Jason Grant

May 18, 2022 | New York Law Journal

Reich was first indicted after prosecutors alleged that he'd stabbed his wife, a physician, more than 20 times in the shower on Jan. 20, 2016, while using an 8-inch kitchen knife, according to reports.

By Jason Grant

4 minute read

May 16, 2022 | New York Law Journal

The First Department's attorney grievance committee had opposed Ahern in his move to have a disbarment made retroactive to 2016, because he hadn't reported his felony conviction to the state court system until more than four years after his conviction. But the Appellate Division court did rule that the disbarment would be retroactive.

By Jason Grant

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May 13, 2022 | New York Law Journal

According to the judicial-conduct commission's administrator, there was no evidence of theft committed by the judge. The commission noted the judge previously had been disciplined twice, including for sending a letter to a criminal judge and a district attorney in which he "vouch[ed] for the defendant's character, referring repeatedly to his judicial office."

By Jason Grant

4 minute read

May 13, 2022 | New York Law Journal

The program is being run by the state bar association's Task Force on Racism, Social Equity, and the Law. Separately, the task force is expected in mid-June to release a major report examining areas disproportionately affecting minorities and the underprivileged, including health, economic opportunities, housing, education, environmental justice and criminal justice, a spokeswoman told the New York Law Journal.

By Jason Grant

4 minute read

May 11, 2022 | New York Law Journal

In just the last three weeks, the state bar group has entered into partnership agreements with overseas bar associations in Buenos Aires, Madrid and Barcelona, according to a chart provided by the state bar.

By Jason Grant

4 minute read

May 09, 2022 | Law.com

The female-owned claims adjuster business was attempting to have the courts enforce "merely its own gloss" on a services agreement that never promised to dole out a "fair amount" of insurance claims to the adjuster, the Sixth Circuit opinion said.

By Jason Grant

4 minute read

May 06, 2022 | New York Law Journal

Belluck, founding partner of the Manhattan firm of Belluck & Fox, was reelected to his fourth two-year term as chair. Grays, vice president and associate general counsel for information governance at MetLife Inc., was reelected to her second two-year term as vice chair.

By Jason Grant

3 minute read

May 05, 2022 | New York Law Journal

In an interview, Adam Letiman Bailey, the prominent Manhattan real estate lawyer being sued, blasted the $25 million suit against him as nothing more than "harassment and bullying."

By Jason Grant

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May 03, 2022 | New York Law Journal

Gotham Pizza, a popular pizzeria in Manhattan, will pay workers salary and tips owed, and accept government monitoring, after a New York Attorney General's Office investigation charged that for three years it intentionally paid workers below the minimum wage and that it withheld certain overtime pay and tips.

By Jason Grant

4 minute read

May 02, 2022 | New York Law Journal

The decision to disbar the veteran Manhattan-based business litigator and class-action attorney also laid out how last November he had asked the First Department to approve his non-disciplinary resignation. That request had come just 11 days before he signed a plea agreement with California federal prosecutors as part of the bribery scandal.

By Jason Grant

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