Joel Stashenko

May 31, 2017 | Corporate Counsel

Monthly Triple Shot column: Q&A with KPMG vice-chairman and chief legal officer Sven Holmes.

By Joel Stashenko

19 minute read

May 16, 2017 | FC&S Insurance

New York is soliciting applications from companies that want to test self-driving vehicles or autonomous driving technology within the state.A provision in…

By Joel Stashenko

3 minute read

May 12, 2017 | New York Law Journal

New York's highest court will hear arguments later this month over whether state statutes and its constitution provide room for physicians to legally prescribe medications to help terminally ill, mentally competent people kill themselves, if the patients choose.

By Joel Stashenko

11 minute read

May 12, 2017 | New York Law Journal

A verbal offer made by a woman to sell her share in valuable family property in the Adirondacks to her sister as the two bickered was not a legally enforceable contract, an appeals court decided.

By Joel Stashenko

4 minute read

May 11, 2017 | Corporate Counsel

The state is soliciting applications for companies who want to test autonomous vehicles or technology developed for use on self-driving cars in New York.

By Joel Stashenko

6 minute read

May 11, 2017 | New York Law Journal

Four New York City blocks—the distance between a drug arrest and the publicly supported apartment the offender lives in—is "near" enough to trigger an anti-drug-use provision in the man's lease to trigger an eviction proceeding, a judge ruled.

By Joel Stashenko

3 minute read

May 10, 2017 | New York Law Journal

Westchester County Executive Rob Astorino has filed two suits challenging the agreement Gov. Andrew Cuomo, Astorino's opponent in the 2014 race for governor, made with Entergy to close the Indian Point nuclear reactors.

By Joel Stashenko

3 minute read

May 09, 2017 | New York Law Journal

The Cuomo administration's 2012 regulations imposing stringent new suspension periods on licenses of drivers with repeat driving-while-impaired offenses on their records are legal, the state's highest court ruled unanimously Tuesday.

By Joel Stashenko

7 minute read

May 09, 2017 | New York Law Journal

Plaintiffs prevailing against their state-agency employers in sex discrimination actions can be awarded attorney fees, the state Court of Appeals ruled Tuesday in a civil rights action dating back more than two decades.

By Joel Stashenko

10 minute read

May 08, 2017 | New York Law Journal

A nurse who claimed her hospital workplace turned hostile after she told a supervisor she suspected a prison inmate's injuries were inflicted by a guard cannot sue her former employees for sex discrimination under Title VII of the federal Civil Rights Act, a judge ruled.

By Joel Stashenko

6 minute read