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Full-Time Staten Island Supreme Court Per Diem Coverage Starting Monday, May 1, 2006

Starting Monday, May 1, 2006, we offer full-time coverage of your court appearances in Staten Island Supreme Court. Staten Island now joins the Bronx, Brooklyn, Queens and Manhattan as boroughs where we offer full-time per diem coverage on your motions as well as your preliminary, compliance, trial scheduling and settlement conferences. Our core group of per diem attorneys now serves every Supreme Court County within New York City, the Supreme Courts of Nassau and Suffolk County (Riverhead) and the Civil Courts of the Bronx, Manhattan and Queens. Call us at 917-687-8120 if we can be of service to your firm.

NYPD phone numbers on the Web . . .

Whether you need to retrieve an accident report of find out where your client is being held, you'll want to know the phone numbers of the NYC Police Department.

Issue: Your client is injured as a result of ongoing defective street construction work in NYC. What contractors are potentially liable?

Solution: Search the NYC DOT database of active street construction permits [9/25/04: link broken]. Choose a borough plus another category, e.g, street or community board, to begin your search. Click here [9/25/04: link broken] for details.

ProBono.net on the Web . . .

Pro Bono Net "is a nonprofit organization headquartered in New York City. Its mission is to increase access to justice through innovative uses of technology and increased volunteer participation." Their NYC local site can be found at www.probono.net/ny. There you will find pro bono resources as well as listings of upcoming training events.

Courts in NYC are open today per the OCA website . . .

To see whether Courts are open or closed, you can always check the home page of the OCA Court system at http://nycourts.gov/home.htm. Courts in Nassau and Suffolk are closed today, Wednesday, January 28, 2004, but Courts in New York City and New York State are OPEN, as of the announcement at 6:30 a.m. today.

Issue: How do I find the record owner of a residential premises?

Solution: Run the address (from 9:00 a.m. to 10:00 p.m. EST) at the Property Address Search page of the NYC Department of Finance. In addition to obtaining the name of the property tax record owner, you can ascertain the block and lot number of the particular property. Try also running the block and lot number at the Office of the City Register search page. There you will find scanned images of documents on file related to the premises including deeds.

What's on the mind of Brooklyn's District Attorney Charles Hynes?

Find out by listening to his weekly radio show every Wednesday afternoon from 4:00 to 5:00 p.m. on WNYE 91.5 FM.

. . . CourAlert.com and e-LAW.com add new features . . .

CourtAlert.com has added new Supreme Court New York County ex parte forms to its voluminous form index. From the main page, chose "forms" at the top bar of the page and select "Ex Parte, etc."

e-LAW.com has added search capacity for Supreme Court cases within all counties of New York State. They have also added an "eServe" service to aid in the process of "legal document distribution, management and confirmation." Click here to see their press release for this new feature.

. . . Happy New Year . . .

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Thank you to our clients for your business and support. We are grateful to have been serving you since 1998 and look forward to working with you in 2004 and for many years to come. Our best wishes for a healthy and happy New Year to all.

. . . getting street maps

At auto accident EBT(s), having a street map of the accident location can be crucial during questioning about a party's progress toward the accident site.

One of the best ways to pinpoint a map of your accident site and its surroundings is to use the map generator at expedia.com. At their "Find a Map" link, you can search for maps by address or by intersection. Once you've found a map or maps that are helpful, print them.