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Plaque dedicated for Matt Schnirel ’11 Outstanding faculty • Professors Guyora Binder and James Gardner joined Dean Makau Mutua
in being named SUNY Distinguished Professors, the highest academic rank in the SUNY system. • Four new faculty hires with practice backgrounds will teach in the key curricular areas of civil procedure, civil litigation, criminal law and procedure, Constitutional law and labor law.We welcome Professors Matthew Steilen,Anthony O’Rourke, Samantha Barbas and Matthew Dimick. • Two new LAWR instructors with exceptional analysis, research and writing credentials and experience were hired this year, Monica Wallace and Bernadette Klor, expanding the number of instructors in the department to nine. Improved facility creates the right first impression • Renovations on the first floor create a
sense of professionalism and prestige upon entering O’Brian Hall.A staffed information area will provide details to students and visitors about events and programs at the Law School. • Technology improvements through a new student information portal will gather all student e-mails and calendars in one place. Flat-screen televisions provide daily updates on the Law School to students and faculty. • A newly refurbished student lounge offers hard-working law students an area that is comfortable and pleasing to regroup, share information with their colleagues and prepare for their upcoming tasks. To make a gift to the Annual Fund, please contact Lucy Dadd ’04 at (716) 645-2113 or ladadd@buffalo.edu. Or go online to www.law.buffalo.edu/giving to make your gift there.
Melissa Overbeck ’11,right,first recipient of the Matthew J.Schnirel Memorial Scholarship,joins Kevin Schnirel,his father,and Lauren Schilling,Matt’s girlfriend,at the unveiling of a plaque in Matt Schnirel’s memory at O’Brian Hall. Schnirel,who was practicing with the small Buffalo law firm Doran & Murphy,was killed along with Michael Doran ’82 in the crash of their small plane in Ohio during a business trip in 2009.Schnirel’s family and friends established the scholarship in his honor. The eldest of four children,Schnirel earned his undergraduate degree from the University at Albany.He worked his way through SUNY Buffalo Law as a law clerk at Doran & Murphy,graduating in 2008,and was hired there as an associate after graduation,practicing civil litigation.