Crime Scene

Pace University law students got to pick the brains of (and have a cocktail with) the black-robe crowd during the annual “Meet the Judges” event at the law school this week.

The judges, some of whom are practicing attorneys, advised and encouraged the students, who weren’t shy about asking the judges for their thoughts about the law.

“For most of us, our bark is worse than our bite,” said Francis Nicolai, the administrative judge for the 9th Judicial District of the state Supreme Court.

The event, sponsored by the Westchester County Bar Association, featured remarks by New York State Bar Association president Kate Madigan, who encouraged students to join the bar association (once they pass it, of course) and told the judges that lobbying state lawmakers to raise judicial salaries is still “the number-one, front-burner issue” for the group.

First American Title Agency and Hudson Valley Bank hosted the reception, which attracted the following judicial legal eagles:

• Mark Dillon, Associate Justice, Appellate Division, 2nd Department
• Supreme Court Justices Lewis Lubell, Alan Scheinkman, Linda Jamieson, John LaCava, Joan Lefkowitz, William Giacomo, RichardLiebowitz, Jerry Crispino, Alexander Hunter, Jr. and Peter Rosato
• NY State Court of Claims Judge Terry Ruderman
• Westchester County Court Judges Richard Molea, Barbara Zambelli and Jeffrey Cohen
• Family Court Judges Colleen Duffy and Sandra Edlitz
• City Judge Michael Martinelli (Yonkers) and Associate City Judge Adam Seiden (Mount Vernon)
• Acting City Judges John Alfano (Rye) and Eric Press (White Plains)
• Town Judges Domenick Porco (Eastchester), Sandra Forster and Arlene Gordon Oliver (Greenburgh), Regina Kelly (Pound Ridge), Marc Seedorf and Susan Simon (Lewisboro), Marc Lust (Harrison), Nicholas Maselli and Robert Ponzini (Mount Pleasant) Michael McDermott (Somers)
• Village Justices David Fuller, Jr. (Tuckahoe), Richard Lanza and Roger Sirlin (Mamaroneck) and Lawrence Ecker (Irvington)
• Acting Village Justices Jose Castaneda (Port Chester), James Badie (Elmsford) and Barry Warhit (Tarrytown)