David G. Brock is a trial and partner in the Buffalo law firm Jaeckle Fleischmann & Mugel, LLP. He received his BA from Union College and his JD from the University at Buffalo Law School.

Over the past four decades, Mr. Brock has practiced primarily in the defense of tort and insurance-related litigation. His practice has included a broad spectrum of matters involving municipal liability, legal ethics and malpractice, as well as product liability and premises liability litigation. He is State counsel to an international heavy truck and road equipment manufacturer as well as a national waste disposal company. He also defends municipal police and fire departments in significant tort litigation, and counsels attorneys in professional liability, ethics and disciplinary matters. In addition, he is a certified Federal Court Mediator for the Western District of New York.

Mr. Brock is admitted to practice in New York State, the U.S. District Court for the Western District of New York and the 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals. He is a member of the Bar Association of Erie County (where he is a member and past chair of the Committee on Professional Ethics), the American and New York State Bar Associations, the Defense Research Institute and International Association of Defense Counsel, where he serves on the Defense Counsel Journal Board of Editors. He is a member of his firm's ethics committee and is the immediate past Chair of the Appellate Division, Eighth Judicial District, Attorney Grievance Committee.

Mr. Brock has taught trial advocacy in programs at UB Law School, Emory University and the University of Colorado at Boulder. He has spoken and written nationally on a variety of legal topics involving legal ethics and professional responsibility. Prof Jay C. Carlisle II has A.B. and J.D. degrees from the University of California at Los Angeles and Davis. He was admitted to the New York Bar in 1970 and has practiced law in and Santa Fe, New Mexico. He was assistant dean at the SUNY-Buffalo Law School from 1975-78 and has been a professor of law at the Pace University School of Law since 1978. He has written and taught in the areas of professional responsibility and civil procedure. Carlisle is a past chair of the Westchester County Bar Association’s Committee on Legal Ethics and served for many years on the professional disciplinary committees for the New York City and New York State Bar associations. Professor Carlisle has been a referee for the NYS Commission on Judicial Conduct since 1999 and a Commissioner for the NYS Law Revision Commission since 2009. He is a recipient of the ALI-ABA Harrison Tweed Special Merit Award for Contributions to Continuing Legal Education and the New York Trial Association Academic Excellence Award. In 2014 the Pace Law School named their moot court jury room after Professor Carlisle. He is an elected fellow of the New York State Bar Foundation. John A. Cirando is a Syracuse attorney, is widely regarded as one of New York’s preeminent appellate lawyers. A former Onondaga County Chief Assistant District Attorney and Army captain, Mr. Cirando’s extensive appellate experience includes regular appearances before all appellate courts in New York, both state and federal. He serves, by appointment, on the New York State Law Revision Commission, the Governor’s Judicial Screening Committee, and the Commission on Judicial Nomination. He serves in numerous civic and non-profit organizations as board member or general counsel. He also represents fellow attorneys in regard to Grievance matters. Mr. Cirando lectures on a variety of topics and has taught appellate advocacy at Syracuse University College of Law. He is a graduate of St. Bonaventure University and S.U.N.Y. at Buffalo College of Law.

Judge Joseph Covello Before stepping down from the Appellate Division - New York's highest intermediate appellate court - to join the firm and return to the private practice of law, Justice Joseph Covello had over 30 years of experience, divided almost evenly between the private practice of law, and service as a judge. His diverse career background has provided Judge Covello with a sophisticated understanding of the judicial system.

Judge Covello's 16 years on the bench culminated in his appointments by the Governor, first as an Associate Justice of the Appellate Division, Second Judicial Department, and ultimately to one of the seven seats on the Second Department's constitutional bench. Judge Covello authored numerous opinions. Notable cases include People v. Rodriguez (69 AD3d 169), Bazakos v. Lewis (56 AD3d 15) and Matter of Government Employees Ins. Co. v. Lopez (44 AD3d 256). Prior to his appointment to the Appellate Division, Judge Covello served as a trial judge in the Supreme Court, Nassau County; on the Appellate Term for the Ninth and Tenth Judicial Districts; and as trial judge in the District Court, Nassau County.

Before taking the bench, Judge Covello spent 16 years in the private practice of law, both with respected firms, and in his own practice. While in private practice, Judge Covello was associate lead counsel in the celebrated case of In Re: Agent Orange, and served as counsel to both the Nassau County Police Indemnification Review Board, and the Town of Oyster Bay Zoning Board of Appeals. Judge Covello's expertise in zoning and land use matters, and in an active trial practice, gave him extraordinary insight as a judge.

Judge Covello is an Adjunct Professor of Law at Hofstra University School of Law, teaching, among other classes, advanced appellate advocacy.

Judge Covello is a veteran of the United States Army, having volunteered upon his completion of secondary school. While serving he was selected for and served in the U.S. Army Presidential Honor Guard in Arlington, Virginia.

After the military Judge Covello attended the State University of New York at Buffalo, where he graduated magna cum laude and was a member of Phi Beta Kappa. Judge Covello received his law degree from Hofstra University School of Law, and has been honored with the George M. Estabrook Alumni Association's Distinguished Service Award.

