He was honored with the Faculty Award for Outstanding Contribution to the Law School, the Robert J. Connelly Award for Excellence in the Trial Practice Course, was champion of the Charles S. Desmond Moot Court Competition and served on the Moot Court Board. For the Buffalo Law Review, he served as note and comment editor and chairman of the Casenote Competition Committee. He was recently appointed by Chief Judge Judith S. Kaye to serve on the Grand Jury Project, a blue ribbon panel charged with formulating ways to improve the state's grand jury process. He was also appointed by the state's chief administrative judge to serve on the Advisory Committee on Criminal Law and Procedure. These groups publish material dealing with their fields of expertise, much of which is not available through commercial publishers.
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