Andrew Denney

October 11, 2024 | New York Law Journal

New York's court system is working with the Center for Justice Innovation to implementing a number of common-sense measures aimed at reducing case processing delays, including improving oversight of the discovery process, accelerating when pretrial hearings occur, deploying court personnel to help resolve obstacles to case resolution, and establishing a formal protocol for conferencing cases and setting firm trial dates.

By Joseph A. Zayas

13 minute read

October 08, 2024 | New York Law Journal

This ruling was selected and summarized by the New York Law Journal's decisions editors. 

By ALM Staff

2 minute read

October 07, 2024 | New York Law Journal

As in previous years, we ask firm leaders a range of questions related to all of the most important issues law firms have faced over the last year

By Andrew Denney

1 minute read

October 07, 2024 | New York Law Journal

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.

By Daniel M. Lehmann

4 minute read

October 07, 2024 | New York Law Journal

This ruling was selected and summarized by the New York Law Journal's decisions editors.

By ALM Staff

1 minute read

October 06, 2024 | New York Law Journal

In a time when witnesses are called for what they know or have observed, limited only by relevance and probative value, the voucher rule remains anachronism, an Appellate Division, Second Department justice writes.

By Mark Powers

15 minute read

October 04, 2024 | New York Law Journal

A Law Journal columnist responds to a former Court of Appeals judge's recent column in which she questioned the use of the high court's procedure for substituting recused judges.

By Norman A. Olch 

5 minute read

October 04, 2024 | New York Law Journal

Will City Council put aside the power struggles and politics, and rise to the occasion to support this final piece of Eric Adams' land use agenda, or will COYHO be lost in the political tides?

By Eva C. Schneider and Jodi Stein

7 minute read

October 03, 2024 | New York Law Journal

Albany Supreme Court Justice Roger McDonough ruled that defendant Gregory Thayer, who is serving a 25-year prison sentence for killing his best friend, would receive a new trial based on ineffective assistance of counsel

By Andrew Denney

4 minute read

October 02, 2024 | New York Law Journal

Johnson, whose legal career spans more than three decades, has been on the bench since 2011, first appointed as interim judge in New York City Civil Court.

By Andrew Denney

2 minute read