WHITE PLAINS, NY, October 11, 2006– Pace Law School has appointed Chauncey L. Walker Associate Dean for Finance and Administration. Walker, who will begin on November 1, comes to Pace Law School from the law firm of Cuddy & Feder LLP in White Plains, New York, where he has been a partner since 1990. Prior to that, he was a partner at the New York City law firm of Kelley Drye & Warren. He served as a member of the Executive Committee of Kelley Drye and of the Management Committee of Cuddy & Feder.

A leading real estate lawyer, Walker represented numerous commercial and nonprofit organizations in a wide variety of real estate transactions. In addition, Walker is a member of the American College of Real Estate Lawyers and has extensive experience representing participants in historic preservation controversies. He has been an adjunct professor at Pace Law School since 1999 and on January 1, 2005, became the first Distinguished Practitioner-in-Residence in Real Estate Law at Pace Law School.

Dean Stephen J. Friedman said, “I am delighted that Chauncey Walker will be coming to Pace Law School. He will play an important role in bringing our financial and administrative systems to a higher level of effectiveness and in making sure that the Law School’s physical and organizational infrastructure supports the exciting changes that are in process here.”

He is the chair of the American Lung Association of New York State and president of the White Plains Performing Arts Center. He is a past president of the Rotary Club of White Plains and vice president of the White Plains YMCA.


Walker received his AB cum laude from Harvard College and an LLB from Columbia Law School.

Founded in 1976, Pace University School of Law has nearly 6,500 alumni/ae throughout the country. It offers full- and part-time day and evening JD programs on its White Plains, NY, campus. The School also offers the Master of Laws in Environmental Law and in Comparative Legal Studies. The School, which has one of the nation's top-rated environmental law programs, also offers the SJD program in that field. The School of Law is part of a comprehensive, independent, and diversified University with campuses in New York City and Westchester County. www.law.pace.edu.

Celebrating its centennial in 2006, Pace University is known for an outcome-oriented environment that prepares students to succeed in a wide-range of professions. Pace has facilities in downtown and midtown New York City and in Westchester County at Pleasantville, Briarcliff Manor, and White Plains (a graduate center and law school). A private metropolitan university, Pace enrolls approximately 14,000 students in undergraduate, masters, and doctoral programs in the Dyson College of Arts and Sciences, Ivan G. Seidenberg School of Computer Science and Information Systems, Law School, Lienhard School of Nursing, Lubin School of Business, and School of Education. www.pace.edu