New York State Bar Association President T. Andrew Brown has been appointed president of Ascend Wellness Holdings (AWH) New York as the company seeks regulatory approval to develop an adult-use cannabis program in the state, the company announced today.
Most firms found that remote work did not impact productivity, although those unable to create a separate office space faced greater challenges. Similarly, most felt that client service levels did not decline. But many have missed the collaborative and collegial aspects of in office activity.
As with all matters of ethical compliance, lawyers should carefully review their specific state’s ethical rules and statutes regarding cannabis to ensure they do not run afoul of their ethical obligations.
The woefully inadequate rates have resulted in a mass exodus of attorneys from assigned counsel panels and, more importantly, are argued to be reason for continuous constitutional violations of our state’s most vulnerable populations.
The live public forum, “How Structural Racism Built Today’s Education, Health and Economic Outcomes,” will focus on the history of systemic racism and its impact on health care, economic opportunities and education.
Law firm partners and S corporation investors who were hit hard financially by the Trump Administration’s tax reforms may be able to get some relief thanks to a relatively new provision in the New York Tax Code, but the firms must act by Oct.15 to take advantage of it this year.
The New York State Bar Association is launching a Task Force on the Treatment of Transgender Youth in Sports to examine the constitutional, scientific, and social justice implications of laws passed around the country that ban or severely limit the participation of transgender athletes in school sports.
As New York prepares to welcome Afghan refugees who have fled the Taliban regime, a new book traces the history of a largely successful but little-known federal resettlement program that has benefitted both the refugees and the upstate New York communities in which they settled.
On December 31, 2021, Associate Judge of the Court of Appeals Eugene M. Fahey’s 27-year career on the bench will end due to his attaining mandatory retirement age.
As the national debate over immigration continues and intensifies, the question of whether refugees contribute to a community’s vitality or drain the community’s resources continues to be debated. The more than 1,000 Afghani refugees likely to be resettled in upstate New York has again brought the issue to the fore.