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Tribute To Judge Duffy | Clerk Recollections, Stories, And Vignettes, Judge Duffy's Former Clerks
Tribute To Judge Duffy | Clerk Recollections, Stories, And Vignettes, Judge Duffy's Former Clerks
Fordham Law Review Online
In his forty-four years on the bench, Judge Duffy had sixty-five law clerks, each with their own stories about his inimitable courtroom presence, keen intellect, tremendous heart, and unique sense of humor. In addition to the longer tributes, we wanted to include at least a small sampling of the rich variety of heartfelt remembrances of Kevin Thomas Duffy (“KTD”) that have been shared among his scores of clerks since the Judge’s passing. We also asked our clerk community for the five words that come to mind when they think of the Judge. We have included a Word Cloud that displays …
Tribute To Judge Duffy | Honorable Kevin Thomas Duffy, Loretta A. Preska
Tribute To Judge Duffy | Honorable Kevin Thomas Duffy, Loretta A. Preska
Fordham Law Review Online
It is a joy and an honor to write a few words about our beloved former colleague, Judge Kevin Thomas Duffy. Believe me when I tell you that behind that seemingly gruff exterior resided one of the greatest ladies men of the Western World. Kevin was a dedicated colleague to everyone, but his comradery with women was particularly special.
Tribute To Judge Duffy | A Prayer For St. Kevin, Meghan Silhan Mastrocovi
Tribute To Judge Duffy | A Prayer For St. Kevin, Meghan Silhan Mastrocovi
Fordham Law Review Online
Judge Duffy’s clerks benefitted from invaluable legal lessons. In my case, I was lucky enough to help him prepare for four sittings on the Ninth Circuit, where he regularly sat by designation. Each sitting presented a heavy caseload, and we lived and breathed the cases during those weeks. He wrote strong dissents. On one occasion, he aptly convinced the panel to adopt his proposed dissent as the majority opinion. We celebrated the occasion with chocolate ice cream. To be sure, the moments that resonate most are not the legal ones, but those found in the ordinary moments spent with an …
Tribute To Judge Duffy | A View From Below, Denis J. Mcinerney
Tribute To Judge Duffy | A View From Below, Denis J. Mcinerney
Fordham Law Review Online
It is only natural that different people (clerks, colleagues, court reporters, lawyers, marshals, parties, et cetera) saw KTD differently (as a humorist, a “no nonsense” judge, a loyal friend, an iconoclast, an enigma, et cetera). I am deeply honored, as one of the Judge’s sons-at-law, to offer just a glimpse into what it was like to be within his orbit with a few illustrations of his unique manner and mind.
Tribute To Judge Duffy | Kevin Thomas Duffy: I Never Called Him Kevin . . ., Charles Labella
Tribute To Judge Duffy | Kevin Thomas Duffy: I Never Called Him Kevin . . ., Charles Labella
Fordham Law Review Online
Where to begin . . . Clerking for KTD was my first job after graduating from Fordham Law. I was a kid in the law working with a tenured professor who was also the chair of the department. The first lesson was that you worked with KTD. While many of my fellow graduates who were working as clerks were working for a particular judge, I didn’t work for KTD, as he was quick to remind me, I worked with him. It was a collaboration. While I knew nothing really, he insisted we worked as a team. That was the first …
Tribute To Judge Duffy | A Law Clerk’S Remembrance Of The Honorable Kevin Thomas Duffy, Tom Lenhart
Tribute To Judge Duffy | A Law Clerk’S Remembrance Of The Honorable Kevin Thomas Duffy, Tom Lenhart
Fordham Law Review Online
I had the privilege to serve as the first law clerk to The Honorable Kevin Thomas Duffy—known forever to me simply as “the Judge.” In the fall of 1972, we both started new careers: Judge Duffy, as a federal district judge in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, and me as a newly minted lawyer just out of law school.
Tribute To Judge Duffy | Recollections Of Judge Kevin T. Duffy, Robert B. Fiske Jr.
Tribute To Judge Duffy | Recollections Of Judge Kevin T. Duffy, Robert B. Fiske Jr.