A leader in service to the profession and the community, Judge Covello is a past president of the Columbian Lawyers Association, and of the Nassau Lawyers Association of Long Island. Monica A. Duffy is Chief Attorney for the Committee on Professional Standards for the Appellate Division, Third Department, in Albany, New York.

Ms. Duffy earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from King's College, Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, in 1984, and a Juris Doctor degree from Duquesne University School of Law, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in 1987. After graduation from law school Ms. Duffy worked as an associate at a private law firm and in January 1992, she became a founding partner in the law firm of Judge & Duffy, Attorneys at Law, Glens Falls, New York. Prior to joining the Committee on Professional Standards as Chief Attorney in September 2013, Ms. Duffy was a member of the Committee and served as its Chairperson from 2011-2012.

Ms. Duffy is a member of the New York State Association of Disciplinary Counsel, the New York State Bar Association Committee on Professional Discipline, and the New York State Bar Association. She is a current member and former board member and president of the Warren County Bar Association and a former board member and vice-president of the Warren County Bar Foundation. In addition, throughout her career, Ms. Duffy has been a member and officer of several nonprofit and charitable organizations.

Recently, Ms. Duffy has been named as a member of the Commission on Statewide Attorney Discipline, which Commission was created by Chief Judge Jonathan Lippman to conduct a comprehensive review of New York State’s attorney discipline system.

Cheryl Smith Fisher Practice Areas: Employment Law, Litigation, Legal Ethics Cheryl Smith Fisher is of counsel to the firm of Magavern, Magavern & Grimm. She was admitted to the New York State Bar after graduating cum laude from the University of Buffalo School of Law where she taught research and writing and completed a student federal judicial clerkship with the Hon. John T. Curtin. She served as an Assistant United States Attorney for the Western District of New York handling both civil and criminal cases. She presently serves as Assistant Chancellor for the Episcopal Diocese of Western New York.Ms. Fisher is Chair of the Committee on Character and Fitness, Eighth Judicial District, Vice President of the New York State Bar Association for the Eighth Judicial District, and a past Co-Chair of the New York State Bar Association Committee on Professional Ethics where she continues to serve as a member.Ms. Fisher is a past president of the Bar Association of Erie County and past chair of their Ethics Committee.Ms Fisher has been a presenter at many CLE programs in the areas of Legal Ethics and Employment Law. Jevon L. Garrett Graduated from the University of Rochester - BA Japanese History.

Taught High School for five years in Rochester, NY.

Received a JD from Cornell Law School

Private Practice after Law School, focusing on indigent criminal defense and family court.

Tompkins County DA's Office, Assistant District Attorney: Felonies, Town and Village Courts and Crimes against Children.

Private Practice after TC DA's Office, defense attorney in Ithaca City Drug Court. Adjunct Professor Trial Advocacy, Cornell Law School.

Part-time Cortland County DA's Office, Assistant District Attorney: Town Courts and Sex Crime prosecutions.

Rensselaer County DA's Office, Assistant District Attorney. Former Attorney, Committee on Professional Standards.

Hon. Kenneth L. Gartner is a commercial and appellate litigator with the law firm of Lynn, Gartner, Dunne & Covello, LLP, where his practice, in addition to general trial and appellate work, includes representing judges, lawyers and law firms in criminal, civil and disciplinary matters, and serving as an expert witness or special counsel on legal ethics issues.

For seven years, until 2006, he was a civil and criminal trial judge in the Nassau County District Court, where he earned the distinction of being the most published judge in the history of the New York State District Court. Judge Gartner has served as a Special Professor of Legal Ethics at Hofstra Law School; and an Adjunct Professor at Touro Law School, overseeing the Judicial Externship program, and teaching a seminar for judicial externs examining the judge's role, in theory and practice. Judge Gartner has for over a decade been the Chair of a national committee of judges, law professors, and practicing attorneys which annually chooses a law school Moot Court brief for recognition by Scribes - the American Association of Legal Writers.

Judge Gartner is a member of the New York State Bar Association (“NYSBA”) and the New York City Bar Association (“City Bar”) Committees on Professional Ethics. He is a past Chair and continuing member of the NYSBA Committee on Standards of Attorney Conduct (“COSAC”), and is the Chair of the Nassau County Bar Association Professional Ethics Committee. He has been a member of the City Bar Committee on Professional Responsibility. He served on the NYSBA Statewide Task Force on Non- Lawyer Ownership of Law Firms. Judge Gartner is a member of the Federalist Society Professional Responsibility Practice Group, and the American Association of Professional Responsibility Lawyers. Judge Gartner’s most recent publications include “Electronic Communications and the Ethical Obligation to Preserve Confidentiality,” Nassau Lawyer, December 2011, at 3, col. 2; and “Admission by Motion Rule Distorted by ABA’s Interest in Monopoly,” N.Y. Law Journal, September 16, 2011, at 6, col. 4.

