The New York State Attorney General’s office on Tuesday unveiled Project Sunlight 2.0, a revamped Web site that provides expanded access to information about state and local officials, legislation, campaign finance reports, member items in the state budget and interactive ...

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A new pilot program in Livingston County will allow lawyers to file certain cases in state court without leaving their offices. E-filing, long mandatory in the federal court system, is about to arrive in the Seventh Judicial District. A free ...

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When Lisa Huson started Brightskye Associates Inc. in 2001, she couldn’t foresee the ups and downs the real estate industry would experience. Still, she likes to think she was ahead of the times. Huson, broker/owner of Brightskye, operates a virtual ...

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Kids do it. Jurors do it. Even members of the bar do it. Online social networking is more than a time-killer, say some Rochester attorneys, who also use it increasingly as a marketing tool. Some larger law firms are resisting ...

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Lawyers and judges are well aware that many documents in civil and criminal lawsuits are missing from Monroe County’s public file, a violation of state law. Some say that’s because the rule spelling out the process for filing court papers ...

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The forensic science system is “badly fragmented” and needs major reforms and new research, according to a report issued last week by the National Research Council. Many existing forensic labs are underfunded and understaffed, and the reliability of forensic evidence ...

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The law firm of Nixon Peabody LLP plans to renovate its Downtown Rochester office to expand a technology center used by 825 attorneys in 19 offices around the world. The international firm, which began in Rochester in 1875, plans to ...

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Long gone are the days of pushpin maps, when police scoured bulging notebooks and thick paper files in the quest to link crime information and perpetrators. Crime fighters already using computer databases have a new resource in the Monroe Crime ...

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A 53-person committee from Rochester Institute of Technology that includes President William W. Destler and Board of Trustees Chairman Michael Morley visited the Silicon Valley last week for a series of meetings with companies like Adobe and Hewlett Packard. On ...

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A recent survey of 203 legal professionals found 95 percent of repondents felt confident their firm or company could locate all of the electronic records related to an investigation or lawsuit, but 82 percent noted possible problems with in-house document ...

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New security information desks at the Hall of Justice offer increased safety and comfort for deputies in the court’s hectic public corridors. The new enclosed stations were purchased by the Office of Court Administration for $8,400 and replaced simple office ...

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A Web site that provides information about free legal aid, legal rights and the courts is going one step further with a “live chat” feature. The site, www.LawHelp.org, is powered by the national nonprofit Pro Bono Net and already provides ...

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