The team of Shahzaib Hafeez L’26 and Elyse Maniccia L’26 prevailed over Garrison Funk L’25 and Daniel Morgan L’25 in the final round of the Mackenzie Hughes LLP Edmund H. Lewis Appellate Advocacy Competition. Hafeez and Maniccia won the Best Brief and Morgan was selected as the Best Oral Advocate.
Final round judges were Gabrielle Bull L’19 (Associate Attorney at Martin, Ganotis, Brown, Mould & Currie PC), Gavin Gretsky L’24 (Associate at Bond, Schoeneck, and King PLLC), Professor Suzette Meléndez, and Tom Taylor ’79, L’87 (Of Counsel, Bousquet Holstein PLLC.)
Sponsored by Syracuse law firm Mackenzie Hughes LLP, this competition is open to two-person teams consisting of second and third-year Syracuse Law students. The competition is named for the Hon. Edmund H. Lewis L’1909, a distinguished alumnus of Syracuse University College of Law, a partner at Mackenzie Hughes, and a Chief Judge of the New York Court of Appeals. Each year, volunteer judges evaluate the teams’ written appellate briefs as well as oral argument performance through multiple rounds.
The College of Law would like to thank all the judges and evaluators.
