The Bar Association of Erie County will honor community members on Law Day at a luncheon to be held on May 1 at the Hyatt Regency hotel in Buffalo. Melinda G. Disare, president of the Bar Association, will present the ...
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Read More »The Monroe County Bar Association’s year’s Law Day celebration will take place over the course of a week this year. The “Law Week” celebration will have a past, present and future theme. The “past” theme will be embodied in a ...
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The 14th Amendment was enacted in 1868 in the aftermath of the Civil War. In what had been a fierce and ongoing constitutional battle between state rights and federal power, the 14th Amendment in essence made the federal courts the ...
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Read More »Today we celebrate the Fourteenth Amendment, which has become the heart of the constitutional system within which we live and practice our profession. Our constitution (lower case because I’m talking not about the document itself but about the makeup of ...
Read More »The spacious office of U.S. District Court Chief Judge Frank P. Geraci is filled with countless mementos of his nearly 40-year career. On one shelf are souvenirs of his beloved Boston Red Sox and another holds a sign that marked ...
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Read More »Thomas G. Smith developed a reputation for excellence as a trial lawyer who represented businesses, professionals, and trade associations in the courtroom. However, some of his best work — Humpty Dumpty v. The Greatwall Construction Company, for example — remains ...
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Read More »If Richard Dollinger’s application to be a reporter for a major newspaper such as the New York Times had been successful, he may never have gone on to become a lawyer, a New York Supreme Court justice and winner of ...
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Read More »When Lorna Affronti began her career as a one-woman family law practice in 1998, she made a decision that has shaped her career, her life and the lives of many children: She became a member of both the Monroe County ...
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Read More »Two local attorneys — Derrick Spatorico and Alissa Fortuna-Valentine — have been selected to receive the Volunteer Legal Services Project’s William E. McKnight Award. The award is named in honor of the first African-American partner at Nixon Peabody LLP. He ...
Read More »Law Day 2015 is being observed at noon today at the state Court of Appeals Hall in Albany where Chief Judge Jonathan Lippman is to announce a major reform affecting the legal community. Other speakers will include state Attorney General ...
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Read More »President Barack Obama on Thursday issued a proclamation to commemorate Law Day and the rule of law. “This Law Day, we celebrate a milestone in the extraordinary history of the rule of law by marking the 800th anniversary of the ...
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