From May 13-17, Professor Barbara S. Barron was a member of a teaching team that conducted a trial advocacy course at the National Institute for Trial Advocacy in Boulder, Colorado, for the State Farm insurance company’s in-house counsel.

The subjects included witness examinations, arguments and the use of technology in the courtroom. Professor Barron lectured on impeachment skills for cross-examination.

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Julian Ku, the Maurice A. Deane Distinguished Professor of Constitutional Law, was interviewed by News 12 Long Island about the impact on U.S. consumers of President Trump’s decision to more than double tariffs on $200 billion in Chinese imports. The report first aired on May 10.

Listen to the report on the New 12 Long Island website. (Professor Ku’s comments start at about 1:20 into the report.) 

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Professor Amy R. Stein gave the presentation “Flip It! Best Practices for ‘Flipping’ the Legal Writing Classroom Effectively” at the New England Consortium of Legal Writing Teachers Annual Conference.

The conference was held at the University of Maine School of Law, in Portland, on May 2.

View the conference schedule (PDF) on the Maine Law website.

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The members of the recently graduated Class of 2019 demonstrated a deep commitment to pro bono work during their three years at Hofstra Law, collectively contributing 71,090 hours of service, or an average of 334 hours of service per student.

Of the 213 J.D. degree candidates, 55 percent engaged in pro bono work, and nearly all of these 116 students qualified for a Public Service Award, with 18 students serving over 250 hours (bronze award), 11 students over 500 hours (silver) and 83 students over 750 hours (gold).

The five students who contributed the most pro bono hours were Andielynn Walters, 2,048 hours; Elyse Sheehan, 1,772 hours; Andre Johnson, 1,483 hours; Fatima Mustafa, 1,367 hours; and Miguel Lozada, 1,335 hours.

Hofstra Law students’ pro bono work consisted of public service, performed under the supervision of a licensed attorney or faculty member, with:

• Nonprofit organizations — including Hofstra Law clinical programs — that provide legal representation to individuals or groups who are underserved, underrepresented or of limited means

• Municipal, state or federal government agencies, legislative bodies or court systems

• Attorneys providing legal services free of charge or at a significantly reduced cost

• Hofstra Law student groups that advocate on behalf of clients or provide legal education

The Public Service Awards were presented to students at a special ceremony held at the Law School at 11 a.m. on May 20, the day of Commencement.

Public Service Award Recipients | Class of 2019

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What ‘arrest’ means for the Canadians detained in China — and the epic battle over Huawei
By Gerry Shih and Emily Rauhala
The Washington Post
May 16, 2019

Excerpt:
Last week, trade talks between the United States and China appeared to collapse, leading both countries to levy additional tariffs on each other. On Wednesday, the U.S. government all but banned American companies from doing business with Huawei.

Against this backdrop, the formal arrest will almost certainly be interpreted as a political signal, said Julian Ku, a professor of law at Hofstra University. “The message is: ‘We are still mad about Meng and Huawei, and we are going to continue with our charges. We are not backing away from this,’ ” he said.

Read the full article on the Washington Post website.

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Professor Amy R. Stein gave the presentation “Contract Negotiation Skills for Women in Medicine” on May 16 at the Spring Women in Medicine Conference (SWIMC): Developing Leaders in Medicine.

The conference, which was sponsored by the Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell and the Katz Institute for Women’s Health, was held at the Zucker School of Medicine.

View more details about the SWIMC on the Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell website.

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The Maurice A. Deane School of Law held its annual Graduation Awards Ceremony on Monday, May 20. Administrators, faculty members, friends and families joined Hofstra Law graduates at the John Cranford Adams Playhouse at Hofstra University to honor their outstanding achievements as law school students.

Teacher of the Year Ronald J. Colombo, professor of law and associate dean for distance education, wished the graduates “careers and lives that, regardless of whether considered successful or not, are good, virtuous, and ultimately very, very happy.”

