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Andrew Denney

Andrew Denney

Andrew Denney is the bureau chief for the New York Law Journal. He can be reached at [email protected]. Twitter: @messagetime

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March 28, 2024 | New York Law Journal

Give New Yorkers a Consumer Protection Law They Can Actually Use

New 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 Crashes

The 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 Cases

By 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 Why

New York State legislators have twice passed the Grieving Families Act to reform the state's outdated wrongful death statute-Yet Gov.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 Attack

In 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 Strossen

Pollock 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 Panel

Elizabeth 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 Clerk

Retired 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 Chaos

Former 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 Competition

The team bested competitors from 17 other top-ranked schools from around the Eastern Seaboard.

By ALM Staff

2 minute read