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Recent News from New York State Bar Association
Committee on Animals and the Law Announces New Program to Ensure Care for Pets of Hospitalized Patients
The New York State Bar Association’s Special Committee on Animals and the Law announced today a new voluntary program that ensures the pets of hospitalized patients will be given proper care while the patient focuses on his or her health and well...
New York State Bar Hosts Free Legal Seminars Across The State To Assist The Elderly
To assist New Yorkers with the task of getting their legal documents current and in order, the New York State Bar Association's Elder Law Section is focusing its 2008 Mitchell Rabbino Decision Making Day programs on helping elderly New Yorkers ans...
State Bar Presents Forum on Race and Education "A Rehearing of Brown v. Board of Education"
The State Bar Association, in conjunction with Albany Law School, Government Law Center, New York State United Teachers, and the Capital District Black and Hispanic Bar Association, will present “A Rehearing of Brown v Board of Education” on May 6...
New York State Bar Association Celebrates Law Day
New York State Bar Association President Kathryn Grant Madigan (Levene Gouldin & Thompson LLP) today urged the legal community to reevaluate its role in ensuring that the state’s most vulnerable citizens – the poor, the frail elderly, and children...
2008 President's Pro Bono Service Award Winners Announced
Domestic violence victims seeking to end their marriages, senior citizens in need of assistance with their estates, and asylum seekers who have fled persecution in their home countries all benefited last year from the legal assistance of some of t...
State Bar Honors Two Advocates for Excellence in Juvenile Justice and Child Welfare
The New York State Bar Association’s Committee on Children and the Law will present the 22nd annual Howard A. Levine Award for Excellence in Juvenile Justice and Child Welfare, at a reception on April 24, 2008, at the State Bar Center in Albany at...
New York State Bar Association Offers Health Insurance to Members
The New York State Bar Association today announced that it is partnering with USI Bertholon-Rowland and MVP Health Care, a leading benefits provider throughout New York State, to offer a new benefit to members -- a comprehensive health insurance p...
New York State Bar Association Launches Radio Campaign
The New York State Bar Association unveiled its latest radio campaign, “Protecting our Rights, Protecting Our Courts,” featuring radio spots that focus on two key issues: educating the public on the important role the judiciary plays in our system...
The New York Bar Foundation Announces Charitable and Educational Grant Awards
At its most recent meeting, the Board of Directors of The New York Bar Foundation awarded grants in the aggregate of $304,333 to nonprofit and other organizations across New York State to fund 35 law-related programs. Foundation president Joh...
Executive Director of New York City Legal Referral Service Receives the Angelo T. Cometa Award
The New York State Bar Association presented Allen Jay Charne, the Executive Director of the New York City Legal Referral Service (LRS) since 1985, with the 2008 Angelo T. Cometa Award. Charne received wide recognition for his efforts in coordinat...
Fordham Law School Student Ji Zhang To Receive Commercial And Federal Litigation Section Minority Fellowship
Fordham Law School student, Ji Zhang, has been chosen as the 2008 recipient of the Commercial and Federal Litigation Section Minority Fellowship administered by The New York Bar Foundation. The $5,000 award is available to first-year law students ...
State Bar Section Hosts Forum on Advancement of Minority Litigators
On Monday, April 7, 2008, at the Kaplan Penthouse, Samuel B. and David Rose Building, Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, the New York State Bar Association’s Commercial and Federal Litigation Section is sponsoring “Smooth Moves II: Career Alt...
State Bar Association Calls For End To Stalemate On Judicial Pay
At a press conference held today at the New York State Bar Association’s Bar Center in Albany, Association President-Elect Bernice K. Leber of Manhattan (Arent Fox LLP) called on the Governor and Legislators to include a long overdue pay raise for...
New York State Bar Association Urges Governor And Legislature To Make Access To Justice A Budget Priority
In a letter sent yesterday to Governor David A. Paterson, and in letters to every member of the State Legislature, the New York State Bar Association urged adequate funding for civil legal services to be restored as part of the on-going budget neg...
