Susan DeSantis

October 02, 2019 | New York Law Journal

I have been a defense lawyer in our nation's state and federal courts for more than forty years. I am very proud of that and most of my colleagues…

By Thomas F. Liotti

3 minute read

October 02, 2019 | New York Law Journal

The state bar is intensifying its recruiting out-of-state and in other countries as membership declines in New York. In 2001, the state bar represented 55.2% of NY lawyers but by 2017 only 38.6% belonged.

By Susan DeSantis

5 minute read

October 02, 2019 | New York Law Journal

He is, one might say, perhaps the last of a generation of luminaries—along with Richard Denzer, Richard Bartlett and others who were instrumental in producing the Penal Law of 1967—a work so good as to have endured for decades.

By Albert M. Rosenblatt

2 minute read

October 01, 2019 | New York Law Journal

Technology is almost always a step or two ahead of the law, and that gives the criminal element a bit of a head start. Until the law catches up, those who would misuse technology often get a free pass.

By Gail Prudenti

4 minute read

September 30, 2019 | New York Law Journal

The stakes for people in immigration court proceedings could not be higher. Deportation can, as the Supreme Court recognized almost a century ago, deprive a noncitizen of "all that makes life worth living." Yet for the past two years, the integrity of immigration judges' adjudications has been under attack.

By Roger Juan Maldonado and Victoria Neilson

3 minute read

September 30, 2019 | New York Law Journal

Perhaps most alarmingly, hidden nondefense presents a backdoor way of advocating to undermine or invalidate state laws that have been passed by democratically-elected legislatures—while avoiding political consequences.

By LiJia Gong

5 minute read

September 30, 2019 | New York Law Journal

The tone of the article lends support to the plaintiffs' bar to argue in favor of unified trials when, ironically, the rule actually encourages judges to consider bifurcating trials, not unifying them.

By Olivia M. Gross

3 minute read

September 24, 2019 | New York Law Journal

Without getting into arcane discussions of federalism, the larger point is that the substance of Mr. Trump's argument is awe-inspiring in its threat to our institutions. This issue is not about this particular president; rather it is about the rule of law.

By John Moscow and Adam Kaufmann

6 minute read

September 24, 2019 | New York Law Journal

The Law Journal's series paints a somewhat gloomy picture of the future of membership. But the New York City Bar Association is not on its heels

By Brian Farkas

5 minute read

September 24, 2019 | New York Law Journal

We do want and expect judges to bring experience, real-world knowledge and common sense to the table when they decide cases. We also, though, need to have a reasonable idea of how they have reached their determinations.

By  Joel Cohen

7 minute read