This week on the Touro Law Review podcast we are joined by Professor Patrick Connors to talk about the highest court in the State of New York – the New York Court of Appeals. Now a professor at Albany Law School, Connors clerked on the Court of Appeals, argued one case before the Court, and now writes about the Court as a scholar. As Connors discusses with Associate Dean Rodger Citron, state courts tend to be underappreciated in the law school curriculum. For New York citizens and the lawyers who represent them, the Court of Appeals almost certainly will be important and impactful than the United States Supreme Court. Connors also provides a brief history of some of the Court’s most famous judges and notes a number of recent developments with the Court, including the decline in the number of cases reviewed and decided on the merits in the past few years.
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Our guest today is Professor Patrick Connors .
Professor Patrick Connors
Patrick M. Connors is the Albert and Angela Farone Distinguished Professor in New York Civil Practice at Albany Law School where he teaches New York Practice and Legal Ethics. He was an Adjunct Professor of Law at Syracuse University College of Law where he taught Professional Responsibility from 1991 to 1999. Patrick Connors received his B.A. degree from Georgetown University and his J.D. degree from St. John’s Law School, where he was an editor of the Law Review and research assistant to Professor David D. Siegel.
Upon graduation from St. John’s in 1988, Professor Connors served as a personal law clerk to Judge Richard D. Simons of the New York Court of Appeals until 1991. From 1991 until May of 2000, he was an associate and then member of the litigation department at Hancock & Estabrook, LLP, in Syracuse, New York.
In January 2013, Professor Connors became the author for the NEW YORK PRACTICE treatise, which is now in its sixth edition. In addition, he is the author of the McKinney’s Practice Commentaries for CPLR Article 22, Stay, Motions, Orders and Mandates, Article 23, Subpoenas, Oaths and Affirmations, Article 30, Remedies and Pleading, and Article 31, Disclosure. Among other things he is also the author of the New York Practice column and the annual Court of Appeals Roundup on New York Civil Practice, which are published in the New York Law Journal.
He is a member of the New York State Bar Association’s Committee on Professional Ethics. He served on the New York State Attorney Grievance Committee for the Fifth Judicial District from 1997 until 2000. He was the Reporter for the New York State Bar Association’s Special Committee on the Code of Judicial Conduct, which published a report recommending substantial amendments to New York’s Code of Judicial Conduct. He was also the Reporter for the New York State Bar Association’s Task Force on Non-lawyer Ownership of Law Firms. He is a member of the Office of Court Administration’s Advisory Committee on Civil Practice and served as a member of the New York State Bar Association’s CPLR Committee from 2003 through 2007. In the Fall of 2015, Professor Connors was a Visiting Scholar in Residence at Touro University Jacob D. Fuchsberg Law Center.
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