Congratulations to the 248 students who graduated with J.D. degrees at the University at Buffalo Law School’s 120th Commencement; and to the 10 who received LL.M. degrees. Ceremonies pro the Class of 2009 were held on Saturday, May 23, 2009 at UB’s Center pro the Arts. Espinosa, of Lancaster, NY, received the Max Koren Award, which honors the elder judged beside the discipline to be the choice associate of the graduating busted.
The following students received awards:
Kevin J.
This accord is supported beside a gift from M. Robert Koren, busted of 1944, and son of Max Koren. Fitzsmmons, of Albion, NY, received the John N.
Patrick E. Bennett Achievement Award, presented to the associate of the graduating busted, who, in the judgment of the discipline and the dean, has exemplified the highest standards of the declaration beside asset by dint of of scholastic attainment, superintendence and wholeheartedness to the ideals of the law credo. The accord is named in honor of John N.
Candacй M.
Bennett, busted of 1934. Jackson, of Newport News, VA, received the Dale S. Margulis Award, presented to a associate of the graduating busted who has contributed the most to the Law School and the community. Margulis, a associate of the busted of 1982, died unexpectedly in August 1982. Dale S.
To honor his prospect, his classmates, progenitors and friends established this accord. Candidates are nominated beside members of the graduating busted, and the beneficiary is selected beside the deans. Falicov, of Buffalo, NY, received the American Law Institute-American Bar Association Scholarship and Leadership Award, presented to the associate of the graduating busted who outshine represents a aggregation of lore and superintendence, the qualities embodied beside the American Law Institute and the American Bar Association.
Anna M.
Jill M. Hurley, of Cheektowaga, NY, received the American Bankruptcy Institute Medal pro Excellence in Bankruptcy, presented to effervescence up students to bone up on bankruptcy law.
Catherine B.
The medal is premised annually to a graduating devotee pro having demonstrated distinction in the bone up on of bankruptcy law. Meyers, of Webster, NY, Tara L. Short, of Amherst, NY, and Adam J.
Randy V. Tapply, of Agawam, MA, received the American Bar Association and The Bureau of National Affairs Award pro Excellence in the Study of Health Law, presented to honor loftier pure bestowal and effervescence up devotee hobby in the mead of condition law.
Clower, of Amherst, NY, Kurt R. Denniston, of Altamont, NY, and Barbara L.
Samuel S. Waal, of Bath, NY, received American Bar Association and the Bureau of National Affairs Award pro Excellence in the Study of Intellectual Property Law, presented to students who unfurl loftier pure bestowal in the mead of academician estate. Feuerstein, of Tonawanda, NY, Julia M. McCrea, of Hamburg, NY, and Anthony R.
Amy J. Reeves, of Buffalo, NY, received the American Bar Association and the Bureau of National Affairs Award pro Excellence in the Study of Labor and Employment Law, presented to students who unfurl handicapped pure bestowal in the areas of labor and employing. Kaslovsky, of Slingerlands, NY, received the Birzon Prize in Clinical Legal Studies, presented in honor of Israel and Irene Birzon, parents of Paul Birzon, loftier attorney-at-law and earlier adjunct discipline associate at the Law School, presented to a associate of the graduating busted who has demonstrated distinction in the Law School’s clinical and ass advocacy program.
Daniel E. Charles Dautch, a celebrated attorney-at-law in Buffalo pro sixty-one years, graduated from the Buffalo Law School in 1919. Dovi, of Buffalo, NY, received the Charles Dautch Award, presented to the graduating elder who has demonstrated the greatest know-how in courses, examinations and volitional examination in the law of verified estate.
He was largely respected pro his clear-cut mending activities. The accord has been endowed beside his progenitors. Bouvet, of Buffalo, NY, received the Professor Louis DelCotto Award, presented to the devotee whose pure bestowal in the reach of taxation is choice.
Stephani L.
The accord is premised in honor of Louis A. DelCotto, ‘51, a worshipped professor who taught impose law from 1961 to 1998, and developed the routine of courses in taxation taught at the Law School. Chapprakkan, of Brooklyn, NY, received the Maurice Frey Award, premised annually to that associate of the graduating busted whose pure bestowal in the reach of progenitors law is most handicapped.
Roopa R.
It is named to honor the prospect of Maurice Frey, a identifiable attorney who cared heavily closely sagacious beside adapted training and taught at the Law School pro a compute of years. He also worked tirelessly in the community to moored that our adapted routine served and protected all members of our gentry. Hurley, of Cheektowaga, NY, received the Edith and David Goldstein Award, premised pro choice bestowal in courses involving debtor-creditor and bankruptcy law.
Jill M. It is supported beside the friends and progenitors of Edith and David Goldstein. Edith graduated from the Law School in 1924.
Patrick E.
Her calmness, David, an expert practitioner in the areas of debtor-creditor and bankruptcy law, taught at the Law School from 1944 to 1969. Fitzsimmons, of Albion, NY, received the Professor Thomas E. Headrick Trees and Forest Award, premised to the devotee of corporate funds who most distinctly recognizes that a corporate practitioner needs both to conceive of the acta fully and to annoy the details absolutely troubled. Naqi, of Albany, NY, received the Judge Matthew J.
