Neblett, Beard & Arsenault’s founding partner, Attorney Richard J. Arsenault, was invited to New York University School of Law last week to celebrate the dedication of the 67th Volume of the Annual Survey of American Law.
Founded in 1942, the Annual Survey is a student-edited journal that serves as comprehensive annual reference to developments in American law. Each volume is dedicated to an individual who has made an outstanding contribution to American law. This year’s dedicatee is Professor Arthur R. Miller, a personal friend of Richard’s and a leading scholar in the field of American civil procedure.
At the event, Professor Miller was honored his colleagues and friends, including Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg of the Supreme Court of the United States, New York University President John Sexton, Judge Robert Sack of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, television journalist Charles Gibson, Brad Friedman, Esq. of Milberg LLP; Henry Gutman, Esq. of Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP; Professor David Shapiro of the Harvard Law School; Professor Linda Silberman of the NYU School of Law and author Jeffrey Toobin.
Richard Arsenault was invited to and attended the dedication as well as private receptions to honor Professor Miller following the event.
Miller is considered to be one of the nation’s most distinguished legal scholars in the areas of civil litigation, copyright, unfair competition and privacy. He is the author of more than 40 books, among them a casebook on civil procedure used at virtually every U.S. law school and the multi-volume treatise Federal Practice and Procedure, widely regarded as the foremost authority on its subject. At the same time, he has long played a highly visible role explaining and interpreting law for the general public. He served, for example, as legal editor of Good Morning America, on ABC TV for more than twenty years; host of his own show, Millers Law, on Court TV; and a moderator on numerous shows for public television. Miller has received two Emmy awards and several ABA Gavel awards for promoting public understanding of the law. He has served all three branches of the federal government on a variety of public interest matters. In 2007, after 35 years at the Harvard Law School, Professor Miller joined the faculty of NYU Law as a University Professor, a distinguished position reserved for those whose work encompasses multiple disciplines. Along with his academic duties, Professor Miller serves as Special Counsel to the class-action law firm Milberg LLP, and heads the firm’s appellate practice.
Professor Miller’s influence also extends to the art world. For years, he admired and collected the works one of the greatest Japanese woodblock print artists, Utagawa Kuniyoshi. He gave the complete collection of over 1,800 prints to the British Museum, and they were first exhibited at the Royal Academy in London last spring; they are now on display at the Japan Society in New York City.
Richard J. Arsenault, 2011
