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FRIDAY, MAY 3 2019 JUST C E ALUMNI How NYLS Trains 21st-Century Prosecutors CELEBRATION MARK YOUR CALENDARS! The 2019 Alumni Celebration is shaping up to be an extraordinary occasion for the entire NYLS community—and we’ll honor classes ending in 4 and 9. You won’t want to miss it!

Do you want to make sure your class is well represented at the celebration? www.nyls.edu/celebration Email [email protected] to join your class committee. WE ARE NEW YORK’S LAW SCHOOL SINCE 1891 NO. 8 OF 30 NO. 23 among SPOTLIGHT “Top Schools for Legal international law programs Technology” by preLaw in the 2019 U.S. News & WE ARE NEW YORK’S LAW SCHOOL ON magazine. World Report rankings.

RECENT NO. 30 among part-time programs in the ONE OF 50 2019 U.S. News & World PROGRESS HONOREES—and one Report rankings. of 10 law schools in the nation—recognized by the Council on Legal Education AND A TOP SCHOOL Opportunity, Inc. for outstanding commitment to for Alternative Dispute diversity as a legal educator. Resolution, Business RECOGNITION Law, Criminal Law, Family Law, Human Rights Law, Intellectual Property Law, Public Interest Law, Tax Law, Technology Law, and Trial Advocacy—plus, No. NO. 1 LL.M. in Taxation 4 for Public Defender/ in the 2018 New York Law Prosecutor and No. 12 for Journal Reader Rankings for Government—by the ninth consecutive year. preLaw VOTED #1 magazine. NINE YEARS IN A ROW LL.M. in Taxation

Build a foundation in tax and pursue a IN THIS ISSUE concentration in depth through the Graduate Tax FEATURES ADVANCE Program. The program emphasizes advanced 2 • Bookshelf training in tax research and practice-oriented Professor Tamara Belinfanti’s Citizen Capitalism: How a YOUR writing, as well as practical experience through Universal Fund Can Provide Influence and Income to All externships. 12  • Seeking Justice CAREER How NYLS Trains 21st-Century Prosecutors For further information, contact Professor Ann F. Thomas at 212.431.2305 51 •  Meet NYLS’s Newest Alumni Leaders www.nyls.edu/TaxLLM or [email protected]. Marcey L. Grigsby ’06 and Pam Foster ’00 With our campus in the heart of Manhattan’s civic center, it’s not surprising that New York Law School graduates are highly represented in the public service sector.

This issue of New York Dean and President Law School Magazine Anthony W. Crowell focuses on our leadership in prosecution—a field whose Managing Editor Elizabeth Thomas national spotlight continues to grow. Prosecutors, in exercising the sovereign power of the state and working on behalf of “the people,” Creative Director hold a fundamentally unique role in our society and exert a great Regina Chung deal of influence in our justice system. They must continually balance Contributors concerns about safety, justice, and ethics. Talk to career prosecutors, Jessica Hoefer and they’ll tell you that the role is not so much a job as a calling. Amelia Jonakait Molly Petrilla Sarah Schwartz NYLS’s approach to teaching prosecution is, in many ways, emblematic of our overall philosophy. Our coursework is modern, Photographers Jamel Browne practical, grounded in ethics, and connected to the dense urban John J. Kim environment in which we operate. Yet, prosecution is also a field Jin Lee in which we stand out among our peers. We offer not one, but Anthony Randazzo ’08 two prosecution clinics, connect students to the latest innovators Roberto Gutierrez Photography Hannah Rokes through uncommon partnerships, provide specialized ethics Sarah Schwartz training, and much more. And it doesn’t hurt that we’re the only law Rolland Smith school in lower Manhattan.

I invite you to read more about our latest offerings and to meet some of the many NYLS graduates who are shaping 21st-century prosecution.

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23 • Faculty Highlights Awards, activities, and more Copyright ©2019 by New York Law School. All rights reserved. 36 • Class Notes New York Law School Magazine (ISSN 0747-3141) is published by New News from alumni and spotlight on Deborah Gonzalez ’97 York Law School. Editorial contributions as well as submissions of copy and photos to Class Notes are welcome. This publication accepts no responsibility for unsolicited manuscripts or photographs. All submissions are subject to 56 • In Memoriam editing and are used at the editor’s discretion. Opinions expressed in this Remembering alumni, faculty, and friends publication do not necessarily reflect official positions of NYLS.

FEATURES 1 BOOKSHELFBy Molly Petrilla Professor Tamara Belinfanti’s Citizen Capitalism: How a Universal Fund Can Provide Influence and Income to All

For as long as she can remember, Professor Tamara Belinfanti has been rankled by injustice.

“I’m very worried anytime I see someone’s voice being silenced, even if I disagree with them,” she says. “I’m Q driven by protecting and creating a path for those who may not have a voice.”

Her latest work—a new book titled Citizen Capitalism: How a Universal Fund Can Provide Influence and Income to All and the Ethical Shareholder Initiative, a nonprofit project she co-created—reflects the close eye Professor Belinfanti keeps on justice and representation, and the creative ways she’s applying those passions to her expertise in corporate governance.

In Citizen Capitalism, Professor Belinfanti and her co- authors (Cornell law professors Sergio Gramitto and the late Lynn Stout) lay out their proposal for a national fund that would be similar to a mega mutual fund and open to all Americans ages 18 and up. Called the Universal Fund, Q it would offer every citizen a single share, a proportion of returns generated by the fund, and shareholder voting rights. The book suggests establishing the fund with donations from corporations and ultra-wealthy individuals.

In a recent conversation with New York Law School Magazine, Professor Belinfanti shared details on the book’s Universal Fund proposal and the Ethical Shareholder Initiative. The conversation has been edited for length and clarity.

2 NEW YORK LAW SCHOOL MAGAZINE • 2019 • VOL. 37, NO. 2 Q & A Your sample scenarios rely on a starting fund with trillions BOOKSHELF of dollars. That means you would need major donations from Q corporations or ultra-wealthy individuals. How would you sell them on putting up that kind of money to establish the fund?

In the book, we talk a lot about why we believe the private money is there. On the corporate side, S&P 500 companies are spending between $400 billion and $650 billion on share repurchases annually, and those shares are just sitting on their books. They could easily be donated to the Universal Fund. That’s a simple way to start.

Then when you look at something like the Giving Pledge—people who are pledging to give away some percentage of their wealth—those numbers are significant, and they’re growing every day. In a way, we are leveraging the natural incentive that people already have to give. Wealth inequality is on people’s radars, but they’re not sure how best to address Universal basic income isn’t a new idea—some trace it all the it. We’ve done the heavy lifting of constructing a framework. Q way back to Thomas More’s Utopia from the 16th Century—but the Universal Fund takes a different tack. Can you talk about how the Universal Fund is different and why you believe it’s a Let’s shift to the Ethical Shareholder Initiative (ESI). What are better approach? Q the goals behind that project and how does it relate to Citizen Capitalism? Universal basic income proposals tend to either rely on government funding or government-directed redistribution of wealth. The ESI is an independent nonprofit project started by myself and Professor Universal Fund does not rely on either. You can think of it as a private Lynn Stout, with the belief that shareholders can be a positive force for solution to a civic problem. Rather than just giving people money, we’re both business and social concerns. Lynn passed away in April 2018. She giving citizens a financial incentive to participate in our shareholder was an internationally recognized expert in corporate governance and system, and through that, to address issues that impact every citizen. business ethics. At ESI, we’re building a platform for shareholders to We view it as a win-win. It’s a win in terms of this income source, which make voting decisions with ethical, social, and environmental concerns could be very significant for some people, and the second win is broad in mind. While the book lays out a theoretical framework for the types participation in corporate governance. of proxy advisory services that would serve the true long-term interests of a shareholder, ESI is exploring how we could provide those services in practice. We’re funded by the Ford Foundation, and we’ll be based on You bring up the income element. How large would the fund NYLS’s campus as part of the new Social Justice Organization Incubator. Q need to be to make a significant difference in people’s finances? Like any financial incentive, most of the impact will be felt by the In general, what concerns you most about our current corporate people who have the least. We give a fair amount of space in the book climate? to running some numbers to explain what we view as the potential. [See Q sidebar on page 4.] What I see is a doubling down by those who hold the traditional view that it’s about profits and financials—and that questions about Also, the fund is designed to grow over time because you’re not allowed sustainability are tangential. I understand from a human nature to sell, divest, bequeath, or put a lien on your share. A good comparison perspective why you would double down if this is what you built your is the Alaska Permanent Fund. When it started off in 1977, it was fairly career on, but I worry that it’s shortsighted. Somebody called me, at minimal. Today, each citizen is getting somewhere between $1,000 to a conference, “part of the progressive corporate law group.” I’d never $2,000 annually. To me, that’s a significant amount. Examples like that heard the term before. I said, “I didn’t even know that’s a thing, but show the potential of a Universal Fund. what’s so bad about being progressive?”

BOOKSHELF 3 WHAT PEOPLE HAVE SAID ABOUT ECONOMIES OF SCALE CITIZEN CAPITALISM 225 million

This brave book, coming on the heels of the first author’s equally boldThe Shareholder people Value Myth, takes on an even bigger challenge. Its goal is to bring together civil engagement and corporate governance, free enterprise and cooperative participation, through the creation of a universal shareholder fund. Based on a mutual fund model, the 2.25-percent proposal would broaden access, bend income distribution, and shift the leverage points in our political system away from oligarchic elites. Citizen Capitalism will contribute to the dividend rate debate about the responsibility of the corporation for contributing to the public good as well as private profit. A fund in the –Sidney Tarrow, Emeritus Professor of Government, Cornell University and author of Power in Movement trillions

This book offers a transformative plan to make corporate ownership and governance more inclusive. It attempts to harness corporate power and resources in the tackling of Annual the challenges of poverty and empowerment. At the heart of the book is the relationship between corporations and society. Through their proposal, the authors strive for a synergic dividends of relationship benefiting society. With clinical precision and an extraordinary grasp of history, the book offers a brilliant diagnosis of critical issues facing the world in the field of $100+ corporate governance. This is an important and valuable book. It reminds us that the only legitimate end of corporate governance is the well-being of society. “As a starting point, we take the current census estimates of how many –Muna Ndulo, Professor of Law; Elizabeth and Arthur Reich Director, Leo and Arvilla Berger International Legal Studies Program; and Director of the Institute for African Development U.S. citizens age 18-plus we currently have. That comes out to 227 million adults over age 18. We don’t expect Corporations—like governments—play an essential role in the lives of every American. But everybody to sign up to become a citizen most Americans have an extremely limited ability to influence corporate decision-making, and we all live with the consequences. Stout, Gramitto, and Belinfanti offer a bold and creative shareholder. Let’s assume the max who alternative: What if we had a tool that gave every American a say in how corporations are sign up is 225 million. run—like a superpowered pension fund that made corporations accountable to more than the bottom line? This is a powerful and timely idea, and Citizen Capitalism makes the case “We take the average dividend rate for the extraordinarily well. past few years. We assume 2.25 percent for stocks in the fund portfolio. Assuming –Deborah N. Archer, Associate Professor of Clinical Law, New York University School of Law and former Professor of Law, NYLS 225 million people sign up, a $1 trillion fund generates $100 per person annually; $10 trillion: $1,000; $30 Citizen Capitalism offers fresh thinking at a critical point in our understanding of the effects trillion: $3,000. of shareholder capitalism—from scholars who effectively bridge theory and the practical world of investment, markets, and citizen communities. This book offers an audacious plan “Depending on where you sit on the on how to use the rules of capitalism to address inequality. I strongly recommend it. financial ladder, $100 may not make a –Judy Samuelson, Executive Director, Business and Society Program, The Aspen Institute difference to you. But when you look at the literature—people who are living The very bold plan to democratize corporate governance detailed by Stout, Gramitto, and on the edge, particularly the working Belinfanti in Citizen Capitalism is sure to be controversial in some circles, but it will also poor—it becomes significant.” catalyze long-overdue discussions about the role of business in our society. Read this book. –Professor Tamara Belinfanti –Alice Korngold, Author of A Better World, Inc. and President and CEO, Korngold Consulting, LLC

4 NEW YORK LAW SCHOOL MAGAZINE • 2019 • VOL. 37, NO. 2 DISPATCHES FROM 185 WEST BROADWAY FIELD & CAMPUS Alumni Trade Memories and Make New Ones at Reunion

In September 2018, NYLS held its Alumni Reunion, honoring classes ending in 3 and 8. The celebration brought 60 years of alumni back to campus, from the Class of 1958 to the Class of 2018. Attendees enjoyed a full day of opportunities to learn and network, from a CLE on fostering diversity in the legal profession to a discussion with Dean Anthony W. Crowell and administrative staff on the School’s progress and planning and a forum on the Post-Kennedy Supreme Court. Reunion ended with a popular rooftop reception, and, for those who weren’t yet done catching up, an Alumni Association after-party. The following morning, NYLS held its Third Annual Hall of Judges Ceremony, honoring alumni who serve at all levels of the judiciary and across all jurisdictions. The day included a tribute to the Honorable Nicholas Tsoucalas ’51. Judge Tsoucalas, who passed away on March 22, 2018, served as a jurist for 50 years, including 18 as a New York City and New York State Supreme Court Judge, and 32 years on the U.S. Court of International Trade. Dean Crowell, Vice President for Institutional Advancement Marcey L. Grigsby ’06, Judge Tsoucalas’s daughters and grandchildren, and his former colleagues reflected on his extraordinary contributions to the legal profession and NYLS. In his memory, and with the support of alumni and friends, NYLS established the Judge Nicholas Tsoucalas ’51 Scholarship Fund to benefit future NYLS students.

The next NYLS Alumni Celebration is May 3, 2019. All alumni are invited, and the School will honor classes ending in 4 and 9. Visit www.nyls.edu/celebration for more.

FIELD & CAMPUS 5 FIELD & CAMPUS Business of Law Institute Sees an Active Symposium Asks “What Is Real?” in the First Semester Digital Age of Fashion

Steven R. Harber ’92 Charles Post ’10 Cathy Yoon ’07 Steven M. Crosby ‘00

In July 2018, NYLS announced its Business of Law NYLS’s Fashion Law Initiative and the New York Institute. The new Institute focuses on the 21st- Law School Law Review teamed up for the School’s century technical and operational skills that will help second annual full-day symposium on fashion and NYLS graduates excel at law firms, corporations, and law in the digital age. Themed “What Is Real? Authenticity, in government and public interest roles. Its development Transparency, and Trust in the Digital Age of Fashion,” the October 2018 was guided by insights and recommendations from more than 100 leaders at symposium drew attorneys from elite fashion brands and firms, technologists, major law firms and in the legal departments of global corporations. In the and industry influencers. The day included a master class, “Exploring the Institute’s first semester, its programming included a technology learning lab Business of Fashion and Law,” as well as three expert panels: “Knock It Off: with the e-discovery software provider Relativity, as well as master classes in Fashion, Fakes, and the Online Marketplace”; “Disrupting Fashion: Social cyber incident response plans, artificial intelligence and smart contracts, and Media, Influencers, and the Law”; and “Tech Talk: Blockchain and the Future of Fashion.” Keynote speakers included Douglas Hand, who serves as General more. NYLS’s legal-tech initiatives have been highlighted in Above the Law, Counsel to the top fashion house Rag & Bone, and Steven M. Crosby ’00, lead Bloomberg Big Law, The National Law Journal, and the blog What Great counsel for Star Athletica in Law Schools Do. In September 2018, Dean Anthony W. Crowell co-hosted Star Athletica, L.L.C. v. Varsity Brands, Inc. et a webinar, “Redefining the Relationship Between Law School and Legal al., a famous U.S. Supreme Court case about drawing the line between design Practice,” presented by the American Bar Association Law Practice Division, and functionality in cheerleader uniforms. Other alumni speakers included along with Steven R. Harber ’92, head of legal partnerships at Seal Software; Michael Isselin ’15 of Reed Smith LLP and Cathy Yoon ’07 of Genesis Block Ari Kaplan, Principal at Ari Kaplan Advisors; and Charles Post ’10, Managing and GB Capital Markets. Adjunct Professor Joseph M. Forgione, Director of Counsel and Director, as well as Head of Legal Data Management & Advisory, the Fashion Law Initiative, and Professor Michelle Zierler, Faculty Advisor to the organized the day’s activities. NYLS’s Fashion Law at BNY Mellon. In the fall 2018 issue of preLaw magazine, the School was Law Review, Initiative launched in 2016 and is part of the Innovation Center for Law and ranked eighth among the “Top 30 Law Schools for Legal Technology.” The Technology. Institute will continue to grow its offerings throughout 2019.

6 NEW YORK LAW SCHOOL MAGAZINE • 2019 • VOL. 37, NO. 2 DISPATCHES FROM 185 WEST BROADWAY

NYLS Adds New Resources for New Clinic Provides Free Transactional Legal Academic Success and Bar Support Services to Local Businesses and Nonprofits

Paulina Davis Cynara McQuillan ’03 Clinic students with Professor Gowri Krishna (center)

During the summer of 2018, NYLS welcomed a NYLS’s new Nonprofit and Small Business Clinic new Assistant Dean for Academic Success, Paulina has been remarkably busy since its fall 2018 launch. Davis, and promoted Visiting Professor Cynara The clinic provides free transactional legal services to groups that serve, or are run by, traditionally marginalized people. Associate Professor Gowri McQuillan ’03 to Assistant Dean for Bar Success. Krishna, an expert in community economic development and worker-owned Deans Davis and McQuillan are focused on building a seamless continuum of cooperatives, guides the clinic’s six students in their field work. Operating academic support for all day and evening students that spans from the summer in pairs, students advise two to three client organizations on projects such before the 1L year through the bar exam. In their first semester, they’ve already as developing employment policies and handbooks, making decisions about added new workshops for students, expanded early outreach to student bar governance, evaluating tax exemptions, and negotiating leases and other takers, collaborated closely with the NYLS administration and faculty, and contracts. The clinic also engages students in the broader racial and economic directed NYLS’s existing academic and bar support activities, including use disparities their clients seek to address and includes seminar courses on ethics, of the industry-leading bar support software, AdaptiBar. A generous gift from counseling, and interviewing. As of the fall 2018 semester, clients included Arthur Metzler ’94 will fund the tool for all Evening Division bar takers in Emma’s Torch, which trains refugees in culinary skills and operates a Brooklyn 2019. Dean Davis is an experienced educator and mentor who previously restaurant; DREAM!, a Bronx-based group that teaches young people served as Acting Assistant Professor in the New York University School of mediation and conflict-resolution skills; the Association for Neighborhood Law Lawyering Program. Dean McQuillan brings many years of exceptional and Housing Development, a coalition that advocates for affordable housing; teaching experience at NYLS, including as Interim Director of NYLS’s Brooklyn Kindergarten Society, an early education provider to young children Academic Success Program. She also served as Assistant Director of Bar living in public housing; Coopportunity, a franchisor of worker-owned Programs and Academic Development at another New York City-area law cleaning businesses; La Fortaleza Community Development Corporation, an school. organization that protects and amplifies arts in Harlem; a nonprofit that helps people transition out of homelessness; and a women-run collective of food caterers.

FIELD & CAMPUS 7 NYLS POWERS OUR BUSINESS AND CIVIC COMMUNITIES

In a Tribeca penthouse, surrounded by 360-degree views of Manhattan, hundreds of leaders in law, business, and public service celebrated four powerhouse NYLS alumni. The School’s 2018 Gala—themed “NYLS Powers Our Business and Civic Communities—honored Karen Artz Ash ’80, John D. McMahon ’76, Julie Muniz ’97, and James Tricarico Jr. ’77 for their leadership in law and embodiment of NYLS’s core values. The four distinguished alumni were joined by colleagues, clients, family, and friends at the celebration, held on November 15, 2018.

Ash, McMahon, Muniz, and Tricarico have made names for themselves as influential leaders in industries that are critical to the New York City and global economies. Ash is a renowned intellectual property expert in the fashion industry, McMahon has led the region’s most critical energy infrastructure companies, Muniz provides sought-after business immigration counsel to companies building diverse global workforces, and Tricarico guided the financial services sector through unprecedented periods of change. All four have played equally vital roles as supporters of NYLS and its students.

The honorees shared touching accounts of how NYLS was instrumental in their professional success and why they decided to invest in its students and programs. Dean Anthony W. Crowell reflected on the values NYLS instills in all of its graduates, including civic engagement and service to those in need.

The speakers included Thomas Falcone, CEO of the Long Island Power Authority; Christopher Lewis, Principal and General Counsel at Edward Jones; other distinguished members of the legal profession; and student leaders Ehi Borha 4L Evening, Ally Simels 3L, and Barbie Melendez 4L Evening.

NYLS’s annual Gala raises funds for career-changing student scholarships, innovative academic programs and legal clinics, and cutting-edge faculty research. Alumni who would like to create opportunities for the next generation of leaders can join NYLS’s giving community at www.nyls.edu/give.

8 NEW YORK LAW SCHOOL MAGAZINE • 2019 • VOL. 37, NO. 2 Karen Artz Ash ’80

John D. McMahon ’76

Julie Muniz ’97

James Tricarico Jr. ’77

GALA 2018 9 “When I walked in the door, I felt at home. “Thank you, New York Law School. Thank I loved law school. I still love law school. you for the education. Thank you for the I come back and teach every spring. … opportunity. Thank you for the platform from Tonight is about letting others have their which to launch my career.” dream.” –James Tricarico Jr. ’77 –Karen Artz Ash ’80

“I remember feeling like all of the “The Law School gave me access to professors, the staff, and the administrators legal education, and then the Law School had one goal in mind: to help us succeed. gave me an opportunity at Con Edison. During my second year, I had the honor of … New York Law School is a center of meeting the incomparable Lenni Benson. I opportunity.” took her immigration class, and I continue –John D. McMahon ’76 to be inspired by her every day.” –Julie Muniz ’97

10 NEW YORK LAW SCHOOL MAGAZINE • 2019 • VOL. 37, NO. 2 GALA 2018 11 SEEKG N JUSTE C How NYLS Trains 21st-Century Prosecutors

In spring 2018, NYLS was ranked No. 4 nationally in preLaw magazine’s top law schools for “Public Service— Public Defender/Prosecutor”

12 NEW YORK LAW SCHOOL MAGAZINE • 2019 • VOL. 37, NO. 2 It’s a unique moment to be a prosecutor.

Headline-generating figures like Robert Mueller, Rod Rosenstein, Sally Yates, and Preet Bharara—NYLS’s 2017 Commencement speaker—have drawn national attention to the role of prosecutors and to intricate questions about prosecutorial independence and ethics, topics that rarely otherwise make their way onto cable news.

Meanwhile, individual prosecutors, including many at the local level, are reshaping their profession. In recent years, dozens of District Attorney’s offices around the country, including several in New York State, established conviction review units. Reform-minded prosecutors dedicated to addressing mass incarceration and racial inequities have been elected. Many prosecutors’ offices now take a public health approach to cases involving mental illness and drug misuse. And community courts, once considered experimental, have expanded in New York City and beyond. In short, it’s a fascinating time to join the field.