Student Bar Association Co-President Giuseppe Finelli shared that “one thing that Hofstra has taught me is, rather than dwell on [our] mistakes and failures, we must use those mistakes as tools for the rest of our lives,” while Student Bar Association Co-President Morgan Gieser reminded her classmates, “In times where we have seen ethical dilemmas get the best of attorneys, it is important that we stay grounded and remain vigilant in our practice of law.”

And elected Class Speaker Ahkianne Wanliss advised her fellow graduates, “No matter how much we achieve — and I expect that we will achieve amazing things — we do not try for perfection because it does not exist. Instead, we strive to be the best versions of ourselves.”

Watch the full Graduation Awards Ceremony on YouTube.

Watch commencement speaker the Honorable Loretta Lynch, former Attorney General of the United States, receive the Hofstra University Presidential Medal and deliver the commencement address on Livestream. (The introduction of Ms. Lynch starts at about 41:55 into the video.)

The following 2019 graduation awards were presented at the ceremony:

Maurice A. Deane Award
Kayley Sullivan

Distinguished Service to the School Award
Kimberly Wilkens

Outstanding Law Student Award
Kayley Sullivan

Gina Maria Escarce Memorial Scholarship
Hunter Blain

William Eric Goldberg Endowed Memorial Scholarship
Cody Lehrer

Third-Year Scholastic Achievement Award
Kayley Sullivan

The Honorable David A. Paterson Graduation Award in Public Service
Joan Howell
Marysa Linares

Pro Bono Service Award of Excellence
Shayla Ramos

Pro Bono Leadership Award
Pamela Bratton

Hofstra Law Review Alumni Writing Award
Matthew Nevola

Hofstra Labor & Employment Law Journal Writing Award
Alexander Tait

Government Law Courses
Brendan Catalano
Danielle Leavy

International Law Courses
Bari Lebowitz

Tax Law Courses
Hunter Blain

Marvin Gutter ’76 Endowed Graduate Award in Tax Law
Julia Johnson

Labor and Employment Law Courses
Jenna Dysart
Morgan Gieser
Alex Malandra

Constitutional Law Courses
Giuseppe Finelli

Tort Law Courses
Jessica Rapp

Alternative Dispute Resolution Courses
Jenna Dysart
Steven Tanen

Leon Stern Criminal Courts Bar Association of Nassau County Award
Andre Johnson

Criminal Law Courses
Matthew Nevola

New York City Trial Lawyers Alliance Award for Excellence in Trial Advocacy
Gabriella Malfi
Jaclyn Ruggirello

Ruskin Moscou Faltischek Endowed Award for Outstanding Appellate Advocacy
Alexandra Russell

Deborah Sloyer Memorial Scholarship in Trial Advocacy
Taylor Cain

Advocacy/Litigation Courses
Jaclyn Ruggirello
Rebecca Stein

Clinical Prosecution Practicum Course Award
Veronica Pareja

Clinical Courses
Bari Lebowitz and Fatima Mustafa, Asylum
Lucas Rock, Community and Economic Development
Erica Alter, Criminal Justice
Vanessa Caballero, Deportation Defense
Mary Benton and Gianna McArthur, Veterans Law
Louise Lingat, Youth Advocacy

Procedural Law Courses
Kayley Sullivan

Environmental and Natural Resources Law Courses
Sean Di Luccio

Intellectual Property Law Courses
Hunter Blain

Health Law Courses
Brendan Lopuzzo
Malkie Scher

Stephanie E. Kupferman Juvenile Justice Endowed Scholarship
Pamela Bratton
Elyse Sheehan

Family Law Courses
Kathleen Ramirez

Commercial Law Courses
Kayley Sullivan

Corporate and Securities Law Courses
Brendan Catalano
Cody Lehrer
Merisa Plavin

Bankruptcy Law Courses
Hunter Blain

Benjamin Weintraub and Alan N. Resnick Bankruptcy Law Award
Cody Lehrer

Estate Planning Law Courses
Anthony Castellano
Elizabeth Rizzo

Property Law Courses
Jaclyn Kaplan

Herman Hillman Real Estate Award
William Krause

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LI’s Cop Shop store faces New York City lawsuit
By Ken Schachter
Newsday
May 30, 2019

Excerpt:
… The legal battle centers on The Cop Shop, a Massapequa business that sells NYPD and FDNY uniforms, T-shirts, baseball caps, coffee mugs and other merchandise.

