley L’00. I look forward to working with Keisha as students, I learn from them why they chose Syracuse. For we continue to advance the College of Law’s mission. many, it’s our committed alumni with whom they’ve spoken before enrolling. They look forward to continuing to network As Chair of the Board, I personally thank each of you for with them, as so many of us volunteer to attend orientation your engagement and generosity. Simply said, the success and serve as mentors. I am very proud of alumni involvement of our students is dependent upon our collective support in the lives of our students. Time and time again, new and of the College of Law. Many of you support the College with returning students, and recent graduates comment about your financial resources. Others devote personal time helping to engagement with them and the support and guidance you orient and mentor our students. And a good number of us provide throughout their time at the College of Law and as have the ability to hire and place our students. All of these they launch their new careers. contributions are absolutely essential to the continued success of the College of Law. As you read through this magazine, I This year we are also seeing the benefits of our investment hope that you find new reasons to continue to engage with in the creation of Dineen Hall. While the nationwide volume us or even re-engage with us. of law school applications remains challenging, we have had great success in converting admissions into acceptances and An outstanding education is a collaborative effort. Your deposits when visiting admitted students visit and experience contributions are an investment in the scholars, innovators Dineen Hall and the commitment of our faculty and staff. and leaders of tomorrow. I hope that you renew or initiate

a gift, today. Equally exciting is our new Dean’s arrival. I’ve had the good fortune of working with Dean Craig Boise for a few months With gratitude, now, and he’s hard at work on fulfilling his promise to amplify the College of Law’s status as the destination for an outstanding legal education.

I’m honored to serve as chair of the College of Law’s Board Marc A. Malfitano L’78 of Advisors alongside many other dedicated alumni who Chair, Board of Advisors continue to contribute their time and resources in support of Syracuse University College of Law the college and our students. They are relentless in the pursuit of excellence for the College of Law and we’ve accomplished

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Executive Committee Members

Marc A. Malfitano L’78 Richard M. Alexander L’82* Dr. Thomas Murphy L’93 Chair Arnold & Porter LLP Valuation Risk & Strategy, LLC Attorney/Real Estate Developer Washington, D.C. Skaneateles, New York Syracuse, New York Hon. Joanne Fogel Alper A&S ’72* Mark A. Neporent L’82* Gregory L. Thornton L’71 Circuit Court of the 17th Judicial Circuit, Cerberus Capital Management, L.P. Vice-Chair Arlington, Virgina (Ret.) New York, New York Retired, The Boston Globe Boston, Massachusetts Keisha L. Audain-Pressley L’00 Susan K. Reardon L’76 Pacific Investment Management Retired, Johnson & Johnson Melanie Gray L’81 * Company Washington, D.C. Winston & Strawn LLP New York, New York Houston, Texas C. James Zeszutek L’75 Michael A. Bottar L’03 Dinsmore & Shohl LLP Donald T. MacNaughton L’68 * Bottar & Leone PLLC Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Retired, White & Case LLP Syracuse, New York New York, New York Ellen Beth Zimiles L’83 Kim Marie Boylan L’86 Navigant Consulting Mitchell I. Sonkin L’77 White & Case LLP New York, New York MBIA, Inc. Washington, D.C. Kiawah Island, SC Alan M. Epstein L’74 Michael David Wohl L’75 * KDC Solar LLC Pinnacle Housing Group Bedminister, New Jersey Honorary Members Miami, Florida Christopher C. Fallon Jr. L’73 Hon. Joseph R. Biden Jr. L’68 Cozen O’Connor Vice President of the United States Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Washington, D.C.

Ex Officio Martin R. Feinman L’83 Hon. Carolyn D. King The Legal Aid Society U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit Craig M. Boise New York, New York Houston, Texas Dean and Professor of Law Syracuse University College of Law Alan K. Halfenger L’93 Hon. Theodore A. McKee L’75* Syracuse, New York ACA Compliance Group U.S. Court of Appeals for the 3rd Circuit Boston, Massachusetts Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Robert M. Hallenbeck L’83 Hon. Rosemary S. Pooler Maryland Innovation Initiative U.S. Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit (TEDCO) New York, New York Columbia, Maryland Hon. Frederick J. Scullin Jr. L’64 John R. Hartmann L’88 U.S. District Court for the Northern District True Value Company of New York Chicago, Illinois Syracuse, New York

Richard D. Hole L’75 Hon. Sandra L. Townes L’76 Bond Schoeneck & King PLLC U.S. District Court for the Eastern District Syracuse, New York of New York Brooklyn, New York Bernard R. Kossar L’55* New York, New York

*Member of Syracuse Univeristy Board of Trustees

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The strength of Syracuse University College of Law is reflected in the dedication of our alumni, friends, institutions, and organizations who have demonstrated their commitment to our future. On the following pages, we gratefully acknowledge and thank those who have contributed to the success of the College of Law between July 1, 2015 and June 30, 2016. * Alumni donors to Syracuse University College of Law who have given for 3 or more consecutive years.

Dean’s Trust Benefactors Sustainers Gifts of $100,000 and more Gifts of $50,000-$99,999 Gifts of $25,000-$49,999

Robert E. Dineen Jr., Esq. ’66* Richard M. Alexander ’82* Anonymous Jeanne C. Olivier Emily N. Alexander Joshua H. Heintz ’69* Melanie Gray ’81* Joan Harris Cooper Janice M. Herzog Mark Lawrence D. Wawro Mark V. Mastrianni ’83 Mark A. Neporent ’82* Lisa J. Neporent

Michael David Wohl ’75* Betty N. Wohl

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Anonymous Elizabeth A. August ’94 Stewart D. Aaron ’83* Sherman F. Levey ’59* Anonymous Thomas B. Mafrici ’91 Christine S. Aaron Anette Seltzer Lewis ’73* Anonymous William C. Banks Matthew Julian Agen ’02* Burton G. Lipsky ’62* Melissa M. Mitchell ’01* Edward J. Baba ’03* Pete Benenati ’90* Kulwinder Mand Peter A. Bieger ’76* Keisha L. Audain-Pressley ’00* Adam Leitman Bailey ’95* F. David Pressley Lee S. Michaels ’67* Michael A. Bottar ’03* William J. Brodsky ’68* Susan K. Michaels Joan Brodsky Theodore R. Bayer ’66* Kim Marie Boylan ’86* Ellen S. Bayer Kamesh Nagarajan ’96 Kathryn C. Brown ’80 Ami A. Shah Scott P. Boylan ’85* Laurence G. Bousquet ’80* Stephen E. Brown Michael P. O’Toole ’76* George T. Bruckman ’59* Ifigenia T. Brown ’54* Vivienne Bruckman David M. Crane ’80* Roseann C. O’Toole Estate of Mr. Edwin T. Cox, Jr. ’68 Jeffrey R. Capwell ’89* Alfonse M. D’Amato ’61 Tricia L. Rolewicz-Letarte ’98 Jeri K. D’Lugin ’80 Douglas P. Catalano ’72* Louise E. Dembeck ’65 Gregory S. Rubin ’72* Estate of Mrs. May E. Dorn Ann Marie Day Frank Charles Forelle ’85* Frank W. Ryan, IV ’94* Christian C. Day Tod H. Friedman ’88 Nickolas E. Downey Melissa Dunne Ryan ’94* A. Patrick Doyle ’75* Charles D. Gabriel ’73 Michael J. Drayo ’01* Elliot D. Samuelson ’60 Beatrice E. Samuelson Elizabeth Downes Joanna L. Geraghty ’97 Alexandra C. Epsilanty ’92* Alan M. Epstein ’74* Christopher Gerard Kelly Daniel S. Jonas Matthew D. Schwarz ’98* Christopher C. Fallon, Jr. ’72* Alan L. Goldman ’65 Walter V.N. Ferris ’55* Gregory L. Spallas ’86 Robert B. Feinberg ’81* Elaine Goldman Cheryl A. Ficarra Douglas L. Steele ’89 Robbi Simons Feinberg Alan M. Gordon ’77 Douglas J. Frye ’74* Wilfreda B. Stone ’44* Martin R. Feinman ’83* Amy M. Hawkes ’01* John H. Hartman ’73* Eleanor Theodore ’52* David A. Gordon ’86* Brigitte E. Herzog ’75* Peter H. Heerwagen ’72* Thomas A. Vitanza ’58* Kimberly A. Gordon Peter E. Herzog ’55* Phyllis B. Heerwagen Marc A. Winston ’75* Alan K. Halfenger ’93* Kenneth W. Irvin ’92* Philip L. Kirstein ’73* Marcia L. Winston Robert M. Hallenbeck ’82 Marnin J. Michaels ’96* Melinda R. Kirstein Constance Wolfson Susan Brown Hallenbeck Melissa Kaplan Joseph O. Lampe ’55 Richard J. Zwirn ’74* John R. Hartmann ’88* Bert E. Kaufman ’07* Shawn Lampe Martina E. Hartmann Elan P. Keller ’98 Richard D. Hole ’75* Michael L. Kiklis ’93* Deborah Muldoon Hole Zoe Kiklis Cheryl M. Kimball ’95 Gary J. Lavine ’73* Bernard R. Kossar ’55* Peter A. Lefkin ’80* Carol M. Kossar Jaye B. Martin ’79* Ronile Lawrence Jessica Murray Donald T. MacNaughton ’68* Robert G. Nassau Marc A. Malfitano ’78* David J. Noonan ’72* Jeanette Malfitano Joel H. Rabine ’65* Philip V. Martino ’82* Sally Rabine Heather S. Morawski ’07* Susan K. Reardon ’76* Arthur I. Sherman ’59* Michael D. Sirota ’86* Nancy Sherman Miriam L. Sirota Mitchell I. Sonkin ’77 Gregory M. Sobo ’99 James T. Southwick ’89* Kyle G. Storie ’87* Michael P. Walls ’84* Cheryl R. Storie ’86* Mary M. Walls Gregory L. Thornton ’71* C. James Zeszutek ’75* Joseph V. Vumbacco ’70* Dave J. Zumpano ’92 William M. Wiecek Judy L. Hamilton Ellen Beth Zimiles ’83* Jonah David Zimiles

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Dean’s Fellow Gifts of $1,000-$2,499

David F. Abernethy ’82* Christine N. Fletcher ’94 Patrick M. Kennell ’02* Stephen P. Pollak ’70* Phyllis K. Simon Joe K. Suyemoto Dawn J. Krigstin ’03* Karen A. Pollak Aviva Abramovsky Catherine A. Foerster ’80* Richard A. Kissel ’79* Frederick J. Price ’03* Michael J. Allan ’98* Mark R. Foerster ’80* Michelle S. Simon ’81* Kimberly Wolf Price ’03* Rakesh K. Anand Danielle M. Fogel ’04* Douglas K. Knight ’92* Stanley B. Price ’69 Michael A. Fogel ’04* Lynn B. Knight John T. Andrews, Jr. ’66* C. Allen Pylman Melissa A. Fox ’98* Frank L. Kollman ’77* Nelson D. Atkin, II ’74* Robert J. Rabin Thomas P. Franczyk ’82 Mark A. Kompa ’80* Patricia J. Austin ’85* Ava S. Raphael ’89 M. Michele Speach ’81 Richard Levy, Jr. ’77* Irving G. Raphael Lynn J. Barden ’66* Martin L. Fried Lynne W. Barden Travis H.D. Lewin Mark S. Rattner ’76* Suzanne O. Galbato ’98* Lenore B. Rattner Peter L. Beard ’86* Robert L.W. Liu ’75 Wilfred E. Gallinek ’88* Lynn M. Robinson ’89* Peter Blanck Fran L. Lubow ’79* William G. Gandy ’75* John F. Luman, III ’95* Paul E. Roman ’78 William P. Burrows ’55* Joanna W. Gandy Ann T. Burrows Gemma M. Lury ’72* William L. Scheffler ’74 Bruce E. Gardner ’78* Richard R. Lury ’72* Robert T. Schofield, IV ’96* Anthony M. Calabrese ’93* Benita D. Gardner Barbara Calabrese Arthur S. Lussi ’88* Donald Schupak ’66* Daniel W. Gentges ’88* Cynthia Schupak Alicia S. Calagiovanni ’77* Penny G. Gentges ’88* Gary G. Lyons ’75* Richard J. Calagiovanni Susanne Lyons Leonard R. Shapiro ’73* Paul J. Giancola ’80* Darren J. Carroll ’93* David J. MacNaughton ’77 Paul T. Sharlow ’03 Rene Layton-Carroll Philip N. Glennon ’79* Jean Michelle Sharlow Catherine Glennon Gene S. Manheim ’76* Scott C. Charney ’80* Lynn Manheim William C. Snyder Irwin Goldbloom ’58* Theresa A. Coulter John D. Mara ’85* Donna Kenney Stein ’92* Sheldon I. Goldfarb ’77* William T. Coulter Robert D. Mariani ’76* Laurence C. Stein ’91* Tomas Gonzalez ’05* Scott F. Cristman ’73* Thomas J. Maroney ’63 Frank W. Streng ’82 Deborah Lisker Cuoco ’94* James E. Graves, Jr. ’80 Mary K. Maroney Charles J. Tallent ’74 Frank A. Cuoco ’93* Murray A. Grossman William K. Mattar ’88* Darren B. Tallman ’00* M. Kathryn Grossman Mae A. D’Agostino ’80 Mark McCarthy ’69* Francesco P Trapani ’08* Stephen Davis ’60* Richard D. Grossman ’55 Margaret K. McCarthy Martha E. Allen Mame Langan Grossman Paul W. de Lima, Jr. ’70* Sarah Reimers McIntee ’04* Michael G. VanWaldick Melanie R. de Lima Jannet Gurian ’79* Patrick J. McIntee Donna L. Ransier-VanWaldick Charles W. Deaner ’51* Margaret M. Harding Theodore A. McKee ’75* David P. Wales, Jr. ’95* Joe Whelan Diana Zwirn DeMarco Thomas J. McKenna ’84* Jaime L. Wales Eric I. Harris ’69* Ronald M. Denby Kirk E. Miller ’76* Kristin L. Walker ’08* Paul A. Hedstrom ’73* Steven A. Walker ’08* Alice A. Makul Eileen D. Millett ’74* Alan I. Herman ’59* Ogden H. Webster ’58* Joseph M. Di Scipio ’95* Joseph A. Minniti ’57 Peter J. Hersha ’81* Douglas J. Widman ’73* Paul E. Dimoh ’08* Edward J. Moses ’68* Benjamin T. Hickman ’07* Joseph J. Wielebinski, Jr. ’83* Donald C. Doerr ’88* Jennifer J. Nackley ’89* Maria T. Doerr Jessica L. Wechter Helen A. Zamboni ’77* Gordon W. Netzorg ’76* Lisa A. Dolak ’88* Andrew S. Horsfall ’10* Mark Zeichner ’74* Paul I. Newman ’65* Kenneth K. Doolittle ’73* Marc L. Hurvitz ’78* Jeri J. Hurvitz Sarah M. Oliker ’03* Matthew R. Dreyfuss ’13* Arnold I. Kalman ’73* Michael S. Olsan ’89* Karen M. Elliott ’91* Michael A. Kaplan ’11* Donald P. Parson ’68 Lydia J. Elliott Deborah S. Kenn Philip A. Perna ’77* Robert N. Endries ’65

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Associates Gifts of $500-$999

