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My presidential duties over the past several weeks have included delivering the keynote address at the 2017 Monroe County Elder Law Fair, welcoming the new dean of the University of Buffalo Law School, Aviva Abramovsky, at a reception co-hosted by MCBA and UB Law School’s Rochester alumni group, and giving some brief remarks at the annual memorial service for attorneys who passed away during the past year.

With the proliferation and technological advances of cellular phones, the role of these devices in the workplace has evolved at a rapid pace. While five years ago it was common for employers to provide employees with a “work phone,” now ...

Tagged with: Alan J. Bozer Erin C. Borek White Collar Corner

As we all know, the stock market is currently experiencing a significant bull market. It has been a powerful 8 ½ years with cumulative gains over 300% (including reinvested dividends). Equity investors have been rewarded handsomely for staying invested. Most ...

Tagged with: Marijoyce Ryan Money Management

With the recent release of the New York Bar Exam results, more than 6,000 aspiring lawyers will become eligible to practice law in the State of New York. Since New York’s adoption of the Uniform Bar Exam, applicants achieving a ...

Tagged with: Examining Ethics Lesley E. Niebel

In recent months, I’ve written about a handful of ethics opinions from different jurisdictions whereby the ethics committees rejected the use of various online lawyer directories and lawyer-client matching services such as Avvo, Legal Zoom and Rocket Lawyer. Virginia now ...

Tagged with: Legal Loop Nicole Black

One of the most common questions asked when a new business is formed is what type of entity or formal structure the new business e should employ. Like many things in the tax arena, the answer is “it depends” — ...

Tagged with: James Saylor Keeping Your Balance

This November, New York voters have the opportunity to call for a constitutional convention to modernize the outmoded document that forms the basis of our state government. It is an opportunity we should not squander. New York’s Constitution is broken. ...

Tagged with: New York constitutional convention

In 1977, the United States Supreme Court issued a landmark decision that has helped to shape the landscape of public unions ever since. Of course I am referring to Abood v. Detroit Board of Education, 431 U.S. 209 (1977) in ...

In the midst of the debate on tax reform, it’s important to first understand who pays taxes and how much they pay. The data for this article was pulled from the White House’s Office of Management and Budget. First, the ...

Tagged with: George Karpus Money Management

In a famous line from Jodi Picoult’s Salem Falls, a prep school student reflects, “Words are like eggs dropped from great heights; you can no more call them back than ignore the mess they leave when they fall.” The student ...

Tagged with: Scott Forsyth

Three years after Ferguson, Missouri, erupted over racism in policing, we still don’t know exactly what led to the shooting that touched off the conflagration. We have video of the moments after a white police officer shot a young black ...

Social media has been around for more than a decade. At first lawyers ignored social media, but over time, as it infiltrated our culture, they sat up and took notice. Today, more lawyers than ever use social media. Some use ...

Tagged with: Legal Loop Nicole Black