New York City Bar Association Presents Annual Bernard Botein Medal
Each year, the New York City Bar Association, for which Botein previously served as president, presents an award bearing Botein's likeness and namesake to nonjudicial employees who play essential roles in the functioning of the courts.
March 26, 2024 at 09:23 PM
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Bar AssociationsBernard Botein came from humble beginnings to hold one of the most prominent judicial positions in New York State—presiding justice of the Manhattan-based Appellate Division, First Department.
And in his sharp ascension through the legal profession, Botein apparently never forgot his roots.
Born in 1900 in the then-poverty stricken Lower East Side of Manhattan, Botein's mother was widowed when he was 6 years old, and the young Botein began working early—he had a paper route, delivered flowers, worked in the New York Sun's morgue, to name a few of his early professions.
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