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TWO CENTURIES OF LEADERSHIP AND SERVICE
GOVERNMENT AND POLITICS
   Several State Reporters held important positions in government and politics.
  • Francis Kernan was a U.S. Senator
  • Henry R. Selden was Lieutenant Governor
  • George F. Comstock was U.S. Solicitor of the Treasury
  • Erasmus Peshine Smith was legal advisor to the Japanese Minister of Foreign Affairs
  • Alvah S. Newcomb managed Benjamin Harrison's presidential campaign.
Selden argument defending Susan B. Anthony
Above: Henry R. Selden defended Susan B. Anthony.
Susan B. Anthony House Collection
BAR ASSOCIATIONS
   State Reporters have held prominent positions in state and national bar associations.
  • Samuel Hand was the second president of the New York State Bar Association.
  • J. Newton Fiero was president of the New York State Bar Association and vice-president of the American Bar Association.
  • Edward J. Dimock was a member of the Board of Governors of the American Bar Association.
NYS Bar Association
Above: New York State Bar Association; 1 Elk St., Albany, N.Y.
   The Law Reporting Bureau has provided technological leadership to the New York State Bar Association:
  • State Reporter James M. Flavin chaired the Bar Association's Committee on Electronic Legal Research, which pioneered on-line legal services.
  • Chief Legal Editor Michael S. Moran developed the Web site for the Bar Association's Committee on Attorneys in Public Service and has written and lectured on technology issues.
Moran article NYS Bar J cover
  Right:
Chief Legal Editor Michael S. Moran's article in the New York State Bar Association's Government, Law and Policy Journal. (Moran, Internet Access and Employer Risk, 2 NY St BA Gov't, Law & Pol'y J 18 [Spring 2000].)


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