A spate of legislative bills concerning New York’s legal community arrived on Gov. Kathy Hochul’s desk late Tuesday, awaiting action within 10 days.

One involves lifting the century-old requirement that attorneys either live in or have an office in New York to practice in-state, while another calls on the new court administration to require that criminal court judges receive annual training on ever-changing bail laws that were set in place by the Democratic-controlled Legislature.

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