Joel Stashenko

July 02, 2008 | New York Law Journal

By Joel Stashenko

6 minute read

May 08, 2009 | New York Law Journal

By Joel Stashenko

7 minute read

December 28, 2009 | New York Law Journal

By Joel Stashenko

6 minute read

February 20, 2008 | New York Law Journal

By Joel Stashenko

4 minute read

November 24, 2009 | Corporate Counsel

Warner Music Group mogul Edgar M. Bronfman Jr. is not obligated to pay former Simon & Schuster CEO Richard E. Snyder more than $100 million for work Snyder insists he did to facilitate Warner Music's purchase by Bronfman's investment group, the New York Court of Appeals ruled last week.

By Joel Stashenko

4 minute read

July 24, 2008 | Law.com

New York has established for the first time statewide guidelines for the qualifications and training of mediators and neutral evaluators who are called into cases by judges seeking to encourage out-of-court settlements. The guidelines require that mediators who want to make the rosters from which judges make assignments must have at least 24 hours of training in basic mediation skills and at least 16 hours of additional training in specific mediation techniques in the types of cases referred to them.

By Joel Stashenko

6 minute read

May 20, 2008 | Law.com

A federal judge has denied a class action motion by parents who contended they were misled into believing that the $4,000-a-month upstate boarding school where they were sending their troubled teens was accredited and could award high school diplomas. Northern District Senior Judge Thomas J. McAvoy decided that the ruling last month by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit in McLaughlin v. Am. Tobacco Co. should alter the analysis of class certification in the matter brought by parents of students of the Academy at Ivy Ridge.

By Joel Stashenko

5 minute read

August 16, 2010 | New York Law Journal

Jonathan Lippman sometimes addresses the person he is talking to in informal conversation as "kid," as in "Hi 'ya, kid," "How you been, kid?" or "So long, kid." It is a casual touch more in keeping with the first-class schmoozer he was as chief lobbyist and day-to-day administrator for the New York state court system than the chief judge of the state's highest court.

By Joel Stashenko

10 minute read

January 22, 2010 | Law.com

Dozens of prominent New York law firms are warning that a new state power-of-attorney statute aimed at discouraging fraud in elder law and estate planning could create "unnecessary confusion and disruption" in well-established areas of commercial transactions. A Cravath partner said lawyers and their clients are nervous about the reach of the measure and that law firms and commercial interests have both raised concerns about unintended consequences of the law.

By Joel Stashenko

6 minute read

November 20, 2009 | New York Law Journal

By Joel Stashenko

8 minute read