Ben Bedell

May 06, 2016 | New York Law Journal

An immigration lawyer who admitted to depositing money orders into her personal account made out by clients to pay for Green Card filing fees was disbarred Thursday.

By Ben Bedell

2 minute read

May 05, 2016 | New York Law Journal

Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan has moved to confirm an arbitrator's award of $2.3 million in legal fees in a case where its client prevailed against the long-running Off-Broadway musical "Stomp."

By Ben Bedell

2 minute read

May 04, 2016 | New York Law Journal

Advocates of "aid-in-dying" lost a bid to exempt the practice from state laws banning assisted suicide when the First Department unanimously rejected their claims Tuesday.

By Ben Bedell

9 minute read

May 03, 2016 | New York Law Journal

A defendant is entitled to a new trial because his assigned counsel asked to be relieved from the case at an ex parte conference with the presiding judge, a Manhattan appeals panel has ruled.

By Ben Bedell

10 minute read

May 02, 2016 | New York Law Journal

A Manhattan attorney whose federal felony conviction was discovered only after he was suspended for not reregistering was disbarred Thursday.

By Ben Bedell

2 minute read

April 29, 2016 | New York Law Journal

The landlord of a Lower East Side walk-up cannot escape liability for a student's fall from a fire escape on grounds that a 1929 law outlawing the type of fire escape from which she fell had been grandfathered under the statute.

By Ben Bedell

3 minute read

April 29, 2016 | New York Law Journal

The First Department said that a forum selection clause in the earlier of four agreements between a Kazakh oligarch and his former financial advisor designating New York courts for the resolution of disputes controlled the matter, notwithstanding the fact that later agreements cancelled the earlier one.

By Ben Bedell

10 minute read

April 27, 2016 | New York Law Journal

Observing that "politics is too often a dirty business," a judge has allowed a defamation claim to go to trial against a veteran Republican political consultant, a former GOP candidate for governor and an owner of a public relations firm.

By Ben Bedell

10 minute read

April 27, 2016 | New York Law Journal

A unanimous First Department panel ruled that a law firm and one of its partners will have to pay $20,000, not the nearly $320,000 awarded by a matrimonial judge, saying that the firm's conduct had been "frivolous" in one phase of a bitterly contested visitation dispute, but the court already awarded fees incurred by the opposing party.

By Ben Bedell

4 minute read

April 26, 2016 | New York Law Journal

One attorney, who is a party in the business dispute case, "launched a profanity-laden attack on the lawyer conducting the deposition" and "repeatedly played word games with defense counsel," according to the First Department ruling, while his counsel was sanctioned for directing him not to answer questions.

By Ben Bedell

8 minute read