UB Law Forum Volume 20 Number 2 Fall 2008

UB Law Forum

Volume 20 Number 2 Fall 2008 Article 1

10-1-2008

University at Buffalo School of Law

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As we welcome Makau W.Mutua as 18th dean of the Charles Daniels Adelbert Moot Christopher C. Tiedeman University at 1887 – 1897 1897 – 1902 1902 – 1903 Buffalo Law School, we look back at his distinguished Carlos C.Alden Francis M. Shea Mark DeWolf Howe predecessors. 1904 – 1936 1936 – 1939 1940 – 1944 Buffalo

Law Philip Halpern Louis L. Jaffe George N. Stevens School 1945 – 1948 1948 – 1950 1951 – 1952 Deans 1887 — 2007 Jacob D. Hyman William D. Hawkland Richard D. Schwartz 1953 – 1964 1964 – 1971 1971 – 1976

Thomas E. Headrick Wade J. Newhouse David B. Filvaroff Barry B. Boyer R. Nils Olsen 1976 – 1985 1986 – 1987 1988 – 1992 1992 – 1998 1998 – 2007 UB LAW FORUM • FALL 2008 2 Message from the dean 3

our student body,and build stronger How does philanthropy affect our thought – until just last year – of relationships with our alumni and the rankings? becoming a dean of a law school.The state.I will invest in building the Law Philanthropy is the critical factor in thought had never,ever entered my School of the future in which the development of academic mind.And I was very skeptical when technology,endowed chairs,faculty excellence for a law school. the issue was first raised.However, scholarship and cutting-edge education Philanthropy gives the resources to service in reform of institutions is an will be the centerpieces. invest in your academic programs and important part of my psyche,and I attract great faculty.It is the source of treasure UB Law,which has been my What role can our alumni play in endowed chairs without which it is intellectual home for a decade.That is helping to achieve these goals? difficult to attract and retain faculty why I eventually took on this No U.S. law school has ever who are sought-after.Currently,we responsibility. achieved academic greatness without have no chairs at UB Law.We have two a critical mass of dedicated alumni endowed professorships,which is a How is the state’s budget crisis affecting who are generous, devoted and proud good start.However,chairs attract the Law School? of their alma mater. In this respect, faculty who will raise our reputation in Clearly,the budget crisis is a philanthropic commitments by the the legal academy and among drawback for UB Law,and comes at a alumni are the difference between practitioners.Similarly,philanthropy time when we are faced with other successful and lackluster law schools. will allow us to give more tuition challenges.But it is also a wake-up call With a shrinking base of state support scholarships to attract students with and opportunity for us to reach out to for education, it behooves UB Law to higher LSAT scores,a variable that is our alumni and strengthen those ties. create a bond of partnership with its critical to rankings. While there will be some cuts,I do not alumni. Happily, we already have expect them to affect our ability to hire active alumni. But we will have to do You have been critical of proposals to tenure-track faculty or to interfere with more to increase participation and create three new law schools in New our core functions.We will use our support if we are to become York State.Why? resources wisely,save where we can, competitive with our peers and be There cannot be an objective mind stretch our dollars and emerge stronger. counted among the top 50 law schools in the State of New York who thinks in America. that we need additional law schools in What have been your greatest the state,beyond the 13 privates and the challenges so far during your time as How can we reverse our recent decline two publics.New York has more law dean? in the national rankings? schools than it needs.The law schools The work itself is not really difficult, The first thing that I have done is within the state educate more lawyers even though the volume of demands is to recognize that rankings matter to annually than can be absorbed by the high.I have a collegial and consultative the alumni, prospective applicants, state economy in six years.Besides, style of governance which helps employers and the general public. there is not a single applicant who is legitimize decisions and involve the Even though the matrix used to qualified to go to law school who fails to entire Law School in the life of the calibrate rankings is highly gain admission within the state.In community.I have an extremely able questionable, it would be foolhardy to short,there is neither professional senior leadership,including Professor pretend that they do not impact the justification,nor market demand,for James Gardner,the vice dean for Law School.As a law school, we more law schools or lawyers in our academics; James Newton,the associate operate in the marketplace with about state. dean for administration; Professor 200 other competitors nationally. Errol Meidinger,the vice dean for That is why I am working hard with Please describe your work as a leader in research and faculty development; our faculty, staff and alumni to raise international human rights. Professor Isabel Marcus,the director of our reputation by hiring more and This is really for others to talk about. international programs; and Professor better faculty, raising the academic All I can say is that I have been very Rebecca French,the new director of the profile of the students we admit, fortunate to enjoy some success as a Baldy Center for Law and Social Policy. making sure that the vast majority of scholar and practitioner of I have delegated authority with ASK DEAN MUTUA our graduates are placed soon after international law and human rights. responsibility – and clear benchmarks – graduation, and letting the world My plate in this regard is overflowing to our senior staff in development, What are your goals as the 18th dean of tradition in all these key areas,even know about the great and innovative with commitments to write,speak and external relations,IT,career services, A few UB Law School? though we have been buffeted by some things that are happening at UB Law. I consult with governments,NGOs and admissions and the registrar.Because An excellent public law school is challenges in the recent past.But my am confident that we are doing all we the private sector.But for me,it is a we have a shared vision and consensus questions for the defined by four important factors: a mission for UB Law is clear and can to arrest the decline and that we labor of love. about the direction of the Law School, faculty with star scholars and great straightforward.I will return the Law should see some improvement in our the job of being dean is manageable teachers; an academically strong School to glory and put it among the rankings soon.An example is the class Will you maintain your teaching and occasionally enjoyable! But ask me Law School’s student body; supportive alumni with a top 50 law schools in the country by that entered in September. It is one of responsibilities? again in a year,and see how I feel then. committed tradition of philanthropic building on our strengths and the strongest we have ever admitted Of course.This year I will teach new leader giving; and a vital relationship with the addressing areas that require attention. and is a very important step in the Human Rights,the International Law central university and the state.Luckily I will recruit and hire faculty with star right direction. Colloquium and the Human Rights for me,UB Law has a long history and potential,raise the academic profile of Externship.But I must say that I never UB LAW FORUM • FALL 2008 2 Message from the dean 3

BRIEFS 2 A message from Dean Makau Mutua 6 Short takes on what’s up

ALUMNI PROFILES Fighting 12 Marianne Mariano ’94 heads federal defender’s office domestic 14 Professor Mensch ’78 retires 18 Cindy Cooper ’03 rescues housing at risk violence

LAW SCHOOL REPORT 32 20 Six chosen as Presidential Management Fellows 26 22 A bold plan to place wind turbines in the Great Lakes 26 Law School documentary goes behind the walls at Attica DAC 30 Baldy Center conference looks at the culture of pro bono Encountering Attica 32 Fighting domestic violence here and abroad focuses on 36 Dean’s Advisory Council focuses on our ranking 38 Washington Day brings D.C. alumni to campus rankings 40 New York City program in ﬁnance and law ﬁnishes third year 42 Incoming class among the best ever 43 2007 employment statistics 36 44 Commencement 2008: A great beginning 50 Students of Color celebrate their achievements 52 Law Review Dinner marks a productive year 14 44 FOCUS ON FACULTY Professor Mensch ’78 retires Commencement 2008 54 Stuart Lazar: a fascination with taxation 56 Ruqaiijah Yearby will direct JD/MPH program 58 Professor Rebecca French is named to head Baldy Center 14 60 Errol Meidinger advocates for UB Law scholars 61 New books by members of the UB Law faculty LAW ALUMNI ASSOCIATION 56 22 62 UB Law Alumni Association celebrates our best 64 New boards elected Ruqaiijah Environment and 68 Regional chapter photos 68 Development Clinic 70 Class Action: Reunions/marriages/births/deaths Yearby will direct Regional events AS WE GO TO PRESS JD/MPH 84 On the scene at Guantanamo program 54 Stuart Lazar: New tax prof UB LAW FORUM • FALL 2008 4 Contents 5 UBLAWFORUM The Magazine of the University at Buffalo Law School The State University of New York

BRIEFS 2 A message from Dean Makau Mutua 6 Short takes on what’s up

ALUMNI PROFILES Fighting 12 Marianne Mariano ’94 heads federal defender’s office domestic 14 Professor Mensch ’78 retires 18 Cindy Cooper ’03 rescues housing at risk violence

U.S.tax court the right, especially for those of us of a “A tax system that tries libertarian persuasion, praising regu- judge argues for lation seems perverse,”he said. to use precision in regulation And he recognized widespread will always need more regulation to more regulation suspicions that the complexity of tax law amounts to a full-employment act fence in some activities and In an appearance sponsored for tax attorneys. But, he said, many by the libertarian-leaning who specialize in tax matters are no fence out others.” Federalist Society and UB fans of the proliferation of tax law. In- Law’s Moot Court stead, it is regulations – issued by tax- Board, a U.S. Tax Court ing entities like the Internal Revenue But even as regulation adds clarity judge played the con- Service rather than by legislative bod- to tax legislation, tax specialists are trarian, arguing in fa- ies – that tax lawyers prefer. needed more than ever.“A tax system vor of more govern- “Judges have to use some tools to that tries to use precision in regulation ment regulation – at clarify the tax law’s ambiguity and ap- will always need more regulation to least in the tax arena. ply it to the case at hand,” Holmes fence in some activities and fence out “Why Tax Regula- said. “In tax law in particular, the others,”Holmes said.“People will shift tion Is Good” was the number of regulations that meet the their behavior in response to a previ- straightforward title of precision test of a good law is likely to ous round of regulation. Even bright Hon. Mark V. Holmes’ ad- be very large. Precision is a criterion lines will increase the demand for tax dress, and Holmes acknowl- for good law, and it also helps to ex- lawyers.” edged he was making a challenging ar- plain why regulation might be good, gument. “Usually for those of us on even better than case law.”

What are Gardner said dissat- isfaction with cam- Our students help New Orleans campaigns paigns comes as campaigns fall short of rea- after the storm for? soned persuasion and understanding, and vot- he recent Hurricane Gustav refocused America’s attention briefly on the Areas of the lower The common com- ers fail to inform them- Gulf Coast, but the nation has moved on to other matters. For the resi- ninth ward in New plaint, Professor James A. selves about the issues. dents of New Orleans still struggling to rebuild after Hurricane Katrina, Orleans are flooded Gardner said, is that presi- Part of the problem, he however,“the storm”of three years ago is a continuing and very present after a levy along the industrial canal was dential campaigns are not said, are the laws regulat- reality. overtopped as a thoughtful enough, not ra- ing ballot access and TBeyond the city’s physical rebuilding, New Orleans’ legal system is recovering as result of storm surge tional enough, too thin, public campaign financ- well from the devastation that blew in from the Gulf of Mexico in August associated with too superficial, and driven ing. 2005. And the need for legal services – on issues both civil and criminal – Hurricane Rita on by personality and image So what are cam- has never been greater. Friday, Sept. 23, rather than substance. paigns for? In January, 29 second- and third-year UB Law students spent a 2005. The “But the question we Mostly, Gardner said, weeklong bridge course getting a firsthand look at the recovery efforts, overtopping caused like to ask in the Law School is, compared to what?”he said. campaigns are not about winning voters over to a candidate’s practicing their legal skills in a fast-paced, high-volume environment, areas of New Orleans That comparative critique of campaign styles across the side. Instead,“they are about making sure that people vote and pitching in to help the New Orleans legal community clear some that were flooded during Hurricane centuries of the American experiment was the basis for a the inclination that they brought into the campaign. Cam- of its staggering caseload. The students worked with the city’s public Katrina, and since lecture by Gardner to nearly 200 people in the free UB This paigns orient voters to select the candidate they should pre- defender’s office, New Orleans Legal Assistance Corp. and the Alliance drained, to flood Summer lecture series. It was called “What Are Campaigns fer. That does not mean that people are not making up their for Affordable Energy. once again. For?”and was based on Gardner’s upcoming book of that minds, they are just making them up outside of the cam- “They’re still putting out fires in terms of legal work,”said third-year title. paign.” student Tatiana Markel. “We were there to do whatever we could to Sure, he said, modern voters grumble about the quality Therefore, he concluded, “we need to worry about lighten their load,”including helping with evictions and title transfers that of campaigns. But a look back shows that each era of something else, and that is how people form their political had gotten “pushed to the bottom of the barrel.” American electoral history has had its failings, some of opinions outside the campaigns. It seems to me that we “The biggest shock by far was the devastation still there,”Markel said.“It was as them unthinkable by today’s standards: everything from need to worry much more about inequality of access to the if Hurricane Katrina occurred yesterday.” plying the voters with whiskey to rolling giant leather balls tools of communication and the concentration of mass “I should have known about all the legal backlog of work that needs to be done inscribed with party slogans across the countryside. media ownership.” so people can rebuild their homes and reacquire their land,”said Elliot Kowalski, another third-year student who made the trip. The three-credit bridge course was the brainchild of Professors Suzanne Tomkins, Margaret Phillips and Sara Faherty. It included two weeks of classes on affordable-housing case law and the government’s role in responding to disasters. Continued… 8 UB LAW FORUM • FALL 2008 9 Briefs A light in the Atticus Harper Lee’s beloved novel To Kill a Mockingbird, and locked in the courtroom basement after stabbing his father “The first article I the classic 1962 film starring Gregory Peck, got the full le- with scissors. The climax of the story explores the issue of gal review in front of an audience at Buffalo’s Al- law versus justice, when the sheriff decides not to prose- published took me a bright-Knox Art Gallery. Three UB Law School aca- cute Boo for killing a man who was threatening to hurt demics were part of a panel discussing the judicial year to write, and I the children. aspects of Mockingbird, whose key conflict revolves Professor Stephanie Phillips spoke of the social probably threw away around the defense by principled lawyer Atticus and political context in which the novel was released. Finch of a black man falsely accused of rap- It was published in 1960, she noted,“at the height of three-quarters of it. ing a white woman in 1935 Alabama. the civil rights movement, and before Civil Rights The program came in conjunction Act and the Voting Rights Act. It reminded the It took me a while to with a National Endowment for the nation of some of the issues that were on the Arts program called The Big Read, table right then.” figure out how to work which encourages entire communi- SUNY Distinguished Teaching Professor ties to read the same book, and it pre- Elizabeth Mensch efficiently.” went deeper into the char- ceded a showing of the film. acter of Atticus Finch, saying that he is “part UB Law clinical instructor of a declining Southern gentry culture” Sam Magavern, moderator of the who derives his authority from that panel, began by reminding the audi- position of privilege. ence of the book’s plot, centered on Nevertheless, she sees Atticus as a Atticus’children Scout and Jem, and virtuous lawyer.“Atticus teaches the on their mysterious, reclusive neigh- children to see in the most unlikely bor Boo Radley. people a possibility, a touch of a better Boo, said Magavern, is a key fig- reality that is only partially revealed,” ure in the book’s legal pedigree; he is she said, quoting Gregory Peck’s character a recluse because as a teenager he was as saying,“People are nice if you only see put under house arrest after falling in them.” Legal fiction IP law and now teaches at Stanford Univer- with a gang, and at age 33 was briefly sity. In addition to textbooks, casebooks very so often, Paul Goldstein says, and other purely academic work, he has people will approach him at a written general-interest non-fiction books conference and say, “I read your on IP and copyright law. Errors and Omis- book, and I loved it.” sions, his first published novel, came out in He knows, he says with a laugh, 2006; he is already at work on the third Ethat they are not talking about his four-vol- in the Seeley series. New York’s er plants – to small, local law ume treatise on U.S. copyright law. With his love of literature enforcement actions. More likely those readers passed a pleas- and the movies, Goldstein clean team Because of the ruling in ant weekend with Errors and Omissions or, said, copyright was a nat- the EPA case, Kennedy said, now, A Patent Lie (Doubleday), his second ural fit when he was a An environmental advocate fight- the federal agency will need novel in the legal thriller genre. student at Columbia ing the good fight with the New York to rethink its system for lim- The new novel is a courtroom drama Law School. At UB Law State attorney general’s office brought iting mercury emissions by built around Goldstein’s continuing hero, he taught survey cours- some war stories and some words of power plants.“This is a sig- Buffalo lawyer Michael Seeley, and his quest es in copyright, patent inspiration to a UB Law School class nificant case in Buffalo and to find the truth amid the shifting alle- law, trademarks and un- on public-service environmentalism. Western New York,” she giances of an intellectual property lawsuit. fair competition. Katherine “Kit”Kennedy is special said, “as well as in other Seeley goes to San Francisco to argue on be- Now, of course, the deputy attorney general for environ- parts of the country, because half of his estranged brother’s biotech com- field of intellectual property mental protection, and chief of the mercury affects the Great pany, which is defending its patent on a has exploded with the advent state’s Environmental Protection Bu- Lakes.” high-stakes AIDS vaccine against a Swiss of the Internet, file-sharing tech- reau. Other recent efforts by pharmaceutical giant. nology and the like. Keeping up is chal- Kennedy detailed the work of that the Environmental Protec- As the trial progresses, Seeley begins to lenge enough, so how does Goldstein find office.“It is an incredibly fascinating tion Bureau include lawsuits suspect that there is corruption all around, time to indulge his passion for fiction? and challenging job,” she said. “The to slow global warming, and his courtroom life is complicated by ro- “I have not found it overly difficult,”he bureau has a broad range of responsi- clean up contaminated ur- mantic entanglements, family drama, polit- says.“I am a lot more efficient in my profes- bilities and duties that touch on every ban sites, improve water ical activism and a mysterious murder. sional writing today than I was when I start- area of environmental law,”including quality in the Bronx River, “Never has copyright and intellectual law ed. The first article I published took me a enforcing state and federal environ- from very complex nationwide cases – Hudson River and New York City wa- been so thrilling and so dangerous,” the year to write, and I probably threw away mental laws, and defending the DEC such as a recent challenge by New York tershed, and prevent invasive species book’s publicity enthuses. three-quarters of it. It took me a while to and other agencies when they are the and other states that struck down the from gaining a foothold in the Great Goldstein, who began his teaching ca- figure out how to work efficiently.” targets of lawsuits brought on envi- federal Environmental Protection Lakes. reer as a UB Law associate professor from ronmental grounds. Agency’s toothless regulations on 1967 to 1971, is an acknowledged expert in The work, she said, runs the gamut mercury emissions by coal-fired pow- Continued… 8 UB LAW FORUM • FALL 2008 9 Briefs A light in the Atticus Harper Lee’s beloved novel To Kill a Mockingbird, and locked in the courtroom basement after stabbing his father “The first article I the classic 1962 film starring Gregory Peck, got the full le- with scissors. The climax of the story explores the issue of gal review in front of an audience at Buffalo’s Al- law versus justice, when the sheriff decides not to prose- published took me a bright-Knox Art Gallery. Three UB Law School aca- cute Boo for killing a man who was threatening to hurt demics were part of a panel discussing the judicial year to write, and I the children. aspects of Mockingbird, whose key conflict revolves Professor Stephanie Phillips spoke of the social probably threw away around the defense by principled lawyer Atticus and political context in which the novel was released. Finch of a black man falsely accused of rap- It was published in 1960, she noted,“at the height of three-quarters of it. ing a white woman in 1935 Alabama. the civil rights movement, and before Civil Rights The program came in conjunction Act and the Voting Rights Act. It reminded the It took me a while to with a National Endowment for the nation of some of the issues that were on the Arts program called The Big Read, table right then.” figure out how to work which encourages entire communi- SUNY Distinguished Teaching Professor ties to read the same book, and it pre- Elizabeth Mensch efficiently.” went deeper into the char- ceded a showing of the film. acter of Atticus Finch, saying that he is “part UB Law clinical instructor of a declining Southern gentry culture” Sam Magavern, moderator of the who derives his authority from that panel, began by reminding the audi- position of privilege. ence of the book’s plot, centered on Nevertheless, she sees Atticus as a Atticus’children Scout and Jem, and virtuous lawyer.“Atticus teaches the on their mysterious, reclusive neigh- children to see in the most unlikely bor Boo Radley. people a possibility, a touch of a better Boo, said Magavern, is a key fig- reality that is only partially revealed,” ure in the book’s legal pedigree; he is she said, quoting Gregory Peck’s character a recluse because as a teenager he was as saying,“People are nice if you only see put under house arrest after falling in them.” Legal fiction IP law and now teaches at Stanford Univer- with a gang, and at age 33 was briefly sity. In addition to textbooks, casebooks very so often, Paul Goldstein says, and other purely academic work, he has people will approach him at a written general-interest non-fiction books conference and say, “I read your on IP and copyright law. Errors and Omis- book, and I loved it.” sions, his first published novel, came out in He knows, he says with a laugh, 2006; he is already at work on the third Ethat they are not talking about his four-vol- in the Seeley series. New York’s er plants – to small, local law ume treatise on U.S. copyright law. With his love of literature enforcement actions. More likely those readers passed a pleas- and the movies, Goldstein clean team Because of the ruling in ant weekend with Errors and Omissions or, said, copyright was a nat- the EPA case, Kennedy said, now, A Patent Lie (Doubleday), his second ural fit when he was a An environmental advocate fight- the federal agency will need novel in the legal thriller genre. student at Columbia ing the good fight with the New York to rethink its system for lim- The new novel is a courtroom drama Law School. At UB Law State attorney general’s office brought iting mercury emissions by built around Goldstein’s continuing hero, he taught survey cours- some war stories and some words of power plants.“This is a sig- Buffalo lawyer Michael Seeley, and his quest es in copyright, patent inspiration to a UB Law School class nificant case in Buffalo and to find the truth amid the shifting alle- law, trademarks and un- on public-service environmentalism. Western New York,” she giances of an intellectual property lawsuit. fair competition. Katherine “Kit”Kennedy is special said, “as well as in other Seeley goes to San Francisco to argue on be- Now, of course, the deputy attorney general for environ- parts of the country, because half of his estranged brother’s biotech com- field of intellectual property mental protection, and chief of the mercury affects the Great pany, which is defending its patent on a has exploded with the advent state’s Environmental Protection Bu- Lakes.” high-stakes AIDS vaccine against a Swiss of the Internet, file-sharing tech- reau. Other recent efforts by pharmaceutical giant. nology and the like. Keeping up is chal- Kennedy detailed the work of that the Environmental Protec- As the trial progresses, Seeley begins to lenge enough, so how does Goldstein find office.“It is an incredibly fascinating tion Bureau include lawsuits suspect that there is corruption all around, time to indulge his passion for fiction? and challenging job,” she said. “The to slow global warming, and his courtroom life is complicated by ro- “I have not found it overly difficult,”he bureau has a broad range of responsi- clean up contaminated ur- mantic entanglements, family drama, polit- says.“I am a lot more efficient in my profes- bilities and duties that touch on every ban sites, improve water ical activism and a mysterious murder. sional writing today than I was when I start- area of environmental law,”including quality in the Bronx River, “Never has copyright and intellectual law ed. The first article I published took me a enforcing state and federal environ- from very complex nationwide cases – Hudson River and New York City wa- been so thrilling and so dangerous,” the year to write, and I probably threw away mental laws, and defending the DEC such as a recent challenge by New York tershed, and prevent invasive species book’s publicity enthuses. three-quarters of it. It took me a while to and other agencies when they are the and other states that struck down the from gaining a foothold in the Great Goldstein, who began his teaching ca- figure out how to work efficiently.” targets of lawsuits brought on envi- federal Environmental Protection Lakes. reer as a UB Law associate professor from ronmental grounds. Agency’s toothless regulations on 1967 to 1971, is an acknowledged expert in The work, she said, runs the gamut mercury emissions by coal-fired pow- Continued… 10 UB LAW FORUM • FALL 2008 11 Briefs

Good for the The power of apology neighborhood

A new book by Nick Smith ’97,I Was Wrong our Western New York nonprofits “The Law School’s (Cambridge University Press), explores the na- scrambled for a major grant from ture of apologies and the power of a simple Buffalo’s 21st Century Fund, but only Community Economic statement of wrongdoing. From the apologies one – the Massachusetts Avenue Pro- of politicians when they misspeak or misbe- ject, with strong input from the Law Development Clinic have, to collective national apologies for past FSchool’s Community Economic Development offenses, to issues as intriguing as “Should I Clinic – went home with the cash. students have represented apologize to my dog for forgetting to fill his The $100,000 grant will be used to support the Massachusetts water bowl?,” the book examines the theory the creation of a Community Food Resource and practice of this most human custom. and Micro Enterprise Center on Buffalo’s West Avenue Project for the He got into the subject, Smith says, while Side, where nearly half of residents live in considering the commodification of law – how poverty. The center will make affordable, past 10 years.” harms ranging from racial discrimination to nutritious food more available to residents, and wrongful death are measured in dollar signs. increase their capacity to earn a living through — Clinical instructor Surprisingly, he found, expressions of contri- to redress the problem she caused? These ques- business and job training. tion have become more common in our justice tions tend to lead to further questions about Among its features: the Rise Up Cafe and Lauren Breen system, partly because “legal actors do in fact the meanings of any given apology, but they catering business, a weekly youth dinner co-op, put a price on apologies. Studies suggest that a are a good starting point.” group meeting space, a commercial kitchen and few words of contrition, regardless of their sin- So does he really apologize to his dog some- program offices. The center will function in cerity, can dramatically decrease the likelihood times? tandem with the Mobile Market, which was of costly litigation.” “I do,”Smith says,“in part because I think established in February. As he worked on the subject, says Smith, my dog is an important member of my moral “The Law School’s Community Economic who now teaches philosophy at the University community. Likewise, some Native Americans Development Clinic students have represented of New Hampshire, he came to realize that give thanks to killed prey by blowing tobacco MAP for the past 10 years,” said clinical “apologies are everywhere. Just about every smoke into its nostrils, or ask forgiveness from instructor Lauren Breen. day I was working on the book, someone ap- a tree for harvesting its bark. Because such a “This new center is a very exciting model to peared in headline news apologizing for some- worldview considers a broad scope of beings build small businesses and, in the process, thing. within its moral horizons, it extends opportu- physically revitalize the West Side.” “Asking a few simple questions can take us nities for gratitude and contrition beyond to the heart of the meaning of an apology: Did most other traditions that strictly delimit the the offender explain what she did with an ap- class of moral interlocutors deserving of propriate degree of specificity? Does she accept apologies.” blame? Does she make clear why her actions were wrong and identify the principles she violated? Does she promise not to do it again and

Compare and contrast “The U.S. federal system is a mature system and a Students’ opportunities to study tive Constitutional Gardner. cuss other ideas from the conference. ternet conversation about ways we exemplifies the cross-cultural nature law in a cross-cultural context will Law. His term at good source for the young “I met Profes- The U.S. federal system is a mature might collaborate with each other.” of his legal academic work.“I define grow in the current academic year UB Law School is Spanish constitutional sor Gardner last system and a good source for the The result is a planned joint project myself as a Mediterranean,”he says.“I with the addition of visiting professor under the auspices year in Athens at young Spanish constitutional system by the two professors, “based in a am a Catalan who was born in Valen- Antoni Abad i Ninet, who comes to of the Edwin F. system as we try to learn the World Congress as we try to learn and improve it. Pro- comparison between both constitu- cia and grew up in Mallorca. My first Buffalo from another UB – the Uni- Jaeckle Center for of Constitutional fessor Gardner is a very open-minded tional systems but searching for a uni- surname is a Catalan name with Per- versity of Barcelona, Spain. State and Local and improve it.” Law,”Abad says.“After professor and is interested in the versal and international application. I sian, Jewish and Arab origins – like my Dr. Abad, a specialist in constitu- Democracy, and he says it the conference, I wanted Spanish constitutional system and am very excited to be in a position to country, a mixture of ancestral cul- tional law, will teach a bridge course in grew out of a meeting of aca- to congratulate him on his comparative constitutional law, and work with someone like Professor tures.” Ancient Constitutional Law and a demic minds with Professor and Vice point of view about federalism and that makes it easy to find connections Gardner.” spring-semester course in Compara- Dean for Academic Affairs James A. subnational constitutions and to dis- between our works. We began an In- Even in his personal heritage, Abad 10 UB LAW FORUM • FALL 2008 11 Briefs

