Joel Stashenko

April 11, 2016 | New York Law Journal

A judge has dismissed a lawsuit that opposed a plan to build a 2.4-acre park on a platform over the Hudson River.

By Associated Press/Joel Stashenko

4 minute read

April 08, 2016 | New York Law Journal

Robert MacCrate, long-time Sullivan & Cromwell partner and former president of both the ABA and the NYSBA, died Wednesday. He was known in legal circles as a staunch advocate for law schools' development of graduates with solid legal skills and a sense of obligation to their profession and to the good of society in general.

By Joel Stashenko

7 minute read

April 08, 2016 | New York Law Journal

H. Dale Hemmerdinger, a New York City real estate developer and investor, has been appointed to the state Commission on Judicial Nomination by Chief Judge Janet DiFiore.

By Joel Stashenko

3 minute read

April 08, 2016 | New York Law Journal

A disciplinary committee may use the record of disbarred attorney James Hennessey Jr.'s criminal case in a proceeding where he is seeking reinstatement, even though the conviction was set aside and sealed, an appeals court decided Thursday.

By Joel Stashenko

9 minute read

April 07, 2016 | New York Law Journal

Although a child spent about 50 hours a week in her grandmother's Bronx apartment during the first year of her life, she did not "reside" in the unit for purposes of New York City's lead paint abatement law, the state Court of Appeals decided.

By Joel Stashenko

11 minute read

April 07, 2016 | New York Law Journal

Manisha Sheth will become the new executive deputy attorney general for economic justice in the state Attorney General's Office, overseeing the bureaus of investor protection, antitrust, the internet and technology, consumer fraud and real estate finance.

By Joel Stashenko

19 minute read

April 07, 2016 | New York Law Journal

Sylvia Ash, a Brooklyn Supreme Court justice sitting on the Commercial Division, has been named to the state Commission on Judicial Conduct.

By Joel Stashenko

2 minute read

April 06, 2016 | New York Law Journal

An "indefensible" and "intolerable" delay in deciding a medical discrimination complaint filed by a former corrections officer has made unenforceable the Division of Human Rights' ruling of bias, a state appeals court found.

By Joel Stashenko

13 minute read

April 06, 2016 | New York Law Journal

The state Office of Court Administration is circulating for public comment a series of proposed amendments to the New York Rules of Professional Conduct, many of them reflecting the changing nature of communications in the digital age.

By Joel Stashenko

3 minute read

April 06, 2016 | New York Law Journal

A deeply divided Court of Appeals recognized a new exception to the state's illegal eavesdropping statute Tuesday, ruling that parents can surreptitiously record conversations involving their minor children if it is in the children's best interests.

By Joel Stashenko

16 minute read