Recent Graduate CLE Program Classes

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1 Recent Graduate CLE Program Classes November 4, 2016

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3 Recent Graduates CLE Program ( ) Friday, November 4, 2016 Agenda 7:30am 8:00am Registration/Coffee - DAMC 8:00am 9:00am Witness Investigation (1 Skills) John Queenan, Esq. 96 Iseman Cunningham Riester & Hyde LLP 9:00am 10:00am The Innocence Project (1 Prof. Practice) Jan Stiglitz, Esq. 75 California Western School of Law 10:00am 12:00pm Local Court Practice (2 Practice Management) Hon. Peter G. Crummey 81 Senior Colonie Town Justice and Court Administrator 12:00pm 1:00pm Lunch (on your own) 1:00pm 3:00pm Commercial Real Estate Leasing (2 Prof. Practice) Joel Binstok, Esq. 81 The York Group, LLC Lease Audit Consultants 3:00pm 4:00pm Hot Topics in Employment Law: (1 Skills) Harassment/Discrimination Earl Redding, Esq. 03 Roemer Wallens Gold & Mineaux LLP 4:00pm 5:00pm Rules of Professional Conduct Relationship to (1 Ethics) Clients and the Attorneys Obligations to Follow the Rules Emily Ekland, Esq. 12 5:30pm 7:00pm Capital Region Alumni Happy Hour Recovery Room Sports Grill (next to law school)

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5 Recent Graduates CLE Program ( ) November 4, 2016 SPEAKER BIOGRAPHIES JOEL BINSTOK, ESQ. 81, founded York Consulting Associates LLC more than 15 years ago. York Consulting Associates, LLC is a real estate auditing and forensic firm that has been recouping and saving millions of dollars for such clients as Bank of America, Vivendi Universal, Bear Stearns, Harper Collins, Thomson Financial, West Publishing and Nautica. Prior to forming the firm, Mr. Binstok was a real estate and commercial lawyer. He last practiced law in the New York office of the national law firm of Gaston & Snow, representing landlords, tenants, and equity investors. In his 20 years of legal practice, Mr. Binstok has specialized in commercial real estate leasing and commercial law, becoming an expert in the drafting, interpretation and enforcement of leases. He also has extensive experience with clients in the intellectual property business. Mr. Binstok has published articles on commercial leases and lease auditing and is the author of the Operating Expense chapters in a textbook on Commercial Leasing soon to be published by the New York State Bar Association. Mr. Binstok has also published several articles on subjects such as contract due diligence, contract enforcement, real estate issues facing corporations and synthetic leases. He conducts seminars in leasing for attorney and corporate real estate executive groups such as Julien J. Studley, Grubb & Ellis, GVA Williams, the American Corporate Counsel Association, the New York State Bar Association, Gibson Dunn & Crutcher and First American Title Insurance Company. During his law practice, Mr. Binstok represented Tishman Hotel Company (a division of Tishman Realty & Construction) in various matters; was involved in the creation of the Dolphin and Swan Hotels in Disney World; and represented several other hotel owners and managers in matters involving hotel sales and acquisitions, financings and management. Mr. Binstok was the real estate chairperson of the New York Chapter of the American Corporate Counsel Association and is an active member of the Commercial Leasing Committee of the New York State Bar Association, Real Property Section, and of the Association of the Bar of The City of New York. He is a member of the CoreNet Global Corporate Real Estate Network and is an active participant in the Economic Development Committee of the New York City Chapter. He is admitted to practice law in New York and Florida. HON. PETER G. CRUMMEY 81 has served as Colonie Town Justice since January 1, He currently serves as the Court s Senior Town Justice and Court Administrator. Judge Crummey presides in one of the busiest Courts in the State of New York which handles more than 24,000 cases annually including criminal cases, vehicle and traffic cases and civil proceedings. Prior to first being elected Colonie Town Justice, Judge Crummey served in a variety of capacities including as an Albany County Legislator and Minority Leader, a Prosecutor in the Colonie and Menands Traffic Courts, an attorney for the Town of Colonie and, for thirteen years, as the attorney for the Colonie Zoning

