In her biweekly address, Chief Judge Janet DiFiore said that the return to full court operations is progressing smoothly and “we are making significant strides to improve court access, efficiency and productivity in many of our courts.”
One of my goals as president of the New York State Bar Association is to share my experience and the value of membership with as many lawyers as not only I can personally reach but that the association can reach.
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Sherry Levin Wallach, president of the New York State Bar Association, issued the following statement about final passage of the Court Notification Bill (A9877A/S2903), which requires defense counsel to warn immigrants taking a plea deal that they could face deportation or exclusion from citizenship.
Sherry Levin Wallach, deputy executive director of the Legal Aid Society of Westchester County, will be sworn in as the 125th president of the New York State Bar Association on June 1 by Chief Judge Janet DiFiore.
The New York State Bar Association commends the president for doing everything within his power to reform federal police agencies, such as the FBI, but sadly, the executive order will have little impact on state and local police departments where reform is desperately needed.
To combat the epidemic of gun violence in America, the New York State Bar Association has a comprehensive report with recommendations for legislative reforms.
The mass shooting at a Texas elementary school in a mostly Hispanic neighborhood, coming on the heels of a racially motived mass shooting in Buffalo, is a grim reminder of our country’s ongoing failure to combat hatred and gun violence.
Chief Judge Janet DiFiore discussed the “senseless, racially-motivated act of violence that took the lives of 10 innocent community members who were simply going about their ordinary Saturday afternoon chores in the City of Buffalo on May 14.”
Screven, the first African-American television reporter and news anchor in Albany, joined us in July 2018 to look back at his career on the first season of Miranda Warnings.