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“The attorneys in our office feel privileged to serve the community by representing those least able to help themselves when faced with such serious charges.” — Marianne Mariano ’94 LEADING THE DEFENDERS

has served on the Federal Sentencing Marianne Mariano ’94 heads Guidelines Working Group and the Federal Defender’s National Sentenc- federal public defender’s office ing Guideline Committee, an advisory group to the U.S. Sentencing Com- mission. One of the challenges of running arianne Mariano ’94 a collaboration that Mariano hopes to the Western District office is manag- has committed herself strengthen. ing attorneys and staff in two cities. to a career in public “This office enjoys an outstanding She generally makes the 90-minute service, most of it reputation for its representation of its drive to Rochester once a week, and with the Office of the clients,”Mariano says.“I feel so fortu- an instant messaging system keeps MFederal Public Defender in the West- nate and honored to have been given staffers in constant touch with each ern District of New York. Now she has this opportunity, especially so soon in other. She will maintain her own ros- been appointed to head that office my career.”She succeeds Joseph B. ter of cases. The office also is charged and its staff of 25, including 11 attor- Mistrett ’71, who has retired. with providing two Continuing Legal neys. A native of Niagara Falls whose fa- Education seminars each year for the The office, which covers both Buf- ther, John E. Mariano ’60, was a Nia- defense bar. falo and Rochester, represents people gara Falls City Court judge, she At UB Law School, where she who have been accused of federal clerked for U.S. Magistrate Judge Car- graduated cum laude, Mariano served crimes and cannot afford to hire an ol E. Heckman after graduating from on the Moot Court Board, and honed attorney. That means a lot of cases – the Law School.“I went to law school her litigation skills in national and lo- about 1,000 new clients each year, a knowing I wanted to go into public cal moot court competitions.“That number bolstered by Western New service,”she said. experience helped a lot,”she said. York’s proximity to the Canadian bor- She joined the Office of the Federal “Moot court, coupled with my one- der. Public Defender at a time when it was year clerkship, taught me that every- Mariano, who has been an assis- doubling its staff to four attorneys;“I thing I learned in Law School could tant public defender since 1995, said was at the right place at the right translate into any area of the law.”She the caseload is heavy with drug cases, time,”she says. Her career ever since also cites the Trial Technique program both local trafficking cases and cross- has been for the defense – a commit- as a formative experience. border smuggling, as well as other ment so all-encompassing that she In the federal Second Circuit border-related cases such as alien even named her dog, a Wheaton terri- Court of Appeals, Mariano is the ﬁrst smuggling and false documentation. er,Atticus Finch, after the heroic de- woman to head a public defender’s of- “We will represent a client from fense lawyer in To Kill a Mockingbird. ﬁce. Day One,”she says, from an initial bail “The attorneys in our office feel or detention hearing, through hear- privileged to serve the community by ings on evidentiary issues, and on to representing those least able to help trial and appeal if necessary. The office themselves when faced with such seri- also includes a manager who coordi- ous charges,”Mariano says.“It is that nates the work of private attorneys commitment that make us success- appointed to represent federal defen- ful.” dants under the Criminal Justice Act, As an assistant public defender, she UB LAW FORUM • FALL 2008 12 Alumni Profiles 13

PROFESSOR MENSCH LOOKS TO A TEACHER’S CHILDREN’S ADVOCACY IN RETIREMENT TEACHER

PROFESSOR ELIZABETH “BETTY” MENSCH, Why retirement? Why now? As the saying goes, the decision who has taught at UB Law School since 1985, was overdetermined. I now have four grandchildren and want to move retired at the close of the 2007-08 academic year.An closer to them so that I can be a real acclaimed teacher – she was named a SUNY grandmother, not just someone who hurriedly breezes in for visits from Distinguished Teaching Professor in 1994 – time to time. Moreover, I want more time for volunteer work. Initially I Mensch is a UB Law alumna as came to law school for the sake of well; she graduated with the Class gaining some extra skills related to my teaching work with secondary of 1978 before going on to school students who were becoming lost and neglected within the whole Harvard to earn the master of educational, social and legal system. I have never forgotten my concern for laws degree. such kids – it haunts me – yet I have In her Law School tenure, given it far too little of my time. Finally, of course, inescapably, Mensch has taught in the areas there is age. I am almost 66 and want to retire before I start to lose the ener- of torts, contracts, legal history gy and enthusiasm for big classes. I and church/state relations, enjoyed last year’s classes immensely; yet it is good for the school to have among others. Her publications the fresh approach and perspective that newer faculty can bring to stu- include the 1993 book The dents. In recent years we have hired Politics of Virtue: Is Abortion some terriﬁc new colleagues; they are adding immeasurably to the vitality Debatable?, written with her of the school. husband and fellow UB Law professor,Alan Freeman, who passed away in 1995. Continued on page 16 The seventh ﬂoor of O’Brian Hall was undergoing renovation, and Mensch’s office was stripped almost to the bones, when UB Law Forum caught up with her to ask her to look back – and forward as well. UB LAW FORUM • FALL 2008 14 Alumni Profiles 15

PROFESSOR MENSCH LOOKS TO A TEACHER’S CHILDREN’S ADVOCACY IN RETIREMENT TEACHER

Continued from page 14 You are known for the quality of are just more interested and engaged How have you chosen the topics many outside the legal academy as your teaching. Have you developed than others. But I do like to keep you have written about? well.Articles explore, from a wide You are an alumna of the Law a philosophy of teaching? Do you pointing out that questions which at I have followed my nose, and of- variety of perspectives, the relation School. How did you make the tran- think about method, or does it just one level can seem very technical ten the proddings of others. For ex- between law and various faith tradi- sition from being a UB Law student come out of who you are? (measures of damages in contract ample, my late husband and I wrote tions. It is completely open and ecu- to being a UB Law professor? I think of method not at all, al- law, for example) can at another lev- a book about abortion even though menical in approach, and also in its Much to my surprise at the time, though to say so might be an admis- el actually embody very complex we had no plan to do so.We had spirit as a community of scholars I found studying law at UB great sion of irresponsibility. My focus has questions about the meaning of eth- taught a seminar on animals and trying to encourage others who fun. Never had I enjoyed an intellec- always been just on content – on ical responsibility. Sometimes very then had given a few little talks on want to work in the area of law and tual challenge as much as I enjoyed helping students to uncover and small questions can also be very the subject, and written a couple of religion. law school. Professors here, who grasp the basic structure and ten- large questions, and are best under- short articles. Our interest was in the While my association with the were extraordinarily generous with sions within various doctrinal areas, stood within that broader frame- pesky status of animals at the border Journal has been deeply satisfying, I their time and encouragement, and on helping them to use their work. of conventional ethical and legal am also delighted that there is a nudged me to pursue an academic knowledge and to fashion argu- And I do want students to keep thought. Norms for the treatment of growing number of people at the path.At the time, there was still ments to understand cases. encountering the fact that there are humans did not seem wholly rele- Law School and in other depart- something of a presumption against I also firmly believe that students often no easy answers to those vant to animals, yet the treatment of ments who share an interest in reli- ever returning to one’s home school learn different things from different broader questions. That recognition animals did seem, for most cultures gion. It is an important area of study, as a professor. teachers. Our school has many leads to greater flexibility and so- and religious traditions, at least to somewhat neglected for a time at After some further study and I came back to this strong scholars and teachers from phistication in fashioning legal argu- raise a moral question. Then people many schools. some experience and job offers else- whom students can learn a variety ments. It is also a lesson about ethi- kept asking whether abortion did where, however, I was asked to re- school because I think it of different skills and perspectives. cal responsibility: acting responsibly not raise a similar “border”question. What have we forgotten to ask? turn and was delighted to do so. By ‘‘ is a really special law Therefore, I have always accepted sometimes means choosing between We had to admit to ourselves that it I came back to this school be- then I was convinced that the quality my own limitations. conflicting ethical claims in situa- did. So, somewhat reluctantly, we cause I think it is a really special law of the intellectual life at UB was un- school. I am not good at grilling stu- tions where the right answer is not switched focus. school. It has had a really great past surpassed anywhere; so too was the dents, for example, and I do not try, always obvious, or clearly decided by Can you talk a little more about in certain special ways, like the em- quality of the challenging but sup- even though I think a little grilling rules. the work that you and your hus- phasis on interdisciplinary research. portive environment UB provided ’’ can add a valuable edge to the class. band did together? Some of those perspectives have for students. worried about career opportunities And I would waste everyone’s time if You have written in a great num- We did a lot together, often just to been picked up by other schools, and and therefore more willing simply to I tried to fumble with the mechanics ber of areas: animal rights, abor- have fun with topics. For example, so what used to be very distinctive You have seen a couple of enjoy the luxury of being in school. of visual aids or computer technolo- tion, a lot of history, advertising, we wrote some essays for Tikkun about UB has become kind of ordi- decades of students go by. Have you More were also eager to believe that gies, yet I know many teachers use even a piece about Dr. Seuss.Would magazine in that spirit.Alan had a nary. noticed broad changes in the stu- legal reform could usher in sweep- them very effectively. So my you call yourself a generalist? sharp, lively mind, filled with knowl- It is obvious that there is a chal- dents you teach? ing progressive social transforma- “method”has probably just been a Maybe that is a generous word to edge, and with a knack for pithy lenge for the school. If it is going to I have never found it difficult to tions. function of my own areas of inepti- describe a pretty whimsical ap- prose. Of course I have missed him maintain the reputation it has had in like students. They have always Now students seem, in a sense, tude.I have always,however,tried to proach to scholarship. I have pro- very much. the past, it has to think about what amazed me with the rich variety of more realistic. They like to see a rela- draw pictures on the blackboard; duced no systematic body of work; its reputation is going to be. There their experiences, the depth of their tionship between their Law School students have been patient in although I guess I have written a fair Talk about your work with the are people who are doing remark- insights and the seriousness of their experience and the skills they will putting up with my lack of artistic amount about various moments in Journal of Law and Religion.What able work in terms of scholarship goals. That reality has stayed so con- need for practice. They are also ability. the long history of theology’s simul- has that entailed? and also in terms of the clinical pro- stant that changes seem superficial. more skeptical about broad trans- taneous influence and challenge in I was chair of the editorial board gram and the New York City pro- Yet it is probably fair to say that there formational goals and more inter- Students have said that you will, relation to legal thought, there has for a few years, and am still on the gram.We really can move into the have been changes.When I was a ested in the specifics of concrete in the last 10 minutes of a lecture, been no fully sustained develop- board. The board does planning and future in our interesting, distinctive new teacher, students seemed less problem-solving; and they are more teach on a higher level and talk to ment. policy setting; I can take no credit for and really impressive way, but we open to seeing dilemmas rather than the brighter students in the room. the hard work that goes into actually need to think about how to do that. I easy answers. I do not see those Do you do this consciously? producing each issue of the Journal. think we have a great future, and I changes as at all negative so long as No, I do not think of students in Nevertheless, the association hope we do not lose sight of that. students retain their enthusiasm and terms of more or less bright. Some with the Journal has been important continue to enjoy the challenge of to me. Our goal has been to provide learning to do serious legal analysis. a serious academic law journal which can be (and is) also read by UB LAW FORUM • FALL 2008 16 Alumni Profiles 17 A TEACHER’S TEACHER

“It is a matter of the city not assuming liability.These big companies have large portfolios,and risk is part of their business.On a micro level,there are going to be losses.When a company passes on that loss to someone else – in my personal opinion,I see that as corporate welfare.”

“You cannot just leave abandoned ment dealt with the role of banks in property lying around,”Cooper says.“I residential abandonment and why they do not want the city getting stuck with should be held accountable for proper- it. So there is a triangle among the ty code violations. homeowner, the bank and the city, and She went to Law School, Cooper we are trying to achieve a common says, as an academic exercise, fully ex- goal: to get someone to do something pecting that she would end up teaching with the home other than the city. sociology on the university level.“I was “It is a matter of the city not assum- not thinking about practicing law at ing liability. These big companies have all,”she says.“I went to Law School to large portfolios, and risk is part of their research the law and understand the business. On a micro level, there are law, so I could be a better sociologist. going to be losses.When a company “I took a lot of seminars,”she re- passes on that loss to someone else – in calls.“I liked the smaller environment, my personal opinion, I see that as cor- and I enjoyed writing papers. It was porate welfare.” more like graduate school classes. I remember a great class on Law and Reli- uffalo, she said, is ahead of gion taught by Betty Mensch. There the curve in dealing with its was a lot of heated debate in that class.” foreclosure problem, be- But in the end, she realized she was cause it hit earlier in West- not ready to devote herself to acade- ern New York than else- mia.“I wanted to be engaged in the whereB in the nation.“We have an after- world,”she says.“I wanted to get out math problem right now,”Cooper says. and get in touch with more of the real Working with fellow UB Law alumna world and become more actively en- GOOD for the Mary Bowman ’02, she is in court three gaged with what people were strug- days a week, dealing with the fallout gling with and working on. I was living from predatory lending, subprime in the city and driving to Amherst loans, and the economic ill fortune that every day to study the city. I finally real- separates city residents from their ized that did not make sense.”She took NEIGHBORHOOD homes. the bar exam more than a year after her “Cindy has been an asset, not only Law School commencement. to the Department of Law but to the Now she sees the nitty-gritty of the community in which she lives and the housing market up close, sometimes nthe end, says Cindy Cooper Housing Court and working to keep blight and opening up shovel-ready city that she has made her home,”says driving with a city building inspector Cindy Cooper ’03 ’03, she does what she does for lenders and homeowners from aban- sites for new investment. Lukasiewicz. into some of Buffalo’s roughest neigh- the love of a city. doning their city houses in foreclosure In Housing Court, Cooper insists Cooper came to Buffalo to do grad- borhoods to see for herself the condi- The City of Buffalo, that is – so proceedings. that lenders keep the homes in good uate work in sociology, the recipient of tion of the roof or the masonry. Her works to rescue different from California, where When lenders foreclose on a prop- condition until a buyer can be found, a Gilbert Moore Fellowship from the own experience in rescuing her home, Ishe grew up, but a place she has trea- erty, she explains, they are sometimes donate them to community groups, or Baldy Center for Law and Social Policy encumbered by an IRS tax lien before sured ever since she came to the Uni- tempted to wash their hands of it, espe- pay for demolition.When lenders ig- to support her concurrent work in so- she bought it, has given her empathy housing at risk versity at Buffalo to pursue a law degree cially in depressed areas of Buffalo nore summonses for code violations, ciology and Law School. She became for those who struggle to repair their and a doctorate in sociology. where homes may be worth only a few the city can enter a default judgment interested in housing issues when she older homes. She lives with her husband – Mark thousand dollars and reselling them is and levy fines – and then impose liens, worked as an intern in Judge Henry J. “I feel strongly about fixing up Schaefer ’93, a civil law attorney – in a difficult. But abandoned properties which can hold up the lenders’other Nowak’s Housing Court. She then houses in the city and doing the best beautiful Victorian fixer-upper on rapidly fall into disrepair and, under real estate deals. That threat encourages worked for two years on a grant-fund- with what you have,”Cooper says. Richmond Avenue, in the stately shad- the direction of Mayor Byron Brown, compliance. ed project to reconfigure the court, “It is a lot of work, but it has to be a ow of Kleinhans Music Hall.And she the city has already launched an ag- In the midst of a national housing helping to make it more of a problem- labor of love. I have an old house – I works for the city’s Law Department as gressive effort to raze 5,000 abandoned meltdown, that special focus on hold- solving institution with the goal of know what it is like.” an assistant corporation counsel under homes in five years. In order to acceler- ing lenders accountable has drawn me- helping stakeholders find the resources Corporation Counsel Alisa A. ate the city’s economic revival, Mayor dia attention, including a recent cover necessary to rescue houses at risk. Her Lukasiewicz ’95, prosecuting cases in Brown is committed to removing story in Business Week magazine. dissertation in UB’s Sociology Depart- UB LAW FORUM • FALL 2008 18 Alumni Profiles 19

federal program to attract the best and brightest to government UB Law service has chosen its 2008 group of Presidential Management Fellows – and six are new UB Law graduates. Only four schools nationwide had more law students win the graduates prestigious fellowships.Lisa M.Patterson,associate dean for career services,said the achievement reflects students’broader awareness of the program’s extraordinary opportunities.From a single Presiden- tialA Management Fellow in 2006,the ranks grew to four in 2007,and to six in the chosen for current class. “This is a great opportunity,but not everyone is keyed into it,”Patterson says. prestigious “One of the drawbacks has always been that the PMF program is not geared toward lawyers specifically.The Department of Justice,the Securities and Exchange Commission and other agencies have Presidential their own programs for law graduates. And especially with our concentrations gree.“Public health is an interdiscipli- here,lot of times students will have an nary degree that gives you a back- Management idea of the government agency they ground in biostatistics,epidemiology, want to work for.But this program is a health care policy and health care fi- very good foot in the door to the federal nancing,”he says.“It gives you the glob- Fellowships system.” al picture of the various factors that go Because the program is open to into crafting an equitable and appropri- ••• students in all disciplines – not just ate health care policy.” lawyers – Patterson says the work is ••• In good company less specifically oriented to legal prac- In her Presidential Management Top five universities in tice.“You might come in as a policy Fellowship, EMILY CONLEY will be en- analyst or some other title,”she says, trusted with responsibility rarely given Presidential Management “but just because you are not called an to freshly minted lawyers:As part of the Fellowships for law students, attorney does not mean you are not Asylum and Refugee Division of the Among the recipients of Presidential 2008 doing legal work.” Office of Citizenship and Immigration emotions will run high. and politics in general; I was a political Management Fellowships: Daniel J. Of the six,five – Harold Babcock- Services,she will serve as an adjudicator, “My suspicion is that at first it is go- science major as an undergraduate.And Christiansen ’08, Emily G. Conley ’08 and • Harvard University Ellis,Dan Christiansen,Emily Conley, hearing up to four asylum cases daily ing to be hard to say no,”Conley says. I have just finished the New York City Harold T.Babcock-Ellis ’08. Glenn Howard and Brian McCarthy – and writing decisions on those peti- “There will always be things that hurt program in finance,so that was really • Georgetown University have chosen to accept the fellowship tions. your heart and things that you wish you valuable experience.” • University of Maryland and enter government service. “I was interested in working for the could make work.But through my Law ••• • College of William & Mary ••• government when I graduated,”Conley School training,I know that everybody For HAROLD BABCOCK-ELLIS, • University at Buffalo BRIAN MCCARTHY says his post- says.“I knew I did not want to work for does not have a legal claim. the fellowship will lead him to the Space ing to the Office of Clinical Affairs,part a law firm and do anything too tradi- “Having a legal background gives and Missile Systems Center,a division of of the Department of Veterans Affairs,is tional.This was just a really good way to you the ability to rationalize and see the Air Force.There he will negotiate a perfect fit for his dual degree in law get into government work. things from both sides and understand construction contracts for equipment and public health.He will analyze the “And I wanted to do something that head over heart sometimes.” like satellites. health care that the VA provides and ad- would let me travel internationally.I ••• “The federal government,with rare vocate for public policy that enables was not really interested in litigation or DAN CHRISTIANSEN will join the exceptions,does not hire students right better care. anything formal.I wanted to be more Department of Education,evaluating out of law school,”Babcock-Ellis says.“I “I am very excited about it,”Mc- on the policy end of it.This program how well learning institutions imple- will not actually be a practicing attorney Carthy says.“I like to deal with policy as seems like a good investment in the ment federal educational grants.The for this,but it is a two-year program,and it is implemented,to create a continu- long run in myself and my career.” work,he says,has elements of compli- I can stay on there or transfer to an at- um of care within the veterans system. She will undergo rigorous training ance,finance and law practice. torney position in the federal govern- My office is the national office that over- before she starts hearing cases.Even so, “I always wanted to work for the gov- ment. sees everything.” she recognizes that she will hold in her ernment anyway,so it was something I “I consider this public service.I defi- The position calls on many of the hands the fate of would-be immigrants was interested in,”Christiansen says.“I nitely want to give something back.” skills he learned in earning his dual de- to the United States,and she knows that have always been interested in policy UB LAW FORUM • FALL 2008 20 Law School Report 21 Bright path ahead

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LAW SCHOOL OFFSHORE REPORT “New York’s Great URGES WIND Lakes offer the TURBINES IN LAKES ERIE potential for clean, AND ONTARIO renewable energy, as WIND well as an opportunity to develop a new POWER industry for the 21st century.” — Robert S. Berger, ew York State should take advantage of a golden UB Law School opportunity to become a leader in developing clean, professor renewable offshore wind power, an alternative energy source that could trigger an economic renaissance and a greener N image for the Western New York community, according to a report by a University at Buffalo Law School clinic. The report, prepared by the school’s Environment and Development Clinic, proposes a strategy that would capitalize on what its co-authors call “enormous”potential to harness offshore wind power. Continued on page 24 UB LAW FORUM • FALL 2008 22 Law School Report 23

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The report outlines a blueprint for developing clean, But it is unequivocal in its urgency to look at the energy and economic op- ‘The Greener renewable wind power from turbines located in Lakes portunities as soon as possible.The re- Erie and Ontario in a prudent, efficient way that would port also designates two agencies – New Shade of York State Energy and Research Devel- benefit the public and individual communities. The opment Authority and New York State Blue’ Power Authority – as the groups that strategy would create a demand for wind-power energy, should implement the policies.The re- mong American colleges port also recommends the Wind Action Aand universities, the Uni- as well as large-scale manufacturing of wind power Group,a local wind power organization versity at Buffalo is recognized turbines and components in Western New York. that asked UB to prepare the report, as a leader in reducing energy should act as an educator and advocate costs through conservation to move this plan forward. measures and in promoting al- “We are excited about the idea of ternative energy sources. “New York’s Great Lakes offer the “we’re advocating a coordinated, fostering a community-based discus- In 2007, the University potential for clean, renewable ener- comprehensive process that will al- sion of how we as a region and state can highlighted and celebrated its gy, as well as an opportunity to de- low all interested groups – citizens, make the most of this natural resource,” environmental commitment velop a new industry for the 21st environmental groups, fishermen – says Robert Knoer,chairman of the in a semester-long observance, century,”says Robert S. Berger, UB to come together to develop the best Wind Action Group,“all in harmony “The Greener Shade of Blue.” Law School professor and director environmental and civic plan.” Professor Robert S.Berger, second from with all of our other goals as a state and During the semester, President of the clinic. The report does not recommend left, with New York State Senator shore wind power.Quebec,for exam- region.” John B. Simpson committed “Western New York’s proximity how many or where the wind tur- Antoine Thompson, Dwight Kanyuck, ple,expects to attract more than $4 bil- There currently are no offshore UB to continuing its leader- to the Great Lakes,”the report states, bines should be built. Instead it an environmental attorney with lion in investment and generate 1,500 wind facilities operating in the United ship role in fighting global “provides an opportunity to again points out the vast energy potential The Knoer Group, and William Nowak, full-time jobs,with significant expan- States.Offshore projects are generating warming by signing the Amer- become a leader in the generation of of an industry just beginning to a 2008 alumnus of UB Law, at a news sion possible,according to the authors. about 1,000 megawatts of power in Eu- ican College and University clean, renewable energy as an engine have an impact on the state’s energy conference releasing the report. rope,according to the UB team. Presidents Climate Commit- for regional economic development needs. he report stops short of spe- The UB report also urges the state to ment to achieve “climate neu- and to leverage the region’s technol- Berger and UB clinic student That’s more than 400 times the ca- cific recommendations on provide financial incentives and power trality.” ogy and manufacturing infrastruc- Dwight Kanyuck, co-authors of the pacity of the eight turbines operat- how many or where the tur- purchase agreements to encourage the As part of developing a ture to further an economic renais- report, said a similar number of new ing at Steel Winds, enough power to bines should be built.And it appropriate development of the state’s comprehensive physical plan sance centered on alternative energy turbines anchored in the water meet the annual needs of about stresses the environmental Great Lakes wind power. “We are sug- to guide the growth of its and a reputation as a clean, livable could produce several times the 360,000 homes, using the existing implications,includingT migratory bird gesting that there actually be a require- North, South and Downtown community.” power generated by the eight tur- scale of demand. paths,recreation and fishing,of build- ment for local content that the state campuses in conjunction with Berger said the opportunity and bines now operating at the Steel “Eighty-two hundred megawatts ing these wind turbines in the water. puts in its purchase agreement that the UB 2020 strategic plan, UB interest to build these wind turbines Winds farm located on the former would be equivalent to adding the “The need for a full discussion of would then jump-start a wind turbine has created a Committee on in Lakes Erie and Ontario already site of Bethlehem Steel in Lackawan- renewable energy capacity of more these issues is particularly important manufacturing plant with the associat- Environmental Stewardship, exist, and stressed others will take na. The eight turbines of Steel than three power plants the size of because wind turbines would be placed ed component parts,”Berger says. underscoring the fact that en- advantage of that opportunity Winds are rated at 20 megawatts of the Robert Moses Niagara Hydro- in bodies of fresh water that are sources vironmental stewardship is a 1 whether New York develops a coor- power – 2 ⁄2 megawatts each – electric Plant,”according to the re- of drinking water for millions of peo- University-wide responsibility dinated plan or not. But his report which supply annual power for port. ple,”the report states. and effort. suggests a comprehensive strategy in about 9,000 homes, according to the “This level of development which New York can systematically UB Law team. If more turbines are would significantly offset the green- determine how and where to put built, the capacity to produce power house gas, sulfur dioxide, nitrogen Creating a Public Plan for New York’s Great Lakes Offshore Wind Power wind turbines in Lakes Erie and On- increases proportionally. oxide and mercury emissions asso- tario for the greater good of the Even if only 10 percent of the ciated with coal power generation A Strategy for Energy and Economic Development community and its residents. wind power potential for Lakes Erie and provide a stably priced supply of • Executive Summary “Rather than have the uncoordi- and Ontario was used, about 8,200 energy for years to come.” law.buffalo.edu/forum/fall08/windPower08.asp nated process where private devel- megawatts of electricity could be The report also stresses the eco- opers just try to place them in what- harnessed for private and commer- nomic development opportunities • Full Report on Social Science Research Network ever way they decide,”Berger says, cial use, according to Kanyuck. for communities that embrace off- law.buffalo.edu/forum/fall08/windPowerReport08.asp UB LAW FORUM • FALL 2008 24 Law School Report 25

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The students are the ones with the most to gain, Miller says. They’re seeing how the effects of the laws they’re studying in class play out in the lives of real people with real stories. In this case, the men are serving long sentences, many of them for murder. Legal studies for these students become flesh and blood. BEHIND And the inmates, who most people assume would welcome the chance to occupy their ample time explaining their plight to eager young law students, are the ones willing to help, at their own peril. “One of the things we’re trying to do in this documentary is to show that the law students are THE learning a great deal from the encounter, and for the inmates, it is risky for them to participate,”says Miller.“Other inmates hear they are participating in something like this, and they assume they are doing something with the administration, assume they are snitches or moles, and that is a dangerous label to carry in prison.” WALLS And word travels fast in the LAW SCHOOL DOCUMENTARY highly routinized world of Attica, Miller says. If one inmate wants to CHRONICLES MEETINGS WITH send a harsh or violent message to another for something like participating in a prison documentary, the ATTICA INMATES attacker often can get to his victim. ERESA MILLER, a professor in the University at Buffalo Law “Easily,”says Miller.“It turns out the inmates are not the lucky ones.” School specializing in criminal punishment, knows all too well the That’s the dramatic setting of stereotypes of law students visiting prisons. People naturally Encountering Attica, which shows how inmates convicted of the same assume the students are the unselfish ones, and the inmates – who crime often are treated differently have little to lose and time to waste – get all of the benefits. and receive different sentences. The documentary is part of the ongo- Encountering Attica, a documentary film that chronicles a year of ing effort of the law school’s Pro- meetings between a group of first-year UB law students and jecting Law Project to demonstrate Continued on page 28 inmates from the Attica Correctional Facility, stands that stereotype FROM TOP TO BOTTOM: on its head. Officer Hulse surveys the prison from atop the wall that surrounds it. Siana McLean and Teresa Miller wait patiently for the bars at the front gate to open. T Inmate Matt Lemon and 1Ls Lissette Ruotolo and Siana McLean listen intently to the discussion. UB LAW FORUM • FALL 2008 26 Law School Report 27

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how new media can be used to study legal issues. “It is easy to make a judgment when you are reading about a case in a textbook or a news story,”says Siana “One of the reasons it is so important McLean, a ﬁrst-year law student from to do this project and study what is going Toronto and one of three UB Law stu- on in prison is because prisons have an in- dents actually going behind the bars creasingly profound effect on every layer into Attica.“When you actually hear a of society as we rely more heavily on person telling his story, it can change them; we put so many people away. your perspective. “So when people come out after hav- “This is not to take away blame,” ing lived 15 or 20 or 30 years behind bars, says McLean,“but to actually see the or just having a whole population of effects of circumstances like growing young men that do short terms, but keep up in poverty and preconceived no- cycling in and out of jail, those institutions that go along with race.As a per- tions are forming the society we will have son of color, I look at it as more of a in the near future, the world my kids are reason to be in law school.” going to grow up in.” Tim Gera, a UB graduate student in preading the word has always media studies and the videographer for been a big part of Miller’s the project, notes:“The only time we work, and Encountering Atti- think of inmates in a positive light is in ca is a prime example. She the movies when it’s Tim Robbins and hopes to obtain permission Morgan Freeman. The big surprise is to Sfor another digital video project next go in there and connect with them so eas- year that would look behind the walls ily. There was not as much difference be- of Albion Correctional Facility, a tween us and them as you would have be- prison in Orleans County that houses lieved.” only women. The crew making Encountering At- tica showed early takes to other Law School students, and Miller took part in an assembly at Bennett High School during which she showed parts of the documentary-in-progress to students in the Law Magnet pro- Encountering Attica gram. Interview with Inmate Matthew Lemon “The students asked very practical www.youtube.com/watch?v=jwWegWyhrv0 questions,”Miller says.“They were not completely unfamiliar with the “Encountering Attica” Orientation prison system.” www.youtube.com/watch?v=BsV8yWdvuEs Which, for Miller, is exactly the point of doing the project. “The more people are put away for long, long periods of time with no thought to what they are going to be like when they get out, the more we harm the society they are released to,” she says. Inmate Matt Lemon shares some of his life experiences The three law students and Inmate Thomas Gant converses with law students Lissette with the students. ﬁve inmates participating in Ruotolo and Siana McLean in an informal moment. the documentary are pensive as they view a rough cut of “Encountering Attica.” UB LAW FORUM • FALL 2008 28 Law School Report 29

