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There was aninteresting mo-ment at the Mon-roe County BarAssociation in-stallation dinnerlast month whenmembers of theYoung LawyersSection stood onthe stage with the50-year MCBAmember class.

One thing was obvious: The face of law(and lawyers) is ever changing.

Of course we know that already, but tosee a visual representation of how theRochester legal community has evolvedover the past half a century was quitecompelling. It stands to reason that eachgroup of Up & Coming Attorneys recog-nized year to year by The Daily Recordalso provides a glimpse of the changingdynamic within our legal community.There are different backgrounds, differ-ent paths that led each of our award re-cipients to a career in law. Each story isunique, and each attorney will have asubstantial impact on the community heor she serves.

It is important to recognize the tal-ent and tireless dedication of those at-torneys in our legal community whoalready have distinguished themselvesfrom their peers early in their career.As you can see from the group we arehonoring this year, it takes more thanjust a solid resumé and work experi-

ence to be considered an Up & Com-ing Attorney. It also takes more than aselfless commitment to the profession,an incomparable work ethic and tire-less devotion — it also takes a net-work of colleagues and supporters whohelp to shine a light on such outstand-ing accomplishments.

As you read through the profiles ofthe 2009 class of Up & Coming Attor-neys, think about how the legal profes-sion has evolved and changed, asrepresented by the individuals wehonor here. Remember, too, that the at-torneys we recognize this year likelywill play a significant role in shapingour legal landscape in the years tocome. They will be the leaders in theirrespective fields of law, they will be avital part of the local bar associationsand, most certainly, they will be rolemodels for their colleagues.

On behalf of The Daily Record, I ex-tend my sincere congratulations to thisyear’s recipients. Your talent, dedica-tion and enthusiasm have made youstand out among your peers. Your ef-forts, in a relatively short period oftime, have contributed significantly tothe legal community.

Keep up the good work!

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Attorney Karlee Bolaños believesin the beauty of her dreams, andin working hard to achieve them.

She has saved Monroe County millionsof dollars by renegotiating health carecontracts with the public service unions.

She started the immigration law prac-tice at her law firm, Harris Beach PLLC,and once helped a young Indian mangain permanent citizen status in less thana year.

Bolaños is recognized as one of the toplabor and employment negotiators in theregion. She recently became a partner atHarris Beach, which also appointed herco-chairwoman of a new practice groupfocusing on municipal industry.

Bolaños attributes her success to thesupport of her family and colleagues. Shegrew up in the City of Rochester andwent law school because she and her fi-ance, Costa Rican-American Alvaro Bo-laños, did not think they could havechildren, she said. They married in Oc-tober 1998, during Bolaños’s first year atthe University at Buffalo Law School andjust in time to secure her husband’sgreen card to stay in the United States.

A year later, when on-campus recruit-ing began for the all-important second-year summer internship, Bolaños waseight months pregnant. All of her inter-viewers danced around the subject —except the representative from HarrisBeach, she recalled.

“He said, ‘Oh, my God, you’re preg-nant!’ And after that, he gave me a nor-mal interview. That made me want towork there,” Bolaños said.

Bolaños, who had earned top gradesand made the law review, received an in-ternship at the firm.

She gave birth during the winter breakand returned to school in January.

“I always tell first year law studentsanything’s possible if you put your mindto it,” Bolaños said. “I had my first childover the Christmas vacation. So I figure,if you can do that, you can do anything.”

As a first-year employment law associ-ate at Harris Beach, Bolaños startedfielding calls about immigration law. Sheapproached James Spitz, who led her

practice group at the time. With Spitz’sapproval, she went to work with HilaryGuthrie, director of business develop-ment. The firm sent Bolaños to trainingcourses all over the United States and,three years later, Bolaños was presentinga program herself, on the intersection be-tween immigration and employment law.

“I was scared,” she said. “And itturned out to be quite a success.”

She is particularly proud of helpingAjay Pasapuletti, an owner of theRochester-based company NanoArk Cor-por., gain permanent resident status inthe United States.

Pasapuletti was then working on apatent application for technology he de-veloped as a student at Rochester Insti-tute of Technology. His micro storagetechnology could replace microfilm andmicrofiche, Bolaños said.

But due to the backlog of immigrationapplications, most Indian nationals mustwait 10 to 12 years to obtain permanentresidency, Bolaños said.

“Ajay could have gone to Canada orback to India, and we in Monroe Countywould have lost that talent,” Bolañossaid.

She took the extra time to file a so-called “extraordinary ability petition,”even though such petitions are rarelygranted.

“We worked really hard to put together agood petition. I thought it would be ex-traordinary if we could have this kind ofbusiness in this community,” Bolaños said.Their success was gratifying, she said.

