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Editor's Note: The following Report was issued jointly by several committees of The Association of the Bar of the City of New York in May 2001. In it,...
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Arthur S. Olick, New York City (Anderson, Russel, Kill & Olick, Steven M. Pesner, New York City, of counsel), for plaintiff-appellant.
Saul Friedber...
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The ethics of attorneys using of social media is a hot topic lately. As I mentioned last week, the American Bar Association's Commission on Ethics 20/20 just issued a call for comments on the issue of lawyers use of social media tools for client development.
And, in September, two different New York-based ethics committees, the New York State Bar Association Committee on Professional Ethics and The Association of the Bar of the City of New York Committee on Professional Ethics, each issued very interesting ethics decisions regarding lawyers' use of social media sites to mine for evidence in pending cases.
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A report issued by the Committee on International Commercial Disputes of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York proposes several best practices for district courts that receive applications under Section 1782 of Title 28 of the US Code to obtain discovery in aid of an international commercial arbitration seated in a foreign country. One recommendation is to consider the source of the discovery request. The committee recommends that Section 1782 discovery be granted only if the request is submitted by the arbitrators after their appointment, or with their consent.
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, 80, of Lancaster, PA, and formerly of Wantagh, NY and Jupiter, FL, passed away on October 29, 2009. He was born in Mason City, Iowa and was a decorated U.S. Army Veteran. Upon completion of military service, he met and married Ruth Rangel Hoeffner and had three children. Mr. Gilmore graduated from Columbia University, then earned the LL.B. Degree from New York Law School, graduating Cum Laude. He retired after 26 years as Vice President and Chief Counsel of Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association. Prior to joining TIAA-CREF, he was an attorney for Home Life Insurance Company for seventeen years. Mr. Gilmore held active memberships in many associations, including the Association of the Bar of the City of New York, the Association of Life Insurance Counsel and was a ...
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, 80, of Lancaster, PA, and formerly of Wantagh, NY and Jupiter, FL, passed away on October 29, 2009. He was born in Mason City, Iowa and was a decorated U.S. Army Veteran. Upon completion of military service, he met and married Ruth Rangel Hoeffner and had three children. Mr. Gilmore graduated from Columbia University, then earned the LL.B. Degree from New York Law School, graduating Cum Laude. He retired after 26 years as Vice President and Chief Counsel of Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association. Prior to joining TIAA-CREF, he was an attorney for Home Life Insurance Company for seventeen years. Mr. Gilmore held active memberships in many associations, including the Association of the Bar of the City of New York, the Association of Life Insurance Counsel and was a ...
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..., Attorney General of Wyoming; for the City of New York by Frederick A. O. Schwarz, Jr., Leona... Committee on Legal Assistance of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York by Allan L. Gro...
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Alexandra York, pro se, Appellant.
William T. Russell, Jr., Deborah N. Archer, Susan Digilio, Simpson Thacher & Bartlett, for Defendants-Appellees.
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... this time, Judge Straub also served as a New York State Assemblyman, from 1967-1972, and as a New Yo... a member of the American Bar Association, New York State Bar Association, and The Associatiion of the Bar of the City of New York. (10) He was also "Chair of Gov[ernor]...
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On Jan. 21, the New York State Assembly's Standing Committee on Codes, the Standing Committee on the Judiciary and the Standing Committee on Correction will hold a joint public hearing to examine the future of capital punishment in New York State. The hearing will take place at the Association of the Bar of the City of New York Meeting Hall in New York City.
On June 24, 2004, the New York Court of Appeals in People v. LaValle invalidated the deadlock instruction provision of New York's death penalty law, holding that the instruction created a substantial risk of coercing jurors into sentencing a defendant to death in violation of the due process clause of the New York State Constitution.