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KENNETH FORREST' receives the jaeckleAward in NYC

.- UB Law Forum Editor: Ilene R. Fleischmann

Cover photograph ofKenneth B. Forrest '76: Janet Charles Principal Photographers: Janet Charles, Donald Dannecker, Mark Mulville

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UB LAW F 0 RUM The Magazine of the University at Buffalo Law School The State University of New York

Message from the Dean 2 Reaching for the heights 4 Alumnus Honored 3 Ken Forrest accepts the Jaeckle Award Greiner Tributes 4 Reflections from: Headrick, Joyce, Black, Letro, Carrel, and Niese ^^d 9 William R. Greiner Scholarship Fund 10 Greiner on Greiner 11 Greiner at a glance 14 Law School Report 12 In Mitchell Lecture, John Payton says post-racial society remains elusive 13 Affordable Housing Clinic leverages millions in grants for three projects Faculty 14 Faculty committees ensure broad buy-in 15 UB exceptional scholars 16 Travel and honors fill Dean Mutua's calendar 17 Spotlight on staff AlunmiAssociation 18 UB Law Alumni Association takes on a national focus Alumni Honored 22 Law Review honors Judge Pigott and Professor Engel Students of Color recognize achievement 23 Six to receive Distinguished Alumni Awards Class Action and Reunions I 28 Births and Marriages ______32 Student Kudos 35 In Memoriam 18 r`^ As We Go to Press 40 Nicole Lee '02 sees failings in the effort to aid victims of Haiti earthquake

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2 MESSAGE FROM THE DEAN Reaching for the heights

hey say that hope springs eternal. That is our feeling at UB Law. We have never been busier growing UB Law and reaching for the heights that should make every alumnus/a proud of T their alma mater. In academics, faculty, ad- We have missions, placement, external relations, development, alumni affairs, and every critical sphere of the Law School, never been we are on the march. As I have repeatedly said, our goal is to become a great law school. We are already strong, and busier now we must press ahead to become great. We have just hired two outstanding scholars. Professor growing Kim Diana Connolly (JD, Georgetown; LLM, George UB Law. Washington) will be joining our faculty as the Director of Clinical Legal Education. Professor Connolly, who comes from the University of South Carolina, brings with her a prolific academic record and the highest achievements in clinical legal education. She is the president of the Clinical portant occasion. Legal Education Association, the national body for law Within O'Brian Hall, a frenetic pace is the order of the school clinicians. There is no doubt that she will take our day. We are planning a Comprehensive Legal Skills Pro- clinics to places they have never been before. Professor gram to ensure that we produce practice-ready attorneys. Connolly will join us this summer. Professor Charles Patrick Ewing, a SUNY Distinguished Professor Jessica Owley Lippmann (JD, Berkeley; PhD, Service Professor, is leading this effort. I cannot say enough Berkeley) is an exceptionally talented young scholar who about how important this endeavor is to the future of our joins us this summer from Pace Law School. Already an Law School. emerging influential voice in environmental law, Professor I am glad to report that we are making plans to renovate Lippmann brings vitality and cutting-edge scholarship to the first floor of O'Brian to make it a more livable and wel- this critical field. coming space for our students and visitors. We will "tech These new hires, and others in the pipeline, signify a up" several classrooms on that floor to give us the capabili- school on the rise, even during the most challenging econ- ty to use the most advanced technology for pedagogy and omy since the Great Depression. It is testament to the com- public presentations. This is long overdue and will be a mitment of UB to grow the Law School as one of its prized marked improvement for the Law School. academic units. Star faculty are the epicenter of a great law Finally, we will welcome as our Commencement school. Professors Connolly and Lippmann fully fit this de- speaker this year Professor Randal I Kennedy, the Michael scription and point to our quest for greatness. R. Klein Professor of Law at Harvard Law School. A We expect a good pool of applicants this year in keeping Rhodes Scholar, Professor Kennedy is one of the most with our quest to raise the academic profile of the student notable legal minds and public intellectuals in America body. This is the cornerstone of the alumni cohort of the today. His books and scholarship have earned wide future. That is why we are investing significantly in getting acclaim. His presence in Buffalo will be a fitting close to a the best entering class possible. very successful year at UB Law. In May, just before Commencement, we will host a retirement partyto pay tribute to our 11 emeriti faculty — Profes- sors Lee Albert, James Atleson, Barry Boyer, David Filvaroff, Ellen Gibson, Thomas Headrick, Kenneth Joyce, Janet Lind- gren, Elizabeth Mensch, Wade Newhouse and Judy Scales- Trent. We will honor them for their great service to UB Law. We hope that many of our alumni will join us for this im- ALUMNUS HONORED 3 THE SPIRIT OF '76 Ken Forrest accepts the Jaeckle Award amid classmates, colleagues and kin ewYork City's elegant new building on a new Colleagues Union League Club was campus. I pulled up, and the setting, but the peo- in front of me I saw the describe Ken as ple were the real stars as world's largest vacant lot. Nthe UB Law Alumni As- This was 1,200 acres of a a fabulous sociation took to the road to present construction site with the 33rd Edwin E Jaeckle Award to two buildings, a dorm litigator, Kenneth B. Forrest'76. and a law school, and tremendously The Jan. 29 event was part of the there was a rope so you annual New York City Alumni Lun- wouldn't get blown away skilled. cheon, and a room packed with For- walking from one to the rest's fellow UB Law alumni, col- other. I looked at this —Dean leagues from his firm Wachtell, Lipton, huge, empty, vast, pretty Rosen & Katz, and family members disgusting-looking ex- Mutua and friends witnessed the presentation panse, and I said to my- of the UB Law School and the UB Law self, what exactly did you Alumni Association's highest honor. do? I- A partner at Wachtell, Lipton since "So I took a deep 1982, Forrest concentrates his practice breath, made the deci- in commercial litigation. He was a sion, drove in, and my life founding member of the Dean's Advi- was soon transformed sory Council and is one of the school's both professionally and most dedicated and involved alumni. personally" After opening remarks by UBLAA Forrest was generous President Robert L. Boreanaz'89 and in his thanks to his col- Dean's Advisory Council chair Tom leagues at Wachtell, Lip- Black'79, Dean Makau W. Mutua not- ton, praising the firm's ed that both Forrest and his wife, "devotion to giving to the Ellen, whom he met at UB Law, were community"; to the Law top-flight students, saying, "I am told School's current and pre- Ken and Ellen were neck-and-neck in Council to allow for more discussion vious administrations, which he said terms of their academic achievements and debate, and helped recruit new have grown the school despite severe in law school" He also cited Mrs. For- members for the advisory body. "He financial constraints; and his friends rest's work as board chair of the Vin- does not speak the most or even of- and family, especially "the rock of my cent Smith School, stating that the ten;' Mutua said, "but when he does, family," his wife, Ellen. "She was by far school may have described her best: people listen very carefully. With quiet the best outcome of my decision to "Ellen is an attorney by trade and a confidence and in a few short sen- continue driving into that vast empty philanthropist by heart" tences, Ken can get a meeting back on campus in 1973," he said. The dean said of Ken Forrest, "First track by reminding other people why A video of the Jaeckle Award and foremost, his colleagues describe they are there." presentation is available at Ken as a fabulous litigator, tremen- www.youtube.com/UBLawSchool. dously skilled in both oral and written standing ovation greeted advocacy. As they put it, Ken is a litiga- the honoree, who began tor whom anyone would want to have his remarks with a on their team' memory. At the Law School, Mutua said, A"The year was 1973, For- Forrest has chaired the Dean's Adviso- rest said, "and I had this orange, non- ry Council and he remains one of its air-conditioned old Plymouth Duster. most active and helpful members, I took the eight-hour drive from providing advice and counsel to four Brooklyn to Buffalo to attend UB Law deans. Mutua noted that, as chair, For- School, and I knew that I was part of rest restructured meetings of the the first class to attend the school in a

Forrest family, left to right: Daughter Kimberly, Kenneth '76, son Craig and wife Ellen'76. UBLAW FORUM S P RING 2 0 1 0

"Despite all his titles, accolades and accomplishments, he was always a teacher and educator. After his family, teaching is what he loved most."

Carol Greiner WE ER PROFESSOR WILLIAM R. GREINER William R. Greiner, who served as UB's president for more than a decade, always preferred the title "Professor." That love of A best teaching was at the fore as the University community gathered friend's Feb. 2 in the Center for the Arts to celebrate his life. In this special tribute, UB Law Forum gathers reflections from some of tribrute the many in the UB Law family for whom Bill Greiner holds a permanent place in their hearts. V

Bill and I were close friends for over half a century. worked hard and acted responsibly and honestly in every We were colleagues and partners at work and play for a way. He stayed near home for his education at Wesleyan third of a century. We met in 1958 at Yale Law School. It's and Yale. Moreover, in central Connecticut baseball fans hard to pin down what makes a friendship grow and en- have a choice-- Yankees or Red Sox. Bill chose the Red dure—certainly shared interests, shared values and Sox, signaling his support for underdogs and a willingness shared fascinations with life and our complex world, and to soldier on in the face of disappointment. also shared experiences and the sheer enjoyment of do- Sports were an important part of his life. At Yale we ing things together. played basketball, squash and golf together. He was an ex- The Bill I knew at Yale was much the same as the Bill ceptional golfer. He had a classic, long, flowing swing, nat- you all knew—serious about education, vastly knowl- urally acquired, for he never had a lesson, and he regularly edgeable, infinitely curious, incisively intelligent, open, shot in the 70s. It was not surprising that Bill played a serious and funny, forthright and empathetic, at ease with all leading role in UB's move to Division I sports. But Bill's concerns whom he met and knew, and most of all blessed with prodigious were not so much over NCAA status. He was just the consummate energy and abundant common sense. fan. He loved watching games of all kinds, not as a quiet spectator, He grew up in Meriden, a small manufacturing city on the de- but as a connoisseur of talented and intelligent play and an often cline in central Connecticut. His father died when he was a young- ster and his hard-working mother made certain he studied and Continued on page 7 U B L AW FORUM S P RING 2 0 1 0

WE REMEMBER REFLECTIONS FROM HEADRICK, JOYCE, BLACK, LETRO, CARREL AND VIESE

4 `A true teacher of teachers"

As an observer, close and distant, of Bill's accomplishments over the years, I was struck by two consistent traits. First was Bill's unhidden but genuine love for students (professional or non-professional, graduate or undergrad- uate) and his dedication to their interests. I have had many personal encoun- ters with law students, some of them ^a long out of law school, who went out of ! their way to remember and recount, gratefully and affectionately, not only Bill's excellence in the classroom, but also his extra-classroom unselfish assistance and sincere interest in their progress and careers — all in all a truly A - impressive testament to Bill's humanity. The second trait of Bill's which made such an impression on me was his willingness, indeed eagerness, to engage, at the drop of a hat, in no-time-limit discussions on ques- tions of law or policy with which one of his colleagues (often myself) was struggling. Bill and I both taught Tax and Property courses at the Law School, and the welcoming at- titude he brought to engaging in what he liked to call "the life of the mind" made him a go-to guy on tough issues, much like our friend Lou Del Cotto (who had, and appreci- ated, similar experiences with Bill). Both of these traits are those of a true teacher—indeed of a true teacher of teachers. It is no denigration of his other contributions to university life to say that that is howl will remember him. 7

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vocal judge of officiating competence. At Yale Law School, politics were an essential part of the mi- lieu. Bill's intelligence and talents marked him among his friends as a likely future Connecticut governor. Thus, many were surprised when he headed off to Seattle to teach after graduating. But his intellectual interests and his passion about education easily trumped any potential political aspirations. His teaching and writing at UW reflected his intellectual core. Hired to teach a conventional business law course, he quickly transformed it into inquiry into the philosophical and social complexities of the functions of law in a society. His background in economics and law taught him that law was not an isolated discipline. Instead, law sat at an intersection of human aspirations and societal forces. It needed the perspectives that humanists and social scientists contribute to understanding those forces. This outlook brought him to UB, where President Meyer- son's educational vision linked the arts and sciences with the professional disciplines, so that theoretical inquiry and social realities would inform each other. Bill was a major driver of the interdisciplinary reach that has marked UB Law School apart from almost all others and still does—a law school looking out- ward, a school without intellectual boundaries. Many can recount his accomplishments and impact on UB. "Godspeed, Bill Greiner" I will just mention two that illustrate his genius as an academic leader. The Greiner memorial service held on Feb. 2 was a One was his successful campaign to allow UB to keep its tu- spectacular celebration of the life and legacy of Professor ition revenue. First, he grabbed the attention of the Pataki Greiner. The two hours of tributes to Bill Greiner - the trustees with a series of papers detailing the inequity of SUNY president, the professor, the friend, the father, the hus- budgets. Then he romanced them, using their ideology to show band - was, for me, summed up beautifully when Mary that leaving tuition revenue on the campuses created private- Kate O'Connell sang one of the professor's favorite like incentives to attract students and improve programs. Once songs, Be Kind. For that, in short, is what Bill Greiner was they bought in, he negotiated the details through the bureau- – a kind man. cracy, and then built back UB's enrollment, which he had pur- Professor Greiner, with his Phil posely reduced, so that tuition revenue and UB's budget could Donohue style, taught tax law to a then grow without exceeding the SUNY enrollment caps. second-year law student. Long after Another was his passion to turn the Amherst campus into a the definition of "income" had faded real university community, which was frustrated by a state con- into the past, the examples of intellect struction system that could not build housing that students without arrogance, and debate with ci- could afford. One day, reading through the New York Educa- vility, made a lasting impression on my tion Code (something lawyers do for entertainment), he found career and on the careers of so many a curious provision allowing alumni associations to build stu- other students. dent housing. With that legal lever, he quickly organized I ran into President Greiner at half- lawyers, bankers, architects, contractors and political friends time at Super Bowl XXVII in Pasade- and applied his persuasive skills and their expertise and influ- na. He passed up the Michael Jackson performance to ence to beat down the obstacles in Albany so that the campus buy me a beer and catch up on my career. He had a gen- became home to thousands more students. uine interest in his students and their lives and careers af- Bill had a vision for UB. A single theme could not capture it. ter law school. He wanted to advance all of UB's complex and multiple mis- In September 2008, Bill and Carol joined my wife, sions, piece by piece, opportunity by opportunity. To accom- Bridget, and me for a Notre Dame football game. In the plish this, he was a master at strategic thinking as well as tactical third quarter the stadium announcer blared out that the organization. That was his genius. Bulls were leading Pittsburgh at the half. Bill beamed like Buffalo and UB were part of his being. Buffalo was to him the proud father he was. Meriden writ large – full of hard-working, able and good peo- Godspeed, Bill Greiner. Thank you for all the kind- ple capable of shaping a better future. UB was a fine university ness that you have shown to me and to the legion of for- with large and realizable aspirations and importantly without mer students proud to have had the opportunity to call pretentions. you Professor. Bill was without pretention, which is why many remember him so fondly as a president, a leader, a teacher, a colleague and Continued on page 8 a friend. UB LAW FORUM S P RING 2 0 1 0

