Contact: Darren
Johnson, Director of Communications
(631) 421-2244, ext. 383,
djohnson@tourolaw.edu
May 29, 2005
Touro to Honor Rick Lazio at Annual
“Liberty & Justice” Fundraiser
Last Year’s
Event Raised Over $260k for Campus Move to Central Islip
Garden City, N.Y.
– Touro College Jacob D. Fuchsberg Law Center will honor Rick
Lazio at its annual “With Liberty & Justice For All” dinner on
Tuesday, June 7, at 6:30 p.m. at the Garden City Hotel. Tickets
for the fundraiser are available by calling 631-421-2244 ext.
472.
Last year’s event raised over $260,000 to help fund Touro’s much
heralded relocation. Suffolk County’s only law school is
currently undertaking a bold strategic plan that includes a
cutting-edge new curriculum and a move to a new home in Central
Islip by fall 2006, adjacent to and working with state and
federal courts. The new campus will stress hands-on legal
education, expanding learning from the classroom and textbooks
into real courtrooms. The total cost of the project is expected
to be approximately $33 million. This modern,
180,000-square-foot law campus will be the first of its kind
anywhere and a national model. It will also be a cornerstone in
an effort to revitalize Central Islip.
Mr. Lazio fought for federal funding for the move in his
previous role as congressman in the 2nd district. He
will receive the “With Liberty & Justice For All” award for his
dedication to Touro Law Center and public service.
Mr. Lazio is Executive Vice President of Global Government
Affairs and Public Policy of JP Morgan Chase & Co. After serving
in Congress for eight years, he was President and Chief
Executive Officer of the Financial Services Forum for the past
three years. Lazio served as an Assistant District Attorney in
Suffolk County for five years before being elected to the
Suffolk County Legislature in 1989. He ran for Congress in
1992, defeating an 18-year incumbent. He was later named
Assistant Majority Leader. As a moderate and a member of the
House leadership, Lazio was able to bring people of different
ideologies together on a variety of issues including the
environment, criminal justice and health care. Mr. Lazio
successfully worked to protect federal housing programs for the
poor, disabled and elderly.
Touro Law Center, with a student body of over 750, welcomed a
record-setting entering class this past year. Selectivity and
test scores for the 25-year-old institution are at all-time
highs, defying national downward trends for law schools.
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