Susan DeSantis

December 12, 2017 | New York Law Journal

Judge's award acceptance speech becomes an impassioned appeal: "It is a very good thing that the workplace's dirty little secret has finally been subjected to a healthy dose of Justice Louis Brandeis' strongest disinfectant. Now that we have let the sunshine in, we can finally address the nefarious and way too prevalent scourge of sexual harassment in the workplace."

By Colleen McMahon

7 minute read

December 11, 2017 | New York Law Journal

The author attributes Bobby Kennedy's compassion for the underdog to his age order in a family of nine. The seventh child, third among sons, he followed two spectacular brothers.

By Andrea Alonso

11 minute read

December 08, 2017 | New York Law Journal

What is puzzling about DOF's volunteering to cancel the fines is not just that the fines total tens of millions of dollars but that DOF routinely treats misdescription of information required by VTL 238(2) as an affirmative defense, not a jurisdictional defect.

By Dennis Boshnack

3 minute read

December 08, 2017 | New York Law Journal

The Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law becomes the fourth New York law school to accept the Graduate Record Exam in addition to LSAT scores.

By Susan DeSantis

2 minute read

December 08, 2017 | New York Law Journal

The Nassau County Bar Association announced Friday that it opposes the tax bills passed by the House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate.

By Susan DeSantis

2 minute read

December 07, 2017 | New York Law Journal

As of Dec. 1, the number of law school applicants was up by 12 percent while the number of applications was up by 15 percent.

By Angela Morris and Susan DeSantis

5 minute read

December 07, 2017 | New York Law Journal

The 15 schools as of this writing that already have started to use the GREs to evaluate applicants, and the inevitable large number of law schools that soon no doubt will join them, are taking a sensible step that is long overdue.

By Nicholas W. Allard

6 minute read

December 04, 2017 | New York Law Journal

Experts discussed the preservation of early court documents at a program run by The Historical Society of the New York Courts and the New York State Archives on Nov. 30.

By courtesy photo

2 minute read

December 01, 2017 | New York Law Journal

An upstate New York district attorney faces perjury and misconduct charges after a state probe into his handling of a fatal police shooting case.

By The Associated Press

1 minute read

December 01, 2017 | New York Law Journal

Jim Robbins' seven years of service at the Supreme Court was not enough to keep him from being the second lawyer this year mistakenly suspended from the court's prestigious bar.

By The Associated Press

3 minute read