November is next month (you probably realized that, lol). And Election day is November 4th this year. Are you registered to vote? Do you know your polling place? Mailing it in? If you’ve got these questions — rest easy — The New York Law Institute’s got answers (& links!) for you….
October 25::The Board of Election must receive your voter registration application(via mail/in person/ or online) by this date….. If you are requesting early mail ballot or absentee ballot, the Board of Elections must receive your application via online portal, email, fax, or mail by this date. (You may request one in person through November 3rd.) Click here for Board of Election information for your Borough….
Nov. 3: last day to apply in person at the Board of Electionsfor an early mail or absentee ballot.
Nov. 4: Election Day — Polls are open from 6 a.m. – 9 p.m. Click here to find your polling place. Early mail/absentee ballots must be postmarked no later than November 4th to be valid.
New York City Bar Association issued its latest opinion regarding Artificial Intelligence, this time focusing on recording client communication. To read NYC Bar Association Opinion 2025-6 regarding the use of artificial intelligence tools to record, transcribe and create summaries of client communication, click here…. Back in 2024, the same Bar Association issued an overview of…
September 17th is Constitution Day. Why September 17th? That’s the day the U.S. Constitution was signed in Philadelphia is 1787… And while the OED gives multiple meanings for every word — including constitution — most Americans (and certainly most librarians!) immediately associate it with the document, often amended, that is the basis of our government….
The written word, images, music and film all exit the world of copyright and enter into public domain….. This Public Domain Day (1.1.2025), we’ve got some interesting graduates entering into the latest class of public domain works of art…. Virginia Woolf’s seminal feminist essay “A Room of One’s Own,”as well as Hemingway’s war novel “A…
You probably know that November 11th is known as Veterans Day, a Federal Holiday…. And you may know that Veterans Day was original “Armistice Day” — commemorating the end of World War I (November 11, 1918) … But did you know that November 11th officially became Veterans Day on June 1, 1954 (P.L. 280)? You…
The 1960s were a decade of momentous change… Including a momentous change in New York’s Civil Practice as the Civil Practice Act was completely revised to become the basis of today’s Civil Practice Law & Rules…. The 1962 NY Chap 308 created the CPLR., which went into effective on 9/1/1963… And if you want to…