Hundreds of High School Students to Spend Saturday Exploring American Politics
Nearly 250 New York high school scholars will gather Saturday, March 8 2008, at the Desmond Hotel in Colonie, New York, to compete in simulated Congressional hearings as part of the State Finals of the We the People competition. We the People: the...
State Bar Seeks Nominees for Community Service Award
The New York State Bar Association is seeking nominees for its 2008 Root/Stimson Award, which is presented annually to a lawyer who has demonstrated a significant, positive impact in the community, state or nation, unrelated to the practice of law...
State Bar Association Seeks Nominees for 18th Annual President's Pro Bono Service Awards
The New York State Bar Association is seeking nominees for the 18th annual President’s Pro Bono Service Awards. The prestigious awards are bestowed each year upon attorneys who best illustrate the legal profession’s commitment to provide all New Y...
New York Bar Foundation Receives $15,000 Gift to Establish Intellectual Property Law Section Fellowships
The New York Bar Foundation has received a gift of $15,000 from the Intellectual Property Law Section of the New York State Bar Association to establish three Intellectual Property Law Fellowships for law students. The Fellowships, valued at $5,00...
New York State Bar Association Wins National Law Day Award
The New York State Bar Association’s “Youth Empowering Youth,” program was honored by the American Bar Association at its mid- year meeting this week in Los Angeles as one of the winners of the ABA’s 2007 Outstanding Law Day Activity Award. New Yo...
USI/Bertholon-Rowland To Donate $50,000 To New York Bar Foundation For Anne B. Keenan Memorial Fund
USI/Bertholon-Rowland, New York, one of the largest nationwide providers of association-sponsored insurance, has contributed a $50,000 gift to The New York Bar Foundation to establish the endowed Anne B. Keenan Memorial Fund. Annual distributions ...
State Bar Wins National Support From ABA on Key Recommendation
The American Bar Association’s (ABA) House of Delegates has endorsed a recommendation sponsored by the New York State Bar Association at its mid-year meeting in Los Angeles. The NYSBA recommendation pledging continued support for the Pakistani be...
NYSBA Wins National Support From ABA
The American Bar Association’s (ABA) House of Delegates today has endorsed a recommendation sponsored by the New York State Bar Association at its mid-year meeting in Los Angeles. A NYSBA recommendation on finding innovative ways to finance long-...
New York State Bar Calls for an Increase in Funding of Services for the Poor
Increased funding for civil legal services for the poor, the adoption of a judicial salary increase and a commission to regularly review judicial pay, and reforming the way long term care is financed were key aspects of testimony submitted today b...
Nominees Sought for 2008 Levine Award for Excellence in Juvenile Justice and Child Welfare
The New York State Bar Association is seeking nominations for the 2008 Howard A. Levine Award for Excellence in Juvenile Justice and Child Welfare. The award is sponsored by the Association’s Committee on Children and the Law and will be presen...
State Bar Presents 2007 Ruth Schapiro Memorial Award To Honorable Jacqueline Silbermann
The New York State Bar Association today announced that the Honorable Jacqueline Winter Silbermann has been awarded the 2007 Schapiro Memorial Award. Silbermann will be honored at today’s House of Delegates Meeting. Silbermann currently serv...
Donna Lieberman Receives New York State Bar Association’s Haywood Burns Award
Donna Lieberman, Executive Director of the New York Civil Liberties Union (NYCLU), has been selected to receive the 11th annual Haywood Burns Memorial Award from the New York State Bar Association. The award, co-sponsored by the Association’s C...
Schenectady Attorney Receives State Bar Association’s Professionalism Award
Attorney Peter V. Coffey (Englert, Coffey, McHugh and Fantauzzi, LLP) has been selected to receive the 2008 Attorney Professionalism Award from the New York State Bar Association. The award, sponsored by the Association’s Committee on Attorney ...
