The New York State Bar Association’s House of Delegates, its policymaking body, is moving its spring meeting this week from Albany to Rochester. “I’m looking forward to having the delegates join me in Rochester,” said President David M. Schraver of ...
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The state is failing to provide a constitutionally guaranteed civics education to its students, according to a new report by the New York State Bar Association, which calls for action by educators, lawmakers and the legal profession.
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Reducing costs, increasing diversity, meeting the needs of civil legal services and turning out more practice-ready lawyers are just a few of the ways the legal education system will need to change to meet the evolving challenges in the profession. ...
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Read More »David P. Miranda of Albany County is the next president-elect designee of the New York State Bar Association. The House of Delegates, the association’s governing body, elected Miranda on Friday during the NYSBA’s annual meeting in New York City. He ...
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Read More »The Conference of Bar Leaders, sponsored by the New York State Bar Association, has honored three bar associations with its 2013 Bar Leaders Innovation Awards. The awards recognize exemplary and creative programs sponsored during the past year by local, ethnic, ...
Read More »Rochester attorney Connie O. Walker is the 2014 recipient of the Kay Crawford Murray Award, given by the NYSBA’s Committee on Women in the Law. The award, which Walker received on Tuesday during the association’s annual meeting in New York ...
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Read More »The New York State Bar Association has honored eight attorneys and jurists for their contributions to the criminal justice community in 2013. The awards were presented Thursday by the bar association’s Criminal Justice Section. Winners are: • Frank A. Sedita ...
Read More »Darryl Gibbs of Manhattan, lead director and associate general counsel at AXA, is the recipient of the Diversity Trailblazer Award, given by the Committee on Diversity and Inclusion of the New York State Bar Association. Gibbs received his award on ...
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Read More »Fiona Sampson of Toronto, executive director of the Equality Effect, is the 2014 recipient of the Distinction in International Affairs Award, given Tuesday by the NYSBA’s International Section. The award recognizes those who have made a major contribution to international ...
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Read More »Seven newly appointed section chairs of the New York State Bar Association will take office during the state bar’s annual meeting this week. The 25 sections of the association publish material dealing with their fields of expertise, much of which ...
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Read More »The New York State Bar Association today is calling on state legislators, the courts and advocacy groups to undertake specific measures to enhance the prosecution of human traffickers and focus more attention on the care and treatment for victims. “It ...
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Read More »A simple technical measure to update a comment on a rule change brought a lot of comments Saturday from New York State Bar Association members at the fall meeting of the House of Delegates. Many remarks were not on the ...
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