About David Schraver:
David M. Schraver of Rochester has been named a vice president
of the New York State Bar Association, representing the Seventh
Judicial District, which covers Cayuga, Livingston, Monroe,
Ontario, Seneca, Steuben, Wayne and Yates counties. Schraver is
a litigation partner of the Rochester office of Nixon Peabody
LLP, where his practice includes a broad range of complex civil
and commercial litigation in state and federal courts.
Schraver received his undergraduate degree cum laude from
Harvard University, and earned his law degree magna cum laude
from the University of Michigan Law School. Prior to joining
Nixon Peabody, he was on active duty in the United States Navy
Judge Advocate General’s Corps.
At Nixon Peabody, Schraver’s practice focuses on
energy/utilities litigation, contract litigation, fiduciary and
professional liability, and Indian law. He has served as a
member of the firm’s governing committee, partner evaluation
committee, professional responsibility committee, operations
committee, and as chair of the personnel committee. He
frequently writes and lectures on legal ethics and
professionalism.
Schraver is a past president of the Monroe County Bar
Association, and a former president of the Metropolitan Bar
Caucus of the National Conference of Bar Presidents. His other
professional memberships include the NYSBA’s Commercial and
Federal Litigation Section, the American Bar Association House
of Delegates, and the New York state and Federal Judicial
Council Advisory Group.
He also serves on the boards of several community organizations
and is listed in The Best Lawyers in America
About the Richard J. Bartlett Fund
The Richard J. Bartlett Fund
Provides funding to
improve legal services to
the indigent |
Richard J. Bartlett, Esq. |
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This fund was established in honor of Richard J.
Bartlett of Glens Falls, who has dedicated a lifetime of
service to the bar and the community. Currently with the
law firm of Bartlett, Pontiff, Stewart & Rhodes PC,
Glens Falls, Mr. Bartlett has filled the roles of
teacher, judge, court administrator, lawmaker and
practitioner. He has pursued all of these roles with a
steadfast commitment to justice, enriching the law and
the life of the various communities he has served. |
Richard Bartlett's many contributions include service as
the first Chief Administrative Judge of the State of New
York (1974-1979) and as dean and professor of law at
Albany Law School (1979-1986). In addition, he has
served as chair of the New York Board of Law Examiners
(1998-2000), having previously been a member of the
board from 1986 to 1998. Finally, Mr. Bartlett served as
president of The New York Bar Foundation from 2000 to
2003 and completed a term on its Board of Directors. He
served as a member of the House of Delegates of the New
York State Bar Association. He was a member of the New
York State Assembly from 1959 to 1966, where he served
as Minority Whip. Among the bills he authored was
legislation creating Article 18-B of the County Law
which provides representation for indigent clients in
criminal and family cases. Fittingly, the Richard J.
Bartlett Fund will be used to improve legal services for
indigent clients, a cause to which Mr. Bartlett has
devoted substantial efforts for more than 40 years. |
About the New York State Bar
Foundation:The New York Bar Foundation is a nonprofit,
philanthropic organization that receives charitable
contributions from individuals, law firms, corporations or other
entities and provides grants to further its goals of promoting
and advancing the following:
• Service to the public
• Improvements in the administration of justice
• Legal research and education
• High standards of professional ethics
• Public understanding of legal heritage
The Foundation makes grants to financially
support law-related programs of legal services organizations,
nonprofits, bar associations and other organizations throughout
New York State.
The Foundation is managed by a group of
distinguished lawyers from across the State of New York
including officers, a 25-member Board of Directors and 2 ex
officio Directors (the Chair and Vice Chair of The Fellows of
The New York Bar Foundation).
About FLSNY Google Project:
One of the largest obstacles in conducting effective outreach to
farm workers is being able to locate workers and make a coherent
record of their locations.
This is due in large part to the fact that farms and
labor camps
tend
to be found on small roads, often poorly marked and sometimes
not marked at all. Given
the inherent difficulty of giving verbal directions to such
locations, many farm worker advocates come to rely on their own
mental maps. While this
method can be sufficient in the short term, it leaves the agency
with a dearth of crucial information when that advocate is no
longer available. Our
advocate has been able to use Google Earth to pinpoint hundreds
of farm worker housing sites, color code them as to suspected
trafficking activity, and generate maps to share with other
staff members regarding these sites.
At FLSNY, we have found a solution to this
problem in the form of Google Earth, a computer program that
allows users to assign digital, color-coded place markers to any
point in the world.
In concept, Google Earth is essentially a high-tech version of
mounting a map on the wall and pushing some tacks in.
In practice, however, the program offers a far better
mapping system than would be possible outside the digital world.
Among its most useful features for us:
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Directions from one place
mark to another, which can then be printed directly from the
program
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GPS coordinates for every point on the
globe (this will be particularly useful if we adopt the use
of portable GPS units in the future, as some other farm
worker service agencies have already done)
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A system of maps from the global scale
to the surprisingly local, all constantly updated through an
internet connection with Google
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Collapsible “tags” for each place mark,
so that users can assign infinite amounts of information to
each place mark but keep their map uncluttered.
FLSNY has already added tags to each outreach
location so other advocates will know the trafficking
status, whether there is suspected trafficking and
information and alerts regarding the living conditions of
the camps.
For more information about the Google Earth
Project email
Owen Thompson or
Peg Billyard at FLSNY.
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