NYLS has long attracted and developed future prosecutors, as evidenced by its deep bench of alumni in the field. Today, from its campus in the heart of Manhattan’s Civic Center—and through its inventive practical training, focus on social justice, and exciting new partnerships, the School is securing its place as a premier training ground for 21st-century prosecutors.

In addition, NYLS’s Brooklyn Prosecution the dialogue. “Prosecutors have so much A PUBLIC INTEREST FOCUS Clinic partners with its Criminal Defense power,” she says. “They have the ability to Clinic, which assists on Legal Aid Society change lives. Understanding the impact of a At NYLS, prosecution-track and defense- cases. Students from the two clinics attend a conviction and that there are alternatives to track students affiliate with the same joint three-week boot camp at the beginning incarceration is vitally important.” academic center: the Impact Center for of the clinics and an ongoing seminar Public Interest Law. As a result, future about high-profile issues in the criminal prosecutors take common courses with justice system. One topic likely to generate future defense attorneys, including a required discussion this year is New York’s “Sealing Professional Responsibility course specially Law,” which took effect in October 2017 and A STAND-OUT SIMULATION tailored to criminal lawyers. allows people who have been convicted in COURSE no more than two cases (and no more than The shared experience “creates a really good one felony) to apply to have their criminal Nearly any conversation about NYLS’s conversation,” says Professor Rebecca Roiphe, convictions sealed. The Criminal Defense prosecution coursework includes mention of a former Manhattan prosecutor, who teaches Clinic will begin assisting clients with these Advocacy of Criminal Cases. And it’s hard to the ethics class. “Students tell me years later applications in spring 2019. imagine a simulation course more ambitious. that those conversations stay with them The course manages to fit 6 credits and an throughout their careers.” Professor Anna Cominsky ’05, who teaches entire simulated felony case into a single the Criminal Defense Clinic, sees value in spring semester.

SEEKING JUSTICE 13 Susan Abraham Adele Bernhard Frank Bress Anna Cominsky ’05 Lisa Grumet Charles Guria ’86 Mariana Hogan Swati Parikh

Students are divided into teams of four, two conduct an investigation, make and respond to In the Manhattan clinic, every student prosecutors and two defense attorneys, and motions, conduct a suppression hearing, and handles their own caseload of quality-of-life are told that an arrest has been made. Based work through an entire jury trial, including offenses, working in a separate part of court on their roles, they interview either a “police jury selection, with high school students from the Criminal Defense Clinic to avoid a officer” or a “defendant,” played by actors, playing jurors—all in a single semester. conflict of interest. Three days a week, they’re and begin to pursue an investigation or in court, where they appear on the record all mount a defense. “The whole course is built around teaching morning. Each fall, they undergo the same students to actively investigate the case through six-week orientation boot camp as rookie Because most students take Advocacy of their own efforts,” Professor Bress says. “If the Manhattan Assistant District Attorneys. Criminal Cases in their 2L year, it has student prosecutors don’t do a good job, they become a cornerstone in future prosecutors’ can’t bring charges. It emulates reality.” Larken Kade, an experienced Manhattan training. It comes after foundational criminal ADA now teaching the fieldwork portion law and procedure courses, Trial Advocacy “Advocacy of Criminal Cases is a rich of the clinic for her third year, says that the (a simulation course on basic trial skills), experience,” says Professor Mariana Hogan, student ADAs are treated as if they were first- and Professional Responsibility: Criminal who supervises a section of the course. “It year ADAs. Practice. And it’s a pre-cursor to the Criminal becomes real to the students.” Prosecution and Defense clinics, as well “They have to think about their impact on as NYLS’s robust array of criminal justice the community, the victims, and those we externships. As a result, it’s a crucial bridge prosecute,” she says. “They are student ADAs for students contemplating criminal justice for the people.” careers, at a stage when they have both a solid NOT ONE, BUT TWO foundation and the flexibility to pivot. PROSECUTION CLINICS Kade’s background includes prosecution of street crimes and sex crimes. This year, she’s “Advocacy of Criminal Courses Many schools have a prosecution clinic. co-teaching the fieldwork portion of the takes the silos we teach— NYLS has two, a boon for future prosecutors. clinic with Wesley Cheng, a fellow ADA Evidence, Crim Pro, Crim One clinic partners with the Kings County with experience in identify theft prosecutions (Brooklyn) DA’s Office, the other with the who has worked at the New York State Law—and forces students to New York County (Manhattan) DA’s Office. Attorney General’s Office. cut across all of those silos,” says Professor Frank Bress. He Adjunct Professor Charles Guria ’86, a Professor Lynn Su, a former Bronx ADA, developed the course in 2003 longtime prosecutor in the Kings County co-teaches the seminar portion of the DA’s Office, helped start the Brooklyn clinic Manhattan Clinic with Kade and Cheng. and still teaches it. in 2009 and was the first person to teach it. The seminar complements the fieldwork and covers ethics, professionalism, and timely The course “teaches students the issues relating to the criminal justice system. fundamentals they need to try a criminal “Our students work in the case and helps them decide which clinic they busiest part in criminal court, “There is a strong mentoring aspect to the might take in their 3L year,” says Professor where they handle all manner clinic because the supervising attorneys Anna Cominsky ’05, who also teaches it. of criminal cases,” he says. “By work closely with the students on a regular basis and serve as role models,” Professor The simulated post-arrest interview is only the the end of the clinic, they’ve Su says. “In the seminar, we discuss case beginning. Students also draft a complaint, prosecuted between 20 and 25 preparation and strategy. We also explore appear at the arraignment and bail hearing, cases. That kind of experience broad topics, such as prosecutors’ obligation prepare a grand jury presentation and grand is invaluable when they go to a to promote justice and the responsible jury charge, draft and file an indictment, job interview.” exercise of prosecutorial discretion.”

14 NEW YORK LAW SCHOOL MAGAZINE • 2019 • VOL. 37, NO. 2 Mariana Hogan Swati Parikh Samantha Pownall ’11 Lynn Su

ROBUST PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT OPPORTUNITIES

In October 2018, NYLS launched its Office of Public Service and Pro Bono Initiatives, a single- stop resource for public service academic and career An Experienced Prosecutor Joins NYLS’s Faculty advising. Experienced public interest career advisor Swati Parikh is the office’s inaugural Executive Alvin L. Bragg Jr. brings a wealth of public service expertise to his new role as Visiting Director. Professor of Law at NYLS. Professor Bragg, who joined the School in January 2019, teaches criminal law courses and is Co-Director of NYLS’s Racial Justice Project.

Parikh runs targeted professional development He most recently served as Chief Deputy Attorney General for the New York State sessions for future prosecutors, including mock Attorney General’s Office, where he reported directly to the Attorney General and interview programs that teach essential skills, like helped run the office of more than 1,500 people. fielding criminal hypotheticals. She also brings in full-time prosecutors, often alumni, to meet with “One of the things I love most about government is that you get a lot of responsibility students and share advice. from a junior level and beyond,” he says. “Joining NYLS is a wonderful opportunity to help students navigate the beginning of their public service careers.” “This is a really good community to come into if you want to be a prosecutor,” Parikh says. “Every year our Before he was appointed Chief Deputy Attorney General, Professor Bragg led the students get hired at all of the prosecutors’ offices in office’s Special Investigations and Prosecutions Unit, founded in 2015 to investigate the city, as well as in Westchester, Nassau, Suffolk, and law enforcement conduct resulting in the death of unarmed civilians. He joined the New Jersey.” Attorney General’s Office in 2013 as Executive Deputy Attorney General for Social Justice, where he oversaw bureaus focused on charities, civil rights, environmental The Office of Public Service and Pro Bono protection, health care, and labor issues. Initiatives is part of NYLS’s new Social Justice Hub, dedicated space on campus that houses both His career before the Attorney General’s Office included the U.S. Attorney’s Office NYLS programming and external nonprofits. One for the Southern District of New York, where he prosecuted white-collar and street is Fair and Just Prosecution, a leading national crimes, and the New York City Council, where he oversaw the City Council’s litigation nonprofit that has built a network of newly-elected and investigations. local prosecutors committed to fairness, equity, compassion, and fiscal responsibility. Another Professor Bragg has always been drawn to issues of government accountability. national organization, the Fines & Fees Justice “Whether it’s a bribery case involving midlevel public servants, excessive use of force Center, advocates to eliminate the harmful and unjust impacts of criminal justice system fines and by a police officer, or corruption by the former majority leader of the state Senate, it’s fees. about protecting public integrity,” he says. He’s excited about NYLS’s emphasis on practical training. The School currently houses Staff from both nonprofits operate out of NYLS’s more than 20 clinics and experiential learning courses in The Joe Plumeri Center for campus, allowing students to work side-by-side with Social Justice and Economic Opportunity. dynamic change-makers in the field. “Any law school would present the opportunity to develop new public service lawyers, but there are very few law schools with the same practical, real-world focus that NYLS has,” he says. “That’s what drew me to the School.”

SEEKING JUSTICE 15 also learn about attorneys’ roles in the not adult, offenders. The development is A 360-DEGREE APPROACH education and child welfare systems. a watershed moment for the state and has dramatically increased the demand for family Increasingly, students who plan to become Five graduates of the Class of 2018 joined law attorneys. prosecutors are enrolling in NYLS’s Post- the New York City Law Department’s Conviction Innocence Clinic, which gives Family Court Division, which oversees NYLS is also involved in the growing area critical perspective on the outsized influence juvenile prosecutions in the five boroughs of restorative justice. Restorative justice prosecutors exert. and expanded its staff dramatically following techniques include youth courts and the passage of New York’s “Raise the Age” community courts, which use problem- “In our clinic, future prosecutors can learn law. By October 2019, most 16-year-olds solving to resolve nonviolent cases and how prosecutions go awry, how evidence and 17-year-olds will be considered juvenile, often engage victims, as well as those can be distorted, and which reforms reduce the prevalence of wrongful convictions,” says Distinguished Adjunct Professor Adele Bernhard, who teaches the clinic.

The Post-Conviction Innocence Clinic has worked with Conviction Review Bureaus recently created by New York DAs, including in the Bronx, Brooklyn, and Suffolk County.

“Coursework in wrongful convictions is incredibly important,” says Professor Hogan, who began her career as a public defender.

Some NYLS students gravitate toward juvenile prosecutions, which are fundamentally rehabilitative and adjudicated in Family Court instead of Criminal Court. Professor Lisa Grumet teaches family law Staten Island District Attorney Michael courses and leads NYLS’s Diane Abbey Law McMahon ’85 Speaks About Combatting the Institute for Children and Families. Opioid Crisis

“The juvenile justice system “Recognizing the significant challenges facing Staten Island as an epicenter in emphasizes both community the heroin and prescription drug epidemic, I made this issue a central focus of my safety and the best interest of administration upon taking office as District Attorney in 2016. Since that time, the child,” Professor Grumet my office has developed and deployed a multi-pronged plan that includes greater says. “There is a focus on collaboration between law enforcement and the health care community in order to alternative programs to help address both the supply and demand sides of the drug crisis. with the underlying issues “Working closely with the NYPD, we created New York City’s first Overdose Response that might have contributed Initiative to investigate overdose deaths as criminal investigations, which has led to the child’s actions and to to the arrest and prosecution of Staten Island’s most dangerous drug dealers— prevent future involvement individuals responsible for peddling deadly poison in our communities and preying on in the adult criminal justice those suffering from addiction. system.” “At the same time, to address the substance abuse issue, my office created, then Students in NYLS’s new Children and the launched, several anti-drug initiatives, including the Heroin Overdose Prevention & Law simulation course, which Professor Education (HOPE) program to expand treatment options and facilitate innovative early Grumet co-teaches with Professor Samantha diversion opportunities for those suffering from addiction who find themselves in Pownall ’11, work through a mock the criminal justice system. As we continue to fight every day against the scourge of juvenile delinquency hearing and study the heroin and opioids, I am proud to say that our combined efforts have helped save lives juvenile system’s important distinctions in and hold criminals more accountable.” terminology, process, and outcomes. They

16 NEW YORK LAW SCHOOL MAGAZINE • 2019 • VOL. 37, NO. 2 arrested, to resolve issues. As this work is D. Marsico, became participants in the first- looking at individuals involved expanding in New York, NYLS is staying ever Bronx Youth Court. connected to it. in the Criminal Justice system through a more human lens “Restorative justice addresses Professor Susan Abraham, who took a and seeing how we can find both the underlying causes sabbatical to study the field, is a trained a way for both victims and of crime and the effects of peacemaker and is taking the lead on planning perpetrators to turn things activities and events, including a spring 2019 the criminal justice system around.” symposium. In summer 2018, students from on a community,” Professor the Charter High School for Law and Social Justice, founded by NYLS Professor Richard Abraham says. “It means

the subpoena from the Department of Justice for his White House tapes because he controls the Department. But the Supreme Court didn’t address that question and instead ruled on narrower grounds that the tapes were not subject to executive privilege. Congress has, at times, also tried to weigh in on this question, and it hasn’t worked out well. When they created the position that ended up being Ken Starr, they made his role so independent that it was problematic. Ultimately, I think it would be helpful for the Court to weigh in.

You’re part of a robust network of fellow criminal justice professors. Why is scholarly exchange on these issues so vital?

I think it’s particularly important in this field. Aside from the major issues we see in the news, questions about prosecutorial norms, Prime Time for Prosecutorial Ethics traditions, and cultures reach down to all levels of federal and state prosecution. That includes questions about how we can redirect Professor Rebecca Roiphe has been speaking and prosecutors who’ve been too focused on convictions to think writing about prosecutorial ethics for more than 15 about the social justice issues and civil liberties of defendants in a years. Now, as a contributing legal analyst at CBS more nuanced way. I’m proud to be among the scholars who have News, she also appears regularly on national TV to explored these questions for a long time. unpack complex ethics questions about the President, the Department of Justice, and the FBI. As not only a former prosecutor but also a historian, what is your impression of watching people analyze these issues on a platform like Twitter, where immediacy is king? How has the way people think about prosecutors changed in the past couple of years? Twitter places a premium on being incendiary and, of course, pithy. I like that it forces people to say things succinctly and that it brings a In recent years, many people were learning about how problematic lot more voices into the conversation. But academics can lend critical prosecutors could be, and it brought a great deal of attention to the perspective. When people are saying, “This never happened before!” criminal justice system and the reforms needed. But in the last two we know that it did happen before and can provide nuance. years, we’ve also seen how fundamentally important prosecutors are to American democracy and the rule of law. Are you seeing a rising interest in this field among students?

Yes, I think a lot of people are excited about prosecution and about As you’ve noted, the Supreme Court has never weighed in on public service in general right now. What’s great about NYLS is that the tradition of separation between U.S. Presidents and their so many of our graduates work at the local level of the criminal Departments of Justice. Should it? justice system, and their jobs affect many, many people. That adds It’s a question that doesn’t come before the Supreme Court very to the excitement of both teaching and being NYLS students at this frequently. President Nixon argued that he didn’t have to comply with moment.

SEEKING JUSTICE 17 SEEKG N JUSTE C Profiles of Alumni Leaders and Innovators

Suzanne Bettis ’14 Sherene Crawford ’09 Charles Guria ’86 Lawrence Piergrossi ’98 Aimee Sklar-Calogero ’04 Karen Varriale ’97

18 NEW YORK LAW SCHOOL MAGAZINE • 2019 • VOL. 37, NO. 2 SUZANNE BETTIS ’14 service members, identified and processed SHERENE CRAWFORD ’09 their remains, and sent them home to their families.

“I have a strong stomach,” she says. “I can go out to any scene and encounter anything, because I’ve already seen worse.”

Born in Kingston, Jamaica, Bettis and her family moved to the United States in the early 1990s. She enlisted in the Marines straight out of high school—but her long-term dream was law school. After her first deployment in 2006, she became a corrections officer, seeking to understand how her work as a future prosecutor could impact people’s lives. When her final deployment ended in 2007, she turned her While she’s on “beeper duty” for the Queens focus to academics. As a rookie prosecutor in the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office, Suzanne Bettis District Attorney’s Office, Sherene Crawford never knows when she’ll be summoned to an As a student at NYLS, Bettis started the did shifts at Midtown Community Court, active crime scene or what she’ll find there: School’s first Military Justice and Veterans one of the country’s first “problem-solving” gunshot victims, fatal car crashes, suspicious Association to help other veterans and their courts. Today, as the court’s Director, deaths. dependents take full advantage of their she trains new prosecutors on its unique Veterans Affairs educational benefits. She approach to resolving low-level crimes. Those aren’t scenes that most lawyers ever see credits a 3L externship at the Manhattan firsthand. But Bettis is an Assistant District DA’s Office with teaching her to think on her In 1993, when the court opened in Midtown Attorney in the Homicide Investigations feet, balance a caseload, interview witnesses, Manhattan, it was dubbed “a much-debated Bureau, and a major part of her work is and run a court calendar. experiment” by The New York Times and responding whenever an incident occurs in met with criticism from prosecutors and Queens County during one of her shifts. “I think Queens looked at that and expected defense attorneys alike. Twenty-five years Often, it’s the middle of the night. Once at that I’d be able to hit the ground running,” later, groups from around the world visit to the scene, she might be tasked with writing she says. observe its model of restorative justice. search warrants or subpoenas, interviewing suspects or witnesses, drafting criminal In her current role, Bettis finds deep “The climate has changed over the past 25 charges, arraigning defendants, and generally satisfaction in helping those who have lost a years, but Midtown has always focused on ensuring that “everything is done within the loved one find justice and, she hopes, closure. our community and the individuals we work letter of the law,” she says. It’s something that frustrated her as a Marine, with,” Crawford says. where she couldn’t reveal specifics to families “As these cases are because details of combat operations are The court is operated by the Center for developing, you’re essentially classified. Court Innovation, a nonprofit. Its programs an advisor to and a check target common low-level offenses in “They tell you in law school Midtown, including prostitution and drug on the NYPD so that charges. The court arraigns cases for four to find your niche,” Bettis collectively, we’re working local precincts and takes on borough-wide in a constitutional manner,” adds. “Not everybody can cases related to its specialty areas. Crawford’s she says. “To have an ADA withstand what I’m observing team connects offenders to drug treatment, daily while also working counseling, community service, and there thinking about the programs for sex trafficking victims. legal issues and what we will efficiently as a lawyer. I’m just eventually need for a trial thankful that my work allows In September 2018, Midtown launched an makes a world of difference.” me to merge my experiences overdose avoidance and recovery part, in in the military with what I do response to New York City’s opioid abuse now. Some people aren’t that epidemic. Participants can enter treatment It can be grisly work, but Bettis has more grit without having to take a guilty plea. than most: a U.S. Marine, she served two lucky.” • tours of duty in Iraq, where she searched Crawford wears many hats at the court, from and recovered the bodies of deceased

SEEKING JUSTICE 19 long-range planning and strategy to overseeing CHARLES GURIA ’86 Guria joined the office in April 1990, a the more than 30 staff who operate Midtown’s few months after Charles Hynes became social services, community service, and early Brooklyn’s District Attorney. Hynes was diversion projects. To ensure Midtown is impressed by Guria’s work on a state responding to the neighborhood’s concerns, disciplinary committee that investigated and she meets regularly with local police, other prosecuted attorney misconduct. Guria, in city agencies, nonprofit groups, and business turn, was inspired by Hynes’s approach to leaders. prosecution.

“We’re always asking, how can we continually “It was a progressive and innovative DA’s adjust services to meet new needs?” office, especially for the era,” Guria says. Crawford says. “They focused resources on the most serious crimes and looked for alternatives on low- Her experience with domestic violence and level crimes.” trafficking victims shapes her approach. As an evening student at NYLS, she worked full- Subsequent DAs Kenneth Thompson and time at the Brooklyn Family Justice Center, Eric Gonzalez continued to keep the office in operated by the Mayor’s Office to Combat step with changing times, he says. Domestic Violence. Before law school, she Charles Guria is a successful prosecutor served at the victim services nonprofit Safe who began his career on the other side of A few years into his job as a prosecutor, Horizon. Yet, her experience as a Manhattan the table, as a staff attorney at The Legal Aid Guria took a leave of absence to serve on prosecutor is equally relevant to her current Society. That perspective has guided him the Mollen Commission, an elite group role. since. that investigated widespread New York City police corruption in the early 1990s, “Working in the DA’s office was one of the “As a defense attorney, I saw leading to reforms. He was recruited to the best jobs I ever had,” she says. “It taught Commission by former NYLS Adjunct me how to understand the interests and firsthand that a prosecutor Professor Harold Baer Jr., who was appointed priorities of the prosecutor when it comes wields tremendous power,” to it by Mayor David Dinkins and who to public safety. It also allowed me to hold he says. “In my opinion, later became a federal judge. The experience people accountable while remaining aware of some wielded that power taught Guria the value of cultivating mentors. the impact of crime on individuals, families, appropriately, and others and communities.” Guria got the chance to become a mentor didn’t. That was not lost on me himself when, more than nine years ago, After the District Attorney’s Office, when I came to prosecution he helped NYLS establish its Prosecution Crawford helped launch an institute at John work.” Clinic. Today, there are two prosecution Jay College of Criminal Justice committed clinics, one in Manhattan and one in to rethinking measures of success for After nearly three decades at the Kings Brooklyn, which Guria co-teaches. prosecutors. County District Attorney’s Office, he is still highly attuned to the influence of his “We train people as if they were first-year She says that NYLS exposed her to position. ADAs,” he says. “We teach them how to professional pathways beyond litigation, handle a case from the point we put the file in their hands until they stand up in court.” particularly through the Mediation Clinic, “There are prosecutions I’m very proud of, The students, he says, are eager to learn and in which students resolve low-level cases in but it’s just as important to me that I cleared keep him on his toes. Small Claims Court. people who weren’t guilty,” he says.

He also tries to impart life lessons to budding “The clinic taught me that Today, Guria is a Senior Assistant District prosecutors. Having prosecuted hundreds of Attorney working in parts of Central and there were different ways to homicides and assaults over the years, Guria South Brooklyn, in one of five trial zones his solve problems than through isn’t surprised when people ask if he’s jaded. office has established. The zones are effective, confrontation,” she says. “It Guria says, because ADAs get to know was one of the first times I local police and the unique needs of each “What they don’t know is that I also see a lot community. of inspiring things,” he says. “I see people take had thought about the law the high road and do the right thing, even at as something other than an their own risk.” • “We focus on solutions that fit the • adversarial tool.” neighborhood instead of blanket policies,” Guria says.

20 NEW YORK LAW SCHOOL MAGAZINE • 2019 • VOL. 37, NO. 2 LAWRENCE PIERGROSSI ’98 ADAs work on individual phases of the same AIMEE SKLAR-CALOGERO ’04 case, to a vertical model, in which a single ADA handles the case from initiation to resolution.

