State Bar Releases Agenda of Legislative Priorities
February 1, 2012
Protecting the integrity of New York's courts against budget cuts during the faltering economy is the top priority on the 2012 legislative agenda of the New York State Bar Association.
State Bar Honors Many During Annual Meeting
January 31, 2012
A list of the awards presented or announced by the New York State Bar Association during the group's annual meeting.
Summit Participants Discuss Efforts to Find Competent Lawyers for Poor N.Y. Immigrants
January 30, 2012
Additional time and resources will be needed to improve legal representation of the poor in immigration courts, participants in a discussion at last week's annual meeting of the New York State Bar Association agreed.
Delegates Back Proposal to Seal Criminal Records
January 30, 2012
Defendants who are convicted of non-violent crimes but avoid future wrongdoing would get a fresh start under a proposal backed by the New York State Bar Association's House of Delegates.
After 20 Years, New Yorker Is in Line for ABA Presidency
January 30, 2012
Thirty-five years after he joined the ABA, James R. Silkenat was at the New York State Bar Association annual meeting last week to take a victory lap as he prepared to become the first New Yorker in more than 20 years to assume the presidency of the ABA.
State Court Funding Woes a Nationwide Problem, Panel Says
January 26, 2012
ABA president William T. Robinson III at the New York State Bar Association's annual meeting praised the group for highlighting in a recent report problems caused by $170 million in budget cuts. "I wish I could say that I was surprised about the conclusions of that report," said Mr. Robinson. "Sadly, I wasn't. I wish I could say that this is an isolated problem. It is not."
Annual Meeting of State Bar Begins Today
January 23, 2012
The meeting, which runs through Jan. 28, will feature forums on representing veterans; the impact of the Madoff fraud on international litigation; the implications of electronics-aided government searches; the state of residential foreclosures; and the burgeoning field of animal law.
NYSBA Annual Meeting
January 23, 2012
In this free Special Report from the New York Law Journal, members of the state judiciary and bar leaders discuss budget issues, the juvenile justice system, civil legal service funding, and other challenges and opportunities facing the profession.
