Doyle named NYSBA president-elect

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New York State Bar Association last week named Vincent E. Doyle III a partner of the Buffalo law firm of Connors & Vilardo LLP, as president-elect of the 77,000-member organization.

Doyle was elected by the House of Delegates, NYSBA’s decision and policy-making body and assumes the title of “president-elect” June 1.

He will begin his one-year term as president on June 1, 2011.

Current President-Elect Stephen P. Younger of New York’s Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP will assume the office of president on June 1.

A resident of Elma, Doyle is a trial and appellate attorney whose practice includes civil and white collar criminal litigation, and representation of professionals in disciplinary proceedings, as well as advising on legal ethics matters.

He received his undergraduate degree from Canisius College and earned his law degree from the University at Buffalo Law School, magna cum laude.

Doyle served for four years as a member-at-large of the NYSBA’s Executive Committee and on the House of Delegates and previously led the Criminal Justice Section, the Special Committee to Ensure Quality of Mandated Representation and the Task Force to Review Terrorism Legislation. He also is a member of the Trial Lawyers Section, the Committee on Legislative Policy, Membership Committee, the Committee to Review Judicial Nominations, the Committee on the Tort System, and the Task Force on Wrongful Convictions.

Doyle was appointed by retired Chief Judge Judith S. Kaye to the Commission on the Jury, a blue-ribbon panel charged with formulating ways to improve the jury system in New York. He previously served on the Grand Jury Project, also by appointment by Judge Kaye. He also is a member of the New York State Judicial Screening Panel for the Fourth Department.