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Prior to joining Albany Law School in 2007, Professor Queenan was Assistant General Counsel for the Patrolmen’s Benevolent Association of the City of New York, Inc., where she represented the Union in various court actions and arbitrations, and advised the Board of Trustees on issues involving the Union’s affiliated Health and Welfare Funds. She also served as an Assistant Attorney General in the Litigation and Civil Rights Bureaus of the New York Attorney General’s Office, where she defended various state agencies in state and federal court actions and investigated potential claims of discrimination. Before that she was an associate in two private litigation firms, where she represented clients in commercial, products liability, and general negligence actions. Professor Queenan began teaching in 1999 as an adjunct faculty member at New York Law School, where she taught Legal Reasoning, Writing & Research, Written and Oral Advocacy and Drafting Contracts.

Paul Alan Levy has a bachelor鈥檚 degree from Reed College and a J.D. from the University of Chicago. After working as a law clerk to Honorable Wade H. McCree, Jr. (United States Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit) and Special Assistant to Solicitor General McCree, Paul joined Public Citizen Litigation Group in 1977 to represent workers in rank-and-file labor law cases, largely representing dissident union members in cases involving union governance. He has been with the Litigation Group ever since, with the exception of a one-year sabbatical when he taught at Cardozo Law School.

Paul has argued scores of cases in United States Court of Appeals (three en banc). He has argued four cases in the United States Supreme Court, as well as writing briefs for parties in seven other cases. One odd aspect of his Supreme Court practice is that each of these 11 cases was decided 9-0, win or lose.

For the past 20 years, Paul has specialized in free speech issues arising on the Internet. He has litigated cases in state and federal courts throughout the country about the identification of anonymous Internet speakers. His amicus curiae brief in Dendrite v. Doe, whose approach was adopted by New Jersey鈥檚 Superior Court Appellate Division, has become the model for other cases. His Internet practice also includes the defense of trademark and copyright claims brought as a means of suppressing critical web sites. His cases in this area, such as Bosley Medical v. Kremer, Lamparello v. Falwell, and Jenzabar v. Long Bow Group, have established the right to create internet 鈥済ripe鈥� sites that include the trademark names of companies in their domain names and meta tags. A blow-by-blow account of his first major case on that issue appears at taubmansucks.com In Smith v. Wal-Mart Stores, he defended the right of a parodist to make fun of Wal-Mart鈥檚 trademarks. In arguing against the issuance of prior restraints in Bank Julius Baer v. Wikileaks, he had the key insight that the case had been filed without subject matter jurisdiction. His work in such cases as Lee v. Makhnevich and Prestigious Pets v. Douchouquette, opposing the enforcement of non-disparagement clauses in consumer contracts, presaged the adoption of the federal Consumer Review Fairness Act that made such clauses illegal. In Dimondstein v. Postal Workers, he established that the right of intra-union candidates to have campaign literature distributed to union鈥檚 list of membership addresses included the right to send literature by email. In Smith v. Garcia, he established the right of Internet speakers to oppose orders compelling the delisting鈥� of their blogs from search engines. He has litigated cases under anti-SLAPP laws in several different states and advocated the adoption of new such laws as well as toughening existing ones.

He gives a continuing legal education course on Practical Considerations in Litigating Online Free Speech Cases. A description of his work in this area was published in the Washingtonian Magazine as 鈥淧aul Levy, the Web Bully鈥檚 Worst Enemy.鈥� He currently serves on the Legal Review Committee for the American Civil Liberties Union for the District of Columbia.

Media Appearances:
Paul had been quoted in publications such as Los Angeles Times, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Sun, The Dallas Morning News, Editor & Publisher, The Minneapolis Star-Tribune and The Philadelphia Inquirer.

Joshua E. Bienstock has been a practicing employment and labor lawyer for 30 years, and a mediator for over 10 years. His research focuses on conflict resolution in the world of higher education and how different cultures contrast in their approach to conflict resolution. For over a decade he has been an invited lecturer at Cornell University and the City University of New York (CUNY), addressing business, governmental and educational delegations from Vietnam, Korea, and China on the topics of conflict resolution and collective bargaining. He has been an invited international speaker, presenting a series of lectures in China related to conflict resolution, collective bargaining, negotiation, mediation, and arbitration to faculty, students, and lawyers in seven universities and three law firms/non-governmental organizations in 2013 and 2014. Recently, he was invited by CUNY to speak to a group of visiting civil servants from Jinlin, China.
Bienstock is also certified by the New York State Office of Court Administration to provide Continuing Legal Education (CLE) courses to members of the New York State Bar. In the past, he has conducted CLE courses on “Alternative Dispute Resolution for Lawyers” and “Negotiating Techniques and Strategies for Lawyers” and recently developed a CLE course on the topic of “Mediation Skills for Lawyers.”
The author of a monthly article in the Queensboro News Magazine of the Queens Chamber of Commerce on topics related to labor and employment law and conflict resolution, Bienstock has published a series of articles on doing business with international business partners and effectively negotiating in a culturally diverse world. Articles cover China, South Korea, Jamaica, Germany, and the United Arab Emirates.