sentences:  Gey received his law degree from Columbia Law School, from which he graduated in 1982 with highest honors and where he was an articles editor of the "Columbia Law Review".Before joining the faculty at Florida State, Gey practiced law for two years at the Paul Weiss law firm in New York, where he did extensive pro bono work, often on behalf of those facing the death penalty.In 2006, he was diagnosed with Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis ("ALS", sometimes called Lou Gehrig's disease, Maladie de Charcot or motor neurone disease)—a progressive, fatal neurodegenerative disease caused by the degeneration of motor neurons.