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Legal Aid Society of Rochester leader retiring
Attorney Carla M. Palumbo, president and CEO of The Legal Aid Society of Rochester, will retire at the end of 2026, after 42 years with the organization.
Telesca Center for Justice names new executive director
A former executive director of the Monroe County Bar Association has been appointed executive director of the Telesca Center for Justice.
On the Town: What to do: Pro bono civil legal service needs exceed resources
Volunteer Legal Services Project handles about 1,260 cases per year. However, that only serves about 25 percent of the clients seeking civil legal services in the Rochester area. How […]
New rule allows out-of-state attorneys to offer free services
A rule change authorizing out-of-state attorneys employed as in-house counsel in New York to provide free legal services to underserved communities goes into effect this week. Announced Monday by Chief […]
Judge Lippman brings hearing series to Buffalo
When Ursula M. Anderson, a retired doctor living in Cattaraugus County, was scammed by a roofing contractor three years ago, she did not know where to turn. She had gotten […]
Lippman schedules fall hearings
New York state Chief Judge Jonathan Lippman will be conducting his annual hearings on civil legal services beginning Sept. 17 in Albany when he will hear a panel in the […]
IOLA funds still impacted by slow economy
Low-interest rates and lingering effects of the economic downturn continue to impact the Interest on Lawyer Account funding for civil legal services programs in New York. Awards for 2012 were […]
Lippman participates in White House forum
Nonlawyers could soon be helping the New York legal community in its efforts to try to meet civil legal service needs. Chief Judge Jonathan Lippman told a panel in Washington, […]
Pro Bono Task Force offers recommendations
Cooperation is key among the many recommendations of a special task force to best increase pro bono involvement by all lawyers to help meet the nation’s civil legal services needs. […]
Chief Judge Lippman: On the record
The thing Chief Judge Jonathan Lippman finds most surprising about the testimony he has heard in a series of hearings on civil legal services is the depth of the need. […]
Task force focus on civil legal service needs
When Cheri Caiella’s son returned from serving in the military, he looked like the same person who had left, but it quickly became obvious to her that he had greatly […]
State announces civil legal services awards
The Oversight Board for Judiciary Legal Services in New York recently announced $25 million in awards in 60 different programs. Among Fourth Department recipients for the 2010-13 period are: […]
Case Digests
- Fourth Department – Termination of parental rights: Matter of Kal-El F.
- Court of Appeals – Probation: People v. Brazeal; People v. Lora
- Fourth Department – Certificate of compliance: People v. Crews
- Fourth Department – Traffic stop: — Vehicle identification People v. Camber
- Court of Appeals – Public works projects: Walton, et al. v. Comfort Systems USA (Syracuse) Inc.
- Second Circuit – Malicious prosecution: Chapdelaine v. Desjardin
- Fourth Department – Collateral estoppel: Busch v. County of Erie, et al.
- Court of Appeals – Best evidence rule: People v. Coggins
- Fourth Department – Unlawful inventory search: People v. Boatwright
- Second Circuit – Fossil-fuel powered appliances: Assoc. of Contracting Plumbers v. CNY; Mulhem Gas Co., v. Mosley
- Fourth Department – Dismissal of the indictment: People v. Anderson
Law News
- Rochester man accused of threatening President Trump’s son
- Legal Aid Society of Rochester leader retiring
- NY appeals court overturns weapon conviction on discovery issue
- Genesee Valley Club to pay $1.05M to settle federal case
- Major Rochester-area auto dealer accused of fraud in federal loan program
- Rochester attorney Donald O. Chesworth Jr. has died
- Split NY appeals court affirms conviction in kidnapping of daughter
- Greece man accused of stealing from class-action settlement funds
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