Judge Gartner received both his B.A., and his J.D., cum laude, from the State University of New York at Buffalo, where he was Managing Editor of the Law Review. Prior to his election as a judge, he served as an antitrust/litigation associate of the Manhattan law firm of Breed, Abbott & Morgan, and, subsequently, 17 years as first an associate and then a partner, in the law firm of Meyer, Suozzi, English & Klein, P.C. Judge Gartner previously attended the State University of New York at Stony Brook, where, as was subsequently the case at Buffalo, he was a member of the school’s NCAA varsity soccer team. Mary E. Gasparini A native of Central New York, Ms. Gasparini is a 1991 graduate of the George C. Taylor College of Law at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville. She began her legal career at the Legal Aid Society - Criminal Defense Division in New York City. In 1993, Ms. Gasparini returned to Syracuse for a position with the Hiscock Legal Society. From there Ms. Gasparini accepted a position as an Assistant Corporation Counsel for the City of Syracuse. In 1996, she moved into private practice where she focused in workers’ compensation as well as corporate and business contracts and criminal defense. Ms. Gasparini returned to public service in 2007 when she joined the Attorney Grievance Committee. Ms. Gasparini is a frequent lecturer at the Syracuse University College of Law. Michael G. Gaynor is that Deputy Chief Attorney for the Committee on Professional Standards for the Appellate Division, Third Department, in Albany, New York.

Mr. Gaynor earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from LeMoyne College in 1985 and a Juris, Doctor degree from Thomas Cooley Law School in 1992. From 1992 to 1998 he served as an assistant District Attorney in Albany County. He then worked in private practice' in Albany with Maynard, O'Connor, Smith & Catalinotto until 1999 when he became staff attorney with the Committee on Professional Standards. He has also served as the acting Chief Attorney of the Committee.

Mr. Gaynor is a frequent lecturer on legal ethics at programs sponsored by the New York State Bar Association and the New York State Trial Lawyers Association. He is a member of the New York State Association of Disciplinary Counsel, 'serving in its Professionalism Section.

Guy C. Giancarlo has been Associate Counsel to the Eighth Judicial District Attorney Grievance Committee since 2005. In this position, he has been responsible for the investigation of complaints against attorneys alleging professional misconduct and for the presentation of serious matters of misconduct to the Appellate Division of the New York Supreme Court, Fourth Judicial Department.

Prior to 2005, Mr. Giancarlo was Confidential Law Clerk to the Honorable Salvatore R. Martoche, J.S.C., and, prior thereto, was a Senior Associate at Hiscock and Barclay where he practiced in public finance and commercial litigation. Earlier in his career, Mr. Giancarlo was a New York State Assistant Attorney General, serving in the Investor Protection and Consumer Frauds Bureaus.

Mr. Giancarlo received his B.S., cum laude, M.B.A., and J.D. from SUNY Buffalo, studying engineering, accounting and finance, and law. Marjorie E. Gross practices law in New York City, focusing on banking and capital markets activities. She was General Counsel of the New York State Banking Department from June 2007 through September 2011, was a Managing Director and Associate General Counsel at JPMorgan for 15 years, and has worked for a number of other New York banks.

Ms. Gross has been active in the fields of legal and judicial ethics since 1986. She has been a member of the New York State Bar Association Committee on Professional Ethics since 1993, and also served on the Committee from 1988 to 1990. She served on the Committee on Professional Responsibility of the New York County Lawyers' Association from 1988-1996 (and chaired that Committee from 1988-1991). She was an Advisor to the American Law Institute's Restatement of the Law Governing Lawyers from 1991 to 2001. She was a lecturer in Professional Responsibility at Columbia University Law School from 1986-1991 and lectures frequently on professional and judicial ethics.

Ms. Gross also served from 2003 to 2009 on the New York State Bar Association Committee on Standards of Attorney Conduct, which proposed the Rules of Professional Conduct, and represented Chief Judge Judith Kaye on the committee that assisted the Administrative Board in promulgating the Rules of Professional Conduct in 2009.

Ms. Gross is a graduate of Mount Holyoke College and Georgetown University Law Center. John H. Hanrahan, III Unable to Attend Ithaca Program. See John Alden Stevens Bio. was born and raised in Northern New Jersey. I graduated from Georgetown University in 1976 and the Fordham University of Law in 1979, at which time I was appointed Associate General Counsel of Schearson/American Express, Inc.

In 1980 I was ordered to active duty with the United States Marine Corps, serving at duty stations in Virginia, Arizona, Japan, and Louisiana until my discharge in 1988 at the rank of Captain. I specialize in trial work in the area of personal injury litigation and matrimonial/family court matters.

Areas of Practice • Insurance Coverage • Personal Injury • Matrimonial / Family Court • Custody & Visitation • Motor Vehicle Accidents - Plaintiff

Gerard E. Harper A partner in the Litigation Department and Co-Chair of the firm’s Professional Liability Practice Group, Gerry Harper concentrates in general commercial litigation and counseling, with an emphasis on complex contract and other business disputes, fiduciary and corporate relationships, and professional liability involving the law of lawyering. He has litigated and tried matters and argued appeals in federal and state courts in multiple jurisdictions and tried matters in a variety of domestic and international alternative dispute resolution proceedings.

