In addition to Cornell Law School's core business law curriculum, the BLI is introducing students to a different way of thinking about deals and lawyering in an effort to expand their practical skills.
Each year, the Law School hosts the Transactional Lawyering Competition, essentially a "moot court for deal lawyers," and the only intramural competition of its kind. Student teams of two lawyers each represented buyers and sellers of a hotel/resort property in the Finger Lakes Region. Students were judged on the basis of their "mark-up" of a modified asset purchase agreement and their ability to negotiate effectively on behalf of their respective clients. Winners of that competition then represented Cornell at a national competition. The 2013 competition will be held November 9-10, 2013 at Myron Taylor Hall.
In November 2012, 48 students competed in the third annual competition. Our alumni judges for 2012 were:
John Alexander ‘71 (Sayles & Evans)
John Altorelli ’93 (DLA Piper)
Andrew Berger '69 (Tannenbaum Helpern Syracuse & Hirschtritt)
John Calandra '91 (McDermott Will & Emery)
William Casazza ‘85 (Aetna)
Jacqueline Duval '92 (Ziff Legal Group)
Robert Feiner '85 (Feiner Wolfson)
Todd Feinsmith ’91 (Pepper Hamilton)
Steven Flyer ’91 (AUA Private Equity Partners)
Dean Fournaris '91 (Wiggins and Dana)
David Furman '86 (Gibson Dunn & Crutcher)
Ashley Gillespie '01 (Morgan Stanley)
Frank Golay '77 (Of Counsel-Retired, Sullivan & Cromwell)
Joyce Haag '75 (Retired-Eastman Kodak Company)
Joel Hartstone ‘70 (Stonegate Capital Group)
William Haubert '91 (Richards Layton & Finger)
Denise Hauselt ’83 (Corning Incorporated)
Sarah Hewitt ‘82 (Schnader, Harrison Segal & Lewis)
James Hill ’91 (Morgan Stanley)
Robert Lee '81 (Wells Fargo & Co.)
Ira Marcus ‘74 (Marcus, Brody, Ford & Kessler)
Billi McCullough '94 (Holland & Hart)
Deborah McLean '78 (Nixon Peabody)
Kevin Miller '05 (McDermott Will & Emery)
Raymond Minella ’74 (Cornell Law School)
Joshua Nathan '91 (Private Practice)
Dale Okonow ‘83 (The Watermill Group)
Chuck Rosenzweig '88 (Criterion Real Estate Capital)
Jeff Ross '99 (Debevoise & Plimpton)
John Schwolsky ‘85 (Willkie Farr & Gallagher)
William Shiland ’83 (Rexford Management Company)
Andy Stamelman '83 (Riker Danzig Scherer Hyland & Perretti)
Chris Todoroff '87 (Human)
Mark Underberg ‘81 (Cornell Law School)