Admitted
1938, Maryland and U.S. District Court, District of Maryland; 1947, District of Columbia and New York; 1949, U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York; 1976, U.S. Supreme Court
Law School
University of Maryland at Baltimore, LL.B., 1938; Hofstra University, LLD, Honoris Causa, 1980; Albany Law School of Union University, 1984
Law School Graduation Year
1984
College
Johns Hopkins University, B.S., 1936; Western State University, 1982
Memberships
The Association of the Bar of the City of New York (Chairman, Committees on Matrimonial Law, Library, Election Laws); Nassau County, New York State (Chairman, Judicial Section, Founder, Council of Judicial Associations; Member, Committee on Legislative Policy) and American (Member, Advisory Committee on Fair Trial and Free Press; Vice Chairman, Senior Lawyers Division Judiciary Committee) Bar Associations; Nassau County Lawyers Association; American Law Institute; American Judicature Society; Institute of Judicial Administration
Biographical
Omicron Delta Kappa; Order of the Coif; Scribes. Justice, Supreme Court of New York State, 1959-1972. Associate Judge, New York Court of Appeals, 1979-1986. Recipient: Hofstra University Presidential Award, 1987; Distinguished Service Medallion, Bar Association of Nassau County, 1982; St. John's Law Society Award, 1971; Long Island Press Distinguished Service Award, 1969. Chairman, Editorial Board, University of Maryland Law Review, 1937-1938. Author: Fair Trial Free Press - The Judge's View, 41 N.D.L.R. 14, 1964; Recognition of Exchange Controls After the International Monetary Fund Agreement, 62 Yale L.J. 867, 1953; The Expert Witness: Some Proposals for Change, 45 St. Johns L.R. 105, 1970; Developing Pattern Jury Instructions: The New York Experience, 73 Case & Comment 42, 1968; Zoning Procedure: A Suggestion for Revision, 34 NYSBJ 350, 1962; Trial Observations, 12 The Nassau Lawyer 3, 1965; Justice, Bureaucracy, Structure and Simplification, 42 MD LR 659, 1983; Criminal Leave Applications: The Defense Point of View, 9 The Defender, No. 1, 27, 1987; Taking an Appeal to the Court of Appeals, NYLJ 9/15, 9/18/89, P. 1, Col. 1; The Use of Cameras in Trial Court, 52 NYSBJ 631, 1980. Co-Author: with Professor Maurice Rosenberg, Questions Juries Ask: Untapped Springs of Insight, 55 Judicature 105, 1971; with Professor Stephen W. Schlissel, Child Custody: How Grasp the Nettle, 54 NYSBJ 496, 55 NYSBJ 39, 1982; Judicial Retirement Laws of the Fifty States and the District of Columbia, published by Fordham University Press, 1999. Special Counsel, Commission to Study Workmen's Compensation Administration and Costs, 1955-1958. Chairperson, Task Force on Permanency Planning for Foster Children, 1987-1991. Member: Governor's Commission on Government Integrity, 1987-1990; Permanent Commission on Justice for Children, 1988-1990. Chairman, New York Pattern Jury Instruction (Civil) Committee, 1962-1979. Chairman, National Conference of State Trial Judges, 1970-1971. President, Association of Justices
Military
Lt., USNR (retired)