Author: Brandon

Do You Trust Yourself With Trust Accounting?

Properly maintaining a trust account is integral to your practice, and could affect your law license! If you’re accepting advance payments from your clients, or receiving money on their behalf, you will need to maintain a trust account. What’s more, you will need to maintain a compliant trust account.

Supreme Shift: What the 6-3 Conservative Majority Means Going Forward

It was a year of momentous decisions followed by the loss of an iconic justice. The immediate past term saw the Supreme Court address an unusually high number of consequential, politically charged issues. The Court rendered historic rulings on presidential immunity and accountability, free exercise of religion, LGBTQ rights, abortion rights, jury trial rights, the … Continued

Gov. Cuomo Signs New NYSBA-Advanced Power of Attorney Law

In a major victory for New York State Bar Association advocacy on behalf of its members, Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo has signed a new NYSBA-advanced bill into law that simplifies and improves for consumers the state’s power of attorney form. A power of attorney is one of the most widely used legal documents, allowing people … Continued

Attorney Professionalism Forum – January 2021

To the Forum: I am a recent law school graduate, who passed the bar exam and am awaiting admission to the New York bar. I was lucky to land my dream job working as a law clerk while I await my admission. As I cannot practice law until after I am admitted, I have mostly … Continued

Chief Judge Announces Limited In-Person Proceedings

In her weekly coronavirus update today, Chief Judge Janet DiFiore announced which limited matters may be heard in-person in jurisdictions across the state: arraignments, temporary orders of protection, child protection cases involving removal applications, juvenile delinquency cases involving remand applications, emergency family offense petitions and applications addressing landlord lockouts and serious code violations.