Anthony P. Adorante ’67 Lauryn Gouldin Diane Jones Meier ’76* Stephanie C. Rudnick Lucille Ann Adorante Becki D. Graham ’05* Merle D. Melvin ’59* Mark E. Saltarelli ’80* Richard M. Alderman ’72* Caterina R. Grasso ’90* David J. Miller ’69* Marcia C. Saltarelli William L. Bergan ’64* Lauson C. Green ’94 Patricia A. Moran ’96* Anthony C. Scarfone ’86* Frances M. Bergan Donald A. Greenwood ’81 G. Thomas Moynihan, Jr. ’63* Charles A. Scarminach ’68* William R. Bergum ’90* Paula C. Garell Carl J. Mugglin ’61* Benjamin F. Sidbury ’01* Brad A. Birmingham ’97* Lee A. Gronikowski ’84 Barry I. Slotnick ’72* Kristen M. Birmingham ’97* Diane J. Nash Joseph J. Gumkowski ’78* Richard C. Smith ’71 Bruce G. Blumberg ’88 Angelo V. Nole, Jr. ’87* Ellen M. Halstead ’04* Deborah F. Stanley ’77* R. Daniel Bordoni ’79* Peter J. Obernesser ’72* Todd K. Hanna ’00 Michael J. Stanley Miles M. Bottrill Frederick H. O’Rourke ’87* James R. Hawkins ’66 Elizabeth Breul O’Rourke George S. Sullivan, Jr. ’66* William B. Braatz ’58* Mary T. Sullivan Martha A. Hawkins Theodore P. Pearce ’77 Jay S. Brown ’95* Reed N. Summers ’82 Joseph H. Hobika, Sr. ’56 Eric J. Pelton ’87* Consuela A. Pinto ’95* Kevin M. Toomey ’12 John W. Hornbeck ’68* David W. Pies ’62* Michael A. Brumer ’51* Tiffany L. Townsend ’96 Dorothy D. Brumer Gary N. Horowitz ’77* Matthew R. Policastro ’02* Lawrence R. Uhlick ’70 Richard B. Buckley ’68* John M. Howell ’88* Lisa M. Pullini-Rodri ’94 Samuel B. Vavonese ’64* Bruce E. Bushlow ’65* Tyson E. Hubbard ’08* Marion M. Quirk ’97* Gail N. Bushlow Jessica Stannard-Friel Hubbard Jeffrey C. Wolken ’98* Jeffrey B. Wagenbach ’85* Joseph L. Canino ’70* Stephanie A. Jacqueney ’82* John T. Rafferty ’73* William D. Walsh ’73 Kathleen C. Walsh Daniel G. Cantone ’81* Samuel Jakes, Jr. ’79* Dale E. Rath ’68* Kathleen A. Cantone Timothy J. Welsh ’04* Paula C. Johnson Alan J. Rein ’66 William A. Carpenter, Jr. ’69* Stephen S. Wentsler ’96* David Cay Johnston Paul E. Richardson, Jr. ’76* Susan S. Cooney ’72 Valerie A. Wieczorek-Thors ’85 Deborah H. Karalunas ’82* Michael P. Ringwood ’79* Ritu Kaur Cooper ’03* Robert J. Wineman ’90* Kirstin M. Keel ’02* Mary Roberts-Bailey ’82* Carol E. Coyne ’81* William J. Wolf ’76* Mark Kessel ’66* Kevin J. Roggow ’05* Mary Lou Crowley ’51* Lori Golden Kiewe Danielle M. Roggow Frances E. Zollers ’74* Raymond R. D’Agostino, Jr. ’68* Amos Kiewe Sheila T. D’Agostino Joseph L. Kinsella ’84* William A. Darrin, Jr. ’73* William R. Koerner, Jr. ’68* Sarah Davila-Ruhaak ’07* Cindy S. Kui ’06 Martin Q. Ruhaak, Jr. ’07* Anikka S. Laubenstein Frank N. Decker, Jr. ’55* Robert A. Longhi ’61* Deborah H. Diehl ’76 Jeffrey D. Lowe ’03 Deborah L. Dilman ’03 Steven Olin Ludd ’72 Alfred C. Dorn Oksana M. Ludd Carol A. Dorn J. Jeremiah Mahoney ’69* David M. Driesen Robin Paul Malloy Jennifer L. Dzwonczyk ’95* Francis E. Maloney, Jr. ’63 Angela Marie Eavy ’03 Brett Wayne Martin ’82 Amy D. Eliezer Suzette M. Melendez John C. Filippini ’72* Andre Martineau Barry Frank ’67* Courtney K. McCarthy ’95* Philip I. Frankel ’78* Holly Klus McClellan ’96 Thomas R. French Charlene E. McGraw ’81* Alan J. Goldberg ’52* Edward L. McGraw Benjamin J. Rosof ’65* Barbara Z. Goldberg Daniel A. McMahon ’60* Reagan T. Roth ’06* Joseph S. Goode ’94 Jeannine M. McSweeney ’06 M. Jack Rudnick ’73*

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Contributors Gifts up to $499

Courtney A. Abbott-Hill ’09* Elise M. Balcom ’85* James R. Bennett ’75* Vinaleth Vinnie Bowling ’04 Carolyn Anne Abdenour ’13 Dennis R. Baldwin David J. Berg ’87* Andrea L. Bowman ’79 Christian Adamiak ’00* Gail P. Baldwin Gerald P. Berkery ’69* Faye Bradwick ’84* Farid V. Akhmedov ’98* Robert L. Balkind ’84 Michael Joshua Berkowitz ’04* Gregg G. Brandon ’01 Judi Balkind Kenneth L. Allen ’74* Andrew B. Berman ’01 Daniel P. Breen ’80* Cory P. Balliet ’08 Gordon P. Allen ’82* Danette R. Edwards ’02 Sally R. Breen James Michael Bandoblu Randall Keith Bernard ’95 Jean S. Brenner ’82* Paul M. Aloy ’05 Jr. ’06* Maria K. Aloy Michael G. Berner ’03* Diana L. Brick ’93 Michael J. Bandoblu ’11* Lawrence C. Anderson ’72* Thomas Bezigian, Jr. ’07 Todd E. Briggs ’88 Robert A. Barker ’58* Karen T. Anderson Upnit K. Bhatti ’15 Joan P. Brimlow ’78* William J. Anderson ’79* Robert A. Barrer ’82 Deborah F. Barrer ’83 Elizabeth A. Bigness ’09 Roland P. Brint ’62* Anonymous Steven L. Bigness Jody M. Barringer ’98* Mary L. Brown ’83 Nelson S. Anthony ’56* Bradley E. Bishop ’06 Thomas Bassett ’71* David B. Bruckman ’89 Vincent S. Antonacci ’87* Silvia Delagarza-Bassett Joseph G. Blake, II ’02 Dena M. Bruckman Eric J. Appellof ’80* Neil Baumgarten ’56 Shellie N. Blakeney ’96 Adam H. Brunner ’06 Maxine Arjomand Sondra Baumgarten Daniel L. Blanchard ’11 Rosemary E. Bucci ’64* Keyhan Arjomand Joanne Bauwens Robyn L. Blanchard-Tacci ’00 Eileen E. Buholtz ’79 Frank H. Armani ’56* Mary E. Bazemore ’07 James A. Tacci ’01 Lawrence J. Bunis ’82 Mary N. Armani Kristin M. Mikolaitis ’07 Frederick E. Block ’92 Harry C. Burgess, Jr. ’57 Brad M. Aron ’89* Steven C. Becker ’97* Karla V. Block William J. Burke ’55* Robert Harold Ashford Emily P. Beekman ’13 Ira M. Bloom ’69* Judith P. Burke ’97* Pamela J. Attardo ’93* Maureen T. Beirne ’88 Nella M. Bloom ’06 Andrew Edward Seaberg D. Jeffrey Burnham ’86* Brian S. Austin, Jr. ’95* Peter A. Bell Naomi P. Blumenthal Denise Spellman Butler ’06 Melissa Eisen Azarian ’93 Todd M. Belous ’90* Philip H. Azarian ’93 Andrew D. Bobrek ’07 Mark R. Butscha, Jr. ’10 Andrew R. Ben-Ami ’80* Mary Vitanza Bachar Carl T. Bogus ’73* Keith J. Bybee Andrew K. Benfield ’09* Jennifer Champa Bybee James S. Baier ’79* Shawna C. Benfield ’09* Salaheddin Borghei-Razavi ’11*

Keith L. Baker ’75 Amy L. Bouren ’94

50 | SYRACUSE LAW Gareth D. Bye ’87* Katherine A. Cogswell ’88* Scott A. de la Vega ’94 Debra Z. Feins ’85 Susan Rich-Bye ’88* Walter F. Benson, Jr. Cory A. DeCresenza ’09* Jeffrey B. Feldman ’81* Robert P. Cahalan ’95* Sophia Colas ’15 John J. Dee ’52* Sharon Feldman Sophia L. Cahill ’14 Theron T. Colby ’65 Frank P. Della Posta ’55 Jason B. Feldman ’13 Elletta Sangrey Callahan ’84 Antonia K. Colella Andrew S. Dember ’79* Miguel C. Fernandez, III ’88* John D. Callahan, Jr. Lou Anne Rucynski Coleman ’99* Todd D. Dexter ’00* Beverly Joan Fertig ’77* Sean E. Callahan ’98* Harold Fertig Rachel E. Colson ’07 Aaron J. DiCaprio ’01 Kristin M. Dadey ’98* Joseph M. Fine ’70 Matthew H. Conrad, Jr. ’12 Brian D. DiGiacomo ’82* Stefano Cambareri ’89* Jane Zhao ’12* Howard M. Finkelstein ’52* Kathleen C. Cambareri Joseph M. DiOrio ’81* Robert T. Conrad Robert S. Finley ’76 Lynne A. Camillo ’86* Thomas J. DiSalvo ’80* Mary Lou Conrow ’91* Nancy A. Fischer ’92* Heather Renee Campbell ’04 Anita C. DiSalvo Michael A. Weiner ’04 Devon M. Conroy ’15 Marion H. Fish ’80* Melissa K Dobson ’09* Michael S. Fish Laura E. Canfield ’87* Gabriel J. Contreras ’09* James P. Domagalski ’90 Richard M. Thomas ’87* Spencer J. Cook, Jr. ’09 Gina Fiss ’98* Xiu Mei Dong ’12 Anne Syrocki Cantwell ’92 Jennifer E. Coon ’00 William J. Fitzpatrick, Jr. ’76 Kevin C. Dooley ’78 Diane L. Fitzpatrick Brian J. Capitummino ’08 Rogelio A. Corral ’15 Harry A. Dorian ’55 Timothy J. Flanagan ’78* Gerald A. Caplan ’57* Frank A. Corsoneti Elizabeth B. Caplan Friends of May E. Dorn Janet Fleckenstein ’11* Susan D. Costalas ’97* Dale L. Carlson ’75 Eric Dorn John B. Folmer ’62 Peter L. Costas ’54* Janel Dorn Thomas M. Carnrike ’75* Joan B. Costas Theron A. Foote ’69* Beth Davies Carpinello ’83* Ronald M. Dorn William P. Fornshell ’82 Sean W. Costello ’09* Kathy D. Dorn Brett D. Carroll ’98 Laura M. Costello Brian R. Forts ’77* Michael J. Doyle ’72 John E. Carter, Jr. ’70* Ryan F. Coutlee ’02* Stephen A. Forward ’75* Shelley J. Carter Casey E. Doyle ’99 Michael L. Coyle ’71* Patrick J. Doyle William E. Franczek ’82* Daniel P. Carter ’84 John J. Cromie ’73* David A. Dressler ’86 Wendy L. Freedman ’76 Thomas M. Caruso ’14 Tabitha M. Croscut ’03 Lori A. Dressler Stanley M. Friedman ’54* Marvin J. Cashion ’71 Brent C. Croscut Alan S. Drohan ’80 Herbert M. Friedman, Jr. ’87* Diane E. Cashion Tara K. Cross ’02 Douglas R. Drucker ’95 Heidi C. Friedman Joseph G. Casion ’99* Timothy W. Crowley ’97* Ronald E. Friese ’90* Kathia R. Casion ’98* John B. Dunlap ’03 Adam R. Crowley ’10 Milan M. Durgala ’63 Hadwen C. Fuller, II ’73 John R. Casolaro ’77* Aileen E. Gallagher Corinne H. Fuller Rimfa L. England ’77* Amy Vanderlyke Dygert ’06 Melanie Cuevas-Rodriguez ’00 Ryan K. Dygert John M. Fusco, III ’10 Melissa P. Cassidy Julio E. Rodriguez Oren Efrati Robert E. Futrell, Jr. ’94* Jessica R. Caterina ’11* Alan N. Culbertson ’75* Alex T. Paradiso ’10* Stefanie Efrati Peter A. Gabauer, Jr. ’70 Andrew P. Cunningham ’90 Donna M. Cathy-Fratto ’88 Marc S. Ehrlich ’83 Christine C. Gallagher ’90* Patrick L. Cusato ’87* Kenneth J. Eisner ’74* Angela M. Gallerizzo ’06* J. Veronika Chang ’05 Joan E. Varney ’87* Bayard S. Chapin ’90* Sam A. Elbadawi ’91 Vincent L. Gambale ’73* Richard E. Cusker ’75 Katherine M. Elbadawi Hallie Brooke Chase ’07 Sloan D. Gaon ’95* Thomas V. Dadey ’62 Darren J. Elkind ’94* Andrea G. Chatfield ’88* Kurt Garnjost ’83* Jeffrey Stuart Dahlman ’73* Robert A. Ellison ’74* Michelle M. Chester ’14 Anthony J. Garramone ’64* Mary Reagan Dailey ’90* Rubin Englard ’71* Sanjay Chhablani Sandra J. Garufy ’88* Lisa J. Dal Gallo ’96 Gregory D. Eriksen ’10* Calvert G. Chipchase, III ’74* George S. Sullivan, III ’96 Lloyd S. Gastwirth ’67* Nicholas G. Everett ’13* Jeanju Choi ’15 Karen L. Dalheim ’90 Arthur R. Gaudio ’67* Henry C. Fader ’73* Joanne M. Gaudio Danielle McCann Cima ’01 Lawrence L. D’Amato ’71 Frederick W. Faery ’92 Linda Gehron ’80 John A. Cirando Therese Wiley Dancks ’91* Paul Joseph Falgares, Jr. Walter W. Dancks, Jr. Joseph G. Falcone ’93* Joseph F. Cirelli ’71* Gioia A. Gensini ’82* Elizabeth B. Cirelli Tiffany L. D’Angelo ’11* Jeffrey C. Falkin ’68 David H. Neff ’80* Harold R. Clark ’52* Wendy Rising Danner ’92 Aston G. Farquharson ’96 Carolyn B. George ’78* Donald E. Clark ’87 Amanda K. Davis Frederick L. Farrar ’80* Catherine Sinnwell Gerlach ’13* Jesse C. Clark ’04* Elizabeth F. Day Polly J. Feigenbaum ’83* Peter Arno Gerlach Lee Clary ’64 John F. Day Sarah M. Feingold ’05* Gary R. Germain ’67* Arjay G. Yao ’05* Maureen A. Germain

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Contributors Gifts up to $499

