Calls for State Insurance Threaten Property Transfers

Wednesday, April 14, 2010
By Adam Leitman Bailey and Dov Treiman

Adam Leitman Bailey, founding partner of Adam Leitman Bailey, P.C., and Dov Treiman, a partner at the firm, write:

Currently before the State Legislature are two bills that would inject the state in the business of title insurance, damaging New York’s standing as the capital of real estate transactions. One would broaden the power of the State Insurance Fund to provide a State alternative to the current private system of title insurance. The other would create a new state title authority for the same purpose. Many real estate attorneys see these bills as a threat, both to the heart of the safe transfer of real estate and to the capitalist system itself.

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REMINDER: FCBA Dinner

REMINDER

Members of the bar are cordially invited to attend a CLE program, and the Annual Meeting and Dinner of the NDNY Federal Court Bar Association, at The Albany Marriott this Thursday, December 10, 2009.

11:00 a.m. Complimentary Lunch Buffet
12:00 p.m. CLE Program* – “Speaking to Win: Effective Speaking for Lawyers” (presented by Steven D. Stark, Esq.)
4:30 p.m. Annual Meeting of the NDNY-FCBA
6:30 p.m. Annual Dinner

Presentation of the James R. Duane Award to the Honorable James P. King. The award, named in honor of the Honorable James R. Duane, the first Judge of the United States District Court for the District of New York, who also served as a delegate to the Continental Congress, a New York state senator and the Mayor of New York, will be bestowed on the Honorable James P. King. Judge King has had over 40 years of distinguished public service at the national and state level with the Executive, Legislative, and Judicial branches of government.

Distinguished Guest & Speaker – The Honorable Dennis Jacobs. Judge Jacobs is the Chief Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. He became Chief Judge on October 1, 2006. Since 1997, Judge Jacobs has been a member of the Committee on Judicial Resources of the Judicial Conference of the United States, and he has chaired that committee since 1999.

The CLE program is complimentary to current NDNY-FCBA members (i.e., attorneys who join or renew prior to, or on the day of, the event).

Pre-registration is required. Please visit www.ndnyfcba.org for details and registration information.

Thank you for supporting the NDNY-FCBA.

Lawrence K. Baerman
Clerk – USDC
Northern District of New York

NOTICE – To all members of the Northern District Bar

The United States District Court for the Northern District of New York is
seeking qualified applicants for the position of a full-time United States
Magistrate Judge to be located in Syracuse, New York. The Public
Announcement and Application Form are available on the Northern District of
New York website at:

http://www.nynd.uscourts.gov/documents/newmagistratejudgepublicnotice09.pdf

Thank you

Lawrence K. Baerman, Clerk

Practice Management and the New Rules of Professional Conduct

Tuesday, February 24, 2009
Sponsored by the Committee on Law Practice Management and the General Practice Section

 

Practice Management and the New Rules of Professional Conduct
CLE Teleconference

Find out how the new rules affect your practice

Tuesday, February 24, 2009

12:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m.
(Eastern Time)
Moderator:
Professor Gary Munneke

Speakers:
Marian Rice, Esq.
Thomas Rice, Esq. 

On April 1, 2009, the New York Rules of Professional Conduct will replace the existing Disciplinary Rules. In addition to adoption of ABA Model Rules Format, the new rules bring changes that affect the manner in which you manage your law firm or practice on your own. Learn the overall format of the newly enacted Rules and how the Rules:

Significantly change the manner in which a conflict of interest should be analyzed and resolved;

Alter the existing rules on the relationship between attorney and client and the allocation of authority in the attorney client relationship;

Impact upon the current letters of engagement rules and the circumstances under which attorneys may agree to a division of fees;

Set forth the attorney’s responsibilities and duties to prospective clients who have not engaged the attorney;

Affect the current definitions of attorney-client communications;

Delineate the role of an attorney when dealing with a client of diminished capacity;

Permit, under certain circumstances,evaluations to one other than the client;

Define the role of the lawyer as a third party neutral;

Specify an attorney’s obligations before a tribunal;

Expand an attorney’s obligation in speaking with unrepresented parties;

Include direction on the inadvertent receipt of documents and respect for the rights of third persons; and

Set forth aspirational goals for pro bono service.

register at www.nysba.org/practicemanagementcle

Department of State Move Date

The Department of State moved its Albany office to a new location on February 15th, 2008. Their new address is:

New York State Department of State
One Commerce Plaza
99 Washington Avenue
Albany, NY 12231

NYLJ: Free Limited Access

The New York Law Journal

Registering for free limited access to New York Law Journal gives you:

Daily Legal Alert emails

Full access to Judge’s Part Rules

Articles from select featured columnists

Highlighted Judge’s Profile

Select daily news stories

Select Decisions of Interest

Highlighted articles from our Special Reports

Select articles from ‘The Back Page’

Law.com – N.Y. Bar Panel Urges Adoption of New Conduct Rules

Joel Stashenko

New York Law Journal (read Entire Article)November 7, 2007

Attorneys in New York state are a step closer to becoming the last Bar in the United States to have rules of ethical behavior based in form and substance on the American Bar Association’s Model Rules of Professional Conduct.

The New York State Bar Association’s House of Delegates last Saturday unanimously approved revisions that are designed to transform New York’s current Code of Professional Responsibility into new state Model Rules of Professional Conduct.

It took the State Bar’s Committee on Standards of Attorney Conduct nearly five years to produce the almost 500 pages of proposed rules, which will now be sent to the appellate division’s presiding justices for review and possible final adoption.

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CLE Opportunity / FCBA Annual Board Mtg & Dinner

 Please mark your calendars for Thursday, November 29, 2007, as follows:

 

Electronic Discovery Under the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure (2:00-4:00)

 

Guest Speaker:  Ronald J. Hedges, Esq. of Nixon, Peabody, LLP, and former U.S. Magistrate Judge for the District of New Jersey.   

Panel:  Hon. David R. Homer, U.S. Magistrate Judge; Hon. Randolph F. Treece, U.S. Magistrate Judge; and Daniel J. Hurteau, Esq., Nixon Peabody, LLP.  

 

CLE credit is available.

 

Please see the registration form on NYND’s website for further information:

 

http://www.nynd.uscourts.gov/documents/November_29_2007_FCBA_Seminar.pdf

 

FCBA Annual Board Meeting (4:30-5:30) and Dinner (beginning at 6:30). 

 

Keynote Speaker:  Kathryn Grant Madigan, Esq., President of the NYS Bar Association

 

Please see the announcement on NYND’s website for further information:

 

http://www.nynd.uscourts.gov/documents/AnnualDinnerInvitation.pdf