New York Law Journal | Commentary
By Rebecca Roiphe | January 11, 2019
The Mueller investigation has highlighted some of the potential problems for lawyers who choose to represent hostile foreign governments or individuals and entities connected with those governments.
New York Law Journal | Commentary
By Norman Siegel | January 7, 2019
“A declaratory judgment should be sufficient, as no government official -- including the President -- is above the law, and all government officials are presumed to follow the law as has been declared," said Judge Naomi Buchwald from the Southern District of New York.
New York Law Journal | Commentary
By Hanna Liebman Dershowitz | December 28, 2018
It's hard to comprehend the complexity of sentencing—many judges say it is the hardest thing they have to do. No wonder it is the subject of intense biblical, mythical, and literary ruminations.
New York Law Journal | Commentary
By Lainie R. Fastman | December 26, 2018
Can we dispense with the dour recitals of correct speech? Can we agree to engage in cordial discourse about these weighty matters and extend a measure of personal freedom? Could the spirit of personal liberty (let alone courtesy) penetrate the murky waters of the pursuit of gender neutral language in the court room?
New York Law Journal | Commentary
By Read McCaffrey | December 20, 2018
Needless to say it was I who had been blessed with the litigation experience of a lifetime.
New York Law Journal | Commentary
By Michael Friedman | December 18, 2018
New York's court system is the most expensive per capita in the country and possibly the world.
New York Law Journal | Commentary
By Joel Cohen | December 14, 2018
Virtually every judge will tell you that sentencing is the most solemn and difficult decision they must make. Some acknowledge conferring with their clerks, or occasionally with a colleague or two, simply as a gut check when confronted with a difficult sentence, or one with potentially broader ramifications than just the defendant before them. Almost every one of them, though, truly struggles with it every time.
New York Law Journal | Commentary
By Aviva Will | December 13, 2018
The gender pay gap defies all expectation in its persistence—but we needn't accept it, and we can begin to fix it. But doing so will require new thinking and a focus on the fundamentals. And in law, as elsewhere in business, one of those fundamentals is money.
New York Law Journal | Commentary
By Rory I. Lancman and Rachel Graham Kagan | December 12, 2018
New York's elected district attorneys are at war with the governor and legislature over a new, first-in-the-nation, State Commission on Prosecutorial Conduct charged with reviewing claims that those charged with enforcing the law in a court of law might, themselves, be acting unlawfully. The District Attorneys Association of New York has sued to declare the Commission unconstitutional.
New York Law Journal | Commentary
By Daniel J. Kornstein | December 10, 2018
But is our Democracy so ideal? Is it worth exporting? Is it even real? Is it endangered? What do we even mean by Democracy?.
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