Nicholas M. Giddings ’12 Alfred J. Heilman ’63* Eli R. Johnson ’08* Gerald S. Knopf ’83 Brendan J. Gilbert ’04* Mary Lou Heilman Stephen L. Johnson Isrella P. Frisch-Knopf Harlan B. Gingold ’70* Edward F. Heimers, Jr. ’73* Diane R. Johnson Erica R. Knox ’13 Diane P. Gingold Dorothy E. Heller David A. Jones ’64* Jack S. Koffman ’74 Ernest Ginsberg ’55 Joel M. Helmrich ’79* Stephen J. Jones ’00* Stephanie R. Kogan ’77* Harriet Gay Ginsberg John G. Herriman ’69* Margaret A. Jones ’01* Michael A. Kolcun ’76* Barton M. Gipstein ’69* Julie M. Herriott ’08 Matthew R. Jones ’15 Benjamin M. Kopp ’15 Wendy D. Glauber ’97* Victor J. Hershdorfer ’60* Christopher M. Judge ’12* Stephen R. Kornienko ’07* Elizabeth A. Gocke ’13 Joseph P. Hester, Jr. ’64* Wojciech F. Jung ’03 Linda J. Kostin ’90* Scott V. Goettelman ’89* Suzanne F. Hester Joshua R. Kahn ’05 Robert M. Kostin Barbara A. Goettelman Rebecca Troendle Hewitt ’94 David D. Kaiser ’77* James L. Kowalski ’77* Ronald M. Gold ’79* Kasey Kaspar Hildonen ’15 Sven-Erik Kaiser ’86* Hirsh D. Kravitz ’06* Leon S. Golden ’67* Richard D. Hillman ’55* Martha P. Kaiser Kenneth J. Kretzer ’74* Ronald L. Goldfarb ’56 David H. Hirsch ’77 Edward M. Kane ’71* Mikal J. Krueger ’03* Joanne J. Goldfarb Stuart Hirshfield ’66* Arlene S. Kanter Christine Kshyna Deborah G. Goldman ’68* Susanne D. Hirshfield John S.M. Karnash ’74 Jessica E. Kuester ’09 Jordan O. Goldstein ’15 William E. Hoese ’84* Dorine E. Karnash Patricia Carey Kulp ’05* Nicole K. Gorham ’07 Elizabeth Little Hogan ’92* Scott M. Karson ’75* Katsura K. Kurita ’98 Christopher Joseph Grace ’04 Frederick J. Holbrook ’66 Samantha Z. Kasmarek William N. La Forte ’74* Merritt J. Green ’97 Emily E. Holland ’08 John M. Katko ’88 Anthony C. La Valle ’82* Thomas J. Grooms ’71* Monique E. Holmes ’04 Adam J. Katz ’04* Michelle P. Katz ’04* Karen E. Lahey ’96 Norman H. Gross ’72* Martha Walsh Hood ’79 Janis M. Gross Paul R. Hood Hattie E. Kaufman ’84* Robert G. Lamb, Jr. ’71 Maureen Pilato Lamb ’73 David J. Gruenewald ’81 Michael S. Horn ’04 Joshua P. Keefe ’14 Jenna Keefe Steven M. Lane ’93* Susan Rogers Grun ’80 Erica B. Horton Gerald A. Keene ’80* Stephen B. Lang ’73* Anna Liza D. Guillermo ’05* Charles D. Houlihan, Jr. ’78 Charles T. Lanigan, III ’75* Roy S. Gutterman ’00* Shelley S. Houlihan Jeffrey H. Keesom ’12 Weiting Wang Gutterman Carin G. House ’08 John S. Keffalas ’79* Nancy D. Lapera ’80 Patrick J. Lapera ’80 Friends of Raymond W. Hackbarth Zeno M. Houston ’14 J. Zachary Kelley Robert M. Larkin ’73* David M. Hahn J. Neil Huber, Jr. ’68* Jane S. Kelsey ’83* Letty Laskowski ’09* Clayton H. Hale, Jr. ’68 Meimei L. Huber Patricia M. Kennedy ’81 Joseph W. Latham ’74* Jan R. Halper ’77* Ronald G. Hull ’79* Alexander F. Keogan ’12* Diane Saintil Laviolette ’96* Sonja Marta Halverson ’04* Suzanne E. Hyer ’79* Danielle J. Keogan Paul B. Hyman ’92 Michael J. Kerwin ’94 George S. Lawler Jonathan W. Haray ’94* Theresa A. Lawler Lauren A. Hyman Ryan K. Kerwin ’04 Kimberly A. Harb ’91* Jason A. Leacock ’13 Fred T. Isquith, Jr. ’09 Eric G. Kevorkian ’95 Andrew M. Harrison ’75 Roger H. Leemis ’77* Phyllis Ann Jachimowski Loretta R. Kilpatrick ’90 Christine Harrison Stanley A. Jachimowski Laura E. Legnon ’08* Steven D. Harrison Wilbur H. Kim ’04* Norman E. Jacobs ’66* Alison M. Leigh ’83* Laura H. Harshbarger ’97 Martha D. Jacobs Bernard T. King ’59* Jon Marc Harshbarger James A. Leiter ’67 John O. Jacobus ’71* Carolyn D. King Arnold Z. Hart ’54* Thomas M. Reavley Sarah G. Leonard ’07 Andrew C. Jagusiak ’73* Kevin D. Hart ’76 William D. Kingery, Jr. ’77* Adrian J. Leonard, IV ’10 Ruth J. Jakubowski ’78 Denise A. Hartman ’83 Elizabeth R. Kingery David W. Lepinske Vaughn E. James ’98 Suzanne M. Lepinske Joyce Y. Hartsfield ’78 Eric S. Klee ’97 Kavitha Janardhan Jennifer H. Klee ’98 Steven P. Lerner ’83 David C. Hatch ’75* Donna L. Lerner Nancy L. Hatch Elizabeth C. Jeffery Amanda H. Klier ’07* David C. Leven ’68 James R Hatch ’08 Elizabeth K. Joggerst ’81* Jean S. Kneiss ’85* Emilee K. Lawson Hatch ’08 R. Terry Joggerst Peter J. Kneiss Lon C. Levin ’80* Stephen R. Heath ’09 Jeremiah N. Johns ’10 Lawrence J. Knickerbocker ’82* Lisa K. Levine ’96 Olivia Y Truong ’10 Bryan R. Hedges ’72* Andrew M. Knoll ’03* Dana F. Lewis ’01 Maritza Alvarado Elizabeth C. Hedges Adam D. Johnson ’05* David B. Liddell ’66* Heather N. Johnson ’08* Janice K. Liddell

52 | SYRACUSE LAW Karen L. Linen ’83* Donald J. Martin ’68* Marion P. Metelski ’94* Timothy P. Murphy ’89 Robinson Wayne Lingo ’09* Margaret Martin Richard P. Meyer ’58* Mary Ann Murphy Robert D. Lippmann ’61* Marc S. Martin ’91 Emily C. Micale ’07 Edward W. Murphy ’92* Nicolette B. Martin ’92 Adam S. London ’92 Shaun Moe Celine Murphy Jill D. London Katherine Kudriashova Martin ’99 Laurie A. Michelman ’93* Maxine K. Nakamura ’99* Sean T. Martin ’99 Elsa C. Lopez-Megerdichian ’95 Michael Jay Miller ’63* Lauren E. Neal ’12* James W. Marvel ’13 Lisa B. Luftig ’04 Laura Suchy-Dicey William H. Miller, Jr. ’66* Katharine J. Neer ’14 Bradley Fischer Benjamin S. Lupin ’02* Garth H. Mashmann ’09 Alan M. Miller ’68 Katharine F. Nelson ’82* Charles H. Lynch, Jr. ’73* Connie A. Matteo ’91* Adam M. Miller ’95 John B. Nesbitt ’77 Ellen P. Lynch ’00 Frank C. Mayer ’96* Ned A. Minor ’72 Nancy M. Minor Matthew Ng ’13* Anna Wichterich Lyons ’09* Thomas William Mayo ’77* Matthew G. Lyons ’09* Kevin D. Minsky ’97* John M. Nichols ’07* Eileen R. McAuliffe ’80 Paul George Lyons ’09 Natalie M. Mitchell ’13 Samantha C. Nichols Kimberly B. McCarthy ’90* Daniel Mabee Catherine M. Mitchell Robert J. Nicholson ’63* Jeffrey V. McCormick ’69* Eden Dorn Mabee Bhaveeta Kapoor Mody ’99 Kristin M. Nicoll ’03* Richard B. MacFarland ’71* Marjorie S. McCoy ’85 Ram K. Mody ’99 David L. Niefer ’94 Lance J. Madden ’72* Monica C. McCullough ’05* Sylvia M. Montan ’94 Frank W. Nocito ’83* William B. Magnarelli ’73 Janis L. McDonald Deborah E. Moore ’91 Francis X. Nolan, III ’74* Karen A. Magnarelli James P. McElheny ’77* Norman A. Mordue ’71 Nancy A. Noonan ’95* Lois N. Manes ’86* W. Carson McLean ’06* Brian A. Morgan ’07 Ethan A. Novick ’10 Nicholas P. Manganaro ’09* Walter L. Meagher, Jr. ’65 Tracey A. Morris Paul V. Nunes ’77* Gail E. Meagher Gerald Manioci ’66 Lauren S. Morrissey ’86 Lynn Mavis Oatman Paul F. Meagher ’96* Steven K. Mantione ’82* Richard C. Morrissey ’86 Mark E. O’Brien ’14 Ishir A. Mehta ’01 Kent L. Mardon ’63* Bruce A. Muldoon ’78 Thomas Francis O’Connor ’60 Edgar S.K. Merrell, III ’78* Peter L. Maroulis ’61* Marysia Wlazlo Mullen ’13* Brenna M. O’Connor ’09* Linda S. Merrell Tyler J. Mullen ’13* Anthony J. Marra ’05* Andrew D. Oppenheimer ’09 Edward A. Mervine ’86* Michael James Murabito ’15 Mary L. Marshall Gary L. Orenstein ’54* Laura Messiana ’91 Thomas J. Murphy ’54*

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Contributors Gifts up to $499

Carl M. Oropallo ’69* Keli A. Perrin ’04* David A. Pope ’07* Hailey Render ’15 David R. Ostheimer ’73 Michelle Trong Perrin- Lacey Zoller Pope Paul S. Rhee ’96 Laura E. Ostheimer Steinberg ’05 Alan D. Port Lori-Ann Ricci ’85 Paul P. Pacchiana ’71 John H. Peters ’04* David A. Pravda ’65 Jace A. Richards ’05 Michael A. Palma, Jr. ’12 Bruce A. Petito ’73* Joseph J. Prociak ’82* Dean M. Richardson ’69* William R. Palmer ’67* John J. Petosa ’95* Frederic L. Pugliese ’11* M. Catherine Richardson ’77* Ellen M. Palminteri ’10* Patric A. Petta ’73* Lawrence A. Raab ’14 Brett M. Rieders ’14 Patricia A. Petta James P. Pappas ’78 Andrea R. Rabbia Lucille M. Rignanese ’99* Ellen H. Pappas Dennis L. Phillips ’81* Alan J. Rainbow Joseph D. Rinere ’91* Kristin A. Pardee Linda J. Phillips Rosemary D. Rainbow Mark D. Phillips ’90 Kevin E. Rittenberry ’77 Anthony J. Paris ’73* Richard M. Randall ’58* Dorothy A. Rittenberry Lucy A. Paris James H. Pickering, Jr. ’88 Debra V. Rao Kenneth S. Ritzenberg ’84* Richard G. Parker ’74* Cheryl B. Pinarchick ’95 Patrick J. Rao Susan F. Ritzenberg Michelle T. Parker ’14 Scott J. Pinarchick ’95 Anthony H. Rapa ’09 Jeffrey A. Rizika ’89* Haley B. Parsons ’15 Steven R. Pincus ’85 Robert P. Rasmussen ’83* Margie S. Rizika Ivan A. Pavlenko ’13 Lori Altorfer Pinjuh ’96 Marcia A. Rasmussen James H. Roberts ’75* Joseph M. Pinjuh Joseph A. Pavone ’71* Silvana Raso ’93 Jessie B. Roberts ’10 Barbara Pinkerton ’80 Marc A. Raso ’93 Tracy Bernson Pearson ’03 Pia W. Rogers ’01* Myron C. Peck ’63* Tara J. Pistorese ’14 Bernard L. Reagan ’52 Akima H. Rogers Ruth Anne Reagan David E. Peebles ’75* David M. Pitcher ’70* Paul W. Rogers, Jr. Ainslie S. Pitcher Paul P. Reck Sheila M. Lemke Catherine K. Ronis ’90 Thomas M. Pitegoff ’76* Sarah J. Reckess ’09* Randy L. Peets ’82* Neal P. Rose ’76* Anthony R. Pittarelli ’60* LaVonda N. Reed Mildred E. Pelrine ’87* Jeffrey N. Rosenthal ’08* Judy L. Plumley ’90* Jerrold B. Reilly ’75 Michael A. Penfield ’84 Emily L. Rosmus ’06 Melissa A. Pennington ’04 Paul M. Pochepan ’89* Andrew J. Reinhardt ’79 Jeremy R. Grethel Ann M. Pochepan Janet L. Pennisi ’84 Hillary S. Reinharz ’11 Caralyn Miller Ross ’92* William P. Polito ’63 Rosemarie A. Perez Jaquith ’93 Kim M. Reisch ’93* Marc S. Roth ’91* Lloyd Pomerantz

54 | SYRACUSE LAW Contributors Gifts up to $499

Joel Rothlein ’52 Robert E. Sharpe ’63* David M. Tang ’05* Jennifer A. Walters ’99 Athena Roussos ’97 Celeste Y. Sharpe ’92* Charles J. Taylor ’96* Leonard Ware ’53 William J. Rubenstein ’01 Thomas G. Sharpe ’92* Justin S. Terry ’09 Julia A. Waysdorf ’78 Phillip R. Rumsey ’75* Patricia J. Sheridan ’79 Jennifer Holsman Tetreault ’03 Richard H. Waysdorf ’78 Franklin T. Russell ’67* Matthew H. Shusterman ’06* Edward J. Thater ’14 Paul V. Webb, Jr. ’72 Thomas W. Ryan ’71* James Samuel Simmons ’14 John R. Theadore ’11* David P. Weber ’98 Shannon P. Ryan Darrin M. Simmons ’15 Gerald A. Thompson, Jr. ’95* Richard W. Wedinger ’87 Conrad B. Sabin ’50 Patricia McGevna Sisney ’87* Shelley L. Thompson ’11* Alfred J. Weiner ’59* Anita L. Sabin John R. Slattery ’03* Aaron M. Tidman ’07 Seymour Weinstein ’52* Coleman R. Sachs ’75* Robert B. Sledz ’08* Richard F. Timian ’75* David A. Weinstein ’72* John W. Sager ’71 Karl J. Sleight ’89* Ellen A. Tomasso ’79* Andrew Glenn Weiss ’87* Melissa Shumer Terry Hurst Sanders ’89* David W. Slook ’69 Ada L. Torres ’93* William John Sanders Jeffrey H. Weitzman ’72* James W. Smith ’71* Linda A. Townsend ’80* Richard H. Sargent ’67* Mary Ellen Smith Warren Welch ’69 Jill P. Sargent Edward H. Townsend, IV ’10* C. Joseph Smith ’77 Jennifer H. Townsend ’11* Arthur W. Wentlandt ’79* Kevin T. Saunders ’97 Robert B. Smith ’78 Jessica G. Trombetta ’11 Beth E. Westfall ’86* Kenneth P. Savin ’76 Elizabeth Page Smith ’86 Michael E. Trosset ’97 Gwynne A. Wilcox Jeffrey E. Schanback ’74* Joshua Lee Smith ’05 Sarah P. Trosset Michelle Marie Wilcox Paul H. Scheuerlein ’84* Thomas W. Snook ’74 Cora True-Frost ’01 Roberta G. Williams ’83 Michael Schiavone ’81* Patrick M. Snyder ’86 James True-Frost Karl G. Williams ’95 Steven G. Schier ’79 Benjamin D. Snyder ’12* Joshua R. Tumen ’15 Tanisa Williams ’95 Tamara L. Schlinger ’00* Barbara J. Sobczak Kathleen L. Turland ’95 Mark N. Williams ’11 Joseph B. Schmit ’97 Joseph A. Sobczak, Sr. Susan S. Turnbaugh ’07 Barry M. Winnick ’87* Jesse Kopf Jonathan A. Schnader ’12 Rudolph W. Sohl ’15 Todd F. Wojtowicz ’06* Jared S. Turner ’06 Jeffrey Y. Schnader David S. Sorce ’80* Alan E. Wolf ’84* Terry L. Turnipseed Eric M. Schneider ’79 Robert A. Soriano ’77 Beth Anne Wolfson ’82 Peggy Lynne Bailey Tyler ’78 Martin Schoenfeld ’71* Heidi Levine Sorkin ’88 Andrew M. Wong ’94* Donna L. Schoenfeld Kenneth H. Sorkin John W. Uhlein, III ’81* Maria R. Woodarek ’15 Arnold M. Schotsky ’59* R. Robert Sossen, Jr. ’74 Susan E. Upward ’15 Laurence H. Woodward ’68* Richard D. Schuler ’72 Richard R. Southwick ’83 Ana Lucia Urizar ’14 Jane S. Woodward Karen S. Southwick ’04 Jack Schultz ’54* Lynne A. Ustach ’81* Ramsey L. Woodworth ’67* Sybil Schultz David J. Spader ’66 Linda J. Valenti ’79 Patricia P. Spader James P. Wright, Jr. ’08* Jeremy J. Scileppi ’89* Gary J. Valerino ’88* Jeffrey Sperber ’90* Andrew W. Wright ’10* Michael J. Sciotti ’91 Peter R. Van Allen ’70 Stacy M. Wright ’10* Arnold Spitz ’68* Catherine A. Scott ’82 Yvette Velasco ’99 Theodore J. Wu ’07* Thomas S. Squire ’77* Frederick J. Scullin, Jr. ’64* Pasquale O. Vella ’07* Daniel J. Yablonsky ’86 Michael G. St. Leger ’88* Rania V. Sedhom ’97 Scott M. Vetri ’95* Francene Yablonsky John D. Segaul ’91* Rachel A. Stanley ’07 Lana A. Yaghi ’14 Neal Nguyen Derick C. Villanueva ’03* Lorraine H. Segaul John C. Young ’60* Jonathan S. Starr ’00 Deborah Vitanza Lauren Hornish Seiter ’04* Justina M. Young ’04* Graham B. Seiter ’04* Julie R. Starr John W. Vogel ’75 George S. Yuda ’64* Philip G. Semprevio ’09* Patricia L. Stasco ’03 Richard R. Volack ’98 Craig J. Zicari ’74* Michele Hoffman Sexton ’82* Vanessa Macias Stillman ’11 Peter B. Volmes ’71* Daniel Truitt Stillman ’12 Kristin Forshee Zimar ’14 Anthony F. Shaheen ’59* Michael P. Votto ’03* Parker J. Stone ’60* Frederick Zimmer ’80* Catherine A. Shamlian ’02 Petia S. Vretenarova ’00 Carl S. Strass ’64* John W. Shamlian Peter J. Wacks ’65 Donald J. Zorn, Jr. ’96 Jenya Shanayeva ’09* Michael B. Sullivan ’85* David Zuckerbraun ’84* Mary C. O’Connor Herbert N. Wallace ’62* Peter E. Shapiro ’88 Peter L. Zurkow ’78 Mark J. Sweeney ’13* Richard B. Wallach ’06 Ronald V. Sharpe ’60* Norman Alan Kutcher Frank Y. Tang ’88*

