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Nov. 4 - Chicago Alumni Reception
Nov. 10 - The Military Community's Legal Issues: Looking beyond Veteran's Day
Nov. 19 - Washington, DC Alumni Reception at the Kenyan Embassy
Jan. 29 - Jaeckle Award Luncheon in NYC
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October 2009
On Beyond Race: In Mitchell Lecture, civil rights icon says post-racial society remains elusive
Payton, president and director-counsel of the NAACP's Legal Defense and Education Fund, delivered the Law School's signature Mitchell Lecture on Oct. 22 in O'Brian Hall, speaking to a near-capacity crowd of students, faculty, staff and the public.
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Law School Report
UB Law School's Incoming Class Among the Best Ever
This semester UB Law welcomes one of its most accomplished and selective classes in its 120-year history, a group of students that Law School Dean Makau W. Mutua called "a singular accomplishment" for UB Law and the foundation on which to make UB one of the finest law schools in the country. [Read More / Slideshow of Student Orientation Party / Class of 2012 Profile]
The Skills to Succeed: New legal skills program will produce practice-ready attorneys
The Law School is reinventing its programs designed to teach practical lawyering skills, with the aim of turning out new graduates who are practice-ready on Day One to file a brief, cross-examine a witness or make a special pleading. [Read More]
Trial Advocacy Program Ramps Up
As the Law School continues to refine its legal skills program under the direction of Professor Charles Patrick Ewing, the school is consolidating the way it teaches one of the most important of those skills: trial advocacy.
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Legal Research and Writing Teachers Draw on Their Own Experience for Presentation at Inaugural Legal Writing Conference
"Law school is a great place," say Johanna Oreskovic '97 and Christine Bartholomew, both instructors in the Research and Writing program. "It invites high levels of academic discourse, encourages the exchange of new ideas and aims to train the lawyers of tomorrow. Unfortunately, few of these characteristics exist in most law firms."
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A Unique Program Draws Two International Domestic Violence Fellows to UB Law
Two outstanding young women's rights lawyers working on issues of domestic violence, Andrijana Covic from Serbia, and Gulnaz Naamatova from Kyrgyzstan, are studying at UB Law for the fall 2009 semester in the International Domestic Violence Scholarship program. A signature undertaking at UB Law School, the program is unique in the law school milieu nationally and internationally.
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Law Faculty
William Greiner Retires After 42 Years at UB
Former University at Buffalo president, provost and longtime Law School professor William R. Greiner, who earned the unofficial title of quintessential university citizen, has retired for health reasons after 42 years of serving the university he loved.
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Tort Reform is Not Enough to Improve Nation's Health Care, Says Law Researcher
Tort reform will not cut medical costs and improve health care unless the government addresses the proliferation of unnecessary medical errors that victimize hundreds of thousands of patients every year, says Associate Professor Ruqaiijah Yearby. [Read More]
Will Judicial Judgment Change Cyberspace? Associate Professor Mark Bartholomew warns of the real life implications of a current legal trend
A disturbing trend in these complicated copyright and trademark cases is a judicial tendency to borrow precedents from criminal law, explains Associate Professor Mark Bartholomew. [Read More]
Alumni
Vikki L. Pryor '78 Named one of the 50 Most Powerful Women in New York by Crain's New York Business
Vikki Pryor's arrival as SBLI USA president and CEO in 1999 resulted in an immediate turnaround for the mutual life insurance company based in New York City. [Read More]
Feroleto '82 Appointed Administrative Judge of 8th Judicial District
As State Supreme Court Justice Paula L. Feroleto '82 on August 31 became only the second woman to take control of the Buffalo-based Eighth Judicial District, she was praised by state court officials for her dedication and intelligence. [Read More]
Smiles! Photos from our most recent Alumni events:
The Rochester Chapter gathered for an informal networking event at Murphy’s Law in downtown Rochester on October 29. [View Slideshow]
The UB Law GOLD Group gathered for an informal networking event at Scarlett Restaurant in downtown Buffalo on October 22. [View Slideshow]
The Atlanta Chapter held a reception hosted by Brent Wilson '76. Alumni and friends gathered at the One Ninety One Club in downtown Atlanta on October 14th. [View Slideshow]
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