Staci Zaretsky Receives Law Student Ethics Award

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Western New England College School of Law student Staci Zaretsky receives a law student ethics award from Ernest M. Haddad, Associate Dean for Special Projects of Boston University School of Law.

SPRINGFIELD, MA (04/27/2010)(readMedia)-- Western New England College School of Law student Staci Zaretsky was recently named the recipient of a 2010 Law Student Ethics Award by the Association of Corporate Counsel Northeast Chapter. The award, which includes a $1,000 scholarship, is given to students from participating law schools who have demonstrated an early commitment to ethics through their work in a clinical program representing their first real clients.

Zaretsky is a third-year law student from Hopewell Junction, NY. She was honored for her work with the School of Law's Small Business Clinic involving issues related to representing undocumented entrepreneurs. She was one of eleven recipients recognized during an awards dinner April 15 at the Union Club in Boston.

The chapter created the awards program to recognize and encourage the ethical practice of law at the earliest stages of a young lawyer's professional career, and at the same time to shine a spotlight on ethics more generally, demonstrating that the legal community values lawyers who are guided by ethical principles.

Underscoring the legal community's support for the awards and what they stand for, the awards ceremony was attended by many prominent judges of the state and federal trial and appellate courts, as well as faculty from the participating schools, the presidents of area bar associations, general counsel from local companies, and managing and senior partners from law firms. Andrew L. Kaufman, Charles Stebbins Fairchild Professor of Law at Harvard Law School, delivered the evening's keynote address regarding various ethical issues confronting the profession in the new economy.

Western New England College is a private, independent, coeducational institution founded in 1919. Located on an attractive 215-acre suburban campus in Springfield, Massachusetts, the College serves 3,700 students, including 2,500 full-time undergraduate students. Undergraduate, graduate, and professional programs are offered through the College's Schools of Arts and Sciences, Business, Engineering, and Law.

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