It was a banner year for the New York City Bar Association’s legislative priorities, aided in part by Democratic control of the state Legislature for the first time in nearly a decade, but an ambitious agenda of outstanding issues remain for attorneys involved with the organization.
Among those is a bill that would allow women to act as paid surrogates for those who physically can’t have children, which comes with a myriad of legal issues, and the evergreen topic of reforming the state’s convoluted trial court system.