Two years ago Bolaños helped recruitseasoned immigration attorney RussellRoberts to Harris Beach. Since then, shehas focused on her first passion — laborand employment law.

“She’s certainly grown in both thelabor and educational institutions area,from assisting me in things like dismissalproceedings or negotiations ... to whereshe is handling those now on her own,”CEO James Spitz said. “She’s stepped upto be a full partner of this firm and she’san excellent attorney with not only greatlegal skills but good common sense.”

Bolaños represents several area schooldistricts in addition to Monroe County,Spitz said.

“In these difficult times I think she

brings a good voice as representative ofthe employer, and I think that’s where theskills and the [common sense] come in.”

Spitz praised Bolaños’s work in nego-tiating difficult labor issues, includingdisciplinary actions, saying that sheearns the respect of both her client andthe other side.

She will lead the new municipal in-dustry team with Patrick Malgieri.

“I’m not a political person, but I’m re-ally interested in the community. And asa lawyer I think it’s important that we dowork that has a benefit that goes beyondour wallets,” Bolaños said.

In her spare time, Bolaños serves onthe board of directors of the YWCA ofRochester and Monroe County. She hasvolunteered at Saint’s Place of St. LouisChurch and helped that group obtain agovernment grant to establish a day carecenter for refugee children. She recentlyjoined the board of the Catholic Courier.

But her family has grown along withher practice and Bolaños said her pri-mary volunteer activities are for thePTSA in her children’s Pittsford elemen-tary school. She juggles appointmentsand brings home assignments when nec-essary, to be part of her children’s lives.

“Sometimes, you know what, I have tostay up all night working. ... I don’t wantthem to have a mom that’s not involvedwith what they’re doing,” Bolaños said.

After 12 years of marriage and fourchildren, Bolaños said her husband isstill her primary support and inspiration.

“He came from nothing. He went toschool with no shoes on. Watching him, Ithink, I don’t dare not work hard,” Bo-laños said. “There’s definitely an Amer-ican dream for people — I think

sometimes Americans forget about it. Butmy husband … he works so hard, and Ithink it’s because he’s always had thatdream.”

Alvaro Bolaños owns and operates AlBolaños Construction Inc. with his sonChristopher, 22.

Bolaños said it had been her dream tobecome a partner at Harris Beach.What’s next?

“I hope that I can help that firm con-tinue to grow … that I continue to be aleader there and in the community,” Bo-laños said.

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J.D.University at Buffalo School of Law (2001)

AdmittedNew York State(2002)

MemberAmerican ImmigrationLawyers AssociationNew York State Bar AssociationMonroe County Bar Association

AwardsRochester Women’s Network Up and Coming BusinessWomen (2006)

C.V. at a glance

Amy Coté thought she had her careerpath figured out. An animal lover,she was studying to become a

wildlife veterinarian in Wyoming. But onething stood in her way.

“Second organic chemistry was some-thing I had to work really, really hard in todo well in,” she said.

That’s when Coté, with the encouragementof her parents and professors, started recon-sidering her talents, specifically in readingand writing, to find a new career goal.

By all accounts from her peers, shemade the right move. Coté is now an asso-ciate attorney and risk manager forRochester-Genesee Regional Transporta-tion Authority.

“It’s nice to be recognized for the quality ofwork you provide every day when you striveso hard for continuous improvement and

contributions to the community,” she said ofreceiving one of this year’s Up & Coming At-torney awards.

Coté was nominated by Greta K. Kolcon,an attorney with Woods Oviatt Gilman LLP.

“Amy is an outstanding member of thecommunity, both in terms of her profes-sional and her civic contributions,” Kol-con wrote in her nomination letter.

Coté took a proactive approach to learn-ing her field when she decided to becomean attorney.

“I spoke to every attorney I could find… and said, ‘If I’m considering this be-cause this is what everyone is telling me Ishould be pursuing, what kind of sugges-tions do you have?’ and they immediatelytold me to get back to New York and getsomething in English or writing, so I couldlearn the things they don’t teach you in lawschool, so I did.”

Coté, a Rochester native, earned herbachelor’s degree in writing and German

language before she enrolled at the Uni-versity at Buffalo to study law.

She worked at Boylan, Brown, Code,Vigdor & Wilson LLP and Gallo & Iaco-vangelo LLP before landing in her currentrole in 2005. She was the first attorneyhired there.

Her job has taken on new duties duringher time at RGRTA. She handles the man-agement of self-insured, self-administeredworkers’ compensation program; manage-ment of self-insured, self-administered no-fault affairs and management of litigationdefense, including assigned outside counsel.