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“We know that pro bono provides knowledge that we are part of a greater service,she said,is the coming of the lawyers with their most tangible per- whole,and through service each of us baby boomers’retirement.Over sonal and professional benefits.It offers becomes better,stronger and more 400,000 lawyers will retire in the next 10 a way to feel like they are making a dif- valuable to the world we live in,I think to 15 years,she said,and like the rest of THE PRICE OF FREE ference,and to express the values that we are at our highest and best use,”she their generation,“they are redefining sent them to law school in the first in- said.“Whether we are lawyers or judges, retirement,and it is changing from a stance.” scholars or students,whether we prose- time of leisure to a time of vigor and With such service,she said,comes cute or defend,draft legislation or help continuing involvement.” LEGAL SERVICE increased contacts and visibility for the our clients comply with a raft of diffi- If each of those new retirees gave 50 attorney.And there are other benefits: hours a year to pro bono and volunteer junior attorneys gain experience; attor- Karen Mathis work,she said,“we would have a 2 mil- neys facing retirement may continue to lion hour resource.If each gave 80 contribute on a less demanding sched- hours,we would have nearly 3 million ule by doing pro bono work; such work hours every year.This is a new alterna- enhances the reputation of the profes- tive energy source to power our com- sion as a whole; and it increases morale munities and serve our citizens.” within law firms.“Everyone feels they Mathis acknowledged that many re- touched a life,”Rhode said,“and no of- tired attorneys perceive barriers to do- fice picnics or parties can match that.” ing pro bono work,but she said none of But what would seem to be a win- those barriers is a deal-breaker.For ex- win situation – the public benefits from ample: free legal advice,and the attorneys who “I no longer carry malpractice in- provide it feel good and help their ca- surance.”Pro bono programs,she said, Professor reers – can be tainted in the execution, generally carry such insurance for their Deborah Rhode said. Kenneth A. volunteers. Rhode of Manning ’77 “I no longer have office space and Stanford Law unior lawyers may provide poor- administrative help.”Many firms, School gave the keynote quality representation,she said, Mathis said,will allow retirees to con- address. and law firm associates may find tinue to use office space,equipment themselves working for the part- and secretarial help for pro bono work. Jners’favorite causes and organi- “Low-income people don’t need my truth that often goes unspoken when zations.She cited one associate who area of specialization.”Retired lawyers Baldy conference examines lawyers provide pro bono service:“In spent much of his pro bono time draft- can be trained to do applicable work, practice it has never been only about ing letters to the Internal Revenue Ser- and can also leverage their experience the promise and pitfalls what is good for the public,but about vice on behalf of the church that a se- by mentoring other lawyers to do pro what is good for lawyers in order to en- nior partner attended.Most impor- bono service. of pro bono programs hance their practice and reputation.” tantly,Rhode said,firms often lack a “I do not want to keep a regular Part of the challenge,she said,is strategic focus in their pro bono work. schedule.”“Pro bono work can general- measuring pro bono work done by “Most firms are strikingly unbusi- Hon. Rose ly accommodate an irregular schedule,” long with the speakers,the location sent a message at an April 24 lawyers.“We do not really know what it nesslike in the way they structure their H. Sconiers Mathis said,and legal work can be di- event kicking off a Baldy Center conference on “Private Lawyers in is or how much there is,”she said.Only program,”she said.“The result is ’73 vided into discrete tasks including brief the Public Interest: The Evolving Role of Pro Bono in the Legal Pro- five states require lawyers to report their missed opportunities for both the pro- advice and counsel,mentoring,legisla- fession.” pro bono work,she said,“and many at- fession and the public. tive advocacy,co-counsel arrangements The event,held in downtown Buffalo’s Main-Seneca Building, torneys take considerable liberties in Seldom do they even attempt to and drafting briefs. Aopened a two-day conference that explored developments in pro bono work and how it is defined.” monitor the satisfaction of their clients “I have relocated and do not have the opportunities and limitations of pro bono in expanding access to the justice As it is,she said,attorneys broadly or the success of public initiatives.”Such the proper license.”Twenty-five states system.Then-Baldy Center Director Lynn Mather said the downtown site was average about 30 minutes weekly of pro lax oversight,she said,leads to a lack of and the District of Columbia,Mathis chosen in order to build the Law School’s ties to the Buffalo legal community and bono work,“and much of that does not accountability for the consequences of said,have created emeritus rules,giving make it accessible to practicing lawyers. go to serve low-income clients.”Only pro bono work. senior lawyers limited admission to the two-fifths of lawyers at the nation’s 200 The conference continued the next bar,or an exemption from the require- “This is the first conference in my ology and an expert on the legal profes- most profitable firms contribute at least day in O’Brian Hall at the Law School, ment of admission,for the purpose of six years as director in which we have sion,laid out the challenge of the gath- 20 hours a year to pro bono work, with panel discussions on pro bono in cult laws,we serve the legal system and pro bono work. partnered with the legal profession,” ering when he said,“Pro bono often ex- Rhode said. the context of law practice; law schools’ through it our country.Through our As a resource,Mathis pointed to the Mather told the audience in the marble presses what is most admirable in the Working for free does touch many relationship with pro bono work; pro training and our work,we do serve oth- ABA’s “Second Season of Service”cam- lobby of the former bank building. profession.But a broader commitment attorneys’charitable impulses,she said. bono as a tool for social change; and ers.We serve because it is in our nature paign,launched in 2006.A Web site, “There are two complementary aspects to pro bono often is more theoretical “Pure selflessness is an impossible ide- pro bono in the life of the legal profes- to serve.” www.secondseasonofservice.com, to this conference: the theoretical/acad- than actual.” al,”Rhode said,“but some measure of sion.Attendees also heard from The profession,she said,has made maintains a database of volunteer and emic,and a real engagement with the Introduced by Hon.Rose H. altruism is what makes the pro bono keynote speaker Karen Mathis,imme- some strides toward providing such pro bono opportunities. community.We want to be working Sconiers ’73 of the New York State tradition so valuable to maintain.Cer- diate past president of the American service,to address the “justice gap”be- Robert Granfield and Lynn Mather with judges and private lawyers to ask, Supreme Court,8th Judicial District, tainly part of what individuals find re- Bar Association.Mathis made encour- tween rich and poor.“But despite our are now editing the 15 papers presented how can we really make a difference?” the keynote speaker was Deborah warding in volunteer work is that they aging pro bono work a cornerstone of best efforts,”Mathis said,“what is hap- at the conference and have a contract Conference organizer Robert Gran- Rhode of Stanford Law School. are putting private morals into action to her ABA term. pening now is not enough.” with Oxford University Press to publish field,chair of UB’s Department of Soci- Rhode began by acknowledging a serve a societal objective. “When lawyers serve,when we ac- A likely source of more pro bono the volume in 2009. 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wo UB Law professors have taken steps to make the school a world-renowned center for confronting what Law School they call the epidemic of domestic violence crimes, locally and internationally. The professors, Isabel S.Marcus and Suzanne E.Tomkins, network have used their teaching positions to coordinate a network of domestic vio- Tlence advocacy that reaches from the classrooms of UB’s O’Brian Hall to at combats least two other continents. “Our work and They have organized a network all believe you do not take the struc- advocacy are from within the Law School of professors ture from the top and then say,‘How domestic who share their passion for training does everybody fit in?’” the ground up. We’re professionals to address domestic The informal group is called all grass-roots people, violence abuse, cultivate advocacy for victims, “Domestic Violence: Different Voic- improve the legal system’s response es.”Marcus and Tomkins said it is an so we all believe you to domestic violence and support re- extension of an overlapping domes- search on related subjects, such as tic violence advocacy network – at do not take the worldwide women prisoners returning to soci- UB, in Western New York and at the ety. national and international levels. structure from the “The issue of domestic violence is “We’re growing our program at a very compelling one, and it has in- the Law School to include not only top and then say, ternational as well as national and lo- more U.S. lawyers, but also young at- ‘How does everybody cal dimensions,”says Marcus, who torneys from around the world in- previously chaired UB’s Department terested in violence-against-women fit in?’ ” of Women’s Studies and recently was issues.We work with our colleagues named director of international pro- from other countries and share — Professor grams at the Law School.“If you start ideas. In that process, our law stu- thinking about it as a framing cate- dents are exposed to issues and solu- Isabel S. Marcus gory for work and for thinking about tions from other parts of the world,” the world, then you can find people says Tomkins, who directs UB Law’s who suddenly say,‘That is a topic I Women, Children and Social Justice should include in my studies.’ Clinic. “Our work and advocacy are “What we hope to accomplish from the ground up,”she adds. “We’re all grass-roots people, so we Continued on page 34 Veer Inc. UB LAW FORUM • FALL 2008 32 Law School Report 33

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eventually is to build a network made My experience up of attorneys in the public sector and in the nongovernmental organization at UB Law School sector who then use their knowledge and skills in creating an effective re- By Maia Jaliashvili sponse to domestic violence in other parts of the world.” am a lawyer working for a human rights watchdog organization – the Georgian Young he list of related activities ILawyers’Association in Tbilisi, Georgia. In an organized by UB Law international competition I was awarded a School professors includes: domestic violence fellowship to spend four • The Women, Children and months at UB to expand my legal theoretical Social Justice Clinic. Stu- knowledge about domestic violence through Tdents work in legal service agencies, so- participation in the UB Law School Family cial service agencies, and prosecutor or Violence Clinic and to apply that knowledge back legislative offices, and participate in a in Georgia. The work done in the clinic is priceless, be- range of legal counseling, advocacy At UB Law, I took classes in domestic violence cause there is a unique way of presenting your ex- UB Law’s involvement in the fight against domestic violence continues as the school and research. The clinic also serves as a welcomes two Domestic Violence International Scholars for the fall semester. Khalisa and in U.S. family law with widely recognized fac- perience, sharing it with others and then dis- resource throughout New York, help- Shahverdiyeva, right, is a lawyer in Baku,Azerbaijan, and the founder of the Azerbaijan ulty experts in these fields in the United States. cussing it in class that makes it so significant. ing communities to create a coordinat- Women’s Bar Association. Dorota Trypens is a law student in her final year at the With the help of this qualified staff, I was given the With the help of the remarkable staff of the ed response to domestic violence. University of Warsaw (Poland) Faculty of Law. She works with the Center for Women’s chance to participate in the DV clinic, which was a DV clinic, I also had an opportunity to participate • The Domestic Violence Task Rights, where she specializes in domestic violence. great way to gain valuable practical experience. in DV activities around the state, attending meet- Force, a volunteer organization open to The clinic let me understand the problem as part ings and conferences to talk in person with well- UB Law students.Among the task of the whole system and learn ways of dealing known experts in this field. The whole program force’s activities is an annual spa day for tions, to the slums, and met with peo- and the first in the Caucasus region. with it from different perspectives. was organized in such an effective way that I residents and clients of Haven House, a ple from the community. Everywhere I Shortly after her arrival, she was asked For people like me, coming from developing learned everything about DV in just four months. shelter for targets of domestic violence went, people would be lined up to tell to assist the prosecutor in representing countries that adopted DV law only a couple of I think this fellowship is a unique opportunity in Erie County. me their stories or ask me whether I a Peace Corps volunteer in Georgia years ago, this type of education is not only im- for a lawyer, and I am fortunate to have this op- • Development of a new eight-week was aware of how many women who who alleged that she was raped. pressive, but priceless. In my country, all the portunity. Maybe after I set up this kind of DV certificate program for international were victims of domestic violence were “Rape and domestic violence are lawyers working in this field are self-educated. clinic in my country, I will feel more comfortable prosecutors. Participants will take UB killed in a particular area. It was clear to very subversive topics in patriarchal so- This clinic experience is the perfect way to inte- having finally achieved the primary goal of this courses on domestic violence, as well as me that the country is poised to create cieties like Georgia because they chal- grate domestic violence issues in legal education fellowship. meet with local professionals dealing significant change in its response to do- lenge the way in which the state han- and raise the awareness of new generations about with domestic violence issues. Creation mestic violence.” dles the most common forms of crime these issues.And this type of clinic makes a huge Editor’s note: The late-summer conflict be- of the program follows the yearlong • Marcus has lectured extensively at against women – by ignoring, dismiss- change in the development of civil society and tween Russia and the Republic of Georgia has added studies of Brazilian prosecutor Eduar- Eastern European universities and has ing or minimizing them,”Marcus says. shaping its way of thinking. a level of uncertainty to Jaliashvili’s plans to open a do Machado, who came to UB last year worked with nongovernmental orga- This year, Marcus is asking her col- As a visiting scholar, I had the opportunity not domestic violence clinic in Georgia. Professors Isabel to study strategies to increase the effec- nizations in that region. She estab- leagues at UB to contribute money to only to attend classes, but also to observe the whole Marcus and Suzanne Tomkins have offered their as- tiveness of a recently adopted domestic lished an International Visiting Scholar bring three women’s rights lawyers domestic violence intervention system in Buffalo sistance if needed. violence law in Brazil. award for a women’s rights lawyer who work with nongovernmental or- and see how it works. To connect theory with prac- • Tomkins traveled to Brazil in Feb- from the region, taking a salary reduc- ganizations to the Law School as visit- tice, I also intensively observed the work of various ruary for a series of presentations on tion to help pay for the scholar to study ing scholars. They are from Azerbaijan officials and professionals in the family violence in- domestic violence.An expected audi- domestic violence issues at the UB Law and Poland. tervention system in Buffalo and Erie County. I ence of several hundred people grew to School. The lawyer, Maia Jaliashvili, 24, “When you bring people together,” have had access to social workers concerned with 2,000, including legal professionals, law from the former Soviet republic of says Marcus,“the vision expands family violence as well as to judges and other per- enforcement officials, medical Georgia, was “absolutely exceptional,” exponentially.” sonnel at the innovative Erie County Family Jus- providers, law faculty, students and Marcus says. Upon her return to Geor- “We really don’t let anything stop tice Center and the Integrated Domestic Violence people from the community.“The re- gia, Jaliashvili began planning a domes- us,”adds Tomkins.“This has all been Court. I also had a chance to visit a DV shelter in sponse was overwhelming,”Tomkins tic violence clinic in a law faculty in her built by sheer determination.” Buffalo, and I was very impressed with it. says.“I went to the women’s police sta- country. 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“Our purpose Dennis R. Thomas E. McCoy ’77 Black Jr. ’79 is to provide our advice to and Brian D. the dean on issues that the Baird ’83 dean feels are important. The agenda for DAC meetings is set in conversation between the chair and the dean.” – Thomas E. Black Jr. ’79, DAC chairman

Mary Joanne Dowd ’80, Joseph W.Belluck ’94 and Dean Makau W.Mutua, Thomas E. Black ’79,Associate Dean James Paul J. Korniczky ’86 and Diane F.Bosse ’76 Kenneth B. Forrest ’76 and Richard S. Paul J.Wessel ’87 R. Newton and Michael C. Banks ’89 Feldman ’76

sition in the controversial annual U.S. We need to focus on the state, on the formula. Some of our graduates News & World Report rankings of the overall University administration get- choose not to work immediately, be- nation’s law schools. ting funds to the Law School; we need cause their debt load provides this A number that matters Despite the somewhat subjective to look at the income we receive from flexibility. This requires that we re- nature of the rankings, he says,“there students; and we need to look to the double our efforts to help the vast ma- is a real-world impact, because that is alumni for assistance. Part of our job jority of our graduates find employ- Dean’s Advisory Council The Dean’s Advisory Council, he the only rating out there. It does affect is to make sure all of that happens.” ment. notes, does two things at once: It en- people’s perception of the school, it • Continuing to recruit and main- “If we can just double our efforts, focuses on our rankings ables Dean Makau Mutua to seek the affects incoming students, it affects tain a top-notch, highly respected fac- we can put those things together,” advice of alumni practitioners on is- students looking for jobs, and it af- ulty.“To do that,”Black says,“we need Black says.“We are starting a process sues such as curriculum, and it pro- fects how the alumni feel about the to have endowed professorships and of communications to make sure that chorus of soloists”is how are lots of opinions. The job of the vides a forum for alumni who have is- Thomas E. Black Jr. ’79 de- chair is to keep them all singing the school.” endowed chairs.”The school currently all of the players are pulling together sues or concerns they want to bring to So for the DAC, he says, it is im- has two endowed professorships but at the same time to make happen. It is scribes the Dean’s Adviso- same song.” the dean’s attention. ry Council, the consulting Black, a recipient this year of the portant that UB Law School rank in no endowed faculty chairs, a position realistic to say that we can be and “Our purpose,”Black says,“is to the top 50 on that list. that requires substantially more fund- should be among the top 50 law board of alumni where Distinguished Alumnus Award from provide our advice to the dean on is- ABlack has served for six years and UB Law School, practices in the area of The Council’s plan to help the ing. schools. The program that we have to- “ sues that the dean feels are important. school toward that achievement, he • Increasing the rate of job place- day delivers real value.” which he will now lead as its chair. regulatory compliance for mortgage The agenda for DAC meetings is set in “There is just so much talent in that companies, with the firm Black, Mann said, comes with three goals: ment for Law School alumni.“The conversation between the chair and • Raising the average LSAT score of school is producing smart and talent- room and so many very impressive & Graham in Flower Mound, Texas.A the dean.”The group meets twice a people,”says Black, who will serve a Buffalo native, he did his undergradu- incoming students.“The applicant ed attorneys.We encouraging our year, once in New York City and once pool we have is very strong,”Black graduates to hire a student or new two-year term.“Because it is a large ate work at the University of Notre in the fall in Buffalo. group, and a diverse group of some of Dame, and now is back at Notre Dame says.“If we could recruit the people at graduate. This is particularly impor- Of necessity, Black says, the cur- the top end, we would do very well. tant given that U.S. News now counts the most successful people who have part time pursuing a master’s degree rent Council is focused on a three- graduated from the Law School, there in business administration. We have not had the financial aid nec- people who are not seeking employ- pronged effort to better UB Law’s po- essary to really entice those students. ment as ‘unemployed’in their ranking UB LAW FORUM • FALL 2008 36 Law School Report 37

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he dream of practicing law David Koehler ’94 in Washington, D.C., came shares his to UB Law School in the insights on spring semester with a first- working in of-its-kind Washington the nation’s TDay event. Sponsored by the Office of capital. Career Services, the event brought students – both those on the cusp of beginning their legal careers and those pondering what specialization they should pursue in Law School – face to face with a wide range of alumni who work in the nation’s capital. In addition to professional advice, the conver- sations ran to such practicalities as housing, transportation and social life. “There is more and more interest from our students in working in Washington,”said James R. Newton, associate dean for national outreach and strategic planning, who organized the program.“And Washington, as the city of government, provides opportunities you cannot find anywhere else.” Michael J. Washington Day included panel Surgalla Jr. ’82, far left; discussions, a closing cocktail recep- Adam tion, and individual mentoring meet- Vodraska ings between students and alumni. ’89, near “The day was intended to give stu- left, with dents an insider’s track on finding a students at job in D.C., to receive mentoring from the forum. those alumni who have had success, and to talk about their potential job Students (left to right) Kirsten A. Lerch ’09, Rachael W.Phelan ’09 and Diane S. search,”Newton said. Meldrim ’09 speak with Judith B. Ittig ’71. Eleven UB Law alumni took part in the event, flying to Buffalo at their own expense. They ranged from govern- The key is to be patient, lay the these alumni said. mitted, work hard, persevere and use to work, and half of them will work attorney with the Federal Trade Com- ment attorneys to private practitioners groundwork, and be ready for that “It is really important to develop a every possible networking opportuni- but not as they were intended to mission; Kristin Koehler ’94, a partner to those who worked for non-profits moment when it happens.” specialty, something you know in ty you have, and you have to start work, and there are going to be in Sidley Austin; Jane Mago ’78, senior or educational institutions. “Give yourself the time to get your greater depth than most of the people now.” lawyers as thick as thieves every five vice president and general counsel for But despite that diversity, their ad- foot in the door,”advised Jane Mago around,”said Judith Ittig ’71.“People n the bright side, feet.We are at the beginning of a huge the National Association of Broad- vice for would-be Washington lawyers ’78.“There are lots of what I call starter will turn to you for that expertise, and though, said Dave lawyer boom.” casters; John Simson ’78, executive di- was remarkably similar: Work hard, careers in Washington. It can be a job Washington is a good place to develop Franasiak ’78:“When The participating alumni were rector of SoundExchange; Mike Sur- network like crazy, and hope for a little on Capitol Hill working in one of the that.” things are bad in the Leslie Darman ’94, an attorney with galla ’82, an attorney with the Depart- luck. congressional offices, or on a commit- Warned Kristin Koehler ’94:“D.C. country,Washington the Environmental Protection ment of Justice; Bari Talente ’97, asso- Said David Koehler ’94:“It can be a tee staff where you learn an area of ex- has more lawyers per capita than any doesO well. The way Washington looks Agency; Dave Franasiak ’78, CFO and ciate vice president for state and local little bit difficult, because Buffalo is not pertise. It can be a job in one of the other city in the United States.We have now, it is going to look different in five senior partner of Williams & Jensen; government relations with the Na- as well-known a commodity in Wash- federal agencies. Interestingly, it can be more than 1,300 percent more lawyers years. It is going to be bigger. The big Suzanne Hill ’01, director of employ- tional MS Society; and Adam Vodras- ington as it is in Western New York. So a job in one of the law firms.” than New York, and New York is the government of Lyndon Johnson is ment and professional development ka ’89, assistant general counsel for in- use your contacts; networking is sim- There are actions newly minted second-highest concentration.As a re- coming back. There are going to be at the University of Maryland Law formation technology with the Gov- ply the idea of opening the door. It lawyers can take to increase their sult, there is tremendous competition programs to solve some of these prob- School; Judith Ittig ’71, partner in Ittig ernment Accountability Office. may not happen at the first instance. chances of finding the right niche, in the workplace.You have to be com- lems, and half of them are not going & Ittig; David Koehler ’94, senior staff UB LAW FORUM • FALL 2008 38 Law School Report 39

