Murphy and Weaver

05/15/2026

IN THE NEWS: New York's Courts Unveil new Website

A recent interview by Noah Powelson for the Queens Daily Eagle goes in depth about our new NYCOURTS.GOV website with our Website Systems Director, Phillip Yow.

"Users come here because they have to, not by choice," "Even an image of a person in a courthouse smiling, a real photo not a stock image, can bring that anxiousness down one notch."

Hear all about the web redesign process and what's next for the ongoing redesign, here: https://loom.ly/qGtQWAs

05/04/2026

02/03/2026

in 1960, four Black college students sat down at a segregated Woolworth’s lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina, and refused to leave.

Ezell Blair Jr., David Richmond, Franklin McCain and Joseph McNeil, now known as the Greensboro Four, sparked a wave of student-led sit-ins across the South. Their courage helped accelerate efforts to end segregation in public accommodations.

What began with four students grew into a national movement for justice.

02/03/2026

Appeals from indigent or poor litigants have decreased precipitously at the U.S. Supreme Court over the past several terms and are now at their lowest level in the 21st century, the National Law Journal reports.

08/25/2025

Dozens of major law firms, wary of retaliation, have scaled back pro bono work, diversity initiatives and litigation that could place them in conflict with Trump, a Reuters investigation found.

12/24/2024

Artificial intelligence, a curiosity not so long ago, is now a part of daily life for in-house lawyers.

04/06/2022

The ABA Board of Governors on Tuesday revised the association’s diversity policy for continuing legal education programs after the Florida Supreme Court banned course credit in the state for programs with panel “quotas.”

01/06/2022

A Maine rule designed to protect consumers isn’t preempted by federal law, the First Circuit decided.

01/06/2022

Even established democracies can fall to military juntas and despots. We can’t let that happen here.

01/02/2022