Andrew Denney

August 03, 2023 | New York Law Journal

A New York City Bar Association group created to address racial bias in the New York state court system said the independent monitor role created to keep an eye on reform efforts, which retired Court of Appeals Judge Carmen Beauchamp Ciparick currently occupies, should instead be given to "someone without ties to the court system."

By Andrew Denney

5 minute read

August 02, 2023 | New York Law Journal

Rarely if ever have most of us had to think about laws that combat money laundering, terrorism financing, human and drug trafficking, sanctions evasion and other financial crimes. But that is about to change for lawyers representing businesses in the U.S. or their owners.

By Thomas M. Pitegoff

13 minute read

July 31, 2023 | New York Law Journal

According to the AG, sewer service, in which debt collectors fail to serve defendants yet claim they have done so in court affidavits, has become "disturbingly common" in consumer-credit cases in New York, which in recent years has contributed to a significant spike in default judgments against plaintiffs.

By Andrew Denney

5 minute read

July 28, 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

July 28, 2023 | New York Law Journal

Silicon Valley founders are known for selling a vision to investors and prospective customers, and then laboring to turn it into a reality. Black entrepreneurs are rarely afforded the same benefit of the doubt. Instead, their efforts are deemed unethical and even criminal.

By Ronald S. Sullivan Jr.

5 minute read

July 28, 2023 | New York Law Journal

Financial consequences are often the best way to hold entities accountable for bad behavior—but we cannot facilitate change without Gov. Kathy Hochul signing the Grieving Families Act that was passed twice—overwhelmingly, on a bipartisan basis—by the state legislature.

By Rodneyse Bichotte Hermelyn

5 minute read

July 26, 2023 | New York Law Journal

The corruption of a child's normal role in the family unit can increase the child's risk of dysfunction—socially and emotionally—when the child attains adulthood. When a parent begins to rely on the child for emotional support, especially in times of conflict within the family, and the parent comes to depend on the child for emotional support and protection, then the situation has become problematic and may be characterized as parentification.

By Elisa Reiter, Daniel Pollack and Jeffrey Siegel

12 minute read

July 26, 2023 | New York Law Journal

Michael Gerber now leads the NYPD Legal Bureau, which is made up of more than 300 staff, including about 100 lawyers, and serves a sprawling department of more than 35,000 uniformed officers.

By Andrew Denney

5 minute read

July 25, 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

July 24, 2023 | New York Law Journal

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, who is an insatiable "Originalist" always eager to expound his historical version of constitutional adjudication, felt the need to invoke history to support his position on a criminal matter before the court. While Justice Amy Comey Barrett voted with her senior colleague, she "ridiculed Thomas for his misuse of history," a Law Journal columnist writes.

By Bennett L. Gershman

6 minute read