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"Professor, tutor, advocate, "A mentor and advisor"

authority figure, friend It was Bill Greiner and Tom Headrick who persuaded me to leave the practice of law and come to UB. Once I ar- and life coach rived, Bill, the academic Associate Dean, became a mentor and adviser. There has never been a more approachable I couldn't help but wonder what was there about this person! His patience, wisdom, kindness and values put handsome, charming, athletic and brilliant kid from Con- him in a class by himself. He taught me that students come _ _ necticut—who graduated on scholar- first, and that compassion, sincerity and ship from prestigious private schools persistence can move mountains. like Wesleyan University and Yale Law I once wrote a harsh letter and asked School — that brought him to Buffalo on Bill to review before I sent it out. Bill a career path in public education. He read it and did not change a thing. He came to educate and mentor ordinary simply told me that the letter was a good kids like me from families of little or no venting tool, but I should put it in a means, but long on hope and big drawer for a few days and read it again dreams that one day, through hard before mailing it. When I reread the let- work and somebody's help, one of their ter, I realized it should not be sent. That own could become a lawyer. Bill Greiner "drawer" tip is one I still practice. was that somebody. I became even closer to Bill in 1996 He understood the value of public education to fami- when he was president of UB and asked me to temporarily lies like mine. He understood that law students like me be his deputy and help with transitions. I was in awe of his from working-class families needed a professional role gift for tackling and resolving the most contentious and dif- model, for which he served as such for countless students. ficult problems with ease and grace. When I felt a union He was aware that very few of us, if any, had a lawyer or leader had berated him unfairly in the newspaper, Bill said I a judge in our families to emulate, let alone a lawyer or a should view it from that person's perspective and should judge living next door or in our neighborhood. consider his responsibility to his constituency. Bill saidyou By default and design, he mentored countless public- can't reach consensus until you understand everyone's education students who looked to him as professor, tutor, point of view. advocate, authority figure, friend and life coach. Some of Bill was a visionary and an achiever who loved people us needed and received from him all of that and much and loved UB. He was charismatic and genuine, delegated more. extensively and never micromanaged. He never lost his We can best honor him and his memory as former stu- temper and raised his voice only when cheering for the dents and colleagues by bringing to the courtrooms, Bulls. Working with him every day, it was clear that his boardrooms and classrooms the humanity and civility commitment to UB and his children was surpassed only by that our beloved professor, colleague and mentor epito- his commitment to his wife, Carol. Their marriage was lit- mized during his 40-some years of service to this great erally a union and their lives a true partnership. University. I learned much from Bill, and miss him greatly. 0

UB PRESIDENT JOHN B. SIMPSON `A gifted leader"

_ ti Bill Greiner had a profound effect on every aspect of this institution, from academics and research, to student life and our engagement with our alumni and the community. His vision and leadership made UB the outstanding institution it is today. He was a gifted leader with an abiding belief in the university. His devotion made others want to dedicate themselves to making UB the best it could become. We will miss him greatly.

UB PROVOST SATISH K. TRIPATHI ii "His legacy Will endure)' Looking across the University at Buffalo's academic and physical landscapes, one can truly appreci- ate the indelible mark that President Emeritus Greiner had on our university. During his 42-year tenure at UB, he transformed our university in so "A true friend" many lasting and meaningful ways. His body of work has enabled us, as a university community, to be among the finest public research universities in the nation. We owe so much of our success and future Some 15 years ago while visiting the Law School successes to UB's 13th president. He will be greatly missed, but, quite for a meeting of the Dean's Advisory Council, I was rightly, his legacy will endure. introduced to President Bill Greiner for the first time. From that introduction began a remarkable experi- UB LAW SCHOOL DEAN MAKAU W. MUTUA ence. So what started with a simple handshake grew - into a genuine and lasting friendship. cc )) Bill had the great gift of being able I Helovedthelav e to be a friend, not just an acquain- The Law School has lost an invaluable ally and ad- tance whose name could be dropped visor. Bill Greiner's ability and willingness to men- in conversation, but a real friend. tor countless law students was typical of his loyalty It is not an overstatement to say and selfless service to the Law School and UB. He that of all those who regularly loved the law. His name is fondly remembered by associated with Bill, most, if not all, UB Law alumni throughout the country. The Law of them considered him to be a School, university and community are all better friend and in all probability, he in- because of Professor Greiner. deed was. He had the seemingly un- limited capacity to touch the lives of others in a warm and personal way. Time is the element that establishes and confirms a friendship; one person taking, and making, time to be William R. Greiner with another. On those occasions when my wife and I would return to the University, Scholarship Fund Bill, and usually Carol as well, would always have For those who wish to make a contribution in memory of Profes- time to be with us, often for dinner or even a basketball sor Greiner, the family has identified three campus programs that held game. special importance to him: the Center for the Arts, UB athletics and When Bill and Carol traveled to the west coast, they the William R. Greiner Scholarship Fund. The fund, established in his would make time to be with us for dinner, a round of honor in 2004, supports an endowment for a full-tuition scholarship golf, or both. When my mother died, Bill and Carol to the UB Law School for a meritorious student who exemplifies lead- made time to attend her funeral. In all of these ways, ership ability, dedication to public service and commitment to the and many others, the Greiners, both Bill and Carol, Western New York community as a whole. were an uplifting force in our lives. Of all the gifts they Checks should be made out to the William R. Greiner Scholarship gave us, none was greater than the gift of being a true Fund and mailed to: friend. Alan S. Carrel, Vice Dean University at Buffalo Law School John Lord O'Brian Hall, Room 311 Buffalo, NY 14260 (716) 645-6222, [email protected] UB LAW FORUM • SPRING 2 0 1 0 10

Greiner on Greiner During his time as UB president, William R. Greiner received the Jaeckle Award — UB Law School and Law Alumni Association's highest honor — in 2002. His acceptance remarks were vintage Greiner — self-effacing thoughtful and full ofgood humor. An excerpt from those remarks:

YOU CAN'T GET ANY BETTER THAN THIS. leans. I remember bumping into Bill Hawkland in an ele- There are so many people I need to thank. First, I need vator, and he said, "Hi, I'd like to make you an offer." But to thank Carol for all her support through the years. I Jack Hyman is the guy who sold me. wouldn't have gotten through law school sane without I've been so blessed to have colleagues at the Law her. School who are both intellectually stimulating and smart I thank my kids for all the support they've given me. I as hell, but they're also great people to work with. We have want you to know that among them, the kids and their maintained a kind of family in the Law School faculty spouses, they hold 10 degrees from the University at Buf- which I think is quite unusual. falo, including two J.D.s. So I'm like that guywho advertis- I've had the pleasure over the last 15 years, both as es the hairpieces: Not only do I own the company, I'm also provost and as president, of reviewing all the promotions a client. and the senior appointments in the University. It's my way The first person I met who was on the faculty of the of keeping a finger on the pulse of the University. Our University at Buffalo Law School was Jack Hyman. It was University, and especially our Law School, are in great in the years when Carol and I were back at Yale, where I shape. We have a superior faculty, and we have added to it was working on my book The Nature and Functions of recently. Law and Carol took care of the four kids. It was a great All of you who are law alumni, take pride in your Law year for me; she sometimes had mixed feelings about it. School, because it's going nowhere but up. Our alumni Jack Hyman came through visiting the law school on a re- have been extraordinarily supportive over the years, and cruiting visit, and I was so impressed with him. I said, you none more supportive than the law alumni. And I am so know, if there's a law school anywhere in the country that proud of the alumni of this University for the accomplish- I might like to be associated with, it would be UB, because ments that they have made since they left the University. that guy is really terrific. Our profession is a public profession that has public ser- Lo and behold, about six months later, I had the op- vice as one of its core values. I think our law alumni do portunity to talk with some faculty from the UB Law that superbly well. School and Dean Hawkland at a convention in New Or- 11

GREINER AT A GLANCE • Author of The Nature and Functions of Law, a seminal legal textbook still in use. • Author most recently of Location, Location, Location, which chronicles the factors leading to the construction of UB's North Campus and debunks the idea that the decision to build in Amherst, rather than in Buffalo, was made for dubious or politically short-sighted reasons. • Education: bachelor's degree in economics from Wesleyan University; master's ^^ a in economics and the J.D. and Master of Laws degrees from Yale University. • Sold sandwiches door to door at Yale under the firm name "Equity Chow." • Joined the UB Law faculty in 1967. • Served as chair of the Legal Studies Program from 1968 to 1970. • Associate provost of the Law School from 1970 to 1975. • Associate dean of the Law School from 1975 to 1980. • UB Provost from 1984 to 1991. r • UB's 13th president, serving for 12 years beginning in 1991. • Died Dec. 19, 2009, in the Cleveland Clinic, at age 75. .. with his mentor Jack Hyman...

Portrait of a young Bill...

teaching tax...

... as a young teacher as provost...

... with Carol, the love of his life...

.. dedicating the Letro Courtroom...

...congratulating ... applauded at his his friend JaeckleAward luncheon ... Al Mugel.. . U B LAW FORUM • SPRING 2 0 1 0 12 LAW SCHOOL REPORT

`es k government's $11 billion Road Home program intended to help rebuild New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina. Dis- placed residents of that city were offered financial help: either the actual cost of repairing their home, or the pre- Doff Katrina value of the home, whichever was lower. White families mostly received the cost of repairs. But because homes in minority neighborhoods were assessed at a low figure, that was what was offered to African-American families. "Either you get enough money to rebuild your home oryou don't;' Payton said. "Generally speaking, the white homeowners get enough money -t-4 to rebuild their home, and generally speaking, the black homeowners don't:' The Legal Defense Fund sued, and just recently the government announced it is changing this formula. Payton also pointed with dismay to the "very dark atmosphere" that sur- rounds the debate over health care re- BEYOND RACE form. "This is hatred out there;' he said. "This is not disagreement. We've always In Mitchell Lecture, civil rights icon says had extremists. But the fact that Barack Obama is an African-American has post-racial society remains elusive pushed paranoia to another level, so people who have real disputes have now gone completely mad. And they've nev- espite the election of the ing at racial fault lines in a handful of er had such access to the media that r(1 nation's firstAfrican- quality-of-life measures, including edu- they do today. American president, the cational attainment, housing quality, "It's really crucial that we figure out "If a racially path to a post-racial soci- employment, the criminal justice sys- ways to marginalize those voices of ha- D ety still stretches out tem and political participation. tred. The hatred we've seen is hatred diverse ahead, and only vigilance and hard In all of those measures save one, he that's directed at strangers. It's very hard work will get us there, prominent civil said,African-American and Hispanic to have that kind of emotion with democracy is rights attorney John A. Payton said in a persons still lag behind their white peers someone who is literally your neighbor UB Law School address. — in high dropout rates in inner-city and who you actually know" to take place, Payton, president and director- schools; in de facto segregated housing And that, he said, is his major point: we need to be counsel of the NAACP's Legal Defense patterns as a result of white flight from "If a racially diverse democracy is to and Education Fund, delivered the Law the cities; in a foreclosure crisis that has take place, we need to be able to talk to able to talk to School's signature Mitchell Lecture on disproportionately affected persons of each other as peers. Race is so easily Oct. 22 in O'Brian Hall, speaking to a color; in a prison population that is half used as a wedge issue. The sense of each other as near-capacity crowd of students, facul- minority; in the dearth of hospitals and community doesn't happen by itself. ty, staff and the public. He appeared at other health care providers in minority You have to work on it. peers. the invitation of Dean Makau W. Mu- neighborhoods. The only exception, he "Democracy at its real core requires tua, a personal friend and colleague in said, is political participation, as that all the people be included in `we the human rights advocacy work. African-Americans voted in record people For that inclusive democracy to Payton acknowledged the historic numbers in the 2008 elections, despite a function, we all have to be able to see nature of the presidential election, say- challenge to the landmark Voting each other as peers, as people we can re- ing, "There never has been a year even Rights Act that Payton's Legal Defense spect. It depends on this sense of being close to this in America. My father did Fund defended in the U.S. Supreme in a shared enterprise together. not dream of this last year. For all his Court. "I believe we must become the in- dreams, this wasn't one of them. These `Are we a post-racial society? The clusive democracy described by the are remarkable changes, and it says answer is, not yet;' he said. "It's a sober- Preamble to the Constitution. We must something about our society." ing assessment, but it's an unavoidable know our past in order to transcend But, he said, "Are we a post- racial assessment." our past. I believe that we must see our society' is a different question than Describing one recent situation that diversity as one of our most important `have we made progress?" he said reflected institutionalized racial strengths, and that we must see each The answer, he said, comes by look- disparity, Payton spoke of the federal other as peers. So let's get to work" 13