Experience Among other matters, Gerry has litigated extensively on behalf of lawyers and law firms, including some of the nation’s best-known law firms, in legal malpractice suits, disciplinary proceedings, and sanctions motions. Gerry has also been involved in a number of high-profile litigations involving government matters, including representing then-Governor Mario Cuomo in challenges to his executive authority; representing the New York Democratic delegation to the U.S. House of Representatives in redistricting litigation in 1992; defending the New York State Comptroller in successfully challenging pension rules; and the New York State Thruway in unsuccessful challenges to its public financing and to the institution of E-ZPass toll booths.

Gerry is a member of the First Department's Departmental Disciplinary Committee. He has twice served on the Committee on Professional and Judicial Ethics of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York, once as its Secretary (1980-81), and also as a member of its Committee on Professional Discipline. He served for seven years, four as Chair, of the Professional Ethics Committee of the New York County Lawyers' Association, and is a long-time member of the Committee on Professional Ethics of the New York State Bar Association. He was named to the firm's ethics committee upon his election to partnership in 1986, and for twenty years beginning in 1991 was the committee's chair until the firm created the position of Chief Ethics Counsel for him in 2011. Gerry served on the firm's Management Committee for four terms from 1997 to 2012. Mary Jo S. Korona Ms. Korona’s commercial litigation practice focuses on disputes among shareholders, partners and members of corporations, partnerships and limited liability companies as they relate to buy outs, dissolutions and breaches of fiduciary duties. In addition, Ms. Korona’s practice focuses on disputes involving employment matters, warranty claims and real property.

Ms. Korona has successfully represented private and municipal clients in proceedings before federal and state courts, federal and state human rights agencies, mediations and arbitrations. She is on the panel of mediators selected for the mandatory mediation program sponsored by the United States District Court for the Western District of New York.

Ms. Korona is designated a “Best Lawyer” in the category of Commercial Litigation and is listed in Super Lawyers Business Edition for Business Litigation and Upstate New York Super Lawyers in the areas of Business Litigation and Employment law.

Mary Jo is a regular contributing columnist to The Daily Record and has authored articles on a variety of litigation topics. She has served on several panels in support of continuing legal education courses sponsored by the Monroe County Bar Association and the New York State Bar Association with respect to the Rules of Professional Conduct. She currently serves as Dean of the Monroe County Bar Association’s Academy of Law. Harold A. Kurland is a member of Ward Greenberg Heller & Reidy LLP, a litigation firm based in Rochester. His practice is devoted to litigation, and includes primarily commercial and construction litigation, as well as professional liability defense. He has tried many jury trials to verdict, as well as handled bench trials, arbitrations, and appeals. He also serves actively as a neutral, both as arbitrator and mediator, and regularly mediates cases across New York. He is a Certified Federal Court Mediator for the Western District of New York.

Mr. Kurland is a member of the NYSBA Committee on Professional Ethics. He also is a past President of the Monroe County Bar Association. He regularly presents continuing legal education programs regarding litigation, alternative dispute resolution, and other topics. Mr. Kurland is a Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers, an Associate of the American Board of Trial Advocates, and a Fellow of the American and New York Bar Foundations. He was President and Master of the Rochester Inn of Court, and is a Trustee of the Volunteer Legal Services Project. He graduated with honors from Dartmouth College (A.B. 1973) and Cornell Law School (J.D. 1976). Michael J. Lingle is a partner with the law firm Thomas & Solomon LLP. He joined the firm in 2002 and currently serves as the firm’s managing partner. Mr. Lingle practices in employment law and represents employees in employment matters, including contract negotiations, discrimination matters and wage and hour disputes. Mr. Lingle currently serves on the New York State Bar Association’s Committee on Professional Ethics. Mr. Lingle received his B.S. from Cornell University and his J.D. from . Sarah Diane McShea is a sole practitioner in New York City who has practiced in the professional responsibility field since 1980. She advises lawyers, law firms, in-house counsel, government lawyers and others on a wide variety of professional responsibility issues; serves as an expert witness on professional ethics issues; consults on law firm mergers, dissolutions, fee disputes, and sanctions and disqualification motions; and represents lawyers in disciplinary proceedings in the state and federal courts and bar applicants in character and fitness proceedings. McShea is a member of the Editorial Board of the ABA/BNA Lawyers' Manual on Professional Conduct. She is a member of the NYSBA Committee on Standards of Attorney Conduct, which proposes changes to the New York Rules of Professional Conduct. She is also a member of the NYSBA Committee on Law Practice Management and chair of its Law Practice Continuity Subcommittee which is updating the NYSBA Planning Ahead Guide. McShea is a contributing editor to The New York Rules of Professional Conduct (Oxford University Press) and a founding member and Past President of the Association of Professional Responsibility Lawyers. She served on the NOBC/APRL Joint Committee on Aging Lawyers, which issued national reports on the graying of the legal profession in May 2007 and April 2014; and regularly writes and speaks on ethics issues. She teaches professional responsibility as an adjunct professor at Fordham University School of Law and previously taught as an adjunct at Columbia University School of Law, Brooklyn Law School, and St. John’s University School of Law. She is a former Deputy Chief Counsel to the Departmental Disciplinary Committee in the First Department and former Bureau Chief (Public Corruption) in the Kings County District Joseph E. Neuhaus joined Sullivan & Cromwell LLP in 1987 and became a partner in 1992. His practice is focused on international commercial litigation in both arbitral and court settings, with particular emphasis on Latin American matters. He is coordinator of Sullivan & Cromwell LLP’s arbitration practice and has served as counsel and arbitrator in numerous arbitral proceedings, including ad hoc proceedings, arbitrations administered by the International Chamber of Commerce and the American Arbitration Association and arbitrations involving sovereign entities. He also has served as counsel in a variety of arbitration-related disputes in court, as well as other commercial litigation and regulatory investigations. He is currently chair of the International Commercial Disputes Committee of the New York City Bar Association.

