Good afternoon Members, Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo today signed election reforms into law that he says will make it easier for New Yorkers to vote during the pandemic. The three-part package includes new measures allowing absentee ballot applications to be submitted to the Board of Elections immediately, permitting a voter to get an absentee ballot … Continued
On August 18, 1920, Tennessee became the 36th state to ratify the 19th Amendment, making women’s suffrage legal in the United States. To honor this historic moment in history, the Women in Law Section of the New York State Bar Association (NYSBA) recently hosted a webinar celebrating the 100th anniversary of women’s suffrage and the … Continued
“The State Bar Association has a long history of promoting equality in the law for LGBTQ people in all aspects of society,” said NYSBA President Scott M. Karson. “A married same-sex couple is a legally recognized family and NYSBA will continue to advocate to protect their rights.”
As a practicing attorney and licensed psychologist, I have observed many of my attorney colleagues who have suffered with anxiety and depression. However, acknowledgement of their suffering has been somewhat taboo. It is for this reason, when I was asked to be a member of the New York State Bar Association’s Task Force on Attorney … Continued
If one were designing the measure of damages recoverable for negligent tax advice, the most obvious element of recoverable damages would be the avoidable extra taxes caused by the negligence. After all, minimizing taxes is at the heart of a tax representation. In most states, such avoidable taxes are recoverable. The situation in New York … Continued
The New York State Board of Law Examiners has announced today that they are making arrangements to allow candidates to transfer scores earned on the remote bar exam to be held on Oct. 5-6, 2020.
In January 2020, the United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit, issued a decision in United States v. Varner,[1] that a federal court cannot require litigants, judges, court personnel or anyone else to refer to litigants using pronouns matching their gender identity. In the Varner decision, the Fifth Circuit sets forth three bases to support … Continued
Good afternoon Members, During her weekly Monday update, Chief Judge Janet DiFiore said that outside New York City, the state court system’s administrative, supervising and trial judges, along with other professional staff, are busy finalizing plans to restart jury trials in civil and criminal cases as early as September and October. “We have asked … Continued
Lynch discusses her involvement in the Louima prosecution and how some of the issues presented by the case are the same ones we’re facing today in a wide-ranging conversation on this week’s Miranda Warnings podcast.