Andrew Denney

March 20, 2018 | New York Law Journal

President Donald Trump is not immune from a defamation suit filed in state court in Manhattan by a former contestant on “The Apprentice” who said Trump groped her more than a decade ago, a judge ruled.

By Andrew Denney |

4 minute read

March 19, 2018 | Connecticut Law Tribune

A warehouse worker crushed by an 800-pound palette that he says was knocked over by a forklift operator high on heroin has filed a $50 million lawsuit against the driver and the staffing agency that put him to work.

By Andrew Denney |

2 minute read

March 16, 2018 | New York Law Journal

A copyright infringement suit concerning the use of an artist's work in an advertising campaign referencing the erotic drama “Fifty Shades of Grey” is bound by statute to remain in a Manhattan federal court, a judge ruled.

By Andrew Denney |

3 minute read

March 16, 2018 | Litigation Daily

Willkie Farr & Gallagher partner Todd Cosenza steered a legacy multibillion dollar Lehman Brothers case through years of litigation, coming out on top after a grueling bench trial.

By Andrew Denney |

5 minute read

March 15, 2018 | New York Law Journal

A Staten Island lawyer is set to go to trial in May on charges that he and two accomplices ran a violent scrap metal fraud ring that once involved shaking down a co-conspirator in the scheme for $10,000 while at gunpoint in the lawyer's office.

By Andrew Denney |

2 minute read

March 13, 2018 | New York Law Journal

In its eighth day of deliberations, the jury in the bribery trial for Joseph Percoco, the former top aide to Gov. Andrew Cuomo, came back with a partial verdict for Percoco and his three co-defendants, finding him not guilty of extortion and a related conspiracy charge.

By Andrew Denney |

9 minute read

March 12, 2018 | New York Law Journal

The New York City Police Department has backed out of a two-year arrangement with the Manhattan District Attorney's Office in which department legal staff appeared as the prosecution in certain low-level cases.

By Andrew Denney |

5 minute read

March 12, 2018 | New York Law Journal

On the seventh day of deliberations, jurors said they were deadlocked, but the judge presiding in the case ordered them to continue to press on.

By Andrew Denney |

2 minute read

March 09, 2018 | New York Law Journal

The court concluded Carmelle Danneman may serve her complaint upon the attorney for the defendant's adoptive father.

By Andrew Denney |

3 minute read

March 09, 2018 | New York Law Journal

Former pharmaceutical executive Martin Shkreli has been sentenced to seven years in prison after his conviction on three securities fraud counts.

By Andrew Denney |

6 minute read