Legal History: The U.S. Custom House at Bowling Green
By Steven Flanders
The Custom House at the foot of Manhattan is one of New York’s most distinguished works of architecture. But from its origins in 1899 all the way to the present, nothing in its history has been simple. Designed[…]
At Winter Meeting in Costa Rica, Frank Wohl Receives Whitney North Seymour Award
Developments: At Winter Meeting in Costa Rica, Frank Wohl Receives Whitney North Seymour Award
By Bennette D. Kramer and Steven M. Edwards
The Federal Bar Council held its annual Winter Bench and Bar Conference at the Four Sea sons Resort Costa Rica at Peninsula Papagayo from February 8 through February 15,[…]
Farewell to Jeanette Redmond
FBC News: Farewell to Jeanette Redmond
By Marjorie E. Berman and Steven M. Edwards
As we bid farewell to Jeanette Redmond, the executive director of the Federal Bar Council since 2002, we sat down with Jeanette to reflect on her tenure, learn about the path that brought her to the[…]
Speaking with Judge Frank Paul Geraci, Jr.
In The Courts: Speaking with Judge Frank Paul Geraci, Jr.
By Brian M. Feldman
Just two items grace the walls of the chambers of the Honorable Frank Paul Geraci, Jr., in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of New York. On the wall to the judge’s left hang[…]
U.S Attorney Loretta E. Lynch
The Interview: U.S. Attorney Loretta E. Lynch
By James L. Bernard
Soon after one of the many snowstorms we suffered this past brutally cold winter, Steve Ed-wards and I sat down for a warm chat with Loretta E. Lynch at the Attorney’s Office in the East ern District of New York[…]
Reflections on Watergate after 40 Years
Legal History: Reflections on Water gate after 40 Years
By Pete Eikenberry
August will mark the 40th anniversary of the resignation of President Richard Nixon. Former Federal Bar Council President Bernie Nussbaum told me recently that he will be hosting a reunion in August of the House Judiciary Watergate Committee legal[…]
Jeffrey MacDonald and the Unavailable Witness
Legal History: Jeffrey MacDonald and the Unavailable Witness
By C. Evan Stewart
Jeffrey R. MacDonald, a Princeton-educated, Green Beret doctor, was convicted in 1979 of killing his pregnant wife and two young daughters at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, on February 16, 1970. In the family’s Army apartment, MacDonald’s wife had[…]
An Act of Kindness
Personal History: An Act of Kindness
By Pete Eikenberry
Jerome Robinson is a “tennis buddy” with whom I play at Federal Bar Council conferences – including the most recent one in February in Costa Rica. In early March, as the news turned bad for my wife, Sue, in the Methodist[…]