Andrew Denney

February 24, 2015 | New York Law Journal

Less than a year after the launch of a pilot program allowing non-lawyers to help unrepresented, low-income litigants, the program's supporters are calling for an expansion and changes to the law that would allow the non-lawyers to take on more responsibilities.

By Andrew Denney

4 minute read

February 24, 2015 | New York Law Journal

A Brooklyn appeals court has tossed out a 2012 second-degree gang assault conviction and ordered a new trial, ruling that a Queens trial court should have granted the defendant's challenges to two prospective jurors who expressed doubt about their ability to be objective.

By Andrew Denney

2 minute read

February 23, 2015 | New York Law Journal

A Brooklyn appeals court has tossed out a 2012 second-degree gang assault conviction and ordered a new trial, ruling that a Queens trial court should have granted the defendant's challenges to two prospective jurors who expressed doubt about their ability to be objective.

By Andrew Denney

2 minute read

February 23, 2015 | New York Law Journal

A Third Department panel has ordered removed from the state's Central Register of Child Abuse and Maltreatment the name of an aspiring pediatrician who was reported for striking his 2-year-old son once on the buttock.

By Andrew Denney

4 minute read

February 23, 2015 | New York Law Journal

A Third Department panel has ordered removed from the state's Central Register of Child Abuse and Maltreatment the name of an aspiring pediatrician who was reported for striking his 2-year-old son once on the buttock.

By Andrew Denney

4 minute read

February 19, 2015 | New York Law Journal

A retired New York City police officer who worked at Ground Zero after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks and was later diagnosed with fibromyalgia is entitled to receive enhanced retirement benefits, the First Department ruled Tuesday.

By Andrew Denney

5 minute read

February 19, 2015 | New York Law Journal

A retired New York City police officer who worked at Ground Zero after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks and was later diagnosed with fibromyalgia is entitled to receive enhanced retirement benefits, the First Department ruled Tuesday.

By Andrew Denney

5 minute read

February 18, 2015 | New York Law Journal

Justice Thomas Phelan, who had a passion for presiding over Article 81 guardianship cases, an area of the law that he felt was underserved, died on Feb. 12 after serving almost 20 years on the bench.

By Andrew Denney

2 minute read

February 17, 2015 | New York Law Journal

Justice Thomas Phelan, who had a passion for presiding over Article 81 guardianship cases, an area of the law that he felt was underserved, died on Feb. 12 after serving almost 20 years on the bench.

By Andrew Denney

2 minute read

February 13, 2015 | New York Law Journal

A lawyer for a husband in a matrimonial action properly limited her answers in a deposition by the wife's attorneys intended to draw out information about the husband's mental competency to sign settlement stipulations, a state judge has ruled.

By Andrew Denney

3 minute read