Coté restructured RGRTA’s workers’compensation program by identifying andrecruiting the workers’ compensationclaims manager. Since taking over the pro-gram, the program has seen a 19 percentreduction in the average cost per claim, a59 percent reduction in the number of losttime claims filed annually, a 43 percent,or $2.5 million dollar reduction in the pro-gram’s annual cost, and a 50 percent or$2.1 million dollar reduction in the futurecost of workers’ compensation claims.

In 2006, Coté helped found theHONOR Foundation, a nonprofit thatgenerates funding for individuals whomay not otherwise be able to pay the farefor paratransit services through RGRTA.

Coté also helped to create RGRTA’sADA coalition. Made up of more than 40transit properties across the country, thecoalition provided a joint comment to theFederal Transit Authority in response toits proposed changes that would have af-fected persons with disabilities.

Coté also serves on the board of direc-tors for the Greater Rochester Associa-tion for Women Attorneys and has servedon a number of its committees, including

its Judicial Evaluation Committee, whichissues judicial candidates’ ratings to ed-ucate voters.

Through it all, Coté has become con-vinced she found the right career.

“This is my forte, to analyze and putpuzzles back together and rip them apartand find new ways to put them togetherand meet the clients’ needs,” she said.“That’s something I’m good at, or better atthan other things.”

She’s also found a way to maintain herlove of animals. Coté provides pro bonoservices to the Rochester Birding Associ-ation, which promotes the research andeducation of bird habits, habitat andpreservation.

“It is really nice to be able to con-tribute to the RBA,” she said. “It’s anice way for me to sort of meet that need,and they’re a great group of people. Theydo so much.”

Just like Coté.

By COLLEEN M. FARRELLDaily Record Reporter

At Boylan Brown, our core value is our ability to help our clients achieve

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Our compassion for others, dedication to the Rochester community, and

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C.V. at a glance

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LaMarr Jackson credits her parentsfor laying the foundation to hersuccess.

She’s just as proud of them, she said,as they are of her.

“My parents worked hard, raised theirfamily and set good examples for me andmy niece and anyone else as to what youcan do and I guess, as my family wouldsay, ‘We don’t expect anything less fromyou.’”

Jackson has been named an Up &Coming Attorney, a recognition shecalled “overwhelming.”

“Peers know the hard work that goesinto being an attorney and it is a greatrecognition and I appreciate it,” she said.

She joined Harris, Chesworth, O’Brien,

Johnstone, Welch & Leone LLP in 2007.Her practice is centered on matrimo-nial/family law and criminal law. Shealso is a hearing examiner for the cityand an arbitrator for the Rochester CitySmall Claims Court. She has taught lawfor over 15 years.

Jackson credits a number of mentorsfor helping her choose her profession andhone her craft.

It began with Lloyd Hurst, a close fam-ily friend whom she considers an uncle.He was the first African-American inRochester to open a practice in 1953.

“I saw what he did, so there was alwaysa feeling of perhaps wanting to do it, butother things came along,” she said.

Then one day, New York State SupremeCourt Judge Kenneth Fisher, who Jacksonworked closely with in the county’s law de-partment, suggested she go to law school.

Jackson ran the idea by Jean McK-

elvey, a professor and one of the foundersof the Cornell School of Industrial LaborRelations.

“Perfect timing,” she remembers McK-elvey telling her. The law school’s formerdean was in her office, and Jackson methim.

“I have been extremely fortunate tohave good people around me who havebeen unselfish,” Jackson said, pointingto her parents, Edward and Sylvia Jack-son, and her mentors.

Before that, she spent most of her ca-reer teaching at area colleges. She beganat St. John Fisher College, where she wasthe first African-American tenure trackmember.

“As times changed and thingschanged, I then decided to go into prac-tice,” she said.

She was admitted to the bar in 1999.Monroe County Court Judge Alex R.

Renzi was instrumental when she startedher practice, she said.

She joined Harris, Chesworth in 2007as the first African-American femalepartner at a major area law firm. DonChesworth, managing partner, has knownJackson since she worked as the Affir-mative Action Minority Business Coordi-nator for Monroe County in the 1970sand 1980s.

Jackson is a great lawyer and an evenbetter person, Chesworth said, citing“her ability to deal with people and hersensitivity to people’s issues,” he said.

“She has a background in labor law aswell as education so she’s got a veryrounded history,” he said.

“The areas I work in are not alwayseasy,” she said.

Despite her busy schedule, Jackson



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C.V. at a glanceJ.D. University at Buffalo School of Law (1992)

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Greater Rochester Association for WomenAttorneysFourth Department AttorneyGrievance Committee, Seventh Judicial District

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We congratulate our colleague Jeremy Wolk and the rest of the 2009 Up & Coming attorneys.

Giving back is a virtune that was in-stilled in Rashondra Jackson as achild, she recalled recently.

The Buffalo native thought about be-coming either an attorney or a teacher. Shesurmised that both professions would allowher to serve her community.

