The Monroe County Bar Association’s annual dinner on June 22 will be a bittersweet event for incoming President Jill M. Cicero. Not only will Cicero be installed as leader of the organization, but she also will accept the Charles F. ...

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Today we celebrate the Fourteenth Amendment, which has become the heart of the constitutional system within which we live and practice our profession. Our constitution (lower case because I’m talking not about the document itself but about the makeup of ...

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The spacious office of U.S. District Court Chief Judge Frank P. Geraci is filled with countless mementos of his nearly 40-year career. On one shelf are souvenirs of his beloved Boston Red Sox and another holds a sign that marked ...

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Thomas G. Smith developed a reputation for excellence as a trial lawyer who represented businesses, professionals, and trade associations in the courtroom. However, some of his best work — Humpty Dumpty v. The Greatwall Construction Company, for example — remains ...

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If Richard Dollinger’s application to be a reporter for a major newspaper such as the New York Times had been successful, he may never have gone on to become a lawyer, a New York Supreme Court justice and winner of ...

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The Monroe County Bar Association has done away with judicial candidate ratings, a process widely regarded as flawed and ineffective. “The rankings caused more damage than they were worth,” said Christopher Thomas, an attorney at Nixon Peabody and a member ...

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The Monroe County Bar Association will host an open house Tuesday for an exhibit of artwork by retired Livingston County Family Court Judge Jerry Alonzo. Alonzo’s “Justice Is” woodwork exhibit will be on display on the 10th floor of the ...

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Sareer Fazili, president of the Islamic Center of Rochester and an attorney at Cellino & Barnes, will discuss the Muslim faith Thursday and take questions during a CLE called Representing Muslim Clients Respectfully and Well. “I’ll be giving a mini-primer ...

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The new Casemaker legal research service included with a Monroe County Bar Association membership as of Wednesday will save members thousands of dollars. Eileen Buholtz, a partner at Connors, Corcoran & Buholtz PLLC, a small Rochester firm, said that she ...

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One law firm parties with popcorn. Lots of firms use their holiday get-togethers for networking or helping others. And then there are the ones that are marked on calendars a year in advance. When Brown Hutchinson LLP throws its 14th ...

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Attorney Neil J. Rowe has spent his career getting things in order for people, from helping those with mental health issues get needed treatment to teaching administration skills to college students. He is now bringing his extensive organizational skills to ...

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Technology has brought data storage a long way from putting papers in a folder and locking them in a file cabinet. Not only is there much more information to store today, but so many different places to put it and ...

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