Joel Stashenko

January 09, 2017 | New York Law Journal

The 24,000-member New York City Bar Association wants the U.S. Senate's Judiciary Committee to conduct a "rigorous" and "searching" inquiry of Sen. Jeff Sessions III for U.S. attorney general.

By Joel Stashenko

7 minute read

January 09, 2017 | Legaltech News

Among the measures is forming a "response team" when confidential information from state and local governments is breached.

By Joel Stashenko

7 minute read

January 06, 2017 | New York Law Journal

New York's governor will propose tougher measures to combat cyber-crime in his State of the State addresses starting Jan. 9, including graduated penalties for computer tampering crimes and identity thefts.

By Joel Stashenko

7 minute read

January 06, 2017 | New York Law Journal

A new regulation went into effect Jan. 1 in New York requiring banks and other thrifts to step up their monitoring and filtering of transactions to prevent money laundering.

By Joel Stashenko

9 minute read

January 05, 2017 | New York Law Journal

About a quarter of the approximately $550 million now being spent annually by New York City, 57 counties outside of it and the state for indigent representation goes for counsel to parties in noncriminal matters in Family Court, an official said.

By Joel Stashenko

7 minute read

January 05, 2017 | New York Law Journal

Acting Staten Island Supreme Court Justice Philip Straniere ordered developer Leonard Tallo and Seguine Bay Estates to pay a civil penalty for allowing a circa-1680 landmark homestead to deteriorate, and ordered them not to demolish the South Shore property.

By Joel Stashenko

9 minute read

January 05, 2017 | New York Law Journal

An Australian citizen has pleaded guilty in Albany Supreme Court to criminal tax fraud for underreporting $18.5 million in taxable income in a scheme involving a Congolese diamond mine and money transfers through foreign banks.

By Joel Stashenko

4 minute read

January 04, 2017 | New York Law Journal

The Third Department concluded that Gregory A. Mitchell's relationship with his editors at The Nation was not that of an employee and employer and he was not entitled to unemployment benefits after his contract was not renewed in 2014.

By Joel Stashenko

11 minute read

January 04, 2017 | New York Law Journal

Webcasting of oral arguments before the Appellate Division, Fourth Department, is slated to begin Jan. 9. Presiding Justice Gerald Whalen said it will make the Rochester-based court's work more "transparent and accessible."

By Joel Stashenko

3 minute read

January 04, 2017 | New York Law Journal

The presence of a temporary motor-vehicle inspection sticker, without any other indication of illegal activity by the occupants, is not enough to justify the the police search of a vehicle, the Third Department ruled on Dec. 29.

By Joel Stashenko

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