While New York City is home to that famous gift from the French — the Statue of Liberty and has more than one street named for Lafayette, it would be hard to dispute that Louisiana, and New Orleans in particularly, is the most French place within the United States.
So while many Americans admire French fashions and that certain je ne sais quoi of the Gallic people, it’s interesting to reflect that the early origins of modern French Republic were rooted in an admiration of our own Spirit of ’76!
Hope you had a Happy Fourth of July… & Happy Bastille Day to France… & all Francophiles near & far!!
And what would St. Patrick’s Day be without a discussion of Irish history (and a bit of Irish Rebellion??) Thinking of joining in the research fun?? Click here for NYLI membership information…
Lucy Curci-Gonzalez, NYLI’s Executive Director, recently attended the ALLUNY Conference… where the topic of conversation was — big surprise — Artificial Intelligence…. Check out Lucy’s Law Lines article which summarizes and gives you all the pertinent takeaway points… by clicking here…
LLMC-Digital has launched an extensive upgrade to their website recently and many of our members have had questions as to how to navigate to the printing and emailing functions. Here are two short tutorials on exactly how to do that. In a nutshell, you’ll need to set up an account with LLMC once you’ve navigated…
Upon entering The New York Law Institute’s offices at 120 Broadway, visitors may notice the foyer area medallions depicting two men in profile…… Who are these dudes, anyway? Before the advent of the “Cravath system” , as described in John Oller‘s history White Shoe: How a New Breed of Wall Street Lawyers Changed Big Business—and…
