Dear Supporters:
As it's been about two weeks since I started the petition, I figured that a further update would be in order.
In this regard, I have two items of good news to report:
1) Congratulations! Thanks to your help and support, we have now reached 275 supporters!
Please continue to do everything and anything you can to share the petition with as many people as possible, even those who do not live in New York. As a reminder, the link to the petition is:
https://www.change.org/NY-ADR-Compensation
2) The leaders of the New York State Bar Association, New York City Bar Association, Nassau County Bar Association, and, of course, the New York County Lawyers Association, among others, met today, May 4, 2021, to discuss the petition and the accompanying Table of State Neutral Compensation Statutes, located at https://tinyurl.com/State-Neutral-Comp-Statutes.
You can view the almost two-hour meeting on The Weinreb Law Firm, PLLC's YouTube channel, which includes a presentation by yours truly on the psychological, economic, equitable, and diversity considerations supporting the petition, by following this link:
As I mentioned in the last update, please feel free to help me fill out the Table of State Neutral Compensation Statutes, which will be a phenomenal resource not only for New York practitioners but for practitioners as well as academics throughout the country, by adding in information for those states that are still blank (without deleting or otherwise compromising any information that's already there).
Until the next update, I wish you all the best.
Respectfully yours,
Elan