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Buffalo attorney Vincent E. Doyle III, a partner at Connors & Vilardo LLP, will receive the 2012 Lawyer of the Year Award at the Bar Association of Erie County’s 125th annual dinner on Wednesday at the Hyatt Regency Buffalo. The ...

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Fifteen new section chairs of the New York State Bar Association took office on Friday. The 25 sections of the state bar publish material dealing with their fields of expertise, much of which is not available through commercial publishers. Sections ...

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David M. Schraver, a commercial litigation partner at Nixon Peabody LLP’s Rochester office, will become president of the New York State Bar Association in 2013. He has already been involved with new President Seymour W. James Jr. since being nominated ...

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Improving voter participation in elections and prisoner re-entry into society are among the issues Seymour W. James Jr. wants to address as part of an ambitious agenda in his one-year term as president of the New York State Bar Association. ...

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Seymour W. James Jr. of Brooklyn, a 38-year veteran of The Legal Aid Society of New York, assumes office today as the 115th president of the New York State Bar Association. James succeeds Vincent E. Doyle III of Buffalo (Connors ...

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The Rochester Black Bar Association has completed its evaluation of the 2012 judicial candidates. As with prior years, rating options include a qualification rating and a rating for racial/diversity sensitivity. The qualification scale includes the following options: HQ-highly qualified, Q-qualified ...

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If any member of the legal profession is required to provide free services, one Rochester attorney plans to quit doing pro bono work as a form of protest. Andrew J. Dick, a solo practitioner, said Chief Judge Jonathan Lippman’s plan ...

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Rochester attorney Lucien A. Morin II was honored last week when the New York State Bar Association presented its 2012 President’s Pro Bono Service Awards at its annual Law Day luncheon at the State Bar Center in Albany. Lucien, a ...

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Jonathan Riddix, a law student at the Maurice A. Deane School of Law at Hofstra University, is the 2012 recipient of the Commercial and Federal Litigation Section Minority Summer Fellowship, The New York Bar Foundation announced today. As the recipient ...

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The Judicial Evaluation Committee of the Greater Rochester Association for Women Attorneys has released its evaluation of seven judicial candidates running for seats on the state Supreme Court, Monroe County Family Court and Rochester City Court. Each was found qualified ...

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Sixty-seven organizations across New York State have received grants totaling $450,000, the New York Bar Foundation announced today. “We are pleased to support law-related projects that benefit individuals, families and communities in New York state,” said Bar Foundation President M. ...

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Buffalo attorney Vincent E. Doyle III, president of the New York State Bar Association, will deliver the keynote address at the Bar Association of Erie County’s 2012 Law Day luncheon on Monday at the Hyatt Regency Buffalo. The luncheon will ...

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