The New York State Bar Association, 15 local bar groups, business leaders and legal services providers are urging members of the state’s congressional delegation to cooperate in resolving the so-called “fiscal cliff” impasse or risk cuts that would create “enormous disruption” to the federal courts throughout the state beginning Jan. 2. State bar president Seymour James said that because federal courts in all four districts of New York are classified as “congested,” meaning their average caseloads exceed those for the entire federal system, the cuts “would fall disproportionately on New York.”

Read the bar groups’ letter to Congress.