Fordham Law Review Online
I first met Judge Kevin Duffy in 1957 when we were both sworn in as Assistant United States Attorneys in the Southern District of New York. Both of us were protégés of Judge J. Edward Lumbard—I had worked in his office during the summer of 1954 when he was U.S. Attorney, and Kevin had just finished clerking for him. He had strongly urged both of us to join the U.S. Attorney’s Office (the “Office”). We both looked up to him enormously. (Later, when Kevin became a district judge, and Judge Lumbard was on the Second Circuit, they had an arrangement …
Tribute To Judge Duffy | The Honorable Kevin T. Duffy: A Great Judge With A Sense Of Humor, John F. Keenan
Tribute To Judge Duffy | The Honorable Kevin T. Duffy: A Great Judge With A Sense Of Humor, John F. Keenan
Fordham Law Review Online
When I think about my revered late colleague, which is often, I recognize that in my ninety-two years, I have never had a closer, more loyal, or truer friend than Kevin Thomas Duffy. We first met in the spring of 1983 before I was a member of the judiciary. It was at a dinner held by the law school where Kevin was the Toast Master and featured speaker on behalf of the honoree—me. Although we didn’t know each other then, he had done his research and learned of my many peculiarities and eccentricities. In his speech, he delivered the funniest …
Tribute To Judge Duffy | In Memory Of Kevin Thomas Duffy: Voices From The Fordham Law School Community, John D. Feerick
Tribute To Judge Duffy | In Memory Of Kevin Thomas Duffy: Voices From The Fordham Law School Community, John D. Feerick
Fordham Law Review Online
Judge Kevin Thomas Duffy was a Bronx born Irish Catholic of immigrant parents, who would scale the heights of the legal profession and serve with integrity as an Assistant U.S. Attorney, practicing lawyer, adjunct law professor, director of the New York regional office of the Securities and Exchange Commission, and a federal district court judge on the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York. Lawyers who knew him shared with me glimpses of his life as a judge and as a person.
Tribute To Judge Duffy | Ktd Tribute, Ron Cami
Tribute To Judge Duffy | Ktd Tribute, Ron Cami
Fordham Law Review Online
It has been nearly thirty years since I clerked for Judge Duffy, and still when an important topic comes up in my life, personal or professional, I ask myself what the Judge would think. More often than not, I end up smiling or laughing as one of his catchphrases pops into my mind, none of which are appropriate for this piece. Always though, and I mean every single time, I hear him ask: “What’s the right thing to do on a human level? What is the just answer?” This is how I remember Judge Duffy. He was a brilliant man …
Tribute To Judge Duffy | Kevin Thomas Duffy: A Masterful Trial Judge, P. Kevin Castel
Tribute To Judge Duffy | Kevin Thomas Duffy: A Masterful Trial Judge, P. Kevin Castel
Fordham Law Review Online
Imagine sitting as a law clerk to a great judge watching him preside at trial. Any young lawyer in that spot could be forgiven for having a fleeting fantasy of what it would be like to have that responsibility. There were no grand delusions about the future, but fate and good fortune stepped in and for sixteen years that law clerk became the judicial colleague of Judge Kevin Thomas Duffy on the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York. Today, my friend’s oil portrait hangs in my courtroom. In tough spots, I ask myself: What would …
Tribute To Judge Duffy | Introduction, Denis J. Mcinerney
Tribute To Judge Duffy | Introduction, Denis J. Mcinerney
Fordham Law Review Online
How can one (or in this case many) properly honor the memory of an iconic figure as compelling, complicated, and compassionate as the Honorable Kevin Thomas Duffy (aka “KTD” or “the Judge”)? I’m confident that I speak on behalf of the Judge’s entire law clerk family (aka “Hockey Pucks” in KTD’s vernacular)—as well as his many other friends and colleagues who were kind enough to contribute a sampling of their precious memories of the Judge to this collection of tributes—in stressing at the outset the impossibility of this task. Indeed, I’m certain the futility of even trying to scratch the …
Tribute To Judge Duffy | Judicial Profile Of Judge Duffy From The Federal Lawyer, Kevin N. Ainsworth
Tribute To Judge Duffy | Judicial Profile Of Judge Duffy From The Federal Lawyer, Kevin N. Ainsworth
Fordham Law Review Online
The following “judicial profile” was published in the March 2016 issue of The Federal Lawyer, about six months before Judge Duffy retired. Writing it was both a labor of love and a project that I somewhat blindly committed to, without realizing the enormity of it. At that time, Judge Duffy had been a U.S. District Judge for more than forty-three years, and I had known him for more than twenty years. He was my mentor and beloved friend. The difficult part of writing the article was deciding what to omit. His contributions in service to our nation were too numerous …