Pursuant to Section 42, paragraph 4, of the Judiciary Law of the State of New York the New York State Commission on Judicial Conduct respectfully submits the Annual Report 2009 of its activities covering the period from January 1 through December 31, 2008. The New York State Commission on Judicial…
Free: Law Day Friday, May 1, 2009 Every year on May 1 (Law Day) the New York Law Journal devotes a special section to articles written by prominent members of the New York legal community in commeration of Law Day. Here are abstracts of the articles for 2009. Staying True…
Top Ten Stories of the Week ending March 20, 2009: Law Practice Management Layoff ‘Herd Mentality’ Ignores Greater Savings of Pay Cuts, Prof Says Mar 17, 2009, 08:19 am CDT Pro Bono Situations Wanted: Laid-Off Lawyers Seek Volunteer Work–and Get Rejected Mar 16, 2009, 08:42 am CDT Law Practice Management…
QUESTION* For courts who have translated their public website into the Spanish and/or Vietnamese languages: Do you have a Spanish and/or Vietnamese version of your court public website? Do you have statistics on number of visitors by language that you can share? Have you conducted a cost/benefit analysis or impact…
A Quarterly of the Judicial Division of the American Bar Association Winter 2009. Volume 48 No. 1 Each issue of this journal contains featured articles and standing columns all of which relate in some way to a broad theme selected for that particular issue. The theme selected for this particular…
“Judge Uses Vulgar Language As She is Charged”, an article by Edmund H. Mahoney and Jon Lender, published in the January 27, 2009 Hartford Courant, reports that a Connecticut Superior Court judge is accused of arguing with a police officer and calling him a “Negro trooper”. The folllowing links to…
In a January 28, 2009 New York Times article, “Hang Him Up? The Bad Judge and His Image”, Benjamin Weiser describes a debate that has arisen in a New York Courthouse over whether the portrait of a disgraced judge should continue to be displayed or thrown in a closet. To…
Governor David Paterson has nominated Jonathan Lippman, currently presiding justice in the Appellate Division First Department of the State Supreme Court, to fill the chief judge’s post that was vacarted when Judith Kaye retired. See Press Release announcing the nomination.
QUESTION: We as a court are in the process of looking under every rock for potential funding sources. To that end we are interested in getting ideas and tips about short- or long-term legislation and policies around the nation that have provided directed funding to court programs or projects. Specifically,…
TITLE: Anatomy of a Trial SUBTITLE: Public Loss, Lessons Learned from The People vs. O.J. Simpson AUTHOR: Jerrianne Hayslett PUBLICATION DATE: December 2008 PUBLISHER: University of Missouri Press PAGE COUNT: 256 pp. ISBN: 978-0-8262-1822-3 PRICE: $29.95 The author was the information officer and media liason for Los Angeles Superior Court…