6 Board of Appeals. Judge Crummey also maintains a practice of law in Albany and has been active in a variety of community affairs. He served as President of the Albany County Bar Association in He currently serves on the New York State Bar Association s Committee on Procedures for Judicial Discipline and previously served the State Bar as a member of the House of Delegates and on the Special Committee on Youth Courts. He routinely gives presentations at local schools and to community groups concerning the Court system. In January of 2013, Judge Crummey was presented the Distinguished Service Award from the New York State Bar Association s Law, Youth and Citizenship Committee and in May, 2013, Judge Crummey was presented with the Partner in Education Award from the Capital Region Social Studies Council at the NYSUT Headquarters in Colonie. Since 2007, Judge Crummey has hosted Benchmark, a cable television show for the Colonie Town Library, interviewing a wide variety of jurists and attorneys involved in our justice system. Judge Crummey graduated from Shaker High School, Boston College and Albany Law School. He currently serves on the Executive Committee of the National Alumni Association of Albany Law School. EMILY EKLAND, ESQ. 12, is Associate Director for the Government Law Center ( GLC ). She manages the GLC s Economic Development & Entrepreneurship Initiative bringing legal resources to small and start-up companies. Her work spans public and private community development projects. Ms. Ekland received a B.A. from Russell Sage College and graduated cum laude from Albany Law School. She joined the GLC in 2012 as a post-graduate fellow. JOHN QUEENAN, ESQ. 96, is a partner at Iseman Cunningham Riester & Hyde LLP and head of the firm s Litigation Practice Group. He primarily practices in the areas of commercial, personal injury and civil rights litigation, and criminal defense. Mr. Queenan represents and counsels individuals and businesses in the fields of business/commercial disputes, health care, accounting, licensed professions, and mobile support service industries, among others. He has handled diverse matters for clients, including a class action wage-fixing antitrust case with substantial ediscovery implications; a Title VII claim involving termination of physician practice privileges; construction disputes; Justice Center and compliance investigations; and breach of contract and professional liability defense. Mr. Queenan has also represented clients in the prosecution and defense of personal injury claims involving a pedestrian bridge collapse; highway and building design and maintenance; product liability and design defects chemical ignitions; CERCLA; and pedestrian, bicycle and motor vehicle accidents. His practice includes appearances before state and federal trial courts, appellate courts, administrative agencies (disciplinary, licensing and audit matters) and internal hearings throughout the New York State, and alternate dispute resolution formats. Before joining ICRH in 2004, he practiced with the New York City Law Department, Office of Corporation Counsel, where he initially served as a prosecutor in the Law Department s Juvenile Prosecution Unit. Mr. Queenan later served as Assistant Deputy Borough Chief in Bronx County, Designated Felony Unit Prosecutor in Queens County, and as a Deputy Borough Chief in Queens County, all in the Juvenile Prosecution Unit. During these assignments, he acted as litigation counsel in certain

7 matters for the New York City Department of Education and Department of Juvenile Justice. Mr. Queenan was also a member of the Special Federal Litigation Division of the Law Department. His professional affiliations include: National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers; American Health Lawyers Association; New York State Bar Association; Albany County Bar Association; Defense Research Institute (DRI); Professional Liability Underwriters Society (PLUS); and the New York State Academy of Trial Lawyers. He received a J.D., magna cum laude, from Albany Law School, where he was a member of the Moot Court Board and the Justinian Society, and a B.A., summa cum laude, from the State University of New York at Albany. EARL T. REDDING, ESQ. 03, is a partner with Roemer Wallens Gold & Mineaux LLP. He has worked at the law firm since June of Prior to joining the firm, Mr. Redding was an Assistant District Attorney in St. Lawrence County and a New York Assistant Attorney General in the Division of State Counsel. Mr. Redding practices primarily in the labor and employment field, specializing in day-to-day employment issues and litigation at all levels: administrative, agency, trial, and appellate. He has litigated extensively in the Appellate Divisions and argued employment matters successfully before the Second, Third, and Fourth Departments, Court of Appeals and the United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit. Mr. Redding received a B.A. from Gettysburg College in He graduated from Albany Law School in 2003, where he served on the editorial board of The Albany Law Journal of Science and Technology. PROFESSOR JAN STIGLITZ is a 1975 graduate of Albany Law School. He began his teaching career at California Western School of Law in 1980, after receiving an LL.M. from Harvard Law School. While on the faculty at California Western, Professor Stiglitz also represented numerous individuals who were appealing their criminal convictions. In 1999, Professor Stiglitz, along with Professor Justin Brooks, founded the California Innocence Project. The Project s mission is to seek the exoneration of those who have been wrongfully convicted and to effect changes in the law and in police practices which will prevent wrongful convictions. In his work as Co-Director of the Project, Professor Stiglitz has appeared in federal and state courts throughout California, including the 9 th Circuit Court of Appeals and the California Supreme Court. His work in the Project has earned him two California Lawyer of the Year Awards. Professor Stiglitz has stepped down from his position with the Project and is retiring from California Western. He is now representing some California Innocence Project exonerees in civil litigation seeking compensation for their wrongful convictions.

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