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Law Firms, Corporations, Foundations, and Friends of the College of Law

AARP Foundation GE Fund Eli Lilly & Company Sabin & Sabin Adam Leitman Bailey P.C. General Reinsurance Corporation Mackenzie Hughes LLP Scholastica LLC Alfred & Harriet Feinman Goetz Fitzpatrick LLP Martin Law Firm Schwab Charitable Fund Foundation W. W. Grainger Inc. McCarthy Law PLLC Shell Oil Company Foundation Inc. American Express Company Hancock Estabrook, LLP McGuireWoods LLP Snell & Wilmer LLP American International Group Inc. Jewish Community Foundation The Merck Company Foundation The Adam Miller Group P.C. B.R. & Carol Kossar Foundation of Metrowest National Italian American Bar The Ayco Charitable Foundation Badger Meter Foundation Joe Christensen Inc. Association The Blanck Family Foundation Bar Bri Bar Review Johnson & Johnson Family Nationwide Foundation The Sheridan Press of Companies Blitman & King LLP Neporent Family Foundation The Wonderful Company Kaplan Bar Review Bond Schoeneck & King PLLC New York Life Insurance Company Themis Bar Review LLC Keegan Werlin LLP Bousquet Holstein PLLC NYS Academy of Trial Lawyers Thomson Reuters Kornienko Law Firm PLLC Cantone Law Firm P.C. Pfizer Foundation Tully Rinckey PLLC KPMG Foundation Central New York Community PG&E Corporation United Technologies Corporation Foundation Inc. Kysor & Della Posta Phillips Spallas & Angstadt LLP The Vanguard Group of Investment Charlottesville Area Community Law Office of PIMCO Foundation Companies Foundation Joseph M. DiOrio Inc. PJM Interconnection LLC Vogel Law Office P.C. Crowley Law Offices Law Office of PricewaterhouseCoopers Voya Financial Eaton Corporation Miguel C. Fernandez II The Principal Financial Group Wells Fargo Foundation Erickson Webb Scolton & Hajdu Law Office of Michael J. Kerwin, Esq. Procter & Gamble Company William and Joan Brodsky Estate Planning Law Center Law Office of Pullini Realty Corporation Foundation Inc. EY Thomas J. DiSalvo, Esq. Rabine & Nickelsberg William Mattar P.C. EY Foundation Law Offices of Mark A. Kompa RLI Insurance Company Zwirn and Zwirn Fidelity Charitable Gift Fund LexisNexis Group Rochester Area Community Fund for the City of New York Foundation

Gifts Were Received in Memory of Gifts Were Received in Honor of the Following People: the Following People:

Joseph R. Biden III ’94 Betty B. Lourie Hannah R. Arterian Joanne M. Mahoney ’90 Jeremy A. Blumenthal Charles M. Manheim ’48 William C. Banks Marris Family Members in Central New York C. Marvin Bottrill June G. Manheim Erin R Bauwens Janis L. McDonald Alma Castaldo John R. Marshall, Jr. ’61 Peter A. Bell Edward J. Moses ’68 Marvin Cooper ’57 Walter L. Meagher, Sr. Miles M. Bottrill Robert G. Nassau Samuel J.M. Donnelly James A. Mitchell ’58 Cody Joseph Carbone ’16 Sarah M. Oliker ’03 May E. Dorn Joseph P. Pylman ’08 Vincent H. Cohen, Jr. ’95 Thomas A. Vitanza ’58 Richard J. Elliott ’59 Joseph A. Sobczak, Sr. Louise E. Dembeck ’65 David P. Weber ’98 Dustin Friedland ’09 C. Roderick Surratt Susan R. Horn ’74 Michael David Wohl ’75 Raymond W. Hackbarth ’51 John H. Terry ’48 Paula C. Johnson Richard J. Zwirn ’74 Grace Heath Mary Ann Wiesner-Glazier Ian Sheldon Ludd

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Courtney A. Abbott-Hill ’09 Anita C. DiSalvo Paula C. Johnson Keli A. Perrin ’04 Aviva Abramovsky Lisa A. Dolak ’88 David Cay Johnston Kim Wolf Price ’03 Rakesh K. Anand David M. Driesen Arlene S. Kanter Andrea R. Rabbia Robert Harold Ashford Alexandra C. Epsilanty ’92 Samantha Z. Kasmarek Robert J. Rabin Elizabeth A. August ’94 Cheryl A. Ficarra J. Zachary Kelley Rosemary D. Rainbow William C. Banks Jan Fleckenstein ’11 Deborah S. Kenn LaVonda N. Reed Peter A. Bell Diana Foote Lori Golden Kiewe Lucille M. Rignanese ’99 Peter Blanck Thomas R. French Anikka S. Laubenstein M. Jack Rudnick ’73 Miles M. Bottrill Martin L. Fried Lynn Levey ’94 Shannon P. Ryan Keith J. Bybee Tomas Gonzalez ’05 Travis H.D. Lewin William C. Snyder Melissa P. Cassidy Lauryn Gouldin Robin Paul Malloy Barbara J. Sobczak Sanjay Chhablani Margaret M. Harding Thomas J. Maroney ’63 Cora True-Frost ’01 Robert T. Conrad Christine Harrison Janis L. McDonald Terry L. Turnipseed Theresa A. Coulter Steven D. Harrison Suzette M. Melendez William M. Wiecek David M. Crane ’80 Peter E. Herzog ’55 Jessica Murray Michelle Marie Wilcox Melanie Cuevas-Rodrigues ’00 Andrew S. Horsfall ’10 Robert G. Nassau Christian C. Day Kavitha Janardhan Lynn Mavis Oatman Ronald M. Denby Elizabeth C. Jeffery Kristin A. Pardee

Beau Biden L’94 Memorial Scholarship

Anthony P. Adorante ’67 Diana Zwirn DeMarco Lynn Levey ’94 Cheryl B. Pinarchick ’95 Lucille Ann Adorante Darren J. Elkind ’94 Sherman F. Levey ’59 Scott J. Pinarchick ’95 Richard M. Alexander ’82 Alexandra C. Epsilanty ’92 Elsa C. Lopez-Megerdichian ’95 Robert J. Rabin Emily N. Alexander Daniel S. Jonas Thomas J. Maroney ’63 Alan J. Rainbow Melissa Eisen Azarian ’93 Bradley Fischer Mary K. Maroney Rosemary D. Rainbow Philip H. Azarian ’93 Joseph S. Goode ’94 Courtney K. McCarthy ’95 Lisa M. Pullini-Rodri ’94 William C. Banks Rebecca Troendle Hewitt ’94 Andre Martineau Martin Q. Ruhaak, Jr. ’07 Frederick E. Block ’92 Suzette M. Melendez Sarah Davila-Ruhaak ’07 Karla V. Block Christopher C. Fallon, Jr. ’73 Adam M. Miller ’95 Frank W. Ryan, IV ’94 Miles M. Bottrill Deborah S. Kenn Melissa Dunne Ryan ’94 Sylvia M. Montan ’94 Diana L. Brick ’93 Patrick M. Kennell ’02 Kathleen L. Turland ’95 Dawn J. Krigstin ’03 Katharine J. Neer ’14 Anne Syrocki Cantwell ’92 Scott M. Vetri ’95 Michael J. Kerwin ’94 David L. Niefer ’94 Hallie Brooke Chase ’07 David P. Wales, Jr. ’95 Ryan K. Kerwin ’04 Nancy A. Noonan ’95 Sen. Alfonse M. D’Amato ’61 Jaime L. Wales Benjamin M. Kopp ’15 Mark E. O’Brien ’14 Christian C. Day Todd F. Wojtowicz ’06 Ann Marie Day Christine Kshyna Sarah M. Oliker ’03 Richard J. Zwirn ’74 Scott A. de la Vega ’94 Sarah G. Leonard ’07 Michelle T. Parker ’14

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Syracuse Law Review

Platinum Donors William A. Carpenter, Jr. ’69 Andrew M. Knoll ’03 Phillip R. Rumsey ’75 Gifts over $2,500 Jessica R. Caterina ’11 Jessica E. Kuester ’09 Frank W. Ryan, IV ’94 Kim Marie Boylan ’86 Donald E. Clark ’87 Adrian J. Leonard, IV ’10 Melissa Dunne Ryan ’94 Robert E. Dineen Jr. ’66 Jesse C. Clark ’04 Richard Levy, Jr. ’77 John W. Sager ’71 Tamara L. Schlinger ’00 Gold Donors Tabitha M. Croscut ’03 Gene S. Manheim ’76 Gifts between $1,500-$2,499 Sarah Davila-Ruhaak ’07 Donald J. Martin ’68 Joseph B. Schmit ’97 Joseph O. Lampe ’55 Joseph M. DiOrio ’81 Katherine Kudriashova Martin ’99 Martin Schoenfeld ’71 Milan M. Durgala ’63 Sean T. Martin ’99 Arnold M. Schotsky ’59 Silver Donors Thomas William Mayo ’77 Richard D. Schuler ’72 Gifts between $500-$1,499 Gregory D. Eriksen ’10 Thomas J. McKenna ’84 Peter E. Shapiro ’88 William J. Brodsky ’68 Joseph G. Falcone ’93 Kevin D. Minsky ’97 Darrin M Simmons ’15 Todd K. Hanna ’00 Jeffrey C. Falkin ’68 Natalie M. Mitchell ’13 Jeffrey Sperber ’90 Joseph H. Hobika, Sr. ’56 Christopher C. Fallon, Jr. ’73 Edward J. Moses ’68 Eleanor Theodore ’52 Kaplan Bar Review John C. Filippini ’72 Gordon W. Netzorg ’76 Gregory L. Thornton ’71 Mark Kessel ’66 Robert S. Finley ’76 John M. Nichols ’07 Aaron M. Tidman ’07 Holly Klus McClellan ’96 Nancy A. Fischer ’92 Ernest Ginsberg ’55 Francis X. Nolan, III ’74 Edward H. Townsend IV ’10 Jennifer H. Townsend ’11 Orange Donors Roy S. Gutterman ’00 Mark E. O’Brien ’14 Gifts up to $499 Jessica G. Trombetta ’11 Ellen M. Halstead ’04 Alex T. Paradiso ’10 Christian Adamiak ’00 Cora True-Frost ’01 John H. Hartman ’73 Joseph A. Pavone ’71 Nelson D. Atkin II ’74 Petia S. Vretenarova ’00 Paul A. Hedstrom ’73 David E. Peebles ’75 Cory P. Balliet ’08 David P. Wales, Jr. ’95 Benjamin T. Hickman ’07 Melissa A. Pennington ’04 Robert A. Barker ’58 Paul V. Webb, Jr. ’72 Monique E. Holmes ’04 David A. Pravda ’65 Todd M. Belous ’90 Jeffrey H. Weitzman ’72 Stephanie A. Jacqueney ’82 Joel H. Rabine ’65 Daniel L. Blanchard ’11 Timothy J. Welsh ’04 Margaret A. Jones ’01 Kevin J. Roggow ’05 George T. Bruckman ’59 Stephen J. Jones ’01 Jeffrey N. Rosenthal ’08 Beth E. Westfall ’86 Denise Spellman Butler ’06 Michael A. Kaplan ’11 Martin Q. Ruhaak, Jr. ’07 Valerie A. Wieczorek-Thors ’85 Sophia L. Cahill ’14 Craig J. Zicari ’74

Journal for International Law and Commerce

Platinum Donors Silver Donors Orange Donors Nancy D. Lapera ’80 Gifts over $2,500 Gifts between $500-$1,499 Gifts up to $499 Patrick J. Lapera ’80 Scott P. Boylan ’85 Peter A. Lefkin ’80 Dale L. Carlson ’75 W. Carson McLean ’06 Gemma M. Lury ’72 Timothy W. Crowley ’97 Lori-Ann Ricci ’85 Richard R. Lury ’72 Jannet Gurian ’79 Richard R. Volack ’98 Deborah H. Karalunas ’82 Andrew Glenn Weiss ’87 Katsura K. Kurita ’98 Mr. Joseph J. Wielebinski, Jr.

Every effort has been made to ensure accuracy in this Honor Roll Sophie Dagenais of Donors. We extend our sincere apologies for any typographical Assistant Dean for Advancement and External Affairs errors or omissions. Syracuse University College of Law Office of Advancement and External Affairs, Suite 402, Dineen Hall Please forward any corrections to the attention of: 950 Irving Avenue, Syracuse NY 13244 315.443.1964, [email protected]

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59 ALUMNI ASSOCIATION PRESIDENT

Syracuse University Law Alumni Association

Dear Alumni and Friends of the College of Law:

I am honored to serve as president In August, the College of Law welcomed its third class into of the Syracuse University Law the law school’s home, Dineen Hall. It is a tremendous Alumni Association (SULAA), center for legal education with modern classrooms, advanced and excited to welcome our technology in every corner of the building, a great new library, newest members from the Class state-of-the-art courtrooms for trial practice courses and moot of 2016 and our long-standing court teams, and new resources for faculty members and staff. members from all prior classes. I encourage any College of Law graduate who has not been As graduates of the College of Law, back to campus to find an opportunity to come back and take you are automatically a member a look at this fabulous new facility. of SULAA. Our mission is to Lastly, I want to thank all the alumni who returned to Syracuse strengthen the bonds between for the College of Law’s Annual Reunion Weekend. We honored alumni, current students, and three distinguished College of Law alumni with the Syracuse the College of Law. The SULAA Board of Directors and I look Law Honors Award, celebrated with members of graduation forward seeing you at events in the near future, whether in classes ending in “1” and “6,” interacted with faculty and Syracuse or elsewhere. We have a series of events listed on students, and spent time together reminiscing about the our website, law.syr.edu. You can also join our Facebook past and thinking about the future of the College of Law. Law page, facebook.com/syracuselaw to learn about our ongoing Alumni Weekend is always a special occasion and I hope you activities. can attend next year’s event. You will feel welcomed while The College of Law is experiencing an exciting time of here and return home full of pride in the impact College transformation and growth. First, on behalf of all alumni, of Law alumni are making in the legal industry and in the I would like to welcome the new Dean of the College of Law, communities they serve.

