On May 18, 2010, Professor Ron Colombo was quoted in the Newsday article: Suffolk to Mega winners: Pay property tax debt. Prof. Colombo discussed the difficulty that Suffolk County will face in attempting to “pierce the corporate veil” and hold the owners of a charitable corporation personally responsible for that corporation’s tax liability.

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Forcing the managers of a nonprofit group to pay off a tax debt can be tricky, said Ronald Colombo, professor of corporate and securities law at Hofstra University. He said the Morrisons' lottery winnings are "not one of the factors you would ever consider in piercing the corporate veil."

At the Immigration Law Teachers Workshop 2010, hosted by DePaul (Chicago), Dean Nora V. Demleitner was a panelist for "Clinical Design from the Perspective of Law School Administration.". Her co-panelist was Dean Kevin Johnson from UC-Davis, with Prof Sameer Ashar, Director of CUNY's clinics, serving as moderator.

Professor James Sample's new article, "Court Reform Enters the Post-Caperton Era" is now on SSRN and appears in the forthcoming joint issue published by the Drake Law Review and the American Judicature Society. In recent days, the article has been mentioned on multiple legal blogs, including the Judicial Ethics Forum, the Electionlawblog and the Legal Ethics Forum.

Commissioner Dora B. Schriro of the New York City Department of Correction addressed graduates at Hofstra Law School’s commencement ceremony on Sunday, May 16, 2010.

Commissioner Schriro was appointed to direct New York City’s 13,500 inmate jail system by Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg on September 21, 2009. Immediately prior, she had served as Special Advisor to Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano on Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Detention and Removal, and Director of the Office of Detention Policy and Planning for the Department.

Previously, Commissioner Schriro served for six years as the Director of the Arizona Department of Corrections and, from 1993 to 2001, as Director of the Missouri Department of Corrections. In each state, she was the first woman selected to lead the agency.

Watch Commissioner Schriro's speech at:
youtube.com/hofstralawschool

Professor Frank Gulino’s article, “Providing Effective Feedback
To Legal Writing Students: Practicing What We Preach,” 22 THE SECOND DRAFT 5 (No. 1 Fall 2007), was cited by Judge Gerald Lebovits in his October 2009 feature, The Legal Writer, published in the New York State Bar Association Journal. In the same feature, Judge Lebovits cited Professor Richard K. Neumann’s book, Legal Reasoning and Legal Writing: Structure, Strategy and Style 61 (4th ed. 2001). The citation is: Gerald Lebovits, The Legal Writer, [Prove] Proof It With [Revision] Re-vision – Part II, 81 N.Y. STATE BAR ASS’N J. 64 (Oct. 2009).

More recently, Professor Gulino’s article on “Providing Effective
Feedback” was quoted and cited by Professor Aida Alaka of Washburn University School of Law in her article, Phenomenology of Error in Legal Writing, 28 QUINNIPIAC L. REV. 1 (2009).