The festive mood was contagious at the annual Monroe County Bar Association’s Bench and Bar Holiday gathering on Dec. 7. Held at the Legacy Tower Wintergarden once again, passed hors d’ oeuvres and five or six food stations made for...

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On Sept. 25, the three local bar associations — The Monroe County Bar Association (MCBA), The Rochester Black Bar Association (RBBA) and The Greater Rochester Association for Women Attorneys (GRAWA) — hosted a CLE program titled “Diversity, Inclusion and Retention: ...

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The Monroe County Bar Association on Thursday installed new officers, recognized longtime members and honored several award recipients at the organization’s annual dinner at the Hyatt Regency Rochester. About 300 people attended the event where Jill Cicero was sworn in ...

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The economic decline of the legal market since the Great Recession is old news to most lawyers, but experts say the significance of the changes has not been fully accepted and many firms have done little to prepare for the ...

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On June 14, from noon to 2 p.m., the Monroe County Bar Association will present a program entitled “The Economic Decline of the Legal Marketplace: What, If Anything, Can Lawyers and Law Firms Do About It?” This ominous title is ...

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The time has arrived in which I write my last column as MCBA president. It has been a rewarding year in which we accomplished a lot with the help of a fully engaged board of trustees and executive committee, a ...

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The Monroe County Bar Association’s annual dinner on June 22 will be a bittersweet event for incoming President Jill M. Cicero. Not only will Cicero be installed as leader of the organization, but she also will accept the Charles F. ...

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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 ...

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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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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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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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The Monroe County Bar Association has done away with judicial candidate ratings, a process widely regarded as flawed and ineffective. “The rankings caused more damage than they were worth,” said Christopher Thomas, an attorney at Nixon Peabody and a member ...

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