Jason Grant

September 20, 2021 | New York Law Journal

"As professionals pledged to uphold our state and federal Constitutions and the rule of law," the report says of lawyers across the nation, "we must not stand by as mere witnesses when the most fundamental principle of our democracy is undermined by representatives of any political party."

By Jason Grant

3 minute read

September 20, 2021 | New York Law Journal

Ishmael Osekre, who according to a lawsuit "created chaos" at the Brooklyn-based festivals while pocketing hundreds of thousands of dollars, also must pay more than $310,000 in restitution and penalties.

By Jason Grant

4 minute read

September 17, 2021 | New York Law Journal

The personal injury suit had centered on allegations that the student was injured when, while taking a test, a school faculty member "spoke into a microphone and instructed students to 'be quiet,' the loudness of which, according to plaintiff, caused her daughter's injury."

By Jason Grant

4 minute read

September 03, 2021 | New York Law Journal

The attorney, based in Tarrytown, must also make a restitution payment of $245,000 to what appears to be a former client or reimburse the state Lawyers' Fund for Client Protection in that amount.

By Jason Grant

2 minute read

September 03, 2021 | New York Law Journal

A state appeals court has ruled that a Rochester-based insurance and employee benefits company and related defendants are deemed to have admitted malicious-prosecution allegations leveled against them by a former employee.

By Jason Grant

4 minute read

September 01, 2021 | New York Law Journal

A First Department panel wrote, while apparently reciting grievance committee allegations, that attorney Lavi S. Soloway's "negligence will likely result in denial of his [client's] mother's [green card] application; and [Soloway] still has the originals of the requested documents which the client desperately needs back."

By Jason Grant

4 minute read

August 26, 2021 | New York Law Journal

The students' federal suit focused on what they said was the school system's "pervasive and systemic failure to take appropriate and legally mandated actions" generally, and in their own instances, after students across the city report sexual assaults.

By Jason Grant

7 minute read

August 25, 2021 | New York Law Journal

About 250 female judges inside Afghanistan, some of whom have previously tried and sentenced Taliban members, are believed to be at particularly grave risk, the bar groups said. In January, even before U.S. military forces withdrew from Afghanistan, two female judges were assassinated in Kabul.

By Jason Grant

6 minute read

August 23, 2021 | Law.com

"They wanted the lawsuit to go away," contended attorney Jenin Younes of the New Civil Liberties Alliance, which represents George Mason law professor Todd Zywicki. GMU has said its decision to grant Zywicki a medical exemption was not impacted by his litigation.

By Jason Grant

5 minute read

August 23, 2021 | New York Law Journal

The lawyer also admitted to setting up a fake email account to help her falsely complain about the same co-worker's job performance to their mutual employer, according to an Appellate Division, First Department decision that cited stipulated-to facts.

By Jason Grant

4 minute read