The Technology Commercialization Clinic at SU's law school has been helping move technology from research to market for 24 years with business and legal information and analysis for early-stage companies.

UTICA — Come Aug. 1, clients of Day, Scarafile & Read, Inc. will have a new place in which to do business with the insurance, accounting, financial-planning, and tax-services firm.

Janet Callahan is the new managing partner of the law firm Hancock & Estabrook, LLP in Syracuse.

Callahan joined the firm in 1984 and became a partner in 1989. She leads the firm's litigation and appellate practice groups and has been on the executive committee since 2003.

The program is aimed at providing training for health-care professionals on how to serve as liaisons between law and medical science, the school said in a news release.

The society's Foundation for Accounting Education is offering its Career Opportunities in the Accounting Profession program to 28 high school juniors from June 27 to June 30. Recruitment for the program is focused on minority groups historically underrepresented in the accounting profession, according to the society.

VESTAL — The legal profession is often associated with a grueling work schedule.

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