able for households that earn less than half the area's median income, and nine units will be configured for residents with special needs. • Holy Family Senior Apartments, with 35 affordable apartments for senior citizens to be developed at the former Holy Family Elementary School building at 920 Tuft St. in South Buffalo. The apartments will include 30 one-bedroom and five two-bedroom units. Nine units will be handicapped-accessible. Also included will be a large community room and improved facilities for the South Buffalo Food Pantry that Catholic Charities operates at the site. The sponsors are Delta Development of Western The former Diocesan Education Campus on the NewYork and Living Communities LLC. East Side of Buffalo will become St. Martin Village. • People United for Sustainable Hous- ing, which will build 11 units of housing in a distressed neighborhood on the B Law School's Affordable West Side. Three buildings on Massachu- "It's a good Housing Clinic has helped setts Avenue—a commercial storefront Affordable to secure three grants total- and long-vacant apartments—will be re- result for the ing more than $28 million habilitated to create four one-bedroom, community at Uthat will enable the con- four two-bedroom and three three-bed- struction of 106 new housing units in the room apartments. All units will be af- large and proof Housing City of Buffalo. fordable for households at or below 50 The new housing on the city's west, percent of the area median income. that UB is an east and south sides will be energy- Founded in 1987, the UB clinic, along Clinic efficient apartments with affordable with clinics atYale and Seton Hall univer- economic rents for senior citizens and low-income sities, pioneered the field of affordable persons. Funding for the construction housing clinics in U.S. law schools, development projects will come through the New York championing a movement to bring prac- engine for the leverages State Division of Housing and Commu- tical work experience into the classroom nity Renewal. while providing students with meaning- city and the "This is a real tribute to the work the ful ways to improve their communities. millions in clinic has done, along with its students," The recent grants bring to nearly region." says George Hezel, clinical professor of $200 million the total amount of private law and director of the Affordable Hous- equity, loan and grant money the UB — George Hezel, i ng Clinic. "They have poured their clinic has been able to leverage to help fi- grants for hearts and souls into this project. It's a nance more than 2,000 units of afford- Clinical good result for the community at large able housing in Western New York for Professor and and proof that UB is an economic devel- low-income families, the elderly, targets three opment engine for the city and the re- of domestic violence and people with Director, gion. If Buffalo is going to remain com- disabilities. petitive in its search for federal and state The work of the Law School's legal Affordable funds, it needs an experienced and so- clinics advances the UB 2020 strategic projects phisticated advocate. With the clinic, we strength in Civic Engagement and Public Housing Clinic have an edge that other cities don't have." Policy, which supports faculty research The projects that won funding are: and scholarship that addresses pressing • St. Martin Village, comprising 60 social and policy issues in collaboration units of housing on the former Diocesan with community partners, while also Education Campus at 564 Dodge St. Two generating scholarly expertise. "There is existing three-story buildings will be re- no law firm, nor are there non-profits, habilitated into 24 two-bedroom units, that could sustain the effort that a Law and a chapel building will become a School clinic can sustain' Hezel says. community center to be operated by the In addition to affordable housing, UB Community Action Organization. In ad- Law School also offers clinics addressing dition, 36 townhouse units –24 three- such topics as familyviolence, the envi- bedroom and 12 four-bedroom–will be ronment, elder law and community eco- newly constructed. Rents will be afford- nomic development. UBLAW FORU M • SPRI NG 2 0 1 0 14 FACULTY

ALLTOGETHERNOW Faculty committees ensure broad buy-in to the mission of UB Law

is lonely at the top —but not that faculty, construed as service to the Law lonely. School - one of the key considerations The leadership of the Law that go into tenure and promotion de- School, recognizing that such a cisions. large and complex enterprise needs the The implications of the committees' voices and vision of all its stakeholders, work for life at the Law School can be counts on a diversity of working com- significant. Recently, Gardner and mittees to share the load of governance. Newton say, these working groups have More than two dozen standing com- made major contributions in several mittees, drawing on the diverse talents areas. A small sampling of their work: of faculty members, administrators and • A program to observe classes a few students, meet regularly to pro- taught by adjunct faculty and provide vide guidance on a wide range of issues. feedback, to ensure a high standard of "In my time at the Law School, I teaching in the classroom. cannot remember such a flurry of ac- • Ongoing input into admissions tivity by the committees;' says Dean decisions, especially for students in the MakauW Mutua. "The vibrancy and broad midrange of the applicant pool. vitality of these committees has not al- • In process, a stronger and broader ways been there. Theywere sleepers. policy against academic dishonesty. Professor and vice dean Errol E. Meidinger, left, is a But when I became dean, I promised • A new policy on the hiring and re- chair of the Appointments Committee. the faculty that the committees would tention of research and writing faculty, James R. Newton, vice dean for administration, is chair become real and that they would be- and an extensive new policy regarding come forums for debating and deciding the hiring and use of adjunct faculty. the fate of the Law School" • New policy guidelines for accom- The dean says such a structure com- modating the needs of students with ports with his insistence on openness disabilities. and transparency on the third floor of • A complete restructuring of UB O'Brian Hall. "If you run a law school Law's legal skills program. that is essentially unhappy—you don't • Major work on the Law School's communicate with students, you are use of technology, particularly as it re- not open with the faculty, you are lates to teaching. "We wanted to really opaque —the chances are you are run- aggressively think about how we are go- ning a failing law school;' he says. "The ing to use technology, Newton says. dean of a law school becomes more ef- "We have been hiring a lot of new facul- fective if he or she is inclusive and walks tywho are using more technology in in tandem with the faculty." the classroom, as are faculty at other law Dean Mutua nominally chairs schools. We will be purchasing some many of the committees. But he has new software and are planning to make delegated much responsibility for run- major technology upgrades to several ning and reporting on the committee of our classrooms. work to two fellow administrators: Pro- "The faculty can speak best to what fessor James A. Gardner, vice dean for their needs are, and what's changing academic affairs, and James R. Newton, out there in terms of teaching and legal vice dean for administration. academia, so that we as an administra- "These committees are a means to tion can make the right purchases and get broader input into all the things that plans for the Law School." go into running the Law School;" New- ton says. "The dean charges the committees to look at various issues and then make policy recommendations." In addition, notes Gardner, participation in the committee structure is, for 15

UB exceptional scholars

Professor James A. Gardner was one of five recipients of the University at Buffalo's Exceptional Scholar Sustained Achievement Award for 2010. He was honored at UB's sixth annual Celebration of Academic Excellence on April 1 in the Center for the Arts. Gardner is the Joseph W. Belluck and Laura L. Aswad Professor of Civil Justice; Director, the Jaeckle Center for Law and Democracy; and Vice Dean, Academic Affairs, in the Law School. The Exceptional Scholar Award for Sustained Achievement was created by the University at Buf- falo in 2002 to honor outstanding professional achievement that has been focused on a particular body of work over a number of years. This award was created to recognize an unprecedented accomplishment in a senior scholar's career, distinguishing a body of work of enduring importance that has gone beyond the norm in a particular field of study. The other recipients were: Alexander N. Cartwright, Chairman and Professor, Electrical Engi- neering, Biomedical Engineering; Li Lin, Professor, Industrial and Systems Engineering; Jerome A. Roth, Professor, Pharmacology and Toxicology; Mark T. Swihart, Professor, Chemical and Biologi- cal Engineering; Director, UB 2020 Initiative in Integrated Nanostructure Systems; and Georgirene D. Vladutiu, Professor, Pediatrics; Neurology; Pathology and Anatomical Sciences.

Mangold selected a leading academic researcher for a Former Dean Olsen heads Buffalo fiscal control board National Institutes of Health conference Economically, it's not the worst of times in the City of Buffalo, University at Buffalo Law School Professor but it's not the best of times, either. Now UB Law Professor and for- Susan V. Mangold was selected as the leading mer dean IL Nils Olsen has been named to chair a state-mandated academic for one of 15 teams accepted for a co- fiscal control board that oversees the way the city handles its affairs. operative research conference sponsored by the The nine-member Buffalo Fiscal Stability Authority was estab- . w National Institutes of Health and National Insti- lished in 2003 to bring order to what had been a dysfunctional tute of Mental Health. budgeting process. As a so-called "hard" control board, it reviews ' The conference, held in San Jose, Calif, Feb. significant contracts that the city enters into. The board also over- 6-10, brought academic researchers and com- sees spending in the Buffalo Public Schools, the Municipal Hous- munity administrators together in weeklong ing Authority and the Buffalo Urban Renewal Agency. It's expected • workshops to examine issues of public health. to transition into an advisory body this year, as the Mangold, co-director of UB's Program for Ex- city has balanced three consecutive budgets and cellence in Family Law and an expert in child welfare law, served has amassed a record reserve account. as the lead academic researcher for a group weighing the impact "I've always thought it was very important for of local funding strategies on child welfare. the University to be civically engaged in the com- The conference, called the NIH/NIMH Community-based munity and to devote some of its intellectual capi- Participatory Research Approaches to Sustaining Healthy Fami- _ s tal to the issues that are confronted by the com- lies and Multicultural Communities Research Institute, accepted ^. ^± munity, says Olsen, who was appointed by Gov. 15 teams — including Mangold's — from more than 40 proposals David A. Paterson. "I thought it would be appro- applying for sponsorships from the NIH/NIMH. priate and a good idea to have someone fromthe e "We looked at whether the type of funding, not the amount, 41 University involved" impacts child welfare outcomes' Mangold. "Our prelimi- Though he's known for his expertise in envi- nary findings indicate that local funding with flexibility, reliabili- ronmental law, Olsen has been involved in community develop- ty and accountability leads to better outcomes." ment issues, and has taught courses on the city charter commission Mangold says she and her research team worked at the insti- review process and community economic revitalization. tute to develop a study to test that hypothesis. Child welfare is And though things seem to be looking up for Buffalo, he says funded by federal/state/local matching funds. continued attention from the control board is vital. "The mayor, working with the control board and the Common Council, has done avery good job in turning around the dire situation that was present when the control board was enacted;' he says. "They have built up an operating surplus and a significant rainy-day fund. Ob- viously, though, in today's economic situation, with the state econ- omy in crisis and major increases in pension and other post-employment obligations, there needs to be continued vigilance and attention to this" U B LAW FORUM • SPRING 2 0 1 0 16 FACULTY

Travel and honors fill Dean Mutua's calendar

With about 4,300 members, the Coun- cil's ranks include top government officials, renowned scholars, business leaders, ac- claimed journalists, prominent attorneys and distinguished nonprofit professionals. Members participate in meetings, panel discussions, interviews, lectures, book clubs and film screenings to discuss and debate the major foreign policy issues of our time. In addition, they enjoy unparalleled access to world leaders, senior government officials, members of Congress and prominent thinkers. The membership rolls include former Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin, who chairs the organization, and such states- men as former President Bill Clinton, Hen- ry Kissinger, Condoleeza Rice and Colin Powell; senior journalists such as Fareed Zakaria, Tom Brokaw and Katie Couric; senior academics such as Columbia Univer- sity President Lee Bollinger and Harvard Dean Makau W. Professor Henry Louis Gates Jr.; and Mutua speaking in s 2009 gave way to 2010, Dean Makau W. Mutua Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, along with other Nairobi. packed a year's worth of activity and accolades into senior lawyers and judges. just a few months. On recommendation of the membership committee, the AOne highlight was a weeklongtrip to Africa in Council's Board of Directors elected Mutua as a life member. February, during which Mutua spoke in Nairobi, Kenya, and in In mid-March, Dean Mutua traveled to The Hague, The Kampala, Uganda. His lectures came at a critical time for both Netherlands, to train investigators of the International Crimi- countries: Kenya is rewriting its constitution and considering nal Court who are seeking evidence to determine whether se- adding legal protections for gay and lesbian persons, and a bill nior Kenyan officials and businesspersons should be indicted pending in the Ugandan parliament would impose the death for crimes against humanity for the violence that rocked the penalty on homosexuals. "Passions are high on both sides of country in early 2008 after contested presidential elections. the issues in both countries; Mutua said. Luis Moreno-Ocampo, the Prosecutor of the ICC, has asked In his Nairobi lecture, titled" Sexual Orientation and Hu- the court to authorize investigations into that violence, which man Rights: Putting Homophobia on Trial, Mutua argued resulted in killings, rapes, widespread attacks and wanton de- that anti-homosexual sentiment does not exist in isolation. "It struction of property. is useless and hypocritical to fight one form of oppression and And late last year, the dean was a guest of President Obama discrimination while supporting another, he said. "In most and the first lady at aWhite House ceremonyto present the cases, individuals who express one form of hatred against one Robert E Kennedy Human Rights Award. Mutua was one of group are more likely expresses hatred against other groups - five international and national human rights experts who se- thus a racist is also likely to be homophobic, sexist, misogynist lected the recipient —Magodonga Mahlangu and her organiza- and a hater of poor people." tion, Women of Zimbabwe Arise. The judges chose Mahlangu He exhorted human rights activists in Kenya, "You can't and WOZA for organizing more than 60,000 Zimbabweans in pick and choose what rights to focus on, or which people an ongoing campaign of non-violent action against injustice, should be protected. When you fight for liberation, you should exploitive social conditions and oppression of women's rights. fight for the total liberation of the human condition. You The award, established in 1984, honors courageous and in- should fight against all forms of discrimination" novative human rights defenders throughout the world who The dean's trip was sponsored by the Ford Foundation. stand up against injustice, often at great personal risk. It in- Also in February, Mutua was elected to the prestigious cludes a prize of $30,000 and ongoing legal, advocacy and Council on Foreign Relations, a NewYork City-based think technical support through a partnership with the RFK Center. tank and membership organization that studies major international issues and publishes the influential journal Foreign Policy. ADMINISTRATION 17

Spotlight on staff

PART OF A CONTINUING SERIES Dean Mutua says: Fr

Ilene R. Fleischmann, BobbyJo Ladelfa, Terrence E. Melinda R. Saran, Vice Lean forAlumni, Director of Records McCormack, Interim Vice Dean for Public Relations and and Registration Manager of Law School Student Affairs