Joe is also the primary ethics adviser at Sullivan & Cromwell and is involved with numerous bar association organizations dedicated to the improvement of legal ethics. He has been a member of the Committee on Standards of Attorney Conduct (COSAC), the committee of the New York State Bar Association responsible for proposing changes to the Rules of Professional Conduct and comments since 2009, and served as chair from 2010 to 2013. He has been a member of the State Bar Committee on Professional Ethics since 2001 and served as chair of that committee from 2005 to 2008. He was a member of the Committee on Professional and Judicial Ethics of the New York City Bar Association from 1996 to 1999 and again from 2004 to 2007.

Joe was a law clerk to Hon. Lewis F. Powell, Jr., United States Supreme Court, 1983-1984; Hon. Carl McGowan, United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, 1982-1983; and Howard M. Holtzmann, Iran-United States Claims Tribunal, 1984-1985. He earned his J.D. from Columbia Law School, where he was editor-in-chief of the law review, and his B.A. from Dartmouth College.

Lawrence Raful is a Professor of Law at the Touro College Jacob D. Fuchsberg Law Center in Central Islip, New York, where he served for eight years as the dean of the school. Touro Law’s new law school building is the first law school in the United States to be located on a campus with a federal courthouse and a state courthouse. Raful received his JD at the University of Denver College of Law, and his undergraduate degree from the University of California, San Diego. He served as the associate dean at the University of Southern California Law Center, and then as dean and as a professor of law at the Creighton University School of Law. Professor Raful teaches and writes in the area of professional responsibility and legal ethics, and he served as chair of the Nebraska State Bar Association Committee to Adopt the Model Rules. In the summer of 2012, he was named Director of the New York State Pro Bono Initiative. He is married to the very patient and understanding Dinah Raful and is the father of three beautiful daughters, Sarah, Anna and Leah, who share their father’s love of baseball. He is a proud grandfather. Matthew Lee-Renert is a staff counsel and principal attorney for the Grievance Committee for the Ninth Judicial District in White Plains, N.Y., serving at the direction of its Chief Counsel, Gary L. Casella. In that capacity, he investigates complaints of ethical and professional misconduct by attorneys and, in necessary cases, prosecutes disciplinary proceedings and the related appellate proceedings regarding such. Mr. Lee- Renert has been a full-time member of the Grievance Committee’s staff since 1995 and has found this area of law to be gratifying because of the disciplinary system’s function of protecting the public including the members of the practicing bar. He received his J.D. from Boston University School of Law in 1994 and his B.A. in History from Cornell University in 1991. He presently serves as the Vice-President of the White Plains Bar Association. In addition to the New York State Bar Association, Mr. Lee-Renert previously has lectured on ethical issues and the attorney disciplinary process for the Unified Court System, Pace University School of Law, New York University - School of Continuing Professional Studies, St. Johns University School of Law, New York Law School as well as the Dutchess, Rockland and Westchester County Bar Associations. Hon. Kate Rosenthal is a Judge of the Syracuse City Court, first elected to the Court in 2000 and again in 2010. She is a native of Binghamton, New York and attended Earlham College and Syracuse University College of Law.

Prior to attending law school, Judge Rosenthal served as a Staff Assistant for Congressman Matthew F. McHugh. For almost two decades she was a sole practitioner with an emphasis in criminal defense. She has been an adjunct Professor of Law at Syracuse University and has lectured at CLE’s for both lawyers and judges. She has served on the Board of Directors of NYS Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, Syracuse Family Service, Huntington Family Services as well as the Onondaga County Bar Association. She is the immediate past president of the New York State Association of City Court Judges.

In 2009 she was presented with the Hon. William Brennan award for outstanding jurist by the NYS Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers.

Frank R. Rosiny is a 1964 graduate of the Columbia University School of Law and has been admitted to the bar of several states, including New York, where he practices with his brother under the firm name Rosiny & Rosiny.

Mr. Rosiny has been a member of the New York State Bar Association’s Committee on Professional Ethics since 1975 and served as its chairman for an extended term of five years. He also chaired the State Bar’s Committee on Professional Discipline, its Committee on the Unauthorized Practice of Law, its Special Committee to Review ABA Draft Model Rules of Professional Conduct, and its General Practice Section.