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versa.“It is enormously helpful in rep- utational terms for the practitioners to see those students in action,”she says. “Some UB Law alumni speakers bring their colleagues, who almost always walk out saying,‘I was enormously impressed. I had no idea.’” Says Gerard Citera ’80, counsel at Davis, Polk and Wardwell, who sponsored a student team project on the subprime mortgage crisis,“The students did a very good job of analyzing the issues. They became very sophisti- cated in understanding the issues and presenting those issues in a concise and simplified manner.We have done this for three years, and each time the student groups have been very good.” Westbrook says alumni are “the backbone of the program. They help us with advice in terms of topic areas that are hot in the market or of use to Amy Deen Westbrook, director of the New York City program, new lawyers; they help us in terms of and Professor Philip Halpern their expertise; they come and they Ryan MacLean ’08 talk. If these were topic areas we could teach easily in the B Law School’s New Westbrook, who spent time in New classroom in Buffalo, back was phenomenal. They helped practitioners who came in to speak to York City Program in York teaching in their areas of special- we would. In fact, us to get out of our shells.” us. It gave me a sense of what it is real- International Finance ization. they are topic areas “One of the key things that we did ly like to work on these kinds of and Law – “the only • About 60 UB Law alumni, from that it takes a practi- that helped us really pull together as a deals.” The law program of its kind in 2007 grads to longtime practitioners, tioner to explain. cohesive group was to figure out our “I learned more about futures ex- Uthe country,”according to program di- who took part in the program as “This is the only strengths and weaknesses as group changes and futures commission rector Amy Deen Westbrook – com- speakers, project sponsors or student program that is a members,”says Jordan Marks, also merchants than I ever thought I pleted its third year with some impres- mentors, plus about 15 non-alumni mix of practice ex- now entering his third year at UB Law. would,”says Michelle Koledi ’08.“You sive numbers: practitioners. posure and academ- “It is finding that balance within the realize there is a light at the end of the in action • 25 UB Law and JD/MBA students It was the first year the program op- ic academic instruc- group to really work together and tunnel and you can achieve these high who spent the spring semester of 2008 erated independently – in prior years it tion. Nobody else finding out who can lift the next per- levels of practice. In the classroom, studying and learning hands-on about collaborated with SUNY’s Levin Grad- does this.” son up. In our group we had four dy- you do not get the opportunity to ap- New York City the intricacies of world financial mar- uate Institute in New York City and Dominika For the students, namic personalities that really comply the theories you learn to real- kets. with the UB School of Management. Tanianis ’06 one benefit of the plemented each other, and that led to world projects. It really solidified my • Six student teams that, under the “The program certainly has expand- program was the our success as a group.” intent to service clients.” program in guidance of professional sponsors, ed,”Westbrook says,“though there is a chance to practice For others, the chance to learn completed real-world projects on such limit to how far it can expand and still working in teams – the way it is done in some of the technical complexities of finance and law issues as the subprime mortgage crisis, offer the experience we want to offer. the “real world.” international finance and law was the regulation of financial instruments When we take the students to a briefing “There are a lot of strong personali- program’s most rewarding aspect. finishes called derivatives, and the trading of or a site visit at the New York Stock Ex- ties in every group,”says Amit Bhanot, “I learned a great deal from our U.S. futures contracts on foreign exchange, for example, we want them to now a third-year student at UB Law. project,”says Stephanie Seitz ’08, a changes. learn about law and finance in action, “The beauty of this program is that it JD/MBA student.“It is really interest- third year • UB Law Professor Philip Halpern instead of just being a big parade.” forces us to become cohesive teams ing now to be able to turn on the news in residence in New York City for the For the students, she said, one bene- and work together and be able to solve or read the Wall Street Journal and whole semester and seven additional fit of the program is their exposure to complex problems with synergy. know what they are talking about. My UB Law faculty members, including people practicing in the field – and vice “Our professor and sponsor feed- favorite part of the program was the UB LAW FORUM • FALL 2008 42 Law School Report 43 STELLAR STATS Incoming class among the An outstanding hiring record Graduating class of 2007 employment statistics A degree from the University at Geographic Distribution: Last year, over 38% of our new lawyers accepted positions outside of best ever Buffalo Law School is a precursor Western New York in New York City,Washington, D.C., 22 states and four countries. for success in a wide variety of he University at Buffalo Law practice settings. Our graduates are Distribution Within New York State Employment Outside New York State School this semester welcomes practicing in the most prominent one of its most accomplished law firms and public interest set- Buffalo 52% Albany 3.4% and selective classes in its 120- tings across the nation, as well as Syracuse 3.4% DC 13.2% Tyear history,a group of students Law Long Island 4% AL, AK, CT, holding leadership positions in all IL, IA, LA, School Dean Makau W.Mutua called a Other 5.6% International levels of government. Our Research 11.3% MO, NV, RI, “breakthrough”for UB Law and the and Writing program has been SC, VT, foundation on which to make UB one of credited by employers with produc- 1.9% each the finest law schools in the country. ing some of the best-prepared, The school’s Class of 2011 was chosen most highly skilled graduates in the Rochester 15.8% from a national application pool of over CA 7.5% AR, NJ, market today.We pride ourselves on teaching how to think and work like PA, VA, 2,300 applicants,an increase of 52 per- an attorney—right from the start.An employment survey of UB Law’s 3.8% cent from the previous academic year. Class of 2007, conducted less than a year after graduation, showed that 99 each Only 31 percent of the applicants were percent of graduates had found a job or were pursuing advanced degrees. New York & TX 7.5% admitted,for an enrolled class of 222, Starting salaries for UB Law graduates in the Class of 2007 reached a high Boroughs 15.8% making this year’s class one of the most of $160,000. Taking into consideration the practice area, employment lo- GA, MO, highly selective in recent years. cation, and cost of attending UB Law, the return on investment is the best FL 7.5% NC, 5.7% “It is undoubtedly one of our in New York.As a nationally renowned law school, UB Law finds its grad- each strongest classes ever,”according to Mu- uates at major metropolitan areas around the world. Practice Area Breakdown: tua.“It raises our selectivity and places Here is the breakdown of practice areas, as well as details on firm sizes for the graduate in private prac- UB Law in a strong position to improve tice. Note that “Academic”refers to faculty and administrative positions in higher education. In addition to its reputation in the profession,in the le- these charts, we had 11 grads pursuing further graduate degrees. gal academy and among prospective ap- Class of 2007 salaries plicants.” Practice Areas Firm Size Distribution The 222 first-year law students had a These graphs and more are available on the CSO Web site Private Military (JAG) 1.4% Unknown .9% Practice 54.5% median LSAT score of 157,with 25 per- at www.law.buffalo.edu/cso/. Academic 3.8% Very Small Huge (251-500) 2.6% (2-10) 28% Solo 3.5% cent of those accepted scoring 160 or bet- Private Practice Public Interest 4.7% Large (51-100) 6.1% ter.The class earned a median grade- Judicial Clerk 5.7% point average of 3.48; 25 percent of those Firm Size Median High Median High come to UB with a 3.71 GPA or above. 501+ $160,000 $160,000 Business & Industry $58,000 $120,000 Medium (26-50) 9.7% “This is simply a stellar class.Top cre- Corporate 14.7% dentials,fine undergraduate educations, 251-500 $160,000 $160,000 Government $55,000 $81,000 interesting backgrounds,”said James R. 101-250 $85,000 $160,000 Judicial Clerkship $56,000 $67,000 Newton,associate dean for administra- Mega (501+) 13.2% tion.“I would say that this class has it all.” 51-100 $75,000 $87,000 Public Interest $40,000 $56,000 Newton praised the law school’s ad- 26-50 $59,000 $110,000 missions office for a “superb”job and said the credentials of this class presented an 11-25 $51,000 $95,000 Government 15.2% “exciting future for these students and Very Large 2-10 $46,000 $75,000 (101-250) 20.2% Small (11-25) UB’s Law School.”The students come 15.8% from some of the top universities and colleges in the nation,including Duke University,University of California at we have in the legal education market- sional dreams – without having to larly crucial to UB at this point in its de- Admission Berkeley,Vassar,Georgetown University place as SUNY’s only law school,”said mortgage their future.” velopment.“It’s the pivot on which great Class of 2011 Profile and Cornell University. Lillie V.Wiley-Upshaw,vice dean for Wiley-Upshaw also said UB’s Law programs are built,”Mutua said.The in- law.buffalo.edu/forum/fall08/class2011.asp The average age is 24,with 30 percent admissions and financial aid.“Our School has increased its scholarship crease in this year’s class statistics is a sig- over age 25.Twelve percent of the class students made a smart choice.We of- money by 55 percent over the previ- nificant step toward enhancing UB’s ex- CSO holds advanced academic degrees.Six- fer a high-quality legal education at an ous year. cellence and achieving a higher aware- Hire a student teen percent come from out of state,and affordable tuition.They will be sur- Mutua said an accomplished and ness of that status among other academic 48 percent are females. rounded by other exceptional stu- selective law class is central to the aca- institutions throughout the country,he law.buffalo.edu/forum/fall08/hire.asp “The class of 2011 is impressive and dents and will earn a law degree that demic excellence and overall reputa- said. demonstrates the competitive advantage will allow them to fulfill their profes- tion of any law school,and is particu- UB LAW FORUM • FALL 2008 42 Law School Report 43 STELLAR STATS Incoming class among the An outstanding hiring record Graduating class of 2007 employment statistics A degree from the University at Geographic Distribution: Last year, over 38% of our new lawyers accepted positions outside of best ever Buffalo Law School is a precursor Western New York in New York City,Washington, D.C., 22 states and four countries. for success in a wide variety of he University at Buffalo Law practice settings. Our graduates are Distribution Within New York State Employment Outside New York State School this semester welcomes practicing in the most prominent one of its most accomplished law firms and public interest set- Buffalo 52% Albany 3.4% and selective classes in its 120- tings across the nation, as well as Syracuse 3.4% DC 13.2% Tyear history,a group of students Law Long Island 4% AL, AK, CT, holding leadership positions in all IL, IA, LA, School Dean Makau W.Mutua called a Other 5.6% International levels of government. Our Research 11.3% MO, NV, RI, “breakthrough”for UB Law and the and Writing program has been SC, VT, foundation on which to make UB one of credited by employers with produc- 1.9% each the finest law schools in the country. ing some of the best-prepared, The school’s Class of 2011 was chosen most highly skilled graduates in the Rochester 15.8% from a national application pool of over CA 7.5% AR, NJ, market today.We pride ourselves on teaching how to think and work like PA, VA, 2,300 applicants,an increase of 52 per- an attorney—right from the start.An employment survey of UB Law’s 3.8% cent from the previous academic year. Class of 2007, conducted less than a year after graduation, showed that 99 each Only 31 percent of the applicants were percent of graduates had found a job or were pursuing advanced degrees. New York & TX 7.5% admitted,for an enrolled class of 222, Starting salaries for UB Law graduates in the Class of 2007 reached a high Boroughs 15.8% making this year’s class one of the most of $160,000. Taking into consideration the practice area, employment lo- GA, MO, highly selective in recent years. cation, and cost of attending UB Law, the return on investment is the best FL 7.5% NC, 5.7% “It is undoubtedly one of our in New York.As a nationally renowned law school, UB Law finds its grad- each strongest classes ever,”according to Mu- uates at major metropolitan areas around the world. Practice Area Breakdown: tua.“It raises our selectivity and places Here is the breakdown of practice areas, as well as details on firm sizes for the graduate in private prac- UB Law in a strong position to improve tice. Note that “Academic”refers to faculty and administrative positions in higher education. In addition to its reputation in the profession,in the le- these charts, we had 11 grads pursuing further graduate degrees. gal academy and among prospective ap- Class of 2007 salaries plicants.” Practice Areas Firm Size Distribution The 222 first-year law students had a These graphs and more are available on the CSO Web site Private Military (JAG) 1.4% Unknown .9% Practice 54.5% median LSAT score of 157,with 25 per- at www.law.buffalo.edu/cso/. Academic 3.8% Very Small Huge (251-500) 2.6% (2-10) 28% Solo 3.5% cent of those accepted scoring 160 or bet- Private Practice Public Interest 4.7% Large (51-100) 6.1% ter.The class earned a median grade- Judicial Clerk 5.7% point average of 3.48; 25 percent of those Firm Size Median High Median High come to UB with a 3.71 GPA or above. 501+ $160,000 $160,000 Business & Industry $58,000 $120,000 Medium (26-50) 9.7% “This is simply a stellar class.Top cre- Corporate 14.7% dentials,fine undergraduate educations, 251-500 $160,000 $160,000 Government $55,000 $81,000 interesting backgrounds,”said James R. 101-250 $85,000 $160,000 Judicial Clerkship $56,000 $67,000 Newton,associate dean for administra- Mega (501+) 13.2% tion.“I would say that this class has it all.” 51-100 $75,000 $87,000 Public Interest $40,000 $56,000 Newton praised the law school’s ad- 26-50 $59,000 $110,000 missions office for a “superb”job and said the credentials of this class presented an 11-25 $51,000 $95,000 Government 15.2% “exciting future for these students and Very Large 2-10 $46,000 $75,000 (101-250) 20.2% Small (11-25) UB’s Law School.”The students come 15.8% from some of the top universities and colleges in the nation,including Duke University,University of California at we have in the legal education market- sional dreams – without having to larly crucial to UB at this point in its de- Admission Berkeley,Vassar,Georgetown University place as SUNY’s only law school,”said mortgage their future.” velopment.“It’s the pivot on which great Class of 2011 Profile and Cornell University. Lillie V.Wiley-Upshaw,vice dean for Wiley-Upshaw also said UB’s Law programs are built,”Mutua said.The in- law.buffalo.edu/forum/fall08/class2011.asp The average age is 24,with 30 percent admissions and financial aid.“Our School has increased its scholarship crease in this year’s class statistics is a sig- over age 25.Twelve percent of the class students made a smart choice.We of- money by 55 percent over the previ- nificant step toward enhancing UB’s ex- CSO holds advanced academic degrees.Six- fer a high-quality legal education at an ous year. cellence and achieving a higher aware- Hire a student teen percent come from out of state,and affordable tuition.They will be sur- Mutua said an accomplished and ness of that status among other academic 48 percent are females. rounded by other exceptional stu- selective law class is central to the aca- institutions throughout the country,he law.buffalo.edu/forum/fall08/hire.asp “The class of 2011 is impressive and dents and will earn a law degree that demic excellence and overall reputa- said. demonstrates the competitive advantage will allow them to fulfill their profes- tion of any law school,and is particu- UB LAW FORUM • FALL 2008 44 Law School Report 45

“Law is a great engine for the enhancement of autonomy and life plans, and a defense against harassment and exploitation.” — Robert W.Gordon, the Chancellor Kent Professor of Law and Legal History at Yale Law School

Michelle M. Schwach ’08 and Christina S. Kim ’08 hallenge, celebration and congratulations were the order of the day at UB Law School’s 119th Com- mencement, held May 17 Cin the Center for the Arts. Degrees ing greetings from the faculty as well were awarded to 237 J.D. candidates as the University administration, and 18 master of laws candidates. urged the graduates to “join the grow- Professor Makau W.Mutua, just ing ranks of Buffalo Believers”and ad- named as the Law School’s perma- vocate for the University’s wide-rang- nent dean, issued the first challenge to ing expansion plan.“The ambitious the newly minted lawyers amassed in UB 2020 goal of securing UB’s place the auditorium.“From today on- as one of the great public research ward,”he said,“you will be forever universities of the 21st century is in- known for your identity as a lawyer. terdependent with the excellence and Today begins the rest of your life, and premier status of its law alumni,”she today you must begin to contemplate said.“UB Law is the law school of the THE in real terms the meaning of the state of New York, and we all must phrase ‘the rule of law.’Whether as a work together to ensure that it has the judge, prosecutor, plaintiff’s attorney, criminal defense lawyer, public interest lawyer, policymaker or legal schol- NEXT ar, you will constantly have to ask yourself the meaning of the rule of law. “Does it mean the peaceful settle- FIRST ment of disputes? If so, why do we still have the death penalty? “Does it mean that we must reha- bilitate those who have offended the rules of civilization so that they can STEP become better human beings? If so, why do we have a violent prison culture that destroys instead of reform- Lucinda M. Finley, vice provost for faculty Yale legal affairs and Frank G. Raichle Professor of ing? Trial and Appellate Advocacy, conferred the “Does it mean the least among us degrees. of an iconic and fundamental system sion. It feels, what I believe to be the From left: Professor Susan V. historian urges deserves to be heard in a court of law? of the United States. It was lawyers truth, that of all secular professions Mangold, Dean Makau W.Mutua If so, why are so many unable to get who created this country and lawyers this has the highest standards.” and Professor Elizabeth B. Mensch resources and commitments, includ- ’78 graduates to justice? ing those from the state, necessary for who continue to run it today.We will The keynote address was given by “Does it mean equal justice under it to flourish in that status.” hold someone’s freedom, children, Robert W.Gordon, the Chancellor confront law? If so, why are the poor and the After a welcome by UB Law Alum- money, marriage or property in our Kent Professor of Law and Legal His- unpopular treated differently?” ni Association President Margaret P. hands. The one thing we can hold tory at Yale Law School. Gordon, a ethical issues Professor Lucinda M. Finley, bear- Gryko ’77, the student address was onto as we take this plunge into es- former newspaper reporter turned le- given by graduating student Katie E. quiredom is that UB has given us gal historian, began his teaching ca- Woodruff. everything we need to practice. reer at UB Law School, where he “This has been a life-altering expe- “When we take that oath to up- Continued on page 48 hold the laws of the U.S. Constitu- rience. For better or for worse, we are tion,”she said,“we are becoming part forever changed.” She concluded with a quote from Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.:“The world has its fling at lawyers sometimes, but its very denial is an admis- UB LAW FORUM • FALL 2008 44 Law School Report 45

JaclynA. can Bar Association/Bureau of National of Barristers,a national honor • James E.Lonano of Staten Is- Patrignani and Minara Affairs Award for Excellence in the society for oralists. land. Uddin ’08 Study of Labor and Employment Law. • Thomas M.Zambito of East • Erin A.Tubbs of Buffalo. • Dwight E.Kanyuck of Rochester,the Amherst,the Albert R.Mugel • Elliott J.Veloso of Silver Creek. Birzon Prize in Clinical Legal Studies. Award for future interests and • Brian Wisniewski of Lancaster. • Christopher N.Ollinick of Buffalo, estate planning. Graduating seniors who par- the Charles Dautch Award for real • Gregory P.Stein of Buffalo,the ticipated in UB Law’s Hurricane property. Robert J.Connelly Trial Tech- Katrina Service Project were • Elizabeth Pascal of Clarence,the Pro- nique Award.Stein also was recognized with Law Faculty fessor Louis DelCotto Award for taxa- elected a member of the Order Awards.The students studied tion. of Barristers,a national honor the specific events surrounding • Kathleen S.Weber of Cheektowaga, society for oralists. Hurricane Katrina; legal issues the Professor Louis DelCotto Award for • Jennifer C.Jones of Fort in disaster preparedness,disaster taxation and the Justice M.Dolores Wayne,Ind.,the Ryan J.Mullins Linwood Roberts Jr. ’08 and daughter Sasha Lynn response and disaster relief; and Denman scholarship/award for a cus- Award for criminal law and the FEMA case law.During their todial parent. Robert J.Connelly Trial Tech- week in New Orleans,they vol- • Brittany Lee Penberthy of Tonawan- nique Award. tional Association of Women Lawyers unteered in three offices.Students in da,the Maurice Frey Award for family • Elliott H.Kowalski of Amherst,the Award. the New Orleans Office of the Public law. Harry A.Rachlin Prize in Real Property • Emily G.Conley of Williamsville,the Defender worked on criminal cases • Harold T.Babcock-Ellis of Fewa Bush, Law and Real Estate Transactions. UB Law Alumni Association GOLD that have been pending since before the the Edith and David Goldstein Award • Sam L.Valleriani of Rochester,the Group Award for leadership and excel- storm.In the offices of the New Orleans for debtor-creditor and bankruptcy James M.Kieffer Trial Excellence Award lence. Legal Assistance Corp.,students helped niversity at Buffalo Law • Matthew D.Valauri of New Canaan, law. and the Robert J.Connelly Trial Tech- • Lauren M.Fitzgerald of Buffalo,the resolve cases involving predatory prac- School students received Conn.,the American Bankruptcy Insti- • Jonathan H.Bard of Tonawanda,the nique Award. American Bar Association/Bureau of tices that were rampant in the after- honors and awards at the tute Medal for Excellence in Bankrupt- Tom Headrick “Trees and Forest” • Jennifer M.Pacella of Blasdell,the National Affairs Award for Excellence in math of the hurricane.Students also school’s 119th com- cy. Award for corporate finance. New York State Bar Association Ethics the Study of Labor and Employment volunteered at the Alliance for Afford- mencement ceremony, • Danielle E.Drayer of Bellmore,the • Seth T.Molisani of Canandaigua,the Award. Law. able Energy,which leads the region’s Uheld on May 17.The award recipients American Bar Association/Bureau of Adolf Homburger Law Alumni Associ- • Brian Holland of Amherst,the Carlos eceiving the Minority Bar sustainable redevelopment effort. are: National Affairs Award for Excellence in ation Award for civil procedure. C.Alden Award for service to the Buffa- Association of Western Receiving Faculty Law Awards were: • Tatiana Markel of Brooklyn,the Max the Study of Health Law. • Marissa A.Coheley of Buffalo,the lo Law Review. New York Award were • Teia Marie Bui of Buffalo. Koren Award,given to the graduate • Terrance M.McGuinness of Endwell, Judge Matthew J.Jasen Appellate Prac- • Jeffrey P.Gleason of Baldwinsville,the Stephanie J.Calhoun of • Timothy W.Bush of Brockport. who exemplifies the highest standards the American Bar Association/Bureau tice Award for appellate advocacy.Co- Justice Philip Halpern Award for writ- Buffalo,John E.Mancebo • Jeffrey P.Gleason of Baldwinsville. of the profession by virtue of scholastic of National Affairs Award for Excellence heley also was elected a member of the ing on the Buffalo Law Review. Rof Ossining and Janelle L.Whitaker of • Rakshita Koirala of Woodside. achievement,leadership and dedication in the Study of Health Law. Order of Barristers,a national honor • Amber L.Kerling of Cuba,N.Y.,the Niagara Falls. • Elliot H.Kowalski of Amherst. to the ideals of the law.Markel also re- • Shelly P.Tsai of Buffalo,the American society for oralists. Linda S.Reynolds Award for commit- The Robert J.Connelly Trial Tech- • Tatiana Markel of Brooklyn. ceived the Judge William J.Regan Bar Association/Bureau of National Af- • Craig J.Austin of Marilla,the David ment to equal justice for the poor. nique Award was presented to: • Christina M.Meyers of East Amherst. Award for estates and surrogate’s law. fairs Award for Excellence in the Study Kochery Award for service to the stu- • Evan Y.Bussiere of Buffalo,the Milton • Lisa A.Ball of Tonawanda. • Burton W.Phillips of Baldwinsville. • Priscilla E.Hampton of Lakewood, of Health Law. dent community and courses in proce- Kaplan Law and Social Development • Kristofer J.Kasnicki of Garden City. • Regina L.Readling of Binghamton. the John N.Bennett Achievement • Kristina M.Hellman of Jamestown, dures and remedies,and a Robert Con- Award for exceptional commitment to • Mark R.Affronti of Depew. • Amanda L.Tuberdyck of Buffalo. Award for the highest scholastic the American Bar Association/Bureau nelly Trial Technique Award. the study of law and social develop- • Julia C.Brylinski of Orchard Park. • Janelle L.Whitaker of Niagara Falls. achievement in the graduating class. of National Affairs Award for Excellence • Mary C.Stermole of Corning,the ment in an American,comparative or • Kevin M.Habberfield of Scio. • Anne E.Wilson of Grand Island. Hampton also received the Charles in the Study of Intellectual Property Laidlaw Law Alumni Association international context. • Joshua S.Hurwit of Schenectady. • Gary A.Wilson of Buffalo. Dautch Award for real property and the Law. Award for commercial law and the • Elsa Hernandez of East Elmhurst,the • André L.Lindsay of Amherst. Graduating seniors who volun- Judge William J.Regan Award for es- • Peter M.Jay of Williamsville,the Moot Evidence Award. Kenneth A.Gomez Memorial Award • James Lonano of Staten Island. teered for “A Day of Renewal”for resi- tates and surrogate’s law. American Bar Association/Bureau of • Adam R.O’Brian of Arlington,Va.,the for equality and justice for minorities. • Jose B.Velez Goveo of Dorado, Puerto dents and clients of Haven House re- • Regina L.Readling of Binghamton, National Affairs Award for Excellence in Professor Virginia Leary Award,pre- • Alexander Y.Karsten of Buffalo,the Rico. ceived New York State Bar Associa- the Dale S.Margulis Award for having the Study of Intellectual Property Law. sented in honor of Leary,SUNY Distin- Activist’s Gavel for progressive politics, • Linwood Roberts of Brooklyn. tion/Law Student Bar Association contributed the most to the UB Law • David A.Goldberg of Buffalo,the guished Service Professor Emerita in government accountability and social Newly elected members of the Order of Achievement Awards.The students School and the community. American Bar Association/Bureau of the UB Law School,who taught inter- activism. Barristers,a national honor society for were Emily G.Conley of Williamsville, • Robert A. Crawford of Lake View,the National Affairs Award for Excellence in national law and developed the se- • Candice R.Giles of Amherst,the oralists,are: Candice R.Giles of Amherst,Abby American Law Institute-American Bar the Study of Labor and Employment quence of courses and externships in Women Lawyers of Western New York • Jacqueline A.Bain of Vestal. Oliver of Pulaski and Minara Uddin of Association Scholarship and Leader- Law. international law at the school.O’Brian Award. • Kimberly A.Georger of Buffalo. Flushing. ship Award. • Kristi M.Rich of Cohoes,the Ameri- also was elected a member of the Order • Cynthia D.Gross of Snyder,the Na- • Lori B.Gradwell of Buffalo. UB LAW FORUM • FALL 2008 46 Law School Report 47 UB Law students receive Commencement awards

Receiving Latin honors

Summa cum laude Robert A. Crawford, Priscilla E. Hampton, Tatiana Markel, Thomas M. Zambito. Magna cum laude Jennifer L. Buchner, Marissa A. Coheley, Brian Holland, Glenn D. Howard, Courtney R. Huckle, Dwight E. Kanyuck, Kristopher J. Kasnicki, Naz Khan, Elliot H. Kowalski, Michael D. Libretto, Christine M. Meyers, Steven C. Mindy,Adam R. O’Brian, Jennifer M. Pacella, Elizabeth Pascal, Christina M. Petrella, Joseph J. Polniak Jr.,Vanessa N.Pritchard, Regina L. Readling, Kristi M. Rich, Manik J. Saini, Gregory P.Stein, Jenna S. Strazzulla, Jon R.R.Wilson. Cum laude Mark R.Affronti, Craig J.Austin, Harold T.Babcock-Ellis, Jonathan H. Bard, Elizabeth M. Barnett,Vineeta S. Baronos, Kyle P.Barrett, Julia C. Brylinski, Benjamin S. Carlisle, Jennifer S. Castaldo, Daniel J. Christiansen, Erin E. Cole, Alexander C. Collichio, Jennifer M. Donlan, Liam A. Dwyer, Shannon C. Elwell, Tara S. Evans, Joshua E. Fingold, Kimberly A. Georger, Candice R. Giles, Jeffrey P.Gleason, David SUNY Distinguished Teaching Professor Elizabeth B. Mensch ’78 attended her final commencement before retiring. A. Goldberg, Kevin M. Habberfield, Daniel T.Horner, Joshua S. Hurwit, Jennifer C. Jones,Alexander Y.Karsten, Continued from page 45 “We are not talking about lawyers who are bottom feeders at the fringes Jennifer L. Buchalter Katz,Amy of their profession, lawyers whose L. Kedron,Amber L. Kerling, served from 1971 to 1977. only office is a cell phone and who Christina S. Kim, Michelle A. “UB was my first job in law teach- hang around in the back of court- Asha (Kristin) Patel ’08 Koledi, Daniel P.Kuhn, Leigh A. ing, and I still think of it as my best rooms trying to drum up business, Kwiatek, Joseph P.Lannon, job ever,”he said.“No enterprise I but lawyers with very fancy resumes Clayton J. Lenhardt,Amanda L. have been involved with since has giv- and graduates of distinguished law Lowe, John T.Lynch, Michael H. McMahon II, Brian D. en me such sustained excitement.” schools,”he said. Miller, Jackson E. Minich, Ryan M. Murphy, Theo Nickerson, He went on to sketch out some of The good news, Gordon said, is Sunny W.Noh, Christopher N. Ollinick,Asha (Kristin) Patel, the professional choices the graduat- that “for every instance of lawyers cav- Daniel J. Pautz,Abraham J. Platt, Robert E. Quinn, Jessica M. ing class will face.“The law is very un- ing in to that pressure, there were oth- Seay, Stephanie R. Seitz, Robert A. Shaw, Michael D. Smith, usual in the staggering range of its opers who did not.” Sarah H. Sprague, Lindsay M. Swensen, Nicholas J. Tardif, portunities and its dangers,”he said. University President Emeritus and “There are choices to be made in Amanda L. Tuberdyck, Sam L.Valleriani, Ehret A.Van Horn, “Practicing law gives opportunities to Professor William R. Greiner how to live in this profession,”he con- Elliott J.Veloso, Kathleen S.Weber, John M.Wells,Anne E. do both great good and great harm. cluded.“Nobody ever regrets having Wilson, Xin L. Zhu, Rochelle K. Zimpfer. The occupation of lawyer is an emi- amples of legal situations in which been of concrete help to people in nently useful one.We give practical trouble. Nobody regrets trying to Master of Laws degree with honors advice at crucial moments to people lawyers had to make ethical choices: Karen M.Aavik, Zongyuan Fan, Jimmine L. Haigler, Justice Department attorneys who make our justice system more effec- SUNY Distinguished Teaching who are often in much worse trouble tive and efficient.” Eduardo H.S. Machado, Oscar E. Miranda-Miller, Jamie Professor Kenneth F.Joyce than they deserve. Law is a great en- were asked to advise the government Nobles, Tomasz Podstepski, Radhika P.Varavenkatamaran, on the legality of severe treatment of Prior to the awarding of prizes and gine for the enhancement of autono- degrees, Mutua recognized the Class Jose B.Velez Goveo. my and life plans, and a defense detainees in the war on terrorism; and letters “written by eminent law firms” of 1958, many of whom were in atten- against harassment and exploitation.” dance on the dais, and noted that on Gordon cited two real-world ex- on behalf of the Enron Corp. – letters which enabled the sham financial that very day they had presented him transactions that eventually brought with a gift to the Law School in the the company down and erased the amount of $58,000. Next year, he said, pensions of thousands of stockhold- they had challenged the Class of ’59 to ers. do the math and make their own gift. UB LAW FORUM • FALL 2008 50 Law School Report 51 THE COLOR OF ACHIEVEMENT Traditional of the poor and disadvantaged. Sure, candle- Hon. Samuel L. Green ’67 we can make money and be successful, lighting addressed the students but we have a duty to see that the ceremony rights of the poor and disadvantaged are taken care of.” The jurist went on to sketch out some lingering societal problems that he said lawyers have a duty to address, including: • Inequalities in education that dis- proportionately affect people of color. • Sentencing disparities in drug crimes, such as lesser sentences for powder cocaine than for crack cocaine, which is more prevalent in the black community. • The United States’expanding jail population; 1 in 9 blacks, and 1 in 36 Hispanics, are in prison, Green said. • The government’s use of water- boarding as a tool of interrogation. • The rising number of home fore- closures. “As you go out,”Green said,“especially those of you who are graduating, do not forget those you are leaving behind.You can help by mentoring; you can also help by sending back some funds every now and then.” Organizers also presented Distin- guished Alumni Awards to H. Todd ifting as We Climb”was the Jodi-Kay E.Williams ’09 and Yelenis Dancers from UB’s Latin American Bullard ’87, a partner in the Rochester Students of theme for the 19th annual Rodriguez, winner of the Monique E. Students Association law firm Harris Beech, and Hon. Betty Students of Color Dinner, Emdin scholarship Calvo-Torres ’98, a Buffalo City Court judge, as well as the Trailblazer Award Color Dinner and with everything from “You will pass your bar exam, but the State Supreme Court’s Appellate music to dance to candle- to John M. Staley, assistant vice ‘‘ what you will have to decide is where Division, 4th Department. provost for faculty affairs at UB, and Llight, the event lifted spirits as well as you will make your future and where Green began by reflecting on his honors aspirations. the Jacob B. Hyman Professor of the you will give back,”the mayor said. own Law School days, when he was Year Award to Professor Susan Vivian The dinner, held in the Buffalo Ni- “All of you graduating law students one of only two students of color in his grads-to-be and agara Marriott, celebrates the achieve- Mangold. have a wonderful opportunity.You class and the school was located in After the graduating law students ments of the Law School’s minority will have the opportunity to give downtown Buffalo. community students and honors the work of were recognized individually, the din- something back to some community. “You could go across the street and ner concluded with the groups’tradi- community leaders. It is hosted jointly It is my hope as mayor that you will watch some great trials,”he said.“One leaders by the Black Law Students Associa- Buffalo Mayor Byron Brown and tional “passing the light”candle-light- Vice Dean Ilene R. Fleischmann use your talent, your legal education, thing about the practice of law in those ing ceremony, to the sounds of The tion, the Latin American Law Stu- your ability and your creativity and days was that it was a real profession. dents Association and the Asian Prayer sung by Louise Calixte ’09. consider accepting a position in the However, with changes in the law and Co-chairs for the Students of Color American Law Students Association. gin their professional lives.“There is City of Buffalo.” the advertising that goes on today, the Buffalo Mayor Byron Brown, in his Dinner were Janelle L.Whitaker ’08 opportunity in this community,”he After dinner – and a spirited dance law has become more of a business. It and Shereefat Balogun ’09. first Law School-related appearance, said, citing economic development routine by members of UB’s Latin is more about the bottom line and gave opening remarks in which he en- projects totaling more than $4.5 bil- American Students Association – the who can make the most money. couraged the graduating students to lion that have been announced in the students heard from Hon. Samuel L. “Still, as lawyers of color, we must consider staying in Buffalo as they be- past few years. Green ’67, senior associate justice of be forever vigilant to protect the rights UB LAW FORUM • FALL 2008 50 Law School Report 51 THE COLOR OF ACHIEVEMENT Traditional of the poor and disadvantaged. Sure, candle- Hon. Samuel L. Green ’67 we can make money and be successful, lighting addressed the students but we have a duty to see that the ceremony rights of the poor and disadvantaged are taken care of.” The jurist went on to sketch out some lingering societal problems that he said lawyers have a duty to address, including: • Inequalities in education that dis- proportionately affect people of color. • Sentencing disparities in drug crimes, such as lesser sentences for powder cocaine than for crack cocaine, which is more prevalent in the black community. • The United States’expanding jail population; 1 in 9 blacks, and 1 in 36 Hispanics, are in prison, Green said. • The government’s use of water- boarding as a tool of interrogation. • The rising number of home fore- closures. “As you go out,”Green said,“especially those of you who are graduating, do not forget those you are leaving behind.You can help by mentoring; you can also help by sending back some funds every now and then.” Organizers also presented Distin- guished Alumni Awards to H. Todd ifting as We Climb”was the Jodi-Kay E.Williams ’09 and Yelenis Dancers from UB’s Latin American Bullard ’87, a partner in the Rochester Students of theme for the 19th annual Rodriguez, winner of the Monique E. Students Association law firm Harris Beech, and Hon. Betty Students of Color Dinner, Emdin scholarship Calvo-Torres ’98, a Buffalo City Court judge, as well as the Trailblazer Award Color Dinner and with everything from “You will pass your bar exam, but the State Supreme Court’s Appellate music to dance to candle- to John M. Staley, assistant vice ‘‘ what you will have to decide is where Division, 4th Department. provost for faculty affairs at UB, and Llight, the event lifted spirits as well as you will make your future and where Green began by reflecting on his honors aspirations. the Jacob B. Hyman Professor of the you will give back,”the mayor said. own Law School days, when he was Year Award to Professor Susan Vivian The dinner, held in the Buffalo Ni- “All of you graduating law students one of only two students of color in his grads-to-be and agara Marriott, celebrates the achieve- Mangold. have a wonderful opportunity.You class and the school was located in After the graduating law students ments of the Law School’s minority will have the opportunity to give downtown Buffalo. community students and honors the work of were recognized individually, the din- something back to some community. “You could go across the street and ner concluded with the groups’tradi- community leaders. It is hosted jointly It is my hope as mayor that you will watch some great trials,”he said.“One leaders by the Black Law Students Associa- Buffalo Mayor Byron Brown and tional “passing the light”candle-light- Vice Dean Ilene R. Fleischmann use your talent, your legal education, thing about the practice of law in those ing ceremony, to the sounds of The tion, the Latin American Law Stu- your ability and your creativity and days was that it was a real profession. dents Association and the Asian Prayer sung by Louise Calixte ’09. consider accepting a position in the However, with changes in the law and Co-chairs for the Students of Color American Law Students Association. gin their professional lives.“There is City of Buffalo.” the advertising that goes on today, the Buffalo Mayor Byron Brown, in his Dinner were Janelle L.Whitaker ’08 opportunity in this community,”he After dinner – and a spirited dance law has become more of a business. It and Shereefat Balogun ’09. first Law School-related appearance, said, citing economic development routine by members of UB’s Latin is more about the bottom line and gave opening remarks in which he en- projects totaling more than $4.5 bil- American Students Association – the who can make the most money. couraged the graduating students to lion that have been announced in the students heard from Hon. Samuel L. “Still, as lawyers of color, we must consider staying in Buffalo as they be- past few years. Green ’67, senior associate justice of be forever vigilant to protect the rights UB LAW FORUM • FALL 2008 52 Law School Report 53 THE BEST IN PRINT