“The vertical model lends itself to swifter and more effective prosecutions, and the ADAs who handle each case know it inside and out,” Piergrossi says. “There’s a much more holistic approach to being a prosecutor now, and that’s how it should be.” Photo Credit: Jamel Browne, New York City Law Department Over the course of his career, he’s worked For Lawrence Piergrossi, a successful career in the office’s Investigations, Special When Aimee Sklar-Calogero began law as a prosecutor began with a random act Victims, and Trial Divisions. As a result, school, she wasn’t sure which field she would of violence. In August 1993, Piergrossi, a he’s conducted pre-arrest investigations on pursue, but she was certain that it wouldn’t lifelong New Yorker and then a senior in offenses ranging from public corruption to involve litigation. college, was shot in the neck by a stranger. He gun trafficking; taken on cases of domestic nearly died, and the perpetrator was never violence, sex crimes, and crimes against “It’s funny because now that’s what I do,” she identified. children; and tried more than 50 cases says. But Sklar-Calogero isn’t a traditional to verdict, including homicides, violent litigator, or even a traditional prosecutor. Her Nearly 25 years later, in December 2017, felonies, and some of the office’s most role as Deputy Chief of the New York City Piergrossi won the prestigious Thomas E. politically-charged public corruption Law Department’s Family Court Division Dewey Medal, given to a member of each prosecutions. involves responding to offenses—from New York City District Attorney’s office who shoplifting to homicide—committed by has performed with excellence. In a speech One 2016 case involved the cover-up of children and teenagers. at the award ceremony, he called the Bronx an inmate beating by senior officials at the District Attorney’s Office, where he has spent Department of Corrections, including a New York City’s juvenile justice system is the past two decades, “the only place I ever Chief. The three-and-a-half-month trial wholly separate from the adult criminal justice wanted to work.” involved 10 defendants. Piergrossi landed system and uses distinct terminology. Acts convictions for nine. The pressure, he says, that would be crimes if committed by adults Piergrossi enrolled at NYLS the year after was intense. are prosecuted by Law Department attorneys the shooting, intent on pursuing justice for in Family Court, instead of by Assistant other victims. He credits the School with “I had two veteran prosecutors sitting with District Attorneys in Criminal Court. helping him secure a position in the Bronx me,” he says. “And we were facing off against DA’s office before he graduated. Today, a group of more than 10 defense and union “It’s a high-volume, fast-moving he is Chief of Trial Bureau 50, where he lawyers, plus 50 to 60 members of the union field, and some of the cases supervises around 40 Assistant District in the courtroom daily.” Attorneys of all levels and handles his own involve young people with high-profile caseload. He also oversees Winning the Dewey Medal has brought his extreme needs,” Sklar-Calogero annual training programs for dozens of remarkable career into perspective. says, referring to both the junior prosecutors. accused and the victims, who “I grew up in this office,” he says. “There was are often children themselves. Piergrossi has watched the office evolve always a pantheon of senior ADAs I looked over time, and he’s enthusiastic about up to. When I was notified about the medal, “We have to determine how the new initiatives DA Darcel Clark has I said, really? Me? It was hard to wrap my best to meet their needs while implemented. In 2016, the office launched mind around it, but I guess it’s my time.” • a special unit on Rikers Island to respond protecting the community.” quickly to violent incidents with inmates. The same year, it shifted from a horizontal Sklar-Calogero joined the Family Court model of prosecution, in which different Division upon graduating from NYLS and served as a supervisor in Brooklyn and

SEEKING JUSTICE 21 Queens, before becoming Chief of Staff. KAREN VARRIALE ’97 It’s a substantial shift from when she Now, as Deputy Chief of the Division, she became a prosecutor in the late 1990s. She oversees its administration, operations, and remembers when narcotics officers would planning. Even though she doesn’t have her sweep an entire housing project and bring in own caseload, she stays closely plugged into dozens of people in a single night for minor citywide case outcomes and helps ensure drug offenses. As a young prosecutor, it was that the Division’s approach emphasizes Varriale’s job to help process, charge, and rehabilitation over punishment. arraign them.

“We’re constantly looking “Drug courts and problem- at available diversion solving courts just didn’t exist programs, from youth court in the early ’90s,” she says. “At to mediation,” she says. She’s the misdemeanor level, you overseen the hiring of social didn’t offer treatment.” workers, a psychologist, and staff who research new Though she couldn’t have predicted the turn her career has taken, Varriale says she did diversion programs. As a longtime prosecutor, Karen Varriale know, from the time she first thought about is used to hearing “like on Law & Order?” law school, that she wanted to become a In October 2018, Sklar-Calogero’s work anytime she tells someone what she does for prosecutor. At NYLS, she found a mentor changed substantially when New York City a living—and for many years, the answer in Professor Robert Blecker—“I took every passed its long-anticipated “Raise the Age” was yes. But as of late 2017, Varriale has a class he taught,” she says—and interned legislation. The law changes the maximum different response. Now she explains that at the Brooklyn DA’s office and for a New age of juvenile delinquents from 15 to 16 while she used to prosecute drug cases, York State Supreme Court Criminal Term for all misdemeanors and some felonies, robberies, sex crimes, and homicides, her new Judge. removing some of the youngest defendants job is to keep low-level offendersout of the from the adult criminal justice system. In criminal justice system. NYLS’s core criminal law classes “gave me a October 2019, the age will again raise to 17. great foundation,” she says. Her experiences Based out of the Brooklyn DA’s Office, launched her straight into the Staten Island Sklar-Calogero played a central role in where she is a Senior Assistant District DA’s Office after graduation. She stayed there helping her team recruit, hire, and train Attorney, Varriale runs Brooklyn CLEAR in various roles until 2017. a high volume of legal and support staff (Collaborative Legal Engagement Assistance quickly to meet the increased need. Response). The program allows people In 2015, Varriale won the Thomas E. who are arrested on a misdemeanor drug Dewey Medal, which honors an outstanding The daughter of New York City civil servants, possession charge to avoid court and jail time ADA in each New York City District Sklar-Calogero credits NYLS with exposing simply by accepting help. Attorney’s office. Soon after, she started her to a wide variety of public service career work on Staten Island’s Overdose Response options, and she was inspired by taking Through a peer assessment, they’re Initiative and its Heroin Overdose Professor Lenni Benson’s Civil Procedure encouraged to pinpoint which services would Prevention and Education (HOPE) class as a 1L. make the biggest impact on their lives. It may Program. Like CLEAR, the HOPE program be inpatient detox or outpatient methadone diverts low-level drug offenders into “Her passion for teaching and working with access, or it could just be help reworking a treatment rather than sending them through students is incredible,” she says. resume—leading to fresh job options—or the criminal justice system. obtaining a new ID card in order to secure Sklar-Calogero stays connected to NYLS by Medicaid benefits. Varriale says she’s come to see substance attending recruiting events on campus. She’s misuse disorder as a health issue rather than also visited Professor Lisa Grumet’s Family “In our office, now the a crime—best treated with assistance, not Law course to share her enthusiasm for her alternative is incarceration, punishment. “In our office, under DA Eric work. Gonzalez, our definition of success is saving and the mainstream is finding lives and strengthening the community’s “This work can be completely emotionally a solution,” Varriale says. trust in the criminal justice system,” she says. draining, but at the end of the day, we are doing good,” she says. “From the first day of my job, I knew I had made right decision.” •

22 NEW YORK LAW SCHOOL MAGAZINE • 2019 • VOL. 37, NO. 2 FULL-TIME FACULTY ACTIVITIES

The following items represent a sampling of the recent activities of our full-time faculty.

Susan J. Abraham Alan I. Appel ’76 Panelist at a joint meeting a Universal Fund Can on sanctuary cities (June of the American Bar Provide Influence and 2018). Association (ABA) Section (Berrett- Income to All Honored with the 2018 of Taxation and ABA Koehler Publishers, Candlelight Award by the Section of Real Property, January 2019) (with L. James Jay Dudley Luce Trust and Estate Law in Stout and S. Gramitto). Foundation for her work Austin, Texas. His panel “Contested Visions: The with young immigrants was titled “Hiding the Ball” Value of Systems Theory through the Safe Passage (September 2017). for Corporate Law,” Project, a nonprofit she Delivered a lecture University of Pennsylvania founded at NYLS (March Appointments Awards and Recognition for HAB Bank titled Law Review (February 2018). “FATCA: Beyond GIIN” 2018) (with L. Stout). Joined the Restorative His article “‘Hiding the (August 2017). Publications Justice Initiative’s Board Ball’ – Transparency, Chapter, “Social Lock-in of Directors and Advisors Tax Law, and the U.S. as and The Cooperative Protecting Migrant Publications (2018). the World’s Favorite Tax Form,” in The Cambridge Children: In Search of Best Haven,” was listed on Article in The Partnership Handbook of Social Practice (Edward Elgar Presentations SSRN’s Top 10 download Tax Practice Series 2018, Enterprise Law (Cambridge Publishing, September list for the topic, published by the Practising University Press, 2018). 2018) (with Professor M. Served as a final-round “Differences in Taxation Law Institute, titled Crock). judge in NYLS’s Charles & Corporate Finance” “Taxation of Foreign Presentations W. Froessel Intramural “Finding the Forum that (September 2018). Persons Who Dispose of Moot Court Competition Presented at an Fits: Child Immigrants Interests in Partnerships” (September 2018). International Centre for and Fair Process,” Roger Presentations (March 2018). Pension Management Presented at the Williams University Law Panelist at Hofstra Discussion Forum in (spring International Restorative Review Online University for a discussion Toronto, Canada (June 2018). Justice Conference, Tamara C. Belinfanti convened by the Private 2018). sponsored by Vermont Co-authored a critique Wealth & Taxation Institute Law School (June 2018). Participated in various of immigration hearings titled, “Ethics—Standing industry and higher posted in the Yale Journal at the Edge of a Cliff— Service education working on Regulation’s blog, Notice How to Advise a Client groups on financial topics & Comment, titled “Fair Received advanced Proposing to Take a Tax (2017–18). Process in Name Only” training as a restorative Position That is Uncertain, (October 2017). justice facilitator at Lacking in Authority or Lenni B. Benson Columbia School Illegal” (June 2018). Advocacy of Social Work, and Moderator on the panel volunteered as a Appointments Co-authored a letter to “Tax Planning for Brexit peacemaker—part of the Attorney General Jeff and Beyond: Navigating Elected to the Executive Peacemaking Program Sessions expressing alarm the New European Committee of the of the Center for Court about new case completion Landscape” for the New Association of American Innovation—at the Red quotas for immigration York City Bar Association Law Schools Section on Hook Community Justice judges (August 2018). (February 2018). Business Associations Center in Brooklyn, New (2018). York (September 2018). Spoke at New York Media References and University’s 76th Institute Invited to serve on the Awards and Recognition Appearances on Federal Taxation on the Advisory Committee Received the Kobak Featured in “Kids in topic of “Tax Planning for to the World Economic Prize from the New immigration court: A U.S. Business Operations Forum (2018). York County Lawyers maze with life and death of Foreign-Owned Publications Association for her consequences,” CNN (July Enterprises” (November role in developing a 2018). and October 2017). Citizen Capitalism: How November 2017 program

FACULTY HIGHLIGHTS 23 Robert Blecker Media References and widows while providing Kirk D. Burkhalter ’04 Richard Chused Appearances portions for their children (November 2017). Featured prominently in the “Deflategate” Publications documentary, Four Games in Fall (spring 2018). “Farewell Downton Abbey, Adieu Primogeniture and Entail: Lloyd Bonfield Britain’s Brief Encounter with Forced Heirship,” Presentations American Journal of Legal Awards and Recognition Publications (September 2018). Hosted a symposium with History Winner of the Class of “Moral Rights: The the New York Law School Book review, for James 2018 Teaching Award Anti-Rebellion Graffiti Law Review titled “What Muir’s Law, Debt, and (June 2018). Heritage of 5Pointz,” Can Law Teach Sport and Merchant Power: The Columbia Journal of Law Sport Teach Law(yers)?” Civil Courts of Eighteenth- Honored by the Muslim & the Arts (fall 2018). As part of this day-long Law Students Association Century Halifax “5Pointz: The Anti- symposium, an idea he (University of Toronto at NYLS’s Spring Banquet Appointments Rebellion Message of the conceived, he held an Press, September 2016), (April 2018). Graffiti Dispute,”CityLand in-depth discussion with in Visiting Professor of The Continuity and Change (November 2017). Marc Lasry ’84, CEO and Hebrew University of (Cambridge University David Chang Co-Founder of Avenue Jerusalem, where he taught Press, May 2018). Capital Group and a course (largely remotely) Anthony W. Crowell European Union Business Co-Owner of the NBA’s for students participating Law: Representing Clients Milwaukee Bucks, as well in the Willem C. Vis Doing Business in the as the world’s leading International Commercial European Union (West thinkers in the philosophy Arbitration Moot Academic Publishing, of sport (October 2017). in Vienna, Austria March 2018). (2017–18). Publications Presentations Camille Broussard Authored numerous op- Appointments eds on the 2018 Olympic Participated in a seminar Games, including, “Did for Argentine judges With NYLS Professor Appointments the PyeongChang Games organized by Judge Leo Camille Broussard, Appointed to work Prove the Olympics Can M. Gordon of the U.S. led NYLS’s Academic with the Association of Still Broker Peace?”; Court of International Support Curriculum American Law Schools “How the Russian Trade. His lectures Committee in a (AALS) Deans’ Forum Doping Scandal Caused include “An Introduction successful search to Steering Committee to a War Between World to American Law” fill two newly created design programs for the Sporting Authorities”; and European Union positions—the Assistant 2019 Deans’ Forum at the “Why Everyone Needs Directives Regarding Appointments Dean for Academic Annual Meeting in New to Stop Making Fun of Shareholders’ Rights” Success and the Assistant With NYLS Professor Orleans, Louisiana, and Curling”; “Are the Right (September 2018). Dean for Bar Success—in David Chang, led NYLS’s to moderate a panel at the People Being Punished the ongoing effort to Participated in a session Academic Support 2019 meeting (February for the Russian Doping design and implement a on “Widows in European Curriculum Committee 2018). Scandal?”; and “With So continuum of academic Economy and Society, in a successful search to Little Time, Can North support programming Elected to the Board of 1600–1920,” at the 42nd fill two newly created and South Korea Combine and services from First The Congressional Award Annual Meeting of the positions—the Assistant Olympic Teams?” Observer Week through the bar Foundation in Washington, Social Science History Dean for Academic (February and January exam (2017–18). D.C. The Congressional Association in Montreal, Success and the Assistant 2018). Award is awarded to youth Canada. His paper Dean for Bar Success—in through age 23 who have Op-ed, “What Football discussed what he has the ongoing effort to demonstrated exceptional Needs Is Another Teddy called the “Inheritance design and implement a community service and Roosevelt,” The Wall Street Conundrum,” how continuum of academic other achievements. Journal (October 2017). families created support programming and Dean Crowell was a intergenerational services from First Week Congressional Award succession strategies that through the bar exam recipient in 1987 protected the interests of (2017–18). (October 2017).

24 NEW YORK LAW SCHOOL MAGAZINE • 2019 • VOL. 37, NO. 2 Presentations Catharine Du Bois From Draft to Done: Be prestigious European Law Ronald H. Filler Your Own Editor” (fall Institute (June 2018). Gave welcome remarks at 2018). the Personal Democracy One of 15 legal experts Forum (PDF) 2018 held from across the country at NYLS. PDF is the Stephen J. Ellmann selected to participate world’s longest ongoing in a roundtable held by conference on how the U.S. Departments of technology is changing Justice and Homeland politics, government, and Security in Washington, civic life (June 2018). D.C., evaluating the Presentations Internet of Things, privacy, Awards and Recognition Panelist at ALM’s security, and liability issues Legaltech Legalweek. Presented a CLE, Honored for having of (October 2017). Spoke on a panel titled “Communication in the the best panels at the “The Evolution of the Legal Environment,” at Appointed Vice Chair Annual Spring Meeting Legal Services Business the New York City Bar Awards and Recognition of the American Bar of the American Bar Model.” Other panelists Association’s 16-Hour Association’s Article Association’s International included CEOs, General “Bridge-the-Gap: Practical Received the President’s 2 UCC Committee Financial Products & Counsels, and Chief Skills, Ethics & More…” Medal, given at NYLS’s (September 2017). Services Committee. Strategy Officers of tech program (October 2018). 126th Commencement, He moderated a panel and industrial firms in and for his exceptional and Presentations that analyzed the 2008 Spoke at the Western around the legal tech space lasting contributions to financial crisis titled, Regional Legal Writing Remotely presented her (January 2018). the NYLS community, “Financial Crisis Reform Conference 2018 at the article, “Commodifying including through his … or a Financial Crisis/ Featured speaker at the University of California, Consumer Data in the Era advocacy for the rule of Missed Opportunity?” induction ceremony Irvine School of Law of the Internet of Things,” law at home and overseas (October 2017). for Justice Anthony on preparing effectively (June 2018). which was published in Cannataro ’96, who was for the face-to-face the Boston College Law Appointments elected to New York State interactions junior lawyers Review (February 2018), at Supreme Court and is have with supervisors and Stacy-Ann Elvy the Property Implications Elected a public also the Administrative clients and how to best of the Sharing Economy representative of the Board Judge of the Civil Court convey professionalism Workshop held at Penn of Directors and of the of the City of New York and legal acumen State Law. The workshop Executive Committee (December 2017). (September 2018). was co-sponsored by the of the National Futures Association of American Association, the derivatives Co-hosted the Public Presented CLEs in Law Schools (AALS) industry’s principal self- Pension Trustees Fiduciary collaboration with the Property Section and regulatory organization Conference in conjunction National Institute for AALS Commercial and (February 2018). with the New York City Trial Advocacy, “Writing Related Consumer Law Mayor’s Office of Pensions Persuasive Briefs” (May Section (October 2017). Presentations and Investments and the 2018, March 2018, and Awards and Recognition Initiative for Responsible October 2017). Spoke at international Article, “Paying for Privacy Publications Investment. He was the conferences and programs Presented a CLE, “Raising and the Personal Data luncheon speaker and Chapter, “The Artificially in Cape Town and Your Writing Bar: Next Economy,” published spoke about New York Intelligent Internet of Pretoria, South Africa, Level Drafting and Editing in the Columbia Law City’s efforts to enhance Things and Article 2 of Mexico, and Peru, focusing Skills,” at the New York Review, was identified trustees’ exercise of the Uniform Commercial on how derivatives City Bar Association’s as one of the best works fiduciary responsibilities Code,” in are regulated in the 2018 Professional of recent scholarship Research over the past 15 years United States and their Development Workshop relating to commercial Handbook on the Law (October 2017). comparisons with the laws Series (March 2018). law and privacy law in of Artificial Intelligence (Edward Elgar Publishing) and regulations outside Attended the National a peer review published (December 2018). the United States (August Association for Law Publications in Jotwell: The Journal of 2018, October 2017, and Placement Summit on Things We Like (LOTS) “Commodifying Authored two chapters in August 2017). Emerging Careers for Law (January 2018). Consumer Data in the An Associate’s First Year: A Grads in Washington, Era of the Internet of Guide to Thriving at a Law Publications D.C. He was a featured Appointments Things,” Boston College Firm, published by the speaker on the topic of (2018). “Ask the Professor—What Practising Law Institute: Appointed an advisor Law Review “Informed and Engaged Is the Impact of the Recent “Chapter 10. Preparing on the American Law Outreach for Emerging Second Circuit Decision for a Status Meeting: Institute’s Principles for Legal Jobs: A Template for in Presenting Your Work in a Data Economy, a new Tower Research Capital Law Schools” (October on the Global Futures Person” and “Chapter 13. joint project with the 2017). Markets?” Futures &

FACULTY HIGHLIGHTS 25 Derivatives Law Report Appointments presentation at NYLS a diverse and inclusive legal advice to pro se (June 2018). on the Judge Brett campus (March 2018). litigants concerning Named Director of Kavanaugh confirmation child support, paternity, Academic Initiatives at “Whistleblowers—A Case hearings that was co- Presentations custody, visitation, and NYLS, where she will work Study in the Regulatory sponsored by the Impact family offense proceedings closely with Associate Dean With NYLS Professor Cycle for Financial Center for Public Interest (August and July 2018). William P. LaPiana on Lynn Boepple Su, Services,” Law and the NYLS Brooklyn Journal all aspects of the School’s presented at the Rocky chapter of the American Media References and of Corporate, Financial & teaching and learning Mountain Legal Writing (2018). Constitution Society Appearances Commercial Law efforts (July 2018). Conference at the (September 2018). Co-authored “Ask the University of Denver A case in which she Professors—How Will Presentations One of 25 thought Sturm College of Law. The supervised students the Recent Supreme leaders invited to attend theme of the conference who prevailed in an Led a plenary session on Court Decision in the Wolters Kluwer was “Wellness for You, administrative hearing SEC v. teaching methods and Affect Future SEC Leading Edge Conference, Your Students, and that enabled a client to Kokesh assessment at the annual and CFTC Enforcement where he gave the talk Your Career.” Professors obtain a marriage license 2018 Association of Actions?” “How Do We Design Goldstein and Su’s was featured in the Futures & American Law School New Transformational presentation, “Getting (November Derivatives Law Report (AALS) Workshop for York Post (September 2017) (with Experiences? Law School Them at Hello: Creative 2017). New Law School Teachers Professor J. W. Markham). and the Experience Techniques and Exercises (June 2018). Economy” (July 2018). to Engage and Energize Jeffrey J. Haas Advocacy Led a workshop for New New Law Students,” Interviewed NYLS York University School of focused on classroom Co-authored an amicus Professor Rebecca Roiphe Law faculty on teaching activities that demystify brief that was filed with about the President’s critical reading skills (June the law school experience the U.S. Supreme Court in control over the U.S. 2018). and introduce essential United States of America v. Department of Justice for lawyering skills (March Michael Coscia. The brief At the 112th Association the NYLS chapter of the 2018). supports the petitioner— of American Law Schools American Constitution who was found guilty in a (AALS) Annual Meeting Society (April 2018). criminal case by engaging in San Diego, California, Participated in a panel Lisa F. Grumet in a trading strategy attended House of discussion of the book, Publications known as “spoofing”— Delegates meetings on Animus: A Short and concludes that the behalf of NYLS, attended Third edition of the Introduction to Bias in the legislation that created a planning meeting to Law, at Brooklyn Law Mergers and Acquisitions this “spoofing” trading be a featured speaker at School (February 2018). Nutshell (West Academic concept in the Dodd- the 2019 AALS Annual Publishing, forthcoming). Frank Act in 2010 was Meeting, and presented an Publications Fifth edition ofThe Law of unconstitutionally vague award to a longstanding Mergers and Acquisitions, (March 2018). colleague on behalf of the Authored a piece for the leading mergers and Academic Success Project Public Books titled “The section (January 2018). Constitution: When Less Presentations acquisitions casebook Kris Franklin in the country (West Is More” (October 2017). Presented a working Academic Publishing, Publications draft of her article, May 2018) (with D. “Distinguishing Among Legal Reasoning Case Files Anne Goldstein Oesterle). (Carolina Academic Press, Cakes: Enforcing Public January 2019). Accommodation Laws Litigation and Preserving Civility Doni Gewirtzman Post-Masterpiece Successfully defended Cakeshop,” at the Annual the auction house, Gotta Law and Religion Have Rock & Roll®, in Roundtable, held at the litigation brought by Awards and Recognition University of Pennsylvania Madonna Ciccone (a.k.a. Law School (June 2018). “Madonna”) in connection Was a member of a group with Madonna-related chosen as a finalist for the Awards and Recognition Service memorabilia consigned Leading Edge Prize for to the auction house Educational Innovation Winner of a 2018 Participated in the New by Madonna’s former given by Wolters Diversity Champion York City Family Court art consultant, Darlene Kluwer Legal Education award from NYLS’s Office Volunteer Attorney Presentations Lutz. Included in the (September 2018). of Diversity and Inclusion Program and supervised Gave an “Impact Today!” memorabilia was a letter for her efforts to support students in providing

