New York Law Institute’s latest Libguide, Labor & Employment, is now available!
Links to Federal, 50 State, & New York specific laws and regs….
Statistics, Organizations and job hunting information….
NYLI’s e-books & print items — are all there– with live links of course!
& we are not above recommending other LibGuides to help you out with your […]
Gearing up for the 2022 Winter Olympics, NYLI elves Pheobe Hurtte and Emily Moog built a bobsled for founders Francis B. Cutting, James T. Brady, & John Anthon….
As our team waits for snow, they and the entire NYLI library staff are searching for clues in the Law Library Scavenger Hunt. […]
Still in the shadow of the Civil War, the 1876 election remains one of the most contentious ever..
Democrat Samuel J. Tilden won the popular vote over Republican Rutherford B. Hayes, but 20 electoral votes ( Florida, Louisiana, Oregon, South Carolina) were in dispute….
Democrats were accused of refusing to count African American votes as […]
LLAGNY Book Club traveled to Kings County with its discussion of Jonathan Lethem’s Motherless Brooklyn, a detective fiction that explores the world of Downtown Brooklyn in the last two decades of the 20th Century.Click here for my book club review on Law Lines !
When Americans think of famous defense attorneys, they often think of those with celebrity defendants . The more historically minded think of Clarence Darrow.
And is there a better known fictional defense attorney than T.V.’s Perry Mason?
James T. Brady
Former NYLI President James T. Brady had celebrity clients, set a […]
Autumn means shorter days, cooler weather…. and perhaps for bibliophiles, a season of more serious reading….
Ignite your enthusiasm for histories, fiction, poetry, children’s literature and timely topics by attending the book festival held by the Library of Congress…
Now in its 20th year, this years’ gathering includes perennial best sellers John Grisham and Amy […]
Like librarians of the present, NYLI’s William H. Winters made use of the latest technologies while preserving the treasures of the past….
Winters, a Harvard graduate, became New York Law Institute’s Librarian in 1872 and immediately began securing complete sets of Statutes and Session laws of every state as well as obtaining […]
Like many New York Law Institute members, John W. Edmonds had both a distinguished legal career and a highly developed sense of civic duty.
His […]
The New York Law Institute celebrates its 105th anniversary of residence at 120 Broadway this month!
Proudly one of the original tenants in what is better known as the landmark Equitable Building, it is our sixth home in downtown NYC… & our longest stay….
And NYLI has often resided in a building that was a […]
Creator of the model Field Codes of civil procedure that were adopted by Montana and California. “Field Codes” also went international; they became a foundation for civil procedure in England, Ireland and India.
Nearly disbarred for his activities on behalf of financiers Gould & Fiske in their litigation with […]