Buffalo Law Review year Crandall remembered the life- Celebrating that has looked to the changing tax course he took from journal’s future as well as Professor Lou Del Cotto – Federal Tax its present was toasted at I. He asked a fellow student what to present and Athe 19th annual Buffalo Law Review expect, and heard this:“ ‘With Profes- Dinner, held at the Buffalo Club. sor Del Cotto, to do even remotely The journal, UB Law School’s pre- well in his course you have to do three future at the mier legal publication, released five is- things: know the law cold, be able to sues during the academic year, includ- recite it particularly on an exam, and ing a special commentary devoted to be able to go on to critique it and ex- the Dalai Lama’s 2006 visit to the Uni- plain where Congress and the courts Buffalo versity and the 2007 James Mc- went wrong.’By the time I was done Cormick Mitchell Lecture Issue. The with his course, I knew I wanted to do journal also published articles dealing nothing other than become a tax Law Review with international law, tax, religion lawyer. There is no doubt in my mind and law, conflict resolution, corporate that I am a tax practitioner today be- law, regionalism and family law. cause of the training I got at UB Law.” dinner But the year was especially marked The evening’s student awards were Elliott H. Kowalski ’08, Brenna C. Terry by administrative initiatives that as follows: ’09 and Jeremy V.Murray ’09 should ensure the Law Review’s The Carlos C.Alden Award, to the strength and quality well into the fu- senior making the greatest contribu- ture. Under editor in chief Amy C. tion to the Law Review: Brian Hol- Frisch, the journal created an inde- land. pendent Alumni Board of Consul- The Justice Philip Halpern Award, tants to advise editors on short- and to a senior for excellence in writing: Left to right: Jennifer Pacella ’08,Amy C. long-term development strategies. Frisch ’08, Regina L. Readling ’08 and was that he was doing tax planning for Jeffrey P.Gleason, for his article about The goal of these efforts is to strength- Jeffrey P.Crandall ’82 the mob.” the recruitment of international en membership in the organization, The only other tax lawyer in popu- hockey players,“From Russia With increase the quality and frequency of lar culture, he said, was a minor char- Love.” publication, and achieve national visi- rate tax planning and international acter in the old TV show L.A. Law – Associate Publication Awards, to bility for the Law Review. taxation. He also serves as an adjunct the tax partner in the featured firm four associates for excellence in writ- “Increased alumni involvement in faculty member at the Law School. whose claim to fame was that he died ing: George T.Stiefel III for “Hardball, the Review will be the key to our orga- In his remarks, Battaglia noted that at his desk in the 1986 pilot episode. Soft Law,”on the issue of steroids and nization’s continued advancement in he has “observed over the years that Battaglia quoted the character Stuart performance-enhancing drugs in the years to come,”Frisch said.“The most people do not have an apprecia- Markowitz’s eulogy:“ ‘When I think professional sports; Allyson B. Levine outgoing Executive Board of the Buf- tion for what it is that tax lawyers do.” of Chaney, one word comes to mind: for “Failing to Speak for Itself,”about falo Law Review is proud to have par- That, he said, is because with all the fiduciary.’And the eulogy went down- what happens when a child shows ticipated in the founding of the Alum- movies and television shows about hill from there.” signs of abuse and his parents cannot ni Board of Consultants, and we ex- lawyers, almost invariably they feature explain how such injuries occurred; Keith A. Gorgos ’09 and Christopher N. Ollinick ’08 tend our sincerest thanks to its mem- litigators.“You would have to look he night’s second honoree Jeremy Murray for “The Death of bers for their guidance this past year.” long and hard to find a movie or a was Jeffrey P.Crandall ’82, Copyright Protection in Individual At the dinner, two tax attorneys television program that deals with tax who was a Notes & Com- Valuation,”identifying a difficult Paul A. Battaglia ’72 who graduated from UB Law a lawyers,”he said. ment editor for the Law problem in commodities valuation; decade apart were honored for their But he made that search and came Review and now works in and Keith A. Gorgos for “Lost in Tran- professional achievements and for up with only two examples. One is Tthe New York City firm Shearman & scription,”which calls on the courts to their service to the Law School. Mitch McDeer, lead character in John Sterling, where he practices in the ar- modernize the methods they use to Paul A. Battaglia ’72 was a research Grisham’s book The Firm and the eas of income tax and business trans- capture the record of court proceed- editor for the Law Review and is now a movie that was made from it.“The actions, and serves as a willing contact ings by adding video and audio partner in the Buffalo law firm Jaeck- movie part was played by Tom Cruise, for UB Law-trained job seekers. He recordings. le, Fleischmann & Mugel. He focuses which I thought was quite appropri- also has lectured for the Law School’s his practice on taxation, tax-exempt ate casting,”Battaglia said.“Mitch was New York City program in interna- organizations, estate planning, corpo- a tax lawyer. His problem, of course, tional finance transactions. UB LAW FORUM • FALL 2008 52 Law School Report 53 THE BEST IN PRINT

he worked at Skadden,Arps,Slate, Stuart Lazar expands program Meagher & Flom in New York City, where as a tax associate he worked with he sometimes elusive balance investment bankers,clients and other between teaching and schol- attorneys on mergers and acquisitions, arship is one of the factors restructuring and spin-off transactions, that made UB Law School real estate transactions and other tax is- attractive to a new faculty sues relating to corporations and part- Tmember who specializes in what he has nerships; and at Edwards & Angell in called “law school’s most dreaded sub- Providence,R.I.,and Boston,where as a ject.” partner he did similar work with a fo- Professor Stuart Lazar arrives from cus on both corporate and partnership Tulane University Law School in New tax issues. Orleans,where he spent an academic He says he found the transition year as a visiting professor.Before that from practice to teaching a seamless he taught at Thomas M.Cooley School one.“I realized that I liked the theory of Law in Lansing and Rochester, and teaching of tax law better than the Mich.,and in the Graduate Tax Pro- practice of it,”he says.“My time in New gram at Boston University School of England was a transition between the Law. two,because I was teaching as well as “I have been teaching now,either practicing.Now,not only do I have the full time or as an adjunct,for about 10 theoretical underpinnings but I can say, years.I think I have done a good job on “I really love tax.I think it is the ‘This is how it happens in real life.’” the teaching side,and where I want to At UB Law,Lazar will teach Corpo- focus my growth as an academic is on most fascinating area of the rate Tax,Corporate Reorganizations, my scholarship,”Lazar says. law,and I could not picture Partnership Tax and likely some basic “Buffalo offered me an opportunity, tax courses,such as Federal Income and it is a great opportunity,both in working in another area.” Taxation and Tax Policy. terms of the classes I am going to teach In his spare time,Lazar hopes to be as well as the ability to do meaningful “Students have misperceptions of able to spend time watching movies,a scholarship.I interviewed with a num- what tax lawyers do,”Lazar says.“They hobby that he has grown to love even ber of schools,but there was just such a think it is filling out forms and working more since he began doing legal work wealth of so many different things at with numbers.I always find it a compli- for the Newport International Film Buffalo – the personalities of the peo- ment at the end of the term when a stu- Festival back in 1997.“I am more of a ple,the intellect,the interest in scholar- dent says to me,‘I was really afraid to film watcher than a knowledgeable ship.In the interview process,people take this course,but it was not that connoisseur,”he says.“Growing up,I from all different legal disciplines had bad.’” went to the movies every week.I just questions and comments and sugges- “Whenever I tell people I am a enjoy the experience.” tions about my scholarship.It was just lawyer,they say,‘That is really interest- If his love for writing is not such an amazing place to share my ing,’and then they ask,‘What area?’ quenched by his academic pursuits, knowledge and my thoughts.” When I tell them tax,it is always, Lazar will also continue to try his hand As for the “most dreaded subject,”it ‘Ewwww.’But I really love tax.I think it at fiction,including the “Great Ameri- was one that captured his fascination is the most fascinating area of the law, can Novel”that is an ongoing project – from his first exposure to tax law at the and I could not picture working in an- “a detective/action story featuring a tax University of Michigan Law School.(A other area.” lawyer.” New York City native,Lazar studied His research and writing has cov- And because Buffalo is just a six- economics at Michigan as an under- ered issues in income taxation,primari- hour drive from Ann Arbor,he expects graduate.He also earned an LL.M.in ly in the areas of individual and busi- to take an occasional autumn road trip Taxation from New York University ness taxation,as well as an article-in- back to Michigan to watch Wolverine School of Law,attending classes at night progress on the craft of teaching tax law football.“It is,”he says of the experience while he was working in private prac- through “active learning.”They are in- of spending a fall Saturday in the “Big tice.) terests Lazar continued to explore while House”,“the most amazing sight.” UB LAW FORUM • FALL 2008 54 Faculty 55 New prof talks tax

clear.People need to understand the It is just one of many factors health laws and who actually has the authority care policy makers struggle with in a na- “A lot of what I do to step in.That was one of major prob- tion whose top-notch medical technolo- lems in the aftermath of Hurricane Kat- gy is not uniformly available to all its cit- focusesfocuses onon howhow wewe rina.Should the federal government izens. provide care to the have stepped in sooner? Did they have “The U.S.health care system was the authority to do so? You definitely built on the basis of private insurance, elderly,which is a need people who have expertise in law as and we rely on employers to provide that well as public health to deal with these insurance,”Yearby says.“Nevertheless, very vulnerable situations.” much of the work force cannot get access Yearby comes to Buffalo from Loyola to full-time jobs and those benefits,or population.” University,in Chicago,where she held a work full time but are forced to bear the joint appointment in the School of Law cost of health insurance.There are also and the Stritch School of Medicine.A bi- issues about where you live: Do you live ology major as an undergraduate at the in a rural area,where a lot of the com- University of Michigan,she earned her munity hospitals have closed,or do you master of public health degree from live in an area with a high concentration ith expertise and ex- Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, of physicians and several hospitals? “ tensive experience in in Baltimore,and her law degree from The relationship between doctor and both law and public Georgetown University Law Center in patient also interests her.“Does the doc- health,Ruqaiijah A. Washington,D.C.Her resume also in- tor value the patient,have time to listen Yearby joins UB Law cludes periods in private practice,as as- to the patient and answer questions? WSchool this fall to teach and to direct the sistant regional counsel for the federal The answer may depend on what kind school’s J.D./master of public health Department of Health and Human Ser- of health insurance you have and how program.Her appointment is jointly vices and a clerkship in the U.S.Court of your insurance pays your doctor.Addi- with the Law School and UB’s School of Appeals,Seventh Circuit. tionally,the doctor-patient relationship Public Health. is affected by perceptions based on gen- “One of the goals I had set for myself t Loyola,she did extensive der,age,race,ethnicity or culture. was to be director of a J.D./MPH pro- work in bioethics and on is- “We are not going to fix this by pass- gram. Thus,I am excited and honored sues of racial disparities that ing a law that says everybody has health to be joining the UB faculty,”Yearby says. affect access to health care. care,as evidenced by the passage of “At UB,faculty members truly respect As part of the school’s Ac- Medicaid and Medicare. These pro- doing interdisciplinary work,which I Acess to Health Care Initiative,she helped grams provide health care coverage to enjoy. Moreover,I think it is a wonder- develop a course focused on increasing the indigent,disabled and elderly,yet ful opportunity to be able to help stu- access to health care through health sav- these populations still remain without dents and to be of service to the com- ings accounts,Medicaid and Medicare; access to quality health care. Thus, munity.” chaired a symposium on health care ac- granting access to health care is a contin- The nexus of the law and public cess focusing on immigrants; and uous process.” health,she says,is becoming increasingly worked to give students more opportu- Yearby thought about going to med- significant in American life.“We are go- nities to get involved in the community. ical school,but changed her mind after ing to need more people with this par- She is currently preparing a major she received a fellowship to go to South ticular expertise as we address issues research study examining whether race African to do public health research. concerning bioterrorism,putting an end is a factor in the quality of long-term “That definitely changed my outlook,” to the epidemic of violence,and making care an elderly patient receives. she says,“because I originally wanted to our food supply safe.You cannot turn “A lot of what I do focuses on how be a physician to help patients.In public on the news without seeing another we provide care to the elderly,which is a health work,however,I could work on food scare,”she says. very vulnerable population,”Yearby says. global issues and improve the lives of An emergency,like a recall of tainted “As the baby boomers age,it is going to thousands rather than improving the food,brings up “lots of public health law be increasingly important to provide health of one patient or 10 patients.” issues,such as who should take prece- health care to this vulnerable popula- Yearby and her husband,an officer in dence in ordering such a recall,the state tion,particularly as we think about our the Navy,are parents of a 1-year-old son, or the federal government? It is never economy.” Malcolm. UB LAW FORUM • FALL 2008 56 Faculty 57 A healthy combination Ruqaiijah A. Yearby will direct J.D./MPH program

ally and internationally, the Baldy “Her experience in Center will play an important part in our continued success.” studying comparative French joined UB Law School law, and her from the University of Colorado School of Law, where she conducted enthusiasm for the the research for her groundbreaking book The Golden Yoke: The Legal Cos- possibilities of B Law Professor Re- mology of Buddhist Tibet. The project interdisciplinary becca Redwood was an outgrowth of her interest in French, a Roger and Asian legal systems and her experi- approaches to the law, Karen Jones Faculty ence at Yale University, where she can only strengthen Scholar, has been earned both the master of laws degree Unamed director of the Baldy Center and a Ph.D. in anthropology.A phi- the unique mission of for Law and Social Policy at the Law losophy major as an undergraduate at School, Dean Makau Mutua an- the University of Michigan, she the Baldy Center at nounced.An international authority earned her J.D. degree from the Uni- the University at in law and anthropology, French did versity of Washington Law School. her landmark research on the Bud- She served for three years as a public Buffalo and beyond.” dhist legal system of Tibet. defender, and for four years in general French’s appointment took effect practice, in the Pacific Northwest. — Dean Makau W. Aug. 16. She succeeds Lynn Mather, a As an expert in Tibetan law, she distinguished political scientist in the has spearheaded the development of Mutua area of law and the courts, who came the new discipline of Law and Bud- from Dartmouth College to Buffalo dhism and has organized the first in- to head the Baldy Center in 2002. ternational conferences and working The Baldy Center is an endowed, groups in this area. French was instru- internationally recognized institute mental in bringing to UB the Dalai that supports the interdisciplinary Lama, the exiled religious leader of study of law and legal institutions. the Tibetan Buddhist community, for More than 100 UB faculty members a much-heralded three-day visit in from 17 academic departments par- September 2006 which included the ticipate in Baldy Center research, con- first-ever discussion and conference ference and scholarship activities, as with the Dalai Lama on law, Bud- do an increasing number of graduate dhism and social change. In addition, students. The center maintains coop- Cambridge University Press next year erative ties to other interdisciplinary is publishing the first comprehensive Rebecca French research centers and co-sponsors a re- volume on the topic, The Cambridge gional network of socio-legal scholars Companion to Law and Buddhism, in New York State and Canada. The edited by French.A current major re- Baldy Center also hosts distinguished search project involves bringing the scholars from around the world as tools of anthropology to bear on named to head visitors, speakers and conference par- 2,500 cases involving religion in the ticipants. United States. “I am delighted that Rebecca French also has appointed Laura French was instrumental in French has agreed to lead this crucial Mangan, a longtime Baldy Center bringing to UB the Dalai Lama, Baldy Center component of the Law School’s re- staff member, as deputy director of the exiled religious leader of the The Baldy Center is an search mission,”Mutua said.“Her ex- the center. Tibetan Buddhist community, perience in studying comparative law, for a much-heralded three-day endowed, internationally and her enthusiasm for the possibili- visit in September 2006 which ties of interdisciplinary approaches to included the first-ever recognized institute that supports the law, can only strengthen the discussion and conference with unique mission of the Baldy Center at the Dalai Lama on law, the interdisciplinary study of law the University at Buffalo and beyond. Buddhism and social change. As we continue to enhance UB Law and legal institutions. School’s academic reputation nation- UB LAW FORUM • FALL 2008 58 Faculty 59

Download a copy RECOMMENDED READING of the Faculty Scholarship brochure Faculty publications from 2002 to the present include at law.buffalo.edu/ A focus on scholarship 53 books, 140 articles, 101 book chapters, 22 book reviews, and facultyscholarship08.pdf 13 reports and electronic publications. Here is a small sampling of recent faculty scholarship:

Kenya’s Quest for Insanity: Murder,Madness, Between Citizen and State: Cambridge History of Democracy: and the Law An Introduction to the Law in America Vice Dean Meidinger advocates Taming Leviathan (Oxford University Press), Corporation (Cambridge University Press), (L. Rienner Publishers), by Professor Charles Patrick (Paradigm Publishers), with essays by Professors Alfred for UB Law scholars by Dean Makau W.Mutua Ewing by Professor David A. Konefsky, Elizabeth B. Mensch Westbrook and John Henry Schlegel racing the trajectory of ne of the nation’s leading Tpostcolonial politics, Dean Oexperts on the insanity n David Westbrook’s view, hree UB Law professors – he world of law school schol- “Second, faculty scholarship is the Mutua – a native of Kenya defense, Professor Ewing here Ithe corporation can be seen Tone per volume – are rep- arship is expanding very currency for respect and recognition who is intimately familiar with conveys the psychological and as theater, as a play with three resented in a project its pub- rapidly.All of our competi- in the larger world.What matters is that nation’s politics – maps legal drama of 10 landmark main characters – stockhold- lisher calls “the most compre- the political forces that have insanity cases. His case studies ers, directors and managers – hensive and authoritative actors are stressing scholarship. that you are seen as generating new shaped contemporary Kenya. include “Son of Sam”killer each with their own set of count possible of the history of ‘‘TThis makes it more important that we ideas and deeper understandings. But He also critically explores ef- David Berkowitz; John Gacy, complementary and conflict- American law.”The massive do a good job at disseminating our historically we have not been very forts to reform the state by who killed at least 30 boys and ing motivations, goals and three-volume Cambridge His- full profile, so that it is clear that in this good about promoting ourselves.” both civil society, which he young men in Chicago; Jack powers. This textbook of how tory of Law in America seeks to growing cacophony of research-ori- That is changing, especially with sees as a key player in Kenya’s Ruby, killer of Lee Harvey Os- corporations work, designed summarize and synthesize the ented law schools, Buffalo stands out.” the now-annual publication of a UB hoped-for renaissance, and the wald, President Kennedy’s as- for law students, has garnered history of law in America. So says Professor Errol Meidinger, Law faculty scholarship brochure, cre- political opposition. sassin; and Andrea Yates, who attention from sociologists The UB Law contributors vice dean for research and faculty de- ated in the Law School Office of Com- In the wake of rioting that drowned her five children in and anthropologists seeking a cover topics as diverse as law velopment, whose administrative role munications, that is sent to all legal followed Kenya’s hotly contest- the family’s bathtub. window on the inner workings and religion in colonial Amer- ed December 2007 election, The book also debunks of the corporation. ica (Mensch); the nature of the increasingly is devoted to getting the academics, partners of hiring law violence that left hundreds myths of popular opinion re- “While people do interest- legal profession in the 18th word out about UB Law faculty re- firms, judges, students and “anyone dead, Mutua argues that the garding the insanity defense. ing and often funny things in- and 19th centuries (Konefsky); search and publications. else interested in the work that is be- “Faculty scholarship is the failure to form a common na- “In those rare instances in side their companies, their ac- and the role of law in the The research and writing that UB ing done here.” currency for respect and tional identity has hamstrung which a defendant is actually tions are rarely truly surpris- changing American economy Law faculty members do, he says, ben- The brochure, Meidinger says, lists efforts to create democratic found insane, the public is ing,”Westbrook writes.“Cor- of the 20th century (Schlegel). efits the school in two ways. recent publications by UB Law facul- recognition in the larger rule. The nation’s “lazy and usually outraged,”Ewing says. porate actors have typical mo- Says project co-editor “The value added that faculty ty, but also describes what they are opportunistic”political class, “In homicide cases especially, tivations and conflicts, and Christopher L. Tomlins:“It is bring is to develop innovative and in- working on and where their research world.” he says, has been unable to they believe that the defendant their conflicts tend to be solved most definitely not intended cisive understandings of the legal sys- is headed. overcome ethnic cronyism ‘got away with murder.’”In re- in customary ways. to be an encyclopedia, but and tribal manipulation. ality, he says,“the defense is “Corporation law tells sto- rather a collaborative work of tem and of legal institutions,”Mei- “It allows the reader to see what a Analyzing the tortuous ef- rarely raised, rarely applicable ries, or presents plays, that scholarship involving numer- dinger says.“That is why we have aca- very interesting and impressive collec- forts that have been made to and even more rarely success- people actually live through in ous scholars, each with the ex- demic law schools. If you have profes- tion of faculty members we have, how create a sustainable democrat- ful.And when it does succeed, their economic lives.What this pertise to write an original sors at the cutting edge, then what stu- diverse their work is and how much of ic state since the East African the defendant usually loses his book tries to do is make those synthesis of work in his or her dents learn is that much more helpful the broad world of legal research is nation gained its indepen- or her liberty for many years, characters and their plots ac- particular field of endeavor. ... over the long term. represented here,”he says. dence from Great Britain, Mu- sometimes for life.” cessible. If you understand the Everybody has produced very “Anybody can repeat the nostrums Beyond the faculty scholarship tua uses the struggle over con- plays, then you understand good, very original work, the of the past. The quality of the school is brochure, the Law School has expand- stitutional reform as a window some important things about kind of work you would ex- heavily dependent on having faculty ed its workshop series in which facul- for understanding the larger how our society gets con- pect from highly experienced, struggles confronting Kenyan structed, which after all is what highly skilled scholars, for members who, day in and day out, are ty exchange ideas about their current society. the social sciences are all which Buffalo is well-known. trying to develop deeper understand- research; begun a Buffalo Legal Stud- about.” The Buffalo Law School has a ings. ies Series as part of the online Social tremendous interest in critical Sciences Research Network; and and unique thinking. It is most worked to keep faculty fully informed certainly not a standard law of outside opportunities for research school.” funding. “Scholarship benefits everybody,” Meidinger says.“A serious research program improves the teaching for students, sometimes in fairly hard-to- see ways. It is a core part of the mission of the university-based law school, and it is absolutely essential to our stature in the larger law school world.” UB LAW FORUM • FALL 2008 60 Faculty 61

ship by example as a private practi- “Denise lives,eats and sleeps public UB President John B.Simpson pre- tioner,”was introduced by DiGiaco- service,”Boreanaz said.“It is truly a part sented the award to Professor Makau mo, who said Letro met all the criteria of her fiber.She is an outstanding and W.Mutua, who was then serving as in- Among our best for the award, including having the re- superbly hard-working attorney who terim dean of UB Law School.Mutua spect of his fellow lawyers; presenting puts in a legendary 70-hour work- was honored for outstanding service to a positive image of the profession; week.” the university and the community by a UB Law Alumni Association knowledge and courtesy; and honesty As well,he said,“I was always struck non-alumnus. and ethics. by Denise’s demeanor.She was such a “Through UB 2020,the University celebrates luminaries of the school Citing Letro’s support for such com- kind person,and she was such a gen- is pursuing a course of sustained acade- munity mainstays as Erie County Med- uine person.”In addition,he said, mic excellence that we believe will lead the alumni to join in advocating that ical Center,Roswell Park Cancer Insti- O’Donnell has devoted countless hours to UB’s being recognized as one of the state dollars be better spent in support- tute,Buffalo State College,the Burch- to professional bono work,was a great public research universities of the ing UB Law,the state’s only public law field-Penney Arts Center,the Albright- founding member of the New York 21st century,”Simpson said.“Professor school. Knox Art Gallery,the Darwin Martin State Women’s Bar Association,and has Mutua has contributed and will contin- Robert L.Boreanaz ’89,co-chair of House Restoration Project,the Buffalo served as president of the UB Law ue to contribute in outstanding ways to the Annual Dinner,detailed progress Philharmonic Orchestra and the Boy Alumni Association. that mission.He has provided instru- on the Law School’s Harry Rachlin ’26 Scouts,DiGiacomo said,“Through his DiGiacomo introduced Thomas E. mental and timely leadership as the Oral History Project,which collects, efforts in these community groups and Black Jr.’79,who received an award Law School continues its strategic pur- catalogs and indexes videotaped inter- organizations,Fran displays a much- “for his exemplary performance and suit of excellence.” views with UB Law alumni,faculty and needed positive image for our profes- Noting that Mutua was the found- others to capture the rich tapestry of sion.” ing director of the UB Human Rights Buffalo legal history.He also played DiGiacomo also noted Letro’s ma- Center, he said,“As one of the world’s some clips from the project – some stir- jor gift to build the working courtroom foremost authorities in the area of hu- ring,some with a smile – and noted in O’Brian Hall:“He says he was an or- man rights law, his impact has been that the materials are fully searchable by dinary kid who was given an extraordi- truly global in scope, shaping human names and keywords.“This is truly a re- nary opportunity by our Law School, rights in political practice in the Unit- markable resource,and it is building and he committed $1 million to the ed States, in Africa and in a multina- and growing,”Boreanaz said. courtroom project so he could con- tional context. In short, he has distin- His Annual Dinner co-chair, tribute back to the Law School he had guished himself and our University Richard F.DiGiacomo ’76,recognized gratitude for.” on an international scale through his the many sponsors and underwriters of Daniel T.Lukasik ’88,honored “for scholarship and through his pro- the event,a major fund-raiser for the his many contributions to the better- foundly meaningful application of Law Alumni Association.Major spon- ment of our community,”was intro- that scholarship.” sors included Alan Fenster Associates, duced by Gryko,who noted the hon- Also serving on the Annual Dinner M&T Bank,Structured Financial Asso- oree’s efforts on behalf of lawyers facing Denise E. O’Donnell ’82 received the Committee were Kenneth W.Africano ciates,Computer Task Group and LCS. the illness of depression. award for Public Service. ’85,Hilary C.Banker ’96,Vincent E. Honored for “his conscientious and “Lawyers are susceptible to depres- Doyle III ’89,Catherine E.Nagel ’98 Above, left to right: long tradition of UB Law diligent performance in the judiciary” sion,yet they do not always confront and Donald W.O’Brien Jr.’77. Daniel T.Lukasik alumni gathering to enjoy was Hon.David J.Mahoney ’52,retired their illness,”Gryko said.“During his business.”Black is managing partner of ’88, Francis M. Letro each other’s company,and justice of the New York State Supreme own recovery,Dan Lukasik was unable Black,Mann & Graham in Flower ’79, Dean Makau W. to salute some of the best Court,8th Judicial District. to find an online resource and support Mound,Texas,practicing in the area of Mutua, Denise E. O’Donnell ’82, Hon. among them,added a new “Judge Mahoney is always a gentle- network geared toward lawyers facing residential real estate law. David J. Mahoney Achapter with the 46th Annual Dinner of man,quick with a smile,a terrific sense depression.So in 2007 he launched and “Many of you remember Tom and ’52 and Thomas E. the UB Law Alumni Association. of humor and a hearty laugh,”said continues to maintain lawyerswithde- his brother Shawn as excellent real es- Black Jr. ’79 Held at the Hyatt Regency Buffalo, Hon.E.Jeannette Ogden ’83,who in- pression.com,which includes articles, tate attorneys in Western New York,” the event culminated with the presenta- troduced the honoree via a tape- podcasts and resources.Subsequently DiGiacomo said.“Tom has always had tion of Distinguished Alumni Awards recorded message.“He is an avid reader Dan founded a support group for a terrific ability to help a brother or sis- to five graduates and one non-alumnus and a student of history,a lover of the- lawyers with depression in Erie County; ter lawyer in a difficult closing,but nev- – then-interim Dean Makau Mutua. ater,a terrific golfer,and a squash similar groups have been formed in Al- er in an offensive way,always with cour- After a welcome by Margaret P. champion who works out daily at the bany,Rochester,New York City and tesy and often with humor.” Gryko ’77,president of the UB Law Buffalo Athletic Club,where he is know elsewhere in the state. In community service, DiGiacomo Alumni Association,Mutua spoke of to take a one-hour spinning class and “By creating a supportive environ- said, Black serves as board chairman the alumni as real-world examples of UB Prsident John B. Simpson presented immediately follow it with a squash ment for lawyers to openly communi- of Christian Community Action and the Law School educational experience. the award to Professor Makau W. match.” cate about depression,Dan has turned served on the board of the North Hon. David J. Mahoney ’52, who “If anyone has any doubts about the Mutua, who was then interim dean. Ogden also cited the judge’s advoca- a difficult experience in his own life into Texas Food Bank.At UB Law School, received a Distinguished Alumnus quality and excellence of our faculty cy for the less fortunate,as chair of the something positive for others.” he is chairman of the Dean’s Advisory Award at the Law Alumni and our students,”he said,“all they have tegrity and to the vitality of our Law Civil Right Committee of the New York Boreanaz introduced Denise E. Council and served as a member of Association’s Annual Dinner, to do is look at our alumni.You are the School.” State Bar Association and past president O’Donnell ’82,honored for her com- the search committee for the new passed away July 5 in a hospice best testament,the most visible evi- Mutua also spoke to the current of the Erie County Bar Association.“He mitment to public service.A former dean. facility near Buffalo. The retired dence,of the quality of the education controversy surrounding a proposal for loves the law and lawyers,”she said. U.S.attorney,she now serves as com- A graduate of the University of New York State Supreme Court that UB provides.Your success,your state funding of other proposed law Longtime Buffalo litigator Francis missioner of the New York State Divi- Notre Dame,he also recently complet- justice was 79. own accomplishments,speak to the in- schools in New York State,and asked M.Letro ’79, honored “for his leader- sion of Criminal Justice Services. ed an MBA at Notre Dame. UB LAW FORUM • FALL 2008 62 Alumni Association 63