26 NEW YORK LAW SCHOOL MAGAZINE • 2019 • VOL. 37, NO. 2 hand-written by rapper Gerald Korngold for Value Capture in the summer meeting of The Commission of the New Tupak Shakur, valued at U.S.” Law professors from American College of York Courts (June 2018). over $300,000 and sent Brazil, Spain, and Israel Trust and Estate Counsel to Madonna while Shakur also addressed these issues in Chicago, Illinois on Gave a talk at Cornell was serving time at the under their respective legal “Drafting Class Gifts to Law School at an Clinton Correctional systems (August 2017). Family Members in a event sponsored by the Facility in upstate New World of Evolving Family school’s LGBT student York. As part of the Publications Relationships” (June organization, titled “A litigation, Professor 2018). Battle Over Statutory Chapter, “Community Haas personally deposed Interpretation: Title VII Benefits Agreements: Spoke at a panel at the Madonna at the offices of and Claims of Sexual Presentations Flexibility and Inclusion Joint Fall CLE Meeting of Proskauer Rose LLP in Orientation and Gender in U.S. Zoning,” in One the Tax and Real Property, Manhattan. Addressed the opening Identity Discrimination” Hundred Years of Zoning Trust and Estate Law plenary session of the (February 2018). and the Future of Cities Sections of the American Mariana Hogan American Planning (Springer International Bar Association. The Spoke as part of LeGaL’s Association (APA) Publishing, 2018) (A. topic was “Document LGBT Law 2017 Year 2018 Policy and Lehavi, ed.). Construction Issues Raised in Review CLE Annual Advocacy Conference in by Changing Concepts of Program (January 2018). Washington, D.C. His Article, “Land Use Family, Gender, and Race: topic was “Infrastructure Regulation as a Framework If My Grandson Becomes Publications Finance: The Legal to Create Public Space for My Granddaughter Will Calculus” (September Speech and Expression Third edition of his book, She Get the Farm?” 2018). in the Evolving and Sexuality Law (Carolina (September 2017). Reconceptualized Academic Press, 2019) Spoke at the APA 2018 Shopping Mall of the Gave a CLE presentation (with Professor P. Cain). Presentations National Planning Twenty-First Century,” on the proposed New Conference in New Chronicled the latest legal Ran trial skills workshops York Trust Code to Orleans, Louisiana on Case Western Reserve Law developments affecting for lawyers at The (2017). the Surrogate’s Court “Land Value Capture for Review LGBTQ rights through Hartford, Allstate Committee of the Nassau Community Benefits: his monthly scholarly Insurance Company, Akin County Bar Association Tools and Legal William P. LaPiana newsletter, “LGBT Law Gump Strauss Hauer & (September 2017). Framework” (April 2018). Notes,” its accompanying Feld LLP, Hogan Lovells, podcast, and his frequent and Covington & Burling Spoke at The University Arthur S. Leonard legal analysis and coverage LLP (June and May 2018). of Chicago Harris School in of Public Policy on Gay City News Working with Andrew (2017–18). “Land Value Capture Tallis ’93, created a new as a Revenue Raising Intensive Trial Advocacy Advocacy Tool for State and Local Program for lawyers at the Governments.” His Co-authored an amicus New York City Human remarks were part of a brief in support of a Resources Administration. program on public finance Presentations gay inmate who was The five-day program for urban planners (March beaten and subjected to trained agency lawyers 2018). Gave a CLE presentation homophobic slurs by other Presentations to do direct and cross on the proposed New inmates in a Florida prison examinations, make and Gave a speech to the York Directed Trust Act Addressed the New York (July 2018). respond to objections, Government Finance and the Uniform Law Society for Ethical Culture introduce and use exhibits, Officers Association Commission’s efforts to on a range of labor topics. make opening statements meeting in Washington, Molly Manning draft an Electronic Wills He was invited by Dr. and closing arguments, D.C., on “Value Capture Act to the Surrogate’s Richard Koral ’78, a leader and handle expert as a Revenue Raising Court Committee of at the Society (September witnesses. It culminated in Tool for State and Local the Nassau County Bar 2018). a mock bench trial (May Governments” (December Association (September and April 2018). 2017). 2018). Spoke, along with a number of judges and Presented on “Taking and Spoke at an International Attended the American advocate leaders, as part Defending Depositions” Land Value Capture Bar Association’s 2018 of an event titled “July for lawyers in the Civil Research Symposium in and 2017 Site Evaluation 3, 1973: The Day the Division of the U.S. Cambridge, Massachusetts. Workshops in Chicago, Court of Appeals Made Department of Justice His topic was “Legal Awards and Recognition Illinois (September 2018 Pride Possible in New in Washington, D.C. Foundations and and October 2017). York,” hosted by The Her book, When Books (December 2017). Regulatory Frameworks Joined a panel at the Richard C. Failla LGBTQ Went to War: The Stories

FACULTY HIGHLIGHTS 27 That Helped Us Win World Publications concerning supply-chain symposium held at New Named the liaison War II, was selected for management in the York University School of between the Association Special Education Law Laconia, New Hampshire’s fashion industry. The event Law titled “A Decision for of American Law Schools and Practice (Carolina “One City, One Book” was sponsored by NYLS’s the Ages: A Symposium and the American Bar Academic Press, October reading program at the Media, Entertainment, Marking the Centenary of Association Standing 2017) (with Professor D. New Hampshire State and Fashion Law Committee for Ethics and N. Archer). Masses Publishing Co. v. Library (September 2018). Association (September Patten” (October 2017). Professional Responsibility 2017). (October 2017). Presented at the University Presentations Cynara Hermes of Pennsylvania Law McQuillan ’03 Advocacy Presentations Presented at a conference School in the “Symposium at Hiram College in Led NYLS’s Securities on Civil Procedure: Presented her co-authored Ohio on “Deconstructing Arbitration Clinic in Burbank & Farang, Rights article, “Judicial Activism Books: How Ethics and an especially active and Retrenchment” in Trial Courts,” at New Technology Shaped the academic year. The (September 2017). York University School Modern Book Industry” clinic filed its first of Law’s symposium, (October 2018). first-ever Whistleblower “Sentencing Reform from Michael Roffer ’83 Complaint with the U.S. the Bench: The Emerging Publications Securities and Exchange Role of District Court Commission, successfully Judges” (April 2018). Article, “How to Count to Appointments negotiated a settlement on Three: Circuit Splits and behalf of an elderly couple Publications Confusion in Interpreting Appointed Assistant whose former brokers the Prison Litigation Dean for Bar Success “May Prosecutors Take had misled them, and Reform Act’s ‘Three and Visiting Professor at Direction From the protected other clients’ Strikes Rule,’ 28 U.S.C. § NYLS (August 2018). President?” Fordham Law savings and investments 1915(g),” Cornell Journal Review (October 2018) (2017–18). of Law and Public Policy Presentations (with B. Green). Publications (August 2018). Co-presented on her work Chongqing University Op-ed, “Paul Manafort’s teaching critical reading Edward A. Purcell Jr. Press to publish a Lawyers May Have Broken Richard D. Marsico and thinking with the Chinese-language edition the Law,” Slate (September Ron Brown Prep Program of his book, 2018). Foundation at the The Law AccessLex Legal Education Book: From Hammurabi Op-ed, “Pardoning Paul Research Symposium in to the International Manafort might not be Clearwater Beach, Florida Criminal Court, 250 such a bad idea if Donald (November 2017). Milestones in the History Trump wants to take a of Law (Sterling, 2015) risk,” USA Today (August (forthcoming). 2018). Howard S. Meyers Presentations Rebecca Roiphe “Can the President Awards and Recognition Appeared at high-profile Control the Department book events at NYLS of Justice?” accepted in Remained in the top and in Washington, the Alabama Law Review 10 percent of authors D.C., with Dean and (February 2018) (with B. on SSRN by all-time Professor Emeritus James Green). downloads, with 2,000 F. Simon on Professor downloads of his articles Simon’s new book, as of September 2018 Ross Sandler (2017–18). Eisenhower vs. Warren: Appointments The Battle for Civil Rights Presentations and Liberties. At both Appointments Appointed Dean events he interviewed Co-sponsored and spoke of Adjunct Faculty Professor Simon on the Appointed a Subject at the Impact Center for Engagement at NYLS constitutional law and Matter Expert for the Public Interest Law’s “A (August 2018). legal history themes in the Multistate Professional Symposium on Special book. The NYLS event Responsibility Examination Education Law: Past, Presentations was broadcast on C-SPAN (MPRE). She will join Present, and Future,” at a group of scholars and Guest panelist at the event 2 (May and April 2018). NYLS (March 2018). practitioners in drafting Awards and Recognition “Fast Fashion Pitfalls,” Presented a paper and and reviewing MPRE where he discussed served as a panelist at a Participated in a questions (May 2018). legal and ethical issues ceremony at the New

28 NEW YORK LAW SCHOOL MAGAZINE • 2019 • VOL. 37, NO. 2 York City Council where Andrew Scherer Spoke on a lunchtime Houman B. Shadab Spoke on the panel the Council adopted a panel at the Maurice A. “Paradigm Shift: proclamation honoring Deane School of Law Examining the Blockchain the 25th anniversary of the at Hofstra University Business Revolution,” Sports & Arts in Schools titled “Justice for All: at the 2017 Emerging Foundation (SASF). Moving Toward Civil Legal Technology Forum He co-founded SASF Gideon in New York.” The held in Toronto, Canada with two others in 1992 panel was organized and (September 2017). and served as chair of its moderated by Hon. Fern board from 2012 to 2015 Fisher, Visiting Professor Jacob S. Sherkow (October 2017). Appointments of Law at Hofstra and Presentations former Deputy Chief Presentations Named Co-Chair of the Administrative Judge Spoke at the International Civil Right to Counsel of the New York State Monetary Fund (IMF) As Director of the Center Task Force of the New Unified Court System and World Bank Group’s for New York City Law York City Bar Association (October 2017). Spring Meeting in at NYLS, introduced (May 2018). Washington, D.C. on the public officials and Spoke on a panel titled panel “Smart Contracts: delivered remarks at the “Innovating Solutions for Presentations Are They Really Contracts Center’s high-profile Residential Instability” and Are They Really CityLaw Breakfast Series Attended the Equal Justice at an interdisciplinary Appointments Smart?” The panel was (2017–18). Conference sponsored roundtable on “Residential part of the IMF and World Appointed to the National by the American Bar Instability: What States Bank’s New Economy Academy of Medicine for Publications Association and the and Localities Can Do,” Forum and FinTech a three-year term, as part National Legal Aid & organized by the Urban “Holding Congress Exchange (April 2018). of a group of Emerging Defender Association in Institute and hosted Accountable: A New Leaders in Health and San Diego, California, by the Annie E. Casey Led a workshop on smart Deal-era proposal Medicine (July 2018). where he moderated a contracts and blockchain. would produce more Foundation in Baltimore, panel, “New York City’s The workshop was a Named a permanent effective, less burdensome Maryland (October 2017). Groundbreaking New prelude to the 2018 visiting professor, at the regulation,” Spoke on the opening The Regulatory Right to Counsel in Computational Law & Centre for Advanced (February 2018) panel at the New York Review Evictions: A Critical Blockchain Festival, co- Studies in Biomedical (with NYLS Trustee State Bar Association’s Piece in the Struggle for sponsored by NYLS, in Innovation Law at the Professor D. Schoenbrod). CLE program “Redeeming Housing Justice,” and spoke which Professor Shadab University of Copenhagen, the Pledge … ‘And Justice on a panel, “Civil Right and NYLS students the largest current grant in Media References and for All,’” at the Benjamin to Counsel in the Trump participated (March 2018). the field (January 2018). Appearances N. Cardozo School of Law. Era: Protecting Vulnerable The program addressed Moderated a panel Quoted in “Why Communities from Fees/ Presentations access-to-justice issues on smart contracts at Trump’s Name Could Be Fines, Deportation, in the areas of criminal the annual Wall Street Presented “Scientific Hurting His N.Y.C. Golf Increased Inequity, and justice, immigration rights, Blockchain Alliance event Communities and Trade Course and Other City More” (May 2018). and civil justice. The panel held at NYLS (November Secrets: The Case of Concessions,” The New Attended the Seventh 2017). AIRR” (Adaptive Immune (September he spoke on was titled York Times Annual Law School Access Receptor Repertoire) 2018). “Access to Justice in the Gave a presentation on to Justice Conference at at the second annual Civil Context: Housing, contract digitization at Quoted in “Bill de Blasio Pace Law School, where “BioLawLaPalooza” at Family & Developments in the annual Clio Cloud is reportedly looking he was a co-facilitator Stanford Law School’s Civil Gideon” (September Conference held in New for a way to tear up the of the working group Center for Law and the 2017). Orleans, Louisiana. The city’s contracts with the on “Optimizing Law Biosciences (March 2018). conference included over Trump Organization after School Instruction and Publications 1,200 attendees from 20 Michael Cohen’s guilty the Hiring Process to Publications Article, “New York countries and keynote plea,” Business Insider meet the Challenge of the City’s ‘Universal Access’ speakers such as former “Patents, Promises, (September 2018). Universal Access to Legal Legislation: One Giant U.S. Attorney for the and Reproducibility,” Services Law in New York Leap for the Civil Right Southern District of Georgetown Journal City Housing Court” to Counsel,” New York Preet Bharara of International Law and moderated the panel Management (September 2017). (September 2018). “How Law Schools Can Information Exchange (fall 2017). Strengthen the Pipeline: Journal Spoke on the panel “Cancer’s IP,” North Best Practices in Preparing “Data & Analytics in the Carolina Law Review Law Students for Public Law” hosted by Evolve (January 2018). Interest and Housing Law in New York City Lawyering” (May 2018). (September 2017).

FACULTY HIGHLIGHTS 29 “CRISPR, Patents, and Publications Nadine Strossen one talk per day, to James T. Foley U.S. the Public Health,” promote the ideas in her Courthouse in Albany, Yale Chapter, “Post-secular new book, New York and served Journal of Biology and Jurisprudence: A HATE: Why (2017). as a bailiff in one of the Medicine Visual Semiotics of the We Should Resist It with rounds. Professor Su is Sacred Source of Law’s Free Speech, Not Censorship Media References and (2017–18). a member of New York Authority,” in Mediation Appearances State Bar Association’s and Immediacy: the Publications Committee on Law, Youth Interviewed extensively Semiotic Turn in the Study & Citizenship, which runs about the CRISPR patent of Religion (Walter de HATE: Why We Should the annual event (May appeal decision in dozens Gruyter, forthcoming). Resist It with Free Speech, 2018). of national media outlets Appointments (Oxford Chapter, “What Not Censorship including NPR, University Press, May With NYLS Professor Nature, Authorizes the Image? Appointed to the Advisory and 2018). Anne Goldstein, Gizmodo, Wired The Visual Economy Board of the Heterodox (September 2018). presented at the Rocky of Post-Secular Academy, a collaboration Media References and Mountain Legal Jurisprudence,” in Law and among professors who Appearances Writing Conference Richard K. Sherwin the Visual: Representations, want to advance and at the University of Technologies, and promote viewpoint Did a multitude of Denver Sturm College Critique (University of diversity in the academy interviews to discuss of Law. The theme of Toronto Press 2018) (D. (August 2017). her new book, HATE: the conference was Manderson, ed.). Why We Should Resist Presentations “Wellness for You, Your “Visual Literacy for It with Free Speech, Not , along with Students, and Your the Legal Profession,” Delivered the keynote Censorship other free speech topics, Career.” Professors Su and Journal of Legal Education address at the “Forum on including appearances Goldstein’s presentation, (symposium issue on visual Free Speech in Higher on PBS, CBS, NPR, “Getting Them at Hello: imagery and pop culture in Education” held by the C-SPAN, Fox News, Creative Techniques Appointments legal education) (2018). U.S. Department of and many other outlets and Exercises to Engage Justice. Other speakers and Energize New Law Completed six-month Edited and contributed (2017–18). included Attorney General Students,” focused on dual fellowships at the to Volume 6: A Cultural Jeff Sessions and U.S. classroom activities that University of Cambridge. History of Law in Senator Lamar Alexander. Lynn Boepple Su demystify the law school He served as Visiting the Modern Age in A The event was carried by experience and introduce Fellow at Fitzwilliam Cultural History of Law C-SPAN2 (September essential lawyering skills College and Research series (Bloomsbury 2018). (March 2018). Scholar at CRASSH, the Academic, 2018) (with D. Centre for Research in the Celermajer, ed.). Spoke at a forum Presented at the Teachers’ Arts, Social Sciences and sponsored by the National Orientation for the New Constitution Center on York City High School Humanities (January to Faith Stevelman June 2018). “The First Amendment Mock Trial Tournament. and Hate Speech” at the The tournament is Presentations Edward M. Kennedy sponsored by the New Institute in Boston, Presentations York State Bar Association, Delivered the invited Massachusetts. The other New York City lecture “Escalus’s Panelist at the participants included U.S. Department of Education, Dream: Re-Imagining Mindfulness in Law Supreme Court Justice Justice Resource Center, Shakespeare’s States” at Society Southeastern Stephen G. Breyer (March and New York County the CRASSH conference Association of Law 2018). Lawyers Association’s “Law and Poetics in Early Schools 2018 Conference Law Related Education Modern England and Testified before the U.S. held in Fort Lauderdale, Presentations Committee (December Beyond,” University of Senate Committee on Florida. The topic of her 2017). Cambridge (July 2018). Presented a paper, “What Health, Education, Labor panel was “Mindfulness Corporate Boards and Pensions in a hearing and Professional Participated as a workshop Delivered the invited Should Do,” to kick titled “Exploring Freedom Identity: Creating Calm leader in the Bronx lecture “On Law and off a conference at the of Speech on Campus,” and Confidence by District Attorney’s Visual Culture” at the University of California, which was covered by Overcoming the Imposter Orientation Training Architectural Association Los Angeles School of Law C-SPAN (October 2017). Syndrome” (August 2018). Program for new assistant School of Architecture (September 2018). district attorneys in London, England Spoke and interviewed Attended the New York (September 2017). (February 2018). nonstop, throughout State 2018 High School the United States and Mock Trial Tournament internationally, averaging semi-finals held at the

30 NEW YORK LAW SCHOOL MAGAZINE • 2019 • VOL. 37, NO. 2 Publications Presentations Op-ed, “Pardons Are a Ari Ezra Waldman Publications Loaded Gun,” La Nacion “Leaving the Land of Gave a lecture, Privacy as Trust: and the Irish Examiner Tweets, Texts, and Emojis: “Transitional Justice as Information Privacy (September 2017). The Collaborative Writing Narrative,” at the Faculty for an Information Age Skills Assignment, a of Law, Hebrew University (Cambridge University Vehicle For Reinforcing of Jerusalem (June 2018). Ann F. Thomas Press, March 2018). Grammar and Punctuation Gave a talk at the “Are Anti-Bullying Laws Rules,” The Second Draft, International Peace Institute Effective?”Cornell Law a publication of the Legal on “Negotiating Peace Review Online (March Writing Institute (fall After Wars of Atrocity” to 2018). 2018). Awards and Recognition an audience of hundreds “Privacy’s Law of Design,” of diplomats and policy Honored as the Deidre G. accepted for publication in analysts (April 2018). Martin Memorial Lecture Ruti G. Teitel the UC Irvine Law Review on Privacy speaker, (August 2018). Publications Canada’s premier privacy scholarship honor, at the “Safe Social Spaces,” Her groundbreaking book, Awards and Recognition University of Ottawa accepted for publication in Transitional Justice, was NYLS’s Graduate Tax (February 2018). the Washington University translated and published Program, which she Law Review (August in Chinese and in Spanish directs, was voted first Presentations 2018). (October and September in the “Best Banking/ “Love, Privacy, and Online 2017). Bankruptcy/Tax LL.M. Testified before the U.S. House of Representatives Dating,” accepted for Authored a chapter in a Program” category for Judiciary Committee on, publication in Law and Awards and Recognition law book in Spanish. The the ninth year in a row by respectively, “The State of Social Inquiry (August book was edited by the law readers of the New York Ranked in SSRN’s Top Intellectual Freedom in 2018). faculty of Universidad de Law Journal (September 10 percent of authors America” and “Filtering Chile (University of Chile). 2018). and reached 4,000 paper Practices of Social Media The book’s title translates downloads (August 2018). Platforms” (September to The Triumph of Human Presentations Her book, Transitional 2018 and April 2018). Find more faculty Rights, and her chapter title Organized and spoke at Justice, was named one translates to “Transitional NYLS’s 15th Annual Tax activities at of top five books on the Justice and the Peace Lawyering Workshop, an www.nyls.edu/ subject of transitional Process in Colombia” all-day CLE (May 2018). FacultyNews justice on the website Five (September 2017). Books (August 2018).

