Jason Grant

December 23, 2021 | New York Law Journal

The COVID-19 positivity rate inside Rikers Island and other city jails has leaped from 1% to 17% in just 10 days, said Commissioner Vincent Schiraldi. He advocated for supervised release of inmates in more cases, possible modifications to sentence lengths, and requests for compassionate release of inmates.

By Jason Grant

4 minute read

December 22, 2021 | New York Law Journal

The veteran personal injury attorney, who it appears runs a solo or boutique practice with offices in New York, three other states and Washington, D.C., was censured by the Appellate Division, First Department court.

By Jason Grant

5 minute read

December 21, 2021 | New York Law Journal

The detective and his anti-vaccination attorney, Patricia Finn, say they will go to federal court to seek an order making their state-court bench ruling for a TRO applicable to all city employees who haven't gotten a vaccine shot. They argue the Mayor Bill de Blasio's vaccine requirement violates employees' constitutional right to give informed consent.

By Jason Grant

6 minute read

December 17, 2021 | New York Law Journal

The New York and Arizona lawyer began representing the client in or about January 2019 in her anticipated divorce in Arizona, and about a month later the client made sexual advances toward him, said the appellate opinion.

By Jason Grant

4 minute read

December 16, 2021 | Law.com

In an email, which the lawyer said her client insisted she issue, the lawyer stated that if her client's boyfriend will pay $100,000 to the girlfriend in "damages," then the girlfriend won't show up as a witness in the boyfriend's criminal case for alleged stalking, according to the opinion.

By Jason Grant

5 minute read

December 14, 2021 | New York Law Journal

The appellate opinion may put more onus on the state legislature and Gov. Kathy Hochul to pass potential legislation that would make most or all criminal discovery rules for juveniles the basic equivalent of those for adults, according an appellate lawyer with The Legal Aid Society of New York who worked on the case.

By Jason Grant

6 minute read

December 13, 2021 | Law.com

In knocking down the attorneys' appeal, which they grounded in an alleged inability to pay the sanction, a Sixth Circuit wrote, "At no point did either attorney provide any actual evidence of his financial status, let alone 'categorically and in detail.' Their perfunctory proclamations of inability certainly don't meet that burden."

By Jason Grant

5 minute read

December 13, 2021 | New York Law Journal

Kohlmann in the past has served as a vice president of the city bar association for a year. In addition, she has been a chair of both the bar group's Women in the Legal Profession Committee and Committee on Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, among other positions, according to the bar group's announcement.

By Jason Grant

4 minute read

December 10, 2021 | New York Law Journal

Steven Donziger "is very happy to be home with his wife and child. He is very happy to have a victory. His supporters are very happy to have a victory," said Martin Garbus, a lawyer for the now-disbarred Donziger, who helped win an $8.6 billion oil-pollution judgment against Chevron.

By Jason Grant

4 minute read

December 09, 2021 | New York Law Journal

One of the effects of Commercial Division Rule 37: Remote Depositions, according to veteran commercial litigators, is that it will encourage what has already been happening in individual cases since the pandemic took grip: that parties to cases, whether in Commercial Division civil suits or in other civil actions, have been agreeing to and holding depositions via video platforms.

By Jason Grant

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