The New York Appellate Division, Fourth Department, granted posthumous bar admission to Ely Parker. The celebration took place in a ceremonial courtroom in downtown Buffalo. Court officials said it ...

Kim Kardashian broke down in tears after learning she failed the California bar exam, which she needed to pass to become a lawyer. After revealing last week that she failed the exam, the Kardashians ...

Ely S. Parker, a Tonawanda Seneca from western New York, never took no for an answer. At the start of the Civil War, Parker’s offer to enlist was rejected outright by another New Yorker, Secretary of ...