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of Albany Law School and teaches in the area of civil rights litigation. Stewart’s practice has an emphasis on state and federal litigation including civil and criminal matters, employee and labor matters, discrimination and civil rights violations and municipal law.
Andrew S. Turret, of Cheshire,
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CLASS AGENT:
CLASS AGENT:
Jon A. Dorf
William J. McCann, Jr.
Dorf, Karlen & Stolzar, LLP Mamaroneck, N.Y. jdorf@dorflaw.com From the class agent:
New York State Board of Elections Albany, N.Y. wmccann@elections.state.ny.us
Kathleen Resnick Arnold of
Michael J. Masino of Fairport,
Albany is employed by New York State Office of the Attorney General in Albany.
N.Y., will be inducted into the JPMorgan Chase Scholarship Basketball Tournament Hall of Fame. Masino, a guard from Hobert College, was regarded as the Statesmen’s finest player during their 26 years of tournament participation. Masino is a partner at the law firm of Harris Beach PLLC in Pittsford, N.Y.
John Burke Doar of West
Hartford, Conn., writes that he is the Vice-President of Sales and Marketing at Trumpf, Inc. in Farmington, Conn. Heather Nowicki recently
received her M.B.A. from the University at Albany, after traveling to Argentina in October 2004 to study the country’s peso crisis of 2002. She studied in the part-time program while working for New York State Comptroller’s Office, where she served as counsel to New York’s 529 College Savings Program. Frank C. Sarratori of Troy, N.Y., writes that in May of 2004 he assumed the position of senior vice-president and general counsel for Pioneer Savings Bank. David R. Juneau has joined
the Albany, N.Y., law firm of McNamee Lochner Titus & Williams P.C. as a shareholder and head of the firm’s real estate department. McNamee Lochner Titus & Williams P.C. has recently merged The Juneau Law Firm into its practice.
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Conn., has been appointed the managing attorney of Liberty Mutual Group’s New Haven, Conn., field litigation office, now known as the Law Offices of Turret and Brennan. Andrew joined Liberty Mutual as a trial attorney in 2000.
Terri Jo Conrad Regan has
joined Marvin and Company, P.C. in Latham, N.Y., as a manager in its tax department. 1992 CLASS AGENTS:
Joseph P. Eriole
Veneziano & Associates Armonk, N.Y. jpe1@venezianox.com David Fernandez
Emmet, Marvin & Martin LLP New York, N.Y. dfernandez@emmetmarvin.com James G. Cavoli has joined the
New York office of the international law firm Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy LLP as of counsel in the litigation group. Robert P. Coan has joined the
Schenectady, N.Y., law firm Parisi & Saccocio PLLC as an attorney. The firm has changed
P R O F I L E
Kendall ’95 Moves From Courtroom to FOX Newsroom By Nicole Soucy After nine years as a corporate litigator, Megyn Kendall ’95 moved from the courtroom to the newsroom. In 2004, Kendall made her debut as FOX News Channel’s general assignment correspondent, reporting on historic stories such as the retirement of Justice Sandra Day O’Connor from the U.S. Supreme Court and the confirmation hearings of both Chief Justice John Roberts and Judge Samuel A. Alito. Before joining FOX, Kendall served as a legal and general assignment reporter for Washington, D.C., ABC News affiliate WJLA-TV. During her tenure at WJLA, Kendall covered national and local cases as well as legal issues, including the rape shield law, Megan’s law, and the juvenile death penalty. For as long as she could remember, Kendall wanted to be a journalist. “I went to Syracuse University for my undergraduate education, and from there I thought I would pursue a career in broadcasting. But once I got to college I was drawn to political science, and soon my focus shifted to a legal career. Before I knew it, I was a litigator.” While attending Albany Law School, Kendall put her journalism skills to work as editor of the Albany Law Review. After graduating, Kendall joined Bickel & Brewer in Chicago, and then joined Jones Day, for whom she worked in New York, Chicago and Washington, D.C. “It was a great ride—I tried cases in state and federal court, argued before the federal courts of appeal, traveled extensively for depositions and hearings and random legal dog-fights—but ultimately, I was ready for a change,” says Kendall. Once Kendall decided to make a career change, she read everything she could get her hands on about journalism, television reporting and writing for TV news. She practiced law during the day and took journalism classes at night at a local college in Chicago. A friend in the television business helped her make a resume tape. “When my husband and I moved to Washington, D.C., a short time later, I walked into the offices of the ABC affiliate and told the vice president of news who I was and why he should hire me. The next thing I knew, I had a job,” says Kendall. She spent part of her week working at WJLA-TV and the other part at Jones Day, until deciding to make the full-time leap to broadcasting. Today, instead of interviewing clients, Kendall is busy interviewing politicians and other newsmakers. She says her most memorable interview was with someone not on the front pages of any paper, but with a man whose son was killed in Iraq while trying to stop a homicide bomber from barreling into his base camp. “He looked at me so hopefully, wanting so badly for me to understand his son. That interview broke my heart, but also inspired me.”