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New attorneys are sworn in during the admission ceremony for the Fourth Judicial Department at Hyatt Regency in Rochester on Thursday. Click here for more photos and coverage. Click here for a link to the names of all the admitted ...

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Sometime jury members can’t come to an agreement in criminal cases. But when jurors are prepared to acquit a defendant on the most serious charges in a case, but are deadlocked on the lesser included charges, can a defendant be ...

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The American Bar Association is accepting submissions for its Battle of the Lawyer Bands Contest to be held at the 2012 annual meeting in June in Chicago. Detailed information and entry forms may be found on the association’s website at ...

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Charitable and public interest legal organizations will be able to host interns this summer under a new fellowship established by The New York Bar Foundation. Two organizations based in New York state will receive grants of $6,000 each to award ...

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Justice Henry J. Scudder, presiding justice of the Appellate Division, Fourth Department, has announced that 270 candidates will be sworn in as attorneys and counselors at law at the court’s bar admission ceremony at 2 p.m. Thursday at the Hyatt ...

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Charitable and public interest legal organizations will be able to host interns this summer under a new fellowship established by The New York Bar Foundation. Two organizations based in New York state will receive grants of $6,000 each to award ...

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The Foundation of the Monroe County Bar, in collaboration with the Eastman School of Music, is planning the second annual Jazz for Justice fundraiser. An evening of dinner and jazz is scheduled for March 23 at the Harro East Ballroom, ...

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A special 2012 Law Day program will feature American Bar Association President William T. “Bill” Robinson III. “We are the envy of all my bar colleagues,” said Mary C. Loewenguth, executive director of the Monroe County Bar Association who spoke ...

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Court underfunding is not just on the minds of New Yorkers. It was one of the major topics at the annual meeting of the American Bar Association, which wrapped up last Monday in New Orleans. The topic was addressed by ...

  A Buffalo attorney was honored recently by the American Bar Foundation at its 56th annual Fellows Awards Banquet in New Orleans. Sharon Stern Gerstman, counsel to Magavern Magavern Grimm LLP, received the Outstanding State Chair Award for “dedication to ...

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The American Bar Association Monday selected New York City attorney James R. Silkenat to become its president-elect designee, putting him in line to become the first New Yorker to lead the ABA in 25 years. Silkenat, a partner at Sullivan ...

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The growing complexity and number of wage and hour cases are behind the establishment of a new New York State Bar Association committee. Patrick J. Solomon, a founding partner of the Rochester firm Thomas & Solomon LLP, has been tapped ...

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