Communications and CC BobbyJo exudes high com- Technology and head of CC The English language does Executive Director, petence and professional the M. Robert Koren not have the words to cap- urgency in every task that she ture Melinda's dedication to our UB Law Alumni undertakes as registrar. The Center for Clinical students and UB Law. She is the keeper of our academic records, ideal description of the perfect Association Bobbylo occupies one of the most Legal Education dean of students. There is no one sensitive positions at UB Law who works harder with our stu- CC Ilene brings to the impor- with the grace and diligence that CC Terry is the unsung hero of dents— including when the tant task of directing our should be the envy of every law UB Law. He has been the cause is the most challenging— alumni affairs, and telling the school dean. She has brought her most important figure in mak- to mold and prepare them to be world about the great things that impeccable organizational skills ing pedagogical technology ac- ethical, judicious and sharp are happening at UB Law, a keen to aportfolio of UB Law that de- cessible to many instructors. attorneys. She is a real lawyer sense of professionalism and a mands a unique combination of Even in the most difficult cir- who instills in students the high dedication that have no match. skills and talents." cumstances, Terry keeps the de- purposes of this noble profession. She is a perfectionist who expects meanor of the ultimate profes- BobbyJo LaDelfa oversees Melinda is simply irreplaceable." the highest standards and clarity sional. I know from my own ex- management of the Law Melinda Saran provides purpose. She has an eagle's eye perience that he will scale heav- of School's Records and Registra- support services to students for the stories that put UB Law in en and earth to serve the needs of tion Office, which is responsi- from the time they arrive to the sharpest light. I am extremely our students and faculty. He has ble for class scheduling and when they graduate, and even fortunate to have such a gifted brought that superb diligence registration, final exams, afterward for the bar examina- colleague in the ranks of the and exceptional devotion to his grades, and maintenance of all tion. She plans and coordinates senior staff." position at UB Law IT." student records, including orientation and Commence- Vice Dean Ilene Fleischmann transcript preparation. Dr. Terrence McCormack is the ment, provides academic and is responsible for the Law LaDelfa also provides academic audiovisual librarian and head personal counseling, and School's public face, bringing ex- audits and advisement for all of the M. Robert Koren Center works with student groups, tensive journalism experience to students to ensure adherence for Clinical Legal Education at dual-degree students, students her role in overseeing the award- to degree requirements and the Charles B. Sears Law Li- with disabilities, and others to winning UBLawForummaga- successful degree completion. brary. He directs all media ser- make the Law School experi- zine; UB Law Links, a quarterly vices in the Law School and ence successful, productive and e-mail newsletter; UB Law maintains the Koren Center's enjoyable. Briefs, a bimonthly print audio and video collection. He newsletter; and the UB Law Web also serves as interim manager site and related electronic media. of the Law School's Depart- As executive director of the UB ment of Technology Services, Law Alumni Association, she overseeing the school's IT op- works to build relations with the erations and services for stu- school's nearly 10,000 alumni. dents, faculty and staff. U B LAW FORUM S P RING 2 0 1 0

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THE WIDE ANGLE

our UB Law Alumni to put a lot of energy behind that ef- UBLaw Association has gone fort;' says Robert Boreanaz'89, cur- national. rent president of the LawAlumniAs- Not that the law alumni sociation. Alumni organization hasn't always "The creation of a national alumni had individual members across the association is key to achieving my United States and even worldwide. goals for the Law School," says Dean But, as vice dean and executive Makau W. Mutua. Toward that end, Association director Ilene Fleischmann says, during this academic year he has trav- "Historically, we were primarily a eled to visit alumni groups in Chicago, Buffalo-Rochester-based association. Atlanta, New York City, Washington, takes on a Most of our law students came from Rochester, San Francisco and Cleve- Western New York and many of our land. "I have been humbled by the fan- graduates wanted to stay here to tastic warmth and hospitality with practice. That is not the case today." which I've been received,' he says. "For national "Now we want to get behind the many, it's the first time they've seen the Law School in its effort to be viewed dean come to them." more as a national rather than as a re- Boreanaz, who also has traveled to focus gional school, and the LawAlumniAs- a number of regional events, notes sociation as a national organization. that the school's approximately 10,000 AL13ANY That's something that we've been alumni live in nearly all 50 states as Buffalo Night at working to achieve since the installa- ,20o9 lilfian s tion of Dean Mutua. He presented our organization with a great opportunity

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CHICAGO TheMid-America Club Left to right: No Paul J. Korniczky'S0 and UB Law Dean Join your Makau Mutua host for a reception Chicago alumni. Law Alumni Association today! No matter where you live or work, your Law Alumni Association can help you meet other alumni in your area, I^ organize events or develop your am professional network. to that effort is a commitment to con- We have chapters in the duct two meetings a year by videocon- following areas: ference, bringing alumni leaders na- well as abroad. "We have alumni in all tionwide into the meeting. Albany of these different areas;' he says. "We Dean Mutua was present for the Matthew R. Coseo'05 want to take those alumni, who have first such meeting in November, host- [email protected] made connections and set down roots ed by Dennis R. McCoy'77 at Hiscock in those areas, and have them available Barclay, in Buffalo. "It was a great op- NewYork City as resources to our students. When portunity for the dean to address all of Michael D. Mann'06 firms are recruiting, if they don't view his alumni volunteers and leaders at [email protected] us as a national law school then they one time and start a dialogue;' Mueller are less likely to recruit our students." says. Terrence M. Gilbride'88 at Rochester The alumni association has taken Hodgson Russ hosted the March Lorisa D. LaRocca '02 several steps toward that end, says Lisa videoconference meeting. [email protected] M. Mueller, assistant dean for alumni Also, Mueller says, the association and communications, who serves as bylaws will be revised to formally rec- Washington, D.C. assistant director of UBLAA. ognize these chapters as standing Kristin G. Koehler'94 Formal alumni steering committees, committees of the alumni association. [email protected] from 15 to 29 people, have been estab- One board member will be assigned to lished in Washington, Albany, each chapter as a board liaison, "to If you are interested in Rochester and New York City, she said. mentor the chapters and be an advo- organizing a chapter in your These steering committees, chosen to area, contact: include male and female, older and Continued on page 20 younger alumni from different areas of practice, "will put together short- Lisa M. Mueller'93 term and long-term plans for the area Assistant Dean for around how to fulfill the alumni asso- Alumni and ciation's mission," she says. CHICAGp Communications Now, in Phase 2, leaders will begin The Cd_ fl fLnerica Club [email protected] to integrate the work of the steering committees with the association's board of directors, about 30 officers and directors who meet monthly. Key Renew for 2010-11 law.buffao.edu/aumni

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Continued from page 19 In Washington, more than 50 All of these efforts, he says, draw on alumni attended a reception at the the close relationships that are created cate for them at board meetings." Kenyan Embassy hosted by the at UB Law. "There are countless stories And Boreanaz points out that Kenyan ambassador, Boreanaz said. that alumni can tell," Boreanaz says, when vacancies occur on the alumni And a cocktail reception last summer "about how they went to UB Law be- association's board, appointments are in Chicago drew both students and cause that is what they could afford, made with an eye toward geography, alumni. and the school made it possible for and new members have connections Another gathering to build ties them to have great careers. They carry to such places as Cleveland, Atlanta with alumni was Rochester Day at the the Law School in high esteem because and New Jersey. Law School on Feb. 12, at which about they felt they received an excellent legal These efforts build on a continu- eight attorneys came from Rochester education. " ing series of events hosted by regional to talk to students about living and chapters. For example, the traditional practicing law in the Rochester area. January luncheon of the alumni asso- The day ended with a networking re- ciation's New York City chapter was ception. WASIIINGTON'D'C combined with the presentation of The next step, Mueller said, is to KenyanEmbassy Nov.19,2009 the Jaeckle Award, the Law School's find ways to engage and hear from highest honor, to Kenneth B. Forrest those in other regions with a concen- '76. More than 100 people attended, tration of UB Law alumni that cur- including friends, family and col- rently are without a steering commit- leagues of the honoree, who is based tee. in New York City. "We plan to do Boreanaz said that UBLAA has more of this in other regions as ap- also found success in working with the propriate — if the honoree is not in University at Buffalo Alumni Associa- Buffalo, to honor them where they tion when it sponsors events nation- are;' Fleischmann says. wide. For example, we joined the UB Alumni Association in hosting events at the Cornell Club in New York City, when Vikki L. Pryor'78 spoke; and the Army Navy Club in Washington, D.C., featuring Nicole Lee'02.

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Achievements recognized Law Review Dinner deepens bonds

wo legal lights with deep was one of our favorite professors; he "We have a number of cases that we're connections to UB Law says."He's such a kind, intelligent man, excited about publishing, especially our School had that bond grow and that makes for a good professor" In symposium issue this spring, a collec- even deeper when they re- addition, Iseman said, some members tion of essays from a number of high- T cently received the Buffalo have taken Engel's bridge-term course powered professors" that arises from a Law ReviewAward. involving travel to Chiangmai, Thai- Baldy Center conference. Eugene Pigott'73, associate justice land, for intensive study of Thai legal A major initiative for the LawRe- of the Court of Appeals, NewYork culture. view this year has been the creation of State's highest court, and longtime UB Of Judge Pigott, Iseman said,"He is an online forum —"a place where a dia- Law Professor David Engel were hon- one of the more recognizable faces of logue can be created among different Hon. Eugene Pigott ored at the LawReview's annual diner the Law School throughout the state professors in the legal community." The '73 on April 21 at the Park Country Club. and the legal community as a whole. online venue will publish shorter The Law Review board, about five He's a great role model for our mem- pieces, 500 to 1,000 words, in a less for- dozen students strong, made the selec- bers to follow. His career path is more mal format than the printed journal. tions based on an open nomination than just the bench - he served in pri- "We want to try to get some dialogue and election process. "Professor Engel vate practice, and in the Army during going on the pieces we publish, Iseman and Judge Pigott were the unanimous the Vietnam War. That kind of profes- says. "It will give an author an opportu- decisions once they were nominated;' sional dexterity and flexibility is some- nity to be challenged and defend his says third-year student Scott Iseman, thing we like to emphasize with our opinions. This is an emerging trend managing editor of the journal. membership" among law reviews, so we're excited Engel, a SUNY Distinguished Ser- The LawReview Dinner, for which about that opportunity" vice Professor, teaches a first-year torts Iseman served as emcee, celebrated a The Law Review Web site is at David Engel, SUNY course that many Law Review members strong year for the journal, which pub- www.buffalolawreview.org . Distinguished Service took, Iseman says. "Many people en- lishes five issues annually. "It has been a Professor joyed him as a professor and thought he good year for landing articles;' he says.

mixed solemnity with laughter, as those cessful private practitioner from Seoul, Students of organizations honored the achieve- Korea, who accepted his award by ments of their members set to graduate video. color hear in May. They also recognized distin- The Trailblazer Award was given to guished alumni, minority trailblazers in Sheldon K. Smith'01, president of the words of thanks the legal field, and professors. Minority Bar Association. The Jacob D. With a slide show of smiling Law Hyman Professor of theYearAward School faces running continuously in went to SLTNY Distinguished Service and advice the background, those honored shared Professor Charles Patrick Ewing, direc- words of thanks and advice with those tor of the Legal Skills program at the Trini E. Ross '92 n keeping with the theme "Lifting who will soon be their colleagues in the Iaw School. A"LiftAs We Climb" as We Climb, the Law School's legal profession. scholarship also was awarded, as was Students of Color Dinner The keynote speaker was Associate the Monique E. Emdin Award, given in brought together graduating stu- Professor Rick Su, who teaches in the honor of the 2007 UB Law graduate, dents, continuing students, facul- areas of im migration and local govern- who died tragically of cancer at age 28. ty and a wide variety of friends to cele- ment law. Hon. Rose H. Sconiers '73,who pre- brate achievement and call for a com- Distinguished Alumni Awards were viously received a Distinguished Alum- mitment to serve others as only lawyers presented to Trini E. Ross'92,Assistant ni Award, was honored for her recent can. U.S. Attorney and member of the appointment to the Fourth Depart- The April 15 dinner, held at the Buf- Dean'sAdvisory Council; Mark G. ment, Appellate Division ofNewYork falo Niagara Marriott, is an annual joint Pearce'78, of the Buffalo firm State Supreme Court. venture of the Asian American Law Creighton, Pearce, Johnsen & Giroux. The event's traditional candle-light- Sheldon K. Smith '01 Students Association, the Black Law Pearce was named by President Obama ing ceremony closed the evening. Students Association and the Latin to the National Labor Relations Board; Co-chairs of the dinner were Mollie American Law Students Association. It and Dr. Chanse Leon Kim'75, a suc- K. McCabe' 11 and Allison T. Chan '11. 23