Years later, Jackson has found a way tomerge both of her childhood aspirations.

An attorney for the Rochester City SchoolDistrict, she is going to teach a graduatecourse at Rochester Institute of Technol-ogy this fall.

“It’s the best of both worlds,” she said.“It’s interesting that it came full circle, thatI work for a school district and this fall I’mworking at RIT.”

Jackson is being recognized for her com-munity involvement. She’s been named anUp & Coming Attorney by The DailyRecord.

“I expect to see Ms. Jackson’s namementioned many times in the future as atrailblazer for up and coming attorneys,”Hon. Stephen T. miller, Acting MonroeCounty Court Judge, wrote in his letter ofsupport.

“It’s astounding to know that peers rec-ognize the hard work that I try to do,” shesaid.

In addition to her day job as assistantcounsel, which she started in February,Jackson is involved with a number of or-ganizations. She is a board member ofAction for a Better Community and theSouthwest Area Neighborhood group Shealso is president of the Rochester BlackBar Association, a post she held lastyear, too. Her tenure has been enjoyable,she said.

“You meet lots of people in the com-munity,” Jackson said. “You can get in-volved with community organizations andthe membership — they really pushedme. They’re phenomenal.”

Some weeks are filled with meetingsnearly every night of the week, but Jack-son said she wouldn’t have it any otherway.

“My personal motto is always lift asyou climb, which basically means to giveback, to bring someone else along,” shesaid.

Supporters of Jackson’s nominationcited her commitment to city youth.

“Ms. Jackson is a true role model fortoday’s youth and everyone else as well,”Sheila A.Gaddis, executie director ofVolunteer Legal Services Project of Mon-roe County, Inc., wrote in her nominationletter. “Her drive for change and im-provement is impressive. The legal com-munity is a much better place with Ms.Jackson’s presence.”

Jackson frequently gives motivational

speeches to youth at area churches. Jack-son also mentors young girls on careeropportunities, social skills and etiquette.

“For me, I think it’s important thatAfrican-American young people seeyoung African-American professionals to



Rashondra M. Jackson

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J.D. University at BuffaloSchool of Law (2002)

AdmittedNew York State (2003)U.S. District Court forthe Eastern, Southernand Western Districts of New York

MemberNational Bar AssociationNew York State Bar AssociationMonroe County Bar AssociationRochester Black Bar Association

AwardsRochester BusinessJournal Forty Under40 honoree (2008)Community ServiceAward, Delta SigmaTheta Sorority, Inc.,Rochester AlumnaeChapter (2008)

See R. JACKSON page 12

Aside from studying law at the Uni-versity of Buffalo, Tara R. John-son has spent her life working

and giving back in her community. Johnson splits her time as legal coun-

sel for Excellus Health Plan Inc. and asa dedicated volunteer with a number ofarea organizations.

“Just to be able to be that example,just to rep my city with pride” is whatmotivates her, she said.

For her work, Johnson has been namedan Up & Coming Attorney by The DailyRecord. The recognition is a great honor,she said.

“You hear all the lawyer jokes, and sothere’s not a lot of public appreciation forattorneys, so whenever there’s a positivelight shined upon you, that just makes itall worthwhile.”

Recently, Johnson was selected as a

Fellow into America’s Health InsurancePlan Foundation’s Minority ManagementDevelopment Program.

Recognition, though, is not what drivesher. The example set by her family does.

“I have younger sisters and I try to bea role model to them, as well as my kids,”she said. “I just treasure giving back anddoing as much as I can to show my ap-preciation for the help that I receivedand try to pull someone else along likesomeone did for me.”

The Rochester native worked for theMonroe County District Attorney’s Officefor four years before joining Excellus in2007.

“[As a prosecutor] for four years, I hadthe opportunity to give back to my com-munity. That’s how I looked at it,” she said.“I continue to do that here at Excellus.”

“I love working right in the area whereI was raised.”

Johnson said she knew at a young agethat she would become an attorney. Rel-

atives told her since she loved to debate,she’d make a fine one, she recalls. Acousin, who eventually became a judge,inspired her even more.

“I figured, ‘Okay, I’m going to be alawyer, too.’ And I literally just ran withthat and it was great because it gave mesomething to focus on,” she said. “Imapped out a course for myself and formy life based around that end result ofbecoming a lawyer so I never strayedaway from that.”

Her family encouraged her too. Anaunt told her to have a back-up plan justin case, so Johnson studied English,planning to become a teacher if lawschool didn’t work out. When she’d comehome to Rochester, sick or burnt out, hermom would remind her how much shewanted to be a lawyer, Johnson said.

“That gave me comfort and just gaveme that goal, so then I felt like, ‘I can’tback away,’” she said.

