This is a small, but potentially important, step in the direction of making a career in the law possible for far more students and enabling law schools to innovate and differentiate for everyone’s benefit.
NYSBA helps you find a job, build confidence, and hone your craft. It’s a safe place to test drive all your skills without running the risk of failure. You can’t pilot this career alone.
What is New York State doing to protect the reproductive healthcare rights of New Yorkers and patients from other states? Do our laws protect healthcare providers? What resources are available?
The Women in Law Section of the New York State Bar Association urges members of Congress from all parties to pass federal legislation protecting freedom of choice and the rights of women, and to block any federal abortion ban.
In its ruling overturning Roe v. Wade, a precedent that has stood for nearly 50 years, the U.S. Supreme Court has severely limited the civil rights of all American women. The court has overturned precedent before, but every other time the court was driven by the desire to expand individual rights — not to take them away.
The New York State Bar Association presented Sierra K. Sanchez with the inaugural Ruth Bader Ginsburg Memorial Scholarship during its House of Delegates meeting at the New York Hilton Midtown in Manhattan.
Four-term Congresswoman Stacey Plaskett will receive the New York State Bar Association’s inaugural Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg Beacon Award and Evan Wolfson, founder of Freedom to Marry, will receive the John E. Higgins Diversity Trailblazer Award on April 1 at the New York Hilton Midtown in Manhattan as the association celebrates diversity in the legal profession.
Failing to be an advocate is a disservice to your firm, your clients and yourself.
Lawyers, especially trial attorneys, can learn and grow from every person they meet.
What color do you see? You may have seen this picture circulating online years ago. You may swear it’s blue and black. Others will say it’s definitely gold and white. When you and your co-workers have differences, do you acknowledge and respect those differences? This is one of several examples shown during a recent webinar presented … Continued