Taiymoor J.
Jasen Appellate Practice Award, presented to the graduating elder who in doing rouse and Moot Court contention has shown choice attainment in appellate advocacy. The accord is premised in honor of Judge Jasen, Class of 1939, and is supported beside his friends and earlier clerks. It is presented to the graduating elder who has charmed an important let go in the devotee community during mending and involvement in individual or more devotee organizations, and who has performed exceptionally plainly in courses in provide b impose organize and remedies.
Deborah Aloof, of Plainview, NY, received the David Kochery Award, provided beside the progenitors and friends of David Kochery, who taught at the Law School from 1953 to 1980.
Brian D. Manning, of Buffalo, NY, received the Laidlaw Law Alumni Association Award, which commemorates William Laidlaw, a worshipped professor and practitioner.
The accord is premised to the devotee who has the outshine bestowal in the reach of commercial law, as described beside the discipline, and is provided beside the Law Alumni Association. Professor Laidlaw taught on the law discipline from 1926 to 1962.
Joshua A. Dilk, of Fulton, NY, received the Professor Virginia Leary Award, premised to the devotee whose pure bestowal in the reach of taxation is choice, as recommended beside the discipline.
Laurie A. The accord is premised in prospect of Virginia Leary, a worshipped SUNY Distinguished Service Professor who taught worldwide law from 1976, and developed the routine of courses and externships in worldwide law at the Law School. Baker, of Hamburg, NY, received the Moot Evidence Award, presented pro the outshine bestowal in the reach of record as strong-willed beside the discipline. The accord is premised in honor of Welles and Caroline Moot and in keepsake of Adelbert Moot, who taught record in the founding years of UB Law School. Dudeck, of West Seneca, NY, received the Albert R.
Joshua L. Mugel Award, presented to the associate of the graduating busted who has demonstrated the greatest know-how in expected interests and unbroken planning law.
The accord is named in honor of Albert R. He taught expected interests and unbroken planning at the Law School as an adjunct professor pro from one end to the other fifty years. Mugel, Class of 1941, a overcome of the law determined of Jaeckle Fleischmann & Mugel. During his large claw in organize, he served the community with one-off account.
Brittany T.
Mullins Award, premised annually to the graduating elder demonstrating the greatest commitment to and know-how in knave law and knave ass organize skills. Akins, of Canaseraga, NY, received the Ryan J. Ryan J.
Mullins, a associate of the busted of 2005, died unexpectedly in September 2003.
Joshua L. To honor his prospect, his classmates, progenitors, friends and members of the Law School community established this accord. Dudeck, of West Seneca, NY, received the Harry A.
Rachlin Prize in Real Property Law and Real Estate Transactions, presented to law students who these days distinction in examination, clinical and pure bestowal in the areas of verified estate law, container, container funds and verified unbroken transactions as strong-willed beside the discipline and deliverance of the Law School. Rachlin, Class of 1926, who during his endless and distinguished claw was a pre-eminent intellectual heedless of the New York State Lien Law. This accord was established beside the progenitors of Harry A. Mr. Rachlin served as a lecturer and maintained an continuing hobby in the interest of UB Law students.
Adamy, of Williamsville, NY, received the Judge William J.
Yasmin W. Regan Award, premised to the associate of the graduating busted who has demonstrated the greatest know-how in estates and surrogate’s law, and who is motivated beside a exacting bound pro clear-cut mending and clear-cut interest.
The accord is named in honor of Judge William J. During his large claw in organize and on the bench, he served the community with one-off account. Regan, Class of 1938, and Erie County Surrogate from 1963 to 1981. This accord is supported from a cache donated beside friends of Judge Regan.
Mark A. Kieffer Trial Excellence Award, presented to the graduating elder whose know-how in ass advocacy has been most choice. Foti, of Williamsville, NY, received the James M.
Selection is based on bestowal in both coursework and ass competitions. The accord is named in prospect of James M.
James A. Kieffer, a nationally recognized ass attorney who practiced in Western New York. Davis, of Tonawanda, NY, Mark A. Foti, of Williamsville, NY, Eduardo V.
Levine, of Pittsford, NY, Jeremy V. Gonzalez, of Buffalo, NY, Allyson B. Murray, of Williamsville, NY, Sydney V. Probst, of East Amherst, NY, Antonio L. Smith, of Williamsville, NY, and Stefanie A.
Restaino, of Niagara Falls, NY, Marnie E. Svoran, of Pittsford, NY, were awarded the Robert J. Connelly Trial Technique Awards, presented to those students who fool the outshine bestowal recite in the doing in ass MO , as selected beside their instructors. Connelly, who was an exceptionally expert ass attorney-at-law old to his pitiable and untimely die in consider at duration 44. The accord is presented in honor of Robert J. The awards are presented beside the Erie County Trial Lawyers Association.
Ryan D.
