January 28, 2013
At its January 26, 2013 annual meeting, the New York State Bar
Association’s Labor and Employment Law Section presented awards to
three St. John’s School of Law students, Amanda Jaret ‘13, Andrew
Midgen ’13 and Alyssa Zuckerman ’13.
Amanda Jaret, Secretary of the
Labor Relations and Employment Law Society and a Junior Fellow
for the
Center for Labor and Employment Law (CLEL) at St. John’s, won
the Samuel M. Kaynard Memorial Student Service Award. In addition,
she took second place in the Dr. Emanuel Stein and Kenneth Stein
Memorial Writing Competition for her paper, “Other Mutual Aid
Or Protection”: Collective Legal Claims as Concerted Activity in D.
R. Horton, Inc. and Beyond. Amanda has worked as a CLEL
research assistant and Junior Fellow throughout her years at the
Law School, supported by the 2011 John Boyd Scholarship, the 2012
Professor Lawrence Joseph Scholarship, and the Cesar Chavez
Memorial Scholarship. The latter award goes to the graduating
third-year law student with the highest grades in the Labor and
Employment Law curriculum. She has worked for the United Auto
Workers in Detroit, Michigan and for Cohen, Weiss and Simon LLP, a
union-side labor law firm in New York.
Andrew Midgen, Co-President of the Law School’s Labor Relations
and Employment Law Society and a CLEL Junior Fellow, won first
place in the Stein Competition. His winning paper, The Future
Scope of the Antitrust Exemption in Professional Sports,
addresses a controversial and developing area of Labor and
Employment Law that has captured national attention during recent
collective bargaining agreement negotiations for professional
sports teams and players in the National Football League and, most
recently, in the National Hockey League. Among Andrew’s previous
honors and accomplishments are the Inaugural Borrelli and
Associates Scholarship and prestigious internships with UNITE HERE!
Local 100, the United States Department of Labor Office of the
Solicitor, and the National Labor Relations Board Division of
Judges.
Alyssa Zuckerman, Co-President of the Labor Relations and
Employment Law Society and a CLEL Junior Fellow, came in second for
the Kaynard Memorial Student Service Award. One of Alyssa’s chief
initiatives at the Law School has been overseeing the successful
launch of CLEL’s new blog, the Center for Labor and Employment Law
Forum at www.stjclelblog.org. The
Service Award recognizes this achievement as well as her
consistently impressive leadership of the Labor and Employment Law
Society and a range of CLEL events. Alyssa has received other
notable honors for her contributions to Labor and Employment Law,
including the 2012 Coca-Cola Refreshments Scholarship, which
supported her work as a Summer Associate with Coca-Cola’s Labor
Relations Department, the Cesar Chavez Memorial Scholarship, and an
internship with Pasternack Tilker Ziegler Walsh Stanton &
Romano LLP, a workers’ compensation law firm in New York.
These three students follow in the footsteps of many
predecessors at St. John’s School of Law who received similar
recognition from the New York State Bar Association. The students’
successes are a testament to the strength of St. John’s Labor and
Employment Law curriculum and the stalwart guidance and mentoring
of Center for Labor and Employment Law Executive Director
David L. Gregory, the Law School’s Dorothy Day Professor of
Law.