UB Law Forum Volume 22 Number 2 Spring 2010 Article 1 4-1-2010 UB Law Forum Volume 22 Number 2 Spring 2010 University at Buffalo School of Law Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.law.buffalo.edu/ub_law_forum Recommended Citation University at Buffalo School of Law (2010) "UB Law Forum Volume 22 Number 2 Spring 2010," UB Law Forum: Vol. 22 : No. 2 , Article 1. Available at: https://digitalcommons.law.buffalo.edu/ub_law_forum/vol22/iss2/1 This Full Issue is brought to you for free and open access by the Alumni Publications at Digital Commons @ University at Buffalo School of Law. It has been accepted for inclusion in UB Law Forum by an authorized editor of Digital Commons @ University at Buffalo School of Law. For more information, please contact [email protected]. UB LAW FORUM THE MAGAZINE OF THE UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO LAW SCHOOL THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK KENNETH FORREST' receives the jaeckleAward in NYC .- UB Law Forum Editor: Ilene R. 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UB LAW FORUM S P RING 2 0 1 0 CONTENTS 1 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 14 UB LAW FORUM • SPRING 2 0 1 0 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 retire- ment 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.