Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
NYSBA is a voluntary bar association for New York lawyers, founded in 1876. It promotes legal reform, ethics, and public service, and has over 74,000 members.
The New York City Bar Association (City Bar) is a voluntary association of lawyers and law students founded in 1870. It has over 160 committees, engages in public policy and social issues, and hosts events with prominent speakers.
Learn how the oldest and one of the largest bar associations in the US was founded in 1870 to reform the legal profession and promote justice in New York City. Explore its role in the Tweed Ring scandals, judicial reform, and legal education.
43rd Street Entrance of the New York City Bar Association Building, c. 1900. After the New York City Bar Association was founded in 1870, it housed itself in a series of buildings in Lower Manhattan. By the 1890s, membership of the Association had grown to the point where its leadership began looking for a new House farther uptown.
The first bar examination in what is now the United States was administered in oral form in the Delaware Colony in 1783. [5] From the late 18th to the late 19th centuries, bar examinations were generally oral and administered after a period of study under a lawyer or judge (a practice called "reading the law").
Learn about the history, organization, rules, and past champions of one of the oldest and most prestigious moot court competitions in the United States. The competition involves 191 teams from 124 law schools who argue current legal issues before a mock court in New York.
NYCLA is a bar association founded in 1908 to promote legal reform and diversity in New York City. It provides CLE, opinions, forums, reports and pro bono services for lawyers and the public.
From 1968 to 1970, Plimpton also served as president of the New York City Bar Association, where he became involved in the political debates of the late 1960s, particularly over the Vietnam War. In May 1970, he controversially led a group of young lawyers from New York to Washington, D.C., to lobby against the war on Capitol Hill.