Steven C. Krane (January 20, 1957 – June 22, 2010) was an American

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who was, at age 44, the youngest president of the

New York State Bar Association The New York State Bar Association (NYSBA) is a voluntary bar association for the state of New York. The mission of the association is to cultivate the science of jurisprudence; promote reform in the law; facilitate the administration of justice ...

, and died at the age of 53.New York Times obituary
Accessed July 8, 2010. Also available a
Boston Globe website
NYSBA website obituary
Accessed July 8, 2010. He was known as "an expert in legal ethics" and professionalism. His most recent job was that of partner and general counsel at

Proskauer Rose Proskauer Rose LLP (formerly known as Proskauer, Rose, Goetz & Mendelsohn, LLP) is an international law firm headquartered in New York City. Proskauer was founded in 1875 and currently employs more than 800 attorneys in eleven offices worldwide. ...

Education and career

Krane grew up in

Far Rockaway, Queens Far Rockaway is a neighborhood on the eastern part of the Rockaway peninsula in the New York City borough of Queens. It is the easternmost section of the Rockaways. The neighborhood extends from Beach 32nd Street east to the Nassau County li ...

, and graduated from

SUNY Stony Brook Stony Brook University (SBU), officially the State University of New York at Stony Brook, is a public research university in Stony Brook, New York, United States, on Long Island. Along with the University at Buffalo, it is one of the State Univ ...

in 1978, and

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in 1981. He was elected to

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at SUNY Stony Brook."Steven C. Krane: President, NYSBA", a
Law technogy forum website
. Accessed July 8, 2010. He worked most of his legal career at Proskauer Rose, starting as an associate in 1981 and becoming a partner in 1989."Steven C. Krane '81, former president of the New York State Bar Association, dies suddenly at age 53." Found a
NYU Law School website
Accessed July 8, 2010. He was an expert not only in legal ethics, but in

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as well. He also clerked for

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Judge

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from 1984 to 1985. In 2007, he was nominated for a seat on New York's highest court, but then-governor

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did not appoint him, instead re-appointing Judge

Carmen Beauchamp Ciparick Carmen Beauchamp Ciparick (born January 1, 1942) is a judge who served as associate judge on the New York Court of Appeals, the highest court in the state of New York, from 1994 through 2012, when she reached mandatory retirement age. As of June ...

to her position."Hon. Carmen Beauchamp Ciparick." Found a
New York Courts government website
Accessed July 8, 2010. After serving on both the NYSBA and the

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houses of delegates, and chair of their ethics committees, Krane was elected the youngest state bar president (at the age of 44) in 2001. His major accomplishments while bar president were the legal response to the

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, setting up a program for

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forgiveness for

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and other public service lawyers, and bringing the Model Rules of legal ethics to New York. Krane served on two statewide commissions: the New York State Commission on Public Integrity,"Members of the Commission on Public Integrity," annual report, 2009. Found a
New York State Commission on Public Integrity website
. Accessed July 8, 2010. and co-chair of the New York Judicial Institute on Professionalism in the Law."Proskauer Rose General Counsel Dies of Heart Attack," ''

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'', June 24, 2010. Found a
Law.com website
Accessed July 8, 2010. He also taught at the

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as an adjunct professor, from 1989 to 1992.

Legacy

Krane died of a

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, at the age of 53, on June 22, 2010. The New York State Bar Association renamed its fund for young lawyers in

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in honor of Krane."Newly Renamed Steven C Krane Fund to Assist Young Lawyers Working in Public Service with Paying Student Loans," NYSBA, June 29, 2010. Found a
Read media website
citin
NYSBA website
Both accessed July 8, 2010.

References

External links

New York Times obituary

Legacy.com guestbook
{{DEFAULTSORT:Krane, Steven C. Columbia Law School faculty New York University School of Law alumni People from Far Rockaway, Queens Stony Brook University alumni New York (state) lawyers 1957 births 2010 deaths Proskauer Rose partners 20th-century American lawyers

Education and career

Legacy

See also

References

External links