Jason Grant

February 23, 2021 | New York Law Journal

"The truth is if Mr. Caplan had not been someone who had a great [ethics] lawyer, and if he hadn't been from a white-shoe law firm, he may not" have ended up with a retroactive two-year license suspension from the First Department court, but rather could have received a harsher sanction, said University of Connecticut law professor Leslie Levin.

By Jason Grant

9 minute read

February 18, 2021 | New York Law Journal

"The Referee noted that the record itself showed that [Caplan's] criminal actions were 'out of character with his professional life and his desire to make amends,'" the First Department panel of five justices wrote in their decision Thursday.

By Jason Grant

6 minute read

February 18, 2021 | The Legal Intelligencer

The defendant gun designer and manufacturer, Sig Sauer, doesn't "confront the fact their gun is prone to defective firing and somebody's going to get killed unless they're recalled and fixed," said the ICE agent plaintiff, Keith Slatowski, who is represented in part by the Philadelphia-based law firm of Saltz Mongeluzzi & Bendesky.

By Jason Grant

4 minute read

February 18, 2021 | New York Law Journal

"The evidence showed that instead of asking a question" during the concluding Q&A session at the club's 2019 Palestinian-focused lecture, now-expelled member Vanesa Levine "made a statement and she did so in a rude, confrontational, sarcastic and disrespectful manner," according to the report.

By Jason Grant

9 minute read

February 11, 2021 | New York Law Journal

In addressing the ex-employee's related, disciplinary warning letter-based defamation claim lodged against Syracuse, the Appellate Division, First Department court wrote that "qualified privilege attaches to statements made for a supervisory purpose in an employment context."

By Jason Grant

4 minute read

February 11, 2021 | The Legal Intelligencer

The court "conclude[s] that the phrase 'physical loss of or damage to property' [found in the policy's 'business income' coverage provision] unambiguously requires some issue with the physical premises that impedes business operations," wrote Judge John Jones III.

By Jason Grant

4 minute read

February 09, 2021 | Law.com

"The counterclaim in this case is a strategy to silence racial justice advocates that you might expect from segregationists in the South in the 1950s," one law professor said of a recent action lodged by the city of Detroit against Black Lives Matter protesters alleging civil conspiracy.

By Jason Grant

11 minute read

February 03, 2021 | New York Law Journal

"Under these uniquely abhorrent circumstances, the [damages] awards were reduced to levels that were disproportionately low," the Appellate Division, First Department wrote in a decision that reverses a series of damages reductions ordered by a Bronx Supreme Court judge.

By Jason Grant

6 minute read

January 29, 2021 | New York Law Journal

The plaintiff's "return to Montefiore [Medical Center] in 2015 constituted a resumption of treatment rather than a continuation thereof insufficient to toll the statute of limitations," wrote the Appellate Division, First Department court.

By Jason Grant

2 minute read

January 29, 2021 | New York Law Journal

"I tell my mentees now," said panelist and veteran New York City real estate lawyer Margaret Ling, that you must always "fight for what you did."

By Jason Grant

6 minute read