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Monroe County Health Commissioner Dr. Michael Mendoza visited the Monroe County Bar Association Friday to train a group of people to use Narcan to save a person suffering an opioid overdose. In the past 18 months or so, Mendoza has ...

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It’s been three years since Kevin Ryan took over as executive director of the Monroe County Bar Association, but he didn’t need nearly that much time to feel at home. “It’s really a welcoming community,” said Ryan, who was hired ...

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit has revived a lawsuit against Rochester Institute of Technology that had been dismissed a year earlier by U.S. District Court Judge Charles J. Siragusa. In August 2018, Siragusa dismissed the copyright ...

Former state Supreme Court justice and statewide Republican leader Richard M. Rosenbaum died Sunday. He was 88. “Today we lost a giant and a great friend to so many,” Monroe County Executive Cheryl Dinolfo said in a news release. “A ...

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Only about a third of Americans have end-of-life plans for their assets and health-care decisions. Unfortunately, even when plans are made they often include costly mistakes, said Lisa Powers, senior counsel and elder law attorney at Harris Beach PLLC. Powers ...

Contaminated properties that were off-limits to developers are now seen as viable community projects, thanks to New York’s Brownfield Cleanup Program. Developers who clean up and reuse property with environmental contamination — better known as brownfields — not only qualify ...

The state’s highest court has ruled that Wegmans Food Markets Inc. is not entitled to a refund for taxes paid on a service that the company claimed was exempt. Since 1995, Wegmans has hired RetailData LLC to monitor competitors’ prices. ...

As part of Tully Rinckey PLLC’s plan to change its business model and expand globally, the firm has named current partner Michael W. Macomber its new chief executive officer, effective Jan. 1. Macomber is based at the firm’s Albany office. ...

Considering all the other responsibilities they have to juggle, an unexpected lawsuit probably isn’t something that most business owners spend a lot of time planning for, but it should be. The United States has one of the most expensive legal ...

Monroe County District Attorney Sandra Doorley on Wednesday released the details of a new Conviction Integrity Unit (CIU), including the nine members of the new unit: Coordinator, Special Assistant District Attorney Dan Gross; Assistant District Attorney Michelle Crowley, director of ...

Harter Secrest & Emery LLP is celebrating its 125th anniversary with a gift of $31,250 to pay for 125 new trees to be planted throughout the city of Rochester. The donation, which includes enough money for one year of care ...

  There was never much doubt about C. Kenneth Perri’s career path. “I thought I would be like a social worker, or something like that, and then when the time came I decided to go to law school,” said, Perri, ...

Jeremy Kappell, the former WHEC-TV meteorologist fired in January for allegedly using a racial slur during a broadcast, is suing the station. Kappell is claiming breach of contract, defamation, intentional infliction of emotional distress and negligent infliction of emotional distress, ...

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Online retailers are working to comply with a U.S. Supreme Court decision in June that has changed the rules around collecting sales tax. In a 1992 decision, Quill Corp. v. North Dakota, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that states can’t ...

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Lawsuits related to illnesses and injuries caused by asbestos and lead are probably more numerous and costly than any other area of tort litigation over the past 30 to 40 years. Since about 1980 there have been 800,000 asbestos-related claims ...