General Practice Section & Committee on Professional Discipline Annual Meeting Program

- Location -
Hilton New York
1335 Avenue of the Americas
New York City

 General Practice Section and the Committee on Professional Discipline

Attorney Discipline in New York: Four Different Departments, Four Different Approaches—Should Attorney Discipline Be Uniform? In this program, a panel of experts, including Appellate Division justices, will engage in a moderated discussion of the benefits and detriments of New York’s uniquely organized disciplinary system. Among other topics, the panel will explore the different ways New York’s four Appellate Divisions handle attorney discipline cases, highlighting substantive case law and court rules, and debate the relative merits of a uniform system granting every attorney substantively similar procedural rights.

Meeting 9:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.

Under New York’s MCLE rule, this program has been approved for a total of 4.0 credit hours; 2.0 credits in areas of professional practice and 2.0 credits in Ethics. This program is not transitional and will not qualify for credit for newly-admitted attorneys.

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