The Rochester Black Bar Association released its ratings of five judicial candidates seeking judgeships in Monroe County.
Read More »Rochester-area legal organizations announce judicial candidate evaluations
Two Rochester-area legal organizations have released their judicial candidate evaluations for upcoming elections.
Read More »RBBA rates three judicial candidates
The Rochester Black Bar Association (RBBA) has released the following ratings for three judicial candidates: State Supreme Court: Monroe County Court Judge Christopher Ciaccio, Highly Qualified, Highly Sensitive Rochester City Court: Michael Lopez, Highly Qualified, Highly Sensitive Monroe County Family ...
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Read More »RBBA president wants to develop new leaders
The new president of the Rochester Black Bar Association wants to mark the organization’s 25th anniversary with an effort to develop new leaders in the community. “I have a vision for the organization, for where we can go and how to ...
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Read More »Three bars join together to raise important discussion at CLE: diversity, inclusion and retention
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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Read More »Sheila Gaddis receives Bridge Builder Award
The Rochester Black Bar Association continues to demonstrate its dedication to building bridges and breaking down barriers in the community. The Bridge Builder Award, now in its seventh year, was presented to Sheila A. Gaddis on Thursday at a “Bridges ...
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Read More »Advice for employers, employees about social media
As an employer, what avenues of social media can be used to learn about job applicants? Is an employee’s online comment (made on personal time from his home computer) about an employer protected under the National Labor Relations Act? How ...
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Read More »Douglass and Anthony continue to inspire
Even though it has been more than 100 years since Frederick Douglass and Susan B. Anthony died, a lot of the causes they valiantly fought for are still issues today. Their spirts — in the forms of professional impersonators in ...
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Read More »Contributions of black attorneys highlight RBBA MLK program
They may not have known it before Thursday, but more than 200 students at Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. School No. 9 in the city of Rochester now know they have several role models nationally and right in their own ...
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Read More »RBBA turns leadership over to Aaron Frazier
Aaron T. Frazier, like his immediate predecessors, has ambitious plans for his one-year term as president of the Rochester Black Bar Association. One of the bigger goals is to get people of color elected to some of the higher courts ...
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Read More »On the Town: RBBA families attend first ‘Meet and Greet’
Members of the Rochester Black Bar Association took time out May 17 to get to know each other a little better during their first Family Meet and Greet. President Fatimat O. Reid said about 40 people attended the special event ...
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Read More »RBBA rates judicial candidates
The Rochester Black Bar Association has released the rating results of evaluation of three candidates seeking judicial office for Rochester City Court and one candidate seeking the Monroe County Surrogate’s Court judgeship. Monroe County Surrogate’s Court • The Hon. John ...
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