Joel Stashenko

March 16, 2016 | New York Law Journal

Susan Phillips Read, who retired from the state Court of Appeals last summer, said Greenberg Traurig gives her a firm with a strong corporate law practice—"my first love," she said of commercial law—and allows her to split time between the firm's Albany and Manhattan offices.

By Joel Stashenko

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March 16, 2016 | New York Law Journal

A Cuomo administration-endorsed plan to have western New York ratepayers subsidize the $200 million conversion of a coal-fired power plant near Buffalo to natural gas may violate the U.S. Constitution, a federal judge said.

By Joel Stashenko

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March 16, 2016 | New York Law Journal

"Never before has a defendant been convicted of reckless manslaughter on less proof of blameworthy conduct than that adduced against Peter Liang," attorneys wrote on behalf of the former NYPD officer convicted for firing a single bullet that ricocheted off a wall and into an innocent man.

By Joel Stashenko

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March 15, 2016 | New York Law Journal

An estate planning attorney has agreed to surrender his law licenses in New York and Florida after admitting to misappropriating about $1 million from the estates of a brother and sister from western New York.

By Joel Stashenko

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March 15, 2016 | New York Law Journal

Majority Democrats in the Assembly are proposing that state lawmakers be allowed to earn incomes in addition to their legislative salaries at a rate tied to a percentage of what state Supreme Court justices make.

By Joel Stashenko

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March 14, 2016 | New York Law Journal

Changes to the state Freedom of Information Law proposed by Gov. Andrew Cuomo would weaken the statute and create a significant exemption to compliance by government agencies, a coalition of public interest groups said Friday.

By Joel Stashenko

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March 14, 2016 | New York Law Journal

The New York State Bar Association is urging the Legislature to pass a bill to begin state takeover of indigent criminal defense costs now borne by New York City and the 57 counties outside the city.

By Joel Stashenko

2 minute read

March 11, 2016 | New York Law Journal

Testimony from a psychiatrist about a parolee's disruptive behavior at a Bronx treatment center violated the man's medical confidentiality rights and led to an improper finding of a parole violation, a state judge has ruled.

By Joel Stashenko

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March 11, 2016 | New York Law Journal

A suburban Buffalo state assemblywoman said she will seek re-election this fall after being disciplined following allegations that she sexually harassed a top aide.

By Joel Stashenko

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March 10, 2016 | New York Law Journal

A jury should decide whether a man, acquitted of weapons charges after spending eight months in jail, has valid claims for false arrest, false imprisonment and malicious prosecution against the NYPD, a state appeals court has affirmed.

By Joel Stashenko

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