Jason Grant

November 18, 2021 | Law.com

"It makes no difference … whether a 'nonprofit legal services organization' is working on the case, as here, or high-priced 'private counsel," wrote the circuit court panel. "The rate is the same, regardless of whether some might view it as a 'windfall.'"

By Jason Grant

5 minute read

November 17, 2021 | Law.com

"American Indians and Alaska Natives experience crime and victimization at disproportionate rates, and they are often unable to access the services they need to begin the road to healing," said Acting Assistant Attorney General Amy Solomon of the DOJ's Office of Justice Programs.

By Jason Grant

3 minute read

November 16, 2021 | New York Law Journal

Attorney John P. DeMaio has been publicly censured by the Appellate Division, First Department court after he conditionally admitted, as part of his request for only a censure as punishment, to acts constituting the five separate charges, said the opinion.

By Jason Grant

4 minute read

November 15, 2021 | New York Law Journal

Manhattan-based lawyer Adam A. Berman was being investigated by the Appellate Division, First Department's attorney grievance committee after being investigated, in part, for misappropriating "for his personal use, at least $160,344.35 of $2,234,438.63 mistakenly deposited into his escrow account."

By Jason Grant

4 minute read

November 11, 2021 | New York Law Journal

"Children in the custody of ACS deserve individualized assessments of the relatives who step forward to take care of them, not a bureaucratic response that ignores their relatives' caretaking skills and track record," said Linda Goldstein, a Dechert litigation partner involved in bringing the suit.

By Jason Grant

5 minute read

November 10, 2021 | New York Law Journal

Attorney Derek Etheridge "cites to a lack of experience regarding the rules related to the maintenance of accounts holding client funds," but "he declined to familiarize himself with them at any time prior to or during his representation of the subject client," wrote the Appellate Division, First Department panel of justices.

By Jason Grant

5 minute read

November 09, 2021 | Law.com

Damara Holness admitted that she fraudulently obtained a $300,000 forgivable, federally-guaranteed PPP loan by making the false statements in an online loan application to a Georgia bank, and by using supporting fraudulent payroll tax forms, said the U.S. Department of Justice.

By Ellen Villafuerte | Jason Grant

3 minute read

November 05, 2021 | Law.com

"I have never, ever known a human being to go through what he did without a sense of anger or pity for himself. It just wasn't in Peter's canon," said U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor. She had been close friends with Kougasian for 50 years.

By Jason Grant

23 minute read

November 05, 2021 | Law.com

"People with disabilities must be able to schedule potentially lifesaving vaccine appointments as easily as people without disabilities can," said assistant Attorney General Kristen Clarke of the DOJ's Civil Rights Division.

By Jason Grant

3 minute read

November 04, 2021 | New York Law Journal

The lawyer, Justin Levine, has maintained he did not know the blade or loose marijuana was in the cigarette pack, which he had been given by a friend of his criminal client, and the Appellate Division, First Department considered that there was no evidence he knew of the additional items when meting out its discipline.

By Jason Grant

4 minute read