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The New York City Bar Legal Referral Service (LRS) is the oldest lawyer referral service in New York State, and the first one in New York City approved by the American Bar Association. [24] The LRS is a not-for-profit organization, founded by the New York City Bar Association (est. 1870) and the New York County Lawyers' Association (est. 1908).
Historically, lawyer referral services involved prospective clients contacting a bar association or responding to an advertisement, by placing a telephone call to the service and seeking a referral. [3] With the internet boom in the 1990s, many consumers turned to the web to search for goods and services. [4]
The New York State Bar has sought legislation to simplify and update court procedures; advocates to raise judicial standards and to enhance voluntary pro bono cases; established systems for maintaining the integrity of the profession; and provides public education and legal services to the indigent. Today, NYSBA includes over 74,000 members, of ...
Poughkeepsie, Middletown, Newburgh, West Point, Goshen and southeastern New York; component of 845/329 overlay 914: 1947 Westchester County: 917: 1992 New York City: overlays with 212, 332, 347, 646, 718, and 929 929: 2011 New York City outside of Manhattan; component of 347/718/929 and 917 overlays 934: 2016 Suffolk County; component of 631/ ...
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He formed a partnership with the Long Island Rail Road (LIRR) to finance the New York and Long Beach Railroad Co., which laid track from Lynbrook to Long Beach in 1880. That same year, Corbin opened Long Beach Hotel, a row of 27 cottages along a 1,100-foot (340 m) strip of beach, which he claimed was the world's largest hotel.
1907 – A group of lawyers gathered in Carnegie Hall to address the prospect of forming a bar group where politics were not obstacles to inclusion. The bar leaders who met were determined to create, in the words of Joseph Hodges Choate (who would become president of NYCLA in 1912), "the great democratic bar association of the City [where] any attorney who had met the rigid standards set up by ...
Alekxia Torres-Stallings (2014): [406] First Latino American female to serve as the President of the Kern County Bar Association (2021). Torres-Stalling and her father David A. Torres are the first father and daughter to have served as county bar president. Ruth E. Cooper (1964): [407] First female lawyer in Ridgecrest, California