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No matter what business you’re in, there’s some level of risk that you could find your company the target of a lawsuit or even some type of criminal allegations. But even if the accusations are completely unfounded and you ultimately ...

Tina Monshipour Foster has seen the impact that a community of lawyers can have when deployed to tackle a problem. She led a multi-year effort to recruit hundreds of attorneys in the early 2000s to represent Guantanamo Bay detainees and ...

BarkerGilmore, a Fairport-based legal industry consultant and head hunter has released its first-ever study of in-house compensation or attorneys specifically in the health care and life science industries. While BarkerGilmore’s annual survey of in-house counsel compensation overall is a widely ...

Heidi Macpherson, president of The College at Brockport, was presented with the 34th annual ATHENA International Award on Thursday night. Julie Camardo, owner and CEO of Zweigle’s Inc., received the sixth annual ATHENA Young Professional Award. And Butler/Till Media Services ...

The Monroe County Water Authority is being sued by an insurance company that paid for damage caused to a real estate business in Perinton by a water main break. The company, Secway Realty LLC, 2815 Baird Road, Perinton, was insured ...

The focus was on women at this year’s Martin Luther King Jr. Day celebration at the Eastman Theatre Monday. “This is a momentous year,” Simeon Banister, chair of the Greater Rochester Martin Luther King Jr. Commission, told an audience of ...

Tenants in the city of Rochester now have a new option to deal with code enforcement violations their landlord has failed to address. State Supreme Court Justice Craig J. Doran, chief administrative judge for the Seventh Judicial District, on Tuesday ...

An Ontario County company is being sued by a former worker who claims she was not rehired after being injured because of her age. In 2010, Linda Lu DiMarco, a Monroe County resident, started working for G.W. Lisk, located in ...

Gail M. Norris, former vice president and general counsel at the University of Rochester, is entering a new phase of her career. In November, Norris, 61, retired from her position at the region’s largest employer and moved to the law ...

Canandaigua National Bank and Trust Co. is foreclosing on the home of a man convicted in the 5LINX federal fraud case. According to documents filed Thursday in state Supreme Court in Ontario County, Jason Guck, who was sentenced to seven ...

Attorneys Karlee Bolaños and William Lowe had reached a level of success that many lawyers would consider the pinnacle of a career, yet they have taken a major risk to fulfill a personal dream. Although both had achieved partner status ...

The mother of a woman who committed suicide while being held in the Monroe County Jail has filed a lawsuit against the county. On Sept. 4, 2018, Sitarah Daniels hanged herself with a blanket tied to the bars of her ...

Two new laws designed to secure personal information collected by businesses will take effect next year. The California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) goes into effect Jan. 1. And New York’s Stop Hacks and Improve Electronic Data Security (SHIELD) Act starts March ...

State officials have gone to court to collect fines imposed against an Ontario County company and force the defunct business to pay money awarded to a Wayne County woman who won a discrimination claim against the firm. The New York ...

A federal jury on Friday convicted Richard Leon Wilbern for the fatal robbery of the Xerox Federal Credit Union in Webster in 2003. Wilbern, 59, fatally shot Raymond Batzel during the crime and wounded another customer, Joseph Doud. The jury ...

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