2020 dawned with great promise for the New York state courts and the New York State Bar Association (NYSBA). For NYSBA, it started with the Annual Meeting and a spectacular Gala Dinner attended by more than 1,000 lawyers and judges honoring U.S. Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan and the Judges of the New York Court of Appeals in the breathtaking Blue Whale room at the American Museum of Natural History.

The year also dawned brightly for our court system with the State of Our Judiciary Address at Court of Appeals Hall in Albany on February 26th when I highlighted the significant progress made under the Excellence Initiative to ensure the just and expeditious resolution of all matters filed in our courts, and laid out a broad range of initiatives to improve the delivery of justice, including implementing presumptive early Alternative Dispute Resolution for civil litigation and simplifying the constitutional structure of our trial courts.

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