Please note that effective December 1, 2007, our new mailing address is:
Ed Marion
Attorney-at-Law
The Clinton House
103 W. Seneca Street, Suite 305
Ithaca, NY 14850
tel.: 917-687-8120
fax: 800-303-9772
e-mail: edmarion@nycperdiem.com or edmarion@ithacalegal.com
Please note that a number of the IAS Parts in New York County Supreme Court are encouraging counsel to participate in the Court’s Electronic Filing System. Justices Richter, Lehner, Smith, James, Kornreich and Sklar have joined the Justices of the Commercial Part in encouraging electronic filing. Details of the program can be found at the Court’s web site at https://iapps.courts.state.ny.us/fbem/mainframe.html. Please note that the Court is also conducting "how-to" trianing classes for how to participate in the program. You can call the Court at 646-386-3033 to arrange a training class.
The New York State Office of Court Administration has updated its Attorney Search page. New search result features include the law school the particular attorney graduated from as well as the year admitted to practice in New York. Click here to access the site.
Matthew S. Lerner, Esq. of the NY law firm Goldberg Segalla writes a daily blawg (i.e., law web log) dedicated as a forum for New York Appellate Law, Civil Procedure, Insurance Coverage and Defense and other interesting issues. Check out his site.
If so, contact Gail Johnson at the NYC Civil Court at 212-374-8175. The next training program, scheduled for Jan. 15, 2004 ( 6:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.) at the Association of the Bar of the City of New York, prepares and certifies attorneys to become pro-bono arbitrators in the Small Claims Parts of the New York City Civil Court in all five boroughs. Participants must have a minimum of five years admitted to the New York Bar in order to be eligible.
Starting Jan. 1, 2004, the Small Claims Parts now hear claims for up to $5,000.
Lawline.com offers CLE credit online for $25 a credit. To entice users to its site, it is offering a free one credit course - "How to Cross Examine Taped Evidence" - by noted attorney Ben Brafman. Along with the online video lectures, the course offers a printed transcript as well as links to related sites for each lecture topic.
In November of 2002, the International Association of Defense Counsel put out a 68 page paper called the Practical Guide for Insurance Defense Lawyers [9/21/04: link broken]. It won't tell you how to establish a good faith prerequisite to a New York discovery motion, but it might shed light on defense counsel's mindset.
And just for a little holiday fun, give this snowglobe a shake.
