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Association (NYCLA). He is an associate compliance officer for the New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation.
Joseph N. Schneiderman
published an article, “Smokers, Dealers and Growers: The Supreme Judicial Court Hashes Out the Marijuana-Reform Ballot Initiative,” in the Boston Bar Journal in July 2014. He has an appellate practice and serves on the CPCS Criminal Appeals and Post- Conviction Panel, representing indigent clients in cases arising in Western Massachusetts.
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Robert Carroll’s stage play, The Believers, produced by The Storm Theatre, ran through November 2014 at the Morningside Heights’ Theater of the Church of Notre Dame. New York Law School hosted a staged reading of the play in February 2015. Mr. Carroll is an associate at Wolfson & Carroll, where he focuses on estate administration, real estate and Mitchell-Lama Housing Corporations, contracts, and election law. He is also the current President of Central Brooklyn
Independent Democrats. Before law school, Mr. Carroll split
his time between working/ consulting on political campaigns and acting. He is also a founding member of The Brooklyn Reform Coalition and a member of Community Board 7.
Steve Cohen published “Malpractice Lawsuits Aren’t Just About Money” in Forbes in June 2014. He is an associate at Kramer, Dillof, Livingston & Moore, a plaintiffs’ medical malpractice
law firm. He spent 35 years as a publisher and media entrepreneur —principally for Time, Scholastic, and as CEO of five digital startups —before attending law school. He is also the author of seven books— including three best-sellers—and numerous articles. He regularly writes for The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, City Journal, The Daily Beast, and Forbes.
Vanessa Craveiro was sworn in
as the assistant prosecutor for Gloucester County in October 2014. She will be tasked with handling municipal court domestic violence cases. The news was reported on NJ.com.
Alison J. Lynch published “’All His Sexless Patients’: Persons with Mental Disabilities and the
Competence to Have Sex” in The Washington Review with NYLS Professor Michael Perlin in June 2014.Shealsoco-authored“‘Toiling in the Danger and in the Morals of Despair’: Risk, Security, Danger, the Constitution, and the Clinician’s Dilemma,” in the Stanford Law & Policy Review in September 2014. She is a staff attorney for Disability Rights New York.
Jennifer Williams-Alvarez wrote “Why Celebrities Like Lindsay Lohan Are Suing Video Game Studios” in Engadget in November 2014. She is a regular contributor to the site.
Jodi Ziesemer participated in a free training event on Asylum for Children of Catholic Charities
in September 2014. She is an attorney who leads the Catholic Charities Community Services team responsible for representing newly arrived unaccompanied immigrant minors on the New York Immigration Court’s so-called “surge dockets.”
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Astrid Avedissian, Juan Chiquillo, and Luisa Lebron (Public Interest Fellows for the Safe Passage Project)
traveled with Professor Lenni Benson to make a presentation
at a training session for Justice Americorps, at the request of the Executive Office for Immigration Review of the United States Department of Justice, on remedies for immigrant youth in removal
Emily Barile, Carlee Cooper, Michelle Ippolito and Patricia Sotirakis were awarded Scholarships by WX New York Women Executives in Real Estate. The news was reported in Real Estate Weekly in June 2014 and also appeared in Capital New York.
Suzanne Bettis was featured in “Star of Queens” in the Queens Courier in November 2014. She is an Assistant District Attorney in New York and a veteran of the United States Marine Corps.
Asher Hawkins won the American Bankruptcy Institute writing contest, and his article, “Piloting Through 546’s Safe Harbors in the Wake of Lyondell, Tribune and Barclays,” was published in the ABI Journal in June 2014. He is an associate at Frank LLP in New York. •
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