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New York Law Journal

The 'Speedy-Trial' Statute: Disabled by Legal Fictions

Thomas M. O'Brien writes: Allowing the "off-calendar" maneuver can prolong the "course of a defendant's prosecution" to be a matter of years, rather than the months the legislature intended in enacting CPL §30.30.
8 minute read

Legaltech News

With IP, Securing Employee Access Is Most Vital, but Complex, Task

At an ALM cyberSecure panel, in-house professionals at Citibank and Advaxis explain how best to ensure employee access to information while protecting a company's IP assets.
3 minute read

New York Law Journal

Realty Law Digest

Scott E. Mollen, a partner at Herrick, Feinstein and an adjunct professor at St. John's University School of Law discusses “Divya Dham Sevashram Sangha v. Gita Temple-Ashram,” a case of interest since so many religious institutions have elected to sell their properties because they cannot afford to operate, repair and maintain them and these organizations often need the sale proceeds in order to continue and expand their religious mission.
31 minute read

Corporate Counsel

Federal Investigations and Implications Under Debt Agreements

Review some of the key issues that may arise under a company's existing debt or in new financings in connection with a DOJ investigation.
11 minute read

New York Law Journal

When Title Is Under an Assumed Name: Who Can Bring the Summary Proceeding?

In their Landlord-Tenant column, Warren Estis and Michael Feinstein discuss the case 'Habibian v. Sudman's Service & Diagnostics,' out of Nassau County where the court was presented with the novel question; When title to the subject property is held in a trade or assumed name that is not itself a legal entity, who, if anyone, may bring a summary proceeding?
6 minute read

Legaltech News

Financial Experts Weigh In on Early Compliance With NYDFS Cyber Regulation

A CyberSecure panel looked at the ways compliance with cybersecurity regulation may be easier—and harder—than initially thought.
5 minute read

The American Lawyer

Do Mergers Increase Profitability?

The numbers say yes, but not for the reasons many may think.
9 minute read

The American Lawyer

Middle Market Proves Top Prospect for Many Am Law Firms

Rather than trying to crack into the overly competitive Fortune 50 territory, an increasing number of Am Law 200 firms and below are finding there is no shame being in the middle.
10 minute read

New York Law Journal

Emotional Distress and Right of Sepulcher

Medical Malpractice columnists Thomas A. Moore and Matthew Gaier write: While recovery for negligent infliction of emotional distress is limited in New York, one area in which such claims have long been permitted involves the interference with the right to the body of a deceased loved one. This right, which exists at common law, is known as the right of sepulcher. A surprising number of actions have been brought against hospitals based upon violations of that right
16 minute read

New York Law Journal

Government Makes Manafort's Lawyer a Key Witness Against Him—Ho-hum?

White-Collar Crime columnists Robert J. Anello and Richard F. Albert write: Mostly lost among the headlines regarding the first charges to be brought by Robert Mueller and the Special Counsel's Office investigating Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. election was the simultaneous release of a court opinion compelling one of Manafort's own lawyers to testify in the grand jury. A review of the decision and the indictment indicates that the lawyer is likely to be a key witness against Manafort and Gates at trial.
12 minute read

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