Contact: Darren Johnson, Director of Communications
(631) 421-2244, ext. 383, djohnson@tourolaw.edu

October 15, 2005

Touro to “Top Off” New, State-of-the-Art Law School With Ceremony

Much Anticipated Campus Will Work

With Adjacent State and Federal Courts

WHO: Honorable Arthur Spatt, U.S. District Court Judge, Eastern District; Hon. H. Patrick Leis III, District Administrative Judge, Tenth Judicial District (Suffolk Co.); State Senators Caesar Trunzo and Ken LaValle; Touro College President Dr. Bernard Lander; Touro Law School Dean Lawrence Raful; and Dean Emeritus Howard Glickstein, along with other state, county and town officials, judges, faculty, staff, students and union representatives and workers.

WHAT: In a unique “Topping Off Ceremony,” officials will mark the ceremonial end of steel construction on Touro Law School’s ambitious new campus. Visuals include the new building, a four-story structure that will become the first law school adjacent to and working with state and federal courts; officials signing the last steel beam, and a crane lifting that beam to the top of the structure.

WHERE: Adjacent to the Alfonse M. D’Amato United States Courthouse, 100 Federal Plaza, Central Islip.

WHEN: 10:30 a.m., Tuesday, November 1. Approximately 40 minutes with food and interview opportunities after.

WHY: Building began earlier this year with the new campus expected to open for fall 2006 classes. Touro is currently undertaking a bold, $33 million strategic plan that includes an 180,000-square-foot state-of-the-art facility and cutting-edge new curriculum with the move to a new home in Central Islip. The new campus will stress hands-on legal education, expanding learning from the classroom and textbooks into real courtrooms. This modern “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.

ABOUT TOURO: One of just a handful of law schools nationwide with a pro-bono service requirement for its graduates, Touro Law School welcomed a record-setting entering class this year. Over the past two years, selectivity and test scores for the 25-year-old Huntington institution are at all-time high. Suffolk County’s only law school, Touro has a student body of over 750.

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