Joel Stashenko

August 25, 2011 | New York Law Journal

By Joel Stashenko

4 minute read

March 28, 2007 | New York Law Journal

By Joel Stashenko

10 minute read

October 10, 2007 | New York Law Journal

New York City may still be on the hook for nearly $300,000 in repairs it made to prevent chunks of the concrete understructure of a private building complex straddling the FDR Drive from falling on motorists.

By Joel Stashenko

6 minute read

May 27, 2011 | New York Law Journal

Judge Lawrence K. Marks, administrative director of the state court system, said the volunteers, who were among nearly 300 JHOs who lost their jobs last month due to the state courts' cash crunch, are serving at all levels of the courts statewide and the number of volunteers is expected to rise in coming months. "Obviously, they enjoy handling cases and want to continue to do that," Judge Marks said. "But there is also a commendable public interest spirit that is a factor here."

By Joel Stashenko

3 minute read

September 10, 2007 | New York Law Journal

Queens District Attorney Richard A. Brown, the man bringing the last outstanding death penalty appeal to the Court of Appeals, embodies the state's ambivalent experience with capital punishment since its revival in 1995. Today in Albany, Mr. Brown's office will defend the statute and the death sentence that John Taylor received for the notorious killings of five workers at a Wendy's restaurant in Flushing. Yet, Mr. Brown is opposed to capital punishment as a costly and inefficient crime-fighting tool.

By Joel Stashenko

9 minute read

October 29, 2008 | New York Law Journal

By Joel Stashenko

7 minute read

July 18, 2008 | Law.com

A New York law firm can be held liable for the failure of a Florida firm it retained to file a client's claim to more than $1.2 million from a Florida estate, an appeals court decided on July 17. Client Alice Whalen was not aware that her Albany firm, DeGraff, Foy, Conway, Holt-Harris & Mealey, was going to arrange for the Florida firm to file the claim when the estate of Julius Gerzof opened in Florida in 1996, and she relied "completely" on DeGraff Foy to stake her claim to the money.

By Joel Stashenko

5 minute read

February 19, 2008 | New York Law Journal

By Joel Stashenko

4 minute read

June 24, 2010 | New Jersey Law Journal

State and federal unpublished court opinions.

By Joel Stashenko

67 minute read

December 01, 2008 | New York Law Journal

As Judge Judith S. Kaye begins her last month on the Court, former colleagues, clerks, academics and other observers repeatedly cited the same qualities when assessing the jurisprudence of Judge Kaye in a quarter-century on the Court: even-handed, thorough, well-prepared, consensus-minded and, above all, collegial. "What an extraordinary, unimaginable, unbelievable, incomparable privilege it has been to serve the people, the public, as a judge of this fantastic, great, phenomenal Court of Appeals," she said on Nov. 20, after hearing oral arguments in her last case on the Court.

By Joel Stashenko

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