NYCBA Members Newsletter
| Vol. 3, No. 1 | October, 2005 |
Welcome to the October 2005 issue of our Newsletter.
President's Message:
There is continuing concern about getting timely access to our incarcerated clients and being able to have confidentiality attorney-client meetings, especially at MDC and MCC. As discussed in my 9/26/05 email to the NYCBA membership, there was great concern expressed at the NYCBA Board meeting on 9/21/05 about the lack of attorney interview rooms at MDC (new building)--requiring client meetings to be held in the visiting area and thereby compromising confidentiality--and also about delays and denials of attorney access at MDC (new building, in particular) and MCC. Please send me details of problems you and your colleagues are aware of to date and encounter in the future.
The film "After Innocence" is being shown starting 10/21/05 at the Quad Cinema, 34 W. 13th Ct. (212) 255-8800. The premier of the film is on 10/20 at 7 p.m. at the Loew's 19th St. theater (890 Broadway), followed by a benefit. This award-winning film tells the story of the exonerated as they struggle to make it on the outside without help from the government which wrongly imprisoned them. From 10/21-11/3/05, at 7:30 p.m. weekdays and 3 p.m on weekends, some of the exonerated who are featured in the film, and the filmmakers and others will be on hand to discuss the film and answer questions. Seating is limited for these special screenings and should be ordered in advance. If enough NYCBA members are interested in attending together, we may try to order a block of tickets. Running time is 96 minutes. Please let me know if you are interested. For additional information, you can visit www.afterinnocence.com.
Photos from the June 2005 annual dinner are now available on our website (in the "Members" section, go to "Upcoming events" where there is tab for photos).
I look forward to seeing as many of you as possible at our annual CLE program on the U.S. Supreme Court, to be held on 10/25/05.
Henry J. Steinglass
On Tuesday, October 25, 2005, the New York Criminal Bar Association and The Legal Aid Society will sponsor a CLE Forum on the "United States Supreme Court - Pending and Recent Cases."
The speaker will be Professor Leon Freidman of Hofstra Law School. Two hours of New York State MCLE credit will be awarded in the area of Professional Practice. Certificates of attendance at this program, will be issued by The Legal Aid Society, which is an accredited MCLE provider. This program is suitable for both newly admitted and experienced attorneys.
This Forum will be held at 5:30 p.m. in the Central Jury Room on the 15th Floor of the Criminal Courts Building, 100 Centre Street, in Manhattan. Light refreshments will be served starting at 5:15 p.m. Please arrive early as MCLE rules prohibit awarding credit to late-comers.
Annual Holiday Party:
Don't forget. Our annual Holiday Party will be held on Thursday evening, December 8, 2005 at SPQR Restaurant, 133 Mulberry St., New York. We will be sending out additional details at a later date, but in the interim PLEASE SAVE THIS DATE.
Annual Dues:
We have begun the process of suspending access to the NYCBA Website for those members who have not paid their 2005 dues. If you no longer have access to the NYCBA Website, and you wish to be reinstated, or if you believe the suspension was made in error, please immediately contact Michael Bachrach, the New York Criminal Bar Association Treasurer, by telephone at (212) 382-4621 or by email at mbach2000@yahoo.com, so that we may update our records accordingly.
"Just The Rules" - By Richard Ware Levitt
Our friend and colleague, Richard Ware Levitt, has recently published a new booklet, entitled "Just The Rules." This spiral bound volume contains the full text of:
Members of the New York Criminal Bar Association can purchase this booklet at the special price of $19.95. You can order this handy new booklet either
NYCBA Web Site Features:
Each month, we try to point out some of the latest resources that we have posted on our Website at www.nycrimbar.org/. In keeping with that tradition, we note the following items:
News From the Web
As Scott Tulman advised you by email this past summer, the New York State Library Online (www.nysl.nysed.gov/) provides free access exclusively for New York State attorneys residents to a huge collection of legal resources - many of which were previously available on a subscription basis only.
By signing up for a free Attorney's Borrower's Card (details below), you can get instant Internet access to an amazing and growing list of database resources maintained by the Library, including the following legal resources - all of which are free:
If you are an attorney admitted to the New York Bar and a New York State resident- you should sign up immediately to receive a NYS Library Borrower's Card. [You can request an application for your card either by telephone at (518) 473-7895 or by sending an email to circ@mail.nysed.gov.]
Some Things You Should Know About Protecting Your Hard-DDrive
As lawyers become increasingly dependent on their computers in the conduct of their legal practices, we thought it appropriate to include in this Newsletter some general information about protecting the integrity of that resource:
Comments and Newsletter Contributions Welcome
Comments on this and future issues of this Newsletter are most welcome, as are your own stories about cases, issues, arguments, events. etc. - whether just a sentence or a paragraph to alert us to a recent development, or a longer piece. Please send your material to Scott Tulman, Chair of the Internet and Newsletter Committee at Tel.: (212) 867-3600 or email: stulman@aol.com - or send your comments by email directly to our committee at: nycrimbar@nyc.rr.com.
Yours for
a better defense,
Henry J. Steinglass
President
(212) 406-7700
Internet
and Newsletter Committee:
Scott Tulman, Chair
Harvey Fishbein
Michael K. Bachrach
Peter G. Schmidt