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The United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) issued a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking adopting the International Civil Aviation Organization’s (ICAO) Aviation CO2 Emission Standards. Critics of the Trump Administration’s proposed rulemaking sulk over the likely fact that the standards will ...

I was born at Highland Hospital and am a true Rochesterian. I was raised in the city, went to city schools, joined the military, left for a couple of years only to return to this city that I love. I ...

The abrupt transition to remote working caused by COVID-19 uncovered gaps in many law firms’ back office services SOPs. How will mail be processed? How can I get things printed? Who can facilitate deliveries? And these are just a handful ...

With September approaching and many schools operating under a hybrid or at-home model of teaching due to COVID-19, it is expected that parents will be seeking to take leave under the Families First Coronavirus Response Act (“FFCRA”) to care for ...

There are two two-word warnings for any attorney seeking to exploit social media to help build their practice. Watch out and be careful. The ethical rules for attorney advertising — long based primarily on direct client solicitation or print advertising ...

Word reached me only last week of the recent death of Judge Michael A. Telesca. While I’m sure he has been appropriately eulogized by the Rochester legal community, I want to share a few belated words about this man, who ...

Lawyers tend to limit their practice to a few areas. Nonetheless, people come to us with myriad problems — many of which fall outside our realm of expertise. Through this column, I provide practical information to help you assist those ...

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 ...

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 ...