Peterson, of Clarence, NY, received the Carlos C. Haggerty, of Williamsville, NY, received the New York State Bar Association Ethics Award, presented to a devotee selected beside the dean upon exhortation of the discipline members who give lessons in to courses in adapted licensed and licensed blame based on either the outshine written article, adjudge or other showing on the discipline of adapted licensed blame or adapted ethics or a well-built fighting or place in cure of adapted licensed blame or adapted ethics.
Gabrielle C. Alden Award.
Carlos C. The accord is presented to the elder who made the greatest contribution to the Buffalo Law Review, as certain beside the Law Review members. Alden was dean of the Law School from 1904-1936 and Professor of Law from 1904-1955.
Keith A. Gorgos, of Binghamton, NY, received the Justice Philip Halpern Award. The Halpern accord is premised to a graduating elder pro distinction in poem on the Law Review. Prior to up to the trivial a rightfulness of the New York State Supreme Court, Justice Halpern was dean of the Law School and a associate of the discipline pro 27 years. The champ is strong-willed beside the Law Review members.
The Order of Barristers is a nationwide oralists honors gentry. Each year, ten students are elected to membership in the design.
The members encompass students who fool shown wholeheartedness and who fool excelled in the subterfuges of articulated advocacy and mending to the Moot Court Board. The newly elected members of the Order of Barristers encompass Victoria Choi, of Brooklyn, NY, Darice L. Dinsmore, of Buffalo, NY, Kevin J.
Hecker, of Clifton Park, NY, Matthew J. Espinosa, of Lancaster, NY, Michael J. Kibler, of South Wales, NY, Katherine L. McCrink, of Yonkers, NY, Chad E. Probst, of East Amherst, NY, and Kimberly L. Murray, of Medina, NY, Sydney V.
Sweet, of Buffalo, NY.
Pamela S. Dolores Denman Award, presented beside the WNY Chapter of the Women’s Bar Association to a graduating elder who is a custodial well-spring, with inclination premised to lone parents. Schaller, of Amherst, NY, received the Justice M. The accord is intended to counterbalance the costs of daycare and other youngster rearing expenses during the bum bone up on duration.
This accord commemorates the Honorable M. Justice Denman was a lone well-spring while in law credo, and regardless managed to graduate as busted valedictorian. Dolores Denman, a associate of the busted of 1965, who was the beginning chain to be named presiding rightfulness of the New York State Supreme Court Appellate Division.
Rebecca L. Town, of Buffalo, NY, and Anna M. Reynolds Award, established beside the extend aboard of directors and rod of the Legal Aid Bureau of Buffalo, Inc. Falicov, of Buffalo, NY, received the Linda S. to honor the prospect of Ms.
Reynolds, a 1983 graduate of the Law School, who served as kingpin attorney of the Legal Aid Bureau pro more than a decade old to her die in consider in 1999.
Steven A. It is awarded to a graduating elder who, in judgment of the discipline, has demonstrated an handicapped commitment to equanimous rightfulness pro the bumbling.
Marshall, of Lafayette, NY, received the Milton Kaplan Award in Law and Social Development, which honors a associate of the graduating busted who outshine demonstrates handicapped commitment to the bone up on of law and popular spread in an American, comparative, or worldwide in the ballpark of. Milton Kaplan, who taught from 1965 to 1986, was admired pro his altruistic wholeheartedness to students and colleagues and pro his discerning regardless admirably unassuming lore.
Henderson O. Throughout his claw, he was committed to the shaping of law to make amends for the conditions of clear-cut passion in city communities encompassing the superb. Brathwaite II, of Brooklyn NY, Candacй M. Jackson, of Newport News, VA, and Jodi-Kay Williams, of Rosedale, NY, received the Minority Bar Association of Western New York Award, presented to members of the graduating busted who, in the judgment of the Minority Bar Association and the Law School, exemplifies euphoric standards of the declaration beside asset by dint of of scholastic attainment and superintendence, and who demonstrates a meritorious commitment to effectuating changes within the adapted routine that addresses the needs of the minority community.
Fusco, of Canandaigua, NY, received the Women Lawyers of Western New York Award, a immature accord pro a chain associate of the graduating busted whose bestowal in pure and Law School activities in the areas of children’s rights and/or progenitors passion is handicapped.
Emily R. It is premised beside the Women Lawyers of Western New York.
Amy L.
Jodi-Kay E. Goerss, of Williamsville, NY, received the National Association of Women Lawyers Award, presented to the choice law graduate who has shown loftier pure attainment and has contributed to the advancement of women in gentry.
Williams, of Rosedale, NY, received the UB Law Alumni Association’s GOLD Group Award, premised annually to a graduating law devotee who has demonstrated choice superintendence skills in advancing the function of the Law School and enhancing its noted pro distinction in adapted training. The winner’s pre-eminence is inscribed on the GOLD Group guerdon, which is displayed in the Law Library.
This quids in in was posted essentially on Monday, June 8th, 2009 at 2:48 pm and is filed below intimate. You can annoy any responses to this quids in in during the RSS 2.0 cater. The beneficiary also receives a commemorative guerdon.
Responses are currently closed, but you can trackback from your own position.
UB Law Homepage:
Visit the University at Buffalo Law School website.