Rogers

August 03, 2000 | Law.com

If your dolphin or whale needs an attorney or if you need to know if your aquarium complies with federal regulations, James Gesualdi is your man. He's a big fish in the small pond of marine mammal lawyers. "I was uncertain if I wanted to continue practicing law until I got involved with the dolphins," Gesualdi said. "I love what I do now." No "Flipper" jokes, please.

By Pat Rogers

7 minute read

April 09, 2002 | New York Law Journal

In recent years, many taxpayers and their counsel have become increasingly aware of the benefits of an IRC �1031 tax deferred exchange. Properly structured, a tax deferred exchange allows a taxpayer to defer the capital gain tax realized upon the sale of business or investment property if the taxpayer acquires property of like-kind which is also held for business or investment purposes.

By Louis Rogers And Todd R. Pajonas

13 minute read

October 14, 2003 | The Legal Intelligencer

The drop in value of the stock market and the general downturn in the economy that we have experienced over the last two years have resulted in significant decreases in retirement savings and annual income.

By Bruce J. Rogers

8 minute read

February 18, 2005 | Law.com

In a recent study, only 51 percent of high school students agreed that "Newspapers should be allowed to publish freely without government approval of stories." As a student journalist in college, I learned firsthand the importance of a free press. I struggled with the school administration over the meaning of the First Amendment. So it's personally distressing to read that a significant portion of high-school students are ignorant of First Amendment principles and indifferent to their importance.

By Robert L. Rogers

10 minute read

July 26, 2005 | Law.com

Courts and litigants are grappling with how to apply discovery rules crafted in an age of paper records to massive amounts of electronic data. Contrary to some of the more alarmist commentary, the sky is not falling, say attorneys Theodore O. Rogers Jr. and Thomas I. Barnett. There are ways of dealing with EDD effectively. Nevertheless, the stakes are high and litigants need to be aware of the particular challenges of dealing with e-data.

By Theodore O. Rogers Jr. and Thomas I. Barnett

13 minute read

September 24, 2007 | Texas Lawyer

Good financial advisers are out there. But if you have fallen into bad hands, your escape begins by recognizing that you have a problem.

By Robert L. Rogers

7 minute read

November 21, 2000 | Law.com

Terry J. Karl says that five years after founding his law firm of Russo, Fox & Karl in Hauppauge, N.Y., he began looking for something outside of law to satisfy his craving to help others. One day he saw a commercial with Barbara Bush talking about illiteracy, and says he "couldn't believe that this was a problem." So, in 1988, Karl started literacy tutoring. He's been doing it ever since.

By Pat Rogers

6 minute read

August 21, 2006 | New York Law Journal

Audrey Rogers, an associate professor at Pace Law School, argues that the Second Department's recent ruling in People v. Kozlow inhibits law enforcement's ability to catch on-line predators, and that their interpretation of N.Y. Penal Law �235.22, holding that dissemination of indecent materials to a minor applies only to visual images, discounts the increasingly alarming dangers that on-line predators pose to children.

By Audrey Rogers

13 minute read

May 26, 2008 | Texas Lawyer

Many people, whether from lack of knowledge, time or interest, don't wish to bother with personal finance. They no more want to design their retirement portfolios than they want to prepare their own tax forms or cook their own food.

By Robert L. Rogers

6 minute read

August 04, 2008 | National Law Journal

Some may see shame as an old-fashioned and toothless remedy. But in fact, writes Robert Rogers, heaping castigation upon Monica Goodling, the former White House liaison at the Department of Justice, is a key part of the answer to her misdeeds.

By Robert L. Rogers

6 minute read