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New York Law Journal

The Limits of the ‘Hot Potato’ Doctrine

Outten & Golden's managing partner responds to a recent letter to the New York Law Journal over its decision to drop a Columbia University professor as a client over her comments on the Israel-Palestine conflict.
4 minute read

New York Law Journal

Letter to the Editor: Law Journal Used Misleading Photo for Article on Election Observers

A recent article published in the New York Law Journal highlighting the work of the Cozen O'Connor team representing the State Democracy Defenders Fund included a photo featuring lawyers who are not part of the group that may have been misleading for readers.
1 minute read

Corporate Counsel

Striking for the Future: How Workers and Lawyers Protect Society Together

As lawyers supporting strategic strikes, we're not indulging "chaos"—we're advancing a cause that's long overdue. Our job is to help workers achieve lasting victories by advising on strategy, building cases, and representing their voices so they resound effectively in the legal system.
5 minute read

New York Law Journal

NYC's Administrative Court's to Publish Some Rulings in the New York Law Journal Is Welcomed. But It Should Go Further

An attorney who has worked thousands of cases before the New York City Office of Administrative Trials and Hearings applauds the court's recent announcement to submit rulings from its trial division to the New York Law Journal for publication. But he says going further and publishing rulings from the court's appeals and hearing divisions would more accurately reflect OATH and how its decisions impact the average New Yorker.
4 minute read

New York Law Journal

Allowing Elections Boards to Count Absentee Ballots Early Benefits Voters

The new law gives the "win" to the voter, not the one partisan commissioner standing in the way. Putting the voter first is also progress.
2 minute read

New York Law Journal

Judge's 'Disturbing' Statements on Criminal Jurisprudence in Campaign Literature Raises Questions About Fitness to Serve on Bench

A judge ran a campaign for judicial office "on an apparently unequivocal campaign pledge to incarcerate offenders, exclude drug dealers from the community, ensure maximum sentencing of repeat offenders, and protect victims of domestic violence."
4 minute read

New York Law Journal

Sondra Miller's Unfulfilled Dream for Parent Education

Justice Miller crashed through the glass ceiling: as one of the first women to graduate from Harvard Law School, then to serve on the Family Court, the Supreme Court, and the Appellate Division, Second Department.
2 minute read

New Jersey Law Journal

'This Is Shameful': How College Campuses Failed Jewish Students

The Jewish Bar Association of New Jersey offers a response to two recent pieces by the Law Journal Editorial Board about the line between safety and free speech with regard to Oct. 7 demonstrations on college campuses.
6 minute read

New York Law Journal

Simply Adding Family Court Judges Will Not Increase Access to Justice

Putting more judges on the Family Court bench is only one of the many steps required to ensure that families have timely access to justice—and it cannot succeed in a vacuum, three contributors write in a letter to the editor.
3 minute read

New Jersey Law Journal

Letter to the Editor: Response to Recent 'Chevron' Deference Piece

As a former DEP regulator and environmental advocate, I read with interest your editorial: "New Jersey's Experience Shows That 'Chevron' Deference Not Essential to the Administrative State."
2 minute read

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