By Colby Hamilton | February 6, 2018
The commission, appointed by Chief Judge Janet DiFiore, identified long-standing issues likely to be compounded by a new law providing low-income tenants a right to counsel.
By Susan DeSantis | February 6, 2018
While announcing a dramatic reduction in backlogs in both civil and criminal courts from one corner of the state to the other, Chief Judge Janet DiFiore concentrated her remarks Tuesday on ways to make the system fairer and more efficient.
By Josefa Velasquez | January 30, 2018
At a joint legislative budget hearing on public protection, Chief Administrative Judge Lawrence Marks called the governor's proposal to require judges to certify they're at work eight hours a day in return for a bigger budget increase "unusual" and "unnecessary." Also during the hearing, Robert Tembeckjian, the administrator and counsel on the Commission of Judicial Conduct, asked the Legislature for a budget increase of $312,00.
By Colby Hamilton | January 30, 2018
Members of the defense bar see the two-year trend as troubling. But observers say the court, with so many new members, is all but sure to correct course going forward under the leadership of Chief Judge Janet DiFiore.
New York Law Journal | Letter to the Editor
By Michael P. Friedman | January 29, 2018
Providing civil legal services to the poor is a wonderful service. But the Judiciary of New York spending $100 million per year of taxpayer money to do so is inappropriate and probably unconstitutional.
New York Law Journal | Analysis
By David B. Saxe and Danielle C. Lesser | January 25, 2018
David B. Saxe and Danielle C. Lesser write: A meal can be supersized at McDonald's, but should New York County's Supreme Court, Commercial Division be supersized as well?
By Susan DeSantis | January 23, 2018
"It is a whole new assignment and it's an exciting assignment for me to help shape the law and that's what you do at the appellate level," Bernice Siegal, new associate justice of the appellate term, said.
By Josefa Velasquez | January 22, 2018
Gov. Andrew Cuomo wants the state comptroller to audit the judiciary as part of his budgetary proposal to certify that judges work eight hours a day.
By Conrad Singer, Presiding Member, NYSBA Judicial Section | January 19, 2018
Conrad Singer, Presiding Member of the NYSBA Judicial Section, discusses the various awards the Section will bestow at the Annual Meeting, as well as the Section's initiative to increase judicial participation in the New York State Bar Association, and to provide continuing educational opportunities.
New York Law Journal | Analysis|News
By Josefa Velasquez | January 17, 2018
Gov. Cuomo's proposal during his budget address Tuesday to tie additional funding for courts above the 2 percent cap to judges certifying that courts are open from 9 to 5 each day received a mixed reception from the state's judiciary.
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