January 29, 2010
VINCENT E. DOYLE III NAMED PRESIDENT-ELECT OF STATE
BAR ASSOCIATION
Doyle will assume office on June 1, 2010
NEW YORK – The New York State Bar Association announced today
that Vincent E. Doyle, III a partner of the Buffalo law firm Connors
& Vilardo LLP, has been named president-elect of the 77,000-member
organization. Doyle was elected today by the House of Delegates, the
State Bar’s decision and policy-making body and assumes the title
of “president-elect” on June 1, 2010. He will begin his
one-year term as president on June 1, 2011.
Current President-Elect Stephen P. Younger of New York (Patterson
Belknap Webb & Tyler, LLP) assumes the office of president on June
1, 2010.
A resident of Elma, Doyle is a trial and appellate attorney whose
practice includes civil and white collar criminal litigation, and
representation of professionals in disciplinary proceedings, as well as
advising on legal ethics matters. He received his undergraduate degree
from Canisius College and earned his law degree from the University at
Buffalo Law School, magna cum laude.
Active in the State Bar for nearly 20 years, Doyle served for four
years as a member-at-large of the State Bar’s Executive Committee
and on the House of Delegates. He previously chaired the Criminal
Justice Section, the Special Committee to Ensure Quality of Mandated
Representation, and the Task Force to Review Terrorism Legislation. He
also is a member of the Trial Lawyers Section, Committee on Legislative
Policy, Membership Committee, Committee to Review Judicial Nominations,
Committee on the Tort System, and the Task Force on Wrongful
Convictions. He is a Fellow of the New York Bar Foundation.
Doyle sits on the Advisory Committee on Criminal Law and Procedure to
the Chief Administrative Judge of the State of the Courts of New York,
and was appointed by retired Chief Judge Judith S. Kaye to the
Commission on the Jury, a blue-ribbon panel charged with formulating
ways to improve the jury system in New York. He previously served on the
Grand Jury Project, also by appointment by Judge Kaye. He also is a
member of the New York State Judicial Screening Panel for the Fourth
Judicial Department.
Doyle is an active member of the Bar Association of Erie County,
having served on its Board of Directors from 2003-2006. He is the
current president of that association’s Aid to Indigent Prisoners
Society, which administers the Assigned Counsel Program in Erie County.
He currently serves on the Board of Trustees of Villa Maria College in
Buffalo.
Founded in 1876, the 77,000-member New York State Bar Association is
the official statewide organization of lawyers in New York and the
largest voluntary state bar association in the nation. The State
Bar’s programs and activities have continuously served the public
and improved the justice system for more than 130 years.
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