Why I Give... Martin Tankleff ’14 “Subsequent to graduation, I entered into a new stage of my life where I could establish a scholarship at Touro Law. Giving back to our society is important and, for me, giving to my law school is a priority knowing how difficult it is for students to finance their educations and knowing that each student can make such a difference. While I was a student, I helped to establish a wrongful conviction externship program and I want to continue to bring interest and insight to Touro Law regarding wrongful convictions. Additionally, I had amazing relationships with the staff and students and I knew that establishing a scholarship would benefit future students. As a New York State exoneree, Touro Law gave me the opportunity to obtain my juris doctor degree. Throughout my years at Touro Law I was able to bring into focus the importance of fighting for the rights of a client. I am hoping that each and every recipient of the Marty & Laurie Tankleff Scholarship will know what it took for me to be able to establish the scholarship. Hopefully, each scholarship recipient will go onto greatness, and one day be able to give back and help an innocent prisoner regain their freedom; in turn, regaining their life.” W W W. TO U R O L AW. E D U 23 Martin & Reva Oliner Prof. Deborah Post Rauch Foundation David B. Rosenbaum ‘84* Rosicki, Rosicki & Associates, P.C./ Thomas ‘97 & Cynthia Rosicki Benefactors Circle $5,000 - $9,999 Bank United Frederick K. Brewington Capital One Bank Ed Romaine Hassel Foundation Herman Goldman Foundation National Grid New York Community Trust- Dossie Schattman Fund Proskauer Rose LLP Spizz & Cooper David & Christine Stone The Charles Cohn Foundation Jordan A. Ziegler ‘91 Partners $2,500 - $4,999 Altson & Bird LLP Prof. Marianne Artusio Bradley A. Blakeman ‘86 Canon USA Carter, DeLuca, Farrell & Schmidt, LLP Prof. Rodger Citron Cullen & Dykman LLP Harold Deiters Fitzpatrick, Cella, Harper & Scinto Lya T. Friedrich Pfeifer ‘91 Bruce K. Gould ‘84 Randy Grossman ‘85 Jaspan Schlesinger LLP KPMG Lewis Johs Avallone Aviles, LLP George Likourezos ‘95 Meyer, Suozzi, English & Klein, PC Pieper Bar Review Kelly Ann Poole ‘91 Hon. George C. Pratt Clifford Richner Joan Lensky Robert ‘91 Joel H. Robinson ‘94 Prof. Gary M. Shaw Jeffrey Starr ‘86 Sterling National Bank Steven H. Stern Hon. Sol Wachtler Barristers $1,000 - $2,499 Arbor Mortgage Ilene H. Barshay ‘87 John Bishar Cement & Concrete Workers District Council of NY Jenny C. Chan ‘03 Collins, McDonald & Gann, P.C. Columbia Threadneedle Investments Patrick Cosgrove Ruben Davidoff ‘11 John V. Dember ‘87 Dorsey & Whitney Leonard ‘86 & Bonnie Feld Morris E. Fischer ‘95 Tanya Freeman ‘12 Garden City Hotel GEI Consultants Glen Oaks Club William Gliem ‘02 Gold Coast Bank Richard Horowitz Innovative Communication Concepts Inc. Inverness Councel, LLC Frederick C. Johs William S. Jones ‘86 Diana D. Juettner ‘83 Fred S. Kantrow ‘03 Michael Kapelow Prof. Eileen Kaufman Rosalind Kaufman Prof. Lynne A. Kramer Lessing’s Mark Madeira Mallilo & Grossman