Month: May 2019

Smooth Moves 2019

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Congratulations to the George Bundy Smith Pioneer Award winners, Preet Bharara and Joon Kim! View the video gallery here.

With Diversity Stagnating, NYC Bar Association Launches Major Effort to Help Young Students Become Lawyers

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The New York Law Journal mentioned the New York City Bar’s outreach to NYSBA to improve diversity in the legal profession. (may require subscription) “Given the resources that the legal profession wields and the prominent and near universal calls for greater diversity in the profession, the lack of progress for Black/African American and Latinx attorneys … Continued

Buffalo Law Firms Aim to Make Inclusion Commonplace

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The Buffalo Law Journal mentioned Philips Lytle’s upcoming diversity reception in conjunction with NYSBA. (may require subscription) Netflix regularly makes headlines, but a recent story highlighted a piece of news outside its usual activity of turning the TV industry on its head. The company announced that Verna Myers was appointed to a new executive position. … Continued

Elizabeth Holtzman | The Case For Impeaching Trump

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EPISODE SUMMARY: Former four-term congresswoman, Elizabeth Holtzman discusses her book ‘The Case For Impeaching Trump’, how the Nixon impeachment serves as a precedent for Congress and what the Framers planned for when dealing with a ‘rogue president.’ She also details her experience unseating a 50-year incumbent in 1972 and holding the title of youngest women … Continued

Close New York’s Double Jeopardy Loophole

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The New York Law Journal published Immediate Past President Miller’s op ed on presidential pardons. (may require subscription) The president does not have the authority to pardon state offenses, but a presidential pardon could still put an end to a state prosecution. Under Article 40 of New York’s Criminal Procedure Law, double jeopardy attaches after … Continued

Report connects school suspensions with pipeline to prison

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WBFO quotes Past President Sharon Stern Gerstman on the Task Force on the School to Prison Pipeline. When Sharon Stern Gerstman was the State Bar Association president in waiting, she set up a task force on the pipeline and persuaded a wide array of people involved with the law and education to study the suspension … Continued

State Bar Association Adopts Measures Condemning the Federal Government Shutdown and Opposing Judiciary Law §470, Which Requires NY Lawyers to Maintain an Office in the State

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Legal luminaries like Benjamin N. Cardozo, and even former U.S. presidents like Dwight D. Eisenhower, all share a common bond special to the New York State Bar Association – they delivered addresses at Annual Meeting dinners. From 1877 to 1995, the Annual Dinner was the flagship event for NYSBA, sometimes drawing more than 1,000 people. … Continued

Is the Uniform Bar Exam creating underprepared lawyers?

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The National Jurist mentions NYSBA’s newly-created Task Force on the New York Bar Exam. After decades of administering its own bar exam, New York joined the growing majority of U.S. states in 2016 and switched to the Uniform Bar Exam (UBE) instead. Last month, however, the New York State Bar Association announced that, in response … Continued

Michael Miller | Free Expression Is the Bedrock of Society

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EPISODE SUMMARY: Michael Miller, the 121st President of the New York State Bar Association, discusses his ‘Law Day’ speech at the New York Court of Appeals and why it’s not hyperbole to evoke Hitler’s Germany, Stalin’s Russia, Mao’s China and the French Reign of Terror when talking the language used by the President of the … Continued