Distinguished alumni Six to receive awards at dinner May 11

ive accomplished alumni of UB Law School, and one non-alumnus members of local law enforcement, fire with substantial ties to the school, will be honored May 11 at the UB and emergency medical service agen- Law Alumni Association's 2010 Distinguished Alumni Awards dinner. cies and their families. A 2007 recipient F The event - the 48th annual for the Law Alumni Association — will be of the NewYork State Bar Association's held at the Hyatt Regency Buffalo, beginning with cocktails at 6 p.m. and dinner Outstanding Prosecutor Award, he at 7. To register, call (716) 645-2107 or e-mail [email protected] . served in the U.S. Marine Corps and is a An advance look at this year's honorees reveals some well-known names and decorated veteran of the Vietnam War. some unparalleled records of accomplishment: Harvey L. Kaminski'77, For his ex- emplary service in business: presi Hon. Erin M. Peradotto Hon. E. Jeannette Ogden'83, dent and CEO, Prestige Capital '84, For her conscientious For her many contributionsJor the Corp. in Fort Lee, N.J. and diligent perJbrmance betterment of our community: A member of the Dean's Ad- in the judiciary An associ- Buffalo City Court judge and visory Council, Kaminski is a ate justice of the NewYork acting Erie County Family Court vocal and active supporter of State Supreme Court,Ap- udge Ogden served as the Law School; a lecture-hall pellate Division, Fourth De- president of the UB Law classroom in O'Brian Hall is partment, in Rochester, N.Y. , she was Alumni Association in named in his honor. He has served appointed to the position in 2006. Jus- 2008-09. She is the first as a mentor for UB Law students tice Peradotto worked as a trial attorney and only African-Amer- and fielded plenty of calls from for almost 20 years before she was elect- ican woman to serve Erie students seeking career advice. He ed to the state Supreme Court in 2003. County Family Court. also has taught at the Law School's She worked as an assistant attorney Known as a no-nonsense NewYork City Program in Interna- general in Buffalo from 1997 to 1998. yet compassionate jurist, she was tional Finance & Law. "It is critical to She has also worked with various law first appointed to City Court in 1995, just give thanks and show gratitude for associations, such as the Bar Associa- then elected twice to serve 10-year the positive experiences you have had tion of Erie County and the State of terms. Prior to ascending to the bench, in your life and what has made you suc- New York's Attorney Grievance Com- Ogden, a Buffalo native, worked as a tri- cessful;' Kaminski says. "Life is short. mittee for the 8th Judicial District. al attorney for the CIGNA Insurance; You have to leave a legacy." had her own practice; and served as a Dr. Roger J. Jones'84, For his prosecutor from the Erie County Dis- Hon. Thomas P. Franczyk, For Out- 7 leadershi by example as a pri- trictAttorney's Office and as assistant standing Service to the University by a vate practitioner: Jones is a county attorney. She is a member and Non-Alumnus: Considering all the partner in the Chicago law past president of the Women Lawyers time, effort and creativity he con- • firm Latham and Watkins. of Western NewYork. tributes to UB Law, "Tim" t ' Practicing in the firm's tax Franczyk, an Erie County department, Jones specializes Hon. Frank J. Clark '67, For his Court judge, might well in tax controversy and litiga- commitment to public service: A be claimed as an hon- tion matters. He has represented former Erie County district attor- y orary alumnus. Co-di- taxpayers, including numerous Fortune ney, Clark served in the district at- rector of trial advocacy at 500 companies, in over 50 matters at all torney's office in Buffalo for 27 the Law School, Franczyk levels of the federal court system, in- years. He was a familiar figure in the oversees the school-spon- cluding U.S. Tax Court, federal District news during much of that time. First sored Buffalo-Niagara National Court, the Court of Federal Claims, the elected to the county's top law Mock Trial Competition, which last federal Circuit Courts of Appeals and enforcement position in year brought nearly 130 law students the U.S. Supreme Court, as well as 1996, he cited health from 32 schools to the Buffalo City before various state courts. He is concerns in announc- Court building. Franczyk, a former Erie also a frequent speaker at seminars ing his retirement in County prosecutor, has been coaching and symposia, taught in the Chica- 2008. A member of the trial teams and teaching trial advocacy go-Kent College of Law Graduate Dean's Advisory Coun- and drafting case problems at UB Law Program in Taxation, and has been a cil at UB Law, Clark has since 1994. member of the Dean's Advisory Coun- been board president of the cil at UB Law since 1999. 100 Club of Buffalo, which supports UB LAW FORUM S P RING 2 0 1 0 24 CLASS ACTION

Don't miss Peter J. Martin '64 received the Striving for Excellence Award from Community Services for the your Developmentally Disabled, in Buffalo. Martin is a senior partner with Bouvier Partnership in Buffalo, practicing corporate, tax and business class reunion! law. He is a Buffalo resident. Victor J. Gagliardi'65 was a guest May 21 and 22, 2010 speaker at Bassett Manor and Bassett Class of 1960's 50th reunion on Park Manor Senior Living Communities in Williamsville, N.Y. Commencement weekend He discussed "What You Should Know About Elder Law." Gagliardi is October 8 and 9, 2010 special counsel in the Buffalo office of Planning is under way for Classes of Bouvier Partnership, concentrating in elder law, trusts and estates, probate 1965,1970,1975,1980,1985,1990,1995 and 2000 administration, wills, living trusts and For more information contact Amy Hayes Atkinson at irrevocable trusts. He lives on Grand [email protected] or (716) 645-6224 Island, N.Y. John A. Cirando'66 was appointed to Compiled by Cynthia Watts. the New York State Commission on Judicial Nomination. The Send your news to [email protected] commission evaluates and nominates candidates for vacancies on the state Court of Appeals. Cirando is a partner in the firm D.J. & J.A. Cirando Esqs. in 'S0s Syracuse, N.Y., where he resides. He Hon. Joseph D. Mintz'56 has retired Anthony J. Colucci Jr.'58 has been concentrates his practice in appellate as a New York State Supreme Court named counsel in Colucci & Gallaher advocacy, estates, wills and real estate. Anthony J. Colucci Jr. justice, 8th Judicial District, in Buffalo. in Buffalo, concentrating his practice '58 Mintz, who served on the bench since in corporate counseling and public Vincent J. Moore'69 is included in 1979, is a resident of Getzville, N.Y. finance. He also received the The Best Lawyers in America 2010 in Martindale Hubbell Honoree Award, the real estate law section and was Richard F. Griffln'S7 is listed in its highest peer recognition, for 25 named to Super Lawyers 2009. Moore Business First"Who's Who in Law" consecutive years with Martindale is a senior partner in Damon Morey 2009, New York Super Lawyers 2009 Hubbell's top rating of AV."A past in the Buffalo office and chair of the and the 2010 edition of The Best president of the UB Law Alumni firm's real estate department. He lives Lawyers in America. A past recipient of Association and a past recipient of the in Williamsville, N.Y. the UB Law Alumni Association's association's Distinguished Alumnus Distinguished Alumnus Award, he is Award, he lives in Buffalo. of counsel with Kavinoky Cook in HaroldM. Halpern Buffalo, where he resides. Maryann Saccomando Freedman '58 is named in the 2010 edition of '70s '58 Robert J. Plache'57 is listed in the both Who's Who in America and Thomas J. Wojciechowski'70 trusts and estates category of The Best Who's Who in American Law. discussed "What You Should Know Lawyers in America 2010 and was Freedman is of counsel to Cohen & About Elder Law" at Bassett Manor named to Super Lawyers 2009. He is Lombardo in Buffalo, where she and Bassett Park Manor Senior Living special counsel at Damon Morey in resides. Communities in Williamsville, N.Y. the Buffalo office, practicing in the He is a partner in Bouvier '1 probate, trust and estate department. Harold M. Halpern'58 of East Partnership, concentrating in real Plache lives in Kenmore, N.Y. Amherst, N.Y., received the Nathan estate, estate planning and elder law in Benderson Community Service the Buffalo office. Wojciechowski is a Award from the Jewish Federation of resident of Hamburg, N.Y. Greater Buffalo. He is vice president JohnA. Cirando'66 and general counsel for Calamar in Wheatfield, N.Y. 25

Seated— Hon. Charles R. Newman '50, David A. Doll'50, Herbert Shafer'50, Hon. Joseph J. Sedita'50, Michael A. 50+ REUNION LUNCHEON Amico'58, Michael T. Sullivan Jr.'53, Hon. John J. Gruber'52, Victor C. Silverstein '54, Frank R. Parlato'54 Aug. 5, 2009 Buffalo Standing— Hon. Joseph D. Mintz'56, Ross M. Cellino Sr.'56, Sanford M. Silverberg'57, John F. Canale'47, Richard •Luncheon at the N. Blewett'51, Ralph L. Halpern'53, Hon. John P. Lane'53, Grace Marie Ange '57, Thomas J. Kelly'52, Frank R. Papa'52, Thomas Santa Lucia'54, Gordon Gannon Jr.'59, Irwin E. Ginsberg'55, George M. Zimmermann'49, Law School Harold M. Halpern '58

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Paul A. Battaglia'72 was named to Division, 4t1 Judicial Department, in She is a member of the UB Counci I The Best Lawyers in America 2010 in Buffalo. Sconi.ers previously served as and of UB Law School's Dean's the tax category. Battaglia is a partner a New York State Supreme Court Advisory Council. Heilman is a in Jaeckle Fleischmann & Mugel in justice in Buffalo, where she resides. Buffalo resident. the Amherst, N.Y., office and an She is a past president of the UB Law adjunct instructor at UB Law School. Alumni Association and a past Arthur A. Herdzik'75 was a guest He lives in Orchard Park, N.Y. recipient of the association's speaker at the American Board of Distinguished Alumna Award. Trial Advocates and the Erie Institute David G. Brock'72 of East Amherst, of Law CLE program "Masters in N.Y., was named 2009 Maurice S. P. Burgio'74 Trial" in Buffalo. Herdzik is a member Hon. Mark G. Farrell James received the Tabor Man of the Year by the of Chelus Herdzik Speyer & Monte in '72 Robert M. Kiebala Memorial Award Brotherhood of Temple Beth Zion in from the Defense Trial Lawyers of Buffalo and is a resident of Lancaster, Buffalo. He was also named to the Western New York, recognizing him N.Y. 2010 The Best Lawyers in America list as the 2009 Defense Trial Lawyer of in the litigation category. Brock is a the Year. Burgio is a partner in Burgio Edward D. Manzo'75 has written the partner in Jaeckle Fleischmann & Kita & Curvin in Buffalo, where he second edition of Patent Claim Mugel in Buffalo and a former vice resides. Interpretation-Global Edition 2009- president of the UB Law Alumni 2010. Manzo is co-founder of Cook Association. Michele O. Heffernan'74 of Buffalo Alex in Chicago, and is listed in Who's is named in The BestLawyers in Who in the World, Best Lawyers in Hon. Mark G. Farrell'72, Amherst America 2010 in the employee America 2010. He was also named to Town Justice, has been named the benefits category. She is a partner in Super Lawyers 2009 as one of the Top Hon. Rose H. recipient of the Annual Eugene W. Jaeckle Fleischmann & Mugel, 100 Super Lawyers in Illinois in the Sconiers'73 Salisbury Magistrate of the Year practicing in employee benefits in the intellectual property and intellectual Award for 2009 by the NewYork State Buffalo office. property litigation practice areas. Magistrate's Association. The award Manzo is president-elect of the was presented at the 100th annual Hon. Alexander W. Hunter Jr.'74 was Intellectual Property LawAssociation meeting of the New York State appointed associate justice of the of Chicago and an adjunct professor r ; Magistrates Association, held in Lake Appellate Term of the NewYork State of law at DePaul University College of Placid, N.Y. Judge Farrell was cited for Supreme Court, First Judicial Law. He resides in Lake Forest, Ill. his outstanding contributions and Department, in New York City. He dedication to the local court system in previously served as a New York State Thomas A. Palmer'75 is named in NewYork State and his outstanding Supreme Court justice, 12th Judicial the 2010 edition of The Best Lawyers professional achievements as a District, in Bronx, N.Y. Hunter is a in America in the business and James P. Burgio'74 member of the judiciary. The Eugene resident of New Rochelle, N.Y. corporate section. Palmer is a partner W. Salisbury Magistrate of the Year in the business and corporate practice Award is the most prestigious Gregory C.Yungbluth'74 has been group in Jaeckle Fleischmann & designation available to a sitting named to Super Lawyers 2009. He is a Mugel in Amherst, N.Y., where he magistrate in New York State. He senior partner in Damon Morey in resides. resides in Amherst, N.Y. the Buffalo office and is co-chair of the firm's corporate department. William E Savino'75 is included in AnthonyJ. Latona'72 was named Yungbluth lives in Williamsville, N.Y. the 2010 edition of The BestLawyers president of the Amherst Symphony in America in the bankruptcy and Orchestra in Amherst, N.Y. The Christopher T. Greene'75, a senior creditor-debtor rights symphony is the longest-running partner in Damon Morey in Buffalo, law/commercial litigation section, community orchestra in the nation. was named to The BestLawyers in and was named to Super Lawyers Latona is a partner in the litigation America 2010 in the corporate law, 2009. He is a senior partner and ArthurHerdzik'75r2 and economic and land development health care law category. He was also chairman of the business litigation practice groups in Jaeckle named to Super Lawyers 2009. Greene and insolvency department in the Fleischmann & Mugel in the Buffalo is a member of UB Law School's Buffalo office of Damon Morey. office. He lives in East Amherst, N.Y. Dean's Advisory Council and a Savino is a bridge course lecturer at former recipient of the Law Alumni UB Law School and a past president Joseph E. Zdarsky'72 of Association's Distinguished Alumnus of the UB Law Alumni Association. Williamsville, N.Y., has become a Award. He is a Buffalo resident. He resides in Amherst, N.Y. Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers. Zdarsky is a partner in Pamela Davis Heilman'75 has been Diane E Bosse'76 has received the Zdarsky Sawicki & Agostinelli in named to the advisory board of the NewYork State BarAssociation's 2010 Buffalo, practicing business litigation. Woodrow Wilson International Award for Excellence in Public Center for Scholars Canada Institute. Service. She practices with Bender & Hon. Rose H. Sconiers'73 has been Heilman is a partner in the corporate Bender in Buffalo and is a past appointed by New York State Gov. and securities and international/ recipient of the UB Law Alumni David A. Paterson to the NewYork cross-border practice group of Association's Distinguished Alumna State Supreme Court, Appellate Hodgson Russ in the Buffalo office. Award. Bosse lives in Clarence, N.Y. 27

H philip `lisp,' 49 Martin '49, andtHon. F rank rge Joseph B. Bo owie '49 M Class of 1951 58TH REUNION July 24, 2009 Buffalo • Dinner at a classmate's home

Seated — Eugene J. Martin, Edward J. Schwendler Jr., William R. Pfalzer, Harvey Rogers, W. Donn McCarthy

eDry R Standing— Richard N. '51, and ba ose '51 Calvin K ckgr an Ri allett Blewett, Edward S. Spector, d chard N. Bl David S. Reisman, Thomas ewett 'Si V. Troy, Henry S. Wick, David Buch, Calvin Kallett, Henry Rose

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Kenneth B. Forrest'76 is the recipient of the Jaeckle Award, the highest honor UB Law School and the Law l R Alumni Association can bestow. Forrest is a partner in Wachtell Lipton Rosen & Katz in New York City, practicing commercial litigation. He has served for 18 years on UB Law School's Dean's Advisory Council and AT. is a past chairman. Forrest is a resident Margaret P. Gryko of Roslyn, N.Y. '77 Allan D. Mantel'76 was quoted in the Dec. 16, 2009, New York Times article "Claims of Insider Trading From Trader's Ex-Wife." Mantel is a partner in the New York City office of Stein Riso Mantel, immediate past president of the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers and a member of UB Law School's Dean's Advisory Council. He is a New York Michael R. Wright City resident. '77 Hon. Gail B. Rice'76 has been named city court judge in New Rochelle, N.Y., where she resides. Rice has been acting judge since 1996 and is a partner in Rice & Rice in New Rochelle, specializing in matrimonial and family law.