Johnson volunteers with SojournerHouse and has assisted in voter registra-tion drives sponsored by the RochesterBlack Bar Association and the DeltaSigma Theta Sorority, Inc.

She’s also active in the GreaterRochester Association for Women Attor-neys.

“Within GRAWA’s circles, Ms. Johnsoncontinues to impress fellow GRAWAleaders with her natural leadership styleand her ability to graciously argue apoint or propose a well-conceived idea,”wrote Heidi Schult Gregory, GRAWApresident, in her nomination letter.

“She is a rising legal star with a com-mitment to the community,” she wrote.

One recent commitment was withHabitat for Humanity. Johnson called it avery rewarding experience.

“For years my parents didn’t own ahome — we rented — so I know the joythat my mom had when she owned herfirst home, so I just kept thinking aboutthat as we worked on that house,” John-son said. “Then to be able to come backonce the house was complete for the ded-ication ceremony and providing the onelady with the keys — that was the best.”

She also hopes to inspire youth. “I love when I’ll meet a younger per-

son and they ask, ‘What do you do?’ andI say, ‘I’m a lawyer’ and then I tell themI went to Marshall High School and theireyes light up,” Johnson said. “‘I went tocity schools, I went to public school. If Ican do it, you can do it.’”


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Congratulations to

Karlee S. Bolaños ’01

LaMarr J. Jackson ’92

Rashondra M.Jackson ’02

Tara R. Johnson ’02

and

Devin L. Palmer ’01

The Rochester Chapter of the

UB Law Alumni Association

is proud of the outstanding achievements

of our fellow graduates


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C.V. at a glance

When Devin Lawton Palmer wasgrowing up in rural LivingstonCounty, law school was never re-

ally on his radar. No one in his family had gone to college.

But Devin liked history and, with the helpof his high school teachers, he applied toSUNY at Geneseo.

A couple of years later, as a college jun-ior majoring in history, Palmer wonderedwhat it would be like to practice law — sohe created a clerkship for himself with ajudge in the area.

After his internship with LivingstonCounty Court Judge Ronald A. Cicoria,Palmer knew he wanted to be a lawyer. But

he could not have imagined what his prac-tice would focus on.

As a student at the University at BuffaloSchool of Law, Palmer became so over-whelmed in his bankruptcy law course thathe threw the book against the wall andswore he would never look at the codeagain.

Several months later, when he joined thelaw firm of Boylan, Brown, Code, Vigdor &Wilson LLP in the fall of 2001, he landed inthe firm’s bankruptcy department — andhe’s grateful for that decision, he said re-cently.

“Bruce Lawrence kind of took me underhis wing. He’s a pillar of the bankruptcycommunity and he’s mentored me everystep of the way,” Palmer said.

Lawrence said he hears a lot of compli-

ments about Palmer’s work.“He’s really an exceptional writer, and

for a litigator, he not only marshals argu-ments well, and is very scholarly, but healso uses a little humor — and that is veryeffective,” Lawrence said. “I turn over allof my bankruptcy trustee litigation to him,and I can be confident that he’s going torun with it and do a good job.”

Palmer’s tenure at the firm has beenmarked with legal and professional suc-cesses, and he describes the bankruptcybar itself as “just phenomenal.”

“It’s kind of a close-knit group. You workwith a lot of the same attorneys, and get toknow them,” Palmer said. “And [WesternDistrict of New York] Judge [John] Ninfois a nice guy and he’s very pleasant to dealwith, respects all the attorneys.”

A few years ago Palmer was recognizedby the Monroe County Bar Associationwith one of its first Rochester EmergingBar Leader (REBL) awards. Since thenPalmer, 33, has lectured on bankruptcytopics at several professional conferencesand wrote two articles for The DailyRecord.

“If you don’t stutter your way through …you get asked back,” Palmer said modestlyof his repeat speaking engagements at theannual Western New York BankruptcyConference.

Palmer heads his firm’s collections de-partment and handles commercial litiga-tion and bankruptcies.

“I’m proud of helping both creditors andworking with distressed individuals or dis-tressed companies and trying to find a wayto keep them around, keep them open. Onthe flip side I work with a lot of creditors,protecting their rights within a [restructur-

ing],” Palmer said. “Whether it’s an indi-vidual or a corporation, working with themto try to get them through it is rewarding.”

He participates in the MCBA’s VolunteerLegal Services Program and is BoylanBrown’s United Way representative.

Palmer also enjoys his new role on theboard of the Cornhill Navigation Society,which owns and operates the Sam Patch &Mary Jamison tour boats on the ErieCanal. The former history major said heparticularly appreciates the group’s mis-sion of preserving Rochester’s waterways.