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FACULTY HIGHLIGHTS 31 ADJUNCT FACULTY ACTIVITIES

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Barry Appleton and Unverified Data Corrupts the Judicial Quoted in “Tear down N.Y.’s ‘Scaffold Law’ to Media References and Appearances Process in Sex Offender Cases” was listed in the rebuild infrastructure, group says. Not so fast, a SSRN top downloads accepted for publication law clinic replies,” The Washington Post (October Quoted in “Key Changes To The New NAFTA’s in the Case Western Reserve Law Review 2017). Disputes Mechanisms,” Law360 (October (September 2018). Quoted in “The Equifax Hack Conundrum,” 2018). Chapter on sex offender registration and ethical Slate (September 2017). Adele Bernhard practice in the American Bar Association book, Representing People with Mental Disabilities: A Richard Friedman Advocacy Criminal Defense Lawyer’s Best Practices Manual Appointments With students from NYLS’s Post-Conviction (ABA Book Publishing, 2018) (E. Kelley, ed.). Appointed, by the New Jersey Supreme Court, Innocence Clinic, persuaded the New York State “’Tolling for the Aching Ones Whose Wounds to an attorney ethics committee in New Jersey, Parole Board to grant parole to a man who had Cannot Be Nursed’: The Marginalization of where he is serving a four-year term (September served 22 years for his alleged involvement in Racial Minorities and Women in Institutional 2017). a shooting and had maintained his innocence Mental Disability Law,” Journal of Gender, Race, throughout (January 2018). and Justice (January 2017) (with Professor Kimberly Maynard With Post-Conviction Innocence Clinic Emeritus M. L. Perlin). Awards and Recognition students, is actively working with Conviction “Promoting Dignity and Preventing Shame Review Bureaus recently created by various and Humiliation by Improving the Quality and Named a 2018 New York Metro Super Lawyer District Attorneys in New York. The clinic has Education and Attorneys in Sexually Violent and recognized as a “Top Rated Intellectual cases pending with the Bronx, Brooklyn, and Predator Civil Commitment Cases,” University Property Litigation Attorney in New York, NY” Suffolk County District Attorney’s Offices of Florida Journal of Law & Public Policy (2017). by Super Lawyers from 2016–18. (2018). Joanne Doroshow Presentations Berwin Cohen ’99 Presentations Led a discussion titled “Trademark Claims: Litigation Does Your Insurance Policy Cover Them?” at Featured speaker at the Loyola Consumer Law the International Trademark Association’s 140th With former student William Talbot ’12, Review 2018 Symposium at Loyola University Annual Meeting in Seattle, Washington (May worked on an aggressively-litigated international Chicago School of Law. The conference theme 2018). arms trafficking case,Elettronica GmbH vs. was “Class Action Effectiveness as a Consumer Radio Frequency Simulation Systems, Inc., et al Protection Tool,” and the topic of her remarks Participated in numerous panels for the (2017–18). was “Federal Reform and the Legislative Fight” American Cheese Society that focused on (March 2018). trademark issues faced by the cheese industry Heather Cucolo ’03 (December 2017 to February 2018). Awards and Recognition Advocacy Led a presentation on “Using and Protecting Intellectual Property in Performance” at the Winner of the Otto L. Walter Distinguished In her role as Executive Director of the Center Association for Performing Arts Professionals Writing Award for Shaming the Constitution: for Justice & Democracy, wrote and/or New York City Conference (January 2018). The Detrimental Results of Sexual Violent organized coalition or group letters to Congress Predator Legislation (Temple University Press, on a range of bills, to advance the Center’s civil Moderated a panel for the International March 2017) (with Professor Emeritus M. L. justice and consumer advocacy goals (2017–18). Trademark Association titled “From Creation to Perlin) (June 2018). Console—Understanding IP in a Video Game Media Recognition and Appearances World” (November 2017). Presentations Interviewed by the syndicated radio show Publications Guest speaker at the New York University CounterSpin in “An Employer Can Unilaterally Silver School of Social Work’s “Evolving Justice, Force Employees Into Secret Arbitration Published two articles on intellectual property Session VI: Social Work and Sex Offenses” event Systems” (June 2018). issues faced by dance professionals in Jerome (April 2018). Quoted in “From Opioids to Guns: Cities, Robbins, News From the Jerome Robbins (June 2018 and November 2017). Guest lecturer at New York University School of Counties Step Up Civil Suits,” Bloomberg Law Foundation Medicine’s Legal Literature series (2018). (March 2018). Published an article discussing contractual Quoted in “In Bronx, Obstetricians May Find issues in the dance industry in Dance Magazine Publications Work Inspiring, and Careers Hindered,” The (December 2017). “‘The Strings in the Books Ain’t Pulled and New York Times (December 2017). Persuaded’: How the Use of Improper Statistics

32 NEW YORK LAW SCHOOL MAGAZINE • 2019 • VOL. 37, NO. 2 Johanna Miller ’08 of the China Council for the Promotion of Publications International Trade (September 2018). Appointments Op-eds, “Freezing Out Immigrants: The Denial Organized the “London Boot Camp,” in of Due Process in New York State Courts”; Named inaugural Director of the New York partnership with the International Centre for “‘Why Am I in Jail?’ Wonder Asylum-Seekers Civil Liberties Union (NYCLU) and American Dispute Resolution. The three-day conference Fleeing Hell”; “How to Help the ‘Accidental’ Civil Liberties Union’s joint Education Policy offered participants 17.5 CLEs and the chance New Yorkers Separated From Their Families and Center (October 2018). to learn from prominent dispute resolution Shipped to Upstate Prisons”; and “Let Us Never Publications practitioners (June 2018). Look Away,” Queens Daily Eagle (August and July 2018). NYCLU report, “Shattered: The Continuing, Lawrence P. Schnapf “Barring Survivors of Domestic Violence from Damaging, and Disparate Legacy of Broken Publications Food Security: The Unintended Consequences Windows Policing in New York City” of 1996 Welfare and Immigration Reform,” (September 2018). Article, “Shades of Superfund,” about proposed (September 2017) (with E. Superfund reforms, in the newsletter of the Drexel Law Review Blog post, “4 Years After Eric Garner’s Death, Collette). American Bar Association Environmental We’re Still Waiting for Justice,” ACLU.org (July Transactions and Brownfields Committee (July “Unaccompanied and Excluded from Food 2018). 2018). Security: A Call for the Inclusion of Immigrant Blog post, “The NYPD’s ‘Cult of Compliance,’” Youth Twenty Years After Welfare Reform,” ACLU.org (January 2018). John Scordo Georgetown Immigration Law Journal Presentations (September 2017) (with E. Collette). Advocacy Presented the lecture “GDPR [General Data Co-produced the Museum of Broken Windows, Advocacy Protection Regulation] and Data Privacy: What a pop-up art exhibit in Greenwich Village With four other advocates—brought together by You Need to Know” to the Association of exploring the legacy of NYPD profiling and the the Feerick Center for Social Justice at Fordham Corporate Counsel of New Jersey (May 2018). “broken windows” crime-control strategy. The University School of Law—worked with New museum was open for nine days, featured four Presented on “Post-Data Breach Legal Issues: York City’s Human Resources Administration, panel discussions and a documentary screening, Regulatory and PCI DSS [Payment Card Department of Homeless Services, and the and received more than 11,500 visitors. It was Industry Data Security Standard] Liability” Mayor’s Office of Immigrant Affairs to develop featured in The New York Times, The Guardian, at the New Jersey State Bar Association’s a procedure to protect the privacy of asylum- NY1, Time Out New York, amNewYork, NowThis Cybersecurity Institute (November 2017). seekers and survivors of trafficking when seeking News, Sirius XM, and others (September 2018). shelter in New York City and conducted Publications trainings to ensure its effective implementation Media References and Appearances “How to Make an Informed Policy Selection (October 2017 to July 2018). Interviewed for “Bold pop-up museum puts in the Dynamic Cyber Insurance Market,” The spotlight on controversial ‘broken windows’ Cybersecurity Law Report (August 2017) (with Media References and Appearances policing,” WPIX 11 (September 2018). E. S. Mekles). Featured on the Voice of America Persian edition’s live broadcast discussing the Rubin v. F. Peter Phillips ’87 Claire R. Thomas ’11 Islamic Republic of Iran case. This case involves Awards and Recognition Awards and Recognition the commercial activity exception to the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act and the possibility Honored by the New Jersey State Bar Received the Outstanding Service Award from of the attachment of ancient Persian tablets, Association’s Dispute Resolution Section as the John Jay College of Criminal Justice’s Latin on scholarly loan from Iran to the Oriental recipient of the 2018 James B. Boskey Award American and Latino/a Studies Department Institute of the University of Chicago, to satisfy for ADR Practitioner of the Year. The award for her work with the NYLS Asylum Clinic to a judgment against Iran (December 2017). is widely recognized as the highest honor an provide legal immigration screenings to John Jay individual can achieve in the development and students, friends, and family (May 2018). Lynne M. Fischman Uniman practice of ADR in New Jersey (September 2018). Presentations Awards and Recognition Faculty presenter at “Ethical Issues for the Honored by the New York County Lawyers Presentations Immigration Practitioner,” a CLE sponsored Association as an Outstanding Woman in the For the third consecutive year, addressed the by the Practising Law Institute as part of the Legal Profession (December 2017). International Mediation Summit in Changsha, 50th Annual Immigration and Naturalization China convened by the Mediation Office Institute (December 2017).

FACULTY HIGHLIGHTS 33 CHRISTOPHER BINNS ’12 ADJUNCT Associate, Wilson Elser Moskowitz Edelman & Dicker LLP Course: Advanced Legal Methodology “I was once in my students’ shoes: a first-year law student trying to ALUMNI adjust to the demands of law school while learning how to speak and write about the law with authority. As a practicing attorney, I understand what is expected of students once they graduate. With these NYLS expectations in mind, I try to help my students determine an approach GRADUATES to solving legal problems that makes the most sense for them and will best serve them throughout their law school careers and beyond.” COME BACK TO THE JUDITH BRESLER ’74 Of Counsel, Withers Bergman LLP and co-author of Art Law: The Guide for CLASSROOM Collectors, Investors, Dealers and Artists Course: Art Law Dozens of NYLS “Having taught Art Law at NYLS for more than 20 years, I am adjunct faculty impressed by my students’ level of engagement with this course. A number of them have decided to pursue Art Law as a field of practice, members are not and it is particularly gratifying to me to come across one of them in only accomplished later years on the opposite side of a negotiation!” practitioners—they’re also devoted alumni. BERWIN COHEN ’99 A selection of alumni Partner and Head of the New York Office, Wolffers Cohen & Edderai LLP Courses: Advanced Tax Litigation Seminar, Business Law Issues in Structuring the Closely adjuncts shared their Held Enterprise, Taxation of Banks and Financial Institutions, Taxation of Intellectual Property Transactions, and Tax Procedure and Tax Practice approach to teaching “Lawyers today must take a holistic general counsel approach in every the next generation of engagement. NYLS’s tax courses focus on developing that approach, NYLS graduates. at a very high academic level, through inductive case-study, real-world application, and the creation of marketable skills to jump-start careers and professional advancement. In addition, teaching is an expression of gratitude for the quality education I received at NYLS and a chance to further promote the School’s prestige in the international business community.”

HEATHER ELLIS CUCOLO ’03 Owner and Partner, Mental Disability Law and Policy Associates, LLC Courses: Criminal Procedure, Adjudication; Criminal Procedure, Investigation; Mental Disability Law and Criminal Law; Professional Responsibility for the Criminal Lawyer; and Sex Offenders “My approach to teaching closely follows what I experienced as an NYLS student: a focus on the real-life application of legal principles, a push to think critically and analytically, and the importance of treating future clients with compassion and respect—even if society deems them to be the lowest of its members. I also share my stories and personal experiences as a trial attorney representing people labeled mentally ill and sexual predators. My hope is that every student leaves my courses feeling empowered and inspired to take on whatever lies ahead in their legal journey.”

34 NEW YORK LAW SCHOOL MAGAZINE • 2019 • VOL. 37, NO. 2 A VITAL NEW LINK DAVID FISH ’96 BETWEEN NYLS AND Counselor and Attorney at Law, David M. Fish P.C.; Athlete Manager ADJUNCT FACULTY Courses: Drafting Contracts and Drafting General Principles “I run my own solo practice law firm, where I practice employment law, commercial litigation, and criminal defense, among other areas. I also operate my combat sports management agency, MMA Fighter Management. Of the many things I do, teaching my students, acting as the NYLS Sports Law Society advisor, and staying connected to NYLS are the most rewarding. I cherish my ongoing relationship with NYLS, and my students keep me sharp and on my toes.”

JOHANNA MILLER ’08 Advocacy Director, New York Civil Liberties Union (NYCLU) Course: Legislative Advocacy Clinic Professor Howard S. Meyers was recently named Dean of “When I was a law student, it was challenging to find mentors Adjunct Faculty Engagement at NYLS. In the role—a newly and experience doing non-litigation policy advocacy. So in created position—he’s forging my teaching, I focus on exposing NYLS students to the entire deeper connections between spectrum of public interest lawyering beyond impact litigation. NYLS and its community of accomplished adjunct faculty My work at NYCLU includes legislative advocacy, public members. His work includes education, community organizing, and media strategy, and I want coordinating the appointment my students to have access to all of those tools.” of new adjunct faculty members, ensuring they receive institutional training, counseling JASMIN ELENA TORRES ’14 them on developing appropriate goals and outcome assessments Housing Unit Staff Attorney, Manhattan Legal Services for their courses, serving as Course: Housing Rights Clinic a mentor, and linking them to other full-time faculty mentors “As an alum, it has always been important for me to give back based on subject matter. And to the community that gave me the tools necessary to shape Dean Meyers has already hit the the practitioner I am today. The Housing Rights Clinic is a ground running, with a survey of the adjunct faculty, undertaken wonderful opportunity for students interested in housing law to as part of NYLS’s new five-year immerse themselves in the practice and gain invaluable hands- strategic plan. Its results will on experience. As someone who has always aspired to teach, it guide additional steps in 2019 and beyond. has been an honor to not only participate in the pilot year of this amazing clinic but to also say that one of my former clinic students is now my colleague!”

JUSTIN XENITELIS ’06 General Counsel and Vice President of Legal, Thor Equities, LLC Courses: Commercial Leasing and Drafting Real Estate Documents “As an NYLS student, some of my most memorable moments were when professors shared their real-world experiences from practice. Now, as a full-time attorney immersed in New York City’s fast- paced real estate sector, I strive to bring this same practical approach to my class by treating students as if they are associates in my legal department and by sharing my day-to-day challenges and lessons from the field.”

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36 NEW YORK LAW SCHOOL MAGAZINE • 2019 • VOL. 37, NO. 2 CLASS NOTES 1950 Judge McCabe is Special Counsel at Robert Young was honored by the has been a member of the Bronx the firm Sahn Ward Coschignano, Nassau County Bar Association and County Bar Association for over PLLC. the Town of Hempstead at its 119th 35 years, was elected president Leon H. Gildin’s novel, The Polski Annual Dinner Dance in May 2018 in 1994, and since 1996 serves Trilogy, was published by Dorrance Publishing Co. in September 2017. for his 50 years of service in the New as Chair of its Criminal Courts York State Bar. Jeffrey Halbreich Committee. He is a member of the and Hon. Edward G. McCabe ’57 New York City Mayor’s Advisory Maurice R. (Hank) Greenberg 1966 were also honored. Committee on the Judiciary and received the Crain Lifetime Vice Chair of the Central Screening Achievement Award from Starr Joel Ackerman writes that he and his Committee, Assigned Counsel Plan, Companies for his outstanding wife Ruth have moved to Tel Aviv, for the Appellate Division, First accomplishments in the insurance Israel, and anyone who knows them Department. and risk management sector. The is welcome to visit. 1972 award was presented to Greenberg, current Chairman and CEO of C.V. Starr & Co., Inc., at the Business Insurance U.S. Insurance Awards in 1974 March 2018. He is former Chairman and CEO of American International Hon. John J. Brunetti was appointed Group, Inc. (AIG), a member of the Legislative Counsel to New York NYLS Board of Trustees since 1969, State Senator John A. DeFrancisco, and Trustee Emeritus since 1984. as reported in December 2017. Judge Brunetti previously served as Counsel to DeFrancisco from 1993 to 1995. He is in private practice in Syracuse, 1957 Jeffrey Halbreichjoined classmates Marvin Ray Raskin has been New York, serves as a judge on the Edward Held, Neil E. Sherman, and appointed to the New York State Oneida Indian Nation Court, and Commission on Judicial Conduct by is a retired Superior Criminal Court Hon. Edward G. McCabe was Joseph Perrini (by phone from New Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie—for Judge. honored by the Nassau County Hampshire) for a mini reunion in a four-year term ending March 31, Bar Association and the Town of August 2018, along with their spouses. 2022—as reported by the New York Hempstead at its 119th Annual In May 2018, he was honored by the Richard Siracusa’s book, Stranger Law Journal in “Marvin Ray Raskin Dinner Dance in May 2018. The event Nassau County Bar Association and Than Fiction: A Criminal Defense Appointed to the NY Commission recognized his 60 years of service in the Town of Hempstead at its 119th Attorney’s Memoir, was published in on Judicial Conduct,” in April 2018. the New York State Bar. Fellow alums Annual Dinner Dance for his 50 years April 2018. He is an attorney with offices in the Jeffrey Halbreich ’66 and Robert of service in the New York State Bar. Bronx and Yorktown Heights. He Young ’66 were in attendance and Robert Young and Hon. Edward G. previously served as an Assistant honored for their 50 years of service. McCabe ’57 were also honored. District Attorney in the Bronx and

CLASS NOTES 37 1975 Marianne Spraggins was appointed celebration of “Outstanding Women by Mayor Bill de Blasio to the New in the Legal Profession” in December Hon. Douglas McKeon was York City Campaign Finance Board 2017. Cohen is Managing Director appointed new Presiding Justice of in April 2018. A former member of and General Counsel of ING the Appellate Term of the Supreme the NYLS Board of Trustees, while Financial Holdings Corporation and Court, First Department as of working at Smith Barney, she became Chief Legal Officer and Managing January 2018, as featured in the the first African American female Director of ING Americas, as well as Managing Director on Wall Street. a member of ING Americas Regional November 2017 New York Law She also served as Senior Counsel to Management Team and its risk and Journal article “NY Names New Presiding Justice of Appellate Term of the Congressional Oversight Panel, a compliance committees. Supreme Court, First Department.” body created by Congress to oversee the U.S. Treasury’s implementation Scott A. Weiner was named Partner of the $700 billion Troubled Asset and head of the energy practice Neldra M. Zeigler was a recipient Relief Program. She is currently an at Florio Perrucci Steinhardt and of the Kathleen Grimm Medal for Distinguished Public Service at 1976 associate broker at Mont Sky Real Cappelli LLC in February 2018. Estate and Director of GrowNYC, The firm is led by former New Jersey NYLS’s 126th Commencement promoting sustainability in New Governor James Florio. ceremony in June 2018, alongside her Robert Gaulin writes that, in York City. spouse, Douglas Zeigler ’81 (also addition to owning his own pictured), and fellow alum Monique practice since 1993, he and his Baptist ’18. family, including wife Patti (née 1979 Kallman) ’79, have opened 1977 Brookfield Indian Motorcycle (BIM) in Connecticut. He notes Hon. Joan Marie Azrack was 1980 that after BIM’s first full calendar Gregory Lasak, who was born and featured in “Judge on Mangano year in business, it was recognized raised in Woodside, Queens, and case described as fair, ‘brilliant’ and Hon. Vincent Del Guidice, a as a “Diamond Signature Dealer” retired from his role as a Queens tough” in Newsday in March 2018. Brooklyn Supreme Court Justice, was among nearly 200 Indian Motorcycle Supreme Court Justice in September honored by the Columbia Association dealers. He writes, “Will I ever 2018, announced that he will run Renée R. Chernus is the incoming of U.S. Customs and Affiliated Federal retire from either ‘job?’ Maybe, but for Queens District Attorney in President of the Northern California Agents at its October 2017 Italian not before exploring the feasibility 2019. His decision was covered by Chapter of the American Academy Heritage Day Luncheon Celebration in of creating one or more other the press, including in “Judge and of Matrimonial Lawyers. She is a Howard Beach. The story was featured motorcycle stores!” former prosecutor born and bred in family law attorney in Marin County, in “Justice Del Giudice honored Woodside announces run for Queens California where she is certified by district attorney” in the New York by Columbia Association of U.S. Benjamin Ostrer was appointed one the California State Bar as a family Daily News. Customs,” in the Brooklyn Daily Eagle. of the 14 members of the Commission law specialist. on Forensic Science by Governor Andrew M. Cuomo in May 2018. Christina M. Storm received the He was also honored at the New President’s Medal at NYLS’s 126th York State Bar Association’s annual Commencement ceremony in June meeting and Justice for All luncheon 2018, for her work as the founder in January 2018 for having received and executive director of Lawyers one of two New York State Bar Without Borders. She was also named Association 2017 Outstanding Pro to the “2018 Lawdragon 500 Leading Bono Volunteer Awards as an Empire Lawyers in America” list alongside State Counsel honoree. He won based fellow alums David N. Kelley ’86, a on his hundreds of hours of exemplary partner at Dechert LLP, and NYLS pro bono work. This is the second Tr uste e Errol B. Taylor ’87, a partner time in three years Ostrer has received at Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & Amirali Y. Haidri was appointed by this award. He is founder and Senior McCloy LLP. Hon. Jonah I. Triebwasser, a judge the Supreme Court of New Jersey to Partner at Ostrer & Associates, P.C. in in the Town and Village Courts of be Vice Chair of its Committee on Chester, New York. Red Hook, New York, was elected Attorney Advertising with regulatory as a representative to the New York and enforcement powers for the 2018 1978 State Bar Association’s House of Gail S. Port was named to the 2017 term. Haidri also writes that his article, Delegates for the 9th Judicial District New York Metro Super Lawyers “ To p “Limitations of Action that Govern Marcy Cohen was featured in in 2018. The House of Delegates is 100” and “Top 50 Women” lists. Insurance Claims” in N.J. Lawyer “Meet These Women GCs Who Are the State Bar’s policymaking body. She is Senior Partner at Proskauer Magazine (August 2012), is a reference Transforming the Legal World” in The 9th Judicial District encompasses Rose LLP where she is head of its that appears in the Annotations to Corporate Counsel in January 2018. the Hudson Valley counties of interdepartmental Environmental New Jersey Statutes. He adds that She was also honored at the New Dutchess, Orange, Putnam, Group. he “succeeded in reestablishing the York County Lawyers Association Rockland, and Westchester. sparingly applied doctrine of estoppel

