Professor To Speak Today At Jackson Center Seminar Provides Continuing Education For Lawyers
A distinguished Albany Law School professor will give area attorneys a chance for continuing legal education at the Robert H. Jackson Center.
David D. Siegel, Albany Law School Distinguished Professor of Law, will speak from 10 a.m. to noon today in the Jackson Center’s Carl Cappa Auditorium. ‘‘Civil Procedure Seminar in New York Practice’’ is presented by Albany Law School and the Robert H. Jackson Center as an opportunity for continuing legal education for lawyers from Chautauqua County and throughout the state.
Co-sponsors of the event include Vineyard Group, LLC; Burgett and Robbins; Chautauqua Abstract Company; Chautauqua Region Community F o u n d a t i o n ; Jamestown Bar Association; Jamestown Area Chamber of Commerce and Thomson West.
Members of the public who may want to participate in the seminar may call Rebecca Robbins, Jackson Center development director, at 483-6646.
Siegel, Distinguished Professor of Law at Albany Law School, is editor of the New York State Law Digest; the author of Siegel, New York Practice, Fourth Edition; Siegel’s Practice Review, his monthly newsletter on civil practice; Commentaries on McKinney’s New York CPLR; U.S.C.A. Commentaries on Title 28 of the Federal Code and the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure; The New York Court of Appeals Handbook and Appellate Division Handbook; and Conflict of Laws in a Nutshell, Third Edition.
He has been visiting professor at the law schools of St. John’s, New York University, the State University at Buffalo, Cornell and Hofstra. He is a frequent lecturer on civil practice for bench and bar.
‘‘We are delighted that Professor Siegel, who takes a particular interest in Robert H. Jackson, has agreed to come to the Jackson Center as part of Albany Law School’s continuing legal education programming,’’ said Gregory L. Peterson, Jackson Center president. ‘‘Jackson was a member of Albany Law School’s class of 1912 and is one of the school’s most distinguished alumni.’’
For more information, call Mrs. Robbins at the Jackson Center at 483-6646.