Jason Grant

Jason Grant is a staff writer covering legal stories and cases for the New York Law Journal, the National Law Journal and Law.com, and a former practicing attorney. He's written and reported previously for the New York Times, the Star-Ledger, the L.A. Times and other publications. Contact him at [email protected]. On Twitter, pls find him @JasonBarrGrant

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July 25, 2023 | Law.com

Massachusetts AG Settles Clean Air Act Case Against Penske for Payout of at Least $3 Million

National truck rental company Penske will pay at least $3 million for not fully and lawfully conducting 189 safety and emissions inspections on trucks, under a lawsuit settlement announced by Massachusetts Attorney General Andrea Joy Campbell.

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July 21, 2023 | New York Law Journal

Michael Cohen Agrees to Settle Indemnification Suit Against Trump Org Over More Than $1M in Legal Fees

Michael Cohen, the former personal attorney for Donald Trump, has agreed to settle a lawsuit against the Trump Organization in which he sought more than $1 million in legal fees he has claimed the company agreed to cover but stopped paying once he chose to cooperate in government investigations involving Trump.

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July 19, 2023 | New York Law Journal

Veteran Manhattan Lawyer Immediately Suspended for Failing to Answer Charge of Misappropriating Client Funds

A veteran Manhattan attorney has been immediately suspended from practicing law, pending further potential discipline, after not submitting a "responsive" answer to an ethics complaint and bank records indicating that he misappropriated about $1.4 million in client funds when he was purportedly entitled to at most $880,000, according to a state appeals court.

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July 19, 2023 | New York Law Journal

NYSBA Launches Task Force To Examine AI's Potential For Good and Misuse, Recommend Regulations

Vivian Wesson, executive vice president and general counsel at The Board of Pensions of the Presbyterian Church, will chair the task force.

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July 05, 2023 | New York Law Journal

First Department Imposes 'Adverse Inference' Charge for Discovery Delays in Fraud Suit Over Legal Professional Conferences

"In addition to the measures that the court imposed—precluding defendants from presenting documents that they failed to timely produce during discovery and precluding them from offering evidence pertaining to interrogatories that they failed to answer—plaintiffs are also entitled to an adverse inference charge, to be formulated by the trial judge," wrote the appellate panel.

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July 03, 2023 | New York Law Journal

NYSBA Launches Task Force Aimed at 'Preserving Diversity' in Wake of SCOTUS Rejection of Affirmative Action

The "blue-ribbon" task force is co-chaired by three partners at Paul, Weiss: Loretta Lynch, a former U.S. Attorney General, Jeh Johnson, a former Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security and Defense Department general counsel, and Brad Karp, the longtime chairman of Paul, Weiss.

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June 30, 2023 | New York Law Journal

NY State Bar Forms Task Force Focused on End-of-Life Decisions, State's Never-Passed 'Medical Aid in Dying' Bill

The New York State Bar Association has created a task force that will make recommendations surrounding difficult end-of-life decisions, focusing in part on New York state's "Medical Aid in Dying" bill, which earlier this month failed to pass through the state legislature for a ninth straight year.

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