38 NEW YORK LAW SCHOOL MAGAZINE • 2019 • VOL. 37, NO. 2 against New York state agencies,” citing He was also featured in “Q&A with Christine T. Lepera, a partner at Michael Miller published the New his representation for the appellant in Norman Radow, CEO at RADCO” Mitchell Silberberg & Knupp LLP, York Law Journal op-eds “Now Konner v. N.Y. City Transit Authority, in Multi-Housing News Online and was named to Billboard magazine’s More Than Ever, Lawyers Need to decided in 2016, by the Supreme “Hurricane Harvey May Accelerate 2018 “Top Music Lawyers” list. be Leaders” in November 2018 and Court of the State of New York, Multifamily Absorption in Houston, “Lawyers Have a Special Obligation Appellate Division, Second Judicial Says RADCO CEO Norman George Russo was appointed to the to Our Democracy” in August 2018. Department. Radow” in Rebusiness Online in Queens Library Board of Trustees by He has served as President of the September 2017. Borough President Melinda Katz in New York State Bar Association Hon. Robert C. Mulvey, March 2018. His appointment was since June 2018. He was previously Associate Justice of the New York John Wynn, Chair of the Montclair reported by the Queens Chronicle. President of the New York County State Supreme Court, Appellate Planning Board, was featured in Lawyers Association from 2002 to Division, Third Department, reports “Who’s Who on the Montclair Ronald V. Zezima was elected 2004 and has received numerous that he “sat as an Associate Judge Planning Board” in the Montclair President of the New Rochelle Bar honors for pro bono service. of the New York State Court of Local in August 2017. He serves as Association in 2018. Appeals by designation under Senior Counsel at LG Electronics Michael Selverne, Principal at Article 6, Section 2 of the New York USA, Inc. in Englewood Cliffs, New Selverne & Co., was named to State Constitution,” on October 11, Jersey. Billboard magazine’s 2018 “Top 2017. 1983 Music Lawyers” list. Douglas Zeigler was a recipient of the Kathleen Grimm Medal for Photo Credit: Hannah Rokes Distinguished Public Service at 1981 NYLS’s 126th Commencement ceremony in June 2018, alongside his Henry Cornell was elected to the spouse, Neldra M. Zeigler ’79, and Board of Directors of MRC Global fellow alum Monique Baptist ’18. Inc. in June 2018. He is the founder and Senior Partner of the private Robert J.A. Zito is happy to investment firm, Cornell Capital announce that he was appointed LLC, with offices in New York and Assistant Professor of Business Asia. Law at Marist College School of Management in August 2017. He Saul Fishman was reelected to a is Senior Counsel and Chair of the Vincent Viola was named to the William B. Stock announced the opening of his solo practice, third three-year term as Civil Service Financial Institutions Regulatory Forbes 400 List, published in October Bar Association President in May and Enforcement Practice Group at 2018. Viola, who owns the Florida which focuses on appellate law and 2018. His reelection was featured in Carter Ledyard & Milburn LLP in Panthers Hockey Club, was also legal research, in March 2018. His practice includes drafting appellate The Chief-Leader. New York City. honored as “Sportsman of the Year” by the National Italian American briefs, motions, and oral arguments Sports Hall of Fame at its 40th and research. He is building on his Annual Induction and Awards Gala in more than 15 years of experience 1982 Chicago, Illinois in November 2017. with appellate-related matters and “more than 150 reported decisions from the Appellate Division and the Richard P. Byrne authored “Why Appellate Term,” his announcement Mediations Fail” in the New York noted. Stock was previously an Law Journal in December 2017. 1984 appellate attorney at Cheven, Keely & Hatzis. Steven G. Gaebler was honored by Meryl Dewey (née Fishman) Schneps Communications, publishers published a new book, Parenting of the Courier chain of newspapers, Teen Girls 24/7, under her maiden as one of the 2017 Kings of Queens name, Meryl Fishman, in February 1985 Norman J. Radow, a real estate at an awards and networking event 2018. She reports, “Ten percent of entrepreneur, CEO of The RADCO in Flushing, Queens in October all royalties will go to not-for-profits Companies, and a member of 2017. The awards are given to top helping to prevent and/or treat teen Paul A. Friedman is the Executive NYLS’s Board of Trustees and businessmen in Queens. Gaebler is a drug addiction in memory of Dr. Jack Director of VTV Family Outreach Center for Real Estate Studies partner in the Banking and Finance Fishman, the developer of Naloxone.” Foundation, the nonprofit created Advisory Board, was named to the practice group and Real Estate by the families of the victims and the survivors of the Virginia Atlanta Business Chronicle’s “Most practice group at Forchelli Deegan Kerry Lutz authored the January Tech mass shooting on April 16, Admired CEO” list and was featured Terrana LLP in Uniondale, New 2018 article “Blockchain Technology 2007. He worked with the City of in “Q&A with Norman Radow, 2018 York . Will Deliver Full Transparency Most Admired CEO” in July 2018. Alexandria, Virginia and students ‘Everywhere’” in Live Trading News. from the Virginia Tech Landscape

CLASS NOTES 39 Architecture Program to create a Hon. Bernice D. Siegal writes, “In P.A., joined the Board of Trustees Medal by the U.S. Department memorial tree grove in Alexandria’s addition to my full-time duties as an for Raritan Valley Habitat for of Health and Human Services, Chinquapin Park in honor of the 32 elected Supreme Court Justice sitting Humanity, which partners with low- Office of the Inspector General, killed. VTV held a ceremony to plant in the 11th Judicial District, I have income people in the community in recognition of his outstanding the first group of trees in April 2018, been appointed to the Committee on to help them build or improve performance in advancing and local politicians attended. Pattern Jury Instructions, Civil and a place they can call home. His leadership and health care fraud reappointed to the New York State three-year term began in November enforcement. He is a Deputy Branch Salvatore Moretti was featured Continuing Education Board.” Judge 2017. McKeown concentrates Chief in the Office of Counsel to the in “Local Aspiring Authors Shine Siegal was also named Associate his practice on a variety of civil Inspector General. at Hasbrouck Heights Library Justice of the Appellate Term of and commercial litigation with Thursday Night,” byTAPinto , an the Supreme Court for the Second an emphasis on real estate-related online neighborhood news site for Department, and the New York Law matters, including contractor Hasbrouck Heights, in October Journal featured her appointment in disputes, construction lien and title 1987 2017. His topic for the Hasbrouck January 2018. issues, foreclosure, partition actions, Heights Library Writers and Authors and access issues under New Jersey Hon. Ushir Pandit-Durant was group was “Poverty: Sin or Science.” environmental statutes. sworn in as the first President of the South Asian and Indo-Caribbean Nicolas F. Pellitta was honored with 1986 Caryn Siebert (née Golub) Bar Association of Queens in The Boy Scouts of America Toast to joined the Carrier Practice team January 2018. She previously Scouting Award in Bridgewater, New Joseph Fields is a principal at Offit of Gallagher Bassett Services, Inc. worked as an Assistant District Jersey in November 2017. The award Kurman, Attorneys At Law in the in December 2017. Siebert will Attorney in the Queens District is for leadership and outstanding firm’s New York office. He joined serve as Vice President and will Attorney’s office for 25 years, community service. Pellitta is a board the firm in February 2018 and was focus on business development and in 2015, she became the first member and former Chair of the formerly Counsel at McCarter & and strategic initiatives. She has South Asian woman to become a Hunterdon County Chamber of English LLP. more than 20 years of claims, legal, civil court judge. The inauguration Commerce. He is also former Chair risk management, and process and swearing-in ceremony, led by of the Raritan Valley Community Selwyn B. Goldberg, a Silicon improvement expertise. She Congresswoman Grace Meng, took College Foundation Board. He is Valley technology transactions and was formerly a Chief Executive place in Forest Hills, Queens and a member of the law firm Norris intellectual property specialist, Officer, Chief Claims Officer, and included the swearing in of fellow McLaughlin, P.A. joined the New York office of General Counsel to third-party NYLS alum Amish Doshi ’98. Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz in administrators, carriers, and self- Pauline C. Reich is General Editor its Corporate Department in March insureds. Siebert was named the 2017 Errol B. Taylor, a partner at Claims and Litigation Management of Cybercrime and Security (published 2018. He was previously a partner at Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy by Thomson Reuters/West/Westlaw), Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati Alliance Litigation Management LLP and an NYLS Trustee, was which produces about 1,200 pages in Palo Alto, California. Professional of the Year and the named to the “2018 Lawdragon of new material per year, including West Coast Casualty 2017 Ollie 500 Leading Lawyers in America” Award recipient. She was featured white papers, legislation, case law, David N. Kelley, a partner at Dechert list alongside fellow alums David as a “Woman to Watch 2010” by commentary on cybersecurity, LLP, was named to the “2018 N. Kelley ’86, a partner at Dechert Business Insurance magazine, which cybercrime, and data privacy law and Lawdragon 500 Leading Lawyers in LLP, and Christina M. Storm ’77, led her to author the chapter “Hear policy worldwide. She is founder America” list alongside fellow alums founder and Executive Director of Me Roar,” in Words of Wisdom from and Director of the Asia-Pacific Christina M. Storm ’77, founder and Lawyers Without Borders. Women to Watch, published by Wiley Cyberlaw, Cybercrime and Internet Executive Director of Lawyers Without in 2016. In the chapter, she discusses Security Research Institute based in Borders, and NYLS Trustee Errol succession planning and mentoring Tokyo, Japan. She participated in the B. Taylor ’87, a partner at Milbank, of female leaders. Risk Roundup Webcast to discuss Tweed, Hadley & McCloy LLP. 1988 “Emerging Trends in Cyber-Crime and Cyber-Law Challenges” published Robert Clyne is Senior Vice on YouTube by the Risk Group LLC President, General Counsel, and in June 2018. Corporate Secretary at the American Bureau of Shipping. In September Jeffrey Scheine was named Senior 2017, he received the Outstanding Counsel to the law firm Dentons Professional Achievement Award from in March 2018 and is a member the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy. of its Tax practice group. He co- founded, and is Managing Director of, Alchemy Capital Planning LLC, an international business and tax 1989 consulting firm, and a strategic Stephen D. Solomon reports that affiliate of Dentons. Timothy P. McKeown, a member in 2017, he was awarded the Bronze Dr. Curtis F.J. Doebbler is an of the law firm Norris McLaughlin, international human rights lawyer,

40 NEW YORK LAW SCHOOL MAGAZINE • 2019 • VOL. 37, NO. 2 writer, and professor. He is Research Jim Seery joined Guggenheim Professor of Law at the University Securities, the investment banking of Makeni, Sierra Leone (on partial and capital markets division of leave 2018–19), Visiting Professor Guggenheim Partners, LLC, as of Law at Webster University in Senior Managing Director in Geneva, Switzerland, and Supervising October 2017. His focus is leveraged Attorney at RAICES in San loans and high-yield credit markets. Antonio, Texas. He published The Dictionary of Public International Law (Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, March 2018). 1991

Kevin P. Lee was promoted to Constantinos E. Scaros, who has Sherri L. Plotkin has been selected Lori Freudenberger-Nelson was full Professor of Law at Campbell practiced, taught, and written about by Super Lawyers for 2007 and appointed Director of Development Law School in Raleigh, North immigration law, just published his 2010–18, including being named to at the Jewish Vocational Service of Carolina in October 2018. He is a seventh book, Stop Calling Them the New York Metro Super Lawyers MetroWest, New Jersey, as reported multidimensional legal scholar and “Immigrants,” in December 2017. “Top 50 Women” list for 2016–18 by Patch in February 2018. and the “Top 100” list in 2017. She teacher with advanced degrees in Christian ethics, religious studies, is featured as a “Top Rated Medical Gary Ireland received the Bella Malpractice Attorney in New York, and philosophy and religion. He is also an emerging leader in the field Abzug Leadership Institute Award 1992 NY” by Super Lawyers. Plotkin is a in May 2018 for helping to advocate partner at Rheingold Giuffra Ruffo of legal technology and served as the inaugural chair of the North Carolina for, with his daughter Sydney, the & Plotkin LLP, where she practices in opening of Boy Scouts to girls and its Toni Ann Barone was featured the medical malpractice and serious Bar Association’s Committee on the in “Staten Island Social: Dad & Future of Law. renaming to Scouts BSA. Their story personal injuries areas. She is also a was featured in “Boy Scouts Changing daughter make Bar Association member of the Board of Directors Name To ‘Scouts BSA,’ As Girls history” on silive.com (the website of the New York State Trial Lawyers Welcomed Into Program” by NPR. of The Staten Island Advance) in Association. August 2018. She made history as the first female legacy to become Jennifer A. Manner, as Executive President of the Richmond County Megan Watt joined the Leadership Producer and Director, released Team at Chubb as Executive Vice Bar Association, taking after her first short documentary,Zebrafish: President and Head of North America her father, Anthony P. Barone, a Practically People, Transforming the Claims in July 2018. She leads all former President. She is a member Study of Disease, in January 2018. of the Staten Island Trial Lawyers aspects of Chubb claims management, The film is available at Association and a partner at Barone service, and administration for the www.zebrafishfilm.org and was & Barone, LLP, alongside her father. commercial and personal insurance selected for the Mediterranean Film businesses. Previously, she was head of Festival. Claims for Everest National Insurance Company. Jerold E. Levine writes that he authored the 2017 book, New York James S. Oddo was re-elected Assault Weapon Laws. “The book is Staten Island Borough President in the only detailed reference on related November 2017. He has held the 1990 statutes and local codes in New York,” office since 2013. he says. He also recently presented CLE topics on firearms law for the Joann B. Birle was honored at the National Business Institute. Lawyers Alliance for New York’s 2017 Cornerstone Awards for Darlene Prescott writes that after providing expert real estate legal retiring from the United Nations as a advice to nonprofit organizations. legal officer, she continues to perform The Cornerstone Awards recognize Kathleen Barnett Einhorn was pro bono work in the Houston, Texas outstanding pro bono work named in the New Jersey Law Journal’s area and to write. Her book Texas throughout New York City. Birle 2018 “Top Women in the Law” list. Alligators: A Wildlife Profile won first is Counsel in the Real Estate She is a partner at Genova Burns. place in a statewide writing contest in Department of Herrick, Feinstein the non-fiction/education category. William Jannace, an affiliate expert LLP. Jason A. Oshins was elected One of her short stories won second with Bates Group, has become a Supreme Master of the Supreme place in the autobiographical category fellow of the Chartered Institute James Faraguna was featured in Board of Governors of Alpha and was published in Volume 3 of of Arbitrators and contributed to “Ridgite preaches the power of the Epsilon Pi (AEPi), the world’s only Short Stories by Texas Authors. numerous industry publications pencil,” by the Brooklyn Daily in Jewish collegiate social fraternity, during 2017 and 2018. September 2017. in 2017.

CLASS NOTES 41 James Nolan, a retired Director 1994 recently served as the Deputy named a “Top Rated Family Law of Linguistic Services for the General Counsel and Assistant Attorney in White Plains, New York” International Tribunal for the Law Francis Pelkowski was featured in Commissioner for Legal Affairs by Super Lawyers in 2017–18 and of the Sea, reports that he has been “Career US Coast Guard Officer at the New York City Business received the “AV Preeminent” rating selected as a contractor for the Court Integrity Commission, is a seasoned from Martindale Hubbell in 2017. Retiring After 38 Years” inU.S. News of Justice of the European Union. investigative attorney. He works for the Law Offices of & World Report in May 2018. David Bliven, based in White Plains, New York. Scott J. Wortman became a Florida Bar Board-Certified Condominium 1993 and Planned Development Law Rick Chung was honored at an Attorney in 2018, in addition to NYLS Scholarship Benefit in April Craig E. Averill was named being a Florida Bar Board-Certified 2018. He is General Counsel and Partner at Serling Rooks Hunter Real Estate Attorney. Senior Vice President for Bowlmor McKoy Worob & Averill LLP in AMF. He is also a Proskauer Rose April 2018. He was featured in LLP alumnus. “Law Firm for LCD Soundsystem, Jason Isbell Appoints Craig Averill 1995 Jordan Kanfer was profiled in to Name Partner” in Billboard “Jordan Kanfer — NTT America” magazine. by Vanguard magazine in February Jeffrey A. Kimmel joined Akerman Michael J. Lubben is a Director 2018. Kanfer is Executive Vice LLP’s New York-based office as a in the Corporate Department of President of Global Enterprise Stewart G. Milch received a 2018 partner in its Labor and Employment Gibbons P.C. He is also a member Solutions and General Counsel for “Law360 Distinguished Legal Practice Group in May 2018. He Writing Award.” Known as the of the Board of Directors and the NTT America. was previously a partner at the firm Secretary of the Portugal-U.S. Burton Awards, the program is Meister Seelig & Fein LLP. run in association with the Library Chamber of Commerce in New York. Stephen J. Nahley was named of Congress, presented by lead In June 2018, Lubben delivered the General Counsel for Ogden CAP Paul L. Porretta joined Pepper welcome address at the Chamber’s sponsor Law360, and co-sponsored Properties, LLC in April 2018. He Hamilton LLP in its New York- by the American Bar Association. Annual Dinner, introducing the was previously a director at Barclays based office as a partner in the Milch is among a handful of Chamber’s President, Rodolfo Investment Bank. Employee Benefits and Executive attorneys to be recognized, selected Lavrador. The guest of honor was Compensation Practice Group in from nominations submitted by the António Costa, Prime Minister of May 2018. Porretta is a member of 1,000 largest firms in the country. Portugal (above on left). the NYLS Board of Trustees. In the July 2017 article that earned him the honor, “Why You Sheryl J. Seiden has opened her Should Argue Your Appeal,” Milch own law firm, Seiden Family Law, counters the conventional wisdom in Cranford, New Jersey dedicated that oral argument in appellate 1996 to family law matters, including practice is a mere formality. dissolution of marriages, custody and Rather, he argues, it offers a crucial Hon. Anthony Cannataro was parenting time issues, alimony and opportunity to change a judge’s named an Administrative Judge for child support, domestic violence, mind and “to build consensus the New York City Civil Court by post-judgment issues after a party’s around a narrower holding.” Milch the Office of Court Administration divorce, and prenuptial agreements. is a partner at the firm Goldberg (OCA) in December 2017. OCA’s Seiden was sworn in as the Chair- Edward Chukwuemeke Okeke’s Elect of the Family Law Section of Segalla and focuses his practice on Chief Administrative Judge book, Jurisdictional Immunities of the New Jersey State Bar Association appellate advocacy. He has handled Lawrence K. Marks called him, States and International Organizations, complex litigation at the state and along with three other judges in May 2018. with a foreword by the President of federal levels for more than two appointed that day, “exemplary the International Court of Justice, was decades, briefed over 100 appeals, public servants, representing a Eric D. Sherman has been named to published in May 2018. and argued before all four New wealth of talent and expertise, and the New York Metro Super Lawyers possessing the leadership, vision York Appellate Divisions, the New “Top 100” list every year from Lorine Pendleton was elected to the and collegiality for success in their York Court of Appeals, and Federal 2014–18. He is a partner at Pryor Angel Capital Association Board of critical new roles.” Circuit Courts. Cashman. Directors in July 2018.

John A. Curry joined the New Charles E. Phillips Jr., CEO of Infor Mark Wigder writes that he York office of Guidepost Solutions and an NYLS Trustee, was elected launched the Greenhouse Offices LLC, a global leader in compliance, to serve as a Class B director of the 1997 in 2012, in Boca Raton, Florida, an monitoring, and investigations, as a Federal Reserve Bank of New York in eco-friendly office complex focused Managing Director in its Monitoring November 2017. David I. Bliven’s book, Navigating on startups and small and growing and Investigations practice in Your New York Divorce Case, was businesses. Over the last several years, December 2017. Curry, who most published in March 2018. He was

42 NEW YORK LAW SCHOOL MAGAZINE • 2019 • VOL. 37, NO. 2 his portfolio has expanded in Boca corporate clients confronting a 2000 Raton, and now includes properties range of issues; conducts internal in Cary, North Carolina. He is also investigations, including those CEO of The Wigder Companies. involving the Foreign Corrupt In 2017, Wigder received his Practices Act; and advises clients in M.B.A. from Yale University connection with public corruption School of Management. He was also matters, antitrust matters, and appointed to the City of Boca Raton issues under the False Claims Act Community Advisory Board. and the Anti-Kickback Statute. He also represents clients in complex commercial litigation matters.

1998 Andy Crouppen was profiled in “Andy Andrea Tsoukalas Curto was Crouppen, Brown & Crouppen,” by appointed to serve on the Planning Board in the Village of Roslyn Lisa J. Black is a founding partner of Missouri Lawyers Weekly in August Alexander Berger, a member of Harbor, New York in April 2018. She Black Marjieh Leff & Sanford LLP, 2018. He is a managing partner at Meyer, Suozzi, English & Klein, was also profiled by theNew York which was nationally certified as a Brown & Crouppen, P.C., a firm P.C. and Chair of its Real Estate Real Estate Journal in “Executive Women Business Enterprise in June that was founded by his father Terry Department, joined the Board of the Month: Tsoukalas Curto of 2018. Crouppen. of Trustees of the Long Island FDT” in March 2018 and “2017 Children’s Museum in January 2018. Women in Professional Services: Berger, a resident of Oceanside, New Amish Doshi was sworn in as Vice Andrea Tsoukalas of Forchelli, York, was elected to a three-year President of Solo and Small Firms Curto, Deegan, Schwartz, Mineo term. Practice of the South Asian and & Terrana, LLP” in May 2017. In Indo-Caribbean Bar Association 2017, the Long Island Press honored of Queens. The January 2018 Mary Campbell was named the her as one of the 2017 Top Women inauguration and swearing-in Director of Business Development in Business. Tsoukalas Curto joined ceremony took place in Forest Hills, at New Jersey American Water in Forchelli Deegan Terrana LLP in Queens and included the swearing June 2018. In the role, she leads January 2005 and became partner in in of fellow NYLS alum Judge the strategic growth plan for New 2011. She concentrates her practice Ushir Pandit-Durant ’87 as the Bar Jersey American Water, including in zoning, land use, environmental, Association’s President. the other three states in American and municipal law matters. Water’s Eastern Division: New York, Hon. Stefanie A. Martinez was Christie A. Cunningham completed Virginia, and Maryland. featured in “A Girl in the Boys’ her Masters in Social Work degree Club: Judge Stefanie Martinez, BC at New York University in 2018. Pei Pei Cheng-de Castro, the She was a member of the Student ’93,” in The Heights, The Independent Director of Investigation and Leadership Council and Phi Alpha Student Newspaper of Boston College, Enforcement at the New York State in March 2018. Judge Martinez is the National Honor Society, a presenter Joint Commission on Public Ethics, first Hispanic judge in Nebraska and for the NYU Know Your Rights was featured in “CityLaw Profile: Pei Project, and co-organizer of the works in the state’s Second Judicial Pei Cheng-de Castro” in CityLand, District Court. “Mass Incarceration Conversation a publication of the Center for New Series.” York City Law at NYLS, in October William Spiegel was named to the 2017. Karen Platt joined Pryor Cashman 2018 New York Metro Super Lawyers LLP’s New York office as a partner in “Top 100” list. He has been selected Amy Tenney Curren was named the Adelaide Riggi, a partner at its Family Law Group in July 2018. a “Top Rated Medical Malpractice Director of the National Attorneys Snyder Sarno D’Aniello Maceri Attorney in New York, NY” by Super General Training and Research & da Costa LLC, was inducted as Lawyers for 2013–18. He is a founding Patrick Timlin was named Chief Institute, a branch of the National the Chair of the Somerset County partner of Spiegel Leffler PLLC. Executive Officer of SilverSEAL Association of Attorneys General, Bar Foundation in October 2018. Corporation in September 2017, in March 2018. Prior to the role, she She was recognized for her legal overseeing all three divisions of was Assistant Dean for Academic expertise and dedication to the SilverSEAL Corporation: SEAL Services and Registrar, as well as a Foundation and the Somerset 1999 Security, SEAL Security UK, and member of the adjunct faculty, at the County community at large. SEAL Integrated Systems. American University Washington Martin S. Bloor joined Cozen College of Law. O’Connor in November 2017 as a member of the Criminal Defense & Internal Investigations Practice. Bloor counsels and defends

