Members of the New York State Bar Association met with state lawmakers this week to lobby against a proposed increase to the two-year attorney registration fee, which Gov. Andrew Cuomo pitched last month as an additional funding source for indigent legal services.

Attorneys with the State Bar were also at the capitol to push other reforms, said president Michael Miller, from changes to the state’s laws on criminal discovery to simpler forms designating power of attorney. Miller is a trust and estates attorney from Manhattan.

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