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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February 11, 2015 | Law.com

Grand Jury Indicts Officer for Death of Man in Hallway

Two months after a Staten Island grand jury refused to indict an officer for the chokehold death of Eric Garner, a Brooklyn grand jury charged an officer with manslaughter, criminally negligent homicide and other offenses for the single shot fired in a pitch-dark hallway that killed Akai Gurley.

By Andrew Keshner and Andrew Denney

5 minute read

February 11, 2015 |

Judge Blocks ID Expert From Testifying in Trial

A Queens judge denied a motion by a defendant in an armed robbery case to have an expert witness testify on the reliability of eyewitness accounts.

By Andrew Denney

2 minute read

February 10, 2015 | Law.com

Judge Blocks ID Expert From Testifying in Trial

A Queens judge denied a motion by a defendant in an armed robbery case to have an expert witness testify on the reliability of eyewitness accounts.

By Andrew Denney

2 minute read

February 09, 2015 |

Nassau Lawyer Suspended Over Hiring of Disbarred Attorney

Dean Gary Weber, a Westbury solo bankruptcy attorney, has been suspended for two years for hiring an "old law school friend" who had been disbarred and letting him practice under an assumed name.

By Andrew Denney

4 minute read

February 09, 2015 |

Panel Says Divorce Counsel Should Be Disqualified

A Second Department panel, reversing the trial court, said that while disqualification generally falls within the court's discretion, the "very appearance of a conflict of interest" in a divorce case "was alone sufficient" to warrant disqualification of the wife's attorney.

By Andrew Denney

3 minute read

February 09, 2015 | Law.com

Panel Says Divorce Counsel Should Be Disqualified

A Second Department panel, reversing the trial court, said that while disqualification generally falls within the court's discretion, the "very appearance of a conflict of interest" in a divorce case "was alone sufficient" to warrant disqualification of the wife's attorney.

By Andrew Denney

3 minute read

February 06, 2015 | Law.com

Nassau Lawyer Suspended Over Hiring of Disbarred Attorney

Dean Gary Weber, a Westbury solo bankruptcy attorney, has been suspended for two years for hiring an "old law school friend" who had been disbarred and letting him practice under an assumed name.

By Andrew Denney

4 minute read

February 05, 2015 |

'Aid-in-Dying' Suit Attempts to Prevent Physician Prosecutions

Attorneys for a group of terminally ill patients have sued the state attorney general and several district attorneys in an effort to prevent the prosecution of physicians who provide assistance in dying to terminally ill, mentally competent patients.

By Andrew Denney

4 minute read

February 04, 2015 | Law.com

'Aid-in-Dying' Suit Attempts to Prevent Physician Prosecutions

Attorneys for a group of terminally ill patients have sued the state attorney general and several district attorneys in an effort to prevent the prosecution of physicians who provide assistance in dying to terminally ill, mentally competent patients.

By Andrew Denney

4 minute read


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