Touro Law in the News

• Touro Law and UCF signed an agreement for a 3+3 accelerated law program. The new partnership was highlighted in a New York Law Journal article.  
  
• New scholarship packagse for Veteran students were noted in an article in the New York Law Journal "Law Schools Increase Financial Aid for U.S. Military Veterans."

March 2013

• Director of ProBono Thomas Maligno was quoted in a Wall Street Journal article describing residents struggles with bureaucracy since Hurricane Sandy called Sandy Stirs Legal Mess. 

 November 2012

• Professor Jonathan Ezor's article "Ethics Crash Course in the Wake of Hurricane Sandy" was published in Law Technology News.
  
• Touro Law's new storm help relief effort TLC-HEART is featured in the National Law Journal. 
  

October 2012

• Touro Law students and Professor Raful are highlighted in an article in the New York Law Journal titled "Few Exemptions Anticipated for New Bar Admission Mandate." Click here to read.
  
• Touro Law alums Karie Keyison '12 and Benjamin Tracy '12 join the New York City Law Department. Click to read the article in The New York Law Journal. 

• The New York Law Journal profiles Dean Salkin and Touro Law Center. Click here to read.
  
• Touro Law has been awarded a grant from Attorney General Schneiderman to support the work of the Mortgage Foreclosure and Bankruptcy Law Clinic. Click here to read the article in the New York Law Journal.
  
• Queens DA hires 15 new assistants, including two Touro Law graduates. Click here to read.

• Dean Salkin is featured in Long Island Business News.

• Dean Salkin began her tenure at Touro Law on July 30, 2012, as noted in Newsday.
  
• Dean Raful was quoted in LIBN's article on virtual lawyering.
  

June 2012

• Jeffrey Goodstein '97 was nominated by New York Governor Andrew Cuomo to the Court of Claims Bench. Read the article here.
  
• Tommy Galan '02 and his unique CLE program were mentioned in the ABA Journal's article on unusual CLE programs.
  

• Professor Richard Klein was quoted as an expert on wrongful confessions in the Arizona Daily Star.
  
• Professor Richard Klein was cited as a law expert in Newsday, discussing a case involving amnesty for retirees who turn themselves in for participating in disability fraud. Click here to read article.
  
• Touro Law alum Captain James Van Thach '02 was recently provided a Service Dog to assist with injuriest suffered when serving in the Iraq War. Among others, he was featured in thew New York Daily News and profiled by CBS news.
  
  
• Touro Law announced the appointment of new dean, Patricia Salkin. The announcement resulted in several stories in the press, including:
  NYLJ
  Times Union (Albany)
  Long Island Business News
  National Jurist

April 2012

• Congratulations to Harold M. Somer '83, president of the Alumni Association of Touro Law Center, who has been named Pro Bono Attorney of the Month for April 2012 by the Nassau County Bar Association. Read here.
  
• Touro Law alum Stephen Sharon '09 was interviewed on CBS as an internet safety expert, discussing banning online gaming for sex offenders. Click here.

March 2012

• Two Suffolk County District Attorney summer internships for Hispanic students from Touro Law will be funded by the Long Island Hispanic Bar Association. See video footage on Verizon Fios here.  See Newsday article here.

 February 2012

• David Flores, evening student at Touro Law and credit counselor at  GreenPath Debt Solutions, was featured on WPIX News talking about consumer debt and credit repair. See the video here.

January 2012

• Kathleen Rice '91, Nassau County District Attorney, is quoted in a Newsday  article, "DA: 2 Charged in ID Theft Tax-Return Scam."
  
• Touro Law alum Matthew Daus '92, former chairman of the New York City Taxi and Limousine Commission from 2001 to 2010, wrote an OpEd for the New York Times called "Hailing the Wrong Taxi".
  
• Touro Law alum and Nassau County District Attorney Kathleen Rice '91, who filed criminal charges against a young man who took standardized tests for others, appears in this CBS 60 Minutes piece called "The Perfect Score: Cheating on the SAT".

December 2011

• Thomas Maligno is profiled by the ABA Center for Pro Bono Exchange. Read the article here.

November 2011

• Dean Raful is quoted in the New York Law Journal article, "Majority of Law Schools Post Higher Pass Rates for July Exam."
  
• Dean Raful is quoted in an article by Thomson Reuters about the bar pass rate, "More than half of NY law schools increase bar passage rate."
  
• 3L Whitney Montgomery is featured in a National Law Journal article titled, "An Early Connection."

October 2011

• Dean Raful is quoted in an article in the New York Law Journal, "Under Plan, Lawyers Who Counsel Poor Would Get Loan Help."
  
• Touro Law Dean Lawrence Raful and Professor Myra Berman are named Educators to receive Leadership in the Law - Educator of the Year awards hosted by Long Island Business News.

September 2011

• Touro Law professor Jonathan Ezor is quoted in Fox Business article titled,"Seven Ways to Ruin Your Resume."

July 2011

• Touro Law evening student David Flores is a Certified Consumer Credit Counselor at GreenPath Debt Solutions. He was featured twice on CNN to discuss foreclosures and the housing market. View his first appearance and his second appearance on CNN.

April 2011

• Touro Law co-sponsored a conference with Fordham Law School titled "Bob Dylan and the Law". The conference has received much attention in the press including the New York Times article The Legal Side of Bob Dylan.

March 2011

• New pro-bono project by PILOT students featured in Long Island Business News article "LI Law Schools Create Youth Courts."
  
• Touro Law and Dean Raful featured in the Wall Street Journal Blog posting, "The Incredible Shrinking Law School? It's the Vision of Two Deans."
  
• Dean Lawrence Raful featured in the New York Law Journal's article "Two Deans Say They  Will Trim Entering Class"
  
• Touro Law featured in the Chronicle of Higher Education's piece, "Law Schools Revamp Their Curricula to Teach Practical Skills" (login may be required).

• Professor Brooks was featured in a New York Times piece about billing patients who sue.

January 2011

• Touro Law receives a B+ from PreLaw Magazine in their listing of Best Public Interest Law Schools

December 2010

• Assistant Dean Charlotte Taylor’s article “The Law School Admission Committee:  What They Want (and Don’t Want) from Applicants” was published in the Council on Legal Education Opportunity (CLEO) Winter/Spring 2011 magazine

September 2010

• 3L student Andrew Bernstein featured in National Jurist article

July 2010

• Alum Judge Jeffrey Arlen Spinner '87 is the subject of this article, where Professor Leif Rubinstein is also quoted. 
• Professor Rubinstein is interviewed with one of the clinic clients on NBC.