New this month

These books came in today & will be hitting our shelves shortly. Please check our new book list regularly
for more!

Class Action Strategy and Practice Guide

Adoption Law Handbook: Practice, Resources, and Forms for Family Law Professionals, 2nd Ed.

Asset Protection Strategies: Planning with Domestic and Offshore Entities, Volume I, 2nd Ed.

From the Trenches III: Pretrial Strategies for Success

The Trial Lawyer: What It Takes to Win, 2nd Ed.

A Guide to Federal Agency Rulemaking, 6th Ed.

The Law of Performance Bonds, 3rd Ed.

Proof of Conspiracy Under Federal Antitrust Laws, 2nd Ed.

Black History Month event coming up at the 7th Judicial District

The 7th Judicial District presents a 2019 Black History Month Program on the theme of "The Great Migration," the movement of African American people to new destinations and subsequently to new social realities.
Date:	Thursday, February 28th, 2019
Time:	12:30 p.m.
Speakers:	Cecille Shorter, Educator, Retired, Rochester City School District Cory Wilson, aka Lujar Art, Artist Karen Bailey Turner, Esq., Associate Attorney, Appellate Division, Fourth Department
Location:	Courtroom 303, 3rd Floor Monroe County Hall of Justice 99 Exchange Blvd., Rochester, NY 14614
All are welcome. Light refreshments will be served.

Kudos

It was so nice at the end of a chilly, challenging week to pick up the Rochester Business Journal today and read about the Meals on Wheels Business Adopt-A-Route program, which pairs volunteers from for-profit and nonprofit organizations with meal delivery routes in their vicinity. The program is coordinated by friend of the library Julie Cunningham. Kudos to Woods Oviatt Gilman LLP Partner Paul Groschadl, who has delivered meals for Meals on Wheels some three decades, and to all within the legal community who support this awesome program!

February holiday closings

We will be closed

Tuesday, February 12th,
for Lincoln's Birthday

and

Monday, February 18th,
for Presidents' Day.

New NYSBA CLEs

On order: a large shipment of 2018 NYSBA CLE digital media. Watch for them on the shelves in January!

Advanced Legal Writing
Anatomy & Medicine for Lawyers
Attorney Fee Dispute Resolution
Autonomous & Connected Vehicles: Evidentiary Issues
Basic Lessons on Ethics & Civility
Buying & Selling a Law Practice
CPLR Update
Criminal ESI: Electronic Info in Criminal Investigations
Debt Collection and the Enforcement of Money Judgments
DWI on Trial - The Big Apple XVII
Emerging Liability Issues for the Healthcare Industry
Employment Law for the General Practitioner & Corporate Counsel
Estate Planning & Will Drafting
Ethics 2018: Legal Ethics in the Real World
Failure to Diagnose Breast Cancer
Family Court Practical Skills
Guide to Real Estate Closings
Home Care in New York State (Upstate NY)
How to Serve Veterans in Your Law Practice
Implicit Bias: What It Is and How Do I Interrupt It
Intellectual Property Law for the General Practitioner
Internet Law Update
Intro to Civil Practice Skills: Torts, Injury, Insurance Law
Introduction to Discovery & Use of Electronic Information
Introduction to Entertainment Law: Basic/Current Issues
Introduction to Immigration Law
Keeping Current with NY Automobile Litigation
Landlord & Tenant Law Update
Legal Ethics in the Digital Age
Legislative Developments in Medical Marijuana in NY
The Marriage of Elder Law & Family Law
Microsoft Word for Legal Professonials
Nuts & Bolts of Contract Drafting
Perspectives on the Tax Cuts & Jobs Act
Planning With Your Client’s Retirement & Life Insurance
Premises Liability: Issues & Considerations
Real Property & Tax Issues for the Elder Law Attorney
Representing a Candidate Under NY's Election Law
Special Education Law Update
Starting a Solo Practice in New York
Starting an Elder Law Practice
Transcending Labels: Diversity in the Legal Profession
What You Need to Know As a Guardian Ad Litem

Season's Greetings

Wishing you a joyful holiday season & a happy new year

Holiday Closings

We will be closed Monday, December 24, 2018 and Tuesday, December 25, 2018.

The Library will also be closed Monday, December 31, 2018 and Tuesday, January 1, 2019.

Special Frederick Douglass commemoration

We're happy to pass along this announcement from the Rochester Regional Library Council, especially as the featured speaker is the author of a new book that we have included in our current display on civic engagement in nineteenth-century Rochester:

The University of Rochester and RIT are collaborating on an incredible event which will take place on Monday, December 3rd at 7 pm at the Hochstein School in downtown Rochester. This event is in part a culmination of the almost year-long local celebration of the 200th anniversary of Frederick Douglass’s birth.

PROPHET OF FREEDOM: HONORING FREDERICK DOUGLASS IN WORD AND SONG is a multi-faceted and very special event, which will take place on the anniversary of the first issue of the North Star (12/3), and held in the location of Frederick Douglass’s 1895 funeral in Rochester, once the Central Presbyterian Church, now the Hochstein School.

The event is free and open to all, but we are asking people to please register on Eventbrite for “tickets” though you don’t have to print them out to attend. Seating is limited to 847 and we are already halfway full, so please do register if you plan to come!

The event will include:
-Premier musical performance of the piece of very rare 1847 sheet music River Campus Libraries acquired in March from the Swann auction, by two students from Eastman (piano and voice)
-Spiritual invocation and commentary by three members of Rochester clergy: Rev. Julius Jackson, Dr. Muhammad Shafiq, and Rabbi Peter Stein
-Greeting and welcome from Rochester Mayor, Hon. Lovely Warren
-Musical performance of two Spirituals with association to Douglass, coordinated by Thomas Warfield (voice and violin)
-A surprise announcement from Ken Morris, great-great-great grandson of Frederick Douglass
And our featured speaker: Dr. David Blight, Class of 1954 Professor of American History; Director, Gilder Lehrman Center, Yale University and author of Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom (Simon and Schuster, October 2018).

Dr. Blight will sign books after the event and there will be a special commemorative bookplate available for those getting their books signed, designed by Travis and printed by Amelia at the Cary, RIT on a 19th c. handpress!

Access to the Eventbrite registration, a poster to download (and share!), and to see a pdf of the sheet music, the 3D file of the Douglass bust, and more, click here.

This is going to be a spectacular and memorable event, and we hope you can join us and bring your family, friends, book group, or community group.