Gatto, a third-year law student at Albany Law School, and his team member, Donald Manley of Illion, N.Y., won second place in the competition. The Donna Jo Morse Negotiations Competition provides the opportunity for law students to develop and practice negotiation skills.
Students work in pairs and negotiate against another pair of students acting as attorneys.
Each pair of attorneys represents an assigned client and is provided with both common and confidential facts. The confidential facts represent the concerns of the client to be addressed on behalf of the client in negotiation. The final round of the competition was judged by the Honorable James Conboy, a 1979 graduate of Albany Law School.