Ronald C. Berger'77 has been named chair of the merger and acquisition Vikki L. Pryor'78 practice group in Bond Schoeneck & F' King in the Syracuse, N.Y., office. Berger is a resident of Cazenovia, N.Y.

William J. Brongo'77 has joined Brenna Brenna & Boyce as a partner in Rochester, N.Y. Brongo previously served as chief clerk of the Monroe County Surrogate's Court in Rochester, where he resides.

Margaret P. Gryko'77 has been Michael R. Wright'77 is listed in The member of the Law School's Dean's elected president of the Niagara BestLawyers in America 2010 in the Advisory Council. Pryor is a resident Frontier Corporate Counsel commercial litigation and of New Rochelle, N.Y. Association for 2009-10. Gryko is construction law categories, the 2009 assistant general counsel for Delaware New York Super Lawyers and the Dennis C. Vacco'78 has become a North Cos. in Buffalo. She is past November/December 2009 Super partner in Lippes Mathias Wexler president of the UB Law Alumni Lawyers-Corporate Counsel edition. Friedman in Buffalo, practicing in the Association and resides in West Wright is a partner in Levene Gouldin areas of business consultation, Seneca, N.Y. & Thompson in Binghamton, N.Y., litigation and dispute resolution and where he resides. governmental regulation and Mary Dee Martoche'77 has been compliance. Vacco is a former New named to the National Leadership Vikki L. Pryor'78 was named one of York attorney general and U.S. Council of the American Red Cross the 50 most powerful women in New attorney for the Western District of for the Greater Buffalo chapter. York by Crain's New York Business. New York and a past recipient of the Martoche is chief clerk of Erie County Pryor is president of SBLI USA UB Law Alumni Association Surrogate's Court in Buffalo, where Mutual Life Insurance in New York Distinguished Alumni Award. He is a she resides. City. She is a past recipient of the UB resident of Boston, N.Y. Law Alumni Association's Distinguished Alumna Award and a 29

Seated - Jerome D. Adner, Victor C. Silverstein, Hon. Ann T. Mikoll, Robert W. Frangooles, Anthony C. Ben, Thomas Santa Lucia Standing— Milton J. Strebel, Hon. Robe rt L. Wolfe, Bertram C. Serling, John Markarian, Arthur J. Rumizen, Marlin B. Salmon, Donald J. Holzman, Bryant S. Kurtzman, John P. Patti Sr., Anthony M. Left to right: Ros Leone, Myron M. Siegel, D emarie Leone,Anthonn7 PeterA. Vinolus, Herman '54, olores Santa Lucia and T 7yM Leone Sieg 5 B^eenM Sa1n10ng J. Ginsburg, Irving M. homas Santa Lucia '54 con Le to a $ Sa on > 54 an Shuman ft '54"M 55TH REUNION June 17,2009 Buffalo • Dinner at the Mansion on Delaware

Left to right: P eterA. Vi T Susan Wolfe and Hon. Rol '54, rucjj Vin obert L. Wolfe '54

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Candace Appleton'79 of Merrick, Raymond P. Reichert'79 of Buffalo and real estate practice groups. Piette N.Y., has been appointed assistant has been named to The Best Lawyers lives in Lockport, N.Y. U.S. attorney for the Eastern District in America 2010 in the tax category. of New York, in Brooklyn, N.Y. Reichert is a partner in the tax practice Robert J. Portin'80 of Amherst, N.Y., Appleton previously served as senior group of Jaeckle Fleischmann & is included in the 2010 edition of The staff attorney at Nassau Suffolk Law Mugel in the Buffalo office. Best Lawyers in America in the Services in Hempstead, N.Y., corporate law/health care law specializing in Social Security benefits category. He is a senior partner in and the rights of disabled persons. Damon Morey in the Buffalo office.

WilliamA. Lundquist Maryann Foley'79 was elected '80s Michael Anthony Rossi'80 of Grand '80 secretary of the American Bar Island, N.Y., was reappointed to a five- Association's family law section. She is year term on the Town of Grand a solo practitioner in Anchorage, Stuart P. Gelberg'80 was a speaker at Island Board of Ethics. Rossi serves as Alaska, where she resides. the New York Chapter of the chairman and is a solo practitioner in Association of Family and Grand Island. James W. Gormley'79 is listed in The Conciliation Courts and Hofstra 1DI: BestLawyers in America 2010 in the University School of Law seminar Chris G. Trapp'81 is listed in "Who's corporate law section. Gormley is a held at the New York City Bar Who In Western New York Law" in senior partner in Damon Morey in Association. He discussed when it is the education law category by Business the Buffalo office, practicing in the advisable for a divorcing individual or First and the Buffalo Law Journal. health care practice group. He is a couple to file for bankruptcy, and Trapp is a partner in the firm Bouvier resident of East Amherst, N.Y. dischargeability of marital obligations Partnership in the Buffalo office and is MichaelAnthony including attorney fees and other a resident of Alden, N.Y. Rossi'80 JoAnn E. Gould'79 took a position as related topics. Gelberg is an attorney counsel in the environmental group in Garden City, N.Y. Richard S. Binko'82 is president of in Harter Secrest & Emery in the the New York State Trial Lawyers Rochester, N.Y., office. She lives in Barry Ginsberg'80 has been named Association. Binko is a solo Fairport, N.Y. executive director of the New York practitioner in Cheektowaga, N.Y., State Commission on Public Integrity where he resides. Dennis P. Harkawik'79 is listed in the in Albany, N.Y., where he resides. environmental category in The Best Ginsberg previously served as acting Richard A. Denmon'82, a Lawyers in America 2010. He is a director and general counsel. shareholder in Carlton Fields in partner in the environmental practice Tampa, Fla., has been included in the group of Jaeckle Fleischmann & William A. Lundquist'80 of 2010 edition of The Best Lawyers in Daniel C. Oliverio Mugel in Buffalo, where he resides. Hamburg, N.Y., has become a partner America in the securities law category. '82 in Hodgson Russ in the Buffalo office. He practices in the areas of corporate, Joseph G. Makowski '79 was named Lundquist practices in the business securities and tax and lives in Valrico, chair of a new investigative practice litigation and construction law Fla. group in Siegel Kelleher & Kahn in practice groups. Buffalo. The group represents clients Hon. Paula L. Feroleto'82 was who have suffered substantial losses in Michael M. Mohun'80 was appointed administrative judge of the the stock market. Makowski, a past appointed chairperson of the attorney New York State Supreme Court, president of the UB Law Alumni grievance committee for the Eighth Eighth Judicial District in Buffalo, Association, is a Buffalo resident. Judicial District in Buffalo by where she resides. She previously presiding justice Hon. Henry J. served as a Supreme Court justice and Jean C. Powers'79 is named in The Scudder of the Appellate Division, is president of the State Supreme BestLawyers in America 2010 in the Fourth Department. Mohun is a solo Court Judges Association in the real estate section. Powers is a partner practitioner in Cowlesville, N.Y., Eighth Judicial District. in the Amherst, N.Y., office of Jaeckle where he resides. Fleischmann & Mugel, practicing in Vincent 0. Hanley'82 has been the real estate group. She is a member Kenneth Patricia'80 has become named to The Best Lawyers in America emeritus of UB Law School's Dean's special counsel in Bouvier Partnership 2010 in the real estate category. Advisory Council, a former recipient in the Buffalo office, practicing in Hanley is a partner in the business of the UB Law Alumni Association litigation. Patricia lives in Amherst, and corporate, economic and land Distinguished Alumna Award and a N.Y. development, financial services and past president of the alumni real estate practice groups in Jaeckle association. She lives in Will iamsville, Michael A. Piette'80, a partner in Fleischmann & Mugel in the Buffalo N.Y. Jaeckle Fleischmann & Mugel in office. He is a resident of Buffalo, has been named in the 2010 Williamsville, N.Y. edition of The BestLawyers in America. He is a member of the economic and land development, financial services, housing resources 31

Class 196T 45TH REUNION June 6, 2009 Buffalo • Brunch at the Law School • Dinner at The Buffalo Club

Seated - Kathy Straub, William E. Straub '64, Carolyn Billingsley Standing - William C. Farner'64, Lance W. Billingsley '64

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Daniel C. Oliverio'82 was appointed chair of the Erie County Fiscal Stability Authority in Buffalo by New York State Gov. David A. Paterson. Oliverio is a partner in Hodgson Russ in the Buffalo office and is a member of the firm's dispute resolution and intellectual property practice groups. He is a Buffalo resident.

Daniel]. Sperrazza Stuart B. Shapiro'82 was a guest '83 speaker at Niagara University's Technology Workshop, where he spoke on "The Legal Implications of Technology." Shapiro is a partner in Cohen & Lombardo in Buffalo, r^! practicing in insurance law, civil litigation, entertainment law and intellectual property. He is a resident of Williamsville, N.Y.

Laurie S. Bloom'83 has become a member of the attorney grievance Daniel P. Joyce '84 committee for the Eighth Judicial District in Buffalo for a three-year term. She is counsel in Nixon Peabody in the Buffalo office and is president- elect of the UB Law Alumni Association. Bloom is a Buffalo resident.

Michael Marszalkowski'83 of College. He is a partner in the business and corporate, and Williamsville, N.Y., has been named business litigation practice group and intellectual property practice groups. to Super Lawyers 2009. He is special chair of the construction law practice Joyce lives in Hamburg, N.Y. counsel at Damon Morey and chairs group in Hodgson Russ in the Buffalo Barbara L. Schifeling the firm's immigration practice group office. Zuffranieri lives in Robert D. Lonski'84 received the '84 in the Buffalo office. Williamsville, N.Y. Wilfred R. O'Connor Award from the New York State Defenders Robert W. Patterson'83 is listed in George W. Collins Jr.'84 is included Association. He is the administrator The Best Lawyers in America 2010 in in the 2010 edition of The Best of the Bar Association of Erie the employee benefits section. Lawyers in America in the personal County's Aid to Indigent Prisoners Patterson is a partner in the employee injury litigation category, and in Super Society and the Assigned Counsel benefits and health care practice Lawyers 2009. Collins is chairman of Program in Buffalo. Lonski is a groups in Jaeckle Fleischmann & the litigation group of Bouvier resident of Kenmore, N.Y. Mugel in Buffalo, where he resides. Partnership in Buffalo. He lives in Snyder, N.Y. Barbara R. Ridall'84 received the Daniel J. Sperrazza'83 was elected President's Pro Bono Award for the president of the board of directors of Patrick J. Higgins '84 has been Eighth Judicial District from the New WNY Collaborative Law named a fellow of the American Bar York State Bar Association. Ridall is an Professionals Ltd., in Buffalo. Association Foundation. He was also associate in Bulan Chiari Horwitz & Sperrazza is a partner in Cohen & named to Super Lawyers 2009 and is Ilecki in Williamsville, N.Y., where she Lombardo in Buffalo and lives on chair of the New York State Bar resides. Grand Island, N.Y. Association seminar"Handling Tough Issues in a Plaintiff's Personal Barbara L. Schifeling'84, a partner in J. Joseph Wilder'83 was elected chair Injury Case"Higgins is a partner in the Buffalo office of Damon Morey, is of the Alfred State College Powers & Santola in Albany, N.Y., included in the 2010 edition of The Development Fund board in Alfred, where he resides. Best Lawyers in America in the ethics N.Y. Wilder is a founding partner in and professional responsibility law/ Wilder & Linneball in Buffalo and is a Daniel P. Joyce'84 is named in The personal injury litigation category. resident of Orchard Park, N.Y. BestLawyers in America 2010 in the She has also been named to Super immigration category. He is a partner Lawyers 2009. Schifeling practices in Benjamin M. Zuffranieri Jr.'83 in the Buffalo firm Jaeckle litigation and is a Buffalo resident. She received the President's Distinguished Fleischmann & Mugel, practicing in is also a national co-chair of UB Law's Service Award from Buffalo State the immigration, internal business, 2009-10 Annual Fund. 33

35TH REUNION June 5 and 6, 2009 Buffalo • Happy hour at the Buffalo Yacht Club • Brunch at the Law School • Dinner at the Saturn Club • Brunch at a classmate's home

Seated—Anthony Ilardi Jr., Judith D. Katzenelson, Tricia T. Semmelhack, Susan Bring Tobe, Hon. Alexander W. Hunter Jr., Konrad B. Langlie

Standing—Thomas C. Bailey, Sheldon D. Repp, Christopher T. Greene, Hon. Michael E. Dunlavey, Lance J. Mark, E Gerard Hogan, Thomas B. Reeve Jr., Richard M. Tobe, Nathan S. Neill

