GIVINGBOOK2020 How Your Many Contributions Fuel Our Innovation ALSO INSIDE: Marty Feinman L’83 on Recruiting Social Justice Lawyers The Schuppenhauers: Making Their Legacy Count Remembering Crandall Melvin Professor Emeritus Peter E. Herzog L’55 GIVINGBOOK2020 Dean and Professor of Law 02 Dean’s Message Craig M. Boise 04 Class Act! A New Legacy Begins Executive Editor, Syracuse Law Giving Book 05 An Open Letter to the Class of 2020 Robert T. Conrad Director of Communications 06 The Big Board: Participation Rates and Media Relations by Class Year Assistant Dean for Advancement 08 The Many Ways You Give Back and External Affairs Sophie Dagenais 13 LAW 2020 By the Numbers Director of Alumni Relations 14 The Law Firm Giving Challenge is On! Kristen Duggleby 15 Thank You for the “Boost!” Contributing Writers Fritz Diddle 16 An Impact Felt Around the Globe 3L Meredith Wallen 17 18 Martin Walls 18 The Schuppenhauers: Making Their Legacy Count Contributing Editor Kathleen Curtis 20 Martin Feinman L’83 Deploys Fellowships to Help Recruit Social Justice Lawyers Photography 22 Law Alumni Weekend Promotes New Marilyn Hesler Scholarship; Part of College of Law’s Focus Steve Sartori on Diversity Syracuse University Photo Services 24 Message from Board of Advisors Chair Graphic Design Robert M. Hallenbeck L’83 Quinn Page Design LLC 27 Board of Advisors 28 Honor Roll of Donors 22 57 Syracuse University College of Law 46 Message from SULAA Board President Office of Advancement and Mark O’Brien L’14 External Affairs Dineen Hall, Suite 402 47 SULAA Board of Directors 950 Irving Avenue Syracuse, NY 13244-6070 48 Giving Through the Years t: 315.443.1964 f: 315.443.4585 56 Class Notes: Where to Find Them e: [email protected] law.syr.edu 57 Our Back Pages 58 Remembering Professor Emeritus Peter E. Herzog L’55 © 2020 Syracuse University College of Law. 61 In Memoriam All rights reserved. 08 58 1 “Your optimism DEAN’S MESSAGE and energy drive Forever Orange our mission The College of Law boasts an ever-expanding, powerful alumni network: more than 11,000 law alumni in all 50 states and in 66 nations, making up part of a more than 250,000-strong Syracuse University alumni community. There’s no and inspire our doubt that the vast Orange Network has a truly global reach, but these numbers would mean little if our alumni weren’t as thoroughly engaged with their alma mater as you are. students.” This issue of the Giving Book arrives at the end of a year of many social, political, and economic disruptions and inflection points. From my interactions with you throughout the year, it is apparent College of Law alumni throughout the world are meeting head-on the challenges of COVID-19, racial injustice, rapidly changing working conditions, and financial uncertainty. Behind the scenes, the perspectives you have shared with me and our students have informed our agile and targeted responses. Your support has enabled us to provide our students the highest quality legal education despite the pandemic’s many roadblocks, to support them financially, to advocate for them in matters of the bar, and to double our efforts to create a diverse, inclusive, and rich law school experience. You have been willing and at the ready when it comes to fostering community across new virtual networks, too. In addition to celebrating your generous philanthropy, this magazine includes stories and profiles that illustrate the extent to which our alumni have gone above and beyond in visible support of our students who are experiencing an unusual and stressful year of law school. In September, we kicked off the semester with a memorable virtual Law Alumni Weekend conference that connected more than 600 of our alumni, faculty, staff, students, and friends from all over the world and showcased the expertise and leadership of our College of Law community. Since the beginning of the fall 2020 semester, more than 300 students have met online with you, to discuss your career paths, explore emerging areas of law, and discover the extraordinary lives you have built on the foundation of a Syracuse law degree. In doing so, they are discovering the potential that is also theirs to achieve. Then, to make the second annual Syracuse National Trial Competition in October run smoothly online for 22 nationally recognized advocacy teams, we recruited a staggering 150 judges and evaluators. As always, you stepped up, and in doing so you made the College of Law an exemplar for virtual advocacy competitions nationwide. In this year’s “The Many Ways You Give Back” feature, Kaylin Grey L’06 recalls the “blast” she had judging the SNTC. “I missed coaching trial teams, so I’m grateful I