City Bar Accepting Nominations for 23rd Annual Legal Services Awards

The City Bar is now accepting nominations for the Twenty-third Annual Legal Services Awards. The award is designed to recognize the efforts of lawyers and non-lawyers who have, for an extended period during their career, devoted themselves to the provision of free civil legal services on a full-time basis to indigent persons. Letters of nomination should fully identify the nominee and describe his or her outstanding legal services efforts. A nomination form may also be used and is available here. Please send to the Legal Services Awards Committee, Executive Director’s Office, New York City Bar Association, 42 West 44th Street, New York, NY 10036; or fax (212) 398-6634; or email Weintana Abraha. For more information, contact Weintana Abraha at the Association, at (212) 382-6624 or wabraha@nycbar.org. The deadline for nominations is Friday, April 13, 2012. The Association will honor the winners in June.