January/February 2007 Visit us at www.nycla.org Volume 3 / Number 1 NYCLA’s 92nd Annual Dinner: Honoring Law Schools INSIDE IN HONOR OF BLACK HISTORY MONTH: ADELAIDE SANFORD TO RECEIVE IDA B. WELLS BARNETT AWARD 4 MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT From left to right: Catherine A. Christian, NYCLA President-Elect; The Cost of Richard J. Bartlett, William Nelson Complacency: An Cromwell Awardee; Edwin David Robertson, NYCLA President; and Historical John D. Feerick, Dinner Chair. Perspective EDWIN DAVID ROBERTSON “Honoring Law Schools” was the theme of NYCLA’s 92nd Annual 5 Dinner held on December 12 at the Waldorf Astoria as 57 law schools located in 12 Northeastern states and the District of Columbia were recog- NYCLA PRESIDENT nized for their contributions to the rule of law. The Dinner Chair was TESTIFIES AT HEARING John D. Feerick, former Dean of the ON PROPOSED RULES Fordham University School of Law and Founder and Director of the Law OF CONDUCT FOR School’s Feerick Center for Social ADMINISTRATIVE LAW Justice and Dispute Resolution. The William Nelson Cromwell Award was JUDGES given to Richard J. Bartlett, principal at Bartlett, Pontiff, Stewart & Rhodes, P.C., and the event’s keynote 8 speaker was Hon. Joseph M. McLaughlin, United States Circuit Court Judge for the Second Circuit Court of Appeals. Mr. Robertson and Dean Feerick are surrounded by a group of law school deans. MEET THE CHAIRS In his opening remarks, Edwin David Robertson, NYCLA President, acknowledged law schools, calling them, supervise students in clinical programs and Emeritus, Touro Law Center; Frank J. “The first gatekeeper that we pass on our activities where students and practicing Macchiarola, Professor of Philosophy and 6 journey through this profession. They nur- lawyers meet in adversarial and other kinds Law, St. Francis College, Dean Emeritus, ture the ideals, excite the curiosity and of proceedings…. At the County Lawyers’ Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law at sharpen the discipline that bring us all to the Association, 47 full-time faculty members Yeshiva University; Hon. Richard L. bar. For more than a century, the institutional are involved in its work.” (The full text of Ottinger, Dean Emeritus and Co-Director of impact of law schools has molded our pro- Mr. Feerick’s remarks is on page 11.) the Center for Environmental Legal Studies, NYCLA fession, shaped the law and conditioned the The members of the Honorary Dinner Pace University School of Law; Stuart AMERICAN INN expectations of those who join our ranks.” Committee were: Judith Areen, Paul Regis Rabinowitz, President, Andrew M. Boas and (The full text of Mr. Robertson’s remarks is Dean Professor of Law, Dean Emeritus, Mark L. Claster Distinguished Professor of OF COURT on page 11.) Georgetown University Law Center; Hon. Law, Dean Emeritus, Hofstra University; Recognizing the work and dedication of Joseph Bellacosa, Professor of Law, Dean and John E. Sexton, President, Benjamin law school faculty, Mr. Feerick said, “Law Emeritus, St. John’s University School of Butler Professor of Law, Dean Emeritus, faculty engage in path-breaking scholarship Law; Barbara A. Black, George Welwood New York University. 7 and other writings that require an under- Murray Professor of Legal History, Dean standing of areas of the law in which the Emeritus, Columbia Law School; Howard A. See Page 10 for more photos practicing bar is well versed. Other faculty Glickstein, Professor of Law, Dean of the Annual Dinner January/February 2007 / New York County Lawyer 3 Notice of Meeting of the NYCLA CALENDAR OF EVENTS Events are subject to change; please check the Association’s website, Committee on Nominations www.nycla.org, for schedule changes and additions. In compliance with NYCLA By Laws conduct an open meeting to receive nomi- Article 11, Section 2, the NYCLA nation recommendations for officers and rules regarding arbitrator classification and the dig- FEBRUARY ital recording of arbitration hearings, proposed rules Committee on Nominations is hereby pro- directors on January 29, 3:30 p.m. at the SPECIAL EVENT: JUDICIAL regarding motions to dismiss, the arbitrators’ sole viding notice to the membership that it will Association. RECEPTION authority to issue subpoenas, payment of a $200 hon- Thursday, February 1 orarium to arbitrators when they issue contested sub- 5:45 PM poenas, representation of parties in arbitration and Janet Benshoof to be honored with Edith I. Spivack Award Place: NYCLA Home of Law – 14 Vesey Street mediation, and written explanations in arbitration FREE awards. A Q&A will follow the presentation. by Allison Slotnick Project for 15 years. She led national legal Honors Newly Elected, Appointed, Re-elected and movements to protect gender equality and Re-appointed State and Federal Judges MARCH Janet Benshoof, President and Founder of reproductive choices. Speaker: Assemblywoman Helene E. Weinstein, Chair of the New York State Assembly Standing SPECIAL EVENT: LIVE AUCTION the Global Justice Center and Founder of the For