UB Law Alumni Association elects officers and directors for 2008-09

on. E. Jeannette Ogden ’83 has been elected Reaching out 2008-09 president of the UB Law Alumni Associ- ation. Ogden was ap- to you Hpointed to Buffalo City Court in June The UB Law Alumni Associa- 1995 and has been elected twice to tion may be coming to a location serve a 10-year term as a City Court near you! Regional chapters will be judge. In January 2001, Judge Ogden formed in those areas with the was appointed an acting Erie County highest population of UB Law Court judge, handling all levels of alumni and the greatest level of in- criminal cases involving domestic vio- terest. Plans for Rochester and New lence. The appointment was expand- York City chapters are already un- ed to acting Family Court judge in der way. Do not let your area miss January 2003. She is the ﬁrst and only out! Let us know if you are inter- African-American woman to serve ested in helping to develop a chap- Erie County Family Court. ter in your area, or are willing to as- Robert L. Boreanaz ’89, senior sist with a regional event in your partner at Lipsitz Green Scime Cam- Hon. E. Jeannette Ogden ’83 hometown. bria, is the new president-elect.Vice For more information regard- presidents are: Laurie S. Bloom ’83 of ’92 of the U.S.Attorney General’s Of- ing bringing UB Law to you, con- Nixon Peabody; Richard F.DiGiaco- ﬁce; and Lourdes M.Ventura ’98 of tact: mo ’76 of Nesper, Ferber & DiGiaco- the Office of New York State Sen. Mal- mo; and Gayle L. Eagan ’85 of Jaeckle, colm A. Smith. Lisa M. Mueller Fleischmann & Mugel. Other directors include: Lisa J. Assistant Director of the UB Law Treasurer is Paula M. Ciprich ’85 of Allen ’90 of Harris Beach; Marc W. Alumni Association National Fuel Gas Distribution Corp.; Brown ’99 of Phillips Lytle; Hon. Gail (716) 645-3176 assistant treasurer is Hon. Craig D. A. Donofrio ’85 of the Monroe Coun- [email protected] Hannah ’95 of the Buffalo City Court; ty Family Court; Hon. Lenora B. secretary is Marion K. Henderson ’65, Foote-Beavers ’97 of the Erie County Front row, left to Second row, left to Third row, left to Fourth row, left to Fifth row, left to Not pictured: Lisa retired; and assistant secretary is Mary Family Court; Terrence M. Gilbride right: Mary Penn, right: Vice Dean right: Gayle L. right: Kenneth A. right: Robert P. J.Allen, Paula M. Penn ’99, of Hamberger & Weiss. ’88 of Hodgson Russ; Robert P.Heary Associate Dean for for Academic Eagan, Laurie Manning,Amy Heary, Terrence M. Ciprich, Hon. Gail Administration Affairs James A. Styka Bloom and Martoche and Gilbride, David P. A. Donofrio, Immediate past president is Mar- ’91 of Hiscock & Barclay; Brian M. James R. Newton, Gardner, Hilary C. Mark J. Mark W.Warren. Flynn, Robert L. Gregory A. garet P.Gryko ’77, of Delaware North Melber ’96 of Personius Melber; Tasha Executive Director Banker, Hon. Craig Stuhlmiller. Boreanaz, Mattacola, Tasha E. Cos. Ilene R. Fleischmann, UB Law E. Moore ’99 of the New York State and Vice Dean D. Hannah, Pietra Lawrence M. Ross, Moore, Catherine vice dean, continues as executive di- Division of Human Rights; Catherine Ilene R. G. Lettieri, Hon. Richard F. E. Nagel, Donald rector. Lisa M. Mueller, assistant dean, E. Nagel ’98 of Nuchereno & Nagel; Fleischmann, Lynn Lenora B. Foote- DiGiacomo, Marc W.O’Brien Jr. and serves as assistant director. Donald W.O’Brien Jr. ’77 of Woods A. Clarke, Marion Beavers and W.Brown, Brian Lourdes M. New directors elected for terms Oviatt Gilman; Lawrence M. Ross ’79 K. Henderson, Dennis R. McCoy. M. Melber, Kevin Ventura. ending in 2011 are: James W.Grable of Hurwitz & Fine; Mark J. President Hon. E. D. Robinson and Jr. ’96 of Connors & Vilardo; Pietra G. Stuhlmiller ’99 of Computer Task Jeannette Ogden, James W.Grable Jr. Margaret P.Gryko Lettieri ’01 of Harris Beach; Amy Group; and Mark M.Warren ’83 of and Dean Makau Martoche ’99 of Connors & Vilardo; M&T Bank. Mutua. Gregory A. Mattacola ’98 of The Mat- tacola Law Firm; Kevin D. Robinson UB LAW FORUM • FALL 2008 64 Alumni Association 65

UB Law Alumni Association elects officers and directors for 2008-09

ethany J. Gilbert ’04 has been Front row,left to right: Executive Director Ilene R. elected president of the 2008-09 Fleischmann,Assistant Director UB Law GOLD (Graduates of the Patricia Warrington,Associate Last Decade) Group. Gilbert, an Dean for Administration James R. associate at Hodgson Russ, focus- Newton,Vice Dean for Academic Bes her practice on health care reimbursement Affairs James A. Gardner, Dean and regulatory and compliance matters. She Makau Mutua, Jessica M. Baker and is a member of the American Health Lawyers GOLD Group President Bethany J. Association and serves on the editorial advi- Gilbert. sory board of Medical Devices Law & Industry Second row,left to right: Report, a publication of the Bureau of Na- Jennifer M. McCann, Rebecca Z. tional Affairs. McCauley and Marc W.Brown. Jesse Baldwin ’04 of Damon & Morey is Third row, left to right: Pietra G. president-elect. Secretary is Molly L. Mallia Lettieri and Jesse Baldwin. ’05 of Damon & Morey; secretary-elect is Jen- Fourth row, left to right: Carla J. nifer M. McCann ’04 of the Williamsville Miller Montroy, Gretchen Nichols Central Schools; treasurer is Jeffrey Lloyd and Amber Storr. Kingsley ’02 of Goldberg Segalla; and treasur- Fifth row, left to right: Matthew J. er-elect is Brent J. Nowicki ’06 of Hodgson Makowski, Jacia T.Smith and Christopher D. Smith. Russ. The immediate past president is Pietra Not pictured: Stephanie J. Calhoun, G. Lettieri ’01 of Harris Beach. Natalie A. Grigg, Scott T.Hanson, New directors elected for terms ending in Kevin W.Hourihan, Jeffrey Lloyd 2011 are: Stephanie J. Calhoun ’08; Matthew Kingsley, Molly L. Mallia, Kathleen J. Makowski ’07 of Lippes Mathias Wexler J. Martin-Nieves, Brent J. Nowicki, Friedman; Carla J. Miller Montroy ’06 of the David W.Polak, Danielle Law Office of Carla J. Miller Montroy; and Shainbrown, Jack Trachtenberg and Gretchen Nichols ’01 of Nesper, Ferber & Di- Stephanie Williams-Torres. Giacomo. Other directors are: Jessica M. Baker ’03 of Hiscock & Barclay; Natalie A. Grigg ’02 of Rupp, Baase, Pfalzgraf, Cunningham & Cop- pola; Scott T.Hanson ’02 of Harter Secrest & Emery; Kevin W.Hourihan ’99 of Lipsitz Green Scime Cambria; Kathleen J. Martin- Nieves ’99 of the Law Firm of Francis M. Letro,Attorneys at Law; Rebecca Z. McCauley ’03 of the Law Offices of Rebecca Z. Mc- Cauley; David W.Polak ’00 of the Law Of- ﬁces of David W.Polak; Danielle Shainbrown ’05 of Rupp, Baase, Pfalzgraf, Cunningham & Coppola; Christopher D. Smith ’02 of the Law Office of Christopher D. Smith; Jacia T. Smith ’07 of Harris Beach; Amber Storr ’06 of Damon & Morey; Jack Trachtenberg ’02 of Hodgson Russ; and Stephanie Williams-Tor- res ’00 of Kaleida Health. Ilene R. Fleischmann, UB Law vice dean, continues as executive director. Patricia War- rington serves as assistant director. UB LAW FORUM • FALL 2008 66 Alumni Association 67 GOLD Group officers and directors for 2008-09

NEW YORK CITY: Elizabeth A. The Brasserie,Aug,13,2008 Fiorelli ’09, right, with her sister Pia Regional Teresa Fiorelli grips & grins

Alumni say “cheese” at Benjamin J. Kallos ’05 and Albany, New York City Stephanie M. Palladino ’06 Above: and Rochester Michael D. Mann ’06 and Associate Dean James R. Janis Cohen ’82 and Michelle A. Crew ’94 Newton Right: Jennifer Brace ’07, ALBANY: Christian R. Oliver ’07 and 74 State Street Hotel,Jan.16,2008 Assistant Director of Alumni Services Amy Renee M. Rozier Hayes Atkinson ’07 and Rachel Sun ’07

ROCHESTER: Judge Van Strydonck’s chambers, Above: Hall of Justice,Aug.19,2008 Above: Heather P.Behnke ’98, Marc D. Ganz ’82, Kimberly Ann Fanniff ’99 Above: Sheila R. Hand ’84 and Rachel Mac Vean ’07 Elizabeth Droege and Matthew S. Lerner ’99 and Matthew I. Mazur ’82

NEW YORK CITY: Elizabeth A. The Brasserie,Aug,13,2008 Fiorelli ’09, right, with her sister Pia Regional Teresa Fiorelli grips & grins

Left: Keith D. Martin ’84, Patrick J. Higgins ’84 and Leonard H. Singer ’83 Above: Lawrence D. Mancuso ’11 Above: and Caitlin E. Hon. Thomas M.Van Above: Howe ’11 Strydonck ’73 and Joshua R. Fleury ’06, Michael Michael R.Wolford ’68 Kruger and spouse Nikki Baldwin ’07, and Andrew Guglielmi ’06 Above: Nathaniel S. Bank ’11, Left: Hon. Eugene F.Pigott ’73 and Vice Dean Admissions Danielle G. Smith ’11 and Financial Aid Lillie Wiley Upshaw UB LAW FORUM • FALL 2008 70 CLASS ACTION 71 ’60s ith gratitude, the Law School recognizes those alumni and Gerald S.Lippes ’64 received the Knox Award for Lifetime Achievement at the Class of1958 friends who have given their time and energy to help organize, Arts Council in Buffalo and Erie Coun- plan and attend their reunion event. Though every effort has ty’s annual Arts Award luncheon. Wbeen made to ensure the accuracy of the reunion pages, we apologize for any Lippes is founder and senior partner of the Buffalo firm Lippes Mathias Wexler inadvertent errors or mistakes. If you have any questions or wish to report an Friedman.He also serves on the board inaccuracy, please write Amy Hayes Atkinson, assistant director of reunions and of directors of the Albright-Knox Art Gallery,the New York State Council on alumni services, 419 O’Brian Hall, Buffalo, N.Y.14260-1100; call (716) 645-6224; the Arts and the University at Buffalo or e-mail [email protected] Foundation.Lippes is a past recipient of Thank you! We hope to see everyone at your next reunion. the UB Law Alumni Association’s Jaeckle Award and Distinguished Alumnus Award.He is an emeritus member of the Law School’s Dean’s Ad- Save the date for your reunion! visory Council. Classes of 1959, 1964, 1969, 1974, 1979, 1984, 1989 and 1999 Hon.Samuel L.Green ’67 was the keynote speaker for the Student’s of We are starting planning for 2009 reunions. Reunion weekend dates are May 1 and Color Dinner,April 3.He was honored 2, 2009, and June 5 and 6, 2009. by the Bar Association of Erie County If your class year ends in 4 or 9, please considering helping us with your reunion. and the Minority Bar Association of We need alums to help plan functions and others to call classmates and friends – a Western New York for serving for 25 perfect opportunity to get involved if you live outside the Buffalo area and want to see years in the Appellate Division.Green is your classmates. a judge of the Appellate Division,4th Information will be posted at www.law.buffalo.edu/reunions. Contact Amy Hayes Department,in Buffalo.He was the first Seated – Anthony J. Colucci Jr., Diane Gaylord-Ogasawara, Maryann Saccomando Freedman, Sue Dealy Atkinson at (716) 645-6224 or [email protected] if you want to get involved. African-American Supreme Court jus- embers of the Murszewski, Hon. Michael A.Amico, Richard A. Boccio. Standing – Ronald D.Anton, Harold M. Halpern, tice to serve the 8th Judicial District and Class of 1958 Jack L. Getman, Noel E. Bartlo, Dr. Charles S.V.Telly, Former Professor Hilary P.Bradford ’53, Former the first African-American outside the gathered for Professor Donald C. Lubick, Richard A. Grimm Jr., James N. Carlo, Nicholas J. Longo, Hon. Glenn R. New York City area to be named to an their 50th re- Morton, Joel Brownstein, Edwin R. Ilardo, Thomas C. Hartzell Sr. appellate division.In addition,he is the union on the Thomas C. Hartzell Gordon R.Gross ’55 has given a $1 longest-serving associate justice in the Mweekend of May 16 and 17. On Sr. and Richard A. million gift to the University at Buffalo Fourth Department.Green is a former Friday, classmates met at the pic- Grimm Jr. to establish an endowed professorship recipient of the UB Law Alumni Associ- turesque Westwood Country ’50s for the Institute for Jewish Thought, Club in Williamsville. Special ation’s Jaeckle Award and Distin- Hon.John J.Gruber ’52 has retired as Heritage and Culture.In addition,UB guished Alumnus Award.He lives in guests included former profes- Town of Tonawanda Court judge in Law School has named one of the Buffalo. sor Donald Lubick and former Tonawanda,N.Y.Gruber served for 23 school’s most-used lecture halls the adjunct professor Hilary Brad- years on the bench.He was also an act- Gordon and Gretchen Gross Class- Robert P.Fine ’68 is CEO and chair of ford ’53. Classmates came from ing Buffalo City Court judge for the room,in recognition of their $250,000 the board of directors of the Buffalo as far as Hawaii to get reac- past several years. gift to the Law School. firm Hurwitz & Fine.He pre- quainted for this milestone re- Gross is a senior partner viously served as president of union. Ralph L.Halpern ’53 of Buffalo has Look for more On Saturday afternoon, sev- in the Buffalo firm Gross the UB Law Alumni Associa- Anthony J. Colucci Jr., Carmela Colucci and Joel Maryann been named a visiting professor in the Shuman Brizdle & Gilfil- reunion coverage tion and focuses his practice eral classmates joined Dean Brownstein Saccomando faculty of law and history at Neophyte lan.He is a past recipient in the Spring in business/corporate law Makau Mutua for lunch in the Freedman, Diane Rilsky South-Western University,in of the UB Law Alumni 2009 issue of UB and estate planning.Fine is a Law School Conference Center, Gaylord- Bulgaria.Halpern is senior counsel in Association’s Distin- Law Forum. past recipient of the UB Law on the fifth floor of O’Brian Ogasawara and the business and corporate,financial guished Alumnus Award Alumni Association’s Distin- Hall.After lunch, the class was Sue Dealy services and international trade prac- and is a resident of guished Alumnus Award and seated on stage with faculty, Murszewski tice groups in the Buffalo office of Amherst,N.Y. is an adjunct faculty member at UB VIPs and other dignitaries for Jaeckle Fleischmann & Mugel. Law School.He lives in Williamsville, the Class of 2008 Commence- Maryann Saccomando Freedman ’58 N.Y. ment ceremony at UB’s Center Daniel T.Roach ’53 received the John of Buffalo was honored by the Bar As- for the Arts.As part of the cere- Richard A. Boccio Cegielski Civility Award from the West- sociation of Erie County for her trail- Giles P.Manias ’68 has been named mony, the Class of 1958 was and Edwin R. ern New York Trial Lawyers Associa- blazing efforts.She is the only woman president of the Bar Association of Erie honored for its accomplish- Ilardo tion.Roach is a partner in the Buffalo to have served as president of both the County.Manias is a solo practitioner in ments. firm Roach,Brown,McCarthy & Gru- Bar Association of Erie County and the Buffalo,where he resides.He also chairs ber.He is a past recipient of the UB Law New York State Bar Association.Freed- the bar association’s international sister Alumni Association’s Distinguished man is of counsel in the Buffalo firm cities committee and holds a premier li- Dr. Charles S.V.Telly, Ginny Amico, Hon. Michael A. Alumnus Award. Cohen & Lombardo. cense in public international law from Amico and Hon. Glenn R. Morton UB LAW FORUM • FALL 2008 70 CLASS ACTION 71 ’60s ith gratitude, the Law School recognizes those alumni and Gerald S.Lippes ’64 received the Knox Award for Lifetime Achievement at the Class of1958 friends who have given their time and energy to help organize, Arts Council in Buffalo and Erie Coun- plan and attend their reunion event. Though every effort has ty’s annual Arts Award luncheon. Wbeen made to ensure the accuracy of the reunion pages, we apologize for any Lippes is founder and senior partner of the Buffalo firm Lippes Mathias Wexler inadvertent errors or mistakes. If you have any questions or wish to report an Friedman.He also serves on the board inaccuracy, please write Amy Hayes Atkinson, assistant director of reunions and of directors of the Albright-Knox Art Gallery,the New York State Council on alumni services, 419 O’Brian Hall, Buffalo, N.Y.14260-1100; call (716) 645-6224; the Arts and the University at Buffalo or e-mail [email protected] Foundation.Lippes is a past recipient of Thank you! We hope to see everyone at your next reunion. the UB Law Alumni Association’s Jaeckle Award and Distinguished Alumnus Award.He is an emeritus member of the Law School’s Dean’s Ad- Save the date for your reunion! visory Council. Classes of 1959, 1964, 1969, 1974, 1979, 1984, 1989 and 1999 Hon.Samuel L.Green ’67 was the keynote speaker for the Student’s of We are starting planning for 2009 reunions. Reunion weekend dates are May 1 and Color Dinner,April 3.He was honored 2, 2009, and June 5 and 6, 2009. by the Bar Association of Erie County If your class year ends in 4 or 9, please considering helping us with your reunion. and the Minority Bar Association of We need alums to help plan functions and others to call classmates and friends – a Western New York for serving for 25 perfect opportunity to get involved if you live outside the Buffalo area and want to see years in the Appellate Division.Green is your classmates. a judge of the Appellate Division,4th Information will be posted at www.law.buffalo.edu/reunions. Contact Amy Hayes Department,in Buffalo.He was the first Seated – Anthony J. Colucci Jr., Diane Gaylord-Ogasawara, Maryann Saccomando Freedman, Sue Dealy Atkinson at (716) 645-6224 or [email protected] if you want to get involved. African-American Supreme Court jus- embers of the Murszewski, Hon. Michael A.Amico, Richard A. Boccio. Standing – Ronald D.Anton, Harold M. Halpern, tice to serve the 8th Judicial District and Class of 1958 Jack L. Getman, Noel E. Bartlo, Dr. Charles S.V.Telly, Former Professor Hilary P.Bradford ’53, Former the first African-American outside the gathered for Professor Donald C. Lubick, Richard A. Grimm Jr., James N. Carlo, Nicholas J. Longo, Hon. Glenn R. New York City area to be named to an their 50th re- Morton, Joel Brownstein, Edwin R. Ilardo, Thomas C. Hartzell Sr. appellate division.In addition,he is the union on the Thomas C. Hartzell Gordon R.Gross ’55 has given a $1 longest-serving associate justice in the Mweekend of May 16 and 17. On Sr. and Richard A. million gift to the University at Buffalo Fourth Department.Green is a former Friday, classmates met at the pic- Grimm Jr. to establish an endowed professorship recipient of the UB Law Alumni Associ- turesque Westwood Country ’50s for the Institute for Jewish Thought, Club in Williamsville. Special ation’s Jaeckle Award and Distin- Hon.John J.Gruber ’52 has retired as Heritage and Culture.In addition,UB guished Alumnus Award.He lives in guests included former profes- Town of Tonawanda Court judge in Law School has named one of the Buffalo. sor Donald Lubick and former Tonawanda,N.Y.Gruber served for 23 school’s most-used lecture halls the adjunct professor Hilary Brad- years on the bench.He was also an act- Gordon and Gretchen Gross Class- Robert P.Fine ’68 is CEO and chair of ford ’53. Classmates came from ing Buffalo City Court judge for the room,in recognition of their $250,000 the board of directors of the Buffalo as far as Hawaii to get reac- past several years. gift to the Law School. firm Hurwitz & Fine.He pre- quainted for this milestone re- Gross is a senior partner viously served as president of union. Ralph L.Halpern ’53 of Buffalo has Look for more On Saturday afternoon, sev- in the Buffalo firm Gross the UB Law Alumni Associa- Anthony J. Colucci Jr., Carmela Colucci and Joel Maryann been named a visiting professor in the Shuman Brizdle & Gilfil- reunion coverage tion and focuses his practice eral classmates joined Dean Brownstein Saccomando faculty of law and history at Neophyte lan.He is a past recipient in the Spring in business/corporate law Makau Mutua for lunch in the Freedman, Diane Rilsky South-Western University,in of the UB Law Alumni 2009 issue of UB and estate planning.Fine is a Law School Conference Center, Gaylord- Bulgaria.Halpern is senior counsel in Association’s Distin- Law Forum. past recipient of the UB Law on the fifth floor of O’Brian Ogasawara and the business and corporate,financial guished Alumnus Award Alumni Association’s Distin- Hall.After lunch, the class was Sue Dealy services and international trade prac- and is a resident of guished Alumnus Award and seated on stage with faculty, Murszewski tice groups in the Buffalo office of Amherst,N.Y. is an adjunct faculty member at UB VIPs and other dignitaries for Jaeckle Fleischmann & Mugel. Law School.He lives in Williamsville, the Class of 2008 Commence- Maryann Saccomando Freedman ’58 N.Y. ment ceremony at UB’s Center Daniel T.Roach ’53 received the John of Buffalo was honored by the Bar As- for the Arts.As part of the cere- Richard A. Boccio Cegielski Civility Award from the West- sociation of Erie County for her trail- Giles P.Manias ’68 has been named mony, the Class of 1958 was and Edwin R. ern New York Trial Lawyers Associa- blazing efforts.She is the only woman president of the Bar Association of Erie honored for its accomplish- Ilardo tion.Roach is a partner in the Buffalo to have served as president of both the County.Manias is a solo practitioner in ments. firm Roach,Brown,McCarthy & Gru- Bar Association of Erie County and the Buffalo,where he resides.He also chairs ber.He is a past recipient of the UB Law New York State Bar Association.Freed- the bar association’s international sister Alumni Association’s Distinguished man is of counsel in the Buffalo firm cities committee and holds a premier li- Dr. Charles S.V.Telly, Ginny Amico, Hon. Michael A. Alumnus Award. Cohen & Lombardo. cense in public international law from Amico and Hon. Glenn R. Morton UB LAW FORUM • FALL 2008 72 Class Action 73

