Between 1975 and 2005 I was privileged to serve as a Justice of the Supreme Court of New York in the Seventh Judicial District, headquartered in Rochester, New York. Today I am of counsel to the law firm of Chamberlain D'Amanda Oppenheimer & Greenfield. My practice there includes arbitrations and mediation, and I invite you to contact me through the firm's web site or by phone.

Because of the great response this web site drew during my tenure as a Judge, I have decided to maintain it as a continuing resource. On it you will find a sampling of my work:

• Cases on a variety of topics, including a separate page for cases and articles on New York's Labor Law;
  
• Articles on areas of the law for which I have a special interest;
  
• Commentary on issues affecting the courts, including a speech I gave in October, 1997 on The Future of Advocacy in the Next Millennium; and
  
• a searchable Index of the site's contents and some links.
  

I hope that practitioners will find the site of interest. Even more, though, I hope that through the medium of the Internet I can give those of you who have never studied law, served on a jury, or engaged in a lawsuit some insight into one of the oldest and most important branches of our government. I can imagine a state without a legislature, and one without an executive; but one without a system of justice can hardly be called a nation at all.

Andrew V. Siracuse, J.S.C. (ret.)

Comments should be addressed to
Michael Steinberg, Webmaster
mlstein@rochester.rr.com

Original material on this site is protected by copyright. Photograph © 1996 Joe Gawlowicz; Design © 1997 Michael Steinberg; Written contents, except for decision texts, are © 1993-1997 Andrew V. Siracuse and Michael Steinberg. No copyright subsists in the decision texts, which are government documents.

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