Rebecca Baker

June 26, 2017 | New York Law Journal

A 70-year-old town justice accused of behaving belligerently toward an ex-girlfriend, including threatening to prosecute her, will step down from the bench at the end of the month.

By Rebecca Baker

3 minute read

June 22, 2017 | New York Law Journal

Acting Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Gerald Lebovits suspected that many judges struggled with the pressures of the job. So he began researching the topic and wrote what became the June cover story of the New York State Bar Association's Journal: "Judicial Wellness: The Ups and Downs of Sitting New York Judges."

By Rebecca Baker

7 minute read

June 22, 2017 | New York Law Journal

A former upstate Town Court justice accused of mishandling court funds and records has agreed never to seek or accept judicial office, the Commission on Judicial Conduct said Thursday.

By Rebecca Baker

4 minute read

June 21, 2017 | New York Law Journal

A former village justice in Rockland County who was appointed to the bench last year despite his 1978 felony conviction has agreed to resign, the Commission on Judicial Conduct announced Wednesday.

By Rebecca Baker

4 minute read

June 20, 2017 | New York Law Journal

First Department Justice Angela Mazzarelli will fill the unexpired term on the New York State Commission on Judicial Conduct of Rolando Acosta, who was promoted to presiding justice of the First Department last month.

By Rebecca Baker

2 minute read

June 16, 2017 | New York Law Journal

Eight years after a popular summer training program for judges was canceled due to budget constraints, the judicial seminar has been revived with $3 million from the court system.

By Rebecca Baker

6 minute read

June 16, 2017 | New York Law Journal

Four Eastern District assistant U.S. attorneys were among 179 federal prosecutors recognized at the 33rd Director's Awards Ceremony Friday in Washington, D.C.

By Rebecca Baker

3 minute read

June 15, 2017 | New York Law Journal

Paul Feinman, an appellate judge in Manhattan, is Gov. Andrew Cuomo's choice to fill the seat on the Court of Appeals left vacant by the death of Judge Sheila Abdus-Salaam.

By Josefa Velasquez and Rebecca Baker

16 minute read

June 14, 2017 | New York Law Journal

The New York State Bar Association said that all seven candidates nominated to become New York's next chief judge were "well qualified" for the job, joining several other bar groups who issued similar ratings.

By Rebecca Baker

6 minute read

June 14, 2017 | New York Law Journal

Manhattan workers' compensation attorney Matthew Funk, a partner at Pasternack Tilker Ziegler Walsh Stanton & Romano, will take over July 1 as the new president of the New York State Trial Lawyers Association.

By Rebecca Baker

2 minute read