Andrew Denney

February 29, 2024 | New York Law Journal

After seven years of painful recovery, continued rehabilitation and physical therapy—as well as litigation against the Metropolitan Transportation Authority—some good fortune came to Beauchamp by way of a Manhattan courtroom.

By Andrew Denney

3 minute read

February 28, 2024 | New York Law Journal

For this Black History Month, Seward & Kissel's New York office served as both a gallery and silent auction house for the works of students from…

By Andrew Denney

2 minute read

February 28, 2024 | New York Law Journal

Interest on the judgment is accruing at $114,553.04 for each day following Manhattan Supreme Court Arthur Engoron's ruling against Trump and other defendants. As of Feb. 25 the judgment amount had grown to about $465 million.

By Andrew Denney

2 minute read

February 28, 2024 | New York Law Journal

ABC News, which first reported on the letter sent to Engoron, also reports that, according to "a source familiar with the situation," an envelope containing white powder was also sent to New York Attorney General Letitia James, whose office earlier this month won at trial in the civil fraud case against Donald Trump.

By Andrew Denney

1 minute read

February 27, 2024 | New York Law Journal

Beyond dealing a major rebuke to New York City Council leadership, the Appellate Division, Second Department's recent ruling that a local law giving noncitizens the right to vote protects the rights of other minorities who played by the rules and would have had their votes diluted by the votes of noncitizens, a Law Journal columnist writes.

By Roger Bennet Adler

3 minute read

February 27, 2024 | New York Law Journal

This ruling was selected and summarized by the New York Law Journal's decision editors. 

By ALM Staff

2 minute read

February 26, 2024 | New York Law Journal

Spencer Fisher has distinguished himself as a foremost expert on the city's charter and its administrative codes, though he has had a hand in the development of city initiatives that might look more familiar to everyday New Yorkers.

By Andrew Denney

2 minute read

February 26, 2024 | New York Law Journal

A Nassau County judge recounts a exchange in which "his" judge—the judge he spent his clerkship with as a young lawyer—wielded his "rapier" wit to disarm a fellow jurist and got a room "doubled over with laughter."

By Timothy Driscoll

4 minute read

February 26, 2024 | New York Law Journal

A 26-year-old man allegedly kills a young woman in New York City. He flees to Maricopa County, Arizona to avoid his arrest and where several days later…

By Joel Cohen and Bennett L. Gershman

5 minute read

February 25, 2024 | New York Law Journal

The plaintiffs argue that housing courts routinely violate provisions of the state's real property laws that allow for summary proceedings in eviction matters which were originally designed "as the affordable and expeditious alternative to actions in equity seeking ejectment," but which "have been transformed into an inefficient system tilted decidedly against the protection of landowner's rights to their property."

By Andrew Denney

4 minute read