Sateesh Nori

June 04, 2019 | New York Law Journal

Statutes creating a “right to counsel” must also include language about the conditions imposed on clients to comply, cooperate and work with their appointed counsel.

By Sateesh Nori

13 minute read

January 15, 2019 | New York Law Journal

In sum, Rule 1.8(e), as currently written, makes it harder for legal services lawyers to help those most in need. A new rule should recognize that many of us act in the manner of simple charity, to improve access to the justice system for the indigent, and to help restore the balance between the rich and the poor in the courts.

By Sateesh Nori

8 minute read

October 29, 2013 | New York Law Journal

Sateesh Nori and Fazeela Siddiqui of The Legal Aid Society write: Sandy affected almost 300,000 New Yorkers, took 49 lives, and damaged over 27,000 homes, leaving 2.1 million people without power immediately after the storm. Sandy also brought New Yorkers a myriad of legal challenges that disproportionately affected the poorest and most vulnerable communities in the city.

By Sateesh Nori and Fazeela Siddiqui

13 minute read

August 30, 2012 | New York Law Journal

Sateesh Nori, the director of housing litigation at Bedford Stuyvesant Community Legal Services, writes: The rule that a landlord has a duty to mitigate derives from basic principles of contract law. The doctrine that the landlord has no duty to mitigate was seemingly mandated by the Second Department in 2008. Now, four years later, uncertainty still abounds as courts waver in applying contract principles to lease breaches and carve exceptions into the rule that a landlord has no duty to mitigate.

By Sateesh Nori

10 minute read

November 07, 2011 | New York Law Journal

Sateesh Nori, director of housing litigation at Bedford-Stuyvesant Community Legal Services, writes that landlord-tenant relationships may be caustic and bitter, surviving even the death of the tenant. As proof, seeking possession of a deceased tenant's apartment becomes complicated where the tenant's lease was in effect at the time of his death.

By Sateesh Nori

9 minute read