Admitted
1985, New York; 1987, U.S. District Court, Northern District of New York; 1990, U.S. Court of Appeals, Second Circuit; 1999, U.S. Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit; 2001, U.S. Supreme Court, U.S. District Court, Western District of New York and U.S. Court
Law School
Syracuse University, J.D., summa cum laude, 1984
Law School Graduation Year
1984
College
St. Lawrence University, B.A., summa cum laude, 1981
Memberships
Onondaga County, New York State (Member, Committee on Courts of Appellate Jurisdiction; Insurance Coverage Committee) and American (Vice Chair and 2d Circuit Newsletter Editor, TIPS Appellate Advocacy Committee; Council of Appellate Lawyers) Bar Associations; New York State Trial Lawyers Association.
Biographical
Order of the Coif. President, Justinian Honor Society. Editor-in-Chief, Syracuse Law Review, 1983-1984. Law Clerk to the Honorable Richard D. Simons, Associate Judge, New York Court of Appeals, 1984-1986. Author: Emissions Trading and Banking Under Clean Air Act, 34 Syracuse L. Rev. 803 (1983); Insurance Law, Survey of New York Law, 47 Syracuse L. Rev. 601 (1997); Insurance Law, Survey of New York Law, 48 Syracuse L. Rev. 723 (1998); New York Appellate Practice (Matthew Bender), Chapter 3 — Threshold Jurisdictional Considerations, Chapter 11 — Court of Appeals Practice, Chapter 7 — Preparing the Appellate Brief, Chapter 8 — Argument of the Appeal; Recent Developments in Federal Appellate Advocacy 35 Tort & Ins. L.J. 219 (2000).