Continuing Legal Education - They're getting desperate

In the picture below, you can see how desperate the New York State Bar Association has become for speakers. The topic is about starting your own practice.In all seriousness, I am honored to be listed as a speaker. I'm also excited to speak about the topic. Should be fun. Click the following to see more about: NYSBA CLE programs.

Soares - Why follow the law?

Not too long ago I did a post about David Soares, our local District Attorney. Well, he's in the news again, and this time it's not about steroids.According to the North Country Gazette, Soares failed to pay his attorney licensing fee to the State Office of Court Administration. I checked on the OCA website today, and it looks like he still hasn't paid up.To be fair, the ADAs in Albany County (

What gives with East Hampton Town Court?

Looking over the court data, it's interesting to see how some courts have a high volume but don't seem to get much attention on our website.Most notable is East Hampton Town Court, which appears to be the 13th busiest justice court in New York State, has been in our database for a while now, and yet does not make the top 500 pages. There is no interstate highway, and can't have any through

Electronic Traffic Tickets - a measure of which courts are busy

Check out this page titled: Courts where police have issued electronic traffic tickets. Unfortunately the page does not give a time frame. Are these numbers for all time? For 2006? We just don't know.But anyway, the differences can be striking. The Town of Athens had nearly 10,000 tickets, with a population of under 4000 people. The Town of Windham, in the same county, and with a population a

Town Court site keeps doing well ... Athens falloff

Our traffic court directory website continues to do well. Weekly traffic is rapidly approaching 6000 visitors. Before last week the site never had two days in a row with more than 1000 visitors (Mondays are usually the biggest day of the week). The last two weeks we've had three days in a row of 1000 visitors, and Thursday was over 970. The site has over 1000 courts now and we have all or most of

A trial lawyer moment ...

I had a trial recently, and there was one short bit of the trial that really stood out. I was cross-examining the principal witness for the prosecution, the following exchange occurred - note that Q is a question from me, and A is an Answer from the witness ...------Q. Okay. So, it's your position that she does notknow how to spell her own last name? Is that what you'retelling this Judge?A. It

The best feeling - when you get your client out of jail

I got a call from one of the attorneys who works with me here in my Albany office. We have a client who has been in jail for over a month on a probation violation. He had just been in Court (at my request) to see the judge and is now going over to the jail to pick our client up.For me, this is one of the most satisfying events I get to experience as a lawyer. I've gotten 5-digit fees on a few