her internationally recognized work, Committee on Judiciary AND THIRD ANNUAL SILENT Center for Reproductive Rights, will be pre- Ms. Benshoof has received a MacArthur Special Recognition: Hon. John T. Buckley, AUCTION sented with the Edith I. Spivack Award by Foundation Fellowship and been named as one Former Presiding Justice, Appellate Division, First Wednesday, March 7 NYCLA’s Women’s Rights Committee at a the “100 Most Influential Lawyers in America” Judicial Department 5:30 PM reception on March 26 at 6:00 PM at the several times by the National Law Journal. Sponsors: Supreme Court Committee and the Place: NYCLA Home of Law – 14 Vesey Street NYCLA Home of Law. In her acceptance She taught international human rights law at her Criminal Court Judges Association Tickets: $20 RSVP: [email protected], Re: Judicial Reception remarks, she will speak about the global impact alma mater, Harvard Law School, as well as at The Live and Silent Auctions benefit NYCLA’s 2007 Summer Minority Judicial Internship Program, estab- of U.S. policies on reproductive rights. Bard College and in Burma, Thailand and Iraq. Please include your name, guests and telephone lished in 1989, which gives minority law students the Ms. Benshoof, an internation- As a student at Harvard, she founded a number. For more information, call 212-267-6646, opportunity to complement their law school career ally known human rights lawyer, women’s law association. ext. 228. with a paid summer judicial internship. has devoted her career to safe- The Edith I. Spivack Award was Sponsor: Minorities and the Law Committee guarding women’s rights. She established in 1997 to com- IN HONOR OF BLACK HISTORY RSVP: [email protected] has litigated cases across the memorate the 25th anniversary MONTH (For more information, please refer to the informa- tion below) nation as well as in the U.S. of NYCLA’s Women’s Rights IDA B. WELLS-BARNETT JUSTICE Supreme Court. As President of Committee and named in honor AWARD RECEPTION SPECIAL EVENT: EDITH I. SPIVACK the Global Justice Center, an of its founding chair. In 2005, Thursday, February 22 organization that seeks to use lit- Ms. Spivack was presented with 6:00 PM AWARD RECEPTION Tuesday, March 26 the Award. The first award was Place: NYCLA Home of Law – 14 Vesey Street igation strategies for securing 6:00 PM FREE women’s rights, Ms. Benshoof presented to New York State Place: NYCLA Home of Law – 14 Vesey Street works with female leaders of Chief Judge Judith S. Sponsors: Minorities and the Law Committee and the Metropolitan Black Bar Association FREE Honoree: Janet Benshoof, Founder of the Global Justice transitional democracies. In Kaye.Other past honorees have RSVP: [email protected], Re: Wells-Barnett Center and of the Center for Reproductive Rights August, the Center trained Janet Benshoof been: Hon. Betty Weinberg Reception Judges of the Iraqi High Tribunal Ellerin, Appellate Division, Sponsor: Women’s Rights Committee (For more information, please refer to the article on PUBLIC FORUM: THE 8TH ANNUAL on international law and gender rights. First Department; Susan B. page 3.) In 1992, Ms. Benshoof founded the Center Lindenauer, former Counsel to the President NASD LISTENS... AND SPEAKS for Reproductive Rights (formerly known as the and Attorney-in-Chief, The Legal Aid Monday, February 26 5:00 PM COMING UP IN MARCH Center for Reproductive Law and Policy), the Society; Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney; Place: NYCLA Home of Law – 14 Vesey Street first international human rights organization Hon. Karla Moskowitz, New York State FREESpeakers: Elizabeth R. Clancy, Esq., Vice LUNCHEON: NATIONAL WOMEN’S focused on protecting reproductive rights. The Supreme Court, First Judicial District; Kay President, NASD Dispute Resolution, and Director, HISTORY MONTH ANNUAL LUNCHEON advocacy group quickly gained a worldwide Crawford Murray, former General Counsel Northeast Regional Office, and Katherine M. Bayer, In March, NYCLA’s Civil Court Practice Section will pre- reputation, as it obtained consultative status to of the New York City Department of Esq., Deputy Director, Northeast Regional Office, sent its annual luncheon and pay tribute to Hon. Juanita the United Nations and launched legal projects Juvenile Justice; Kathy Rodgers, President, NASD Dispute Resolution Bing Newton, Judge, Court of Claims, Administrative Moderator: Martin L. Feinberg Judge, Criminal Court of New York City, and Deputy in over 40 countries. Ms. Benshoof retired from Legal Momentum; and Judith Vladeck, Sponsor: Arbitration and ADR Committee Chief Administrative Judge, Justice Initiatives. Hon. the organization in 2001 and is now President founder of Vladeck Waldman Elias & Co-Sponsors: Labor Relations and Employment Law Jonathan Lippman, Judge, Court of Claims and Chief Emeritus. Engelhard, PC. Committee and Securities & Exchanges Committee Administrative Judge, Office of Court Administration, Prior to founding the Center for Ms. Clancy and Ms. Bayer will discuss new initia- will present Judge Bing Newton with the award.