SAN FRANCISCO — Potential 2016 presidential candidate Hillary Clinton kicked off a series of speeches on Monday with a call to combat what she called an “assault on voting rights.” She spent most of her 45-minute talk to about 1,000 ...
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WASHINGTON — With the U.S. facing massive overcrowding in its prisons, Attorney General Eric Holder is calling for major changes to the nation’s criminal justice system that would scale back the use of harsh sentences for certain drug-related crimes. In ...
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Read More »More needs to be done to teach the nation’s youth the meaning of freedom and its history, U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice Anthony M. Kennedy told members of the American Bar Association on Saturday. He said freedom is a value ...
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Recognition of the judiciary’s funding plight by the other branches of government is one of the positive signs New York’s chief judge sees in helping address inadequate funding for the nation’s courts. “I think that the other branches see what’s ...
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Michael J. Ryan, the new president of the Bar Association of Erie County, plans to formalize pro bono services, particularly to veterans. Having served in the Army during the Vietnam War, Ryan is empathetic to the special needs of veterans ...
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Read More »The Rochester Hispanic Business Association, a Rochester Business Alliance affiliate, has named Ines Antonetti-Ferrer its 2013 Hispanic Business Person of the Year. Antonetti-Ferrer owns Ines’ Casa de Hair beauty salon on North Goodman Street, where she also serves as lead ...
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Read More »The Rochester Legal Diversity Clerkship Program was among three programs recognized last week by the American Bar Association Standing Committee on Bar Activities and Services. It will receive a 2013 ABA Partnership Award next month, along with the Dallas Bar ...
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Read More »Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts is the 2013 recipient of the 2013 Miriam Maccoby Netter Fellowship, the New York Bar Foundation announced Monday. Charles Chen, a legal fellow for Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts in New York City, will use ...
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Read More »Elizabeth A. Wolford, of Rochester, was honored June 22 in Cooperstown with the New York State Bar Association’s Root/Stimson Award for exemplary community service. The award, presented by state bar President David M. Schraver, is given by the Committee on ...
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Read More »State Bar Association President David M. Schraver of Rochester (Nixon Peabody) has appointed nine attorneys as chairs and co-chairs of committees within the association. The standing and special committees of the state bar sponsor conferences and seminars, monitor legislation and ...
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Read More »The Rochester Black Bar Association has completed its evaluation of 2013 judicial candidates. Its options include a qualification rating and a rating for racial/diversity sensitivity. The qualification scale includes HQ for highly qualified, Q as qualified and U for unqualified. ...
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Read More »A public defender who has devoted his career to criminal defense and the New York State Defenders Association are among four award recipients recognized by the Committee to Ensure Quality of Mandated Representation of the New York State Bar Association. ...
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