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C.V. at a glanceSee PALMER page 12

J.D.University at Buffalo LawSchool (2001)

AdmittedNew York State (2002)U.S. Bankruptcy Court,Western District of New YorkU.S. District Court, Western District of New York

MemberMonroe County Bar AssociationNew York State Bar Association

AwardsRochester Emerging Bar Leader (REBL)

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Jodie Ryan, a litigation associate atPhillips Lytle LLP, prides herself onthe balance and variety she has

achieved in her life and law practice.Fresh out of Albany Law School, her ca-

reer got off to a fast start when she was sentto a pre-trial conference on her second dayof work at her previous firm in Albany.

“Although I was scared to death… I wasintrigued that the partners had enoughconfidence in me to send me,” Ryan said.

She wanted to become a lawyer sinceher junior year in high school, when herclass acted out a trial scene from FyodorDostoevsky’s “Crime and Punishment.”

The Caledonia native did insurance de-fense work for five years in Albany beforecoming home to Rochester. She still loveslitigation.

“It’s diverse — it exposes you to differ-ent areas of the law,” Ryan said of her lit-igation practice. “I do evictions, I doasbestos work, I do some lead paint litiga-tion. It allows you to learn all differenttypes of law … and I get to argue. I guessthe word isn’t argue — I like to advocatefor my client or my position.”

It shows.In one employment law case, Ryan had

the plaintiff’s 13 causes of action dis-missed pursuant to CPLR 3211(a)(7) andCPLR 3016. Bilinski v. Sutherland, Ind.No. 2007-8198.

In another case, Ryan won partial sum-mary judgment in a case regarding misap-propriation of mortgage funds, breach ofcontract, punitive damages and retaliation.Livecchi v. HSBC, Ind. No. 2007/14992.

She has argued several cases before theAppellate Division, Fourth Department,including Passero v. Siciliano, a contractdispute she handled for the VolunteerLegal Services Project.

Ryan donated more than 125 hours onthe Passero case and received the 2007NYSBA President’s Choice Pro Bono Serv-ice Award, Seventh Judicial District, forher efforts.

“It’s worthwhile to help those that obvi-ously don’t have the money to retain an at-torney,” Ryan said. “You getself-gratification out of it — and I just gota new client referred to me last week fromone of the pro bono people I’ve assisted.”

She said she aims to do three or four probono matters a year.

“You have to balance your pro bono timewith your billing requirements that yourfirm has, amongst all the other things thathappen in a given day,” Ryan said.

She also finds time to volunteer with

Lawyers for Learning at School 29, whereshe tutors a student once a week.

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C.V. at a glanceJ.D.Albany Law School (2000)

AdmittedNew York State Bar (2001)

U.S. District Court, Northern and Western Districts of New York

U.S. Court of Appeals, for the Second Circuit

U.S. Bankruptcy Court, Western District of New York

MemberAmerican Bar AssociationNew York State Bar AssociationMonroe County Bar AssociationGreater Rochester Association of Women AttorneysRochester Women’s Network

AwardsNYSBA President’sChoice Pro Bono ServiceAward, Seventh Judicial District (2007)

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Christian Valentino admits he was re-luctant to join the legal profession.

He was campaigning for the bench be-fore he left grade school. (For his father,that is.) He was good at it, too: StateSupreme Court Justice Joseph D.Valentino first won a seat on the City Court— with a little help from his family — in1983.

But although he literally grew up at ajudge’s knee, the 30-something attorneydoes not claim to have all the answers.

And Valentino, who was actively in-volved in successful campaigns for JusticeStephen Lindley and state legislator Vin-

cent Esposito, and who is now running hisbrother Joseph Valentino’s campaign fortown court justice, said he has no interestin a public life for himself.

He has been a litigation and estates as-sociate at Woods Oviatt Gilman LLP sincehe graduated from law school in 2000, andhe hopes to remain there, he told TheDaily Record.

His early exposure to the law made himthink twice about a legal career, he said.

“My dad’s a judge and my brother Joewas going to law school at the time. Iwanted to make sure I was going [to lawschool] because that’s what I wanted to do,not because all my family was doing it,”Valentino said in a recent interview.

He played varsity soccer for four yearsat the State University of New York at

Geneseo, then worked for two years as apost-closing supervisor for attorney BrucePeters, in Pittsford.

“Anytime there was a problem withsomething that happened years ago, I wascalled. It was sort of an introduction intohow to keep clients happy,” he said.

He excelled at the University of DaytonSchool of Law, where he became editor-in-chief of the law review.

“I think I took law school more seriouslythan college,” Valentino said. He earnedinternships at the Monroe County DistrictAttorney’s Office and Woods OviattGilman.

“Working at a large law firm, that’s alearning experience in and of itself,”Valentino said. He emphasized the impor-tance of communication and balancing theexpectations of clients, partners and oth-ers within the firm.

