Tag Archives: New York City Bar Association
Posted on Tuesday, May 14, 2013 - 11:25am by Administrator
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.”< Continue reading →
Posted on Monday, May 13, 2013 - 10:08am by Administrator
“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.< Continue reading →
Posted on Monday, May 6, 2013 - 12:26pm by Administrator
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.” < Continue reading →
Posted on Friday, May 3, 2013 - 3:56pm by Administrator
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).< Continue reading →
Posted on Wednesday, May 1, 2013 - 10:09am by Administrator
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.< Continue reading →
Posted on Friday, Apr 26, 2013 - 6:03pm by Administrator
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.< Continue reading →
Posted on Friday, Apr 26, 2013 - 10:43am by Administrator
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.< Continue reading →
Posted on Wednesday, Apr 24, 2013 - 5:28pm by Administrator
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.< Continue reading →