In the First Department, Mr. Rosiny has chaired the Joint Committee on Fee Disputes and Conciliation for New York and Bronx Counties and has been a member of several local bar association committees on professional ethics and discipline, as well as the Departmental Disciplinary Committee of the New York State Supreme Court.

He has been a member of the American Bar Association’s House of Delegates, chaired the Commercial Law Committee of its General Practice Section and served as ABA advisor to the Commission on Uniform State Laws. He has also been a member of the Executive Committees of both the New York State Bar and New York County Lawyers’ Association.

As an adjunct professor of law for 25 years, Mr. Rosiny taught the required course on professional responsibility at two New York City law schools: beginning in 1977 at New York Law School and, thereafter, at Brooklyn Law School. He has been a frequent lecturer to practicing lawyers. His published writings include articles on civil procedure and surrogate’s court practice, as well as professional issues and standards.

Mr. Rosiny has litigated in state and federal courts and represented respondents in disciplinary proceedings and applicants for admission to the bar. He has also testified as an expert in malpractice cases and on matters of professional ethics. Emil Mario Rossi Education: Syracuse University College of Law, J.D. 1972 Magna Cum Laude Order of the Coif Justinian Honor Society Research Assistant, Professor Travis Lewin (Criminal Law)

Syracuse University, M.A. 1968, English Literature

LeMoyne College, B.A. 1963, English

Professional Legal: General Private Practice of Law May, 1983 - Present Emphasis of Practice - Litigation – Federal and State

(1994-1995 Counsel to Special Prosecutor Nelson Roth - State investigation into fingerprinting practices - New York State Police)

Office of the Special Prosecutor for Health and Social Services, Syracuse, New York, Special Assistant Attorney General, May 1975 - June, 1976

Onondaga County District Attorney's Office, Syracuse, New York, Assistant District Attorney April, 1974 – April 1975

Curtis, Mallet-Prevost, Colt & Mosle, 100 Wall Street, New York, New York, Law Associate, August, 1972 - August, 1973

Professional Academic: Syracuse University College of Law Syracuse, New York, May, 1975 - Present Legal Education Opportunity Program Adjunct Professor of Law Constitutional Law; Constitutional Criminal Procedure; Criminal Law; Trial Practice; Professional Responsibility; Advisor to National Moot Trial Team, National Champions 1976 and 1979

Memberships: New York State Bar Association; Onondaga County Bar Association; New York State Trial Lawyers Association; National Italian-American Bar Association; Association of Trial Lawyers of America; Syracuse Association of Defense Lawyers; Board of Directors, Onondaga County Bar Association 1979 - 1981; Board of Directors, Catholic Charities 1980; Board of Directors, Child and Family Service 1980; Selection Committee for Chief of Police for Mayor Thomas Young 1986; Chairman, Charter Review Commission, City of Syracuse 1989 - 1990; Board of Directors, St. Peter's Day Care Center 1989- 1992; Selection Committee, United States Magistrate for the Northern District of New York; Charter Review Commission, Onondaga County 1993; Co-Chairman of Transition Committee for Mayor Bernardi 1993; President, Columbus Monument Association 1994-Present; Capital Defense/Fourth Department Screening Panel 1995; Board of Directors, Values Program - Lemoyne College 1995 Hon. John C. Rowley Tompkins County Judge, Ithaca, New York – Judge Rowley is a graduate of Cornell University and the S.U.N.Y Buffalo School of Law. He was first elected to his current position, Tompkins County Judge, Family Court Judge and Surrogate, in 2000, and re-elected in 2010. He was appointed an Acting Supreme Court Justice in 2003. In addition to his criminal court and family court caseload, he presides in three specialty courts: the Family Treatment Court, the Sex Offense Compliance Court, and the Integrated Domestic Violence Court Part of Supreme Court. Judge Rowley is the co-chair of the NYSBA Judicial Wellness Committee. He speaks frequently on issues of domestic violence, lawyer and judicial alcoholism and addiction, stress management, vicarious trauma and drug courts.

Deborah A. Scalise is a partner in the firm SCALISE HAMILTON & SHERIDAN LLP in Scarsdale, New York. The Firm represents professionals in professional responsibility and ethics matters, and white-collar criminal matters. Among other services, the Firm advises lawyers proactively via advisory letters; reviews websites and escrow accounts to ensure compliance with ethical obligations; and provides defensive counsel when a professional or judge is faced with allegations of ethical misconduct or criminality.

Before entering private practice in 2002, Ms. Scalise was Deputy Attorney General in Charge of Public Advocacy for the Westchester Region and handled cases involving consumer frauds, civil rights, and public integrity. Prior to that, she was the Deputy Chief Counsel to the Departmental Disciplinary Committee for the First Judicial Department. In her nine years at the Committee, she litigated complex disciplinary matters including, investigations, hearings and appellate review of attorney ethical misconduct. Her first position as a lawyer was as an Assistant District Attorney in Kings County, where she handled economic crimes and arson cases. Ms. Scalise earned a Juris Doctor from Brooklyn Law School, and both a Bachelor of Arts and Master of Arts Degree in Forensic Psychology from the John Jay College of the City University of New York.

