Stroock & Stroock & Lavan hosted a panel discussion at the firm’s headquarters in lower Manhattan Tuesday on the question, “Can Media Actions Impair Justice?” The panel debated the impact of media reports on juror impartiality and trial outcomes, as well as questions of journalistic ethics and the public’s rights regarding access to the judicial system.
From left, Joel Cohen, of counsel at Stroock; Robert Abrams, former state attorney general and chair of the firm’s government relations practice group; former Southern District Judge Shira Scheindlin, also of counsel at Stroock and an arbitrator/mediator at JAMS; Southern District Judge Alvin Hellerstein; Appellate Division, Second Department, Justice John Leventhal; and New York Times reporter William Rashbaum.
