Committee members are listed by name in the supplement to the September Bulletin each year. Please contact Committee Coordinator Susan Kohlbacher at 852-8687 for additional information. The committee features guest speakers at its meetings and holds Noonday lectures and CLE seminars on such topics as child support, paternity, common evidence problems in Family Court, relocation, CD-ROM research, practice in Family Court, child custody evaluations, discovery, and new domestic violence legislation. The Forum , the monthly newsletter of the committee, is now available online . Each fall, the committee holds a dinner attended by all district, magistrate and bankruptcy judges from both Buffalo and Rochester.
Meetings often consist of an informal discussion with one of the members of the federal bench.
The committee provides regular input with respect to proposed changes to the Local Rules of Practice for the district, and conducts one major seminar each year. After a short business meeting, topics of interest in the estate, trust and tax fields are addressed by guest speakers. The committee provides educational seminars for Bar Association members on trust and estate issues as well as an annual Noonday Lecture on those topics. In addition, the committee has presented seminars on trust and estate issues for the public at large. The Liaison subcommittee meets with Erie County Surrogate Joseph S. Mattina and his court staff throughout the year to address issues of importance in Surrogate's practice.