Joel Stashenko

April 12, 2017 | New York Law Journal

Your People, a San Francisco-based company that provides payroll and other services online for businesses, has been fined $1.2 million by New York state regulators for improperly selling insurance products.

By Joel Stashenko

4 minute read

April 12, 2017 | New York Law Journal

The legal clients of dishonest New York lawyers received $9.2 million in reimbursement in 2016 from the state Lawyers' Fund for Client Protection, the fourth-highest payout in the fund's 34 years of existence.

By Joel Stashenko

3 minute read

April 11, 2017 | New York Law Journal

U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts Jr., making an appearance at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York, said partisan warfare accompanying the nomination process is tainting nominees who survive to join the court.

By Joel Stashenko

7 minute read

April 10, 2017 | New York Law Journal

While falling well short of a state takeover of the approximate $450 million annual cost of providing counsel as mandated in 'Gideon v. Wainwright', the state will provide counties a measure of the relief they have been seeking for decades to pay for representation for New York's indigent criminal defendants.

By Joel Stashenko

10 minute read

April 10, 2017 | New York Law Journal

Uber said it planned to begin statewide operations in New York by this summer based on authorization included in a new state budget agreement between Gov. Andrew Cuomo and the state legislature. It also raised the age of criminal responsibility to 18 and provided a plan for tuition-free state college for applicants who meet income and other criteria.

By Joel Stashenko

13 minute read

April 10, 2017 | New York Law Journal

A state appeals court said a female employee's award for mental anguish and humiliation because of sexually inappropriate comments in her Buffalo workplace was excessive and reduced the award.

By Joel Stashenko

3 minute read

April 10, 2017 | New York Law Journal

The state's highest court is soliciting amici curiae contributions from parties interested in a case involving a fatal auto accident in western New York and the "hired auto" provisions of a commercial insurance policy.

By Joel Stashenko

3 minute read

April 07, 2017 | New York Law Journal

A new state law that says lenders' legal representatives must bring all the necessary documentation to mandatory foreclosure settlement conferences with mortgage holders has been upheld by a judge.

By Joel Stashenko

4 minute read

April 07, 2017 | New York Law Journal

A new trial has been ordered for a man serving 25 years to life for killing his wife because of his trial judge's refusal to inquire in depth about his not testifying in his own defense, the state appeals court has ruled unanimously.

By Joel Stashenko

4 minute read

April 06, 2017 | New York Law Journal

The expulsion of a male student from a State University of New York campus after he had a sexual encounter with a female student that may have been consensual was too harsh, a divided state appeals court ruled Thursday.

By Joel Stashenko

7 minute read