Rory Lancman

September 04, 2024 | New York Law Journal

Courts are beginning to render decisions in the wave of cases filed following universities' widespread failure to protect Jewish students from discrimination after the October 7, 2023, terrorist attacks in Israel, and the early verdict is encouraging.

By Rory Lancman

14 minute read

June 20, 2023 | New York Law Journal

The U.S. National Strategy to Counter Antisemitism recently released by President Joe Biden represents a comprehensive effort to confront and defeat…

By Rory Lancman

15 minute read

June 12, 2015 | New York Law Journal

Our city deserves a bail system that not only ensures that defendants return for court appearances, but that does not punish people for their poverty, is not racially discriminatory, does not distort case outcomes and runs efficiently.

By Rory Lancman and Molly Cohen

10 minute read

June 10, 2015 | New York Law Journal

Our city deserves a bail system that not only ensures that defendants return for court appearances, but that does not punish people for their poverty, is not racially discriminatory, does not distort case outcomes and runs efficiently.

By Rory Lancman and Molly Cohen

10 minute read

May 11, 2011 | Daily Report Online

By Rory Lancman

4 minute read

April 11, 2011 | New York Law Journal

Rory Lancman, a member of both the New York State Assembly Codes and Judiciary Committees and appellate counsel to Morelli Ratner PC, writes: In last month's highly anticipated decision, the Court of Appeals made Douglas Warney's case one about pleadings, not confessions. In so doing, the Court clung to the discredited notion that innocent people confess to crimes without being coerced, and missed a perfect opportunity to both educate the justice system and remove an unreasonable and illogical barrier to compensation for those forced to endure the nightmare of being imprisoned for a crime they didn't commit.

By Rory Lancman

6 minute read

February 09, 2010 | New York Law Journal

Rory Lancman, representative for the 25th Assembly district in Queens and appellate counsel to Morelli Ratner, writes: Years from now, when the fiction of campaigning for public office is dispensed with and political seats are simply bought, sold and traded on exchanges resembling the stock market, we might ask ourselves how our political process came to look like a corporate version of one of those stories where humans lose control over the ever-sophisticated robots they have built and which end up taking over the earth.

By Rory Lancman

6 minute read

February 09, 2010 | New York Law Journal

Rory Lancman, representative for the 25th Assembly district in Queens and appellate counsel to Morelli Ratner, writes: Years from now, when the fiction of campaigning for public office is dispensed with and political seats are simply bought, sold and traded on exchanges resembling the stock market, we might ask ourselves how our political process came to look like a corporate version of one of those stories where humans lose control over the ever-sophisticated robots they have built and which end up taking over the earth.

By Rory Lancman

6 minute read