Ms. Scalise is active in several bar associations. She is a member of the New York State Bar Association (NYSBA) where she serves as the Chair of the Continuing Legal Education (CLE) Committee and on the Attorney Professionalism Committee. She twice served as Vice President to Women’s Bar Association of the State of New York (WBASNY), where she also serves as Professional Ethics Committee Co-chair. A Past President of the White Plains Bar Association (WPBA) and the Westchester Women's Bar Association (WWBA), she serves on several Committees for both including, Outreach Co-chair and is actively involved in educational programs for students, including Take Your Children to Work Day, Law Day and Career Day. She is a member of the American Bar Association (ABA) and a former member of its Public Sector Lawyer’s Division’s Ethics and CLE Committees. She is also a member of the New York State Trial Lawyers Association (NYSTLA) and the New York County Lawyers Association, serving on the Board of NYCLA’s Ethics Institute. She is a member of the Westchester County Bar Association (WCBA) and served as Co-chair of the Ethics and Professional Responsibility Committee. As a member of the New Rochelle Bar Association (NRBA), she is a Small Claims Court Arbitrator in the New Rochelle City Court. She is also a member of the Federal Bar Council, the Brooklyn Columbian Lawyers Association, the Westchester Columbian Lawyers Association and the Eastchester Bar Association.

Ms. Scalise has coordinated and/or lectured in CLE Programs for the: Appellate Division, First, Second and Third Departments; NYSBA; Practicing Law Institute; WBASNY; WWBA; WCBA; WPBA; NRBA; Brooklyn Women's Bar Association; Rockland County Women's Bar Association; Pace University Law School CLE Program; St. John's University Law School CLE Program; Fordham Law School CLE Program; CUNY Law School CLE Program; NYSTLA; New York Civil and Criminal Trial Attorneys Association; New York State Association of Disciplinary Attorneys; and New York County Supreme Court Arbitrators. She has also been a faculty member of the Cardozo Law School Intensive Trial Advocacy Program and a guest lecturer at Brooklyn Law School, Columbia Law School, Cardozo Law School, Pace Law School and John Jay College. Ms. Scalise is an Adjunct Professor at Fordham Law School, where she teaches Professional Responsibility.

Mark J. Solomon Education: A.B. Colgate University 1967 magna cum laude M.A. University of Chicago 1971 JD Cornell Law School 1984 magna cum laude

Legal Practice: Associate: 1985 Barney Grossman and Roth Ithaca, New York

Solo practice: 1986-1987 Ithaca, New York Partner: 1988-2005

Managing Partner: 2000-2004 LoPinto, Schlather, Solomon & Salk Ithaca, New York

Of counsel 2006- September 2007 Schlather, Geldenhuys, Stumbar & Salk Ithaca, New York

September 2007 – Law Offices of Mark J. Solomon Ithaca, New York Concentration in matters of professional responsibility

Professional Activities: Member: NYSBA Committee on Professional Ethics 1992-present CLE Planning Chair 2001-present NYSBA Committee on Professional Discipline 1995-2004; 2005 - present NYSBA Special Committee on Multi-Jurisdictional Practice 2001-present NYSBA Special Committee on Unlawful Practice of Law 1997- 2000; Chair 2000 to 2005, 2009-present NYSBA Special Committee on Judicial Campaign Monitoring 2003-2007 Member, Association of Professional Responsibility Lawyers 2007 Adjunct Faculty Cornell Law School Adjunct Faculty Syracuse Law School

Honors: Phi Beta Kappa 1966 B.A. and J.D. magna cum laude 1967-1971, Danforth Fellow; Lehman Fellow (hon.); 1971, Brookings Institution Graduate Fellow. 1984 Order of the Coif 1986, N.I.T.A. diploma, teacher training. 1996, Neighborhood Legal Services, award for pro bono services 1985-1995.

Lawton W. Squires handles complex litigation matters from inception through trial to verdict in the State and Federal Courts. His practice encompasses products liability, labor law, construction accidents, general liability, attorney and judicial disciplinary proceedings, professional malpractice, professional disciplinary, medical malpractice, criminal and motor vehicle matters. In addition to representing clients in the New York State Courts, Mr. Squires represents clients before many of New York States’ regional professional disciplinary agencies including: the Departmental Disciplinary Committee; the Grievance Committee; the Committee on Character and Fitness; the Commission on Judicial Conduct; the Office of Professional Discipline; and the Office of Professional Medical Conduct. Mr. Squires also serves as excess and monitoring counsel for numerous clients and several major insurance carriers.

In September 2012, Seymour James, Esq., President of the New York State Bar Association named Mr. Squires to serve as a member of the NYSBA Ethics Committee. The Committee is responsible for manning an attorney ethical hotline, for reviewing attorney ethical inquiries and the drafting and publication of the NYSBA Attorney Ethics Opinions that serve as an ethical guide for practicing attorneys.