New York City’s trademark enforcers say the business and its owners, Susan and Salvatore Piccolo, are infringing the trademarks of those agencies, including the NYPD insignia. …

Hofstra University law professor Irina Manta said that the licensing of government agency trademarks potentially raises questions of favoritism toward politically connected licensees and even free speech.

“This is dangerous terrain,” she said.

Read the full article on the Newsday website.

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Professor Matthew A. Shapiro presented the paper “The Indignities of Civil Litigation” on May 30 at the Law and Society Association 2019 Annual Meeting in Washington, D.C. The theme of this year’s annual meeting was “Dignity.”

View more information about the 2019 annual meeting on the Law and Society Association website.

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Professor Linda Galler was a featured panelist at the sixth annual Private Wealth & Taxation Institute. The two-day program, held at Hofstra Law on June 5-6, was jointly sponsored by the Maurice A. Deane School of Law and Meltzer, Lippe, Goldstein & Breitstone, LLP.

The topic of Professor Galler’s panel was “Risk Management for the Tax Professional: Advising Clients Who Push the Envelope.”

View more information about the institute(PDF) on the Meltzer Lippe website.

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A Law360 article, published on May 31, highlights Maurice A. Deane School of Law commencement speaker the Honorable Loretta Lynch as one of five “all-stars” who addressed law school graduating classes across the country this spring.

The article notes that in Lynch’s address to the Hofstra Law graduates the former U.S. attorney general “underscored the need for lawyers to create their own paths — even if that means breaking from others’ guidance.”

Feature
Lynch, Pai And Other All-Stars On What Grads Need To Know
By Michele Gorman
Law360
May 31, 2019

Excerpt:
… 2019 law school commencement speakers haven’t hesitated to commend diversity and urge their future legal colleagues to embrace new opportunities amid what many referred to as challenging times. …

Lynch told the Hofstra University School of Law graduates they’re not alone in trying to find their specialties.

“I am here to tell you that you don’t have to know right now exactly what it is that you want to do. All you have to know is what kind of person you want to be,” she said on May 20. …

… she used the anecdote to leave [those] whom she called her soon-to-be colleagues with a final thought: “It’s not the title that you hold, but the people that you touch that will make the greatest difference, not just in the world but in your own life.”

Read the full article on the Law360 website.

Watch the Honorable Loretta Lynch deliver the commencement address on Livestream. (The address starts at about 46:35 into the video.)

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Hofstra Law alumnus Andrew L. Oringer ’84 is a partner and co-chair of the ERISA and Executive Compensation group at Dechert LLP and leads the firm’s national fiduciary practice in New York. A Fellow of the American College of Employee Benefits Counsel, Oringer holds leadership roles for the American Bar Association and the New York State Bar Association and is on the advisory boards for a number of leading publications covering ERISA and executive compensation. At Hofstra Law, he teaches ERISA as an adjunct professor and serves on the Alumni Association’s Career Services Committee.

How did your experience as a student at Hofstra Law prepare you for your legal career?
Well, my experience is a bit different here. I met and married my wife, a fellow student, before the beginning of the second semester. So that prepared me for everything. On the more mundane side, to me the main benefit of law school from an education perspective is that it teaches you how to think like a lawyer. The process of finding the right question is very different from that of finding the right answer. I also found the subject matter and the professors to be extremely engaging. The professors were always accessible, which to me was important. I also found the journal experience to be invaluable in terms of honing how one thinks about legal writing.