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Mitchell J. Ban as Jr.'85 is listed in The Daniel DeLaus Jr. '87 was appointed UB Law School adjunct faculty BestLawyers in America 2010. He is a deputy county executive by Monroe member, teaching ethics within the in- partner in Jaeckle Fleischmann & County Executive Maggie Brooks. house legal community. He lives in Mugel in Buffalo, focusing his practice DeLaus, who previously served as Fremont, Calif. in trial and appellate practice, complex county attorney, lives in Webster, N.Y. litigation, construction law, insurance Mary Elizabeth Mattimore'88 has law and business litigation. He also was Leslie S. Kramer'87 has been been promoted to deputy regional elected to the council board of the appointed chair of the 2010 United attorney for the National Labor Greater Niagara Frontier Council of Jewish Fund's Women's Philanthropy Relations Board in Buffalo. She lives in the Boy Scouts in Buffalo and was also in Buffalo. She is a past president of the Orchard Park, N.Y. GayleL. Eagan '85 appointed vice president of district Bureau of Jewish Education and a past operations for the council. Banas is a member of the Board of Governors of Karen L. Spencer'88 of East Aurora, resident of North Tonawanda, N.Y. the Jewish Federation of Greater N.Y., has taken a position as archives Buffalo. Kramer, who has practiced law and special collections librarian at UB. Gayle L. Eagan'85 of Buffalo is listed in Chicago and Buffalo, is a resident of She previously served for 35 years in in the estates and trusts category in Amherst, N.Y. the Charles B. Sears Law Library at UB The Best Lawyers in America 2010. She Law School. is a partner in Jaeckle Fleischmann & Steven J. Ricca'87 is named in the Mugel in the Buffalo office. She is a environmental category in the 2010 Hon. Paul G. Buchanan'89 spoke at past vice president of the UB Law edition of The BestLawyers in America. the National Council of Juvenile and Alumni Association and a past Ricca is a partner in the environmental Family Court Judges' annual recipient of the association's practice group and a member of the conference in Chicago. He is an Erie StH. ToddBullard'87 Distinguished Alumna Award. economic and land development County Family Court judge in Buffalo, practice group in Jaeckle Fleischmann where he resides. John T. Kolaga'85 has been named & Mugel in Buffalo, where he resides. chair of the environmental law Vincent E. Doyle III'89 was named committee of the Erie County Bar Robert P. Simpson'87 has been president-elect of the NewYork State Association in Buffalo for 2009-10. awarded board certification in Bar Association. He is a partner in Kolaga is special counsel in Damon intellectual property law by the Florida Connors &Vilardo in Buffalo, Morey in Buffalo, where he resides. Bar Association. He has also been practicing civil and white collar named to the board of advisers of the criminal I itigation. He is a past Virginia A. Seitz'85 received the 2009 UB School of Management's Center member of the board of directors of PAR Flex Success Award by the Project for Entrepreneurial Leadership. the UB Law Alumni Association and for Attorney Retention, a national Simpson is a registered patent attorney resides in Elma, N.Y. Brian M. Martin '88 organization dedicated to advancing and member in Simpson & Simpson women lawyers and improving work- in Williamsville, N.Y., where he resides. Hon. Stephen K. Lindley'89 of life balance for all lawyers. Seitz is a Pittsford, N.Y., was appointed by Gov. partner in Sidley Austin in Nancy Braun'88 owns Showcase David A. Paterson to the Appellate Washington, D.C., where she resides. Realty, a full-service real estate firm in Division, Fourth Department, in Pineville, N.C. The firm specializes in Rochester, N.Y. Lindley previously Steven M. Zweig'85 has been named residential and commercial sales, served as a NewYork State Supreme to Super Lawyers 2009. He is a partner property management and Court justice, 7th Judicial District, in in the litigation department in foreclosures. Braun is a resident of Rochester. Damon Morey in the Buffalo office Charlotte, N.C. and lives in Hamburg, N.Y. Kenneth J.Yood'89 has joined Paul F Hammond'88 is included in Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton Karen L. Spencer'88 H. Todd Bullard'87 received the 2009 Super Lawyers 2009 and has become a in the Los Angeles/Century City, Calif., Leaders in Law Award from The Daily member of the Litigation Counsel of office. Yood is a partner in the firm's Record in Rochester, N.Y. Bullard is an America. Hammond is a partner in the health care and corporate practice equity member in Harris Beach in the litigation group in Bouvier Partnership groups. He is a resident of Los Angeles. Rochester, N.Y., office. He specializes in Buffalo, where he resides. in public finance and economic development and business and Thomas F Knab'88 was named a commercial litigation. He lives in partner in the litigation practice group Webster, N.Y. in the firm Underberg & Kessler in the '90s Buffalo office. Knab is a resident of Donna L. Burden'87 was elected a Amherst, N.Y. Aileen M. McNamara'90 has been national director of DRI: The Voice of named assistant coach of the UB the Defense Bar at its annual meeting Brian M. Martin'88 was named to women's rowing team. She has been involved in rowing since 1979, is a past in Chicago. Burden is founding Ethisphere's 100 Most Influential People member of Burden Gulisano & in Business Ethics 2009. Martin is senior president of the West Side Rowing Hickey in Buffalo. She is a resident of vice president and general counsel for Club in Buffalo and was the first Williamsville, N.Y. KLA-Tencor in Milpitas, Calif, and a woman elected president, in 2004-05. 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re-elected council president of the Greater Niagara Frontier Council of the Boy Scouts in Buffalo. He is a partner in Jaeckle Fleischmann & Mugel in the Buffalo office and is a resident of Amherst, N.Y.

Anthony L. Eugeni'91 is named in The BestLawyers in America 2010 in the corporate law category. He is a senior partner in Damon Morey in the Buffalo office and lives in Niagara Falls, N.Y.

ChristopherJ. Belter'93 was named chair of the construction law committee for DRI: The Voice of the Defense Bar at the group's annual meeting in Chicago. Belter is a senior trial partner in Goldberg Segalla in Buffalo. Belter lives on Grand Island, N.Y.

Thomas E Keefe'93 of East Amherst, N.Y., was appointed to the attorney grievance committee for the Eighth Judicial District in Buffalo. Keefe is a solo practitioner in Williamsville, N.Y.

Hon. Henry J. Nowak'93 was named vice president of the Buffalo and Erie County Historical Society board of managers. Nowak is a city court judge in Buffalo, where he resides.

Hope W. Olsson '94 received the 2009 Leaders in Law Award from The Daily Record in Rochester, N.Y. She is a partner with Olsson & Feder, specializing in bankruptcy law in Rochester, where she resides.

Paul H. Roalsvig'94 has started his own general law practice in Tupper Lake, N.Y., specializing in real estate, immigration, trusts, estates, wills and motor vehicles. His Web site is www.Roalsviglaw.com .

JeremyM. Brown '95 has been named one of New Jersey Law Journal's "40 Under 40 " He is senior counsel in the labor and employment club and in 2008 became the first Sean P. Beiter'91 has been listed in law department in Proskauer Rose in female head coach. McNamara is a The Best Lawyers in America 2010 in the Newark, N.J., office. Brown lives in Buffalo resident. the labor and employment law Upper Montclair, N.J. category. Beiter was also a presenter at Markian M.W. Melnyk'90 has the 35th annual training conference of AlisaA. Lukasiewicz'95 is special written the book Offshore Power about the New York State Public Employer counsel in Phillips Lytle in the Buffalo developing offshore renewable energy Labor Relations Association in office, specializing in labor and projects. Melnyk is special counsel in Saratoga Springs, N.Y., and co- employment law. She previously Dewey & LeBoeuf in the Washington, presented "It's Not Over Until It's served as corporation counsel for the D.C., office. He lives in College Park, Over: Taking Management's Position City of Buffalo, where she resides. Md. to the Court of Appeals." He also was UB LAW FORUM S P RING 2 0 1 0 36 CLASS ACTION

Dylan S. Mitchell'95 was elected a Tasha T. Dandridge-Richburg'98 of Kirstin Lowry Sommers'99 has been partner in Blank Rome in the New Amherst, N.Y., was elected treasurer of elected to the board of directors of the York City office. A member of the the Minority Bar Association of U.S. Green Building Council Upstate ^. a matrimonial group, he lives in Western New York, in Buffalo. She New York Chapter. She is of counsel in Mineola, N.Y. practices tort defense in the Buffalo Hurwitz & Fine in Buffalo and is the office of Hurwitz & Fine. only LEED-accredited professional Hilary C. Banker'96 was elected attorney in Western New York president of the Defense Trial Lawyers Ryan Everhart'98 of East Aurora, (Leadership in Energy and { Association of Western New York. She N.Y., has become a partner in Environmental Design Green is a partner in Burgio Kita & Curvin Hodgson Russ in the Buffalo office. Building Rating System). Sommers is Tasha E. Moore'98 in Buffalo and a past president of the He practices in the areas of education a resident of Orchard Park, N.Y. UB Law Alumni Association's GOLD and labor lawwith a focus on special Group and the Western New York education law. Chapter of the Women's Bar Association. Banker is a Buffalo Tasha E. Moore'98 received the Legal resident. Service Award from the Minority Bar 'OOS Association of Western New York at Bruce C. Karpati'96, New York City the association's 27th annual resident, has been named a unit chief Scholarship and Awards Dinner in Irene Chiu'00 has accepted a position of the asset management unit of the Buffalo. Moore is regional director of as chief legal officer and general enforcement division of the Securities the New York State Division of counsel of Systagenix Wound and Exchange Commission in New Human Rights in the Buffalo office. Management at the Boston Sarah E. Tollner'98 York City. He is founder and was She is vice president of the UB Law headquarters. She will be relocating to head of the commission's Hedge Fund Alumni Association and a past their office in West Sussex, United Working Group and previously president of the Minority Bar Kingdom. She is the first Asian served as assistant regional director of Association. Moore resides in Buffalo. woman to join the global company's the New York Regional Office of the executive management team. commission. Elaine M. Spaull'98 of Rochester, N.Y., was appointed to the National Daniel M. De Federicis'00 has retired Roberta Kellam'96 was appointed to Project Safe Place program board of as New York State Troopers Police a four-year term on the State Water directors for a three-year term. Spaull Benevolent Association chief in Control Board in Richmond, Va. is executive director of the Center for Albany, N.Y. De Federicis served as a Kellam practices and resides in Youth in Rochester and a city state trooper for 22 years before Franktown, Va. councilwoman. becoming the association's chief. He is Kirstin Lowry a resident of Saratoga Springs, N.Y. Sommers '99 Maria M. Eliseeva'97 of Brighton, Sarah E. Tollner'98 was a featured Mass., joined Sugarman Rogers speaker at the annual meeting of the Emilio Colaiacovo '01 was named to Barshak & Cohen as of counsel in the New York State Bar Association in "Who's Who in Western New York Boston-based office. She handles New York City on Jan. 29. She Law" by Business First and the Buffalo matters regarding intellectual addressed the labor and employment Law journal. Colaiacovo is a partner property litigation, including patent, law section on an attorney's with Bouvier Partnership in Buffalo trademark, copyright and licensing obligations under the new Rules of and lives in Kenmore, N.Y. disputes, practicing in English and Professional Conduct. Tollner is a Russian. She was also elected chair of partner in Saeli & Tollner in Amherst, Simon A. Fleischmann '01 has been the international and foreign law N.Y., and resides in Grand Island, N.Y. elected a partner in the national law committee of the American firm of Locke Lord Bissell & Liddell. Intellectual Property Law Association. Paul A. Gennari'99 was elected of He concentrates his practice on the Simon A. counsel in Steptoe & Johnson in the representation of banks and finance Fleischmann '01 Matthew C. Van Vessem'97 was a Washington, D.C., office. He is a companies in complex litigation presenter at the 35th annual training member of the intellectual property matters. Fleischmann resides in conference of the New York State group, focusing on patent litigation. Chicago. Public Employer Labor Relations He lives in Arlington, Va. Association in Saratoga Springs, N.Y., S. Peter Konzel '01 has been and co-presented "It's Not Over Until John A. Orlowski '99 is promoted to a partner in Novak It's Over: Taking Management's environmental affairs counsel for Druce & Quigg in the Position to the Court of Appeals." He General Electric Co., advising the Washington, D.C., office. He oversees is a partner in the firm Jaeckle aviation and transportation the daily operations of the firm's Fleischmann & Mugel in the labor businesses in Cincinnati. Orlowski is practice in Japan and practices in the and employment practice group in also chairman of the Standard areas of patent prosecution and the Buffalo office. Van Vessem is a Alcohol Co. of America board, based patent re-examinations. Konzel lives Buffalo resident. in Durango, Colo. He is a resident of in Alexandria, Va. Cincinnati. 37