Craig M. Boise, to Syracuse. We look forward to working with I look forward to greeting you soon at a College of Law event. him to advance the law school and forge even tighter bonds with its alumni community. Sincerely,

Carey Ng President, SULAA

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Syracuse University Law Alumni Association

Executive Committee Members President Michael J. Allan L’98 Hon. Kirk E. Miller L’76 Carey W. Ng L’02 Steptoe & Johnson LLP State of California District Attorney’s Office Washington, DC Office of Administrative Hearings New York County Oakland, CA New York, NY Nelson D. Atkin II ’74 Barran Liebman LLP Kasper E. Mingo L’99 First Vice President Portland, OR Morgan Stanley Charlotte, NC Amy Vanderlyke Dygert L’06 Andrew Peter Bakaj L’06 Cornell University Library Compass Rose Legal Group PLLC Kevin D. Minsky L’97 Ithaca, NY Washington, DC Booz Allen Hamilton Inc. McLean, VA Second Vice President Michael J. Drayo L’01 Patrick M. Kennell L’02 The Vanguard Group, Inc. Heather Schroder Morawski L’07 Kaufman Dolowich & Voluck LLP Wayne, PA Robert Bosch LLC New York, NY Farmington Hills, MI Sarah M. Feingold L’05 Executive Secretary Vroom Inc. Mark E. O’Brien L’14 Richard Levy Jr. L’77 New York, NY U.S. Court of Appeals Pryor Cashman LLP Richmond, VA New York, NY Michael A. Fogel L’04 Brown Sharlow Duke & Fogel P.C. Thaddeus L. Pitney L’06 Treasurer Syracuse, NY C.R. Bard Inc. Matthew R. Policastro L’02 New Providence, NJ Charles Schwab Trust Company Robert E. Futrell Jr. L’94 Henderson, NV Wyrick Robbins Yates & Ponton LLP Frederic L. Pugliese L’11 Raleigh, NC Air Force JAG Corps. Immediate Past President Las Cruces, NM Sarah M. Oliker L’03 Suzanne O. Galbato L’98 ConMed Corporation Bond Schoeneck & King PLLC Kevin J. Roggow L’05 Utica, NY Syracuse, NY Shearman & Sterling LLP Toronto, ON, Canada Ex Officio Catherine Sinnwell Gerlach L’13 Adam J. Katz L’04 Meardon, Sueppel and Downer Charles J. Taylor L’96 U.S. Attorney’s Office Iowa City, Iowa State of California Northern District of New York Office of the State Controller Albany, NY Becki D. Graham L’05 Los Angeles, CA Ogletree Deakins Nash Smoak & Stewart P.C. Jennifer Holsman Tetreault L’03 San Francisco, CA U.S. Foods Phoenix, AZ Amy M. Hawkes L’01 Outsource Aaron M. Tidman L’07 EI Segundo, CA Gilead Sciences Inc. Foster City, CA Bert E. Kaufman L’07 Zook Inc. Kevin M. Toomey L’12 Menlo Park, CA Arnold & Porter LLP Washington, DC

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ALUMNI SPOTLIGHT | PETER HERZOG L’55 Peter Herzog L’55 grew up as Herzog has written extensively on comparative law, conflicts the son of an attorney in Vienna, of law and torts. He received the Chancellor’s Citation for Academic Austria. He was a teenager when Excellence in 1983. German troops marched into Preparing young students for their careers in law was a Austria in 1938, preceding World challenge that Herzog says he always enjoyed. “Teaching law is War II. As his father was Jewish, providing students with an overview of the law as well as the tools these were especially frightening to understand the relationship of legal rules with society. The goal times for his family. “My formal is that when students begin practicing law, they are equipped to see education as a consequence was the various aspects of the law and how they fit together with the very fractured,” says Herzog legal issues they have to deal with,” Herzog says. “As a teacher you Herzog came to the U.S. and have to do that overview and show how it all comes together.” completed his bachelor’s degree “I could say that of all the courses I taught, I enjoyed First Year at Hobart College, before coming Torts the most, as first year students are usually most eager and to the College of Law. Over the excited by how the law deals with factual situation they can relate to. course of more than 60 years, his fascination with the law—whether There you are dealing with concrete problems—problems of people practicing, teaching or just discussing it—has never waned. “Law are alive today,” he says. “I was always interested in the fact that law is always very interesting,” he says. “It really is a window on the relates to actual life in one way or another.” working of society.” “Comparative law is more abstract,” Herzog says, adding that After graduating from the College of Law, Herzog pursued learning about the society of a particular country is an important a master’s of law at Columbia University, where he specialized in component of understanding that country’s legal system. Comparative Law and Conflicts of Law. He began his career as a Brigitte Herzog gave a naming gift to the College of Law to New York State Deputy Assistant Attorney General in 1957, moving honor her husband Peter, in recognition of his more than 35 years on to be Assistant Attorney General the following year. as a professor, and to recognize the impact he has had on her He came to teach at the College of Law in 1958, and maintained professional life in the U.S. as well as the impact he has had on many professional positions along with his teaching and research, many students and fellow faculty. including serving as a consultant to the New York Commission on The gift made it possible to include in Dineen Hall a dedicated, Eminent Domain, a staff member at the Columbia University Project climate-controlled Law Library Special Collections Room, where on International Procedure, and Associate Director of the Columbia rare and fragile items, and the photos, papers, and objects that University on European Legal Institutions. document the history of the College of Law can be housed and Herzog was named Crandall Melvin Professor of Law and displayed safely. The Special Collections Room, on the second floor taught and inspired hundreds of students during his decades of the Herzog Collections area, is also equipped for online research, of teaching at the College of Law, many of whom, such as Vice writing, and meetings. President Joseph Biden, have gone on to very successful careers. The Herzog Collections area is a visually stunning and iconic He was also a visiting professor at the Universities of Paris, at internal structure that is striking in appearance from both inside The College of European Law in Bruges and at others universities and outside Dineen Hall and presents the Law Library as a warm in Europe. It was in the Netherlands in 1969 at the academy of and inviting space for students, faculty and visitors to conduct their International Law in The Hague that Herzog, who was teaching research. The lower level of the Herzog Collections space holds the a seminar in Private International Law, met his wife Brigitte, a Reference and Reserve Collections, which contain the books most native of France and a lawyer, who was participating in the summer frequently used by law students and visitors to the Law Library. program there. The two married a year later, and Brigitte decided “The Herzog’s gift has been a wonderful boon for the library,” to pursue a second law degree at the College of Law, graduating in says Jan Fleckenstein, Lecturer and Acting Director of the library. 1975 and taking the New York Bar exam. She then worked for United “It’s a beautiful, beautiful space that lets us show our pride in the Technologies Corporation for more than 30 years. College of Law.”

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Bernard T. King has been elected to the board of governors at the American Bar Association. He is senior partner at Blitman & King, LLP, and has more than 55 years of legal experience and practices in the area of labor and employment law. King currently serves as a member of the joint committee on employee benefits, and on the board of regents for Le Moyne College. He also serves as a member of the Syracuse advisory board for the Salvation Army, and is the founding co-chairman of the Central New York chapter of the labor and employment research association.

62 | SYRACUSE LAW ALUMNI SPOTLIGHT | ROSEMARY BUCCI L’64 In 1947, growing up in together once Bucci graduated and they did so together for 42 Baldwinsville, NY as the daughter years. With Family Court appearances requiring a lot of time away of a machinist, a college from the office, the two decided to split the work—Bucci would education seemed out of the handle family law, and Lockwood took on the other cases that question. Rosemary Bucci L’64 came in, mainly real estate, trusts, and estates. was an excellent student and won Business came in early and steadily for Bucci. From the a year’s scholarship to Central beginning, she took on divorce cases, many of which she says City Business Institute, a business were patently unfair to women financially. school in downtown Syracuse. Mothers who had stayed home to raise children had no Bucci found work in what she financial resources to seek legal help in a divorce. “The men could calls “the big city” (Syracuse) but afford attorneys,” she says. “They got bully attorneys.” after a few years she grew tired of Bucci took on cases, even if she knew she was not going to taking the bus back and forth from be paid. ’I could not stand by and see this happen, and see these Baldwinsville, and accepted a job women get stuck.” with the Gale and Stone Law Firm in her hometown. After several Without adequate child support, Bucci says, single mothers years of doing clerical work and typing for lawyers, she decided she were forced to go on Welfare. Eventually, the Federal Government would become a lawyer, herself. intervened with the Family Court Child Enforcement Program and Bucci still practices family law, working out of her office on The Child Support Standards Act, which required reasonable child Syracuse Street, where she first opened her door in Baldwinsville support for mothers and children. Bucci was a strong advocate for and set up shop in January 1965. “I bloomed where I was planted,” her clients and developed a great reputation. she laughs. “I’m nicely busy. I like working one-on-one with people. “They used to say I was keeping marriages together in I like to help solve problems and God knows a lot of people have Baldwinsville, because what would happen is one spouse would problems.” say to the other, ’I’m going down to see Rosemary Bucci.’” Bucci was one of only two women in her law school class. Right now, Bucci has no plans to retire from her family law She remembers comments from some male students when she practice. Her associate, Linda Cook L’73 ,continues to take care first enrolled. “Some didn’t take me too seriously. They said I was of the other areas of the law as she has for over 40 years, so the there to find a husband, or they said, someday you could be my office is well equipped to carry out a general law practice. Bucci secretary.” The teasing only lasted until the first grades came out— even worked on her most recent birthday, and her office celebrated when Bucci proved to be a stellar student. with a cake and a party. June Lockwood A&S’61, L’63 was a year ahead of Bucci at the “Yes, I worked on my birthday,” she says. ’It’s okay. My God, College of Law, and the two became friends. They both graduated birthdays come around every year.” at the top of their class. Lockwood and Bucci decided to practice

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James D. Fitzpatrick Walter L. Meagher was listed in the current edition of Jr. has been selected Marquis “Who’s Who in the World,” for inclusion in (2016), 33rd Edition, founded in 1889. Upstate New York Fitzpatrick was also named “One of the Super Lawyers for 2015. Outstanding People of the 20th Century” Meagher is a partner by the International Biographical Center, at Hancock Estabrook, Cambridge, England. LLP and has over 40 years of experience in the areas of personal injury, premises liability, automobile liability, construction accidents and products liability litigation.

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Jules L. Smith, Partner Richard D. Hole has M. Catherine of the Blitman & King, been selected by his Richardson was LLP law firm with offices peers for inclusion honored by the New in Rochester, Syracuse, in The Best Lawyers York Bar Foundation Albany and New York 2016. He is a member with its Lifetime City, was elected Chair and Chairman of Achievement Award. of the Board of the the Management Richardson, who also Rochester Symphony Orchestra (RPO). Committee at Bond served as president of The New York He has served on the Board for several Schoeneck & King, PLLC in Syracuse Bar Foundation (2009–2010) received years, has been the Secretary of the Board where he concentrates his practice in the honor during the Bar Association’s the last three years. the areas of Employment Benefits and 2016 Annual Meeting in New York City. Executive Compensation. Richardson, now retired, spent her entire legal career at Bond Schoeneck & King, Scott M. Karson of Stony Brook, New PLLC in Syracuse assisting hospitals in 1973 York, a partner at Lamb & Barnosky, LLP of mergers and consolidations and advising Melville, New York, became the Treasurer medical centers on corporate and medical Hon. John T. Rafferty of the New York State Bar Association on staff bylaws, credentialing of medical marched at the front June 1, 2016. Karson is a former President staff and allied health professionals. of the 2016 West of the Suffolk County Bar Association Additionally, she worked on the formation Hollywood Gay Pride (2004-05). and certification of an HMO and regularly Parade, the nation’s advised insurance companies and HMOs largest, with L.A. Mayor David A. Riggs was recently named regarding New York State Insurance Law Eric Garcetti and LAPD a 2016 Florida Super Lawyers by Super and Public Health Law. Chief Charlie Beck. Lawyers Magazine and was also listed among the 2016 Legal Elite by Florida Trend Magazine. Riggs, an attorney with 1974 Brinkley Morgan, focuses his practice 1978 in the areas of marital and family law, Joseph A. Greenman has been selected probate litigation and guardianships. Joseph Zagraniczny by his peers for inclusion in The Best has been recognized as Lawyers 2016. He is a member at Bond a Best Lawyers 2016 in Schoeneck & King, PLLC in Syracuse Litigation–Bankruptcy. where he concentrates his practice in the 1976 He is a Member in the area of Trusts and Estates. Jatrice Martel Gaiter, executive vice Albany, Rochester and president of external affairs for Volunteers Syracuse offices of Bond of America, has assumed a key leadership Schoeneck & King, PLLC. He is co-chair role as chair of the National Human of the firm’s business restructuring, Services Assembly’s board of directors. A creditors’ rights and bankruptcy practice. passionate advocate for America’s most vulnerable, Gaiter has spent her career working for human service nonprofits at both the national and local levels. As national executive vice president for external affairs, she leads Volunteers of America’s fundraising, communications, marketing and public policy activities.

64 | SYRACUSE LAW ALUMNI SPOTLIGHT | KIRK MILLER L’76 In the fall of 1974, Kirk Miller L’76 American Medical International. He worked for the company for was surprised to find himself in more than a decade in Beverly Hills, California, as well as in Dallas, Syracuse as a transfer student Texas, ultimately leading the department as general counsel. from California. After having been Miller’s health care experience brought him back to on the waiting list for admission California as Senior Vice President and General Counsel of Kaiser the year before, an unexpected Permanente, the country’s largest integrated health plan with letter came that July offering a 8,000,000 members and revenues of $40 billion. “This was seat in the class of 1976. Upon an opportunity to make positive changes in a mission-driven arrival in Upstate New York, he company, learning to fight for its market position,” he says. Miller discovered two other students stayed with Kaiser for 10 years. from the Golden State, and thus In 2007, California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger started a new, life-changing appointed Miller Deputy Secretary and General Counsel for the adventure. California Natural Resources Agency. The agency is responsible “Law school was never easy for everything outdoors in the state—from parks to water for me,” Miller says, “but I always found it more collegial than resources to forest fires. Miller oversaw the work of 150 lawyers competitive. My next-door-neighbor tutored me through the tax and served as the state’s chief negotiator and spokesperson in course, and those of us in the Prisoners Rights Clinic were highly the drive to remove four hydroelectric dams in the state’s Klamath supportive of each other.” Miller liked the law’s substantive nature, River, with the goal of restoring salmon habitat. The agreement, especially skill-based courses such as evidence and trial practice. which involved more than 30 parties, is the largest dam removal “It’s hard to believe how fresh the memories of law school agreement ever reached in the nation. feel 40 years later, and how those years shaped the life that He says transitioning from health care to environmental law followed,” says Miller, who is now an Administrative Law Judge and policy was not as difficult as one might expect. “As lawyers we in the general jurisdiction division of the California Office of like to think there is a methodology and basket of skills that readily Administrative Hearings. While many unforeseen events impact a transfers across practice areas. Fortunately, I found that is true. career, Miller attributes working as a Legal Research and Writing Finding the legal or business issue, and separating the important Instructor as a third year student as the catalyst for much that from the unimportant, is what lawyers are best at, and why they followed. He took the Colorado Bar after law school and was are problem solvers,” Miller says. hired by a Colorado law firm that represented a large hospital in Miller says he maintains a fondness for the College of Law, the area. Since Miller had experience writing and teaching, he which set him on his path. “I have always been grateful for the was given the responsibility to write orientation materials for new unexpected opportunity Syracuse provided, which led to a diverse employees, such as interns and nurses, and teach some basics and interesting career, far different than anything I might have about professional liability. expected.” While he was in Denver for only two years, the experience led to an in-house position with a publicly traded hospital company,

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R. Daniel Bordoni has been selected by Robert M. Drillings Steven A. Paquette, his peers for inclusion in The Best Lawyers was hired as Of a member at Bousquet 2016. He is a member at Bond Schoeneck Counsel in the Public Holstein, PLLC, & King, PLLC in Syracuse where he Finance Practice in Syracuse was concentrates his practice in the area of Group of Buchanan recognized in the Labor & Employment law. Ingersoll & Rooney in 2015 New York Super New York. Drillings Lawyers–Upstate represents issuers of tax-exempt and Edition. He is an experienced litigator taxable municipal bonds as bond counsel, and matrimonial-family law attorney disclosure counsel and special counsel. who brings over 31 years of practical He also works with conduit borrowers, experience to seek fair and reasoned including developers of affordable and solutions to client problems. His current mixed-income housing, underwriters, practice involves successfully navigating placement agents and indenture trustees sophisticated divorce and family law in tax-exempt and taxable municipal bond matters to a successful conclusion and issuances. working with businesses to maximize their potential for success.