the University of Brussels,Belgium. Award for Outstanding Practitioner at of Erie County in Buffalo and serves on the New York State Association of the board of directors of the bar associ- Lawrence Golden ’69 was elected presi- Criminal Defense Lawyers annual din- ation’s assigned counsel program.He is dent of the Oneida County Bar Associ- ner in New York City.Mahoney is a a Buffalo solo practitioner and resides ation.He is a partner in the firm Lock- partner in the Buffalo firm Harrington in Hamburg,N.Y. wood & Golden in Utica,N.Y.,where & Mahoney.He is a member of the he resides. board of directors of the National Asso- Leslie Haggstrom ’77 has been pro- ciation of Criminal Defense Lawyers, moted to first assistant county attorney the first board member from Buffalo in for Allegany County,N.Y.She has pri- 50 years. mary supervision of attorneys repre- Pamela Davis senting the Department of Social Ser- Heilman ’75 ’70s Douglas S.Coppola ’75 was honored vices in child welfare matters.In addi- Richard Ascher ’70 was elected a dele- with the Charles H.Dougherty Civility tion,she serves as district lay leader for gate to the Democratic National Con- Award at the Bar Association of Erie the Mountain View district of the Unit- vention on behalf of former presiden- County’s 121st annual dinner in May.A ed Methodist Church and as president tial candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton. past president of the UB Law Alumni of the Allegany County Area Founda- Ascher lives in San Diego. Association,he is a solo practitioner tion.Haggstrom lives in Angelica,N.Y. and resident of Buffalo. Hon.Richard R.Stokely ’71 was elect- Kenneth A.Manning ’77 received the ed to a third term as county judge in Pamela Davis Heilman ’75 has been 2008 President’s Pro Bono Service Otero County Magistrate Court in named a member of the University at Award from the New York State Bar As- Buffalo Council,the University’s local sociation.He was honored at the Bar Class of1983 Alamogordo,N.M.,where he resides. Richard M.Miller governing council.She is a partner in Association of Erie County’s Law Day ’76 Paul A.Battaglia ’72 was honored at the corporate and securities and inter- Luncheon in Buffalo and the New York the Buffalo Law Review Dinner at the national/cross-border practice group of State Bar Association Law Day Lun- he Class of 1983 con- 1st Row – Ann Demopoulos, Nancy J. Badeer, Kenneth R. Hiller, Hon. E. Jeannette Ogden, Judith Holender Buffalo Club on April 10.He is a part- the Buffalo firm Hodgson Russ.Heil- cheon in Albany.Manning is a partner tinued its reunion Loeb, Linda J. Nenni, Barbara L. Schifeling, Lynn A. Clarke, Ellen Yost Lafili,Julia A. Garver ner in the firm Jaeckle Fleischmann & man,a Buffalo resident,is also a mem- in the Buffalo-based firm Phillips Lytle. tradition in grand 2nd Row – Jeffrey S.Antin, Laurie Styka Bloom, Richard A. Roberts, Ronald P.Hart, Mark I. Reisman, Joseph Mugel in the Amherst,N.Y.,office,and ber of UB Law School’s Dean’s Adviso- He currently serves on UB Law School’s fashion for its 25th A. McBride,Alan J. Bozer, Scott B. Nadel,Allen J. Zaretsky, Joseph F.Ruh Jr., J. Joseph Wilder, Carol G. Snider, ry Council. Dean’s Advisory Council,is a past presi- reunion, held May 2 Albert A. Foster Jr., Lee E. Berger, Jean Frances Niven, Hon. Mark A. Montour, Jerry A. Gambino an adjunct instructor at UB Law 3rd Row – John P.Hains, Jeffrey S. Shein, Hon. Gerald J.Whalen, Louis Algios, Neil E. Higgins,Alan H. School. dent of the UB Law Alumni Associa- Tand 3 in Buffalo. The weekend Arthur A.Herdzik ’75 spoke at a New got under way with cocktails, Solarz, Michael E. Marszalkowski,Andrew M. Thaler, Michael P.J. McGorry, Daniel P.Tiede, James W. tion and a past recipient of the UB Law Everett Jr., Stephen S. Southard Ralph Cessario ’72 has joined the Buf- York State Bar Association CLE pro- Alumni Association’s Distinguished hors d’oeuvres and breathtaking falo-based law firm Phillips Lytle as spe- gram,“Introductory Strategies on Alumnus Award. views of Lake Erie and Buffalo’s cial counsel,specializing in products li- Ethics and Civility in Everyday Lawyer- skyline at Shanghai Red’s in the Robert N. ability defense.Cessario was formerly ing,”and participated in a panel discus- Hon.Marilyn O’Connor ’78 received Buffalo Harbor. The night was Jeffrey S. Convissar ’77 with the law firm of Quackenbush Ces- sion on ethics and civility with other the 2008 Distinguished Jurist Award at spent mingling and swapping Antin, Neil E. program faculty,at the Ramada Hotel the Center for Dispute Settlement’s Higgins, Louis sario & Hamlin in Buffalo.He lives in stories in the grand ballroom Algios,Andrew East Amherst,N.Y. and Conference Center in Amherst, 18th annual awards luncheon in overlooking the harbor. M. Thaler N.Y.Herdzik is an officer of the firm Rochester,N.Y.O’Connor is a retired Saturday morning, the class Isaac Fromm ’72 has been appointed Chelus Herdzik Speyer & Monte in Monroe County Family Court judge in reconvened at the Law School to the New Jersey governor’s Blue Rib- Buffalo.He lives in Lancaster,N.Y., Rochester. for brunch, followed by a tour. bon Panel on Immigration Policy. where he is village attorney and treasur- Current UB Law students took Fromm is a partner in the firm Barst & er of the Lancaster Lions Club. Mark G.Pearce ’78 has been elected a the opportunity to show the Mukamal in New York City,practicing fellow by the College of Labor and Em- alums all the changes that have immigration and nationality law.He Charles P.Jacobs ’75 of Eggertsville, ployment Lawyers.He also has been taken place at the Law School. Ronald P.Hart, Above: Dan Schifeling, resides in Teaneck,N.J. N.Y.,was named in the 2008 edition of appointed to the New York State Indus- Paula R. Bozer, Albert A. Foster Jr., Mark I. That evening, the class en- Hon. E. Reisman Chambers USA: America’s Leading trial Board of Appeals and serves on the joyed dinner at the historic Hon.Rose H.Sconiers ’73 received the Jeannette Lawyers for Business.He was also New York State Commission on In- Mansion on Delaware, featuring Ogden,Alan J. Outstanding Jurist Award from the Bar named head of the business and finan- creasing Diversity in the State Govern- music by the Thom Diina Band Bozer Association of Erie County in Buffalo. cial services department in the Buffalo ment Workforce.Pearce is a partner in with lead vocalist and classmate She also was honored with the Judicial office of Nixon Peabody.Jacobs is a the Buffalo firm Creighton Pearce Lynn Clarke. During the band’s Excellence and Leadership Award from partner in the firm,practicing in the ar- Johnson & Giroux.He is a Buffalo resi- intermission, classmate Rick the Association of Justices of the eas of investment funds,private equity dent. Roberts provided additional en- Supreme Court of New York State. and fund formation. tertainment with a comedic Sconiers is a New York State Supreme Vikki L.Pryor ’78 delivered the com- Julia A. Garver, routine to further lighten every- Joseph F.Ruh Court justice,8th Judicial District,in Richard M.Miller ’76 has joined the mencement speech at Bronx Commu- one’s mood. firm Cowan Liebowitz & Latman as a nity College on June 6 in Bronx,N.Y., Jr., Linda J. Buffalo,where she resides.She is a past Nenni president of the UB Law Alumni Asso- partner in the New York City office.He and received the 2008 Bronx Commu- ciation and a past recipient of the UB will also spearhead the firm’s new office nity College Presidential Medallion. Law Alumni Association’s Distin- in Princeton,N.J.Miller lives in Pryor,a former student at the school, guished Alumna Award. Hopewell,N.J. was honored for her leadership,philan- Above: Hon. Gerald J. thropic efforts and commitment to Whalen, J. Joseph Wilder, Mark J.Mahoney ’74,a Buffalo resi- Robert N.Convissar ’77 has been elect- higher education.She is president of Jerry A. Gambino dent,received the Thurgood Marshall ed vice president of the Bar Association SBLI USA Mutual Life Insurance in UB LAW FORUM • FALL 2008 72 Class Action 73

New York City,a past recipient of the room housed in a law school in the na- bourg Steindler Houston & Rosen in Buffalo,practicing insurance coverage Canadian Consulate General’s Export Act (Article 12 of the New York Naviga- UB Law Alumni Association’s Distin- tion.He is a Buffalo resident. New York City,practicing in the credi- and defense litigation.Boron lives on USA Mission.Joyce is a partner in the tion Law) at the Lockport Country guished Alumna Award and a member tors’rights and insolvency practice de- Grand Island,N.Y. Buffalo firm Jaeckle Fleischmann & Club in Lockport,N.Y.Kolaga is a part- of the UB Law School Dean’s Advisory Paul M.Moskal ’79 has retired as su- partment.Cyganowski was a U.S.chief Mugel,practicing in the immigration, ner in the environmental practice Council. pervisory special agent and chief divi- bankruptcy judge for the Eastern Dis- Hon.Donald F.Cerio ’83 of Canastota, international business,business and group of the Buffalo firm Jaeckle Fleis- sion counsel of the FBI in Buffalo. trict of New York for 14 years and is a N.Y.,was named New York State Court corporate,and intellectual property chmann & Mugel. David F.Smith ’78 of Clarence,N.Y., Moskal began his career with the FBI as member of the executive committee of of Claims judge,6th Judicial District,in practice groups. was elected chief executive officer of a special agent in 1979.He has been on the commercial and federal litigation Binghamton,N.Y.Cerio was previously Mark S.Mulholland ’85 is co-manag- National Fuel Gas Co.in Williamsville, multiple assignments,including inves- section of the New York State Bar Asso- Madison County district attorney in Karyn Vampotic ’84 is an assistant at- ing partner of the firm Ruskin Moscou N.Y.Smith has been with the company tigations in Honolulu and the Republic ciation.She is director of the New York Wampsville,N.Y. torney general in the State of Arizona. Faltischek in Uniondale,N.Y.The firm David F.Smith ’78 since 1978 and served as president and of Haiti,and he also served as assistant Institute of Credit; vice president of its She is one of four team leaders in an of- has been voted “Best Law Firm on Long chief operating officer since 2006.He is legal attache for the FBI in the U.S.em- women’s division; and a past recipient Island”in a reader poll conducted by a member of UB Law School’s Dean’s bassies in Rome and London.Moskal is of the New York Institute of Credit’s Long Island Business News.Mulholland Advisory Council. leaving the FBI to work in a private/ Trustee Award. is co-chair of the firm’s litigation de- public consortium. partment.He resides in Bayport,N.Y. Thomas E.Black Jr.’79 was awarded Jeffrey P.Crandall ’82 was honored on Births the UB Law Alumni Association’s Dis- Ronald J.Tanski ’79 has been named April 10 at the Buffalo Law Review Din- Hon.Lisa Bloch Rodwin ’85 has been tinguished Alumnus Award for his ex- president of National Fuel Gas Supply ner at the Buffalo Club.Crandall is a To Jeanne-Marie Waldman ’88 and Ileen Paley, twins, Sarah Judith and named an Erie County family court emplary performance in business.He Corp.in Williamsville,N.Y.Tanski partner in the New York City office of Matthew Simeon Paley-Waldman,on April 7, 2008, in South Orange, judge in Buffalo.Rodwin was former was honored at the association’s 46th joined National Fuel Gas Co.in 1979 Shearman & Sterling,practicing in the N.J. chief of the Erie County district attor- Annual Meeting and Dinner on May 1 and will continue to serve as principal executive compensation and employee ney’s office domestic violence bureau in at the Hyatt Regency Buffalo.Black, financial officer.He lives in Tonawanda, benefits group. To Victoria Hunter Hay ’93 and Mark E. Danziger, a daughter, Margot Buffalo.She is a resident of Amherst, chair of UB Law School’s Dean’s Advi- N.Y. Kim, on May 14, 2007, in South Korea, adopted on Jan. 23, 2008. N.Y. Ann E.Evanko ’79 sory Council,is managing partner in Herbert J.Glose ’82 has become a part- the firm Black Mann & Graham in ner in the Buffalo office of Hiscock & To Daniel Ullman ’97 and Erin Barclay ’98, a son, Miles Jeffrey Barclay Joel I.Ross ’85 has joined Riehlman Flower Mound,Texas,where he prac- Barclay,practicing in the corporate Ullman, on Dec. 8, 2007, in Washington, D.C. Shafer & Shafer as an associate in the tices residential real estate law. practice group.He is chair of the mu- Tully,N.Y.,office,practicing in real es- nicipal and school law committee of the To James M.Appler ’00 and Carrie Parks Appler ’03, a daughter, tate,civil and criminal litigation,and Ann E.Evanko ’79 of Orchard Park, ’80s Erie County Bar Association.Glose was Olivia Ann, on Feb. 10, 2008, in Amherst, N.Y. general practice.He was previously a N.Y.,is the recipient of the 2008 Athena Gerard S.Citera ’80 has become of previously a partner in the firm Harris staff attorney with UAW-Daimler Award from the Western New York counsel in the New York City office of Beach in Buffalo. To Marco Cercone ’02 and Kari Cercone, a daughter, Marina, on Nov. Chrysler/GM Legal Services Plans in Women’s Fund and the Buffalo Niagara Davis Polk & Ward.He practices in the 14, 2007, in West Seneca, N.Y. Syracuse,N.Y.Ross is a resident of Liv- Partnership.She has also been named financial institutions group,advising Denise E.O’Donnell ’82 received the erpool,N.Y. president of the Buffalo firm Hurwitz & broker-dealer clients regarding regula- UB Law Alumni Association’s Distin- To Kate L.Hill ’04 and Justin Hill, a daughter, Lauren Anne, on Jan. 25, Fine.Evanko concentrates her practice tory and transactional practice.Citera guished Alumna Award on May 1 at the 2008, in Buffalo. E.Lee Smith ’85 was promoted to part- Anna Marie ner in the firm Thacher Proffitt & Cellino ’81 in business and employment law and previously practiced in the firm Chad- 46th Annual Meeting and Dinner in she is a founder and a past president of bourne & Parke in the New York City the Hyatt Regency Buffalo.She was Wood in the New York City office.He the Western New York Chapter of the office. honored for her commitment to public focuses his practice on commercial Women’s Bar Association of the State of service.O’Donnell is commissioner for Katherine M.Gladstone ’83 received lending and loan recovery activity from fice of 22 lawyers with the Child and a lender’s and borrower’s perspective. New York. Gary DeWaal ’80 was appointed senior the New York State Division of Crimi- the 2007 Hon.Michael F.Dillon Law Family Protection Division,Protective managing director and group general nal Justice Services in Albany,N.Y.She is Guardian Award from the 7th Judicial Services Section,where she handles cas- Dan D.Kohane ’79 was named to the counsel for Newedge in New York City. a former partner in the Buffalo firm Rita Hubbard-Robinson ’86 was District for her work on behalf of chil- es on dependency actions and termina- named corporate training director at 2008 Euromoney Guide to the World’s He is a member of the 13-member ex- Hodgson Russ and a former first assis- dren.Gladstone practices in Rochester, Leading Insurance and Reinsurance tion of parental rights trials.Vampotic Erie County Medical Center Corp.in ecutive committee that oversees tant U.S.attorney for the Western Dis- N.Y.,where she resides. lives with her husband in Tucson,Ariz. Lawyers.Only 300 lawyers are selected Newedge and is responsible for the le- trict of New York.O’Donnell,a past Buffalo,where she resides.Hubbard- Robinson was formerly executive direc- from the United States,and Kohane gal,compliance and anti-money laun- president of the UB Law Alumni Asso- Hon.E.Jeannette Ogden ’83 has been Paula M.Ciprich ’85 of Eggertsville, was the only lawyer selected from New dering departments.DeWaal is a resi- ciation,is a Buffalo resident. named president of the UB Law Alum- tor of the Buffalo Commission on Citi- N.Y.,was elected secretary of National zens’Rights and Community Relations. York State outside of New York City.He dent of Brooklyn,N.Y. ni Association for 2008-09.Ogden,a Fuel Gas Co.in Williamsville,N.Y. is a senior member of the Buffalo firm Edward P.Yankelunas ’82 was named a Buffalo City Court judge,is a bridge Ciprich,general counsel of the compa- Ross P.Lanzafame ’86 has been elected Hurwitz & Fine and an adjunct faculty Stuart P.Gelberg ’80,a Garden City, partner in the Buffalo firm Underberg course and trial technique instructor at ny,is also treasurer of the UB Law member at UB Law School. N.Y.,attorney,has been named the & Kessler.He practices in banking, chair of the health law section of the UB Law School.She is also a past presi- Alumni Association. New York State Bar Association.He is a Thomas Maligno Pro Bono Attorney of creditors’rights and litigation.Yankelu- dent of the Minority Bar Association in Francis M.Letro ’79 was honored with the Year by the Nassau County Bar As- nas was previously a partner in the Buf- partner in the firm Harter Secrest & Buffalo,where she resides. Gayle L.Eagan ’85 lectured on “Faces Emery in Rochester,N.Y.,where he re- the Distinguished Alumnus Award sociation. falo firm Damon & Morey.He is a resi- of Discrimination – Money Related Is- from the UB Law Alumni Association. dent of Williamsville,N.Y. Perry Binder ’84 has become a mem- sides.He practices in general business, sues”at the June Noonday Lectures health care professionals,health sys- He was recognized for his leadership by Anna Marie Cellino ’81 has been ap- ber of the National Speakers Associa- sponsored by the Erie Institute of Law example as a private practitioner at the pointed president of National Fuel Gas Laurie S.Bloom ’83 was elected deputy tion,based on his keynote and training tems and hospitals,not-for-profit orga- in Buffalo.Eagan is a partner in the Buf- nizations and long-term care. association’s 46th Annual Meeting and Distribution Corp.in Williamsville, treasurer of the Bar Association of Erie programs for businesses and law firms. falo firm Jaeckle Fleischmann & Mugel. Dinner on May 1 at the Hyatt Regency N.Y.She previously served as senior vice County.She is also a vice president of Binder is a legal studies professor at A Buffalo resident,she is a past recipient Buffalo.Letro’s firm represents victims president and is the first woman to lead the UB Law Alumni Association and Mark R.Multerer ’86 was named a Georgia State University in Atlanta. of the UB Law Alumni Association’s partner in the Sugarman Law Firm in of personal injury and wrongful death the company.Cellino resides in West counsel in the firm Nixon Peabody in Distinguished Alumna Award. accidents.In June 2002,Letro commit- Seneca,N.Y. Buffalo,where she resides. Daniel P.Joyce ’84 was a presenter at Buffalo.He counsels clients regarding personal injury claims. ted $1 million to UB Law School to es- the 2008 New Exporters to Border John T.Kolaga ’85 presented a CLE tablish the Francis M.Letro Court- Hon.Melanie L.Cyganowski ’81 has Eric T.Boron ’83 has become a senior States Missions Multisectoral program program about the New York Oil Spill room,one of the first functional court- become a member of the firm Otter- associate in the firm Mura & Storm in in Buffalo.The program was part of the UB LAW FORUM • FALL 2008 74 Class Action 75

H.Todd Bullard ’87 received the Dis- Buffalo.He was honored for his many tinguished Alumnus Award at UB Law contributions to the betterment of our School’s Students of Color Dinner at community.Lukasik suffered from the Buffalo Niagara Marriott on April 3. clinical depression and created a first- ’90s He was also elected to the board of di- of-its-kind Web site for lawyers with Lisa J.Allen ’90 has been appointed to rectors of USNY Bank,the first individ- depression,www.lawyerswithdepres- the executive committee of the New ually chartered community bank in sion.com.In addition,he received the York State Bar Association’s trusts and New York State.Bullard is an equity Public Service Merit Award from the estates committee.Allen is a member of member in the firm Harris Beach in the Bar Association of Erie County at the the firm Harris Beach in Buffalo,prac- Rochester,N.Y.,office.He specializes in New York State Bar Association’s annu- ticing in the life and asset planning H.Todd Bullard public finance and economic develop- al meeting.Lukasik is a partner in the practice group,and is a member of the ’87 ment and business and commercial liti- firm Cantor Lukasik Dolce & Panepin- board of directors of the UB Law gation. to,in Buffalo.He lives in Lancaster,N.Y. Alumni Association. Paul W.Kullman ’87 was appointed John S.Manning ’88 has been promot- Paula M.Eade Newcomb ’90 spoke at town prosecutor for the Town of West ed to director,domestic planning,and the Bar Association of Erie County’s Class of Seneca,N.Y.He is a resident of West senior tax counsel for Lockheed Martin “Life After Law School: Basic Practice Seneca. Corp.in Bethesda,Md.He resides in 101”seminar at Shanghai Red’s Restau- Washington,D.C.,with his wife and rant in Buffalo.Her topic was “What Belina Anderson ’88 joined Gilberti their three children. Stinziano Heintz & Smith as managing Every New Lawyer Needs to Know.”She 1988 attorney in the New York City office. Joseph W.Allen ’89 was the moderator was also the guest speaker at the Youth She focuses her practice on civil litiga- at the fifth annual Western New York Award Luncheon sponsored by the Belina Anderson tion,representing commercial clients. Bankruptcy Conference sponsored by Lake Erie District Exchange Club at the ’88 Anderson previously worked for the the Bar Association of Erie County and Comfort Inn The Pointe in Niagara New York City Law Department,World the Monroe County Bar Association at Falls,N.Y.Newcomb is of counsel at Trade Center Unit,which handled the Hampton Inn in Batavia,N.Y.He is Bouvier Partnership in Buffalo.She is a complex litigation arising from the ter- also a presenter for the Bankruptcy Law resident of West Seneca,N.Y. rorist attacks of Sept.11,2001.She has and Litigation Seminar sponsored by Naomi L.Adler ’91 has become presi- almost 20 years of legal experience in the National Business Institute at the dent and CEO of United Way of New York City in both the public and Hyatt Regency Buffalo.Allen is a part- Westchester and Putnam in White private sectors. ner in the firm Jaeckle Fleischmann & Plains,N.Y.Adler was previously CEO Mugel in the Buffalo office and lives in he 20th reunion of 1st Row (stairs bottom to top) – Joseph Ferraro, Michael Francis Zendan III, Richard C.Wong, Hon. John Molly C.Dwyer ’88 has been appoint- of United Way of Rockland County. the Class of 1988 was W.Goldsmith, Cindy Kaplan Bennes,Alvin M. Greene, Jane A. Conrad, Paul R. Prentiss, Holly Baum, East Amherst,N.Y. She is a former recipient of the Forty Lisa J.Allen ’90 ed Clerk of Court for the United States held May 2 and 3 in Susan J. Gass Court of Appeals,9th Circuit,in San Marc A.Batchelor ’89 of Chantilly,Va., Under Forty Award and was named a Buffalo.An excellent 2nd Row (landing left to right) – Hon. Forrest Strauss, Bruce T.Frankiewich,Anne McGuirk Hurley, Francisco.She will serve as chief admin- received the 2007 Young Alumnus “Hero of Humanity”by Rockland turnout of classmates Daniel R.Archilla, Maryanne Courtney, Harry E.Werner III, James M. Tierney, Daniel A. Feuerstein, istrative officer for the largest federal Achievement Award from Buffalo State County for her leadership in working Tand friends helped to create an Caitlin M. Denecke, Maureen E. Casey, Terrance P.Flynn appellate court in the nation.Dwyer,a College.He is vice president of credit with underserved populations. 3rd Row (stairs top to bottom) – Sophie I. Feal, David J. Sleight, John S. Manning, Josh B. Rosenblum, ideal weekend for these alums to John J.Williams, Renee S. Filiatraut, Dana M.Young San Francisco resident,has served the with Builders Bank and serves as busi- Sean P.Beiter ’91 of Amherst,N.Y.,re- reconnect. 4th Row (landing left to right) - Mary Jo Herrscher, Thomas F.Knab, Beth Mattimore, Carolyn Wright court since 1988. ness manager and legal counsel for ceived the Silver Beaver Award from the On Friday, things got under LaFon, Samuel J. Capizzi, Cora A.Alsante, Susan B. Collins, Drug Free Kids:America’s Challenge Greater Niagara Frontier Council of the way with a traditional Buffalo James L. Jarvis Jr. Ryan L.Everhart ’88 spoke at the Na- Inc.,in South Riding,Va. happy hour at Darcy McGee’s in 5th Row (back roof) – Mark E. Brand, John J. Christopher, Helen A. Drew-Meosky, tional School Boards Association’s an- Boy Scouts.The award is the council- level distinguished service award of the the Chippewa District. The Regina A. DelVecchio,Ann Marie Fitch,William E. Grieshober Jr. nual conference in Orlando,Fla.He dis- Vincent E.Doyle III ’89 spoke at the night provided plenty of laughs cussed emerging trends in special edu- National Football League’s club counsel Boy Scouts of America.He has served as council president since April 2007. and opportunities to catch up Below: Carolyn Wright LaFon cation litigation.Everhart is a senior as- seminar in Philadelphia.He discussed with old friends. and John J.Williams sociate in the Buffalo firm Hodgson “Ethical Considerations for In-House Beiter is a partner in the firm Jaeckle Maureen E. Fleischmann & Mugel in Buffalo. Saturday morning brunch Russ,practicing education and labor Counsel.”Doyle is a partner in the Buf- brought the class together at the Casey, Caitlin M. Denecke, Martin law with a focus on special education falo firm Connors & Villardo and a Joseline A.Peña-Melnyk ’91 was hon- Law School.After the meal, class law. member of the board of directors of the Denecke and ored with the 2007 Young Alumnus members were given a tour so Terrance P. UB Law Alumni Association. that they could see firsthand William E.Grieshober Jr.’88 has been Achievement Award from Buffalo State Flynn College.She serves in the Maryland how things have changed since promoted to vice president and deputy Camille Wicher ’89 was named vice their days in O’Brian Hall. The general counsel at Rich Products Corp. president of corporate ethics and re- House of Delegates and lives in College Park, Md. reunion was capped off Satur- in Buffalo.He previously served as search subject protection at Roswell day evening at the Steer Restau- managing director of the company’s Park Cancer Institute in Buffalo.Wich- Scott B.Schwartz ’91 has served as an rant in the University District. Richard C. New Ventures Group.Grieshober lives er was previously assistant vice presi- adjunct professor for the Drexel Uni- Wong, in East Amherst,N.Y. dent for research and subject protection Michael versity Antoinette Westphal College of Francis and scientific integrity.She lives in De- Media Arts and Design in Philadelphia. Daniel T.Lukasik ’88 was presented pew,N.Y. Zendan III with the UB Law Alumni Association’s He is a member of the intellectual prop- and Joseph Distinguished Alumnus Award at the erty department in the firm Cozen Ferraro association’s 46th Annual Meeting and O’Connor in Philadelphia. Dinner on May 1 in the Hyatt Regency Above: John S. Manning, Samuel J. Capizzi and Daniel A. Feuerstein UB LAW FORUM • FALL 2008 76 Class Action 77

