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First Beby Boomer to Herd N.Y. Statc Ber Assochtion \ilill \tork to RegtorcTrust rnd Confidencein the Legatprofession

o Westchesterlawyer setsrmbitious agenda.

ALBAI'IY - He chases.stoln! throughout the southernplains states.He has a near encyclopedic knowledgeof the ,ALAMEIN,, :ryloj1. g_fMonty and the DesertFox. His licenseplate reads after the site of a climactic World War II battle betweenBritish and Axis foices. As a partner in one of New York's largestlaw firms,-he representssuch clients as the NBA' NHL and 1{ajbr LeagueSo"..r. rr. was a Wagrreriantenor in a former career._Andtoday (June r) rvrannattanlawyer StevenC. Krane becomesthe youngestpresident in the 125-yearhit6.y of the nationslGsi voluntary state association. bar

During his one-yearterm president, as Krane intendsto direct his attentiontoward initiativesthat will increasepublic trust and confidence in the legal profession:such as efforts to attract more membersof minority groups into practice the of law, t1-witins lawyers'passion for pro bono work r"ga representationfor the poor) in". and bar associationictivity, *i rupport for legislation,o'ol.n tf,. attorneydiscipline system to the public.

He will also work to help lawyers prepareto serve the future legal needsof clients, help young Iawyersfind ways to dealwith massivestudent loan debts and to helploth n"*ry admittedand veteran lawyersmake better use of technologyin their day-to-daypractices.

Last January,the House of Delegates, the_Association'spolicy-making body, -' formally------.'r electedv'vvrvs him!! presidentof the 67,000-member york New StateBar Association6twsfie;. As president-elect(June.2000-May 2001) he chairedthe House of Delegatesand the Special AssociationHouse Committee, co-chairedthe President'sCommittee on Accessto Justice(civil legal for poor) 5rvicel the and was vice-chairof both the SpecialCommittee on the Future Profession of the andthe SpecialCommittee on the Law GoverningFirmStructure and Operation. A residentof Pound Ridge (Westchester County),Krane is a graduateof SUNy at Stony Brook (1978), where he was electedto Phi neta rappa, ' and ,urn.i his law degree)'vv from^rv'' Newrrvw yorkI v University School of Law (1981).

A partnerin the Litigation and DisputeResolution Department of ProskauerRose LLp, Krane has major cases ltiryted for the National Hockey League,Major League Soccer and the National BasketballAssociation. He alsoregularly reprejents law firms and individualattorneys in disciplinary andprofessional responsibility matters.

A memberof the House of Delegatessince 1996, he hasserved as a member-atJargeof the state Executive bar,s Committee.Krane chairedthe SpecialCommittee to Review the Code of professional Responsibility,the Committee on Standardsof Attorney Conduct and the Task Force on Simplification.He servedon the Membership, Mass DisasierResponse, professional ntrri.r, -a

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Courts of AppellateJurisdiction committees and the ElectronicCommunications Task Force.

While serving as chair of the SpecialCommittee to Review the Code of ProfessionalResponsibility (1995-2000),Krane strepherdedmajor changesin the Code which govenu the daily belraviorof New York lawyers,through the House and the courts. He also representedthe statebar on the Office of Court Administration'sTask Forceon Attorney Professionalismand Conduct.

Krane servodu e hearingpand chair urd refereefor the DepartmemdDisciplinary Committee,First Judicial Department,and is a grievancepanel chair for the Committeeon Grievancesof the U.S. District Court for the SouthernDistrict of New York. He is a memberof the FederalistSociety (Ne* York ChapterSteering Committee), American Law Institute and a Fellow of both The New York and AmericanBar foundations.

Krane has written and lectured extensivelyon attorney ethics issues.For severalyears he taught professionalresponsibility at ColumbiaUniversity School of Law and lrc taught sports law to MBA studentsat Georgia Tech. Krane servedas a law clerk to then New York Court of AppealsJudge JudithS. Kaye (1984-198s).

For firrther informatiott"re,porters can contactFrank Ciervo at (518) 487-5532or sendur e-mailto fciervo@ny$a.org

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rrre yorr rrew $rareBar Associationb new e|H:'il'#*:ffi1T#Tt, New StateBar presidmt ChampioruO?*ness, Srwhe BY JOHI{ CAHER He .- is daring the professionto open its.djsciplinaryproceeding. ALBAM-ln its l25year to ihu .. history, punltc, challengingthe it is unlikely that york state to estab- the New Staie ttsh a bonding authority Bar Association has ever to help had u pruo y.oung lawyers and other ident quite like Steven profes_ C. Krane. sjonals pay off their school Mr. Krane, a onetime to*, "o Wagnerian they can afford to take public tenor and Phi Beta Kappa serv_ who clerked ice jobs. He is also nudging tor now Chief JudgeJudith firms to S.Kaye and lessentheir quest for litigatesfor major proiessional nitfu6f" t ori" iports and make sure associates a gotdenretriever_loving, have the f93gy9.-:ir opportunity to fulfill their pro World War II buff and legal bono ethicl commitments, and he wants expert who chasesstormi to give through representatives of minority southern plains states for fun ind and hL women bars a seat on the Sta6 rubbed shoulders with Bar,; figures as policymaking House of Oetegatei. diverse as basketball "*up"rrti, "l hope ayear Irom now wf,en peo Patrick Ewing and Islamic tury"ri . ple look at the StateBar, they loyal_tothe fanaticalAyatullah 'He. will-say, Ruhol_ made.things better f"r"furvy.ii, ran Khbmeini.And at 44.Mr. Krane tor the public,for the justicesy.iu_.; alsohappens to be the youngestper: That's all I can hope for," Mr. Krane son ever to serveas presidentof the sard_ largestvoluntary bar in the nation. . lf Mr. Krane'splans seemdown_ The litigation partner at proskauer nght.exhausting, RoseL[^P well, admirerssay, in Manhattancame into his that is no surprise_ State becauseStei; Bar officeJune I with an agen_ Kraneis tireless. da as unusual,diverse and unlilelv as his resume Continued on page 6, col -mn 4 -5c. "A^Z_" LAW JOTJRNAL StateBar PresidentChampions Openness

