Everyone can use a little help now and then, but finding it in the legal community just got a little easier. A growing network of volunteers is ready to offer comfort to colleagues facing a sudden catastrophic event such as ...

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The Monroe County Bar Association invited members of the legal community to an open forum for discussion on the judicial evaluation process on Wednesday. Bryan D. Hetherington, chief counsel with Empire Justice Center and chair of the Judicial Evaluation Task ...

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The smiles on the faces of the elementary school children receiving hats and mittens Tuesday brought extra warmth to the hearts of the distributors. As part of its joint project with the Adlai E. Stevenson School No. 29, members of ...

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The Greater Rochester Association for Women Attorneys sponsored a two-credit CLE titled “Marriage Equality: Implications and Ramifications for the LGBT Community” on Sept. 13. June Castellano, past president of both the Monroe County Bar Association ...

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Sean Carter was working as in house counsel for a Southern California mortgage company in 2002 when he realized it wasn’t what he wanted to do and much preferred comedy instead. So he began performing stand-up in clubs but it, too, posed a problem.

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Former Chief Justice Judith S. Kaye was in town Tuesday for two events sponsored by the Young Lawyers Section of the Monroe County Bar Association.

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The Young Lawyers Section of the Monroe County Bar Association is hosting an evening of events to inspire community awareness and fundraising for the Rochester Teen Court, a diversion program operated through the Center for Youth for young adults who commit first-time, non-violent crimes.

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The New York State Bar supports same sex marriage legislation in New York, former President Bill Clinton supports it, Gov. Andrew Cuomo supports it, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg supports it and last week the board of the Monroe County Bar Association voted to support it, too.

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The Monroe County Bar Association is reviewing its process of rating judicial candidates. President Susan Schultz Laluk said the process is periodically reviewed, but the process of bar associations evaluating the candidates ...

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The Monroe County Bar Association has released the rating results of two additional judicial candidates for Monroe County Court. The association has rated ...

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Attorneys Elena Hyman of Thomson Reuters and Melanie Wolk of Goldberg Segalla join Lynn Alpaugh, paralegal with Underberg & Kessler, to hand out backpacks with school supplies to students at Adlai E. Stevenson School 29 in Rochester

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The Foundation of the Monroe County Bar this week announced the award of four grants totaling more than $20,000 to support benefiting the Monroe County Bar Association and the Rochester area.

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