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ALUMNI SPOTLIGHT | AL W. KING III L’83 After completing his Through his interconnected experiences, King developed a undergraduate degree at Holy skillset that has benefited his clients on a daily basis. “I wanted Cross College, Al W. King III L’83 to try one of the non-traditional routes for law school and LL.M. arrived at the College of Law tax graduates with the idea that the combination of the legal with the intention of immersing background, the financial and estate planning background and himself in the new sports law work experiences would allow me to serve clients from a unique program. And what better time perspective, which was something the market place was lacking to be at the law school, thinking at the time.” of sports law, than the year the While at Citibank, King co-founded Citicorp Trust South Carrier Dome opened. Dakota within the Citibank South Dakota credit card bank where Alas, after his first year, he was Vice Chairman. This experience led him to strike out King learned that the sports law on his own ten years later and co-found South Dakota Trust program was being postponed. Company LLC, a boutique trust company headquartered in Sioux The school directed those who Falls, South Dakota with an affiliate office in New York City, where intended to participate in the King is located, with trust assets of over $30 billion and agency sports law program to take contract and tax law courses, as they relationships over $80 billion with clients throughout the U.S. would be beneficial to the field of sports law. and the world. “I began my career nervous to speak at a staff King heeded this advice and took every tax law course meeting when I was at Ayco to having done more than 1,800 offered, many with Professor Jon Bischel, who would serve as speeches in my thirty-year career,” notes King. a mentor. “When I first heard tax law courses, my thought was After many years in the financial and estate planning field thank God for coffee and Marshall Street!’ remembers King. in several different industries, King realized how complex and Upon graduating, King took the advice of Professor important fiduciary laws had become and were evolving, making Bischel and enrolled in the LL.M. in Tax Law program at Boston it clear that his legal background was a very valuable asset. “I University, where Bischel served as an adjunct. After receiving his think a legal studies background is invaluable whether someone LL.M., King joined a firm called Ayco, in Albany, New York. “Ayco practices law, is a C-level executive, starts his own business, hired and trained law school and LL.M. in tax graduates how enters the insurance, investment management, banking, trust or to advise the C-level Fortune 500 executives with their benefits, company professions,” says King. income tax, estate, investment and insurance plans, so we could King remains connected with the College of Law through act as a bridge between the executives and their lawyers, CPAs, Professor Terry Turnipseed, who he works with to arrange investment and insurance advisors,” says King. internships and, at times, hire graduates for the South Dakota King left Ayco after a few years and worked in the financial/ Trust. “I highly recommend that other alumni take advantage of estate planning fields with Prudential Bache Securities, this opportunity with Terry and other law school professors. The Connecticut National/Shawmut Bank and Price Waterhouse professors know the students best!” he says. Coopers before taking a position as the National Director of Estate Planning at Citicorp/Citigroup.

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Laurence G. Bousquet Nicholas J. D’Ambrosio, Marion Hancock Fish will be included in the has been recognized as a was selected to lead a joint 22nd Edition of The Best Best Lawyers 2016 in Labor NYS Bar Association/NY Lawyers in America 2016. Law-Management. He is Bar Foundation Pro Bono Bousquet is a member of a member at the Albany Funding Committee to Bousquet Holstein, PLLC office of Bond Schoeneck & raise additional resources and serves on its Board of King, PLLC. to support statewide Managers. pro bono activities and further support attorneys who assist the underprivileged. Fish, a partner at the Central New York- based law firm of Hancock Estabrook, LLP, focuses her practice on representing clients in matters involving estate planning, family business planning and succession, charitable giving, not-for-profit law and elder law and special needs administration.

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Mark E. Saltarelli Gilbert M. Hoffman has been Dennis C. Brown was elected Judge of the appointed Co-Chair of the Committee has been recognized Tonawanda City Court on Title and Transfer of the New York as a Best Lawyers for a ten-year term State Bar Association, Real Property Law 2016 in Tax Law. He which began January 1, Section. He serves as Of Counsel for the is Senior Counsel and 2016. firm in the areas of transactional real Managing Partner of the estate, title law, real estate development, Naples office of Bond financing, leasing, title and boundary Schoeneck & King, PLLC. disputes, easements and oil and gas leases. Hoffman chairs the Onondaga Clifford J. Risman 1981 County Bar’s Real Property Law Section has been recognized by and also serves on the Executive Chambers USA 2015 in Hermes Fernandez has been selected Committee of the State Bar’s Real two areas. A partner at by his peers for inclusion in The Best Property Law Section. Gardere Wynn Sewell Lawyers 2016. He is a member at Bond LLP, Mr. Risman chairs Schoeneck & King, PLLC in Albany, NY the firms Hospitality where he concentrates his practice in the Industry Team which received the honor area of Government Relations. 1983 for being one of the best in the state of Texas and the nation. Mr. Risman also Edwin J. Kelley Jr. has been selected by Marty Feinman, the current Legal Aid received individual Chambers recognition his peers for inclusion in The Best Lawyers Society Brooklyn Attorney-in-Charge, has for his work in Gardere's Real Estate 2016. He is a member Bond Schoeneck been named the Director of Delinquency practice group. Mr. Risman was named & King, PLLC in Syracuse where he Training. Feinman began his career at to the 2015 edition of The Best Lawyers in concentrates his practice in the area of the Legal Aid Society in 1986 working in America. Public Finance. the Manhattan office of Juvenile Rights Division. Feinman and his wife Amy Alan D. MacEwan Cooney were honored Fall 2015 by the has been recognized Mount Sinai Adolescent Health Center at by Best Lawyers 2016 their Breakfast of Legends. for his work in Mergers and Acquisitions Law, Samuel J. Gardano recently served Corporate Law, Closely as the keynote speaker for the annual Held Companies and O’Neill Bankruptcy Seminar in Cleveland. Family Business Law. He is a partner at He celebrated his 25th year as Executive Verrill Dana, LLP in Portland, Maine. Director of the 12,000-member American Bankruptcy Institute in Alexandria, Virginia.

David A. Lerner, was recently selected for inclusion in The Best Lawyers in America for 2016. He is a partner at Plunkett Cooney in Bloomfield Hills, MI. Lerner concentrates his practice on matters related to Bankruptcy & Creditor Debtor Rights as well as Insolvency and Reorganization law.

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1985 1986 1990

John W. Ryan has Douglas M. Paul W. Reichel has joined Shipman & Hershman was ranked been selected by his Goodman LLP in as a leading individual peers for inclusion in Washington, DC. He for his work in real The Best Lawyers 2016. has more than 25 estate by Chambers He is a member at Bond years of experience and Partners in Schoeneck & King, PLLC as a registered patent Chambers USA 2015. in Syracuse where he attorney handling matters involving He is a director at Bayard where he leads concentrates his practice in the area of litigation, due diligence, licensing, opinion the firm’s diverse real estate practice, Business and Transactions. work, portfolio management, and patent representing clients engaged in all aspects preparation and prosecution. of the real estate industry throughout Martin A. Schwab has been selected by Delaware and surrounding states. his peers for inclusion in The Best Lawyers The Hon. Glenn 2016. He is a member at Bond Schoeneck T. Suddaby was & King, PLLC in Syracuse where he promoted to Chief U.S. concentrates his practice in the area of District Judge for the 1988 Trusts and Estates. U.S. District Court for the Northern District of James Pickering Jr. was sworn in as New York in fall 2015. New Jersey State Superior Court judge Suddaby served as Assistant District following a nomination from New Jersey 1991 Attorney for Onondaga County from Governor Chris Christie. Gregory J. Champion has been selected 1985 – 1989. He then became a private by his peers for inclusion in The Best legal practitioner with the Menter Law Lawyers 2016. He is a member at Bond Firm in Syracuse from 1989 to 1992. He Schoeneck & King, PLLC in Albany, NY was appointed Chief of Homicide for 1989 where he concentrates his practice in the the Onondaga County District Attorney’s Timothy P. Murphy area of Business and Transactions law. Office in 1992 and subsequently served as has been selected for First Chief Assistant District Attorney until inclusion in Upstate David Goldstein’s law firm, Goldstein October, 2002 when he was appointed New York Super Lawyers Hall, celebrated its 10th anniversary. The U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of for 2015. Murphy is a firm specializes in real estate development New York. member of the Executive and is involved in many community and affordable housing projects and social Karen Frink Wolf Committee of Hancock causes throughout New York City. has been recognized Estabrook, LLP where he is a partner in the firm’s litigation practice. by Best Lawyers Roxane E. Maywalt joined Michael 2016 for her work in Best & Friedrich LLP as an attorney in the Commercial Litigation, firm’s Transactional Practice Group and Medical Malpractice as a member of the Energy team. Maywalt Law – Defendants, advises clients on federal and state energy Professional Malpractice Law – law and regulations. Defendants. She was recently named to the 4th edition of Benchmark Litigation’s

Top 250 Women in Litigation for the second consecutive year. She is a partner 1993 at Verrill Dana LLP in Portland, Maine.

Jonathan M. Dunitz

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Best Lawyers 2016 for

his work in Insurance

Litigation. He is an

attorney at Verrill Dana,

LLP in Portland, Maine.

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Michael Johnson L’93 had his eye on a career in finance when, as a senior at Morehouse College, he signed up for a class in Constitutional Law. He found the material fascinating and was moved by the enthusiasm of the professor. “I had opportunities in finance,” he says, “but this one class and this one professor really changed the course of my direction.” Johnson began looking into law school and says he was drawn to the College of Law because of its strong reputation. He also was looking to leave his native Georgia, at least for a time. He arrived in Syracuse ready to delve into a new course of study. “I bought a parka, I joined the moot court team and just kept it going,” he says. Now an attorney in the Litigation and Dispute Resolution Practice Group in the Atlanta firm of Taylor English, Johnson has led an exciting career that has included work in the public and private sectors. He was a prosecutor in DeKalb and Fulton Counties in Georgia, and was appointed special federal prosecutor for the Southern District of Georgia. Johnson also served seven years as a Superior Court Judge in Fulton County. Johnson says he liked his time at the College of Law—the support of the professors, and the hard work. The summer between his second and third year he clerked for U.S. District Court Neal McCurn L’52 and sat in the courtroom during a number of trials. “I watched a number of really good lawyers in his courtroom,” Johnson remembers. Originally planning on tax law, the daily courtroom experience got him thinking more in the direction of litigation. After graduation, “I felt the calling to come back home,” Johnson says. He started his career clerking with Court of Appeals Judge Clarence Cooper, before joining the District Attorney’s office in Fulton County. In 2004 he won a hard-fought election for the position of Superior Court Judge. He presided over a number of high-profile cases, including The State of Georgia v. Arthur Tesler, which involved the killing of an elderly woman during a botched drug raid in 2006. The case led to an overhaul of the Atlanta police drug unit. Another case that stands out in Johnson’s mind is the death penalty case of Emmanuel Hammond. In 1988, Johnson was a sophomore in college when young pre-school teacher Julie Love went missing after her car ran out of gas in Atlanta. “I recall hearing about this – it was a big deal,” Johnson said. After an ongoing, massive search, Love’s body was found a year later and Emmanuel Hammond was convicted of the crime. In 2003, Johnson presided over Hammond’s case when he made a last-minute appeal to avoid the death penalty. Johnson denied the appeal which eventually went on to the U.S. Supreme Court, where it was also denied. Johnson stepped down from the bench in 2011 to challenge longtime Congressman John Lewis in the Democratic Primary for the Fifth Congressional District of Georgia. While unsuccessful in that bid, Johnson remains passionate about politics and does not rule out seeking office in the future. “I never say never,” he says. In the meantime, he is thriving in his work in private practice and feels fortunate he pursued the law. “It has been a great career for me,” Johnson says. “I have enjoyed the practice and all of the challenges it presents.”

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Mark M. Sandmann joined the law firm Ben Donovan has joined Chadbourne Joseph M. Di Scipio of Hill, Hill, Carter and will be heading the & Parke, LLC as a partner in the Project is Senior Vice President, Kentucky office, focusing in the areas of Finance Group in London. Donovan’s Legal and FCC pharmaceutical fraud and antitrust. He practice focuses on project development Compliance, for Fox will also represent the interests of local, and finance, where he has represented Television Stations, Inc. regional and national health insurers in independent power producers, oil He is responsible for all mass tort litigation throughout the country. and gas companies, government and FCC regulatory matters parastatal entities, investment funds, relating to the Fox owned-and-operated lenders and other industry participants in television stations, and negotiating the development, acquisition, financing, retransmission consent agreements for the restructuring and divestiture of projects. stations. His knowledge and expertise encompasses project financing and development in the Americas, Europe, the Middle East, Africa and Asia, with a particular emphasis on projects in Africa, Central Asia and the Middle East.

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Christine Woodcock Marnin J. Michaels C. Athena Roussos Dettor will be included was named to the was recently elected in the 22nd Edition of management team of to membership in the The Best Lawyers in the Zurich office at Baker California Academy America 2016. & McKenzie. He has of Appellate Lawyers. been practicing for more The Academy is the than 15 years in the areas nation’s oldest lawyers’ of tax and international private banking organization dedicated to appellate Cressida A. Dixon has been selected by and also handles insurance matters practice with roughly 100 active members. her peers for inclusion in The Best Lawyers relating to tax investigations and wealth Members are elected to membership after 2016. She is a member at Bond Schoeneck management. Marnin is widely regarded rigorous scrutiny of their skill in advocacy & King, PLLC in Rochester, NY where she as one of the world’s leading wealth before the appellate courts. Members concentrates her practice in the area of management lawyers. must have been a member of the Trusts and Estates. California Bar for at least 10 years, been John G. Powers lead counsel in at least 25 appeals or writ Adam Forman joined has been selected for proceedings, and orally argued at least 15 Epstein Becker Green inclusion in Upstate appeals or writs. as a member of the New York Super Lawyers firm in their Chicago for 2015. Powers is a Brad Birmingham and Metro Detroit partner in the litigation has been named to offices. A frequent practice of Hancock Business First’s WNY writer and national Estabrook, LLP. Legal Elite. He is a lecturer on issues related to technology partner in the Buffalo, in the workplace, such as social media, Stephen S. Wentsler NY office of Hodgson Internet, and privacy issues facing was recently named Russ, LLP. employers, Forman is often interviewed the Best Lawyers’ 2017 by newspapers, radio, and legal blogs on Cleveland Patent Law Laura H. those topics. “Lawyer of the Year.” Harshbarger has Only a single lawyer in been selected by her Brian Laudadio has been selected by his each practice in each peers for inclusion peers for inclusion in The Best Lawyers community is honored as the “Lawyer of in The Best Lawyers 2016. He is a member Bond Schoeneck the Year.” A 1996 College of Law graduate, 2016. She is a member & King, PLLC in Syracuse where he Wentsler has over 15 years of experience of the management concentrates his practice in the area of preparing and prosecuting patents in committee of Bond, Schoeneck & King, Litigation. the mechanical, electro-mechanical, PLLC and serves as an employment glass manufacturing and ceramic arts and higher education attorney who George R. McGuire has been selected industries. Wentsler is the principal at advises clients on a variety of issues, by his peers for inclusion in The Best Wentsler, LLC in Mentor, Ohio. including Title VII, Title IX and the ADA, Lawyers 2016. He is a member at Bond and represents clients in federal and Schoeneck & King, PLLC in Syracuse Susan C. Yu was state courts and before federal and where he concentrates his practice in recently interviewed for state administrative agencies. In 2013, the area of Intellectual Property and the online publication of Governor Cuomo appointed her to serve Technology. Litigation Commentary as Chair of the Fourth Department Judicial and Review in an article Screening Committee and as a member titled “20 Questions of the Governor’s State Judicial Screening with California Fellow Committee. She is also chair of the firm’s Susan C. Yu.” She recently served on the Diversity Committee. California State Bar’s Commission on Judicial Nominees Evaluation. Yu is a partner in the firm of Mesereau & Yu, LLP located in Los Angeles, CA.

