It’s annual budget season. NYLI supports the strategy of filling content gaps and saving on costs by joining a membership library such as The New York Law Institute! If you need your firm’s projected 2024 NYLI dues or are considering adding NYLI membership in the coming year, please contact Executive Director Lucy Curci-Gonzalez at lcurcigonzalez@nyli.org or […]
Now seen as the end of Summer — and a kind of bookend BBQ when paired with the season’s kickoff of Memorial day — Labor Day was initially a reaction to worker unrest …
Library of Congress, Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Printed Ephemera Collection. For more on the Haymarket riots role […]
Thanks to Lin-Manuel’s musical, Alexander Hamilton is again known for so much more than the face of the ten-dollar bill….
eBook @ NYLI Author claims Eliza Jumel was one of Alexander Hamilton’s extramarital flings!!
But did you know that Alexander Hamilton Jr. was Madame Jumel’s attorney in her divorce suit against aging husband Aaron Burr? […]
The classic love triangle of Beecher, his best friend Tilton and Tilton’s wife Elizabeth pushed post-Civil War issues of reconstruction off the front pages for almost three years.
NYLI’s Evarts Medallion!
New York Times (February 5, 1875)
A storied New England family of authors, preachers and social reformers would be divided. And some […]
Not even serving a year, William Sulzer was the first — and so far only — New York Governor to be impeached.
What was Sulzer’s crime?
William Sulzer was found guilty by the New York State Assembly of filing false campaign contributions and using $40,000 of monies collected to play the stock market…
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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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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