CLASS NOTES 43 2001 Diane Robertson was named to Jaimee L. Nardiello, a partner at Jeffrey Alfano was appointed Chief Take the Lead’s 2018 list “50 Women Zetlin & De Chiara LLP, was elected Court Attorney for the New York Hon. Marisol Martinez Alonso was Can Change the World in Media and President of Commercial Real Estate State Supreme Court, Richmond appointed as an Interim Civil Court Entertainment.” Take the Lead is a Women New York, the region’s County, Staten Island in June 2018. Judge in February 2018 and is serving cutting-edge nonprofit organization leading advocacy organization for in Criminal Court. She was featured recognized as gender parity experts. professional women in real estate, in Linda S. Green was appointed in the February 2018 articles: “Mayor She was featured in “Take the Lead February 2018. She was also featured Vice President of Facilities & Appoints Eight New Court Judges” Announces 50 Women Who Will in City & State New York as one of 30 Environmental Services at the Create a Blueprint for Gender “Above & Beyond” New York women in The Bronx Chronicle and “De Queens Library in 2017. Her Blasio Fills 8 Vacancies on City’s Parity in Media & Entertainment for 2018. appointment was featured in the #50WomenCan,” on Medium, Civil, Family Courts” in the New November/December 2017 issue of an online publishing platform, in York Law Journal. Queens Library Magazine. January 2018. Robertson is Vice President, Legal Affairs at CBS Brian Kaszuba was Assistant Television Studios. Panel Administrator for the 2018 Civil Court Independent Judicial Preethi Sekharan, a shareholder of Screening Panel in Manhattan. The Gunster based out of its Stuart and Panel reviewed applications for Civil West Palm Beach offices, is one of Court Judge and reported out the two lawyers appointed by the Florida most qualified candidates in May Bar Board of Governors to the 2018. NYLS hosted the 2018 panel American Bar Association’s House meetings, candidate interviews, of Delegates for a two-year term and deliberations. Kaszuba is commencing August 2018. Daniel J. Parisi was presented Associate Director of the Center with a national award in 2018 for New York City Law, Adjunct Michael A. Aluko joined Greenberg by the American Immigration Professor, Title IX Co-Coordinator, Traurig LLP in July 2018 as a Lawyers Association (AILA) for his and Communications Manager at shareholder in the Corporate 2002 volunteer work as a mentor to other NYLS. Practice and Financial Regulatory & attorneys. He has been a member of Compliance Group. He is based out Ricardo Vera, a partner at Newman AILA since 2004. He is a partner at Ron Lo Russo was honored at the TL Brillo Parisi in London, England, of the firm’s New York City office. Ferrara, LLP, was named in Real Real Estate Board of New York’s an affiliate of Tocci & Lee LLC in the Estate Weekly’s 2018 “Rising Stars of (REBNY’s) 122nd Annual Banquet United States. Thomas H. Prol, a partner at Laddey Real Estate.” Fellow alums William in January 2018, with The Young Clark & Ryan LLP, was listed as a E. Baney ’11, an associate at Belkin Real Estate Professional of the Year Christine Calip Victor, Senior Vice Champion of Pride 2018 by The Burden Wenig & Goldman, LLP, and Award. He is President of Cushman President of Business Development Advocate, a national publication Daniel Fromm ’07, Senior Managing & Wakefield’s Agency Consulting covering LGBT news. A Champion Director at Newmark & Company and Business and Legal Affairs at Group, which provides process- of Pride is chosen from each state Real Estate, Inc. and Vice Chairman Bravado/Universal Music Group, was driven analyses to portfolio planning in the United States, and Prol was and Co-Head of NFK Capital named to Billboard magazine’s 2018 by aligning real estate platforms with chosen for New Jersey for coming out Markets’ Debt and Structured Finance “Top Music Lawyers” list. operational, workforce, financial, as the first gay president of the New Group, were named as well. and risk objectives to drive informed Jersey State Bar Association. Annie Wu, Global Manager for decision-making. His award was Alice M. Youngbar joined the New Employee Relations at Swedish featured in the New York Post, “Meet York City office of McGuireWoods fashion retailer H&M Group, was this year’s brilliant batch of REBNY LLP as a partner in the Real Estate named the company’s Global Leader award-winners,” on January 18, and Land Use practice group in for Diversity and Inclusiveness in 2018. November 2017. January 2018. Filomena Lepore Taylor, along with fellow alum Rosanna M. Fox ’06, launched Lepore Taylor Fox LLP 2003 2004 (LTF) in November 2017. LTF is dedicated exclusively to the practice Joseph R. McCarthy was featured Lori Adams joined Sanctuary for of U.S. immigration and nationality law with an emphasis on private in “On the Move” in the New Jersey Families as the Director of the client and entrepreneur/startup Law Journal in March 2018, for his Immigration Intervention Project Sahara G. Stone Pynes was appointment as an equity partner in 2018. She previously served as advisory, as well as employment- promoted from Counsel to Partner with Meyner and Landis, LLP, where Managing Attorney in Refugee based immigration. As a co-founding at Fox Rothschild LLP in April 2018. he is also a member of the firm’s Representation at Human Rights partner, she is also head of the firm’s She works in the firm’s Los Angeles, litigation group. First. Client Practice. California office.

44 NEW YORK LAW SCHOOL MAGAZINE • 2019 • VOL. 37, NO. 2 designation by ACA International Curcio works with clients whose (the Association of Credit and needs lie in all areas of family Collection Professionals) at ACA’s law, including divorce, equitable 2018 convention. Ertischek is distribution, property settlement General Counsel at TRAKAmerica, agreements, custody, child and an accounts receivable management spousal support, and adoption. organization. According to the ACA, She also handles residential and the award recognizes “outstanding commercial real estate transactions. organizations and individuals who Outside of her practice, Curcio is have demonstrated excellence in the Secretary of the Board of Directors accounts receivable management of the Third Street Alliance for industry.” Women and Children, where Lisa R. Wichter was named Partner at John P. Schwartz joined Greenberg she also serves on the executive Barton Gilman LLP in January 2018. Traurig, LLP as a shareholder committee and the development She is an experienced health care and to the Philadelphia office’s Real committee. medical malpractice defense litigator, Estate Practice team in July 2018. representing medical professionals, Rosanna M. Fox, along with fellow hospitals, medical practices, and other Bob Trujillo became the Trust alum Filomena Lepore Taylor ’04, healthcare-related businesses from Fund Administrator for the United launched Lepore Taylor Fox LLP allegations of malpractice, as well as in Transportation Union and Los Angeles (LTF) in November 2017. LTF is licensing, employment, discrimination, County Metropolitan Transportation dedicated exclusively to the practice and wage/labor-related matters. In Authority Trust Fund in 2018. of U.S. immigration and nationality addition to litigating cases in the court law with an emphasis on private system, she is successful in resolving Jared Zaben was named Partner in client and entrepreneur/startup malpractice and employment matters at King & Spalding LLP’s Corporate, advisory, as well as employment- arbitration and mediation. She devotes Stephen J. Ginsberg was named Finance, and Investments practice based immigration. Fox, as a co- a portion of her practice to pro bono Partner at Moritt Hock & Hamroff group in June 2018. He was featured founding partner, serves as head of cases involving domestic and family- LLP, with offices on Long Island in the GlobeNewswire announcement the firm’s Entrepreneur and Start-up related matters through the Women’s and in Manhattan, in January 2018. “Real Estate Finance Team Joins King Practice. Bar Foundation. Barton Gilman is a His practice focuses on complex & Spalding’s New York Office.” leading civil litigation law firm with commercial litigation matters. He Daniel Gershburg was featured in offices in Boston, Providence, and New has successfully resolved business- “WHO’S NEWS: Sage Realty taps York . related disputes in federal and state DiPetrantonio, Romer Debbas hires courts involving breach of contract, 2006 Gershburg” in Real Estate Weekly fraud, business torts, fiduciary duty in March 2018. He was named a claims, real estate and construction partner of the firm Romer Debbas 2005 Anne Peyton Bryant, a partner at claims, breach-of-restrictive Greenberg, Bryant & Bleier LLP, was LLP. Previously, upon graduating covenants, and disputes between named to the New York Metro Super from NYLS, he started his own firm, and among shareholders, members, Danielle M. Corcione, a former Lawyers “Rising Stars” list for 2017 Gershburg Law, P.C. Assistant U.S. Attorney, joined and partners. and 2018. She is profiled as a “Top Chiesa Shahinian & Giantomasi Rated Family Law Attorney in New PC’s White Collar Criminal Defense Eric C. Goldstein was named York, NY” by Super Lawyers. & Government Investigations Group Partner at Goodwin in April 2018 in July 2018. and featured in “Goodwin Expands International Private Equity and Private Investment Funds Platform with Partner Eric Goldstein in New York” in BusinessWire.

Michael Santorelli authored the column “Art of the Deal: Merger Mania in Trumpland?” which was featured in Forbes in August 2017. Abbey M. Horwitz was elected to a two-year term, commencing in January 2018, as a member of the Board of Catherine A. Curcio was named Trustees for P.G. Chambers School in a member of Norris McLaughlin, Cedar Knolls, New Jersey. She is an Shaun Ertischek was awarded P.A. in January 2018. She had been associate with Norris McLaughlin, P.A. the International Fellowship of an associate attorney in the firm’s in its New Jersey office. Certified Collection Executives Pennsylvania office since 2012.

CLASS NOTES 45 Camille J. Mackler, Chair of the David Hantman was named Paul A. Capofari was featured in New York State Bar Association Principal at Bressler, Amery & Ross, “Chief Assistant DA Capofari receives (NYSBA) Committee on P.C. in January 2018. prestigious award” on silive.com in Immigration Representation, January 2018, for being honored addressed the House of Delegates David M. Jacobs, a partner at the by Richmond County District at the NYSBA Annual Meeting in entertainment and media law firm Attorney Michael E. McMahon ’85 January 2018, as the Association Grubman Shire Meiselas & Sacks, with the distinguished Robert M. adopted recommendations for was named to Billboard magazine’s Morgenthau Award. The District greater protections for immigrants 2018 “Top Music Lawyers” list. Attorneys Association of the State in the courts, as well as a new of New York presented the award domestic violence initiative that during the Association’s 2018 aims to enhance legal services for Winter Conference. Capofari is victims. Mackler is the Director of Scott E. Wortman joined Blank Chief Assistant District Attorney in Immigration Legal Policy at the New Rome LLP’s New York office as a the Office of the District Attorney York Immigration Coalition. She partner in the Consumer Financial Richmond County. was also featured in “In Reversal, Services group in January 2018. He Immigration Agency Will Consider serves as a litigator and counselor Arti K. Desai became a senior Delayed DACA Requests” in The to clients facing scrutiny under associate in the Immigration and New York Times in November 2017. consumer financial protection Naturalization practice group at statutes and regulations at both the Greenspoon Marder LLP in January Etan Moskovic was named Partner federal and state level, including 2018. She focuses her practice on at Cassin & Cassin LLP, a law firm individual and class action defense, U.S. immigration and nationality law. regulatory proceedings, and specializing in real estate, real estate John C. Laurence became an administrative investigations. finance, and trusts and estates, in associate in the New York office January 2018. Moskovic was featured of Scarinci Hollenbeck, LLC in in the BusinessWire announcement October 2017. He is a registered U.S. “Cassin & Cassin LLP Names Etan Patent Attorney licensed to practice Moskovic Partner.” before the U.S. Patent and Trademark 2008 Office. Patrick Turner, of the CBS Claude Aiken was named the first Corporation, received a Jeremy G. Charles Phillips was named Partner full-time President and CEO of the Epstein Award for Outstanding Pro at Ellenoff Grossman & Schole LLP, Wireless Internet Service Providers Bono Service in October 2017 at the where he focuses on transactional Association, effective in March 2018. New York City Bar Association. He matters, in 2018. was featured in the New York Law Ryan K. Allen joined the White Journal in “City Bar Justice Center Plains office of Goldberg Segalla Joseph A. Farco was promoted Pro Bono Honorees.” Held at the as a partner in the firm’s Workers’ to Partner at Locke Lord LLP in start of National Pro Bono Week, the Compensation practice group in January 2018. He represents clients in awards honor exemplary volunteers January 2018. He was previously with intellectual property litigation, with from each of the City Bar Justice the firm Bartlett LLP. a primary focus on patent litigation. Center’s civil justice projects. He has handled cases in numerous Josh Block won big at the American U.S. federal district courts, the U.S. Society of Business Publication International Trade Commission, Editors 2018 Azbee Awards of and the Patent Trial and Appeal 2007 Excellence: a Regional Gold Award Board of the U.S. Patent and for the podcast “Inside Jones Day: Trademark Office. From 2012–18, he Daniel Fromm, Senior Managing Cleveland, 1893 to Donald Trump” has been named one of New York’s Director at Newmark & Company Cyril Touchard was promoted to and a Regional Silver Award for the “Rising Stars” by Super Lawyers, Real Estate, Inc., and Vice Chairman Special Counsel in Fried, Frank, Video Tutorial “Big Law Jargon: and he was profiled as one of the and Co-Head of NFK Capital Harris, Shriver & Jacobson LLP’s A Primer” on Big Law Business, magazine’s “Top Rated Intellectual Markets’ Debt and Structured Finance Real Estate Department, based in produced by Bloomberg BNA. He Property Litigation Attorney in New York, NY.” Group, was named in Real Estate New York City, in March 2018. is the Director of Digital Content at Weekly’s 2018 “Rising Stars of Real Bloomberg Next, overseeing videos, Estate.” Fellow alums Ricardo Vera podcasts, websites, and newsletters, Andrew J. Finn was promoted to ’02, a partner at Newman Ferrara, and Executive Producer of the Big Partner at Sullivan & Cromwell LLP, and William E. Baney ’11, an Law Business website. LLP, where he is a member of the associate at Belkin Burden Wenig & Litigation Group, in January 2018. Goldman, LLP were named as well.

46 NEW YORK LAW SCHOOL MAGAZINE • 2019 • VOL. 37, NO. 2 Leaders Awards in June 2018. He was Svetlana Rovenskaya joined Legal & also selected by The Legal 500 Series to Compliance, LLC as an associate in the “GC Powerlist: US: Latin America February 2018. Specialists”; this list highlights the best 100 Latin America and Caribbean- focused general counsel working in the United States.

Benjamin R. Wilson was promoted from Associate to Partner at Holland & Knight LLP in 2018. He is a litigation attorney in the firm’s New York office. Desireé Hernández was featured Timothy S. Klimpl joined Norris in “#NBCLatino20: The Crusader, McLaughlin, P.A. as an associate Desireé Hernández” by NBC in in August 2018. He focuses in the September 2017, as part of a list of areas of executive compensation 2010 20 Latino/as making a difference. She and employee benefits, labor and Steven Shparber was promoted from writes that she “was proud to speak employment, and taxation. He has Michal Bussi, Senior Director Associate to Of Counsel at Nelson about my role in the Safe Passage been profiled bySuper Lawyers as Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP Project … and discuss the amazing a “Top Rated Employee Benefits of International Compliance & Enterprise Risk Management at in Washington, D.C. in January support New York Law School Attorney in New York, NY” and was 2018. He joined the firm in 2017 and provides to our organization.” She is listed as a 2018 “Rising Star.” CME Group Inc., was named one of the “30 Ones to Watch 2018” by practices with the Energy & Utilities currently Deputy Executive Director Industry Group. Brummell Magazine in May 2018. and Director of Legal Services at the Lawrence Metelitsa was featured in Safe Passage Project. “Law Journal Honors New Leaders Catherine L. Corey of the Bar” in the New Jersey Law became an Charles J. Messina was named Journal in April 2018. He is a partner associate at Norris McLaughlin & 2011 Partner at Genova Burns in July 2018. at Lucosky Brookman LLP in Marcus, P.A. in October 2017. She Woodbridge, New Jersey. focuses her practice on bankruptcy and creditors’ rights, mortgage foreclosure, William E. Baney, an associate at Jeffrey P. Nosanov reports that he is loss mitigation, and litigation matters. Belkin Burden Wenig & Goldman, Moumita Rahman was selected as working on a children’s book, Choose LLP, was named in Real Estate one of the “2018 Rising Stars” and Your Shoes, that relates choosing Weekly’s 2018 “Rising Stars of Real a career to the shared experience profiled as a “Top Rated Immigration Stefanie M. Graham’s June 2018 promotion was featured in Estate.” Fellow alums Ricardo of picking shoes for the day. The Attorney in New York, NY” by Super “Rosenberg & Estis promotes Frost Vera ’02, a partner at Newman book was inspired by conversations Lawyers. She founded The Law Firm Ferrara, LLP, and Daniel Fromm between Nosanov and his children. of Moumita Rahman, PLLC in New to member; Floyd, Graham and Kosar elevated to of counsel” in the ’07, Senior Managing Director at Nosanov is a startup founder and York City. Newmark & Company Real Estate, former NASA project manager. New York Real Estate Journal. She joined Rosenberg & Estis, P.C. in Inc. and Vice Chairman and Co- 2013 as an associate with the firm’s Head of NFK Capital Markets’ Debt Transactional Department. and Structured Finance Group, were named as well. 2009 Nicholas T. Koumoulis was promoted from Associate to Partner L. Austin D’Souza, Principal Law at Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith Clerk to Hon. Faviola A. Soto ’78, LLP in Los Angeles, California in was appointed by Chief Judge Janet 2018. He is a member of the General DiFiore of the New York Court of Liability, Hospitality, Transportation, Appeals to the Franklin H. Williams and Healthcare Practice Groups. Judicial Commission, a statewide commission that promotes racial and ethnic fairness in the courts, in June Saliha Olgun was named a “Rising Lilya Tessler joined Sidley Austin 2018. LLP as a partner and New York head Star” of 2017 by The Bond Buyer. She of Blockchain and FinTech in the is Assistant General Counsel of the Craig M. Goldwasser was promoted Securities & Derivatives Enforcement Municipal Securities Rulemaking to Senior Litigation Counsel at and Regulatory group in August 2018. Board. Vigorito, Barker, Patterson, Nichols Kris Ferranti, a partner at Shearman and Porter, LLP in 2018. The firm Kassandra Perez-Desir was featured & Sterling in the Real Estate Alex J. Tolston is Executive Vice concentrates in the defense of in “The 2018 Albany 40 Under 40” practice, was honored by Law360 as President and General Counsel and medical malpractice, general liability, by City & State New York. She is Vice a 2018 “Rising Star” for the second Corporate Secretary of Hemisphere and health care law. consecutive year and by Super Lawyers Media Group, Inc. He won one of The President at Bolton-St. Johns. for the fourth consecutive year. M&A Advisor’s 9th Annual Emerging

CLASS NOTES 47 Benjamin W. Hutten was promoted Scott D. Rader joined McGuireWoods office as a litigation associate in June from Associate to Counsel at Buckley LLP in December 2017 as an associate 2018. He previously practiced law in Sandler, LLP in January 2018. in the Real Estate and Land Use New York City, where he focused on practice group. He works in the firm’s commercial litigation. New York City office. Caleb Vesey joined Kirkland & Ellis Jorge Rodriguez is now authorized LLP as a corporate associate in the to prepare, present, and prosecute firm’s Los Angeles, California office claims for veterans benefits before the in 2018. He was previously at Willkie Department of Veterans Affairs. He Farr & Gallagher LLP. was honored by the Military Justice and Veterans Association at NYLS’s Jodi Ziesemer authored “A solution Nicole Wolosoff was promoted to Spring Banquet in April 2018. to the US border crisis? Treat detained President of Boston National Title’s migrants as refugees,” featured in The New York office in October 2017. Eric Schonberg was promoted to Guardian in August 2018. Motion Picture Talent Agent at Michele G. Madera was named Kalman Yeger won the 44th District Creative Artists Agency (CAA) in Partner at Klasko Immigration Law City Council general election in Los Angeles, California in 2018. He Partners, LLP in January 2018. November 2017. The 44th District joined CAA as an assistant upon 2014 She is based in the Philadelphia, covers Borough Park, Bensonhurst, graduating from NYLS in 2012. Pennsylvania office. Midwood, and Kensington in He currently works with actors Brooklyn, New York. His win was including Josh Hutcherson, Dianna Elizabeth Candido Petite joined featured in “Yeger Trounces Hikind Agron, Dominic Cooper, Katheryn the Westfield, New Jersey office of In Hard Fought City Council Race” Winnick, and Beulah Koale. Lindabury, McCormick, Estabrook in Kings County Politics and “Kalman & Cooper, P.C. as an associate Yeger Defeats Yoni Hikind in NYC practicing in the areas of estate Council Race to Replace David planning and administration and tax Greenfield” inThe Yeshiva World. law in February 2018.

Frank Poe was featured in “On 2012 the Move” in the New Jersey Law Journal in June 2018. He joined Julian Cordero, an entertainment Wong Fleming as an associate in its lawyer, “struck gold” in 2018 when a Princeton, New Jersey office, where hip-hop album produced by one of he focuses in commercial litigation, his clients sold more than 500,000 corporate law, personal injury copies, earning gold certification litigation, and real estate. Alex B. Silverman joined Carlton from the Recording Industry Fields Jorden, Burt, P.A. as an associate Association of America. Nida Rizvi joined Taylor English in its New York office in August 2017. Duma LLP as a member of the firm’s Corporate practice group in May 2018. Rizvi previously served as Associate General Counsel at Drax Biomass, a 2013 subsidiary of Drax Group plc. Alesha Brown joined Cranfill Sumner Thomas Olchon was appointed & Hartzog LLP in June 2018. She Trevor Timm, Executive Director of Managing Director and Wealth and is an associate based in the firm’s the Freedom of the Press Foundation, Fiduciary Advisor of Evercore Wealth Charlotte, North Carolina office, authored the op-ed “Chelsea Manning Management in March 2018. where she practices civil litigation. She Has a Lot to Teach. Harvard Doesn’t previously practiced insurance defense Agree,” which ran in The New York at a firm in New York City and served Adam T. Parks joined Kirkland & Times in September 2017. as Counsel to the New York City Ellis LLP as a corporate associate in Anthony K.C. Fong was selected Council’s Committees on Civil Rights the Investment Funds group in 2018. to the 2018 New York Metro Super Danielle E. Tricolla was featured in and Contracts. He works in the in Chicago, Illinois the New York Real Estate Journal in office and was previously at Jones Lawyers “Rising Stars” list and profiled October 2017 for receiving the “30 Day and K&L Gates LLP. as a “Top Rated Immigration Attorney John Clare was honored by the Under 30 Award Class of 2017” from in New York, NY.” He founded the student organization, OutLaws, at Long Island Business News. She is an Law Office of Anthony K.C. Fong, NYLS’s Spring Banquet in April 2018. Ilya Prokopets joined Sherman & associate at Forchelli Deegan Terrana Howard LLC’s Phoenix, Arizona Esq., an immigration law firm, in New LLP in the firm’s litigation group. York City. Fong also serves as General

48 NEW YORK LAW SCHOOL MAGAZINE • 2019 • VOL. 37, NO. 2 Counsel of Broadway Stages and Alison J. Lynch co-authored, with former classmate Mike Giesen are Staten Island Stages. NYLS Professor Emeritus Michael engaged! They met at NYLS and will L. Perlin and Adjunct Professor marry in April 2019 in Jersey City, Thomas Howley ’14and Madeleine Heather Cucolo ’03, “Sex, Sexuality, New Jersey. Karel ’14 were married on September Sexual Offending and the Rights of 15, 2018, at the Bryant Park Persons with Mental Disabilities” in Grill. They met at NYLS, where they Laws 2017, published by MDPI in were in the same 1L section. October 2017.

