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36 THE TO URO LAWYER FALL 201 5 VISITING FACULTY ON THE MOVE Pattern Jury Instructions PJI. Professor Connors served in that role until 2004 working closely with its chair Prof. Leon Lazer and Professor Eileen Kaufman who was also a Reporter for the Committee. Professor Connorss first contact with Albany Law School was coincidentally with Dean Patricia Salkin who recruited him to present an ethics CLE in 1999. Professor Connors left private practice to teach New York Civil Practice and Professional Responsibility at Albany Law School in 2000 where he continued to work closely with Dean Salkin on several programs over the next decade. Prior to joining the Albany Law School faculty he was an Adjunct Professor of Law at Syracuse University College of Law where he taught Professional Responsibility from 1991 to 1999. Professor Connors stated Based on my history with the school I know Touro Law to be a vibrant school with an active student body accomplished alumni community and dedicated faculty. I look forward to returning to Long Island and teaching New York Civil Practice at Touro in the fall of 2015. He received his B.A. degree from Georgetown University and his J.D. degree from St. Johns Law School where he was an editor of the Law Review and research assistant to Professor David D. Siegel. Upon graduation from St. Johns in 1988 Professor Connors served as a personal law clerk to Judge Richard D. Simons of the New York Court of Appeals until 1991. From 1991 until May of 2000 he was an associate and then member of the litigation department at Hancock Estabrook LLP in Syracuse New York. Commencing with the January 2013 supplement Professor Connors became the author for Siegel New York Practice 5th ed.. In addition he is the author of the McKinneys Practice Commentaries for CPLR Article 22 Stay Motions Orders and Mandates Article 23 Subpoenas Oaths and Affirmations Article 30 Remedies and Pleading and Article 31 Disclosure. He also authors the Practice Commentaries for the New York Rules of Professional Conduct available on Westlaw in progress and several articles in the Surrogates Court Procedure Act. He is also the author of the New York Practice column and the annual Court of Appeals Roundup on New York Civil Practice which are published in the New York Law Journal. His publications have been cited in over 140 reported cases. He is a member of the New York State Bar Associations Committee on Professional Ethics. He served on the New York State Attorney Grievance Committee for the Fifth Judicial District from 1997 until 2000. He was the Reporter for the New York State Bar Associations Special Committee on the Code of Judicial Conduct which published a report recommending substantial amendments to New Yorks Code of Judicial Conduct. He was also the Reporter for the New York State Bar Associations Task Force on Non-lawyer Ownership of Law Firms. He is a member of the Office of Court Administrations Advisory Committee on Civil Practice and served as a member of the New York State Bar Associations CPLR Committee from 2003 through 2007. Professor Connors is a frequent lecturer at continuing legal education seminars on recent developments in New York Practice professional ethics and legal malpractice. Professor Patrick Connors Appointed Scholar in Residence Touro Law Center Dean Patricia Salkin is pleased to announce that Professor Patrick Connors has been appointed Scholar in Residence for the Fall 2015 semester. Professor Connors is teaching New York Practice. Professor Connors is the authoritative scholar in New York Practice. His years of scholarship and teaching drafting and consulting work will be a great asset to our law school community. Our students will benefit greatly from his experience and expertise and there is already a buzz in the community about the fact that he will be in residence at Touro Law this fall stated Dean Patricia Salkin. Professor Patrick Connors grew up in Mineola where he resided until moving upstate for his clerkship with Judge Richard D. Simons in 1998. He first visited Touro Law in the summer of 1993 when he was a Reporter for the Committee on New York