Photograph by Julia Cumes

SYRACUSE, N.Y. – Fifty two years after he was admitted and nearly a decade after “retiring,” Stewart F. Hancock Jr. retains the youthful exuberance of one who just passed the bar. So, while the former Court of Appeals associate judge had more than a few years on his audience of newly admitted lawyers, the 79-year-old veteran and the newcomers had much in common.