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Sadly, to date, New York State has experienced more than 25 percent of the United States’ total COVID-19-related deaths. To put things in perspective, if it was its own country, New York State would rank fifth among nations in deaths, ...

As I write this message I am looking out of the window of my office seeing the leaves on the trees along the river, reduced traffic both on the Andrews Street Bridge and the Inner Loop, and wondering how long ...

Think back to January of this year. That was before we knew about COVID-19. It was before we had heard of George Floyd. It was before a plummeting economy, before ever-rising unemployment figures, before a new-found fear of the future. ...

Editor’s note: Jill Paperno is the new president of the Monroe County Bar Association, and Duwaine Bascoe is an attorney with Abrams Fensterman. Jill Paperno:  I have worked as a public defender for over half my life.  I have lived ...

The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has made provisions and extended deadlines for responding to certain matters in light of the hardships created by the COVID-19 outbreak and has also created programs intended to spur innovation in the ...

Civil forfeiture actions present attorneys with a unique risk — the potential seizure of an innocent client’s property due to a co-owner’s wrongful use of it. Civil forfeiture allows the government to seize property that the government alleges is involved ...

In response to the COVID-19 emergency, the governor of New York issued executive orders significantly restricting the business activities that commercial tenants could conduct from leased locations in New York state. Many tenants impacted by these orders have refused to ...

Now that some states are flattening the curve, guidelines are being established to allow phased reopenings of businesses, including law firms. Of course, no one has ever attempted to reopen businesses after a worldwide pandemic, so we’re in uncharted territory. ...

For most business law practitioners, we have had little-to-no need to revisit the concepts of force majeure, frustration of purpose, impossibility, and impracticality since completing our final examination in contracts. This orthodoxy was challenged in March, when large sectors of ...

May 2020 marks the final month of the Bar year, and my final month as president of the Greater Rochester Association for Women Attorneys (“GRAWA”). I can’t believe the year is nearly over — it has flown by! Despite the ...

The Paralegal Association of Rochester hosted Ben Woelk, RIT’S Program Manager for Information Security, on March 3 at the University of Rochester conference center. The topic was cybersecurity and in particular, digital self-defense.  Mr. Woelk shared insights about: (1) why ...

During the early stages of the COVID-19 health crisis, certain construction work was deemed “essential” and was permitted to continue. The guidelines regarding what work was considered essential were not always crystal clear and resulted in a lot of confusion ...