Susan DeSantis

April 30, 2019 | New York Law Journal

Diagnosed with ALS in 2017, Skadden associate Brian Wallach just launched a foundation to raise $100 million in funding for a cure over three years.

By Roy Strom

11 minute read

April 29, 2019 | New York Law Journal

The decision in Lamps Plus opens the floodgates for creep in two directions and thereby threatens future courts' ability to apply contract law that suits the contract type and context of consent.

By Tal Kastner

5 minute read

April 29, 2019 | New York Law Journal

It is not your job to opine on the merits of politics, and I view your assumption of such a mantle as a gross usurpation of authority.

By Alan Katz

2 minute read

April 29, 2019 | New York Law Journal

To be sure, repeatedly missing family dinners or working an exhausting schedule is nothing new in the legal profession. But some lawyers are downright nostalgic about the days when they were forced to wait for an adversary's reply by U.S. mail or stay at the printers until all the commas in a document were fixed.

By Susan DeSantis

6 minute read

April 29, 2019 | Law.com

Onerous deadlines are now being blamed for a host of problems including a spike in anxiety and depression in the legal profession.

By Susan DeSantis

6 minute read

April 29, 2019 | New York Law Journal

These protections are already making a difference. A report published earlier this year found that fatal constructions incidents in New York City have declined 23% over the last five years while increasing by 39% across the rest of the state in the same timeframe.

By David Oddo and Mario Cilento

4 minute read

April 29, 2019 | New York Law Journal

I asked them which one of them would like their surgeon to do only an adequate job; which automobile mechanic should do “only an adequate job” repairing their car?

By Greg Lubow

2 minute read

April 26, 2019 | New York Law Journal

It has now become a daily routine of the 45th president to denigrate the devoted men and women of our civic institutions: a respected court is derided as “disgraceful” for disagreeing with him, an honorable public servant is disparaged for directing a “witch hunt,” a dignified United States senator is ridiculed for having become a prisoner of war.

By Robert Tembeckjian

6 minute read

April 25, 2019 | New York Law Journal

We want to hear from lawyers, law firms and litigation departments who have influenced their practice areas in New York and beyond.

By Susan DeSantis

3 minute read

April 25, 2019 | New York Law Journal

I find it ironic that while we're increasingly made aware of the dangers of “implicit bias” in matters of sex and race, the NYLJ and too many of our colleagues seem to embrace a type of “bash Trump” bias in almost everything they do.

By Laurence Deutsch

3 minute read