William M. Lemon joined Barclay Rebecca Medina was honored by Damon LLP’s Albany, New York the Latin American Law Students office as an associate in April 2018. Association at NYLS’s Spring Monique Baptist received the Prior to joining Barclay Damon, Banquet in April 2018. Kathleen Grimm Medal for he practiced litigation at Cleary Distinguished Public Service at Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP. Henry Ukazu (LL.M.) published NYLS’s 126th Commencement Lemon will split his practice across a 2017 self-help book titled Design ceremony in June 2018, alongside the Health Care Controversies, Your Destiny: Actualizing Your fellow alums Neldra M. Zeigler ’79 Commercial Litigation, and Mass & Birthright to Success. The book guides Niyati Sangani won the New York and Douglas Zeigler ’81. She was Toxic Torts Practice Areas. readers on how to connect to their State Bar Association (NYSBA) also hired by the New York City Law goals and purpose. Ukazu is a Legal Writing Award for her article, Department, Family Court Division, Coordinator at New York City “Cybersecurity and Its Impact on Ari Maas authored the op-ed “The and featured in the September 2018 first Amendment Doesn’t Protect Department of Correction. the Financial Services Industry,” and was recognized at the Business Law New York Law Journal story “Law Hate Speech at Rutgers” in The Section Spring Meeting in New York Department Adds 78 New Attorneys.” Algemeiner, a global independent media voice covering the Middle East, City in May 2018. Her article was Israel, and matters of Jewish interest 2016 published in NYSBA’s NY Business around the world, in December 2017. Law Journal in 2017. The annual competition is open to all J.D. and Cody R. Churchill was sworn in as LL.M. degree candidates. an Assistant District Attorney with the Queens District Attorney’s Office in September 2017 and was featured The following Class of 2017 graduates were hired by the New in the Queens Gazette story “DA Brown Appoints 20 New Assistant York City Law Department and District Attorneys.” featured in the October 2017 New York Law Journal story “City Law Department Hires 53 Recent Law Molly Mauck was quoted in a School Graduates”: Hailey Barthel, February 2018 Law360 story about Special Federal Litigation Division; Shambree Bonner was named a U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Ariana Dindiyal, Commercial and 2018 WX Scholar by the New York Bader Ginsburg’s visit to NYLS, Real Estate Litigation Division; Women Executives in Real Estate— “Ginsburg Says Politicizing Court A Allyson Guidera, Family Court known as WX—based on her talents Julie A. Nociolo joined E. Stewart ‘Plague On Both Houses.’” and interest in real estate law. Jones Hacker Murphy in 2017 as Division; Justin Meeks, Family an associate attorney, concentrating Court Division; Joshua Mitts, To r t The following Class of 2018 her practice in criminal defense and Division; and Marissa Padovano, graduates were hired by the New York medical malpractice. Prior to the role, Family Court Division. 2017 City Law Department and featured she completed a two-year clerkship in the September 2018 New York Law with the Honorable Gary L. Sharpe Journal story “Law Department Adds at the U.S. District Court for the 78 New Attorneys”: Sabrina Ball, Northern District of New York. 2018 Tort Division; Danielle Cipollina, Tort Division; Lacey Garnett, Family Linnae Marita Aufiere was featured Court Division; Patrick MacDonell, in June 2018 article “Local Chatter: Family Court Division; Alexandra Greater Pittston residents graduate, 2015 Megna, Family Court Division; earn dean’s list honors” in the Sunday Carly Muth, Family Court Division; Dispatch. Tyler Deieso joined UBS as a J.D. Naphor, Tort Division; Stefano director in the Investment Banking Perez, Special Federal Litigation division in June 2018. He advises the Division; Yekaterina Sapson, To r t firm’s Capital Markets and Structured Jessica A. Bibby writes with joyous Division; and Andrew Weisberg, Financing businesses. news that she and fellow alum and Tort Division.

CLASS NOTES 49 What was the biggest challenge in the role, and how did it strengthen you? My biggest challenge was being a woman, a minority, and in the minority party for Georgia. I never apologize for who I am or my values. I learned, though, that if I can show I am good at my work, they may not like me, but they’ll respect my credibility. Here’s an example: There was a bill that would have allowed Georgia to give the fingerprint data of people who applied to state jobs to the FBI. As it happens, I’d written a book called Managing Online Risk, published PROFILE by Elsevier. When I gave my speech against the bill, a colleague took out my book and showed it to the other legislators. The Republican Deborah Gonzalez ’97 representatives came to me afterwards and said, “You obviously know what you’re talking about.” Deborah Gonzalez ’97 is still processing her whirlwind year in politics. How did NYLS influence your professional pathway? In November 2017, Gonzalez won a Georgia General Assembly seat in a I’m very appreciative of NYLS. When I was special election. Though she was an entertainment and intellectual property applying to law schools, NYLS was one of the lawyer who had never run for office before, she flipped her local district from few that had weekend and evening classes. I was Republican to Democrat and became the second Latina elected in the history raising two little girls and working full-time, of the Georgia State House. Her historic campaign won attention from so having that option was great. I also received a scholarship that alleviated a lot of financial documentary filmmaker Michael Moore and actress and activist Alyssa Milano. pressure. I loved taking entertainment and A year later, in the general election, Gonzalez was narrowly defeated by her intellectual property electives in my 2L and Republican challenger. Despite the outcome, Gonzalez is feeling inspired, 3L years and engaging in dialogue in small groups. When I decided to run, I reached out optimistic, and even more eager to get involved. She spoke with New York Law to fellow alumni in New York and D.C., and School Magazine about her experience as a first-time politician—and her hopes they supported me, regardless of their party for the future. affiliation.

How did you feel on election night 2018? Why did you go into public service? What did it feel like to receive national attention during your campaign? We felt confident going in, but at the end In 2016, when I went into the voting booth, of the day, there are more Republicans than there were no options for the Georgia General It was surreal. One day Michael Moore was Democrats in my district. Republicans were Assembly other than the incumbent, who I talking about me on CNN. I thought, “What highly motivated to vote in order to flip the seat felt didn’t represent my values. In fact, across is he talking about? I’m nobody.” But I think he back and because our newly elected governor Georgia in 2016, 84 percent of seats were saw me as proof that you don’t necessarily need is from my district. Still, I’m proud of our unopposed. Democracy is about choices, and millions of dollars to win an election. incredible grassroots campaign. My win in 2017 there were no choices. I come from a military inspired other Democrats to run in 2018. And family, and my father always taught us that you What are you most proud of having we increased voter turnout in our precincts by have a duty to stand up if no one else is. So, I accomplished as a legislator? double digits in 2018. This isn’t about just one said, I’ll do it—I’ll run. I’m proud of my efforts to give working night or one election. This is about doing the families a pathway to prosperity. I co-sponsored work every day. In the 2017 special election, you were out- legislation to expand Medicaid, fought for living fundraised four to one, but you won. How? wages and against discrimination in wages based What are your plans for 2019? First of all, I wasn’t a politician. I am a regular on race and gender, and advanced a state law Right now, I’m taking time to reflect on this person who saw things that needed to be fixed that would create a cause of action for sexual experience and evaluate a few opportunities that and wanted to do the work. That resonated harassment. Georgia funds public education have come across my desk. Whether I pursue in with people. Also, we had an incredible group through a system that is over 40 years old, and politics again or not, I want to continue serving of volunteers who would knock on doors every I pushed to update the formula because many my country. This experience taught me so much weekend. Some people in our district said that schools are still woefully underfunded. But I’m about my local community. Many people have no one had done that in 15 or more years. most proud of my constituent services work— approached me to say that my service inspired Finally, as a Latina, a single mother, and now a helping people in my community resolve their them and that, as a result, they are reengaging grandmother, I truly relate to the struggles of issues. with politics again after years of being many people in my district. disconnected. I couldn’t be prouder of that.

50 NEW YORK LAW SCHOOL MAGAZINE • 2019 • VOL. 37, NO. 2 MEET NYLS’S NEWEST Get to know the two dynamic graduates ALUMNI leading new efforts to engage the School’s worldwide alumni base. LEADERS Marcey L. Grigsby ’06 and Pam Foster ’00 Alumni engagement is, first and foremost, about supporting our students. It’s also about creating opportunities for alumni to tap into the truly impressive NYLS network that exists in virtually every part of law, business, and public service. I want to help make those connections through the events and programs we offer. –Marcey L. Grigsby ’06

It’s clear to me that the more alumni help current students, the better it is for students, the School, and alumni. –Pam Foster ’00

MEET NYLS’S NEWEST ALUMNI LEADERS 51 MARCEY L. GRIGSBY ’06 JOINS NYLS’S EXECUTIVE STAFF In March 2018, Marcey Grigsby ’06 joined NYLS as part of law, business, and public service. I want to Vice President for Institutional Advancement and Chief help make those connections through the events and Development Officer, where she oversees the School’s programs we offer.” alumni relations and development efforts. Grigsby enjoys guiding alumni in identifying ways to “As an alumna, I’d watched a lot of exciting things stay connected—whether as mentors, speakers at happening at NYLS, including how the School aligned its on-campus events, by attending alumni-only events, or academic priorities with what’s driving activity in the legal through gifts inspired by their own experience that will profession,” Grigsby says. “Our new Think BIG curriculum benefit current students. and the phenomenal growth of our clinical program are just two examples. I’m excited to share that success with “I have yet to talk to an alum where we couldn’t find a alumni and find ways for them to be part of it.” place for them to give back in a personally meaningful way,” she says. Grigsby brings an insider’s view of the legal profession and a unique perspective on engaging alumni. She She sees the spirit of NYLS’s student body as an previously led business development teams at Ropes & enduring source of pride for all alumni. Gray LLP and Debevoise & Plimpton LLP after leaving “Our students today have the same grit and practice. She also remained connected to NYLS since determination that has long been a hallmark of NYLS graduating and, from 2010 to 2013, served as the New graduates,” she says. “They don’t take anything for York Law School Law Review’s publisher and an adjunct granted. Alumni I talk to recognize those qualities in Alumni can contact Marcey Grigsby at professor. [email protected]. themselves and want to help students succeed. The “Alumni engagement is, first and foremost, about impact of alumni involvement cannot be overstated.” supporting our students,” she says. “It’s also about In November 2018, Grigsby expanded her team by creating opportunities for alumni to tap into the truly adding another talented alumna, Elizabeth Briand ’11, as impressive NYLS network that exists in virtually every Director of Development. PAM FOSTER ’00 ELECTED PRESIDENT OF THE NYLS ALUMNI ASSOCIATION For Pam Foster ’00, being an evening student at NYLS Today, she is Chief Operating Officer of Co-Impact, a was an unforgettable experience. new global philanthropic collaborative that funds efforts in developing countries to improve outcomes in health, “There’s nothing like being in a Criminal Law class and education, and economic opportunity. talking about the Fourth Amendment with people who are cops by day and use it in practice,” she says. Foster’s top goal as Alumni Association President is to increase alumni engagement with the School. In April 2018, Foster was elected President of NYLS’s Alumni Association after having served a term as Vice “If coming to an Alumni Association meeting isn’t for President. She also joined the NYLS Board of Trustees, you, there are plenty of other ways to get involved,” she where she advises the School on strategic decision- says. “Hiring? Make sure to include NYLS students and making, and she remains Board Chair of the Safe alumni in your applicant pool. Consider offering a student Passage Project, founded by Professor Lenni Benson. externship, mentoring a student or recent graduate, or participating in the annual Bar Exam Lunch Program, an After graduating from NYLS, Foster practiced ERISA easy way to give back.” (Employee Retirement Income Security Act) and employment law at Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP. In working with the Alumni Association Board, Foster After a few years at the firm, she missed the nonprofit draws inspiration from the prior President, Hon. Marc J. sector, where she’d begun her career. Whiten ’84, who encouraged members to pursue their passions in areas that align with NYLS’s priorities. His Alumni can contact Pam Foster at When The Rockefeller Foundation, where she’d worked efforts resulted in a number of active networking groups [email protected]. before and during law school, recruited her back, she and successful CLE programs. jumped at the chance. After returning, Foster spent more than 14 years at the Foundation in roles that blended law “It’s clear to me that the more alumni help current and operations. students, the better it is for students, the School, and alumni,” Foster says.

52 NEW YORK LAW SCHOOL MAGAZINE • 2019 • VOL. 37, NO. 2 RECONNECTING Interested in getting involved with the School again but unsure about next steps? Foster and Grigsby share tips: TO NYLS HOW TO GET IN TOUCH 212.431.2800 • [email protected]

DROP A LINE. Contact the Institutional Advancement team with news of your practice area and recent accomplishments. “The first step can be a small step,” says Grigsby. “We’re always happy to share alumni achievements, and that often leads to opportunities for involvement.”

ATTEND A CLE OR Find upcoming events in NYLS’s Alumni Connections e-newsletter, by following the School’s social media accounts, or at www.nyls.edu. While OTHER EVENT. on campus, introduce yourself to current students. “They really value opportunities to connect with alumni,” Grigsby says. “So do I! If you’re on campus and have a few minutes to grab coffee, let me know.” PLAY A “Come to an Alumni Association meeting, and be part of shaping programs for students and alumni,” Foster says. “I love hearing from alumni about the best LEADERSHIP ROLE. ways we can engage them.”

Alumni gifts are essential to supporting student programs and provide a vote MAKE A GIFT of confidence to current students. Unrestricted gifts to the Annual Fund go to THAT MAKES A NYLS’s areas of greatest need. “Gifts in any amount have an impact,” Grigsby DIFFERENCE. says. “The most important thing is that alumni invest and feel invested in the School.” Employer matching programs can extend your gift’s reach, and estate giving helps ensure your NYLS legacy.

Some alumni may prefer a one-on-one mentoring relationship instead of large MENTOR A group events. “Supporting individual students allows you to get involved in a STUDENT. way that fits your schedule,” Foster says.

Grigsby described a Chicago-based alum who mentored a recent graduate OUTSIDE OF in New York City by phone and email. When the recent graduate reached a NEW YORK CITY? professional juncture and needed advice, she leaned on her mentor. “In that NO PROBLEM. moment, she was able to get a very helpful perspective,” Grigsby says.

The Mendik Library is not only a vast research facility for students and alumni; SHARE YOUR it’s also “where NYLS history lives on,” says Grigsby. Case in point: The family of MEMORABILIA. a Class of 1916 graduate recently donated his class photo to be preserved in the School’s archives and on Digital Commons. The family of another Class of 1916 graduate has since enjoyed viewing the remarkable photo.

MEET NYLS’S NEWEST ALUMNI LEADERS 53 Alumni Reflect on the Rewards of Supporting the School WHY I

As Dean Anthony W. Crowell often says, NYLS is more than a school—it’s a GIVE BACK “family”—a community that welcomes and supports alumni throughout their professional lives. In that spirit of personal investment, several alumni shared their reasons for supporting the School. TO NYLS JOAM ALISME ’14 • Legal Fellow, Everytown for Gun Safety; Member, NYLS Alumni Association Board “As a student, I was very involved with the Black Law Students Association, the Moot Court Association, and the Student Bar Association. I remember how it felt when alumni supported our work and made it possible for us to attend important events. Alumni support was also critical to NYLS’s Bar Exam Lunch Program, which began around the time I sat for the exam. I always wanted to emulate those examples of giving, and now, I’m proud to donate every year. JOAM ALISME ’14 When alumni invest in the School, it benefits all of us.”

SANG-KI LEE ’68 • Retired Patent Attorney “I spent most of my career working as a patent lawyer, in locations around the world, but in recent years, it has made me very happy to reestablish a closer relationship with NYLS, my alma mater, and to attend events at the School. I recently made a gift in honor of the Class of 1968’s 50th anniversary. I hope that my gift inspires other 50th-anniversary gifts in the years to come. I myself would not have been able to attend law school without financial assistance SANG-KI LEE ’68 Bar Exam Lunch Photo credit: John J. Kim and was fortunate to receive support from my employer. After I retired from practicing law, I helped establish Handong International Law School in South Program Sees Record Korea. It teaches a U.S. legal curriculum and is going strong. I am proud to support legal education and NYLS students.” Alumni Participation

ALAN LEIBOWITZ ’74 • Managing Partner, Hess & Leibowitz, PLLC NYLS’s annual Bar Exam Lunch “I’m impressed by how NYLS has substantially expanded its clinical programs, Program treats bar-takers to and I wanted to make a gift that supports this great work. I still practice in essential bar prep resources ALAN LEIBOWITZ ’74 downtown Manhattan today, along with fellow Class of 1974 graduate Steven L. Hess, whom I met during our first week of classes.” and a free lunch—with a side of encouragement—during JANET HALECKY ’93 • Managing Director, Wells Fargo & Company the grueling exam days. “NYLS provided me with not only a strong core curriculum, but also the unmatched professional opportunities that come with attending law school in The 2018 program, themed downtown Manhattan. The further I advance in my career, the more I look back “#BarExamChampions,” and appreciate how well the School combined the academic and the practical. marked an all-time high for By supporting NYLS’s Annual Fund now, I can help ensure that today’s students JANET HALECKY ’93 also benefit from those advantages.” alumni participation. The NYLS Alumni Association, DENNIS MALEN ’68 • Partner at Malen & Associates, P.C.; 50th spearheaded by President Pam Anniversary Co-Chair, 2018 Alumni Reunion “NYLS was a defining milestone in all of our lives. Armed with our legal Foster ’00 and Vice President education, we’ve been able to succeed in law, business, and many other fields. Manny Alicandro ’12, organized I know how important law school is to the current generation. Because of that, I alumni support. NYLS Board was proud to make a gift honoring the Class of 1968. I want to help ensure that Chair Arthur N. Abbey ’59 today’s NYLS students have the same opportunities I received.” DENNIS MALEN ’68 matched donations from the SUMMANA S. ABDUL-HASIB ’13 • Senior Legal Operations Analyst, general alumni community, and Fidelity Investments NYLS trustees made leadership “I remember the bar exam vividly—the adrenaline on the first day and the exhaustion on the second day. Luckily, because of NYLS’s Bar Exam Lunch gifts. On the days of the exam, Program, I also felt relief that I didn’t have to worry about lunch. This year, I Dean Anthony W. Crowell, supported the Program. If I can help a fellow NYLS grad feel just a little less faculty members, staff, and stressed while taking the exam, I’m all for it. I’ve also served as a judge in NYLS student competitions on weekends. Giving back and staying connected alumni passed out the lunches SUMMANA S. ABDUL-HASIB ’13 to NYLS is important to me.” with a smile.

54 NEW YORK LAW SCHOOL MAGAZINE • 2019 • VOL. 37, NO. 2 Invest in the NYLS programs or activities that inspired you—or support the Annual Fund, which allows your valuable gift to be directed to GIVING IS the School’s most critical priorities. All gifts to NYLS are tax-deductible, and all supporters are recognized in the annual Honor Roll of Donors. REWARDING WWW.NYLS.EDU/GIVE

WHERE YOUR Family of Jay Watnick ’59 Honors His Legacy With a GIFT GOES Transformative $1 Million Gift

Your gift has the power to shape tomorrow’s leaders. Here’s what it could make possible:

Legal clinics that prepare students for practice and help New Yorkers in need

Memorable Jay ’59 and Marianna Watnick

co-curricular activities, Jay Watnick ’59, who passed away in April 2018, was so fond of intellectual discussion that friends affectionately including the Moot dubbed him “the human encyclopedia.” His fierce intelligence propelled him to a highly successful career in life insurance and benefited the students he taught at Marymount College, as well as countless others he Court Association and generously mentored. In honor of his remarkable legacy, his wife, Marianna Watnick, and the Watnick family New York Law School made a transformative $1 million gift to NYLS. Law Review In recognition of his lifelong love of reading, learning, and teaching, and his deep commitment to NYLS, the School will establish the Jay S. Watnick ’59 Life-changing Reading Room and Legal Research Center within its Mendik Library. scholarships for The Watnick family’s gift enables life-changing scholarships by establishing the Marianna and Jay S. Watnick ’59 Scholarship Fund. The Fund will benefit high-achieving NYLS students, with preference for those who have deserving students demonstrated interest in legal research or financial services, two areas of focus in Jay Watnick’s life. A few years after he graduated from NYLS, the New York City native launched his life insurance career. He would go on to without means work for some of the nation’s top insurance companies—New York Life, Mutual Benefit Life, and Security Mutual Life Insurance Company—before creating his own pension administration company and leading Namco Financial Bar prep resources to Group. At Marymount, he taught financial and estate planning courses. The gift’s timing is particularly poignant: This spring would have marked the 60th anniversary of his graduation support grads on two from NYLS. The Class of 1959 numbered fewer than 100 students upon graduation, but its members have of the biggest days of demonstrated extraordinary success and generosity. NYLS Board Chair Arthur N. Abbey ’59, one of the School’s most distinguished and dedicated graduates, is a member. The class maintains a scholarship fund that has their professional lives awarded around $50,000 in the last five years to deserving NYLS students. “I am so happy that the Watnick family has agreed to make a very generous gift to NYLS to honor Jay’s memory,” The School’s greatest Arthur Abbey ’59 said. “Jay was my classmate, and we graduated together. He had a great mind. When called upon in class, he was always prepared, and he was a good match for some difficult professors. We stayed needs and priorities friendly over the years, and he told me often how much he appreciated his legal education and how helpful it was to his business success. Now he will be forever remembered, with his name prominently displayed in the Library (Annual Fund) reading room.”

MEET NYLS’S NEWEST ALUMNI LEADERS 55 IN MEMORIAM

Class of Class of Class of Class of Class of 1949 1958 1965 1983 1995

Samuel Gerard Vincent DeRosa Hon. Ingrid Braslow Arthur Heaney January 6, 2018 January 20, 2018 February 27, 2018 April 29, 2018 Eric Ross September 9, 2018 Joseph J. Kazanchy Marianne Rich November 5, 2017 October 17, 2017 Class of Ellen Reddington Class of Barbara (Rowbo) 1950 February 16, 2018 1971 Seymour Class of Albie S. Ferrucci February 9, 2018 1999 February 4, 2018 Hon. Edward J. Ryan November 4, 2017 Nicole Willett September 3, 2018 Class of 1959 Class of Class of 1986 1951 Arnold Kopelson Class of October 8, 2018 1973 Kay Mackey Class of Hon. Joseph N. Giamboi Arnold Kopelson ’59 June 16, 2018 2011 September 27, 2018 Anthony Bergamo passed away on October 8, September 29, 2017 Andrew Windman Lloyd Hull 2018. He was an Oscar- February 16, 2018 January 13, 2018 winning film producer, whose work included the Class of Guy Molinari filmsPlatoon and The 1988 Class of July 25, 2018 Fugitive. He was also a longtime board member of 1975 Louisa Clark Spencer Class of The former New York November 19, 2017 2018 State Assembly Member, CBS Corporation. Mark Tepper U.S. Representative, and November 4, 2017 A grandmother when Martin Banks Jay Watnick she embarked on her Staten Island Borough April 7, 2018 February 27, 2018 President was an NYLS degree, Louisa Martin Banks passed away influential voice for Staten Clark Spencer went on to days after completing his Islanders for decades. become an attorney at the Class of Environmental Defense J.D. and days before what Hon. Nicholas Tsoucalas Class of 1978 Fund and a member of would have been his 60th March 22, 2018 1962 NYLS’s Board of Trustees. birthday. Humble, yet Alison Greene gifted with extraordinary October 2, 2017 Trustee Professor David Donald Jones Schoenbrod, who taught talent and determination, March 8, 2018 Spencer, gave remarks at he was a stand-out scholar and a beloved student Class of her August 2018 memorial service. leader. 1957 Class of Victor Hart Class of 1981 September 2, 2018 1963 Robert Leonard December 14, 2017 Class of Robert L. Lester Francis J. Reilly FRIENDS February 16, 2018 October 1, 2017 1991 Audrey Lipford Kate Appel November 29, 2017 September 21, 2018 Class of 1982 Class of Gary Whiten 1964 Deborah Lynch March 11, 2018 Jack M. deCicco October 2, 2018 February 10, 2018

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