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Barry Kamins
Vice-President 2nd District
Brooklyn criminal defense lawyer Barry Kamins, author and law
professor, has been named New York State Bar Association vice president,
representing the Second Judicial District (Richmond and Kings
counties).
Kamins, a partner with Flamhaft Levy Kamins & Hirsch, was
admitted to the bar in 1969. He has been in private practice since
1973, after spending four years in the Kings County district
attorney’s office – first as an assistant and then deputy
chief of the criminal court bureau. Kamins received his
undergraduate degree from Columbia College and earned his law degree
from Rutgers Law School.
Active in the NYSBA, Kamins serves as chair of the Committee on
Professional Discipline, and is past chair of the Committee on Justice
and the Community. He is a member of the state bar’s
House of Delegates, Criminal Justice Section, Journal Board of Editors,
and the committees on Annual Award and Continuing Legal Education.
He is also a member of the Committee to Promote Public Trust and
Confidence in the Legal System.
Kamins chairs the 22-member executive committee of the Association of
the Bar of the City of New York. He is a past member of its Council on
Judicial Administration and its Judiciary Committee. He
chaired the state Grievance Committee for the 2nd and 11th Judicial
Districts (Brooklyn, Queens and Staten Island).
He currently chairs the Oversight Committee for Criminal Defense
Organizations for the Appellate Division, and co-chairs the Advisory
Committee on Criminal Law and Procedure to the Chief Administrative
Judge of New York.
Kamins is past president of the Brooklyn Bar Association, and is
currently chair of its Judiciary Committee. The Criminal Justice
Section of New York County Lawyer’s Association recently named him
the 2004 Special Honoree.
He is an adjunct law professor at both Fordham and Brooklyn law
schools, and is an author and frequent lecturer on the topic of criminal
law.
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