Push to consolidate New York courts gets mixed opening reviews

By JOE MAHONEY

November 14, 2019

Push to consolidate New York courts gets mixed opening reviews

11.14.2019

By JOE MAHONEY

The Lockport Union-Sun & Journal quoted President Greenberg on the importance of diversity with the Chief Judge’s court reform plan. (may require subscription)

 A restructuring of New York’s highly complex network of courts is long overdue, according to the system’s top administrators.

“If this was a private sector organization, it wouldn’t last six months,” Lawrence Marks, the state’s chief administrative judge, said at a legislative hearing in Manhattan this week.

It isn’t often the leaders of a governmental behemoth such as New York’s court system would advocate for a wholesale redesign of the bureaucracy they oversee.

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