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Greater Rochester Association for Women Attorneys installed a new board of directors, including Katherine Courtney as the 36th GRAWA president for the year beginning June 1, 2018. Women’s Bar Association of the State of New York President Amy Baldwin Littman ...

NEW YORK — A federal judge ruled Wednesday that President Donald Trump is violating the First Amendment when he blocks critics on Twitter because of their political views. U.S. District Judge Naomi Reice Buchwald in Manhattan stopped short in her ...

DETROIT — A Michigan Supreme Court justice has a message for judges who seem to seek vengeance: cool it, folks. Justice Bridget McCormack said judges should drop rhetoric that “would validly call into question judicial impartiality.” She said it’s important ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan and lawyer Paul Clement often find themselves on opposite sides of issues he argues and she helps decide at the high court. But at a recent event in Washington, Kagan and Clement ...

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The Erie County District Attorney’s Office is expected to continue to prosecute in the face of significant questions about the validity of a search that garnered key evidence. Sean Reed Jr., 30, pleaded guilty in May 2014 to second-degree criminal ...

Michael Rotondo refuses to move out of his parents’ house. So much so that the 30-year-old argued for a half-hour with a judge in Upstate New York on Tuesday, saying that while he knew his parents wanted him out of ...

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NEW YORK (AP) — A longtime business partner of President Donald Trump’s personal lawyer Michael Cohen, whose business dealings are being scrutinized by federal prosecutors, pleaded guilty on Tuesday in a state tax fraud case that requires him to cooperate ...

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NEW YORK (AP) — President Donald Trump wants New York’s highest court to delay a defamation suit filed by a former “Apprentice” contestant who accused him of unwanted groping and kissing. Trump’s lawyers filed notice late Monday that they’re asking ...

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WASHINGTON – The FBI agent who swore out a May 2017 search warrant in the investigation of Paul Manafort will be in federal court Wednesday to testify if needed as Manafort’s lawyers ask a judge to toss evidence seized last ...

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A federal grand jury has returned a 62-count indictment charging four men conspiracy to commit wire fraud and bank fraud, and substantive wire fraud and bank fraud charges. The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Western District of New York has ...

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A new survey shows that about half of law firms responding aren’t meeting their billable hour goals and remain slow to make changes to keep pace with a changing market. Over the past 10 years, Altman Weil’s 2018 Law Firms ...

A lawsuit against a company that gives jet boat rides on the Niagara River will likely move forward after a federal magistrate judge recommended dismissing only part of the complaint. Plaintiffs Sarah and Scott Witkowski initially filed a suit in ...