Mayer Brown hosted St. John’s University School of Law’s annual scholarship reception Thursday. St. John’s Law student Eugene Ubawike Jr., far right, was the inaugural recipient of a scholarship from the Basil A. Paterson Memorial Scholarship Fund, sponsored by the National Grid Foundation.

From left, St. John’s Law Professor David Gregory, National Grid Foundation Chairman Albert Wiltshire, former Governor David Paterson, for whose father the scholarship is named, and St. John’s Law Dean Michael Simons.