The FCBA held its 14th annual dinner on December 7, 2017, at the Hilton in Albany. FCBA President Adam R. Shaw, a partner at Boies Schiller Flexner LLP, welcomed the dinner’s approximately 90 attendees. FCBA Vice President Joann Sternheimer introduced the year’s 3...
The Ceremonial Courtroom of the James T. Foley U.S. Courthouse was perhaps never so crowded as it was on the evening of November 16, 2017, when more than 200 people attended the reenactment of the 1873 trial of Susan B. Anthony. The FCBA organized and presented the...
On Thursday, November 16, 2017, the United States District Court joined with government officials to welcome a group of new citizens to the country. Twenty nine candidates for citizenship stood up in the well of the Ceremonial Courtroom of the Federal Building in...
On Saturday, October 21, 2017, in front of a roaring fireplace in Dineen Hall’s Levy Atrium at Syracuse University College of Law, 30 lawyers and law students eagerly watched a panel of practitioners and judges discuss the history of the U.S. District Court for the...
Effective January 1, 2018, M. Cornelia Cahill will be the deputy managing partner of Barclay Damon LLP. She works principally out of the firm’s Albany Office. In the newly created position of deputy managing partner, she will be working closely with the firm’s...
Randolph F. Treece served as a United States Magistrate Judge in the Northern District of New York from April 2001 until September 2015. He previously served as counsel to the Office of the State Comptroller, First Deputy Capital Defender at the New York State Capital...
On Monday, August 14, 2017, the NDNY-FCBA held its 13th Annual CLE and Golf Event at the historic Mohawk Golf Club in Schenectady, New York. The CLE program, titled “Honest Services Fraud After McDonnell v. U.S., 136 S. Ct. 2355 (2016),” was presented by Assistant...
The NDNY-FCBA and the Board of Judges for the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of New York recently extended a special thank-you to the dedicated professionals who served the legal needs of the economically underprivileged in their communities for the...
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Please see the attached PDF for details on General Order #56 - Order Regarding Deposit and Investment of Registry Funds: General Order #56
The Capital Region Bankruptcy Bar Association and The Central New York Bankruptcy Bar Association will host 21st Annual Bankruptcy Conference on November 11-12, 2016, at the Otesaga Resort Hotel in Cooperstown, New York. Please see this flyer for more details on the...
The Judicial Conference Advisory Committees on Appellate, Bankruptcy, Civil, and Criminal Rules have proposed amendments to their respective rules and forms and have asked that they be circulated to the bench, bar, and public for comment. The proposed amendments and...