70 | SYRACUSE LAW ALUMNI SPOTLIGHT | KATHIA CASION L’98 While Kathia Casion L’98 admires Professor Laura Lape. She remembers wondering if she was excited people who have a dream to pursue about the topic, or just enthused about the class, “because she was an a specific career and go for it – she amazing professor.” is grateful for her own winding path Casion was drawn to the Rochester area by her husband, Joseph to become an attorney. The Director Casion L’99, a native Rochesterian. He is a partner at Harter Secrest of the Civil Division of the Legal Aid & Emery where he practices corporate and tax law. Upon moving to Society of Rochester, Casion is proud Rochester, Casion zeroed in on Legal Aid of Rochester, and was hired of the solid work the organization to work in the education area. There, Casion met fellow College of Law does for the Rochester community. alumna Carla Palumbo L’82, who has worked for Legal Aid for 25 years Casion grew up in Syosset, NY and became CEO in December 2014. “In the short time since taking and first pursued hotel and restaurant over, she has changed the whole dynamic here with her vision for management in college. At one point, the agency moving forward,” Casion says. Beyond that, she says that she wanted to drop out, as she was Palumbo has been an important mentor and role model. uninspired. Her parents insisted After working in the education area, Casion moved on to housing. that she continue her schooling Now, as Director of the Civil Division, she manages 42 staff members, and she switched to the field of education. “I developed a love for it,” all of whom work with clients in crisis, dealing with family law, she says. After graduation, Casion taught young children, many with immigration, education, housing and credit issues. The Civil Division special needs. She is bilingual and taught English to Spanish-speaking provides education classes for first-time homebuyers, which was children. Their parents, who were generally low-income, often needed crucial during the housing bubble of the early 2000s, when mortgages help and that is where Casion’s trail to law school began. became available for some people who could not afford a home. “Of She worked with Spanish-speaking families, helping complete all of the real estate closings we have done since 2002, we have only paperwork such as school and medical forms. She realized that truly had two foreclosures,” she says. helping her students required working with the entire family. Then It’s a proud statement for Casion, who says she has found the Casion asked herself – should her next step be social work or a law perfect fit for her education, her training and her passion. She is degree? confident the work she is doing is important. “The services we provide “I thought I could accomplish more being a lawyer,” she create stability in the community,” she says. In terms of her career, remembers. “I felt I could have more of an impact on families.” she says law school was the right choice – even if it was not her first The College of Law was a challenge for Casion. “It was steep inclination. learning curve,” she says. “I became a more disciplined student. I had “I am not afraid to make a change. That attitude has given me a to be more focused.” She loved a course in real estate law taught by lot of opportunities.”

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Dominic S. DePersis was appointed by Christopher Burns Katherine K. Martin has been named New York State Bar Association President was named one of the Associate Director in the Securities and Glenn Lau-Kee as a member of the NYSBA 2016 Super Lawyers and Exchange Commission Office of International President’s Committee on Access to Justice. Rising Stars for the state Affairs. As Associate Director, Martin oversees of Minnesota for his the development of the SEC’s policy on Ayana M. Rivers was promoted to outstanding work in Estate cross-border regulatory matters, including its special counsel at Kasowitz, Benson, Torres Planning, especially in participation in multilateral standard-setting & Friedman, LLP in the firm’s New York the areas of Trusts and Probates. Burns is a bodies and its bilateral dialogues with foreign office. Rivers’ practice focuses on complex Shareholder at Henson & Efron and chairs authorities. Martin has served in various commercial litigation, including class actions, the Estate Planning, Trust and Probate Practice roles at the SEC for more than a decade, securities and antitrust disputes. Group. He is also active in the management most recently as an Assistant Director in the of Henson & Efron, as a member of the firm’s Office of International Affairs and prior to Phyllis Widman is Compensation Committee. that as a Senior Special Counsel in the Office pleased to announce the of Clearance and Settlement in the Division opening of Widman Law Lucrecia M. Davis has of Trading and Markets. She also has been Firm, LLC in Neptune, New joined Jackson Lewis P.C. an Assistant Chief Counsel in the Division Jersey. Her practice focuses in their Houston office of Economic and Risk Analysis and a Senior on vaccine injury cases, as as Shareholder. Davis Counsel in the Office of International Affairs. well as medical malpractice, joins Jackson Lewis from auto accidents, slip and fall/trip and fall claims Fragomen, Del Rey, Bernsen and dog bites. Widman is also a private and & Loewy, LLP, where she court-appointed mediator in several counties spent almost 15 years practicing in the field of in New Jersey. corporate immigration and nationality law.

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Mark A. Kaiman Brian Rich was John B. Dunlap was elected to the Board has been selected as selected for inclusion of the Directors for the San Diego Deputy a Washington Super in Super Lawyers’ District Attorneys Association. Dunlap has Lawyer for 2015. Kaiman 2015 Rising Stars served a Deputy District Attorney in San is a partner at Lustick List. Rich, a partner Diego County, CA since 2012. Kaiman & Madrone, in the Hartford office PLLC in Bellingham, of the firm Halloran Brent J. Horton has Washington. His practice focusses on & Sage, LLP, regularly represents both been appointed a federal and state criminal defense, as well corporate and individual clients in a variety tenured member of the as military defense matters and courts- of business and commercial disputes, Faculty of Business at martial. Kaiman also sits as a regular including real estate litigation, mortgage Fordham University. Judge Pro Tempore in the Whatcom resolution, fraud and tort related matters. He teaches courses in County District Court. He also represents financial institutions business law, business in contested foreclosure matters and in associations and corporate and securities the defense of lender liability and unfair law. Horton also teaches corporate and business claims. securities law at Peking University in 2001 Beijing, China, as part of Fordham’s David B. Snyder was selected to the 40 Master of Science in investor relations, a Amanda Mercier under FORTY class of 2015. This awards joint degree program. has been appointed to program recognizes young professionals the Georgia State Court in the Central New York region for Jonathan Kelson was recognized as part of Appeals by Governor excelling in the workplace and for giving of the 2015 Connecticut Super Lawyers list Nathan Deal effective back to their community. The Snyder Law for his work in business litigation. Each January 1, 2016. Mercier Firm is located in North Syracuse, NY. year, no more than 5 percent of the lawyers is Georgia Superior in the state are selected to receive this Court Judge. Mary Elizabeth honor. Kelson is a partner in the Litigation “Beth” Williams Department of Diserio Martin O’Connor Nichelle A. (Brooks) has been appointed & Castiglioni LLP. Mullins was recently director of Stanford appointed as the Law School’s Robert Cisco Palao-Ricketts President and Chief Crown Law Library. has been elected as a Executive Officer of She was director of partner at DLA Piper Charter Oak Health the law library and information services LLP. He concentrates Center, Inc. in Hartford at Louisiana State University Law Center his practice in executive Connecticut. Charter Oak Health Center from 2011 to 2015. Williams writes about compensation with an is a federally qualified health center law librarianship and legal research and emphasis on mergers that provides care to more than 20,000 is an active member of the American and acquisitions and is located in the East patients annually. It has an operating Association of Law Libraries. Prior to her Palo Alto, California office. budget of $20 million. position at Louisiana State University Law Center, she worked at Columbia Law Karyn Riley was the recipient of Debra A. Verni joined the Herzog Law School for six years, where she served as the Association of Junior Leagues Firm as an attorney in December 2004. head of public services and taught legal International 2015 Rising Star Award, She became a partner in 2008. Her research. the Association’s highest award for practice is concentrated in the areas of individual members. The awards, which Estate Administration, Estate and Tax recognize and celebrate emerging leaders planning, Elder Law, Corporate Law and from within the 292 independent Junior Real Estate. Leagues, were made at AJLI’s 93rd Annual Conference in Los Angeles.

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MaryTeresa Soltis Michael A. Fogel has Victor Alsobrook has taken his has been recognized by been selected to the talents, experience and legal education The Legal Intelligencer 40 under FORTY class to entrepreneurial ventures in food, as a “Lawyer on the Fast of 2015. This awards spirits, hospitality and marketing. First in Track.” Nominees were program recognizes Hospitality Marketing in Los Angeles and judged on four areas: young professionals in now back on the East Coast in Boston, development of the law, the Central New York taking a controlling interest in a renowned advocacy & community contribution, peer region for excelling in the workplace and catering company with a history that spans & public recognition and service to the bar. for giving back to their community. Fogel is over 35 years. With two partners, they are Soltis is a member of the Cozen O’Connor a Partner at Brown Sharlow Duke & Fogel, sharpening, re-shaping and cultivating in the firm’s Commercial Litigation Group, PC in Syracuse. La Bonne Maison for a greater and more and concentrates her practice in product expansive future. liability and complex tort matters. Maeghan Hurley, President, MKM Distribution Services, was renewed for a James Bandoblu, John P. Vacalis was three-year term as a Board member for Jr. has been elected selected as a member the Julian Center, whose mission is to to the partnership of of The Robert W. Calvert empower survivors of domestic and sexual Hodgson Russ. Based American Inn of Court. violence and end the generational cycle of in the Buffalo office as Vacalis is a Partner in violence. a member of the Tax Thompson & Knight’s Dispute Resolution, Trial Practice Group Rick Shearer was elected to the International Tax, and Business Tax in the Firm’s Austin office. His practice partnership in the Kansas City, MO office Practices, Bandoblu focuses his practice focuses on complex business, mortgage of Shook, Hardy & Bacon. He represents on federal and international tax matters. banking, oil and gas, and commercial clients in complex commercial litigation He regularly represents clients before the litigation matters. He has been selected in state and federal courts throughout the IRS and state taxing authorities, from audit for inclusion in Texas Rising Stars by country and in arbitrations. to administrative appeal, and before the Thomson Reuters (2007, 2015). In addition U.S. Tax Court, to favorably resolve their tax to his involvement with The Robert W. Karen S. Southwick was honored by controversies. Calvert American Inn of Court, Vacalis is the New York State Bar Association and an active member of the Dell Children’s their Department of Pro Bono Affairs at Nella M. Bloom is Trust. The American Inns of Court is an their 2015 National Pro Bono Access to the managing partner association of lawyers, judges, and other Justice Recognition Ceremony. The award at Bloom & Bloom, legal professionals from all levels and honors attorneys for outstanding pro bono LLC in Philadelphia, backgrounds who share a passion for services assisting low income individuals PA. She focuses her professional excellence. with civil legal services. practice on representing corporate clients. Derick C. Villanueva Joy Woller, a partner in the Litigation Prior to starting Bloom & Bloom, LLC, took time off from Practice Group at Lewis Roca Rothgerber Bloom was an associate at mid-sized his law practice Christie, LLP, was one of the Denver firms in the Philadelphia area including and volunteered for Business Journal’s 40 Under 40 award Flaster/Greenberg, P.C., where she deployment overseas winners for 2016. worked out of the Philadelphia, Cherry aboard the USS Mt. Hill, and Wilmington offices, focusing Whitney (LCC-20) on bankruptcy work and litigation, and assisting in Ballistic Missile Defense building on her real estate, business law, strategies and contingency operations and administrative law skills. for Israel and Eastern Europe. Apart from his military career, Villanueva is a sole practicing attorney in Atlanta, Georgia and was recently recognized by Super Lawyers as a “Rising Star” in the fields of personal injury, bankruptcy and real estate matters. Villanueva was also selected as Top 40 Under 40 by the American Society of Legal Advocates for 2016.

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ALUMNI SPOTLIGHT | HEATHER SCHRODER MORAWSKI L’07 As an undergraduate at Sacred semiconductor company headquartered in Danbury, Connecticut. Heart University in Fairfield, She says she is grateful that her manager at ATMI allowed her Connecticut, Heather Schroder to grow professionally, with increasing responsibilities. After six Morawski L’07 majored in years, she was deeply involved in the legal work that needed to business, and was very involved be completed to sell the company to Entegris. While she says in politics. During an externship it was difficult, because the company had become like family to at a state senator’s office her, the timing seemed to be right since her husband wanted to during her junior year, she had move to Michigan for his family’s business. a revelation: “Anybody who was Morawski has been a strong supporter of the College of making anything happen in state Law, naming the Student Bar Association room in Dineen Hall. government was a lawyer,” she She is an active member of the Syracuse University Law Alumni says. Upon completion of the Association, and enjoys talking with both young alumni and externship, she switched her prospective students. major to political science, and A favorite story she often shares took place even before set her sights on law school. Morawski came to Syracuse and Morawski herself enrolled. When looking at law schools, she read thrived at the College of Law, serving as Student Bar Association about and was intrigued by the work being done by Professor Vice President and President, as well as a class senator in her William Banks, Director of the Institute for National Security and respective three years. Counterterrorism. She had just submitted her application when She was dually enrolled in the Maxwell School of Citizenship she called Banks and he agreed to meet with her. and Public Affairs, and received a master in public administration “I didn’t know what kind of lawyer I wanted to be,” concurrent with her law degree. “To me it seemed like a great Morawski remembers. “Even though I was not even admitted supplement,” Morawski says. “It allowed me to have government yet, he talked to me—about the school, about the classes, about and political awareness, together with my newfound capabilities what I could do,” she says. “It was such a great reflection of what of legal writing and reasoning.” kind of place the College of Law is.” She left the meeting with Morawski is now senior legal counsel, North America, for one thought: “I want to be at this school.” Robert Bosch LLC, a leading global supplier of technology and Morawski says she had similar experiences of faculty services. She works in the mergers and acquisitions group of the support and interest throughout her time at the College of Law, global legal department in Bosch’s North American headquarters as well as an alumna, and that is why she can recommend The in Farmington Hills, Michigan. “I really love my job,” she says. College of Law so strongly. “I can tell prospective students they “There is always a different project, a new challenge. You get to will receive a personalized legal education. The professors and know a new business, a new company and new people.” administration are committed to the future and welfare of the Upon graduating from the College of Law, Morawski worked students,” she says. “It is such a great atmosphere to learn the in a New York City firm for a year before joining ATMI, Inc., a law.”

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Christine N. Epres is an in-house Zachary M. Mattison Brian A. Pulito had a law review article attorney with Robert Half International was promoted to published in the Texas A &M Law Review Inc. in Menlo Park, CA. She handles a partner at Hancock titled: A State of Mind: Determining Bad variety of commercial transactions, as well Estabrook, LLP in Faith in Trespasses to Oil and Gas: A as corporate and compliance matters for Syracuse in the firm’s Call to Courts to Apply A True Subjective the company. She and her husband Phil Litigation Practice. Analysis to Determine Whether A Yeager reside in Santa Clara, CA. Mattison’s practice Trespasser to an Oil and Gas Estate focuses on commercial, construction, Trespasses in Good or Bad Faith, 2 Tex. banking and personal injury litigation A&M L. Rev. 53 (2014). He is member matters for healthcare facilities, hospitals, at Steptoe & Johnson PLLC in their municipalities, accounting firms, Meadville, PA office. manufacturers and individuals.

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Carrie Sarhangi Antonio L. Diaz-Albertini was hired Daryl S. Baginski was named a partner by law firm Schulte Roth & Zabel. SRZ was featured in an at Montgomery is expanding its Finance Group by hiring article entitled “A Spy’s McCracken where Diaz-Albertini as a special counsel in the Guide to Protecting she focuses her firm’s New York office. Diaz-Albertini Whistleblowers” in practice on white comes to SRZ from Cahill Gordon & the July 2015 edition collar and government Reindel LLP. He joins SRZ with extensive of In These Times investigations and complex commercial experience advising private equity Magazine. Baginski is managing member litigation. She serves as an editor of funds, global investment banking firms, of Clandestine Reporters Working the firm’s White Collar Alert blog and is commercial banks and public and private Group, LLC (CRWG), a private company committed to pro bono work through her corporations in finance transactions, that teaches intelligence tradecraft involvement with the Homeless Advocacy including syndicated credit facilities, the to journalists through seminars and Project and the Eastern District Prisoner issuance of secured and unsecured high- workshops in criminal procedure and Reentry Program. Sarhangi has been yield debt securities and the issuance of intelligence, designed for journalists recognized by Super Lawyers as a “Rising equity securities. and human rights workers running Star” in the area of White Collar Defense confidential sources. in Pennsylvania. Jaime J. Hunsicker Evan D. Schein 2008 has been selected as was named partner an Upstate New York at Berkman Bottger Jeffrey N. Rosenthal Super Lawyer – Rising Newman & Rodd, LLP has been appointed Star for 2015. Hunsicker where he practices to the Audit and is an associate in the matrimonial and family Finance Committee Elder Law & Special law. The firm is one of Philadelphia Legal Needs, Tax and Trusts & Estates Practices of the largest family law firms in New Assistance (“PLA”) of Hancock Estabrook, LLP. York City and the only firm in NYC that and Community Legal specializes in litigation, collaborative law Services (“CLS”). Rosenthal has been an and mediation. active volunteer with both organizations, and previously served as the 2015 Board 2012 Jared Turner was appointed as Chief Observer through The Philadelphia Bar Operating Officer of Young Living Association’s Board Observer Program. Jennifer L. Aronson has joined the Essential Oils, LC, where he has worked Rochester office of Tully Rinckey, PLLC as an executive leader since 2012, M. Salman Ravala, a where she concentrates her practice on establishing international expansion and member of Criscione, federal labor and employment law and infrastructure. Ravala & Tabatchouk, family and matrimonial law. Aronson LLP in New York, NY regularly represents clients who have been has been named as subjected to discrimination or who have a 2015 Super Lawyer been denied overtime pay or minimum Rising Stars. Ravala wages. She also regularly represents concentrates his practice representing spouses in divorce cases, parents in business owners and foreign investors custody cases and children as an Attorney with their contracts and commercial for the Child. litigation needs in New York State and Federal Courts, and in front of the Internal Revenue Service. In October 2015, he was quoted during a United States Senate Judiciary Committee testimony discussing regulations and their impact on minority owned businesses.