Why did you want to become an adjunct professor at Hofstra Law?
I enjoy academics, I want to give back to Hofstra Law, I enjoy my practice area, and I like interacting with students — that’s all a recipe for wanting to be an adjunct. I threw it out there for a few years, and then one year the professor that had the course was letting it go, and so the timing was right.

What has been your most rewarding experience as a professor?
My favorite experience, I think, involved a student who was clearly engaged in my class. Overall, he was a good student. In my class, however, he was spectacular. Something clicked. He was such a positive influence on the class. And his final exam, which was unlimited open book, was so good that I had to change the rules for the exam going forward.

After he graduated he went into the government in my area. I asked him whether he took my class because of a preexisting interest, and he said that he hadn’t. It was something of a spontaneous choice, and it just resonated. Once in the government, he immediately made himself known and useful in my area. Upon leaving the public sector for private practice, he got a prominent high-profile tier-one job. Maybe he would have succeeded like this had we never met, but, frankly, I really doubt it. He’s now a friend, peer, client and colleague, and the effect my class had on his life and future may be my biggest professional thrill of all in terms of my impact on others.

How else do you stay involved with the Law School, and why do you think it is important to give back?
I like giving back for its own sake. For me, there’s an unusual aspect, because of having met and married my wife in law school. But Hofstra Law’s always been good to me, and it’s a joy to help the school out. I do a lot of recruiting, and it’s truly a special thrill to be involved in a situation in which a student’s career — and therefore life — is permanently set on a certain course that might never have been available to the student but for my efforts. I’ve also served (and continue to serve) on any number of alumni committees. The mercenary aspect is that the better Hofstra Law and its students do, the better for me as a graduate, but for me that’s an ancillary benefit of the effort, not a reason to make the effort.

I host an admitted-student event and facilitate interview meetings with a certain DA office. I also work a lot with Career Services generally, and it’s been great getting to know the various deans — one of whom I had as a professor! In addition, my wife and I fund a scholarship for a worthy student, the first of which was awarded this past year. There also have clearly been situations in which my mentoring of and discussions with students in connection with their job searches have allowed them to have jobs and indeed careers (both with my firms over the years and otherwise) that they would not otherwise have had. Something more satisfying in the professional context is hard for me to imagine.

What career advice do you have for current Hofstra Law students?
If you get what you want out of the gate, that’s great. If you don’t, look for that circuitous path, that niche, towards the success you want. There’s no assurance you’ll get there, but if you stop trying, there’s assurance you won’t.

Also, get involved with the practice as such. Recently, as the chair of the New York State Bar Association Committee on Attorney Professionalism, I’ve led the successful effort to re-up the Standards of Civility for lawyers in New York. More recently, I’ve been appointed to the Association’s Task Force that’s charged with considering possibly significant changes regarding the bar exam in New York. These are satisfying and rewarding endeavors on just so many levels.

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Professor Matthew A. Shapiro presented the paper “The Indignities of Civil Litigation” on June 6 at the 20th session of the Yale/Stanford/Harvard Junior Faculty Forum, which was held at Yale Law School.

Professor Shapiro’s paper was one of only 12 papers selected for presentation through a highly competitive blind peer-review process. (Another of his papers was also selected for this year’s forum but was not presented in light of the acceptance of “The Indignities of Civil Litigation.”)

View more information about the Junior Faculty Forum on the SSRN website.

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The Hospitalist, an official publication of the Society of Hospital Medicine that reports on issues and trends in hospital medicine, published an article on May 21 spotlighting the SHAPE (Social Health Alliance to Promote Equity) program, an initiative in which the Maurice A. Deane School of Law collaborates with Northwell Health and other community partners to refer patients with unmet social and legal needs to the right resources.

Hofstra Law’s participation in the SHAPE program represents just one aspect of the growing relationship between the organizations. Through its medical-legal partnership with Northwell Health, Hofstra Law is providing direct legal services to patients in need and basic legal education to residents and medical faculty and staff, as well as developing broader advocacy campaigns.