Jacqueline A.Brummer ’92 was in- Jennifer M.Demert ’93,a Buffalo na- firm Hiscock & Barclay in Buffalo, Gregory A.Mattacola ’98 was appoint- ducted into the National Federation of tive,has been named head of school at practicing U.S.immigration and na- ed to the UB Law Alumni Association State High School Associations Hall of Buffalo Academy of the Sacred Heart. tionality law.He lives in Lewiston,N.Y. board of directors.Mattacola,a solo Fame at the Grand Hyatt Hotel in She was previously a partner in the Buf- Marriages practitioner,is a past member of the Washington,D.C.Brummer is a four- falo firm Cantor Lukasik Dolce Emily L.Downing ’96 has become a board of directors of UB Law School’s shareholder in the Buffalo firm Lewis & time state gymnastics champion from Panepinto. Congratulations to the following newlyweds: GOLD Group.He practices and resides Sweet Home High School in Amherst, Lewis.Downing concentrates her prac- in Rome,N.Y. N.Y.In addition,she won three NCAA Timothy P.Donaher ’93 has become tice on personal injury.She is a Ham- Roberta A.Vallone ’96 and Emerson Polk Kellam Jr., March 29, 2008 championships while attending Ari- the new Monroe County public de- burg,N.Y.,resident. Angela Zwirecki Miller ’98 has been zona State University,was on the U.S. fender in Rochester,N.Y.He was previ- promoted to partner in the firm Thomas Ferrazzi Ferris ’96 was elected Julie A.Atti ’03 and Brian C. Rogers,April 26, 2008 Eric C.Nordby National Team for two years,won three ously the assistant public defender. Phillips Lytle in the Buffalo office.She Empire State Games titles and won the Donaher is a Rochester resident. to the Sweden Town Council in Swe- specializes her practice in bankruptcy ’92 Lisa Danish ’04 and David Sharp,April 5, 2008 DDR Invitational in East Germany. den,N.Y.,for a second four-year term. and creditors’rights.She also was ap- Brummer,an attorney licensed to prac- Richard Holstein ’93 has been promot- He was also elected to the Brook-Lea pointed to the Town of Orchard Park, tice in California,Colorado and New ed to partner in the firm Hamberger & Country Club board in Rochester,N.Y. N.Y.,ethics board for a five-year term. York,lives in North Tonawanda,N.Y. Weiss in the Buffalo office.He repre- Ferris is a partner in the firm Connors She is an associate in the Buffalo firm sents workers’compensation clients. & Ferris in Rochester and resides in Phillips Lytle,practicing commercial Thomas P.Cunningham ’92 was Brockport,N.Y. law. named chair of the law and practices Frank T.Housh ’93 has joined the firm Holly A.Beecher ’97 has been named a Hon.Betty Calvo-Torres ’98 was hon- committee of the torts,insurance and Cohen & Lombardo as an associate in James W.Grable Jr.’96 has been elected partner in the firm Phillips Lytle in the ored with the Distinguished Alumna Eric C.Naegely ’98 is special counsel in compensation law section of the New the Buffalo office.He counsels clients in to the board of directors of the UB Law Buffalo office.Beecher practices estate Award at UB Law School’s Students of the Buffalo firm Damon & Morey.He is York State Bar Association.Cunning- civil litigation,special education and Alumni Association.He is a partner in and trust planning and administration. Color Dinner on April 3 at the Buffalo a trial attorney in the general litigation criminal defense.Housh lives in West the Buffalo firm Connors & Vilardo She is a Buffalo resident. Niagara Marriott.A Buffalo City Court department,defending physicians, Jennifer M. ham is a managing partner in the Buf- falo firm Rupp Baase Pfalzgraf Cun- Seneca,N.Y. and lives in East Amherst,N.Y. judge,she is the first female Hispanic nurses,hospitals and nursing homes in Demert ’93 Hon.Lenora B.Foote ’97 was honored judge in Buffalo history. civil matters as well as defense matters ningham & Coppola.He lives in East Martha Buyer ’94 of East Aurora,N.Y., Tracy Kachur ’96 is an instructor at at the third annual Women in Leader- Amherst,N.Y. involving the New York State Education spoke on current issues in telecommu- Medaille College in Buffalo.She teaches ship Recognition Award & Dinner by Corinne Carey ’98 authored the report Department and Department of Brendan P.McCafferty ’92 has been nications law to members of the Society Ideas and Experiences: Introduction to the Parent Council of St.Philip’s Com- “Access to Reproductive Health Care in Health. named special counsel in Buffalo office of Telecommunications Consultants Critical Thought and Expression,Busi- munity Center in Buffalo.Foote is Erie New York State Jails”for the New York of Magavern Magavern & Grimm.He and the Canadian Telecommunications ness Law,Analytical Writing and Col- County Family Court support magis- Civil Liberties Union.The report ex- Kim Shaffer ’98 has accepted a position practices in taxation,trusts and estates, Consultants Association in St.Louis. lege Writing II.She also has taught Em- trate in Buffalo.She is a state director of poses that there are no uniform health at Paychex Inc.in Rochester,N.Y.She is and business law. Buyer,a solo practitioner,has offices in ployment Law,Criminal Law,Law and the Women’s Bar Association of the care standards for incarcerated women. labor and employment counsel for in- East Aurora and Boulder,Colo. Ethics,and Human Relations at anoth- State of New York,Western New York Carey is an attorney with the New York ternal matters and external products. Anne M.Noble ’92 has become presi- er local college.Kachur is a resident of Chapter,a member of the board of di- Civil Liberties Union’s Reproductive Shaffer lives in Honeoye Falls,N.Y. dent/CEO of Connecticut Lottery Marianne Mariano ’94 has been Amherst,N.Y. rectors of the UB Law Alumni Associa- Rights Project in New York City. Frank T.Housh named acting federal public defender tion and a past member of UB Law Heath J.Szymczak ’98 was named ’93 Corp.in Rocky Hill,Conn.She previously served as deputy general counsel for Western New York in the Buffalo Brian M.Melber ’96 has been named School’s GOLD Group.Foote is a Buf- Christopher J.Centore ’98 has been chair of the New York State Bar Associ- to Connecticut Gov.M.Jodi Rell and and Rochester,N.Y.,offices.She was to the board of directors of the UB Law falo resident. promoted to partner in the Syracuse, ation’s business torts and employment was a partner in the Hartford firm previously an assistant public defender Alumni Association.He most recently N.Y.,office of Hiscock & Barclay.He litigation committee of the torts,insur- Robinson & Cole.Noble lives in in Buffalo. served as a vice president.Melber is a Craig A.Leslie ’97 has become a part- concentrates his practice in real estate ance and compensation law section. Burlington,Conn. partner in the Buffalo firm Personius ner in the Buffalo-based firm Phillips law and financing transactions.He lives Szymczak is a partner in the Buffalo Robert F.Regan ’94 is of counsel in the Melber and is a trial advocacy instruc- Lytle.He focuses his practice in prod- in the Town of Onondaga. firm Jaeckle Fleischmann & Mugel, Eric C.Nordby ’92 received the Volun- firm Ruskin Moscou Faltischek in tor at UB Law School.He is a resident of ucts liability,tort litigation,commercial handling cases involving business-relat- tary Service Award from the Federal Uniondale,N.Y.The firm has been vot- Kenmore,N.Y. litigation and real property valuation Darcie A.Falsioni ’98 has been named ed torts,complex commercial litigation Court Bar Association for the Northern ed “Best Law Firm on Long Island”in a dispute and tax assessment challenges. a member of Bond Schoeneck & King and civil litigation. District of New York.Nordby practices reader poll conducted by Long Island Yvan-Claude Pierre ’96 of Hartsdale, He lives in Getzville,N.Y. in the Buffalo office.She practices in with Hancock & Estabrook in Syracuse, Business News.A member of the firm’s N.Y.,has joined the firm DLA Piper as a employee benefits law,higher educa- Lourdes M.Ventura ’98 has become a N.Y.,where he resides. litigation department,he resides in partner in the New York City office.He William McDonald ’97 is an associate tion,and tax and fiduciary matters.Fal- member of the board of directors of the Garden City,N.Y. represents privately held and publicly in the firm Ruskin Moscou Faltischek sioni lives in West Seneca,N.Y. UB Law Alumni Association.She is Kevin D.Robinson ’92 has been traded companies,investment banks, in Uniondale,N.Y.The firm has been counsel to the minority leader of the named to the UB Law Alumni Associa- John J.Flynn ’95 has been appointed financial institutions and venture capi- voted “Best Law Firm on Long Island” Brian D.Gwitt ’98 has become a part- New York State Senate,with offices in tion board of directors.Robinson is an special counsel in the litigation group of tal clients in corporate matters.Before in a reader poll conducted by Long Is- ner in the firm Damon & Morey in the Albany and New York City. assistant U.S.attorney in the U.S.attor- the Buffalo firm Bouvier Partnership. joining the firm,Pierre was a partner in land Business News.McDonald prac- Buffalo office.Gwitt practices in the ney general’s office,Western District of In addition,Flynn serves as town justice the firm Fulbright & Jaworski in the tices in the health care law and white- business and litigation and insolvency Marc W.Brown ’99 authored the arti- New York in Buffalo,where he resides. in the Town of Tonawanda and is a New York City office. collar criminal practice groups.He lives departments.He was previously a part- cle “Tax Assessment Proceedings and commander in the U.S.Naval Reserve. in Deer Park,N.Y. ner in the firm Ice Miller in Indianapo- the Role of the Board of Assessment Suzanne E.Tomkins ’92 received the He is a resident of Tonawanda,N.Y. John L.Sinatra Jr.’96 has become a lis,and now resides in Amherst,N.Y. Review,”published in the New York “30 Years,30 Leaders Award”from the partner in the business litigation group Karen Richardson ’97 was elected trea- State Bar Association Journal.Brown is New York State Coalition Against Do- Eric W.Schultz ’95 presented a semi- in the firm Hodgson Russ in Buffalo. surer of the Women’s Bar Association Thomas P.Kawalec ’98 was elected to an associate in the Buffalo firm Phillips mestic Violence.She was recognized for nar,“Immigration Issues and How Re- Prior to joining the firm,Sinatra of the State of New York for 2008-09. the board of directors of the Defense Lytle,a member of the board of direc- her work to end violence against cent Developments Impact the Busi- worked in the general counsel’s office in She is confidential law clerk to Hon.H. Trial Lawyers Association of Western tors of the UB Law Alumni Association women.Tomkins is a professor and co- ness Owner.”The seminar was part of the U.S.Department of Commerce, Kenneth Schroeder Jr.’61,magistrate New York.He is a partner in Chelus and a past president of UB Law School’s director of clinical legal education and the breakfast presentation series of the where he defended the department judge for U.S.District Court,Western Herdzik Speyer & Monte in Buffalo, GOLD Group. director of the Women,Children and Niagara Frontier Corporate Counsel against congressional investigations.He District of New York,in Buffalo. practicing insurance defense litigation, Social Justice Clinic at UB Law School. Association.Schultz is of counsel in the lives in Amherst,N.Y. Richardson lives in Hamburg,N.Y. insurance coverage,trials and appeals. UB LAW FORUM • FALL 2008 78 Class Action 79

Sarah J.Delaney ’99 was named vice Steven K.Erickson ’00 has completed rectors.She is an associate in the firm chair of the insurance coverage com- the MIRECC fellowship at Yale Univer- Nesper Ferber & DiGiacomo in mittee of the New York State Bar Asso- sity.In addition,he has accepted a visit- Amherst,N.Y. ciation’s torts,insurance and compen- ing faculty position as a John M.Olin sation law section.She practices in the Fellow in Law at the University of Penn- Shannon S.Olivier ’01 has formed the Buffalo firm Goldberg Segalla handling sylvania Law School for the 2008-09 firm Notaro & Olivier.The general matters regarding insurance coverage academic year. practice firm has offices in West Seneca analysis and litigation and appellate and Williamsville,N.Y.Olivier is a practice.Delaney lives in Amherst,N.Y. Rafael O.Gomez ’00 was honored by Williamsville resident. Hispanics United of Buffalo at the an- Rafael O.Gomez Toni L.Frain ’99 has joined the Buffalo nual Nuestro Orgullo Latino Gala on Rashondra M.Jackson ’02 was elected ’00 firm Goldberg Segalla.She is an associ- June 14 at the Statler Towers in Buffalo. president of the Rochester Black Bar ate concentrating in commercial litiga- He was honored for his professional Association in Rochester,N.Y.She is an tion,toxic tort litigation and personal success which has inspired the youth of associate in the Rochester office of His- injury.Prior to joining the firm,Frain the community.Gomez is a Buffalo res- cock & Barclay,practicing in health care practiced in the Buffalo firm Kavinoky ident. and human services and insurance cov- Cook. erage litigation.She recently made a Thomas J.Sheehan ’00 has become a presentation on public nuisance law at Deborah A.Hagen ’99 was recognized partner in the Buffalo-based firm the annual meeting of the American for her work on behalf of children with Phillips Lytle.He practices in pharma- Bar Association insurance coverage liti- the 2007 Hon.Michael F.Dillon Law ceutical and biologic products liability gation committee in Tucson,Ariz.Jack- Guardian Award from the 8th Judicial litigation.Sheehan is a Buffalo resident. son lives in Webster,N.Y. Emilio District.She is a solo practitioner in Colaiacovo ’01 Pavilion,N.Y.,where she resides. Elizabeth B.Snyder ’00 has been pro- Lt.Paige Junker Ormiston ’02 com- moted to associate attorney for the pleted her tour as civil law branch head Amy C.Martoche ’99 has been elected State of New York,Mental Hygiene Le- at Naval Air Station Sigonella in Sicily Class of1998 to the UB Law Alumni Association gal Service,Appellate Division,4th De- and is serving as the assistant command board of directors.She is a partner in partment,in Utica,N.Y.,where she re- judge advocate for the USS Abraham the firm Connors & Vilardo in Buffalo, sides. Lincoln,a Nimitz-class aircraft carrier embers of the 1st Row – Gregory A. Mattacola, Max T.Raterman, Michele M. Gast, Jennifer L. DeCarli, where she resides. home ported in Everett,Wash.Her du- Class of 1998 Stephen A. Sharkey, Hon. Betty Calvo-Torres, Kevin M. Doane, Brian J. Bocketti Emilio Colaiacovo ’01 has become a ties include managing the discipline created a 2nd Row – Bridget Niland Gwitt, Lourdes M.Ventura, Bahaati E. Pitt, Jody Galvin, Tasha E. Mary Moorman Penn ’99 has joined partner in the firm Bouvier Partnership program for the crew and embarked el- memorable Moore, Joel J. Java Jr., Theresa M.Walsh,Brigid Lyons Maloney, Jodi L. Cramer the firm Hamberger & Weiss in the in the Buffalo office,practicing matri- ements of over 5,500 personnel,coordi- reunion 3rd Row – Jennifer C. Ruggiero, Jeff VanCollins,Andrew M.Wilson, Peter C. Trimarchi, Buffalo office.She is an associate prac- monial and family law.Colaiacovo nating the tax and customs programs, Mweekend on May 2 and 3 to Brian D. Gwitt, Brian C. Eckman Rashondra M. ticing administrative law,administra- serves as associate counsel at the Erie and providing legal assistance such as mark 10 years since their Jackson ’02 tive hearings and adjudication,person- County Water Authority and is counsel consumer law,family law and estate graduation. al injury and workers’compensation. of the Erie County Republican Com- Left: Charles F.Torres, Mark planning to the crew. Classmates gathered Friday T.Raterman,Hon.Betty Penn is a member of the board of direc- mittee.He resides in Kenmore,N.Y., evening for a happy hour at Calvo-Torres, Gregory A. tors of the UB Law Alumni Association with his wife,Kimberly Colaiacovo ’06. Michael M.Chelus ’03 has been elected Shanghai Red’s on the Buffalo Mattacola and Jaclyn and a past president of UB Law School’s to a two-year term on the board of di- waterfront, where they enjoyed Mattacola GOLD Group. Gabe DiMaio ’01 has become the pro- rectors of the Western New York Trial breathtaking views of the harbor gram director of Classical 94.5/ Lawyers Association.He is an associate and reconnected with friends WNED-FM,a station of the Western in the firm Chelus Herdzik Speyer & from their Law School days. On New York Public Broadcasting Associa- Monte in Buffalo,focusing on insur- Saturday morning, alums and tion in Buffalo.He was previously assis- ance defense litigation,insurance cover- guests attended an O’Brian Hall tant program director at WBFO,the age,trials and appeals. reunion brunch that included all ’00s University at Buffalo public radio sta- the reunion classes from 1983 Maureen Blake ’00 has joined Verizon tion.DiMaio is a member of the board Marybeth Priore ’03 has been named through 1998.After brunch, Business commercial transactions team of directors of the Public Radio Pro- president of the Western New York classmates toured the Law as a contract analyst.She resides in Pur- gram Directors National Association Chapter of the Women’s Bar Associa- School’s facilities and saw cellville,Va. and is an adjunct faculty member at tion of the State of New York,in Buffa- firsthand the advancements that Buffalo State College and UB. lo.Priore is an associate in the Buffalo the school is making. Jorge S.deRosas ’00 has joined the Buf- firm Colucci & Gallaher,practicing in falo firm Mattar D’Agostino & Gottlieb Pietra G.Lettieri ’01 has been named The Stillwater Restaurant products liability,intellectual property was the site for the Class of Above: Claire Thomson Brookins, Darcie A. as an associate.He handles matters of to the board of directors of the UB Law Falsioni and Stephen A. Sharkey and general litigation.She is a resident 1998’s reunion dinner. criminal defense,administrative law Alumni Association.She is immediate of East Amherst,N.Y. and family law.He is a Buffalo resident. past president of UB Law School’s Classmates enjoyed a special prepared menu and plenty of Jody Galvin GOLD Group and practices as an asso- Michael L.Amodeo ’04 has joined the and Brigid Sheila Dickinson ’00 of Buffalo is a re- ciate in the Buffalo office of Harris Buffalo-based firm Damon & Morey as interesting conversation. Lyons cipient of the Hon.Michael F.Dillon Beach.Lettieri is a resident of East an associate.He practices in the litiga- Maloney Law Guardian Award from the 8th Ju- Amherst,N.Y. tion department in the areas of auto- dicial District.She was honored for her mobile/trucking,premises,products advocacy on behalf of children.Dickin- Gretchen M.Nichols ’01 of and labor law litigation.Amodeo lives Williamsville,N.Y.,has joined the UB Standing: Charles F.Torres, Damone Berkeley, son practices in Buffalo. in West Valley,N.Y. Jeff VanCollins, Rene F. Solorzano and Law Alumni Association board of di- Lourdes M.Ventura. Seated: Hon. Betty Calvo-Torres, Bahaati E. Pitt and Tasha E.Moore UB LAW FORUM • FALL 2008 80 Class Action 81

Bethany J.Gilbert ’04 has been named Patrick J. Kennedy ’06 was hired as an tions and administration of medical department in Tonawanda,N.Y.,where president of UB Law School’s GOLD associate in the firm Schottenstein Zox flexible spending accounts,dependent she resides. Group for 2008-09.Gilbert is an associ- & Dunn in the Columbus,Ohio,office. care assistance programs and health ate in the firm Hodgson Russ in Buffa- Kennedy practices in the corporate fi- savings accounts.She lives in Buffalo. In Memoriam Elizabeth A.Steger ’07 has accepted a lo,where she resides. nance and mergers and acquisitions position as an associate in the Law Office practice areas,focusing on private equi- Brian S.Bennett ’07 practices in the of Edward A.Pace in Orchard Park,N.Y. Sean J.Mackenzie ’04,a Lewiston,N.Y., Rochester,N.Y.,office of Harter Secrest The Law School extends its deepest condolences to the families and She concentrates her practice in real ty funds,subordinated debt funds,and friends of the following friends and alumni/ae: resident,has become an associate in the mergers and acquisitions.He is a & Emery.He concentrates his practice property,matrimonial and family law, firm Magavern Magavern Grimm, Columbus resident. in business and commercial litigation bankruptcies,business,wills,trusts and practicing in the Buffalo and Niagara and creditors’rights.Bennett is a Albert J. Fitzgibbons Jr. ’42, Trumbull, Connecticut estates.Steger is a resident of Hamburg, Katy Hedges ’05 Falls,N.Y.,offices.He specializes in cor- Alexandra Maloney ’06 has become Rochester resident. N.Y. porate law,litigation and appeals. associated with the firm Hiscock & Bar- Marie S. Good ’50, Tonawanda, New York clay in the Albany,N.Y.,office.Maloney Caroline Bala Brancatella ’07 is prac- Hon. David J. Mahoney ’52, Buffalo Trevor M.Torcello ’07 has joined the John M.Cordon Jr.’05 has accepted a deals with torts and professional liabili- ticing in the Buffalo firm Jaeckle Fleis- Buffalo firm Gross Shuman Brizdle & position as assistant corporation county litigation,including medical mal- chmann & Mugel as an associate.She Donald L. Miller ’52, Buffalo Gilfillan as an associate.He practices in sel with Steuben Foods Inc.in Elma, practice.She is a resident of Saratoga, focuses her practice in environmental William A. Brownjohn ’59, Hamilton, New York corporate law and personal injury litiga- N.Y.Cordon is a resident of Kenmore, N.Y. law.She lives in West Seneca,N.Y. tion.Torcello lives in Buffalo. N.Y. Hon. Betsy G. Hurley ’61, Lockport, New York Beverley S.Braun ’07 has become an Jason G.Ulatowski ’07 is practicing as Carla J.Miller Montroy ’06 has been John T.O’Mara ’66, Live Oak, Florida Joseph M.Hanna ’05 was named De- elected to the board of directors of UB associate in the Buffalo office of Jaeckle an associate in the Buffalo office of Rupp fense Research Institute Outstanding Law School’s GOLD Group.She is a Fleischmann & Mugel.A litigator,she Robert B. Moriarty ’68, Buffalo Baase Pfalzgraf Cunningham & Coppo- Service Young Lawyer of the Year.Han- received the 2007 UB Law School Fac- la.Ulatowski concentrates his practice Buffalo solo practitioner and lives in James S. Keysa ’70, Lancaster, New York Jessica M.Keltz na is an associate in Goldberg Segalla in West Seneca,N.Y. ulty Award.She lives in Amherst,N.Y. on commercial litigation and corporate ’06 Buffalo and resides in Amherst,N.Y. Murray J. Grashow ’71,Williamsville, New York matters.He is a Buffalo resident. Crystal J.Rodriguez ’06 has been ap- Candace M.Curran ’07 practices as an Katy Hedges ’05 has joined the Buffalo pointed executive director of the City of associate in the Rochester,N.Y.,office of J. Gregory Hoelscher ’86, East Aurora, New York Raymond W.Walter ’07 has accepted a firm Chelus,Herdzik,Speyer & Monte Buffalo Commission on Citizens’ Harter Secrest & Emery.She advises Nicholas S. Priore ’86, Utica, New York position as an associate in the Buffalo of- as an associate.She will handle litiga- Rights and Community Relations.She clients regarding business and com- fice of Magavern Magavern Grimm.He tion and general practice matters. previously served as commissioner of mercial litigation matters,landlord/ten- Monique E. Emdin ’07, Buffalo advises clients on estates,trusts and elder Hedges lives in Williamsville,N.Y. the Buffalo Municipal Housing Au- ant disputes,breach of contract issues, law.Walter lives in East Amherst,N.Y. thority.Rodriguez is a Buffalo resident. civil litigation and intellectual property Kenneth R.Kraus ’05 has become as- prosecution.Curran lives in Rochester. Paul Ivan Birzon passed away Aug. 30 in Rochester, New York.A Mark J.Williams ’07 of Orchard Park, sociated with the firm Evans & Fox in Andrew J.Wells ’06 has joined Phillips nationally known specialist in matrimonial and family law, Birzon was a N.Y.,practices with Lewis & Lewis in Rochester,N.Y.He focuses his practice Lytle as an associate in the Buffalo of- Kathryn A.Daly ’07 has joined Rupp Buffalo.He is an associate in the litiga- James M.O’Keefe in estates and elder law.Kraus resides in fice.He will handle cases involving Baase Pfalzgraf Cunningham & Cop- founding member of the U.S. Chapter of the International Academy of tion department,specializing in person- ’07 Rochester. commercial litigation,including con- pola in the Buffalo office.Daly is an as- Matrimonial Lawyers and the Western New York Association of al injury. tract and business-related disputes.In sociate practicing insurance defense,in- Meredith A.Conner ’06 is as an associ- addition,Wells is a U.S.Army Reserve cluding New York State Labor Law,au- Matrimonial Lawyers. Birzon taught Evidence and Family Law as an Donald A.Young ’07 has joined Boylan ate in the Buffalo office of Damon & Brown Code Vigdor & Wilson in Civil Affairs sergeant.He lives in Cheek- tomobile,premises liability and prod- adjunct for over 20 years; he retired from our faculty in 2006. Morey.She practices in the real estate towaga,N.Y. ucts liability claims.She is a resident of Rochester,N.Y.He practices in the litiga- and banking department.Conner is a Hamburg,N.Y. tion group,focusing on commercial liti- Buffalo resident. Colleen M.Allen ’07 of Buffalo has ac- gation,creditor’s rights and taxation and cepted a position as an associate in the Ryan A.Lown ’07 has become an asso- lives in Rochester. Molly Donnelly ’06 has accepted a po- cured financing and workouts,condo- premises liability,automobile accidents Buffalo office of Harter Secrest & ciate in the Rochester,N.Y.,office of minium and planned unit development and New York Labor Law.He lives in sition with the Office of Chief Counsel Emery.She practices in the employee Phillips Lytle.He concentrates his prac- Tara S.Evans ’08 has joined the firm at the Internal Revenue Service in matters,and project development. West Seneca,N.Y. Chelus Herdzik Speyer & Monte as an benefits group,helping clients with tice in real estate,including commercial Lown is a Rochester resident. Washington,D.C.,where she resides. plan documents,summary descrip- real estate lending and development,se- David P.Shaffer ’07 practices as an asso- associate.She practices litigation and Matthew J.Makowski ’07 has been ciate in the Rochester,N.Y.,office of general practice matters in the firm’s Jennifer G.Flannery ’06 practices as an Buffalo and Cheektowaga,N.Y.,offices. associate in the Buffalo firm Damon & named to UB Law School’s GOLD Woods Oviatt Gilman.He focuses his Group board of directors.He is an asso- practice in estate planning and estate ad- Evans is a Buffalo resident. Morey.Flannery concentrates her prac- Douglas Coppola ’75,a past president of the UB tice in trusts and estates and business ciate in the firm Lippes Mathias Wexler ministration and lives in Leicester,N.Y. Stephanie A.Mack ’08 has become an Law Alumni Association,is celebrating an Olympic Friedman in Buffalo,where he resides. and corporate law.She is a Buffalo resi- medal in the family.His son Steven Coppola,a mem- Patrick Slade ’07 has become associated associate in the Buffalo firm Bouvier dent. ber of the men’s eight of the U.S.Olympic rowing Michael L.Nisengard ’07 practices in with the firm Chelus Herdzik Speyer & Partnership.She focuses her practice in team,returned from the Summer Games in Beijing personal injury involving motor vehicle Jessica M.Keltz ’06 has become associ- the Amherst,N.Y.,office of Jaeckle Fleis- Monte in Buffalo.He concentrates his with a bronze medal. chmann & Mugel,focusing in real estate practice in litigation and general prac- accidents,slip and falls,animal bites and ated with the firm Damon & Morey in “To have contemplated that my son would be an toxic exposures.She also handles re- the Buffalo office.She practices in the law.In addition,he is a member of the tice matters.Slade resides in Amherst, actual Olympic medal winner seemed like a far-off board of directors of the Bethesda Com- N.Y. search and writing on legal issues in- real estate and banking department. dream,”said Douglas Coppola,who maintains a solo cluding motions and appeals.Mack lives Keltz was previously the downtown liv- munity Development Corp.in Buffalo, law practice in downtown Buffalo.“But as he started where he resides. Ellen Grimm Spencer ’07 was named in Eggertsville,N.Y. ing coordinator for Buffalo Place Inc., competing on the national team and making the an associate in the Buffalo firm Magav- where she served as the neighborhood men’s eight,the reality of it was that we thought he James M.O’Keefe ’07 is an associate in ern Magavern Grimm,counseling liaison for downtown Buffalo in city might be in it.And then when he actually medaled, the Buffalo firm Rupp Baase Pfalzgraf clients regarding estates and trust mat- housing court.She is a Buffalo resident. and when we found out he was the first ever from Cunningham & Coppola.He specializes ters.Spencer previously worked as a law Western New York to get a rowing medal,that is when it hits you that this is really spe- in insurance defense,focusing on clerk in the Town of Tonawanda legal cial.We could not be prouder.” UB LAW FORUM • FALL 2008 82 Class Action 83

On the scene

at ByGuantanamo Julia Hall '96 Ba hooded and shackled, as he is bad had been sexually harassedy by a fe sama bin Laden'sdriver, gered by his Arabic-speaking military male interrogator and subjected to Salim Hamdan, had been interrogator in a dark room with one sleep deprivation in the days prior to at Guantanamo Bay for 6'/2 dim light bulb overhead. McFadden's interrogation. But the 0 years when his trial by mili Afterremoving the hood, the in judge allowed McFadden to testifY. tary commission commenced on July terrogator begins the questioning, The defense did its best to cast 21. My organization,Human Rights only to be interrupted severaltimes by doubt on Hamdan's role in al-Qaida Watch, was granted permission to Hamdan, who asks if he can change and on the fairnessof the military monitor L'AffaireHamdan, and I was positions, move his legs and rub his commissions process. I was struck not the anointed monitor. foot. There is a sickening sense that only by the inconsistencies in the Hamdan's trial was the culmina Han1dan, visibly scared, is trying out prosecution's case, but by clear evi tion of a period in U.S. history marked ideas as they occur to him in an at dence of governmental ineptitude. by the tragedy of9/ll, but the victims tempt to avoid more abuse. of that crin1e would not seeaccount T11e defense, dubbed "Tean1 Han1- uld the jury be sur ability with a Hamdan conviction. dan;' strenuously objected to the ad prised to learnthat The military commission's wlfair mission of these tapes as evidence. Ac WoHamdan's boss, Abdul rules- and the abuse Hamdan suf cording to military commissions' lal1 Ta barak, had hin1self feredin Afghanistan and at Gitmo rules, evidence obtained through tor been detained at Guantanan1o Bay doomed it fromthe start. ture can't be admitted. But although but was sent home to Morocco in The panel of military officers who Judge Allred acknowledged that 2004?Did they know that Khalid eventually convicted Hamdan on Hamdan was subjected to "coercive Sheikll Mohan1med, the alleged mas Aug. 6 for providing material support treatment;' he said the rules allow co termind of9/ll currently in prison at to al-Qaida (and acquitted hin1 on erced testimony ifit is deemed "reli Gitmo, called Hamdan a "bedouin" conspiracy charges) must have under able" and in "the interests of justice:' not fit"to plan or execute" outside op stood how the deck was stacked That first week of trial, both prose erations (code for terrorist activities against hin1: Hamdan got 5'12 years, cutionand defensemade veiled refer outsideAfghanistan)? but neither the lowly driver nor al ences to a May 2003interrogation of Given Han1dan's partial acquittal Qaida's victims got real justice. Hamdan. Judge Allred had yet to de and sentence, these revelations must Judge Keith Allred, a Navy captain, cide whether the prosecution could have disturbed the jury.But the tram bounded into the courtroom every offer the fruits of that interrogation as pling of rights at Guantanamo Bay morningin fullblack robes. He evidence, due to concernsabout coer has so permeated tl1e national con winked at Han1danevery day as a rit cion. The government wanted to put sciousness (if not its conscience) that ual greeting.The courtroom scene Robert McFadden of the Naval Crin1- such abuse seems almost common looked familiar: judge, jwy,dark-pan inallnvestigative Service on the stand, place. eled courtroom, "Objection;"'Over clain1inghe could provide "clear and Salim Hamdan's conviction and ruled:' But tl1e differences were surre convincing evidence" that nothing sentence leave several questions unan al: an offshoreprison camp for terror elicited fromthat interrogation was swered. The judge gave Hamdan time ism suspects not far away, many in coerced. served fromthe point at which he was mates subjected to "enhanced interro The governmentmade its case in formally charged in 2003,which re gation techniques" amounting to tor the second week of trial. Human duced his sentence to fivemontl1s. But ture, a jury of military officersin full Rights Watch's monitor for that week the Bush administration maintains dresshandpicked by the Pentagon, reported that McFadden described a that as an "unlawfulenemy combat and rules that clearly violated due cordial, friendly and "free-flowing" ant;' Hamdan can be held until the process. conversationin 2003,in which Ham end of hostilities with al-Qaida, whicl1 Watching the two Hamdan "cap dan admitted he had pledged bayat may mean indefinitely. ture videos" on the second day of the (an oath of loyalty) to Osan1a bin trial was harrowing. The videos docu Laden and that he was carrying mis Julia Hall '96 is senior legal counsel in ment interrogations by U.S. military siles to bin Laden when he was cap the Terrorism and Counterterrorism personnel in Afghanistan.lnthe tured. Program at Human Rights Watch. grainy black-and-white film,they Team Hamdan challenged McFad show Hamdan slwnped on the floor, den's testimony, arguing that Hamdan

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