Lippman (See Profile) said the administrative board also has adopted a new requirement that lawyers begin to self-report how many pro bono hours they provide and how much money they contribute to pro bono providers.
"Lawyers want to do the right thing and I think by making them report, they'll either put in the hours that they do or, if they're really sheepish about it and they haven't put in enough, they'll put in the big contributions to a legal services provider," Lippman said after his speech.
• Announced a committee to develop a pilot program that would allow people who cannot afford a lawyer to receive "low-cost" guidance from qualified non-attorneys on simpler legal matters. The committee will be chaired by Roger Maldonado of Balber Pickard Maldonado and Fern Schair of Fordham University School of Law.
• Promised to file legislation to require that the lender's attorney in a mortgage foreclosure action file a certificate declaring that there is a reasonable basis to begin the action at the initial filing of the summons and complaint rather than with the filing of a request for judicial intervention. This is aimed at the "shadow docket" of foreclosures that has developed in recent years.
• Announced the appointment of Robert Haig of Kelley Drye & Warren as chairman of a permanent Commercial Division Advisory Council that will review the recommendations of a recent task force (NYLJ, Jan. 24).
@|Joel Stashenko can be contacted at jstashenko@alm.com.
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Avon
The previous commenter has a bit of homework to do!
- Better read the US Constitution before proposing that anyone charged with a violent crime be automatically denied bail. We had a Revolution against the tyranny of a kingdom that presumed folks guilty til proven innocent. Let's not go there now.
- Better read the NY Constitution before proposing that the Chief Judge dictate laws about police procedure. (I personally doubt that Lippman would be silent for even two seconds if a case on videotaping all interrogations and police stops actually did come before the Court.)
- And we'd all probably better read the proposal that "'low-cost' guidance from qualified non-attorneys on simpler legal matters" be allowed. Guidance on simple matters is not necessarily legal advice. Helping someone do the Small Claims Court process is pretty common, and there ought to be more help like that out there. Let's see what the plan is before we decide how wrong it is, or isn't!
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Michael
Great...so now, in addition to the 'numerous arrests as a juevenile' we get to read about career criminals, we get the joy of having even more career criminals ROR'd or released with little bail? Guess it would make too much sense to simply say, anyone charged with a violent crime will not be afforded bail? And now, non-attorneys can give legal advice? Makes as much sense as requiring pro bono work, from students who aren't even attorneys yet. Lawyers protecting each other....even when they are old-as-dirt judges. Amazing how SILENT Judge Limpman has been on videotaping ALL INTERROGATIONS and utilizing DASH CAMS in police cars (guess irrefutable proof of guilt/innocence would take a lot of money from judicial coffers, huh?). At least his genius arse called the extra-judicial interviews in Queens Central Booking unconstitutional...oh wait, he didn't do that either. Seems these dopey judges prefer endangering the citizenry, with all the loopholes and tricks they are using to release EVEN MORE CAREER CRIMINALS back onto the streets. Bet if they lived next to the Judge, he would not do such inanity.
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