Continued from page l, column 4 ing Corp., was seekingcompensation even though I was there working for the for a luxury condominiumproject that other side,that I really becamea fan and had been appropriated by Ayatullah alwayswanted to seehim succeed." ."f!*gl is extremely hard working," Khomeini'sRepublic of lran. NoW Mr. Krane is representing said Paul MichaetHasiett, who precfr- "There the ed Mr. Krane as president and under I was, in mysecond year out NHL in a racketeering case brought by of law school, in The players whom Mr. Krane served for a year as Haguedealing former suing the leagueand Alan "l wlth international president-elect. have tremendous arbitrators and lran- Eagleson,the former executivedirector iari lawyers who players' admiration for Steve Krane. He is one had pictures of Ayat- of the union. ln that suit, the ullah Khomeini olavers of the most intelligent people I have ever all over the place,"Mr. accuse the NHL and owners of Krane said. lnown, and heworks oBoston. cally proficient aWestruck.I was 12 years old. Fiom law clerk in the historv of the then on, I devoured everything I could Court of Appeals. He is very, verj, Legal technological. Ethics lssues get myhands on that related to opera." He dld everything by "the computer He was consumed by power, the when the rest of us were still Mr. Krane got involved in ethics energr, the range of emotion" in oper.E dealing with carbon paper." lssues, and ultimately the State Bar, Back like his alltime favorlte, Richard Wagrr at Proskauer Rose,Mr. Krane largely because of Mr. Kaye. er's drama of forbldden love, "Tristan iesumed a practice that was increas- In early 1985,Mr. Kaye was chairman ingly focused on of rmd holde." Until about l0years ago, Mr. two areas:sports and the ethics committee of the Associ- legal professionalism. Krane performed professionally, spe- Proskauerrep ation of the Bar of the City of New York cializing in ltalian and Crermanoperatic resents management in professional when he asked Mr. Krane to serve as repertoire. sports casesand lawyers and law firms secretary. Mr. Krane was enthralled in disciplinary matters. with ethics issuesand, characteristi- The law taps another side of his per- , cally, immersed himself in the broad sonality, the argumentative side. After I "everyethics graduating Phi Beta Kappa from the Sports Law Practlce topic, ioining and profes- State Universlty of New York at Stony sional responsibility related committee Brook, where he studied political sci- Mr. Krane is altfelongfan of the Boston that would have me." tearns - ence and music, Mr. Krane enrolled in an eManhattan.Bya decisive Mr.Flassett said he expectsthe asso 3l+106 vote, . the ABA rejecteda pro- ciation and professionto continue to ' posal backed by large accotinting progr€ssincrementally. ,firms,corporate groups "I counsel and dOn't see-,anymajor shifts in what the U.S.Chamber of Commerce. we do;'l,Mr.Hassett.sai-d. "The profes_ "The continuing ',t, issueof multidis- si6n, desplte predic'lionsto the con_ practice ciplinary didn't beginin my trary, really doesn't chanqeall that, year, but our successat the ABA was rapidly, It hasrchangeddramiticaltv in : my i on watch and it was a th.iiilting mf,35 years biit it is probablv not, moment for ,: our associationto have 4q1$dlf{erent todiy than it ** i v.a, ;authored the major report on MDPin a$or:lvfi|lE 1scertainly different fiom :the United 11 Statesand elsewhere.and urhat it waS:five and t 0 years aeo..' ,,to havethat report becomethe foun- Mi Hasiett saia iris year at thi helm dation for our nationalbar associa-. was busy, but more invigorating than ,tion's position was a great exnauqtrng. ' ,accomplishment,"said Mr.Hassett, of flt:,,Was wonderful,' he j:hwyers said. Brown & Kelly LLP in Buffalo are very interestingpeople I Mr. Hassettsaid, however, that mu} and I got a chanceto meetthousands ir,tidisciplinarypractice remains an of them.One of thebiggestiobs of the, . ongoingprof essional 'There concern. presidentis to be visible,to go meet: are those who think the ing$ and dinnersand show the flas. position ,rABAs on this issuedoesn't And that is probably the most enioi_ :tmatter, and I think they are right able part of the job.;'