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June 2007 Visit us at www.nycla.org Volume 3 / Number 5 INSIDE NYCLA ETHICS OPINIONS FROM NYCLA launches Centennial celebration at Annual Meeting: 1956 NOW AVAILABLE ON Officers and directors inducted WEBSITE - ETHICS OPINION The New York County Lawyers’ Association launched its Centennial cele- 737 ISSUED bration on May 24 at its Annual Meeting, with remarks by John D. Feerick, Professor, Sidney C. Norris Chair of Law 4 in Public Service, Fordham University School of Law, and Hon. Juanita Bing Newton, Deputy Chief Administrative Judge for Justice Initiatives, and AKE THE Administrative Judge, Criminal Court of T the City of New York. The five NYCLA NYCLA officers inducted are: Catherine A. Christian, Counsel for Special Projects, the EXPRESS SURVEY New York County District Attorney’s Office, Office of the Special Narcotics Prosecutor, as 55th President;Ann B. Lesk, a partner at Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Among those celebrating the launch of NYCLA’s Centennial were (from left to right): Jacobson LLP,with a practice in trusts and Klaus Eppler, Chair, Centennial Committee; Edwin David Robertson, Immediate Past 4 estates, as President-Elect; James B. Kobak President; Catherine A. Christian, President; Hon. Juanita Bing Newton, Deputy Chief Jr., a partner at Hughes Hubbard & Reed Administrative Judge for Justice Initiatives, and Administrative Judge, Criminal Court of LLP, with a practice in antitrust and IP lit- the City of New York; and John D. Feerick, Professor, Sidney C. Norris Chair of Law in MESSAGE FROM igation and counseling, and President of Public Service, Fordham University School of Law. THE PRESIDENT the NYCLA Foundation, as Vice CATHERINE A. President; Louis Crespo, Special Referee, years old) and the second woman to be Services practice; Gail Donoghue, Special New York County Supreme Court, as inducted as president of the Association. Counsel to the Corporation Counsel of the CHRISTIAN Secretary; and Joel B. Harris, a partner at (Rosalind S. Fink was NYCLA’s first City of New York, and member of the Law DVOCATING Thacher Proffitt & Wood LLP,with a prac- woman president in 1997.) In addition to Department’s executive staff; Thomas G. A tice in complex commercial and interna- the officers, the following directors were Draper Jr., a member of Mazur, Carp & EQUALITY…CREATING tional litigation and arbitration, as elected: Stewart D. Aaron, a partner at Rubin, P.C., with a practice in estate plan- OPPORTUNITIES: Treasurer. [Biographies of NYCLA’s offi- Arnold & Porter LLP, with a practice in ning, probate and estate administration; cers are on page 10.] commercial litigation; Rhea Kemble Hon. Marcy S. Friedman, Justice, New VOLUNTEER LAWYERS Ms. Christian is the first African Dignam, a principal in Ernst & Young York State Supreme Court; David M. American, the youngest person (at 43 LLP’s Fraud Investigation & Dispute See OFFICERS, Page 10 5 ANNUAL REPORT 2006-2007 CRIMINAL JUSTICE EDWIN DAVID ROBERTSON, NYCLA PRESIDENT SECTION ANNOUNCES 2007 Our Bylaws impose upon your president the Governance Continuing Legal Education (CLE) Institute duty of rendering a report of the Association’s NYCLA has fully implemented, a year ahead Educating and Training Attorneys PUBLIC SERVICE activities at the Annual Meeting. Over the last of schedule, the Strategic Plan adopted by the The CLE Institute continued its tradition of year, I have read the reports of every one of my 53 Board in 2004. For 2008, the Board will review educating and training attorneys in law practice FELLOWSHIP ESSAY predecessors. As I read of their energy and enthu- and adopt a business plan to keep the Association management, ethics and professionalism, profes- siasm, I was humbled. But, as I look at your focused on strategic priorities for the building, sional practice and skills. Many new programs COMPETITION accomplishments during the last 12 months, I am operations and governance. My thanks to our were developed to meet the changing needs of excited and welcome the last task of this office. Executive Director Sophia Gianacoplos for her practitioners in the 21st century, such as Using 4 As you know, we start our Centennial in a few leadership in implementing the Strategic Plan and Technology Effectively in Your Law Practice, E- moments and it is appropriate to invoke a blast from for her continued effective management of the Discovery and the New Federal Rules of Civil the past at this particular instant. Until the 1930s, our Association, which has enabled it to achieve Procedure, and The New Attorney Advertising president’s report was rendered orally, together with another stellar year financially. Rules: Ethical Ramifications of the New Rules on CENTENNIAL reports from each committee. By the 1930s, the NYCLA continues to play a leadership role in the Practice of Law in New York. Our course PAGE Annual Meetings lasted until well after midnight as the development of a portfolio of key governance offerings ranged from those designed to keep successive chronicles of the year’s events were policies for non-profit boards, policies that serve as practitioners updated on changes in the law, to HON. CAROLINE related. Shortly after repeal of the 18th Amendment, models for bar associations around the state and programs that enhance professional skills, to these reports became written, as the custom of the country. The NYCLA Board adopted two new classes tailored for recent graduates, newly KLEIN SIMON - inviting other speakers became established and the policies this year—a record retention policy and a admitted attorneys or professionals seeking a PIONEER IN FIGHTING habit of a subsequent reception that could be more whistleblower policy. Additionally, the Task Force refresher on a particular area of the law. An DISCRIMINATION public became tradition. NYCLA’s role in repeal of on Corporate Governance, chaired by Ernest E. impressive and diverse faculty from the bench, the 18th Amendment is a story for which you must Badway, issued “Not-For-Profit Corporate Board bar, government and related disciplines, such as await publication of our Centennial history. But that Best Practices Report,” which identified best prac- accounting, medicine, economics and real estate, occasion for delay does not excuse me from the duty tices in light of the increasing scrutiny and regula- taught the programs, offering their expertise, 11 to tell you what has happened over the last year. tion of non-profit organizations. See ANNUAL REPORT, Page 8 ONLY ONE LAW SCHOOL IN AMERICA Shares Its Campus With A Federal Courthouse And A State Courthouse. Take a Look at Touro Law Now... NEW BUILDING NEW CURRICULUM Touro College Jacob D. Fuchsberg Law Center, NEW LOCATION The Alfonse M. D’Amato U.S. Courthouse and The John P. Cohalan, Jr. State Courthouse In January 2007, Touro Law Center moved to a new campus in Central Islip, adjacent to and working with both a state courthouse and a federal courthouse. With its unique location as part of the first planned “law campus” in the coun- try, Touro has become a catalyst for bringing judges, lawyers and law students together – merging the classroom and the courtroom. Touro’s visionary approach to legal education includes a practice-oriented cur- riculum that teaches students the skills that employers seek and the profession demands. Touro students think critically about the lawyering process from the start of their education – and each year add progressively more sophisticated practice skills. Completely wireless and interactive, this professional 185,000-square-foot law campus has state-of-the-art courtrooms and classrooms that serve as real-world legal laboratories. Students not only learn the law, they live it. BRINGING LAW TO LIFE WWW.TOUROLAW.EDU TOURO LAW Touro College Jacob D. Fuchsberg Law Center 225 EASTVIEW DR., CENTRAL ISLIP, NY 11722 PHONE: 631-761-7000 June 2007 / New York County Lawyer 3 SHOPPING FOR GRADUATION GIFTS? 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