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ALUMNI SPOTLIGHT | UPNIT BHATTI L’15 The parents of Upnit Bhatti At the College of Law, Bhatti was the Managing Editor of L’15 seemed to have spotted Syracuse Law Review, a member of the Moot Court Honor Society, something in their daughter early a volunteer for the Onondaga County Bar Association Talk-to-a- on. Bhatti laughs at the memory. Lawyer clinic, as well as a Diversity Ambassador, encouraging “They’d say to me, you talk a lot, and working with minority students. Diversity is a cause near and you argue a lot. You should be a dear to her heart. She was a young girl on 9/11, and her family lawyer.” As a child Bhatti loved felt the devastating effects first-hand. any movie with a lawyer in it. Her family, who immigrated to the U.S. from India, is From the age of five, she says she Sikh and belonged to the Sikh Temple in Central Square, knew it was the career for her. “It Gobind Sadan Interfaith Center, where her grandfather was the wasn’t an informed decision,” chairperson. It was a second home for her, Bhatti recalls. Within she says, “but it was a good two months of 9/11, three teenagers set the temple on fire, under decision.” the mistaken belief that people who belonged to the temple, Bhatti is currently serving a who wear turbans, were terrorists and followers of Osama bin one-year clerkship with Judge Theodore McKee L’75 of the Third Ladin. While the community was devastated, Bhatti said that her Circuit Court of Appeals in Philadelphia. At the conclusion of grandfather saw a sliver of hope in the fire. “People will get to her clerkship, she plans to return to Bond, Schoeneck & King in know us now,” he said. Syracuse, where she began her career in 2015. Bhatti keeps the lessons from her family close to her heart. A native of Liverpool, NY Bhatti received her bachelor’s “My mother says to me, ’You need to show the world you can degree from the University of Toronto. She was anxious to finish do something – not as Indians, not as Americans, but as Sikhs.’ her undergraduate degree, she says, because she could not wait That is my mindset now. To show that I am capable and I am to study law. “Law school was more than I hoped for. The first here to help the community.” year I cried every other day because it was so hard. But I loved An early court experience for Bhatti was a Pro Bono case. “It it. I got incredible support from SU Law and I made friends for a was a huge responsibility,” she said. She enjoyed the challenge of lifetime.” explaining the case to her client, and communicating to the court Originally, Bhatti thought she would pursue business for him, which she says he probably could not have done on law. But her Contracts professor, Gregory Germain, thought his own. “I love making a case, making a good, valid argument, differently. “He told me, ’Trust me, you are going to be a proving a point,” Bhatti says. “That is my thing.” litigator.’” Bhatti went on to be Germain’s research assistant. She thrived in a Torts class, taught by Professor Peter Bell. “Professor Bell taught me how to think,” she says. “He pushed me. He would keep asking, ’But why, Upnit?’”

2014 2015 has joined the Gracie Wright joined the White Plains Cameron T. Bernard has joined the Katherine E. De Maria office of Wilson Elser and represents Bousquet Holstein, PLLC as an Associate Bronx District Attorney’s Office. corporations, institutions and private Attorney and will focus Brian Laudadio has been selected by his individuals in business disputes involving his practice in Employee peers for inclusion in The Best Lawyers claims of breach of contract, tortious Benefits, Qualified 2016. He is a member Bond Schoeneck interference, trade secrets and other Domestic Relations & King, PLLC in Syracuse where he matters in pre-litigation negotiations and Orders (QDROs), Tax concentrates his practice in the area of motion practice through discovery, trial, Law, and Business Litigation. and subsequent appeals. Transactions. Cameron served as a Law Student Associate at Bousquet Holstein in 2014.

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ALUMNI SPOTLIGHT | ROULA JNEID LL.M.’15 Following in her father’s “It provided me with an exceptional learning experience. I footsteps to be a lawyer always gained exposure to different areas of law and to different areas seemed to be in the cards for of expertise, especially with my focus on human rights, refugees Roula Jneid as she was always and disability laws, which was the first step in achieving my fascinated and interested in her ultimate goal of helping Syria,” reflects Jneid. father’s long and successful Jneid notes that her time as a student at the College legal career. Jneid did just as she of Law was highlighted by many professional and personal always envisioned, graduating interactions with faculty, staff and fellow students. This included from the University of Aleppo an opportunity to attend the Conference of States Parties to the with her Bachelor of Laws Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities at the degree which led her to being an United Nations. independent lawyer in the Syrian After graduating in May of 2015, Jneid decided to remain in Arab Republic, handing criminal, the Syracuse area and put her legal training and desire to help civil, administrative, personal refugees into practice. She is currently a Refugee Employment statutory, commercial and international law, along with writing Specialist with Catholic Charities of Onondaga County’s Refugee frequently on the law and volunteering to help orphans with Resettlement Program. A key part of her job is to help refugees disabilities. find jobs, through skills assessments, education on employment Her career was placed in upheaval in March of 2011, as within the U.S., preparing for job interviews and maintaining the Syrian war erupted. She left Syria and came to the United relationships with a variety of employers in the area. States and Syracuse where her brother was a student at Syracuse The year Jneid spent in the LL.M. program at the College University. While in America, she was selected for an Open of Law profoundly influenced her and helped direct her career. Society Foundation Civil Society Leadership Award in 2014. “This “The program put me on the right direction, not just because of was not only an honor, but it also enabled me to successfully the classes I chose, but also the knowledge that I gained from complete my Masters of Law at Syracuse University College of meeting with intelligent, educated and experienced people, and Law.” getting the opportunity to discuss my thoughts with them and The LL.M. program at the College of Law helped Jneid listen to their views and great ideas.” satisfy her desire to better understand and appreciate different As she provides valuable help to refugees resettling to the legal perspectives. Aside from the College of Law being a partner Syracuse area, Jneid continues to think of ways to help refugees, of the Open Society Foundation, one reason Jneid selected particularly those with disabilities, around the world, through Syracuse for her degree was the fact that the program allowed raising awareness and strategies to improve their situations. her to specialize in what she desired to do. She chose to focus “There is much I want to do to help the world’s refugees,” she on human rights and disability law. explains. “Today, I am proud to be making an impact here in Syracuse but I dream of bigger things.”

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77 Greetings College of Law Alumni,

As the College of Law’s new Assistant of Law, our staff, students, faculty and alumni are accomplishing. Dean for Advancement and External A number of options are being discussed, including a suite of Affairs, I am delighted to introduce publications that focus on the successes of our alumni and myself to you. In the few months I’ve their stories, our academic programs and advancements, and been on board, I’ve met a number of our students, and a dedicated annual report of giving. Our new you and I appreciate the warm welcome approach will reflect your feedback on how best to keep you and encouragement you’ve extended to informed about current events at the College of Law.

me. Your generosity and commitment Please contact or stop by the Office of Advancement and External to our mission are truly astounding. I Affairs at any time with your thoughts and ideas. We welcome your am looking forward to meeting more feedback. Thank you for your continued support and engagement. of you, our distinguished alumni, either at an upcoming regional I look forward to meeting and working with each and every one of event or at Dineen Hall. I also want to thank Alex Epsilanty, who has you! helped to make my transition a smooth one. I’ve enjoyed getting

to know the whole team and together, we are excited to continue to Sincerely, advance the mission. Sophie Dagenais As we look ahead, Dean Boise and I are imagining new ways of communicating with our alumni and conveying all that the College

Syracuse Law 2016 Honorees

Susan C. Yu L’96 > Call for Nominations for the 2017 Syracuse Law Honors Medal In recognition of her distinguished career, The Law Honors Committee of the Syracuse University Law Alumni outstanding commitment to clients, and Association seeks nominations for the 2017 Syracuse Law Honors community-building achievements Medals to be awarded during Law Alumni Reunion Weekend next Fall. The awards celebrate “distinguished achievements in any field of endeavor” by members of the Syracuse Law family—alumni, current and former faculty and staff, students, parents and friends— for service to the College of Law, the legal profession, Syracuse Hon. William J. Fitzpatrick Jr. ’74, L’76 University, or the world at large. The award may honor achievements In recognition of his distinguished public service to the People of the State of of any kind by any members of the College of Law community; they New York, and his distinguished community are not limited just to a recipient’s professional life or particular legal service to Syracuse and Onondaga County accomplishments. Nominations may be submitted through the Syracuse Law Honors page on the College of Law website: law.syr.edu/alumni-friends/syracuse-law-annual-alumni-awards.

The deadline for nominations is June 30, 2017.

Hon. Frederick J. Scullin Jr. L’64 In recognition of his distinguished lifelong career in public service and his commitment to the community

Dean Craig Boise; 2016 Law Honorees Hon. William J. Fitzpatrick Jr. 74, L’76 and Hon. Frederick J. Scullin Jr. L’64; SULAA President Carey Ng L’02

78 | SYRACUSE LAW College of Law Thanks Alex Epsilanty L’92 as She Takes New Role at Syracuse University

The College of Law bid goodbye in April to Alexandra Epsilanty L’92, who has dedicated “SHE LED BY EXAMPLE, the last 20 years of her ENSURING EACH AND EVERY career to the college and its students. But ALUMNI FELT CONNECTED TO she won’t be far away. OUR NETWORK. EACH PROJECT Epsilanty has been appointed Associate SHE EMBRACED WAS EXECUTED Vice President WITH GREAT SKILL AND for International ATTENTION TO DETAIL.” Engagement for Syracuse University. Marc A. Malfitano L’78 In her new role, Chair, Board of Advisors Epsilanty will create Syracuse University College of Law and implement a strategy for the engagement, cultivation, solicitation and stewardship of alumni, friends, parents and donors, primarily outside of the United States.

Epsilanty served the College of Law in a number of key positions, Epsilanty earned a bachelor of science degree from Boston including Assistant Dean of Career Services, Senior Director of University’s Questrom School of Business, cum laude, and Annual Programs and Assistant Dean of Advancement. She was began her career at Xerox Corp., where she held various sales instrumental in raising $40 million for the building of Dineen and sales management leadership positions and was recognized Hall, the state-of-the-art facility now considered one of the for her sales performance. She later earned a juris doctor degree premier law school facilities in the country. from Syracuse University’s College of Law and practiced law in Philadelphia. Many co-workers, alumni and students have all been impacted by Epsilanty’s dedication and commitment to the school, Marc A. Malfitano L’78, Chair of the Board of Advisors, reflects: her work ethic, and her sincere interest in others’ education, “I can’t say it any other way; Alex is a living legend. For years, experiences and careers. Alex committed herself to the College of Law in many important roles. She led by example, ensuring each and every alumni felt “Alex touched, impacted, guided, prodded, counseled, mentored connected to our network. Each project she embraced was and listened to more students and alumni than any other person executed with great skill and attention to detail. This was never at the College of Law over the last 20 years,” said Joseph Di more evident than during the planning, fundraising and opening Scipio L’95 Vice President Legal and FCC Compliance for Fox of Dineen Hall. Alex’s contact list is endless. A phone call from Television Station. “More important, Alex is a lifelong friend. She Alex opened the door to summer jobs and placement of many helped me immensely beginning more than 20 years ago and of our graduates. A recommendation from Alex always means has kept me tied to and involved with the law school.” something. Alex is persistent in attitude, strategic in thinking, and sincere in manner. A part of Alex will always be connected to the College of Law, but we know that the University will benefit from her skills in her new role. Thank you, Alex.”

79 The Grossman Family Continues its Support of the College of Law

For the Grossman Lionel Grossman’s first wife and the mother of Murray family of Syracuse, and Richard Grossman, Clara Fitzer Grossman, died young pride in Syracuse and Lionel Grossman remarried several years later. He and his and loyalty to the second wife Anita had two daughters, Faith and Susan. At birth, College of Law Faith was diagnosed with cerebral palsy. She would need around- runs deep. While the-clock care for her entire life. The year was 1943, and there Lionel Grossman was little therapy or treatment for children with cerebral palsy L’1916 received or support for families. Lionel and Anita founded the Syracuse his law degree Cerebral Palsy Clinic, which is now ENABLE and serves 3,000 over a century ago, his philanthropic legacy endures, and the children and adults with disabilities in the Syracuse area each year. Grossman family continues to make impactful gifts to help the Faith Grossman died in 2007. Shortly afterwards, Murray city and residents of Syracuse as well as the College of Law and Grossman and his family reached out to the College of Law, its students. looking for a way to memorialize Faith. Murray’s son Brian In the 1970s, Dr. Murray Grossman A&S’43 MED’45 and his Grossman, a fund manager in the San Francisco area, and brother Richard Grossman A&S’51 L’55 were trying to figure out daughter Sarah Leonard L’07 a strategy consultant in Deloitte an 80th birthday gift for their father. “He was a man who didn’t Consulting’s Federal Practice, remember their aunt as a strong want or need gifts,” Murray Grossman says. Wanting to honor and determined person. Brian said it took patience sometimes to their father and his dedication to his profession, the two decided understand her, but the effort was always worth it. “She was really to contact the College of Law. They chose to fund a moot court sharp and smart. She had a high emotional intelligence,” Brian competition, which has been known for decades as the Lionel Grossman says. O. Grossman Trial Competition. It occurs every October, offering The Grossmans connected with Associate Professor Michael second and third-year law students the opportunity to practice Schwartz, who teaches clinical skills and disability law at the their trial skills. Each team of two students represents a fictional College of Law and also directs the Disability Rights Clinic, client involved in a lawsuit. Students deliver opening arguments, which provides free legal assistance to anyone in the community lead direct-examinations and cross-examinations and provide needing legal help in the area of disability law. The family decided closing arguments. to fund a summer internship for the program, open to students Since its inception, a Grossman family member has always interested in pursuing disability law. The summer intern staffs the attended the annual competition. “It’s always very interesting,” Disability Law Clinic, enabling it to stay open year round. Murray Grossman says. “The students are impressive. And the Sarah Leonard recognizes the progress that has been made new law school is magnificent.” in the field of disability over the years, but noted there is still Richard Grossman passed away last summer, having worked much more work to be done. Her aunt, she says, was born in in private practice for 60 years, focusing on litigation, white-collar an era when many assumed, because her aunt was physically criminal cases and corporate law. He was a columnist for the disabled, she was mentally disabled, as well. “Had she been born Syracuse Post Standard for more than a decade with a column today she would have been able to do so much more. She was “As a Matter of Law.” incredibly intelligent.” Murray Grossman, who lives in Fayetteville, NY, says that Brian Grossman says he is proud the family continues to even though his father and his uncle Sidney Grossman L’28 were support the College of Law. “My perspective is that the University both accomplished attorneys, law did not appeal to him. “I didn’t was such a big part of our family. And more and more it plays a consider it not even for one minute,” he laughs. “My mind couldn’t bigger role with the community. If we can find ways to support wrap around the legal world.” He chose a career in medicine, the university, and the community, and a cause we care about… instead, working as a cardiologist and retiring as a professor it’s a win, win, win.” from the Department of Medicine at SUNY Upstate in 1999.

80 | SYRACUSE LAW IN MEMORIAM

1940’s 1970’s Col. John Arthur McLaughlin 1941 Christopher D. Armstrong 1971 James K. Gustafson 1945 James Patrick McDonald 1971 A. William Larson 1948 Stephen J. Vollmer 1971 Robert M. Quigley 1949 Thomas M. Dailey 1972 George W. Clarke 1976 1950’s Gary C. Callaway 1979 William H. Burns Jr. 1950 Joseph W. LaFay Jr. 1979 Kenneth V. Kouwe 1950 James Edward Wilber 1950 1980’s Raymond W. Hackbarth 1951 Daniel B. Hall 1982 William Shankland Andrews 1952 Steven W. Snyder 1982 Hon. Richard J. Cardamone 1952 Helen M. Ferris 1985 Beverly A. Michaels 1953 Eileen T. Savanyu 1988 John J. Costello 1954 Leslie Hildreth Deming 1955 1990’s Dean J. Fero 1956 Peter J. Vlassis 1993 Burton Lowitz 1956 Susan Anne Sovie 1994 James Haver O’Connor 1957

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