WNY Syracuse alumni honor SNI President Porter
By Daily Record Staff
POSTED: May 21, 2012
Tags: Robert Odawi Porter, Seneca Nation of Indians, Syracuse alumni
Syracuse University’s Western New York Alumni Association on Sunday honored Seneca Nation President Robert Odawi Porter with a distinguished alumnus award for a local graduate. Porter graduated from Syracuse with a Bachelor of Arts degree in political science and economics and then received his juris doctor from Harvard Law School in 1989. “Receiving an honor [...]
Harvard Law School graduate sues school over plagiarism accusations 
By Dolan Media Newswires
POSTED: May 21, 2012
Tags: graduate, Harvard Law School, plagiarism
Like a lot of young lawyers these days, Megon Walker is out of work. But what makes her stint with unemployment different than most is that the Ohio native claims her alma mater, Harvard Law School, is to blame. Life was looking good for Walker in 2009. With just months to go before graduation, the [...]
NY school budgets within tax cap fare better
By The Associated Press
POSTED: May 16, 2012
Tags: approval, school budgets, tax cap
BUFFALO — Voters in New York state appear to have approved virtually every school budget put before them that didn’t raise taxes beyond new limits set by the state. Budgets that would have overridden the tax cap to preserve staff and programs didn’t fare as well. Unofficial results gathered by the state School Boards Association [...]
Sotomayor tells NYU graduates to dream big
By The Associated Press
POSTED: May 16, 2012
Tags: graduation, Justice Sonia Sotomayor, NYU
NEW YORK — U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor came home to the Bronx Wednesday for New York University’s commencement ceremony at Yankee Stadium, marveling at the circumstances leading to her return. “This is awesome,” Sotomayor told the 8,000 graduates in purple robes cheering from the stands behind home plate. Sotomayor, who grew up in [...]
UB TCIE celebrates 25th anniversary
By Daily Record Staff
POSTED: May 10, 2012
Tags: business assistance, SUNY Buffalo, TCIE
SUNY Buffalo TCIE is celebrating 25 years of improving the local economy by connecting companies with the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences resources. Officially launched in 1987 in a storage room in Bell Hall on the North Campus as The Center for Industrial Effectiveness, UB TCIE is now housed at Baird Research Park and [...]
Harvard Law dean highlights SUNY Buffalo Law commencement
By Daily Record Staff
POSTED: May 9, 2012
Tags: commencement, Harvard Law dean, Martha Minow, speaker, SUNY Buffalo Law School
Campaigning for president in 2008, then-Sen. Barack Obama was asked why he had chosen a career in public service rather than corporate law. “When I was at Harvard Law School,” he replied, “I had a teacher who changed my life — Martha Minow.” That teacher — now dean of Harvard Law — will be the [...]
Bar exam results posted
By Daily Record Staff
POSTED: May 8, 2012
Tags: ABA, bar exam, graduates
Grading has been completed for the February 2012 bar examination, as announced last week by the state Board of Law Examiners. The board examined 4,011 candidates during the two days of testing on Feb. 27 and 28. Graduates of law schools accredited by the American Bar Association who took the bar examination for the [...]
SUNY’s head trustee gets law school tour
By Daily Record Staff
POSTED: May 3, 2012
Tags: board of trustees, SUNY Buffalo Law School
New York state’s public law school recently entertained a visitor with deep roots in public service. H. Carl McCall, chairman of the State University of New York board of trustees, toured SUNY Buffalo Law School Wednesday, meeting with Dean Makau W. Mutua who told him about significant recent developments that have moved the school toward [...]
Hofstra law student wins bar foundation fellowship
By Daily Record Staff
POSTED: May 1, 2012
Tags: fellowship, Hofstra student, New York Bar Foundation
Jonathan Riddix, a law student at the Maurice A. Deane School of Law at Hofstra University, is the 2012 recipient of the Commercial and Federal Litigation Section Minority Summer Fellowship, The New York Bar Foundation announced today. As the recipient of the $6,000 fellowship, Riddix will work this summer in the chambers of New York [...]
Pollution Prevention Institute adds programs
By Todd Etshman
POSTED: April 30, 2012
Tags: environmental conservation, Pollution Prevention Institute, RIT
Joseph Martens, Department of Environmental Conservation commissioner, and Anahita Williamson, New York State Pollution Prevention Institute’s (NYSP2I) director, announced that two new programs have been added to the NYSP2I at Rochester Institute of Technology to help businesses market and develop green technology for the next two years. The DEC provided $1.6 million from the state [...]
County to consider cyberbullying legislation
By Eric Walter
POSTED: April 30, 2012
Tags: cyberbullying legislation, Monroe County
The Monroe County Legislature will consider a new law that could authorize fines of up to $1,000 or a year in jail for those found guilty of cyberbullying. The bill, which cleared the legislature’s Agenda/Charter Committee earlier this month, will go before the full legislature at their May 8 meeting. The fact that bullying is [...]
EEOC adds transgender to protected list
By Todd Etshman
POSTED: April 30, 2012
Tags: EEOC, protected list, transgender rights
Lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender groups are praising the recent Equal Employment Opportunity Commission decision in Macy v. Holder (appeal no. 0120120821), to extend Title VII employment discrimination protection to transgender individuals. “Applying Title VII in this manner does not create a new ‘class’ of people covered under Title VII,” Acting Executive Officer Bernadette B. [...]
