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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 ...

At this time of a historic health emergency, strains could appear in an intact relationship, while in a fractured relationship those strains and disputes become problematic quickly. It is difficult for lawyers to tell clients that barring an absolute emergency ...

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

As a community and a nation, we come together in times of crisis. Ironically, when it comes to COVID-19, our unification is best done in a metaphorical rather than literal sense. In that spirit of unity, I ask that everyone ...

Just Mercy, a film currently showing throughout the nation, describes the efforts of a young Harvard law graduate, Bryan Stevenson, who traveled south to represent death row inmates. Stevenson established the federally funded Equal Justice Initiative in Montgomery, Alabama. The ...

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

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An African-American woman takes a seat on “white-only” streetcar in New York City. The conductor throws her off. Two newspaper editors — one from Rochester — rally to her cause. A young lawyer takes her case and wins her the ...