Susan DeSantis

February 07, 2018 | New York Law Journal

A recent column on the dismissal of 'Maddicks v. Big City Realty', for failure to establish the CPLR 901(a) prerequisites of commonality and superiority is misleading in several respects.

By Lucas A. Ferrara

3 minute read

February 07, 2018 | New York Law Journal

State Supreme Court Justice Carol Edmead has been appointed associate justice to the Appellate Term, First Department, by Chief Administrative Justice Lawrence Marks. She will take the place of Justice Martin Shulman who was recently named presiding justice of the appellate term.

By Susan DeSantis

2 minute read

February 06, 2018 | New York Law Journal

While announcing a dramatic reduction in backlogs in both civil and criminal courts from one corner of the state to the other, Chief Judge Janet DiFiore concentrated her remarks Tuesday on ways to make the system fairer and more efficient.

By Susan DeSantis

6 minute read

February 05, 2018 | New York Law Journal

The director of NYU School of Law's Center for Diversity, Inclusion and Belonging asked Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg why in 2017 only 19 percent of equity partners at major law firms were women. And at this pace, Kenji Yoshino said, women will not achieve gender parity for at least another 100 years. But in an appearance at the law school Monday, Ginsburg had a much more sanguine view.

By Susan DeSantis

6 minute read

February 02, 2018 | New York Law Journal

Matthew Skinner has taken over as executive director of The Richard C. Failla LGBTQ Commission of the New York State Courts and Joanne Winslow, an appellate judge in the Fourth Department, has become the commission's new co-chair.

By Susan DeSantis

2 minute read

February 02, 2018 | New York Law Journal

A judge said Thursday that the retrial of New York's former assembly speaker will proceed on schedule after his "Hail Mary" appeal to the Supreme Court failed.

By The Associated Press

2 minute read

February 01, 2018 | New York Law Journal

Eight insurance attorneys have formed a New York law firm, Fleischner Potash Cardali Chernow Coogler Greisman Stark Stewart.

By Susan DeSantis

2 minute read

February 01, 2018 | New York Law Journal

Brooklyn Law School is giving Alumni of the Year and Rising Star awards at its annual alumni awards luncheon at the Mandarin Oriental Friday.

By Susan DeSantis

1 minute read

February 01, 2018 | New York Law Journal

Austin Bramwell, who departed Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy in June 2017 to serve as senior adviser in the Office of Tax Policy in the U.S. Department of the Treasury, has rejoined the New York office as a partner in the trusts and estates group.

By Susan DeSantis

2 minute read

February 01, 2018 | New York Law Journal

Suffolk County has agreed to pay $1.5 million to settle a lawsuit over the death of a 17-year-old girl who was killed in a car crash involving two police officers nearly a decade ago.

By The Associated Press

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