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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This is a big year for Susan Schultz Laluk. She’s being installed Tuesday as the 115th president of the Monroe County Bar Association, a role she’ll assume July 1, which also is the day she embarks ...

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New York State Chief Judge Jonathan Lippman, in Rochester on June 10, called for systemic change in the delivery of civil legal representation for the state’s poor, and has appointed a 28-person task force to deal with the problem.

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In a lunchtime speech Friday before the Monroe County Bar Association, U.S. Rep. Louise Slaughter focused on national and regional economic issues, especially a proposal for high-speed rail project funded by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act ...

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New methods of news delivery offer new opportunities, for readers — customers — and for news-gathering organizations, Thomas G. Curley, president and CEO of The Associated Press, told those gathered Friday at the Monroe County Bar Association.

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When Monroe County Bar Association Executive Director Mary Corbitt was recently notified that she had been named the recipient of the MCBA’s 2010 Humanitarian award, she said she was “floored.”

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