Andrew Denney is the bureau chief for the New York Law Journal. He can be reached at [email protected]. Twitter: @messagetime
March 28, 2024 | New York Law Journal
Give New Yorkers a Consumer Protection Law They Can Actually UseNew York should enact the Consumer and Small Business Protection Act as an urgent matter of racial and economic justice, two guest columnists write.
By Susan Shin and Claudia Wilner
8 minute read
March 28, 2024 | Connecticut Law Tribune
Amending the Dram Shop Act Would Reduce Wrong Way CrashesThe Connecticut Dram Shop Act provides a remedy to some who are injured as a result of overservice, albeit at the cost of precluding a common law action for negligence which the statute bars. But there are weaknesses with the statute, the editorial board writes.
By Connecticut Law Tribune Editorial Board
4 minute read
March 27, 2024 | Connecticut Law Tribune
Connecticut Should Require Notice to Defendants That Uncharged Misconduct Will Be Used in Sexual Assault CasesBy enacting the proposed discovery rule, Connecticut would fall in line with several other states that have adopted such a provision, the editorial board writes.
By Connecticut Law Tribune Editorial Board
5 minute read
March 24, 2024 | New York Law Journal
Workers Deserve Reform to 1847 Wrongful-Death Law—History Tells Us WhyNew York State legislators have twice passed the Grieving Families Act to reform the state's outdated wrongful death statute-Yet Gov. Kathy Hochul has bowed to the special interest groups who want to keep the status quo, the president of the New York State Trial Lawyers Association writes.
By David Scher
3 minute read
March 22, 2024 | New York Law Journal
Attorney Launches New Firm With Former Client Who Faced High-Profile Revenge Porn AttackIn addition to handling tech abuse matters, the new firm has a cybersecurity practice and takes cases involving prisoner's rights, consumer protection and elder abuse.
By Andrew Denney
4 minute read
March 21, 2024 | New York Law Journal
What I Wish I Knew Then: Nadine StrossenPollock Cohen name partner Steve Cohen sat down with Nadine Strossen, a past president of the ACLU and professor emerita at New York Law School, to discuss free speech, the virtue of patience and the advice she received from Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
By Steve Cohen
12 minute read
March 19, 2024 | New York Law Journal
Retired Judge, Founding Member of Suffolk County Commercial Division Joins ADR PanelElizabeth Emerson retired from the bench earlier this year after serving for 28 years in the judiciary, the last few as a justice on the Appellate Term for New York's Ninth and Tenth Judicial Districts.
By Andrew Denney
2 minute read
March 19, 2024 | New York Law Journal
The 'Enduring Friendship' of a Judge and a ClerkRetired Court of Appeals Judge Joseph W. Bellacosa salutes Presiding Justice Marcus G. Christ of the Appellate Division, Second Department, the most formative mentor of his career.
By Joseph W. Bellacosa
5 minute read
March 18, 2024 | New York Law Journal
The Trump Indictments and the Conflation of ChaosFormer President Donald Trump's unparalleled ability to "delay" lies directly at the feet of the prosecutors for the three major criminal cases against him and the attorney general of the United States, the Law Journal's Joel Cohen writes.
By Joel Cohen
7 minute read
March 18, 2024 | New York Law Journal
Florida Team Takes Top Honors at Queens DA's Mock Trial CompetitionThe team bested competitors from 17 other top-ranked schools from around the Eastern Seaboard.
By ALM Staff
2 minute read
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