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Gretchen M. Nichols '01 has become a Jessica D. Owens'02, an attorney with and family law and lives in partner in Nesper Ferber & U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Williamsville, N.Y. DiGiacomo in Amherst, N.Y., Services, Refugee and Asylum Law practicing in corporate and business Division in Washington, D.C., has Thomas M. Krol'03 is general law. She has also been elected to the been detailed to the U.S. Senate. She counsel for Steuben Foods, Elmhurst board of directors of the Amherst will be working for Sen. Charles E. Dairy, Dora's Naturals and affiliates in Chamber of Commerce and chairs its Schumer, chairman of the Senate Elma, N.Y. Krol is a Buffalo resident. Business Resource Council. Nichols judiciary subcommittee on resides in Williamsville, N.Y. Immigration, Refugees and Border Ryan J. Mills'03 has become a Security. She lives in Washington, D.C. partner in Brown & Kelly in Buffalo, Patrick G. Radel '02 Suzanne Hill Patrick'OI has become where he is a member of the asbestos director of career services at St. Mary's Patrick G. Radel'02 is a partner in defense department. Mills is a resident University School of Law in San Getnick Livingston Atkinson & Priore of Williamsville, N.Y. Antonio, Texas, where she resides. in Utica, N.Y. He focuses his practice in the areas of bankruptcy law and Marybeth Priore'03 has been named Audrey A. Seeley '01 has been federal litigation. He is a past recipient a shareholder in Colucci & Gallaher in promoted to become a member in the of the Nicholas S. Priore Advocacy Buffalo. Priore handles cases involving firm Hurwitz & Fine in the Buffalo and Professionalism Award and lives products liability, intellectual office. She specializes in insurance in New Hartford, N.Y. property and general litigation. She is coverage, no-fault coverage, municipal immediate past president of the and environmental counseling and Melissa A. Reese'02 received the Women's Bar Association of the State /r1 governmental liability. She also Kevin M. Andersen Memorial Award of New York, Western New York JosephM. Hanna'05 received the Sheldon Hurwitz Young from the New York State Defenders Chapter, and lives in East Amherst, Lawyer of theYear Award. In addition, Association. Reese is an attorney with N.Y. she is village attorney in Springville, the Erie County Assigned Counsel N.Y., and a resident of West Valley, N.Y. Program in Buffalo. She is a resident Hon. Julie M. Rosen'03 has been of Depew, N.Y. appointed an administrative law Sheldon K. Smith '01 was elected judge for the New York State president of the Minority Bar James S. Skloda'02, a Clay, N.Y., Department of Labor in the Association of Western NewYork, in resident, has been elected a partner in Rochester, N.Y., office. Rosen Buffalo. Smith also became a member Hancock & Estabrook in Syracuse, previously served as a senior attorney of the attorney grievance committee for N.Y. Skloda handles cases involving for Frank H. Hiscock Legal Aid the Eighth Judicial District in Buffalo real property valuation, real estate, Society in Syracuse, N.Y. for a three-year term. He is a senior banking and finance, and Kimberly Jetty '05 associate in Nixon Peabody in Buffalo environmental law. Steven W. Wells'03 has joined and a resident of Orchard Park, N.Y. Hodgson Russ as an associate in the Kathryn J. Synor'02 has opened her Buffalo office. He practices in the Thomas Haidon'02 is serving as an own general-practice firm in Troy, areas of bankruptcy, creditor's rights international trade specialist and trade Mo. The firm handles cases involving and commercial litigation. Wells is a negotiator with the New Zealand traffic tickets, divorce and child resident of Orchard Park, N.Y. Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade. support, adoptions, wills and trusts, He provides policy advice in the areas power of attorney, deeds and leases, Elisha J. Burkart'05 has been named of international trade in services and contracts, collections and personal co-chair of the employment and labor investment and acts as a negotiator in injury. Synor is a resident of Foristell, law committee of the Women's Bar New Zealand's regional trade Mo. Association of the State of New York. agreements. Haidon is a resident of She is an associate in Jaeckle Wellington, New Zealand. Jack Trachtenberg'02 has been Fleischmann & Mugel in the labor Jennifer G. appointed New York State's taxpayer and employment practice group in F'Flannery'06 Stephen W. Kelkenberg'02 has rights advocate by the NewYork State Buffalo. become a partner in Hodgson Russ in Department of Taxation and Finance the business litigation and the torts, in Albany, N.Y. In this newly created Kimberly Conidi '05 is practicing as insurance and products liability position, he will act as an an associate in Chelus Herdzik Speyer practice groups in the Buffalo office. ombudsman between the public and & Monte in Buffalo. Conidi Kelkenberg lives in Hamburg, N.Y. the department in resolving taxpayer specializes in civil litigation, disputes. Trachtenberg was previously employment discrimination, Jon A. Nichols'02 was named in the a senior associate in Hodgson Russ in insurance defense, municipal law and 2009 Virginia Super Lawyers as a the Buffalo office and is an adjunct products liability. She lives in West Rising Star. He is an associate in faculty member at Albany Law School Seneca, N.Y. Harman Claytor Corrigan & Wellman and UB Law School. in Richmond, Va., and a member of Erik A. Goergen'05 has joined Nixon the board of directors of the Henrico Cheryl A. Aloi'03 has joined Peabody as an associate in the County Bar Association in Richmond. HoganWillig in the Amherst, N.Y., litigation department in the Nichols is a resident of Midlothian, Va. office. She practices in matrimonial Rochester, N.Y., office. He will 39

concentrate on financial services and Bartholomew Chacchia '06 has Burton Phillips '08 has accepted a securities, securities litigation and become associated with Harter Secrest position as associate counsel and complex commercial litigation. & Emery in the Rochester, N.Y., office. senior research analyst to the Senate Goergen previously served as a law He concentrates his practice in finance policy group of the New York State clerk to Hon. Richard C. Wesley, U.S. and mergers and acquisitions. Senate in Albany, N.Y., where he Court of Appeals for the Second Chacchia lives in Fairport, N.Y. resides. Circuit, in Geneseo, N.Y. Jennifer G. Flannery'06 was selected Manik J. Saini '08 has joined Chelus Joseph M. Hanna'05 received the to join Estate Analysts of Western New Herdzik Speyer & Monte as an Community Service Award from the York. Flannery is an associate in associate in Buffalo, handling cases Minority Bar Association of Western Damon Morey in Buffalo, practicing involving litigation and general New York in Buffalo at the in the trust and estate and corporate practice matters. Saini lives in association's 27th annual Scholarship departments. A member of the UB Williamsville, N.Y. and Awards Dinner on Sept. 23. Law Alumni Association's GOLD Hanna is a partner in Goldberg Group, she is a Buffalo resident. Michelle Schwach'08 has accepted a Segalla, practicing in commercial position as an associate with Cohen & litigation, intellectual property law, Minryu Sarah Kim'06 was elected a Lombardo in Buffalo, concentrating construction litigation, fidelity and director of the Minority Bar her practice in matrimonial and surety law, and sports and Association of Western New York, in family law. She lives in Amherst, N.Y. entertainment law in the Buffalo Buffalo. Kim is an associate in Phillips office. He also was named 2010 Lytle in Buffalo, where she resides. Douglas R. Smith'08 has become Outstanding Young Lawyer by the associated with Kloss Stenger & New York State Bar Association's Christian M. Lovelace'06 has become LoTempio in Buffalo. He is a Young Lawyer Section. Hanna, who is an associate in Lippes Mathias Wexler registered patent attorney focusing on also chair of his firm's diversity task Friedman in Buffalo. He practices in intellectual property matters force, resides in Amherst, N.Y. business and financial transactions including patent, trademark, and general business counseling. copyright prosecution and KimberlyJetty'05 is an associate in Lovelace lives in Orchard Park, N.Y. infringement litigation. Chelus Herdzik Speyer & Monte in the Buffalo and Cheektowaga, N.Y., James W. Mahoney'07 is an associate Joseph C. Todoro'08 has joined offices, handling general practice and in Harter Secrest & Emery in the Spadafora & Verrastro as an associate litigation matters. She is a resident of Buffalo office. Mahoney practices in Buffalo. Todoro handles personal Kenmore, N.Y. environmental law, land use, zoning injury cases and lives in Williamsville, and municipal law. He is a resident of N.Y. MollyM. Mallia'05 of Buffalo has Amherst, N.Y. been named state director of the Jon Paul Anthony'09 has joined Western New York Chapter of the Bo Gyung Kim'08 is an associate with Hahn Loeser & Parks as an associate, Women's Bar Association of the State Kloss Stenger & LoTempio in Buffalo. practicing complex commercial of New York. She practices as an Kim concentrates her practice in litigation in the Cleveland office. associate in the labor and business and corporate law, contracts, employment department in Damon product liability, civil litigation and Pamela S. Schaller'09 was elected Morey in the Buffalo office. Mallia is business immigration law. Kim also recording secretary of the Minority president-elect of UB Law School's was a presenter at an informational Bar Association of Western New York, GOLD Group. seminar at UB Law School on Feb. 18. in Buffalo. She practices with She discussed"The Road Map to Hodgson Russ in Buffalo, where she Joseph D. Morath'05 has been Permanent Residency Through resides. appointed vice chair of the Bar Employment for Students' She also Association of Erie County held a similar seminar for Korean- Mark E. Welchons'09 has joined committee on veterans' and service speaking students at UB Law School Hiscock & Barclay as of counsel in the members' legal issues in Buffalo. He is on Nov. 11. She lives in Tonawanda, Utica, N.Y., affiliate office, practicing an associate in Connors & Vilardo in N.Y. corporate law. He lives in Clinton, Buffalo, where he resides. N.Y. Abby E. Oliver'08 has joined Yadira A. Ramos-Herbert'05 of New Spadafora &Verrastro in Buffalo. She Rochelle, N.Y., has become an is practicing as an associate in family associate in Goldberg Segalla in the law. White Plains, N.Y., office. She practices in labor law and product liability. Brittany L. Penberthy'08 is practicing as an associate in Lipsitz Green Scime Scott J. Bizub '06 has joined Siegel Cambria in the Buffalo office. She Kelleher & Kahn in Buffalo, where he concentrates in personal injury and resides. Bizub practices in personal lives in Tonawanda, N.Y. injury. U B LAW FORUM S P RING 2 0 1 0 ,N AS WE GO TO PRESS Witness to the aftermath Nicole Lee '02 sees failings in the effort to aid victims of Haiti earthquake

CC The only thing six camps for internally displaced per- the inefficient delivery of life-sustaining sons, in the capital Port-au-Prince but assistance, and on her return arranged a keeping people alive also in the rural villages of Leogan, Del- full slate of meetings with members of mas and Carrefour. In nearly all of Congress and people at the State De- are small NGOs and them, she said, the aid was inadequate partment and the U.S. Agency for Inter- because the major nongovernmental national Development. As an indepen- themselves. if one organizations were unwilling to enter dent observer, she said, she is in a posi- the camps. tion to give them a clear-eyed assess- person has a bag of "The first priority of corporate ment of how well U.S. government aid rice, they feed NGOs is their own security," she said. - mostly funneled through NGOs — is "You don't want relief workers being being spent, and how it might be used everybody until they kidnapped or harmed. Unfortunately, more effectively. She also was planning in this situation there's an assumption a return trip to Haiti with other promi- run out, and then that the people in the camps are inher- nent observers. ently violent. And that is not true. they try to figure out There's no evidence for that at all. It's the people she met who will stay with "There's nothing in these camps;' how to getmore. her, like the young Haitian woman who Lee said. "The only thing keeping peo- was working on community ple alive are small NGOs and them- development issues in the arts)' city of selves. If one person has a bag of rice, Gonaives. When the earthquake struck, they feed everybody until they run out, she rushed home to find that her house and then they try to figure out how to had collapsed, killing her 22-month-old he situation in Haiti, says get more." infant and her caretaker. In a daze, she Nicole Lee'02, is dire. "I've The population of each camp has walked to her husband's office, only to worked around the world, elected a government. "In one camp;' find that it, too, had fallen, and he was and I've never seen anything she said, "most of the committee that dead. "She is still organizing in these like it;' reports Lee, who as president of was elected was college students. There camps," Lee said. "She said, `My baby TransAfrica Forum visited the was only one laptop among them, and used to love going out and being around earthquake-ravaged island nation on a this was a 3,500-person camp, but they people. How could I stop doing difficult weeklong trip in mid-March. had compiled a database with the name something my baby loved so much?' She was there to assess how well aid is of every man, woman and child, their As critical as I am of the being delivered to those displaced by ages, their medical concerns, where international community," Lee said,"I the calamity—whether people's needs they came from, whether they were am so inspired by what the Haitian for food, water, shelter and health care renting or owned a home before, what people have been able to do" are being provided for. happened to that property, and What she found, she said, was that whether they planned to go only"a small percentage" of the need is back:' being met effectively. "The need is sig- Lee, whose husband is nificant, and it's not clear that money is Haitian-American and who actually being spent on the top priori- has lived in Haiti, said that tics," she said. For example, Lee said, tar- despite the devastation, the paulins handed out as shelter will be of human spirit remains little use in the rainy season, and a stur- strong. "The funny thing dy four-person tent - available in the about Haiti, shesaid,"is United States for around $70 — can go that everyone is always pris- for as much as $500 on the black mar- tine. There's no food there, ket in Haiti. Most shelter aid, she said, no clean water, but there's falls far short of the international stan- still a dry cleaner. People dards for shelter. walk around with their Lee - who traveled with a driver and heads held high, their an interpreter, in a"really beat-up car" clothes clean and pressed." in order to keep a low profile - visited But she is fuming about UNPholo/Logan Abassi UniledNalions Development Programme Lieven vaiuea racuiry memoers nave reurea in me pass rew years, ana u t5 Law cnooi is mviung mem Dacx to O'Brian Hall with a special pre-Commencement reception in their honor. The May 20 cocktail reception, open to all in the UB Law community including alumni, will begin at 6 p.m. in the fifth-floor Cellino & Barnes Conference Center. Recognize any of your favorites?

" Lee A. Albert taught at UB Law from 1975 to Tax specialist and Distinguished Teaching 2008. A specialist in health care law and 4 Professor Kenneth E Joyce, a faculty member from ' constitutional law, he has studied and published 1964 to 2008, has been one of the Law School's on issues of medical ethics. He comes by his _ most familiar faces. In addition to his teaching and interest in the U.S. Supreme Court from the in- research, Joyce has been at the forefront of law side - he once clerked for Justice Byron White. reform through legislation in NewYork State.

James B. Atleson retired in 2007 after teaching Janet S. Lindgren taught at UB Law from 1973 at UB Law for 43 years. An expert in interna- "t - to 2009. Her legal writing courses revolved tional labor law, he also gained local fame as around the concept of "writing for change" - leader of the pickup Hot Cargo String Band, a writing for understanding and persuasiveness. fixture of Commencement ceremonies for n many years. Barry B. Boyer, a UB Law professor from 1973 Distinguished Teaching Professor Elizabeth B. to 2009, served as dean from 1992 to 1998. An Mensch'79 taught from 1980 to 2008. Her research authority on environmental law, he founded the interest in church and state led to several publications group Friends of the Buffalo Niagara Rivers. He that include the 1993 book The Politics of Virtue: Is also directed the Baldy Center for Law & Social Abortion Debatable?, written with her late husband Policy for 15 years. and fellow UB Law professor, Alan Freeman.

David B. Filvaroff served as the Law School's Wade Newhouse taught Constitutional Law, 15th dean, from 1988 to 1992, and lists among International Law, Collective Bargaining in his accomplishments the creation of the Dean's , Government, Law and Public Education, and Advisory Council. He taught torts, international Comparative State Constitutional Law. A former law, civil rights, federal courts, constitutional ` ; UB Law dean, he taught from 1958 until 1993. law and international human rights. —

Ellen M. Gibson'80 was director of the Judy Scales-Trent joined the faculty in 1984. Charles B. Sears Law Library from 1984 until With a major research interest in the social her retirement in 1999. She implemented the construction of race in America, she has also Mercury document delivery system through taught courses in employment discrimination which faculty members can call or e-mail to law, constitutional law, and law and literature. request particular documents.

Thomas E. Headrick, Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus, served as dean of the Law School and as UB provost. With Professor William R. Greiner, he co-authored Location, I ^^ Location, Location: A Special History of the University at Buffalo. Visit us at