Mark Hamblett

November 12, 2015 | New York Law Journal

The Second Circuit said the attorney-client privilege protected documents shared between George Schaeffler of the automotive and industrial parts supplier The Schaeffler Group and a consortium of banks that financed his efforts to buy Continental AG, because the consortium and Schaeffler had "a common legal interest in the tax treatment of a refinancing and corporate restructuring."

By Mark Hamblett

4 minute read

November 10, 2015 | New York Law Journal

A fired police officer deserves a hearing on his civil rights claims after his attorney allegedly filed papers to dismiss the claims without his consent, a federal appeals court has ruled.

By Mark Hamblett

5 minute read

November 10, 2015 | New York Law Journal

A fired police officer deserves a hearing on his civil rights claims after his attorney allegedly filed papers to dismiss the claims without his consent, a federal appeals court has ruled.

By Mark Hamblett

5 minute read

November 10, 2015 | New York Law Journal

Prosecutors in the kickback and extortion trial of former New York State Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver used three witnesses Monday to show the jury how Silver made discretionary grants under the 2002 New York State Health Reform Act without oversight in Albany.

By Mark Hamblett

2 minute read

November 09, 2015 | New York Law Journal

Prosecutors in the kickback and extortion trial of former New York State Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver used three witnesses Monday to show the jury how Silver made discretionary grants under the 2002 New York State Health Reform Act without oversight in Albany.

By Mark Hamblett

2 minute read

November 09, 2015 | New York Law Journal

A pro se appellant will have a second chance to prove his claims of false arrest and excessive force by police because a jury charge in his civil trial "significantly obscured the well-settled principle" that an "individual to whom a police officer addresses a question has a constitutional right not to respond," the Second Circuit held.

By Mark Hamblett

4 minute read

November 09, 2015 | New York Law Journal

A pro se appellant will have a second chance to prove his claims of false arrest and excessive force by police because a jury charge in his civil trial "significantly obscured the well-settled principle" that an "individual to whom a police officer addresses a question has a constitutional right not to respond," the Second Circuit held.

By Mark Hamblett

4 minute read

November 06, 2015 | New York Law Journal

A defense lawyer at the political corruption trial of Sheldon Silver attempted to show Thursday that the federal government tried to pressure a doctor into explicitly saying he referred patients to Weitz & Luxenberg, where Silver was of counsel, in exchange for $500,000 in state grants for Taub's research.

By Mark Hamblett

6 minute read

November 05, 2015 | New York Law Journal

A defense lawyer at the political corruption trial of Sheldon Silver attempted to show Thursday that the federal government tried to pressure a doctor into explicitly saying he referred patients to Weitz & Luxenberg, where Silver was of counsel, in exchange for $500,000 in state grants for Taub's research.

By Mark Hamblett

6 minute read

November 05, 2015 | New York Law Journal

The key prosecution witness in the Sheldon Silver trial told a jury Wednesday that he panicked when investigators arrived at his Manhattan apartment in 2014 to question him about referrals he made to Weitz & Luxenberg in return for Silver sending state grants to fund his research at Columbia University.

By Mark Hamblett

6 minute read