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New York Law Journal

Students Clash Over Searches by Drug-Sniffing Dogs at St. John's Law's Annual Milton Mollen Moot Court Competition

Taking top honors at the competition for first and second best oralist, respectively, were St. John's Law 2Ls Takunda Muziwi and Daniella Sesto.
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New York Law Journal

City Bar Unveils Portrait of Deborah Batts, the Late Federal Judge Remembered for Historic Firsts and Good Humor

Batts died in February 2020 at 72. At the time, Batts was on senior status at the Southern District and was also overseeing its RISE Courts program, which allows offenders to earn reductions in their period of supervised release in exchange for participating in a special rehabilitative program under intensive judicial supervision.
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New York Law Journal

See Who Passed the July 2023 New York Bar Exam

Of the 9,779 candidates who took the most recent bar exam, 6,481 passed for an overall passing rate of 66%.
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New York Law Journal

New York City's Housing Court Looks Back on 50 Years of Adjudicating the Big Apple's Landlord-Tenant Disputes

On Oct. 11, the Franklin H. Williams Commission feted the Housing Court, which began as a plan to relieve an overburdened Civil Court of its glut of landlord-tenant matters and which has undergone significant changes in the years since.
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New York Law Journal

Veteran Learned Counsel For Death Penalty Cases Presented With James Duane Awards

The award takes its namesake from the first judge to sit in the Southern District, which was called the the District Court for the District of New York when George Washington appointed Duane to the bench in 1789.
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New York Law Journal

Largest-Ever Graduating Class of Court Officers to Report for Duty on Monday

The 250 new court officers include former photographers, paralegals, police officers, and even a butcher. They are being deployed to courts in the five boroughs, as well as Long Island, Westchester and the counties of Dutchess, Orange, Putnam and Rockland.
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New York Law Journal

NYC Law Department Welcomes New Class of City Attorneys

The new class joins the 800-attorney New York City Law Department, which serves a sprawling municipal government with more than 300,000 employees, a $100 billion budget, and contracts totaling nearly $37 billion.
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New York Law Journal

Mayer Brown Attorneys Try Their Hands Against 13-Year-Old Chess Prodigy Whose Family Gained Asylum With Pro Bono Help

A handful of brave attorneys and a Law Journal reporter faced off against the young chess master at one of the firm's regular fireside chats. Their defeats were swift.
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New York Law Journal

Artworks Looted by Nazis Returned to Heirs of Holocaust Victim Fritz Grünbaum

Fritz Grünbaum, an Austrian-Jewish cabaret performer, owned hundreds of pieces of art, including more than 80 drawings by Schiele, was murdered in 1941.
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New York Law Journal

31st Annual Henry L. Stimson Medal Presented to Federal Prosecutors at City Bar

Stimson, the namesake for the prestigious award, served as U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York from 1906-09, and as president of the City Bar from 1937-39.
2 minute read

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