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Lawrence E. Kahn
Lawrence Edwin Kahn (born December 8, 1937) is an American attorney serving as a Senior status, senior United States federal judge, United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of New York. Education and career Kahn was born in Troy, New York. He graduated from Union College with an Bachelor of Arts, Artium Baccalaureus degree in 1959 and Harvard Law School with a Juris Doctor in 1962. He studied at Oxford University and then practiced law with his brother in Albany, New York, from 1963 to 1973. Kahn was also Albany, New York, Albany's Assistant Corporation Counsel from 1963 to 1968. Kahn served as an Albany County, New York, Albany County New York Surrogate's Court, Surrogate Court Judge from 1973 to 1979. In 1980, Kahn became a justice of the New York Supreme Court, on which he served until 1996. Since 1990, Kahn has served as an adjunct professor at Albany Law School, where he teaches courses on Lawsuit, litigation in state and fe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Senior Status
Senior status is a form of semi-retirement for United States federal judges. To qualify, a judge in the Federal judiciary of the United States, federal court system must be at least 65 years old, and the sum of the judge's age and years of service as a federal judge must be at least 80 years. As long as senior judges carry at least a 25 percent caseload or meet other criteria for activity, they remain entitled to maintain a staffed office and chambers, including a secretary and their normal complement of law clerks, and they continue to receive annual cost-of-living increases. Senior judges vacate their seats on the bench, and the President of the United States, president may appoint new full-time judges to fill those seats. Some U.S. states have similar systems for senior judges. State court (United States), State courts with a similar system include Iowa (for judges on the Iowa Court of Appeals), Pennsylvania, and Virginia (for justices of the Virginia Supreme Court). Statuto ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |