Suzi Morales

On November 7, 2024, the Council on Library & Information Resources (CLIR) announced the award of a $300,000 grant to a library preservation collaboration. Now in its fifth year, the Navajo Nation Department of Water Resources Library Preservation Project (NNDWRLPP) is digitizing 8,250 print resources from the NNDWR library. Over the next three years, the grant will enable the project to digitize a total of approximately 1,500 documents, which represents around 10% of the collection.

The University of Iowa College of Law clinical program was Kate Melloy Goettel’s (07JD) first introduction to immigration law. She went on to work in the field for more than 17 years at both the Department of Justice and in the nonprofit legal world. The clinic “really set me on the trajectory I went on in terms of my career,” she recalled.
As she worked in the clinic under the guidance of now-retired Professor Barbara Schwartz, Goettel remembers thinking something else: “Being a clinical law professor would be a cool job.”
Turns out she was right.

In June 2024, Neil Getnick ’78 received the Southern Christian Leadership Council of Southern California’s Beloved Community Award for his work in negotiating a union contract with workers at the famed Los Angeles hotel Chateau Marmont.
In some ways, the agreement was a departure from the norm for Getnick, who says he is “not a labor lawyer.” In other meaningful ways, the award represents a continuation of a commitment to social justice dating back to his time at Cornell Law School.

For David Gelles ’76 and Matthew Gelles ’10, business is in their blood and so is Syracuse Orange. The father/son duo leads NEFCO, the construction supply company that David founded in 1981. And while they have much in common — like growing up in an entrepreneurial family with strong Syracuse connections — they each bring a different approach that has enabled their family-owned business to thrive over decades.

As a Syracuse student, Gregory Lettieri ’04 was a member of the track team. The consumer studies major and retail management minor in the Whitman School ran the 200-meter dash. Twice as long as the all-out sprint of the 100 meters, the 200-meter dash requires a combination of speed, strategy and discipline. It was the perfect event for Lettieri.
Today, Lettieri is the co-founder and CEO of Recycle Track Systems (RTS). The former runner combines the work ethic from his days as an athlete with the lessons in business strategy he learned in the Whitman School to building novel solutions.

Sean Boyle’s life revolves around relationships. Whether he’s talking about work, family or mentoring Syracuse student-athletes, it’s clear that he thrives on human connection.
“People are first in everything I’ve ever done,” says Boyle, who graduated in 2001 with a bachelor’s degree in marketing management from the Whitman School, played defense on the Syracuse men’s soccer team and today is vice president and general manager of global oncology at medical device giant BD.

Long before legal education as we know it today, new lawyers learned the craft by apprenticeships with seasoned practitioners. Much has changed since those days, but the importance of learning from those who practice remains the same. Meet a few of the Wake Forest Law adjunct professors of law who come to campus every week from their offices at law firms, banks, health systems, and more to help current students learn by doing.

In the first precedential Trademark Trial and Appeal Board decision on the merits of an expungement proceeding under the Trademark Modernization Act of 2020 (TMA), the TTAB affirmed the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office’s decisions to cancel two registrations because the registrant had not shown that the mark was used for the listed goods.
The matter is a cautionary tale for trademark applicants.

Ajay and Debbie Nagpal recently pledged a major donation to create the Nagpal Family Faculty Fellowship, which will support a faculty fellow in the Martin J. Whitman School of Management.
The Nagpals’ gift is part of the Forever Orange Faculty Excellence Program. The program was launched in 2022 to accelerate the creation of endowments for professorships, chairs and faculty support funds. It is part of the $1.5 billion Forever Orange: The Campaign for Syracuse University.