{"id":185014,"date":"2026-04-04T00:46:38","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T00:46:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/185014\/"},"modified":"2026-04-04T00:46:38","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T00:46:38","slug":"sharing-our-memories-oliver-young","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/185014\/","title":{"rendered":"Sharing Our Memories: Oliver Young"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tSharing Our Memories: Oliver Young<\/p>\n<p class=\"sr-only\">4.3.2026<\/p>\n<p class=\"sr-only author\">By Jennifer Andrus<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wpa-warning wpa-image-missing-alt alignnone size-full wp-image-280964\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/young2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"675\" height=\"250\" data-warning=\"Missing alt text\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>In honor of our 150th anniversary, we asked longtime, involved members for their recollections of the New York State Bar Association.<\/p>\n<p>Oliver Young helps develop the case that is presented to the 4,000 high school students who participate in the New York State Bar Association\u2019s Mock Trial Competition each year.<\/p>\n<p>One of his fondest memories is from his days as a Mock Trial coach:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn 1985, I was serving as an attorney adviser for a high school mock trial team in Erie County. We won the county and regional competition and got the chance to go to the statewide competition in Albany. We came in second place in the state. It was the first time that school had gone that far, and it is something I will always remember. After that win, I joined the Law, Youth and Citizenship committee and later became its chair. As the chair of the subcommittee that runs Mock Trial, it\u2019s great to interact with the students each year and see how they put the case together. I continue to enjoy every minute of it!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Do you have a special memory you want to share in honor of our 150th anniversary? Email <a href=\"https:\/\/nysba.org\/sharing-our-memories-oliver-young\/mailto:rmelnitsky@nysba.org?subject=Sharing Our Memories\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">rmelnitsky@nysba.org<\/a> and your memory may be featured on our website.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sharing Our Memories: Oliver Young 4.3.2026 By Jennifer Andrus In honor of our 150th anniversary, we asked longtime,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":185015,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[9,11,10],"class_list":{"0":"post-185014","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-new-york","9":"tag-new-york-headlines","10":"tag-new-york-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185014","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=185014"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185014\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/185015"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}