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The Legal Aid Society of Rochester has filed a class-action lawsuit claiming the Rochester Police Department routinely fails to provide legally required documents to domestic violence victims. The 19-page complaint filed Friday in state Supreme Court aims to force police ...

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit has upheld a District Court decision to dismiss a drug charge because of a contradictory jury verdict. On July 28, 2016, after a six-week trial, James Kendrick, his brother, Pablo “Paul” ...

About 300 paralegals from across the country gathered in Rochester last week for the 2019 National Federation of Paralegal Associations (NFPA) convention. The organization was supposed to hold the even in Rochester in the fall of 2001, but that meeting ...

The New York State Commission on Judicial Conduct has censured Lockport City Court Judge Thomas A. DiMillo for presiding over more than 2,500 civil cases involving the Cornerstone Community Federal Credit Union (CCFCU), where DiMillo’s brother is a board member. ...

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Former Rochester City Councilman Adam C. McFadden, who is already awaiting sentencing on federal fraud and tax evasion convictions, on Wednesday pleaded guilty in a separate case to one count of wire fraud. U.S. District Court Judge Elizabeth A. Wolford, ...

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The owner of the largest home health-care agency in the Rochester area must pay more than $1 million in unpaid wages, penalties and attorney’s fees for violating state labor laws. In January, U.S. District Court Judge Frank P. Geraci Jr. ...

Leo J. Kesselring has retired. Really. Kesselring, an attorney who was prominent in Conservative Party politics for decades and later shifted his focus to residential real estate investing, said he attempted to retire a couple other times, but he got ...

The Greater Rochester Association for Women Attorneys hosted a judicial candidate forum on Thursday at the offices of Nixon Peabody LLP. Only Democratic judicial candidates participated in the luncheon event. Republicans declined the invitation, or did not respond, according to ...

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  In the 13 years since she became the top legal officer at Paychex Inc., Stephanie L. Schaeffer’s job description has changed significantly. While she still oversees all of the traditional legal functions, like litigation, contracts, mergers and acquisitions, and ...

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Harris Beach PLLC has recently won judgments totaling more than $39 million for clients in separate patent infringement cases. In August, Harris Beach attorneys won a $12 million judgment in U.S. District Court for the Western District of New York ...

Adrian Neil entered the University of Rochester expecting to become an engineer, but he wound up getting a bachelor’s degree in political science and English and becoming a lawyer. “College is about figuring out what you really like, and what ...

One of the defendants in a kidnapping and torture case that targeted two University of Rochester students has had several convictions reversed by a state appeals court. Inalia Rolldan, 23, was convicted in December 2016 of first-degree criminal use of ...