Brian Lee

May 04, 2023 | New York Law Journal

The budget adopted late Tuesday makes the state responsible during fiscal 2024 for 50% of the pay increases, or $92 million.

By Brian Lee

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May 04, 2023 | New York Law Journal

A senior analyst with the National Center for State Courts said he isn't surprised that Albany lawmakers have been talking about making changes since debate about judicial selection "happens consistently" throughout the United States.

By Brian Lee

6 minute read

May 02, 2023 | New York Law Journal

Some measures left out of the final budget but which had been floated in the state Senate, were seen as undermining separation of powers.

By Brian Lee

4 minute read

May 01, 2023 | New York Law Journal

The budget includes an increase in the hourly rates for 18-B assigned counsel statewide from $75 an hour to $158 an hour, which Assemblyman Charles Lavine, D-Glen Cove, said was his top budgetary priority.

By Brian Lee

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April 28, 2023 | New York Law Journal

The demographic accounts for 4.6% of the state's population judiciary, while the AAPI community in New York hovers around 13%, says its president, Justice Shah A. Ally, the supervising judge of New York County Civil Court.

By Brian Lee

3 minute read

April 27, 2023 | New York Law Journal

The case drew countering amicus briefs because of its potential wide-ranging impact.

By Brian Lee

4 minute read

April 27, 2023 | New York Law Journal

Although the COVID-19 pandemic couldn't have helped, the number of cases the top court decided annually was already in a steep decline before the health emergency slowed the court system in March 2020, the attorneys said during a recent interview with the New York Law Journal.

By Brian Lee

7 minute read

April 27, 2023 | New York Law Journal

But in a companion case, the high court ruled that a student has assumed the risk inherent in a basketball rebounding drill.

By Brian Lee

4 minute read

April 26, 2023 | New York Law Journal

Ex-Gov. Andrew Cuomo's lawsuit targets the Commission on Ethics and Lobbying in Government, which emerged through the Independent Ethics Commission Reform Act of 2022.

By Brian Lee

3 minute read

April 25, 2023 | New York Law Journal

In Cordero v. Transamerica Annuity Service, the appellant, a former New Yorker, won a nearly seven-figure structured settlement for childhood lead poisoning, but then sold it to a procession of factoring companies for less than a third of its worth.

By Brian Lee

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