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		<title>Study by Swedish and NYC Bar Associations Raises Concerns on Press Freedom in Montenegro</title>
		<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>
		<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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		<title>Barbara Berger Opotowsky &#8211; by Carey R. Dunne</title>
		<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>
		<link>http://www.nycbar.org/44th-street-blog/2013/05/13/barbara-berger-opotowsky-by-carey-r-dunne/</link>
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		<title>City Bar Urges President Obama to Take Executive Action to Close Guantanamo</title>
		<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>
		<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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		<title>City Bar Praises Senate Immigration Reform Bill for Right to Counsel, Due Process and Detention Advances and Urges Further Steps</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In two letters to the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee, dated April 24th, the New York City Bar Association, through its Committee on Immigration and Nationality Law, applauds the April 16 introduction 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/2013/05/03/city-bar-praises-senate-immigration-reform-bill-for-right-to-counsel-due-process-and-detention-advances-and-urges-further-steps/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		<link>http://www.nycbar.org/44th-street-blog/2013/05/03/city-bar-praises-senate-immigration-reform-bill-for-right-to-counsel-due-process-and-detention-advances-and-urges-further-steps/</link>
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		<title>City Bar Releases Policy Recommendations  for New York City’s Next Mayor &#8211; Candidates’ Forum Set for June 6th</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The New York City Bar Association today released a report containing a wide range of policy recommendations for New York City’s next Mayor. The report comes one month before the City Bar will host a public forum, on June 6th, to which the Mayoral candidates have been invited.< <a href="http://www.nycbar.org/44th-street-blog/2013/05/01/city-bar-releases-policy-recommendations-for-new-york-city%e2%80%99s-next-mayor-candidates%e2%80%99-forum-set-for-june-6th/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		<link>http://www.nycbar.org/44th-street-blog/2013/05/01/city-bar-releases-policy-recommendations-for-new-york-city%e2%80%99s-next-mayor-candidates%e2%80%99-forum-set-for-june-6th/</link>
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		<title>The Norman Redlich Capital Defense Distinguished Service and Pro Bono Awards</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The New York City Bar Association's Capital Punishment Committee will present the Norman Redlich Capital Defense Distinguished Service and Pro Bono Awards at its annual habeas corpus training program to those who have shown excellence in the representation of death-row inmates or in advocating for the abolition of the death penalty.< <a href="http://www.nycbar.org/44th-street-blog/2013/04/26/the-norman-redlich-capital-defense-distinguished-service-and-pro-bono-awards/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		<link>http://www.nycbar.org/44th-street-blog/2013/04/26/the-norman-redlich-capital-defense-distinguished-service-and-pro-bono-awards/</link>
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		<title>City Bar Announces Winners of 24th Annual Legal Services Awards</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The New York City Bar Association has named five legal services attorneys and one non-attorney as recipients of the twenty-fourth Annual Legal Services Awards, which give recognition to attorneys and non-attorneys who provide outstanding civil legal assistance to New York’s poor.< <a href="http://www.nycbar.org/44th-street-blog/2013/04/26/city-bar-announces-winners-of-24th-annual-legal-services-awards/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		<link>http://www.nycbar.org/44th-street-blog/2013/04/26/city-bar-announces-winners-of-24th-annual-legal-services-awards/</link>
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		<title>City Bar Continues to Urge UN Human Rights Monitoring and Reporting in Western Sahara</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The New York City Bar Association has written to United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon in support of the expansion of the United Nations Mission for the Referendum in Western Sahara (MINURSO)’s mandate to monitor and report on human rights violations in the territory of Western Sahara occupied by Morocco and the Tindouf refugee camps governed by the Polisario.< <a href="http://www.nycbar.org/44th-street-blog/2013/04/24/city-bar-continues-to-urge-un-human-rights-monitoring-and-reporting-in-western-sahara/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		<link>http://www.nycbar.org/44th-street-blog/2013/04/24/city-bar-continues-to-urge-un-human-rights-monitoring-and-reporting-in-western-sahara/</link>
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		<title>Helping Our Fellow Lawyers &#8212; by Carey R. Dunne</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On May 5th, the Lawyer Assistance Program (LAP) will mark fourteen years of service to the legal community in New York City. LAP is a free, confidential counseling service for attorneys (including those who have been suspended and disbarred), judges, law students, and their family members struggling with alcohol or drug abuse as well as other addictions and mental health issues.< <a href="http://www.nycbar.org/44th-street-blog/2013/04/15/helping-our-fellow-lawyers-by-carey-r-dunne/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		<link>http://www.nycbar.org/44th-street-blog/2013/04/15/helping-our-fellow-lawyers-by-carey-r-dunne/</link>
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		<title>On the 2013-2014 New York State Budget</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On March 29th, Governor Cuomo signed the 2013-2014 New York State budget. Since the State’s annual budget goes beyond making appropriations and effectuates substantive changes in the law, the City Bar committees will sometimes comment on budget provisions that are relevant to their work.< <a href="http://www.nycbar.org/44th-street-blog/2013/04/12/on-the-2013-2014-new-york-state-budget/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		<link>http://www.nycbar.org/44th-street-blog/2013/04/12/on-the-2013-2014-new-york-state-budget/</link>
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