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		<title>Statement on Governor Cuomo’s Proposed Government-Reform Legislation by City Bar President Carey R. Dunne</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Jun 2013 15:14:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We are encouraged that Governor Cuomo has proposed substantial legislation to improve voter participation and election procedures; limit the influence of money in campaigns, including the establishment of a strong public financing system; and combat corruption by public officials.< <a href="http://www.nycbar.org/44th-street-blog/2013/06/17/statement-on-governor-cuomo%e2%80%99s-proposed-government-reform-legislation-by-city-bar-president-carey-r-dunne/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>From Now to November &#8211; by Carey R. Dunne</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Jun 2013 13:58:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Errol Louis]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[When we and our co-sponsors announced that we would host a forum for the New York City Mayoral candidates here at the City Bar on June 6th, the response was a great measure of our members’ engagement. The interest in the event was so overwhelming that it ‘sold out’ almost immediately. Similarly, when we released the City Bar’s 95-page “Policy Recommendations for New York City’s Next Mayor,” the report was downloaded nearly 2,000 times on the first day.< <a href="http://www.nycbar.org/44th-street-blog/2013/06/17/from-now-to-november-by-carey-r-dunne/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>The City Bar Moving Forward: A Message to the Legal Community &#8211; By Bret I. Parker</title>
		<link>http://www.nycbar.org/44th-street-blog/2013/06/14/the-city-bar-moving-forward-a-message-to-the-legal-community-by-bret-i-parker/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Jun 2013 19:30:35 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[New York City Bar Association]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Bret I. Parker]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am truly excited as I begin working on your behalf as Executive Director of the City Bar. As a member of the Association for 17 years, like many of you I have attended events at the City Bar that interested me, taken CLE courses to improve my knowledge and skills, participated in committee work to address important issues, performed pro bono service and met other City Bar members to develop my professional network while making close friends along the way.< <a href="http://www.nycbar.org/44th-street-blog/2013/06/14/the-city-bar-moving-forward-a-message-to-the-legal-community-by-bret-i-parker/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>City Bar Supports Senate Immigration Reform Bill During Floor Debate</title>
		<link>http://www.nycbar.org/44th-street-blog/2013/06/13/city-bar-supports-senate-immigration-reform-bill-during-floor-debate/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Jun 2013 19:24:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The New York City Bar Association, through its Committee on Immigration and Nationality Law, continues to monitor and assist Congressional deliberation of the immigration reform bill, the “Border Security, Economic Opportunity, and Immigration Modernization Act” (S. 744).< <a href="http://www.nycbar.org/44th-street-blog/2013/06/13/city-bar-supports-senate-immigration-reform-bill-during-floor-debate/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>City Bar Helps Defend Senate Immigration Reform Bill from Amendments Derailing Due Process and Detention Reforms</title>
		<link>http://www.nycbar.org/44th-street-blog/2013/06/10/city-bar-helps-defend-senate-immigration-reform-bill-from-amendments-derailing-due-process-and-detention-reforms/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Jun 2013 18:46:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The New York City Bar Association, through its Committee on Immigration and Nationality Law, continues to assist Congressional deliberation of the immigration reform bill, the “Border Security, Economic Opportunity, and Immigration Modernization Act” (S. 744).< <a href="http://www.nycbar.org/44th-street-blog/2013/06/10/city-bar-helps-defend-senate-immigration-reform-bill-from-amendments-derailing-due-process-and-detention-reforms/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>A Lawyer’s Responsibility to Disclose False Evidence:  A City Bar Formal Ethics Opinion</title>
		<link>http://www.nycbar.org/44th-street-blog/2013/06/06/a-lawyer%e2%80%99s-responsibility-to-disclose-false-evidence-a-city-bar-formal-ethics-opinion/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Jun 2013 17:27:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[If a lawyer discovers after the close of a proceeding that material evidence offered by the lawyer, the lawyer’s client, or witness called by the lawyer during the underlying civil or criminal proceeding was false, the lawyer is obligated, under Rule 3.3(a)(3), to take “reasonable remedial measures,” states a formal Opinion from the New York City Bar Association’s Committee on Professional Ethics (Formal Opinion 2013-2).< <a href="http://www.nycbar.org/44th-street-blog/2013/06/06/a-lawyer%e2%80%99s-responsibility-to-disclose-false-evidence-a-city-bar-formal-ethics-opinion/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>City Bar Supports Immigration Equality  for Same-Sex Permanent Partners; Asks Respect for NY Marriage Laws</title>
		<link>http://www.nycbar.org/44th-street-blog/2013/05/24/city-bar-supports-immigration-equality-for-same-sex-permanent-partners-asks-respect-for-ny-marriage-laws/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 May 2013 15:01:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a letter to the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee, dated May 15th, the New York City Bar Association, through four of its Committees, urges the Senate to provide equality in immigration reform for same-sex spouses and permanent partners.< <a href="http://www.nycbar.org/44th-street-blog/2013/05/24/city-bar-supports-immigration-equality-for-same-sex-permanent-partners-asks-respect-for-ny-marriage-laws/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Study by Swedish and NYC Bar Associations Raises Concerns on Press Freedom in Montenegro</title>
		<link>http://www.nycbar.org/44th-street-blog/2013/05/14/study-by-swedish-and-nyc-bar-associations-raises-concerns-on-press-freedom-in-montenegro/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 May 2013 16:25:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Christian Ahlund]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A report on a February research visit to Montenegro by a four-member team from the Swedish and New York City Bar Associations has found that while the laws governing the press are generally satisfactory, “the relationships between the independent press and the government and between the independent press and pro-government press are permeated by polarization and antagonism.”< <a href="http://www.nycbar.org/44th-street-blog/2013/05/14/study-by-swedish-and-nyc-bar-associations-raises-concerns-on-press-freedom-in-montenegro/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Barbara Berger Opotowsky &#8211; by Carey R. Dunne</title>
		<link>http://www.nycbar.org/44th-street-blog/2013/05/13/barbara-berger-opotowsky-by-carey-r-dunne/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 May 2013 14:08:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[“The Association is an extraordinarily complicated institution. Even a two-year term does not enable presidents to master its intricacies,” Michael Cooper said recently. Mike was president of the New York City Bar Association from 1998 to 2000, and I had reached out to him and some other former City Bar presidents for their thoughts on our outgoing Executive Director, Barbara Berger Opotowsky.<  <a href="http://www.nycbar.org/44th-street-blog/2013/05/13/barbara-berger-opotowsky-by-carey-r-dunne/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>City Bar Urges President Obama to Take Executive Action to Close Guantanamo</title>
		<link>http://www.nycbar.org/44th-street-blog/2013/05/06/city-bar-urges-president-obama-to-take-executive-action-to-close-guantanamo/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 May 2013 16:26:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs Thomas Donilon]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Section 1028]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Senator Dianne Feinstein]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Calling Guantanamo a “stain on our nation’s reputation” and “a serious threat to our national security,” the New York City Bar Association has written to President Barack Obama urging him to take Executive action to release or transfer the prison’s 86 detainees previously cleared for release and “to take concrete steps to restart the process toward closure of the Guantanamo Bay facility, including the eventual prosecution, transfer or release of the remaining individuals currently held there.” < <a href="http://www.nycbar.org/44th-street-blog/2013/05/06/city-bar-urges-president-obama-to-take-executive-action-to-close-guantanamo/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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