The article, titled “Pilot Program Addresses Social Determinants of Health,” reports on a presentation about SHAPE at the Society of General Internal Medicine (SGIM) 2019 Annual Meeting, which was held on May 8-11 in Washington, D.C. The theme of the meeting was “Courage to Lead: Equity, Engagement and Advocacy in Turbulent Times.”

The presentation was made as part of the panel “Innovations in Healthcare Delivery Oral Presentations in Chronic Disease & Preventive Care.” Jane Lindahl, a research assistant at Cohen Children’s Medical Center at Northwell Health, was the lead presenter.

Read the article on the Hospitalist website.

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On June 5, Professor Barbara S. Barron gave a presentation on evidentiary issues in a hostile-environment discrimination claim under the Americans with Disabilities Act.

The presentation was part of a two-day Advanced Trial Academy for partners from the nationwide offices of the law firm Jackson Lewis.

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Professor Theo Liebmann, director of clinical programs and attorney-in-charge of the Youth Advocacy Clinic, presented at the Franklin H. Williams Judicial Commission Conference on June 13 at St. John’s University School of Law.

The conference, the theme of which was “Race, Ethnicity, and the Impact on Immigration: What Happens to the Tired, Poor and Huddled Masses?,” included speeches and presentations from, among many others, New York State Chief Judge Janet DiFiore and former Secretary of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security Jeh Johnson.

The topic of Professor Liebmann’s presentation was immigration policies and their effects on state courts.

View more information about the Franklin H. Williams Judicial Commission on the New York Unified Court System website.

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Suffolk County widens distribution of gang lists
By Rachelle Blidner
Newsday
June 30, 2019

Excerpt:
Lawyers, civil rights groups and immigrant rights groups say that, in New York, people have been falsely labeled as gang members for being from the same low-income and minority areas where known gang members live; being seen talking to gang members, even if they are students in the same high school; or wearing clothing with colors such as MS-13’s blue and white. …

Emily Torstveit Ngara, director of the Deportation Defense Clinic at Hofstra Law School, said such broad criteria lead authorities to dissect what young men and women, particularly Latinos and other people of color, are wearing and “every move they make.”

“It’s just policing every aspect of these kids’ lives and subjecting them to way more scrutiny than their peers who are white, for example,” [Torstveit] Ngara said.

Read the full article on the Newsday website.

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Professor Barbara S. Barron was the program director and lead instructor for the National Institute for Trial Advocacy deposition course conducted for Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson LLP on June 18-19 at the law firm’s main offices in New York.

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Professor Amy R. Stein presented at the Association of Legal Writing Directors 2019 Biennial Conference, the theme of which was “A Time for Transformative Leadership: Teaching and Learning.”

The conference was held May 29-31 at Suffolk University School of Law in Boston, Massachusetts.

Professor Stein’s talk, titled “Writing Wrappers and Metacognition: Teaching Students to Think about Thinking,” focused on the importance of formative assessments.

View the conference schedule (Google doc).

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Judge Gail Prudenti, dean and executive director of Hofstra Law’s Center for Children, Families and the Law and a former chief administrative judge of the New York courts, together with three other retired Court of Appeals judges, will facilitate a roundtable talk titled “Dissents, Concurrences and Collegiality” at an appellate seminar focused on the Court of Appeals and the four appellate departments.

The roundtable talk will be the closing session of the seminar, which will be held July 8-10 in Suffolk County and will be attended by nearly 60 judges. Judge Prudenti’s co-facilitators will be retired Court of Appeals Judges Carmen Beauchamp Ciparick, Susan Read and Albert Rosenblatt.

This will be the first seminar for appellate judges in more than 10 years. It was reinstated by Chief Judge Janet DiFiore, who will participate in the seminar, as will all six of the Court of Appeals associate judges.

View more details about the appellate seminar in a New York Law Journal article on Law.com.

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