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Biography
NEW YORK - New
York attorney Steven C. Krane, is a partner in the Litigation
and Dispute Resolution Department of Proskauer Rose LLP, and
president of the 67,000-member New York State Bar Association
(NYSBA). He was chosen by the House of Delegates, the
Association's policy-making body, at the organization's 123rd
annual meeting in Manhattan.
Krane, the
youngest person ever to hold the post, assumed office on June
1, 2001. He serves as chair of the House of Delegates and
co-chair of the President's Committee on Access to Justice.
A resident of
Pound Ridge (Westchester County), Krane is a graduate of SUNY
at Stony Brook (1978), where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa,
and earned his law degree from the New York University School
of Law (1981). He served as a law clerk to then New York Court
of Appeals Judge Judith S. Kaye (1984-1985.)
Active in the
NYSBA, Krane has served as a member of the House of Delegates
since 1996. He currently serves as a member-at-large on the
state bar's 23-member Executive Committee, chairs the
Committee on Standards of Attorney Conduct and is vice-chair
of both the Special Committee on the Future of the Profession
and the Special Committee on the Law Governing Firm Structure
and Operation. He is a member of the Membership Committee, the
Committee on Mass Disaster Response and the Electronic
Communications Task Force. Previously, he served on the
Professional Ethics and Courts of Appellate Jurisdiction
committees, and chaired the Task Force on Simplification.
Since 1995 he has chaired the Special Committee to Review the
Code of Professional Responsibility, shepherding major changes
in the Code, which governs the daily business and ethical
behavior of New York lawyers, through the House and the
courts. He also represented the state bar on the Office of
Court Administration's Task Force on Attorney Professionalism
and Conduct. He is a Fellow of the New York Bar Foundation.
A sports law practitioner, Krane has litigated major cases for
the National Hockey League, Major League Soccer and the
National Basketball Association, as well as for individual
professional sports teams. He also serves as a consultant on
legal ethics matters to a number of law firms, and regularly
represents law firms and individual attorneys in disciplinary
and professional liability matters.
In addition to
his NYSBA activities, he served as chair, member and secretary
of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York's (ABCNY)
Committee on Professional and Judicial Ethics. He is a past
member of the ABCNY Federal Courts and Mass Disaster Response
committees, and has also served on the Professional
Responsibility, Government Ethics, and Private Legal Referral
Services committees.
Krane served as
a hearing panel chair and referee for the Departmental
Disciplinary Committee, First Judicial Department, through
1999, and is a grievance panel chair for the Committee on
Grievances of the U.S. District Court for the Southern
District of New York. He has been a member of the American Law
Institute since 1993.
Krane has
written and lectured extensively on attorney ethics issues,
and for several years taught professional responsibility at
Columbia University School of Law.
The New York
State Bar Association is the official organization of lawyers
in New York and the largest voluntary state bar association in
the nation.
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