Kevin J Curnin

Kevin J Curnin

June 11, 2020 | New York Law Journal

Racism Is a Pandemic Inside a Pandemic

There is no peace without justice. And since before its founding, America has been driven by injustice.

By Kevin J. Curnin

6 minute read

December 30, 2019 | New York Law Journal

A Crossroads Revisited: Impeachment and the Rule of Law

There is a strong Gothic wind swirling around this Administration and its congressional allies. If uncontained by the rule of law, it will become a maelstrom.

By Kevin J. Curnin

7 minute read

October 29, 2009 | New York Law Journal

Pro Bono at the Crossroads

Kevin J. Curnin, a partner and the director of Stroock & Stroock & Lavan's Public Service Project, writes: Today, the law's impact on how we live and die is omnipresent. Health care reform, climate control accords and market regulation are the dominant examples, but there are others, less dramatic but no less deeply impactful: housing, bankruptcy, benefits, immigration, disability. The imbalance between "the haves and the have-nots" is with us now more than ever. Pro bono lawyers, at least part of the time, align with the "have-nots," the uneducated, the marginalized, the unprotected.

By Kevin J. Curnin

5 minute read

October 29, 2009 | New York Law Journal

Pro Bono at the Crossroads

Kevin J. Curnin, a partner and the director of Stroock & Stroock & Lavan's Public Service Project, writes: Today, the law's impact on how we live and die is omnipresent. Health care reform, climate control accords and market regulation are the dominant examples, but there are others, less dramatic but no less deeply impactful: housing, bankruptcy, benefits, immigration, disability. The imbalance between "the haves and the have-nots" is with us now more than ever. Pro bono lawyers, at least part of the time, align with the "have-nots," the uneducated, the marginalized, the unprotected.

By Kevin J. Curnin

5 minute read

October 29, 2009 | New York Law Journal

Pro Bono at the Crossroads

Kevin J. Curnin, a partner and the director of Stroock & Stroock & Lavan's Public Service Project, writes: Today, the law's impact on how we live and die is omnipresent. Health care reform, climate control accords and market regulation are the dominant examples, but there are others, less dramatic but no less deeply impactful: housing, bankruptcy, benefits, immigration, disability. The imbalance between "the haves and the have-nots" is with us now more than ever. Pro bono lawyers, at least part of the time, align with the "have-nots," the uneducated, the marginalized, the unprotected.

By Kevin J. Curnin

5 minute read