Jason Grant

April 13, 2023 | New York Law Journal

The lawyer for Stormy Daniels is trying to get Donald Trump's co-lead defense lawyer pushed off the "hush-payments" case, and Trump's attorney is firing back, telling the New York Law Journal late Wednesday that he's written to the judge to complain that Daniels' lawyer has engaged in the unauthorized practice of law.

By Jason Grant

7 minute read

April 12, 2023 | New York Law Journal

The lawyer also faces a separate complaint lodged with a grievance committee by a client who claimed the attorney didn't contact him from 2016 to the time of the grievance complaint in June 2021, and that he discovered, via assistance of a different lawyer, that a personal-injury suit brought on his behalf was dismissed in 2019.

By Jason Grant

7 minute read

April 10, 2023 | Law.com

The 35th annual "National Consortium on Racial and Ethnic Fairness in the Courts" will be in Seattle from May 21 to 24, and registration is now open. As part of the conference, on May 22 it will feature Washington State's "Annual Supreme Court Symposium" event.

By Jason Grant

3 minute read

April 10, 2023 | Law.com

"Given the unique circumstances of the COVID-19 pandemic and its threat to the health and safety of the public, the decision to remove the testing alternative in the defendants' COVID-19 policy constituted a nondelegable policy decision," the Massachusetts high court wrote.

By Jason Grant

6 minute read

April 07, 2023 | New York Law Journal

Attorney for the Child offices statewide are "suffering an unprecedented crisis of underfunding" marked by "essentially flat budgets for close to twenty years," one of the letters from the city bar association to Gov. Hochul and legislative leaders says.

By Jason Grant

7 minute read

April 06, 2023 | Law.com

Making both statutory and equal-rights arguments, two lawyers, including one from the ACLU, argued before Michigan's high court that an unwed former same-sex partner should qualify as a legal "parent" to a child she and her former partner agreed to have, via in vitro fertilization, but is no longer allowed to see.

By Jason Grant

8 minute read

April 03, 2023 | New York Law Journal

The Appellate Division, First Department court has ruled in part that "issues of fact exist" regarding the soundness of the law firm's advice given to a former client about nonsolicitation of customers after the client was bought out of her partnership in a high-value investment and financial management group.

By Jason Grant

6 minute read

March 31, 2023 | New York Law Journal

The appeals court said it was "readily apparent" a judge had tossed out the lawsuit based on a mediator documenting "egregious" behavior by plaintiff's nonparty representative, but that "plaintiff was never apprised of any ADR rule" that she'd purportedly broken, and she wasn't "given any opportunity to refute or otherwise respond to the allegations in the mediator's email."

By Jason Grant

5 minute read

March 30, 2023 | Law.com

A solo practitioner focusing on family law in Maryland has been disbarred after using assigned power of attorney to make cash withdrawals from a client's trust account, and then allegedly misappropriating funds and failing to account for $594,247, according to a Maryland Supreme Court opinion.

By Jason Grant

6 minute read

March 29, 2023 | New York Law Journal

A spokesperson for Chairman James Dolan's Madison Square Garden Entertainment Corp., which last summer put in place the controversial blacklist policy, said Tuesday, "We are very pleased with today's appellate ruling."

By Jason Grant

9 minute read