David A. Kochman Earns State Bar Association’s Outstanding Young Lawyer Award
David A. Kochman, a 28-year old associate of Anderson Kill & Olick (New York), has been selected to receive the 2008 Outstanding Young Lawyer Award by the New York State Bar Association’s Young Lawyer Section, Section Chair Valerie M. Cartright - ...
Schenectady Attorney Receives State Bar Association’s Professionalism Award
Attorney Peter V. Coffey (Englert, Coffey, McHugh and Fantauzzi, LLP) has been selected to receive the 2008 Attorney Professionalism Award from the New York State Bar Association. The award, sponsored by the Association’s Committee on Attorney ...
2008 Criminal Justice Award Recipients Honored
The New York State Bar Association’s Criminal Justice Section * will present its annual Awards for Outstanding Achievement today at 12:30 p.m. at the Upper Terrace and Marquis C, 9th Floor of the Marriott Marquis in Manhattan. Norman P. Effman of...
State Bar's International Law and Practice Section Honors Pakistani Legal Community
The Lawyers and Judges of Pakistan, as represented by Aitzaz Ahsan in absentia, have been selected to receive the 2008 Award for Distinction in International Affairs from the New York State Bar Association. The award, sponsored by the Association...
State Bar Association’s Commercial & Federal Litigation Section to Honor Retired Judge of the Court of Appeals
The New York State Bar Association’s Commercial and Federal Litigation Section will present its annual Stanley H. Fuld Award to Associate Judge of the Court of Appeals, Albert M. Rosenblatt, who served on the court from 1998 until his retirement i...
State Bar Association Honors Pioneer for Advancement of Women Attorneys
The New York State Bar Association’s Committee on Women in the Law will present its first-annual Kay Crawford Murray award to the award’s namesake, Kay C. Murray. The honor, which will be presented every year at the Association’s annual meeting in...
State Bar Honors Two Ethics Experts for Excellence in Public Service
Two noted members of the legal profession have been selected to receive the 2008 Attorneys in Public Service Award from the New York State Bar Association. Mark L. Davies, Executive Director and Counsel to the New York City Conflicts of Interest B...
Legal Counsel For MetLife Receives State Bar’s 2008 Diversity Trailblazer Award
The New York State Bar Association will present its Diversity Trailblazer Award to Taa Grays, of New York City. Ms. Grays, Assistant General Counsel with MetLife’s Litigation Unit, will receive the award on Monday, January 28, at the Marriott Marq...
Sandra Day O’Connor Receives State Bar’s Gold Medal Award
Sandra Day O’Connor, the first woman and the 102nd person to sit on the Supreme Court of the United States, was honored with the New York State Bar Association’s Gold Medal Award on Saturday, February 2 at the conclusion of the Association’s Annua...
NYS Conference Of Bar Leaders Recognizes Local Bar Associations With Awards Of Merit
The New York State Conference of Bar Leaders has announced the winners of its 2007 Awards of Merit for local bar associations. The awards honor local bars for their public service and innovative programming to enhance the public’s understanding of...
Media Advisory for New York State Bar Association's 2008 Annual Meeting
TO: Editors, Assignment Editors, and Reporters FROM: Brandon Vogel, Media Writer, Media Services & Public Affairs 518-487-5535 SUBJECT: 2008 New York State Bar Association Annual Meeting WHERE: New York Marriott Marquis Hotel (Broa...
Statement from New York State Bar Association President Kathryn Grant Madigan
“As the New York State Bar Association argued in an amicus brief before the United States Supreme Court, the convention based process for selecting judges severely burdens the rights of voters and judicial candidates. The decision by the Court tod...
Nominees Sought for 2008 Angelo T. Cometa Award
The New York State Bar Association is seeking nominations for the Angelo T. Cometa Award, which recognizes extraordinary efforts in assisting the public through a lawyer referral service. The award is sponsored by the State Bar’s Committee on L...