Lecturer Bios
Garrard R. Beeney, Esq.
Garrard R. Beeney is co-head of Sullivan & Cromwell’s Intellectual Property and
Technology Group. Mr. Beeney is a fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers and
has been described by Intellectual Asset Management as “one of the best trial lawyers
on the planet.”
He has handled patent and intellectual property matters before the U.S.
Supreme Court, International Trade Commission, U.S. Patent Trademark Office, federal
district and appellate courts, and arbitrations in a variety of forums, and regularly advises
on non-U.S. litigation, particularly in the European Community. Alongside his robust IP
practice, Mr. Beeney regularly represents clients in pro bono litigation.
He recently
obtained the first appellate court ruling interpreting New York’s Domestic Violence
Survivors Justice Act, convincing the New York Supreme Court Second Department
Appellate Division to materially reduce his client’s sentence under the DVSJA.
Kate Skolnick, Esq.
Kate Skolnick is a Supervising Attorney at the Center for Appellate Litigation, an appellate
public defender office, where she coordinates the Survivors Advocacy Practice, chairs
CAL’s legislative committee, and teaches an appellate criminal defense clinic at Cornell
Law School. She is a graduate of Columbia Law School, where she was the Editor-in-Chief of The Jailhouse Lawyer's Manual, a self-help litigation resource for prisoners, and
Chair of the Civil Rights Law Society.
While in law school, Kate spent her summers at
The Legal Aid Society's Prisoners' Rights Project and at Neufeld Scheck & Brustin, LLP,
a civil rights firm. She was a student attorney in the Lawyering in the Digital Age Clinic,
where she represented clients facing public benefits cuts and developed a database for
advocates pursuing systemic change in New York's social welfare system; an extern with
the Neighborhood Defender Service of Harlem; and a volunteer with the Community
Oversight of the Police Project and Immigration Law Unit of The Legal Aid Society.
She
received Kent and Stone Scholar designations, and a Lowenstein Fellowship to pursue
public interest work after completing her degree.