A trial attorney for more than thirty (30) years, Mr. Squires has served as the Managing Trial Attorney for United States Fidelity & Guaranty Company, The St. Paul Insurance Companies and The St. Paul Travelers Companies in New York. He also has represented the Zurich American Insurance group as its New York Supervising Trial Attorney. Mr. Squires past employment as a managing attorney with a number of in-house insurance carrier’s law firms has helped him to work closely with insurance carriers, as private clients, for the mutual benefit of both of their clients and to assist the claims and underwriting departments in complying with their rules and regulations.

Mr. Squires currently serves as a Past President and member of the Executive Board of the Defense Association of New York. He is currently serving as a board member and mentor for the DANY Diversity Initiative. This is a ten (10) month program for women and minority attorneys entitled: “Career Empowerment for Diverse Attorneys: Leadership, Mentorship and Rainmaking”. The program seeks to empower its attorneys to assume control over their careers through training and accountability, in the skills of obtaining and managing their own books of business. The program is founded on the premise that public and private entities can grow and retain diverse legal talent by providing their attorneys with direct instruction in the arts of leadership, mentoring, networking and business development. Herzfeld & Rubin, P.C. is a corporate sponsor of the program. Lawton is also a member of the Executive Board of the New York State Bar Association’s Tort, Insurance and Compensation Law Committee.

Mr. Squires is a Member of Herzfeld & Rubin, P.C. and is admitted to the New York State Bar and to the United States District Courts for the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York. John Alden Stevens Substitute for John H. Hanrahan, III for the Ithaca Program received an undergraduate degree from Dartmouth College and a law degree from Cleveland-Marshall School of Law. John was an Assistant District Attorney in Tompkins County and served as a member of the House of Delegates for the New York State Bar Association from 1992-1995. He was a member of the Appellate Division, Third Department Committee on Professional Standards (Attorney Grievance Committee) from 2005 until 2010 and was chairman of the same committee from 2010-2011.

John has served on the boards of Tompkins County Mental Health Association, the Ithaca Youth Hockey Association, and the board of the Community Recreation Center.

He is a trial attorney practicing in the following areas: personal injury, fire loss, construction, criminal, surrogate, and family. James T. Townsend is a graduate of Trinity College and Albany Law School. He is Counsel to the Adirondack Park Agency and a member of the New York State Bar Association. Jim has been Chair of the 7th District Attorney Grievance Committee, a member of the Ethics Committee and presented at several programs for the State Bar Association and the College of Law at Syracuse.

Michael Whiteman Areas of Practice: • Energy and Telecommunications • Government Contracts • Government Relations

One of the founding members of Whiteman Osterman & Hanna, Michael Whiteman serves as the head of the Firm’s Energy and Telecommunications Practice Group. Mr. Whiteman regularly represents a variety of clients, including energy and telecommunications companies, before the New York State Public Service Commission and other State regulatory agencies on a wide range of regulatory, rate, siting and government contract and procurement issues. Mr. Whiteman also has an active practice in corporate organization and transactions and in business, professional and governmental ethics and responsibility. Prior to founding Whiteman Osterman & Hanna, Mr. Whiteman served as counsel to Governor Nelson A. Rockefeller and Governor Malcolm Wilson from 1971 to 1974. He worked as an adjunct professor at Albany Law School in 1977, and he sat on the New York State Law Revision Committee.

Mr. Whiteman graduated from , magna cum laude, and from Harvard Law School, cum laude. Kaylin L. Whittingham is the founder of the Law Offices of Kaylin L. Whittingham. She counsels and represents attorneys and law firms in all areas of legal ethics and professional responsibility including—disciplinary defense and investigation, risk management, reinstatement, and bar admission. Ms. Whittingham also focuses on representing clients in legal malpractice and appeals. Prior to private practice, Ms. Whittingham served as Staff Counsel at the Departmental Disciplinary Committee, First Judicial Department. There she prosecuted an array of complex attorney disciplinary matters. Ms. Whittingham is a former Staff Attorney at the Office of the Mental Hygiene Legal Services, where she represented individuals that were civilly committed in psychiatric hospitals. Ms. Whittingham served as Judicial Intern for the Honorable Dolores K. Sloviter, United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, and for the Honorable Milton Tingling, at the Supreme Court for the State of New York, New York County.

Ms. Whittingham is active in several bar associations. She sits on the Professional Discipline Committee and the Minorities in the Profession Committee at the Association of the Bar of the City of New York. She is the Vice President of the Association of Black Women Attorneys; a member of the New York State Bar Association; and a member of the Metropolitan Black Bar Association.

Ms. Whittingham has been a Continuing Legal Education (CLE) speaker on Attorney Discipline and Ethics at the Association of the Bar of the City of New York, New York State Bar Association, New York County Lawyers Association, the Defense Association of New York, Haitian American Lawyers Association of New York, and the Metropolitan Black Bar Association.

Ms. Whittingham earned her Law degree from Northeastern School of Law, where she was a member of the Northeastern Law Journal. She holds bachelor degrees in Economics and Literature respectively. Ms. Whittingham is admitted to practice in New York, New Jersey, and the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey.