NEW YORK REPORTS COURT OF APPEALS STATE OF NY. 1909-1920 FIERO-36 books

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J. Newton Fiero
STATE REPORTER: 1909 - 1931
***Books 1909 to 1920***
The seventeenth official Reporter of New York was born in Saugerties
in 1847. Fiero graduated from Union College in 1867, studied law in
the Delhi office of Supreme Court Justice William Murray, and was
admitted to the bar in 1869. By 1891 he was in private practice with
Amasa J. Parker in the Albany area and had started teaching Common
Law and Code Practice and Pleading at Albany Law School. From 1895
to 1924, he served as the law school’s sixth Dean, the longest term in
the school’s history. During this time period, the school adopted a two-
year program of study. In the forefront on the issue of legal ethics, Dean
Fiero and two of the law school’s trustees, Thomas H. Hubbard and
Judge Alton B. Parker, who was Chief Judge from 1898 to 1904 before
resigning to run for President, prepared the code of ethics adopted by
the New York State Bar Association. Additionally, Fiero is credited with
implementing the formation of the State Board of Law Examiners,
creating a uniform system for the examination of applicants to the bar.
In 1909, while at Albany Law School, Dean Fiero was appointed State
Reporter, publishing 63 volumes of the New York Reports by his death
in 1931. Active in various bar associations, he was president of the New
York State Bar Association in 1893 and 1894, and also served as vice-
president of the American Bar Association. Dean Fiero was the author of
numerous books, including a treatise on special proceedings and special
actions and the Principles of the Law of Torts (1900). He was married to
the former Jeanette S. McCall, and they had three children. Dean Fiero
died in Albany on April 13, 1931
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