The New York State Bar Association recommends restoring public faith in elections by removing patronage, instituting ethics rules, and requiring election workers be professionally trained.
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As Binghamton attorney Dick Lewis presides for the first time over the New York State Bar Association’s governing body, the House of Delegates, he is thinking about ways to help other lawyers. “If we make it easier for our members to practice law, it makes it easier for them to represent clients and therefore provides … Continued
In a unanimous decision issued today, the U.S. Supreme Court vacated a Second Circuit ruling involving a child custody case between an Italian father and an American mother. The father, represented by New York State Bar Association member Richard Min of Green Kaminer Min & Rockmore, was pleased with the high court ruling. Min represents … Continued
The New York State Bar Association calls upon President Joe Biden to immediately sign this important bill into law so Supreme Court justices can fully engage in their constitutional duty to issue rulings without fear or favor.
New York’s political world was turned upside down this year but it was not by a scandal or a resignation or an indictment. It was something much less salacious – the New York State Court of Appeals rejected the legislature’s newly-drawn election districts. The fallout was swift with new maps created by a court-appointed special … Continued
According to friends, colleagues, mentors and mentees, Levin Wallach, who became New York State Bar Association president on June 1, is the ideal leader because she engages and listens to people from radically different backgrounds, knows from experience how to rise to a challenge and brings good ideas to fruition.
To fill the void in regulation at the federal level, crypto companies have set their sights on the states to enact legislation. This seems an atypical move.
The world is facing a test, both as to international law and to the post-World War II world order.
The courts are cracking down on late discovery and no one is exempt, not even a former president of the United States.