Andrew Denney

November 01, 2023 | New York Law Journal

a lawyer who is presented by his client with a plan to commit a "future" crime can be compelled before a grand jury to give testimony against that client. The courts have long recognized the "crime fraud exception" to the privilege in such instances.

By Joel Cohen

6 minute read

November 01, 2023 | New York Law Journal

The one-day innovation tournament was held virtually on Oct. 13 and was sponsored by JAMS, the American Arbitration Association and the New York State Bar Association's Dispute Resolution Section. Nine teams of law and engineering students entered the competition this year.

By Andrew Denney

3 minute read

November 01, 2023 | New York Law Journal

Early in Law Journal columnist Joseph Bellacosa's tenure at the New York Court of Appeals, a destabilizing financial meltdown was brewing back in the Big Apple. Hugh Carey was sworn in as governor was sworn in that year and he took leadership to get the state legislature to pass emergency temporary relief—a moratorium on the payment of New York City's short-term obligations of approximately $5 billion.

By Joseph W. Bellacosa

4 minute read

November 01, 2023 | New York Law Journal

The announcement of Cohen's move comes just after Stroock announced that–following a string of grim developments for the 147-year-old firm that has included botched merger talks and mass departures of talent–the firm is forming a wind-down committee to oversee a potential dissolution or restructuring.

By Andrew Denney

3 minute read

October 31, 2023 | New York Law Journal

Brendan McGuire advised Mayor Eric Adams as his administration grappled massive influx of more than 100,000 migrants into a city with a "right to shelter" law and a potential federal takeover of the jail complex on Rikers Island, where inmate deaths have spiked in recent years.

By Andrew Denney

3 minute read

October 31, 2023 | 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

October 30, 2023 | 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

October 28, 2023 | New York Law Journal

Taking top honors at the competition for first and second best oralist, respectively, were St. John's Law 2Ls Takunda Muziwi and Daniella Sesto.

By Andrew Denney

2 minute read

October 27, 2023 | 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

October 27, 2023 | New York Law Journal

"It was a perfect representation of my courtroom," U.S. District Judge Jed Rakoff told the Law Journal after having emerged from Friedland's office of horrors. "Just another day at the Southern District."

By Andrew Denney | Ryland West

2 minute read