could get involved this way,” she says. Your optimism and energy drive our mission and inspire our students. Whether you serve on a board or committee, meet with a class or a student, mentor our students, judge or coach an advocacy competition, or supervise an extern across the country, you are making a difference in the lives and futures of our students. Thank you. Wherever in the world you are reading this Giving Book, I want you to know that here in Syracuse we feel the powerful and positive force of our network of extraordinary alumni. In some ways, the coronavirus pandemic—and a significant strategic investment in technology—has brought us closer together than ever before. And together, we are stronger. Very truly yours, Craig M. Boise Dean and Professor of Law 2 3 CLASS ACT! A New Legacy Begins An Open Letter to the Class of 2020 November 2020 Dear Class of 2020: Thank You! When we consider your legacy at the College of Law, one word comes to mind: resilience. Completing your final semester of law school virtually due to a global pandemic was probably not at all what you had envisioned, but your accomplishments have set a powerful example in strength and determination for those who follow in your footsteps. As the incoming students to the College of Law, we represent three class years: the J.D. classes of 2023 and 2024 and the LL.M. Class of 2021. Seventy-three of us are enrolled in JDinteractive, 60 are first-generation college students, 32 of us are veterans or active-duty members of the In Fall 2015, then-J.D. Class President Dustin Osborne students voted to pivot their focus from a campaign of military, and 28% of us identify as students of color. We represent 40 states and four nations, we L’16 and the Class of 2016 launched the College of individual gifts to a class gift using funds raised collectively hold a combined 47 advanced degrees, four of us hold Ph.D.s, and two of us are medical doctors. Law’s first-ever Class Act! campaign, buoyed by the by the class earlier that year. We’re proud to join the College of Law’s highly credentialed student body. support of College of Law Board of Advisors Member This new gift was earmarked for ’Cuse Law Cares, an Alan Epstein L’74. emergency fund for College of Law students adversely In addition to your academic achievements as law students, your philanthropy sets an example for A University-wide senior class giving campaign, Class impacted by the pandemic. For their part, the LL.M. Class future students. Please know that your support of the Class Act! campaign is an important part of Act! encourages students to make their first-ever gift to of 2020, led by Betania Allo LL.M.’20, had already the University a symbolic amount in honor of their class achieved a record breaking individual Class Act! giving the legacy you leave behind and another example you set. year—$20.21, for the Class of 2021. We hope these gifts participation rate of 97%. will be the first of many more as our students graduate, All these achievements have been recognized on Your individual gifts and the historic J.D. class gift to ’Cuse Law Cares in support of students join our alumni family, and build their careers. the Class Act Giving Wall in the Travis H.D. Lewin impacted by the pandemic have been recognized prominently on the Class Act Giving Wall in the Five years later, the tradition continues, and—as with Advocacy Commons in Dineen Hall. We are grateful for Travis H.D. Lewin Advocacy Commons in Dineen Hall. Rest assured: when our time comes, we other aspects of the student experience at the College of the generosity and philanthropic leadership of both the will continue this proud tradition. Law—it grows in innovative ways. J.D. and LL.M. classes. A Historic Class Gift, and a New Participation Record Class of 2021: A Tradition Reimagined We hope to meet many of you in Dineen Hall or virtually next fall during Law Alumni Weekend for LL.M. Students As of November 2020, the Class of 2021’s campaign 2021, or as interns and externs in your firms. All our best wishes to you as you launch your In spring 2020, the University suspended the Class Act! is already well underway. The class voted to expand the careers—and Go Orange! Campaign, in deference to students and in recognition scope of its campaign by adding new options for giving: that they were facing unforeseen financial and personal donations of basic needs items to Hendricks Chapel and/or Sincerely, challenges due to the COVID-19 pandemic. By that point, donations of casebooks to the Law Library for use by future led by then-3L Class President Aubre Dean L’20 and the law students, along with the traditional monetary gift.