Providing good legal work is not enough,Valentino said: You also have to establishrelationships with people in the commu-nity.

Over the years Valentino has been in-volved with several community activities.He has coached the Mercy High SchoolMock Trial Team for the past three yearsand been president of the Valentino UnitedSoccer Club since 1993.

He served on the Monroe County BarAssociation’s nominating committee andwas social chairman of the Young Lawyerssection.

He recently was appointed to the SUNYGeneseo College Council, which serves asan advisory board to his alma mater, thestate University at Geneseo.

After his initial reluctance to join theprofession, Valentino is enjoying his suc-cess.

On a recent afternoon, he explained de-

lightedly how he successfully won a$100,000 insurance settlement for a phys-ically impaired man who was hit by a car.The insurance company had offered theman half that amount. The client, suspi-cious, went to someone he trusted — hisbanker at HSBC — who happened to be afriend of Valentino’s. A few weeks later,after Valentino served the insurer with alegal complaint, it paid the maximumamount available on the policy.

He also has had several successful casesin estates litigation. But even when hedoesn’t win, Valentino tries to snatch vic-tory from the jaws of defeat.

“As long as you’ve established trust,you usually can have a successful rela-tionship with the client,” Valentino said.



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In the scant 18 months since JeremyWolk moved home to Rochester after adecade in New York City, he has made

more inroads in the community than somepeople make in a lifetime.

When Wolk left Rochester to attendIthaca College more than 15 years ago, hedid not know whether he ever would comeback.

He went on to law school at Hofstra Uni-versity and, after working briefly for a bou-tique firm, answered an online ad for anin-house position with iVillage toward theend of the Internet boom.

“I’m a little self-proclaimed ‘vidiot’ — I’dalways been interested in computers,” Wolksaid recently. He started at iVillage as an as-sistant general counsel and took the helm afew years later as general counsel and sen-ior vice president, helping to steer the com-

pany through some wild fluctuations in themedia business.

“There were points where we were con-sidering whether the company might not bea bankruptcy candidate, and there wereother times that we went and raised about$90 million in securities,” Wolk said. “Inever knew what challenge was waiting forme when I walked in the door.”

After helping to negotiate iVillage’smerger with NBC Universal through a $600million deal, Wolk found himself at a cross-roads.

“Rochester’s always been home,” he said.Rather than stay in a high-powered positionat NBC, he chose to move back to WesternNew York, to enjoy extended family and abetter quality of life.

“Rochester offers a unique level of cul-ture that you don’t find in most cities of sim-ilar size,” he said. “It offers an overall goodquality of life and an opportunity to live yourlife, and not just work it.”

Wolk joined Nixon Peabody LLP’s

Rochester office in late 2007 and hit theground running.

In the past 18 months he joined theboards of the Monroe Community CollegeFoundation, the Louis S. and Molly B. WolkFoundation and the Jewish Community Cen-ter, and an advisory committee to the boardof directors of Temple B’rith Kodesh.

He was recognized by the New York StateBar Association for providing more than 80hours of pro bono service in 2008, and hehas already exceeded Nixon Peabody’s 60-hour pro bono target for 2009, according tothe law firm.

He also lectures to area small businessowners and entrepreneurs about businessstructure, protecting intellectual propertyand contract formation through the WesternNew York Entrepreneurial Assistance Pro-gram sponsored by the Buffalo EconomicRenaissance Corp.

“I don’t like to be bored, and I like to havemy hands in a number of things,” Wolk said.

He is also passionate about the future ofhis hometown.

“There is desire to have growth in theRochester area and to move beyond the pil-lars of yesteryear and to look at tomorrowand run straight at it,” Wolk said. MCC andthe Greater Rochester Enterprise Inc. “getme fired up because I think they assist withwhat the Rochester of tomorrow will be.”

Nixon partner Lori B. Green called Wolk’sdedication to the community impressive andhis legal work exceptional.

“He’s … willing to work very hard and dowhatever’s necessary to provide what we callexceptional client service,” Green said. Hehas worked on corporate transactions formajor clients including Energy East, Kodakand Xerox, and recently pulled an all-nighter working with Green on an acquisi-tion for a large public company.

“He has a maturity about him,” Greensaid. “I think he’s really well positioned tobe a significant contributor to [the firm] and[the community] over the long term.”

Wolk the Rochester-booster would likenothing better. In the meantime, Wolk saidhe enjoys living in the Cobb’s Hill area withhis wife, Melanie Wolk, an attorney at Gold-berg Segalla LLP. and exploring the city’scultural offerings.

“The whole music scene here is reallyunique,” said Wolk, who used to playguitar, mandolin, harmonica in GreenwichVillage. The Rochester Jazz Festivaldemonstrates the city’s appeal to diversemusical tastes, said Wolk, who attendedthe festival earlier this month to hear thegroup Papa Grows Funk.

