Top Ten Stories of the Week ending May 15, 2009:
Law Firms Did ‘Financial Insanity’ and ‘Greedy Lawyers’ Doom WolfBlock?
May 14, 2009, 09:07 am CDT
Top Ten Stories of the Week ending May 15, 2009:
Law Firms Did ‘Financial Insanity’ and ‘Greedy Lawyers’ Doom WolfBlock?
May 14, 2009, 09:07 am CDT
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 Conduct is the state agency responsible for investigating complaints of misconduct against judges of the state unified court system and, where appropriate, determining to admonish, censure or remove from office those judges found to have engaged in unethical behavior. All determinations are subject to review in the Court of Appeals, New York State’s highest court.
New York State. Commissdion on Judicial Conduct, Annual Report 2009
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.
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
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?
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 issue Winter 2009 is “The Art of Judging in the 21st Century”. As Judge Sophia H. Hall observes in the Forword, “Judges of the twenty-first century must be ready to learn everything , in the words of H.G. Wells, ‘Adapt or perish, now as ever, is Nature’s inexorable imperative’ “.
The Feature articles in this issue are:
“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 both the article and a “booking video”:
http://www.courant.com/news/politics/hc-cofield0127.artjan27,0,2287060.story
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 read the story click on the link below to the article:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/28/nyregion/28portrait.html?partner=permalink&exprod=permalink
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, temporary filing fee assessments, temporary fine enhancements, fees for ongoing technology improvements, etc… We intend to use these as ammunition for similar funding should that possibility exist or become necessary during our legislative process. The sky is the limit here and we are looking for ideas so any thought would be helpful.
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