Brian Lee

February 27, 2023 | New York Law Journal

A Long Island lawyer said Long Island, said the reduction to .05 would cast the net wide enough so as to prosecute a person for driving after consuming a small amount of alcohol that did not impair his or her ability to drive.

By Brian Lee

7 minute read

February 27, 2023 | New York Law Journal

A formal address during a transition year is unique in recent history, as the last two times a new chief judge was appointed and confirmed in mid-January, one was not given, a court system spokesman said.

By Brian Lee

2 minute read

February 24, 2023 | New York Law Journal

A Third Department decision required a town court clerk to provide transcripts even if no docket number was provided. Appellate lawyers say the legal standard, if not overturned, threatens to make clerks "full-time records custodians."

By Brian Lee

4 minute read

February 23, 2023 | New York Law Journal

The new law doesn't provide specific consequences, nor does it provide safe harbors, which means lawyers are left to look at existing case law concerning mistakes made by a notary public.

By Brian Lee

5 minute read

February 23, 2023 | New York Law Journal

George Boyer Vashon came to New York after twice being denied entry to the profession in Pennsylvania. His great-grandson is today a Duane Morris partner in Philadelphia.

By Brian Lee

4 minute read

February 22, 2023 | New York Law Journal

The Commission on Ethics and Lobbying in Government appointed Keith C. St. John to general counsel; Kavita K. Bhatt to deputy general counsel; Carol Quinn to director of lobbying; Michael Sande to director of ethics; and Megan E. Mutolo to deputy director of lobbying.

By Brian Lee

4 minute read

February 21, 2023 | New York Law Journal

As the vacancy is reposted, the influential coalition that demanded progressive candidates is once again reaching out to people who it believes would make excellent candidates, encouraging them to apply.

By Brian Lee

6 minute read

February 21, 2023 | New York Law Journal

The decision has importance because, even after last week's vote by the Senate rejecting Justice Hector LaSalle nomination, it holds the Senate is required to conduct a floor vote on any nomination, and that the committee cannot prevent the nomination from reaching the floor.

By Brian Lee

3 minute read

February 17, 2023 | New York Law Journal

Carmen Velasquez, a Queens Supreme Court justice and the United States' first Ecuadorian-American judge, said she and other judges aren't happy about being excluded. But a court spokesperson said the Judiciary Law mandates that the courts must use certain ethnic and racial categories as defined by the U.S. Census Bureau.

By Brian Lee

3 minute read

February 16, 2023 | New York Law Journal

A court watcher wondered if some judges would be dissuaded from applying for the post after seeing what LaSalle, a respected centrist jurist who manages a midlevel appeals court in Brooklyn, faced.

By Brian Lee

7 minute read