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New York State Bar Association To Host Program To Aid Human Trafficking Victims, Connect Lawyers With Pro Bono Opportunities
Human trafficking – labor that is forced through fraud or coercion – is often hidden in plain sight. From 2007 to 2021, the New York State Interagency Task Force on Human Trafficking identified 2,137 victims in the state including more…
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Nationally Recognized Leader in Professional Responsibility Nancy Moore To Be Honored With the Sanford D. Levy Award
Boston University School of Law Professor Nancy Moore will be honored with the Sanford D. Levy Professional Ethics Award from the New York State Bar Association’s Committee on Professional Ethics for her lifetime of work. She will be presented with…
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Ethics Opinion 1265: Conflicts of interest
TOPIC: Conflicts of interest, former clients DIGEST: A lawyer formerly employed by a Legal Aid Society office would not have a conflict in representing a client in a matter adverse to a party who had been represented by other lawyers…
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How Do You Get to Mock Trial States? Practice, Practice, Practice
You can sum up the philosophy of the Jericho High School Mock Trial team after winning the Region VII championships last month: Practice. Adults and students alike say their focus and determination has paid off this season. “This group of…
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What the Defense Strategy Was in the Successful Harvey Weinstein Appeal
The New York State Bar Association is re-releasing an episode of the Miranda Warnings podcast from 2020 about the defense strategy in the criminal case against Hollywood film mogul Harvey Weinstein. In April 2024 the New York State Court of…
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President Richard Lewis Delivers Remarks on Freedoms Shared by All Americans During Law Day Celebration at Court of Appeals
Good morning. It’s great to be here on behalf of the tens of thousands of New York State Bar Association members. I am honored to be among today’s distinguished guests including: Our Chief Judge Rowan Wilson Barbara Underwood, Solicitor General…
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Trust, Community, Family Propels Ward Melville High School Mock Trial Team to Regional Title
“What is really special about our team is how much trust we have in one another,” says Ward Melville High School Mock Trial captain Ella O’Connor. “We always trust each other to show up to practice, ready to work. We…
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The Lurking Risk in Arbitrations of Producing – and Clawing Back – Privileged Documents
Sophisticated litigators have come to rely on court-ordered stipulations that allow them to claw back otherwise privileged materials that were inadvertently produced. There are cogent reasons why counsel in arbitrations should enter similar stipulations that create the presumption that privileged…
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Deciding To Arbitrate After Consumer Disputes Arise
The Context On Sept. 13, 2023, nonprofit organizations and consumer law professors submitted a petition urging the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau to allow consumers to decide whether to arbitrate their consumer disputes after the dispute arises.[1] This is one more…
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How Antidiscrimination Laws Apply to Employees Who Work Remotely
Introduction With the rise of remote work since the COVID-19 outbreak, courts will be asked to grapple anew with a perennial question: whether state and local antidiscrimination laws apply to workers who are not physically present in the jurisdiction. In…
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