Susan DeSantis

September 23, 2019 | New York Law Journal

The New York City Bar Association has 900 more lawyers than it did a year ago. The gain is the biggest in 17 years at a time when most bar associations around the country are losing members or barely staying even.

By Susan DeSantis

5 minute read

September 20, 2019 | New York Law Journal

Unfortunately, most federal courts around the country have not yet truly begun to address the needs of unrepresented civil litigants, and instead, rely on their clerks' offices to provide first-line resources to those parties. But as court employees and non-lawyers, clerks cannot give legal advice.

By Jennifer A. Gundlach, Lynn Kelly, Robyn Tarnofsky and Bernadette Gargano

6 minute read

September 17, 2019 | New York Law Journal

I expected these associations to seriously lobby for needed reforms in the judicial system, but they have rarely done so except for when the fortunes of the "white-shoe law firms" are at stake.

By Sidney Baumgarten

6 minute read

September 15, 2019 | New York Law Journal

Dues are too expensive. The events aren't cool. Everyone in the room is twice my age. No one listens to me. I don't feel like I'm part of the clique. These are the complaints of millennial lawyers who are much less likely to show up at bar association events than lawyers in their 50s or older.

By Susan DeSantis

7 minute read

September 13, 2019 | New York Law Journal

When you come across another attorney in an adversarial setting, but you have at least seen each other at bar association gatherings, it makes communications easier. As we all know, people are likelier to rein in their worst impulses around people that they know.

By Alfred R. Fuente

4 minute read

September 13, 2019 | New York Law Journal

Lost in all the attention that has been focused on the Jeffrey Epstein case and the Metropolitan Correctional Center is the critical role the United States Supreme Court played in permitting the MCC to be a site where suicide and other mayhem is more likely to occur.

By Michael B. Mushlin and William E. Hellerstein

4 minute read

September 09, 2019 | New York Law Journal

The larger point remains. The Appellate Division of today is dealing with a volume of business that would have been unimaginable when the court was created in 1896.

By Alan D. Scheinkman

2 minute read

September 09, 2019 | New York Law Journal

More than 200 New York bar associations are competing for a shrinking pool of potential members, forcing them to sell their assets, take out loans, share expenses, reduce their staffs and cease operations, according to interviews with more than two dozen bar leaders, legal experts and New York lawyers.

By Susan DeSantis

6 minute read

September 06, 2019 | New York Law Journal

"The basic premise of the course is that President Trump has through his conduct and his words challenged the constitutional order in a way it has not been challenged in the last century, maybe the last two centuries," said professor David Rudenstine, a former dean at Cardozo Law.

By Susan DeSantis

5 minute read

September 04, 2019 | New York Law Journal

The Aug. 27 article "Burnout!: Midlevel Associates Say They Are Torn in So Many Directions" discusses several positive approaches to addressing associate…

By Roger Juan Maldonado

1 minute read