Robert Pigott

November 07, 2019 | New York Law Journal

I haven't worked primarily as a litigator in over 20 years, but I was feeling like William Evarts had become my client. As Evarts himself would have done, I was going to give my "client" the best defense I could, without regard to how others might feel about him.

By Robert Pigott

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July 01, 2014 | New York Law Journal

Robert Pigott writes that one significant substantive provision of the much-discussed Non-Profit Revitalization Action of 2013 and its follow-up has received absolutely no public debate: a provision that will enable charitable not-for-profit corporations to state in their certificates of incorporation merely that they have general charitable purposes, rather than identifying with some specificity what those charitable purposes are.

By Robert Pigott

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August 04, 2008 | Corporate Counsel

With the recent decision dismissing the New York attorney general's remaining causes of action in his excessive compensation lawsuit against former president and CEO of the New York Stock Exchange Richard A. Grasso, we have, at least from a legal standpoint, entered the post-Grasso era, says attorney Robert Pigott. What are the effects of the various decisions in the case on the enforcement of charities laws, both in New York and nationwide?

By Robert Pigott

12 minute read

August 01, 2008 | New York Law Journal

Robert Pigott, a former bureau chief and section chief of the Attorney General's Charities Bureau and a member of the team that investigated and litigated the Grasso case, writes that the bureau's ability to pursue misconduct by the officers and directors of charitable not-for-profit corporations is essentially unimpaired by the various decisions in that matter.

By Robert Pigott

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