“I just think it’s a fantastic place to live,”Wolk said.



Jeremy Wolk

C.V. at a glanceJ.D./MBAHofstra University School of Law (1998)


MemberAmerican Bar AssociationNew York State Bar AssociationMonroe County Bar Association

AwardsNYSBA Empire StateCounsel (2008)

makes time to give back in the commu-nity. She’s involved with the United Wayof Greater Rochester, League of WomenVoters, School of the Arts, Delta SigmaTheta Sorority and Links Inc. She is an

active member of Trinity EmmanuelPresbyterian Church.

Giving back “is important because Icome from a family that can trace its her-itage five generations in the area, and it’salways been stressed that to whom muchis given much is expected in return,” Jack-son said. “My family has always been in-

volved in nonprofits, community groups,and church activities, because we believethat if you live in a community, you shouldtry to make it a better community.”

She also does it for her niece, who sheraised.

“I do it because I want her to see andunderstand that being involved where

you live is very important.” Community service helps her career,

too. “The bottom line is when someone wants

to have legal representation, they want thebest that they can afford,” she said. “Andthey look not just to the legal ability but toyour reputation in the community.”

rather than chained to a desk. She oftentravels to meet with her clients and admitsto being addicted to her Blackberry.

“Rochester is so friendly. You have agreat bench, a great bar — I think peopleshould utilize all the relationships theymake,” Ryan said.

She encourages younger attorneys tonetwork within their firms, too.

“If you have a question, don’t be afraidto get up and [your senior partners], go aska senior associate. The only stupid ques-tion is the question you don’t ask — if youdon’t ask, you don’t know,” she said.

Her busy life does generate some stress,Ryan acknowledged. She relieves sometension by scrap booking. She once had ascrap booking business, “Picture Perfect,”

but dropped it because it became too time-consuming.

Her husband, Donald, and stepsonDevon offer balance, Ryan said. Donald isa plumber with Kennedy Mechanical Inc.and they live in the small community ofWalworth.

“I listen to stories about copper pipesand … it’s a nice break” from legal jargon,Ryan said. They also go fishing for North-

ern Pike and Large Mouth Bass at her par-ents’ cottage on Silver Lake, and play a lotof poker. Devon got her interested in sev-eral reality T.V. shows.

Shows like “Big Brother” and “Sur-vivor” involve people from “all differentwalks of life. And it’s not always the mostattractive or the brightest person who winsthat game. It’s the person who has the bestsurvival skills.”

For the past seven years, Palmer andhis wife, Karen, have lived on MulberryStreet, near Highland Park. He said theyread the Dr. Seuss book (“To Think That

It Happened on Mulberry Street”) totheir two children, Jackson, 4, and Molly,six months.

Palmer said he hopes to become apartner at Boylan, Brown.

When he interviews Buffalo LawSchool students for the firm he encour-ages them to ask pointed questions about

quality of life issues.“Because I really enjoy the people I’m

working with, and I’ve really groupedmyself in with … very giving, sharingpeople. So I’ve never felt unpreparedgoing into court or representing a client.They’ve made a point of letting me mas-ter my field.”

A few years ago his high school in Yorkinvited him to be the keynote speaker atits student awards ceremony.

“You just have this sense of inferiority,or … being insecure maybe, coming fromout there,” Palmer said. He told the stu-dents, “If I can do it, any one of you guyscan do it.”


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“As long as you’re upfront and honestwith people, … even where someonewould say it was a loss, there are some-times small victories.”

He advises young attorneys in private

practice “to never stop learning aboutboth the practice of law and the businessof law … I think you have to be good atboth. Or at least keep learning in both.”

In nominating Valentino as an “Up &Coming Attorney,” James P. McElheny,managing partner at Woods OviattGilman, praised his commitment to thecommunity and his achievements in

complex legal assignments.Valentino often represents young chil-

dren and their parents in estate litiga-tion, and “they learn to respect his skillsas an attorney and really rely on his judg-ment on critical issues throughout thecase,” McElheny said.

“Christian has exhibited boundless en-

ergy in his professional service, his char-itable and his civic endeavors, and hasachieved the highest levels of success ineach area,” McElheny said. “It is alsonotable that he does all this while rais-ing a young family.”

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know that they can do anything,” she

said. “And I think being involved in dif-ferent programs kind of helps young peo-ple to know that, you’re young now, butthe decisions you make today can andwill affect the rest of your life.”

Her colleagues cite Jackson’s enthusi-asm and energy, whether it be at work orafter hours. Being organized and strictlyfollowing a schedule keeps everything inbalance, as does penciling in personal

time, Jackson said. “It’s always important to give back to

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